Genres: adventure, fantasy, romance, science fiction Themes: biological warfare, mecha, military, monsters, religion, special abilities, war Objectionable content: Significant Number of episodes: 26 Vintage: 2008-07-15
Plot Summary: Enter Sentan, a lush, tranquil island encased in war between the military and those with Hiruko, known as X’amd. On one of these warlike days, Akiyuki Takehara heads off to school and gets caught in a raid by the creatures. Through a series of events he is transformed into a X’amd, and with the help of a Tessikan woman Nakiami along with his high school friend Haru, Akiyuki is forced to learn to live with the Hiruko or faces the danger of losing his self-control and turn to stone.
Sentai Filmworks has confirmed that the upcoming Bluray release of Xam’d Collection 1 will feature
[size=16]DTS 5.1 MASTER HD AUDIO[/size]
on BOTH language tracks.
OH NO! Now what will the lossy people whine about?
Next to Hillary Haag dubbing again, this might be the best news of the year. The funny thing is that I was recently listening to some add and noted how much the woman sounded like Jessica. I’m so happy right now!
I just watched the first episode and I have to say that I’m impressed. BONES really outdid themselves as far as the character designs and animation go. It’s probably the best looking work of theirs that I’ve seen. In fact, it gives some feature films a run for their money.
Also, it’s quite clear from the first episode that they took a lot of inspiration from Studio Ghibli. A lot of the machine and character designs clearly pay homage to works like Nausicaa and Castle in The Sky.
The story definitely pulled me in though it’s far to early to draw any conclusions there. But the characters are quite strong from this early episode and the dub is well cast to reflect that. And YES, THE DUB IS VERY GOOD!
The opening is called “Shut Up and Explode”! How awesome is that?!
Was looking through the Online Player and I noticed that Xam’d will be coming up September 16th can’t wait to see this. The animation for it looks great even with Youtube.
It’s a little on the odd side starting out, but it seems like it might be interesting.
Plus, the first ep. kinda left off with a cliffhanger, abruptly I might add, leaving me with the feeling of wanting to know what happens next.
Watched the first two episodes and I’m so excited for more. This seems like my kind of show. And the dub so far has been AMAZING. This may go on my list of must haves from Sentai.
Just got the part 1 DVD’s in the mail today. If this had been in shipping one more day I’d probably be a bitching right now. Disc were both right on the edge of the hubs so one more good shock would have had some floaters. It’s of course the cases and the how high up on the hub the disc sit. It’s oddly a feature cases have so if the disc spin on the hub they won’t get scuffed or scratched by rubbing against the bottom of the case. Just seems these the disc sits a bit to far up. Though I guess if I had switched to at least a Blu-ray player by now the anti-scratch coating and better cases would prevent most of this.lol
Thought I would mention that Amazon has an excellent deal on the bluray set. It’s $42.49 or almost 40% off. It’s not quite as good as the deals you can get during a Right Stuf studio sale, but it’s about the best price I can find right now.
