X-Men: TAS / Japanese Opening #1 ʀᴇᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀᴇᴅ 4ᴋ ʜᴅ ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ ɪɴᴛʀᴏ 

Perfect comment.

As they should, as everyone should.

I know someone noticed that

The original X-men cartoon was animated by a Japanese studio. All they did was *BROADCAST* this to Japan

All Japanese do is 4x the labor for less pay. Korean or Chinese animation is just as good. Actually its superior

The music reminds me mostly of First Of The North Star

Personally it perfectly fits for those series as a whole.

Kuro Mu'Kuro was taking notes as a child.

YES

There is literally an entire show like this. The X-men anime from 2011.

OK, I've heard about this anime but never got to watch it until now. The style is not exactly the same as in this opening (a mix of Anime and American Comics) but it looks very beautiful, nonetheless.

​​@@cristianberrio7300the X-Men anime is only 6 episodes and the story is boring... the Art and animation are amazing though.

Its not the same​@@cristianberrio7300

The X Men anime is terrible. Unless graphics is all you care about

Well, considering that the original series was a massive flop in japan I doubt they would use this song.

​@@andrepacheco4046 it wasn't the song that was the problem, it was the horrendous American animation since the Japanese were used to the good stuff!

@@BadVideo_Man yeah the japanese write shitty stories about lolis, but great animation. i guess.

​@@dinmavric5504🫵🤣

Yeah it seems to have an issues with faces drawn at a distance. But up close, it's perfect.

Yeah AI up-scaling STRUGGLES with zoomed out vintage animated frames. At that point its better to train a diffusion model on close ups then touch up those by regenerating those zoomed out frames on higher resolution. Basically giving diffusion AI models creative liberties to reconstruct details that are missing.

It looks really weird to me, especially compared to the original, everything looks so unnaturally smooth. I'd rather an actual remaster or HD uploads of the original film scans or something. This just kinda made me sad. is this going to be the future of HD or remastering older film? Stripped of it's artistry and care and cranked out from machines?

@@lynn6760 I'll agree with you on the far away shots, but not the upclose ones. Those look great. There are higher quality versions of these intros from Japan that I am surprised no one has uploaded.

Tbh this got my thinking, not all animation has to upscaled or rendered in HD, or remastered to be enjoyable.

That's absurd. _X-Men '97_ looks ten times better than this. X-Men is originally American and looks better animated by American studios. Not every animation needs to be redone as an anime. Animes also don't convey Americanisms very well either.

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X MARKS THE SPOT is from Saw 1 lol

Except he removed his suit (aka his power limiter/weighted training clothes).

lol seriously? How many animes do you know with good animation instead of showing a guy speaking at forefront with a shade over the mouth every time they have the chance? Yes, I have also watched Attack on Titan; one of the main exceptions.

@@LordMellington1668 Lol seriously? do you have a common sense? I never said anything about anime, I was only talking about the animation. you do realize that X-Men animated series first 2 season only have a around 13 episodes right? so they have enough time to make a better animation. and since you want to compare this to anime, you do realize, that these american cartoons have bigger budget than most anime back in the days right?

@@karlluigi1987Yes, I have common sense. The animation of this opening is 100% anime opening style, and therefore my comment. Anyways, it looks more than cool. I admite it.

@@LordMellington1668 Thank you captain obvious! Everybody already knows that, the title literally said japanese opening. the whole point is, if japan can make this type of animation back then, then an american produce cartoon, shouldn't have trouble having the budget to make an animation like this.

@@LordMellington1668 This is a joke right? You better be fucking joking..

Rogue is a babe in every universe.

Xmen 97 is rubbish

This shit look 4K to me, idk what you’re on?

@@rawpower117he probably means the AI’s rendering looking clear yet very smudged up in alot of the shots

You're right. The video overall looks great and clean. But they are few shots where the images look warped/distorted. The AI seems to have a hard time rendering smaller faces. It's quite noticeable if you slow the video down or pause at the right frames. Pause and look here: 0:08 Magneto's head disappears. WTF? 0:14 Jubilee's face 0:16 Wolverine's face 0:18 Jean Grey's entire body. WTF? 0:27 Cable's Face 0:41 Storm's face and Rouge's body 0:43 All their faces look way off. 0:46 Omega Red's face was fine, but the further away it got, the worse it looks. 0:53 Wolverine's face and left arm, and Omega Red's face 1:12 Gambit's face 1:21 Even at normal speed, the faces look messed up especially on Beast, Professor X, and Rouge. Despite all these oddities, I think the rest look amazing! I wish the whole animated series had this art style.

I'll definitely look into it!

It's just a special Japanese intro for the 90s series from the US. The opening is the only thing that's different.

@@HoosierJedi oh ok lol I appreciate u bro 😊😊... Was up all night looking for it smh

​@@dominictoretto6752the Japanese dub also doesn't take itself seriously, kind of like what US did with their dub of Ghost Stories 😅

TBF, I think the 2nd opening does a better job of doing that

Why would you expect something from the second opening to be here?

This whole video is a perverse middle finger to the very concept of preservation and restoration. Shame on you. Shame on ALL of you.

the animated series❤