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Ahhh, Romeo x Juliet, an anime for the famous William Shakespeare novel, developed by GONZO studios. Now, when you hear the word “GONZO”, the first thing that comes to your mind is 3D animation, QUALITY animation and mecha. However, when Nazrin showed me the first episode, I was stunned, and amazed by how beautiful the story is. For the first time, I see a GONZO anime without mecha, but flying horses instead ! Holy cow ! O_o The first episode took my breath away, and I quickly went back to download the second, and by the time I was lready hooked. It’s really a beautiful story of love, and I applaud how GONZO is progressing with this story so far. There are a LOT of anime this seasons, but I unfortunately I’m unable to catch them all, so RxJ is one of the MUST anime to watch this season for me. To everyone, it’s rather slow sometimes, but please give it a shot. You won’t regret it.

However, I wished GONZO would work on a bit of the quality animation in this series. After episode 3, the animation seems to drop, quite a lot sometimes. Hopefully the can work on it soon. Episode 1 and 2 still remains the best, because of the animation and music. Character wise, I like Juliet a lot. Romeo…uh…so-so I would say. He’s like a wuss sometimes. Tybalt is my main focus for the male characters. He’s so damn cool, sometimes I would mistaken him for the main character. He’s like Batman tho, appearing out of nowhere…^^;;

Now, this anime was also adapted into a manga series, which has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Asuka shōjo magazine since March 24, 2007 . I never really give much attention to manga which was taken adapted to anime, but this artwork here caught my attention.

MARVELOUS and BEAUTIFUL. Romeo looks surprising cool, and Juliet, OMG I’m falling in love with her more and more. I hope someone will scan and sub the manga pretty soon.

With that said and done, do yourself a favor and watch this anime !