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Mood: A bit sad after watching the last episode of Romeo X Juliet.

Today's post is going to be all about Romeo X Juliet.

And, NO, I am NOT talking about a William Shakespeare original play...
Not exactly anyway...

I'm talking about the anime Romeo X Juliet.

screenshot from opening...

Romeo Candorebanto Montague & Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet

Still Romeo X Juliet...

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Francisco (Blonde), Red Whirlwind (middle), Romeo (upper right) and Curio (Lower right)

And from all the comments posted, I agree that this one is SO MUCH BETTER than Shakespeare's original work... (No offence to Shakespeare's fans) It ended much more nicely.

The opening song is Inori / Prayer, explaining the tittle of today's post. Some of you might know it as YOU RAISE ME UP, except this is the Japanese version.

Although the ending was expected, (Romeo & Juliet doesn't 'LIVE' happily ever after) I never expected it to make me cry so much. It's been quite awhile since I last cried watching an anime this good.

I give it a 5/5 rating... so YOU should watch it too ^^

Here's a brief summary just to capture your attention:

This series takes place in Neo Verona, a continent floating in mid air. It is attacked and you see Juliet's parents get murdered by the not-so-sane Montague, who takes over the throne. A Pegasus knight, Sir Conrad, manages to rescue Juliet and her best friend, Cordelia and flees from the Keep.

Now, 13 years later, (if I'm not mistaken) they're still searching for the lost Capulet girl, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet (I LOVE her name, it sounds so grand) They've captured a girl with red hair and are about to capture her for execution but a mysterious character in red robes comes to the rescue. His name is Red Whirlwind (Akai Kaze).

He gets the guards attention and they start chasing after him. As he is making his escape, he drags a girl, Cordelia, with him and soon reaches a dead end. Romeo, who is having tea at the Keep nearby with his best friend, Benvolio rescues Red Whirlwind and Cordelia on the Pegasi. Cordelia and Red Whirlwind, reluctantly thanked the two for their help and goes back to their hideout.

Turns out, they live in a some sort of ruin with their comrades, Francisco (handsome and charmingly reminds me of Legolas from LOTR), Curio, Conrad, Willy / William (who is actually a caricature of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE in this show as he writes down Romeo and Juliet's story), Emilia and Antonio.

Alone in his room, Red Whirlwind takes of his costume and later, his WIG, revealing long, red hair. Turns out, Red Whirlwind is JULIET. (No big surprise there...) But it seems like few know of this, not even Antonio knows. Apparently, Juliet will only be told of the reason why she has to pretend to be a guy ONLY on her seventeenth birthday.

Anyway, she fell in love with Romeo (his full name's Romeo Candorebanto Montague... Beautiful name!!) after attending the Montague Rose Ball dressed as a girl in place of her friend Emilia, only managing to introduce herself when they meet again in a field of irises.

(NOTE: The flower of the Capulets is the iris, while the flower of the Montagues is the rose)

If you find it interesting so far, you should probably watch it...

And to all BLEACH FANS out there,

on 22 DEC 2007

the second BLEACH movie will be airing in Japan.

BLEACH; THE DIAMOND DUST REBELLION, ANOTHER HYOURINMARU

Till then...

BENEATH THE IRIS BANNER!