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.
I was hoping I could change to the Japanese dub in the settings on Disney+ and hear this theme song in the new X-Men'97 series. But that option doesn't exist. I really hope the Japanese dub gets this song.
So far the best upscaling of the intro I've seen, but the AI really does make a bit of a mess in places, especially that freeze frame at the end, *ugh*!
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.
They are drawn and animated so perfectly; especially the women... Specifically, Rogue. X-men 97 needs this level of detail. Japanese animation is the best in the world. I loved the work that was put into 2011's X-men Anime series.
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.
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.
The AI Upscale on this is so bad. Characters become literal mush once they enter the background. The Japanese text in the forefront is also horrendously just destroyed. Even where characters are supposed to shine as they enter the foreground, the backgrounds are just absolutely gone. What is the point of upscaling something if you just ruin it? The original version might be blurry, but I'll take that any day over this.
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.
CRYSING MY OUT! Shock! Uso de katameta, naifu kiritsuke Shock! Yume o nomikomi, machi wa kagayaku Arasoi ya nikushimi de, sono mi kezura rete yuku Mayonaka osoi kuru, hito shirenu mama BREAK OUT!
Cry! Biru no tanima ni, tsumi no tameiki Cry! Kaze ninagasa re, machi wa se o muku Tomadoi ni kawaru toki, arashi fukiare midare Uragini te o somete, kokoro ubawa rete BREAK OUT! Cryyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! For the moooonn!!! Naze ni hito wa kamen ni obore Arasoi ya nikushimi de, sono mi kezura rete yuku Mayonaka osoi kuru, hito shirenu mama BREAK OUT! Raimura ito hikaru zawameki, Riaruta imu nureta maboroshi Cry For the moooonn!!!
Okay the original English opening is amazing, but I wasn't expecting a Guilty Gear music video for the Japanese intro. Pretty cool. I was expecting some super power-of-friendship, cheesy pop song for some reason honestly. (Seriously though, this sounds so much like a Guilty Gear track)
This is great and better at selling it as an action series but it’s not as good at portraying the conflicts and characters. The imagery is less meaningful.
It legitimately upsets me that people think "remastering" now is just "slather horrible smearing noise reduction on it and coat it with gross, image warping globs of AI generation". This looks unbelivably, disrespectfully awful and downright hideous, and yet so many ignorant people in the comments are praising this disgusting mess.
This is not a good remaster. It smears everything and loses more detail than it gives, which is especially obvious in the scene with Omega Red and Wolverine.
The most 90's US intro deserved the most 90's Japan intro
Perfect comment.
They made Beast an actual beast! That earth-shattering punch.
Literaly, He´s a badass "Hulk" here.
It's almost insane how well the animators understood the assignment! Cable! Omega Red! The Brood! It's like they *actually read the comics!*
if there's one thing from Marvel that Japan loves, they love them some fuckin X-Men.
As they should, as everyone should.
And also Spiderman
@WesleyWyndam-Pryce the story and characters of the X-MEN is one of those things I genuinely feel the entire world can't help but admire
When it comes to animation the Japanese are practically the Authority on the subject matter.
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
My cousin told me about this and I didn't believe him, until I saw it for myself. My jaw was sore for days from it hitting the floor.
They respect jim lee art.
I know someone noticed that
That is crazy how this literally looks like they animated Jim Lee art!!
This opening is saint seiya types of hype bro!
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
Why can't there be a whole series like this?
It would be a dream to watch it.
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
If the Japanese get X-Men '97, they need to recreate this intro with updated characters and stuff.
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🫵🤣
Now that's Clean.😎 SHOCK!!⚡️
I was hoping I could change to the Japanese dub in the settings on Disney+ and hear this theme song in the new X-Men'97 series. But that option doesn't exist.
I really hope the Japanese dub gets this song.
wow. this was amazing. love the x men
X MARKS THE SPOT!
X MARKS THE DEFEAT OF EVIL!
MARVEL COMICS' X-MEN!
X MARKS THE SPOT is from Saw 1 lol
CRY FOR THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!
So far the best upscaling of the intro I've seen, but the AI really does make a bit of a mess in places, especially that freeze frame at the end, *ugh*!
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.
They are drawn and animated so perfectly; especially the women... Specifically, Rogue. X-men 97 needs this level of detail. Japanese animation is the best in the world. I loved the work that was put into 2011's X-men Anime series.
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.
@@marllon9786🫵🤣
The drummer on this is clearly that Japanese mascot thing from that video.
Except he removed his suit (aka his power limiter/weighted training clothes).
This is X-Men!
Why am I only today learning that there was a Japanese opening to X-Men?
Why does this go so much harder than the original theme song
Imagine if we got an x-men series animated in this style!
imagine if the animation of the show was as this good
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..
Magneto's most iconic mutant power, summoning demon velociraptor's 😂
X-Men Children of the Atom
X-Men: TAS / Japanese Opening #1 ʀᴇᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀᴇᴅ 4ᴋ ʜᴅ ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ ɪɴᴛʀᴏ
This style of animation is what X-Men 97' should have been.
Marvelous!
Fun fact: the pilot called Pryde of the X Men (1989) was animated by Toei Doga.
The Japanese art style is so much better.
Alto gigachad el profesor posando ahí con las dos minusa
CRY FOR THE MOON INDEED.
CRY FOR THE MOON!! Would love to see a Japan '97 opening!
Jubilee looks like her power can do more than startle an old lady 🎉
Anime Rogue is just… 😮… 🤩
Rogue is a babe in every universe.
Thanks You 😃👌
The AI Upscale on this is so bad. Characters become literal mush once they enter the background. The Japanese text in the forefront is also horrendously just destroyed. Even where characters are supposed to shine as they enter the foreground, the backgrounds are just absolutely gone.
What is the point of upscaling something if you just ruin it? The original version might be blurry, but I'll take that any day over this.
A lot of frames look derpy if you ask me.
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.
Idk how, but someone has got to slip this into one of the intros for X-Men 97. 97's intro music is goated, but damn this is fire too.
CRYSING MY OUT!
Shock! Uso de katameta, naifu kiritsuke
Shock! Yume o nomikomi, machi wa kagayaku
Arasoi ya nikushimi de, sono mi kezura rete yuku
Mayonaka osoi kuru, hito shirenu mama
BREAK OUT!
Cry! Biru no tanima ni, tsumi no tameiki
Cry! Kaze ninagasa re, machi wa se o muku
Tomadoi ni kawaru toki, arashi fukiare midare
Uragini te o somete, kokoro ubawa rete
BREAK OUT!
Cryyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! For the moooonn!!!
Naze ni hito wa kamen ni obore
Arasoi ya nikushimi de, sono mi kezura rete yuku
Mayonaka osoi kuru, hito shirenu mama
BREAK OUT!
Raimura ito hikaru zawameki,
Riaruta imu nureta maboroshi
Cry For the moooonn!!!
Magneto has the mutant powers to summon creatures
Could you remaster Big Bang Beat (1st impression & Revolve Doujin) or maybe Eretzvaju (Evil Zone) please 🙏
I'll definitely look into it!
They should have taken a cue from Thundercats Opening in the U.S… but Japan got the message
Looks pretty cool, the upscale does ruin some of the drawings, but as good as the contemporary technology goes.
who's here because of x men 97 news and drowned it out
Parace que estão usando IA ?
Rogue
ah yes, fighting in the mid air thats very anime
Okay the original English opening is amazing, but I wasn't expecting a Guilty Gear music video for the Japanese intro. Pretty cool. I was expecting some super power-of-friendship, cheesy pop song for some reason honestly.
(Seriously though, this sounds so much like a Guilty Gear track)
Now, please make the japanese opening with the original theme song. ❤
Hasta que no haya un re-escaneo de un negativo original, ninguna AI podrá darnos un remaster con los detalles más precisos
Anyone know where I can watch this X-Men??? Seen every other one but can honestly say I didn't know that this existed 😢😢
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 😅
Glory and honor to the X Men Our Gods, eternally!!!
Cry for the moon!
Garou Densetsu 3
ia opening destroyer
Seems to busy at first. But you’d probably get used to it over time
OJALA QUE XMEN 97 TENGA ESA ESTILO DE ANIMACION EN LAS PELEAS en el xmen 97
1:22 IA Remaster?? lol
Cry for the moon
Does this has a series? Or just an intro?
1:25 credo
要死了，日本人繪製的片頭更偏像Jim Lee老師的畫風，這就是日本跟美國動漫技術上的差距。
😭🌕😭
Really great quality video but the audio is terrible
Что-то на уровне Hokuto no ken, а может даже и лучше!
Why isn't this the whole show animation
Damn, this AI uscalling looks so bad haha.
Its great but its missing the end part with spiral I was hoping to see that
Why would you expect something from the second opening to be here?
Hey, why the hell is the audio muffled?
Que paso al final 😂😂😂😂
Nafora Pastel anyone?
This is great and better at selling it as an action series but it’s not as good at portraying the conflicts and characters. The imagery is less meaningful.
TBF, I think the 2nd opening does a better job of doing that
Why is the sound quality so bad??
EDに比べてOPのどうがの崩壊の酷さw
The line art it's good, but soundtrack... no way....
何がTASなん？
the animated series❤
As expected the AI made it look terrible.
se ve del ql0 pasa nada
No where near as good as the original. The AI needs to up its game.
It legitimately upsets me that people think "remastering" now is just "slather horrible smearing noise reduction on it and coat it with gross, image warping globs of AI generation". This looks unbelivably, disrespectfully awful and downright hideous, and yet so many ignorant people in the comments are praising this disgusting mess.
This whole video is a perverse middle finger to the very concept of preservation and restoration. Shame on you. Shame on ALL of you.
This is not a good remaster. It smears everything and loses more detail than it gives, which is especially obvious in the scene with Omega Red and Wolverine.