Anonymous (11:04 PM on Sat Dec 29, 2007)

So are magneto and wolverine gay now?
because they look like it.

Anon person 2!! (8:04 AM on Tue Jan 15, 2008)

actually it's quite hard to draw the same thing over and over and over and over again

Max (10:08 PM on Tue Feb 5, 2008)

The real problem is that it looks incredibly boring and generic.
Also, it seems very weird to be surprised that a non-Japanese person could draw like this. That is like saying that white folks can't play the Blues.

Anonymous (6:34 PM on Sat Feb 2, 2008)

I don't see what the point of making something like this is... it just seems like some horrible fanfiction. Aiming something towards a different audience is fine, I just don't see why that had to make it a 'shojo manga' with this horrible art. In my opinion, we are over-saturated with manga style books... taking the series in another direction is cool... I would have hoped it would have been something I've haven't seen a thousand times before though... what a disappointment...

also, I pray that this artist learns to color OR that the book is in black and white.... eww

Anonymous (9:45 AM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

the anatomy looks awful and stiff, especially in the shoulder areas (makes them look manly). not to mention giving mystique inward pointing cutesy school girl feet, since when was that her character?. i have nothing against anime, but i have everything against horribly drawn anime made just to get a certain crowd that doesnt know better interested in the x-men series.

Anonymous (9:40 PM on Mon Feb 4, 2008)

Both Mystique and Jean Grey look as though they're taking a really deep breath and hunching up their shoulders. And while I like this version of Magneto a bit better than the super-muscled way that he's usually portrayed- Wolverine looks pubescent, and I can't bring myself to like it.

Sure, it's the style of Shojo, but he doesn't belong in that kind of work. His short, wiry, muscle-bound appearance is his character. Hulk Hogan wouldn't appear in Shojo, so why Wolvie?

Anonymous (10:23 PM on Tue Feb 5, 2008)

I'm quite concerned that this will turn the X-Men - a series made compelling by its treatment of "otherness" or "minority" as a form of empowerment - into a brainless experiment in profiteering. I don't consider anime trivial by any means, but I don't see how reducing a politically-charged series to the level of middle-school love triangles achieves anything of artistic merit.

Anonymous (9:35 PM on Tue Apr 22, 2008)

Damn as someone who likes BOTH Manga and Marvel Comics I have to say this makes me cringe. If you are going to have a redux of X-Men, do it in a way that is true to the spirit of the characters. A happy metro looking LOgan? Please. A slender mid twenties angry looking Magneto? Blashpmey!

Anonymous (7:19 PM on Fri May 16, 2008)

Wow..... This is going to be interesting.....
Although I do like anime, this seems a bit of a breech in all things sacred and Holy. I mean, really! People grew up with the original X-Men and X-Men: Evolution characters as idols.... Now they just look like freakish-back-in-time-yet-modern-barbie-and-ken.

However, upon going back and reading everything and the excerpt of what the manga is supposed to be about(gasp! Wolverine won't be featured?!), I suppose some of us might accept it. Er, possibly....

Anyways, upon the hope that they keep to what they wrote, and the story line will indeed be a high school setting this may be worth looking into. (Although I have indeed seen the sketch of what Beast might-or-will look like, as well as Nightcrawler. For Beast: Oh dear, what have they done to the poor Man? For Nightcrawler: Que jaw drop and gasp.)

Although, the single-girl-in-an-all-boys-academy is a bit overdone.
Here's to the hope that they touch up their art(or just redo it....) and work on that whole age-defying-look. Really now, Jean Grey in leather? Wolverine happy? And where are his sideburns....?

Viet.Otaku (2:11 PM on Tue Jun 17, 2008)

ehh...wolverine(sp?) doesn't look like wolverine anymore...so does magneto
I hope the manga is good...and it's doesn't change the whole plot

Dice (9:02 AM on Fri Jul 18, 2008)

I'd read this. Ive never real been into comic books, but I do love manga. As long as they don't mess with the characters to much I think this is a good idea. BTW Wolverine looks cool, I for one think that he was getting uglier in each remake.

Anonymous (7:09 AM on Fri Jul 18, 2008)

O My God, I like anime and I like X-Men, I hate...no scratch that, I loath these images, what on earth were they thinking?! Hiring this particular artist--I bet a cheap one at that--to do such a tremendous title redux such as X-Men, come on now?!...my advice to the artist, learn more on anatomy, maybe in a 100 years or so you'll manage, as for fashion sense, you're beyond help, what planet are you fromanyway? do you even read X-Men?! Jean Grey wouldn't want to be caught dead in that outfit! You must be some ugly Otaku with no fashion sense at all.

Anonymous (10:18 AM on Mon Aug 11, 2008)

Oh for hlls sake... This is giving manga style a very poor name. The art looks so generic, as if the artist hasn't found her style yet and just started drawing two months ago. And wth kinda anatomy is that? They all look like they've been stretched out to hell and their heads are too small. That's, like, the most basic artist errors ever.
And girls read Marvel comics already! This idea sounds like the worst fanfiction to grace the web ever and will isolate the female crowd that woulda been interested in the first place. The only girl in an all boys' school? Oh man. It doesn't look like this artist can even draw guys as male.

Totoro-chan (2:33 AM on Fri Aug 22, 2008)

Why couldn't they just make a normal manga that would appeal at least some to the original audience? It's not like creating a poorly drawn manga version of a comic book will draw in anymore of the female audience. (I am a girl)

They could have at least gotten a better artist, and what the hell is Jean wearing?
It's not like she's some teenage goth girl who needs to hide the vampire bites with a collar or something like that.

And Wolverine needs at least a little bit of muscle. He doesn't look like he has any of what makes him Wolverine; muscles and hair. He doesn't even have any hair on his arms! It's ridiculous! HE probably isn't brutal at either.

Also the 'only girl at a boy's school' story doesn't make any sense.
It just doesn't make any sense. Any Dean incompetent enough to let a girl in the school should be fired.

Marvel, I'm disappointed.

(By the way, you already made a manga. It was called Snikt! and it was awesome)

Anonymous (6:30 AM on Fri Aug 22, 2008)

SO KAWAII DESU NYOO ^O^;;

And by that, I mean TERRIBLE. The anatomy is worse than Liefeld, the characters don't look like themselves at all; more like some emanciated random-ass mass produced generic animu characters that had prominent attributes (see: Wolverine's claws. Remove JUST those, and you wouldn't recognize him at all) glued on afterwards.

Glenn Hauman (12:46 PM on Fri Aug 22, 2008)

To be fair, these are all design and style sheet drawings, not final art. They will tend a bit towards the generic, as it's to be expected that other artists will follow along. Things will be tweaked and improved on, of course.