X (manga)

X (エックス Ekkusu?), an early work of the hit all-female mangaka group Clamp, details the apocalypse prophesied to begin in 1999. The first chapter of the manga originally appeared in the May 1992 issue of Monthly Asuka. The manga has yet to be completed, but it has been adapted into a movie (X/1999 or X: The Destiny War) and an anime TV series. It was also adapted into a Playstation versus fighting game ("X: Unmei no Sentaku/X: The Selection of Destiny"). Drama CDs were also produced, and their music was composed by Naoki Sato.

The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten under the Monthly Asuka line. In North America, VIZ Media publishes it in English under the name X/1999. In Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, it is called X and is published in English by Chuang Yi, with the same translations as Viz. It is published in Italy by Planet Manga. In Indonesia, it's published by Level Comic.

In what was believed to be due to a dispute between Clamp and the editors of Asuka, the manga was put on hiatus in Japan as of March 2003. Supposedly, Asuka felt the series was becoming too violent, however, Clamp were unwilling to change their plans for X 's plotline. As a result, X and Gohō Drug, Clamp's manga being serialised in Asuka at the time, were put on hold indefinitely. In an interview from PUFF magazine which can be viewed , Clamp claims that while it was true Asuka believed the series was getting too violent, the primary reasons for X's hiatus were the Great Hanshin earthquake and the Sakakibara incident, both of which devastated Japan. As X portrays earthquakes as a sign of the end of days and contains depictions of extreme mutilation and decapitation, Clamp decided it was not the right time to release the ending they had planned.