History Trivia / X1999

** Good luck finding a new, or even mint, copy of TheMovie. Its last-known print runs were in 2001 on DVD (and in 2005 on an extremely limited [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable UMD]] run, of all things), issued by Creator/MangaEntertainment, and the last DVD run was ''before'' CLAMP's hiatus on the manga. There hasn't been a single high-definition release of the work in ''any'' language since the "hiatus" was announced. Resources like blu-ray.com point to dummy entries made in anticipation of a release that never materialized; Manga Entertainment lost the rights to the movie and was later acquired by Sony, and Madhouse is now a subsidiary of NTV, so who precisely owns the rights to the film may be unclear. Even more notably, it has ''never'' featured on any streaming platform.

* DevelopmentHell: The manga currently straddles the line between this and "outright discontinued", and has remained "on hold" since 2003. Nanase Ohkawa, the lead writer of CLAMP, mentioned in 2005 that they were still looking for a magazine willing to publish the remaining chapters. However, decades have passed and CLAMP put [[Manga/Gate7 two]] [[Manga/LegalDrug more]] works on hold to work on ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', which was a continuation of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', ''xxxHolic:Rei'' which is also a semi-continuation of ''Manga/{{Xxxholic}}'', and a sequel manga for ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. Fans of ''X/1999'' were not pleased with this and, at this point, the general assumption is that the manga will remain unfinished. It doesn't help that several plot points have been left hanging since well before 2003, such as Kamui's "true" wish and, most importantly, who wins between the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth.

** That said, the TV series remained in print a bit longer courtesy of Funimation (even getting a Complete Collection in 2010), and good-condition copies of the series are a bit easier to find. Like the film, however, it never got an HD release of any sort, in any language, and time and attrition makes discs slowly rarer. It is at least on Crunchyroll post-merger, available for streaming.

** That said, the TV series remained in print a bit longer courtesy of Funimation (even getting a Complete Collection in 2010), and good-condition copies of the series are a bit easier to find. Like the film, however, it never got an HD release of any sort, in any language, and time and attrition makes discs slowly rarer. It is at least on Crunchyroll post-merger, available for streaming.
* TalkingToHimself: Or, in this case, ''herself''. Wendee Lee, in addition to playing main character Karen, voices ''both'' of Kotori's friends in the English version.

* DevelopmentHell: The manga currently straddles the line between this and "outright discontinued", and has remained "on hold" since 2003. Nanase Ohkawa, the lead writer of CLAMP, mentioned in 2005 that they were still looking for a magazine willing to publish the remaining chapters. However, decades have passed and CLAMP put [[Manga/Gate7 two]] [[Manga/LegalDrug more]] works on hold to work on ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', which was a continuation of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', ''xxxHolic:Rei'' which is also a semi-continuation of ''Manga/{{Xxxholic}}'', and a sequel manga for ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. Fans of ''X/1999'' were not pleased with this and, at this point, the general assumption is that the manga will remain unfinished. It doesn't help that several plot points have been left hanging since well before 2003, such as Kamui's "true" wish and, most importantly, who wins between the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth. And with ''such'' a long gap between releases, at this point it would be difficult to resume without a hefty reprinting of the older material to get readers back up to speed or try and capture a new generation of readers.

* SeriesHiatus: The manga has been on hold on since 2003. Though CLAMP is willing to continue the series once they find a magazine that is willing to publish the rest of the chapters, multiple decades have passed and CLAMP has long been focused on other works. Fans generally accept that the "hiatus" is more a quiet cancellation on CLAMP's side.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The story was originally conceived by Ohkawa as a tale of a group of warriors fighting for justice, but those plans ended up in a brief DevelopmentHell as the entire CLAMP team couldn't find a proper "hook" to make it engaging. Only later did the idea for mixing the previous idea with influences from Creator/GoNagai's ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's ''Genma Taisen'' crystallize, giving birth to ''X'' as we know it.

* DevelopmentHell: The manga currently straddles the line between this and "outright discontinued, and has remained "on hold" since 2003. Nanase Ohkawa, the lead writer of CLAMP, mentioned in 2005 that they were still looking for a magazine willing to publish the remaining chapters. However, decades have passed and CLAMP put [[Manga/Gate7 two]] [[Manga/LegalDrug more]] works on hold to work on ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', which was a continuation of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', ''xxxHolic:Rei'' which is also a semi-continuation of ''Manga/{{Xxxholic}}'', and a sequel manga for ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. Fans of ''X/1999'' were not pleased with this and, at this point, the general assumption is that the manga will remain unfinished. It doesn't help that several plot points have been left hanging since well before 2003, such as Kamui's "true" wish and, most importantly, who wins between the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth. And with ''such'' a long gap between releases, at this point it would be difficult to resume without a hefty reprinting of the older material to get readers back up to speed or try and capture a new generation of readers.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Cause of several publication hiatuses during the initial run of the manga, and possible cause of the current "[[NoEnding hiatus]]" as well. Thematic elements like the decapitations and seismic disturbances bore coincidental but unsettling resemblances to real-life events such as the Sakakibara murders and the Great Hanshin Earthquake, leading to the series being pulled from publication repeatedly. CLAMP denies ExecutiveMeddling was responsible for the 2003 hiatus, stating that they themselves made the decision to cease publication as they were convinced the planned ending would not have been socially acceptable ''at that time''. The global climate around urban terrorism and national security may have been a major factor in that decision.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The story was originally conceived by Ohkawa as a tale of a group of warriors fighting for justice, but those plans were left in DevelopmentHell. Only later they came to fruition, mixing with influences from Creator/GoNagai's ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's ''Genma Taisen'' to give birth to ''X''.

* SeriesHiatus: The manga has been on hold on since 2003. Though CLAMP is willing to continue the series once they find a magazine that is willing to publish the rest of the chapters, multiple decades have passed and CLAMP has long been focused on other works.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Good luck finding a new copy of TheMovie. It was last known to be released in 2001, by Creator/MangaEntertainment, ''before'' CLAMP's hiatus on the manga, and there hasn't been a single high-definition release. Tellingly, Blu-ray.com doesn't yet have a page on it, even as it has pages on other anime that haven't yet been released on Blu-ray such as ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''[[note]]Its movies and OVA's did get a Blu-ray release in 2015, and the site considers the series separate from the later two 13-episode seasons[[/note]].

* SeriesHiatus: The manga has been on hold on since 2003. Though CLAMP is willing to continue the series once they find a magazine that is willing to publish the rest of the chapters, two decades had passed and CLAMP is already focused on their other works.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Creator/SteveStaley and Creator/CrispinFreeman, the voice actors of Kamui and Fuuma, play long-lost brothers in the ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' dub. However, in this story, Fuuma goes from being neutral to bad to good rather than his path in X. Bonus points for the voice actress of [[Creator/MichelleRuff Kotori]] playing their only female teammate.
** Arashi is [[Anime/TheBigO R. Dorothy Wayneright]] while Seiichiro Aoki is her [[Anime/TheBigO employer]]. Karen is [[Anime/TheBigO still pining over someone she can't have]].
** Aoki is also [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike]] and Karen is also [[Anime/CowboyBebop Faye]]. Though as opposed to then ends of those characters in that anime, [[spoiler: Karen is the one who dies]].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Good luck finding a new copy of TheMovie. It was last known to be released in 2001, by Creator/MangaEntertainment, ''before'' CLAMP's hiatus on the manga, and there hasn't been a single high-definition release. Tellingly, Blu-ray.com doesn't yet have a page on it, even as it has pages on other anime that haven't yet been released on Blu-ray such as ''Anime/TheSlayers''[[note]]Its movies and OVA's did get a Blu-ray release in 2015, and the site considers the series separate from the later two 13-episode seasons[[/note]].

* WildfireFranchise: It is one of CLAMP's most popular works in the '90s. It has a film adaptation in 1996 which boosted the popularity of the J-rcck Visual Kei band, X Japan, who did the movie's theme song, a TV series in 2002, and two video games. Then in 2003, the manga went on a hiatus due to the events of the story being closely similar to the political and social climate at that time. In a 2006 interview by Anime News Network, Nanase Ohkawa, CLAMP's lead writer, mentioned that they're looking for a magazine willing to publish the rest of the story. However, a decade had passed and CLAMP are already focused on their other works which made fans cynical about the series' future. The proposed 2021 anime remake of ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' made fans hope that it may reignite the public's interest in the series. But the TroubledProduction and controversies behind the production committee in charge of the anime remake led to another dwindling interest in the series once again.

* TalkingToHimself: Or, in this case, ''herself''. Wendee Lee, in addition to playing main character Karen, voices ''both'' of Kotori's friends in the English version.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The story was originally conceived by Ohkawa as a tale of a group of warriors fighting for justice, but those plans were left in DevelopmentHell. Only later they came to fruition, mixing with influences from Creator/GoNagai's ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's ''Genma Taisen'' to give birth to ''X''.
* WordOfGod:
** [[spoiler:Seishirou and Nataku]] are dead. Deader than disco. They won't be coming back. Also, Kotori's hair reminds the artists of Udon. Really.
** Paraphrasing Ohkawa, '' Kamui and Fuuma are more than friends. They used to be friends, but they are definitely past that point now. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Please, Mr. Interviewer, don't refer to them as friends, that's not correct]].'' Oookay then.

** Or hell, just the fact that the manga never finished. It's the ultimate "what could have been" because we don't even know how it ends.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Cause of several publication hiatuses during the initial run of the manga, and possible cause of the current hiatus as well. Thematic elements like the decapitations and seismic disturbances bore coincidental but unsettling resemblances to real-life events such as the Sakakibara murders and the Great Hanshin Earthquake, leading to the series being pulled from publication repeatedly. CLAMP denies ExecutiveMeddling was responsible for the 2003 hiatus, stating that they themselves made the decision to cease publication as they were convinced the planned ending would not have been socially acceptable ''at that time''. The global climate around urban terrorism and national security may have been a major factor in that decision.

* TooSoon: Cause of several publication hiatuses during the initial run of the manga, and possible cause of the current hiatus as well. Thematic elements like the decapitations and seismic disturbances bore coincidental but unsettling resemblances to real-life events such as the Sakakibara murders and the Great Hanshin Earthquake, leading to the series being pulled from publication repeatedly. CLAMP denies ExecutiveMeddling was responsible for the 2003 hiatus, stating that they themselves made the decision to cease publication as they were convinced the planned ending would not have been socially acceptable ''at that time''. The global climate around urban terrorism and national security may have been a major factor in that decision.

* WordOfGod: [[spoiler:Seishirou and Nataku]] are dead. Deader than disco. They won't be coming back. Also, Kotori's hair reminds the artists of Udon. Really.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Good luck finding a new copy of TheMovie. It was last known to be released in 2001, by Creator/MangaEntertainment, ''before'' CLAMP's hiatus on the manga, and there hasn't been a single high-definition release. Tellingly, Blu-ray.com doesn't yet have a page on it, while other anime that hasn't yet been released on Blu-ray such as ''Anime/TheSlayers''[[note]]Its movies and OVA's did get a Blu-ray release in 2015, and the site considers the series separate from the later two 13-episode seasons[[/note]] have by that point.

* HeyItsThatVoice: More of a HilariousInHindsight if you're a fan of the Digimon Frontier dub, in which the voice actors of [[Creator/SteveStaley Kamui]] and [[Creator/CrispinFreeman Fuuma]] play long lost brothers. However, in this story, Fuuma goes from being neutral to bad to good rather than his path in X. Bonus points for the voice actress of [[Creator/MichelleRuff Kotori]] playing their only female teammate.
** Kamui is also [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Captain Hitsugaya]]

** Subaru is a sensei to a [[Manga/{{Naruto}} genin team]].
** Satsuki upgraded Beast into a Knightmare Frame in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
** Fuuma is [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Itachi]].
*** Also [[Anime/{{Noein}} Karasu.]] And [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Togusa]]. Oh, just go to [[Creator/CrispinFreeman his page already]].
** Kanoe is [[Anime/CodeGeass Cornelia Li Britannia]] and [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Major Motoko Kusanagi]].
** Daisuke Saiki is none other than [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Kenshin]].

* TooSoon: Cause of several publication hiatuses during the initial run of the manga, and possible cause of the current hiatus as well. Thematic elements like the decapitations and seismic disturbances bore coincidental but unsettling resemblances to real-life events such as the Sakakibara murders and the Great Hanshin Earthquake, leading to the series being pulled from publication repeatedly. CLAMP denies ExecutiveMeddling was responsible for the 2003 hiatus, stating that they themselves made the decision to cease publication as they were convinced the planned ending would not have been socially acceptable ''at that time''. The global climate around urban terrorism and national security may have been a major factor in that decision.