Romeo × Juliet (2007 anime)
A floating city called Neo Verona, and a Juliet in disguise.
Use the play as a launch pad: keep the names and the love, and build a fantasy series around them.
You want something to live in for weeks, and you like anime that takes old stories somewhere new.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the names, the feud and a doomed young love.
Changes: the world. Neo Verona is a city in the sky, the Montagues seized power fourteen years earlier, and Juliet hides as a man called Odin.
Whose story is it?
Juliet’s, who is the hero of this one.
How much time does it ask?
24 episodes of about 24 minutes. Animated by Gonzo.
Anime News Network: Gonzo, 24 episodes, 2007 — “a young and tragic love, set in the aerial city of Neo Verona.”
Where to find it
Watch with a Crunchyroll subscription — Prime Video
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
Common questions
How many episodes is Romeo x Juliet?
Twenty-four, animated by Gonzo and first broadcast in 2007.
More ways into Verona: Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) · Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) · William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)