14 years prior to the start of the story, the evil Lord Montegue killed the rightful Prince Capulet and his entire family except for his daughter and a small group of Loyalists. Juliet and her retainers (Conrad, Fransico, Curio, and Cordelia, her childhood friend) are taken in by a struggling playwrite named William. Between the assassination of the Capulet family and the first episode Juliet is raised as a boy named 'Odin' and wears a wig inorder to hide the fact that she is the legitimate heir to the throne.  

Highlights
Disc 1 covers the first six episodes of the series: When we first see Juliet she is in another disguise of hers named the Red Whirlwind. This masked Vigilante fights against the oppression of the Montegue police called the "Carabinieri". Juliet, as the Red Whirlwind, falls off a broken bridge while trying to get away and is saved by Romeo, who is riding atop a white dragonsteed (Kind of a dragon/horse hybrid that looks more like a Pegasus then a dragon). After that, the story hops between Romeo and Juliet as they live their lives until the night of the Rose Ball. Where, by mistake, Juliet is taken. After a familiar feeling when first entering the palace and upon seeing the now Prince Montegue, she runs away and comes upon a pond with a white Lilly floating, this is where the two first meet. Romeo at the meantime as just learned of the news that he is to be wed to a young nobel woman named Hermione.   The disk ends with Juliet learning Romeo's full name and her being forced to drop the Red Whirlwind persona. In the Romeo side of the story, Benovio's family loses its nobility due to Benovio's father, the Mayor, speaking out against Prince Montegue's style of leadership. Francisco, Curio, and Juliet ,dressed as Odin, learn of the soon to be assassination of the family and rush to their aid. The disk ends with Juliet about to be slain and being rescued by a man riding a black dragonsteed.
Disk2: Right where disk 1 ended the man disapears and tells the group that his name is Tybalt. After taking the family back to their safe house, Conrad greets Vittorio and tells them of Odin's true name and when Conrad is told of Tybalt he says he never heard of the man but seems to question if he knows something to himself. After learning that Prince Montegue has apparently slipped up the Capulet Gaurd decides it is time to assassinate the Prince and restore the House Capulet, sadly this doesn't work out and Juilet is taken by Tybalt away from her friends. After wandering around she meets up with Romeo again and they both do a version of the famous balcany scene from the play and run off together where Romeo lets his dragonsteed go and marries Juliet. At the end of the disk Romeo and Juliet are captured by the Cabinieri, who had learned of a rumor that led them to a town they were just in a couple of days before hand.  

Overall  
I really liked how they took the familar play and turned it into something filled with this much action. The series can simply summed up like this: 97% Romeo and Juliet play, 1% Shakespear refrence, and 2% fantasy. I say Shakespear refrence, because many of the character names are from other works of Shakespear and the character William is a caricature of Shakespear himself. His is often seen during Disk 1 working on a new play that can easily be seen as what we know as Romeo and Juliet even though it doesn't come right out and say it. And the fantasy is from the aformentioned dragonsteed, and the fact that entire city of NeoVerona (fantasy nod right there) is a floating island. There is also a gigantic glowing tree named Escalus. Not only is that a fantasy thing but a Shakespear refrence! Way to go for a twofer!   Something I didn't understand is why the writers of this adaption didn't make Prince Montegue, King Montegue instead. The story they have wouldn't have been changed and it still would have been good. Also the ending themesong "Cyclone" just didn't feel right for how the show was. I mean, lyrically it fit but the song uses electric guitar riffs and made it feel like an alternative rock song.  

ComicsOnline gives Romeo X Juliet:Part 1, 4 out of 5 Adaptations of the Bards work.