Jul. 10th, 2007

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The Big Three magazines each had a Tsubasa Chronicle: Tokyo Revelations feature this month. The illustration spreads in Newtype and Animedia were pretty much the same: Syoaran bloody and blue-eyed, Sakura swooning tragically, Kamui looking vaguely pissed. Animage only had a couple of sketchy character designs, which varied in exactly ZERO ways from what we've already seen in the manga. So not exactly exciting stuff.

But more exciting than that was the revelation (in Newtype) that the upcoming CLAMP in Wonderland II special will included animated scenes from the Infinty arc of the manga. Now THAT's what I'm looking forward to. Gothic pseudo-bondage and Fay artfully arranged in chains in during every avaible shot? Oh yes. I'm so there.

As someone said in the comments on one of [livejournal.com profile] evercool's recent posts: Finally, an animated Tsubasa worth watching.

(Although I maintain that the 45-minute animated "movie" was worth watching solely for the cracktastic value of KILLER BIRD POOP MONSTERS.)

New Tsubasa chapter tomorrow. This is the first time in a long time that I'm actually looking forward to a new chapter of Tsubasa manga. Well, looking forward to, and dreading at the same time. Dreading because I'm starting to get the suspicion that CLAMP is about to pull the Noir twist on us, and reveal that Cut for gigantic Noir spoiler and hypothetical Tsubasa spoiler ).

I really hope I'm wrong about that. Because at this point, retconning even one more tragedy on Fay's past would break the universal angst limit and set the entire CLAMP multiverse spiraling into a black hole of all-consuming Fay angst. And that would just be a really cheap, melodramatic excuse for a "dramatic twist" anyway.