Tsubasa anime.

[nenena]

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 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 Fay was the one who killed Kurogane's mother.

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.

Comments

[atelierjoh.livejournal.com]

The more I read about him from you, the more I'm beginning to dislike Fay.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I think my problem with Fay is that I like him as a character, I just hate the way that his "story," so to speak, is being written and presented. It's too many SHOCKING TRAGIC TWISTS packed into too short of a time. And now Fay has completely overshadowed every other character in the story with his ongoing saga of ANGST and WOE.

He's turned into a Gary Stu. That's what happened here.

It's disappointing, especially when compared to the way that CLAMP handled Kurogane's past. Because the story of Kurogane's past, while incredibly tragic, was also very well-written. It was presented at the right moment, revealed a lot about Kurogane as a character, and was just... Good. Mostly because it wasn't too over-the-top. Fay? His tragic past is so over-the-top that it's gotten to the point of ridiculousness.

[evercool.livejournal.com]

Well it looks like they're trying to force Fai to kill Kuro now XD; Nooooez!

The reason I'm quite sure Fai didn't kill his mother is that you can see FeiWong's massive, ugly, FAT hand holding onto the other end of the sword when it killed her XD

BUT Fai could be responsible for creating the demon that killed his father and town?

[nenena.livejournal.com]

That's a possibility. At this point, I strongly suspect that Fay will in some way be connected to Kurogane's past. But I would like to be wrong about that. Because there's only so much tragedy that CLAMP can pile onto a single character before I just start rolling my eyes at it.

[kida-star.livejournal.com]

Dreading because I'm starting to get the suspicion that CLAMP is about to pull the Noir twist on us, and reveal that Fay was the one who killed Kurogane's mother.

Kurogane: Grr! *whips out sword* This king guy and zombie kid are getting on my nerves with all of their dramatics. Also that evil bat-guy with the chin is somehow involved! Attack time!
Fay: Hooray, I'm saved! But, uh, just thought you should know before you go that I'm sorta the real killer of your mom.
Kurogane: ...
Fay: ...
Kurogane: ...
Fay: ...So.. good luck taking down Ashura!
Syaoran: *turning into a vegetable in the backround* D:

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I will bet money that that actually happens in chapter 161.