I’ve read juuuust enough of the manga (meaning, like a volume or two out of the dozen or so that we owned), seen a few of the OVAs, and watched a few random other CLAMP series that doing so hurt, rather than helped my understanding of the Tsubasa Chronicle anime. This basically allowed me to see a character, recognize who that was, and then get really confused when nothing those characters did seemed to make sense or matter in any overarching way.
AND WORST OF ALL, THERE WAS NOT A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF HAND HOLDING
The weirdest thing was probably just having voices be different compared to Cardcaptor Sakura. Sakura is just “supposed” to be Sakura Tange in my head, not Yui Makino. Touya is supposed to be Tomokazu Seki, not Shinichiro Miki (which also made him sound extra yaoi-y). The biggest mindfuck like this was actually probably how I not only was thrown a little bit when Shaoran was not voiced by Motoko Kumai, but when she also didn’t voice Sumomo. That all said however, a Maya Sakamoto as Tomoyo is fine, too.
But ultimately, the biggest complaint was simply “Why is any of this here?” The worst offender was, by far, the part in the middle of the series where the show simply ground to halt while the characters spent half a dozen episodes working in a restaurant. It was even perplexing because the show didn’t use any of the stock situations where the characters in an anime will end up needing to get part time jobs (or to constantly show off the female characters in skimpy outfits). They were just like…there.
And for those of you that this matters to, I sadly cannot tag this post with “lolicon hoihoi”, “shotacon hoihoi”, “wincest”, “buttsecks”, or any of those other tags that CLAMP loves.
Would I watch it even if I weren’t forced? I’m glad I only watched a few random OVAs and didn’t waste any more time prior to having to watch the series proper.
This is honestly just one weird production. The manga was weird, and really was confusing. I remember trying to follow this when it was coming out, and even the scanlators were confused.
The anime just…well, the anime I had a few complaints about. Ignoring the seiyuu (which was a bit odd to switch) the anime lacked the charm that I found in the manga. I don’t know what it was, the design or how serious it was, it wasn’t that fun. The fillers as well, especially when you realized they didn’t even matter, did not help. Though the music was excellent. I still have some of those tracks in my music library.
@Gin
I need to make some kind of diagram comparing the enormous number of crappy shows that Yuki Kajiura has done the music for to the number of non-crappy shows that she has done the music for. I feel like the ratio is going to be like 90/10 or something absurd.
The anime sucked xD I only liked the Kero filler, because the seiyuu was actually the same lol and the Kurogane’s past episode, but those are season 2 episodes
never finished the anime, never finished the manga, but for separate reasons. The anime was a sub par product to the manga in all counts: lackluster art and animation, lackluster music, lackluster voice talent, and the whole thing just had a dragging slow awfully boring pace to it (the fillers were the worst offenders but the source material was no better). The manga just fell away from me and I had no desire to return to it. All in all it just ended up being a disappointed and a failed attempt to relieve my Cardcaptor Sakura days.
I recall following this series for a bit, but then it just became too damn confusing for it’s own good, especially once the Syaoran clone showed up.
Kurogane was a pretty cool character though.
The ending is completely wierd and convoluted. You will fry your brain.
The anime lacked the little charm the mediocre manga had.
Too much equivalent exchange and ridiculous demands did my nut in. I mean come on to escape some void space he had to continue his journey and not stop. He should be happy that he gets to go a david carradine(kung fu) and constantly walk. That walk and not auto asphyxia.
Urgh, I hated the Tsubasa anime almost as much as I liked the manga (well until that ridiculously convoluted ending). Only good thing about the anime was the soundtrack.
The anime was boring and had stupid fillers. Not that the manga was any less absurd, though. At least the TV series had good music.
I watched this a few months ago too, but I was in it only for Fai