Whew, watching xxxHolic actually becomes cure of my disappointment toward Tsubasa. At least I could see the connection between the two movie

I watched the Tsubasa Chronicle movie a few days ago and I enjoyed it a lot. To be honest, I belive this was the best action oriented episodes of the series.

I found the Tsubasa Chronicle anime to be rather average. Nothing really captivating, though I did feel compelled to finish it(well, I feel this way with pretty much any series that I watch).

I haven't checked out the movie yet though, since I'm waiting to see if AniKraze is going to release it or not.

I thought FUNimation licensed it, which means that A-Kraze won't be subbing it anytime soon.

I just watched the raw of the first episode of season two. While some aspects were definitely improved (Yuuko is no longer a shoujo anime reject! Kurogane is no longer the poster boy for anorexia!), some failed to raise the bar; the OP and ED sequences felt plain and uninspired.

If you're a manga fan, you're going to have to live with the changes they've made to the anime. It seems that they're switching around Shara/Shura and Piffle World so that the second season can end on something dramatic. I'm not really complaining, as Piffle World's inherently boring anyways.

I'm looking forward to the rest of the season, especially the second half with Shara/Shura. There's gonna be some good stuff right there.

I'm saying this much right now, if BeeTrain make Tsubassa Cronicale S2 suck in such a mannor that made S1 look like some wierd ass .hack, I swear I will physicly remove someone's balls with my teeth.
Probably someone from BeeTrain.

I went into the second season with the exact same fears, but I came out of the first episode with the impression that Bee Train learned from their mistakes and now they're trying to honor CLAMP's style rather than twist it to be their own. That's exactly why the character designs look different, and I applaud them for making that change.

Indeed, I meen comeon, they even had HOE! You can't deny that in seven minutes they made up for the assholery that S1 was.

Yeah, i was kind of confused that they skipped over so much of the manga... I mean, what about the world with the rabbits and, as previously mentioned, the Shara/Shura worlds.

I've only really read Del Rey's publications (I have some scans of the later chapters, but haven't got around to them). The best part of the Piffle world arc so far is that its reminding me of Card Captor Sakura again. I also liked the "Hoe" and Sakura and Syoaran's expressions where very reminiscent of their Card Captor Sakura selves.... Tomoyo is a welcome addition... now if only there was Kero... He's really the only other major Card Captor Sakura character to be missing... maybe he'll play a more prominent roll in the series later on...

I enjoyed the first season quite a bit... though the filler episodes (the tournament and the one about climbing the top of the mountain to grant a wish) were very different (especially in the filler character designs... they didn't even look remotely like CLAMP's) and really didn't fit.... much like the movie.

I'm glad that xXxHOLiC is turning out pretty well as a series... It's movie was also pretty good. It did try to explain the "holic" title at least.

Latest chapter, 115.

As previously conjectured, they probably did it to have the second season end with a "bang" rather than a whimper. I mean, really; Piffle World is dreadfully boring in the manga, and I can't see how they could try to spice it up in the anime.

Chapter 119 raw has been released already... and just as I thought...



One mystery confirmed.

Have DB-LE stopped subbing Tsubasa Chronicle or something? Or are they just VERY slow?

They do seem a bit slow. S2 7 & 8 are up on l33t-raws (though admitably, I can't seem to get 7 to start downloading).

And for those curious, they have gone back a bit in the Manga, to Shara/Shura Worlds (books 8 & 9 if I remember right). So they're not ending on this arc. I doubt they could stretch that 20 episodes. I give it 5 episodes (7-11). Though I haven't read anything in the manga after that, as I'm not getting any RAW manga at the moment, so I could easily be wrong on the 5 episode count.

I still feel that Episode 32 (S2 Ep6) was just fantastic, even without subs. You could still feel the mood and feelings of the scene even if you didn't know much.

About one outfit in the episode:


And in regards to one VA:

They're going to go even further than I thought they would and adapt the world after Shara/Shura and Piffle World. I think there's one filler episode after Shara/Shura ends, since I saw a list of episode titles recently.

I honestly don't see how Bee Train is going to faithfully adapt the current manga arc into the anime once they reach that point. It's easily the most violent so far.

Speaking of which...

It'll definately be interesting to see the next world, given its major CCS references.

Chapter 91 references


And they're going fairly fast though the present world. I'm feeling like they are gonna get through in 5 episodes a bit strongly now, if they keep up this pace. So there'll be plenty of more worlds to come yet.

Plus 5 episodes will make this world go from episodes 7-11, landing that filler ep you mentioned on 12, which was Bee Train's magical number-divisible-by-4 mark which we saw throughout Season 1. Maybe by chance they'll do that short little world at the beginning of Book 7, the area infected by wind? They could do that in an episode.

Next World?


Just ignore my post if you have grabbed the latest raw.

uh yeah, I forgot that one



thanks for pointing these out. ;)

ah, you clear the things up. I got some misinterpretation because actually I havent read the translation, I tried to read the japanese conversation with help of dictionary. =/

In Tsubasa Chronicle, Mokona is white, but in xxxHOLiC, she's black.
Are there two of her? Or are they totally different?

Yes, there are two Mokonas (see S1 E1 to see them both side by side). The white one was sent with the Tsubasa crew to take them from world to world and to detect the feathers. The black one stays behind to allow Yuuko to talk to the Tsubasa crew and to be the gateway of item transport.

Ah ok, that makes sense.

So it seems that Tsubasa Chronicle actually runs alongside xxxHOLiC? It explains why the white Mokona doesn't shop up in xxxHOLiC.
I haven't seen the xxxHOLiC movie, but I checked the cast list, and it says that Syaoran is in it.......