Tsubasa Chronicle
 

The abominable adaptation of Tsubasa Chronicle continues its run on April 29 with its second batch of episodes. All that's known at this time is that there's going to be a new OP (IT'S by Kinya) and ED (Kazemichi Jet by Sakamoto Maaya). It's quite likely that this season will end around the current manga arc if it's structured like the first season.

I liked the first episodes quite much buit i didnt come to watch the rest jet.
On April 29 new episodes come, you say. Are they already licensed like the first 26?

I don't believe so. FUNimation hasn't alluded to an acquisition beyond the first 26 episodes.

Like it matters. Dattebayo/Live-Evil will keep subbing it anyways, just like they're doing Naruto.

Just under 2 months! Yay! ^__^

I'm watching the first saga now, I'm currently at episode 19. So far it's been good.
When I finish watching it I'll post my thoughs on it.

I just finished episode 26, even though saw the first episode quite some time ago. The first few were somewhat cheesy though, especially with what I felt were scenes that had the wrong music choice. I was quite happy with the way things eventually turned though. Actually, I was up until 3 in the morning during the Outo episodes, being completely mesmerized by the plot (and music).

And Fay rocks. I'm constantly waiting for him to battle. :p

This art in this series is great; it's one of my favorites. I really like how the shading isn't overdone. Yesh!

I saw 16 episodes right now.is really great anime,I think is best art for anime right now

It's a pretty decent anime, I liked what I saw. I liked the manga better but that's usually the case with me. I'm curious about the new episodes beacuse I haven't been keeping up on plot or anything and god knows I'm far too lazy to actually read something if I can just watch it play out in front of me so easily :D

For those who don't know where to get a subbed version of the Tsubasa Chronicle Movie:

Shinsen-Subs released it today and I'd say that the video quality and the subbing itself was done very well, despite some minor typing mistakes. However, you can only get this file in their IRC room, so if you want to download it via BT, you have to wait or search for another release. I don't know why you can only get it there, since I don't know anything about Shinsen's current situation, but the staff reacts very bad-tempered regarding questions.

While I'm not aware of the usual length of those movies, 35 minutes seems to be a little bit too short. Looked at it that way, the movie is practically just a normal episode with, in my opinion, improved arts. I won't say anything in respect of the story, but the "movie" is definitely worth a watch, especially if you liked the normal Tsubasa Chronicle episodes.

Here are some screens to compare the differences between the Tsubasa Chronicle Movie and the Anime itself. In motion, everything looks really smooth and the style is a welcome change from the "normal" Tsubasa Chronicle.

Tsubasa Chronicle Movie:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCMovie1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCMovie2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCMovie3.jpg


Tsubasa Chronicle Anime:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCAnime1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCAnime2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/TCAnime3.jpg

If you want to get the file, join #Shinsen-Subs @ irc.rizon.net

I fanboyed over the trailer when they showed the scene of the four arriving at Yuuko's. I was like, "This is what the anime series should have looked like."

Tsubasa Chronicle's movie was screened as with the xxxHOLiC movie as a double feature. If you put the runtimes of the two together, you get a pretty decent runtime anyways. It works out in the end, as the two are linked anyways.

Does anybody have just an .SRT file for the Tsubasa movie? The MVK was cool, but no subs. ;_;

I'm working on a torrent of Shinsen-Subs video, but it would be quicker to get an SRT and meld that in with the file I already have.

I liked this show now that I've watched all of it.
Is this movie connected to the XXXHolic movie in any way ? (I belive the trailer said so but I'm not sure)

I'll wait a bit until someone makes a torrent for this movie, I don't like IRC Fservers at all, so I just use them as a last resort.
Oh, and for those of you who have seen the movie, is it good ?

Yeah, the movie's connected to the xxxHOLiC movie.

I thought the movie was pretty, well, forgettable. You can watch it and be entertained, but on the other hand you're apt to forget it pretty quickly. It's just a thirty-five minute movie; there's not much in the way of depth or plot.

The AVI was up at a torrent on Mininova, but it apparantly got canned from the tracker it was on or something, which is why I'm looking for the SRTs. Getting files from IRC bots SUCK. I tried it and most of the time I was like, 100000000th in line so what's the point?

I just downlaoded to fansubs for this movie, one from Stactic Sub and another from a group I don't know ( Q-R ), unfortunatly I haven't had time to watch it yesterday, but from the little I've seen I can tell the animation looks great.

Since soulsteelgray is telling that these movies are connected I'll probably download xXxHolic too.

Well, I always used Bit Torrent during the last year, but some days ago I finally decided to download animes via IRC. I don't have to wait at all, the speed is superb and at any rate faster than BT, so I can't complain about that. Perhaps you just came at an inconvenient time. =/

By the way, I'd upload the file somewhere, but with my horrible upload speed it would take like eight hours to do this. :tpg:

Q-R's MKV file is a multi-audio RAW. Hence why I'm looking for SRTs.

Well, I work. It means I'm away for 8 hrs+. Not like I'm really waiting, so neener to your excuse. ^^ (Wanna upload to an FTP?)

If you happend to find the SRTs would you mind posting them here ?
The image quality of this MKV is a lot better than the AVI, and I wouldn't like to ditch it away just because there's no subbing.

I could do this during night, but my PC usually freezes every third or fourth hour. You should understand that this whole uploading issue could get a little bit lengthy and frustrating for me. As I said before, if you really want to get this file, you should try it via IRC again or wait for some SRTs to show up. =/

Hi ya... I wonder if this thread also for manga talk. have you latest raw? damn cool, I speculate clamp will finish x/1999 in this tsubasa.

I highly doubt it. I'd be pretty disappointed if they took such a cheap way out.

I just see this new world as a teaser for the end of X.

check out here if you want to grab the raw scans. I'm quite excited, since the scene will remind you to the earlier volume of X, where Hinoto had a dream about the devastated Tokyo and Kamui was wearing some kind of yellow hood.

I have watched Tsubasa the Movie today... and to be honest I'm disappointed with the story. What's the point of making a very short 35-minute movie? why dont they put this into the tv series instead? I would prefer call this an OVA rather than a movie. It's too short and there is no story developed. I hope xxxHolic is much better than this.

3/5

also me I saw it yesterday,and yes is too short only 34 mins and I didn't like story on movie.

The xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa movies were written with the intention of having a "linked" double feature. (The trailer even says, "Our stories are linked.") They just decided to give xxxHOLiC more focus than Tsubasa, to which I say "bravo."

The length of the Tsubasa movie is not at all an uncommon length in Japan. The Digimon movies maxed out at around 45 minutes, easy. (The 3rd movie was split into two segments, so it ends up being the longest Digimon movie.)

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.......

The Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC movies were a double feature and crossed over with one another. Syaoran appears at the very end of the xxxHOLiC movie (via black Mokona hologram) to ask for an item that was procured during the events of the xxxHOLiC movie.

As for the anime series, I have no idea why Production IG is skipping a lot of Tsubasa references. The only one to date is Fay's staff showing up in episode 8 as a rug beater.

Kurogane's sword was used as well, no?

It seems that DB's dropping Tsubasa for now..

http://yhbt.mine.nu/news.aspx?id=db-tsubasa

Damnit. I think I did see [YGO] listed as a group doing it, but I don't know anything about them or their consistancy to do good work, if even if they were releasing it subbed (or if they're just another RAW group).

I can't download anything right now, but you can check them out at Mininova.org (search for Tsubasa Chronicle).

Also, l33t-raws has S2E9 out now.

YGO released episode 8 few days back. I'm gonna check out their stuff and see if it's any good.

DB-LE dropping it.....is there another fansubber that anyone here recommends?

I'm looking at YGO's and I must commend them on one thing for certain.

FINALLY THERE IS A FANSUBBER THAT SPELLS FAY'S NAME RIGHT!!!!!

Seriously, even DB/L-E wasn't even consistant amongst itself. It was doing Fye in season one, then suddenly it was Faye, both totally wrong.

Everything I've been watching in S2E6 has been fairly consistant in dialogue. Their playing with the romanji in the op theme is a bit annoying, but overall I'm liking them. They'll be a good replacement for DB/L-E.

True, they are quite good, the audio seems to be a bit different though but it might be just me.

Ep 9 was just released by the way.

So has anyone read the latest chapter 121? I havent downloaded the chapter 120 but I have read the translation. clamp once again killing me



CMIW... it's pretty confusing. There is just too much fangirl service in the latest chapter >__>'

uh, could someone kindly uploadin' the chapter 120 raw to sendspace? I have downloaded twice, and all I got is corrupted archive... ><

S2 is finished up and it ended a LOT better than S1 did. S1 should have ended with Episode 25, not with some filler episode.

The animation replacement for the next episode portion was really cute. Goofy drawing chibi characters was quite fitting, given one particular episode this season.

Can't wait for next April.

i actually got 3 more episodes before i finish season 2 but from here its been a good ride
i've liked how the group is growing together
and Kuro-pon background story... was hard to take

i can bet another 20+ episodes before it ends? i really want to see the evil syaoran fight they been hinting it for 2 seasons come on! xp

So S2 has 23 episodes? Because the last time I checked the latest sub was episode 23. I hope it gets more interesting because seriously it was getting pretty boring (For me at least).

no there is a couple more episodes left (to be subbed) for the 2nd season

on another note what happened to episodes of XxX:holic? is it just gonna be one season or what
that would be weird cause then tsubasa is way longer than its crossover partner

Yeah, you're correct the subs are only at Episode 23 (at least YGO is). However the final episode is 26, which showed this weekend in Japan.

Remember, there's more to life than subtitled anime. EAT FRESH. WATCH RAW.

xxxHOLiC was indeed a bit shorter at I think only 24 episodes and was done quite a while ago. But then again, it started nearly a month earlier. Not sure on the status of additional seasons.

Too bad my Japanese knowledge isn't good enough yet for me to watch Raw as much as I'd want it.

I'm currently up to episode 24, and you're right thank God the last encounter is much more interesting though I don't remember having the presence of Chaos in the manga..or maybe I'm missing something?

IMO xxxHolic deserves another season. I think it has more potential than Tsubasa lol.

Finally got around to watch the last episode, and yes S2 ended much better than S1, but I'm hoping it'll pick up the pace a little, especially with . The manga's getting pretty interesting right now.

One thing that got me though, since Chaos was technically Sakura herself, and when he changed back into the cluster of feathers, why didn't they take all of them and only 1?

Maybe it would be too much of a shock for Sakura to take them all at once? Besides, it looked like they flew off before they could get em anyways.

But man, it was a shock to suddenly see "The End" after the credits. Ignorant little me hadn't considered the possibility of a 3rd season coming, that's why. :p I've loved this show ever since the first episode even though they've barely touched upon the story so far. Hopefully the 3rd season should change that.

Reviving this for some questions..

So I just saw the OVA. Pretty cool stuff. I was starting to get bored of Fay's character but hopefully he's more awesome with this change.

Anyway, I just wanted to know does the OVA pick up right after S2? Because in the beginning it they said Fay used magic but I don't remember that happening in the series.
Also, is there plans of S3? I haven't heard news on this for a while.

well i stopp watching tsubasa during the first half of the first series for random reasons, but i recall that when he was with yuko, kurogane and ssayoran yuko told him to give up his most precios posesion, and that was a tatto that he had in his back, that supposedly gave him his magic.