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Tsubasa Chronicle is getting from bad to worse...or is it just me?
Fye-chan:
I like the anime really much but it bothers me that they make it not so funny and with the action as it is in the manga!!! -_-
After I saw the 19th episode I think it will be better but ...hmmm I prefer the manga.
But hey: if you get the anime free why not looking it, right? :rotfl:
ishiyaki:
I think manga is better than anime. firstly, anime doesn't alike much to clamp's style, althought their style is complicated...curiously, I find more atractive no animated anime images...It sounds extrange, but some scenes from anime aren't so good. :sad5:
then, story (like in others anime) changes a lot; I don't like that. at the moment, I prefer manga...there are more drama and...blood... jeje :heh:
Kuro-puppy:
it's just that TRC is sort of a sequel and my experience as a gamer tells me that a sequeal is very rarily as good as the first
so don't go complain about TRC not being as good as CCS since that is natural!
Cardcaptor Takato:
--- Quote from: harry_kinomoto on May 31 2005, 11:54 am ---To minimuze the injuries from beatings by all you obsessed fans :hehe: I'll first say that I am a MAD fan of Card Captor Sakura (Tomoyo FOREVER :D), and was thus attractted to Tsubasa Chonicle upon hearing rumours of a sequel. But well...perhaps it is just me but I didn't really find it catch my fancy...
Primary reason was that it became annoyingly obvious how they were writing just to attract viewers. For them, CCS sold, hence the reusing of characters that looked EXACTLY the same, with EXACTLY the same personalities. Also the awfully contrived trailers to the next episode by Mokona...urrgh...
Second reason is the storyline-it's just unrealistically "feelgood"-not that being "feelgood" was bad (CCS IMO was tastefully feelgood), but well like...Sakura can simle and convert a bad guy of many years!? That's just a bit...unrealistic, no?
What do you all think? Is it just me? Or alternatively, do share with me the reasons why you all like the anime so much!
--- End quote ---
First off, Tsubasa isn't a sequel to CCS. It's really more of a spin-off. The characters in Tsubasa may share the same names and faces to the CCS characters, but they are considered to be completely different characters because it takes place in an alternate universe to CCS. Sakura and Shaoran are supposed to have the same personalties as their CCS counterparts because even though they may be different people in a different universe, they'll all have the same soul no matter which universe you go to. Fai even says this himself in one episode. That's why Sorata and Arashi are always together in the different worlds even though they're in another alternate reality. Besides, if Clamp drastically changed the personalities of Sakura and Shaoran, two of their most popular characters, the fans wouldn't like it at all that they changed their favorite characters so drastically.
About Sakura converting a bad guy to being good, that episode was a filler-in that was created for the anime version only and wasn't in the original manga. You have to remember that Tsubasa is a children's anime in Japan, so some cheesiness is to be expected. CCS was also a kid's show and had cheesiness in it, too. Remember the whole "If I believe in the cards, I can save the world!" thing from episode 69 of CCS? Admittedly, when Tsubasa was first released, I thought it was going to be a terrible idea. I'm not much of a big fan of crossovers, so when I heard Clamp was going to create a series that crossed over all of their most popular characters, I thought Clamp had finally sold out and I wasn't going to have anything at all to do with Tsubasa.
But then the anime was released and the first episode was fansubbed, so curiosity got the better of me and I decided to check it out. The first episode was ok but wasn't the greatest. The biggest thing I didn't like about it was the whole thing about Sakura being the princess of a kingdom where abosuletly everyone is in love with her and thinks she's perfect. I thought that was really cheesy too, but I just reminded myself that Tsubasa is a children's anime, so some cheesiness is to be expected. The quality of the animation wasn't all that great compared to Clamp's other series, either. I was really hoping Madhouse would animate Tsubasa as they've animated most of Clamp's other works, so I wasn't quite used to Bee-Train's style. I especially hated how ridiciously skinny the characters looked, particulary Yukito, and how odd the faces looked sometimes, but eventually I started to get adjusted to it. The second episode was mostly a lot of talking with not much action or comedy until near the end of the episode and then episode three had too many annoying flashbacks. I thought episode four was kawaii, but it including the part about Sakura converting the bad guy to being good was an anime-only storyline. The whole Hanshin arc itself was pretty predictable and somewhat of a bore and for a while, I was debating myself whether or not I should drop Tsubasa. Then, they started the whole arc with Chun Yang and I started to fall in love with it. I don't know what it was about the arc with Chun Yang that impressed me so much, but the quality of the animation really started improving tremdously and I found the story and characters of that world to be really interesting and exiciting. I really liked Kurogane and Fai's battle with Kishmi and the story about Chun Yang's mother was really sad. I loved the world with Emeraudehime even more with its interesting mystery, but by far the best arc has to be the Outo world, with all the oni slaying and just the really cool plot twist it has.
At first Fai was my least favorite character because they weren't giving him any character development at all. In fact, pretty much the only character they were developing was Kurogane, who happened to be my favorite Tsubasa character. However, in recent episodes, they've started to give Fai more character development and I'm really starting to like him a lot more. We've still got two more seasons to go, so I should give the development with Fai's character a chance. I haven't really read much of the manga, so I can't say how good it is compared to the anime, but most Tsubasa fans like the manga more than they do the anime, so if you don't like the Tsubasa anime very much Harry, you should give the manga a try. You seem like you'll enjoy that a lot more. I myself think what little I've read of the manga is better than the anime, but the manga isn't quite the same without the anime's awesome soundtrack. There are still some things about Tsubasa I don't like, like the Hanshin arc and the filler-in episodes of the anime are boring, but I really think the animation and storyline just keeps on improving. I still don't like Tsubasa as much as I do CCS or some of Clamp's other works, but Tsubasa has definetly impressed me more than it did at the beginning, so I'm looking forward to the rest and highly recommend sticking it out, at least until the arc with Chun Yang, Harry.
polarius:
ohaiyou ^^
well if you think about it; most animes aren't as good as the manga series since they usually go into much further dept. it's kinda like books turned into movies...actually it's EXACTLY like books turned movies ^^;; I give them props for the good music and mokona's amazingly kawaii voice. I'm not too happy about sakura's "dansel in distress" status though. She's sakura after all; essentially the souls are the same [so they say] but it doesn't quite feel like this sakura is living up to the original's calibur. -_-
The idea of syaoran being the hero is a great idea, to switch it around since sakura is so kick *** in CCS [XD] So is the idea of combining all of clamp's work by saying it's a multi-verse. cross overs rawk. ^^b
Kuro-kun + Fai + Mokona = hilarity
But most of all, i miss syaoran's awkwardness T_T it made the anime/manga much more commical/cute.
lol now to actually answer the main comment at hand; getting bad? I don't think so. the lowest they got was when sakura "changed" that bad guy into a good guy because of her "warmth" that was about as cheesy as that macaroni dinosaur's commericals...and not in a good! >=[ But the recent episodes have more action in them so I say it's making the storyline pick up better.
of course nothing beats good ole fashion CCS hehe because there's no yuki to eat everything in site! T_T
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