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Joe_Devaney
Note: This will be a review of both seasons, plus the OVAs.
Overview:
Due to the fact that I never watched or read "Cardcaptor Sakura" (apart from a few episodes I watched when I was a kid), "Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle", also called "Tsubasa Chronicles", is the only real impression I have of Sakura and Syaoran, and for the most part, it's a pretty damn good one. Simply put, "Tsubasa Chronicles" is a massive crossovers of many works from the manga writing team CLAMP, including "xxxHolic" and "Chobits" (both of which I have watched and will be reviewing in the future). While there are plenty of flaws, I still think it will appeal to anyone who's a fan of dimensional travel stories.
Story (7.5/10):
The story revolves around two childhood friends, an archaeologist named Syaoran and a princ…
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Tsubasa Chronicle is a shounen title based on the manga from female mangaka group CLAMP. It tells the tale of Syaoran and Princess Sakura, two young adults who live in the kingdom of Clow County. Syaroan is the adopted son of Fujitaka Kinomoto, an archaeologist who introduces Syaroan to the world of mining. One evening, the ruins where an archaeological expedition are taking place glow with a mysterious power. Syaroan investigates this and finds Sakura there in a hypnotic state. Her memories are soon scattered from her to different dimensions (or worlds) in the form of feathers. Additionally, strange soldiers with elongated claws soon appear in Clow County and go after Sakura and Syaroan. With the assistance of Yukito, the high priest, Syaroan and Sakura are transported to the location of…
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There are 2 points-of-view when judging this Anime:
-When you didn't read the manga.
-When you already read the manga.
These 2 points of view can lead to very different judgements, and that's why I'm gonna review using both of them.
First one, is watching this anime without reading nothing from the manga.
Here we go:
Tsubasa is basically the story of Sakura, a princess who has a great power inside her, and her long-time childhood Friend Syaoran.
After having her memores lost and spread around many different worlds, Syaoran goes in a quest the recover them all and save the princess, with the help of Fye and Kurogane, two other character that will have great importance in the plot.
The anime has almost no violence at all. Kinda like Dragon Ball Super: There are battles, minor injuries, b…
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"For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you."
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles... took me a while to get into it. I don't really know why, but I feel like it might have just been because of the slow start, but it also might have been because of the slightly cliché story. However, once I started paying more attention, it got more interesting with every episode. The story unfolded a little more, the characters got more lovable, and the fight scenes got a lot better. So, without further ado, let's get this review started, shall we?
As I previously stated, the anime had a bit of a slow start, and the story was a bit o…
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I'd like to make this clear before I start. First of all, this review will be most helpful if you haven't read the manga. If you had, you might be a little disappointed in the anime. Second of all, to all of the haters, remember that this was originally intended to be a kids anime, not an teen-adult anime: meaning that sometimes it had to cut out some intense parts and dumb others down a bit. And I enjoyed it for what it was, not for what it could be.
What really led me to give a 9 was because it was addicting. I hadn't watched CCS or any other Clamp work. This was one of my first animes. Anyways, I first watched this when I was little(r) and I found it to be really enjoyable. This review will be for both seasons...soooo...let's go!
Story: Well there are a lot of interesting ideas out th…
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this is a review with regard for the entire series(2 seasons around 50 something episodes) so those of you who plan to start watching can have an idea of what this is.
well it starts of as the classic gathering of a fellowship for the beginning of their quest that will lead each of the protagonists to their goals.basic storytelling idea that always works.as far as the series with 1st and 2nd season is concerned the story remains true to that(the ovas are a different story though).we have the princess,the knight,the warrior and the rogue/mage roles filled and ready to go.all is well.and then it starts.the problems with the story start with the first scene.i dont wanna give any spoilers and i dont wanna give you a summary of the story so all i say is that the first scene never gets explaine…
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As Vladimir Putin has once said, "I'll be brief".
I stumbled upon this anime after watching "Chobits". I was quite familiar with CLAMP and some of their works, so I decided to fill this particular gap in my aсquaintance with this series.
People often say "No regrets", but I DO regret watching Tsubasa Chronicles.
Why? Well, let me tell you.
First - the story is your basic and "favorite" GONNA CATCH 'EM ALL!!11 (sad smiley) type of stories. Our heroes travel through different worlds trying to find Sakura-hime's feathers in order to get her memories and personality back.
The premise is kinda promising, but the execution is very poor - the worlds are unimaginitive, plain and boring as cows. Or sheep (they're actually quite funny and cute, so I'll stick with cows). There was one TV-show ca…
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As a child it is very likely that you watched Cardcaptors Sakura- well this time all your favourite characters are back including some new ones. The story takes place in a world called Clow where our female protagnist, Sakura lives with her brother, the king of Clow Touya and the priest Yukito. Her childhood friend, Syaoran whom she dearly loves does not have his childhood memories. One day it is revealed that Sakura has strong powers within her, and all her feathers, which are her memories are scattered throughout different worlds. It is up to Syaoran to search for her feathers by going from demension to demension, but what price will he have to pay in order to do so. Who will we meet, and what will he encounter.
Story.
The whole concept of this story is outstanding. I love how Syaoran…
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I enjoyed the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle manga immensely so when I found the anime I was very excited. But after the first few episodes I realized some major problems with the series. My two main issues being that they recap on the story far too often and the music doesn't fit the mood sometimes. And then the very last episode of the season ended with Sakura wishing for people who had died to return which goes against the whole theme of the manga. Overall I enjoyed this but I felt very frustrated while watching it at times.
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The storyline is wonderful, the sound track is amazing and the characters all give an extra plot twist to the real storyline. Sadly, the anime doesn't really reach a point that it actually gets to the main storyline.
Tsubasa Chronicle is a good show if you're a shoujo addicted fangirl, looking for some new anime. But it's certainly nothing good for the die hard CLAMP and TRC-manga fans. If you have no problems with reading the manga instead of watching the anime, I'm telling you, go read the manga.
Animation is a disappointment. Art is also pretty screwed up. Even I, someone without eye for animation quality could see it.
This anime = A no no.
The OVA = BIg yes.
The manga = to die for.
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Story (7) - Very slow pace, with lots of fillers. There was 1 or 2 interstings story arcs, but the rest is disapointing. I believe it´s not the story itself, since the manga doesnt seem to have that problem. Its how it was develloped in this series. As i said in the start, the story lost itself between many fillers, long long conversations explaining things that didnt make any sense to be explained, while other important things were left behind undevelloped.
So, only a 7 in this aspect.
Art (8-) - Nothing really special, however, some good appointments in terms of character design. The rest in just enough to be considered good.
Sound (10+) - For me, the best aspect in the whole series. I liked the op and ed, and background music is just amazing. It gives a lot of atmosphere and fit…
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I will be firm in saying that nobody, NOT ONE OF YOU would have given this anime the time of day if it hadn't recycled characters from better anime.
CLAMP, in a move of sweeping lack of creativity, decided to make another franchise by reusing their old characters. I gotta say, smart move, CLAMP--your cash cow is ready to be chopped up and sold.
And this is what Tsubasa Chronicle is: a sell-out.
The story is bland and boring. Dimension-travellers bound together for whatever reasons, but you know, viewers won't care because they get to see Sakura and Shaoran or whatever his name is go gaga over one another once again and two yaoi-fodder guys vacillate between passion and disgust of one another.
The art was mediocre. It wasn't good, wasn't bad. Nothing special. Like the sound.
I can…
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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE is one of my favorite manga series. I was happy to discover that it had been made into an anime series, and after I stopped watching it after the first 16 episodes, I decided to pick it up again. I was only planning on finishing the first season, and after making my way through the last 10 episodes I needed to watch, I've definitely been dissuaded from watching the second season and just sticking with the manga, which I will be referencing throughout this review. (No spoilers though!)
Story: The story is drawn out, and the series is riddled with fillers and random things that weren't true to the original manga. When it was true to the manga, it was plagued by slow pacing. Things were added that were just there to stretch out the episodes to the allotted 25 minu…
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Seeing as I haven't read the manga for this show (or any manga for that matter) I won't be referring or comparing these two (as I hear that the manga is "way" better than the show).
Story:
To me the story didn't seem to be very great from the start. Basically in the first episode everything was put together and it felt rushed and was a very lazy way to introduce the characters and plot. Then after I watched further into the show I got even more disappointed as I found out that the style of Tsubasa was just a bunch of mini stories making up the show that didn't really develop the initial story. However, I did like how Tsubasa would come up with different ideas of the mini stories making it somewhat interesting to see what would happen next, except then I kept finding myself getting annoyed…
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So after reading through the manga, getting impatient waiting for the dub, I watched the series on Youtube. And I'm duly impressed. I had high expectations of this series, and so I when I heard about it I was skeptical (as my deep dark fantasy desire was to personally make this show my self) Of course being a fan-boy to Koichi Mashimo and and Yuki Kajiura It boosted my confidence more.
The plot is well adapted. Anime has the double edge sword when it comes to adaptation, either it's a very very loyal adaption nearly 100% in which case there is no longer a point to read the manga, or it's so different that you wonder, did the writers just read the summary on the back of the book? But this is adapted in both differently while playing true to the Manga. The occasional sub-plots provide for s…
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First I saw CCS, then I noticed a new anime called Tsubasa Chronicles.
I thought it was a sequel, but it was a new story.
And even when I first lay eyes on this anime, I fall for it ^-^
This anime is quite touching, even if it have action and fantasy in it.
Two childhood friend who develop feeling for each other.
Syaoran sacrifise the relationship between him and Sakura, so Sakura would live even if he knows that she wouldn't remember him. But as the story goes, Sakura once more fall for Syaoran, without the past memories of them.
I often tears whenever there's a flashback about them...
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I went from Cardcaptor Sakura to this series, so overall I think I saw an improvement atleast in the maturity level. And though there were some things I found lacking I am going to continue to the second season.
Likes:
It is a really interesting story idea and I just love the chance to explore different worlds. The characters have some depth, unique traits and all set eachother apart nicely. Also, the interactions between characters is pretty amusing. Actually, the anime overall is pretty funny as well as being serious. It touches on issues that CC seemed to skirt around and actually makes you "feel" for the characters.
Disklikes:
There was a lot of potential, but as the story moves on it almost seems to get less interesting. I saw this in CC as well. Each episode's format is repetitive…
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I'll try to get straight to the point with this review. Before watching this series I had never read the manga nor had I ever seen anything about it beyond the wiki page for the show. I thought it looked decent so I began watching.
The anime had a very promising first episode and the characters seems well thought out and reasonably likable. I found it entertaining and continued onward.
It goes all downhill from there. The plot starts out strong and then begins failing very quickly. There is a massive amount of what I would claim is filler and you really cannot see much progression at all in the story throughout the entire 1st and 2nd series. (I just found out that the third was canceled >_<)
Basically you could skip episodes 10-47 ish and still know whats going on. The part that really…
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Tsubasa RESERVoir Chronicle (TRC) - the anime - showed a lot of promise from its very first episode. However, because of the fact that TRC is aired during the children\'s hour in Japan, which limits exactly the kind of content they are allowed to put into this anime, as a result, have disappointed many viewers thinking they would be witnessing a story that was close to what was written in the manga by CLAMP. However, despite all of that, Tsubasa Chronicle still shapes up to be a relatively enjoying series, if you can get through a couple of the more slower arcs and horrendous fillers.
First of, in case you did not know, CLAMP decided to \"recycle\" a lot of its characters from Card Captor Sakura and other anime in this show. In essence, you will see a ton of familiar faces, but that\'s al…
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Remember the show ‘Cardcaptors Sakura’? You remember… The little Girl Sakura who has to find all the Clow cards! And her rival, Chinese boy Syaoran Li?
Well, guess who’s back in this anime?!
Tsubasa (Which means ‘Wings’) is CLAMP’s ultimate cross-over manga! Every single manga they’ve ever written is in this series!
In this story, our little Sakura isn’t so little anymore, now a teen – and quite a rebel princess at times, she goes off to visit her childhood friend, Syaoran, a young archaeologist, at the Clow Ruins to finally proclaim her feelings for him.
Unfortunately, Fate has a different plan for the two of them.
Suddenly, Sakura loses her memory in the form of beautiful feathers and Syaoran vows to find them all.
Sorry to say that these feathers won’t be easy to find. They lie…
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