Audience reviews
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Animelover875
To sum up the position that Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicle finds itself in is...extremely difficult to explain. While I'd like to believe that Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations did the best that it could with what the anime gave it, I can't help but feel that the return to "canon" material didn't exactly work wonders in the way the show hoped it would. This is only my guess, but I believe that given the low quality of the TV series, it may have been unexpected for future seasons to prove successful, and only a few episodes aired, or it may be another reason. That said, while two episodes is nowhere near enough time to fill in all the plot remnants (which would have been much better off with at LEAST a season of 12 episodes to wrap up the remaining plot), something needs to be said for the effo…
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This is ONLY for the most hardcore Tsubasa fans and those who have either read the manga or done significant looking into outside of just the anime. Otherwise this is going to make zero sense to you and it's going to have a completely different tone than what you're used to.
It's faithful to the source material, which is very dark at this point in the story, and I appreciate that they at least tried to give the story some resolution since there was an intended season three that never came to be. There is no substitute for a proper season three, and I still hold out hope that we'll see it one day, but in the meantime this is the best we're going to get. This or reading the manga.
Absolutely do not bother watching this unless you're fully caught up with Tsubasa up to this point.
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After the amazing Tokyo Revelations, everyone expected Production I.G. to be the savior of this dying anime series. Unfortunately, those expecting a full-fletched adaptation would be disappointed. Shunraiki merely adapts the Nihon arc and a brief recap of the conclusion to Celes arc.
While the Tokyo arc was undeniably amazing for what it accomplished, not just among anime but storytelling in general, the Nihon arc is nothing as groundbreaking and merely offers a lot more exposition. Convoluted exposition in fact. If the Tokyo arc was renowned for its deconstruction, then the Nihon arc would be known for its confusing plot twists. There is yet another plot twist in this arc, but rather than cry to a particular scene relating to the twist at the end of episode 2 like most people did, I was…
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Own, Online Viewing, or Evade
I’d say a show worth watching and Owning.
Overall Rating 3.5/5
A strong group of characters travel between many dimensions to gather the feathers of Sakura’s memories. This OVA has two parts that have time gaps between each other and season 2 of the TV series.
Rumiko Takahashi kind of did this with InuYasha and Ranma ½. This OVA picks up later in the manga than season 2 ended and kind of links into the TV shows with a couple flashbacks. It’s odd but I found it to work well enough to be a recommended buy and continuation.
Theme Songs 4/5
This series continues to have solid music, good opening and ending. Mostly fast paced, I didn’t skip them.
Ending 3.5/5
NO spoilers, the ending is imperfect but better than the 2nd season of the TV series.
Read at the sourceStarlightShiba
OK LET ME SAY THIS I LOVED THE ORIGINAL ANIME BOTH SEASONS ONE AND TWO. THIS IS GOING TO BE FULL OF SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO READ SPOILERS. THIS IS ALSO GOING TO HAVE MORE OF A RANT TELLING YOU NOT TO WATCH THE OVAs IF YOU LIKED THE ORIGINAL A LOT. THESE OVA SERIES WOULD BE BETTER OFF AS CREEPYPASTAS. I DO LIKE HORROR ANIMES BUT THESE OVAS JUST RUINED TSUBASA FOR ME.
I really liked the original anime but when season 2 came they stopped the whole series and give you the OVAs. oh god did these OVAs suck. i am going to talk about both OVA series. Honestly i do not understand how people think this wrapped up well. I t seemed like it would be easier to say EVERYONE DIES THE END but that is not actually what happened.
So basically in tokyo revalations syaorans evil clone comes out…
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Tsubasa Shunraiki . . . . Aaahhhh very dark, mysterious, fucking amazing series once again by CLAMP the good thing here is they start at the final events of celes arc, which makes me said "FUCK YOU CLAMP why you bring back my memories to the celes arc? I am going to cry again at first"
*I'm trying to not place any spoilers but ALAS ALAS ALAS i can't
Story : based on nihon arc, good story, flawless writing, still good jokes done by the KuroFai tandem, unexpected events, ahem. . . Hands down
animation : OH GEEE great animation. . . . The quite annoying thing here is Fai's priceless emotion when he was saying "come on said it to them" with a somewhat jolly attitude, the animation at that part was quite. . . WTF? o__O
Fighting scenes are awesome, not perfect but still awesome, and i was q…
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First and foremost, let me just say that you wouldn’t understand this OVAs if you haven’t been following or have read the original manga story.
There’s a long review coming…….
About the STORY
These OVAs tackled one of the most important and most exciting chapters of the original story. And I am more than thrilled that they chose this part of the story. This chapter has lots of revelations which were very important to the plot and storyline. Most of the important revelations were already revealed, most of the questions were answered, and most of the mysteries were unfolded. Perhaps, 75-80% of the main plots were already revealed. And in every revelation, I would always end up being so puzzled and dumbfounded but most of the time amazed on how brilliant the story was made. Until now, after…
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I thought this anime was rather enjoyable and I'm going to go straight to the point unlike those long and terrible reviews that take ages to read and write. I found this anime to be quite enjoyable but it was missing something but you should definitely watch it. Tsubasa Chronicles is a wonderful anime but I really hated the part where Shaoran ate Fye's eye. Absolutely disgusting, oh and before I forget to mention it, YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE WHOLE ANIME BEFOR YOU WATCH THIS OTHERWISE THE BEING IN THE DARK WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAR!!!!!!!!!!
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First off, know that I'm writing this review without reading the manga. But I've watched the two Tsubasa Chronicle series as well as the Tokyo Revelations.
As others have mentioned, This OVA is far off from what the anime series has been leading to so far. But if you watched Tokyo Revelations, things make sense.
Story (10/10)The story evolved from the simple 'travel from world to world' into complex connections and emotions between the characters. The very beginning might be a little confusing because of its connection to the manga plot but other than that, everything makes sense. Also we finally get some xxxHolic connections here (after all, it's a 4 part OVA injoint with xxxHolic Shunmuki)
Art (10/10)The art is awesome. You can expect CLAMP at its best, always. There's no more of thos…
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Tsubasa Chronicle: Shunraiki is the newest OVA adapted from the famous CLAMP manga Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. After the spectacular work done by production I.G on Tokyo Revelations I can say I was more than excited to watch this, since I am a big fan of the manga. The plot is also connected to the xxxHOLiC Shunmuki OVAs.
Story:
+ Very close adaptation of the original material
+ The actual plot is very interesting and complex
+ Plot twists are sure to surprise some viewers
+ Finally we get xxxHOLiC/Tsubasa connections
- If you've only watched the anime versions of Tsubasa (including Tokyo Revelations) you WILL NOT understand the plot fully.
- Manga knowledge is absolutely necessary to understand what is happening.
- Celes and Infinity arcs were never animated (the ones who continue af…
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Tsubasa Spring thunder is CLAMP's latest installment of their ever ongoing Tsubasa/HOLIC project. Following the exceptional work that was "Tokyo Revelations" even I was beginning to think I.G was the better choice for handling future Tsubasa projects.
With the announcement of Spring Thunder it was no surprise the various CLAMP fanatics began jumping for joy and same with some of the fans such as me. Now after watching both episodes, I have to say, this was a real let down.
Tsubasa Spring Thunder is the bad example of what happens when the original creator of the source material comes to write in the adaption. Nanase Ohkawa (aka Ageha Ohkawa) the principal writer of CLAMP, whom I've found to have exceptional screenwriting talent handled this script for this as well as "Tokyo", having ta…
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:::I was wondering if Tsubasa Chronicle: Shunraiki would be good, after I have waited for it since Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations and my opinion is...it's just amazing!^^
:::The artwork is precise and even if there are only two episodes, you can see the difference in it between the two seasons of Tsubasa Chronicle and the OVAs.
:::The soundtrack is awesome as always and the op and the ending are very nice.
:::The characters are the same for all of you who have watched Tsubasa, but /especially if you are reading the manga/ you can see them more serious and everyone of them with his personal story in the shadows.
:::So I think that this OVAs are one of the best CLAMPs works and you will enjoy them even if you aren't reading the manga and can't understand the plot very well [=
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