Tsubasa Chronicle

[ian_sanzo]

I have a question, is the last episode of Tokyo Revelations the last episode for the whole series?

[RyougaZell]

Animated? Yes.
Story wise? No.

[Buffalobiian]

Been downloading Aone's Tsubasa Tokyo Relevations OVA since they've been coming out, and finally decided to watch them.

Are these three OVAs stand alone/alternative storylines, like Hellsing OVAs, or are they an extention of the TV series? If the latter, would you recommend I watch any prior material before watching this?

Edit: eh, got bored and finished OVA 2. I want to watch the series now. Which subs would you guys recommend?

[Buffalobiian]

Being drawn into the Tsubasa TV series after watching the Tokyo OVAs, it was kind of disappointing. Main thing is that the entire series in general felt slow. Sometimes I'd be sitting there wondering why I'm watching rather than skimming. Still, it was necessary. The stuff going on in the OVA actually makes sense now

Another complaint would be not enough Fye development until the OVA, which didn't talk about anything specific anyway (he was really out of his "fake character" there). I guess it can't be helped if the manga didn't go into detail at those points, so I might go check that out.

Surely the OVA would make them consider another TV series based on Production IG's staff, no? I guess we can only hope for more.

edit: NEXT OVA ANNOUNCED

A new OVA series, entitled Tsubasa Shunraiki (ツバサ春雷記, Tsubasa Shunraiki?) (Tsubasa Spring Thunder Chronicle) was announced in volume 24 of the Japanese manga. The OVA will consist of 2 DVD releases, the first coming with volume 26 of the manga, which will be released in March 2009. These OVAs will cross over with two announced xxxHOLiC OVAs (entitled xxxHOLiC Shunmuki (xxxHOLiC 春夢記, xxxHOLiC Shunmuki?) (xxxHOLiC Spring Dreams Chronicle)), the first of which will come with Volume 14 of the xxxHOLiC manga, which is scheduled to be released on February 17, 2009. This will be a continuation of Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations, which will feature the "Japan" arc

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-next-february

[RyougaZell]

Tsubasa anime was bad. VERY bad. The ova treatment is way better. It follows the story loyally, unlike the series. Specially since this part has gotten darker.

Although I don't like them skipping arcs... the Japan arc is 2 arcs after the last ova series.

[Buffalobiian]

Did the anime cover all the arcs prior to the Tokyo one? I'm considering the manga, so I'll have to find out which chapter the Tokyo arc was, as well as any other bits and pieces that were missing.

[RyougaZell]

If you can, check the whole manga. Its not that long anyway.
The anime did cover all the arcs, but also made a lot of filler.For instance, returning to several worlds was filler, alongside the bus arc and the like.

The manga has more detail and more direct crossovers with xxxHoLIC

I was looking forward the next arc after Tokyo, since it involved Eagle, Lantis and Angel-Hikaru (from Angelic Layer). Plus a Gothic-Lolita Sakura... bleh.

And... without spoiling... the latest chapters and revelations have been fantastic in the manga.

EDIT:

There are currently 206 chapters. The manga is on its final arc actually.

The "Tokyo Revelations" arc began on chapter 107 and ended on chapter 135. But I still recommend reading them all.

[Buffalobiian]

I'll find time to check it out then. Thanks.

[RyougaZell]

You can read it all online on www.onemanga.com if you do not wish to download all of the chapters 1 at a time.

[ian_sanzo]

Man this is really better when u read the manga instead of watching the anime. the series was really slow and i often fall asleep during season 1.

[RyougaZell]

Tsubasa Shunmuki 01
http://acg.edwardk.info/%5BACG%5D%20...5D.mkv.torrent

Be aware that this OVA directly crossovers with xxxHoLiC Shunraki, and to do so they had to skip two whole arcs from the manga.

[Buffalobiian]

Tsubasa Shunmuki 01
http://acg.edwardk.info/%5BACG%5D%20...5D.mkv.torrent

Be aware that this OVA directly crossovers with xxxHoLiC Shunraki, and to do so they had to skip two whole arcs from the manga.

I don't see why they had to do that, unless you're saying an xxxHolic OVA was released with this one, and they absolutely wanted both to be in parallel.

I just really liked the Fye developments I guess, so I wanted to see it animated. Otherwise, this was good supplement material for the manga. This would be much more confusing though, compared to previous OVAs and TV works, for those watching it without further explanation.

[RyougaZell]

Well... they wanted to make a new xxxHOLIC ova, which showed the direct crossover with Tsubasa. And no cross passed when they were at Celes. Although I wished they had animated the Gothic Piffle world. I wanted to see Eagle, Angel Hikaru, Lantis and the Gothic Sakura.

[Buffalobiian]

I suppose that makes sense to animate this arc then. They omitted lots of Fye-moments in the TV run anyway.

It feels like they put a lot more effort into the Tokyo Revelations OVAs than this one. Maybe it was just the low quality encode.

[Buffalobiian]

Tsubasa Shunraiki - Episode 2