XXXHOLiC Movie Review

[chibiyuuto]

First of all I'd like to thank to EVERYBODY who wished me a Happy Birthday, to the ones who gave me cards and everybody who participated in the last meme making those questions to me ! Thank you very much for caring ^__^

Now to the post's purpose:

For those who still don't know, a subbed version has appeared at Shinsen (thanks to clamp_now).

Comments

[rainmage]

About the "old lady", that's what I thought at first, but if the spirit collected people for 100 years, she should look +100 years old in the final scene. She just looks like a 50-ish year-old lady with leg problems XD

I don't know, it still doesn't fit because of the stupid woman. Unless she's a ghost, already dead and changes her looks at will. This is why she didn't need the key, although it won't explain why the fuck she couldn't get in the house. Maybe spirit guy would only let collectors in, and therefore, since he forgot the real reason he was collecting, he didn't consider his friend would try to get inside one day?

That's the most fitting conclusion I got.

[chibiyuuto]

Japanese people tend to live for many years and they are one of the most healthy people in the world, aren't they? So it could be that she's 100 + her age when she was little (which would be around 5, 6). Just the other day the local TV showed an old lady who as alive (talking and everything) and celebrating her 126th birthday in Brazil XDDDDD So it's not impossible.

I must admmit, though, that I agree that she could be be dead already and that's why she could change her looks at will.

[rainmage]

I'm not sure. +100 year-olds have problems talking and moving and sometimes even thinking. Their bodies are kind of wasted. She seemed too normal. Even though Japanese are healthier, this would be over the top.

[chibiyuuto]

Yeah, sure. But it's not impossible. I do think she looked way too "young" for a 100+ old lady too.

The lady of the TV, though, was very healthy (for her age at least). She even answered to the reporter what was the secret of living so many years (she said it was eating a banana in every lunch XDDDDDDDDDDDDD).

[rainmage]

Hey, maybe Yuuko eats a bunch of bananas on every meal, and that explains why she looks like she's thirty XDDDDDD Hinoto, though, eats the whole banana plant XDDDDD And I'm not even touching the MKR characters...

[chibiyuuto]

HAHAHAHAHA ! For drinking, she uses that bottle of youth Ashura gave to her, I'm sure XDDDD

[rainmage]

That can't be easy to find, though, considering it was a price for something so important, and she must've drunk it through decades in order to be young, if that's the method. There must've been something else. I'm betting it's whatever Clow -and Eriol, afterwards- did.

Ascot: Umi-san! I must confess! I stopped eating watermelons because of you!
Umi: ...wut? O.o

[rubyd]

I thought that the old lady was a ghost, since she jumped ages so much, but then the end where they explained the lady was turning the place into a museum... eh... confusion.

[rainmage]

Shit, I forgot about that part!

Yeah, major confusion. It's the whole "100 years" part the one that makes it stupidly hard to understand.

[chibiyuuto]

Yeah, it almost feels like a story gap. Throwing 100 years just because it's an easy number.

[rubyd]

*and* the fact that a girl's ghost kept appearing in various points of the mansion - how to explain that? :( She even helped Watanuki find the guy ghosts' room.

[rainmage]

An illusion from the collector spirit? I mean, she couldn't enter the house, so that's not her.

The dream can be from his powers. If he can see the future (sort of) through dreams and divination, maybe he can see the past as well. Sort of like Sakura in CCS.

[chibiyuuto]

YES! And if it's her, how come she couldn't get in? She WAS already inside XDDDD omg how crazy.

[rainmage]

Or maybe it's figurative speaking (like when you say "that was ages ago!"), and the translators took it literally when they did the fansubs? Maybe in Japanese, a century can also mean a long period of time.

[chibiyuuto]

Yes, I questioned to myself that too, it could be a figurative way of speaking.