Beware the JoJo fan in a position of power

[petronia]

LAUGHING. Candidate for biggest nerd-out by members of the "respectable" scientific community since Planet Xena. But think, it could have been worse - the researchers could have insisted that their discovery be illustrated in moe-chara style. LIGASE-TAN WILL BIND YOUR SYNAPSES WITH LOVE.

Those of you who're Ph.D.-tracked, I'm looking at you

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[sub_divided]

I have no idea what's going on with xXxHolic. "Am I the butterfly or the man" -- what?! It doesn't even make sense, Watanuki has had contact with people who were neither ghosts nor customers, or did I hallucinate the arc with the little girl who was a famous television medium. I liked his out-of-nowhere friend though. If it had just be a "o hey, these things are still happening!" recap I'd have understood.

With Tsubasa I feel like I'm on firmer ground because even if the flashbacks/visions make just as little sense, at least you were expecting them to be inconsistant. (This is, what? The fifth major character revision so far? AT LEAST FAI ISN'T A ROBOT. Also, like you said, the thing with Ashura-Oh was random but you knew he was going to be a crazy mass murderer, you just knew it.)

When during all this trauma did Fai learn to even be a as fake!functional as he was at the beginning of the series?! That's what I'd like to know.

[petronia]

I don't think Watanuki started off as a "dream" or has been non-existent all along, but he's definitely fading from existence somehow - past and present, like Ban nearly does at the end of GetBackers, so that when he's gone normal people won't even remember that he used to be there. Or something like that. ^^; No idea why, why now, or how Himawari's curse plays in, if at all.

In any case I guess I was right about the ghost girl exorcism story being foreshadowing - Watanuki will stop "seeing things" when he's no longer around to see them. ^^;;

The sudden character revisions are why one reads CLAMP, amirite - to find out that A is secretly a sociopathic mass murderer, or B is going to destroy the world when she grows up, or C has been intending to sacrifice himself for the sake of D's happiness all along. XD

Fai did spend a few non-traumatic years with Ashura-ou, didn't he? Long enough to grow from 8-year-old-looking to present-day-looking. (And being told by everyone to Smile, sweetheart, it makes you look so much nicer.)

[saturnoolaa]

I love that Kurogane was planted in the group by the Forces of Good. It's something that you definately wouldn't have seen coming at the beginning of the series, but on the other hand, who better? I also love how everyone is teaming up to save Fye's sanity.

I just assumed Ashura-oh was cursed, possibly because of Fye, or Fei Wong, or something else that had nothing to do with the story. It sure would be nice to have a complete Venn Diagram of curses/prophecies and how they interact with one another in Tsubasa and xxxHolic, just to keep track.

...It's been a suspiciously long time since anyone lost another body part.

[petronia]

...It's been a suspiciously long time since anyone lost another body part.

You just had to say it!

I've given up on the curses/prophecies. orz While I'm sure CLAMP plotted out the general character arcs in advance, they seem to have pulled the logistics of getting there out of a hat.

[saturnoolaa]

I've started to sort of look forward to it. It's like CLAMP's limit break.

Actually I'm thinking that the action needs to stop rising for a few seconds so that everyone can get a breather. Unless there's some comic relief soon, the series will just keep getting darker, and then there'll be no way things can get worse for the finale!

[petronia]

I think we're pretty close to the finale if not upon it. The only obvious loose end that remains to be tied up is Seishirou - and you know CLAMP is going all out when an appearance by Seishirou rates as a potential breather from all the blood and angst. XD

[celestriad]

lol, the celes arc is something i kind of came to expect from clamp. ^^; still, they still employ some pretty strange logic in these revelations they like to make...

i'm just waiting for there to be some slight clarification or hint as to what yuuko's actual wish is. although, knowing clamp, they'll leave it as a cryptic, nebulous 'idea-wish' that you have to kind of grab at blindly and hope you're right.

...although i guess sometimes they do actually come out and say stuff explicitly. :P

[petronia]

I would guess Youko's Wish is coming, given that it's only just been mentioned in the last few chapters - and that it will tie into the endings of Holic and TRC both. XD

[emblem]

XD;

A new source of inspiration to get published in something more prestigious than PNAS. <333333