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I learned my lesson
I'm not complaining. I'm not bitching. I'm not being sarcastic or cynical.
Not today, anyway XD I'll be clean for a while. Honest.
So what will I do today? Ranting. About what? A possitive thing. XXXHOLiC volume #4, that is. Because I can. And I'll spoil everyone who hasn't read it or is waiting for the scanlations in the process. Mwahahaha. Now you'll be able to understand what happened,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
threeleaf ^_^
Part one: Valentine's Day of Doom
Color picture 1: Watanuki stirs up chocolate fudge, with a creepy expression.
Color pseudo-poster: Yuuko in a maid outfit, posing sexy withher children with Clow both Mokonas.
Color picture 2: Yuuko and the zombie twins (I mean, Maru and Moro) enter and ask about the Valentine sweets. Now we know what Watanuki was up to. And Mokona tries to eat the fudge, but he won't let it.
So now we discover Yuuko forced Watanuki to bake her some chocolate treats, in the middle of the night, and he even had to go buy the chocolate since there wasn't any. He complains, since "guys don't give chocolate in Valentine's, that's a girl thing" (heh, ask CCS!Syaoran...), but Yuuko goes philosophical about what's normal and what's not, making a valid point about you can do whatever, as long as it won't hurt anyone else.
Because yeah, his boyslave isn't "anyone else", and exploiting him won't hurt him. He, of course, is angry.
He finish them, and Yuuko and Mokona wait until midnight to eat theirs (now is Valentine's day!), so they do. And they ask wine to drink them down XD
There are 5 treats left. And Yuuko send 4 of them to the Syaoran-tachi via Mokona. No, she's not generous: she does that in order to get White Day presents! The remaining one is left to Watanuki so he can give it to anyone. You can guess who will be the chosen one, hm? He's predictable XD
But Himawari's got the flu, and she skips school the next day :( Watanuki falls into a depression, interrupted by Doumeki, who comes in the classroom through a window. But while Kimihiro wasn't looking, his "dear friend" devours the minicake, and drinks the hot cocoa. You can imagine the reaction XD
While they return home, he's still bitching at Doumeki. Because, if it wasn't bad enough, Doumeki had got lots of chocolate from girls at school (a whole bag!). He admits he thought the cake was a present from someone to Watanuki and not the opposite, which makes things worse.
But then, they find a strange -and nervous- girl with a weird eskimo coat walking down the street. Kimihiro asks her what's wrong, and she squees and blushes at the sight of the bishies. And she admits she didn't expect to find *him* so soon. Watanuki concludes it's a Doumeki fangirl. She says she was waiting for something special as a present, as he was a special guy, and she couldn't find anything good enough.
But she did find something then! She approches Shizuka, and inserts her hand inside his stomach o_o And she removes the cake Watanuki made. He passes out. The girl is in shock, as she didn't expect that. She starts crying, andruns flies away. So now we know she wasn't either a Doumeki fangirl OR human.
Yuuko finds the two (yeah, 'coincidence'), and explains that it seems his soul has been removed, and if they don't get the treat back, he will stay like this. Time to return the favour, Kimi-kun! And besides, the girl came to them because Watanuki attracked her, so it's all his fault, sorta.
The witch takes advantage of him, and charges him for extra help and explanations. At this pace, you'll never be free, Wata! She whistles and...
[cue Wagner music]
A giant eagle, riden by Mokona (with pilot goggles and hat! so cute! ^o^), appears. And I'm beginning to suspect CLAMP also "borrows" ideas from Tolkien. And Buckbeak is half eagle. Actually, I thought Watanuki would make a Titanic personification like movie!Harry. But I digress.
He jumps on the eagle, still in horror with the amount of crack, and chases the phantom girl.
But when he gets to her, a gang of surfer midgets/babies with mafia ourfits and matching sunglasses (and some chibi dark wings on their backs) surround him. They start screaming "You're mean, don't make her cry!", and they take out their weapons: paper fans! (... I'm having Super Smash Bros flashbacks)
They hitted them, and Watanuki falls down. The eskimo girl stops his fall and save him, and the yakuza midgets go "why do you defend him, he's mean!" She replies he's not mean at all. She apologies, explaining she wanted to give the treat as a present. Watanuki, being so cute, says it's alright, but she accidentaly took the soul of her crush when she took out the cake. She goes blank, and he goes "huh?" He continues (how oblivious!) about she shouldn't make Doumeki go KO, and she understood.
She tells him the present wasn't for his friend. It was for HIM. And she hands the treat, and leaves flying. And the chibi yakuzas warn him about making her cry again or else XD
Watanuki, the eagle and Mokona return, the first one confused and embarrased. The eagle leaves, and Kimi asks Yuuko *what* was that girl. It was a Japanese house spirit. As bad faith is those spirits' weakness, they don't show up to people too often. They normally hide with crow gods from the mountain (at the moment, Kimi remembers the midgets and realizes they were crow gods things). [Now I wonder, does she mean "tengu" by that? God, I hope so! Does anyone have the English version, or the Japanese version so I can check it? I'd lo~ve them to be tengu! *is a Japanese mythology geek*). But since it's February 14th, she really wanted to give her secret crush (aka, Watanuki) a present. And Yuuko teases him about it, he blushes, and then remembers bitterly it was *his* cake.
As the cake was made by someone who called spirits, and was inside a guy who repels spirits, it seemed a sooo speshal pressie lolz. But Watanuki was still annoyed his only Valentine was given by a spirit, and it was something he cooked, and he couldn't eat it in the end (you'd better not, eww). He pushes the treat down Doumeki's body (lying on the street, covered by newspapers by Yuuko), and he wakes up. Yuuko says hi, and gossips about Watanuki's Valentine, while the bespectacle boy screams in frustration over the crack.
Not today, anyway XD I'll be clean for a while. Honest.
So what will I do today? Ranting. About what? A possitive thing. XXXHOLiC volume #4, that is. Because I can. And I'll spoil everyone who hasn't read it or is waiting for the scanlations in the process. Mwahahaha. Now you'll be able to understand what happened,
threeleaf ^_^Part one: Valentine's Day of Doom
Color picture 1: Watanuki stirs up chocolate fudge, with a creepy expression.
Color pseudo-poster: Yuuko in a maid outfit, posing sexy with
Color picture 2: Yuuko and the zombie twins (I mean, Maru and Moro) enter and ask about the Valentine sweets. Now we know what Watanuki was up to. And Mokona tries to eat the fudge, but he won't let it.
So now we discover Yuuko forced Watanuki to bake her some chocolate treats, in the middle of the night, and he even had to go buy the chocolate since there wasn't any. He complains, since "guys don't give chocolate in Valentine's, that's a girl thing" (heh, ask CCS!Syaoran...), but Yuuko goes philosophical about what's normal and what's not, making a valid point about you can do whatever, as long as it won't hurt anyone else.
Because yeah, his boyslave isn't "anyone else", and exploiting him won't hurt him. He, of course, is angry.
He finish them, and Yuuko and Mokona wait until midnight to eat theirs (now is Valentine's day!), so they do. And they ask wine to drink them down XD
There are 5 treats left. And Yuuko send 4 of them to the Syaoran-tachi via Mokona. No, she's not generous: she does that in order to get White Day presents! The remaining one is left to Watanuki so he can give it to anyone. You can guess who will be the chosen one, hm? He's predictable XD
But Himawari's got the flu, and she skips school the next day :( Watanuki falls into a depression, interrupted by Doumeki, who comes in the classroom through a window. But while Kimihiro wasn't looking, his "dear friend" devours the minicake, and drinks the hot cocoa. You can imagine the reaction XD
While they return home, he's still bitching at Doumeki. Because, if it wasn't bad enough, Doumeki had got lots of chocolate from girls at school (a whole bag!). He admits he thought the cake was a present from someone to Watanuki and not the opposite, which makes things worse.
But then, they find a strange -and nervous- girl with a weird eskimo coat walking down the street. Kimihiro asks her what's wrong, and she squees and blushes at the sight of the bishies. And she admits she didn't expect to find *him* so soon. Watanuki concludes it's a Doumeki fangirl. She says she was waiting for something special as a present, as he was a special guy, and she couldn't find anything good enough.
But she did find something then! She approches Shizuka, and inserts her hand inside his stomach o_o And she removes the cake Watanuki made. He passes out. The girl is in shock, as she didn't expect that. She starts crying, and
Yuuko finds the two (yeah, 'coincidence'), and explains that it seems his soul has been removed, and if they don't get the treat back, he will stay like this. Time to return the favour, Kimi-kun! And besides, the girl came to them because Watanuki attracked her, so it's all his fault, sorta.
The witch takes advantage of him, and charges him for extra help and explanations. At this pace, you'll never be free, Wata! She whistles and...
[cue Wagner music]
A giant eagle, riden by Mokona (with pilot goggles and hat! so cute! ^o^), appears. And I'm beginning to suspect CLAMP also "borrows" ideas from Tolkien. And Buckbeak is half eagle. Actually, I thought Watanuki would make a Titanic personification like movie!Harry. But I digress.
He jumps on the eagle, still in horror with the amount of crack, and chases the phantom girl.
But when he gets to her, a gang of surfer midgets/babies with mafia ourfits and matching sunglasses (and some chibi dark wings on their backs) surround him. They start screaming "You're mean, don't make her cry!", and they take out their weapons: paper fans! (... I'm having Super Smash Bros flashbacks)
They hitted them, and Watanuki falls down. The eskimo girl stops his fall and save him, and the yakuza midgets go "why do you defend him, he's mean!" She replies he's not mean at all. She apologies, explaining she wanted to give the treat as a present. Watanuki, being so cute, says it's alright, but she accidentaly took the soul of her crush when she took out the cake. She goes blank, and he goes "huh?" He continues (how oblivious!) about she shouldn't make Doumeki go KO, and she understood.
She tells him the present wasn't for his friend. It was for HIM. And she hands the treat, and leaves flying. And the chibi yakuzas warn him about making her cry again or else XD
Watanuki, the eagle and Mokona return, the first one confused and embarrased. The eagle leaves, and Kimi asks Yuuko *what* was that girl. It was a Japanese house spirit. As bad faith is those spirits' weakness, they don't show up to people too often. They normally hide with crow gods from the mountain (at the moment, Kimi remembers the midgets and realizes they were crow gods things). [Now I wonder, does she mean "tengu" by that? God, I hope so! Does anyone have the English version, or the Japanese version so I can check it? I'd lo~ve them to be tengu! *is a Japanese mythology geek*). But since it's February 14th, she really wanted to give her secret crush (aka, Watanuki) a present. And Yuuko teases him about it, he blushes, and then remembers bitterly it was *his* cake.
As the cake was made by someone who called spirits, and was inside a guy who repels spirits, it seemed a sooo speshal pressie lolz. But Watanuki was still annoyed his only Valentine was given by a spirit, and it was something he cooked, and he couldn't eat it in the end (you'd better not, eww). He pushes the treat down Doumeki's body (lying on the street, covered by newspapers by Yuuko), and he wakes up. Yuuko says hi, and gossips about Watanuki's Valentine, while the bespectacle boy screams in frustration over the crack.
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sounds like clamp is getting more slashy with those guys. And why do I imagine this eskimo girl as Willow from BtVS ? *scratches head*
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Don't start with the slash, there's this dialog in the same volume...
D: As long as nothing happens, like with that girl, it's okay. But if an agressive spirit shows up...
W: Well, and why would you care?
D: I care a lot.
W: Don't worry, you won't get your soul removed again.
D: It's not about that. If something happens to you...
K: FUCK NO, CLAMP DID MADE DOUMEKI GAY! O_O [turns the page]
D: ... I'll be left without lunch.
W: I DON'T PLAN TO KEEP ON COOKING YOU!!!
K: [falls off her chair] stupid CLAMP, scaring the crap out of me...
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you know I sorta dislike how their relationship feels like a pale copy of Rikuou and Kazahaya... I hope they don't make Doumeki gay, but I'm afraid they might ;_;
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Reading XXXHOLiC #4 after reading Gohou Drug #3 (which I did, as I bought both at the same time) can be so creepy. You start seeing Kazahaya's expressions in Watanuki a lot.
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Nice to meet you ^__^
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And I also read the infamous Chinese scans, so I've been waiting for months to understand a thing about the Valentine and the twins sagas T_T [hugs her volume in Spanish]
Nice to meet you, too ^_^ I'll continue, erm, at night. Gotta study ;_;
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You do? ^__^ I'm glad... feel free to post comment as well!
And sure, studies came first! I'll be waiting ^^"
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and I don't think they are a pale copy of goho drugs cast. I think they live on their own and work better than them because they are less "obviously" fanservice-y.
Doumeki eating watanuki's chocolate is more subtle than kazahaya eating chocolate on Rykuou or playing a scene disguise as a girl with him, my two cents.
do you already have tank5 ? this one is also lovely. and the lilac girl was a very moving story.
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Don't take me wrong, I'm really fond of CLAMP's shounen-ai. It's just that Doumeki/Watanuki feels a bit forced to me. Yeah, they're getting along better now, but still. If Shizuka does like Kimihiro that way, it would sadden me a bit. Because Watanuki doesn't seem he would like him back the same, and I don't want Doumeki to be unhappy. Weird irony.
I know I should expect strange loves in XXXHOLiC, as it's by CLAMP, but *shrugs* It's not like Gohou Drug, when they hate each other, but they recognize the other one is hot. Watanuki and Doumeki, so far, seem indifferent to each other. I can't see sexual tension there, like when I see Seishirou/Subaru or Touya/Yukito. I don't know.
And no, even though the drawing can be similar, they're not a Rikuou/Kazahaya clone at all.
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But well this is young magazine there's no shonen ai subtext what so ever.
wow spanish edition is already at tank 4 ! I thought you were fluent in japanese :)
french edition has only one out (but they keep color pages and the purple thema) and reading changed completly my mind about xxxholic. I didn't realized until reading it in my native tongue how funny and loveable were the charaters and the storyline
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Spanish edition has the coloured pages, but not the color border thingie. They use normal paper. The color pages are glossy, though. It's a good edition, I think. The covers are true to the original. The translation is quite good, and they made the characters even funnier! Watanuki has a witty, sarcastic tone, while Yuuko is even more of a bastard, and an ass-kisser. Hilarious.
Yep, that manga company frecuency is bimonthly, so that's why we caught up so soon. Tsubasa #5 should be released this month. But they don't buy the whole rights, and they tend to wait for more volumes to come up before releasing the next ¬_¬ They took their time with GD #3, for instance. They're not perfect (their prices are high [around 8-9€ the volume], and sometimes some vignettes are missing text *cough*, but that had not happened to HOLiC yet), and they eat my money every month. And they are the ones releasing CLAMP no Kiseki as well. Bastards.
Hey, is there a website (like the editing company website, or an online store) with the info about the French edition? I could add it to Yuuko's Shop ^^
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Yuuko goes philosophical about what's normal and what's not
Because if she starts "quoting" Jostein Gaarder, then this series will have managed to include 99% of my obsessions. @_@
And I'm beginning to suspect CLAMP also "borrows" ideas from Tolkien.
"Beggining"? I'm still working on a rant abuot that... I'd forgotten about it, but the other day my sister made a comment about how the Gondor soldiers "have those wings everywhere". No comments.
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Ouch! >
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woaaaaaaa! finally I know what happened! I hope BWYS release new scans soon >_
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