taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Kurogane / breath of fire / me)
Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2005-04-10 03:57 pm

And we'll go on

Ending screencaps here. Ugh.

--- return from commencials ---

Let's go to Nihon kingdom. We see the castle at the moonlight, and a dark figure on the rooftop. And we hear a "Bwahahahahahahaha! Bwaaaaahahahahahaha!"

No, really, I swear Kurogane's laugh it's like that! We get a closer look to him, on the rooftop, with his faithful sword, talking in a mad way. His voice is cool, wai! However, there are no bodies or enemies O_o He seems to either be talking to himself or... threatening the princess inside the castle O_oU And speaking of her, we get to see her, watching Kurogane acting psycho. Her thing hanging from her hairdo sounds when she moves her head. She's pretty, yeah. Then she speaks to Souma, who's all ninja and bowing on her knee, and I don't understand. Tomoyo's voice... I'll get to that in the next 10 seconds Nihon scene. I agree with everyone else: his face is perfectly his, but the body? He's anorexic much, even for this show's standards.

And we go to Seles. The music is again .hackish, but sounding like Arabic, which is weird since it's a Norse-like country O_oU Save that to Clow, really.






This is the best Fye we'll get, really. Fanservice!Fye. The tattoo is green, look. Haven't you notice the bird form before? Looks like a phoenix. He jumps out of the water, and we see Ashura down in his, er, vampire coffin thing. Chii, who by the way never says "chii", hands his coat. Now we see his "good face", which is when he opens his eyes and won't look like Yukito had a son with a female orangutan. His voice is good; not as good as Kurogane, but fits him. Then we see a closeup of King Ashura sleeping and being creepy in his crystal. You know, Fye does look fine in this scene. Why can't he stay like that forever?

Back to Clow. Yes, already! You know, if they were lacking time to do more Fye and Kuro development, they coul've CUT THE BLOODY MARKET SCENE WITH THE APPLES! Stupid S+S filling. We get to see Sakura in the balcony, holding her apple... again. One day, Touya and Yukito will intervene her for her apple problem. What is she, Ryuuk from Death Note? Then we see the ruins glowing in pink. You know the glowing red eyes of doom so common in anime? Here pink glow = doom, I swear. She looks. And enters the Trance (tm) and gets her own pink glow. Already? Yeah. And she floats, too! Horizontally, also. Then we hear boom-ish music and random scenes of Nihon, Celes, Fei Wan's symbol (c) and the first scene. Then boom, the apple falls on the floor. We know we're doomed because Sakura would NEVER drop her beloved apple! *gasp* Something is going on!

Now we're inside the ruins and Syaoran. He's in front of the wing symbol on the floor. Then suddenly, Sakura is next to it (huh?). He calls hime, and she glances with a ugly creepy look. And here things start to differ a lot. She's still in Trance (tm) and smiles like a weird psycho that's goin' to keel ya. She gets on her knees and puts her hands on the symbol. She's going to do alchemy with an array!! Er, sorry, another FMA flashback. What's really happening is that both .hack music (now .HM) and the Pink Glow of Doom (now PGD) are back, rejoice! Or not! The floor opens and she goes down, floating like she's an elevator.

Outside the ruins in PGD, some interdimensional gaps open and the Fei Wan soldiers appear, in black. And I'm getting now Kingdom Hearts flashbacks instead. Meanwhile, in castle, Touya and Yukito realize there's something wrong and watch the PGDed ruins for some seconds, because they have no TV.

People at the ruins are freaked out by the army, that now on are know as Heartless. How can't they, they have Wolverine claws! Syaoran runs and jumps to the lower floor. He's like a cat. Maybe because Fye, who's supposed to be a cat, is now a monkey. So! He sees her in PGD, floating like in the manga. The wings appear, and they're also in PGD, but lighter. Might I say Sakura in Teh Trance with .HM and PGD freak me out a lot? Syaoran climbs the wall, because he's no scared of pink glow. At the same moment, Fei Wan and his bitch are watching with the TV spell he plagiarized from Clow/Eriol (he WILL sue you for copyrights issues, you know). They're amused, and they're only lacking some popcorn to have a great time.

Then Syaoran, who had arrived a miniplatform in the wall, jumps and passes from Spiderman to Superman, sort of flying through air in slow motion. He takes Sakura with him. At the moment they land, the wings are broken, the PGD from her is gone and the feathers, which are actually white but they're covered in PGD go flying and disappear. Way to go Syaoran, you dumbass screwed everything up in this canon! The ruins shake and he tries to wake her up. Don't you see you kill her? He runs from it, and Fei Wan's still watching. Man, this is better than any reality show!, the bitch says. No, not really, she asks something and he says no and talks about wing girl's power.

He gets out, and a Heartless attacks, but he goes flying. It's King Touya to the rescue! <3 He's so cool in anime he didn't even get hurt. He asks if they're alright and Syaoran tries to explain. Touya tells him to take care of his sister and leaves to kick more ass (and he does!) Yuki, who was also kicking ass but not that much, arrives, and Touya tells him (calling him by his name in front of Syaoran!) to help Sakura. Yuki reads their memories, with golden light, which is refreshing after the pink thing. He explains. Touya, who's back, says "what" and Syaoran says "no way I made such a mess". Syaoran offers himself to do everything, and Touya tells him something about sister and he smirks again. Yukito points a hole in a wall, and they go to the ruins, again. Touya is left with 20-30 Heartless, and he goes "I'm sooo going to pwnz you."

Then the whole transportation thing is sort of the same as the manga. Except indoors. With .HM, still. And Yuki waves his staff all Card Captor Yukito. The magic is all golden, and the cocoon thing is black and blue.

No, I haven't forget about the caps. It's just that they're a lot, they're like 1MB worth of OTP. I'll use a Photobucket account or something.

Then we get to Fye. Chii is already a blanket thing, they didn't show her turning into it. Have I said they cut a lot of Fye and Kurogane's back story. Well, THEY DID! He just makes his spell and leaves. Even worse with Kurogane. When we get back to him, he was already being cursed and transported by Tomoyo. She's not funny, though. Sakamoto is too formal and serious, and the character doesn't have the manga charisma. Heck, she doesn't even laugh and goes "bad boys have to travel to learn, hohoho." Woe is me. And I don't know, maybe they change that part of that story, because they don't fucking seem to know each other. Souma won't even go "don't call the princess by her name! *gasp*" Maybe he's her enemy? ;_____;

So yeah. If they don't have flashbacks for all the missing pieces, blood will be shed.






Now the worse part. Yuuko's shop. Meep, my heart is weak. They arrive, We get Yuuko's closeup, followed by a single line where I can check her voice is as inadequate as I knew it was going to be >____< It's too delicate! Then Fye and Kurogane arrive, like 10 seconds later! Kuro asks who is she, I guess. I confuse those Japanese questions easily. Fye asks if she's the Witch of Dimension. Yuuko replies she is. Syaoran asks her to please help Sakura. The .HM is stopping (THANK GOD). As Yuuko doesn't talk, he goes and repeats the same thing, desperate. Boy, she got it, relax! The the music is over and starts raining. Or it's really windy and the leaves sound a lot, I don't know.




Just these two, to satisfy Laurus. I'll upload the Yuuko's shop ones in a K.net folder anyway, so it'd be a waste of time to put them in my H.net server. I'll let you when they're up.

----- Ending -----

It sucks. S+S fluff fest. I won't review that or I'll puke the ice cream I had for dessert. Move along...



The only good screencap. Yes, there's nothing there and there's no music: that's why.

----- Preview -----

Mokona's voice? Doesn't sound funny or particularly funny. Ahem.

Edit 1: Screens of Yuuko and company at K.net.

[identity profile] iridiscence.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
And I was thinking to download the episode to see how it was...there's no need now, your comments are priceless. XDDD

And thanks for making me feel less weird. I can't stand Sakura and Sakura/Shaoran either. Ugh.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I tried to be as snarky as possible. Because there must be a balance after so many preteens going "OMGILUVIT, kawaii it's everything perfect!1!11 <3" The episode could've been worse, but it's faaaar away from perfect. And someone had to make fun of the apple fetish and pink glow of doom.

Me neither. I was OK with them on CCS, but then I met their fandom and now I have issues with the pairing. Especially in TRC, which could be easily just a stupid AU badfic from ff.net if it wasn't written by Ohkawa.

[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I get the feeling that your summaries are going to be better than the actual series. XD I mean, how are we supposed to take the ruins seriously if they glow pink?

I hadn't noticed the shape of Fye's tattoo before, hmmm. Wonder what that means. And why is Kurogane as thin as him? O_O WTF?

...I don't think I want to hear Yuuko's voice... :/
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course they are! I have more imagination than the screenwriters anyway. I'm saving thirty wasted minutes of your life, and make you laugh at the same time.

Dude, EVERYTHING glows pink. I just noticed even Fye's runes and Kurogane's spell on his forehead are pink *headdesk* They'd better not make Yuuko's magic pink, or they'll be dead!

And why is Kurogane as thin as him?
Because the character designer digs anorexia?

No, you'll have to! I'm ripping a sound clip next week. I need intelligent people in the fandom to agree with me, or I'll be insane!

graciasssss

[identity profile] m-san.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mil gracias kirisame.
¡que tal sale ashura?
No me gusta mucho fye, sale muy inicente y el del manga tiene algo de evil y misterioso que me encanta.
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Re: graciasssss

[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No se ve mucho de Ashura como para decir... y si ponía screencaps de él, alguien en mi flist se asustaba y achaba a correr.

Hay screencaps más amplias en comunidades, mañana te paso el dato exacto de dónde lo puedes ver que ya me voy a la cama.

Sí, bueno, nadie tiene el mismo mismo encanto del manga. Excepto quizás Yukito y Kurogane. Así que bueno, si se las arreglan para no hacer ver a Yuuko sexy, lo de Fye ya se comprende ¬___¬

[identity profile] mandy138.livejournal.com 2005-04-10 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm NOT biased here, having never been able to find the manga, but I loved the episode. Although, admittedly, that damn apple so got on my nerves. But as for the pink wings, they weren't that bad. It's not like they were glowing for the entire episode. o.O

The super skinniness was a bit awkward at first, but it quickly grew on me. I've always loved CLAMP for their unique style, and I just took this as another variation on it.

As for S/S, I never liked that pairing and hated that it was so focused on in CCS. Though I do think Syaoran is really cute in TRC. Syaoran, however, will never beat Touya! Bwahahhahaha! Uber sexy in TRC, Touya is. And that one scene had me screaming Touya/Sakura. o.-
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
having never been able to find the manga
That's the problem, then. The manga was funnier and the art was better. And no apple. And since it's B&W, no pink glow either. You must read it. In bwys.cjb.net there are some scanlated chapters.

But still, pink representing impending doom in a supposedly shounen anime (because it SHOULD be shounen from now on) is amusing. Sort of.

Oh, Touya was definitely the King of Sex.

Screencpas

(Anonymous) 2005-04-11 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hi:
The scans and the summaries are great!
But...for some reason I can not see Yuuko and co. screencaps at k-net. I can see twelve tiny squares that say "new", but no image. Even when it looks like those images are not that great compared to the manga, I really like to see them by myself. :(
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Re: Screencpas

[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Er, that's odd. I can see them perfectly. Refresh them?

Re: Screencpas

(Anonymous) 2005-04-11 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
It is really weird, I can see all the other pictures on your website except those. I already refreshed them and it did not work. Thanks anyway, maybe it is a problem in my computer.

[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The computer is fixed, so I've finally had time to look at the other screencpas... WTF?? What did they do to Yuuko? O_O How did they even *manage* to make her look not sexy? *brain explodes*

Oh, and I won't run away screaming if you post Ashura screencaps. :P I'm getting used to the idea that I'll have to live with it if I want to learn anything about Fye... Of course, I could always counterattack with Himawari in pink
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If they can make Kurogane anorexic and Fye all monkey-like in the opening, then everything is possible. I guess.

Of course, I could always counterattack with Himawari in pink

;______;

[identity profile] mandy138.livejournal.com 2005-04-11 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Touya was definitely the King of Sex.

Alright. That does it. I'll buy the manga, if only for that.

XD~

[identity profile] pheonyx-x.livejournal.com 2005-04-17 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I got Tsubasa Episode 2 Screencaps wif lots of Yuko ones!! ^^ TRC Episode 2 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/pheonyx_x/804.html#cutid1)
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2005-04-17 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Er, so? I do my own ones, thanks.