Comments on: Clamp Fest: Tsubasa, xxxHolic OAD by Production IG http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/07/17/clamp-fest-tsubasa-xxxholic-oad-by-production-ig/ Anime, manga and games, observed from Japan Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:03:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Karasu-kun http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/07/17/clamp-fest-tsubasa-xxxholic-oad-by-production-ig/#comment-723 Karasu-kun Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:40:22 +0000 http://www.sankakucomplex.com/?p=791#comment-723 Call me a purist of sorts, but OAV/OVA has always been the acronym given to, well, an OAV. OAD sounds weird, and besides it's still a 'video' per se, just not a video on cassette. I mean up until the early 2000's they might as well have been called an OAL (Original Animation Laserdisc) for the popularity of the medium in Japan before the advent of the PS2 more or less. I read the first 10 volumes of Tsubasa or so, it seems to me with the exception of say, X and Geass most of CLAMP's stories tend to head toward this banal familiarity, the ubiquitous CLAMP storyline. Don't get me wrong, I <i>like</i> Tsubasa and xxxHolic and most of CLAMP's works, but after a while it gets a little rough to follow. I hope I'm completely wrong about where the story headed and when/if I do finally catch up it pleasantly surprises me, but I'm not holding my breath. Call me a purist of sorts, but OAV/OVA has always been the acronym given to, well, an OAV. OAD sounds weird, and besides it's still a 'video' per se, just not a video on cassette. I mean up until the early 2000's they might as well have been called an OAL (Original Animation Laserdisc) for the popularity of the medium in Japan before the advent of the PS2 more or less.

I read the first 10 volumes of Tsubasa or so, it seems to me with the exception of say, X and Geass most of CLAMP's stories tend to head toward this banal familiarity, the ubiquitous CLAMP storyline. Don't get me wrong, I like Tsubasa and xxxHolic and most of CLAMP's works, but after a while it gets a little rough to follow. I hope I'm completely wrong about where the story headed and when/if I do finally catch up it pleasantly surprises me, but I'm not holding my breath.

]]> By: albert_2mb http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/07/17/clamp-fest-tsubasa-xxxholic-oad-by-production-ig/#comment-718 albert_2mb Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:16:46 +0000 http://www.sankakucomplex.com/?p=791#comment-718 Which reminds me, it would be somehow epic if the guys from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle stumbled into Brittanian Geass world XD Which reminds me, it would be somehow epic if the guys from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle stumbled into Brittanian Geass world XD

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