Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
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[edit] Introduction
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle; in Japanese, ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Tsubasa Rezaboa Kuronikuru) is a manga by CLAMP, with a resultant anime series, comprised of 52 episodes. It features Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran Li from Card Captor Sakura, with different personalities, in an alternate universe. It is something of a CLAMP-typical crossover, with characters from many of CLAMP's works, such as xxxHOLiC. So far, there are nineteen Japanese volumes, which are being translated into English.
There was also a movie and video game.
[edit] Story
[edit] Characters
Joining the party are enigmatic Fai D. Flowright (often spelt as Fay D. Flourite), a happy-go-lucky and friendly blonde man with a hidden past and a dark depression, and Kurogane, an experienced ninja who was banished by Tomoyo (a princess who has no idea about Sakura, although in CCS they were best friends). They give up also what is dearest to them. Yuuko gives them a small, white creature called Mokona Modoki, which has 108 hidden talents, and is a crossover from Magic Knight Rayearth.
The party grow close as they travel worlds hunting down Sakura's feathers, but as they appear to be objects of great power, other figures from Syaoran's past attempt to hunt them down and cause danger to the four (and Mokona).
[edit] Timeline
[edit] 2003
- May 21, Tsubasa begins serialization in Shounen Magazine.
- On June 3, the LiveJournal community tsubasafans was created. [1] It is the first active Livejournal community for the series.
- Hemuloki Scanlations released english scanlations of the first few chapters of the manga starting in June.
- In August, the first volume is released by Kodansha. It is available in a hardcover special edition format, and softcover format.
- Wing Journey comes online in late 2003. It is one of the first information resources for all aspects of the series.
[edit] 2004
- Del Rey releases the english edition of volume 1 in April. It is one of the company's first licenses, along with Mahou Sensei Negima.
- May - The early fansite, Hitsuzen is created under a different name, at Silent-Mist.net. Its name changes to Hitsuzen in July.
- June 18, the LiveJournal community kuroxfai was created. [2]
- July 11, the LiveJournal community tsubasarc was created. [3]
- On Oct 12 Yu Mutou created the GaiaOnline Guild for Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.
[edit] 2005
- On April 9, NHK begins airing the anime adaptation of Tsubasa. It is set for 26 episodes, and rumored as having 3 seasons. Production is by Bee Train. [4]
- CapturedWings.net Forums open. By the end of the year, it has 1000 members and several hundred thousand hits. [5] The site moves to CapturedWings.org in early 2008. [6]
- A half-hour long movie premires on August 20 in Japan, under the title "Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie - Princess of the Birdcage Country" (劇場版 ツバサ・クロニクル 鳥カゴの国の姫君 "Gekijōban Tsubasa Chronicle: Torikago no Kuni no Himegimi") [7]
- Hyu begins releasing translations of the manga. The site goes offline in late 2006.
[edit] 2006
- Season 2 of the anime airs in April. Following its completion, the expected third season is cancelled. [8]
- In March 2006, the Livejournal community kuro_tomo is created. [9]
- On September 19, the Livejournal community CLAMP_rants is created. It provides members with a place to vent their frustrations over aspects of CLAMP series and fandom. The majority of rants are about Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, X/1999 and Cardcaptor Sakura. Highlights include the comm's lengthy [10] tag list. The mods use the list to organize posts by series or pairing, and by miscellaneous tags such as "amicably sociopathic assassin vet 4 hire", "crazy delicious bodily organs", and "your vagina is not a dark abyss".
[edit] 2007
- The first season of the anime is released in english by Funimation beginning in May. [11]
- A three-part OAD began production entitled "Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations". It spanned an arc covered in the manga that was too violent to air on television. Part 1 was released in November. [12]
[edit] 2008
- In February, rules in the kuroxfai LiveJournal community change, barring threesomes and works not directly related to the romantic pairing. A number of fans jump ship and create the community kuroganefai, which accepts all material related to Kurogane and/or Fai. [13]
- May 3, spoilers are translated from the chinese Tsubasa forum revealing Syaoran is not actually Syaoran, but the son of Cardcaptor Sakura's Syaoran and Sakura. [14] Fans panic, cursing CLAMP and crying incest over the fact that "Syaoran" is in love with another version of his own mother. [15] The series is declared "ruined" by many, and fans are angry that the series could now be considered a sequel to Cardcaptor Sakura despite CLAMP saying in numerous interviews that it was not. Some threaten to abandon the fandom altogether. [16] Reactions vary greatly, with the minority praising the revelation to some extent, and the majority loathing it. [17] [18]
- A second OAD enters production, called Tsubasa Shunraiki, and it is planned to span the series' "Japan" Arc. English-speaking fans are largely upset with this decision to skip two arcs from the previous OADs, but do not regard it as the worst arc that could've been animated. [19]
- It is heavily hinted in recent chapters that Sakura's name may not be Sakura at all. Though the real name is not revealed, the series imply that characters have the same name in different worlds. Therefore, Sakura may not be another version of Cardcaptor Sakura's protagonist.
[edit] Fandom size and fanfiction
On Fanfiction.net, there are over two thousand fanfiction stories in the Tsubasa fandom, as opposed to over twenty one thousand of Card Captor Sakura, and over nine hundred of xxxHOLiC. There are several LiveJournal communities dedicated to the anime, manga, characters, and pairings; some are quite large. The biggest Tsubasa community has over twelve hundred members, and the Kurogane/Fai community has over fourteen hundred. Paradoxically, although Kurogane/Fai is more popular, the largest fanfic in the fandom is Kurogane/Tomoyo.
There are also two large forums for the series. TsubasaChronicle.net's forum had 2,586 members and 248,339 posts, prior to it's move, while CapturedWings' forum has 1,230 members and 126,564 posts, following a dump of inactive users and old data in November 2006. GaiaOnline's Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Guild is the largest manga-related guilds on the site, with over 1800 members. [20]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Tsubasarc The largest LiveJournal community
- Tsubasafans Another large LiveJournal community
- The Japanese manga's official site
- The English translation's official site
- Sakusyao The community for Sakura and Syaoran as a pairing (CCS and Tsubasa)
- Kuroxfai The community for Kurogane and Fai as a pairing
- KuroTomo The community for Kurogane and Tomoyo as a pairing
