Tsubasa/xXxHolic Double feature?

[meganbmoore]

Amazon is being very, very insistent that I would like this, containing what appears to be OVAs for the Tsubasa and xXxHolic animes.  I have not seen the anime for either series but plan to eventually.  Worth checking out?

(Mind you, Amazon is still insisting that I should read King of the Lamp, and thinks I need duplicate copies of various Cantarella and Tsubasa volumes I've bought from them, and has now added something called Satisfaction Guaranteed to the recs list, but...)

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I figured they'd do something trippy with the animation, given that the different art style is so central to the manga storytelling. And yeah, guys like Watanuki are a LOT easier in Japanese.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to think back 30 years to my middle and high school days, and even though we had the word "spaz", I just can't recall anyone as spazzy as some of these characters like Watanuki and Kazahaya.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Kazahaya?

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

He's the Watanuki type character in CLAMP's Legal Drug. Legal Drug skirts much closer to the shounen-ai line than XXXholic does, with Kazahaya in the uke role and Rikuo in the seme role, like Doumeki. In both cases, you have the slimmer, shorter boy with powers that make him vulnerable being protected by the taller, broader, more masculine boy with guardian type powers. In both cases, the uke is very spazzy.