What? No subs?

[meganbmoore]

So, a week or so ago I DLed the Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations OVAs.  I swear the file said it had subs, yet, I have no subs.  Whatever, I'm sure I can find it elsewhere.  And if I forget, it'll get licensed eventually, anyway.  But, since I didn't exactly need subs, I went ahead and watched that OTT angsty bit that I love so much, and capped it muchly.

Also, pretty ending credits shot:



Anyway!  Caps with commentary!  

Here is Syaoran, having lost his soul and gone nuts, scolding Fai for just sitting there:



Kurogane is off doing his toting the princess thing.  It's what he gets for being the one with muscles:



OH NOES! SHE'S GONE! (At least it wasn't Tomoyo...)



"Here, let me pose in my artfully tattered shirt."


*chomp chomp chomp*


"Well, that was yummy.  Time for the other."


No more of that, you!"


"But Daddy, I want more!"


"Here, let me try it this way..."


"Bad Syaoran!"


"Ok, time to make the slash fans happy."


"I'll just give them a moment..."


*makes slash fans happy*


"HEY! He's bleeding to death from the eye!  Can we move on already?"


And here's Sakura, blissfully unaware that her boyfriend's new hobby is eye eating:


Remembering happier times with Syaorans who didn't eat eyes:


What's this, another Syaoran?


"He's still bleeding to death from the eye, and now there are two of you?"


*blah blah blah...the one we've been reading about all this time is a clone, and his soul was a part of the real Syaoran's soul but now the seal is broken and he's soulles and it's all epic and tragic and sad*


SYAORANS FIGHTING OVER SAKURA TIME!




Possibly the best "Oh no! Spoilers!" face ever:


Ok, time to remember Our Heroine:


Considering that she started napping in one world and when she woke up, she was in a new world where her boyfriend was suddenly soulless, fighting a guy who looks just like him, and eating people's eyes, I think we can forgive Sakura for a bit of blank standing there.  It's a lot to process.  Also, uncapped vampire twins.


"What are you doing with that feather?"


"Uhm...where do you plan on putting that?"


Sakura, dear, giant gooshy shoujo eyes are NOT the proper response here.   For you.  A bit different for the viewers.  I admire the death grip on the shredded shirt, though.


And if you don't know what's going on, it all looks very romantic now.  Ok, in a slightly wrong way, it still does...

"But my love! You cannot go!"


"But I must!"


"Parting is such sweet sorrow."


"My love!  I shall search for you across all realities!"

*wonders what kind of reputation she has at this point*

ETA: Spoilers through vol 22 of the manga in the comments.

Comments

[calixa.livejournal.com]

It is all so horrifyingly shippy. I wonder what that says about us...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

that in some ways, we are easily emotionally manipulated and catered to, and clamp knows those ways.

[may-flyer.livejournal.com]

Clone!Syaoran x Clone!Sakura > all other Syaoran/Sakura ships

Yeah, I said it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

So far, I agree. I haven't read CCS yet, but as far as real!Syaoran x real!Sakura go:

1. I want real!Syaoran to be happy because I like him and he deserves it. I haven't really met real!Sakura yet, so I don't have much of an opinion on her. However, we know they're meant for each other, and can assume she also loves him.

2. real!Syaoran needs his own Sakura because, as much as I enjoy his angst, I don't want him threatening my OTP.

I AM NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THAT!!!!

...

I am in love with that icon.

[may-flyer.livejournal.com]

CCS is about eleven year-olds. So CCS Sakura/Syaoran is cute, but not much else. I liked it well enough but I can't say I ever really fell in love with the pairing.

Cloney x Clonerella, on the other hand, is CLAMP at its soapy gothic best!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It's also emotional manipulation at its finest.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

What group did it say did 'em? The ones I watched were soft-subs - I had to watch them in Zoomplayer.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Menclave was the group.

I don't think I have zoom player.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Comes with the Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/) which is a generally good thing to have anyway. Alternately, you could get Shinsen's version (http://baka-updates.com/search.php), it was a regular hard sub.

(VLC is the player I usually use and recommend, but it frequently displays soft subs too tiny to read for some reason.)

eta: errr meant that to be a link

[geckophobe.livejournal.com]

That is some pretty animation. I'm too used to Bleach at this point. :P Must broaden horizons.

Love the princess-toting and angsty goodbye (as told by you, at least!).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, the actual text handles it a bit differently.

Actually, come to think of it...maybe not THAT differently.

(I've only seen the first 20 eps of Bleach, so I can't comment a lot about the animation...I'm almost always a "manga first" girl.

[geckophobe.livejournal.com]

It's...inconsistent. Those early episodes were pretty nice and shiny, but it grows flatter and more drab and perspective gets mightily warped. It adds to the cracky charm for me.

[spiritualizer.livejournal.com]

My subs were missing, too. But I found them. Use VLC player and click on "Video," the "Subtitles Track" and click on the subtitle... thing-a-ma-bob.

lmao, I love your "subtitles" for the pics. Lovely.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool, I'll try that when I get home from work.

The funny thing about the "subtitles" is that I was literally just typing out whatever came to mind, but when I think about it, they aren't that far off...

[spiritualizer.livejournal.com]

Lemme know how that works out, k?

Seriously, which is kinda awesome.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Your commentary is awesome.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Thanks. After years of looking at the Clamp fans and going "I don't get it"...I finally do. At least for Tsubasa and xxxHolic.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

TRC and xxxHolic were my gateway drugs into CLAMP addiction, as well. (Although I was familiar with some of their work before, Card Captor Sakura & Tokyo Babylon.)

It's almost like they planned it that way, with their great big crossover thingy...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think they planned it. They give you all these hints and taunt you with all these characters, and make you curious...

I HEAR YOU CACKLING AT ME, CLAMP!!!

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

I still loves that JarShao has his daddy's sword. :D

You want a fan time? Watch the CLAMP in wonderland 2 music video. It's got Fai and Kuro riding dragons for some reason.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Didn't know about the sword thing.

I'm not sure what the Clamp in Wonderland things are...

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Sorry about sword. (Didn't meant to spoil that, although I'm not sure it's a plot-relevant spoiler other than it might have been a clue for us about the R!Shao connection to CCS!Shao.)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rmhMapzJ0W4

This is a youtube link to the one I was talking about. Clamp in Wonderland is a little music video featuring all of their characters. The first one went up to 1996, and the second one is 1996-2006.