Tsubasa 8
Posted: January 29, 2007 Filed under: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Leave a comment »Here’s another series I haven’t read in forever. To be fair, it’s one of the few series I follow in Japanese, and I don’t review those volumes here (or else you would’ve gotten a review where I foamed at the mouth in an effort to get as much praise for Moyoko Anno’s Sakuran out as possible), but it’s been forever since I read the English release, which at this point is almost ten volumes behind where I’m at with my hardcovers. So yes, a catchup is in order.
So we get a setting in what appears to be the same time period as Moyoko Anno’s Sakuran (or I may just be completely off base with that, Karen is a Taiyu, and I felt like I could plug Sakuran again). We get an appearance by Karen, who I’m happy to see alive and well, and a cast of other original characters. The series is taking a turn for the bizarre here though, because the first half of the volume is dedicated to a world inhabited by rabbit people who are being terrorized by a whirlwind, who is in turn being terrorized by a feather which Mokona cannot sense. Fai and Kurogane suspect someone is watching and setting them up.
More bad news for Fai in the form of the Yasha-oh guardian who seems to be weeping blood. Just across the way is the Ashura guardian, which is being protected by the courtesian performers who are currently being hospitable to Sakura, Syaoran, and Mokona. Fai and Kurogane are stuck over in the temple across the way, and it turns out the two groups are bitter enemies. They must not be too far apart though, because Fai and Kurogane would be speaking gibberish to each other otherwise.
I always forget how much I love Fai. He is truly a great character. This volume was okay, but it acts more like exposition to a really long story arc, so it’ll be better once things really get going and I don’t have to just summarize everything. This wound up being a mess of an entry for this volume.
