Tsubasa 10
Posted: March 24, 2007 Filed under: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 2 Comments »For some reason, no mention is made of the rather obvious reference with the bowtie-clad glasses-wearing small detective in the “Unchronicled World” segment at the end. Detective Conan, hello! Usually they’re quick to point out non-CLAMP references like that.
The end of the Shura/Shara arc was kind of a cop-out, but I do love Ashura. We also find out about the time-travel aspect, which is fine and dandy by me. I’d actually like to see more of that.
Piffle World though… that blatant reference hurt. I had forgotten about Miyuki-chan until just then, too, her appearance was much more obvious than usual. Plus, she raced, and that was cool. The important thing though… TOMOYO! Though we’ve seen Tomoyo in the story before (obviously), I had forgotten she’d never met up with Sakura before. Tomoyo is Tomoyo is Tomoyo, I suppose. The scene where she ran past an awe-struck Kurogane and right up to Sakura and declared her the hero was to die for. Also, I got a kick out of the video taping and the costume-making. I know I was complaining about the RG Veda elements last time, but this is different. This is Cardcaptor Sakura, you see. For some reason, even though it features the main characters, this series just does not have enough CCS in it. Major, major points for Tomoyo.
And on that note, the line “There’s a lot of faces around here I feel like I should know!” killed me. This series should not be that obvious. This race features the most crossover characters yet, too, but it’s almost all people who have been in Tsubasa before.
wait, what unchronicled world? What Detective Conan reference? I love that manga! What chapter is it?
The little shorts at the end of some of the volumes are called “Unchronicled World.” They’re about four or so pages long and are mostly just gags. I could be wrong since I don’t think there’s anything that points to Detective Conan specifically, but it seemed like too much of a coincidence that Mokona was playing detective while wearing big round glasses and a little bowtie. Unfortunately I’ve got that volume elsewhere right now, but now I’m dying to reread that part to see if there were any other references.