Anime 4938

This is ONLY for the most hardcore Tsubasa fans and those who have either read the manga or done significant looking into outside of just the anime. Otherwise this is going to make zero sense to you and it's going to have a completely different tone than what you're used to.

It's faithful to the source material, which is very dark at this point in the story, and I appreciate that they at least tried to give the story some resolution since there was an intended season three that never came to be. There is no substitute for a proper season three, and I still hold ... out hope that we'll see it one day, but in the meantime this is the best we're going to get. This or reading the manga.

Absolutely do not bother watching this unless you're fully caught up with Tsubasa up to this point.

To sum up the position that Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicle finds itself in is...extremely difficult to explain. While I'd like to believe that Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations did the best that it could with what the anime gave it, I can't help but feel that the return to "canon" material didn't exactly work wonders in the way the show hoped it would. This is only my guess, but I believe that given the low quality of the TV series, it may have been unexpected for future seasons to prove successful, and only a few episodes aired, or it may be another reason. That said, while two ... episodes is nowhere near enough time to fill in all the plot remnants (which would have been much better off with at LEAST a season of 12 episodes to wrap up the remaining plot), something needs to be said for the efforts to try to fix what the TV show and other unfortunate circumstances did the show wrong by. I'd like to applaud what was actually shown in Tokyo Revelations and the successful impact it had; unfortunately, Spring Thunder is a victim of circumstance. Two episodes would be barely enough time to cover directly after the Tokyo arc, and as a result, a lot of content was squeezed out of the show, limiting important plot-relevant moments to be...flashbacks. Many important moments in the manga are only referenced in passing (as though they'd planned a full season) or are shown in flashbacks. This is fine for manga readers, but anime-only viewers are likely to be lost in the whirlwind of plot flashing before their eyes. An example of this is the revelation of Fai's backstory, which is almost glossed over completely but leaves just enough details to confuse an unwary viewer. Add onto this the fact that the "season" ENDS directly BEFORE the most important part of the entire series even begins, and you have a conundrum that puts Tsubasa in...let's call them "unfair circumstances." I'm at a loss; the only thing I can really judge is the quality itself.
Speaking of which, how did Spring Thunder actually do with their quality? Well, content problems aside (which mind you, are still a very major part of the problem), the actual content of the series is...mixed. Some moments are very well-executed, such as the entire dream sequence. However, others feel lazily implemented, expecting viewers to "connect the dots" and realize what happened in xxxHolic. The most jarring of these is a flashback to xxxHolic's introductory episode, which wasn't ever referenced before this point. Furthermore, it's not even in the same show, so anyone who hasn't watched xxxHolic either won't understand or won't care for this reference. Which is sadly, manga only on xxxHolic's part as well. Sigh. The problem isn't necessarily that the series is poor quality; as I said before, it suffers from numerous problems that bring it down before it can even get a chance to truly get into the heart of what it wants to show. 4/10.

OK LET ME SAY THIS I LOVED THE ORIGINAL ANIME BOTH SEASONS ONE AND TWO. THIS IS GOING TO BE FULL OF SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO READ SPOILERS. THIS IS ALSO GOING TO HAVE MORE OF A RANT TELLING YOU NOT TO WATCH THE OVAs IF YOU LIKED THE ORIGINAL A LOT. THESE OVA SERIES WOULD BE BETTER OFF AS CREEPYPASTAS. I DO LIKE HORROR ANIMES BUT THESE OVAS JUST RUINED TSUBASA FOR ME.


I really liked the original anime but when season 2 came they stopped the whole series and give you the OVAs. oh god did these OVAs suck. i ... am going to talk about both OVA series. Honestly i do not understand how people think this wrapped up well. I t seemed like it would be easier to say EVERYONE DIES THE END but that is not actually what happened.

So basically in tokyo revalations syaorans evil clone comes out and stuff. syaoran and his clone start fighting. the clone wins. then syaoran's evil clone eats fai's eye WHAT THE F*** IS THIS S***.

Then the second OVA series oh god this was even worse. it started off as if they were fighting they tryed to get to the next world but they couldnt get through, SO GUESS WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS? KUROGANE HAS TO CUT HIS ARM OFF! so then more stupid sh** happens and then it turns out sakura and syaoran are ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND NOT REAL PEOPLE!!!! MINDF*** TO THE MAX.

F*** these ovas tsubasa should have at least turned in to a long running shounen instead because that would have done the world a good favor but instead this shit happens i try to pay as less attention to the ovas possible so then the original can remain as one of my favorite animes even if it did have a bad ending and a bad set of ovas but if you love the original tsubasa i DO NOT RECCOMEND THIS TO YOU it would possibly ruin it this ova series is a piece of crap