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TSUBASA TOKYO REVELATIONS: further informations

Shonen Magazine has made a special hot-site for the upcoming OVAs of Tsubasa.

Yeah, you read it right, it’s not going to be only 1 OVA, but a series of 3 OVAs, they will come with vols. 21, 22 and 23, respectively.

Now the specifications:

OVA 1 – The Magician’s Message

Release date: November 16th, 2007 (attached to Tsubasa #21 normal edition).
Privilege: Special Case to hold all 3 OVAs with illustration drawn by CLAMP.
Running time: 25 minutes.
Price: 3,360 yens.

OVA 2 – The Boy’s Right Eye

Release date: January 17th, 2008 (attached to Tsubasa #22 normal edition).
Running time: 25 minutes.
Price: 2,980 yens.

OVA 3 – The Dream Seen by The Princess

Release date: March 17th, 2008 (attached to Tsubasa #23 normal edition).
Running time: 25 minutes.
Price: 2,980 yens.

Apparently, the DVDs will be a special limitation only for the regular edition of Tsubasa.

Staff:

Director: Shunsuke Tada (director of Prince of Tennis OVA).
Script: Ageha Ohkawa (CLAMP).
Character Design: Yoko Kikuchi (Tsubasa The Movie).
Animation work: PRODUCTION IG.

The cast will be the same.

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First, I gotta say that I’m (more than) happy with not one, but 3 OVAs. After I saw the cover (by the way, thanks to everybody who told me about it!!) I started to suspect that it would be a series of OVA, and indeed proved to be true.

Then, all of them centering on Tokyo, the last one clearly marking the end of it, with Sakura’s dream, leaving the possibilities open for further OVAs, if you ask me (although Ohkawa suggested, on the comments section, that from now the animation will differ from the manga).

Ohkawa writing the scripts, as we already expected, makes it worth watching already, even if I haven’t seen a single screencap yet xD This is the first time she writes for a Tsubasa animation, it shall be interesting!

THANK GOD it’s not BeeTrain. Of course I wanted MADHOUSE, but they started with PRODUCTION IG so I guess they’ll stick with it until the very end. I’m not disappointed, they handled the Movie really really well, and it’s the same character designer, so.

What I didn’t expect was the release for November! So soon! I think CLAMP IN WONDERLAND 2 confused me (it took a whole year to finish that 7-minutes video-clip XD). I thought the running time of 25 minutes was too short, though.

I was also very glad to see the schedule for the next volumes! With that interval of only 2 months between one release and another, the story will progress much faster than I had expected.

More info as they come!

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93 thoughts on “TSUBASA TOKYO REVELATIONS: further informations”

  2. you asw the cover? the DVD cover or the vol19 cover? if it is the DVD… WHERE?!?! XDDD

    Oh man, I’m craving these DVD’s so much… and with pretty case drawn by Clamp *__* the only other clamp case I have is the X anime one and has anime art, not by Clamp ^___________^

    And yes, the manga seems will speed up, two months between vols O_O;

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    • >you asw the cover? the DVD cover or the vol19 cover? if it is the DVD… WHERE?!?! XDDD

      What? o.o

      Oh I really really wanted these as well! OVA written by Ohkawa ;___; But I’m not sure if I’ll be able to afford it! It’s not that expensive, but the shipping kills me….

      >And yes, the manga seems will speed up, two months between vols O_O;

      Isn’t it? There’s room for at least 3 other releases in 2008, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to end until the beginning of 2009.

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      • Have you noticed April the 1st of 2009 is WEDNESDAY?!? I think Clamp has it all planed to release the last chapter THAT day ;D

        >you asw the cover? the DVD cover or the vol19 cover? if it is the DVD… WHERE?!?! XDDD

        What? o.o

        Sorry! I was talking about you said had seen the cover… I asume you were talking about the vol19 cover…right? not the DVD one…. I saw the deluxe big vol cover at amazon’s … but where is the bigger one of the regular cover!?!?!?!? I need to see it T_T

        Every DVD is ‘olny’ 3000 yen, and you must order more things to compensate the shipping….

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        • >Have you noticed April the 1st of 2009 is WEDNESDAY?!? I think Clamp has it all planed to release the last chapter THAT day ;D

          OMG I WOULDN’T DOUBT OF THAT! O_O

          About the cover, oh yeah, I saw the deluxe one, not the DVD (which I hope CLAMP will draw but I think they would have announced already XDDD *is asking too much*) Sorry if I wasn’t clear about the covers deal @_@

          >Every DVD is ‘olny’ 3000 yen, and you must order more things to compensate the shipping….

          Yeah, I guess I’ll ask my friend who lives in Japan to buy all 3, store them all for me, and send them all in once. We’ll see. I just hope my payment will be raised until then XDDD

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          • Long time ago X was expected to end at 1999… but Clamp was unable to do it.. if they had keept the pacing of first vols they had …. but with TRC I think they can end it that day, would be extremely cool since in last XXXholic chapter we saw, again, april the first is a VERY special day ;D and of course the 20th CLAMP Anniversary!

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  3. Hell yeah that’s NOT BeeTrain !!! I’m so glad to hear that !!! And you’re right, Production IG have done well with Tsubasa movie, so they can handle it, I’m not worried about that !

    That’s good for the 3 OVA ! But 25mn each… That will be enough to complete the Toko Arc ?
    I too hope there’ll be more OVA ! But why are the OVA only on the regular edition ? Hmm that’s not a problem after all !

    Thank you very much for the news ! ^^

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    • BeeTrain simply cannot handle the quality that inquires making an OVA XDDDD

      >That will be enough to complete the Toko Arc ?

      Pretty much 3 anime episodes =\ I think it’s short, I was expecting 40 minutes each OVA XDDD

      >But why are the OVA only on the regular edition ?

      I guess because if they came with the deluxe edition, it would have been even more expensive! XD Probably 900 yens more expensive ^^”

      You’re welcome!!

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  4. I’m relieved to know that Beetrain doesn’t have a hand in the production. I guess I’ll risk watching it then! ^__^
    3 Ovas! Aww! I’m so looking forward to seeing them!

    Thank you so much for the info! 😀

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  5. 25 min, i think it´s right, because the tokyo arc is too much fights, i hope see all the blood, and violence, i have all my hopes in Ohkawa-sensei, but Production IG? I don´t know, Holic was fine, but some episodes was very bad… Thanks for the info, here in argentina the fansubs can´t wait…

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  6. ohh tempting *_________*

    i might just go get the mangas for these *___* but then that means i’ll have double, becuase i’ll be buying the chinese volumes as well D: oh well! 😀

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      • Ohkawa + Production IG is very tempting *___* but the “director of the prince of tennis OVA” is slightly worrying for me XD at least it wasn’t the TV series -___-

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        • >at least it wasn’t the TV series -___-

          That helps a LOT! XD

          And indeed I am also a little worried for the director. Look at his curriculum, he haven’t done much o.o

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          • it does! the PoT TV series had even more fillers than tsubasa, i think o__o;;

            i’ve only seen the OVA series of PoT, it doesn’t seem THAT bad… but still a bit worrying. but at least Ohkawa is doing the storyboard ^__^;;

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            • >it does! the PoT TV series had even more fillers than tsubasa, i think o__o;;

              Oh! I thought you were talking about TSUBASA’s anime director ^^””” sorry!

              >but at least Ohkawa is doing the storyboard ^__^;;

              You mean script? (sorry for being so bitchy XDDD But they ARE two different things *blushes*)

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              • ohh no problem ^__^ i wasn’t being precise

                ah. yeah i meant script… *headdesk* my brain isn’t function much lately XD and i tend to mix up phrases all the time XD

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  8. this makes me very happy! 🙂
    I am so glad that Bee train are no longer getting their hands on Tsubasa anymore!
    I am anxious to see these OAVs and I just hope that some kind soul will upload them for those who cant get hold of a copy themselves! lol

    exciting news! thank you!

    xXx

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  9. Production IG are pretty good, so it’s in safe hands 😀

    2008? Plenty of time for me to catch up with the manga *is still in Piffle and needs to hurry up!*

    Hey, if CLAMP are speeding up with Tsubasa, does that mean they might have nearly finished it? 0_0

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    • >Production IG are pretty good, so it’s in safe hands 😀

      Yes it is ^__^

      >2008? Plenty of time for me to catch up with the manga *is still in Piffle and needs to hurry up!*

      Hurry hurry! You’re about to reach the best part!

      >Hey, if CLAMP are speeding up with Tsubasa, does that mean they might have nearly finished it? 0_0

      Yes, we are more than half-way through it ^__^ According to my predictions, 72% of the story has been told xDDD

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  10. Thanks for the new info! ^___^ I’m happy there’ll be three OAVs, that Production I.G. it’s taking care of them… and as you said, the waiting between them is really short! and myself have fansubbed two series of OAVs and sometimes the space between releases was almost a year ^^u I’m glad there’ll be opportunities for us gaijins to buy them too xP (though I still wonder why are they going to release them like this… they could make a ton of money if they did it the usual way, plus I guess it would be easier to license them in other countries if they didn’t do this: I highly doubt that when volumes 21, 22 & 23 are released here in Spain these OAVs will come with them as well ^^u).

    Ohkawa suggested, on the comments section, that from now the animation will differ from the manga
    That made me think maybe they’ll make one of their famous alternative endings (like in Angelic Layer or X), one for the OAVs and another different one for the manga. Maybe these OAVs are to TRC kind of like what the second CCS movie was in relation to the CCS anime, except for the fact that CCS had more of a real ending than Tsubasa Chronicle and could have been left like that without a problem XD

    If it were to be like this, I personally wouldn’t mind it (I may get killed for this, but I prefer Anime!Angelic Layer’s ending to the manga one ^^u), but I know most people would rant about it endlessly ^^u

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    • Indeed the hiatus between one release and another is very short. I hope that doesn’t mean the quality will be bad.

      >though I still wonder why are they going to release them like this… they could make a ton of money if they did it the usual way

      Yeah, I don’t know whay either… all I can think of is because they wanna sell more tankoubons o.o

      >That made me think maybe they’ll make one of their famous alternative endings (like in Angelic Layer or X), one for the OAVs and another different one for the manga.

      Exactly! They just can’t release what’s left to be told of the Tsubasa anime in OVAs, so there will be cuts and modifications. This is either the last arc or maybe they will release one more later… but 3 is already quite a number, there might not be more after this.

      >I may get killed for this, but I prefer Anime!Angelic Layer’s ending to the manga one ^^u

      I certainly wouldn’t kill you (as I prefer it as well XD). And I think it’s much better to see an alternative ending than seeing the SAME ending of the manga. That’s why no one is more appropriated for the role of scriptwriter than Ohkawa herself ^^

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    • It is very soon because we were expecting it for the next year, I believe xDDD November is far, but I expected the release to be even more far ^^

      >BTW when is it going to be released? CLAMP in Wonderland 2 I mean? I don’t remember ^^

      They haven’t announced it yet. All we know is that it’s going to be released still this year.

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      • Why are it taking so long? It’s only 7 minutes ^^ Well I hope I get to see it soon, the first was so sweet;)

        I thought it was going to air next year as well ^^ I’m so happy it’s not:D

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        • Because even though it’s only 7 minutes, they took good care of the project. I bet it took more time to project and plan it than to animate it.

          Also, they used the same amount of sheets of an ordinary TV anime episode. CLAMP was very involved, too, Mokona and Nekoi did the storyboards and CLAMP directed it, that’s why it took so long ^^”

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  12. OMG! YAY! it’s not BeeTrain! XD
    I think Production I.G. is okay. ^^

    ah! I have to save up my money for these! @_@

    thanks for the great news, Chibi Yuuto-kun! ^_^

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  14. So they come with the normal edition… Ver-eh nice indeed… I can’t wait until they come out… ^^ I can’t wait~! Thanks for the information! ^^

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  17. Three OVAs!!! O.O I’m so happy!!! ^^ Now all my worries are gone. It’s about Tokyo arc and BeeTrain isn’t involved XDD

    -November! So soon!
    This means that Ohkawa is a good liar XDDD they were working with this since this past months. Also, that 2008 was referring when we will see the end of this story. Not much waiting after all ^_^

    Thank you so much for this news Chibi Yuuto-san!!! you made my day ^_^

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    • >Now all my worries are gone. It’s about Tokyo arc and BeeTrain isn’t involved XDD

      LOL! ^_____^

      >Ohkawa is a good liar XDDD

      Not really XDDD They said on March that soon they would announce the media adaptation, so…. March-November, quite some time o.o

      You are more than welcome, Hikki-chan! Glad to have made your day ^__^

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      • Yeah but as you said “CLAMP IN WONDERLAND 2 confused me (it took a whole year to finish that 7-minutes video-clip XD)” That’s why it is surprising; it isn’t only one, they are three ones. She said that they will announce about this media, but the release dates are very close O.O Whatever, it’s better for us XDDD

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  18. I think 25 minutes each makes perfect sense. That would max to one hour and fifteen minutes, and as long as the Acid Tokyo arcs seems, it really wouldn’t be as long when transferred to animation. Look at the whole scene down in the Reservoir. That took almost a full volume. Animated, it would probably be twenty minutes total. :/ And if all else fails, they could shorten the length of the fight scenes but make what they leave in more violent to compensate. xD

    I hope that these OVAs do well and that they’ll continue. I want to see the stabbity-stab-stab scene from Infinity animated. ^^”

    I’m rather curious to see how it’ll open, actually. Will it show the very end of Lecourt and then go to Acid Tokyo to sort of say, “HAR, everything that happened Post!Lecourt in the TV series? Didn’t happen. This did.” I’d like that very much. *shifty eyes*

    Is it sad my first thought upon hearing this news was, “Remember the part where we said they’re gay and you denied it, Viccy? Har har PWNED.” …?

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  19. If you don’t mind, I wanted to point out one glaring mistake from your post: “The Dream Saw by The Princess.” I don’t know what the original Japanese was, but if you want to use the verb in the passive tense, it’d be, “The Dream Seen By the Princess.” (It could also be “The Dream the Princess Saw.”)

    Thanks as always, Alex, for the heads up. ^_^ And because I didn’t thank you before– I did get the Clamp interviews and I promise to translate at least one of them! I was a bit surprised that you didn’t include any from Clamp no Kiseki– were they all translated already?

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    • Oops!! Thank you so much for pointing this out! IN FACT, when I was typing it, I was thinking “There’s something weird here… but whatever” XD NOW I know what it was ^^” I’ll fix the post now!

      >I did get the Clamp interviews and I promise to translate at least one of them!

      THANK YOU SO MUCH, I can hardly wait!! *-*

      >I was a bit surprised that you didn’t include any from Clamp no Kiseki– were they all translated already?

      Pretty much… yeah. Some of them weren’t translated to english yet but I got some Spanish versions, which is better than nothing ^^” And since portuguese is similar to spanish, it wasn’t hard to understand it.

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      • but I got some Spanish versions, which is better than nothing ^^”

        Ah, but I’m doing these for the fans, you know? I don’t really need to do the translations because I can read them for myself. So it’d be interesting to do the ones that haven’t been translated into English (though maybe I’ll cheat and lean on the Spanish translation instead of the Japanese original, because even if I don’t speak it, it’s still sometimes easier to understand XD;;;)

        Sometimes I feel that Portuguese = Spanish. 😀

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        • I know but, finding people who can translate from Japanese is much harder than finding someone who can translate from Spanish (even I can! XD) So that’s why I didn’t give you any CnK interview, they are pretty much translated. I think that, if you were to spend your time on an interview, better be one that doesn’t have an spanish version ^^”

          >Sometimes I feel that Portuguese = Spanish. 😀

          Pretty much XD

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  20. What a good news !
    Thank you so much chibiyuuto-kun.it brings light in my sad day ¤_¤
    And victory ! It’s not beeTrain ♥ *dance of joy*
    I can’t wait for them !
    Kamui-kun ♥ Fye-san ♥……dream, dream, dream XD

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  21. OMG!!! i’m sooo happy! 3 OVAS!!!
    wow! , Production IG huh?,same as the movie??,well they aren’t bad at all :DDD
    YES!!>=D Ohkawa is writting the script!! TT-TT that’s so awesome!
    November is so soon!!! kyaah!!!*jumps*

    OVA 1 – The Magician’s Message [Fay’s past??? o___O or what?, Fay turning as a vampire?! , don’t get it =_=]
    OVA 2 – The Boy’s Right Eye[i can’t wait for this one to come!, Syaoran *¬*…]
    OVA 3 – The Dream Saw by The Princess[infinity? or Sakura’s “adventure” at Tokyo?? -.-]

    THANKS FOR THE INFO!! *big hug* 😀 you always manage to make my day xDDD

    see ya~

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  25. I fell sick today, I hope I’ll make sense. ^^;

    So it is 3 OVAs in the end and only the disk case will be a privilege! Although each OVA will be 25 minutes long … pretty much like a regular TV anime episode. So the title are “The mutual Understanding of the Wizards”, “The Boy’s Right Eye” and “The Dream The Princess Saw” … it would pretty much be an OVA for each Tokyo tankoubon, the first about Feiwang and Yuuko’s plot unfolding as the real!Syaoran wake up and go to Yuuko’s place (with Syaoran-tachi getting in Kamui’s gang), the second about the fight Syaoran vs Syaoran, the third sounds more like the Infinity’s plot, maybe we’ll see Sakura’s dream + they’ll pay for the water in Tokyo and Fay’s life. I suspect they have a both an open ending leading to Infinity and a final ending closing the story, they’ll choose which one will be the real ending with how well the first two will get pre-ordered.

    They come along with a regular edition copy, likely because most people have this version anyway and they know the deluxe version buyers will get both the deluxe and the limited edition in this case.

    3660¥, 2980¥ and 2980¥, I never thought it would be this cheap, good news. I suppose the higher price of the first will help to pay the production of the last two. Beside, we’ll get 3 tankoubon with two months of gap, quite regular. I wonder if they’ll be able to keep the pace …

    With Production I.G. and the Chara Designer of the movie on the project, I hope the visual part will be good. The director is a bit less promising, but with a good scenario and a good visual, he got very little room to mess up (I hope he won’t make me wrong).

    But still nothing about xxxHolic, I wonder if the presence of Yuuko plotting is enough for Ohkawa to say it’s about xxxholic too or if we’ll get an OVA along some xxxHolic tankoubon as well …

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    • Hmm, I think the higher price of the first is with the special case. I hope you’re understand what I’ve said, I’m french. ^^’

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      • Well, there’s always a special fee to get the pivilege, for example, you had to pay an extra 1600¥ to get the Clamp no Kiseki’s chess piece case, even after you had already pay all the 12 magazines to collect the coupons in time. This disk case will be no exception. And there’s no hurry to make the readers pay for something that will be released a few months after the last OVA, they could even the prices of three to 3210¥ and make the readers pay in three shot.

        And don’t worry, your English is fine. ^_~
        Although, if you prefer to answer in French, go on, I’m Quebecker.

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  26. YAY! Finally a revenge for TRC in animation! *jumps of hapyness*
    I think we are all trusting this new production, really we just saw Ohkawa there and went “oh ok, everything will be alright” xD
    Well I do have to confess I´m a liiiiiittle bit worried about the voice actors for the X crew… but oh well I guess is not thaaat much important …
    Thanks for the news!!

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  27. I think the CLAMP in Wonderland took so long because maybe just the CLAMP ladies were doing all the animation, and we know how busy they already are. But Production I.G. has a whole team so they can work much more quickly.

    So excited! It’s like Christmas has come early. Lol.

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  30. the movie? …really well? I was dissapointed! with both tsubasa and xxxhoic, although since clamp wrote the script, it won’t be cheesy paste thin plot anymore I guess

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  31. Yes I think there is more to come. They haven’t announced anything else yet, though.

    If it’s “big”, that means it requires a “big” planning as well.

    Keep checking my livejournal for more news about this mysterious project ^^ I don’t know anything about it yet but I’ll post here immediately after I find new info!

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  33. About the book illustration, is it some kind of novel with few illustrative pages or a complete illustration book?
    I’m a bit confused there….

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  34. I’ve seen the episode 10 !
    I like it, especially the end of the episode (the debut was…not exceptionnal ^^”).
    Kohane-chan is cute with her short hair. i don’t know whar happen in the manga but I hope we’ll see her with this short hair ^^
    Last but not least…next episode preview ! I can’t wait for it ! I hope it’ll be as good as the first episodes of this season !

    I’m sad…I don’t like very much the song Ohklawa sensei listen T_T. It’s not “unhearable” but I don’t love it v_v

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  35. Wow 😀
    (wah, I’m late..)
    Thank you for the infos!
    The book covers look really pretty *-*
    ;-; breaks suck…

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  38. Hmm, I wonder what those headphones are going to look like, not like I’ll be able to afford them once they get on the internet…

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  39. LOL I know. Angelic Layer is just the best in my opinion. n_n

    I’ve just read the manga so many times that I can’t help but go “why the heck didn’t they put this in the anime?!?! They had 70 episodes and two movies to work with for goodness sake!” xDDD

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