Saturday, March 11, 2006

Tsubasa Chronicle : Torikago no Kuni no Himegimi

The Princess of the Birdcage Country, is merely 30 minutes long, just a bit longer than a regular Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle anime episode. It ties in with the xxxholic movie as these two were screened together.



In this "episodic" movie, Syaoran, Sakura, Kurogane and Fye (and Mokona too) drop from the sky in a new country filled with forests and light, where every person has his own bird. The princess of this country is hiding from her evil uncle, who wants to consume everything in darkness.



I was never fond of the TRC anime in the first place, so this movie didn't really make any difference.




The plot is not seemless, leaving behind great gaps and bringing forth questions about the events unfolding and the motives behind each action. The animation quality is higher than most of the anime episodes, but seems quite inconsistent at points.



As you might have guessed, battling the darkness (in someone's heart) is the main message, a theme overused in anime. In my opinion, Kingdom Hearts, the video game, handles with this theme way better.

The anime series is already at 26 episodes and with the successful completion of its first season, another 26 episodes for the second season are scheduled to begin airing April 29th.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi, thanks for the write up :)
The screen caps look lovely.

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