Okay. Get yourself ready for an ass-whooping long rant.
As always, Tsubasa was, again, impressive. Though, however, It seemed somewhat incomplete through this ending. It was painful to watch, in a sense, because of the terrible things that happen to the group.
In my case, I watched through the series, and somewhat felt like the characters were my friends, and watching them go through hardships like so was extremely saddening. The mood of the episode continued to darken as it continued, and in the end, I was hoping for the damper to lift, but instead, it seemed to only lighten on stress by the tiniest centimeter.
One example would be Fai, who was our cheery friend, and although we couldn’t expect him to be that way at all times, instead of darkening slightly, his mood somewhat went to the bottom of the scale. Of course, he still used his classic nicknames, and even though it was such importance to his character development, I was hoping that perhaps at the end, he would be just a little bit more happy. (I mean, yes, he lost his eye and became a vampire, but that doesn’t require a DRASTIC mood change… Right?) Perhaps it was a bit to much to wish for him to be happy forever, but as I said earlier, doesn’t it feel like these characters are close friends? We’ve followed their lives for at least a year, laughing and crying right along with them (if you’re a sentimental viewer like me). I can’t help but want their stories to end with a smile.
Of course, there’s Kurogane, who most definitely is more serious in the anime, is still lighthearted in a sense. Towards the middle of the second OVA, and throughout the third, all humor was lifted from his personality, and he made a huge sacrifice for Fai, who eventually had become his friend. Even though Kuro-pi was always much more down-to-earth than Fai, I missed the silly fights they got into.
I know that they were in the middle of a decomposing city that rained acid every five minutes in a place with hardly any water, but the publishers could have at least tried to include a single joke in the third OVA. It made everything around me look depressing when I went to get water in the middle. D:
Next, would be Sakura, who developed the most of all. No longer the girl who stayed behind, or the shy princess who hid behind others, she was given a chance to shine and display the courage that we all knew she had.
She did, obviously, her best at everything she tried, and although she is considerably weaker than the others in her group, she still managed to do what she had originally set out to. I’m sure more than one of the viewers was proud of her. Although the dream sequences were a little bit… Awkward, unlike the others, at least half of her storyline was happy in an ironic and sadistic way.
On the other hand, at least for a second, I wasn’t completely depressed.
Last, would be Syaoran. Oh god. I can’t even explain how much his plot confused and awed me at the same time, though I do wish that they had managed to at least finish what happened to the fake Syaoran.
Honestly, this part of the OVA series was SO confusing that at one point, I had to pause the video and bang my head into a pillow desk wall 48-inch spiked mace to get my head working again. I understand that everyone loved the fake Syaoran, but at the point it was at, they could have at least done the clique thing, and showed the group either beating the fake or restoring his heart that he was apparently “nurturing himself”.
(Even though the fake Syaoran ends up being a heartless killer).
Tsubasa is another one of those many series that I’ll likely never forget, and something that I’ll want to treasure as another set of friend that I’ve made in the past couple of my otaku years.
God, I haven’t typed that much since… Well, let’s just leave it at that. Poor Fai… D:
Rating: *****
