by LantisEscudo » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:26 pm
Yes, it's still running. CLAMP lists Tsubasa, xxxHolic, Legal Drug, Clover, and X as their ongoing series. (Though Clover hasn't had a new installment since the magazine it was being carried in folded in 1999(?), and X and Legal Drug haven't had any new installments since Tsubasa and xxxHolic started.)
I just finished watching the first episode for the third time, this time from a different subber, and I have to say that the voices are growing on me. Once I got over what my mind through Shaoran and Sakura should sound like, I really started liking their new voices.
And I discovered why Touya sounds so familiar to me, even though he's not the original Touya. He's voiced by Shinichiro Miki, who's done major voices in seven other series that I've watched in the past month. No wonder I recognize that voice.
Speaking of recognizable voices, I didn't notice until this time through that Tomoyo's new voice is none other than Maya Sakamoto, who provides the ending song, as well.
I was also wrong in thinking that Sohma's voice was the original voice actress, though I maintain that Yuko Kaida does a good job with the two or three lines she has. (Also considering Yuriko Yamamoto, Sohma's original voice, apparently hasn't done any voice work since 1995.)
Yukito's new voice remains the only one that feels off to me. He seems too close to his CCS appearance and personality to have such a shift in voice, so it's taking me a lot more effort to hear "Yukito" in Kouki Miyata's performance instead of "Kouki Miyata imitating Megumi Ogata."
The music continues to be wonderful; this is a soundtrack I'm buying as soon as it becomes available.
I also continue to notice details that are wonderful little tributes to earlier CLAMP work, like Touya's sword (Zagato's from Rayearth), and Yukito's magic circle, which is almost identical to the one Sakura uses in the Clow Card arc of CCS, just with a moon in the center instead of a sun. It's these details that really make this series (both in manga and anime forms) so much more enjoyable. I'm truly looking forward to seeing the characters in the first world the gang is going to visit, which we'll definitely see next episode, according to the preview.