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xxxHOLiC 01 - Hitsuzen
April 18, 2006, 8:23 pm
I read the first few books of the xxxHOLiC manga last summer, and it seemed like a pretty decent story. I’d been reading Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles since it came out, so it was neat how the two stories wove together, but didn’t overshadow one another. I watched the first episode of the Tsubasa Chronicle anime back when it first came out, and while it seemed pretty interesting, I didn’t keep watching and I heard that it wasn’t as high-quality as the manga (not that the manga is any great work of art or anything, but it is a pretty fun little story), so when the xxxHOLiC anime came out I decided I’d at least give the first episode a try.
It’s been a while and I read them quickly, so I don’t really remember how the first volume of the manga starts out, but this anime version seemed to be pretty true to it. One problem I do have with the anime is the animation style; the characters, Watanuki especially, is just disturbingly long and lanky, and while I realize that’s part of his original character design, I just find it unnerving to see that style of character moving around. The voice casting seems to be pretty solid; the voices aren’t too unlike the ones I came up with in my head when reading the manga. Maru and Moro are suitably irritating, and Mokona’s… okay. I guess that’s the one weird voice out of the bunch for me, since I heard the black Mokona in my head as sounding much like the original Mokona from Magic Knight Rayearth, so it was kind of different from what I expected.
Overall, I was neither impressed nor underwhelmed; seems just like the usual CLAMP anime adaptation fare, which could be seen as either good or bad.
—Erika | Comments Off
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