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lets get some Kimihiro Watanuki from xxxHolic in here
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Gotta love Pipe fox
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while you're all in here...how do you guys say xxxHolic?

x,x,x,holic or triple-x,holic? hm?
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>Zetsubo sensei thread
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Actually, I usually end up saying "ex-ex-ah-holic".

No clue why. I know there's not an "a" in there, but a more "correct" way just seems weird to say.

Also, while on the subject, "Organization XIII" always ends up as "Organization GUH-ZEE".

Maybe I just subconsciously hate the letter "x", or something.
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>>940452
Why don't you just say Organization Thirteen?
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>>940415
>>940452
oh hell I've just called it 'x-holic' since forever and now I just feel like an idiot for somehow mind-blanking the other two x's this whole time. polite sage.
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>>940460

No clue. I try to get myself to say that, but "guh-zee" always hits my mind first.

It's those damned Roman numerals, I'm tellin' ya.
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I just say "holic".
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Apparently it's just supposed to be Holic and the x's are a design, not part of the name.
>> Anonymous
Just say "Holic." The xxx denote variables, as in insert-your-own-addiction-of-choice.
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>>940595
Yeah. I considered pronouncing it as "variable-holic", but that was too unwieldy.
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>>940415
i just call it "Holic"
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me and everyone i know say triple-x-holic
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>>940702
same
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>>940595
This is the correct way of saying it. I think CLAMP stated it in one of there character guides because people kept getting it wrong. Similar to Fay's name in Tsubasa.
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>>940810
Talking about Fai, I've always thought it ironic that his name rhymes with "eye". Polite sage.
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>>940818
And with gay
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>>940828
..not.
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>>940595
I've been aware of the fact that's it's supposed to be said as just 'holic' for quite some time but I've always said triple-x-holic and still do just coz I like it better.
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>>940850
sugtfu
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>>940818

look up the definitions of "irony" and "coincidence" in the dictionary one more time, please.
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>>940927
No, it's irony because he actually lost an eye.
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>>940950

...oh u.
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less chat more picts
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Around blacks, never relax.
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>>940927
there is no such thing as coincidence in this world
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>>940416

Woah, love this. Source?
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>>941336
oops, this one too
>> Anonymous
Oh I love this stuff~ RP like this with me.. sexual preferred. *Blush.* I'm Brynn on www.RolePlayChat.info
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>>941348
Lol, Yuuko quote.
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>>940950

you must've started reading clamp from tsubasa. otherwise, you'd know when clamp actually intends for something to be ironic in their stories, they do it with a little more subtlety than "lololol u gaiz fye rhymes with eye, let's poke it out for the lulz"

if you're an oldschool fan and actually think they called him fye because it rhymes with eye and it would be ~ironic~... no wonder this fandom's always been in the shit.
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>>941401
that's why i said it in a xxxHolic thread
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Hey, Tsubasa faggots? This is a Watanuki thread. GTFO.
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er, I've always said it like "triple-ex-holic".
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I've always heard the correct way to say it is "Holic"

Has everyone heard that it's gonna end soon?
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>>941451
Tsubasa is ending soon, not xxxholic.
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>>941477
Actually both manga are supposed to end at the same time. That's why xxxHolic tends to have long breaks in between chapters so it doesn't get ahead of Tsubasa.
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I think i read somewhere that you won't be able to understand the xxxHolic ending without reading the Tsubasa one first
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>>941477

I believe they are both supposed to be finished this year, but I'm not sure which is finishing first.
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>>941507
sauce of this info please? Because I do NOT want to have to read Tsubasa just to understand the ending...
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>>943139
Reading Tsubasa helps with understanding a lot of the things happening with Watanuki anyways. So, if you want to completely understand the story, you should read it. I was confused by a lot of things until I caught up on Tsubasa. It would suck if the endings were like that though, because Tsubasa is not dependent on xxxHolic.
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>>943378
seconding request on source
>>943139
God, even so, I really don't want to read Tsubasa. I started it and got really bored because I was reading xxHolic at the same time and it was so much better.
>> Moustache
''At the conclusion of Volume 23, on the last page of Chapter 182, Clamp, the authors of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle announced the manga was entering its final arc. It is expected that Tsubasa and its sister publication, xxxHolic will end prior to the 2009 publication of Clamp's new sh?jo manga.''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa:_Reservoir_Chronicle
''Similar to the announcement in its sister publication Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle months earlier, on April 28, 2008, in chapter 157 prior to beginning a five week hiatus, it was announced that xxxHolic is approaching its conclusion.''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XxxHolic
Actually, I search a better sauce but I think it can be true. In both, the pace have changed. In xxxholic, Yuuko says many thing who suggest the end.
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>>943394
Just read the wikipedia entries. Or random summaries online. I'm sure they exist. It's probably easier to understand anyway.
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>>943378

I ended up reading Tsubasa to catch up with xxxHolic because I really like the story and I wanted to get the whole picture.... unfortunately, I feel I lost some precious time I should have invested doing something more...fulfilling, like sleeping or studying.

I suggest everyone to read a review or only watch the Tokyo Revelations OVAs and read the last tomes. Please don't read the whole manga, your brain cells will thank you later.

Finally... delivering my favorite image
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>>943575

Does anonymous remember the specific arc/chapters we should be reading? This anon seriously doesn't wanna have to suffer more TRC fail than absolutely necessary to finish holic either. :(
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>>943678
acid tokyo arc and beyond is my recommendation, so ch 107+. or you could watch the OVA (trust me, it's FAR better than the tv series), which covers acid tokyo arc, and then read 136+
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tysm
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Honestly, i don't see what the problem people ahve with TRC is. I started it before Holic, and i freely acknowledge that Holic is the better series. But Tsubasa is full of pretty cool ideas and i personally think that it was at it's best back when it was more light-hearted.

I think the series has more to reccomend it that tieing in vaguely with another series.

Sage for no pictures to contribute.
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>>944650
You put sage in the e-mail field. Like this.
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>>944650

It's not that TRC is inherently bad. It was a great idea, but failed to deliver. You said it yourself, it was good when it was just a silly excuse for CLAMP to crossover their characters and give you a hearty lol at the inside jokes, a fun meme to entertain you while waiting for the real new canon in xxxHOLIC. But then it got all serious business and started rehashing old memes, retconing itself, copying things CLAMP's already done a hundred times, and basically became a bad fanfic of itself, and a mockery of CLAMP's classic standards. Things like the X crossover/one-eyed vampire Fye arc are pretty much a kick in the face to ye ole oldskool fans, and when you've been reading CLAMP for over a decade or more and you start getting the clear impression they don't really care about their own legacy anymore as long as they're making a buck, you do get a little buttsore.

I think most if not all people who don't like/downright hate TRC at this point are bitter oldschool fans (like me) who feel that it had potential to be the most awesome thing CLAMP ever did, but turned out to be the biggest disappointment they've ever given us. New fans who got into CLAMP through TRC will obviously not share the same opinion.

tl;dr CLAMP doesn't cater to my interests with TRC, therefore I b'aaaaaaaaaaaaw.
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Fuck, forgot my sage. Sorry.
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>>944661
Clamp has always struck me as a bunch of fangirls for their own stuff, for a long while TRC just seemed like a fanfic that they wanted to go through with. Granted, the whole vampire Fai thing was a big "wtf?!" but yeah..
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>>944661
This is the reason why I stick to xxxholic.
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emergency bump before this thread falls off the cut.
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i love watanuki. i love that manga
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its not really a picture of him, but i thought it was really sweet how he said this to yuuko. prob the only one who ever has asked her
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>>944661

Well, I pretty much hate TRC and I haven't been a fan of CLAMP's in a long time. Holic's the only thing they've done in a while that I liked. TRC is a ludicrous, self-indulgent pat on the back that was tolerable at best and painfully self-congratulatory at worst, and then it went and started going SERIOUS BUSINESS (as you put it) and turned nearly unreadable.

Also, I'll never forgive that one Jojo doujinshi they did. And the fact that they liked it enough to follow it up with Wish, of all things.
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I think you hit the nail on the head for me with the whole, potential that was ruined with serious business. It went off in a different direction than when it started with. Some of their stuff has been serious, but it was always like that, or it got sad at the end when twists were had. You know, the usual. For me, it felt like TRC got off track of what it originally was going for.

That eye/vampire arc made me wtf too.
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The vampire/eye thing? Clearly it was because ome one had to lose an eye. It's Clamp, some one always loses an eye and/or has something happen to their eyes. Always.
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Che always? I'm pretty curse not every CLAMP series has had people lose an eye.
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Did anyone lose an eye in CCS ?
I couldn't finish reading it ;_;
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I appreciate this comment because for as much as I tried, I never quite got into Tsubasa. I know I picked up the volume where Ashura appears because RG Veda was my first CLAMP manga. But even though it promised so many of my favorite characters, the story was not what it could have been. XXXholic for some reason attracted me from the get go and well, I guess I will take a look at later Tsubasa so I am not so lost in Holic. SIGH.
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>>949665
Well, could you give examples? Name the CLAMP series and a character from each that lost an eye/something happened to their eyes. I already know Tsubasa and xxxHolic did. I don't remember CCS, Legal Drug, MKR, Chobits, Suki, The One I Love, Shirahime-syo, Angelic Layer, Legend of Chun Hyang, CLAMP School Detectives, CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators, or Man of Many Faces having any characters that lost eyes. However, it's been a while since I read them, so I may be forgetting something.

Wish did have Satan's son give one of his eyes to that angel as a proposal/wedding thing. Also, RG Veda having a eye thing wouldn't surprise me. These are the only CLAMP manga I've read and own, so series like Duklyon (or whatever it is) and Clover, etc, I can't speak on.
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>>949723
eye loss/damage/whatever in Tokyo Babylon and X
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>>949774
i remember hearing about that, but I didn't read those far enough to get to it.
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I started this series three days ago, and I've already caught up. Beyond awesome.

Anyone know when chapter 159 comes out?
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Nobody lost a single eye in Clover, CCS, manga MKR, manga Angelic Layer or Kobato. In RG Veda there was a blind character, but that doesn't count (and one eye is too subtle for RG Veda anyway, it tends to go for full-blown dismemberment).
No images from the other series that I've seen feature one-eyed characters either, so probably the motif didn't appear anywhere but Wish, Tokyo Babylon, X, Tsubasa and xxxHolic.
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>>949667

No, not always there is eye loss. The whole "it's CLAMP, someone always loses an eye" thing is not a fact, it's just a meme taken too far.

It's just this: Seishiro lost an eye for Subaru in Tokyo Babylon, Subaru took Seishiro's eye in X. Beautiful. Baaaw. Years later, Doumeki lost an eye for Watanuki and vice-versa in xxxHOLIC, but since everything in Holic is in a way a homage to Tokyo Babylon, it was taken as a nod to the classics. Then, not too long later, Fye went and lost an eye too, but this time it was so ridiculous and pointless, that what once was a CLAMP trademark became a joke among fans. It's CLAMP, someone always loses an eye.

So, it's just a bitchy joke on how they ran this formerly awesome plot point into the ground, until it lost its meaning. Don't take it too literally.
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>Anyone know when chapter 159 comes out?

No, but here have this translation of said chapter.

[page 1]
Kohane: I've heard that you've become close recently.

Shizuka-kun and Kimihiro-kun.

I've heard that when you first met you fought.

Doumeki: As soon as our eyes met on the stairs,

He blew up at me.

Kohane: Kimihiro-kun said,

That as soon as he saw your face, he got angry, and lashed out at you with his foot.

Doumeki: That was also with a flying kick.

Kohane: Since when have you gotten along?

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Doumeki: Even now he doesn't think we get along, does he.

Yuuko-san told him,

Even though we told one hundred stories at my temple, he has to say what he wants to borrow.

Even now when we meet he may kick me. That dumbass.

Kohane: And you, Shizuka-kun?

What do you think of Kimihiro-kun?

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Doumeki: He's annoying.

A lot happened when we told the hundred stories.

But I thought that nothing changed.

He doesn't want to be concerned with me,

And I too have no reason to be concerned with him.

Kohane: Why?

If you thought that, why did you decide to be with him, Shizuka-kun?

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Doumeki: ...On a rainy day,

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(Doumeki spies Watanuki on the riverbank, pelt-like thing in his arms)
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Watanuki: I'll die like this too.

Alone.

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Doumeki: "...Alone."

Kohane: I understand.

Doumeki: What?

Kohane: How Kimihiro and I are different.

[page 8]
Kohane: Since we first met I understood that Kimihiro was a person close to me.

But I thought we were different.

I was alone, but

Kimihiro-kun wasn't alone.

He might have been alone on that rainy day, but

But not anymore.

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Because everyone is here.

Doumeki: You're here too.

[page 10]
Kohane: I'd be happy if that's so.

But

Since I don't have the power of purification anymore...

There's something you're carrying,

Isn't there.

[page 11]
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Yuuko: Carry this,

For the sake of what will happen hereafter.

(back to present)
Doumeki: ...Yeah.

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Kohane: Kimihiro-kun...please take care of him.

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Yuuko: Please don't hesitate.

Even if that moment comes.

[page 14]
(Doumeki and Kohane grip hands tightly~sound effect of hands gripping)
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There is much love for April 1 April Fools!...and the Pipe Fox <3333
DAmn I wish I could cook like him
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Gah, thank you so much, anon.
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kinda sad clamp threads don't get maxed out around here. for shame, /cm/.
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Oh, I did not know about that. Ok, then.