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X/1999 Anonymous
I've just torn through the X TV anime. My heart is bleeding on the floor and I must know: is the manga worth a shot?

Pic related.
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Clamp haven't even finished the manga... So I'd say no.
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You're kidding! They're still on hiatus after all these years?
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Wow, it's sitting at 18 volumes. Finished or not, that's plenty of material to make me feel like crap.
If I can't find the first volume scanlated, I might try a used copy from Amazon. The artbooks are so beautiful, it's hard to resist buying the manga just for the artwork.
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http://www.mangavolume.com/x%7C%7C1999/chapter-x%7C%7C1999-1/

every chapter is scanlated here.


love, your friendly neighborhood anon
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Perfect, thank you! Can't wait to see how far I manage to get before depression sets in.

In exchange, working links to the artbooks can be found here:
http://gallery.sumeragi.net/
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I've been watching this lately and BAWWW etc.

The manga is gorgeous but if you want more Seishirou and Subaru, I recommend Tokyo Babylon instead, since it's mostly focused on their past.
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OP here. Tokyo Babylon is what started this mess! You wouldn't believe the drama it took to get my local comic book store to re-order volume 7 for me. Anon posted links to all the volumes the day after I got it, too.
After what happened in X, I can't decide whether I love or hate Subaru. Shall we make this thread a love-em-or-hate-em thread?
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I loved Fuuma in Tsubasa. Big brother type, very cute.
Now I want to rip out his eye.
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>>993532Now I want to rip out his eye.
That's CLAMP for you.

To be fair, he does a lot of cute big brothering in the beginning of X, and occasionally later as well.
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Tokyo Babylon manga (and Clover and RgVeda) was fucking awesome.
X is pretentious and boring. Read only for seishiro/subaru
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Hm, it does happen to be one of my favorite couples. I also watched X mostly for them. Sei's friendship with Fuuma, and Subaru's with Kamui, were also interesting though.
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>>993529
Just curious, but why would you hate Subaru? Granted, it's been a while since I watched the whole thing, but I don't remember him doing anything really hateable (lol new word.)
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>>994220
What's this thumbnail?
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>>994251
Well excuuuuse me.
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>>994307
Forgiven
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>>994307
*cough*
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>>994510
Ahaha.
Does anyone have this one even bigger?
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Like, this big?
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does any other fanart exist?
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>>994717
i do
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Delicious high res, I must fap to it.
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<- requesting more like this and/or sauce
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bump
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OP again

>>994204
I hated Subaru in the anime because, again, he sat about while other people were sacrificing their lives. I was about ready to take out his other eye in that last episode. The kid is a continual heartbreak.
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I hate him for sitting around, but he's so damn cute.
No wonder Sei liked to mess with him.
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As for Tsubasa... It was fun for a while. The recent chapters make me want to read CCS so I know what the hell is going on.
If I don't make it through the X manga, Rg Veda is at the top of my list!
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Have some more artbook.
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What eye fetish?
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god he is so hot
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>>996334
Oh yes.
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>>996306

Subaru wasn't like that in Tokyo Babylon. I believe Seishirou broke the crap out of him.
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Hopefully Tsubasa has raised interest in CLAMP's older works.
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They need to make an actual TV series of Tokyo Babylon.

..so I can baww at the end. That's right. (ignore the hokuto)
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>>996351
He was downright adorable in TB! I didn't even recognize him when I flipped through volume 7. That's why it's so hard to accept sulky adult!Subaru. He went through some awful crap.
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>>996355

I doubt Seishirou's 'surprise, you killed me' did anything to help Subaru's mental state.
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There's an OVA for Tokyo Babylon. I never finished watching it, but episode 0 of X TV covers the important bits.

Here's a link to part 2 of the OVA, courtesy of anon:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NBT1Q9WY
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Cool. I've seen the OVA, but there is no heart wrenching betrayal end to baww at.
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>>996358
Geez, and just after Subaru starts smoking his brand of cigarettes and wearing the fancy eyepatches. Roll models these days!
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Speaking of role models, lets get some more Fuuma.
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Life sucks for that kid. It sucks hard.
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>>996370
Makes this anon feel bad for enjoying the story so much.
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My tb pic folder if anyone wants. It's mostly crap, but tb stuff is hard to find, much less in good quality. Includes some doujin off lj, snippets from Lab News & Shoten, the artbook and whatever else.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZNWHCEOI
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Great timing! This anon has been poking around, but the internets reveal little of interest. (although this fan secrets entry is worth a read)

TB is hard to find in comic book shops, so here is volume 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=QC31U8QG

Even if X turns out to be a bust, Tokyo Babylon was worth the effort it took to find.
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And then there is Kamui. Like little Subaru with a lot more attitude. These two could have been adorable together. Helped each other get through their grief, that sorta thing. But that's not how CLAMP likes to play.
Talk about an emotion-twisting series!

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You folder is gorgeous. The DVDs are worth the cover art alone.
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>>996400
Thanks! I've been looking for TB stuff, too, so this'll be a great help.

Anyone got a bigger version of this?
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>>996400
forgot, some of the doujin is NSFW. And there's two full scans of non-relevant shoten books, which would be why the folder is so big..oops, sorry.
X was a little boring up until the last moments (worst eternal cliffhanger ever), but the S/S stuff is a nice supplement. Well, maybe 'nice' isn't the word... But yeah, TB is the first manga I ever bought and read, and still my favorite, CLAMP or otherwise. They really should have made a full tv series out of it.
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>>996423
You could write an essay about the spaghetti monster and get the same result, as long as it's well-written.
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>>996400
Have my evil, apocalyptic babies. Nao plz.
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Glad to share, yw *heart* Here have some more random x/tb shit..help keep the links alive:
X² video clip (vob file)- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0FTLG3AH

X² (the full 30min video) - part1 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S8PAAYP4
part2 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BITOQ7VN
or @mf: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d0443c8620e59cf891b20cc0d07ba4d2fcdbc2736c646057

TB Vision music video clip (vob) - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T8AGG2VU

TB Vision full 15 min. vid - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L71CMEHV

TB ova 1 (from jap LD) - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0YH0NRH3
subs - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KGU83860

OVA 2 (jap LD) - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DE8R09E3
subs - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2NBJOWWK
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Manga is definitely fantastic. I like that it goes more into them all trying to act normal in the lull between battles, such as Kamui trying to find someone help him with his school work.
Plus, it's gratifying if you're one of about five SubaruxKamui fans like myself.
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The whole reason I was asking was because of a SubaruXKamui ficlet I ran across. I was kinda hoping they had more down time together in the manga. Wishful thinking.
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>>997502
Not really. They get a lot more time together in the manga, plus a lot more touchy-feeliness, but people get so stuck on LOLZCANON they can't begin to imagine that Subaru could have life after Seishiro.

*cue famous, stupidly-adorable tie-scene*
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They're OMGCANON enough for me. That scene in the anime, where Subraru was trying to help Kamui wake up, made me realize how much had changed for both of them.
CLAMP likes to play with pairings as much the fans do, apparently.
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I want to thank everyone again for these wonderful pictures.
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We could hate Subaru because, honestly, after Tokyo Babylon he was fucking annoying.
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>>997502
A lot of Kamui x Subaru fans started also appearing after they were shown in Tsubasa as twins.
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>>996318

On the subject of Tsubasa, you don't really need to read CCS to know what's going on, but read CCS anyway just because.
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>>998016
>On the subject of Tsubasa, you don't really need to read CCS to know what's going on, but read CCS anyway because it's shorter, better, and gets somewhere.
Fixed it for you.
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Tsubasa is a pile of fan-driven poo. Read XXXHolic and CCS instead.
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thanks for the fix, haha.
CCS wins over Tsubasa anyday in my book.
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Oh fuck. I read TB as a teenager, and yet in recent years I had forgotten all about it. While it wasn't the spark that led to my "eyes being gouged out" fetish, it sure did help.
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Bump for moar lovely Subaruke