Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 189
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Chapitre 189
Inherited resolution
-01- (splash: clone and Shaoran)
A single feeling
didn't fade away,
however much time flowed.
-02-
Shaoran: ... Is this the place?
-03-
Maru & Moro: Welcome!
Shaoran: Does someone
called Dimension Witch...
Moro: A customer for the master!
Maru: A customer to the master!
Shaoran: Wait just a minute!
I've been told to come here but
I still...
Yuuko: It's all right if you don't understand,
-04-
Yuuko: because the fact that you're visiting us
is hitsuzen.
-05-
Shaoran: ... Hitsuzen.
Yuuko: Your name?
Shaoran: ... Li Shaoran.
Yuuko: The same name as your father, huh?
Yuuko: And you won't call yourself by your "true name"... (T/N: Refer. To. 182.)
-06-
Yuuko: Looks like Shaoran has taught you well.
Many things.
Shaoran: So you know my father?
Yuuko: And your mother too.
Yuuko: Sakura-chan.
Yuuko: But, I haven't met them.
Yuuko: Very well.
This is a shop to grant wishes.
Yuuko: That you were able to enter this shop
means you have a wish.
-07-
Yuuko: What is
Yuuko: your wish?
Shaoran: I don't have one.
Yuuko: Oh?
Shaoran: If I have a wish, I'll grant it myself.
Yuuko: Still, you came here.
Shaoran: My father...
-08-
Yuuko: Told you to come to this shop, didn't he?
Yuuko: Were you told why?
Shaoran: Because my mother saw in a dream
Shaoran: that there's a person waiting for me.
Yuuko: Sakura-chan's had the power to see the future in dreams for a long time, right?
Shaoran: ......
-09-
Yuuko: ... Then,
what will you do, I wonder?
Shaoran: I'll go.
Yuuko: Were you told where
that person is?
Shaoran: A world that isn't Japan here.
That's what my father said.
Yuuko: Right.
A certain country in a different world.
Yuuko: Have you ever crossed dimensions?
Shaoran: No.
Yuuko: Even so?
Shaoran: I'll go.
-10-
Shaoran: If there's something I can do
... I'll do it.
Yuuko: You're just like your father.
Yuuko: Let's grant that wish.
-11-
Shaoran: I heard that a price is necessary to grant a wish.
Yuuko: Oh, that I've already received
Yuuko: from your mother.
-12-
Yuuko: ... Are you ready?
Yuuko: The preparations, and your resolution?
Yuuko: Then...
Yuuko: go.
-13-
Yuuko: Make your choices
according to what you believe.
-14-15-
Shaoran: So, is this
Shaoran: the Clow country my mother saw in dreams?
Sakura: ... Who
are you?
-16-17-
Teaser: The power of a will that crossed time,
or a hitsuzen-destined
unexpected meeting---!!
In case anyone out there still hasn't noticed, Holic panel recycling like whoa in this chapter.
Page 5: "True name" is written and spoken in the exact same way as it appeared in Kurogane's oath from 182. So I say it's not enough to be passing judgement on Shaoran's identity. Besides, despite our speculations (yes, mine as well), nowhere in canon it's stated that a person's name is a deciding factor in eir identity. And there's also the possibility (I don't know how likely, couldn't find nicely organized information on Japanese+foreigner marriages and how the whole family registry thing goes) that Shaoran's surname isn't Li, considering that the name mentioned in the page was "Li Shaoran", which probably couldn't have been his real name anyway because it'd be a homonym with his father. Sorry, Horitsuba fans, I'm not buying "Xiao Long" just from this.
Page 10: While I can't deny that this solves the そっくり, I also can't help but feel a bit cheated that this turned out to be the reason. I was hoping for something far more obscure.
My current thoughts on Tsubasa. No, seriously. I want to see CLAMP try and get out of this mess without using the space-time collapse as the universal excuse to get away with not having things make sense. And damn, so much *headwall* at the initial motive they gave Shaoran. His story went down several coolness levels in my book for the whole "I don't have a wish but will go to Clow-koku anyway because it's my destiny" thing. It doesn't matter that the prophet is his mother and she probably wasn't lying, following prophecies just for the sake of following them is not cool. I wish CLAMP gives us a more decent initial motive later, because right now the stories of every other member of the gang (including the former member) feel more like "hero material" than Shaoran's story.
And-please-don't-be-fucking-up-my-Holic-thank-you-very-much.
Chapitre 189
Inherited resolution
-01- (splash: clone and Shaoran)
A single feeling
didn't fade away,
however much time flowed.
-02-
Shaoran: ... Is this the place?
-03-
Maru & Moro: Welcome!
Shaoran: Does someone
called Dimension Witch...
Moro: A customer for the master!
Maru: A customer to the master!
Shaoran: Wait just a minute!
I've been told to come here but
I still...
Yuuko: It's all right if you don't understand,
-04-
Yuuko: because the fact that you're visiting us
is hitsuzen.
-05-
Shaoran: ... Hitsuzen.
Yuuko: Your name?
Shaoran: ... Li Shaoran.
Yuuko: The same name as your father, huh?
Yuuko: And you won't call yourself by your "true name"... (T/N: Refer. To. 182.)
-06-
Yuuko: Looks like Shaoran has taught you well.
Many things.
Shaoran: So you know my father?
Yuuko: And your mother too.
Yuuko: Sakura-chan.
Yuuko: But, I haven't met them.
Yuuko: Very well.
This is a shop to grant wishes.
Yuuko: That you were able to enter this shop
means you have a wish.
-07-
Yuuko: What is
Yuuko: your wish?
Shaoran: I don't have one.
Yuuko: Oh?
Shaoran: If I have a wish, I'll grant it myself.
Yuuko: Still, you came here.
Shaoran: My father...
-08-
Yuuko: Told you to come to this shop, didn't he?
Yuuko: Were you told why?
Shaoran: Because my mother saw in a dream
Shaoran: that there's a person waiting for me.
Yuuko: Sakura-chan's had the power to see the future in dreams for a long time, right?
Shaoran: ......
-09-
Yuuko: ... Then,
what will you do, I wonder?
Shaoran: I'll go.
Yuuko: Were you told where
that person is?
Shaoran: A world that isn't Japan here.
That's what my father said.
Yuuko: Right.
A certain country in a different world.
Yuuko: Have you ever crossed dimensions?
Shaoran: No.
Yuuko: Even so?
Shaoran: I'll go.
-10-
Shaoran: If there's something I can do
... I'll do it.
Yuuko: You're just like your father.
Yuuko: Let's grant that wish.
-11-
Shaoran: I heard that a price is necessary to grant a wish.
Yuuko: Oh, that I've already received
Yuuko: from your mother.
-12-
Yuuko: ... Are you ready?
Yuuko: The preparations, and your resolution?
Yuuko: Then...
Yuuko: go.
-13-
Yuuko: Make your choices
according to what you believe.
-14-15-
Shaoran: So, is this
Shaoran: the Clow country my mother saw in dreams?
Sakura: ... Who
are you?
-16-17-
Teaser: The power of a will that crossed time,
or a hitsuzen-destined
unexpected meeting---!!
In case anyone out there still hasn't noticed, Holic panel recycling like whoa in this chapter.
Page 5: "True name" is written and spoken in the exact same way as it appeared in Kurogane's oath from 182. So I say it's not enough to be passing judgement on Shaoran's identity. Besides, despite our speculations (yes, mine as well), nowhere in canon it's stated that a person's name is a deciding factor in eir identity. And there's also the possibility (I don't know how likely, couldn't find nicely organized information on Japanese+foreigner marriages and how the whole family registry thing goes) that Shaoran's surname isn't Li, considering that the name mentioned in the page was "Li Shaoran", which probably couldn't have been his real name anyway because it'd be a homonym with his father. Sorry, Horitsuba fans, I'm not buying "Xiao Long" just from this.
Page 10: While I can't deny that this solves the そっくり, I also can't help but feel a bit cheated that this turned out to be the reason. I was hoping for something far more obscure.
My current thoughts on Tsubasa. No, seriously. I want to see CLAMP try and get out of this mess without using the space-time collapse as the universal excuse to get away with not having things make sense. And damn, so much *headwall* at the initial motive they gave Shaoran. His story went down several coolness levels in my book for the whole "I don't have a wish but will go to Clow-koku anyway because it's my destiny" thing. It doesn't matter that the prophet is his mother and she probably wasn't lying, following prophecies just for the sake of following them is not cool. I wish CLAMP gives us a more decent initial motive later, because right now the stories of every other member of the gang (including the former member) feel more like "hero material" than Shaoran's story.
And-please-don't-be-fucking-up-my-Holic-thank-you-very-much.