Around LJ, people have been saying there should be a TB anime & I agree, but since the series is nearly 20 years old, is an anime series nothing more than just a dream? Usually mangas are made into anime but Tokyo Babylon was a big hit at the time, but now not so much since it's quite old & people lose interest
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It is my fear that any hope of continuation or expansion on CLAMP's earlier works is...well...hopeless.
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I still think they are getting lazy, and focusing more on different types of marketability...like relying too heavily on fanservice, and basically 'reusing' beloved characters from the past, in the case of TRC. I have to admit, I like Holic, but not TRC. I gave up on TRC a while ago, and haven't been keeping up with Holic enough, so I can't say for sure that the storyline is as well thought out and engaging as I feel the earlier works were, but from what I saw, they weren't, (In TRC at least). But in general that's what all fiction forms are doing now. Putting less effort into storyline, and dumbing things down a bit, because when all you have to do is put boys in dresses, or make them gay, and you get the same if not better ( ... )
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TRC isn't bad... but it's also the most commercial thing I ever saw. It's actually more commercial than good and CLAMP used any trick they knew to make it that way, from postponing the apparence of Subaru a lot (in original he shuld have had the role of hunter and not Seishiro) to inserting lot of 'surprises'.
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I like Naruto, though I do believe it is overrated, but my point is that it's probably the best known anime out there!
Tokyo Babylon has a great storyline & even the slight shounen-ai is enough to satisfy people, though I did wish there was more, but overall it is still a great! In fact, most of my Tokyo Babylon Manga volumes came through the post today. ^_^
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Do you think our other conversation brought this journal entry about? :P
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I do hope that it'll be made, but who knows.
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i dont know the graphic quality of kusabi anime though^^
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did AnK have ovas before?
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Sadly, the best hope for Tokyo Babylon is probably a live-action X movie (urk;;). Every time a comic is made into a blockbuster style film, they release another edition of the comics, sell more toys, revamp any animated cartoons, and explore the side-stories if it sells well enough...
But yeah, they'd probably un-ghei-ify it, if they ever decided to bring it back.
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TB ending isn't very suitable for an anime.
The message is basically kindness won't be rewarded, evilness won't be punished and self sacrifice will spurn hate.
There are few anime that dare to give messages that aren't positive. So they either will skip the ending entirely or will have to change it or will have to include an X ending...
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As a manga, people will still know of that message you've just said, so as an anime, I don't think it'll have much of an effect other than it's more realistic in the way that you can see & hear the characters rather than just reading & seeing them in a book.
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