Kobato Epilogue Chapter!

I am a little tired from work. Thursdays and Fridays are my long days at work. I know people work longer hours than I do but for me it is just stressful and bleh on these days. So much so when I come home from work I don’t feel like doing much.

So for now I am just going to blog whatever I can on Thursdays and Fridays. If I can get an episode post out so be it. But if I can’t then I can’t. I can always catch up later right? Blogging should be fun. XD For the record I have watched Black Rock Shooter episode 1 and I have MANY feelings about the episode.

Always such beautiful art!!!

Before I put my tired self to bed I will try to get some up and blogged. Last night I went through all my blog comments and responded. One of the comments was to inform me there was an epilogue to the manga Kobato! I got excited and raced off to read it before I passed out. Here are my feelings on that final chapter.

Kobato is lively every day!

Now when I saw the word epilogue I went a little nuts. Lots of excitement. Thoughts of getting more closure filled my mind, especially after the disaster that was XXXholics and the X___X that was Tsubasa. At least Kobato had an ending right?

Well folks….I wouldn’t really call this an epilogue. More like what happened to Fujimoto and Kobato a few days later….is there a word for that?

Always the happy plushie!

Not that I am ungrateful for more Kobato pages. I do love the art and just looking at Kobato’s fun hair makes me happy. I just in my mind thought…it would be in the future. When Kobato is reborn AGAIN without the angel and Angel Kobato and Ioryogi finally found their happiness. That we would get to see the other characters that made up the Kobato universe. Instead we just saw Kobato, Fujimoto, and Ioryogi’s people. The same characters we saw in the last chapter.

This is how men talk! Real manly men!

Much of the chapter is devoted to Ioryogi, Genko, and Ginsei “talking”. Or fighting. Ginsei is the reason why Fujimoto regained his memories of Kobato thus he is a plushie. Sounds like everyone likes making fun of Ginsei now. Boys have a hard time accepting the fact when they do something nice.

Fujimoto likes sweets. I am shocked.

I think I like anime filler Kohaku better though.

It turns out Kohaku was very important in the whole Kobato getting a happy ending. I had a feeling Ginsei felt closer to her (?) rather than Kobato. I think I was blending the anime and manga together because I thought Kohaku had already met Kobato. Silly me, the lines are all blur. But it would have made more sense to have Kohaku be Kobato’s friend in the manga so this wish would make more sense.

It is magical because we both know the words to a song we just started singing!

Kobato wants to thank Ginsei for helping give Fujimoto back his memories. He again acts like a boy and doesn’t want a thank you. Instead he wants Kohaku and Kobato to sing a song. And despite “just meeting” the girls bond and sing a beautiful song. AWW!

And then CLAMP went back and fixed XXXholic WEEEEE!

The manga ends with Fujimoto and his high school robbing self escorting Kobato home. She says she is happy with her life as she walks hand in hand with Kobato. More AWWW!

And that is about it folks. Nothing earth shattering but it was sweet. Which is what Kobato was all about right? A sweet story about an innocent girl who wanted to help heal hearts and herself. Now I would have liked to see…more. More of the other characters, more of the future, and more pages. But since I wasn’t expecting anything at all this was a nice little bonus. A sweet way to end a sweet series. And look CLAMP it ended on a satisfying note. Rejoice the world!!!

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CLAMP's Legal Drug resumes serialization! We have not been forgotten!!!

Breaking News: Tenchi needs to keep with Anime News Network because obviously I miss very important things when I don’t. I has been busy lately yes but during times when DayQuil wasn’t taking over my brain I should have been catching up with that informative site.

Breaking News for people who are not up to date on Anime News Network: CLAMP is going to start Legal Drug back up again.

And the crowd goes wild!!!!!!

INSERT THE REJOICING HERE!!!!


Back in 2003 when our mall (or the country?) had a SunCoast and Borders was just starting to get a manga section CLAMP stopped Legal Drug. There had been other issues concerning their other long on hiatus story X/1999 and Legal Drug became an innocent bystander in all the mess. With the soaring popularity of Tsubasa and XXXholic CLAMP kept putting Legal Drug on the back burner but always promising to return to the series.

Since we have heard that line before I didn’t really believe them. I just tucked my sad little three volumes of Legal Drug on the shelf and moved on. Because there were things to move on to and that made me happy. But now with Tsubasa, XXXholic, and Kobato over with the only ongoing series is Gate 7.

And Gate 7 sucks folks.

Did you miss us?

So the minute I post about WOE IS ME I hate Gate 7 a happy little commenter pointed the way to news that Legal Drug has been revived. Insert a happy dancing Tenchi who thinks this is an answer from the CLAMP gods. Maybe Gate 7 is just a huge troll attempt by CLAMP to cover up their plans to make us happy?

Oh and for those who don’t know this is what Legal Drug is all about:

When Kazahaya Kudo collapsed in the snow one night and on the verge of death, he is rescued by a mysterious young man, Rikuo Himura, who takes him back to a pharmacy named the Green Drugstore.

Kazahaya, apparently running from his past, takes up work at the Green Drugstore alongside Rikuo. He comments that although Rikuo rescued him, he really feels indebted to the store's owner, Kakei, whom he thanks for his current accommodation and job. While their day job is quite simple, the boys are persuaded and, in some cases, practically forced by Kakei to take on strange extra jobs outside the store, which make use of their supernatural powers.

Thanks Wiki.

For those who think this sounds slightly like XXXholic…it sorta does. Only this series came first and Kakei….isn’t as powerful as Yuuko. And Kazahaya is cute whereas Watanuki was more…well handsome pretty. And no body parts have been exchanged YET but since it is only ¼ of the way through there is still time.

Did someone say yaoi?

And unlike XXXHolic there is already an established yaoi pairing. While it is obvious Kazahaya and Rikuo are hot for each other they do have issues with some past women. No no I am talking about Kakei and Saiga. Confirmed folks. CONFIRMED. And the entire school in volume 3 is full of gay young boys. The yaoi is strong with this one.

Now there have been conflicted reports on what exactly this news mean. Some reports are saying NEW SERIES and others are saying continuation! I would prefer it be a continuation with the first three volumes rereleased. Yes that means the art work will look slightly different as their styles surely have changed over 8 years. But I rather have that change than an entirely new series.

But since this is brand new information maybe this will be cleared up before November. XD So exciting folks. A story that is only slightly confusing and readable! And for the record yes I want X/1999 back as well. But given the fact there was a MAJOR Earthquake this year that is probably a pipedream now.

So in conclusion. Yay me. And yay other CLAMP fans. Hopefully CLAMP does not let us down again. I have strong hopes that Legal Drug will be awesome but that might be me thinking all these years what could have been. So all those little glimpses of the boys in other works weren’t just teasers. XD We are finally getting our way.

Thank you commentor. That comment totally made my night. Also when googling images of Legal Drug so many pills came up. X__X Now I am going to be on the FBI’s list or something!

Here are a few sites with more concise information and 90 percent less fangirling:
Wikipedia's Legal Drug page
Anime News Network
A happy fan's livejournal with more information

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