Cinnamon Ass - Reborn Like a Zombie

Tsubasa Chronicle Episode 3 - The Anti-Demon Katana

Shougo (the gang leader) and Syaoran's fight is interrupted by the arrival of the police, so he gets to return the first feather to Sakura. They rest in an inn owned by the kindly Sorata and Arashi (whom CLAMP fans will recognise from their important roles in X), where Kurogane dreams of meeting his own Kudun. As Kurogane and Syaoran seem to have totally ignored Yuuko in the last episode when she told them they'd see familiar favces, Kurogane goes dashing after a Princess Tomoyo lookalike and Syaoran gets surprised by the reappearance of King Touya and Yukito in an okonamiyaki restaurant - Kurogane ends up in a fight with some of the street punks, but that's about it really.

Tsubasa's anime adaptation is still kind of dull a lot of the time - my attention really wandered a lot, and the flashbacks to the previous episodes were really quite unnecessary given how it's only the third one! I suspect most of this would be negated if I wasn't just letting most of the dialogue flow over my head. There were more plus points, though, this time round than last in my opinion - the animation was better (Kurogane's fight with the crappy green spikey blob looked good, even if it WAS a crappy green spikey blob) and I'm definitely enjoying Kajiura's work here more than her work on Erementar Gerad (just compare the Engrishy insert songs for each show - Tsubasa's is about a million times better. Plus the music is basically cooler). So it looks like this one's safe for the moment, too.

Finally, you can ignore this if you haven't read the manga (I'm trying really hard not to let it cloud my view of the anime, but it's quite difficult) - NO PUPPET SHOW! Bah.