Just finished watching the seventh episode of
xxxHolic Kei and while it was a good episode in and of itself I was
really disappointed by the major changes done to the
Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations crossovers concerning the egg/s and the water.
In the manga and in
The Princess' Dream, Sakura goes through a major quest to get the magical egg in a land that has no magic. When Mokona sends it to Yuko though it somehow doubles itself into two eggs. Yuko gives one to Watanuki (probably going to see that in a few weeks in Kei) and another she keeps for a future event.
In this episode of xxxHolic Kei though. The cat girl gives Yuko an egg. Maybe they're just cutting out the doubling effect (as that deals with Fay Wang Reed) so in the anime continuity Yuko gets one egg from the cat girl and one from Sakura. Makes sense but is still a bit unnecessary.
The second issue I had was the well water which is also shown in
The Princess' Dream. It's described as pure water with the powers of nature, etc... but in this episode they find the body of a dead cat in the well. No matter how mystical the water, the fact that a dead animal has been lying in it for a while makes Yuko's gift of the water to the Tsubasa gang come across as a little dark.
Overall good episode, but some of these changes were really not needed at all.
Am glad they left in the Himawari subplot and can't wait for that arc! Next week is the "bell" story. Should be good!
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