The gifts I made for the Japanese friend made over summer, traditional Estonian folkcostume embroidery on modern thingies :).

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I was not really aiming for it though with a few questions it was clear what you should answer to get who you wanted.

The best part of this all is that I can read Tsubasa now!!!!!!!!!! In Japanese!!! Provided, it is slow going and with the translation by my side for reference when I don't understand a word (or more ) but it is such a good feeling . I am truly beaming right now.
The splash page with the three guys is really nice-looking (though Fai looks kind of weird), I love the crows!!

How can they all be so handsome in Nabari no Ou?!:
It must be the prettiest anime I am watching right now, although CG R2 comes close.

This helped me and my friend get through a night when we were writing her thesis:

And R!Syaoran's parents are.....!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Lovely!

I also finally got to colouring the splash of chapter 187 with Fai and Kamui -hidden under the cut to save space:

186:
All right, it is Sakura's 7th birthday the timeloop has taken them. But is this before or after she and C!Syaoran met. RSyao's face is really sad on the "of course" page, those memories are not good! They remind me a little of Fai thinking about R!Fai or Ashura-ou.

187:Interesting chapter in how lots of different emotions came to me. Firstly, I liked the random splash, though the words make it even more difficult to understand and put it to some kind of context. Then FWR saying what we had figured out already which meant that most of the attention was drawn to the melting people. Then we switched fully to the actual scene and it got heartbreaking with the kid keeping to his lines (which also brings to ming holding on to his life, because of FWR's words of change meaning death for those people) and Syaoran hugging him. I noticed Fai touching Syaoran's hand immediately - sweet, kind of like when Syaoran was sitting on the roof at Nihon - I really like the way those two have interacted lately with Fai trying to comfort the kid but it is still awkward because of the lies that he told and Syaoran knew about. Kurogane, Fai and Mokona "taking the blame" as well for what was happening made me smile, page 15 where the guys walk through the swirly melty stuff made me think for some reason of the "hero shots" of the Fellowship of the Ring walking over that hill in the movie and I was uplifted.
Too bad there is a break again.

TRC 185 - Fai, Fai and Fai! He looks awesome in this chapter, pages 10 and 13 are my favorites...page 14 looks exactly like the one after the same kind of incident in Nihon .
I'm the one to talk!
Kurogane should have known that Fai'd notice, after all, before, he kept noticing things about Fai the latter did not want noticed.
Time loop...continued....

Fai on page 8 - the highlight for me - accepting and admitting that it is better to travel with others, I don't go "aww!" a lot in real life but when I saw that, I did.

TRC 181 - *hugs Watanuki* That was a hell of a price! So, we have the soul of the original Sakura and the body of the clone. I am so glad we got to see Fuuma more, even if Seishirou already left, I was afraid they would leave at the same time.
The pages of memories of Sakura are so beautiful, I love the glass/memory-shards motive CLAMP has used over the past volumes a few times.

182 - gorgeous splash! It has been so long that we had Fai and/or Kurogane on a splash page. Tomoyo and Kurogane are so sweet together, to me they have the kind of friendship I would love to have with someone. Fai's and Syaoran's interaction was great...oh, and Fai can still startle so splendidly at good-supportive things said about him, I love his reaction to Syao's "thank you!".
The old clothes are back! Minus the fluffy(ier) coat and Kuro has a nice armwrap or whatever it is.

Fai knew about Sakura being a clone, I knew it! He knows everything...besides what was most important to him, that Real!Fai chose him as the one twin who would live.
His expressions in this chapter are great but aren't they always. Kurogane too, it looks like he too is not that surprised that Fai knew about it. *imagines Kurogane thinking Yet again the guy told me nothing!*
Poor Mokona and Kuro, they were so much in the dark about lots of things that Fai, R!Syao and C!Sakura knew but did not share.
I love the parallel images from this chapter and the one of the gang in Yuuko's shop, it is to say that phase 2 has begun . Now, what might the price be...it is not as though they have a lot to give away.

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This does not surprise me in the least! :) From blodeuedd83.

More clones.....
Sakura's face on page 13 is so so so beautiful and heartwrenching. Poor R!Syao.
Oh, and even the Clone was taken aback by what he'd done.

Courtesy of my brother who sent me the link. LOL!

It looks as though I have survived it! Hurrah!

Sakura gained lots more points in my book, running to R!S and holding on to him the whole time, even when Clonie stuck a sword in her shoulder - the girl from Acid Tokyo's adventure and the one whose determination and bravery saved the gang in Infinity from Fai destroying them all has not gone anywhere, even if she looked like a throwback to the hime-in-distress in the dreamworld so far.
We even got a few shots of Nihon in this chapter, which naturally made me smile widely. Oh, and the sakura tree seems to be a portal to the dreamworld and Sakura's body looks to have entered now as well.
Yey for body-memories!