Trivia / Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-

• Acting for Two: Tokyo Subaru and Tokyo Kamui are both voiced by Micah Solusod in the English dub.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Mokona's Catchphrase "Mokona Modoki Modoki Doki!" is one of the most recognizable quotes of the series, but it was actually created for the anime; in the manga, she doesn't say anything remotely similar.
• B-Team Sequel: Tokyo Revelations and Shunraiki OVAs were done by Production I.G and written by Nanase Ohkawa herself which ignored the filler episodes after the Rekord arc and continued the manga storylines starting with the Acid Tokyo arc. Unlike the other examples of this trope, those were well received by fans.
• Christmas Rushed: Bee Train was given six months to complete the anime in time for its premiere. The result speaks for itself.
• Completely Different Title: In Spain, the anime was renamed as "Tsubasa: Crónicas de Sakura" ("Tsubasa: Chronicles of Sakura"), not only because the original title would have been almost impossible to translate literally, but also in order to capitalize on the huge national popularly of Cardcaptor Sakura, which was distributed by the same company.
• Creator Backlash: CLAMP was reportedly dissatisfied on how the manga storyline progressed, acknowledging that they had gone too far with the Mind Screw.
• Creator Killer: Although both the manga and its sister series XXXHO Li C were hugely successful and critically well received, their Mind Screw ending was so unpopular with their readers that it put a permanent stain on CLAMP's perceived ability (or lack thereof) to give their series good conclusions. No CLAMP product since those two (and even older ones put on hiatus like X1999!) has avoided being seen with mistrust or alarm due to the possibility that it may end in another weird mess.
• Disowned Adaptation: CLAMP was disgruntled with how the anime adaptation turned out to be due to its Troubled Production and the tight deadline NHK gave Bee Train. It reached the highest point in the first season finale, where a spell caused dead people to revive - which nullifies all the plot of Tsubasa! The first season finale also created a Plot Hole as the characters were fighting with the main villains mooks, as by that point in the story the main characters were unaware there was a villain who had connections to the heroes. The studio undid it the next season, but the damage was already done, and both CLAMP and Bee Train pulled the plug on a potential third season. The anime production staff was switched from Bee Train to its parent company Production I.G to produce the Tokyo Revelations OVAs.
• Executive Meddling: NHK and Bee Train produced the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle anime akin to the adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura, thus toning down the violence and not going into the darker chapters in the manga. To top it all off, NHK only gave Bee Train six months to produce the anime. The second season had a lackluster reception and the studio was changed to Production I.G for the OVA.
• Franchise Killer: The anime's lukewarm reception helped lead to both CLAMP and Bee Train pulling the plug on a potential third season. It doesn't help that Bee Train became dormant since 2012 and director Koichi Mashimo retired from the industry.
• He Also Did: The animation director for the movie, Kyoji Asano, would also go on to design the characters for the Attack on Titan adaptation.
• No Export for You:
  • Neither "Tokyo Revelations" nor "Shunraiki" ever reached Spain, a country where Cardcaptor Sakura (and by extension Tsubasa) was amazingly popular. Casual viewers never learned how the Tsubasa storyline continued.
  • With the exception of Spain, Season 2 was never released anywhere in Europe. Granted, most of it was filler, but if you want to see the Piffle and Lecourt world arcs animated and don't live in Japan, Spain or America, you're out of luck.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Masaki Terasoma voiced Fei Wang Reed in the Tokyo Revelations OVA instead of Kazuhiro Nakata.
  • Kusanagi and Tomoyo got their dub VAs replaced in the OVAs.
  • Fei Wang Reed was first voiced by Randy Tallman in the dub but had to be replaced with R. Bruce Elliot for the second season, following Tallman's death.
  • The European Spanish dubs of the movie and the anime were respectively done by completely different casts due to a dynastic war of distribution companies. It started when distributor Jonu Media chose to dub the Cardcaptor Sakura movies with their own VAs instead of those who had voiced the anime, Arait Multimedia's voicecast, which caused a great offense to both Arait and the fandom. In response, after Jonu dubbed the Tsubasa movie and in turn lost the rights of the anime to Arait, the latter refused to use Jonu's voice actors and instead used their own, which also was the original cast from Sakura. The return of the voices was much better liked by the fans, but the subsequent heat with Jonu pretty much rendered the OVAs impossible to be distributed in Spain.
• Post-Script Season: The TV series ended with a filler arc, so the Tokyo Revelation OVAs had to begin with a Reset Button.
• Role Reprise: Aya Hisakawa, who voiced Kero from Cardcaptor Sakura, reprised her role in one of the filler episodes.
• Screwed by the Network: NHK made the anime adaptation more appealing to younger audiences as with Cardcaptor Sakura; for the second season, Bee Train produced filler episodes. The lukewarm reception of the series, combined with CLAMP's discontent with the adaptation, resulted in the series being axed altogether.
• Self-Adaptation: Nanase Ohkawa personally wrote the script for the Tokyo Revelation OVA.
• She Also Did: The series' composer, Yuki Kajiura, would also go on to compose music for other anime, including PandoraHearts, the The Garden of Sinners films, Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero and ERASED.
• Studio Hop: The TV series was produced by Bee Train, while the Tokyo Revelation OVAs were produced by Production I.G.
• Troubled Production: NHK jump-started the animated adaptation in late 2004. But then Executive Meddling started to bring the project down. NHK felt that the manga was too Darker and Edgier for the series to be broadcast and pushed Bee Train for a recreation of a Lighter and Softer anime adaptation similar to Cardcaptor Sakura within six months of production time. Then Bee Train replaced CLAMP's storyboard for the second opening and created filler episodes for the next season. The series was eventually broadcast to a middling reception. The plans for a third season were ditched, and Production I.G continued the series with the Tokyo Revelations OVAs.
• What Could Have Been:
  • CLAMP originally planned for Fai to die during the Celes arc.
  • CLAMP originally did a storyboard for the second season opening. The concept was dropped, however, when Bee Train decided to use a slideshow instead.
  • The anime could have had a third season if NHK continued the production of the anime. However, CLAMP was disappointed in how the anime was becoming Lighter and Softer instead of what it was originally (as the manga's storyline was getting Darker and Edgier), and they changed the production staff and animation studios to make it closer to their manga, even if it meant to release the anime as OVAs.