#yuuto kigai

[kamuishiro]

X PREMIUM COLLECTION

VOL 9

[noa-ciharu]

THE ULTIMATE SLUT POLL FINALS!

[ previous polls ]

[ameko-crossing]

if tb/x characters & couples/duos had a theme (part 3):

12. Kakyo Kuzuki:

13. Yuuto Kigai:

14. Kusanagi Shiyu:

15. Seishirou Sakurazuka friendly vet edition:

babygirl edition:

actual creep edition:

Subaru & Seishirou tragic lovers edition:

[numbersoftoday]

One of my biggest regrets re: X1999 permahiatus is ...we never get to know about Yuuto's motives and real goal. I mean, the guy presents himself as the most bland, boring mf, but who the hell would prefer wielding some wacky sai whip, when you can move water around with your mind. Dude, you were gifted with water manipulation, on the fucking blue planet. This man is insane and we'll never know if he was up to something or what.

[sumeragiheir]

X/1999 Character Hot Takes Made By Me/ For Me

[bunnimew]

Happy Hour

"Oh!" Yuzuriha squeaked. "Two for one appetizers!"

She gestured them through the door. The windows were damaged, but the building was alright.

Yuuto grabbed menus, smoothly handed them around.

Kamui stopped when Fuuma held the door for him. It was still strange to him.

But the good kind of strange.

[winterlandtracy]

We interrupt my art posting to share some photos of historical manga documents!!

I was cleaning this weekend and re-found my bundle of Hagunsei Senki manga chapters - a manga by CLAMP that was never completed to a first volume.  These are from the 4 chapters that were published.  

Its very, very old - from 1989/90!!!  I use to have a large 90s era CLAMP collection - I sold a lot of it years ago, but I kept this because of how incredibly obscure it was.  Several of the characters went on to be put in other CLAMP stories later on (CCD & X1999 mainly).

For those few out there who actually know this exists and have always wanted to see it - here you are :)

[subaru192]

Clothes "X" style (artworks version) VS Clothes common style (videogames PS version)

[llybian]

X + InspiroBot

[clamp-box]

Would be more convincing line if you werent standing on a tree, Yuuto

[incorrect-tb-and-x1999-quotes]

After the DoEs failed on a mission

Fuuma: Congratulations. You all just won gold, silver, and bronze in the Morons Olympics.

Dragons of Earth: ...

Yuuto: Who won the gold?

Fuuma: SHUT UP!

[kamuishiro]

none of you are free from sin

[noa-ciharu]

If they met they would have ended in bedroom 15 mins later

[ all polls ]

[ameko-crossing]

Over half that year i'm in the X fandom now i gathered a few ideas as what to post here, one of them being:

After work, Yuuto stops at Seiichiro's work place to fetch him and have an after-work-drink and then go for some karaoke.

I... don't know. Thought, this might be a funny cute idea xD Yuuto wants some fun, dragging Seiichiro all around Tokyo~

[peacefulrestvalley]

9. Keiichi is a national treasure, and I can't believe I forgot about him. I also forgot that Seishiro caused the earthquake that killed Keiichi's dad! Add it to the garbage man's garbage pile of garbage deeds. Nataku and Fuuma were responsible for the one that killed his mother.

10. More decapitated heads to cuddle!! Saiki this time.

11. Fuuma really be out there just licking Kamui like a dog and talking about eating his heart. Down, boy!

12. I like how Yuuto can admit he's just wasting space.

Re-reading one of my favorite series, X/1999, for the first time in over 15 years (oh my god), and:

Wow, I forgot how gory this series was!

I love the old art style - but modern style is much easier to make sense of!!

So many decapitated heads!!!

Damn, Seishiro was just ITCHING to get the end of the world started... Two illusion attacks and a broken kekkai before Kanoe and Yuuto even finished their tea? Dedication.

[pensivehastur]

X/1999 Ending Speculation : Part 3 : The Substitutes

I have decided to break this post into two pieces because I want to talk about some other things before I talk about the Decoys.

Ôkawa Nanase had, apparently, been planning out X/1999 since she was quite young.  This implies that several characters who appeared in X/1999 were added part of the way through its development.  These are Subaru, Seishirô, Hokuto, Seiichirô, Yûto and the Detectives.

You probably will immediately realise that most of these characters appeared in different series.  Subaru, Seishirô, Hokuto and the Detectives are obvious, while Yûto’s previous appearances (in Hagunsei Senki and as a cameo in CGT) are less well known.  Seiichirô is the only one of these who first appeared in X/1999, but he did not originate in X/1999, because he is a real person, namely, the editor of X/1999.  

Subaru and Seishirô are rather clearly afterthoughts :  lots of people have noted that, other than Fûma punching Subaru’s eye out and Kamui’s apprenticeship(?) to Subaru, there is little connection between Subaru and Seishirôs’ storyline and the rest of X/1999, and how Seishirô joining the Dragons of Earth seems a bit OOC for someone supposed to be preserving Japan. (IMO, it would have been better if Subaru and Seishirô had been swapped, with Seishirô fighting for the people of Japan as a job and eventually coming to realise that he wants to protect Subaru and Subaru having become broken by the events of Tokyo Babylon to such an extent that he does not care whether humanity lives or dies, or maybe it would have been better to just give them their own series, or have them be supporting characters who are not Dragons, or something.)

It is also quite clear that the people who were originally supposed to be Dragons in their places were  Hinoto and Kanoe.  Many readers of X/1999 thought that Hinoto and Kanoe were Dragons, or knew that they were not but counted them around their number anyway.  Also, early on (even through Volume 5, where Seishirô was introduced), Hinoto repeatedly refers to the Seven Seals in first person plural, or implies herself to be a member.  This seems to suggest that Ôkawa Nanase originally planned for Hinoto and Kanoe to become Dragons in place of the Tôkyô Babylon characters, and still thought of them as Dragons early on in the print run.

The presences of none of the other substitute characters was jarring.  This may be because they were added earlier.  However, people have noticed that Yûto’s motivations for joining the Dragons of Earth were never really stated in the actual manga, the drama CD, or the anime.  Also, completeoveranalysis said that Shougo Asogi (I can see you cringing already) seemed like he should have been the replacement for Yûto, not Kakyô.  Maybe COA was wrong about the order of the replacements, and Yûto replaced Shougo?  Assuming that Shougo would be more like TRC!Shougo…

… nah, still don’t see this.  You know what, just pretend I never mentioned him.  Maybe they would explain Yûto better in Volume 21 or something.  Maybe he was in the plan for a while longer?  

Also, me and a few other people on the Tomoeda discord have grown the giant epileptic tree that Yuna from CCS:CCA was the original Reject Love from X/1999 and that Akiho was also based on a removed Dragon (probably Reject Humanity, maybe Reject Life)

Aoki seems well integrated into the plot, more so than any of the crossover characters except Nokoru.  This might be because he entered even earlier than Yûto, or because he replaced a different character with a similar personality (like Miyazaki from the TB OVAs). I also think that whatever character he replaced had the same mutual protection relationship with Karen that he did.  Some fans have suspected that he replaced Saiki.

I will talk about the Detectives in a later post.