Chapter 67, 68: >>285590806Chapter 69
>>285645001What does the XXX stand for?
>>285645001I want to marry this alcoholic giraffe
>>285645022its either explosives or moonshine thatll make you blind.
end of chapter
Thanks anon
>>285645285>The final moment is approaching.STOP THE DUMPY
>>285645285thanks opsama
>>285645198>my sweet husbandson
>>285645285Watanuki was drawn very handsome the whole chapter.
>>285645022It's a placeholder for alco in alcoholic like -holic. You'll notice this manga is partly about people with anti-social disorders and obsessions.
>>285645049>I totally didn't put any thought on what color would suit anyone best>Specially not DoumekiWill this boy ever stop being tsundere about Shizuka?
>>285645198>>285645216He just keeps either having to sleep on the shop or passing out/being hurt and having to be nursed there.
>>285645235>>285645253>You should stay at the shop and sleep here for the time beingThis hag is plotting something. >>285645285Thanks OP
>>285645049Busted.
>>285645022It's the roman numeral for 30. So it's 30holic.This is a reference to the fact that Watanuki keeps attracting hags.
>>285645285>The final moment is approaching.>Chapter 69/213
>>285645141>no gloves and birdI know this entire arc makes sense for Tsubasa but Watanuki's existential crisis is the most nothingburger arc in original manga no matter how hard it's forced. Doesn't help that it's entirely forgotten after Kohane arc.>>285647404It's okay because nothing fucking happens in the last 100 chapters.
>>285647813I like how it mixes with the weirdness of the dreamseeing and the general mysterious atmosphere of the manga if you don't read Tsubasa at the same time and even then too
>>285647813After Fei Wong croaks the entire thing resolves by itself with Watanuki choosing to indefinitely wait for Yuuko in the shop, no point in elaborating further on that when there's no inner conflict anymore.Watanuki already chose to LIVE and after Fei Wong's death there's no problem anymore, even Yuuko tries to tell him he's free and must move on at the end of the manga and that there's no need to torture himself eternally, alas the hags love to repeat the eternal widow/widower trope so we just get more suffering forever.
>>285645253Watanuki looks particularly sexy in that top panel.
>>285651843You just want the megane gone
>>285651843Yuuko...
>>285652426It's less that and more him being in bed in a weakened state, with the top button of his shirt undone. Though it's true that, although I also like him in glasses, not wearing them adds to the air of vulnerability he has there, since it implies momentarily impaired vision.
>>285652809Yuuko...
>>285645049what is doumeki groping
How come Yuuko didn't fuck Watanuki yet?
>>285657371Yuuko wants her beloved husbandson to be free, their love is not meant to be
>>285645285Thaks for the chapter.
>>285645012Mysterious magical nigga
>>285650010I mean there's still a chance that Yuuko reincarnates or another Yuuko-like being comes to the shop, even if we already know it won't be HIS Yuko, as he already rejected that idea during Rei
>>285662296I always have fun reading all those different ways to interpret Watanuki's real identity except the simplest one.
>>285662296Might be, only the ending to Rei will tell.The way they're using Watanuki in other stuff like Blood-C makes me think they'll keep the status quo because it's a convenient character to have around and they just love to have him suffering,but I could be wrong.
>>285664198They can keep him with dream stuff, same way as Haruka.
>>285645162>>285645180So after putting in a bunch of shipbait with both of them individually and as an OT3, Clamp give the audience a little hint about Watanuki's actual romantic prospects. Subtle as a sledgehammer, those gals.
Chapter 70
>>285665650Himawaribros... don't look.
>>285665783Watanuki is getting SEX next year.
>>285665892Bros... please tell me that she isn't rejecting him here.
>>285665871>>285665892she only sees him as a son, it's joewari
>>285666321I can't, I'm not ready for this.
>>285665852Pipe fox is best girl
>>285665650Zashiki-Warashi sisters, EMERGENCY MEETING. NOW.
>>285665832Top kek.
>>285666037>>285665926She's sad because she can't give her husbandson a true gift. You are doomkeks.
>>285667525>You are doomkeks.That's being a CLAMP reader.
>>285665650Doumekibros, not like this...
>>285665783>but next year I want to give you a handmade gift.I can't believe Watanuki is gonna fucking die.>>285665832>>285665852That's rape.>>285666070Shaoran-bros, "Shaoran"-bros, Fai-bros, Doumeki-bros, Himawari-bros, Zashikiwarashi-bros, Kohane-bros, Jewko-bros, don't look!
>>285665650Gee Yuuko, how come your husbandson gets to have a motherwife AND a daughterwife
>>285665852
>>285645022Paranormal-holic
>>285647404wtf we're here for more than half a year? What is there even left to do, Watanuki's gotten pretty good with spirits already.
I missed a few storytime threads is the Kohane arc over?
>>285667809More like "That's being CLAMP">>285670017Don't worry, only the next 30 chapters or so are worth it, you can easily drop the manga after that. If Tsubasa was "haha the fun stops here, only suffering from now on" once Tokyo arc began, Holic is "haha how fast can we dump all the potential this series had into garbage bin and blueball our readers forever while nothing happens" once Volume 15 happens. No, really, you can drop the series once Tsubasa ends because CLAMP fucked Holic's setting so hard there's pretty much nothing to do without advancing the plot (egg), and they're not doing it because Tsubasa is over.>>285670893Its culmination hasn't started yet, but it happens after current mini-arc with Watanuki. You'll know for sure when her arc ends.
>>285666070MULTI SHIP NTRIFTING
>>285666212how did he knows all this about body separationnookie cant even differentiate human from spirit from dead body before
>>285666339wellshitEVEN IN DREAM THING IS NOT TANOSHIIthanks op, i guess
>>285671211It's really NTR if Watanuki is a notSyaoron created by The World?
>>285666339thanks opsama
>>285670017The series proper will end in 40-50 or so chapters.After that it's XXX Holic Rei which is the sequel that's currently still running and I don't think OP is going to dump that
>>285647404We're actually only about 40 days away from the ending of the original run. Some of the later chapters are quite long though.Per anilist, which has a 214 chapter count:>The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on chapter title pages of chapter 186 and on, but not on their volume's front covers, spines and indicia.>The chapter count contains a one-shot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch, which was later collected into Volume 18.>The chapter count also reflects the magazine releases; the chapters plus the one-shot were re-arranged into 109 chapters across 19 volumes.xxxHOLiC Rei is not included in any of those numbers.
>>285645001Are the X's in the title silent like in Hunter x Hunter and Spy x Family?Or am I supposed to be calling this Ecksecksecksholic?
>>285665650All joking asside this is so pretty.
>>285665713Cute.>>285665742kek>>285665783Watanuki truly is a cat>next year will be handmadeI don't know if that's a good idea but the sentiment is nice.
>>285665832Wtf? Mokona won the Watanuki bowl?I guess we did know that Mokona has game.>>285665852>love triangle with the pipe foxhe really is a magnet for youkai and spirits.>bottom panelTsundere
>>285665871>>285665892Melancholic hag
>>285665969>Only feelings are freeShe doesn't share those all that much either.>>285665997>>285666027>ButterfliesSomehow this worries me
>>285665871>>285665892I feel like sad things are going to happen. Also I need a himecut mommy gf.
>>285666070Even next to Sakura Watanuki seems like a bottom.>>285666120>>285666144Why stop here? Aaaaah>>285666166Really foreboding>>285666249>>285666234>>285666293>>285666321The reverse Hikari Genji plan worked. >>285666339Thanks OP.I'm beggining to worry that the dreams wont end.
>>285674494>Even next to Sakura Watanuki seems like a bottom.LMFAO
>>285674221>XXXholic>Melancholic
>>285666293>>285666321>>285666339one of my favorite sequences so far no doubt. being able to emotionally connect like this is so cathartic as a fan of their relationship, but its made even more impactful that it happens through a dream sequence. its almost as if to say that the words they really want to say to one another is better expressed in the loose reality of a dreamscape instead of the real world. its simultaneously so satisfying but also worrying as this is the sort of moment which builds a heavy sense of foreboding or tragic melancholy. cant wait for more thanks opsama.
>>285678479Beautiful.
>>285676743It's very Clover-esque, Watanuki's dreams are one of the best parts of the manga.
>>285678479Watanuki wakes up to this?!
>>285678479
>>285683957Yes but not for long
>>285666339Thank you for posting.
Chapter 71
>>285688933Oh, he's wearing his new apron.
>>285689080>>285689045The weight of seeing what others can't must be heavy.
>>285689165Yuuko on why democracy is a mistake.Thanks OP
>>285689080Imagine explaining to Yuuko's other customers and to Fei Wong how much of a slob she is. Their minds will just not be able to process it.>>285689165Thanks, Dumpy. Kohane deserves better than this shit.
>>285691088Being extremely attractive and /fa/ alone will carry your image in other people's minds a long way.
>>285689165I'm a contrarian hipster, I always oppose what's popular.
how many chapters this has? i am having conflicting info
>>285666339This is getting weird.>>285689165I'm going to be contrarian and say that the majority is usually correct as long as it's not a narrow one.
>>285691088Fei Wong probably knows she's a slob. He's low key a slob as well. Dude smokes his pipe and drinks wine in his lair when he isn't plotting and scheming.
>>285689165thanks opsama
>>285695217>He's low key a slob as well.>Low keyDude literally made himself a harem of (failed) Yuuko clones, there's nothing low key about that
>>285693737See >>285673183Also I'm pretty sure the thread numbering in the daily is still off by 1 or 2. The official english omnibus release (from which this is ripped) messed up way back by counting chapter 21 twice and iirc it affects the numbering all the way to end. TLDR: ~200 weekly releases collected into 108 chapters + 1 extra chapter, possibly significant because 108 is a significant number in buddhism and stuff
>>285697816Actually FUCK kodansha quality control. I just went to check the scans of the last omni to confirm if the numbering stays off but it's more wrong than I thought. Traced it back to vols 6 and 7 of omnis 2 & 3 and they make the same mistake repeating chapter 40, so while the table of contents in the last volume counts up to a "chapter 109", the double counting of chapters 21 and 40 means there are actually 111 distinct chapters in this release. I don't know if the bonus one-shot chapter is included but even if it is, that contradicts the information on anilist and removes any potential 108 magic number symbolism.
>>285689165Thank you for posting.
>>285678479This hag will be the end of me, I swear.
>>285688753>See through panty on head
>>285688882Do japs really picking on a little girl like this on television
>>285666047
>>285689391We need a Yuukocracy.
>>285706714A hagcracy, even.
>>285707146Let's not get too radical here. We don't want to risk becoming a christmascakecracy.
Almost there!
>>285689080Nice Regency Era-inspired Yuuko outfit, a rare look for her. It seems like there was some miscommunication between the artist for the characters and the background though, because it looks like her right elbow is meant to be placed on the armrest but is floating in the air.
Chapter 72
>>285715267GODmeki is so handsome...
>>285715701>Come home soonCute hagwife is not even pretending she not grooming him at this point
>>285716162Himawari bros... we lost...
>husbandson moonlighting as husbandad
>>285715267yo opchama
>>285715655>>285715679Kino
>>285716036Zashiki-Warashi sisters, what is this...
>>285715904While believable, this feels forced. People has done worse and left their homes intact.
>>285716610>Too old to be a daughterwife>Too young to be a hagwifeShe never had a chance...
>>285716131>>285716162Zashiki-Warashi sisters, where are you going?! HOLD THE LINE!
>>285716236This is the most intimate and direct Watanuki has gone with ANY girl of the cast. Handholding, confessions. I would leave it as a cute moment, but knowing CLAMP this is definitely a husbanddad moment.
>>285716300>she orgasmed just by being touched by GODmeki...Watanukibros, what is this...
>>285716541You know it's serious when el abuelo scolds you.
>>285716574>>285716599Does this count as Doumeki and Watanuki holding hands romantically?
>>285716822Yuuko can't monopolize him too hard.Besides, Nooks has a weak spot for children and Kohane gets extra points for ryona and parental abuse.
>>285715351Heavy loaded question, but both.>>285715419>>285715446Watanuki is using his own experience, good.>>285715474Kurogane has more than a scolding in mind.
>>285715575I don't know where this is going but I am already dreading it.>>285715629>>285715679That birthday sure it's popular. Also giving your name and birthday to a person allowed them to know everything about you acording to Yuuko on the first chapter. And Sakura seems to be able to see the future so I'm guessing she can also read him like a book now.
>>285715863This dump is the crowning achievement of Dumpy's career.
>>285715839>A japanese about to interrupt another people's conversation to tell them what's whatShouldn't have stopped him
>>285715904>>285715998>>285716022>>285716112All those "people" harassing her deserve death. No exceptions.>>285716252And so does her mom.>>285716036Best page in the manga. ;_;>>285716813Thanks, dumpy.
>>285715904>>285716022People should die for this.>>285716036Good boy.
>>285716162Those are heavy words Watanuki.>>285716183>>285716209She is learning. You should love and care for yourself not just for you but for the ones that care about you too.
>>285666234>what about syaoran-kun;_;
>>285716664yeah, i'd hurt myself too in order to sleep in hag's bed.
>>285716822Watanuki only shows open care without reservations or pretense to kids. The fox kid also makes Watanuki go into caring and kind mode, the ghost of the little girl that was trapped also had him get soft.Kohane also needs it because her situation is so gloomy and she uses detachment and emotional numbness to cope with it, and Watanuki does not like that.The only time he lowers his defenses with people that aren't kids are the times he is hurt, like when he was bedridden after the fall and talked to Himawari. Or when something affects him deeply like that spirit woman that he became close to due to their shared loneliness caused by the loss of family.
>>285716410>You can't eat anything that's been killed?So what are you supposed to eat? Plants also get killed after all.>>285716482>>285716574>>285716599I hate this bitch so much.>>285716631Stand your ground Kohane
>>285717060>>285718157Cope. You probably are Himawarifags. lmao.
>>285716714>>285716746>>285716782>He's growing >He's also interested in doing things for her instead of the other way aroundYuuko groomed the right boy.>>285716813Seems like it actually affected her on some level, at least made her think.Thanks OP
>>285716638I don't think its forced at all. There's a famous case from Japan where a schoolgirl got killed or was driven to suicide by classmates and the relatives of those classmates or random jerks still attempt to desecrate her grave.And people in the USA have had their houses vandalized or worse for less.
>>285718302I'm a Maru&Moro patrician
>>285718302Not really. I got nothing against Himawari, if the nature of her curse wasn't that fucked it would be cute even. But the way this story is going it feels like Yuuko has all the cards on her hands.
>>285715904Baki did it first!
>>285718610...Hags?Strong?
>>285715953Nips take their mediums serioulsy.
>>285715998This girl is Ayanami Rei coded
>>285716714>Watanuki, sex with hags?
>>285715575>6'1 vs 5'11
>>285716813CHADanuki making his moveThe hag couldn't resistThanks OP
>>285716036She likes it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
>>285715296that fluttering dress makes me remember that one female ghost that we never see the head ofthe one that finally moved on because of fucking mahjonh
>>285715371did nookie even know which one's fai
>>285715446>>285715474what is this floating headpat
>>285715655is that even the clone syaoran's actual birthday (for the sake of fortune-telling)he doesn't have memories from his childhood after all
>>285716574ngl that's pretty hot.>>285716782Watanuki has become so likeable.
>>285716410is unfertilized egg killed
>>285716541?why is he going into dream that randomly and easily anyway?
>>285716746he really feels like he's mixed with doumekidoumeki used to be unable to go into the shop precisely because he'd gonna exhaust everything in his power before making a request upon the supernaturalhe's rubbed on him, for better or for worse
>>285716813Thanks OPWatanuki really grown, huh
>>285716782>>285716813Romantic af move perfectly aimed at a magical wish granting hag.
>>285719789Because he's a dream seer, and a good one at that given his lineage
>>285715541Just gonna say, when the TRC daily started, I was iffy on whether I wanted to follow that one too.Very glad I did. This would be incomprehensible without the context from TRC.
>>285717625>That birthday sure it's popular.It's also my birthday in real life. My present is that 4chan becomes borderline unusable for a day.
>>285718265I think you can harvest from a plant without killing it entirely. Like if you eat an apple, the apple tree didn't need to die to make it.But an egg is unfertilized. Nothing died to make it either.
And now our boy has narcolepsy.
>>285722980We know eggs don't require killing an animal. The Buddhists who decided what the rules would be regarding food thousands of years ago didn't. Kohane's mom cares more about what those ancient dudes have to say on the matter than some filthy peasants trying to corrupt her paypig with things like common sense and up-to-date information.
>>285723416So did Sakura at first. Must be Hitsuzen
Previous Tsubasa thread had someone listing all unredeemable female characters by CLAMP, they forgot to add Kohane's mom
>>285722832Happy birthday, anon. (I won't be there in the future)
>>285719789He is someone with very unstable existence that was born from the crack of dimensions. The stronger he gets the easier he can drift into the world of dream
>people actually doing Holic shipfaggotry in this thread>in 2026Oh boyGonna be a lot of fun during Doumeki stalker chapter which serves a mirror to all shipfaggots and how crazy many of them are.And then I fully expect a ton of crazy screeching during the last volume because nobody wins in the end. No, not even Maru&Morofags or Mokonafags (based on them being gone after fourth and last timeskip).>>285716638I agree. This reminds me on Dr.Cox's quote: "In fact, in the history of medicine, there's never actually been a patient that depressing. I made it up!" - maybe it'd be possible in some boonies with like 50 people around at most, but in a modern japanese city (see Tokyo or Osaka) it'd be a piss easy case to win against retards who desecrated your property.(especially with all security cameras being set in houses, can't say for sure about street cameras because it's not China).>>285716574Unironically as dangerous as that fall from the 2nd floor of the school - he got lucky by wearing glasses and it IS a miracle boiled water didn't leave a single burn on his face (let alone the insides of his head got unscathed). Maybe the temperature went down as they didn't close the thermos after filling their teacups.>>285718378>quoting Junko Furuta case without the actual contextFirst of all,https://knowfiles.com/what-is-the-junko-furuta-family-doing-now/The biggest fuckup of that case was japanese laws being way too lenient towards underaged - if they were of legal age they'd get death sentence 100%.As for the grave desecration - unfortunately, unless your grave is located in private and protected graveyard there's nothing to stop people from being retarded (and this applies to pretty much any country). But if you have the proof of it happening (like video recording) then expect some big ass fine sent to that retard by the court.>burgerlandmeme laws that vary per state
>>285716574East or west, Karens behave exactly the same.
>>285715655Do the original and the clone have the same birthday? Wouldn't the clone's birthday technically be the day of his creation?
>>285716252Girls love their yaoi fantasies.
>>285716782He really does look his cutest when he's injured.
>>285718384Based
>>285731815IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
>>285709141>radicalI believe the term is ara~dical
>>285731815Absolute chad
>>285731815He even does the hentai MC thing were his eyes aren't being drawn. Kek.
>>285731916Female artists can pretty cool sometimes
>>285731815Jeez Watanuki two cunnies?
>>285732747>loses his mommywife>obtains her house and brown loli twinsMission failed successfully
>>285732747Yuuko always had contingency plans for his husbandson
>>285738670Thanks anon
>>285738320>>285738351>>285738379I know being in a dream probably makes both of them more open, but they are quickly becoming friends and to some extent almost family-like.
>>285738503>>285738529Watanuki is a good listener and advisor to Sakura. Suddenly he turns from the one getting help to the one helping with someone close to his age.>>285738560>>285738589Oh no, I don't think this is good at all>>285738670Well fuck, this can only be something bad.Thanks OP
>>285740563Well, they did drop a big hint already.
Bump for late readers
>>285739379This artist is amazing.
>Fai's suffering arc is almost over>Kohane's suffering arc is just beginning
>>285738379you have no idea
>>285738670>dementia
>>285738670Honestly, I always thought the reveal this led to was unnecessary. Maybe rereading it will change my opinion.
>>285745227More like>amnesia
>>285744002Stupid sexy sonsband
>>285738589Schizonuki
>>285745816It's not a bad plot point but it is a bit odd because it's more explored in Tsubasa than it is in Holic, perhaps for a good reason since this is the price Watanuki paid to help the party in Tsubasa, just like how Sakura lost her memories of Syaoran Watanuki lost all of the memories of his parents.
>>285738670thanks opsama, happy sunday
>>285723416>>285738670And alzheimer.
>>285744002He looks like some godly figure
>>285738560The irony.>>285738670Thanks, Dumpy.
Slow day...
>>285746317>Lolis want him>Teens want him>Dead hags want him>Magical hags want him>Yokai want himIt's tough being perfect...
>>285755106You could say they were horny when they wrote him.
>>285645001Ty op
Sex with Watanuki
>>285759680Everyone but Kohane's mom...
>>285759728Kohane's mom wants him secretly
>>285716689Dreams while you're awake might be a signal of brain tumor.
>>285738670Thank you for posting.
Chapter 74
>>285765196Incredible that they aren't already running away at this point.
>>285765410They're slow to notice the supernatural.
>>285765137Cute braids.>>285765400Uhhh okay then...
>>285765284Unreasonably hungry hags
