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This is, in my opinion, the best of the two OAVs, eventhough it is a hard desition to reach. Firstly, the storyline runs much deeper: it starts with the famous "Under the Sakura Barrow" scene (an excellent recreation), in which Su and Sei first met and sealed the love promise that would cause them to meet again at Ikebukuro Station. Only that here, the contents of the promise appear a little blurred to suit the uses of this OAV: Seishirou promises Su-chan that as long as he is alive, no harm will come to him, and then the story jumps to the present, showing the corpse of a young girl whose body had been left hanging from the subway´s wires.
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In this case, it´s all about a pshycho-style murderer that had already caused many deaths in Tokyo´s subway trains. Coming back home late past midnight, Su-chan awakes from his train nap to witness the horrible murder of a young girl, eventhough he reacts a bit too late, only getting to send his Shiki to attack the bad guy, who manages to escape by breaking a window. Considering Su-chan couldn´t get to see the agresor´s face well enough to give a description, Detective Kawano asks Mirei Hidaka, a young medium doted with postcognition powers, to help with the investigation. So Mirei-chan and Subaru-kun develope a kind of friendship, helping each other in order to catch the assasin. Things only mess up when the next victim results to be Miriko Hidaka, Mirei´s mom, a fact that leads her to involve personaly into the hunt, willing to avenge her mother.

The thrilling way in which events begin to develope and the phsychological game set between the characters, like Subaru´s obsession with Mirei´s anguish for witnessing such terrible events without being capable of doing anything, together with how Seishirou and Hokuto finally end up getting involved with the whole thing, and Mirei´s attitude and personality´s radical change after her mother´s crime makes this OAV a great supernatural mystery movie and CLAMP´s fave. Things will end up in the way the spectator least expects. The OAV is situated in the TB timeline between Save (TB Manga Volume 4), -in which Sei-chan uses exactly the same techinque he uses for punishing the assasin´s unforgivable mistake of going against Subaru-kun´s life for killing his beloved´s lunatic proffesor- and sowhere in between Rebirth (TB Manga Volume 5). The OAVs ending theme is the very famous Deja Vu, from TB Image Soundtrack 2 CD.

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When Mirei-chan is firstly introduced to us in the OVA, she appears as a mysterious and beautiful medium, doted with the startling capacity of reading the past with her naked hands. A deep change is noted in Mirei´s kind and serene personality after her mother´s crime, and she asumes the firm decition of making the assasin pay for his deeds whatever it may cost.
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Detective Kawano is a quick-tempered, shorty police inspector whose sardonic comments make you laugh all the way through solving the case. Eventhough he firstly showed himself a little esceptic about phsychic stuff, he was intelligent enough to use Mirei-chan´s abilities correctly in order to discover the identity of the assasin.
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This gentle old lady is Mirei-chan´s loving mom, a fortune teller that seems capable of reading the people´s future as well as her daughter can do with past. She precognices her daughter´s reecounter with someone very important to her, and her death to the hands of our psycho determines the real beginning of the action in the OAV.
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Pretty scary face, huh? Our lunatic killer is young boy whose past somehow seems enough to justify his present condition of phsycho: he murdered his little sister accidentaly during a game, never seeming to realize the real seriousness of his terrible deed, and was therefore sent to a correctional institution. After that all he could think about was killing again and again, only to have fun with it.
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Handsome and intelectual-looking Mr. Maitaki is a mysterious young man Hokuto meets when she find him roaming around a building´s demolition area to pick up stone fragments to add to his collection, and both her and the lovers end up visiting his home and finding out he bears the same power as Mirei.
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The animation and character design in this OAV is much better that in the first one, as well as the special effects. I have already mention this is my fave TB OAV, but there are other remarkable things about it that help backing up my desition, like for example the great background theme used for both the promise scene and for the spectacular moment in which Seishirou-san hunts down the murderer and finally kills him after he tries to take away Subaru´s life for revenge. The music depicts all the mystery of Subaru and Seishirou´s relationship´s spirit perfectly, and Sei-chan´s calm and cold words to the killer help on making this one of the best scenes of the whole OAV, and set an incredible contrast to the warm and gentle personality had been showing all along the plot until that instant.
Other robbing scene is the one in which Subaru awakes in his lover´s arms after nearly being strangled by our phsycho (the whole sequence is priceless) and the first thing his eyes meet is Seishirou´s beautiful, loving face whose warm stare make the audience melt (warning to all Sei-chan lovers: high danger of heart misfunction ^_^). Unlike the other OAV, here we can find the typichal jokes Hokuto and Seishirou share about the couple in love, and Subby´s ashamed reactions. The main characters also have a deeper participation than in the first one, eventhough the storyline turns too many times only to Mirei´s drama and leave them behind.

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Subaru and Seishirou's first encounter
Size: 93.4K.

Subaru witnesses the crime at Tokyo Subways
Size: 406K.

Subaru's Shikigami attack saves Mirei
Size: 222K.

Seishirou kills the psycho with his sakura petals
Size: 299K.

Subaru is looking so cute when trying out that phone call ^_^
Size: 377K.

Seishirou is not letting that prey escape him!
Size: 370K.

Subby is having strange dreams...
Size: 363K.

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