XxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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XxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream is an hour long film of the anime television series Xxxholic.
Plot
A woman comes to Yuko to ask for assistance because her key won't unlock her mansion. Later, Yuko receives an invitation to the mansion. Yuko sends Watanuki and Doumeki along with her to the mansion. They aren't the only people there. Many collectors were invited. When collectors start disappearing, Watanuki starts to suspect that something supernatural is happening.
Quality
The production quality is higher than the television series. The voice talents of both the television series in both the Japanese and English version. The film is filler that does not move the series along in any way.
DVD and Blu-Ray release
The film was released alongside the forty minute anime film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom. It was released with both Japanese and English. The DVD has full 1080p high definition and AVC encoding. The audio is Dolby TrueHD with a 5.1 track for the English dub and a 2.0 track for the original Japanese version. The special features are some trailers, a recording montage, character artwork, background designs, and some video footage of the film's opening release in Japan. The back of the Tsubasa movie/xxxHolic movie combo DVD says that it has over two hours of bonus features. There is a commentary from the original Japanese actors and actresses. The film was also released on Blu-Ray alongside the Tsubasa film.
Reception
N.S. Davidson of IGN said that the film is very original, clever, and long enough to get things accomplished. Todd Douglass Jr., of DVD Talk, said that the film feels like an extended episode, but that it has better animation and a better story. The film was selected for the 2006 Annecy International Animated Film Festival alongside the films Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Renaissance, Astérix et Les Vikings, and Gin-Iro No Kami No Agito. The film is included in a book about magic being a metaphor in anime. The book is called Magic as metaphor in anime: a critical study by Dani Cavallaro.