Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen Drama CDs

If you're a xxxHolic or Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE fan (I'm still wondering what's with the CaPs), then you should have heard about this title "Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen", or in English title "Horitsuba Private Academy". "Horitsuba" is actually a merged name for both xxxHolic (pronounced as horikku in Japanese) & Tsubasa.

For those who do not know or have not even heard of xxxHolic or Tsubasa, below are some lazy copy paste introductions for these two famous titles in both anime and manga fandom.

Taken from Tsubasa Anime News Network:

Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Volume 01
English version from Amazon

Syaoran, a boy who wants to become an archeologist, and Sakura, a princess from the Clow Kingdom, are childhood friends with a close relationship. On a fateful night, Sakura lost all her memories as a result of a conspiracy to obtain her powers. In order to regain her memory, Syaoran seeks help from the witch, Yuuko. Yuuko tells Syaoran that he has to travel from one alternate reality to another to collect fragments of Sakura's memory. However, even if Sakura regains her memory, she will have no recollection of Syaoran. Traveling together with them is Kurogane, a warrior who was exiled from his country, and Fye, a magician who wants to escape from his King. With the help of a magical creature, Mokona, they set off on an exciting journey through time and space

Taken from xxxHolic Wiki:

xxxHolic Volume 01 Japanese version from Amazon

Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by yōkai, spirits with a strong attraction to him. The spirits are invisible to others and encounters with them are extremely troublesome. When he stumbles into a shop that grants wishes, however, events in his life promise to become more unusual.

The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious and beautiful witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value and so, as payment, he temporarily becomes Yūko's part-time employee.

Watanuki's job consists of small errands dealing with the supernatural and household chores. His love interest, Himawari Kunogi, and "rival," Shizuka Dōmeki, occasionally join him in his work as per Yūko's request. The three become increasingly close despite Watanuki's annoyances with Dōmeki.

Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen

Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen Drama CD booklet cover
which I grabbed from rusalkaz

Both manga are actually linked to each another from the start, with a shared storyline and characters and more direct plots pointing at each another in the later chapters. And that adds more fun to this "Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen", where the main characters and supporting characters in both manga are thrown into an alternative universe (AU) altogether just for fun by CLAMP.
In Horitsuba, there's no drama and angst of Tsubasa, and of course no mysteries and eerie essence of xxxHolic. What you'll get in this AU academy are pure fluffs and comedy that are getting scarce in their original books.
You can expect cute moments like Fai's (Fye) endless teasings at Kurogane, now enforced with Yuuko's help.
Or you can have fluffs for Sakura and Syaoran's sweet and shy conversations where you'll be relieved from Tsubasa's heavy angst recent plots.
Or more bickers between Watanuki and Doumeki (as usual with Himawari smiling at them).

I think this is some sort of extra goodies for their fans, in drama CD format and also individual 6-pages chapters of this crossover. The drama CD only comes with Japanese Weekly Shonen Magazine (I'm not sure), currently there are 3 drama CDs and 2 different chapters with 6pages out. Or at least that's what I've known and have so far.

Special: Horitsuba Drama CD 01 "Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen Valentine Day ni Doki Doki!". (only in .wma version thou')


*wow this post actually took me 1 week to complete. -.- I'm so so so busy with work and by the time I finished work, I'm already dead tired to actually think of anything else than sleeping.