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Lois Bujold's Reviews > Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 01
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 01 (Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, #1)
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OK, I plowed through all 28 volumes of this initially in an effort to make sense of xxxHolic. Which, eventually, it sort of did. What I am to use to make sense of Tsubasa, I don't know. Well, Wikipedia, I suppose, but even it only becomes comprehensible after one has read the thing maybe twice.
I had actually, as usual, started with the anime, but it does not go all the way to the end of the tale, and it skipped some parts I'd been especially curious about. The anime is quite well done and recommended, if incomplete even with the OVAs added.
Attractions include a couple of very beguiling side characters, and a good bit of sartorial and art value. Also, it never descends into smarminess. De-tractions include the utterly tedious fight scenes that seem to be a requirement of the form, and without which one could get through things in half the time and page count with no loss of information.
The most complicated end-game I have ever seen finally clears the decks for the happy ending, which is: all the male characters go off into the sunset together, and they finally dump the girl who stays home. Granted, she's spent half the tale comatose, taking passive heroine-ing to whole new levels just short of necrophilia. So they're all probably better off without each other.
All the markers of the genre cranked up to eleven; angsty backstories, wildly melodramatic set pieces, dark secrets, a peculiarly Japanese idfic.
I kinda liked it, actually.
Ta, L.
I had actually, as usual, started with the anime, but it does not go all the way to the end of the tale, and it skipped some parts I'd been especially curious about. The anime is quite well done and recommended, if incomplete even with the OVAs added.
Attractions include a couple of very beguiling side characters, and a good bit of sartorial and art value. Also, it never descends into smarminess. De-tractions include the utterly tedious fight scenes that seem to be a requirement of the form, and without which one could get through things in half the time and page count with no loss of information.
The most complicated end-game I have ever seen finally clears the decks for the happy ending, which is: all the male characters go off into the sunset together, and they finally dump the girl who stays home. Granted, she's spent half the tale comatose, taking passive heroine-ing to whole new levels just short of necrophilia. So they're all probably better off without each other.
All the markers of the genre cranked up to eleven; angsty backstories, wildly melodramatic set pieces, dark secrets, a peculiarly Japanese idfic.
I kinda liked it, actually.
Ta, L.
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May 09, 2015 12:04AM
I've read it years ago! the ending never made sense to me, but it was still a very beautiful manga
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Yeah it was a good bit easier to understand when you were reading the xxxHolic and Tsubasa chapters as they came out, so they were in order. But even then it got confusing.
I've read through vol 18 of the manga- I like it, but tend to forget whats going on... the cute-and-hopefully-gay magician character is what keeps me coming back :)
Maia wrote: "I've read through vol 18 of the manga- I like it, but tend to forget whats going on... the cute-and-hopefully-gay magician character is what keeps me coming back :)"I checked out the fanfic; you are apparently not alone in your hopes. The canon does not go beyond some hyperdramatic bromance, but the ficcers fix that. (It's not as if they don't have plenty of raw material to work with, or from.)
Fai's angsty backstory, skipped over in the anime, may be found in the upcoming volumes of the manga from where you are, and turn out to be the angstiest of them all -- a somewhat alarming sign of favor from his creators, methinks. Anyway, you have some interesting reading and rereading coming up.
Ta, L.
So... is there any fannish consensus, one way or the other, on a theory that Yuuko and Fei-Wang are the yin and yang halves of Clow Reed, which split when he "died", each shunted into their respective time-bubbles? It actually makes sense of the two characters for me...Ta, L.
