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Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 01 (Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, #1)
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[Series Length: 19 volumes / Read: volumes 1-6]
World-renowned mangaka circle CLAMP has basically phoned it in with "Tsubasa". Basically just a lame excuse to re-visit old characters from previous CLAMP titles in new settings, the story revolves around an alternate version of Syaoran (originally of "Card Captor Sakura" fame) going dimension-hopping with a magician and warrior from one random world to the next, all to recover the memories of Sakura (also an alternate version, of course). Along the way, they meet--you guessed it--alternate versions of previously-existing CLAMP characters who either hinder or help the heroes.
Really, it's this kind of aimless wandering around that bores me to death (much like Rumiko Takahashi's "Inu Yasha" series). And because of the constant dimension-hopping, it's hard to get to know any of the characters, much less care about them. And given that they're NOT REALLY the characters that long-time CLAMP fans associate them with, do they even matter very much?
What would have been much more interesting was a series in which established CLAMP characters truly get to meet and interact with each other. CLAMP has actually done a fairly good job of this in the past, intermingling characters across different series ("Tokyo Babylon" with "X"; "20 Mensou ni Onegai" with "CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan"; "Angelic Layer" with "Chobits") but has never really thrown entire casts into a soup, with the exception of the "CLAMP In Wonderland" music videos (which I personally enjoyed).
World-renowned mangaka circle CLAMP has basically phoned it in with "Tsubasa". Basically just a lame excuse to re-visit old characters from previous CLAMP titles in new settings, the story revolves around an alternate version of Syaoran (originally of "Card Captor Sakura" fame) going dimension-hopping with a magician and warrior from one random world to the next, all to recover the memories of Sakura (also an alternate version, of course). Along the way, they meet--you guessed it--alternate versions of previously-existing CLAMP characters who either hinder or help the heroes.
Really, it's this kind of aimless wandering around that bores me to death (much like Rumiko Takahashi's "Inu Yasha" series). And because of the constant dimension-hopping, it's hard to get to know any of the characters, much less care about them. And given that they're NOT REALLY the characters that long-time CLAMP fans associate them with, do they even matter very much?
What would have been much more interesting was a series in which established CLAMP characters truly get to meet and interact with each other. CLAMP has actually done a fairly good job of this in the past, intermingling characters across different series ("Tokyo Babylon" with "X"; "20 Mensou ni Onegai" with "CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan"; "Angelic Layer" with "Chobits") but has never really thrown entire casts into a soup, with the exception of the "CLAMP In Wonderland" music videos (which I personally enjoyed).
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Jul 23, 2009 07:45PM
First of all, it's not "aimless" andbacause they go "dimension-hopping", you see how they act in different siuations. ANd later on, you wll see who they are. Fai is NOT just a majician. Neither is Kurosaki "just" a warriar. And of course, the Sakura and Syaoran is not what they seem. CLAMP has crossed the other mangas over nicely.
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Well. Since they travelled through hundred of worlds, it's much easier and less complicated to re-use the characters from the previous works than creating brand new ones. But when I read the whole series, I find it's quite clever of them to do so. Also, it brings back pleasant memories when an old character crossed over you.
