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Warmhearted Syaoran has always been friends with Sakura—the princess of the Clow Kingdom who holds an extraordinary power capable of changing the world. When a mysterious man attempts to monopolize Sakura's ability, her memories scatter throughout different worlds in the form of feathers. To save Sakura, Syaoran seeks help from the Dimensional Witch and meets two other travelers—Kurogane and Fai D. Flourite.

Kurogane, a capable fighter and ninja, has been banished from his homeworld and wishes to return. In contrast, Fai, a magician from Celes, wants to traverse different worlds to avoid his home and past. As the price to cross dimensions, each of the three must sacrifice their most valued possession. For Sakura's sake, Syaoran agrees to give away their relationship as payment to the Dimensional Witch. And with firm determination, Syaoran, Kurogane, and Fai begin journeying through numerous worlds to fight against their ill-fated destinies.

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Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE was published in English by Del Rey from April 27, 2004 to November 23, 2010. Kodansha Comics USA republished the series in 10 omnibuses from August 19, 2014 to October 18, 2016.

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Spin-off:	Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen
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Sequel:	Tsubasa: WoRLD CHRoNiCLE - Niraikanai-hen
Adaptation:	Tsubasa Chronicle: Tori Kago no Kuni no Himegimi, Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations, Tsubasa: Shunraiki, Tsubasa Chronicle, Tsubasa Chronicle 2nd Season

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May 25, 2022

Animusswtor

Recommended

Disclaimer: Might be reworked or edited later if I find stuff I've missed talking about. There are close to no spoilers in here but if there are I'll mark them as such.

Ever since I finished reading Pandora Hearts at the beginning of last year, I've asked myself if I'll ever find something that captivates me as much, something that resonates with me as much, and something that just blows me away as much as it did.
Now, I MIGHT be leaning myself a bit far out of the window, BUT I think I just found it. Is this really the one? Have I found ...

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Sep 29, 2022

Animelover875

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To avoid spoiling this and pretty much every other CLAMP series out there, spoilers will be kept to a minimum as best I can. That said, the series is a really fun dimension-crossing, time-traveling adventure with a plot that slowly becomes clearer and more obscure simultaneously the longer it goes on. The series loves playing around with themes of what qualifies as identity and humanity, and of course there are many other heavy themes at play, such as wishes, inevitability, and changing fate, to name a few. This is all complimented by a cast that works well together with their interactions and their pasts, as ...

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Dec 27, 2023

PurpleMagic

Not Recommended

Tsubasa Chronicles started off strong but halfway through the series it loses what made it once special. The basic premise is a boy falls in love with a princess and has to rescue her by collecting her scattered memories via dimension hopping. Its a simple collectathon journey with a clear bad guy to defeat. The simplicity of the plot is very endearing as is all the main characters. They're simple but they all bounce off each other quite nicely. The premise of hopping to different dimension's or what we'd call them now "multiverses" was novel to me because this started in 2003 and ended in ... 2009. So I was wondering what kind of story potential laid in something created 20 years ago.

What went wrong was that it took too much story inspiration from Kingdom Hearts in the worst way possible. It became complicated for the sake of being complicated. All the actions the crew took were "obviously" planned out by the big bad villain way in advance. Another similar problem is that everyone seems to have a gotcha moment of I actually knew this was going to happen so I did this instead. Their is too many magic systems that seem albeit too convenient every time something is going to happen or planned to happen. Or someone finally reveals a big secret that they should have just told everyone else about because it clearly explains what's happening and gives you an idea on how to actually defeat the villain. When your battling a big powerful enemy more information is better than none. The more I think about it I've realized that the villain could have simply hired people across from dimensions to research magic for his ultimate wish versus making a convoluted plan that involves these four randoms people. He has the ability to travel dimensions with no problems and grants wishes as well. So he can give someone something and they can work for him for all of eternity. His wish would have been earned through hard work and not put all the dimensions in danger.

So as you can see the overcomplicating of the story leads to more plot holes. Because if you think more than five seconds you can think of tons of solutions that this bad time space wizard who coincidentally had all the time in the universe didn't think about.

In the last volume the villain's wish does get granted. A wish that the good Time Space Witch kept saying was impossible to grant. Sayoran and Sakura the main characters of the series get his wish granted in a way you didn't think about because we kept getting told its impossible. So the wish he wanted doesn't get granted to him but does to a couple of people he's been screwing over. So this entire journey caused by this bad Space Wizard is fucking pointless.

The simplicity was charming and the authors could have made a more serious second half work if they didn't complicate every detail. That was their greatest mistake. If they had succeeded I would have found a hidden gem but instead I found a dud.

There are two reasons for a 6/10. One is the first half of the story is good. Second the art is art is incredible. Specifically the flow and composition of the manga is done masterfully. Pretty art can't save a story only enhance it. So I can't with good conscious recommend this to anyone.

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