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xxxHOLiC (Manga)

xxxHOLiC

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: xxxHolic Rou, xxxHolic Cage, xxxHolic•Rou, Holic
Japanese: xxxHolic•籠

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 19
Chapters: 213
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 24, 2003 to Feb 2011
Authors: CLAMP (Story & Art), Ohkawa, Nanase (Story)

Statistics

Score: 8.451 (scored by 12978 users)
Ranked: #1692
Popularity: #23
Members: 22,943
Favorites: 2,638
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Synopsis

XXXHolic is a supernatural/comedy themed manga/anime that is apart of the CLAMP series. It is one of the more popular of the CLAMP series and often shows other CLAMP series being mentioned (ex. Chobits, Sakura Chronicles).

It revolves around a boy named Watanuki and how he stumbled upon a shop owned by a woman named Yuuko. Yuuko's power is to grant wishes, but she can only do so with proper payment. Since Watanuki has seen spirits ever since he was born, Yuuko offers to take away his sight of the spirits in exchange for him working at the shop. He agrees and works at the shop until his debt is repaid.
(Source: xxxHolic Wikia)

The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on the title pages of each chapter from chapter 186 and on, but remains ×××Holic on the front covers, spines and indicias of the corresponding Japanese volumes (16 and 17).
A oneshot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch was later collected into Volume 18.

Related Manga

Adaptation: xxxHOLiC, xxxHOLiC Kei, xxxHOLiC Shunmuki, , xxxHOLiC Rou
Other: K-Dash, Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Spin-off: Horitsuba Gakuen, Soel to Larg: Mokona=Modoki no Bouken
Side story: xxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC

Characters

 Shizuka
Doumeki, Shizuka
Main
 Yuuko
Ichihara, Yuuko
Main
 Himawari
Kunogi, Himawari
Main
 Mokona
Modoki, Mokona
Main
 Kimihiro
Watanuki, Kimihiro
Main
 Syaoran
Syaoran
Supporting
 Syaoran
Syaoran
Supporting



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Dec 18, 2008
Aeterna
xxxHolic is a series that ties in quite closely with Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, but for the most part, you don't really need to read TRC in order to understand xxxHolic until you get to about volume 11 or 12. Once you get to that point, though, the two series get heavily intertwined with each other so it might be a good idea to read TRC, anyway, so you don't end up reading 100+ chapters in one go like I did in order to understand what was going on in xxxHolic...Even so, it's interesting just to see where the two plots meet and how one thing read more
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Oct 31, 2008
zethras
xxxHolic is a pritty good manga and one of the masterpieces of Clamp. That said, everyone that is a fan of Clamp, should know and should be reading this manga. For the rest of the community of readers out there, like me, should give it a try to see if this manga is your taste, even if you dont like Tsubasa Chronicle. This manga shows a different perspective of Tsubasa Chronicle. Therefore, you will see characters showing up in this manga once in a while.

The main story goes around a shop that grants your wish in exchange of something. And everyone that has a read more
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User Recommendations

If you're reading xxxHOLiC or Tsubasa but not the other series then you are missing out on part of the story. They are connected so you have to buy not just one series, but two! As they are both created by CLAMP they have a very similar style. xxxHOLiC is more focused on the supernatural stort stories which prop up main character development while Tsubasa is more character driven as the journeies they go through support them.
same author, hints to shounen ai, tragedies etc. If you liked give legal drug a try

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