Ranked #132

Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Manga)

Tsubasa focuses on 4 main characters Fai, Kurogane, Sakura, and Syaoran. It's everything I want. Action, adventure, fantasy, and romance. It first sucked me in because I saw that it had the purest love I've ever seen. It shows that love when Syaoran sacrifices Sakura's memories of him. Throughout the whole entire manga Syaoran shows an unsaid love for sakura and sakura does the same for him that's seen in their actions rather than words.

The settings are varied and the character designs are always interesting. The places you see are unique and different, you see things like a magical castle and then next a world similar ours.

The eyes are cute and simple or serious if need be, and Clamp never failed to satisfy me with how they drew the hair. While the settings change the clothes do too, and when they switched to a new world I would always wonder what they would have to wear to fit into the knew setting and culture. One time syaoran had to dress up as a girl to blend in, and it cracked me up to see him burst in through doors ready to fight while wearing a girly wig.

I found that the characters didn't really grow which is why I gave character a 9, except kurogane. Instead of him being a jerk, he develops into a nice jerk. Everyone else doesn't really grow into a different person, but rather you find things about them that were already there. Syaoran will do anything to help Sakura unless it involves wrongfully hurting someone else, and that's what I love about him.

There was plenty of action as well and my favorite person to watch fight was Fai. He doesn't normally have a weapon so he has to use his arms and legs. When he fights as a team with Kurogane they both look so cool! The scenes blended well.

In the end I can easily say that this is my favorite manga and overall story. It stirred my emotions when the story told me too. It is a true adventure to read. There wasn't too much drama, or too much romance. If there's a problem they faced it's not dragged out painfully, and the plot doesn't revolve around one thing. They face many things, but what I love is that even though they don't have too, they face them together.


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*Just to warn you, this is the first review I have ever written, so it might not be that good.*
This by far is probably one of the best mangas out there that I have ever read. I have never been hooked on a manga for so long and still kept buying the next volume as soon as it came out without taking stopping ever 5 volumes. If you have ever read any of CLAMP's other works you'll sure to be able to enjoy this one.

Story:
I have to give it a ten. It's original and fresh. This is the very first manga I have ever read that the story takes place in many different places. The plot seems to be never ending because they have to find Sakura's feathers. But that is what I like about it because I really would hate to see the end of such a great manga.

Art:
I give the art a 9. Clamp just has a way with their drawings that I find very unique. It reminds me a little of a duo tema of an amateur and an expert workinbg together. But that's what gives Tsubasa it's charm.

Character:
Another 9. I love how we meet new and old characters that are originally from other Clamp works. The main characters fits right in to this story. I would have not chosen any of the other of Clamp characters to play the main roles.

Enjoyment:
I give this a 10. It has plenty of humor. There is no end to just how funny this manga can be. I just get the biggest kick out of Fai-san and Mokona. And the cliffhangers leave you wondering about the next chapter or volume which leaves much for you to think about what would happen in the next volume.

Overall:
Overall, it is a 10. Everything ties in just perfectly. The never ending supply of cliffhangers and humor. Also plenty of characters to meet and see. You can not but help to pick up this manga and read it over and over again. read more