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Okay. I really liked the first chapters, that kind of introduced us to the characters and had a bit of the "monster of the week" format, though I see many disagree.

Starting with the best part of the manga, the art is phenomenal. I am a big fan of Clamp's art personally, though I have heard that it is rather controversial, so if you aren't into their style, you might disagree with me here.

Characters are quite the strong point of this manga, in particular, the main character, Watanuki. I won't spoil anything, but his growth throughout the series is truly fun to watch. Other characters ... are also good, from his "boss", Yuko, and his friend Doumeki.

Story was sometimes all over the place, and could be very confusing at times. Also, it can get confusing if you haven't read Tsubasa Chronicle, which occurs at a similar time to xxxHolic.

Overall, I had a good time binge-reading this over the last 3 days. Overall, it is a very interesting manga, though the confusion that the story induces can often get in the way of that.

This series started off hilarious, with this being the first instance of reverse-isekai I'd ever watched. However, as I continued to watch, the humor began to dry out somewhat, and it became more of a vanilla anime than I'd liked it to have become.

Story, I'll give an 8, due to its originality.

Art was fine, not super good, but not lacking as far as I could tell.

Characters: I only really liked Mao's assistant demon throughout the series; I thought Emi was kind of boring, the coworker was a little bit uncomfortable to look at to be honest, with an 8 year old face and ... huge boobs, and I'd totally forgotten about the last girl until I wrote this review.

That being said, it was still pretty funny and original, so I'd say watch it anyways.