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 June 18, 2009, at 6:11 am Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (chapter 223)
What started out as a quest to collect Sakura’s memories turned into a twisted plot the moment our main characters stepped into Tokyo. Since then, it appears that each chapter gives you a WTF revelation (I don’t know how else to describe it), always more puzzling than the previous WTF revelation. And the revelation in this chapter tops everything else, and got me reviewing the previous chapters to understand how it happened. Thank God the authors are taking a break to collect some data. I will need some time to untangle the crazy plot they have now. [Spoilers under the cut.] Now let me get the facts straight. The entire mess was created by Clow Reed, at the time before CCS started. He wished that Yuuko will not die, and Fei Wong Reed attempted to grant that wish. Because of that, Yuuko’s time stopped. I’m now guessing that Clow’s attempt to fix everything is the main story of this series. To do that, Clow had to travel to another dimension, leaving Keroberos and Yue behind. Meanwhile Yuuko traveled to the xxxHolic world to grant wishes. There, she met Syaoran and allowed him to go to the Clow universe to meet Sakura. In this world, Sakura is the daughter of Fujitaka and Nadesico. But the time on this universe stopped because of Syaoran. In order to save Sakura from Fei Wong Reed’s seal of death, he asked Yuuko to turn back time. Watanuki was created in order to fill in the void in the xxHolic world. Fei Wong Reed created clones of Sakura and Syaoran and sent those clones to an alternate Clow universe. In the alternate Clow universe, “clone” Syaoran is the son of Fujitaka. Clow Reed then takes the role of “clone” Sakura’s father in this alternate universe. Then we proceed with the whole quest of collecting feathers in other worlds, until the moment when Syaoran and Sakura battle Fei Wong Reed. In the process the clones were destroyed, but Yuuko gave life to them and sent them to an earlier xxxHolic world. Turns out that “clone” Sakura and “clone” Syaoran were the parents of the original Syaoran. Huh? I know. I was dumbfounded after reading the chapter. Yuuko was always saying that Fei Wong Reed destroyed the logic of the universe, all the time thinking that the destruction of logic was manifested by the creation of the alternate universes. I never expected THAT. Wait a minute, once Syaoran reaches the age where he turns back time to save Sakura, “clone” Sakura and “clone” Syaoran will die in an accident, right? Then they will be trapped in Yuuko’s shop, waiting for the final battle with Fei Wong Reed. Woah, they really made the clones suffer, you think? Now there are several questions running through my mind. First, what happens if they fail to stop Fei Wong Reed? Second, what will happen to Watanuki and to his parents (yeah, the clones are also his parents) if they succeed? Third, seeing that Watanuki looks like a younger version of Clow Reed, what happens if his wish is strong enough to stop Yuuko’s time, AGAIN? Harhar. And lastly, exactly how will all of this fix the broken logic that Fei Wong Reed created? CLAMP and their weird plots. Amazing. Related posts: Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
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This series started out as some fantasy adventure manga by CLAMP. The fans of the Sakura x Syaoran love team from Card Captor Sakura (a.k.a. CCS) are bound to follow this story. Throw in some of the characters from the other CLAMP series, turning Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (a.k.a. TRC) into a (big) crossover series. It also helps if you follow xxxHolic at the same time, because the stories from these two series happen simultaneously, and sometimes overlap with each other.
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