Sorry i haven't posted in such a long time! I had so many manga and anime i was catching up on and college just recently started in earnest, so may not post as often as i normally do :(
On with the review then? :)
So, if we're talking anime with some amazing instrumental tracks or with a whole lotta songs on its list, this is one of them. Personally, i love the instrumental soundtracks and also the openings and endings.
A long anime, so if you're one for a long story whose timeline sometimes confuses you and tries to mess with your head, this is it. Parts of the anime don't make sense unless you've watched xxxholic (NOT sexholic. Let's not even go down that road. xxxholic has that name probably because they wanted to draw in a more 'mature' audience... so no, no 'ecchi' or 'sex' scenes. I'm guessing the reason they wanted a mature audience was because of the content - touching on myths, kind of why certain 'rules' came about and why they're still here, etc. I'll do an in depth analysis in a review for it :) ) and cardcaptorsakura.
The reason i'm saying that is because tsubasa chronicles travels through three 'main' time lines that Clamp has already talked about. Cardcaptor sakura is mentioned only towards the end though, while xxxholic is a mention throughout.
So, what's the story? Our protagonist(s) Sakura and Syaoran look eerily like Sakura and Syaoran from Cardcaptor Sakura. However, the timeline is set in an alternate dimension, where magic is 'said' to exist as a possibility. We find that Sakura is the princess of the land and her brother Touya is King (nothing much is mentioned about her parents) while Syaoran was adopted by someone who looks eerily like Sakura's dad from Card Captor Sakura (CCS).
Sakura and Syaoran were childhood friends, still are when the story begins. There is an excavation site that Syaoran is working on and for some reason, Sakura begins to resonate with it, causing her to open up a pair of 'wings' (for got to mention, Tsubasa = wings therefore Tsubasa chronicles means chronicle of the wings) and starts to sink into an emblem that looks similar to her wings when Syaoran barely manages to grab her. The feathers scatter and Sakura looks deathly pale.
Those feathers were Sakura's memories. After being sent to an alternate dimension with a white 'Makona' (a cute rabbit looking like thing that can travel between dimensions with people as well as 'import' and 'export' objects from different dimensions so long as the other makona receives it or gives it. The other one's black and is seen in xxxholic) who if i remember right was given by the 'dimensional' witch (Yuuko san from xxxholic) to aid his search for Sakura's memories.
Of course, as repeatedly mentioned in xxxholic, a 'price' must be paid. In this case, for Syaoran it was his sword, Sakura her memories and two others who join on their journey - Fai loses his tattoo and staff while Kurogane loses his sword.
Now, the reason they were lumped into one group together was because they essentially seek the same thing or rather the person who caused them this misery - a 'shadow' left behind of Clow Reed.
According to the story, Clow Reed loved Yuuko, but after he died and found out that Yuuko doesn't live, her froze her in time to look through all the dimensions, to find one in which Yuuko can still live. Syaoran who is with Sakura was apparently a 'fake', but as later explained was actually Syaoran's father and so we find a second Syaoran with an eye patch who tries to get rid of the first Syaoran because he's the real Syaoran and the other's a fake.
Sakura too was a fake (if you're getting confused, it's because it is confusing, so don't worry ^^) and apparently the fake Sakura and Syaoran were Syaoran's 'parents'. his real parents have his 'other' half Watanuki.
So let me explain it in order. Yuuko knew what Clow Reed's 'shadow' was trying to attempt and for it, he tried to take away Syaoran. So, to replace the Syaoran in her world, she creates Syaoran's 'other' half Watanuki, who remains with Yuuko.
Now, since Syaoran technically doesn't have parents, in an image that he takes out in the beginning when he's with 'princess Sakura' we find at the end has no one in it because no one existed for the photo to capture other than Syaoran.
Syaoran and Sakura are 'stuck' in a never ending cycle where Clow Reed tried to find a dimension in which Yuuko will continue to exist, however, that isn't possible, because once a person dies in one world, technically they will also die in the other 'world' lines. So Syaoran and Sakura travel through several dimensions where they meet people who look like people they've met but actually haven't. The one thing i couldn't figure out was why they never met themselves... unless Makona 'merged' their souls in each dimension they visited so there were never two of them?
Right at the end of the story, we find that Clow Reed despairs that Yuuko is to die and when Syaoran's parents 'die' (i believe the parents were from CCS), the story comes full circle and Yuuko disappears and Watanuki takes Yuuko's place (kind of explained when they say 'everything happens for a reason' in xxxholic).
All of this only becomes clear after you read xxxholic and CCS though :/
So, happy reading ^^
On with the review then? :)
So, if we're talking anime with some amazing instrumental tracks or with a whole lotta songs on its list, this is one of them. Personally, i love the instrumental soundtracks and also the openings and endings.
A long anime, so if you're one for a long story whose timeline sometimes confuses you and tries to mess with your head, this is it. Parts of the anime don't make sense unless you've watched xxxholic (NOT sexholic. Let's not even go down that road. xxxholic has that name probably because they wanted to draw in a more 'mature' audience... so no, no 'ecchi' or 'sex' scenes. I'm guessing the reason they wanted a mature audience was because of the content - touching on myths, kind of why certain 'rules' came about and why they're still here, etc. I'll do an in depth analysis in a review for it :) ) and cardcaptorsakura.
The reason i'm saying that is because tsubasa chronicles travels through three 'main' time lines that Clamp has already talked about. Cardcaptor sakura is mentioned only towards the end though, while xxxholic is a mention throughout.
Sakura and Syaoran were childhood friends, still are when the story begins. There is an excavation site that Syaoran is working on and for some reason, Sakura begins to resonate with it, causing her to open up a pair of 'wings' (for got to mention, Tsubasa = wings therefore Tsubasa chronicles means chronicle of the wings) and starts to sink into an emblem that looks similar to her wings when Syaoran barely manages to grab her. The feathers scatter and Sakura looks deathly pale.
Those feathers were Sakura's memories. After being sent to an alternate dimension with a white 'Makona' (a cute rabbit looking like thing that can travel between dimensions with people as well as 'import' and 'export' objects from different dimensions so long as the other makona receives it or gives it. The other one's black and is seen in xxxholic) who if i remember right was given by the 'dimensional' witch (Yuuko san from xxxholic) to aid his search for Sakura's memories.
Of course, as repeatedly mentioned in xxxholic, a 'price' must be paid. In this case, for Syaoran it was his sword, Sakura her memories and two others who join on their journey - Fai loses his tattoo and staff while Kurogane loses his sword.
Now, the reason they were lumped into one group together was because they essentially seek the same thing or rather the person who caused them this misery - a 'shadow' left behind of Clow Reed.
According to the story, Clow Reed loved Yuuko, but after he died and found out that Yuuko doesn't live, her froze her in time to look through all the dimensions, to find one in which Yuuko can still live. Syaoran who is with Sakura was apparently a 'fake', but as later explained was actually Syaoran's father and so we find a second Syaoran with an eye patch who tries to get rid of the first Syaoran because he's the real Syaoran and the other's a fake.
Sakura too was a fake (if you're getting confused, it's because it is confusing, so don't worry ^^) and apparently the fake Sakura and Syaoran were Syaoran's 'parents'. his real parents have his 'other' half Watanuki.
So let me explain it in order. Yuuko knew what Clow Reed's 'shadow' was trying to attempt and for it, he tried to take away Syaoran. So, to replace the Syaoran in her world, she creates Syaoran's 'other' half Watanuki, who remains with Yuuko.
Now, since Syaoran technically doesn't have parents, in an image that he takes out in the beginning when he's with 'princess Sakura' we find at the end has no one in it because no one existed for the photo to capture other than Syaoran.
Syaoran and Sakura are 'stuck' in a never ending cycle where Clow Reed tried to find a dimension in which Yuuko will continue to exist, however, that isn't possible, because once a person dies in one world, technically they will also die in the other 'world' lines. So Syaoran and Sakura travel through several dimensions where they meet people who look like people they've met but actually haven't. The one thing i couldn't figure out was why they never met themselves... unless Makona 'merged' their souls in each dimension they visited so there were never two of them?
Right at the end of the story, we find that Clow Reed despairs that Yuuko is to die and when Syaoran's parents 'die' (i believe the parents were from CCS), the story comes full circle and Yuuko disappears and Watanuki takes Yuuko's place (kind of explained when they say 'everything happens for a reason' in xxxholic).
All of this only becomes clear after you read xxxholic and CCS though :/
So, happy reading ^^
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