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CLAMP: Tsubasa ch. 53-60
I keep wondering who this manga is aimed at. I'm not a CLAMP fan, but I have read the vast majority of their bibliography and I have so far recognized all characters in this manga that I was supposed to recognize. Coincidentally, that's also the only reason I have enjoyed this title -- I only care about it when the guest characters are some I cared about to begin with, like Seishiro (of Tokyo Babylon and X) or Ashura and Yasha (of RG Veda). If we assume that other people feel the same as me (and seriously, they ought to -- the main storyline of this thing is so thin it's transparant), this manga can be said to be aimed at CLAMP fans in a broad sense. But ... but ... is the average reader of Shonen Magazine a CLAMP fan?! No way, man. Then why does all the hype seem to indicate that this manga is actually popular in the magazine?!
Oh, wait. I said it. Hype. Silly me.
Anyway, to the point: after the Sei-chan arc, the 4 + 1 moved on to a land of rabbit-like creatures, which bored me to tears, and when they exited this land they ended up separated from one another in some weird Japan-esque place where they saw statues of Ashura and Yasha, and then they were sent on to a land where Ashura and Yasha are people and fighting a bloody war. Xiaolang and Sakura end up with Ashura, and Fei and Kuro-yan with Yahsa, and it seems as though Fei and Kuro-yan have forgotten who the others are.
I can't figure out if this arc really does intrigue me or if I'm just happy to see the grown-up-and-sexeh Ashura again. But who cares: King Ashura is like wow, and that's all that matters to me right now. In RG Veda he was a hermaphrodite and I suppose he still is here, with those feminine traits and flat boobs and that dance, and I can't wait for him to meet Yasha. In the pace this thing is going, that might happen around chapter 75. Also, seeing the Ashura castle made me all nostalgic for the good-ol' days when I actually liked CLAMP manga. I even miss the Gigarian style of RG Veda which I used to hate with a passion.
I suppose I'm sorta interested in seeing what has happened to Fei and Kuro-yan as well. Fei had a close connection to a certain King Ashura where he came from (if I remember correctly Few put him to sleep and that's why he had to run away?), though that was the father of the King Ashura of above paragraph -- eh, I mean ... (Dammit, why can't these kings have unique names?)
Also, I still haven't given up my hope of seeing Geo (of Magic Knight Rayearth fame) again. Nor my hope that he'll be lovey-dovey with Eagle in some other universe. I'll love CLAMP forever if it really does happen.
Category: Shonen/seinen | Posted by Alicia at November 9, 2004 12:26 PM