Jul 19, 2008
This is my first review. The first of several, I hope.
Four characters: Shaoran, the unconsciouss Sakura, the magician Fai and the ninja Kurogane, finds themselves thrown together by fate, sent on a journey to either finish a quest or furfill dreams.
This is the opening to CLAMP's latest epic tale, sometimes reffered to as a follow-up to Cardcaptor Sakura, more often reffered to as a crossover to xxxHolic.
It begins as any other manga would, four people with a mission. They face discoveries, dangers and soon become fond of each other, in their own way.
You
...
know why I love this manga so much?
Because then it goes straight up shit creek.
Characters that before were sure of themselves quiver in doubt, what before seemed right now is wrong, and appearances DOES deceive. Unavoidably, utterly and all too cruelly. There are no heroes, there are no chosen ones - there are only people, people with goals, dreams and determination and people who are mortal.
The art stands in sharp contrast to that displayed in Cardcaptor Sakura and even more xxxHolic. The art in TRC is sweeping, rash and bulging with impact - it sports a feeling of shonen and action, but it doen't lack subtle details. Where xxxHolic uses straight lines and even panels, TRC often spreads out over the entire page. Soundeffects and close-ups roar over the paper, the panels are often disformed.
It is very, very expressional. And professional, as it always is from CLAMP.
The characters are half the story. Their throughs, their pasts, their manners, their choices - everything is involved. There isn't any comic-relief-type that is happy just for happiness sake, or long, dark emo-types that speaks in huffs and sharp glares because they somehow was born that way, far from it. They are people, and they have their own problems. They change. They lie.
Well, the enjoyment...judging from my way to describe this manga, and looking at my scores, I guess you know what I will write here.
It is just ment to lose yourself in.
And the overall verdict? Epic was the word ment to describe this comic.
A last comment about CLAMP's 'multiverse', as a friend of mine so fittingly put it; CLAMP borrows a fair deal of their own characters to TRC, and even though one could think that this is some kind of laziness or advertisement for other comics from the creators' side, I think that this is planned since a long time. Or maybe it's just fanservice. Judge it the way you want. TRC has its own crew of original characters that are just as alive as the older ones, and that is all that matters to me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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