Mine was Magic Knight Rayearth, first read in middle school and was hooked by the story and gorgeous art ! Especially the eyes , I have always loved the way Clamp makes their eyes so big and unique and so expressive all at once .
I was cleaning out my desk drawers so I can now store my adult coloring books & other art supplies in them. I was also cleaning out my cubby things for my manga.
Look what I found.
>!Does the real Sakura have all of clone Sakura's experiences at the end of the series after gaining clone Sakura's memories and is it technical incest if she is dating technically her own child? !<
It was actually hard to find things in stores. So I ordered these off Japanese Amazon’s second hand market and got them delivered to my hotel! 🥰
Back in the day when I was a teenager, I was (and still kind of am) obsessed with X. But I have never been a big merch collector and strict parents when it came to posters/art on my walls. I found a set of X playing cards at my local comic shop and stumbled across them again today as I was reorganizing some things. Thought I’d share.
I first saw this years ago in high school at a Borders and I wish I had bought it because I never saw it again until now and I couldn’t remember the name either , just the lovely cover . Well now I finally have it and can’t wait to read it .
I really hope they eventually decide to redo RG Veda and actually do a faithful adaptation of TRC.
I’m packing so I wanted to show my CLAMP manga/artbook collection before it goes into boxes.
I’ve been working on this for at least 20 years, with The Clow book and cards probably my first purchase (from a Blockbusters I think) to spare volumes of Chobits and Wish, until I got serious with xxxHolic (bought as it came out in the U.S.).
I think I have every series published in the US, including some CLAMP-adjacent works (made by ex-members).
I think I’m only missing Hyper Rune vol 4 and the Legend of the Dragon Kings vol 2 to complete all series made by CLAMP/ex-CLAMP members published in a romance language (I have Rex and Combination in Italian, Dragon Kings in French).
Probably missing some artbooks, but I think I have all the U.S. published ones, and a few Japanese ones.
Let me know if you think I’m missing something!
I've watched most of the original but find it kinda a slog. Would reading the mange be better? Does anyone know where I could read it or purchase the books?
I found my old chobits cards(except 1),does anyone collect them? Are they worth anything to anyone? Do any of you have some?
Let’s talk about it!
I've been reflecting on this specific manga for a bit and while I do think it has many other issues such as pacing or tone shifts, my biggest problem is with Kamui, Fuuma and Kotori to an extent
The best part about X for me was the characters. Almost everyone has their own reasons for their actions and dynamics with others and their all done well. Arashi and Sorata are great, Yuzuriha and Satsuki's confrontation is thought provoking, Kakyou and Nataku are interesting by themselves and everything with Subaru and Seishirou... really good stuff. The character drama is the highlight of X for me.
Kamui, Fuuma and Kotori on the other hand... feel lacklustre and bland? CLAMP seem to have been trying to do the same thing with Tokyo Babylon's ending with the first 8 volumes but we barely knew or learnt anything about Kotori or Fuuma during then(not helped by Nanase saying that the first 8 volumes could have been cut down to 3, which yes they very much could have) so when Kotori died and the twist with Fuuma happened i felt nothing cause I had no attachment nor did i know anything about them, infact, we still know basically nothing about Fuuma during the second half but im supposed to care about him because Kamui does? X has all these great characters with great side plots yet Kamui and Fuuma's conflict is the most important one despite it being the least interesting to me. You can give me lots of symbolism, double spreads about them being "the two kamuis" or "the twin star" or about fate and destiny in general but outside of the symbolism, they don't really have much else going for them
Fuuma is a plank piece of wood for the first 8 volumes, then is a wish granter for the rest and aside from a couple cryptic words that is his whole character. Kamui is kind of interesting in the first half and then after that only cares about Fuuma. The story tries to give him more people to care about such as Keichii and Subaru but ultimately all he cares about Fuuma and since I don't care about Fuuma I don't care about Kamui either. And Kotori...I mean she was there. Again all the side characters are great but I just wish Kamui and Fuuma had more going on for them cause they drag what could have been a really good manga. I think having Kamui bond more with the other DOH at the start and second half would have helped and for Fuuma... I honestly don't know what CLAMP was trying to go for with his character outside of being a plot device(doesn't help that he also just kinda exists in tsubasa in comparison to everyone else)
Basically the main protagonist and antagonist is the weakest part of the story and I'd rather spend time with characters like Yuzuriha, Arashi, Kakyou, Satsuki or literally anybody else. Alteast Fuuma gives other characters good moments but when Kamui is in focus i just wanna snore
Also can I just say I wish Subaru and Seishirou weren't in X? Not cause they were bad but because they were too good. Nanase said they were added in X to parallel/boost Kamui and Fuuma which is ridiculous to me cause Seisub are the far more compelling characters and have the more compelling relationship than anything Fuukam has had in all of the thousands of pages X has had. Subaru and Seishirou should have gotten another manga for themselves and X could have worked without them