Tsubasa 13
Posted: July 17, 2007 Filed under: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 4 Comments »Yay! We finally get some real background from one of the characters! We’ve gotten spotty hints about most of Syaoran’s life, and I suspect there’s nothing else we need to know about Sakura, but what about Kurogane and Fai? Well, CLAMP knows you would rather hear about Fai, but this entire volume is dedicated to Kurogane’s backstory.
I don’t really want to talk much about it soas not to spoil it, but it talks about him growing up with his mother and father and how he came to serve Tomoyo. In a cool twist, the kingdom has Kendappa-oh as Amaterasu and Tomoyo as Tsukuyomi, which is pretty awesome. Syaoran sees all this courtesy of a book they run across in Recourt, but other than the flashback and connecting the dots at the very end, nothing actually happens to advance the plot.
That’s okay. I’m looking forward to other things that happen a bit further down the line than this.
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i just think that at volume 14 it’s sad that we’re finally starting to see more of the PLOT. this series is developing way too slowly..but like a train wreck i just can’t bare to look away.
I agree, it is pretty slow. Things start to pick up when the characters from X come in (can’t remember, somewhere around 14-16, haven’t read 14 in English yet), and then things start to move a bit faster. That Dragonfly race, as much as I liked it, felt like several volumes worth of filler.
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This volume is certainly my fave Tsubasa book so far (even though Fai is my fave character). I NEVER thought a manga would be able to make me cry…but this one accomplished it.