Tsubasa Chronicle

Ok, so I actually watched the first season of this anime as it aired two years ago. The premise is, the heroes have to go from dimension to dimension finding this Princess's feathers (which represent her memories) because they were scattered throughout the different worlds. Kind of reminds me of Inu Yasha, endless hunt for an unknown number of objects. The strange thing is CLAMP used many characters from all of their previous works instead of making new ones. These characters are from different "worlds" so they have no involvement with the originals from CLAMP's other work. Two of the main characters (along with many other characters) are from Card Captor Sakura.

So anyway, the show was decent, lots of interesting plot lines. However, the season just kind of ended without much of a resolution. Nothing was really explained and they were just like...we'll be back next season! So I didn't bother picking up season 2, as season 1 had been your pretty standard adventure anime.

However, recently I went back and read the manga and it certainly got a lot better. Lots of developments with the characters and plot. As usual CLAMP's characters designs are interesting, and the style of the manga is very cool (it doesn't really show through in the anime). From the first season of the anime I got the impression that we were never really going to learn about the character's pasts until the end, but I was shown to be wrong. The manga has shown more detail about each character's past, some of them extensively. There have also been other major changes but I can't really say anything without ruining it.

I haven't been able to get my hands on season 2 of the anime yet, but given how much better the manga got I am going to give it a try when I can. Interestingly enough, there is a cross over manga (and anime) xxxHolic also by CLAMP which features many of the same characters (most notably The Dimension Witch) which is currently running. The two works frequently reference events in eachother as they run parallel in time.

I've taken to reading xxxHolic since I have run out of Tsubasa Chronicle, but I don't enjoy it as much as TC. I don't think I would read it if it weren't for the references to TC, it is about Kimihiro Watanuki, a high school student in Japan (of course) who always happens to have weird things happen to him (of course). He accidentally stumbles upon the Dimension Witch's house one day (of course) and things get weirder from there. I can't really recommend checking it out unless you are already interesting in Tsubasa Chronicle.