Tsubasa Boy's Club Chronicle: Ha Ha Fuck You

[tea_doll]

For a while I was considering dropping TRC entirely, as it was just getting too insane and nonsensical and hard to follow for me. But I started re-reading it this week, and was in the bookstore today with a coupon, so I thought, "What the hell

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[anonymous]

Ummm... uhh.... you're sticking with TRC huh?

I found the entire end arc so very disappointing. It gets worse and a few points remain unexplained/plotholeorama.

Fortunately XXXholic recovers and tells the stories its good at telling.

- Strange_One

[tea_doll]

There's more xXxHolic goodness beyond 15? That would make me happy... I've been waiting for more for a while and I do miss the way it was at the beginning.

Tsubasa seems to be the result of the manga-ka writing themselves into a very intricately messy corner and then doing their very best to worm their ways out. I suspect that they didn't know what they were doing at the start, or changed their minds about it at some point, and this not-quite-right ending is because of that. I've seen this kind of inconsistency happen elsewhere in manga, and I believe it's an unfortunate result of trying to create a lengthy, epic story in a serialized genre.

I honestly don't expect them to explain everything at this point, and the way things are going now looks rather deus ex machina. But in their shoes, I don't know what else I would do. :/

All that aside, I'm also hoping it will end soon, and then I'll be able to see it in bookstores without "unfinished series guilt." :p

[anonymous]

Ah, gdgd. You understand it well.

They drop in a few lines that reveals the meaning of the series title, but otherwise yeah, they deus ex and ignore stuff to shoehorn in an ending.
TRC does leave something of a legacy for me though - the whole terrible anime, plus the ChiixFai fanservice episode and massive shipping force. Then a certain fact revealed in the manga and the sudden sinking of a ship. XD

On XXXHolic I'm glad that they've returned to their simple abstract paranormal folklore stories. I'm somewhat miffed at the way the lives of the characters are atm, but well - its CLAMP. Dunno if you've had a look at Bakemonogatari but those are the kind of stories the series is about. Minus the whole CLAMP crossover/multiverse baggage.

- Strange_One