Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Concluding the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Volume 28

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 28 by CLAMP

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And so the great Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle read through has come to an end.  Shout out to William Flanagan, who wrote the English translation for all twenty eight volumes, churning out translations to keep pace with the publications in Japan.  At the end of each volume he would include some translation notes, sometimes explaining a cultural norm, or showing the process of how he came to use the translation chosen for a particular section.  The writer/artist collective CLAMP used Tsubasa as a way to mix […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 23 – 27

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 23 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 24 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 25 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 26 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 27 by CLAMP

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Volume 23 – The original and the copy are going at it in dreams, Sakura is horrified by their actions.  Everyone outside the dreaming is waiting impatiently, as there is nothing they can do.  Original Syaoran has fallen and Sakura runs to his side.  Copy Syaoran even goes so far as to wound Sakura in his quest to get the feather inside O-Syaoran.  Fei-Wang Reed goads C-Syaoran saying that Sakura’s soul is not important to his plans (only her body is necessary) so go ahead and […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 17 – 22

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 17 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 18 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 19 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 20 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 21 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 22 by CLAMP

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Volume 17 – In all the fighting, and teleporting, in and out of the cistern, the water reservoir has been nearly depleted.  Yuko can fill the reservoir and save Fai’s life but it involves people asking for wishes and being able to fulfill payment for the wish.  The end result is that Fai, despite his desire to die, will be saved by being made into a vampire with Kamui’s blood.  But because it is Kurogane’s wish, he must take responsibility for Fai, as such the only […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

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Why this all began,  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles read through. Volume 14 – The volume opens with Yuko and Fei-Wang Reed throwing verbal barbs at one another while magically communicating across dimensions.  In Recort, Syaoran and Kurogane discuss the discovery that the people who killed Kurogane’s mother and attacked Syaoran’s country are from the same dimension.  This adds a new reason to keep dimension hopping. Sakura and Fai have been investigating and learned that the book that allowed Syaoran to see Kurogane’s memory is literally called, ‘the […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 7 – 13

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 7 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 8 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 9 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 10 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 11 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 12 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 13 by CLAMP

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Here is the start of my Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles volumes 1-6 journey if you’re curious as to how this started.  The manga is rated 13+ but when I let my seven year old start reading it I couldn’t think of anything that would be inappropriate.  However, on this re-read I believe the rating is due to alcohol consumption.  It doesn’t happen often but the characters do indulge from time to time.  And as the ages of Syaoran and Sakura are not stated, and they seem […]

In which I begin my attempt to read and review all 28 of the manga, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Starting with 1-6

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 1 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 2 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 3 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 4 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 5 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 6 by CLAMP

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I began reading and collecting Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle when it was first released in 2004.  It is written and drawn by my favorite manga collective, CLAMP, a four woman team of artists and writers.  Over the years I slowed down my collecting but always intended to get the entire series.  When Borders went out of business, I grabbed as many of my missing volumes as they had but was four short of all twenty-eight.  Fast forward quite a few years later and my eight year old […]



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