Tsubasa Chronicle chapter.... whatever.

[nenena]

This week in Tsubasa: Absolutely. Nothing. Happened.

Oh, wow CLAMP. Just wow.

Fay and Tomoyo had a conversation that consisted entirely of repeating things that had already been said in previous chapters. Syaoran and Seishirou fought the most boring battle in the series yet. Kurogane made pithy observations about character development which had already been established three chapters ago.

And Fuuma stood around and did nothing.

Plus, everybody seems to have completely forgotten about Sakura.

In short: Despite the fact that there as A) some swashbuckling and B) a lot of standing around and talking, absolutely nothing happened to advance the plot. Nothing new was revealed. Nothing happened to the characters. We didn't even get any cutesy fanservice to make up for the lack of progression!

CLAMP, you should know better. Especially if you're going to have Fay and Tomoyo standing around and talking to each other for ten pages. Please give them something new to say, don't just have them rehash the plot developments of the past four chapters in long boring chunks of exposition. Aaaaaand now I'm flashing back to the very first chapter of Tsubasa:

SAKURA: Syaoran!
SYAORAN: Greetings, Sakura, my childhood friend!
SAKURA: I shall now explain everything about our shared childhood to you, even though you lived through it and don't seem to be suffering from any inexplicable amnesia so there's no sensible reason for me to be telling you these things!
SYAORAN: LOL AWKWARD EXPOSITION I love you Sakura.
SAKURA: What?
SYAORAN: Nothing.

I know, I know. I love this series, but for some reason I can't seem to stop mocking it.

Comments

[peachyindeed.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's why it took me 14 volumes to really get into it. The first 10 or so were pretty, but so generic! I really couldn't feel bad for Sakura after so many volumes of "oh the tragedy, you'll never remember Syaoran". Well whatever. Took 'em long enough to explain his super-mysterious past. It's the shocking twists that I read Tsubasa for, but they require so much set up.

[ladykleo.livejournal.com]

I actually don't understand the purpose of half of the recent chapters. Luckily, I read them not right after they're released, but once per a couple of months in a bunch, so I can see some plot development every time I read it.