History Manga / TsubasaReservoirChronicle

%%* GrumpyBear: Kurogane

Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s MassiveMultiPlayerCrossover. AlternateUniverse versions of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' characters Sakura and Syaoran travel from AlternateUniverse to AlternateUniverse filled with CLAMP characters to find the [[GottaCatchThemAll scattered feathers]] that represent Princess Sakura's heart and memories.

* ActionGirl: Sakura during the second half of the Tokyo Arc. She gets to use guns!

* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Li Sakura]]. ShesAllGrownUp, and ready to kick some ass. See MamaBear below.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: This is the profession Syaoran starts with, which provides preliminary skills.
* AerialCanyonChase: In Piffle, complete with canyon-wall wipeouts.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:Fai and Yuui]]. Averted with Kamui and Subaru (probably because they're not usually related)[[note]]Oddly enough, Subaru's ''actual'' HalfIdenticalTwin sister Hokuto is nowhere to be seen[[/note]].
* AmnesiacLover: Sakura, [[spoiler:before Acid Tokyo puts the plot in a blender with LSD. It's rather unclear how much this trope is still in play afterwards]].

* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], looking at you.
* ArcWelding: Huge. For our sake, go read about it on the CCS or Tsubasa Wikis.

* BattleCouple: Li Syaoran and Sakura, Kurogane and Fai.

* BeamOWar: Sometimes used as a battle style (particularly by Syaoran when up against magical opponents).
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted to the point of BreakTheCutie in Acid Tokyo. [[spoiler:Sakura]] is scrabbed, impaled and then burned in acid. By the time [[spoiler:she returns, she's]] a bruised and bloody mess.
* BigBad: Fei Wong Reed.
* {{Bishonen}}:
** Almost all of the men who appear, though Fai in particular.
** The most girly is Tokyo's Kakyou, whom some fans still believe to be a woman. That he is [[CrossdressingVoice voiced]] by Creator/MitsukiSaiga, who is known to voice ambiguous characters, doesn't help.
** [[Manga/RGVeda Ashura]] is a subversion; although many fans interpret them as a man[[note]]No gendered pronouns are applied to Ashura in Japanese, but {{Creator/Tokyopop}}'s Manga/RGVeda translation applied male pronouns because of the lack of good, common gender-neutral pronouns in English, which led to this. However, Del Rey's ''Tsubasa'' translation preserved the lack of pronouns.[[/note]], they are [[NoBiologicalSex without any gender]].
** Celes's Ashura-ou, [[spoiler:the one Fai was so afraid would wake up]], qualifies though.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted in the ''Tokyo Revelations'' OADs. [[spoiler:Sakura fires her revolver eleven times on-screen. She has to reload after the fifth shot and runs out of ammunition after firing the six new rounds.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Most of the villagers in Koryo at one point.

* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler:The first half of the series appears to be a light-hearted TrueCompanions adventure story, and the second half is a dark twist of the first]].

* TheChessmaster: Fei Wong Reed, Yuuko, and Clow Reed are all this.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Syaoran and Sakura, though she is unable to remember him.

* CurbStompBattle: A thing that happens around Kurogane.
* CuteApproachesCamera: The Mokonas do this to wake up Shaoran.
* {{Cyberspace}}: [[spoiler: The Country of Outo]], although none of the main characters come from technologically advanced worlds, so they never suspect it. Not that it would matter if they did, since they don't know what world they go into until it's too late.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Technically Clone Syaoran is this after he dies, Real Syaoran takes the main character title.]]

* DeusAngstMachina: How to summarize the whole story in 3 words. Backstory will never NOT be angsty, especially if your name is [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], whose case is covered on the trope page.
* DistinguishingMark: Averted in a series that really needs it. [[spoiler:There is no way to tell apart the clones from the originals when they're together in the tube at the end]].

* ExpendableClone: All the clones, in Fei Wong's eyes.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Mokona. Except when in magical teleport mode or when sensing a feather.

* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:The Sakuras and Syaorans, mostly because [[ItMakesSenseInContext they're clones of each other.]]]]

* HeadPet: Mokona to Kurogane.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Kurogane, though he really doesn't need to worry about it much being the badass he is.

** Yuuko hints at being one for [[YaoiGuys Fai and Kurogane]] in Horitsuba Gakuen.

The manga was originally serialized from 2003 to 2009 in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'', ending with 233 chapters compiled into 28 volumes. There was an anime adaptation by Creator/BeeTrain that ran for 52 episodes on Creator/{{NHK}}, as well as a movie, ''Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom'', and two sets of [=OADs=], ''Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations'' (which follows the DarkerAndEdgier and BloodierAndGorier storyline of the manga) and ''Tsubasa: Shunraiki'' (again, another supporter of said storyline). The movie and [=OADs=] were done by Creator/ProductionIG. A sequel began serialization in August 2014, named ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', and WordOfGod has stated it'll be connected to ''Manga/XxxHolic Rei''. It ended in 2016 and only released two volumes.

* ActionHoggingOpening: The anime's opening makes the series is much more action-oriented than it actually is, as it is basically composed of one battle sequence after another. It includes Kurogane fighting several missile-launching spiders, Fai kicking around some Fei Wang Reed assassins, Syaoran squaring up with a bizarre rock monster, and even ''Mokona'' of all people punching a mook. Nothing of it ever happens in the series, and the fighting scenes in the anime are few and limited.

* ShoutOut: Oh so many to other CLAMP series, and a few to other series like ''Cat's Eye'' and other mediums like old ''WackyRacers'' cartoons. Edges dangerously close to {{Crossover}} in some cases.
** HighSchoolAU ''Horitsuba Gakuen'' has Yuuko using ''Anime/SailorMoon's'' CatchPhrase ''"_____ I'll punish you!"'' when she sends Fai and Kurogane on a treasure hunt across campus. She even imitates Usagi's way of saying it.

* ShoutOut: Acid Tokyo is a world turned into a desert where there's little water, characters live in protected places, and giant "mutants" of the SandWorm class roam the terrain. The references to Creator/FrankHerbert's ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are not very subtle here.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Spanish dub pulls such an amazingly unsubtle one that it is impossible not to think they actually gave a crap about the radar. When Fai pokes Kurogane in the cheek in their walk through Outo, the original sees him doing an innocent, generic taunt, but the Spanish dub has him saying a lingo expression meaning "I just sexually penetrated you". As if the shippers needed more...

This is a completed manga series, ending with 233 chapters organized into 28 volumes. There was an anime adaptation by Creator/BeeTrain that ran for 52 episodes on Creator/{{NHK}}, as well as a movie, ''Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom'', and two sets of [=OADs=], ''Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations'' (which follows the DarkerAndEdgier and BloodierAndGorier storyline of the manga) and ''Tsubasa: Shunraiki'' (again, another supporter of said storyline). The movie and [=OADs=] were done by Creator/ProductionIG. A sequel began serialization in August 2014, named ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'', and WordOfGod has stated it'll be connected to ''Manga/XxxHolic Rei''. It ended in 2016 and only released two volumes.

* OneHundredAndEight: Apparently, Mokona has 108 special abilities.

* CastingGag: Syaoran's voice actor, Creator/MiyuIrino, started travelling across dimensions in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' as a young brown-haired kid.

** This [[http://i33.tinypic.com/155kps5.png flowchart]] might help. (Spoilers behind link.)

* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Hello, [[spoiler: [[AngstySurvivingTwin Fai D. Fluorite]]]]... or should we say [[spoiler: Yuui]].

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* BattleCouple: Li Syaoran and Sakura.

* CanNotSpitItOut: In a way a little different from most uses of the trope, Yuuko's price for helping Sakura and Syaoran was their past relationship. Any time Sakura realizes her past feelings for Syaoran and tries to tell him, her memory of that is instantly removed, resulting in {{UnConfession}}s.

* CanonDisContinuity: In the anime. ''Tokyo Revelations'' picks up immediately after the escape from the Lecourt library, ignoring the filler arcs from the broadcast series.

* TheComicallySerious: A couple characters, such as Syaoran, have some degree this. Kurogane is the most prominent, and a great deal of the humor in the series comes from his serious reaction to Fai's and Mokona's provocations.

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Fai and Yuui]], only because people only ''thought'' they meant "bad luck" for them.

* {{Doppelganger}}: Needs a separate line as it's rather unique here. There are 3 versions of [[spoiler:Syaoran (Watanuki included)]] and 3 (yes, ''three'') versions of [[spoiler:Sakura]]. And don't bother counting how many AlternateUniverse versions of all Creator/{{CLAMP}} characters there are.

* EveryoneIsRelated: All the [[spoiler:Sakuras, Syaorans, Watanuki ''and'' the BigBad are descendants of Clow]].

* FearfulSymmetry: Both [[spoiler:Syaorans]] share the same fighting techniques. Whenever they fight, they spend most of the time simply cancelling each others' attacks. In their second fight, [[spoiler:the clone wins because Fai's magic is stronger than Real Syaoran's.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: A lot, usually Mokona antagonizing Kurogane (such as stealing his food in the Hanshin arc.)

* GambitRoulette: At least four different characters are running semi-independent {{plan}}s: [[spoiler: Clow, Fei Wong Reed, Yuuko, and (very much contrary to what we believed at the beginning of the series) Real Syaoran]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Spanish dub pulls one so amazingly unsubtle that one wonders if they were conscient of the radar itself. When Fai pokes Kurogane in the cheek in their walk through Outo, the original sees him doing an unrelated, non-sexual joke, but the Spanish version has him saying a lingo version of "I just penetrated you". As if shippers needed more...

* GottaCatchThemAll: Collecting the feathers, [[spoiler:which has since been revealed as a colossal McGuffin to keep them on track in the BigBad's plans. Fai was aware of this from the start.]]

* GuiltComplex: [[spoiler:Syaoran. He blames himself for everything that happened, because of his decision to rewind time when he was seven. This includes Sakura being taken away by Fei Wong Reed, Fai's being born a twin and therefore being a cause of misfortune, Kurogane's mother's death, and Watanuki, most of which happened before he was born. [[TimeyWimeyBall Probably]]. He blames himself because the BigBad implies that his rewinding time gave him a free reign, but in reality it was his only option, he was pretty much manipulated by Fei Wong Reed and had no control over what Fei Wong did making use of the altered timeline, and there is no way the poor kid could've known all the ramifications that were possible from his one wish, anyway. [[MindScrew Heck, even the readers don't quite understand all the ramifications]]]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Clone Sakura and Syaoran. The latter attempts to pull a TakingYouWithMe on Fei Wong Reed. He gets better, since as a clone he could not truly die. And then the clones die again as Sakura and Syaoran Li, this time opening a hole in the space he, Real Syaoran, and Watanuki were, allowing them to escape. Clone Sakura dies at the same time.]]

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Kurogane, though he really doesn't need to worry about it much being the Badass he is.
* IdenticalGrandson: Or son, really, being [[spoiler:Syaoran Li and his son Tsubasa, a.k.a. Real Syaoran]]. Kurogane and his father also look remarkably alike, the main difference being stubble and a ponytail on the latter.

* IKnowYourTrueName: The power of names is explicitly so great that ''none'' of the protagonists are using their real names except [[spoiler: the clones]], whose real names are [[spoiler: the false aliases the originals use]].

* ActionHoggingOpening: The anime's opening can easily lead viewers to believe the series is much more action oriented than it actually is, as it is basically composed of one battle sequence after another. It includes Kurogane fighting several missile-launching spiders, Fai kicking around some Fei Wang Reed assassins, Syaoran squaring up with a bizarre rock monster, and even ''Mokona'' of all people punching a mook. Nothing of it happens in the series, and the fighting scenes of the anime are few and often circumstantially limited.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the original manga ending, [[spoiler:the BigBad may be gone, and the Princess may be staying home this time, but Syaoran, Mokona, Kurogane, and Fai are still [[WalkingTheEarth walking the multiverse]] looking for the feathers. This time, however, is to restore ''two'' people rather than one. Also, they're looking for bodies for those two people along the way, but that's secondary to the feathers]].

* ArtifactAlias: Fai continues using this name, even after it it revealed that he is actually [[spoiler: Fai's twin brother Yuui]].

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Late in the story it's revealed that Syaoran fights mainly with kicks due to having a poor vision on one of his eyes, which he resolves by measuring out the distance to his opponent with his legs. In realistic fighting, this would be almost the opposite case - a fighter would risk his balance and defense if he threw commited, long-range attacks without a good accuracy, so the most adequate style for a person with poor vision would be actually a short-ranged, preferably grappling-based one. In other words, this is the reason why in real life judo is a popular sport for blind athletes and taekwondo isn't.
** That said, Syaoran is practically superhuman both in his kicks and otherwise and routinely pulls off feats well beyond a normal athlete, so those problems aren't necessarily the same for him.
* ArtShift: Besides the change of production studios between the series and OVAs, there is an episode which shifts the art to a crazy comical art style of a storybook.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Both [[spoiler:Syaorans]] have the exact same DNA, 50% of which appeared out of nowhere.
* AsYouKnow: The first chapter had some very artificial-sounding dialogue to fill readers in about the backstory of Sakura and Syaoran.
** Infinity had some as well, to explain the chess game.
* BackFromTheDead: Subversion; an {{Aesop}} for this series is that this cannot ever happen. Bee Train (the anime production company) created a {{filler}} episode where it did, and the plot forced them to {{retcon}} it.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Mokona's line when opening a portal to other dimension, "Mokona Modoki Modoki Doki," is pretty much one of the most iconic quotes in the series, to the extent many dubs and merchandising articles turn it into her full-fledged CatchPhrase. However, many people are surprised to know that the line actually belongs only to the anime adaptation; in the manga, the line is never uttered at all.

* {{Bishonen}}: Almost all of the men who appear.
** Fai in particular.

* BreakTheCutie: Used several times, and subverted with [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]], because [[spoiler:it turns out he was ''already'' broken and it was an act]].

* BrickJoke: At the beginning, Fai mentions he can't whistle and substitutes a "hyuu~" sound for it. [[spoiler:14 volumes of "hyuu~"-ing later, he DOES whistle for a spell to save the gang's lives]].

* BruceLeeClone: Syaoran. He even has a special fighting system based on kicking [[spoiler:to compensate for his lack of depth perception]].

* MindScrew: '''Several orders of it''', with ''no chance'' of screw driving. Really, Creator/{{CLAMP}} deserve a ''special award'' and maybe a even new trope like Mind Screw Pileup. For the sake of your sanity, do not, we repeat, DO NOT try to understand the story. Not to mention incredible amounts of ArcWelding and CanonWelding. It's mentioned repeatedly that [[spoiler:time and space and ''reason'' have been destroyed (possibly) by [[BigBad Fei-Wang Reed's]] EvilPlan / RealityBreakingParadox / TimeStandsStill...thing, resulting in multiple paradoxes.]]

** Partial in chapter 220: [[spoiler: Yuuko has said that she will bring C!Sakura and C!Syaoran back to life--but that this is only possible because they were created beings, and thus could not enter the reincarnation cycle, hence requiring Yuuko and Clow to fork over payment for them to be reincarnated]].

** Seishiro makes a comment on [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran's remarkable resemblance to his father, whom he has met before. [[spoiler:Fast forward to [[WhamEpisode Chapter 223]] and suddenly that remark takes on a [[MyOwnGrampa whole new meaning]]]].

** And even before that, [[spoiler:both R! and C!]] Sakura's attempts at a LoveConfession.

** Whatever happened to [[spoiler:Sakura's memories of Syaoran]] anyway? By the second half of the series, the issue seems moot. However, in the epilogue, [[spoiler:Mokona gives the gang Larg's (the black Mokona's) earring. Because it contains C!Sakura's memories of C!Syaoran, along with Watanuki's memories of his parents, they will be taken back to both Clow Country and to the shop much more often than any other worlds. It's implied that they will also revisit most or all of the worlds they have been through before]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[spoiler:The body of R!Sakura-2 (for want of a better label) was taken away and merged with the cloned soul, while the original soul of R!Sakura-2 ended up in the BigBad's own tube, but is never mentioned again. Or what happened to that tube. Yes, there were '''three''' Sakuras]]. This makes it hard to explain [[spoiler:the Sakuras' [[FusionDance body merging]]-cum-[[FreakyFridayFlip swapping]]]]. Not to mention complicating the [[spoiler:Cloney/C!Sakura]] relationship and forcing the use of extensive spoilers in a desperate attempt to reduce reader confusion.

* ContinuityCameo: Scores, but of particular note are [[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Hikaru, Umi and Fuu]] as [[spoiler:C!Sakura's]] classmates in an alternate world.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Technically C!Syaoran is this after he dies, R!Syaoran takes the main character title.]]

** [[spoiler:An alternate Clow Country with an alternate R!Sakura was created when R!Syaoran turned back the clock while the original Clow Country went into a loop with the first R!Sakura frozen in the ruins. Check [[http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Events these]] [[http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/%22Sakura%22 out]]]].
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Chapter 187. [[spoiler:The Sakura whom R!Syaoran was always with and the Sakura whom he saw through the clone's eye. The second one was actually cloned]]. See WhatHappenedToTheMouse below.

* EyeScream: At least twice, with one more implied. First chronologically: [[spoiler:R!Syaoran rips his eye out, seals half his soul into it, and implants it in his clone to foil Fei Wong's plans]]. Second: [[spoiler:When Syaoran's seal breaks, the newly soulless clone rips out Fai's eye to gain half his magic power]]. Implied: [[spoiler:Seishirou]] is known to have given up sight in one eye to gain the ability to cross dimensions.

* FearfulSymmetry: Both [[spoiler:Syaorans]] share the same fighting techniques. Whenever they fight, they spend most of the time simply cancelling each others' attacks. In their second fight, [[spoiler:the clone wins because Fai's magic is stronger than R!Syaoran's.]]

* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:When C!Syaoran and C!Sakura seal themselves in the tube, they reverse in age from adults back to 14 years old and become identical to the originals, right down to the clothes]].

** [[spoiler:C!Syaoran, after killing C!Sakura. Especially since it's heavily implied that this is how he regained his heart]].

* FreakyFridayFlip: This one's a ''very weird'' example. [[spoiler:C!Sakura and R!Sakura]] "swap" bodies between themselves at one point. What makes it freaky is that ''the bodies are, of course, [[spoiler:completely identical]]''. Basically [[spoiler:R!Sakura merged with C!Sakura's body while C!Sakura's soul entered the body of the R!Sakura that Fei Wong lost during the cloning process]].

* FusionDance: [[spoiler:R!Sakura merging with C!Sakura's old body]] and becoming her 14-year old self as timelines reconnected.

* GambitRoulette: At least four different characters are running semi-independent {{plan}}s: [[spoiler: Clow, Fei Wong Reed, Yuuko, and (very much contrary to what we believed at the beginning of the series) R!Syaoran]].

** [[spoiler:C!]]Syaoran is the adopted son of Fujitaka, an archaeologist, in Clow Country[[spoiler:'s altered timeline]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:C!Sakura and Syaoran. The latter attempts to pull a TakingYouWithMe on Fei Wong Reed. He gets better, since as a clone he could not truly die. And then the clones die again as Sakura and Syaoran Li, this time opening a hole in the space he, R!Syaoran, and Watanuki were, allowing them to escape. C!Sakura dies at the same time.]]
** [[spoiler: C!Syaoran in fact returns about ''5 minutes'' after his first heroic sacrifice as Syaoran Li, along with C!Sakura, only to let everyone know he's waited a whole lifetime to pull out a ''second'' one. And to drive home their identity they now look '''exactly identical''' to the originals, so much so that at one place even the authors mixed up a piece of dialogue. R!Syaoran's expression when he realizes who're who's parents is priceless.]]

* IdenticalGrandson: Or son, really, being [[spoiler:Syaoran Li and his son Tsubasa, a.k.a. R!Syaoran]]. Kurogane and his father also look remarkably alike, the main difference being stubble and a ponytail on the latter.

** [[spoiler:This is because Syaoran Li is the reincarnation of R!Syaoran's clone. Yes.]]

** [[spoiler: R!Syaoran and R!Sakura both have the real name of Tsubasa, Kurogane's real name is Youou, and Fai's real name is Yuui. Even Mokona's real name is Soel.]]

* LeftHanging: '''Major one here'''. Sakura and the whole of Clow Country are themselves a paradox as [[spoiler: they too existed only thanks to the [[StableTimeLoop Stable Time Loops]] RetGone C!Sakura established, having left her feather in the Tokyo reservoir. R!Sakura even admits this while they're trapped by BigBad in his tube. Now that the loops have ceased to exist with the clones RetGone, apparently only R!Syaoran & Watanuki have to pay a price for having to exist as a paradox.]]

* MagicalEye: [[spoiler:Fai's eyes are the source of his magic power. When C!Syaoran takes one, only one of his eyes turns blue.]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: R!Syaoran and Sakura both have the real name of Tsubasa, which means "wings." There are two of them. It also means the title of the series is actually a character's name, although the character doesn't appear until halfway through the series.]]

** Not to mention that [[spoiler: R!Syaoran's wish to save Sakura's life was the thing that started breaking causality. He even states himself that it's possible that his tampering is what lead to everyone else's life being a mess. Luckily, they forgive him.]]

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Usually averted, with corpses lingering unpleasantly (backstory flashbacks, anyone?). Two notable occasions when it is played straight: [[spoiler:the body of the real Fai dissolves into dust when the feather is removed and Fei Wong tells us that real!Sakura's body dissolved after being magically cloned]].

** Also happened with [[spoiler:C!Syaoran dying in chapter 210]] and even more recently with [[spoiler: Fei Wong Reed and Sakura and Syaoran Li.]]

** To show just how much power shedding he had to do, [[spoiler: He put a huge part of his powers and abilities in all the Clow Cards. Then he paid for C!Syaoran's reincarnation with his magic, enough magic for Cloney to even stop TheBigBad's moves! Then he needed to split his soul in two. And even then mind you...he STILL had so much '''leftover''' power and abilities remaining when he reincarnated as Eriol (even without the cards if he could affect an entire city) and ultimately split his power between himself and CCS Sakura's father Fujitaka, only after which he was no longer the strongest in the world.]]
** Fai D. Flourite is one of the most magically powerful characters in the CLAMP-verse, beaten out only by Clow Reed, Yuuko, possibly Fei Wong Reed, possibly Sakura with all her feathers, and possibly CCS Sakura when she has full control of her magic. [[spoiler: When C!Syaoran steals one of his eyes and thus half his strength, his magic was still stronger than a majority of the main cast.]] The catch is he's cursed to kill the first person he meets [[spoiler: in person]] who is more powerful than he is.

** [[spoiler: One is responsible for Sakura and Clow country's existence. C!Sakura's feathers are scattered across the dimensions, she travels back in time and leaves one of her feathers in Tokyo. This prevents the destruction of the Tokyo government building, and humanity can survive. Hundreds of years later, Tokyo has slowly transformed into Clow Country, Sakura is born and cloned, C!Sakura's feathers are scattered...]]

* StarCrossedLovers: Played straight and averted with [[spoiler:the Sakuras and Syaorans. In the end, R!Syaoran becomes a FlyingDutchman although he will return more often to Clow Country than any other world. Sakura stays home as going with him would only make things worse.]]

** Perhaps should be called Thirty Relationships pileup after what happened. For starters, draw it right and it turns out poor [[spoiler:R!Syaoran has become related to himself in ''FOUR different ways'']]. It doesn't help that CLAMP kept adding more and more cross-relationships as the story progressed.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: An alternate [[spoiler:R!Sakura]] from an altered [[spoiler:Clow Country which came into being after R!Syaoran's wish split the timeline creating an alternate Clow Country]], came into being out of nowhere and was actually the one [[spoiler:cloned (the original R!Sakura was frozen in time).]] Her fate is not resolved.

** The [[FetishFuel Infinity arc]] makes...well, ''everyone'' into this.

Just after Sakura decides to finally tell Syaoran her feelings for him, she's drawn to some [[LostTechnology ancient ruins]] on the outskirts of the city. After stepping on a symbol drawn on the floor, she seems to sprout ghostly wings, which then dissolve into feathers and vanish as Syaoran tries to save her. This causes Sakura to fall into an unwakeable sleep. The High Priest of Clow, Yukito, realizes that these feathers are the pieces of her soul. They have been scattered across the worlds, leaving Sakura an empty shell. In order to save her, he sends Sakura and Syaoran to the only person that can help her--Yuuko, the Dimension Witch. She agrees to help them, for a hefty price.

Two others have been sent to Yuuko. The wizard Fai D. Flourite has fled his home world after sealing away the [[PhysicalGod god]] Ashura, and fears that Ashura will wake up [[MysteriousPast for some reason]]. His goal is to stay as far away from his home world as possible and never return. The {{ninja}} Kurogane, on the other hand, is the opposite; he was banished from his own world for being too bloodthirsty, and his princess, Tomoyo, wants him to learn more about true strength before he can return. Frankly, he couldn't care less; he just wants to go home.

''Tsubasa'' has a sister series, ''Manga/XxxHolic'', which focuses on the Dimension Witch and her indentured servant, Watanuki. The plots of the two stories are deeply intertwined and characters have been known to cross between the two.