I begin to suspect trying to make sense of CLAMP is a lot like trying to find the 100 pennies in the grass. Someone once told me an anecdote about a couple of clever parents who, when they wanted some relief from their kids for a while, scattered pennies in the grass and told the kids they could come back inside when they'd found all 100 pennies - and then scattered 99 pennies. Like Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, the anime has material not in the manga that confuses the through-line when you circle back I am beginning to see the point of the manga purists. However, about 90% of the way through the first omnibus (I read both volumes) the plot took a hard left turn into something more evocative of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", which I had been lulled, or bored, into not expecting, and which is why I just gave this 4 instead of 3 stars.
I got my lifetime fill of giant fighting robots very early on in my explorations of anime, so the story almost lost me there. They collect plot coupons adding up to armor and weapons upgrades resulting, inevitably, in giant fighting robots, because this was from the 90s. Three 8th-grade girls on a field trip to Tokyo Tower (man, if you ever go to Tokyo, stay away from that tower) get whisked away to a magical world and set on a quest to Save It. I was interested to see how characters and themes recycled and refined in later works had their starts. This is one of the earlier and thus foundational works in the whole teetering superstructure.
They collect plot coupons adding up to armor and weapons upg More in my explorations of the cross-connected CLAMP multiverse. More in my explorations of the cross-connected CLAMP multiverse.
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