Slightly confused thoughts on recent xxxHOLiC/Tsubasa

[rallamajoop]

xxxHOLiC
I seem to be taking this chapter better than a lot of us. As heartwrenching as it is to see Watanuki in tears like that, in the end it all feels hopeful. Watanuki's still human, he finally understands that people care about him, and whatever the big secret about him is, he doesn't have to disappear for it. Also, surprised Yuuko from the last couple of pages was so very sweet.

What got to me was Watanuki listing off all these things that have been *nagging* at me all through the series - that we don't know what year he's in, that we've never heard his parents or caretakers names or seen their faces, and that he hardly interacts with anyone apart from Yuuko's customers and the spirits. And he used them all as evidence he wasn't human - maybe wasn't even real.

No, really. *Nagging* at me ever since I first got hooked on this manga.

My god, they've been planning all this all along. o_o Wow.


Tsubasa
... Another curse. Another freaking curse. >< Oh geez.

I take it all back. They just pull it all our of their arses as they go.

And I still need someone to make those Kurogane icons.

Dear CLAMP: I can has my soul back nao plz?

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I just don't even bother coming up with theories much, because I *know* CLAMP are going to throw me for a loop with whatever the reality is. ^^; What with his parents and bloodline at all, I thought we *had* an explanation for his weirdness back at the start, but it's been made pretty clear since there's way more to him than that. How that's going to fit together with his established history is what confuses me most. It does seem likely that whatever's happening to Maru and Moro must be connected to him though. Very probably whatever's happening to Real!Syaoran over in Tsubasa too.

Holic seems to come out so infrequently that I never know what time of year it's supposed to be. ^^; It seems like the least of the weirdness in that series.