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Anyone here who has read Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP?

Ive been meaning to >_< ive never gotten around to it...

its crazy how different Tokyo Babylon Subaru is to X's Subaru...

I read something on tokyopop website about working on X. I'll look it up again and post the link... maybe I read it somewhere else... either way, I'll find it and post the link.
As for clamp manga in general, I have noticed that there seem to be a cross over of characters from some manga to other manga. Is there a general order these should be read in? I've looked around on the internet and all I can ever find are comprehensive lists of all the clamp manga. I can never find something that states a logical order for the stories, and I don't know if there really is supposed to be. I'll keep looking, and if I find something before someone answers this post, then I will smile

Yeah, CLAMP often has crossovers of their characters and cameos and stuff, a lot of it is a cute little in joke, but Subaru and Seishiiro and so on are in X...

Its only been more recent, though that CLAMP has taken a serious stab at amalgamating many of their most popular characters into two series, Tsubasa and XXXholic.

There's no logical order at all, you just pick up the ones you like.
You dont even need to have much prior knowledge to enjoy Tsubasa or XXXholic, if that's your kind of thing.
But it certainly is a lot more fun if you are familiar with the characters before you've seen them in those two series :3

Tsubasa and xxxHolic are sort of like sister manga at this point. One manga takes place in one dimension and Tsubasa takes place in another. The main characters from Tsubasa are mostly from Card Captor Sakura (urgh), Syaoran, Sakura, Yuki, Tomoyo, Sakura's brother whose name I cant remember are the leads. Sakura = damsel in distress, Syaoran and some characters original to Tsubasa only embark on a journey assigned to them by the Time Witch from XXXholic to journey through different worlds in order to help Sakura regain her memories.

Soo throughought these worlds we get to see classic CLAMP characters reimagined.
I havent read much of the manga and Ive only seen the first 4 eps of the anime or so, but so far ive already seen
a) Carcaptor Sakura
- Sakura
- Syaoran
- Sakura's dad
- Clow Reed
- Yuki
- Sakura's brother

b) Rayearth
- All the mashin
- Primera
- Sanyun
- Mokona, multiples of

c) X/1999
- Shougo Asagi (movie only)
- Arashi
- Sorata

d) RG Veda
- Asura
- Souma

e) Chobits
- Chii

As I said, that's only the ones Ive seen in the first 4 eps of the anime and in snippets from the manga...
THe manga I believe is 6+ volumes...and continuuing so you can imagine a lot more characters show up...

and I have no clue why CLAMP drops their projects the way they do...I feel theyre going way too commercial for their own good and are nurturing the series that bring in a lot of merchandising cash.
X was popular but I guess it didn't have the sheer mass market potential as say a monster like...Cardcaptor Sakura, which years after its completion is still raring its mammoth, bloated head.
They dropped Gohou Drug too, which is one of my favorites and undoubtedly a very small side project... >_<

Yes... Once I thought about buying X, but as long as it isn't finished I won't spend a single Euro on it.
To be honest, I think I wouldn't buy any manga by CLAMP until it is finished, because I want to know how the manga ends.

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As far as non-Kaori Yuki manga goes, I really like Deathnote, D.Gray-man, Fruit Basket, and LevelE, not to mention a lot more. I also like CLAMP, but I haven't read any of their stuff lately.