xxxholic
When I
first saw XXXHOLiC, I was already a big fan of CLAMP, already cursing them because
they aren’t finishing X, so with curiosity of a cat, I downloaded the
first chapter and there I was like petrified by the art and the characters…
I still don’t know how they manage to make me love even female characters,
and XXXHOLiC has the most wonderful characters ever. And XXXHOLiC has something
that I seek in my manga’s, it has fantastic characters, great design and
SUPERNATURAL and mystic. If you want to find a decent braineating mystic stuff,
then that’s this series. Besides this XXXHOLiC is peculiar in another
way, together with Tsubasa Reservoir makes a story, crossovers from one to another,
and if you actually want to understand completely what’s happening, you
have to read both.
I’m still sure that when the CLAMP came up with this series, definitely were on some crack. Anyway let’s get down at what I love of this series, I think I’ll make few points divided in story, characters and design.
As always we have a protagonist, that as in all CLAMP stories is a werdo, who
attracts the spirits and then something leads him to a strange shop with even
a stranger shop keeper. And to have his wish granted he needs to work for her,
doing all the strange jobs she makes him to, and later without even realizing
he begins alone to work on the jobs, offering himself. The best part of the
story is the fact how people and creatures meet and then bond, and their bonds
grow stronger and stronger from volume to volume. At how the story teaches you
how to value everything that happens in your life, because that makes you grow,
become stronger and more mature. At how relationships in your life happen because
they have to happen so you can go on, because they give you something to learn,
because everything that happens makes you learn, even the mistakes… I
could go analyzing them like all night and writing a whole report on the fact
what else this story can give you other then plenty of fun, laughing, being
afraid, suspense and mystery. To wait that the new chapters appear so you can
read to see what happen, and then they leave you at one evil clifage when you
cry for more, because it can happen the worse or the best, you actually never
can expect something from them, even if after 15 years of knowing CLAMP I can
normally guess at long lines what would have happen, even if they… in
this series managed to surprise the hell out of me, and also to scare me about
the future of my favorite character (ok, it’s true that I have to stop
loving characters, because when I adore them normally die) . Something that
I love of this series is how deep are the characters that appear more then once,
from Watanuki, to Yuuko, Doumeki, even Himawari and the Ame Warashi along with
Zashiki Warashi. To see their force and how they are prepared to risk everything
for what they believe, how they try to help each other in their own way, showing
their strengths.