Manga Review: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle V.1

                                        Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle V.1Review

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is a series by Clamp that combines a lot of alternate universe versions of characters from their past works and characters that are original to this series, also it crosses over with Xxxholic. The story is about how a girl named Princess Sakura looses all of her memories after touching this symbol of wings that are on the floor of some ruins. After she looses her memories her childhood friend Syaoran (who Sakura was is in love with and he's in love with her but wasn't planning on saying anything about it since he's a commoner and she's a princess.) is sent to the time space witch(Yuuko from Xxxholic) in order to pay a price that will allow him to get Sakura's memories back which have been scattered through out many dimensions.

 There are also two other travelers that will go on this journey Kurogane a ninja who is sent away by his princess in order for him to go on a journey that will teach him to avoid unnessary death and his goal is to return to his home world. Then there's Fai a mage who is running away from his home world and is avoiding is home world through dimemsion hopping.

Syaoran, Kurogane and Fai all are forced to give up what they value the most in order to be given white Mokana who will allow them to travel through dimensions. Kurogane gives up his sword and Fai his markings, the value of these objects are not realized until later volumes of the series. Syaoran is forced to give up his relationship with Sakura which means she'll never remember him no matter how many memories she gets back.

The first world the group ends up in is the Hanshin Republic is a peaceful country in which the group stays with Sorta and Arashi( au versions of characters from X/1999). In this world all members have kuden which is an extra power.

I overall really liked the first volume and I liked what we saw of our main characters so far and all the references to Clamp's other series. I felt like there was a lot exposition but I felt like it was needed to understand the rest of the series so I don't have a problem with it. Please tell me your thoughts on the series.