Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- Tsubasa: Rezaboa Kuronikuru?) is a
shōnen manga series written and illustrated by the
manga artist group
Clamp. It takes place in the same
fictional universe as many of Clamp's other manga series, most notably
xxxHolic. The plot follows how
Sakura, the princess of the Kingdom of Clow, loses her soul and how
Syaoran, a young archaeologist who is her childhood friend, goes on a quest to save her. Dimensional Witch
Yūko Ichihara instructs him to go with two people,
Kurogane and
Fai D. Flowright.
They search for Sakura's memories, which were scattered in various
worlds in the form as feathers, as gathering them will help save her
soul.
Tsubasa was conceived when four Clamp artists wanted to
create a manga series that connected all their previous works. They took
the designs for the main protagonists from their earlier manga called
Cardcaptor Sakura.
It was serialized in the
Kodansha publication
Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 2003 until October 2009, and was collected in twenty-eight
tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an
anime series,
Tsubasa Chronicle (ツバサ･クロニクル Tsubasa Kuronikuru?), animated by
Bee Train, which aired 52 episodes over two seasons during 2005 and 2006.
Production I.G released an interlude film between the first two seasons titled
The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom, as well as five
original video animations (OVAs) between November 2007 and May 2009, which acted as a sequel to the second season. Various video games and
drama CDs based on the series have been released. The manga was licensed for English language release by
Del Rey Manga, who has released all of its volumes since April 27, 2004.
Funimation Entertainment licensed the anime for English release. They published all the TV episodes in DVD volumes as well as the film. The OVAs of
Tsubasa were released in North America in January 2011.
The series has been well received by Japanese and English readers,
and it reached high positions on various best-seller lists; the series
has sold over twenty million manga volumes in Japan as of
September 2009. Both the manga and anime have had positive response from
critics, who praised its connections to previous works and its artwork.
The plot twists in later parts of the story have been generally praised
for how they affect the overall plot as well as for being surprising.
However, they have been criticized for being confusing.
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