Tsubasa Chronicle 4-6

3 more volumes of Tsubasa, and after the excellent start I was certainly ready for more.

With volume 4 wrapping up the tail end of preceding events, the group are trasnported to a creepy, Sleepy-Hollow-esque adventure, with ghosts and missing children to contend with. It's also interesting to learn that Sakura's memories can travel through time as well as dimensions, with some feathers having existed for hundreds of years in some worlds, and mere moments in others, opening up a wealth of storytelling possibilities.

Volumes 4 and 5 begin a longer arc, with the group transported to a world where everyone has a job - magician Fai decides to run a cafe, whilst Syaoran and Kurogane become Oni (demon) hunters. It's nice to see some more X characters appear, in this instance Yuzuriha Nekoi and Shiyu Kusanagi, another couple seperated in their original universe, but brought together as a couple for Tsubasa.

As a whole, these volumes reveal some interesting insights into the characters, and we learn more about Sakura and Syaoran through a lengthy and touching flashback sequence, which really hammers home the sacrifice made by Syaoran to restore the memory of a girl who is destined never to remember him.

I understand that Tsubasa has a very long run, and I can understand why given the amount of open-ended storytelling possibilities are available thanks to the premise, and so far there's no sign of running out of steam!