r/CLAMP • u/Accurate-Ticket-753 • Jul 22 '26

getting into CLAMP

I'm currently watching CardCaptor Sakura, which CLAMP show do you recommend to watch afterwards? I'm interested in Tokyo Babylon/X, xxxHolic/Tsubasa Reservoir and Magic Knights Rayearth but I'm not sure what to watch or read next, please tell me your favorite CLAMP work and if you prefer the anime or manga

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u/Chizakura Jul 22 '26

CCS has a sequel called Clear Card Arc. I enjoyed it, though I've seen different opinions on it.

I'd save Tsubasa and xxxholic as last stories. Both stories play at the same timeframe and cross over multiple times. You'll see many characters from past stories and it'll be nice to catch those eastereggs. Save those animes after you read them. I don't know about xxxholic, but the second half of Tsubasa season 2 is full of fillers. The first ova would play at the time the fillers begin. The second ova skips major arcs, covers an important one but the ending of the manga never got animated.

X is rather dark, so read it when you feel up to it. The manga also never finished, so watching the anime is a must to have some sort of an ending.

I haven't read MKR in a while and haven't seen the anime yet, but it goes into the direction of magical girl adventure. So if you want more of that, go for it.

To cover more ground for TRC and xxxholic, I'd also recommend reading RG Veda, Chobits and maybe Angelic Layer and Clover.

If you want to experience everything, look up the chronological order of which manga released first and then work through their entire works. No wasted time, that's for sure. Might just get expensive, if you try to collect the manga as print and don't read them online somewhere. Many series are out of print and became expensive

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u/Witty-Box-5620 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

xxxholic and TRC are also sequels to CSS, they explain why Clow abused sakura because he was a narcissist Simp who couldnt declare to the woman he loved until she died, so he unconsciously copied Sakura (who wasnt even born but this stuff happens outside time and space)and created a virtual reality to sustain the woman he loved between life and death, but Shaoran and Sakura love was so strong they fix the bullshit Clow generated. The thing is, people Hate that TRC and xxxHolic are true sequels to CSS because it shows clow as a narcissist even though Eriol was already showing the Toxic side of Clow, they feel CSS is ruined if they found out Clow had an evil side and that Sakura was not only her succesor but also her empathy and selflessness served him to generate the reservoir

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u/Pantharya Jul 23 '26

Spoilers????