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The ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' manga series and its respective animated adaptations feature a large cast of fictional characters designed by Clamp. The series takes place in a fictional multiverse with parallel dimensions where several characters – taken from many of Clamp's past works – can appear in several of the universes as having the same character names and designs but differing histories and settings. The story begins in the desert Kingdom of Clow where Syaoran, a devoted and kind archeologist investigates its ruins. His childhood friend Sakura, the kind and well-loved princess of the kingdom who holds an undeveloped magic, mysteriously has her memories scattered across the dimensions in the form of feathers and will die if they are not returned to her. To save her, Syaoran takes her to the Dimensional Witch Yūko Ichihara where he meets two more of the series' protagonists who have arrived with similar wishes: Kurogane, a rough-mannered ninja, and Fai D. Flowright, a laid-back magician with a dark past. In order to journey across the dimensions, they receive a cheerful creature named Mokona Modoki, the fifth of the group, from Yūko. On their journey across the dimensions, the group decide to join Syaoran to retrieve Sakura's feathers, as a mean to accomplish their wishes. The protagonists are all linked by the series' main antagonist, the sorcerer Fei-Wang Reed who oversees the journey. Using Osamu Tezuka's Star System, Clamp designed the series' characters based on the ones they used in their previous works. Few of the characters appearing in ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' are the exact ones from other series, most notably the ones from ''xxxHolic'', series which often crossovers ''Tsubasa''. The characters from ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' have received positive critical response by critics due to their traits, and development across the series. Various types of merchandising have also been released based on them. ==Creation and conception== Using the ideas of Osamu Tezuka and his Star System, the series contains various crossover characters from many of Clamp's series, including most notably ''Cardcaptor Sakura'', ''RG Veda'', ''X'' and ''xxxHolic'' from which the main characters are derived. The series' characters were designed by Clamp writer Mokona, while Syaoran and Sakura were chosen as its protagonists because Clamp wanted to use ones whose original series had happy ending. However, in contrast to Syaoran Li and Sakura Kinomoto from ''Cardcaptor Sakura'', Clamp pointed out that they would have to go throughout the series to get their "own happy ending".〔 Nanase Ohkawa explained that while some characters appearing in ''Tsubasa'' are the same ones from other of their works, their traits and personalities were modified due to different backstories. Clamp found drawing old characters again interesting. They were careful not to make mistakes since there were some of them they barely remembered how to illustrate. The team also decided not to draw inferior eyelashes which resulted in notable changes in the faces. Little accessories were given to the characters in order to avoid unnecessary details and thus facilitate an easier transition to anime. As ''Tsubasa'' is connected with ''xxxHolic'', the characters' designs are also meant to be similar. Like ''xxxHolic'', the artwork is sometimes influenced by Ukiyo-e art style which leads to the characters have longer limbs. Another similarity between both the series is the use of one-eyed characters or people who lost their sight, which is meant to express the feelings from them. The characters of Fai D. Flowright and Kurogane were created in order to have adult characters who would side with Syaoran, who was much younger and was still in development during the series' start. As a result of the manga being aimed at young male demographic, characters are designed to appeal of them such as Syaoran who appears as an action hero. In order to make fights more entertaining Clamp decided to include yells of fighting techniques for the first time in a manga of them. Although Kurogane was the only character who did this at first, the authors also planned to make Syaoran do this.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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