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The retrieval of the feathers is made more difficult because the feathers, being fragments of Sakura's soul, hold huge magical powers. Whoever holds one is given strength that rivals that of the [[Powers That Be]]. And there is another force opposite Yuuko that attempts to intervene in their journey to fulfill its own desires...

 

 

This is a completed manga series, ending with 233 chapters organized into 28 volumes. There was an anime adaptation that ran for 52 episodes, as well as a movie ''Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom'' and two sets of OADs, ''Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations'' (which follows the [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Bloodier and Gorier]] storyline of the manga) and ''Tsubasa: Shunraiki'' (again, another supporter of said storyline).

 

* [[After the End]] - {{spoiler|Clow Kingdom}}

* [[Always Identical Twins]]

* [[Amnesiac Lover]]- Or so it seems at first; before Acid Tokyo puts the plot in a blender with LSD, its a key part of the starting premise. Whether it can still be classed as that ''after'' the lightearted veneer is stripped away is... [[Mind Screw|confusing]].

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - ''Tokyo Revelations'' went into pure octane [[Nightmare Fuel]] following the conclusion of the second season series and abandoning of the third season, as it jumped straight from playing its tropes straight to the dark deconstruction that the manga had slowly eased into. Of course, that arc was a significant jump darker even for the manga, but it was the low dive compared to the OVA's high dive. See also [[Wham! Episode]].

* [[Dead All Along]] - {{spoiler|Yuuko was only alive because Clow told reality to ignore her death. As a result her death resets just about everything reboot-able across the history of the multiverse.}}

* [[Deus Angst Machina]] - How to summarize the whole story in 3 words. So where do we even begin?

** Backstory will never NOT be angsty, especially if your name is {{spoiler|Fai}}. "Tsubasa Goes to the Therapist" would be an excellent fic premise.

* [[Funny Background Event]] - A lot, usually Mokona antagonizing Kurogane (for example, stealing his food during the Hanshin arc, and during the Jade arc when Mokona had to hide from the locals, you can see a suspicious lump moving around under Kurogane's clothes and Kurogane pulling funny faces). Also, a Miyuki-chan makes a cameo running in the background once in every single world.

* [[Fusion Dance]] - Weirdly so, {{spoiler|R!Sakura merging with C!Sakura's old body}} and becoming her 14-year old self as timelines reconnected.

** This is also true for the anime ending, mainly because they had a whole second season to explain who the antagonists were, and delve into the manga story, but instead frittered it away with two flashbacks of Kurogane (which was okay), several deconstructions of the characters and settings from the first story. So then the last 8 or so episodes felt extremely rushed, resolved little to nothing ( {{spoiler|after all that, Syaoran gets ''one feather'' for Sakura when the bird has millions and ''doesn't even get to see Syaoran in her memory'', [[And the Adventure Continues...|simply so they can keep traveling]]}} ), and had Syaoran finish off the bird with a move [[Ass Pull|more reminiscent of]] [[Shaman King]] [[Ass Pull|than the main story]], and did nothing to even mention Fai's story beyond the brief mention of Chii. And considering that, the manga is ''even weirder''.

* [[Gambit Pileup]] - Summarize at the risk of your own sanity, for it is said that he who can understand what the hell has been going on since [[Growing the Beard]] has been lost to [[Cosmic Horror|eldritch Things from Beyond]]. [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]], indeed.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]] - Fei Wong Reed made his [[Gambit Roulette]] with the intention of bringing someone [[Back from the Dead]]. {{spoiler|Or apparently, to save someone else's life. And that person is Yuuko. She is ''not'' happy with this, [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|and ends her unlife to help stop him]].}}

* [[Magic Knight]] - Fai may look like a [[Squishy Wizard]], but he's quite proficient at physical combat as well.

** What? No one's mentioned the mirror Chu'nyan used in Koryo to wake the villagers from that arc's villain's spell?

* [[Mama Bear]] + [[Papa Wolf]] - {{spoiler|In chapter 217, the Li's show that if you threaten their son, they will unload their spells on you. Considering that even Sakura had a Badass glare before the barrage, it's only expected that Ass-chin had an [[Oh Crap]] moment.}}

** Not to mention incredible amounts of [[Arc Welding]] and [[Canon Welding]].

** And to thrown in the rest, [[Temporal Paradox]] + [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] + [[You Already Changed the Past]] = '''Brain Damage'''.

*** [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]!!

** Did you notice that this series has broken the World Record for the single handed number of references to this trope? It is no YMMV to consider that this would be one of the all-time most (if not THE most) confusing manga/anime storyline ever.

* [[Twin Switch]] - {{spoiler|Fai is actually Yuui (although the switch occurred after the real Fai, who's name Yuui uses, was already dead)}}, and this has led to much arguing in the fandom as to which twin is which in the [[Alternate Universe]] [[Omake]].

* [[Uptown Girl]] - Sakura is princess and Syaoran is middle class.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] - An alternate {{spoiler|R!}}Sakura from an altered Clow Country {{spoiler|which came into being after R!Syaoran's wish split the timeline creating an alternate Clow Country}}, came into being out of nowhere and was actually the one {{spoiler|cloned (the original R!Sakura was frozen in time)}}. Her fate is not resolved.

** {{spoiler|[[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] - The body of R!Sakura-2 (for want of a better label) was taken away and merged with the cloned soul, while the original soul of R!Sakura-2 ended up in the [[Big Bad]]'s own tube, but is never mentioned again. Or what happened to that tube. Yes, there were '''three''' Sakuras.}}

 

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