the end of the world as we know it

The latest chapter of X is the most vicious cliffhanger I've ever seen. It would be bad even if there was just a week or a month until the next chapter - but three years? Three years and still counting.

The art in the first volumes is really crappy, same as with Berserk. The pitfalls of a long-running manga.

For comparison (and a nice full circle), the first pages of the first and the nineteenth (holy hell this is a long series) volumes. Spoilers, or not. ( Ten years have passed )

The X Character Files have taught me that no matter how I think that CLAMP will never surprise me again - incest and pedophilia in a magical girl series! - they'll always find something. In the Files we learn that Yuzuriha (the hyper, optimistic 14-year-old girl) and Kusanagi (a member of a self-defence force, twenty-something, likes little girls) spent a good deal of their first meeting conversing alcohol. In the "oh, but don't you dislike a girl who drinks?" "on the contrary, I'm quite fond of liquor myself" kind of way.

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And who cares about Seishirou and Fuuma and whoever, Touru is the hottest, pun not intended, character in the whole damn story. Kamui's flaming mother. Pfft. Ahahaha.