Tsubasa Chronicle is a very straightforward anime with few tugging questions or 'mysteries'. Although a lot is left unsaid, the pacing of the anime really doesn't make their mysteries very important. The crew set out on a journey almost immediately with absolutely no background given for anyone. Even up to episode 18 nothing about anyone's powers is told and the groups cooperation with each other is almost too simple and quick. My main qualm with the beginning is how did Kurogane accept Syaoran so quickly? I accepted Fye's reasons just barely.

Putting all personal annoyances aside, this anime is a fun travel/journey anime and there aren't enough of these pure journey animes out there.

It has everything that makes a good story: it has adventure, fantasy, romance and action. In the series (first season and second) there is some fighting but not as much. I'd prefer some more. But it is understandable since they want to balanced out the action, fantasy and romance. However, there is actually intense fighting in the manga in the latest volume 23, chapter 175-176. It's so good! There is also some comedy in the series with Fai and Mokona making jokes and fooling around with Kurogane. I especially enjoyed the episode with Mokona as an artist and the other 4 as chobits. So cute and funny. xD! At last, there is some romance of Sakura + Syaoran. Yeah!! They are my fave couple in anime. So cute and everything. They fit together so perfectly.

Move on to the theme. Tsubasa doesn't have a theme. Period. Or you can try to convince me what the theme is.

Presentation sucks. What I mean by presentation are things like camera angles, scene switching, when to start the background music, etc. First on the anime. It's 2007 already and we don't really need to see the camera fixing on a guy's face for 5 seconds without him saying a word. I didn't even finish the first season because of this. Next the manga. I think I hate Clamp's style. They failed to deliver anything to me except the Kurogane's past arc. Even the love element looks like kindergarten stuff compared to Suzuka. All I get from reading the manga is that things happened, so what?

Other technical stuff. The dialogues are shallow. There are no humours either.