History YMMV / TsubasaReservoirChronicle

** It's also simply heartbreaking to see the situation Sakura goes through, especially if the reader were to have grown up watching ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': she spends half the story disappointed in herself that she's nothing but a DamselInDistress that burdens Syaoran and the others, [[spoiler:sees her love interest critically injure Fai and essentially be replaced with someone who claims to be the real one]], and by the time she actually becomes an ActionGirl, she's also clearly a ''very'' BrokenBird, not the cheerful and adorable Sakura that readers were most familiar with. [[spoiler:And that's not even edging into the CloningBlues thing...]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: A small group of characters, one of them a sword-wielding 14 years old boy and other two a wizard from a kingdom and a royal fighter from another, travelling through the multiverse in a magic quest to find heart-related items connected to a childhood female friend of the boy, and visiting worlds with AlternateUniverse versions of other characters made by the creators? With all of this, the series could perfectly be considered CLAMP's answer to the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' videogame franchise. Given that the first game was released a year before ''Tsubasa'', the inspirations probably are right there, not to mention that the protagonists of both series, Sora and Syaoran, share the same japanese voice actor, Creator/MiyuIrino.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: One ''hell'' of a MindScrew.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The second half of the series.

* WTHCastingAgency: The Spanish dub of the movie, which came to Spain before the anime itself and was made by another company, received a overwhelmingly negative reception. Aside from the awful translation, which was bad enough to have got the ''very title'' wrong (see Narm above), most complaints focused in the even worse casting choices, pointing out that it looked as if the voice actors had been chosen at random.

* ''Tokyo Revelations'' and ''Tsubasa Shunraiki'', on the other hand, are [[AvertedTrope far less frowned upon]] because the art, pacing and animation are worlds better than the anime (and have the same people on the soundtrack!). Not to mention that it actually follows the manga up to 90% of the time and the other 10% can be forgiven.

* FanonDiscontinuity:
** How most fans treat the anime adaptation due to its numerous problems (OffModel art, loads of {{filler}}, awful pacing, etc.) Even Creator/{{CLAMP}} themselves despise it for the liberties taken, one of them actually broke the series's plot and had to be retconned later.
** ''Tokyo Revelations'' and ''Tsubasa Shunraiki'', on the other hand, are far less frowned upon because the art, pacing and animation are worlds better than the anime (and have the same people on the soundtrack!). Not to mention that it actually follows the manga up to 90% of the time and the other 10% can be forgiven.

* SpiritualAdaptation: A small group of characters, one of them a sword-wielding 14 years old boy and other two a wizard from a kingdom and a royal fighter from another, travelling through the multiverse in a magic quest to find heart-related items connected to a childhood female friend of the boy, and visiting worlds with AlternateUniverse versions of other characters made by the creators? With all of this, the series could perfectly be considered CLAMP's answer to the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' videogame franchise. Given that the first game was released a year before ''Tsubasa'', the inspirations probably are right there.

** ''Tsubasa World Chronicle'' seemed to gather some contention within the fanbase. Some were happy that CLAMP is bringing back the series after its confusing ending and that they will fix the flaws that the last previous chapters had been suffering. Others are dissatisfied that CLAMP put their other two ongoing works ( ''Drug and Drop'' and ''Gate 7'') on a hiatus just to work on this and that they should have continue them along with the other series, like ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', which had been put on a hiatus for a decade. For now, the sequel and ''xxxHolic: Rei'' are on CLAMP's work load and fans of their other works are certainly not pleased.

* FoeYay:
** Looks like Fuma didn't have enough of this with Kamui in ''X/1999'' and this time he wants a more gentle approach.
** Then there is Ashura-o and Yasha-o even if [[spoiler:the latter was dead all along.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Ohkawa commented in the Clamp no Kiseki guides that the first half was carefully written so that the young readers would understand it as she believes her stories tend to be complicated. Come second half...

* EndingAversion: Both the manga and anime, for different reasons. The manga, mostly because of the [[MindScrew final arc.]] Then again the final volume is praised for ShowDontTell as it actually explores the MindScrew and makes it nonexistent in the end. The anime, because it interrupts mid-series and technically has no ending.

** Also [[spoiler:Fuuma and Kamui]] in Acid Tokyo and, obviously, [[spoiler:Subaru and Seishirou]], despite the fact we never actually see them together in story, though [[http://mangafox.me/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicle/c190/1.html this splash page]] shows the ill-fated pair together.

** In Tokyo [[IncrediblyLamePun Syaoran is an adventurer who takes an arrow to the knee]]. [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Sounds familiar]]?

* GatewaySeries: ''Tsubasa'' is the medium which many people cite as their gate to the complex multiverse of CLAMP, counting specially on the people who watched it thinking it was somehow related to ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' without knowing its crossover nature.

** The anime version of Tsubasa. Some fans, particularly non-manga readers enjoy its AdaptationExpansion such as Kurogane's backstory as well as its SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, others dislike it for its poor pacing, endless fillers, and lack of faithfulness to the story tones. [[DisownedAdaptation CLAMP agrees with the latter]].

** The anime version of Tsubasa. Some fans, particularly non-manga readers enjoy its AdaptationExpansion such as Kurogane's backstory as well as its SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, others dislike it for its poor pacing, endless fillers, and lack of faithfulness to the story tones. CLAMP agrees with the latter.