Why do I do these things to meeeeeee

Why am I reading CLAMP's Clover again even though it reduces me to a little puddle of weeps every goddamn tiiiiiiiime

*cough*

All daftness aside though, it really is a damn good story. While it postdates X, it doesn't suffer from the ROFL-worthy pacing problems and detail-spam art. In fact for CLAMP the art's remarkably simple, and I have never seen a manga make use of negative space the way Clover does.

While it's about love, and loneliness, and loss, and the nature of these, and while CLAMP's concept of fulfilling a heart's wish comes up here again, there is a distinct lack of the general all-around NARF :B that can plague relationships in some CLAMP manga--particularly in cases where one person's quite a bit older than the other. I have a low tolerance for stuff approaching shota or loli and Clover did not set me off, so yeah. There's also absolutely not any hangups over the gender of people in relationships.

It's quite downbeat, though without being endlessly wangsty, and while the end of one plot arc is inevitable if you consider it in retrospect, it's not a hopeless-world type of a story in spite of it being dystopian-future in setting with a bunch of doom-prophecy psychic shenanigans about (it ain't CLAMP without metaphysics XD). Everyone's perseverance in the face of difficulty, stupid odds, and loss is really something else. Love takes many forms and shows up in unexpected places.

Yeah, I like this manga even if it makes me cry. XD

And holy crap do I ever love Oruha and Suu.