Syaoran (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle)

Syaoran
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
xxxHolic character

Syaoran as seen in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
First appearance Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle chaptire 1
xxxHolic chapter 8
Created by Clamp
Voiced by Miyu Irino (Japanese)
Jason Liebrecht (English)

Syaoran (小狼 Shaoran?) is a fictional character appearing as one of the protagonists from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, a manga series written and illustrated by Clamp. In Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran is introduced as young archeologist who is in love with Sakura, his childhood friend and the princess from the Kingdom of Clow. When Sakura's memories are scattered throughout parallel dimensions, Syaoran goes on a quest to recover them, giving all of Sakura's memories involving him as a payment to travel. Across the series, Syaoran is revealed to be a clone from another teenager created by Fei-Wang Reed, the sorcerer who caused Sakura to lose her memories. As a seal from his original self placed on the clone's body breaks, Syaoran becomes one of the series' antagonists, moving according to Fei-Wang's will. He has also been featured in other Clamp works including the manga xxxHolic, and the drama CD series Holistuba.

Syaoran's character was based on Syaoran Li, a character from Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura manga. The character has been well-received by readers from the series, placing high in various popularity polls from Tsubasa and manga and anime series in general. He also received positive comments by publications from manga and anime who pointed his role in the series and his relationship with Sakura. Syaoran's role as an antagonist has also received positive comments and various writers started giving nicknames to differentiate him from his original self often calling him evil.

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Creation and conception

Syaoran was designed by Clamp using the ideas of the manga author Osamu Tezuka and his Star System in which characters from previous series are reused in other works.[1] Syaoran was based on Syaoran Li, a character from Cardcaptor Sakura, another series written by Clamp. Syaoran and Sakura were chosen to be the series' protagonist because their Cardcaptor Sakura counterparts had a "happy ending", but Clamp pointed they would have to go throughout the series to get their "own happy ending".[2] As in the manga's start, Syaoran's character was already meant to go through development, the addition of the characters of Fai D. Flowright and Kurogane was to have side characters who would be much older than he was.[2] In early versions from the manga, Syaoran was to be portrayed as a mechanic rather than an archaeologist, with Fujitaka also being the one who taught him machines. This also influenced in his design, which had him wearing a cap, a different outfit as well as an enormous adjustable spanner.[3] After events of the Oto country, Clamp's editor for Tsubasa, Kiichiro Sugawara, wondered if "anything good ever happen[s] to Syaoran"; Clamp commented that their publishing company, Kodansha, had received lots of demands from readers for Syaoran to become "stronger" and advised Clamp "to let him have good experiences once in a while".[4]

In the animated adaptations from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Syaoran has been voiced by Miyu Irino in Japanese, and by Jason Liebrecht in English.[5][6] Irino remarks that ever since the introduction of the original Syaoran who he also voiced, he sometimes had issues voicing both characters, so tried to do both characters with care. Fellow voice actress Yui Makino also pointed Irino's role, commenting it was the most difficult from all the casting due to portraying the two Syaorans.[7]

Appearances

Syaoran is introduced in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle as a young archaeologist who often visits the Kingdom of Clow, and is in love with his childhood friend Sakura, the kingdom's country.[8] He is the adopted son of the late archeologist Fujitaka, who found him in the street at a young age, and had no memories of his past.[9] He often accompanied his father on expeditions, and following his death, he started living alone while continuing his job.[8] After Sakura's memories are scattered throughout dimension in the form of feathers, Syaoran meets the witch Yūko Ichihara, who gives him and his other clients Fai D. Flowright and Kurogane, the creature Mokona Modoki which is able to transport them to different dimensions. Syaoran pays Yūko with all of Sakura's memories that involved him for the use of Mokona.[10][11] Nevertheless, throughout the journey he starts bonding with Sakura again, while also forming friendships with his companions Fai, Kurogane and Mokona.[12] Syaoran specializes in a hand-to-hand style primarily focused on kicks as taught by hunter Seishirō during his childhood as he had problems distinguishing the distance from people attacking him as he was blind from his right eye.[13][14] He later trains with Kurogane to remove his weakness by training while blindfolded.[15] He is also taught swordsmanship by Kurogane in order to become a stronger fighter, and he gains Hien (緋炎?, lit. "Scarlet Flame"), a sword with magical properties that allow it to create fire.[16][17]

It is eventually revealed that Syaoran is a clone of another teenager, created by the sorcerer Fei-Wang Reed in order to find Sakura's feathers no matter who he kills in the process. The original Syaoran managed to place some of his "heart" within the clone's right eye, which allowed him to develop a personality of his own.[18] After the seal breaks, Syaoran loses all his emotions and is used by Fei-Wang to collect feathers throughout dimensions on his own, betraying all of his friends.[19][20] He becomes ignorant of any type of pain, which makes him ruthless and a strong opponent. Before leaving them, he devours Fai's left eye to gain his own magic powers which grow stronger every time he uses them.[21][22] When fighting his original self, Syaoran destroys Sakura's soul who, revealed as another clone, asks him to recover his heart just before disappearing.[23] Despite being shocked by this, Syaoran is once again emotionless when the original Syaoran, Kurogane and Fai go to fight against Fei-Wang.[24] In the course of the battle, Syaoran betrays Fei-Wang to help his original self kill him. When Fei-Wang tries to kill the original Syaoran, the clone intervenes and is impaled by his sword.[25] As his body is about to be destroyed, Syaoran apologizes to all his friends, including the original Syaoran, leaving only the eye he took from Fai.[26][27]

Yūko later rebuilds Syaoran's body alongside Sakura's using the remnants they left after their apparent deaths.[28] As neither could properly die, Yūko grants them a wish to be reborn as normal humans, which Syaoran accepts as Sakura tells him she wishes to stay with him.[29][30] As both grow up as normal humans, the two are able to meet and live together. He and Sakura have a son who is revealed to be the original Syaoran, creating a time paradox.[31] As they realize that all the previous events would be repeated and in the end their son would not be able to save the original Sakura, the two seal themselves inside a glass tube, which remains hidden in Yūko's shop. Being reborn as a descendant from the sorcerer Clow Reed, Syaoran and Sakura, after breaking free from the tube, use their new powers to help their friends defeat Fei-Wang.[32] However, as their creator dies, Syaoran and Sakura vanish, leaving two feathers that merge within their originals selves' bodies.[33][34]

Syaoran also appears in other adaptations from Tsubasa including its animated film The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom in which he still travels with Sakura, Fai, Kurogane and Mokona across dimensions.[35] He is also a playable character in the two Nintendo DS video games from Tsubasa.[36] In the drama CD series, The Matinée of the Palace, Syaoran's group perform a play that reenacts the series' story while searching for one of Sakura's feathers.[37] Outside Tsubasa, Syaoran also makes various appearances in Clamp's manga xxxHolic which shows some events happening in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle.[38] He does not appear in the animated adaptions of xxxHolic until the original video animations series xxxHolic Shunmuki in which he appears in the Dream World to confront the original Syaoran.[39] In the spin-off drama CD series Holitsuba Gakuen, Syaoran is featured as a new student in the fictional school "Holitsuba" that features characters from Tsubasa and xxxHolic. While sharing various traits from his Tsubasa persona like his relationship with Sakura, he is also portrayed as the identical twin from the original Syaoran.[40]

Reception

Syaoran's character has well-received by Japanese readers of the series. In two popularity polls held by Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Syaoran placed first among all the characters in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. He was also featured in high places in other polls, which included best groups and best scenes from the series.[41][42] In March 2010, Syaoran was ranked twenty-third best male anime character of the 2000's by the Japanese magazine Newtype.[43] In the Animage's Anime Grand Prix poll from 2006, he was voted as the twelfth most popular male anime character.[44] In the year, he remained as the fourteenth most popular male character.[45] In the Animedia "2006 Animedia Character Awards", Syaoran appeared in various categories including "Strongest Character Award", "Best Newcomer Award", "Most Heroic Character Award" and "MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award", with his highest place being the "Best Newcomer Award" as third.[46] Various types of merchandising have been made based on Syaoran's appearance including plush, keychains and patches.[47][48][49] In the 2007 Seiyu Awards, Miyu Irino was a nominee in the category "Best New Actor" for his portrayal as Syaoran, but lost to Tetsuya Kakihara and Masakazu Morita.[50][51]

When watching the animated adaptation of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto felt that Syaoran's straightforward feelings and strength to protect Sakura were very touching. Therefore, within "Kazemachi Jet", the ending theme of second season of the anime, she tried to capture the image of Syaoran growing from his "naive" self into a young man as a result of experiencing the repetition of meetings and partings over his journey and Syaoran continuing to try to protect his loved one in spite of the mishaps along the way.[52] When writing "Saigo no Kajitsu", Sakamoto described Syaoran's fate as sad due to how he becomes the antagonist from his friends and the fact it is revealed he was a clone.[53] Singer Kinya Kotani also described a sad feeling in Syaoran's strength, noting he had both forwarding-facing and backward-facing characteristics.[54]

Publications for manga, anime and other media have commented on Syaoran's character and role in the series. He received mainly positive responses with Ed Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading labelling him as "the perfect young hero" due to his seriousness, while points given due to his care for Sakura.[55] Although Carl Kimlinger found various differences between Syaoran and his Cardcaptor Sakura counterpart, he still found the traits from the former appealing.[56] Similarly, Michael Aronson from Manga Life found that while the character behaves different from Syaoran Li and considerably older, it helps the reader who has not read previous Clamp series understand it, pointing that some crossover characters only share the names and designs.[57] The plot twist regarding Syaoran's being a clone and his fight against his original self has been regarded as a "a titanic clash". Following this, Syaoran has been labelled as "evil Syaoran" as well as "Syaoran's evil clone".[58][59] The development from such twist has said to have a "potential real upset" as Syaoran is revealed to have been created by the series' main antagonist, Fei-Wang Reed.[60] On the other hand, the relationship between both Syaorans has also been found confusing for some readers to understand,[61] while other opinions pointed how while there was confusion in this scene, such event ends well executed, pointing also to the bond both have regarding their eyes.[60] His actions since such twist have been regarded by Sakura Eries from Mania Entertainment as disturbing due to its violent acts while at the same time, Syaoran has been labelled as "an agent of destruction" due to how he ignores seemingly mortal wounds and encounters various opponents in a single manga volume.[62] Moreover, Eries commented that she felt "cheated" following the revelations regarding Syaoran's and Sakura's true nature as it changed the readers' view on them.[63]

Syaoran's and Sakura's initial relationship has been found by Mania Entertainment's Megan Lavey as a "pretty simple love story", while liking their personalities.[64] Similarly, IGN's Jeff Harris pointed Syaoran's interesting role due to how he sacrifices his relationship with Sakura, while also sacrificing his life to recover her memories.[65] Active Anime's Christopher Seaman found such romantic relationships between them as one of the most mature parts of the series, and it helped balance the other fantastic themes which added more variety to the series' audience.[66] Kimlinger similarly pointed such relationship as one of the series' parts, which made up for some issues found in the anime adaptation.[56] Jason Liebrecht's role as Syaoran's English voice has been noted to be better than Irino's work by Kimlinger, who, nevertheless, praised both performances due to how Syaoran's emotions are played.[67]

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