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There has bee a lot of talk about this already.

Doumeki aged, Watanuki didn't. Watanuki doesn't act like Clow or Fei Wang Reed, he acts like Yuuko. He is trying to emulate Yuuko in a lot fo ways, even facial expressions (see last page).

Watanuki's development in XXXholic is painfully reminiscent of Tokyo Babylon's Subaru. We could make a lot of parallels in their stories, but let's wait for the series ending. The funny thing is that Yuuko would be his Seishirou and his Hokuto at the same time.

I'm sad about Himawari. It's pretty obvious Doumeki's relationship with Watanuki is more important than Himawari's one. Doesn't mean she isn't important, but she doesn't have the weight Doumeki's has, at least in what concerns CLAMP. I don't like Doumeki that much, but fortunately Yuuko is the most important influence in Watanuki's life and that's fine by me.

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I don't get why everyone is jumping the gun about Himawari? It's been one chapter and Watanuki never leaves the shop and Himawari's probably a self-sufficient girl with a life, just like she should be. I'm confused why everyone assumes she isn't important anymore. It could be a case where each character that's important to Watanuki is going to get a chapter. Doumeki's happened to be first. I'm sure Kohane (and possibly others) will get one too.

Edited 2009-09-16 17:58 (UTC)

Oh, but I never said she wasn't important, of course she is, and I'm sure she will appear.

You just said that Doumeki's relationship with Watanuki was more important than Himawari's. Where did you get that from one chapter? I'm curious.

And it is. Himawari's is important, Doumeki's more, I did not get that for one chapter alone, I get it from all the series; the eye, the egg, the first person who appears after this. He gets WAY more "screen" time that Himawari's. It may not be something bad, not a big deal for everyone and it shouldn't be, just something I was commenting, and it's my own personal relationship with that, no one else.

Oh, see, that was entirely my misunderstanding. I thought you meant you'd gotten that from just this chapter as the start of a new series. Totally my bad. Sorry!

Ah no, it's fine! Don't worry.

Eh, at least Yuuko smiled and appreciated the good things in life ~~like booze~~. Shopkeeper!Watanuki irks me because he looks so bitter, stoic, srsbsns, and un-Watanuki-like. It's like he took the worst parts of Yuuko instead of the good ones.

Yeah, I don't think he is supposed to be like Yuuko thought, I mean, I bet he tries, but with his young age and how still don't know much about people (and probably himself) like Yuuko did, well, he obviously is going to fail.

I agree with

rainmage at this point, and add that Watanuki probably hasn't had even a single customer since his trapping himself in the shop. He's hardly in the position to be guiding other people--he seems to spend most of his days eating, sleeping, and smoking opium.

It's just...for all of the comments on how handsome he looks, he seems so repulsive.

Yeah, Watanuki with a costumer. A person who is obviously very confused about himself at life will be the best to solve other people's problems. XD

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