Tsubasa has just enough interesting points to make me keep picking it up... but I would have liked it a lot more as a stand-alone series rather than a really obvious tie-in to every other CLAMP work. I was always a big Card Captor Sakura fan because I thought it was a clever, heartfelt little shoujo series... but Sakura is stripped of all personality in Tsubasa and Syaoran is made into a generic hero. I was hoping it would get better, but no... even in the most recent chapters, Sakura is the same blank-eyed zombie whose "purity" and "kindness" will save everyone. x__x And you're right... since it's a CLAMP series, we already know the ending will be a letdown. If it ends at all. I'm kind of disappointed with them now... they used to slyly skewer the conventions of shoujo manga with really engaging series like CCS and Rayearth, or have shocking endings like Tokyo Babylon and RG Veda... and now instead of being a refreshing alternative to the mainstream, they are the mainstream!