Clamp has made two manga that were actually good. Those were not xxxHolic or Tsubasa.

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Today, on "What's Wrong With The Tsubasa/xxxHolic Verse": The list of plot-carrying characters who are NOT, knowingly or unknowingly, living under some variety of false identity!

1. Fei Wan Reed
(2. Doumeki, if you count him as plot-carrying)

As fo the rest of them:

1. Watanuki: is so seriously not who he thinks he is
2. Yuko: is not her real name
3. Sakura: is a clone (also: not her real name)
4. Syaoran: is also a clone (also: not his real name)
5. Fay: is really Fay's twin brother Yuui
6. Kurogane: is not his real name

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Writing this, I also had another epiphany: there is one single plot element that could have made Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 3x less terrible: if we the readers were at any point uncertain about whether or not Sakura will remember Syaoran again. If it was at any point real, tangible doubt that he could get the girl. I don't care how - be it that Yuko's price was mentioned frequently enough to remind us that it existed as a real, fateful condition. Be it that there was a romantic rival who appeared as a real threat. Be it that the core of the bloody plot was less adamant about how THE WORLD WILL END IF SYAORAN AND SAKURA DO NOT GET TO SHAG.