CLAMP is really weird.

[snarp]

I just finished the first arc of Magic Knight Rayearth.

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This makes something like four times that CLAMP have done a story that's some variation on "I have summoned you... to destroy me!" Is this a self-made tradition for them, or is there a manga ur-narrative they're working from?

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[branchandroot]

*dry* Ah, you mean the one who got a cameo in the single fluffiest, least angst-ridden manga Clamp ever wrote (which nevertheless managed to kill off the actual mother beforehand) and then got shipped out of the plot express? That one? *snorts* Don't even try to get them out of this. A minor character slips by every now and then, yeah, but the pattern is smashingly obvious and consistent.

Of course, she was also in a (physically) cross-generational relationship, and that generally does score survival points in Clamp.

[salinea]

"cameo"? okayyy.

[salinea]

and let me be clear I'm not saying CLAMP's work don't have some issues with sexism (X in particular strikes me as being problematic with the amount of dead women), but I don't think the best way to criticise it is making stuff up (Karen's death), re-imagining supporting characters as "cameos", playing "psychoanalysing" the author instead of making a case about a work, and hyperbolic statements.