Personally, I love CLAMP’s artwork, although I’ve only read a few of them(CCS, Tsubasa, XXXHolic and of course, Kobato).

The impression these mangas gave me is:
CCS was well, WEIRD, in terms of the relationships between characters. But other than that, its quite cute. But the anime added a lot of useless cards, which I dunno why those cards even exist.

As for TRC, I’m sad to say that the chapters lately aren’t really interesting. It’s as if they are trying to delay the climax, which I hope it will be the climax. Besides, its not really hard to understand the actions in the manga, i think you, lupus just don’t understand it well.

I like XXXHolic too, especially the stories in it. It would be even better if its relationship with TRC is…I dunno how to put it…more interwoven? Btw, do u understand wat Yuuko said in the latest chapter? I’ve no idea wat she’s talking.

Indeed, the plot for kobato was quite simple, no matter which website i read. so its not anyone’s fault if they can’t get a single thing about kobato from the plot lupus wrote.

Plus, why aren’t there any kobato chapters lately?! I really need to know.

One last thing, everyone has different tastes, so our opinions about CLAMP’S artworks are different.

how do mangas do well when they are crap? the answer is simple, people are infintely stupid, take for example religion: so many people believe so many different things yet clearly only one theory can be right and it may be that every religion is wrong.
people are easily influenced/coerced into things, thus the term sheeple.

I find it ridiculous that people keep bringing up points such as “if you can’t do better you have no right to complain” (paraphrased obviously)
1)if you can’t do better you’re in no position to like it either by this logic.
2)it’s damn retarded and hypocritical, you yourself as well as every other person who ever lived has judged something that they could not exceed.

“if you don’t like it don’t read it” seems sensible but how about reading it first then disliking it rather than having a divine premonition telling you to stay away.

clamps stories are simple, they have to be because their target audience is little girls (btw i don’t mean that girls are dumber than boys, just that the targets are kids (who happen to be female)) If you think the stories are great i urge you to start reading books (real books aimed at adults and older teens). you’ll soon find that clamps stories are drivel in comparison.

you can choose to make clamps work satire if you want but they have never mentioned anything of the sort so undue credit as far as i’m concerned.

clamps art is cheap and effortless, how many years have they been working? no evolution over time, no improvement in their art either. in fact to call the artwork “art” is to do the term “art” a great injustice. all they do is put flowers and sparkles everywhere (Oh my gosh, how beautiful… -_-) and in an action sequence this in no way is appropriate. action sequences in Blade of the Immortal and Blame and Lone wolf and cub (to name a few) are well thought out with composition, pose and flow kept in mind at all times.
the stuff clamp do is easy to replicate, seriously even if you’ve never picked up a pencil before just draw for a few months and you’ll find that you’re now equals.
If you’ve read any of clamps mangas you’ll see that characters are almost cut and pasted into their other works. they can’t create more than a handful of characters (visually speaking), pretty lame considering there’s four of them.

btw i’m a concept artist/illustrator I know creativity and technical skill when i see it, clamp are not artists. they do the bare minimum and exploit their fanbase while desperately clinging to a facade of well intentioned artists.
Card captor does have bullshit relationships: prepubescent kids falling in “love” with each other and older men, older teen boys acting like “prince charming” as if they don’t have their own lives to lead, superficialy mysterious characters acting mysterious just so that the plot can be stretched but the truth is ccs as well as many of their works are written for prepubescent girls in the first place, of course it’s bs.