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Welcome to Do You Hate Tokyo?, the official fanlisting for the incredible manga Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP. A fanlisting is a collective listing of all fans of a specific something, person, character, show, or whatever, and their websites and email addresses if they so wish to distribute those. Most people use it as a hub for link exchange and general website whoring, but others just like to place their names on the list. Whatever your reasons may be for being here, please join.

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Tokyo Babylon is one of CLAMP’s first manga, a dark, brooding, psychological collection of short stories published in the anthologies South and Wings from 1990-1993. The story is complete and constitutes seven graphic novels, which were translated into English by TokyoPop (an excellent translation; it maintains so much of the Japanese culture integral to the story) and are domestically-avaliable in the United States. Early 90’s Tokyo (assumed anywhere from 1990-1992) is reaching a state of decadence and decay compared to Babylon, a state in which communication is eclipsed by selfish desires and materialism, a state in which bad things continually happen to good people. The city is grossly overcrowded to the point that a gravesite costs as much as a house, and achievement and advancement often come at a devastating price. The story presents several philosophical points ranging from esoteric subjects such as illusions and karma to more mundane subjects such as overcrowding and the limit of resources, organs for transplants given as a latter example.

Sumeragi Subaru, a sixteen-year-old onmyouji (roughly equivalent to an Eastern medium) and the thirteenth head of the Sumeragi Clan is fortunate, all things considered: he has a background that has given him not only the income to sustain an apartment in Shinjuku, but power, something few people in Tokyo have. He lives with a loving twin sister, Hokuto, and has befriended a generous and gentle veterinarian, Sakurazuka Seishirou, who claims to be madly in love with him, and whom Subaru slowly realizes he loves in return. Subaru balances this year-long Eden with his work life, in which he deals with and changes the lives of (and afterlives of) people who have been wronged, whether it be by other people or by the state of the city itself. Subaru himself is an awkward and gentle soul, more comfortable around animals than other people and painfully shy, but is selfless and willing to go great lengths to help even people who have lashed out at him in anger and pain. Unlike the vast majority of Tokyo and the wounded, jaded hearts of most of its citizens, Subaru’s heart is pure, and it is this purity of heart that allows Subaru to help even the most jaded and wounded—in fact, there is only person in the entire manga who claims to have not been changed by Subaru in one way or another, and this person may be the greatest psychological casualty presented in the Tokyo Babylon storyline: deep down, the most screwed up and distorted beyond humanity. If Subaru battles injustice and ill karma throughout the entire story, this person may represent everything Subaru opposes: illusions, deception, selfishness, irreverence for humanity, and the fact that bad things happen to good people. It is too bad this person is the man Subaru loves.

Subaru and Seishirou's story is continued in the manga X (published in English as X/1999), which takes place nine years after the conclusion of Tokyo Babylon. X and Tokyo Babylon take place in the same universe. Though Subaru, Hokuto, and Seishirou all appear in tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, tsubasa is not a continuation of the Tokyo Babylon story. It is an alternate-universe take on the CLAMP universe.

1. Be a fan of the Tokyo Babylon manga; this is NOT tsubasa: Reservior Chronicle.
2. Provide your name or a pseudonym and your country, at the very least. And provide a real country; Tokyo-3 and Zaibach are not real countries. These are Animefanlisting.org rules.
3. If you provide your website, you must paste a code in some easily-accessible location. If you do not link back immediately, or if I cannot find your code because it is in some obscure or illogical location (such as a random page of a fanfic, whatever), I will add you to the listing without linking back.
4. If you request, I will not display your email address, but you must still provide a functional one to be added to the fanlisting.

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