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In the anime Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, the main characters have the same
name and look like as the characters of Card Captor Sakura.

How was this why is that? Are they allowed to use to use other characters of
other anime?


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Why does Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle use the same characters as Card Captor Sakura?


> Is it available to use other characters of other animes into your own
> without having copyright issues?

Of course. As long as you didn't sign over copyright as part of a distribution
deal, you OWN the copyright, and can do whatever you want with the characters.
Copyright can be deconstructed as "the right to copy", as in... "I have the
right to copy these... you don't".

> Why does Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle ha[ve] the same characters [as] Sakura
> Card Captor?

CLAMP is very fond of re-using characters. The boys from Clamp Campus
Detectives show up in X/1999. The main characters from Tokyo Babylon show up
there as well. xxxHolic and Tsubasa Chronicles characters cameo'd in each
other's series. These are just the obvious ones I've seen.

Admittedly, I don't know of any other case where they simply
[AUd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29) the main
characters of one series into another one.


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Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle are actually part of the
same "multiverse", as well as xxxHolic. Clow Reed is a major character in both
Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa, and other characters such as Yukito show up in
more than one of them.

There are other crossovers between the different worlds, such as this:

> Tsubasa Li is the son of Syaoran Li and Sakura Li. Sakura Kinomoto from
> Cardcaptor Sakura gave her Star Wand to Sakura Li as the price to Yūko for
> Tsubasa to go to Clow Country. It is also stated that Tsubasa does not give
> Yūko his true name, (a counterpoint to Watanuki who gives both name and
> birthday), instead he uses his father's name, Syaoran Li

Also, according to ccs.wikia.com:

> Since part of CLAMP's stated intention of xxxHolic was to unite their body
> of work into a single universe/multiverse, it seems quite likely that Yūko
> has a more than passing awareness of the events of Cardcaptor Sakura, Tokyo
> Babylon, and X/1999, and that while she may not have visited Cephiro
> herself, she is almost certainly aware of its existence. In a special novel
> released in Japan about the origins of the two Mokonas, it was mentioned
> that Clow Reed and herself met the original Mokona of Cephiro (Magic Knight
> Rayearth) thus making it the model for building the two smaller Mokonas. One
> is black and one is white. The white one has a red gem and black one has
> blue gem.

Clamp is known for using crossover characters for all of their different
mangas. Tsubasa and xxxHolic are the most closely tied, but there are major
crossovers--such as Clow Reed--between Tsubasa and Cardcaptor Sakura.


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