This arc was already wonderful, after all Subaru is in it! Kinda...(I want to hug Subaru and stoke his hair and feed him soup and generally mother him!). The only thing that can make it better is if he, I dunno, WAKES UP! Oh, and Seishirou appears, and they meet, and Hokuto is mentioned...okay there are a lot of things related to Subaru that they could do to improve this arc.
As for the actual plot, that I was forgetting in my Subaru fangirl mode, gah...I think I'm melting from good story overload.
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Clamp are really keeping us on our toes in this arc. Everything they have done has surprised us in some way. In this chapter I love how protective Kurogane is, yet how subtle it is too. And they've drawn the eye thing really well too. It is drawn in the exact same way as Fay's eye (the pupil shading and everything) instead of Syaoran's shading but lighter. I can't, however, say that I'm anticipating the Syaoran fight as much as the aftermath though (or Subaru waking up...sorry, I have a few more fangirl moments left in me for him!).
Nothing in manga really grosses me out (I don't mind all the blood and gore) but there was something about Syaoran, about to bite Fay's eye out, that sent a shiver down my spine.
I'm finding it difficult to comment on this chapter because although we got Kurogane defending Fay and Syaoran using Fay's magic etc...it doesn't feel like much has happened.