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Line 102: Clamp's works span a wide variety of themes. As opposed to keeping consistent themes across their works or having individual themes for each work, Nanase Ohkawa stated "we come up with a new theme for each story. One thing to say each time." Their works often deal with the theme of human fate that relates to Ohkawa's view on life; Ohkawa believes that "fate is something you choose", not a "mystical force manipulating your destiny", and that with determination and resolve, "you can change your fate".<ref name="Animerica Interview">{{cite book \|editor-last=Ledoux \|editor-first=Trish \|title=Anime Interviews: The First Five Years of Animerica, Anime & Manga Monthly (1992-97) \|publisher=[[Viz Media\|Cadence Books]] \|year=2005 \|location=[[San Francisco]] \|page=177 \|isbn=978-1-56931-220-9}}</ref> Also common is the idea of [[soulmate]]s, or couples tied together by [[destiny\|fate]]. Syaoran and Sakura (featured in both ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' and ''[[Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle]]'') are among Clamp's signature couples that best fits this representation. As also seen in ''Magic Knight Rayearth'', three girls are bound together by fate to save Cephiro. Fate is also the reason the three girls consider each other "sisters"; another idea that elaborates people being tied together (family cannot be chosen). Clamp also explores the idea of [[chastity\|chaste]] or pure [[romantic love\|love]] (as in the manga ''[[Chobits]]'').<ref>{{cite book \|last=LaMarre \|first=Thomas \|author-link=Thomas LaMarre \|title=[[The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation]] \|url=https://archive.org/details/animemachinemedi00lama \|url-access=limited \|date=October 30, 2009 \|publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] \|isbn=978-0-8166-5154-2 \|chapter=Chapter 17 \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/animemachinemedi00lama/page/n259 221]–233}}</ref> Clamp's disregard for sex or gender (or at times biological age) in these couples has led them to write same-sex couples into many of their manga in contrast to many other manga artists (for example, Tōya and Yukito in ''Cardcaptor Sakura''). A number of such couples have been shown together across parallel dimensions in the Clamp [[multiverse]]. Although Clamp often writes romantic works, Ohkawa has mentioned that she feels that it is more putting one's life on the line than love that causes women to grow or change.<ref name="Clamp Focus Panel"/> Clamp never features love as a central theme; Ohkawa stated in an interview with Takeshi Oshiguchi in 1997 for ''[[Animerica]]'' that she is not "good at love stories" since her "idea of a relationship is different from that of a lot of other people".<ref name="Animerica Interview"/> Perhaps drawing inspiration from Ohkawa's own poor right-eye vision, Clamp frequently features one-eyed characters or characters that lose their sight in one eye as means to express the feeling of loneliness (for example, Subaru and Seishirō in ''Tokyo Babylon'' and ''X'' and Fay in ''Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle''). However, there is always something later on that comes to supplement the loss in vision.<ref name="Clamp Focus Panel"/>

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