Tsubasa is technically shounen. Maybe more than "technically." There's the whole CLAMP issue--but it's got what I think of as the stereotypical marker of shounen, which is that about 75% of the plot is fighting.
Nobody seeems to know what XXXholic is; I remember reading an interview with one of the CLAMP members where she called it "uncategorizable." Odd little horror fantasy story with shounen-ai hints, I guess, but hardly enough for those hints to be the hook for people who look for that. Like a lot of the manga I have a hard time categorizing as shoujo or shounen, it makes more sense when I think of it in terms of Western genres, oddly enough. I mean, the medium's manga (plus some Beardsley), but the content is pure Saki or M.R. James.
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Nobody seeems to know what XXXholic is; I remember reading an interview with one of the CLAMP members where she called it "uncategorizable." Odd little horror fantasy story with shounen-ai hints, I guess, but hardly enough for those hints to be the hook for people who look for that. Like a lot of the manga I have a hard time categorizing as shoujo or shounen, it makes more sense when I think of it in terms of Western genres, oddly enough. I mean, the medium's manga (plus some Beardsley), but the content is pure Saki or M.R. James.