CAN PURE DETERMINATION DEFEAT A MASTER MAGICIAN? Sakura is awake, but she remembers almost nothing¨Ccertainly not Syaoran, who has sacrificed everything to help her. Accompanied by the happy-go-lucky Fai, the intense Kurogane, and the strikingly odd creature Mokona Modoki, Sakura and Syaoran make their way into a new universe where a traveling magician has suddenly become frighteningly powerful and is terrorizing an entire town. Only a few independent-minded stragglers remain to battle for control of their own lives. Fai, the lone magician in the group, traded his magical powers to the dimension witch, xxxHOLiC¡¯s Y?ko, before the journey started. Without a weapon with which to fight, can the extraordinary group of friends defeat a master magician who can control the Earth¡¯s elements?
CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member d¨jinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. Other former members of CLAMP also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shinya ?mi. Currently, there are four members in the group.
In 2004, CLAMP's 15th anniversary as a mangaka group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA, a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of CLAMP simply wanted to try out new names. In a later interview with Ohkawa, it was revealed that initially Mokona wanted to drop her surname because it sounded too immature for her liking, while Nekoi disliked people commenting that her name was the same as Mick Jagger's. Ohkawa and Igarashi, wanting to go with the flow of Nekoi's and Mokona's name changes, changed their names as well.
In 2006, they made their first USA public debut at Anime Expo in Anaheim, California. They were well received at the convention, with 6,000 fans in attendance at their panel.
This volume was lots of action. I don't like action scenes, wish more character development. Fai and Kurogane duo were hilarious. Syaoran is a mystery to me. Sakura is still powerless. Mokone is cutie! In this volume we look for Sakura's memory feathers in Koryo! Korea, most likely. I read the volume with its anime soundtrack, great experience again. Looking forward to unraveling the mysteries.
Aqu¨ª nos despedimos de la Rep¨²blica de Hanshin y nuestro equipo llega inmediatamente al Reino de Koryo, un lugar dominado por la tiran¨ªa de Ryanban.
Syaoran est¨¢ empe?ado en recuperar todas las plumas de Sakura, quien, desafortunadamente, a¨²n no tiene energ¨ªa o poder suficiente para mantenerse de pie como lo har¨ªa en otro tiempo. Y es que sus recuerdos est¨¢n en esas plumas que, de forma singular, siempre brindan suerte y/o calamidad a quienes se encuentran cerca.
En este caso se trata de Ryanban, un tipo mala cara que ha utilizado el poder de la pluma para someter a todo el pueblo y cobrar impuestos injustificadamente. Ser¨¢ pues, el trabajo de nuestro grupo favorito liberar a este pueblo de la opresi¨®n.
Ahora bien, siendo honestos, este es uno de los arcos que encuentro un poco aburrido, con todo y que las escenas de acci¨®n no faltan. Mi recomendaci¨®n ser¨ªa leer este volumen con la m¨²sica que compuesta por Kajiura Yuki y que sirvi¨® para la adaptaci¨®n del anime; se disfruta much¨ªsimo m¨¢s as¨ª.
First, great big sparkly hearts for Fai. I love that he can't whistle, but says "wheet woo" instead. Tee hee!
I have to say that I wish there'd been something - a throwaway line about living alone and needing to protect himself, ANYTHING - to explain Syaoran's crazy fight skillz. Why can a young archaelogist take on giants and crowds of people all at once? And be seemingly indestructible? The Powah of Love can really only excuse so much awesome.
It also kinda bums me out how, even aside from the fact that Syaoran's whole purpose involves a kind of save-the-damsel quest, and Sakura still has that not-entirely-awake thing going on, she sure doesn't do much besides get rescued. I like her character, and would like to see her be more active.
Tercer tomo del manga Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Contin¨²a la b¨²squeda de las plumas de Sakura para que pueda recuperar sus recuerdos y vuelva a su dimensi¨®n. En esta nueva aventura deber¨¢n enfrentarse a la magia, una magia bastante poderosa y muy distinta a lo que han presenciado anteriormente. Syaoran evoluciona mucho, a pesar de que la princesa Sakura no vuelva a recordarle nunca m¨¢s, ¨¦l no se rinde y lucha con todas sus fuerzas. Ha sido un tercer tomo lleno de acci¨®n, momentos super c¨®micos con Mokona y Kurogane y mucho m¨¢s protagonismo por parte de Sakura.
Me gust¨®. Entretenido. Si encuentro otros vol¨²menes, los comprar¨¦. Al mismo tiempo me compr¨¦ el 3 de XXX Holic, sin saber que estaban interrelacionados, y XXX incluso me gust¨® m¨¢s.
Kurogane and Fai are from different dimensions as well and they also went to the witch for their wish to come true.Eventually,they went with Syaoran to get feathers(Sakura's memory)back from other dimensions in the world.Mokona Modoki is a little pet that takes them to different dimensions to find the feathers and when there is a feather near by,it'll know.
The adventure continues to Koryo (maybe parallel dimension of Korea?). Syaoran and friends meet Chunyan, whose mother was killed by the evil lyan ban (district ruler). Mokona sense Sakura's feather aura inside lyan ban's castle, so Syaoran and Kuroganes have to defeat the evil lyan ban in order to take Sakura's feather back.
Again, CLAMP keeps up their run of interesting worlds; this one uses a variant of another character they have used in the past - Chun'yan (spellings vary with translation) from The Legend of Chun Hyang.
Time for another trip to the library -already- I should have gotten a few more of these :) I like Syaoran. And Tsubasa is just fun to say. This one's a lot less cheesy than Chunchu, but more for kids.
I looove the town with the golden haired ghost! All the clothes make me think of some romantic french ghost story. I love Tsubasa. I think it's great how all their manga series have found a way to meet!
The mystery deepens. Fye and Kurogane fight side by side so well. And I wonder what's up with Fye and the king sleeping on the bottom of the ocean. It seems like the king is the only thing that Fye is really afraid of.
This volume did a lot for Syaoran's character. His interactions with Sakura, and especially that bit at the very end when he calls out the Ryanban's illusion. The ending was a little abrupt for my taste, but I'm gonna try and get the next 3-in-1 ASAP.
A few plot points were not explained sufficiently, and honestly came out of nowhere, but other than that I thoroughly enjoyed this volume! By no CLAMP seems to have a better grasp on their environments and have managed the clutter a bit, which was a real issue with the previous volumes. Whether this will change with the next setting, only time will tell. The fight choreography ranges from standard to great depending on the scene. Throughout the volume characters would often restate plot points discussed earlier, which made it seem like everyone had short-term memory loss. This could be due to the serialization of the manga (with a chapter coming out every week or so in Japan), but it did pull me out of the experience a bit. This was also an issue I had with the previous volumes, so I don't think it will go away anytime soon. If you're having fun with the series, I'd definitely recommend continuing with this volume. It's a good addition that cleans up a few problems that were present earlier and the characters are as dynamic as ever. Good luck!
Having found their first ever out-of-world memory feather, Syaoran, Fai and Kurogane are now officially joined by a conscious Princess Sakura. Well, what remains of Sakura. She has vague memories of a desert place and she knows her name, but that's it. With this new challenge the group travels to a second new world. There a town is under the tyrannical rule of a powerful magic user who may or may not have something feather-shaped in his possession.
I'm still enjoying the plot and the characters! Really want to know what the deal is with Fai's backstory, and I'm enjoying his interactions with Kurogane. I'm hoping Sakura gets to be more of a character soon. The way Syaoran has to interact with her, a stranger wearing a familiar and loved face, is a good emotional thread, but I also want to see her get to be her own person, complete memories or no. On to volume 4!
The story is really good, but don't start unless you are in for the long haul! The only thing that bothers me about the art is the hands. Usually, Clamp does well with that, but everyone's hands here are huge! I love the battle scenes, they are quite intense. The personalities of everyone are slowly coming out. I am very happy Sakura is awake now so that she can help. Again, Kurogane is hilarious and Fai is sexy as heck! He is MINE!!!! I also like how both of them have so much more to them than what you actually see. When Fai smiles, best run! When Kurogane laughs, you ain't hiding! I do wish there had been some previous Clamp characters in this, like there were in the first two, but it was still AWSOME!
* RESUMEN EXPRESS CON SPOILER* - Mokona transporta al equipo a otra dimensi¨®n y llegan a Koryo, donde son atacados por el hijo del Ryanban (el gobernante). Una ni?a llamada Chunyan que se opone al gobierno les permite quedarse en su casa. - El grupo decide ir al castillo ya que piensan que el Ryanban posee una pluma y la usa como fuente de poder. Una vez infiltrados, el tr¨ªo es atacado por Kiishim, una hechicera que esta bajo el control del Ryanban. Fye y Kurogane se enfrentan a Kiishim, mientras Syaoran va en busca del Ryanban. - Chunyan y Sakura se infiltran en el castillo, mediante un hechizo lanzado por Chunyan, dejan al Ryanban a merced de Syaoran.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
De momento este ser¨ªa el tomo que nos presenta m¨¢s escenas de acci¨®n. Esto es debido a que a nuestro querido grupo le toca en esta oportunidad liberar al reino de Koryo? de la opresi¨®n y tiran¨ªa del Ryanban, por lo cual las demostraciones de poder parecen estar a la orden del d¨ªa. Si bien hasta el momento Shaoran es quien m¨¢s demostraciones de fuerza y habilidad nos mostr¨®, me gusta que al fin pusieran un poco de ¨¦nfasis en las habilidades de Kuro y Fay (que ya les digo yo vienen siendo de mis personajes favoritos ?)