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Getting Better! | Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 | CLAMP

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	• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 CLAMP Del Rey, 2005 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Tsubasa CHRoNiCLE takes off...

Clamp's cross-over chaos manga takes off in this fourth installment, and reaches new heights of excellence.

After bogging down in the Hanshin Republic and an alternate Korea, our heroes reach a world strangely reminiscent of late 18th-century Europe. They find a village where a dead princess is said to be stealing children, and things get a lot more interesting.

The fourth volume of Tsubasa really seems to "click": the story, art (especially the panel and page layouts), and dialogue all seemed to come together suddenly, and I tore through this volume at a teriffic rate, only to spend hours paging through it again and marvelling at the individual panels; they're gorgeous. Moreover, the characters are finally starting to come into their own, and the interactions between our five heroes are often hilarious and sometimes poignant. It's a big plus that Sakura has regained enough memories so that she's no longer a space case; in this volume she officially "joins the group" by formally introducing herself etc (the effect is almost irreproducible in English, but the translation notes make a gallant effort). On a side note, I was a little reminded of the recent "Brothers Grimm" movie, but that's not Clamp's fault, but rather a tribute to their ability to create an atmosphere.

In sum, fans of Clamp, Cardcaptor Sakura, and manga in general should not hesitate to get out their wallets for this one. The story is picking up speed, and it retains its interest by being both episodic (world after world), and a saga as well (who are those mysterious villians who pop up every now and again?). Clamp fans will find hours of entertainment by playing "spot the cameo" or "what Clamp series is this character orignally from?" I don't have enough words to praise Del Rey's efforts at translation; not only do they retain the honorifics, without which it's virtually impossible to understand the relationships between the characters, but their translation notes are well-informed and very useful. Manga doesn't get better than this.

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These Books are so kewl! theres mild language but nothing i woulden't suggest nessacarialy(spelling?) I loved these books and hopefully you will too (cheesey line)

Getting Better!

This is a great series. I wasn't quite sure but optimistic before but now I'm getting quite involved in the story. The alternate world has a princess and castle in it. The princess comes on stormy winter nights to lure children to the castle. Sakura ends up being lured too. What will happen?

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Eerie Happenings

This volume finds the gang arriving at a creepy European-style village in a situation bearing a strong resemblance to the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend as they try to help by finding the whereabouts of children who have been disappearing after seeing the ghostly apparition of a golden-haired princess.

The story in this arc is nothing particularly special, although it's a good enough read for ghost story affectionados. It's the landscaping of the cursed town that's the draw this time, laden with ominous atmosphere and looking like something out of Irving or Poe. It's one of those volumes that you don't want to page through too quickly to make sure you drink everything in.

Syaoran has understood from the beginning exactly what the cost of his exchange with Yuko would be, and it's in this volume that he starts to pay for his decision as an agitated Sakura - starting to regain more of herself - begins to sense the large hole in her memory that should have started to fill in.

Perhaps not a classic, but a very decent bridge volume.

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Brilliant

What more needs to be said for this series? Clamp is an excellent group of four female manga artists. The books are each a work of art in their own right.The story is compelling.You can't help but root for the four travelers.

A FAIRYTALE TURNED NIGHTMARE!

Young Syaoran embarks on a worlds-spanning adventure to restore the memory of the most important person in his life, the princess Sakura? even though he knows that she?ll never remember her love for him. The trail leads to a small town reminiscent of Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, a place where the ghostly image of a golden-haired woman comes in the night to steal the town?s children. Syaoran and his band of outrageous friends?affable Fai D. Flowright, loose cannon Kurogane, the odd creature Mokona, and Sakura herself?mount their horses and venture into forbidding, barren woods to solve a mystery, rescue the children, and retrieve one more piece of Sakura?s missing memories.

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