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Common High School Tropes But Stays Classy about Anxiety

Komi Can't Communicate, vols. 1-2 by Tomohito Oda

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This is kind of a two-fer. I’ve seen some reviews or ads for Komi Can’t Communicate, so when I saw the first two volumes at a library, I felt I had to try them. The premise is actually a little interesting, which strikes me as a little unusual for a manga about high school kids in a non-fantasy setting. Tadano wants to get through high school without drawing attention. Komi is the school beauty queen. One would expect for them to connect because that’s just […]

Concluding the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Volume 28

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 28 by CLAMP

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And so the great Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle read through has come to an end.  Shout out to William Flanagan, who wrote the English translation for all twenty eight volumes, churning out translations to keep pace with the publications in Japan.  At the end of each volume he would include some translation notes, sometimes explaining a cultural norm, or showing the process of how he came to use the translation chosen for a particular section.  The writer/artist collective CLAMP used Tsubasa as a way to mix […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 23 – 27

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 23 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 24 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 25 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 26 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 27 by CLAMP

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Volume 23 – The original and the copy are going at it in dreams, Sakura is horrified by their actions.  Everyone outside the dreaming is waiting impatiently, as there is nothing they can do.  Original Syaoran has fallen and Sakura runs to his side.  Copy Syaoran even goes so far as to wound Sakura in his quest to get the feather inside O-Syaoran.  Fei-Wang Reed goads C-Syaoran saying that Sakura’s soul is not important to his plans (only her body is necessary) so go ahead and […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 17 – 22

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 17 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 18 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 19 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 20 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 21 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 22 by CLAMP

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Volume 17 – In all the fighting, and teleporting, in and out of the cistern, the water reservoir has been nearly depleted.  Yuko can fill the reservoir and save Fai’s life but it involves people asking for wishes and being able to fulfill payment for the wish.  The end result is that Fai, despite his desire to die, will be saved by being made into a vampire with Kamui’s blood.  But because it is Kurogane’s wish, he must take responsibility for Fai, as such the only […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

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Why this all began,  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles read through. Volume 14 – The volume opens with Yuko and Fei-Wang Reed throwing verbal barbs at one another while magically communicating across dimensions.  In Recort, Syaoran and Kurogane discuss the discovery that the people who killed Kurogane’s mother and attacked Syaoran’s country are from the same dimension.  This adds a new reason to keep dimension hopping. Sakura and Fai have been investigating and learned that the book that allowed Syaoran to see Kurogane’s memory is literally called, ‘the […]



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