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Cardcaptor Sakura 100% Authentic Manga Vol 2

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My daughter absolutely loves Cardcaptor Sakura! Well written fantasy story with a lot of Asian mythology. Also, great resource for Japanese culture.
We watched all DVD after we finished reading books. There are American version with character's names are transformed into English names...but I strongly recommend to read Authentic versions. It's too odd to see all Japanese characters have English names...

This volume introduces Syaoran Li. He quickly establishes himself as Sakura's rival for both the Clow Cards and the attention of Yukito. Li is the modern day descendant of Clow Reed and feels he is the one who should be the chosen collector. But, Kero-chan points out that Sakura WAS able to open the magical book, so... no cards for Li! Not even after several confrontations with Sakura with him basically demanding that she hand them over. How will this rivalry play out in the end?

If you can get by the... bizarre relationships, this has a great story with beautiful illustrations. But, I do suggest picking up the first volume first.

Note that this is the edition of the manga which reads right to left, not the butchered and flipped one. Highly recommended.

The Cardcaptor Sakura story continues. My students love this book and they are dying for each book I bring in. At least the girls are, the boys are into Naruto and Bleach. The girls oooh and ahhh! over every turn and just love this story. It gets them reading without my ever having to say anything!

In the second volume of the hugely popular Shoujo Manga; Cardcaptor Sakura, Sakura captures another 4 cards to add to her already 5 collected. So that makes her collection; Flower, Thunder, Sword and Shadow (new Cards collected) as well as Watery, Windy, Fly, Wood and Illusion.

I give this volume a 4 Stars rating because it's a tad confusing about the whole 'love' scenario and whose talking to who and why. Other then that it's a wonderful, light hearted Manga about a 10 years old quest to find mysterious cards that have magical powers.

We also are introduced at last, to Li who is Sakura's rival in capturing the Clow Cards. But don't think there's much rivalry yet as Li doesn't even bother to catch a card, instead just sits on the sidelines and complains about her technique. That was a let down.

Once again, I think it'd be for anyone who loves a girly-uber cute story with a magical twist!

Hi all, I'm back!!
(Okay if you've never read any Sailor Moon reviews you'll have no idea what I'm talking about)
It's me Sailor Universe and I'm here to review another one of my favorite Shojo (magical girl) mangas! But enough about me, more about Sakura and her latest adventures!
This book includes 5 excellent acts: Field Day Follies (Pt. 1&2), Sakura's Rival (Pt.1&2), and Shadow of a doubt. In my personal opinion they are all very well written and well..... alright all ready I'm getting to the reviewing!
In the first two acts (I'm counting them as one cause they're basicly the same): Field Day Follies, It's field day at Sakura's school. Here she does her cheer and Yuki and Toya come to watch. Then we meet Tomoyo-chan's mother who was Sakura's mother's cousin and is really mad at Sakura's father.The reason? Well if you are that interested you should buy the book! And then there is the family race where Tomoyo-chan's mother and Sakura-chan's father are racing against eachother! And man do they have issues with eachother. But wait...what's with all these flowers?! That's right a Clow Card has been dropping a blizzard of flowers on the school grounds and now it's up to Sakura-chan, the great Cardcaptor, to save the day! But wait what's a card that has to do with flowers good for anyways!? Apparently a lot of things (don't worry you find out).

The next act is: Sakura's Rival (once again counting part 1&2 as 1 act)in which Sakura gets a rival duh! And yes, of course, Li makes his great appearence! Er...if you don't know who Li is he's a distant relative of Clow out to capture the cards. After school (he transfers to Sakura and Tomoyo's class) he confronts Sakura-chan and demands the Clow cards, but, just like our good old Sakura, she doesn't give it to him. So Li tries to steal them from her but is stopped by Oni-chan a.k.a.-Toya! Next Tomoyo-chan, Sakura-chan, and Rika-chan go to the store because Sakura is looking for a present for Yukita-san's birthday (she finds a cute rice bowl and chopsticks). Rika also buys a sword broach. Later Rika shows up at Sakura's house and she has been posessed by the Sword Card (which was the broach). But in the end Sakura defeats the (very) deadly card!

The last act is:Shadow of a Doubt. This is when everyone's shadow is out to get them. Oh and Sakura-chan has just caught the Thunder! Of course (like always) Sakura-chan defeats Shadow in the end after she is protected by Li (awww..it's sooo cute).
Oh..and it's also Valentine's Day!!

Alright now back to the book. This book is written in traditional Japanese style so it is read from right to left. It really isn't that hard after you read a few but that's just a heads up! Also the characters address eachother with traditional Japanese suffixes like -san, -chan, -kun, and -sama. and don't worry! There's a glossary in the back that explains everything you need to know!!
Anyways the art in this book is really good! It's another one of CLAMP's mangas and believe me, it's a good one! No great, amazing, stupenduos!! Well you get it right!? I HIGHLY RECOMEND this book to all Cardcaptor Sakura fans. So belive me when I say, IT ROCKS!
Signing off
Sailor Universe/Clow ^_*
P.S.-Sorry this review is so long but atleast now you now know why I don't review more manga...right? I mean c'mon it's just TOO GOOD!!

For being a children's book, Cardcaptor Sakura has some messed up relationships that would make The Moral Majority cringe. As Sakura competes in the school field day she learns a little bit more about her mother when she meets Tomoyo's rich and powerful mother, who just happens to be the cousin of Sakura's mother, and what's more, was in love with her! That's nothing to say of Tomoyo's own more than friend love for Sakura herself! And what about how Sakura's father met and married Sakura's mother, his student at the time, with her being 16 and him 24! Talk about moral debauchery. Wow. This makes the sexual romps of 16th century ribaldry look tame by comparison. And then enter Syaoran Li-Kun, a new student at Sakura's school who is a descendant of Clow Reed, and is now Sakura's rival to collect the cards. He's also her rival in another way. He seems to have an odd attraction to Yukito, the high school student that Sakura has a crush on. And there's another classmate of Sakura's that apparently is having a love affair with her teacher. This is elementary school for Pete's sake! And what's the real deal between Yukito and Toya. Do they live on Brokeback Mountain?

If somehow you can navigate through all this emotional baggage Cardcaptor Sakura is pretty entertaining. I think because all of the relationships are right out of the Satyricon makes this work really stand out in the magical girl genre. The strangeness makes it memorable. Is this really a horror work disguising itself as a children's interest? Still too early to tell because none of these morally repugnant setups has led to anything. Or has it?