Suki, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Clamp (Author)

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Reminiscent of the hit CLAMP titles Wish and Cardcaptor Sakura.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop (April 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591827612
• ISBN-13: 978-1591827610
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,131,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Clamp, stylized as CLAMP, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively, and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ok, now I get it., January 30, 2005

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This review is from: Suki, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

The first book creeped me out - I went through an internal war between my trust for CLAMP and the deeply disturbed feeling the first book left me with. But I couldn't leave it alone, so I got the second book (this one) - ok, so now I understand what's going on a little better and I'm glad I bought this book . Normally I don't like it when the writer spells out what's going on - I like to figure it out for myself - but this book comes so close to some very delicate themes (closer than almost any other book I've read), that their spelling some things out actually relieved me.

Many Japanese themes seem to deal with young girls in cute clothing, love, and danger as though it were all a big exciting joke. This one is so very different. It's well written, perfectly lined, perfectly plotted. what if someone truly innocent were in danger, and couldn't recognize it? The main character's innocence and trust for the world are so utterly complete, and her heart is so large and open, that she believes everyone around her is good and kind. You debate with yourself if this is a great and amazing gift, or a blindly stupid way of locking out fear - but you can't help wanting to protect her, worrying about her.

This is not your average Japanimation story. The only thing I can compare it to, really, and then only in terms of sheer quality, is Jin Roh: Wolf Brigade (but they're really nothing alike at all. It's just that they're both so well done.)

I'll get the third book now and see how it ends.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A man with a dark past and a girl half his age..., June 6, 2004

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suki, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

No, it's not a episode of Buffy, its the second book of Suki. In volume two we learn that Asou has a job after school, is a bad person and is just as determined to be close to Hina as she is to be as close to him. But there are different reasons. Is she falling in love with him? And what's his job after work if he's spending so much time with HER? Who is Tomo-Kun and Kizu-San? Why are they watching and why does Tomo-Kun think Hina is good for Asou? I've got to get volume three!

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute Book, May 14, 2009

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This review is from: Suki, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Very cute book that made a great gift for my girlfriend who is not too big into manga. It was incredibly hard to find this book since it is out of print and I had been looking for it for a year. Definitely worth the buy.