Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 [Paperback]

CLAMP (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 25, 2005

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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About the Author

CLAMP is a group of four women who have become one of the most popular manga artists in the world - Satsuki Igarashi, Mick Nekoi, Mokona Apapa and Nanase Ohkawa. They started out as doujnishi (fan comics) creators, but their skill and craft brought them to the attention of publishers very quickly. Their first work from a major publisher was RG Veda, but their first mass success was with Magic Knight Rayearth. From there, they went on to write many series, including Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits, two of the most popular manga available. Like many Japanese manga artists, they prefer to avoid the spotlight, and little is known about them personally. CLAMP is also the author of Tsubasa, another title brought to you by Tanoshimi. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (January 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034547791X
• ISBN-13: 978-0345477910
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tsubasa CHRoNiCLE takes off..., October 18, 2005

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Andrea H. (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "continuation" of a beautiful story, January 27, 2005

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Christyl Johnson (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 (Paperback)

I always hoped that the Clamp writers would put out the continuing story of Syaoran and Sakura, and here it is, in a way.
The manga is fun, intreging and romantic in an innocent way. Syaoran and the others are still looking for feathers of Sakura's memory, and she begins to notice that someone is missing from them, but she still feels close to Syaoran. It's a sad young romance, which makes you hope for a real happy ending.
ButI will say this, the ending is a cliff-hanger (meaning: to be continued) which drives me nuts! But you'll have to read to find out the rest.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, January 10, 2007

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Stephanie Hilliard "Book Lover" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4 (Paperback)

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.