Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 7 [Paperback]

Clamp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2005

SYAORAN OVERMATCHED?!

Young Syaoran and his friends are on a quest to retrieve the magically potent feather-shaped shards of Princess Sakura’s memory. The search has led them to the country of Ôto, a world with the romantic feel of Japan in the early 1900s. However, another dimension traveler has shown up as well–the immensely powerful Seishirô, who first trained Syaoran. Now he and Syaoran are mortal enemies! Seishirô’s first objective is to kill Fai, beloved wizard and one of Syaoran’s closest companions. Does Syaoran, who is just beginning his training, have any hope of surviving their inevitable battle?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (October 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345477979
• ISBN-13: 978-0345477972
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #494,274 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a little suspense, but no cliffhangers., October 28, 2005

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Mary Mead - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 7 (Paperback)

aaand, Volume 7! We've got the conclusion of the Outou arc, more Seishirou-san, Subaru-kun's name appears, and a whole bunch of fun scenes.

Ending with Syaoran-kun's memory of Seishirou-san, we move on to Syaoran-kun and Kurogane trying to find out more about "the demon leader", aka the I-1 oni. Dwarf Tower appears, and becomes the site for Kurogane with a sword and Syaoran-kun using his skills against the oni that try to attack them. Seishirou-san turns up at Cat's Eye, does some stuff *gags to prevent spoilers*, then leaves.

Kurogane's fight with Sei-chan is great. Sei-chan is the hottest person in this volume, and it's well deserved. *drools* More fun follows that fight, which i am under threat of pain not to spoil.

so, all in all, we've got *counts on fingers* about four fight scenes, one very cute Syaoran/Sakura scene, a cute Fai-angst scene, Sei-chan being hot, more crossovers, and lots of overall fun.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving on nicely!, November 3, 2005

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Bradley Stephenson "http://www.bradstephenson... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 7 (Paperback)

Just got my copy which I preordered months ago from Amazon.com and found this volume a very interesting read. Why? Because this is the first volume of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles that I've read where I have seen the story accur in the anime first. With all the others, the manga was my first look at many of the worlds and while the first half of the Outo arc I had read in the manga, the second half aired in Japan before the English release of the manga with the conclusion was even released.

While most of the story remains the same, I was actually disapointed that Kurogane didn't fight Seishiro in Outo. Funny since I think that if I had read this before I saw the anime arc I would have accused the anime of adding filler and slowing down the pace. Interesting how that works.

On it's own the manga is still better than the anime. Simply stunning artwork with the characters being drawn from every imaginable angle and with a whole range of emotions shown (something that is regularily lacking in the anime counterpart). Loved the Miyuki reference and also a splash more of Yuko which was great to see.

I simply loved this volume and this arc in general. So much is revealed about the characters themselves and a very captivating villian is introduced that is guarenteed to cause mayhem down the line.

Well worth purchasing, not just for the art and story, but also for the facinating translation notes within the back of the book by the English translator William Flanagan.

4.0 out of 5 stars The first setback, June 17, 2007

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Kellyannl (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 7 (Paperback)

The gang experiences their first setback in this volume of Tsubasa.

As it begins, Kurogane and Syaoran go on a job, leaving Fai to watch Sakura and Mokona at the cafe, with the girl soon slipping into another bout of narcolepsy (a nice little scene here, with Fai reflecting on how he's gotten more attached to the girl than he intended as he watches her sleeping).

Ominously, Fai soon receives a visitor in the form of Syaoran's mysterious former trainer, who as we learned in the last volume is the AU version of none other than CLAMP megavillain Seishiro Sakurazuka. Our dimension's version of Seishiro is probably CLAMP's most evil and sadistic villain, and unfortunately for Fai, this dimension's version isn't much nicer. Still unwilling to use his magic and therefore caught between a rock and a hard place as a strategic retreat is not an option for him as he refuses to abandon the unconscious Sakura, things do not go at all well for our magician...

When Kurogane and Syaoran rush back upon hearing a report that there's been a death at the cafe, they find Sakura safe and sound although still not conscious, but a hysterical Mokona screaming that Fai has been murdered by Seishiro - although there's not a body and the creature did not exactly see what transpired as it obeyed Fai's command not to leave Sakura no matter what it heard happening to Fai.

A grieving Syaoran vows vengeance, temporarily putting the search for Sakura's feathers on hold, and Kurogane allows him first crack at tracking Seishiro down - with the caveat that he'll only give the boy a limited amount of time before he goes gunning for the monster himself...

A fun, clever bridge volume that ends with the assurance that Seishiro will by necessity have to show up again - and that has to be a Good Thing.