X/1999, Vol. 9: Requiem [Paperback]

CLAMP (Author)

Book Description

Series: X/1999 | Publication Date: December 10, 2002

From the creators of Magic Knight Rayearth, RG Veda, Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland, and Tokyo Babylon comes another exciting manga adventure. Fuma’s relentless assault on the utterly unprepared Kamui continues. The unthinkable happens when Fuma cements his status as a Dragon of Earth and viciously ends his own sister’s life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 1 edition (December 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569318565
• ISBN-13: 978-1569318560
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,720,471 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.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Halfway through...., September 17, 2005

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Mary Mead - See all my reviews

This review is from: X/1999, Vol. 9: Requiem (Paperback)

Halfway through the currently published volumes of X, and the story is only beginning to pick up. All the characters have now been introduced, and now the story can continue on its angsty way!

This volumes mainly deals with Kamui coming to terms with Kotori's death by retreating Within like the spineless he is until about volume......12 i think. Subaru-kun (he's -kun to me b/c Viz's translations don't put honorifics in, and even though he's -san for the most part in X, b/c of Tokyo Babylon, he'll always be -kun)has to go save him from himself. We get flashbacks to Tokyo Babylon, and lovely little mentions of how much Subaru-kun loved Sei-chan (Seishiro-san, or if you want to be really distant, Sakurazuka-san). There's also a moment that made me giggle, which it probably wasn't supposed to, but when Subaru-kun collapses from exhaustion on Kamui (I adamantly refuse to belive there's anything between those two....), Kotori's head is squished between them. hehehe.

Fun things, (aka things that made me smile for various reasons): Kakyo looking very much like Yue with short hair in Kotori's vision, and then like Yue w/o the cat eyes in real life, Subaru-kun looking so delish throughout, espeically while angsting over Sei-chan, everyone in shock about how Subaru-kun is part of the Sumeragi family, loads of feathers EVERYWHERE (now, if only they were sakura petals.....), the CCD boys showing up out of nowhere, and the cute omake chapter for Kusanagi-san. oh, and Subaru-kun cementing his position as Bishonen of Angst.

Kamui reminds me so much of Subaru-kun at that age....and it really shows in this volume. hints are made at that over and over in this volume, which makes it loads of fun to read.

5.0 out of 5 stars HEY!!! X MEETS TOKYO BABYLON, April 19, 2003

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"ryowashu" (that place out of sight to our eyes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X/1999, Vol. 9: Requiem (Paperback)

Poor poor Kamui....Requiem is one of my favorites...This manga might not be mandatory but this book gives so much insight to the older and less known Tokyo Babylon series. The crossover character Subaru Sumeragi saves Kamui from mental isolation. This shows off Subaru's older character and gives some rare information about his past (in Tokyo Babylon). Subaru is my favorite character from Clamp so maybe thats why I love it so much but...it gives us a clue as to what for and why Subaru and Seishiro are fighting. If you have read X/1999 before you saw any Tokyo Babylon anything this is a good introduction to Tokyo Babylon and it's characters...and by knowing Tokyo Babylon you get to know more about X! This book is so beautiful (no less from clamp) as well as the drama.