xxxHOLiC, Vol. 5 [Paperback]

CLAMP (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2005

Kimihiro Watanuki is the indentured servant of Yûko, the beautiful but completely unpredictable Space-Time Witch. He must work at her bizarre wish-granting shop until he can pay off his own wish: to be free of the spirits that haunt him. Yûko’s latest customer is a rain spirit who wants Kimihiro dispatched on a rescue mission. Little does Kimihiro know that this mission will take him to death’s door!

Kimihiro has another problem. A cute spirit has given him a Valentine’s Day present, which means he’s obligated by Japanese custom to return the favor. What do you get a girl who may not even exist in this world?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (May 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345477898
• ISBN-13: 978-0345477897
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,761 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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a suprise!, June 11, 2005

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Bradley Stephenson "http://www.bradstephenson... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: xxxHOLiC, Vol. 5 (Paperback)

Just got my issue of xxxHolic #5 in the mail and all I can say is "Wow!". Not only do we get more well written stand alone supernatural stories with subtle character developments, we are also treated to a HUGE leap forward in the xxxHolic story with the biggest suprise this series has revealded and I never would have guessed: There's a bad guy!

What started out as the usual strange ghost/monster/spirit storyline turned into something much larger (maybe global?) that is literally eating people's souls and what's more, we see Yuko take a stand and use her powers to fight what the villian is doing and add extra meaning to all those butterflies we see in all the previous xxxHolic pictures (go ahead, have a look! No we know what they are... kind of).

There's also a subtle piece of info regarding the black Mokona (he has two stomaches!) and a crossover with CLAMP's other new work Legal Drug #2 as well as lots of talk and some mailing of a gift to the Tsubasa team and some Valentine's Day vengeance!

Great art. Suprising story. Buy it now. Seriously. This series rocks!

5.0 out of 5 stars It's what you'd expect, September 28, 2011

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Julia - See all my reviews

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This review is from: xxxHOLiC, Vol. 5 (Paperback)

If you've gotten this far you're probably so drawn in that you're just flipping pages at the speed of light.

3.0 out of 5 stars Vandalism and scorn! (Oh, and then there's the story...), August 20, 2008

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: xxxHOLiC, Vol. 5 (Paperback)

CLAMP, xxxHolic vol. 5 (Del Rey, 2005)

There's something about the fifth volume of xxxHolic that seems to encourage lawlessness. My library's copies walked off, so I had to get it Interlibrary Loan, and the copy I received had a few pages that had been expertly sliced out. Go figure. CLAMP really seem to have gotten into this one in the past few episodes, as they follow up the twin-sister episode with some real crackers here. All the wackniess of the Valentine's Day hijinks in volume 4 come back to haunt Watanuki in spades (what does one give a girl who doesn't really exist on White Day?), while the episodic stories continue on as strong as they were in the last volume. Series is starting to get good. ***