Monday, August 20, 2012

Manga Review: Tokyo Babylon Vol.3

                                                    Tokyo Babylon Vol.3 Review
In this volume a group of three high school girls who believe they are the chosen ones are recklessly using different types of magics to curse people over the phone, who's phone numbers end in 1999 because they believe they will be involved in the battle for the end of the world,Subaru is hired to stop this girls. Subaru soon discovers that the girls are amateurs and therefore do not know the consequences of the spells they are casting which makes Subaru want save the girls from themselves. Subaru is able to help one of the girls but the other  two still believed him to be the enemy so they attack him. After Subaru is knocked out by one of the girls spells Seishiro tells the girls who are continuing with their rants about being special and the chosen ones that he doesn't really care what they think but he isn't going to let them harm another hair on his Subaru's head nor is going to allow himself to to be attack so when the girls attack him he sends it right back to them and it causes some pretty serious mental damage to them. The volume ends with Subaru feeling guilty about not being able to save the girls from themselves but luckily Hokuto is able to cheer him up with making him see that he can use this as a learning experience.

Also in this volume Subaru and Seishiro went on a bit of a date(except Subaru doesn't consider it a date even it pretty much is) and had their compatibility tested by giving there birthday and birth place(which if you read enough Clamp works you know that this is consider information that is dangerous to give out to magic users). Hokuto looks through their compatibility sheet later and remarks how she doesn't quite think Seishiro horoscope sign suites him and that she thinks their compatibility score is wrong because she is of course the number one Subaru/Seishiro shipper. I also continue to love how Hokuto and Seishiro talk about Subaru and Seishiro getting married with Subaru getting all embarrassed by it.

I overall loved this volume even though this story isn't one of my favorites of the series it's still pretty good and I continue to love the characters and their interactions and the artwork. Please tell me your thoughts on this volume or series.

2 comments:

  1. I never got around to reading this Clamp series or X/1999 although I have them both. I've read a lot of other Clamp. My favorite is Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles.
    I'm a new follower.
    Happy Reading!

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    1. My favorite Clamp series is also Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and Tokyo Babylon is actually my third favorite Clamp series.

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