Clover #2

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Summary: CLAMP Hits a Perfect Note Again
Review: A cyber-fantasy, Clover is all at once symbolic, touching and astonishing. Playing on a familar theme of people with special powers who were once experimented on by the government, Clover cleverly sidesteps cliches. As is common with other CLAMP works, CLAMP tries to throw an interesting art twist into their story, with Magic Knight Rayearth they played off of the style of RPG video games. Clover uses the style of a film, with an airy arrangemnet of panels and scart-yet-detailed art. There is lots of white and black space and panels seem to float on the page. The plot itself is haunting, with anghst, love, and sensuality. The lives of the characters and delicately interwoven and they break obsticals that are infact themselves. The relationships are interesting and bring the plot together with a crechendo. There is no shortage of twists to pull you along and it promises not to disapoint.

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Summary: Another remarkable effort
Review: Clamp goes on on their most exquisite manga so far on this second instalment of Clover. As the first volume, art talks for itself, and having the music/poem blending nicely on the story makes things even deeper, as you start to learn more about Sue's past, her relationship with the singer Ora and why everyone seems to be after Sue. Compared to the first volume, there's much more happening, so readers who felt uneasy with the plot may feel safer reading this than the previous one.

This volume hints on the next one, which is related to Ran's past (so actualy vol. 3 is a prequel to the story). If you enjoyed the first volume, then this one will pay your money back.

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Summary: Simply Beautiful!
Review: Clover is definetly the best of Clamps work. The art is elegant and breathtaking! The poetry is inspiring, its like you can feel the emotions as read through! So stop reading this review and go read the manga for yourself!

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Summary: Sweet story of love, loss, and seeing the world.
Review: The second volume of Clover finishes off the main story. In fact, you'd be best of reading it just after finished volume one as it literally picks up where the first one left off.

This volume also has the real emotional wallop of the story. Volume One sets up the world the characters live in and the basic plot: former government agent Kazuhiko is assigned to take a young girl of unknown origin to an amusement park in a dark, future society. En route, of course, they run into opposition and a couple allies.

The real pay-off is when the two arrive at Fairy Park, and we learn why Kazuhiko was chosen, his connection to the girl, her desire to go to the deserter park in the first place, and her connection both to a song constantly playing in the background, and the singer, Kazuhiko's dead love Ora. There's some action, some destruction, some death, but the focus is clearly in this volume on the girl Gingestsu, who hasn't really seen too many other people, and the reasons why. The themes are similar to the desires of David the robot in Spielberg's movie A.I., though for different purposes and less "happy" ending, leaving the characters feeling haunted by the young girl, what she could do, and why she did what she did.

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Summary: Sweet story of love, loss, and seeing the world.
Review: The second volume of Clover finishes off the main story. In fact, you'd be best of reading it just after finished volume one as it literally picks up where the first one left off.

This volume also has the real emotional wallop of the story. Volume One sets up the world the characters live in and the basic plot: former government agent Kazuhiko is assigned to take a young girl of unknown origin to an amusement park in a dark, future society. En route, of course, they run into opposition and a couple allies.

The real pay-off is when the two arrive at Fairy Park, and we learn why Kazuhiko was chosen, his connection to the girl, her desire to go to the deserter park in the first place, and her connection both to a song constantly playing in the background, and the singer, Kazuhiko's dead love Ora. There's some action, some destruction, some death, but the focus is clearly in this volume on the girl Gingestsu, who hasn't really seen too many other people, and the reasons why. The themes are similar to the desires of David the robot in Spielberg's movie A.I., though for different purposes and less "happy" ending, leaving the characters feeling haunted by the young girl, what she could do, and why she did what she did.

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Summary: You MUST read this
Review: This is one of clamp's most beautiful works, it is so sad and touching it really brings the story together. Suu and Kazuhiko finally make it to Fairy Park and the ending is so amazing you never guess what happens. But you really find out more about Suu and the song that she sings. Clamp is renound for their artwork and it is so beatiful, between the amazingly detailed work and the way that they aranged the manga is so amazing. Because they arranged it in a very simplistic way with a lot of blank space but when there is art it is so beautiful and flows so well. The charaters are so complex and, this is just so amazing. You really can't desribe it. I recomend all of Clamp's work, whether is is magical girl "Card Captor Sakura" or the wonderful story line of "Magic Knights Rayearth". Also I highly recomend "Wish" it is another of Clamp's works and not avalable in English.