Suki: Volume 2

by CLAMP

Book Overview

Hina is determined to get closer to her neighbor and teacher Aso-sensei. Unbeknownst to Hina, her crush is not the mild-mannered teacher he appears to be and is hiding a mysterious past. When strange things start happening to her, she runs to Aso-sensei for help but can he keep her out of danger - or is being with him the greatest danger of all?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591827612
• ISBN13: 9781591827610
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: TokyoPop
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years

Customer Reviews

Cute Book

Very cute book that made a great gift for my girlfriend who is not too big into manga. It was incredibly hard to find this book since it is out of print and I had been looking for it for a year. Definitely worth the buy.

The Series Which Convinced Me That Manga Could Be Great!

This is a second book in a series of three. The book is out of print right now and I only found it because the first edition was placed in a close out bin. It introduced me to Clamp which is more female oriented. The first book drew in and I couldn't wait to read to read the second book. It is very sophisticated and wonderful. This isn't just every day Manga, this art.

Ok, now I get it.

The first book creeped me out - I went through an internal war between my trust for CLAMP and the deeply disturbed feeling the first book left me with. But I couldn't leave it alone, so I got the second book (this one) - ok, so now I understand what's going on a little better and I'm glad I bought this book . Normally I don't like it when the writer spells out what's going on - I like to figure it out for myself - but this book comes so close to some very delicate themes (closer than almost any other book I've read), that their spelling some things out actually relieved me. Many Japanese themes seem to deal with young girls in cute clothing, love, and danger as though it were all a big exciting joke. This one is so very different. It's well written, perfectly lined, perfectly plotted. what if someone truly innocent were in danger, and couldn't recognize it? The main character's innocence and trust for the world are so utterly complete, and her heart is so large and open, that she believes everyone around her is good and kind. You debate with yourself if this is a great and amazing gift, or a blindly stupid way of locking out fear - but you can't help wanting to protect her, worrying about her. This is not your average Japanimation story. The only thing I can compare it to, really, and then only in terms of sheer quality, is Jin Roh: Wolf Brigade (but they're really nothing alike at all. It's just that they're both so well done.) I'll get the third book now and see how it ends.

A man with a dark past and a girl half his age...

No, it's not a episode of Buffy, its the second book of Suki. In volume two we learn that Asou has a job after school, is a bad person and is just as determined to be close to Hina as she is to be as close to him. But there are different reasons. Is she falling in love with him? And what's his job after work if he's spending so much time with HER? Who is Tomo-Kun and Kizu-San? Why are they watching and why does Tomo-Kun think Hina is good for Asou? I've got to get volume three!