CLAMP Premium Collection Tokyo Babylon Manga Reviews (P.2)

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Nov 03, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English

今読んでもいい話！

A story you can read now!

初めて読んだのは20年くらい前だと思います。その時もすごく考えさせられましたが、今読むとまた違った感じ方をして新鮮でした。

I think I first read it about 20 years ago. It also made me think a lot at that time, but when I read it now, I felt a different way and it was refreshing.

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Oct 31, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English

懐かしい！

I miss it!

昔読んだことがあり、ラストがしばらくトラウマになっていました。うぅ。でも私の中ではすごく大切な作品。

I read it a long time ago, and the last one was traumatic for a while. wow. But it's a very important work for me.

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Oct 23, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English

大好きな作品です。

It's a work I love.

最初に読んだのが20年以上前ですが、今でも忘れられないセリフなどある心に残る作品です。重たい内容もありますが、色んなことを考えさせてくれるお話ばかりなのでおススメです！

I first read it over 20 years ago, and it's a memorable work with lines that I still can't forget. There is heavy content, but all of them make me think about a lot of things, so I recommend it!

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May 01, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English

読めば読むほど味が

The more you read, the tastier

大人になってから初めて読んだ作品ですが、社会派な内容で、読めば読むほど味が出て素晴らしい作品です！ファッションは古いですがある意味ヴィンテージ感があっておしゃれです。CLAMP作品の中で一番好き、、いや、まあ正確に言うとXまで続く昴流と星史朗の切ない関係が全てのカップリングの中のトップ３に入るほど好きです。

This is the first work I've read since I became an adult, and the more I read it, the tastier it comes out, and it's a wonderful work! Fashion is old, but in a sense, it has a vintage feel and is fashionable. Of all the CLAMP works, I like it the most... well, to be precise, I like the sad relationship between Subaru Ryu and Hoshi Shiro, which continues until X, so much that it is in the top 3 of all couplings.

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Apr 20, 2020 (PST) | Translate to English

やっと自己完結

Self-complete at last

数十年前にXを読んでいましたが、昴と星史郎さんとの間にこんな過去があったんだなぁと、しみじみしました。Xでは二人は敵対していましたが、この東京Babylonではそんなことを感じさせない前半のやり取りがあり、そのことが更に昴を追い詰めるクライマックスに持っていくなんてーっ切なくなります。結果的に昴はどうなってしまうのか⁉︎と思う人や、東京Babylonから読まれた人は、二人の続きがXで描かれていますので、読み進めるのも良いでしょう。

I was reading X a few decades ago, and I was really surprised that there was such a past between Subaru and Shiro Hoshi. The two were hostile in X, but in Tokyo Babylon, there was an exchange in the first half that didn't make you feel that kind of thing, and it's so sad that it brought that to the climax where they further hunted down Subaru. For those who think what will happen to Subaru as a result ⁉ ︎, and for those who read it from Tokyo Babylon, the continuation of the two is drawn in X, so it's a good idea to read on.

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Jun 26, 2019 (PST) | Translate to English

何年経っても

No matter how many years have passed

大好きな作品です。陰陽師とほんのりのBL…明らかな描写はありませんが汚れた心で読むとそう見える関係性…CMAMP先生の作品はどれも色あせず素晴らしいです。

It's a work I love. Onmyoji and a slight BL... there is no clear description, but the relationship looks like that when read with a dirty heart... none of CMAMP sensei's works have faded and are wonderful.

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Jun 01, 2019 (PST) | Translate to English

世界で1番美しい

The most beautiful in the world

This review contains spoilers. そう思ってやまない作品です。生きて行く上でのある種の示しのような物をもらいました。主人公の特殊な境遇を元に各話は、いつだって目を背けたくなる様な内容や現実を残酷なほど美しく描いていきます。自分の物差しなんて本当にちっぽけですよ。沢山泣いて、沢山傷付いて、沢山辛くて。そして沢山学びました。登場人物の昴流と北都と星史郎は間違い無く自身の中に生き続けています。人生を変える作品だと思います。

This review contains spoilers. It's a work I can't stop thinking about. I was given something that seemed like a kind of demonstration of how to live. Based on the protagonist's special circumstances, each episode depicts cruelly and beautifully the content and reality that always makes you want to turn your eyes away. My own yardstick is really small. I cried a lot, got hurt a lot, and had a lot of pain. And I learned a lot. There is no doubt that the characters Subaru Ryu, Hokuto, and Hoshi Shiro continue to live within themselves. I think it's a life-changing work.

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Feb 15, 2019 (PST) | Translate to English

当時としては斬新だったんじゃないかなと！

I think it was novel at the time!

This review contains spoilers. この当時に同性愛的なのは珍しかったんじゃないかなと。個人的にはほくとちゃんのことをもっと読みたかったなー！と、思いました！

This review contains spoilers. I think homosexuality was rare at the time. Personally, I wanted to read more about Hokuto-chan! I thought!

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Jun 01, 2017 (PST) | Translate to English

だから今日は見逃してあげますよ

So I'm going to miss it for today

This review contains spoilers. 「桜塚護」を隠して愛情惜しみなく捧げ昴流に接する星史郎。いつまでも楽しい日々が続くと思った昴流と北都。それは一年後に終焉をむかえる「人間が人間を裏切る。そんなことは『東京』にはどこにでも転がっています」星史郎はやはり昴流を『人』でななく『物』としか扱えない。心を壊す昴流。その心を取り戻すために命をかけて星史郎に立ち向かう北都。感情のない星史郎。流れるように進むストーリー。これでXみたら泣きますね。

This review contains spoilers. Hoshi Shiro treats the Suburyu school by hiding “Mamoru Sakurazuka” and generously offering it. Suburyu and Hokuto thought fun days would continue forever. It will come to an end one year later, “Humans betray humans. That kind of thing is everywhere in “Tokyo.” After all, Shiro Hoshi can only treat the Suburyu as a “thing,” not a “person.” Suburyu breaks my heart. Hokuto risked his life to confront Shiro Hoshi in order to regain that heart. Shiro Hoshi has no feelings. The story progresses in a flowing manner. It makes me cry when I see X with this.

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Dec 01, 2016 (PST) | Translate to English

ラストが切なすぎて

The last one was too sad

子供の頃、それまでフワっフワしたハピエンの少女漫画しか読んでなかったところへこの作品を読んで、内容の重さとラストに衝撃を受けたのを覚えています。大人になった今読んでもすごい作品だなーと。ここから他作品へ繋がった時は「続きが読める‼︎」と感動しました。

When I was a kid, I read this work to a place where I had only read fluffy Happien girls' comics, and I remember being shocked by the weight of the content and the end. I think it's an amazing work even if I read it now that I'm an adult. When I was connected to another work from here, I was moved by “being able to read the continuation ‼ ︎”.

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Apr 04, 2016 (PST) | Translate to English

CLAMPの社会派ファンタジー

CLAMP's social fantasy

This review contains spoilers. 作品は読み尽くした！と言い切れるほど、当時CLAMPファンでした。東京Babylonは今でもオススメしたい作品。当時の社会問題や事件を元にしたストーリーが、どれも深くて印象的です。オカルトブーム、いじめ、ダイヤルQ2、環境問題、老人問題、臓器移植…時代は変わってなお、考えさせられる社会問題がいくつも出てきます。バブル期、繁栄を極めた首都の華々しさと、その影に隠れた歪みについて、限られた巻数内によくまとまっている良作だと思います。賛否両論のラストですが、個人的には絶賛したいところ。大都会・東京の中で、見捨てられ、去られ、別れを経験することは、誰にでもおこりうる至極ありふれたこと…そういう意図の結末を迎えてこそ、まさにタイトル通り“東京Babylon”だったと思っています。（※既読の人には何卒、私自身3人が大好きである事、xを愛読し登場を心待ちにしていたことをご承知おき頂きたく……）

This review contains spoilers. I've read all the works! I was such a CLAMP fan at the time that I could say that. I still want to recommend Tokyo Babylon. All of the stories based on social issues and incidents at that time are deep and impressive. Occult booms, bullying, dial Q2, environmental issues, geriatric issues, organ transplants... times have changed, yet a number of social issues that make you think about come up. I think it's a good work that is well organized within a limited number of volumes about the splendor of the capital, which was extremely prosperous during the bubble period, and the distortions hidden in its shadows. This is the last argument for and against, but personally, I would like to rave about it. Being abandoned, left, and experiencing breakups in the big city of Tokyo is an extremely common thing that can happen to anyone... I think “Tokyo Babylon” was exactly what the title suggests. (*I want those who have already read it to know that I myself love the 3 people, and that I love reading x and have been looking forward to it appearing...)

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Nov 19, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

お薦め

recommended

「東京は嫌いですか」…この文にまず引き込まれました。イラストもスタイリッシュでとにかく「格好いい」作品です。

“Don't you like Tokyo?”... I was first drawn into this sentence. The illustrations are also stylish, and in any case, it's a “cool” work.

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Sep 10, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

はまりました！

I'm addicted to it!

Xを先に読んでたので、結末はなんとなくわかっていました。でも、そんなこと想像したくないくらい楽しい３人組でした。

I read X first, so I somehow understood the ending. But it was such a fun group of 3 that I didn't even want to imagine that.

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Aug 25, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

好き好き

Like like

クランプファンです。なかでも、この作品は、イチオシ。エピソードのなかで、おじいさんが、バナナを買ってあげる話、あれが一番感動です。幸子のために、100個幸せをあげるって。泣けて仕方なかった。

This is a clamp fan. Above all, I recommend this work. I was most moved by the story of the old man buying bananas in the episode. They say I'll give 100 pieces of happiness for Sachiko. I couldn't help crying.

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Aug 23, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

大好きです！！

I love it!!

This review contains spoilers. CLAMP作品の中で一番好きです。始めは北都ちゃんの中身の魅力よりも洋服が気になってたのを覚えてます(笑)北都ちゃんが主人公の回も好きでした。演出やコマ割りが秀逸！当時はこんなマンガは読んだことがなく、斬新でしたねー！終わり方は不服ですが、Xが続編のようになってます。Xの物語は完結してませんが、この二人の物語はあれで終わったように思います。ツバサでの二人はXと違って続編ではありません。そして今作ではなくXでの二人のスピンオフ(？)になりますね。神威がいたりするので。そちらは今作とは関係ないので、読まなくても大丈夫かなと思います。

This review contains spoilers. I like it the most of the CLAMP works. At first, I remember being more concerned about the clothes than the appeal of Hokuto-chan's contents (laughs) I also liked the episode where Hokuto-chan was the main character. The direction and frame division are excellent! I had never read a manga like this at the time, so it was novel! I'm not satisfied with the way it ended, but it looks like X is a sequel. The story of X isn't complete, but I think that's where the story of these two people ended. Unlike X, Duo in Tsubasa is not a sequel. And not the current one, but a spin-off of the two in X (?) It will be. That's because there is divine power. That has nothing to do with this work, so I think it's okay if you don't read it.

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Aug 07, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

大好きな、大好きな作品です

I love it, it's my favorite work

私が初めて読んだCLAMPさんの作品です。正直十数年間ぶりに読んだのですが今なお色褪せることなく素晴らしい作品だと思いました。久しぶりに読んだのに内容もセリフまで覚えているぐらい当時読んだ作品ですがそれでも涙なくしては読めませんし、改めて今の社会情勢だとか人間関係だとか深いところまで考えさせられる、漫画として片付けてしまうには重く、そして勿体無いです。どうしても当時のものもありますが、それが気にならないぐらいお話がしっかりしていますし、絵柄は古いですが画力の高さで気になりません。CLAMPさんの作品はどこかで繋がっていたり、同じキャラクターがでてくるので最近の作品を読まれている方も楽しめると思います。特に密接に関係しているXと合わせて読みたい作品です。

This is the first work I've read by CLAMP. To be honest, I read it for the first time in ten years, and I still thought it was a wonderful work without fading. Even though I haven't read it in a long time, it's a work I read at the time to the point where I even remember the content and lines, but even so, I can't read it without tears, and it makes me think deeply about the current social situation and relationships again, and it's heavy and unfortunate to put it away as a comic. There are also those from that time by any means, but the story is so solid that I don't care about it, and although the design is old, I don't mind it because of the high drawing power. CLAMP's works are connected somewhere, and the same characters appear, so I think people reading recent works can also enjoy it. It's a work I want to read in conjunction with X, which is particularly closely related.

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Aug 02, 2015 (PST) | Translate to English

キャラの関係性がいい

The character relationships are good

メインはとってもほのぼのなのに内容は風刺気味でドキっとするセリフなどもあります。私が１番ドキっとしたのは犬神の話でした。また最後の方になってくるとシリアス度が増します。いまだに涙なくしては読めないですね。またCLAMP先生の特徴としてよく多作品のキャラが出てきます。特にこの作品のキャラ達はよく出てくるので楽しいかもしれませんね。

Even though the main story is very heartwarming, the content is satirical, and there are also exciting lines. What made me most excited was the story of Inugami. Also, as you get to the end, the level of seriousness increases. I still can't read it without tears. Also, characters from many works often appear as characteristics of Mr. CLAMP. In particular, the characters in this work often appear, so it might be fun.

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いちばん好きな作品

My most favorite work

古い作品ですが絵はとても綺麗です。現代の陰陽師である主人公が仕事を通して、現実や人間の醜さに傷つきながら、強く？なっていくストーリーです。ネットや携帯などはありませんが違うツールはあります。今では現実で普通にあることを、風刺ぎみに描いていたり、ドキッとする名言も多かったです。メインキャラは３人のみで巧妙に構成されているのが、他作品とは少し違うのかな？次元は、XやHOLIC×××と同じかな？特にXは数年後の主人公が、メインキャラとして出てきます。まだツバサは全部読んでないですが、異次元キャラがサブメイン？で出てきてました。ツバサを読んだ人は後でこちらを読むと、あーっ、という感じだと思います。

Although it is an old work, the picture is very beautiful. Is the protagonist, who is the modern Onmyoji, strong while being hurt by reality and human ugliness through his work? It's an evolving story. There is no internet or mobile phone, but there are different tools. There were also many exciting quotes, which portrayed things that are normal in reality in a satirical way now. I wonder if the main characters are cleverly structured with only 3 people, which is slightly different from other works? Are dimensions the same as X and HOLIC ×××? In particular, the main character of X a few years from now will appear as the main character. I haven't read all of Tsubasa yet, but are the characters from Another Dimension submain? It came up with. I think people who read Tsubasa feel like ahhh when they read this later.

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読み終わって呆然としてしまった

I was dumbfounded when I finished reading

どういう作品かうすうす分かっていた状態でもかなりの衝撃でした。しばらく引きずってしまうと思います。この後Xを読もうとしていましたが、すぐには無理かもしれません。

It was quite a shock even when I had a slight idea of what kind of work it was. I think it will drag on for a while. I've been trying to read X after this, but I may not be able to do it right away.

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懐かしいですね！

It's nostalgic!

昔大好きだったので、アニメ化すると聞いてちょっと気になりました。今思えばちょっと思想的なことも言っているなぁと思いますが、オカルト的なものが大好きだったし、とても漫画が綺麗です。最後は衝撃的で…ショックも大きかったです。

I used to love it, so I was a little curious when I heard that it would be made into an anime. If I think about it now, I think I'm saying something a bit idealistic, but I loved occult things, and the comics are so beautiful. The end was shocking... I was shocked too.

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