xxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC
by NISIOISIN
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Author: NISIOISINIllustrator: Clamp
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: 0345505182
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: Avoid this addiction
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a light novel that tries to be a manga collection. And maybe it is the translation, but it just isn't very good.
The book consists of three stories. The first was adapted into the anime as episode 17. It involves a young woman who rejects happiness by acting out in minor ways. The second involves a young woman who appears to be haunted her recently dead friend. And the third involves Watanuki meeting a person who claims to have similar powers.
Part of the problem with the book is the disconcerting and unclear way the author shifts between first and third person perspectives. In addition, either the original author or the translator sometimes leaves off quotes, making lines that characters are saying at the time into statements relayed by others.
Also, the story is entirely too mundane. Only the third revolves anything supernatural. Of the XXXHolic cast, only Watanuki and Yuko appear, the others are all mentioned in passing, but unused.
The first story is fine, but the anime did it better. The second story is interesting enough, but is more like a detective story than a XXXHolic story. Without giving to much away, the 'Holic' of the story is not a 'Holic'. And the third story is just bad. It is like a fanfic intro, in which the author attempts to introduce his own pet version of the rules of the universe. Not that that is bad in and of itself, butit is poorly executed, and the character who introduces the the author's theory is an annoying jerk who spends as much time insulting Watanuki as he does explaining his theory.
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