Friday, March 11, 2011

XxxHolic: Volume 5

by CLAMP, 186 pages

White Day has come and gone but Watanuki hasn't been able to find the spirit who "gave" him chocolate on Valentine's Day. As he looks for her so he can return the gesture, he runs into a different spirit who demands that he help her regarding a poisoned hydrangea that turns out to be suffering a greater contamination than he expects. Later at school he starts to see what look like tiny wings on the back of a classmate who's been acting strangely belligerent lately. When she suddenly latches onto the belief that Watanuki is an unbearable irritant, he finds himself in yet another precarious position. Being able to see spirits is all well and good, but not being able to actually do anything about them is becoming a problem.

If he's going to be relying on Dômeki so much to save his behind, Watanuki had better learn to say "thank you." And Yûko, still complaining about not getting enough White Day gifts, herself, turns momentarily serious as she contemplates the closeness of Watanuki's latest close call and the plots of those behind it.

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