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Gate 7, Tome 2 (Gate 7 #2)

by CLAMP

3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 · rating details · 173 ratings · 16 reviews

Entraîné de plus en plus profondément dans le monde mystérieux de l'Ura-Shichiken, Chikahito se retrouve confronté à de nombreux personnages mythiques de l'histoire du Japon. Or tous ont le même objectif : mettre la main sur l'oni suprême, disparu dans les ténèbres en même temps que le corps du seigneur Nobunaga Oda, et certains sont prêts à tout pour acquérir ce pouvoir t...more

Poche, 192 pages

Published December 8th 2011 by Kaze Manga (first published October 20th 2011)

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Feb 21, 2012 Jordan rated it 3 of 5 stars

The art is very, very pretty if CLAMP's style is within your taste. It's very... speckly, if that makes sense. Lots of effects, photoed backgrounds, and pretty people. Even the main character noticed how many pretty people show up in the story.
The story is getting a bit more interesting... Even though not much has been explained as far as the characters go, it's getting into the fact that they may be interesting.
Nothing past the art and designs of it all have stuck out to me all that much, but k...more

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Aug 01, 2012 Martine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mangas, confusing-the-hell-out-of-me, german, homoerotic-subtext-or-subplot

The second volume of the latest CLAMP work is continuing where the first ended, but now there is more of everything. More confusing history. More beautiful pictures. More Onis, more noodles, more Sakura & Tachibana and more characters. I mean, it’s good that the reader’s introduced to the bad guys and some possible allies of the good guys but honestly, I’m trying to find out who might be important before I bother learning their names.
And hey, there’s a woman! A real woman, with boobs. How s...more The second volume of the latest CLAMP work is continuing where the first ended, but now there is more of everything. More confusing history. More beautiful pictures. More Onis, more noodles, more Sakura & Tachibana and more characters. I mean, it’s good that the reader’s introduced to the bad guys and some possible allies of the good guys but honestly, I’m trying to find out who might be important before I bother learning their names.
And hey, there’s a woman! A real woman, with boobs. How shocking! (I hope you get the sarcasm. I mean, it can’t be that hard to insert some cool female characters, can it?)
And the appearance of one eyed-characters promises angst, very soon.
There are a few things that are frustrating me about the series but so far I find it quite nice and CLAMP were so mean to add some of their usual elements, to make me nostalgic and now my heart’s already too attached to Tachibana and Sakura to quit the series. If anyone asks me if reading the second volume is worth the time I’d say: yes, definitely. And if it’s just for seeing the lovely and cheery Sakura in his badass-mode. He reminded me so much of Kurogane then, that my heart was aching. I want KuroFai back. Badly.

There's only one thing I don't get – it's Masamune and his relationship to Hana. He has one eye and, after being introduced for the first time, he's sticking out his tongue and showing his middle finger. He just HAS to be gay (or at least is supposed to have a male soulmate) and I'm basing this conclusion on the usual CLAMP symbolism. So when Masamuse’s flirting with Hana, is that a clue that Hana’s a boy? Or genderless? CLAMP-land of confusion.
I hope to get an answer on this question... someday. Right now I'll vote for genderless because Hana looks a lot like Dita from Chobits (Zima and Dita deserve more love, by the way), who I thought was female but turned out genderless as well. But if Hana is genderless, I want a good explanation for that. It's not like the kid is a government computer.
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Apr 06, 2012 the golden witch. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, arc-galley, gods-and-monsters, magical-reality, manga-and-comics, net-galley, ebook, best-of-12, favorites-manga, reviewed, fairy-tales-retold

I love this series – the idea of kotodama, or literally “making words into weapons”, has fascinated me for awhile now, and when CLAMP started releasing this series I got to see how the old theory of this side of magic worked – at least, in the universe that they created. While Dark Horse has done a usually spectacular job releasing the series – the touch-ups are nice, the pages crisp, the lettering clear – on the translation side of things, I feel like they didn’t quite go the extra but necessar...more I love this series – the idea of kotodama, or literally “making words into weapons”, has fascinated me for awhile now, and when CLAMP started releasing this series I got to see how the old theory of this side of magic worked – at least, in the universe that they created. While Dark Horse has done a usually spectacular job releasing the series – the touch-ups are nice, the pages crisp, the lettering clear – on the translation side of things, I feel like they didn’t quite go the extra but necessary mile when it came to the actual fights including kotodama words. In other words, if you don’t know Japanese or if you don’t have another source to compare this to, some of the fight scenes where kotodama are used will be a bit confusing if you just go by the words (and not what they turn into) alone.

Now, I’m not sure why Dark Horse did this. Volume 2 came out in Japan and the US at around the same time, and I know they’re both on the same release schedule because CLAMP wants the story to come out simultaneously in both countries, so it can be crunch time for Dark Horse when it comes to publishing this because they have other stuff to translate, including their collection of CLAMP omnibuses that they’ve been releasing for the last year or two. Or it could be that maybe once the reader sees what the words turn into (the first page of chapter four in this volume is a good example of this), they just didn’t feel the need for translation.

The good thing, though, is that they have several pages of translation notes with words and the pages that they’re on that need clarification – and these are really good, thorough notes from the editor and translator, so it makes up for the lack of translation a bit. I’m just puzzled as to why they chose not to just include the translation along with the original word on the page instead of just doing the translation notes.

Anyway, that’s just me.

We pick up where our story has left off – Chikahito and Hana are facing off against Nobunaga’s demon (oni) – yet another well-known figure from the Sengoku (Warring States) Period. A lot of anime and manga series have been created about this period as of late, but I don’t think anyone’s approached it as creatively as CLAMP. Throughout this volume of the series it really starts hitting the audience – the Sengoku Era is still going on – in fact, it never stopped. It took a little breather for a few hundred years, but it’s still going strong with the reincarnations and descendents of the original players along with their demons in this shadowy netherworld-version overlay of Kyoto proper. The actual battles in history took place all over the Kyushu and Kansai areas of Japan (basically, from Nagoya/Osaka/Kyoto southward), so I thought this was a nice touch – re-enacting epic battles through the descendents and reincarnations of the generals in the most sacred parts of Kyoto. Even with my gripe about how the translator did things, I’m glad the translation notes are there because they also clue the Western reader in and give more information about the battles, their generals (the reincarnations in this case), and information of where we know everything went down as new reincarnations of these generals appear in this volume – Tokugawa, Sanada, Mitsuhide, Masamune, and Nobunaga for this particular volume and all of the information that goes with them.

The art, as usual, is breathtaking – the battle scenes in particular, because we get to see how each demon handles the transition of word to weapon differently, their styles of fighting, and how the reincarnations are processing the current day and age of things since they are a shadowy “overlay” of the Kyoto area while fighting against their old enemies. Some of the funniest parts of this volume come from the reincarnated generals and how they try to recall their former lives (in Nobunaga’s case, with little success) in order to strategize against Chikahito and Hana further, or they’re trying to handle things the way they are now compared to their original “first life” as generals leading men on the battlefield. We also get to see how their original conflicts each other have just gotten more fierce as they compete for the demons that won their original battles all those years ago in order to become rulers of the current Kyoto hanamachi once more. Their interactions are inventive, and it feels like they’re really there, taunting each other – so CLAMP has done a really great job recreating and retelling these stories with their own characters.

Final verdict? While I can’t say that this is the best translation of the year (Dark Horse, step it up for volume 3, okay?), the source material definitely makes it onto my best of 2012 so far list. This volume may get a little confusing, but the translation notes should help you through enough to get the basics of what’s going on. If you need further assistance looking up some of the battles referenced in this volume, wikipedia is your friend. Either way, I definitely recommend this series and this volume in the series, so be sure to check it out! “Gate 7: Volume 2″ is out now in North America from the fabulous Dark Horse Comics. This one’s turning into one of the more interesting manga released on this side of the pond this year, so you can’t miss it!

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Feb 06, 2013 Robin rated it 5 of 5 stars

The art is STUNNING. I have ALWAYS been a fan of CLAMP's work, and this is proving to be a great set-up to a fantastic story.

People criticize it for being confusing... but it's easier when you read it all in one sitting. I think my favorite way I've seen it described is like everyone is a pokemon trainer and the oni are pokemon. And everyone is working towards getting the legendary pokemon... the good and the bad side.

It makes it a little easier to digest, especially since, admittedly, my knowl...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Nazish Ahmed (Nazish Reads) rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I rate this 3.5 stars.

I don't know if I'm going to review this volume, since I'm not sure what to talk about, actually, I don't even understand a lot of what happened or even remember it.
I feel like Cardcaptor Sakura is one of their best work (even though I've only seen the anime and didn't read the manga yet).
I still don't know how I feel about this manga yet, hopefully more will be explained and it will be easier to understand in the next few volumes. I have theory of who I think Chikahito cou...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Sean O'Hara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Big improvement over Volume 1, with the plot finally coming together and the characters getting fleshed out. Sure, it's still yet another fantasy story about Sengoku warlords, but at least they haven't been transformed into cute schoolgirls this time (seriously Japan -- I understand doing that story line once, but turning it into a genre unto itself?) The downside is you need a decent knowledge of the Warring States era, otherwise you're going to be flipping to the end notes every other page to...more

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Mar 25, 2012 Alan rated it 3 of 5 stars

CLAMP's newest series is beginning to grow on me. What is working for me is are the references to the Waring States era, Nobunga and Tokugawa. Even the fact Hana and the majority of the cast remain pretty much ciphers after two volumes isn't too big of an issue (for right now at least). My concern is that this series could head the direction of X. At one point in X the characters on each side began to look the same to me, and with the introduction of the main adversaries I was beginning to have...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Turtles rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga-and-comics

I had hoped that the story mysteries from the first volume would be solved (some) in this volume. But we still don't know what Chikahito is. There's also all the added drama about finding Nobunaga (and his Oni) and the fight with Mitsuhide. Luckily I knew a little about that history and didn't have to read 4 pages of foot notes at the back.

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May 05, 2012 Courtney rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I can still say that Clamp's artwork like to feature the guys as very girly and sometimes I question the true gender of the characters. Some of them in this volume, very much of that guessing going on. Some of the story line confused me and ended up taking away from liking the piece but the action and artwork helped support a bit. The cliff hanger that the volume leaves off has me wanting to know what happens, even if I was bent on not...more

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Oct 27, 2012 Hanna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga, historical

Oh man this is just getting confusing, you need to be a history buff of Japanese history to be able to really understand what is going on half the time.

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Feb 25, 2012 Tanabrus rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: manga

Per ora è abbastanza caotico ma affascinante.
E fa un effetto stranissimo, leggero dopo aver letto un altro manga che parla degli stessi personaggi storici.

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Oct 03, 2012 Rhea rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: weekly-comic-books

Two volumes in and I'm sure this manga is not for me. I WAS able to understand a bit more of the lore tied in wit the story; however, understanding wasn't enough to actually get me interested.

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Mar 09, 2012 Jeannette rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-manga, fantasy, manga-picks, books-i-own

Beautiful art work, but damn confusing! Way too many characters, with historical back-stories. I'm undecided about volume 3.

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Sep 07, 2012 Ladyseishou rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel, japan, fantasy

Love the historical references and the artwork is as intricately beautiful as ever.

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Feb 11, 2013 Donna rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

amazing story and art

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Jan 03, 2013 Roxanne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library_book_reads, manga_in_2012, manga_by_clamp, manga_in_2013, manga_shonen

3.5 stars for 2nd reading
The art style that started in Wish, Suki, Legal Drug and Xxxholic has really blossomed with Clamp's run of Gate 7 IMO. Going to have to write crib notes though to keep track of all the historical characters Clamp has inserted into the story.

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May 02, 2013 Rachael Graham rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Apr 15, 2013 Katie rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Ookawa Nanase 大川七瀬
[born: 2 May 1967; bloodtype: A]

Mokona Apapa もこなあぱぱ
[born: 16 Jun 1968, Oosaka-metropolis, Kyouto; bloodtype: A]

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[born: 21 Jan 1969, Oosaka-metropolis, Kyouto; bloodtype: O]

Igarashi Satsuki 五十嵐さつき
[born: 8 Feb 1969, Oosaka-metropolis, Kyouto; bloodtype: A]

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