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Sand Chronicles, Vol. 9 (Sand Chronicles #9)

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Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Can the sands of time bury the pain of the past?

What were our parents like at our age? We'll never really know... But now you can get a glimpse into the teenage years of the mothers of Ann, Daigo, Fuji and Shika. How was their destiny shaped? Plus, Ann's little sister visits Shika--and Ann's ex-fiancé!--in New York City.

Paperback, 200 pages

Published September 7th 2010 by VIZ Media LLC (first published May 2007)

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Aug 27, 2011 Alison (AlisonCanRead) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The first of two bonus volumes, Volume 9 presents two stories. The first shows Ann, Daigo, Fuji and Shika's mothers when they were young. Miwako (Ann's mother) is frightfully beautiful. She is also as nice as can be. She gives and gives but never takes. Naturally, her kindness and beauty invokes nothing but suspicion and jealousy amongst her peers. Hiroko (Daigo's mother) is one of the few who recognizes Miwa's goodness as well as her fragility. Hiroko cares for Miwa and also fears for her. Miwa...more The first of two bonus volumes, Volume 9 presents two stories. The first shows Ann, Daigo, Fuji and Shika's mothers when they were young. Miwako (Ann's mother) is frightfully beautiful. She is also as nice as can be. She gives and gives but never takes. Naturally, her kindness and beauty invokes nothing but suspicion and jealousy amongst her peers. Hiroko (Daigo's mother) is one of the few who recognizes Miwa's goodness as well as her fragility. Hiroko cares for Miwa and also fears for her. Miwa wants nothing more than to escape the small town gossips. She thinks that a big city like Tokyo will solve her problems. Miwa leaves Shimane for Tokyo while Hiroko remains. Hiroko is plain both in looks and aspirations. She's happy to remain in Shimane, get married, and have babies. Soon after Miwa leaves, Shizuyo (Fuji's mother appears). She's a whirlwind. Beautiful, bold, arrogant, opinionated. Nothing misses her eye. Yet Hiroko likes her, admires her. It seems like Shizuyo knows exactly the trap she's walking into and is happy to do it anyway.

I enjoyed reading about the characters' mothers. I can see where Ann and Daigo get many parts of their personalities from. Fuji and Shika are less like their mother, but her hardness and boldness had a great impact on their childhoods.

The final story features Chi, Ann's little sister. When she's about 9, she goes to New York City by herself to visit Shika (who moved there from Canada). Chi is left alone in Shika's apartment while Shika goes to work, with strict instructions not to leave. Hardly an hour later, Chi takes off from the apartment (a misunderstanding more than pure disobedience). She gets lost and the only place in English she can remember is the company where Sakura, Ann's ex-fiance works. A taxi cab driver drops her off. Our old friend Sakura is finally getting what's coming to him. He was just placed on leave so he can learn to play well with others. He also has a horrible cold. Chi is the last person he wants to see. Blissfully unaware of Sakura's annoyance, Chi convinces him to take her to his apartment until Shika can pick her up. Then Chi and Shika drag him along sightseeing the next few days. Sakura never changes. Still sullen and hating everybody, but Chi and Shika's exuberance opened up a tiny window in his mind that might make him willing to let his guard down.

It was fun to see more of Chi. She's such a happy little girl. So different from Ann. I wonder if Ann was like that before her mother died. I also loved seeing Shika. She is confident and self-sufficient away from Japan. She blossomed.

This was a fun volume. The stories certainly aren't necessary to the main plot, but it's a joy revisiting favorite characters.(less)

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Feb 19, 2013 Sesana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, contemporary

Really just bonus content, since the main storyline of Sand Chronicles wrapped up in volume 8. Here, there are three stories: a long one starring Ann's mother, Miwako, as a teenager, another longish one with Ann's former fiance and little sister, and a very short story starring Fuji as a teenager. The story with Ann's fiance is forced and unnecessary. Frankly, I was happy to see the back of him by the time he exited the story, and I really didn't need anymore. The Fuji story is a nice Christmas...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Sarah Lu rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, manga, own, shojo, slice-of-life

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. A look back into the childhoods of Ann, Daigo, and Shika's mothers, along with a story of Ann's younger sister Chi in New York and a very short story of Christmas in the Tsukishima household.

The high school and young adult years of the mothers of the main characters of Sand Chronicles, helps the reader to understand characters such as Miwako Uekusa and Shizuya Tsukishima, sand also notice how they had either changed or stayed the same over all those years. Told from the perspective from Daigo's...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Jorge rated it 3 of 5 stars

I had stopped reading this series at Volume 8 since the original story ends there. Volume 9&10 were side stories and some background stuff about characters and they pass generations. For example "Ann's mother", Vol.9 was really nice and it had about 3 mini stories the first seeing how Ann's mother (miwako) lived as a child. Really nice insight on why Ann is how she is. Looking forward to the stories in volume 10.

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Oct 01, 2010 Joy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 21c, manga, shojo-manga, chromatic

This collects two side stories about characters from the series, which wrapped up its main story in volume 8. The first story (about the mothers of Ann, Daigo, Fuji, and Shika) is the stronger one. Ashihara is so good at creating a bittersweet atmosphere. I'll be looking forward to reading vol. 10 (more side stories, I'm told) when it comes out.

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Nov 29, 2010 Yvonne rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga-and-comics

I love this series, but I found this volume to be kinda pointless. Seeing some insight into the teenage years of Ann, Daigo, Fuji and Shika's moms was interesting, but predictable. Ann's mom was depressed a lot as a teen, Daigo's mom was sweet and caring, and Fuji and Shika mom thinks too much of herself. Overall, I enjoyed their story, but it didn't add much to what we already knew about the characters.

I really didn't like the plotline with Ann's sister meeting up with Ann's ex-fiance at all. I...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Beckiezra rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-manga

Nice looks at some other characters. It kind of brings to mind how many other people's stories were kind of hinted at but cast aside with the focus on Ann. Reading this made me miss the important characters from earlier books that were kind of neglected after their introduction once Ann moved on.

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Sep 06, 2011 Lady Knight rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: asia-india-middle-east, contemporary, graphic-novel, regional-library, teen

I love the idea of this volume, going back in time to fill in some gaps in the main storyline, but I was a little disappointed in what the author chose to fill in... I wanted more about what Daigo got up to! Still I loved learning about Ann's mother's teenage years, Daigo's parents and Fuji's.

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May 11, 2011 Ruth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads, manga

A nice collection of sidestories focusing on unexpected characters. The first chapter, "Canary," is especially poignant and meaningful.

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May 23, 2011 Starbubbles rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga

This was the only volume I didn't find utterly depressing. Yay.

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Jul 14, 2011 CJ - Secret Charm rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: shojo, manga

Less about the main characters and more about their parents. Until you get to the end.

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Dec 29, 2010 Sarah Evans rated it 5 of 5 stars

Interesting, slightly sad side stories to the main arc.

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May 04, 2012 Keri (JD) rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love the backtrack story.

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Nov 03, 2010 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 8-sand-chronicles, manga-total-volumes

Thankfully there is only one volume left. Thankfully I didn't buy this series, but instead relied upon my local library. Sand Chronicles isn't bad. It's just very heavy on the emo and I can only take so much angst before I want to throw the volume across the room (and I can't do that when I don't own the book, so I was tearing my hair out instead).

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Apr 13, 2011 Sierrah added it

the parent's stories were interesting. Poor miwako...she was such a lucky girl

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Feb 07, 2011 Mely marked it as read-seq-art

Shelves: manga, shojo, 2011-read-seq-art

Side stories.

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May 03, 2013 Faize rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: manga-i-ve-read, shoujo

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Apr 28, 2013 Satomi rated it 5 of 5 stars

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