xxxHOLiC: Fifth Collection

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Product Description ------------------- People are capable of wishing for anything they think that they want. It could be happiness, or unhappiness… The parade of those blinded by desire trudges even onward, and Watanuki without fail leads the procession of the petitioning. The world is getting smaller, faces from other realms more common every day. Lessons come hard and fast, with Yuko lounging blithely among the chaos. The litany of her demands is the same as it ever was, but how to play the game when the rules are set by one so arbitrary? Even so, there is always a price to pay… .com ---- As the fantasy xxxHolic nears its conclusion, Watanuki receives unexpected aid from Zashiki-Wai and a young fox-spirit, both of whom he aided previously. These supernatural beings save him and Doumeki from being devoured by a horde of monsters that evokes traditional Japanese ghost stories. "Self-Mutilation," the most famous episode of xxxHolic, was turned into a work of fiction by the noted young writer Nisioisin, in collaboration with the four women who created the original manga. Watanuki escorts a young woman who's been injured in a traffic accident to the hospital, then to the shop of Dimensional Witch Yuko. Nurie, the accident victim, is unable to accept happiness; Yuko has an unexpected cure for the problem. During a seemingly light-hearted snow ball fight with living snowmen, Yuko explains to Doumeki that he has no need of her magic shop, but that Watanuki does: the time he spends there is preparing him for a special challenge. But she declines to say what that challenge may be. (Rated TV PG: comic violence, alcohol and use) --Charles Solomon (17. Self-Mutilation, 18. Ground Cherry, 19. Unreasonable, 20. Atonement)