xxxHOLiC: Starter Set

xxxHolic Starter Set - Anime Set for DVD Versions of Clamp Series
xxxHOLiC: Starter Set.

I love the xxxHolic book series, which can best be described as philosophical anime with a dash of high school angst and the supernatural. I think most people who are drawn to this TV version will be fans of the books xxxHOLiC, Volume 1.

This Starter Set includes the First Collection which is also sold separately xxxHOLiC: First Collection. I think the starter set is a better value than the first collection, because at least you get a box to hold the disks. No doubt, if you're a hard-core fan of Holic, you will be buying all the coming collections anyway. The second collection xxxHOLiC: Second Collection is soon to be released in May and the third...

The price of wishes
I have to admit, "xxxHOLIC" sounds like a series about a porn addict, if it sounds like anything at all.

But it's actually the name of a rather quirky, dark little anime series. "xxxHOLiC: First Collection" smoothly introduces the eccentric characters and main plotline of this series, and its story is filled with malevolent specters, magical rings, and lushly drawn animation.

Watanuki can see spirits -- and as the story opens, he is chased and pummeled to the ground by a huge cloud of them. Naturally, this looks rather odd to other people.

But those spirits magically vanish outside a strange house, and Watanuki is drawn inside against his will. The owner of this shop is Yuko, a strange woman who says she can grant wishes... at a price. She predict that Watanuki sees spirits and has been haunted by them all his life, and that his wish is that he would no longer be troubled by them.

Before Watanuki is sure what's happening, Yuko has tricked...

Enigmatic and Enchanting!
Yuko is the owner of a special "shop." This shop will grant any wish you have -- but for a price. And only those who have the need to have a wish granted that is beyond their own powers to fulfill can see and enter. Watanuki is a bright high school student with a serious difficulty. . . he can see spirits and be affected by them. Because of this "ability" spirits both good and evil flock to him, oppressing and overwhelming him, and sometimes even putting his life in danger. After Watanuki stumbles into Yuko's shop, she agrees to grant his wish to rid him of the unwanted spirits that haunt him, as is her destiny to do, but only if he works as a practical slave for her until his debt is paid in full. Thus begins one of Clamp's most delightful and mysterious series to date.

Colleen Clinkenbeard perfectly captures Yuko's eclectic demeanor and quirky sense of humor in her vocal performance. She truly makes you believe that, with Yuko, the impossible is an every day...

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