Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 by Hinako Ashihara
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Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 Hinako Ashihara Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 Hinako Ashihara Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 Hinako Ashihara Can the sands of time bury the pain of the past? Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. Final Touching Volume! Daigo digs up the time capsule he buried twenty years ago when he was only ten. What message did Daigo leave for his future self? And what does it take to live life fully and without regret? Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 Details Date : Published January 4th 2011 by VIZ Media LLC (first published August 25th 2006) ISBN : 9781421528083 Author : Hinako Ashihara Format : Paperback 200 pages Genre : Sequential Art, Manga, Romance, Shojo, Comics Manga, Graphic Novels Download Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 ...pdf Read Online Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 Hinako Ashihara From Reader Review Sand Chronicles, Vol. 10 for online ebook Kevin says [Daigo finds out that Mrs. Koda has been lying not only t Kayla Loewen says So loved every page!! Bryn (Plus Others) says I liked seeing the afterwards, and I loved hearing what Daigo thought about the journey. K. O'Bibliophile says 3.5, SERIES REVIEW I wasn't a huge fan of this when it was running in Shojo Beat, but the magazine was canceled before the characters aged in the series. As a whole, I found the series an interesting human drama. We follow Ann (and her friends of similar ages) from the time she's 12 to the time she's 30 at the end. I'm not a big fan of teenage drama (which the first half of the series is full of), but it does show the characters growing and maturing with each year. Part of the appeal is Ann herself. Her [probably clinically] depressed mother commits suicide when she's 12, and Ann has the hardest time escaping that for the rest of her life. We follow her love life, with its ups and downs that thankfully don't reach normal shojo drama levels--all the characters have their own personalities and their own issues, so the relationships are actually between two people, rather than between crushing airhead and a prettyboy. The last two volumes of the series are essentially extra. Volume 9 is backstory, from before Ann and company were even born, but it gives insight into Ann's mother, a key player by her very absence for most of the series. Volume 10 shows Ann at age 30, settled into her new life, and details the lives of those she's still close to. I absolutely love when I can see what happens *after* the main story (although since the story was a 28-year journey of Ann's life, this is probably more of the same, but it feels like an epilogue) . Travis says I love this so much. It's complicated and realistic, and the focus stays solidly on An. This is her story, and while there are some subplots with guy angst, it never takes over and becomes a story about the guy and his angst, like so many shoujo series do. I loved the characterisations here, too. There are strong women and weak women and women who struggle and become stronger over the years. It is also one of the few shoujo series where I was honestly not sure whether or not it would have a typically happy ending. I highly recommend this. The series is ten volumes total, with the main story being the first eight, and some side stories taking up the last two volumes. The basic story is about a woman named An. It starts off with her finding an hourglass in the closet and reminiscing about when she got it. The story then goes back to when she was twelve and her parents had just got divorced. She and her mother moved back to the boonies to live with her grandparents. That's when she meets Daigo, Fuji, and Shiika, who will be lifelong friends. That's also when her mother commits suicide, something that affects An immensely and which she will never really get over (in fact, you could say the story is much more about An and her mother than it is about any of the romances). The story follows her through the years until it meets up with the point where she found the hourglass, then goes on a few years after that. The main side stories we get are one about An's mother, Daigo's mother, and Fuji and Shiika's mother when they were young, one about An's little sister, and one set a few years in the future from the end of the main story. As I said above, this is really a story about An and her mother. It's a story about how some boy can't make it all better, no matter how much you love him or he loves you. I love that it's not easy for Daigo, either, to love someone like An, that even once they're together for good, he can never not look at her and remember all the bad times, too. I love that even when he rescues her when she slit her wrist, he doesn't really rescue her. He's not heroic. He stands there gaping at her lying on the sand while the taxi driver is the one who says get her in the car, hold her hand above heart level, let's get to the hospital. I love that she does eventually accept that she couldn't have saved her mom, and that her mom committing suicide doesn't mean she didn't love her. I love the moment at the grave, when Chii (her half-sister, who is 19 years younger than her) asks if her mom died because she was sick, and An thinks about it and says yes. I loved the backstory we got for her mom, and the contrast between her and Fuji and Shiika's mom, both so different, yet they both ended up fucking up their kids pretty well. In terms of romance, I love that everyone found happiness - and that that happiness was not necessarily a romantic relationship. I mean, Shiika. Wow. She got over Daigo, got away from her family and the fucked- up-ness there, made her own way in a foreign country and made a career for herself there. All without a man. I even thought that it might end with An by herself, too. I don't think I've ever thought that about a shoujo manga before. Usually they're so predictable, yet here I really wondered. When she got with Fuji, I thought it really might work out for them. When she got with Sakura, I thought it really might work out for them, too (well, I had more doubts about that one, but I thought maybe!). And then when An finally made her peace with her mother, I really thought that's where it would end. And yet at the same time, I'm happy she and Daigo did get back together in the end. I would have liked it the other way, too, but this didn't feel disappointing. Their relationship overall felt much more realistic than you'd expect for a couple who met when they were twelve and started dating when they were fourteen, and I think the fact that they weren't together most of the time is responsible for that. I love that they had a long distance relationship and it didn't work out. This is just such a great series. Just the right length, too. It didn't feel like it was dragging on forever to keep the story going. And I really liked the art. Katie says see full review @ Katie's Corner Right now, as I’m writing this review it’s the end of December, though I’m sure it will go live either in February or in March. I started reading it back in November during my midterms and because there are only 7 volumes uploaded on mangafox (it’s licensed right now so go to mangahere.co), I had to wait until Christmas to get the remaining 3. However, the main story ends at vol.8 and the last 2 volumes are bonus stories. I remember I was quite reluctant to start this manga as I thought it only had 2 chapters, but when I finally scrolled to see the chapters I saw that there were 7 complete volumes. I started right away and regretted it immensely. I finished it in one day and was sulking for the net 2 weeks because I didn’t have all volumes, typical me. The story has this weird charm that sucks you in and don’t let go. The author covers the lives of her heroes from 12 to 16 year old, each chapter is a different timeline and it makes the story so much more fascinating. You can clearly say that it is a psychological romance story. It’s not the relationship between Ann and Daigo that makes you want to read on, though that too, but the psychological aspect of the story. The character development, Ann’s numerous breakdowns and the break-up is just too hard to comprehend. All the little things make this story astonishingly realistic and make you wonder what if it was you? Or is that I portrayed there? I remember when I finally finished the story some part of me felt completed.