Yay, here’s the continuation of CLAMP’s Suki. If you’d like to read about volume 1, please go here. ^^
The second volume starts with Hina receiving calls without knowing who the caller was. Her teacher, Shirou, comes over for breakfast (at Hina’s invitation) and finds out about it leaving him a little disturbed. Later on, Hina’s bestfriend, Touko, confronts Shirou and openly says that she is suspicious of him. OF course, the teacher dismisses this and leaves her on her own.
Sometime later, Hina (this time with Shirou) meets Tomo once again to the complete shock and disdain of her teacher. We are also introduced to Kizu – a very large and no-nonsense looking guy who is in charge of being Tomo’s bodyguard. Hina also finds out (and rather overjoyed of the discovery) that Tomo is actually the Tomo-kun who is the author of her favorite “Suki” books (the one about bears).
Then, Hina’s class goes on a field trip and Touko and their other friend Emi are rather shocked to see Hina and Asou arriving to school together. This prompts Touko to request Emi to look for some information about their teacher.
On their way home, Shirou questions HIna’s unbelievable trait of trusting people quickly. She says it makes her more comfortable that way which frustrates the heck out of Shirou. When he arrives in his home, he goes up to his room and watches over Hina through a surveillance camera.
Finally, Hina meets up with Tomo again and tells him how much she loves his books. Tomo also hints that it may be up to Hina’s actions on how the story will progress. Hina later invites Tomo and Kizu over to her house for dinner and she also persuades Shirou to come along. The teacher is rather annoyed with how Kizu kept on following them while the other man says that he’s only tagging along because he needs to protect Tomo. During dinnertime, a blackout occurs and surprises everyone.
I mentioned in one of my past entries that I loved the song “Eternal Snow” from an old anime series called Full Moon Wo Sagashite. And because I loved it so much, I wanted to use it in a music video. And once again, I used the Tsubasa anime because the song’s message and general feel fits this show the best.
To make it different from the first Tsubasa music video, I concentrated on using only shots of Sakura and Shaoran for this one making it a tribute to them (should I make a Fai-Kurogane tribute too? Naaaah..hahaha) . I wanted to make it dramatic yet showing that there’s hope for this two (there really is, I believe in it, wahahah). :D This is also one of my music videos that have a time length of over 5 minutes. O_O
It was so weird that I always hear about this song of Rivermaya’s but I’ve never actually heard it. When I say “hear about it”, I mean, I always see it in songhits or in articles where they say that this is one of their best songs.
Then, while I was waiting for fanmade Final Fantasy videos to play in this chat channel called LinkTV (does anyone remember this?), I saw a live version of this song. And everyone in the chat is saying that this song was good. I said to myself that it was a very familiar song but it was only then that I learned that this was the “214” song that everyone’s raving about. Hahahhaa, I had no idea. :P
Anyway, I like the tune of the song, somewhat easy-listening but retains its rock characteristics that Rivermaya got famous for. The lyrics are obviously inspirational. ^^ Now that I write about this, I wonder if Rivermaya does better when they make slow songs or is it still rock songs? Hmm.
