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- Tokyo Babylon... -
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Saturday, September 17, 2005
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"Tokyo.
The capital city of Japan.
Estimated population:11,923,346.
It is said that Tokyo's daytime population
can differ from it's nighttime population
by more than 2,000,000.
Regardless...
It is an unparalleled city of night.
Babylon.
The first great city of the first great civilization.
Thousands of years after King Hammurabi declared
Babylon the capital of Mesopotamia, Tokyo emerged as
the center of political and clutural activity in the east.
But not content with mere prosperity, its people soon
erected their own Tower of Babel in an attempt
to reach the heavens.
God, as the absolute entity, would not permit such
treachery. As punishment, he descended upon the tower
and took away the people's power to communicate.
Mankind has created similar foolish acts of vanity through out history.
But one must always remember Babylon-
Built by the power of men,
Destroyed by the wrath of God."
~_~_~
When opening the manga of Tokyo Babylon, this would be the first thing
a reader would read.
Comparing Tokyo to Babylon, and the Tokyo Tower to The Tower of Babel is
an interesting move for the begining of a series.
But what is Tokyo Babylon really about?
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Welcome to Tokyo, cultural and economic hub
of the eastern world. No where on Earth will
you find such majesty and splendor...and such
excess and discord! Lurking below the surface of
this great city simmer restless spirits and lost souls,
products of society's insatiable greed and vanity...
But there are thoes among us
who live to save us from ourselves.
This is the story of Subaru, the 13th head
of the Sumeragi clan of Onmyoji's-spiritual
masters who use the principles of Yin and Yang
and the five elements to combat the spiritual forces
and communicate with the supernatural world.
He gives peace to the dead, and protects Tokyo.
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So thats basically the blurb on the series.
Written by the 4 female group CLAMP,
Tokyo Babylon contains 9 books, and is
the prequel to the series X/1999.
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series X/1999-
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