Tarot Cafe, The Volume 1
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- Language: English
- ISBN: 1-59532-555-7
- EAN: 978-1-59532-555-6
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User Reviews
~Review by Julie for Manga Mania Cafe
This is turning into the type of story that I really like - tragic pasts that are slowly retold over the course of several chapters, by several intertwined characters. Different viewpoints lead to misunderstandings, causing animosity that lasts for hundreds of years as some characters run from their pasts, and others hunt them down for explanations for prior acts.
Pamela, the owner of the Tarot Cafe, is gifted with the art of fortune telling. She’s also cursed by her tragic past. As she tries to help her supernatural customers, she is also seeking a solution for her own problem, which is slowly fleshed out volume by volume. Part of each volume delves into the problems of her customers, and the rest focuses on Pamela’s past.
I wasn’t too impressed with the episodic first volume, but I had already preordered the 2nd. I’m so glad I did! The art is beautiful, very clean and detailed. The character designs are wonderful; I wish everybody had hair so lush and full. There’s not a lot of humor here, but what there is breaks the growing tension skillfully. There’s just enough so the story isn’t weighed down by all this tragedy!
Grade: A - Highly recommended
Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help any one whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even a magician who creates a humanoid doll to serve the woman he loves. Although she is good-natured, there is a deep dark secret that she must deal with before she can move on to the next life.
Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help any one who happens to come into her café whether they be human or not.
Creator
Sang-Sun Park
Sang-Sun Park
Born: August 9, 1974
Blood type: AB
Education: Gookmin University, Graphic Design
Hobbies: Listening to music, watching movies, playing games
Personal Favorite of Tarot Cafe Characters: Belus, because he can keep his emotions in check.
While working on Tarot Cafe, she listens to: Adiemus, Ravel, etc.
Works:
-1994: "Illusion"
-1997: "Broken Toy"
-1998: "Lost Wings"s
-1999: Requiem of the Soul
-2000-2001: Les Bijoux (TOKYOPOP)
-2002-present: Tarot Cafe (TOKYOPOP)
-2005-present: Ark Angels (TOKYOPOP
The Tarot Café is one of the most unique series that TOKYOPOP publishes, and not just because of how amazingly beautiful the art is.
TOKYOPOP licensed volumes 1~4 from Korea and released them here to much love and acclaim. However, the Korean publisher halted publication before the series was completed and this led TOKYOPOP to put together a deal that allows us to complete it ourselves.
So all you fans who have been clamoring for the story of Pamela and her supernatural café to continue will be getting your wish in a major way. Volume 5 is out now and Volume 6 will be released in October. Fans of Sang-Sun Park are in for a big treat in the second half of 2007!
Be sure to check out Sang-Sun Park’s other TOKYOPOP series, Ark Angels, which was our first series created by a Korean manhwa-ga for first publication in English.
~Alexis Kirsch, Editor
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I finally got the last volume. I bought mine at Kinokuniya...so I don't know if Barnes and Nobles have it...or even Borders. Anyway, The Tarot Cafe is a manhwa, not a manga. =] woot! Ah, for those of you who do not know what "manhwa" is...it's the same thing as manga...only from the Korean origion, not Japanese. I don't mean to sound prejudice. I'm just trying to be informative. *bows*
SMARTGEM
02.09.2008 03:03 AM
hi I'm in a RPG name this!! ^^
INOCHAN15
23.06.2008 02:34 AM
hey, ravenred5 i have seen lots of mangas at barns and nobles!!!
WOLFANGEL90
30.05.2008 09:30 PM
AWESOME YEAH!
THEFRUITSONG
27.05.2008 12:13 AM
now the volume 1 preview is gone!
OJAMA56
21.05.2008 02:33 AM
where can i buy htis besides online
20.05.2008 02:42 AM
Poor Jester! Gah! I am soooo in love with this manga!
FEELDABURN
19.05.2008 07:25 PM
i love these books i personally think they are amazing i would love to shake hands with the writer of this series...amazing amazing amazing its def. a job well done
THEREALKITTYKO
19.05.2008 04:04 PM
awwwwwwww omg thats sooooooooo sad!!!!!!!!!!
SHAODW
19.05.2008 01:39 PM
omg! that is sooooooooooo gd!!!! more!
SHAODW
19.05.2008 01:35 PM
wow..it's really touching!!
CRAZYASS
19.05.2008 10:51 AM
Volume 1 was good!
KAMICHAMAKARIN25
18.05.2008 06:28 PM
moooore
HYATTCHAN
18.05.2008 05:12 AM
Shuai
HYATTCHAN
18.05.2008 04:12 AM
wft is wrong with the girl at volume one she enjoys others pain
BLOODYSANDNINJA
18.05.2008 02:12 AM
hey how do you read it? did i miss it? O.o
CRAZYPAKI
17.05.2008 04:52 PM
yes please tell me to!
CRAZYPAKI
17.05.2008 04:50 PM
i want this manga.....all of them
LUNA1SIERRA
17.05.2008 04:48 AM
You can get into the VIP?
MAVERICKKAY
18.02.2008 12:46 AM
Why can't I read this one? I was so enjoing the other chapters!
GRACKO
17.02.2008 02:13 PM
Oh my god! This manga is awesome! But I wish I could access the VIP parts. Does anyone know how to do that?
THORNHEART
05.02.2008 08:42 PM
I just bought and finished vol. 1. The art style is amazing, and I love the stories! -Kira
GREENKITTIE
12.12.2007 10:09 PM
OMG! I just read the parts I was able to read online...and I fricken love this series! I always did find it interesting...I'm glad that I read the snipet I cuold read online... Now...if only I could read the parts online that are VIP...
CLULESSCHIC
10.12.2007 07:04 PM
I have not been able to find the 5th one either...But when I do... *goes crazy* It'll be pure bliss. The Tarot Cafe is by far one of my favorite mangas.
WILLOWINYU
22.10.2007 12:41 AM
loving it i want to buy the book
ORANGEPOP
29.09.2007 12:13 AM
i love it & it is cool
CPSD07
23.09.2007 09:13 AM
i luv this book!
DBTKZK
22.09.2007 04:43 AM
ive read the first 4...cant find a 5th anywhere
BLACKFLAMES9932
09.09.2007 11:27 PM
Can't wait to read this chapter. ^_^
SPICE713
02.09.2007 03:32 AM
I read the first 3 books already and i love them. I can't wait to read the 4th one. ^_^
SPICE713
02.09.2007 03:31 AM
the first one was the first manga i ever read, and im still waiting to find the second one, anywhere....(ive read tons in between, but its only the second one that seems to be unavailable)...excellent read
DROWNINGXINXYOURXEYES
28.08.2007 10:13 PM
I can't see alot of them..... darn....
AURA
21.08.2007 01:35 AM
this book is awsome...i can't wait to have money so i can buy it ^ ^
WIGHTWOLFRAVENWIFE
17.08.2007 08:27 PM
i couldn't find the second one i only found the first one a barnes and noble that sux i wanna know what happens!!! T_T
INUKAMI
05.08.2007 05:52 AM
omg i so cool i luv the cat is so cool
DARKNEKO14
29.07.2007 02:11 AM
i love it. it's great and i can't wait for the next one
NATUREGODDESS1
28.07.2007 12:53 AM
SQUEEEELLLL!!I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MANGA!!!!!!!!!!I CANT WAIT FOR THE SIXTH!!!!!!!HEHHE
DONTBELONG
25.07.2007 04:10 AM
i love this manga!
FIREFLYSNOW
25.07.2007 02:02 AM
I can't view it?!
VIRGO138
23.07.2007 02:44 PM