Kadokawa has announced the specifications of the tankoubon version of Kobato.:
こばと。(1)
Release date: December 26th.
Price: 567 yens.
Size: B6.
ISBN: 978-4-04-713998-5-C0979
The size (B6) is the same as XXXHOLiC and judging by the price, I’m assuming it must contain at least a few color pages.
Out of curiosity, Kobato.’s manga was classified by Kadokawa under the “Aimed at male” category.
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Yet another tankoban to be added to my amazon.co.jp order list…
I’m ordering more from them than the UK site!
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LOL think by the bright side, at least it’ll be one per year! (unlike Tsubasa which when you bought one there’s already another one with a release date set xDDDDDDD)
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Thanks for the info!
But how in the world is Kobato a shounen manga?
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You’re welcome!
>But how in the world is Kobato a shounen manga?
Ask Kadokawa! xD
Hahahaha loved the matching icon xD
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Thanks for the info! ^_^
I wonder if the cover will be the same as the first chapter of Kobato (kari) like shown on the bookshelves in Clamp in Wonderland 2 …
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My pleasure! ^__^
>I wonder if the cover will be the same as the first chapter of Kobato (kari) like shown on the bookshelves in Clamp in Wonderland 2 …
I haven’t seen Kobato. there O.o Which row and column?
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Upper shelf, first right.
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You’re too fast! ^_~
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I see it! The cover of Kobato (Kari)’s supplement of PASTEL, right? I wonder if that’s the real cover too or if at the time the video was concluded (March 2007), that was a desperate measure they had to take xD
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Well, as I see it, it’s more like this picture :
And I’m totally with you on the “desperate measure” idea. ^_~
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I think it’s the one mireime’s talking about, I kind of see the blue sky and clouds pattern on the side of the book.
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Yeah, that’s exactly what I see o.o
But I think this is just a “Temporary” cover. (got that? got that? “Temporary”… xDDDDDDDDD *idiot*)
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lol! XD
You’re hopeless!
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Although, it might be the cover indeed, the Clover covers were title pages and some Tsubasa covers were magazine covers.
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Ah! You mean row 1, column 5? It was the only one I couldn’t recognize! I think I can see it… do you have a HQ screenshot?
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Color pages would be cool!
XDDD shounen??
Thank you for the info!! ^____^
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It’s 7 yens more expensive than XXXHOLiC, it should have at least the first color pages (I don’t think the other ones will be colored as well, though)
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=D the first ones would be enough to ask for! If they are new ^___^
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Kobato = shounen? …okay…
Thanks for the info 🙂
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Go figure ^^
But if you think about it, it’s not THAT crazy. I remember reading an interview where CLAMP says that they were requested by Sunday GX’s editor to draw a story to attract EVEN girls. I think that means they created a manga for boys, with a girly appeal as well.
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Great to have a release date!
Can’t wait to see its cover!
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I just hope it’s a new illustration XD
And the design! Can’t wait to see the design, go Satsuki!
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Aimed at male?
*reads again*
Aimed at male?!
*yep, it says that*
But, wasn’t Kobato-chan supposed to be like a Mary Poppins?
Mary Poppins for male audiences? O__o
Ok, I’ll just wait to the manga to develops a little more, but so far…
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>But, wasn’t Kobato-chan supposed to be like a Mary Poppins?
Yes ^^”
>Mary Poppins for male audiences? O__o
I’m not the one saying it! XDDDD
I think Kadokawa is generalizing it just because it runs on Newtype. But still, the manga surely is more inclined to shoujo side of things…
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Yeah, well, they can’t fool me, or you, or the entire fandom world…
Kobato shonen, what’s next? Naruto is a magical girl?
*Oh, noes, mental picture X/ *
Ahahaha, I forgot to thank you for the news ^^U
Thank you *bows*
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Thank you SO much! ^^
Shounen? O_o, maybe Kobato will turn more ‘shounen’ in the future? o.o
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I honestly don’t know xD Well, Chobits became more shoujo as the story went by ^^” Maybe the other way around will happen to Kobato? But I don’t think so.
I think it could be seen a shounen, I think it’s kind of “shounen with girl’s appeal”
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Ummmmm I guess there are lots of cute girls? XD
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That was one of my conclusions xDDD Or maybe Ioryogi’s rude lines? XD You wouldn’t expect that kind of dialog in a shoujo, or would you? xD
There’s the whole goddess concept and Kobato is cute and everything, but it’s seen through a girl’s point of view, and that makes things extremely shoujo XD (We have flowers in the pages’ corners, for example xD)
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Shonen…. I had a nasty thought in my mind… I’d hate for Kobato to turn angst and dark… I mean, that would be why it’d be classified as shonen, right? (of course shojo can be angst and dark, but I mean angst and dark like how TRC went)
*gets scared* What if there’s going to be lots of blood loss and brutal fighting in TRC??
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>*gets scared* What if there’s going to be lots of blood loss and brutal fighting in TRC??
Hahahahaha but hum… I don’t think that will happen.
It could get more angst, because I think there will come a point where Kobato will start to grow feelings for Fujimoto or vice-versa, but it’s not going to get dark as Tsubasa.
CLAMP said that since they were doing a lot of dark stuff over the past years, they wanted to work on something more soft for a change (they were talking about Kobato). So I think that atmosphere won’t change drastically.
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Wait… hold on… shonen or seinen?
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I would say seinen since there are scenes of violence against women (poor Kobato-chan -_-‘), but on Kadokawa website, comic books are seperated by 4 categoies : for female readers, for male readers, anime books and game books.
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Yeah, besides, there’s no Furigana and that makes it complicated for a 12 years old boy to read.
>but on Kadokawa website, comic books are seperated by 4 categoies : for female readers, for male readers, anime books and game books.
Exactly, their classification is too general, not specific at all.
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Kadokawa doesn’t specify which one, they only say that it’s a manga suited for male readers, regardless their age.
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Thank you for the info ^_^
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Dou iteshimashite! ^^
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Thanks for the info! ^_^
I think I’m gonna buy it…. maybe. ^^;;
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I’m gonna wait for when the manga is released, then I’ll decide if I’m going to buy it or not. It’s not an expensive investment, since it’ll come out only once a year ^^
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kobato is shounen?
because of the cuteness??? XDDD lol
(I have a feeling like Kobato = Chobits)
or something like that
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Kobato reminds me of Chobits in certains aspects too! Also Wish and CCS ^^
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thanks but male aim??? Kobato is fully dress!, there are many Kobato in festivity land!!!
Where please is the Male aim manga????? maybe in Kobato and valentine day!!!????
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>Kobato is fully dress!
HAHAHA no boobies, right? XDDDDDD I guess is not THAT kind of shounen XDDD
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Hahahaha and you thought the pre-orders for this year were over xD
>Perhaps this is all related to why she wants to fill that bottle (which we still don’t truly know, entirely).
Hum, good point, the reason might be completely shounen ^^””
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