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Ageha Ohkawa has business meeting with Madhouse

Ageha Ohkawa wrote in her Private Board at CLAMP-PLA.NET that today she attended to a business meeting at Madhouse animation studio.

In her words:

Business Meeting

Just came back from Madhouse after a business meeting.

It’s been a while (actually a month) since I last met with Maruyama-san.

As always, Maruyama-san needs to be healed like a Pokemon, he’s working his face off (laughs) [not really sure about this sentence].

打ち合わせ

マッドハウスに行って参りました。
打ち合わせ。

久しぶり（っていっても一ヶ月くらい）に丸山さんに会ってご挨拶。

相変わらずポケモン並に可愛い丸山さんに癒されつつ、
お仕事をぎゅうぎゅうされつつ(笑)。

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Thank you Sakura-chan for helping me out with the translation!

By the way, the Maruyama-san she mentions is Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Madhouse studios, as well as producer of most CLAMP animes done by the studio.

I love how Ageha Ohkawa of CLAMP has business meetings with Masao Maruyama of Madhouse. And I love how one month is a significant time between their meetings xD

Anyhow, thought this would be interesting to share, no need to say I got very excited with it. CLAMP x Madhouse is love.

I would love to know the contents of that business meeting, were they planning future anime adaptations of CLAMP’s works? Or was it just a routine discussion about merchandise royalties? xD

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40 thoughts on “Ageha Ohkawa has business meeting with Madhouse”

  1. I was just trying to see how it was that people got onto the private bords at clamp-net…I wana see..though mostly for the art because my japanese is so rough…I need to study.

    though since you apparently got in, could you tell me how you go about getting the account and password?

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    • You must sign up to their mobile service, but such service is only available to japanese area. Once you register, you’ll get an ID and a password.

      I happen to have a friend who lives in Japan and is a member of the service, he gives me the ID and password monthly and that is how I have access to it.

      He doesn’t want me sharing to anyone else since sharing to one person is illegal enough, I’m really sorry =/

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      • Nah, it’s cool. I have a friend in japan who I got into anime…which ended up being a very funny story >D we foreign fans do wonders when set up to live with the Japanese muahaha we make them fans instead of the other way around…

        but it’s cool. I’ll look for the art through other means. ^^ I appreciate that you pass the news along to use thouh ^.^b

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          • That’s the blog I’d see the pics at oh! But it says not to make stuff out of them…or at least that’s my understanding..but it’s nice to be able to see them ^^ thanks for the link i couldn’t find that blog

            And I TOTALY appreciate you passing along the forshadowing news and such! YUS!

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              • Yes, I’m not alone!

                That was said over a year and something ago though T-T I’m getting impatient…though the pic of them with 2008 under it did give me some hope for this year once they finish Tsubasa and Holic….

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    • As I was typing, inside my head you could read:

      Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato Kobato

      …Kobato

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    • Although right NOW it seems unlikely, given the series is still at its 3rd tankoubon, it could well be a first meeting concearning an anime adaptation.

      X’s anime was announced years before it’s TV debut… I think they announced it in 1999 or earlier and the anime debuted in 2001 ^^”

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  4. I forget which, but one of the usa companies eluded to an unannounced clamp license this year. They might’ve gotten the AMVs. I’ll have to look at that interview again..it was recent and pretty boring so I didn’t think anything of it.

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      • Yeah, I see it as a just of matter of time… and pages xD
        They did great with Kobato. in CIW2, even if only for a couple of seconds. I think they would do an excellent adaptation. Kobato is a mix of a lot of things Madhouse did by CLAMP: CCS, Wish and Chobits, they know the tricks xD

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      • ZOMG!! i love CLAMP’s madhouse adaptations, their animations has a lot of quality, hope to be Kobato the chosen one XD,thank you n_n

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      • ja

        How come tsubasa and xxxholic were made by diferent studios other than madhouse was it because of madhouses reputation of making original endings and considering there clamps biggest project I wonder why they couldnt work something out . I also think having a kobato anime is too soon maybe a clover anime or legal drug because they could make original endings out of them .

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        • Re: ja

          I don’t know why Madhouse didn’t do it… maybe it was up for Kodansha or NHK to pick the animation studio.

          >was it because of madhouses reputation of making original endings

          I don’t think it was that… original endings are cool, makes it different than the manga. Plus, madhouse is not the only studio who does that.

          I guess Kodansha picked Production IG to animate XXXHOLiC’s movie (which was announced firstly than Tsubasa’s anime), Production IG was animating another Young Magazine manga at that time, and maybe they thought they were suitable. Then, they picked BeeTrain for Tsubasa since it was a subsidiary of Production IG, at that time…

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          • Re: ja

            Well, Madhouse don’t do original endings for the sake of it. They do it when an anime adaptation is released before the original manga is finish in order to avoid any plot spoiling. So of course, since X wasn’t finish yet they had to invent an ending, in order for Clamp to still surprise their readers with their own end.

            For CCS and Chobits, Kodansha, Clamp and Madhouse decided to synchronize the released of both manga and anime in order to stay true to the original ending. Well, they did some change, but orchestrated by Ohkawa.

            The main reason of why they use an other studio was probably beacause the person in charge of the Shounen magazine didn’t want to pay too much for the Tsubasa animation. Shounen aren’t usually having great studio to work for them. On the other hand, Madhouse did had some great project to work with at the same time. Death Note, Nana and Beck would be some of them. So they probably didn’t have time to do all the project they wanted. I guess Tsubasa and Holic anime projects didn’t had a good timing to be released by MadHouse.

            That said, I would be glad to have a new animation made by them. I’m hesitating between Kobato and Gouhou Drug. I mean, we saw a lot of Gouhou Drug in Clamp in Wonderland promotion stuff and we know that it’s going to be back on track sooner or later. An OVA with the first chapters would be nice. But Kobato is published in the Newtype and don’t have any animation, maybe they think of releasing an OVA for each completed tankebon? I want to know more. ~_~

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  7. >>And I love how one month is a significant time between their meetings xD

    Hey, hey… what are you trying to imply here, naughty one?

    >>I would love to know the contents of that business meeting, were they planning future anime adaptations of CLAMP’s works?

    I would love if they were planning it. It would be very awesome watching every single CLAMP character moving and speaking. XD

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    • >Hey, hey… what are you trying to imply here, naughty one?

      Hahahaha nothing xD I’m just happy that CLAMP’s leader sees Madhouse’s leader a whole lot ^___^ My favorite manga studio and my favorite anime studio having such strong bound it’s awesome.

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  8. no need to say I got very excited with it. CLAMP x Madhouse is love.

    Indeed!!! CLAMP x Madhouse is pure and wonderful love *_________*

    Madhouse always do such a woderful work *_______* It’s sucha pity they did not do tsubasa and holic anime…I always wonder why not, i mean didn’t madhouse do all the other Clamp’s anime?

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    • Not all of them. Bones did Angelic Layer, Pierrot did CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan. I don’t remember who did MKR but it wasn’t Madhouse.

      Madhouse did most of them, true, but not all.

      I already spoke this here and I’ll say it again, I think there should be a contract between CLAMP and Madhouse FORCING them to be the only studio to animate CLAMP’s works XDDDDD

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      • Oh I see. thank you for the clarification. Angelic Layer and CLAMP Gakuen Taiteidan haven’t cross my mind (maybe because i never get the change to see them T___T) but i thought MKR was a MadHouse anime. I was wrong…XD

        I already spoke this here and I’ll say it again, I think there should be a contract between CLAMP and Madhouse FORCING them to be the only studio to animate CLAMP’s works XDDDDD
        SO VERY TRUE!!! XDDDDD

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  9. Oh God, if there was to be a Kobato anime adaption anytime soon, i’d die from joy!! Seriously! It’s from the few CLAMP mangas that i read and have a smile on my face the whole time! Usually my heart is full of angst whenever i read any other CLAMP’s work! XD

    Thanks for the update!

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  10. yayz!

    Omg, you just made my day with that! and I’m not even sure what the business meeting was about XDDDDDD….but madhouse x CLAMP can only bring us fan JOY in whatever it is they do. I’d love the idea about an anime for Kobato!! but it’s way too soon D:, and a clover or legal drug anime would seem kinda weird cuz they could have started it like years ago XDDDD
    but if it’s a music video it’ll be just as good! x3 thank you so much! do well chibiyuuto-san!

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  12. Yo, Chibi-Yuuto!! ^o^

    Oh man, I really am hoping with all my heart that it would be Kobato.
    If it really is the series to be in an anime series, I will be the happiest fangirl.
    It would be awesome to see Ioryogi like that!! Kawaii! ^///^ *bliss*

    CLAMP x Madhouse is love.

    OU!! Honton ni desu yo ne! ^^

    Well just have to let “hitsuzen” to see if that is going to happen for sure.
    Arigatou gozaimasu for this information! *bows*

    Ja ne, Chibi-Yuuto!!
    Nyanko-san ^__^

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  15. Oh, that’s nice to know they have regular meeting, even if they work on no project together these days. Sure the meeting was probably about merchandise royalties for most of it, but maybe they are scheduling the next project already, even if it is for 2009 or 2010.

    Thanks for sharing! ^_^

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    • >that’s nice to know they have regular meeting

      Yes it is, you’ve no idea how happy I was when I read that ^^

      >but maybe they are scheduling the next project already, even if it is for 2009 or 2010.

      Yes, I would like to think that. Right now my bet is on a Kobato. video-clip.

      You’re welcome ^^

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