Traditionally, every year CLAMP and other japanese artists give their New Year’s Greetings by drawing something related to the correspondent animal of the Chinese Zodiac Calendar. According to the Chinese Zodiac, the year of 2017 is the year of the Rooster, therefore CLAMP made an illustration of the Mokonas and a chicken:

あけましておめでとうございます！
今年もどうぞ、よろしくお願い致します。

CLAMP一同#2017年賀状#今年もモコナは活躍できるでしょうか#CLAMP pic.twitter.com/YNhuDLqknn

— CLAMP・ときどきNews (@CLAMP_news) December 31, 2016

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CLAMP on social networks

CLAMP also started an instagram account, you may follow them @clamp_4_official. They have been updated it almost daily since they launched it a few days ago.

Among the new posts, I would like to highlight the two signature boards they did in December 28th that might be the prize for a contest that Kodansha is holding for illustrations submitted made with Card Captor Sakura‘s mangaka set. In one of them, Princess Sakura from Tsubasa is holding a little chicken, also in reference to the year of the Rooster:

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BOkAI1Yhjh5/

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BOj_ow3hMnN/

Nanase Ohkawa is putting her twitter account on hiatus for an undetermined amount of time so that she can focus on her work. She tweeted that she will be quite busy working on the series composition and writing the scripts for all the episodes of the upcoming Card Captor Sakura new TV anime. She also mentioned working on “other projects” without giving specifics.

TVシリーズ脚本や、他にもご依頼頂いたお仕事等有り・・・。

暫くの間、こちらはおやすみしたいと思います。
時折、ぷかっと浮かんで何かぼそぼそ書いてまた潜るかもしれませんが、
その時は「あ、何か言ってる」と、優しくしてやって頂けましたら嬉しいです。

どうぞ皆様、良いお年を。

— 大川七瀬。冬眠中。 (@nanase_ohkawa) December 28, 2016

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Happy New Year!

Thank you for following this site this past year. In 2017 I commit myself to keep doing my very best to bring the latest CLAMP news at fastest fashion.

May 2017 bring us many nice surprises in the CLAMP universe! I have a feeling that 2017 will be very interesting 😉