Episode ex04 of CLAMP’s podcast, CLAMP Kanbukai, is out! You can listen to it on YouTube and all major podcast platforms.

This episode’s theme is “Mokona (the person) talk”.

They started the episode talking about how this is the first episode that they do without all four of them present. It seems that Mokona-sensei was sick at the time of the recording, which is why she couldn’t join them. Each of them also made a brief update about their health status given that all four of them had some kind of cold since the beginning of this year.

Due to Mokona-sensei’s absence, this episode will be centered around her. Ohkawa-sensei advises that they might repeat things that they have said about her in past interviews, podcasts or spaces, so there might be some overlapping but she asks for everyone’s comprehension.

To kick things off, they talked about their first impressions of Mokona-sensei. Satsuki-sensei met her first, they were in the same school club (later they became school classmates). Nekoi-sensei met her later and Ohkawa-sensei met her last, on different occasions. Satsuki-sensei and Nekoi-sensei both thought she had very “sharp” eyes and was extremely polite. They all mentioned that she was really small — Ohkawa-sensei is 10cm taller than her and the other two are about the same height as Ohkawa-sensei. They compared the height difference to Kamui and Kotori’s (Kamui is 10cm taller than Kotori and Kamui has Ohkawa-sensei’s height). Eventually, Mokona-sensei and Nekoi-sensei attended the same university, but they were not classmates so they barely saw each other in campus apart from the doujinshi activities that they were already doing at that time.

In the past, they have talked about that each one of them is represented by a color (even though they are not idols, Ohkawa-sensei joked) and Mokona-sensei’s color is yellow. Despite that, they all said that she doesn’t wear a lot of yellow clothes.

Next, Ohkawa-sensei asked the other two if they had any fun or interesting stories about Mokona-sensei to share. Satsuki-sensei started by saying that she gets sick easily and it usually happens in her days off. Ohkawa-sensei said that she has lost counts of how many times she had to accompany her to the emergency room (!) They mentioned one time she hurt her finger when using the sewing machine (!) and Ohkawa-sensei mentioned one episode where she was involved in an accident while riding a taxi — but she was quickly to assure all listeners that it was nothing serious, everyone is safe and there is nothing to worry about.

Nekoi-sensei shared a funny story from the time they were in the USA for Anime Expo (2006) and Mokona-sensei accidentally forgot her room key inside her room and got locked out. She went to the front desk by herself but she couldn’t express herself properly in English so she tried to draw a picture explaining the problem! Unfortunately, the staff were not able to understand the drawing (and Ohkawa-sensei joked that being a mangaka did not help and that drawing is supposed to be a universal language but not this time!) Eventually someone who spoke Japanese managed to help her get inside her room again.

Ohkawa-sensei said that Mokona-sensei is very considerate whenever they are walking together, always making sure they are going to the right direction, checking Google Maps and stuff, but they said that even though she means well, she is usually wrong and has a bad sense of direction xD

Next, they talked about what Mokona-sensei is like at work. Ohkawa-sensei said that even thought she might not always show up at the studio on time, she is very serious about finishing her work and pushing herself further and further every time, exceeding her own outputs. It was also mentioned that when she finds something interesting, she shares it with the others on their LINE group early in the morning and she would talk about that same thing 8 hours later even though the subject has already changed many times throughout the day. It seems she often goes back to the topics that interest her regardless if they are still talking about it or not.

They also talked about Mokona-sensei’s sewing skills (they mentioned the doll dresses that were on display at the Sakura Exhibition and how those were handmade by Mokona-sensei). She is always working on something and her house looks more like an atelier than a house (particularly her bedroom). It is full of fabrics, threads, cloths, beads, accessories etc. She loves making clothes and stuffed characters of the things she likes. Ohkawa-sensei is very impressed about this. Mokona-sensei also collects stones, going to auctions to bid on stones whenever she can. It seems that she often looses her phone inside her place (and she resorts to Siri in order to find it!)

Lastly, each of them mentioned something that they would like Mokona-sensei to fix about herself. Satsuki-sensei went first and mentioned something about using less white for fixing things (I guess she means using less whiteout when fixing the manuscripts). Nekoi-sensei said she would like Mokona-sensei to stop forgetting her phone around — she finds it curious because Mokona-sensei is always grasping her phone around really tightly but, at the same time, leaving it on the table whenever they are at a cafe or restaurant. Ohkawa-sensei went last and mentioned that she would like Mokona-sensei to read LINE messages in a more timely fashion. It seems that Mokona-sensei has the tendency of not reading the most important messages (for instance, she might be chatting normally but then whenever she receives a message regarding a time change for a meeting or something else important, she goes away and doesn’t read the message). Ohkawa-sensei, who claims to be among the top 10 fastest responders out there, seems a tad annoyed by this xD

Before wrapping up, Ohkawa-sensei mentioned that they will do this again next time one of them is absent of the recordin, except when she herself is absent because since she is MC, the recording cannot happen without her. Satsuki-sensei added that they might as well just say everything about her to her face, or play the initial opening text and record the episode without Ohkawa-sensei xD

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Thank you for reading this post!

This summary was particular challenging given that a lot of the topics I’m not familiar with. Apologies if it’s a bit lacking, I tried my best! 🙂