In celebration of the 35th Anniversary of CLAMP and the 25th Anniversary of Good Smile Company, a new Sakura Kinomoto scale figure based on a brand new illustration drawn by CLAMP has been decided!
The project is also part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Cardcaptor Sakura.
The scale figure will be revealed at this year’s Good Smile Festival. The Tokyo venue, which takes place in June, will display the unpainted prototype, while the Osaka venue, which takes place in August, will display the painted prototype.
Wow, the illustration is so, so beautiful, just like the other two that CLAMP did before. This scale figure is going to absolutely smash it! And this time we have Momo’s book! (any deeper meaning here…?)
There will also be two campaigns taking place: one will offer CLAMP-themed photo frames after scanning the QR codes that come on the leaflet included with the Godiva x CLAMP Collection chocolate set (4 pieces or 8 pieces), and another will give away a special sticker (out of five different kinds) as a purchase bonus for online and in-store purchases:
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Online pre-orders will last from September 17th~23rd and deliveries will begin on October 1st. Sales on physical shops will run from October 1st to December 31st.
The collaboration between CLAMP and GODIVA chocolates has been officially announced: a special chocolate collection featuring original artwork by CLAMP.
Full details will be announced on September 16th, sales will begin on October 1st.
The Japanese announcement roughly translates to:
Special Chocolate Collection Featuring Original Artwork
GODIVA, a long-loved premium chocolate brand, is collaborating for the first time with CLAMP, a collective loved by people of all generations.
The protagonists of CLAMP’s works, renowned for their boldness and love, pioneer the new era, and their story of love and courage echo the tale of Lady Godiva, the proud countess from whom the GODIVA brand is named.
Cherishing this shared sentiment, we’ve combined GODIVA’s high-quality chocolate with the charm of CLAMP’s protagonists.
This collaboration will bring you a new chocolate experience, complete with special illustrations created specifically for the occasion. Full details of the collaboration will be announced on Tuesday, September 16th. Please look forward to it.
How adorable! The artworks remind me of the chocolate set that they did back in 2011 for CLAMP@MOBiLE Fes! At first I thought it would be just Mokona=Modoki (I’m glad it’s not), but at the same time, only characters from Kodansha are part of this collaboration. Maybe this collaboration is happening thanks to Kodansha‘s marketing department.
I wonder if there will be other goods apart from the chocolates…
I recently had the opportunity of interviewing Thaís Spierr, from Artworks Entertainment, about the Cardcaptor Sakura Cafe in São Paulo, Brazil, and the return of the Cardcaptor Sakura TV anime distribution in Brazil. We recorded the interview at the Cafe itself in its opening week!
We discussed various behind-the-scenes things about bringing the Cafe to life from its first conception to reality. We also talked about the anime redistribution in Brazil and the rest of Latin America.
The interview is in Portuguese and I was asked to turn off auto-translated captions per the interviewee’s request so as to not spread misinformation. Apologies for that!
Turns out it’s a design heavily inspired in Cardcaptor Sakura! The Star Wand with kitty ears is so adorable!
CLAMP’s comment on the collaboration is “The concept is ‘if Kitty became a magical girl’. We also drew Sakura-chan in a matching costume wearing a hat of a different color.”
The designs will be on display in Lady Kitty House starting on May 24th, and original goods such as clear files, acrylic stands, acrylic key chains, and can badge sets will be on sale starting in July.
In addition, Hello Kitty in the costume depicted in the illustration will appear at Lady Kitty House amusement park to greet visitors during the entire month of August.
The sixteenth and final volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 9th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate of 68,087 copies sold in its first week of sales for the regular edition. The Special Edition (Big Trump cards) landed on the 31st position, selling an estimate of 15.541 copies, making the overall sales of volume 16 an estimate of 83.628 copies on its first week. These numbers are roughly 21% more than the first week sales of volume 15 (69.419 copies)!
It is always worth mentioning that Oricon only takes into account a certain number of shops and preorders are likely not taken into account. These numbers are only an estimate and it’s possible that the real figures are higher than these, considering volume 16 was available for pre-order for a very long time.
Still, I expected somehow slightly higher numbers given that it’s the final volume and the sales seemed to be picking up again with volume 15.
The chart below shows the progress in the sales of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ over the weeks and compares it with previous volumes’ performances (click on the image to access an interactive version):
Card Captor Sakura Clear Card arc volume 16 (final) will be released on April 1st, 2024. This time, the special edition will come with a set of big trump cards featuring Clear Card illustrations and a synthetic leather case to store the cards.
Here are pictures of the volume cover and the special edition:
Volume 16 is listed as having 224 pages, which is a little bulkier than the average Clear Card volume (160 pages). This volume will include the special 32-pages chapter that will be published on March 1st in Nakayoshi magazine.
Wow! They really did save the best for last, huh? You can really tell how much effort and detail they put into making this cover. It’s absolutely stunning. Also, I don’t remember ever having two different types of flowers in the same cover… isn’t it always only one type of flower?
Kodansha is also reprinting the first four Card Captor Sakura artbooks, which will come out on April 1st as well. This is your chance to get them in case you don’t have a copy yet. They are probably gearing up for the release of the Clear Card artbook (to be announced).
The fifteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 30th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate of 16,512 copies sold in its second week of sales for the regular edition. The Special Edition (Clear Bookmarks) did not appear in the ranking this time around.
Overall, volume 15 has sold an estimate of 85,931 copies in two weeks.
Despite the strong performance it had on its first week, this is the second weakest overall sales figures by the second week for a Clear Card volume, only behind its previous volume (14), which had sold an estimate of 75,315 copies by the second week.
It is always worth mentioning that Oricon only takes into account a certain number of shops and preorders are likely not taken into account. These numbers are only an estimate and it’s possible that the real figures are higher than these.
The chart below shows the progress in the sales of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ over the weeks and compares it with previous volumes’ performances (click on it for dynamic version):
I could be wrong but I don’t think we will see week 3 for volume 15.
UPDATE: volume 15 did not make it to its 3rd week in Oricon’s weekly Top 30.
