XXXHOLiC goes CARDLAND, Indiana Jones

Here is it, the final list of upcoming XXXHOLiC◆Kei episodes. The series ends by the end of this month, and I like the staff for the final 3 episodes.

XXXHOLiC◆Kei Episode Schedule

CLAMP NEWS !!

Mid-May Edition

Random news

Today we have CLAMP in CARDLAND, CLAMP in 3-D LAND and XXXHOLiC◆Kei news.

• CLAMP in CARDLAND:

The silhouettes of the CLAMP in CARDLAND 3 special cards are out in its official website:

The one from the left features Yuuko and Syaoran and the one from the right, Fye.

The 3rd Series of CLAMP in CARDLAND comes out next month.

• CLAMP in 3-D LAND:

A correction now, in my previous CLAMP NEWS !! post I stated that the Sakura figure that would come out in the 7th Series of CLAMP in 3-D LAND would be from Card Captor Sakura (I edited the post now, though). Today the official website of CLAMP in 3-D LAND announced that the “Sakura” is actually from Tsubasa.

I should have know, since CLAMP-NET.COM listed it as “Sakura”, and not “Sakura Kinomoto”.

I’m assuming this Sakura will be the one with the famous fairy dress of Chapter 1, readers who are up-to-date with the japanese chapters will understand why.

With this, Sakura Kinomoto will definitely make an appearance in the final Series, and my final guess for it would be:

Fuuma, Hikaru, Suoh, Sakura, Shirahime (Kazuhiko is out and Sakura is in).

Just like we had 3 Syaoran figures, there shall be 3 Sakura figures as well.

• XXXHOLiC◆Kei:

Akiba has their report of the XXXHOLiC◆Kei special stage event that was held at the TAF2008.

CLAMP NEWS !!

April Edition

CARDLAND, XXXHOLiC◆Kei news

The official website of CLAMP in CARDLAND added bigger versions of the package illustrations for Series 2 and 3. The 3rd package’s colors seem adjusted now, everything looks so much nicer and better xD

The complete list of the 3rd Series featuring works is the following (itens in bold mark new additions):

RG Veda
20 Mensho ni Onegai!!
Tokyo Babylon
X
CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan
Shin Shundaken
Mahou Kishi Rayearth
Wish
Card Captor Sakura
ANGELIC LAYER
Chobits
XXXHOLiC
Tsubasa
Kobato.

14 series, 81 cards total, each work will have an average of 6 cards.

Ah, one last thing, the title of the card featuring Kobato, Watanuki et. al (the one with the package illustration), will be Spun Story (紡がれる物語).

CLAMP in CARDLAND 3 will be released in May.

XXXHOLiC◆Kei:

Insignificant news: the official website of XXXHOLiC◆Kei added the characters profiles of Doumeki and Himawari.

Very significant news: you can now watch a CM spot of XXXHOLiC◆Kei in Nico Douga and YouTube!

Thanks for the YouTube link \o/

I ripped the video off of Nico Douga and you can download it here (.FLV file).

EDIT: AVI version of the video here thanks to . Direct download mirror here (high quality version, taken from 2ch).

Looks very nice, doesn’t it? And you can listen a bit of NOBODY KNOWS *wants*

Last but not least, Takuya Matsushita updated his column at CLAMP-PLA.NET today and, according to him, the animation of the new XXXHOLiC season surpasses the previous one’s:

ファンの皆様、そして多くの関係者の希望が実り実現する第2シリーズ『XXXHOLiC◆継』にかける監督はじめキャストスタッフの思いは熱く、好評だった第1シリーズを遥かにしのぐ豊潤で贅沢なアニメーションに仕上がってくることを確信しています。

Now we just have to wait and see.

And no, he doesn’t mention anything else about Tsubasa and XXXHOLiC’s “big project”. Some people have been asking me about it. I’m starting to think that XXXHOLiC’s project was the Collaboration Drama CD, but we still have to see Tsubasa’s.

XXXHOLiC◆Kei starts next week, on April 3.

EDIT: It’s not over yet! has kindly scanned the special comic that all artists (including CLAMP) of Shonen Magazine drew to celebrate the magazine’s 50th Anniversary. It features Syaoran and Sakura in (very cool) school uniforms. Make sure to check it here!

CARDLAND, XXXHOLiC◆Kei news

CLAMP in CARDLAND 3 package

TRC 185, XXXHOLiC 152 and other news

Clean scans available at The Room of Requirement, there’s no need to knock before you get in xD

We’re grateful as always to ladydarkmoon-san who gently provided the scans =)

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A pack of news

Because I’m a gentleman, ladies first xD

• CLAMP in CARDLAND:

Here it is, finally, the Point Card of CLAMP in CARDLAND 2nd Series, “uncensored” version:

I am slightly disappointed with it, to tell you the truth. I think it’s the painting, it bothers me a little this CG, specially when I know copics would give it a much more magical feeling to it. But of course I liked it *drools*

Nonetheless, it’s so nice to see the Rayearth girls again, Umi looks particularly gorgeous makes me wanna marry her. Tokyo Tower needs more attention, period. xD

This picture is here thanks to our always-so-nice fellows of Yahoo Auctions. More pictures should be added later in this link (as other fellows get their hands on this card).

• Code Geass:

The NEWS BOARD section of CLAMP-NET.COM was updated today to announce that CLAMP will be in charge of the drawings for the Ending sequence of Code Geass R2. This news was first announced, however, in this month’s Newtype magazine. You can view a scan of the article in this link, via , of course!

I find that absolutely great! The more CLAMP gets involved, the better. I can’t wait to check out this ED!

Moreover, it was announced that group ORANGE RANGE will sing both the Opening and Ending Themes. The song titles of the Opening and Ending Themes will be O2 and Shiawase Neiro, respectively.

Code Geass R2 starts on April 6th.

• Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations:

The official website of Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations has been updated one last time before the release of its final chapter, there’s a new background illustration and a new diary entry (nothing revealing on the latter).

Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations #3 comes out next Monday, on March 17.

CLAMP NEWS !!

March Edition

CLAMP in CARDLAND 2 launched!

The 2nd Series of CLAMP in CARDLAND was released yesterday in Japan!

This series has a total of 81 cards and the following are (really low quality) pictures of one of the cards with new CLAMP art, the Secret Card entitled Black Prince, featuring Lelouch and C.C. of Code Geass:


Click to enlarge them.

You can find different samples of the same cards in this link, as well as samples of the other 80 cards in this link, both via Yahoo Auctions.

I’m going to post pictures of the Point Card featuring the Rayearth girls as soon as they are available.

The 3rd, 4th and 5th Series of CLAMP in CARDLAND are aimed for a May, August and November release, respectively.

Some unfortunate news now, my buddy yoshiyukikun could not get a ticket for the upcoming XXXHOLiC anime event, that will take place on March 15th at LOFT PLUSONE.

He was in the homepage of Lawson’s, ready to order his ticket online, waiting for 10 o’clock of this morning (the time when the tickets went on sale), and when the time came and he refreshed Lawson’s website, the site just wouldn’t load! The number of people accessing it was so much that the system must have overloaded.

Worried, he quickly went to the streets to one of the Lawson’s tickets machines, but he didn’t find any luck whatsoever. The machines are also managed by an online system, and it was also overloaded. After several attempts, the machine returned a message that the tickets were all sold out. The website too, returned an hour later to say that there were no more tickets available.

In his words, “it was as if the entire Japan was trying to buy these tickets” xD They sold out in less than half hour.

That’s very unfortunate but I kind of expected that, given that a similar pattern happened in the last CLAMP event sold by Lawson’s Tickets. The fact that they are so accessible for everyone makes it so hard to obtain one.

Not everything is over, though, there are loads of people selling their tickets on Yahoo Auctions and he’ll try to apply to one of them. I hate that XD People, not fans, buy the tickets to later put them on auction and take money out of that.

We lost a battle, but not the war XDD I’ll keep you informed!