The first activity of CLAMP at the Japan Expo has been announced today by the event’s official website: to judge a Cosplay Contest!
There will a special Cosplay Contest of CLAMP characters and the winners will be chosen by CLAMP themselves!
More details as they come! If you plan to participate, keep an eye on Japan Expo’s website for instructions.
Thanks for letting me know, zero_no_tsubasa!
Breaking news european fans!!
CLAMP will land in Paris, France next July/2009! They will be Guests of Honor of the 10th edition of Japan Expo, which will happen from 2 to 5 of July.
The information comes from the event’s official website.
Thanks miyazawa_lulu for the info xD
Okay so who’s going? XD
Update: Official Press Release in PDF
The public screening of XXXHOLiC Shunmuki Part 1 was held yesterday in Tokyo, and here are a few highlights about both the OAD and the event itself:
Slight spoilers, maybe? Don’t read if you want total surprise.
– The animation quality is better than the TV anime and closer to the movie;
– There is a connection with Tsubasa;
– There is the appearance of unexpected character(s);
– A package sample was shown. This time it’ll be different than Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations. It’ll be similar to Tsubasa Deluxe editions (comic + DVD case inside a hard case). Tsubasa Shunraiki will be the same.
– A 40-seconds preview of Tsubasa Shunraiki was shown. It’ll be up at the official website soon.
XXXHOLiC Shunmuki will be released on February 17.
Last week I posted a picture from the CLAMP Talk Show that was held in Tokyo, this week I’m posting a picture from the Osaka event (Dec. 21) that was recently added to CLAMP in CARDLAND’s official website.
This one was taken at the winning ceremonies which were presented by CLAMP:
We have another pic, weee! xD Ohkawa looks so pretty XD~
While surfing on CLAMP in CARDLAND’s official website I came upon this tiny picture of CLAMP’s Talk Show from the Tokyo event:
From left to right, we have: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi (sporting her new, shorter haircut), Satsuki Igarashi and Nanase Ohkawa (with a very p!nk dress xD). In this picture they are talking about a card of Fye and Primera.
I have the impression this picture was there for some days now, but I only found it now xDD At least we have a picture! ♥
There are other pictures from the Osaka convention here, but so far no pictures of CLAMP’s Talk Show from that day.
The winners had their favorite cards signed by the CLAMP members, like this one:
Fresh news from the CLAMP Talk Show that was held in Tokyo yesterday, at the CLAMP in CARDLAND 2nd Official Event.
When asked about Kobato. anime, Ohkawa said that she “can’t tell yet” any information about it.
Exciting ^_~
More information on CLAMP’s Talk Show and the possibility of a Kobato. anime as they come, stay tuned!
Both the NEWS BOARD section of CLAMP-NET.COM and CLAMP in CARDLAND’s official website announced today the 2nd official event of CLAMP in CARDLAND.
The event will take place in two days at different venues, one in Tokyo on November 23 and one in Osaka on December 21.
A talk show with CLAMP is scheduled for both days, and in order to participate, one needs to:
– Submit a Booster Box barcode from either one of the 4 series released so far.
Or
– Submit the Dramatic Deck’s barcodes from both Card Captor Sakura and X & Tokyo Babylon versions.
Winners will be chosen by lottery.
Cool thing! The first time the members of CLAMP appear in a CLAMP in CARDLAND event. As always, let’s hope there will be coverages and pictures about these talk shows.
In addition, Series 4 has been released today in Japan and its Secret Card, Girls’ Sea, has surfaced on Yahoo Auctions website:
The backside, showing the full illustration, has not appeared yet =/
A bit more than a month after the XXXHOLiC◆Kei event took place at LOFT/PLUS ONE, formally known as XXXHOLiC◆Kei Previous Evening Festival, the website CLAMP-PLA.NET brings their report of the event (most likely the last one for this event).
I was long awaiting for it, you can check it after the cut.
• Code Geass R2:
Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 premiered yesterday in Japan and you can get the RAW of episode 1 via TokyoTosho from many different sources. You know the steps, just type Code Geass in their search field to get the results.
As reported previously, CLAMP drew the illustrations for the Ending sequence:
You can download the full ED sequence, featuring these and other illustrations, here (.AVI, 26 MB). Credits for the rip goes to Memento.
The illustrations are just beyond gorgeous! It’s basically Code Geass through CLAMP’s eyes xD The drawings were done by Mokona but Nekoi painted them using CG. I was surprised with the total amount of illustrations, I thought they would be fewer. Beautiful work, CLAMP.
• XXXHOLiC◆Kei:
Amazon.co.jp has a list for all the upcoming XXXHOLiC◆Kei DVDs. There will be 7 volumes, and each one of them will have a limited edition coming with a Drama CD and a booklet. The first Drama CD will be written by Nanase Ohkawa.
According to Amazon, the release schedule and product details goes as the following:
Volume 1
Release date: June 25.
Running time: 25 minutes.
First edition limitation: Post card, booklet and Drama CD scripted by Nanase Ohkawa.
Volume 2
Release date: July 23.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Volume 3
Release date: August 20.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Volume 4
Release date: September 24.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Volume 5
Release date: October 22.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Volume 6
Release date: November 26.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Volume 7
Release date: December 17.
Running time: 50 minutes.
First edition limitation: Booklet and Drama CD.
Thanks to for the heads up!
More information, such as extra features or a box to hold the DVD cases, can be added anytime.
Basing on the DVDs running time that Amazon.co.jp is reporting, XXXHOLiC◆Kei will have only 13 episodes.
I’ve been seeing this (quite a lot) in articles and interviews about the the new season, but I thought the series could be expanded to 26 episodes when we get halfway through it. But after this, I’m getting more and more convinced.
So for now, 13 episodes only.
Last but not least, ASCII.jp has their report on the XXXHOLiC◆Kei event at LOFT/PLUS ONE (they have a bigger version of the CLAMP and Mizushima picture), and Hobby-Channel has an article about the XXXHOLiC◆Kei stage event at TAF2008. Phew!
The ASCII article states that, up to the event’s day, Episode 1 was done, Episode 2 was in the middle of after-recording, Episode 9 was being drawn and Episode 12 storyboarded.
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