To celebrate Blythe‘s 9th Anniversary in Japan, manga artists and animators have collaborated to create original celebrity dolls that will be exhibited at its Manga Girls Inspiration Charity Exhibition from June 26 to July 4 in Japan.
CLAMP has designed a doll inspired in Card Captor Sakura, which can be seen below:
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The back of the doll’s head was signed by CLAMP and the doll will be put on auction to raise funds for charity.
The talk between CLAMP and Maaya Sakamoto was that was published in 0331 (Maaya Sakamoto’s 15th Anniversary commemorative pamphlet) has been translated to English and can be read here.
The talk is extremely long, entertaining and very enlightening. Among the discussed topics, they talk about preferences for dating, women lifestyle after 30s, career and more.
I thought it was very cute the relation of Maaya and CLAMP in this talk… Maaya seems like a young sister asking advices to CLAMP, who seem like their older sister or something xD I was very amazed by how mature the members of CLAMP all sound. They all seem pretty sure of who they are and what they want while Maaya is still wondering a lot about those things (which is totally understandable considering her age).
It’s also a very very very revealing talk about CLAMP’s personal tastes, it’s extremely rare to have them talk about themselves and not about their work.
Back in March, Newtype celebrated its 25th Anniversary by releasing a special pamphlet entitled Newtype 25th Anniversary Event Limited Edition 1985-2010.
CLAMP was featured in it with a Kobato x Gundam illustration:
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Special thanks to user bbc.k from Taiwan for sending over the picture!
Here is a bigger scan of the CLAMP illustration and interview published in Maaya Sakamoto’s special pamphlet “0331“:
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Many thanks to j1m0ne for providing the scan! She has done her own detailed report of Maaya’s concert at the Budokan and you can read it here.
The pamphlet with CLAMP’s drawing is available for purchase in Maaya Sakamoto’s official store.
Kodansha has a preview of the first 21 pages of The Witch’s Mansion and the Mysterious Scientist, the 5th volume of the children’s book series illustrated by CLAMP, released on the previous month.
You can check some of the black & white inside illustrations drawn by CLAMP, check it out.
Previews of Part 1 and Part 4 are also available.
That guy is probably the “mysterious scientist”, looks cool! XD It’s like Fye but drawn by Nekoi xD
Kodansha reports that over 200.000 copies of The Witch’s Mansion series have been sold up to now.
Singer Maaya Sakamoto celebrated her career’s 15th Anniversary by releasing a compilation album entitled everywhere and by doing a single performance at the Tokyo Budokan on March 31.
Website Darkmirage has an extensive report on the concert and CLAMP made an illustration of Maaya for the special 154-page pamphlet that was sold at the venue:
How lovely! What a wouldn’t give for a bigger version of this. Also, it’s missing Princess Tomoyo, but I’m so glad they drew Suu =)
I know for a fact that apart from drawing this, the CLAMP members also attended to the concert.
Special thanks to clamp_now community for the news.
Update: The pamphlet with CLAMP’s drawing is available for purchase in Maaya Sakamoto’s official store.
On other news, the menu of CLAMP-NET.COM will change its format starting April 14.
Current menu:
News：news and serial information.
Profile：CLAMP’s profile and timeline.
Manga：CLAMP’s manga info.
Character：Characters’ info.
Database：CLAMP database.
Special：Special contents.
Member：Mobile area.
Shop：Online Shop.
New menu:
News：News.
Serial：Serialization info.
Works：CLAMP’s manga and characters’ info.
Database：CLAMP database.
Member：Mobile area and special contents.
Profile：CLAMP’s profile and timeline.
Basically, “Shop” and “Special” sections are out (“Special” will be added to the “Member” section), “News” will be split into “News” (with actual news) and “Serial” (with serialization information), “Manga” and “Characters” will be merged into a single section, “Works”.
I hope that, with these changes, we get some new info. I miss the Q&A that used to be in their Profile, for example.
A talk between Nanase Ohkawa and the director of the Kobato. TV anime, Mitsuyuki Masuhara, was published in the January issue of Newtype magazine. I don’t think anyone has shared scans of it yet, so here they are:
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I must admit that I expected a little bit more of it, like, a bigger talk xD It’s a quite short text so if anyone could give it a look and tell us about any interesting information, we would appreciate it! =)
This is from the March issue of Newtype magazine, since it’s the 300th issue, it came with a special supplement. There is a ranking for the creators that drew more covers of Newtype, and CLAMP appears in the 3rd position, with a total of 9 covers:
Also, as part of the project that celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Newtype magazine, they will be releasing t-shirts in collaboration with many artists, including CLAMP. More info will come in the April issue of Newtype (on sale March 10).
Let’s hope it’s a new illustration!
Check out the new illustration by CLAMP of the “Happy Ko” character that was aired today in NHK’s kids show, Tensai TV-kun MAX:
The illustration above was taken from the show’s official website. The image is a little large in width so forgive me if I’m messing with anyone’s f-lists.
“Happy Ko” is a character played by one of the show’s young hostesses, Fujii Chiho, she presents the Girl’s Communication corner of the show. This time, apart from Chiho’s character “Happy Ko” (on the right), CLAMP also drew one of the show’s co-host, Maki (on the left).
This is the 4th time that CLAMP draws “Happy Ko”. Check ou the previous three illustrations here, here and here.
And by the way, for those interested, you can check here the limited goods that will be given away to the readers of Young Magazine in celebration of the 200th chapter of XXXHOLiC. Only Japan residents can apply for a chance to win the goods.
Update: CLAMP@MOBiLE and Mobile Newtype launched a new Kobato. campaign offering a mobile wallpaper featuring a brand new Kobato. illustration by CLAMP.
From March 10 to April 9, Japan residents can submit a password that will be published in the April issue of Newtype magazine (out March 10) and download a special wallpaper for their mobile device.
Here is a preview of the wallpaper:
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