Here is the drawing that Mokona did for the 30th Anniversary celebrations of Gundam that was published in this month’s Newtype magazine:
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A little disappointing, isn’t it? XD I somehow expected a full page xD It’s adorably cute, though xD
If you are interested, you can download this month’s Newtype magazine via this link. The magazine includes the most recent Kobato. chapter and the TV Anime article, the Code Geass illustration that CLAMP drew for Newtype‘s pin-up calendar and a report from CLAMP’s visit to Paris.
CLAMP-NET.COM updated today to include two news!
The first bit of news is that CLAMP will draw the cover for the book release of Kamigami no Utatane (神々の午睡（かみがみのうたたね）). The fantasy novel was written by Atsuko Asano and its chapters were serialized in Animedia magazine.
During its serialization, various artists were invited to draw illustrations for the novel, including CLAMP, who drew for the final two chapters. Those illustrations are also going to be included in the book release.
The novel was originally published in Animage under the title 神々たちの午睡, which I translated as Kamigami-tachi no Gosui. Apparently for the book release the title has been changed.
You can check the illustrations that CLAMP draw for the novel here and here.
Yay for CLAMP being picked to draw the cover, out of all artists who have drawn for the book! =)
The 272-pages book will be released on September 29.
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The second news is that Kobato. will have a 2010 calendar!
It will feature 13 illustrations, 12 previously released and 1 new illustration. It’ll be a desktop calendar, B5-sized with a special case.
Reservations will start on September 30 for a November 20 official release.
Very much looking forward to the new illustration =D But desktop calendar and B5 size sounds small =/
And here is the Kobato. TV Anime article that was published in this month’s Newtype (the one where they made the seiyuus announcement):
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Thanks again to Aurelia for letting me know about this XD
I am having such great expectations about this anime. Not a single illustration has disappointed me yet =)
Here’s a new spread of the Kobato. TV Anime that was published in one of this month’s anime magazines (either Animedia or Animage):
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Thank you to Aurelia for poking me about this!
Looks so nice! And I’m loving the little Toshihiko sketch xDD
In addition to the main cast announcement, this month’s Newtype magazine also reveals the artists that will be performing the Opening and Ending themes of the Kobato. anime.
The Opening Theme will be performed by Maaya Sakamoto and the Ending Theme by Megumi Nakajima.
I’m very happy for Maaya, I think she suits Kobato. more than Tsubasa xD I don’t know Megumi Nakajima, though ^^;
I was half right with Maaya then, but I still think we will have a second ED theme song with ALI PROJECT xD
The Kobato. TV Anime starts on October 6.
As previously reported, the first cast members of the Kobato. TV Anime will be announced in the next Newtype magazine, which will be officially on sale on August 10. However, the information has already leaked thanks to MOONPHASE website.
The first two cast members announced were the parts of Kobato and Ioryogi.
Kobato will be played by Kana Hanazawa and Ioryogi by Tetsu Inada (Kurogane in Tsubasa Chronicle).
Moreover, the anime will start on October 6 at 8:00 AM PM on NHK-BS2, it will be aired every Tuesday.
I don’t know Kana Hanazawa, what do you think about her? Tetsu Inada as Ioryogi is well, I didn’t expect it xD I just hope his voice will be different than Kurogane’s ^^;
Here is the interview with Nanase Ohkawa that was published in this month’s issue of Newtype magazine, it also features a new Wish illustration:
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It’s not really an interview since there is no interviewer, just Ohkawa talking about the anime ^^;
Credits for the scan goes to undini (thank you so much!), who also points some highlights from the interview:
– Kobato.’s world and Wish’s world is the same.
– When they were setting the plot for Ioryogi, from the beginning they thought that he did something in the world of Wish and because of that he became like this.
– They don’t know how many characters from Wish will appear in the Kobato. anime.
– Ohkawa says that Kohaku knows about Kobato and Ioryogi, but she doesn’t want to say anything else since it will be spoiling the anime.
EDIT: Allan Montenegro kindly translated the interview to portuguese and I retranslated it to english:
Two worlds connected
The worlds of “Kobato.” and “Wish” are the same!! In the end, there will probably be a lot of readers who cannot hide the surprise upon seeing this new fact! To start with, where the idea came from?
“When we first thought about Ioryogi’s creation, we thought about making a mysterious being coming from a world like the Heaven that we first described in “Wish”, for some reason, we thought about changing his appearance to the way it looks now. Since we decided that Ioryogi would appear, one could tell that both worlds were connected.”
With the animation of “Kobato.”, the two worlds will be more closely connected.
“It was a decision that came up during a meeting. We decided that to visually show the world of angels would be easier to understand to story. So, by making Kohaku appear, both stories become much more connected. Even so, in the end the title is still “Kobato.”. At the moment, it’s not clear how much Kohaku and the other “Wish” characters will appear (laughs). Besides, it is known that Kobato and Kohaku both sing very well, it would be very pleasant to make them sing.”
They are not just good at singing, in one way or another, Kobato and Kohaku have a lot in common. What kind of connection there is between them?
“If I tell you that, I would be spoiling a lot (laughs). However, it’s established in the anime version that Kohaku knows about Kobato and Ioryogi. The uncommon love that exists in the [Wish] manga is very strong, I think we won’t be able to develop Kohaku’s efforts [in the anime]. Upon watching the Ending, I thought “I’m so glad! It looks so cute!”, it looks good in the anime, very pleasant to watch. I hope you’ll like it.”
So the Ending animation is already done! And in the end it was an interview. A 3-questions long interview, but an interview nonetheless xD
Check out the new illustration for the Kobato. TV anime in this month’s issue of Newtype magazine, in which it’s possible to see the Wish crossover:
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Still no sign of the Nanase Ohkawa interview that is also carried in that issue.
It seems like they will be taking the connection with Wish really seriously. Wish is credited in the staff as being the original manga in which the anime is based on (along with Kobato.). It’s like the TV anime will be a merged adaptation of Kobato. and Wish. That certainly gives enough material to cover in 24 episodes, knowing that Kobato. has only 4 ongoing volumes.
Still on the Kobato. anime, the official website has been renewed! Make sure to check it out!
New names were added to the staff list:
Original work: CLAMP (Kobato., Wish)
Director: Mitsuyuki Masuhara
Series Supervision: Morio Asaka
Series Composition:Michiko Yokote / Nanase Ohkawa
Script: Mamiko Ikeda / Miharu Hirami / Reiko Yoshida / Tsutomu Mizushima / Yuka Yamada
Character Design: Hiromi Kato
Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Tazaki
Color design: Harue Ono
Art director: Hideyuki Ueno
Director of Photography: Kouhei Tanada
Editing: Kashiko Kimura
Sound director: Masafumi Mima / Toshihiko Nakajima
Music: Takeshi Hama
Music production: FlyingDog, Inc.
Animation: MADHOUSE
I have a few points to make about the updated staff. Most of its members has already worked in previous CLAMP anime adaptations, which is a very positive thing. Many of those worked in Card Captor Sakura, which is even more positive.
Morio Asaka (CLAMP IN WONDERLAND, Card Captor Sakura, Chobits) has joined the staff as series supervisor, which is very nice.
Nanase Ohkawa is no longer alone in charge of the series composition, she is now sharing the role with Michiko Yokote, who also worked with Ohkawa as series compositor of the XXXHOLiC anime.
Also, Nanase Ohkawa is not listed among the series’ scriptwriters, this probably means that she won’t be writing too many episodes. I’m not very happy with this news, I was expecting Ohkawa alone would write a fair amount of episodes, but at least she will be supervising all scripts and hopefully writing a few.
The director of XXXHOLiC’s anime, Tsutomu Mizushima, will be one of the scriptwriters. I thought that was surprising.
Sound and color supervisors have previously worked in the Card Captor Sakura anime, which is good!
Music will be in charge of Flying Dog, which means the artists of the opening and ending themes shall probably be one of these. My bet is on ALI PROJECT and Maaya Sakamoto =)
The website has a production blog too, which I’ll keep looking for any interesting info. Right now they have a short interview with the director, which again he mentions that the characters of Wish will appear a lot in the anime.
Kobato. TV anime is scheduled for the Autumn.
Moving to Wish now, the same official website of the Kobato. anime mentioned above reveals that volumes 3 and 4 of Wish’s new edition will both be released on September 26, a month after the release of volumes 1 and 2.
Lastly, we move to Code Geass R2.
The latest Newtype magazine and also CLAMP-NET.COM announced that CLAMP will draw a new illustration of Code Geass R2 that will be part of the Newtype pinup calendar.
The illustration will be used in the calendar for the month of October and will be published in the next Newtype magazine, which will be out August 10.
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