Dengeki has a report on the XXXHOLiC◆Kei stage event that was held yesterday at this year’s edition of Tokyo Anime Fair.
Ohara Sayaka said that 2/3 of the after-recording sessions have been done already, and the Ending Theme sequence indeed features Mokona in different patterns as reported in here.
But basing on that report, nothing too revealing was said, but you can check a still picture of the Alice in Wonderland episode xD
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!
A week after the release of Tsubasa #23, let’s take a look at its performance in the most important japanese charts.
The XXXHOLiC◆Kei event was held this Saturday at the LOFT/PLUS ONE talk live house, in Tokyo. My friend (and japanese correspondent xD) Yoshiyuki was there and he gave me a general idea of what happened at the event.
He also did a great move and recorded the audio of most of it, it’s all behind the cut.
The official website of singer SEAMO has announced that Honey Honey feat. AYUSE KOZUE will be the song title of XXXHOLiC◆Kei’s ending theme.
This song was originally released in 2005 by SEAMO himself in his DRIVE single, the difference of this remake is that this time it will feature pop/R&B singer Ayuse Kozue.
You can hear the original Honey Honey here.
My lady! xD
The release date has yet to be announced.
• I found this scan while surfing on 2ch where we can see a first look of the Spider Lady:
The article is from one of this month’s anime magazines, I’m not sure which one, that will be released on the next few days.
It reveals that the first episode starts from the Spider Lady arc (as expected, considering the end of season 1 and the order of events of the manga). Still regarding Spider Lady’s character, the article states that her voice will be played by seiyuu Yumi Touma (Spinel in CCS). Her profile is huuuuuge, she has worked on a thousand animes, I’m sure she’ll do great!!
In addition, the article says that XXXHOLiC◆Kei Ending Theme will be performed by rapper SEAMO. He has a single coming out in May called MOTHER, could it be that song? Neither the article nor his official website mention anything about the title, though.
• XXXHOLiC◆Kei will be one of the features of this year’s Tokyo Anime Fair. XXXHOLiC’s event will take place on the last day of the event, March 30, with director Tsutomu Mizushima and cast talking about the new season and a screening of an exclusive promotional video of it. I’ll check with Yoshiyuki-kun if he can go xD
XXXHOLiC◆Kei premieres April 4 on TBS.
Oh, and by the way, there’s “Nanase Ohkawa” all over now, on official websites and magazines xD
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