[News] xxxHolic

Hours after the screening of the first xxxHolic Shunmuki OAD at Cinema Ikspiari, there have been a few blog posts that have popped up; one, two, three(poster pic), four, etc to mention a few. They mention Kohane's part of the manga, and the lucky people also got to see a 40 sec trailer to Tsubasa Shunraiki.

Young magazine mentions the fact that xxxHolic is not in this week's issue due to someone's illness in CLAMP. xxxHolic will be back next week. (link via chibiyuuto)

Btw, the google calendar widget in the side bar isn't working...boo, hope they fix it.

[Project] Calling all graphic designers

We will need one graphic designer for our
Happy 20th Anniversary •CLAMP• Appreciation Fanbook Project!

Link to details

[Cover] Mouryou no Hako Volume 3

Here's the cover of Mouryou no Hako Volume 3. It will be on sale February 25th.

And here's the cover to FictionJunction's Everlasting Songs album. It will also be out Februaruy 25th.

[News] Kodansha Magazine Special

Kodansha's Magazine Special #3 will have a double-sided Tsubasa poster. (via ann). This will be out February 20th.

[Web radio]xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD

xxxHOLiC & Tsubasa no Haru made Matenai! #03 is up at Onsen.ag.

[Figures] Maru & Moro

Noticed this new figure at Goodsmile (click website for close-ups). It'll be on sale in May for 6,800 yen.

(It's a lovely figure. I wonder if there'll be more. Yuuko would make a nice figure, too...hint hint.)

[Update] CLAMP-NET

Clamp-net just updated to add another break (1/26) to xxxHolic's schedule. After this week's chapter, xxxHolic will not appear for two weeks; 1/26 and 2/2.

[Update] Anniversary/Appreciation Fanbook Project

Happy 20th Anniversary
•CLAMP•
Appreciation Fanbook Project

Our project is underway with over 290 participants from over 40 countries. It's going to be a great celebration of CLAMP from people all over the world and it's going to be a darn heavy book.

To participate, please read over the initial post carefully and comment there. That post will be left open until April, so that I may keep track of how large the project is getting.

And here's new information:
A. Your editors and volunteer scanners.
B. Deadlines!!!!
C. Graphics and Cover contest preliminary info
D. Availability of the final product

Link to the details

[News]CLAMP-NET

CLAMP-NET's mid-January update

Kobato. ~ [Newtype - monthly drops]
Fall 2009: anime starts
~no new breaks~

Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- ~ [Shonen Magazine - weekly chapitres]
February 25: Fiction Junction's Everlasting Songs album with OAD ending.
March 17: Volume 26 (also available with limited edition OAD)
May 15: Volume 27 (also available with limited edition OAD)
~no new breaks, color pages 1/28k ~

xxxHOLiC ~ [Young Magazine - weekly chapters]
February 17: Volume 14 (also available with limited edition OAD)
June 23: Volume 15 (also available with limited edition OAD)
~break 2/2~

ETC.
February 6: Da Vinci 3 with a 20th Anniversary article & interview
February 10: Newtype 3 with a 20th Anniversary article and character ranking article.
February: 6th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
May: 7th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
June 23/Oct 20(?): CLAMP in America
August 15: Mangettes: Gate 7 released

Mouryou no Hako
January 21: DVD Volume 2
February 25: DVD Volume 3
March 25: DVD Volume 4
April 22: DVD Volume 5, Blu-ray box

*updates

[Music] FictionJunction's Everlasting Songs

Here is the tracklist to FictionJunction's Everlasting Songs album
(credits: Amazon.jp).

1. 星屑/Hoshikuzu (new song)
2. 記憶の森/Kioku no Mori (Tsubasa Shunraiki)
3. dream scape (Tsubasa Chronicle)
4. 銀の橋/Gin no Hashi (Aquarian Age)
5. 風の街へ/Kaze no machi he (Tsubasa Chronicle)
6. here we stand in the morning dew (Chrno Crusade)
7. synchronicity (Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations)
8. 花守の丘/hanamori no oka (Hokuto no ken)
9. 水の証/Mizu no Akashi (Gundam Seed)
10. cazador del amor (El Cazador)
11. 秘密/Himitsu (NOIR)
12. 宝石/Houseki (Petit Cossette)
13. ユメノツバサ/yume no tsubasa (Tsubasa Chronicle)
14. みちゆき/Michiyuki (Loveless)
15. everlasting song ～japanese edition (Elemental Gelade)

It looks like a great album for Tsubasa fans and anime fans. The release date is February 25th. (Feel free to let me know if I got the titles wrong.)

[News] xxxHolic Shunmuki event promo

Famitsu, Presepe and Mycom all have articles about the upcoming xxxHolic Shunmuki OAD screening at Cinema Ikspiari. Within the article, Oohara Sayaka, FukuJun and Kikuchi Mika (Yuuko, Watanuki & Mokona) have short after-dubbing comments. There are also some screencaps labeled 'cut scenes'...hmmm.

[Updates] xxxHolic Shunmuki screening and Mangettes for preorder

The xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD website has updated with information on the xxxHolic Shunmuki screening taking place on January 25th. The guests will be the director, Mizushima Tsutomu, Yuuko's seiyuu, Sayaka Ohara, and Mokona's seiyuu, Kikuchi Mika.

Amazon.com and Amazon.jp have CLAMP's Mangettes: Gate 7 (Dark Horse version) up for preorder, and ya, the release date is still August 15th. The isbn's are 1595822844 and 978-1595822840 for future reference.

[Music] Maaya Sakamoto's Kazeyomi Special

Maaya Sakamoto had a Kazeyomi Special radio show for her new album. You can listen to the hour-long program at Nico. There are full samples of many of her new songs. This album will be out this coming Wednesday, Jan. 14th.

For those wanting to hear the Tsubasa Shunraiki OAD opening, SONIC BOOM, plays around 19:34 minutes into the program. The first song she plays is the album version of Kazamachi Jet which I find sounds better than the Tsubasa version. The whole radio show is quite worth listening to.

[Interview]Da Vinci magazine

CLAMP will be featured in Da Vinci magazine with an article & interview about their 20th anniversary. It will be on stands Feb 6th. (details at chibiyuuto's)

[Update] xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD

The xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD website has updated with a change in release dates for xxxHolic Volume 15 and TRC Volume 27 both of which would be on sale with Part two of the OADs. Both have been pushed back a month.

TRC Volume 27 (also available with OAD) - on sale May 15
xxxHolic Volume 15 (also available with OAD) - on sale June 23

On a positive note,

The second xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD radio show is up at Onsen.ag. Today's guest is Kurogane.

[Raw] & [Translation] Shiritsu Gakuen Horitsuba one-shot

January's Dragon Magazine (an occasional off-shoot of Shonen Magazine) contains a short one-shot of Horitsuba.

Scans at MH
Translations by starlady38

[Project] Anniversary/Appreciation Fanbook

Happy 20th Anniversary •CLAMP• Appreciation Fanbook Project
In honor of CLAMP's upcoming 20th Anniversay, there was certainly enough enthusiasm about a fanbook to roll with the idea.

CHECK the community project labels for the most up-to-date news about our fanbook project, BUT comment here to be added to our list.

UPDATE: This has been rewritten to be a little less wordy. 1/17/09

A. Content:
1. What - Letters, fanart, fanfics, doodles, cosplay photos, anything printable. Two works per person will be the max. The two works must fit on a 10x8inch (25x20 centimeters) landscape page. You can certainly send only 1 item.

2. How - Digital files, scanned images (300 dpi max), if you do not have a scanner, we will have a community scanner that will accept your original work to scan and then the original work will be mailed back to you. Hand-written letters or fics on nice stationary can also be accepted as a scanned image.

3. Language - Your own language is perfectly okay. The organization will be in English, but everyone will get a little blurb on their page with their name/nickname/country. I think CLAMP will enjoy the variety & global scale and who knows? maybe they know someone who can translate your language...or maybe they know a little themselves. Besides, they probably see Japanese fanwork all the time.

4. No-no's - Anything with extremely questionable content will be put aside (Boy-love, girl-love is okay, but you know where to draw the line, right?). Something made or written by someone other than yourself will be booted. No colored manga pictures and no half-arsed pencil drawing done in math class on notebook paper. Sorry, your epic 50 chapter Cardcaptor Sakura fanfic will probably not be accepted.


B. Organization of the book: Chapters will be divided by country.

C. How it will be made:
We will use an online book publisher. I have had great results with blurb.com (professional-looking, awesome colors, just a tad bit more expensive than the competitors), but I am open to any other companies. Just let me give me a web address and I will check them out. (I am in the US, so please recommend US-based companies)

D. Where will it go?
There have been a couple really great suggestions on how to get ahold of CLAMP's publishers' addresses. We will definitely send an explanatory letter with our book. If you know of a way to get ahold of their address and have not already contacted me, please msg me. (I will keep all addresses private if need be)

E. No talent in writing or drawing?
As the deadline comes near, I will also be accepting donations towards the professional binding costs and certified + insured mailing costs. An estimate of costs will be calculated in the future, but please save a couple dollars in May for us.

A page of credits will be added to the book to include everyone who contributes anything.

F. The deadline?
May/June - please do not procrastinate.

G. Random notes:
-I saw that in another fanbook project, fans made plushies and scarves. I am NOT considering these items until we get confirmation of an address.
-What's going on the cover? Contest will be announced
-I had some people msg me about this project. If you were one, please disable your msging privacy option, so I can msg you back or leave another message here.

H. What I need now? Just a solid confirmation of numbers. Comment to be added to our list.

So please comment HERE with:
1. What you'd like to do - fanart, letter, photo, etc?

2. Where you are from and What language you will be writing in.

3. Any suggestions/questions?

Do not comment at livejournal, too. This is for those who cannot see livejournal in their countries. If you wish to contact me, email me at seichan80 at yahoo dawt com.

I. Feel free to spread the word about this project. It would be wonderful to have solid chapters for each country, so please get your friends involved. So please take another moment for the part H questions, and start thinking about how you'd like to express your love of CLAMP to CLAMP themselves. I'll do my best to make sure the book turns out beautifully and that it gets sent to the right hands.

Introduction

Welcome, this will be an almost mirror site to the CLAMP NOW livejournal community. This blog will feature the same news and release information as the lj com. Unlike the lj com, this site will have reviews of the releases, but no d/l links will be made available here.

CLAMP is a Japanese mangaka group whose 20th anniversary will be celebrated in 2009. The lj community will be participating in a fanbook project. You can join in the project at this link. You can find a reliable list of their works at wiki or ann. Their current and active manga works include Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, xxxHOLiC, and Kobato.

Here's a list of CLAMP's upcoming events and releases taken from their hompage, CLAMP-NET. CLAMP-NET updates their homepage the 1st and 16th of every month barring no holidays or weekends.

Kobato. ~ [Newtype - monthly drops]
Fall 2009: anime starts

Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- ~ [Shonen Magazine - weekly chapitres]
January 14: Maaya Sakamoto's Kazeyomi album with Tsubasa OAD opening.
March 17: Volume 26 (also available with limited edition OAD)
April 17: Volume 27 (also available with limited edition OAD)
February 25: FictionJunction's Everlasting Songs album with Tsubasa OAD ending.

xxxHOLiC ~ [Young Magazine - weekly chapters]
January 25: First screening of xxxHolic Shunmuki
February 17: Volume 14 (also available with limited edition OAD)
May 15: Volume 15 (also available with limited edition OAD)

ETC.
January 7: Special Dragon Magazine Horitsuba comic (5 pages)
February: 6th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
May: 7th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
June 23: CLAMP in America (possibly delayed to Oct. 20th)
August 15: Mangettes: Gate 7 released

A list of these events plus the manga chapter release schedule will be included in the Google calendar gadget on the sidebar. The calendar is public for everyone's viewing.

If you are a member of the lj community, don't worry; you won't be missing anything if you are not watching this blog. This is a blog created for better viewing in RSS feeds, and created because if anyone is going to cut and paste posts, it might as well be me. ^_^

Thanks for viewing.
-seichan80/nokiirat@lj