[Update] Mangettes: Gate 7

Just noticed that CLAMP's upcoming new manga, Mangettes: Gate 7 moved on my Amazon list. At Amazon.uk and Amazon.jp the date has moved to August 15, 2010.

(The preorder page has disappeared from Amazon US and CA). Amazon has been correct about previous date changes, but let's hope for a closer date.

[News] Sales Ranking

After the first week of sales...
Tohan
1. xxxHolic 14
2. Mahou Sensei Negima 25
3. Skip Beat 21
4. Inuyasha 56
5. Ace of Diamond 14

Taiyosha
1. Mahou Sensei Negima 25
2. xxxHolic 14
3. Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple 32
4. Skip Beat 21
5. Ace of Diamond 14

And Tsubasa Shunraiki has been dubbed, and there's a page up for the seiyuu comments.

[Cover] Shonen Magazine Special

Here's the cover of the Magazine Special with the double-sided Tsubasa poster (the Syaoran x Syaoran splash); the Getbacker's duo is on the other side of the poster...haha.

ETA: Check out this post for a hq scan of the poster.

[Music] Fictionjunction's Everlasting Songs preview

There is a preview of FictionJunction's new album, Everlasting Songs, at fictionjunction.be, a fansite. The second track is Kioku no Mori (jvcmusic link) which will be the ending theme to Tsubasa Shunraiki. This album comes out next week, Wednesday the 25th.

[Web radio] xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD

xxxHOLiC & Tsubasa no Haru made Matenai! #05 is up at Onsen.ag. Syaoran is today's guest and the topic is Valentine's Day.

And here's the cover to xxxHolic Volume 14 with OAD.

[Review] xxxHOLiC Shunmuki OAD 1

xxxHOLiC 春夢記/Shunmuki is the original animation DVD that is coupled with xxxHolic Volume 14 of the manga. The first part came out today. The second will come out June 23 with Volume 15.

There's no real point to watching this anime unless you've either watched the anime or read the manga; hence, the manga + dvd package. This episode picks off where xxxHolic◆Kei somewhat left, and randomly skips around the manga stories from Volume 12 to Volume 14.

After Kohane had reconciled her problems, she delves into Watanuki's via his boyfriend, Doumeki.

The couple out and about.

The anime director and CLAMP wanted to show the crossover between xxxHolic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle via 5 second insert. This is to build up the intrigue so that people will buy the Tsubasa OAD/manga combos..I mean, build the excitement for both manga climaxes that should be around the corner and across the ocean.

The totally random, but the excellently creepy crow story was thrown in.

Overall impression ~ The animation quality was better than both television series, and didn't look as weird as the movie. The only flaw as usual, is that Yuuko's kimonos never look as lovely as they do in the manga or in other anime shows. The writing wasn't too bad. It was refreshing to see them try to tie a few parts of the manga together. I liked the opening, Suga Shikao's sofa, and the ending, Azu's Cherish, but the visuals didn't stand out. Well, Himawari's sillouette was lovely. As someone critical of the recent CLAMP animes, this was a short, simple manga-to-anime interpretation. For the next OAD I hope they either go deep into the Sakura-Syaoran connection that they skipped, or that the writers cover some of the other short one-shots that they skipped...like the story with the bucket-haircut boy.

And is everyone happy Amewarashi's hair is properly blue?

[News] CLAMP-NET

CLAMP-NET's mid-February 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)
~break 2/18~

xxxHOLiC ~ [Young Magazine - weekly chapters]
May: Maru & Moro figure on sale
June 23: Volume 15 (also available with limited edition OAD)
~break 3/2~

ETC.
February 20: Magazine Special 3 with Tsubasa poster
February 27: 6th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
July 1: new CLAMP-NET/CLAMP@MOBiLE layout
May: 7th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
August 15: Mangettes: Gate 7 released
Oct 20: CLAMP in America

Code Geass
March 25: Sound Variety R18 - no CLAMP goods, but this is a character album with Tamaki and Jeremiah and the rest of the cast.
April 24: R2 DVD/Blu-ray LE Volume 9 will come with a CLAMP-illustrated storage box

[Cover] IN ★ POCKET '09-2

In case you happen to be on the lookout for IN ★ POCKET 2 with Tanaka Yoshiki(author of Soryuden) x CLAMP article, here's the cover. Nanase Ohkawa and her catTsubaki Nekoi (whoops, darn online translator..haha) were in attendance. They talk about their love of mystery stories, and CLAMP will have an illustration included. This issue is out tomorrow the 13th.

ETA: The article preview is up at Kodansha.


And one last reminder that about the community's graphic designer competition. Please submit your entries by 5pm EST on Feb 15th. Late entries may not be accepted.

[Cover] xxxHolic Volume 14 +

Here is the cover to xxxHolic Volume 14. (Amazon.jp for larger image).

And NYCC 09 confirmations-- Deb at about.com has a little more info on Del Rey's NYCC news. The upcoming releases are the xxxHolic guidebook, Tsubasa Album de Reproductions (ann was wrong about the other trc guidebook) and CLAMP in America. All scheduled to release this fall.


ETA: lj user, tricianna, pointed out that the Tsubasa Character Guide 2 is on Del Rey's website to be released June 23rd.

[Trailers] xxxHolic Shunmuki and Tsubasa Shunraiki

The official website has updated with trailers for both OAD's.

Check the lj community for d/ls.

[Scans] 20th Anniversary articles from NT 3 +

A couple scans of Newtype 3's CLAMP article can be found at moe.imouto by Aurelia.

chibiyuuto has some photos of Da Vinci 3's article at his lj, and browse the comments for summaries of the article.

And a quick fanbook reminder that the deadline for potential graphic designers is this coming weekend. I've gotten a few entries already, so many thanks to those people who've sent their sample work in. (click on the link to find out how to enter)

[News]NYCC 09

News from NYCC 09 brings us Del Rey's licensing of the xxxHOLiC guidebook and Tsubasa artbook Tsubasa character guide 2 (via animevice and ann).

Dates to be added...

[Preview] Dark Horse's Clover Omnibus

Dark Horse has a 3-page preview of their upcoming Clover Omnibus release. The cover looks just slightly different from what was previously advertised. The Clover Omnibus will be on sale April 22nd.

[Article] Mouryou no Hako DVD event

For the Mouryou no Hako fans -- MyCom has a report and photos of the Mouryou No Hako DVD launch event from Feb 1st. Ryosuke Nakamura (director), Natsuhiko Kyogoku (author), and Hiroaki Hirata (seiyuu playing Akihiko Chuzenji) were the guests.

[Cover] Da Vinci 3

In case you happen to be on the lookout for Da Vinci 3 with CLAMP's 20th Anniversary article, here's the cover. (larger image here and sample page here). This'll be out Friday the 6th.

The Da Vinci website has update with--
the table of contents and
special blurb about the CLAMP article including reader comments and a little typo notice.

[Interview] xxxHolic Shunmuki first screening

Presepe.jp has an official report with photos of the xxxHolic Shunmuki screening from January 25th. It highlights the interview with Mizushima Tsutomu (director), Ohara Sayaka (Yuuko), and Kikuchi Mika (Mokona).

The first xxxHolic OAD is out the 17th. :)

[Web radio] xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD

xxxHOLiC & Tsubasa no Haru made Matenai! #04 is up at Onsen.ag. Mokona is today's guest.

[Update] xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD website

The xxxHolic-Tsubasa OAD website has updated with some new, larger screenshots from both xxxHolic Shunmuki and Tsubasa Shunraiki. There's also a place for PVs at the links, but no trailers have been uploaded yet.

The production blog also updated saying that the first part of xxxHolic Shunmuki was done and questionnaires were filled out at the first screening.

[Cover] Newtype 3

In case you happen to be on the lookout for Newtype 3 with CLAMP's 20th Anniversary article, here's the cover (darn, overshadowed by Haruhi news).

[News] CLAMP-NET

CLAMP-NET's beginning of February 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)
~break 2/18~

xxxHOLiC ~ [Young Magazine - weekly chapters]
February 17: Volume 14 (also available with limited edition OAD)
May: Maru & Moro figure on sale
June 23: Volume 15 (also available with limited edition OAD)
~break 2/2, 2/9 ~

ETC.
February 6: Da Vinci 3 with a 20th Anniversary article
- Shinoda Mariko (AKB48) as Yuuko photo
- Title and link guide to xxxHolic/Tsubasa
- Lengthy interview with CLAMP
- Intro and ranking of all manga
- 20th Anniversary comments by many people including Goro Taniguchi, Kikuchi Mika and Tanaka Yoshiki, etc.
- Book recommendations by CLAMP
- Promo good info
- Interview with Mizushima Tsutomu(xxxHolic OAD) and Taka Syunsuke (Tsubasa OAD).

February 10: Newtype 3 with a 20th Anniversary article and character ranking article.
February 13: IN ★ POCKET 2 with Tanaka Yoshiki x CLAMP mystery talk
February 20: Magazine Special 3 with Tsubasa poster
February 27: 6th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
Spring: new CLAMP-NET/CLAMP@MOBiLE layout
May: 7th set of CLAMP in CARDLAND cards
June 23/Oct 20(?): CLAMP in America
August 15: Mangettes: Gate 7 released

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

*updates