Clamp no Kiseki. All twelve volumes have been released in Japan, Spain, Germany, and the United States. Volumes[edit] Spanish publisher Norma Editorial sold the magazine holder, chess board, and poster as a separate special edition volume. After all volumes were released, a bundle deal was sold to the public for 49,00 Euros. It included all volumes with their respective chess pieces as well as the special edition items. In 2006, French publisher Pika Edition had a preview sale of 50 Kero-chan and Spinel Sun Storage Boxes that only newsletter subscribers could purchase for 40 Euros. Reception[edit] Lesley Smith from Animefringe praised the work as being every fan's dream.[1] References[edit] External links[edit]
Clamp (manga artists) Clamp (クランプ, Kuranpu?) , is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid-1980s. It consists of leader Nanase Ohkawa (大川 七瀬, Ōkawa Nanase?) , who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for the group's works and adaptations[citation needed], and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona (もこな, Mokona?) , Tsubaki Nekoi (猫井 椿, Nekoi Tsubaki?) , and Satsuki Igarashi (いがらし 寒月, Igarashi Satsuki?). Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.[1] Beginning as an eleven-member dōjinshi circle in the mid-1980s, they began creating original work in 1987. Clamp originally began in the mid-1980s[2] as an eleven-member dōjinshi circle named Clamp Cluster. During the time before their official debut, the group moved to Tokyo and rented a small, two-bedroom apartment.
In 2001, Young Magazine began serializing Clamp's Chobits which completed its run in 2002. While Tsubasa ended in October 2009, xxxHolic ended in early 2011. Clover (manga) Clover is primarily about a young girl called Sue (スウ, Sū?) , whose name was stated to be derived from the Chinese word for four (sì) since she is a "4-leaf Clover". In the futuristic world that she inhabits, the military conducted a search for gifted children nicknamed "Clovers", who seemingly have the magical ability to manipulate technology. Demonstrations of their powers include teleportation and summoning weapons from thin air. Classified according to how powerful they are, the children were then tattooed with a symbol of the Clover Project, with the number of leaves on the Clover indicating their power.
To date, Sue is the only "4-leaf Clover" discovered. Along with other "Clovers", Sue was imprisoned to prevent her contact with other humans, as the government feared that she might develop feelings and be used as a weapon to jeopardize the country's national security. The manga was conceived as a four-part story. Suki: A Like Story. Plot[edit] Suki follows the story of Hinata Asahi, also known as Hina, a childlike teenager who loves teddy bears. She lives alone in her house and early in the story, her new homeroom teacher moves into the empty house next door. Shiro Asou, her new teacher, becomes her first crush and he seems to take an interest in her as well. However, this simple love story grows complicated as Shiro's interest in Hina is put into question as more sinister elements are placed in the story, all while forcing Hinata to grow up at the same time.
Characters[edit] Hinata Asahi (旭ひなた, Asahi Hinata?) Although her full name is Hinata, she likes people to call her Hina. Her father is the chairman of the school and he also owns many businesses. Shiro Asou (麻生史郎, Asō Shirō?) Seemingly cold and unfeeling, thirty-two year-old Shiro moves into the unoccupied house next door to Hina's, and is also her new substitute teacher. Touko Shinohara (篠原燈子, Shinohara Tōko?) Emi Kishitani (岸谷笑, Kishitani Emi?) Hina's house. Wish (manga) While walking home from work one day, a doctor named Shuichiro notices an angel, Kohaku, stuck on a tree while being attacked by a crow. He rescues Kohaku and, in return, Kohaku offers to grant him a wish. However, Shuichiro does not WANT one. His life is OK, his work is going well, he has no money problems and he believes in fulfilling his own dreams! What can an angel do? Kohaku decides that the best thing to do is hang around and help him till he does think of a wish she can grant.
During her stay, the angel Hisui, and two demons, Koryuu and Kokuyo, also begin living in the house, along with the Koryuu's servants Ruri and Hari. Kokuyo is the son of Satan and is in love with Hisui, who is one of the four Angel Masters controlling the four elements: earth, wind, fire, and water; with wind being her element. Eventually Kohaku is forced back to heaven against her will by God, because she has the important task of hatching the eggs from the Tree of Life by singing to them. The One I Love (manga) In 2003, Tokyopop licensed The One I Love for an English-language translation in North America, and published it in October 2004. The manga has also been translated into other languages. Reviewers have identified a few themes in the collection. They had a range of reactions to The One I Love: some considered it heartfelt entertainment, while others reviewed it less positively, as a badly done take on romance.
Each story of The One I Love consists of seven pages of manga and an accompanying essay.[1] "Different" (ちがう, Chigau?) : A girl asks to meet her boyfriend in the park after they have had a fight. The members of Clamp made an appearance at Anime Expo 2006; from left to right, Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, Mokona. Some of the stories in The One I Love contain autobiographical elements. General Specific The One I Love at Clamp's official website via Internet Archive (Japanese)
Magic Knight Rayearth. Plot[edit] Magic Knight Rayearth begins with the protagonists' field trip to the Tokyo Tower (pictured). Magic Knight Rayearth focuses on three eighth-grade girls: tomboyish and headstrong Hikaru Shidou (獅堂 光, Shidō Hikaru?) ; the quick-tempered only child Umi Ryuuzaki (龍咲 海, Ryūzaki Umi?) ; and intelligent Fuu Hououji (鳳凰寺 風, Hōōji Fū?). Guided by the creature Mokona on their quest, the girls discover their respective element-based magic and awaken the three Rune-Gods (魔神, Mashin?) The second part of the series deals with the complications caused by Princess Emeraude's death. As the Magic Knights help defend the castle, they each agree that the fate of the planet should not be the responsibility of only one person which, like Princess Emeraude, effectively prevents that person from ever being able to live and love freely.
Differences in the anime adaptation[edit] Development[edit] Rayearth intentionally traces out an RPG world, but I don't consider it an RPG world, myself. Media[edit] Miyuki-chan in Wonderland. Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales. The volume contains three tragic stories framed by the legend of Shirahime (“white princess”), a sad goddess whose tears are said to be the snow. Shirahime might have been inspired by the Japanese legend of the “snow woman”, Yuki Onna[citation needed].
Shirahime-Syo was released by Kobunsha in 1992, and re-released by Kadokawa Shoten in 2001. Plot summaries[edit] Prologue: A man wandering in a blizzard finds a woman in white, and advises her to seek shelter. The woman says she's waiting for something. He tells her the legend of Shirahime's tears, and that the goddess must be crying now. Garō no Yama (牙狼の山, Wolf Mountain? Fubuki, a young girl, sets out to seek revenge from the mysterious black wolf who killed her father.
Kōri no Hana (氷の花, Flower of Ice? A man leaves his lover, Kaya, waiting by an ice-cold lake. Hiyoku no Tori (比翼の鳥, Wings Side-by-side? A soldier loses his way on a snowy mountainside while returning home to his fiancée. Releases[edit] External links[edit] X (manga) In 1999, a teenager named Kamui Shirō returns to Tokyo after a six-year absence. He comes to protect those dearest to him, Kotori and Fūma Monou, and fulfill his mother's dying wish of changing fate.[2][3] The end of the world is fast approaching as superhuman individuals gather and take sides in Tokyo, the battle site of Armageddon.
Following Kamui's arrival the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth, the two factions in the final battle for humanity's future, vie for the young man's allegiance, convinced his power will assure their victory.[4][5] The Dragons of Heaven are the first to contact Kamui. The Dragons of Heaven are guided by Hinoto, dreamgazer for the Legislature of Japan. They are the protectors of the kekkai (結界?) , spiritual barriers (in the form of buildings such as the Tokyo Tower) that hold the fabric of nature together.
As Kamui is forced to choose between the two sides, he concludes he only wants to protect Kotori and Fūma, and becomes a Dragon of Heaven. Clamp School Detectives. An early work of the all-female manga artist group Clamp, the series outlines the adventures of the Elementary School Student Board in their attempt to better the lives of the female population of Clamp School. Tokyopop have released the manga in English across North America in three volumes. The anime series has been translated and dubbed into English by the anime television network, Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia. It is distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment, which first released it in 1998 through now out-of-print subtitled VHS videotapes, and in 2008 re-released DVDs of the series with a new English dub by Coastal Studios.[2][3] Plot[edit] The Clamp School Detectives is a series of episodic cases.
Characters[edit] Main characters[edit] Nokoru Imonoyama (妹之山 残, Imonoyama Nokoru?) A 6th grade student and the Elementary School Board Chairman. Suoh Takamura (鷹村 蘇芳, Takamura Suō?) Media[edit] Tokyo Babylon. Plot[edit] The plot is told in a series of substories, published monthly or as 2-3 per volume. While it begins with a monster of the week approach, with somewhat independent running chapters, the plot gradually becomes continuous and backstory is introduced. It focuses on the development of the characters and the relationships between them. Sixteen-year-old Subaru Sumeragi, the main character, is a very powerful magician, the thirteenth head of the foremost family of onmyōji in Japan, which has served the Emperor for centuries.
As such, he is called upon to solve various occult mysteries, or stumbles himself on people whom his kind nature compels him to help. There are early hints that Seishirō may not be all that he appears. Things come to a head when Seishirō loses an eye protecting Subaru, and Subaru realizes that he is in love with Seishirō. Characters[edit] Seishirō Sakurazuka, Subaru Sumeragi, and Hokuto Sumeragi Subaru Sumeragi (皇昴流, Sumeragi Subaru?)
Production[edit] Themes[edit] Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders. The story features two teenagers on Clamp Campus, Kentarou Higashikunimaru and Takeshi Shukaido, who are called upon occasion to become monster-battling superheroes while wearing armored outfits in this comic parody of typical superhero action based manga for boys. They are ordered about by Eri Chusonji, their team leader and informant who has a violent tendency to strike the heads of her subordinates with a mallet. Additional humor results from the story's primary villain falling madly in love with Eri. Like Clamp School Detectives, Man of Many Faces and X/1999, the story takes places on the pentagram shaped Clamp campus, founded by the Imonoyama family.
Kentarou, Takeshi, and Eri all appear in a chapter of Tsubasa, another manga by Clamp. They also have cameos in a few episodes of Clamp Campus Detectives and appear in the Clamp in Wonderland anime video Story[edit] Duklyon is the name of a bakery at the elite Clamp School. External links[edit] Man of Many Faces. The storyline of Man of Many Faces occurs simultaneously with both CLAMP School Detectives and Duklyon. As demonstrated by a conversation between Nokoru and Suō which also takes place in CLAMP School Detectives, while in Duklyon Akira and Utako appear at their age as they do in Man of Many Faces. The manga was published in English by TOKYOPOP, retaining its right to left format, but is now out of print. Plot summary[edit] By day nine-year-old Akira Ijuyin is a normal student at Clamp School, but at night he becomes the mysterious thief 20 Masks. His thefts are usually subject to the whims of his two stepmothers, which Akira pulls off without any true objections or interactions.
One night Akira ducks into the room of five year old Utako Ōkawa in an attempt to hide from the police. Characters[edit] Akira Ijyuin[edit] Ijūin Akira (伊集院 玲?) Gender: MaleAge: 9Birthday: December 24 He is an elementary-school boy with a double life. He is also said to be the top student in his grade. Utako Okawa[edit] RG Veda. The RG Veda manga has been translated and released in many different languages.
Tokyopop has released English versions in the United States. Plot[edit] Three hundred years ago, the god of thunder, Taishakuten, rebelled against the Heavenly Emperor, killing both him and the guardian god Ashura-ō. With the help of Ashura-ō's wife Shashi, he usurped the throne and began his cruel reign as the new Emperor. However, a prophecy was made by the stargazer Kuyō, first to Ashura-ō and then to Yasha-ō: "Six stars will fall to this plane. The dark stars that will defy the Heavens.
Following this prophecy, the Guardian Warrior of the northland, Yasha-ō, awakens the genderless child of Ashura-ō, Ashura, who has slept the last three hundred years under a magical seal. Seeking to bring Taishakuten's reign to an end, the Six Stars finally enter Zenmi-jō, Taishakuten's palace. The true Ashura proceeds to complete his awakening by killing the remaining Six Stars (some of them were killed earlier).