#CLAMPverse

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION

New Key Visuals: Color - Love - Adventure - Magic - Phrase

The National Art Center, Tokyo July 3 - September 23, 2024

[koushirouizumi]

"God told me that if I had any wishes, that they would grant just one." - Kobato {Kobato}

"...I... I still... haven't granted it. ... Your wish... I promised... ...that I'd grant it... ...I promised..." - Kimihiro Watanuki to Yuuko {xxxHolic}

"I answered that I wanted to live." - Kobato {Kobato}

"I'll do whatever I can because I want to be here." - Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"What is happiness {/to you}?" - {Chobits}; Dark Chii {as Red 'Atashi'} to Chii {Pink 'Atashi'} {Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc}; Lilie Shinomoto to Sakura [IMPORTANT NOTE:] {Sakura relating this to a canon Non-human Character}

"My wish is for you to go on existing. That's ALL I want." - Yuuko to Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"But the one Tsuyuri {Kohane} cares about most is YOU." - Shizuka Doumeki to Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"{Doumeki} didn't want {YOU} to vanish FOREVER." - Yuuko to Watanuki; on Doumeki {xxxHolic}

"To be happy... that's a rather vague goal, don't you think?" "{YES}, but that's what makes it {'INTERESTING'}. All the more interesting... in that most people would consider it {IMPOSSIBLE}." "{Impossible}. How so?..." - Zima to Dita; {Chobits}

(More Observations + A Conclusion of Sorts {mainly for xxxHolic's WATANUKI}- {&Shizuka Doumeki} under the 'Cut'!)

{Note: This commentary was made before originally seeing the very end of+special chapter of 'Clear Card Arc', [also] xxxHolic Rei's 2k25 continuation [which I am r e a d i n g!]- Overall, I still [personally] feel most of the parallels hold up!} (You are free to disagree, but I will not be [ d e b a t i n g ] them on my things.) This compilation is a CELEBRATION of recurring CLAMP themes in their {S T O R I E S}!!

[Note: P o s i t i v e / R e s p e c t f u l C o m m e n t s or T a g s O K!] {*S p a c i n g is to K e e p O u t of certain S e a r c h e s!!}

"Well, you need a {life}... a {soul}. And if you're not alive... If you don't have a {soul}... what then? Then happiness is just a story... in a fairy tale book." - Zima to Dita; {Chobits}

"Even if a {combination}/{of two [or more] people} Looks a bit 'odd' on the outside... They can still be happy on the inside." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, to Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"The greatest happiness for me is to let the person I most like have the most happiness." - Tomoyo; {about Sakura} {Card Captor Sakura}

"One day a man had a dream. He dreamed that he was a butterfly. He fluttered and fluttered, flew and flew. He so loved the feeling of freedom… That he decided that he was a butterfly. But when he woke up, he wasn’t a butterfly. He was a human after all. Then the man thought… “I wonder if I, The Man, dreamed that I was a butterfly… Or if this moment is truly the dream. Maybe the man I am now is a dream that a butterfly is having"" - Haruka Doumeki, who primarily communicates to Watanuki through dreams; relating a story, about dreams {xxxHolic}

"Some things are worth caring about." - Doumeki to Kimihiro {xxxHolic} {Heavily implied to be about Watanuki}

"{Yuuko said} 'at this rate', {Watanuki would} 'disappear'" - Implied by Doumeki {xxxHolic}

"I don't love Chii because 'I wanted' to 'make love' to {Chii}.

'I wanted' to 'make love' to {have sex with} Chii because I LOVE {CHII}." - Hideki Motosuwa, on Chii {Chobits}

"Chii Persocom." "Yeah" "Chii is not human." "Yeah"

"Can't do SOME things. ..." {Implied as: 'Have sex with'}

"YEAH." - Hideki; - Chii to Hideki {Chobits}

"Happiness... That is..." - Someone Just For Me {Chobits} (Storybook)

"Maybe the man I am now is

a dream that a BUTTERFLY is having" - Haruka Doumeki, relating "Chou no Yume" to Watanuki,

"Because if we can all find that special person{/people}, then the world would be a happy place. The love that we all feel may not be the SAME, but it won’t matter if it’s the ‘someone just for you’." - C.L.A.M.P {Chobits}

"Happiness doesn't just come in one shape." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, implied relevant to Ichiro and Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"I wanted to create, with {"Sakura"}, a series with a girl who saw {MINORITIES} as normal. For example, Syaoran and Eriol are foreign exchange students, but to Sakura they’re the same as {people} who transferred in from a local school. Similarly, Sakura believes in all the forms of love {Sakura} sees. Towards the end {of "Sakura"'s 1st series} I had several characters give advice to a worried Sakura, showing that there are many kinds and forms of love. I wondered how the series would be received, since it ran in Nakayoshi, but it was received better than I expected. - Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP) {x}

"Ohkawa: (…) I am glad that the readers are happy that Sakura and Syaoran got together, but that anyone would think it’s {just} because they make a normal {combination}/couple… it’s a little disconcerting. Sakura didn’t chose Syaoran because {Syaoran}'s a boy close to {Sakura} in age. If Syaoran had been a girl, if they had been far apart in age, as long as {Syaoran} was still Syaoran, I think Sakura would have fallen in love with {Syaoran}. It’d sadden me if you thought they’re a good {combination} because they’re 'normal'." - Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP) {x}

"Normal? What’s normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is ‘abnormal’ if it has no negative affect on the world at large?" - Yuuko {xxxHolic}

"I don't see anything wrong with being what everyone calls 'not normal'." - Yuuko to Watanuki {xxxHolic}

-Observations made when rereading mANY CLAMP Lores (To Be Re-Compiled, Someday)

Doumeki, probably:

"I don't love Watanuki because I wanted to 'have sex with' Watanuki."

"I wanted to 'make love' to Watanuki because I love Watanuki"

{AND IF WATANUKI EVER ISN'T FULLY 'HUMAN' ANYMORE?}

{Holic x Drug & Drop Cross-over} (Read panels right-to-left)

[floorpancakes]

i love clamp in a complex beautiful way but sometimes i see certain ships and its like that meme of the guy getting light blasted in his face being knocked back cause these girlies like their shit messy douwata are like that meme that's like oh thank god im the only normal one here but like actually

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION (2024)

Key Visuals: Color. Love. Adventure. Magic. Phrase.

Kamui Shirou (X/1999)

Nokoru Imonoyama (Clamp School Detectives)

Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Chii (Chobits)

Ashura (RG Veda)

Syaoran (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayearth)

Kohaku (Wish)

Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Subaru Sumeragi (Tokyo Babylon)

[koushirouizumi]

Fei Wong, to a "young" Watanuki: You are a being that cannot exist!!! YUUKO, COVERING Watanukis ears: Do Not Listen. m E, BANGING FISTS DOWN: (MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY)

[violetlunette]

So, CCS has popped into my feed, and it reminded me of something;

The future Clow saw concerning Sakura’s love life changed because of Touya.

It was foreseen that Yuki and Sakura would fall in love, but instead, Yuki fell for Touya, which allowed Sakura to fall for her true love instead.

Keep in mind, Clow was the strongest magician in the ENTIRE CLAMP-verse, so it’s unlikely he saw wrong.

Yuki and Sakura were supposed to be together, it was destined. And yet, that destiny changed because of Touya. Yukito’s love was so strong that it not only changed his fate but Sakura’s and Li’s, as well. On top of that, it affected all the other versions of themselves in every universe as the pairing remained the same in everyone.

Fate isn’t something easily tampered with in the Clampverse, but Yukito changed it without even a fight, all because of Touya.

[vanikey]

(in no particular order!!)

[prontaentrega]

burdened with CLAMPverse lore

[skellietoonz]

it's kinda telling that xxxHolic has been adapted as a standalone piece of live action media three times without any connection to Tsubasa or the wider CLAMPverse whatsoever and still works each time

[pirepoumon]

duklyon burger.................................... one must imagine takeshi and kentaro basically doing clampverse goodburger back there with erii appearing to berate them every time. right. and also there are aliens and such

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

Need a name for whatever the fuck this guy had going on

Call that a Diabolical Simp.

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION (2024)

Merchadise: Mini acrylic stands, ultimate badge collection

In the long, long list of merch unveiled for the event so far, some feature new chibi illustrations! The acrylic stands and badges give us the best look of them. Featuring:

Ashura (RG Veda)

Subaru Sumeragi (Tokyo Babylon)

Kamui Shiro (X/1999)

Nokoru Imonoyama (Clamp School Detectives)

Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayerth)

Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Suu (Clover)

Misaki Suzuhara (Angelic Layer)

Chii (Chobits)

Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Syaoran (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

Kobato Hanato (Kobato)

[koushirouizumi]

Me: ... ... ... Me, slowly opening C.C.S C.C 80: ... Sakura: They're in my house... SAKURA: {IN MY FATHER'S LIBRARY} in The Basement m E, IMMEDIATELY SHRIEKING WHILE TOTALLY NOT FEELING LIKE THEY'D {MAYBE} EVENTUALLY MAKE THE CALLBACK: *TAKES DEEP BREATH* m E: ( AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA----- )

[sakupanjuhime]

CLAMP: Yes, we love all our works equally: Card Captor Sakura, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic *looks at smudged writing on hand* Tokyo Bachelor, Get 7 and not-Xxxholic.