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[koushirouizumi]

{H.O.L.I.C} ~ Ch. 177 ~ Watanuki's D R E A M + The C.L.O.N.E's + "{IT} WILL BE ALL R I G H T"

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[landofanimes]

CLAMP Exhibition (2024)

July 3 - September 23, 2024 in Tokyo

The biggest CLAMP exhibition to date, the event showcases the original artwork from 23 works made by the group of four women, from RG Veda to Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card (technically 22 but they're counting Legal Drug and Drug and Drop separetely).

Over the years CLAMP has published a variety of manga, including those for boys (shounen), girls (shoujo) and young men (seinen), depending on the magazine they were published. Appealing to readers of all ages, genders and countries, their work continues to captivate.

The exhibition will feature a total of 800 original manuscripts (200 in color, 600 black and white), divided in 7 areas: Color, Love, Adventure, Magic, Phrase, plus Imagination and Dream.

C for COLOR. CLAMP colors the world.

Displaying a total of 200 original colored pieces from all 23 works (100 for each half of the exhibition).

This area showcases the variety of artstyles, techniques and tools CLAMP used over the years on their different manga. Includes pieces with colored ink, Copic markers, acrylic gouache, pastels, and digital art.

Even when publishing 2 different works at the same time the group likes to vary their tools: RG Veda (1989-96) was colored with ink and airbrushes, while Tokyo Babylon (1990-93) was colored with screen tones. The artstyle also changed depending on the publisher.

2. L for LOVE. CLAMP draws the forms of love.

The artwork in this area are divided in 8 types of love seen throught CLAMP's manga.

"The love depicted by Clamp is not singular—there is a straightforward love towards a significant other, but it can also be a determination to protect loved ones, a thought character keeps in their hearts, or even the conflict itself." (from tokyoartbeat article)

3. A for ADVENTURE. CLAMP weaves the stories of adventure.

350 manuscripts from 6 action-packed manga series: RG Veda, Tokyo Babylon, X/1999, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.

Includes a synopsis of each work and selected scenes to follow along parts of the story.

4. M for MAGIC. CLAMP casts its magic.

The fantasy, magic, and mysterious powers seen in CLAMP works are seen in the moving manga pannels projected in 3 large screens in this area.

5. P for Phrase. CLAMP spins the phrases.

The first room showcases 40 manuscripts from xxxHolic.

The second room focuses on the power of words spun by CLAMP, exhibiting quotes form their works on the walls. Visitors can also pull one phrase sticker from the Phrase Box from CLAMP and take it home, or stick it to a wall in the room. There are 120 different phrases to pull.

6. IMAGINATION

Timeline of 35 years of creative work, from 1989 to 2024, featuring manga volumes, magazine issues, and more.

An installation in the center of the room also features quotes from a new interview with the four women specially for this event.

This is also the only area which features CLAMP's work in other media, including various collaborations. There is a selection of color illustrations, rough design drafts, and other artworks from Soryuden: Super Dragon Brothers, CODE GEASS, BLOOD-C, HiGH＆LOW g-sword, Cardfight!! Vanguard, GIFT (picture book by Ice skater Yuzuru Hanyu), The Grimm Variations, and HELLO KITTY.

7. DREAM

The last area is solely to exhibit a new illustration featuring Ashura (RG Veda) and Sakura Kinomoto (Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card), representing CLAMP's beginnings and future through their first and latest work.

"Kuro" (Black) and "Shiro" (White) are also the names of the new artbooks titled COLOR, which compile the artworks seen in the exhibition. A deluxe edition will be released at a later date compiling both volumes in one.

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The audio guide during the exhibition is provided by Jun Fukuyama, who has played Kimihiro Watanuki in the anime series xxxHOLiC, Kobayashi Kotaro in ANGELIC LAYER, and Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (CLAMP is responsible for character design in Code Geass) .

The place also features a store with a long list of products.

They also have the first volume of their various manga available to read, and a TV showcases the recently shared announcement video of the new anime project of Magic Knight Rayearth.

CLAMP Exhibition National Art Center in Roppongi, Tokyo First Half: Wednesday, July 3 - Monday, August 12 Second Half: Wednesday, August 14 - Monday, September 23

Sources:

Tokyo Art Beat

Fashion Press

Bijutsutecho (+)

Natalie Mu

Internet Museum

Official Clamp_ex Twitter

[the-corvus-luna]

Another beautiful full moon in the sky, which means it's time for CLAMP's beautiful Line wallpapers!

Here are the ones that were posted, with watermark.

Here's the edited, without watermark.

Tl;Dr: Syaoran is on the left, and Syaoron is on the right.

Long Spoilers Below

This one is the Syaoran twins from Holitsuba. I didn't realize this before, but in the line post, the twins were called '小龍と小狼', which means one would be Xiaolang (Syaoran) or 'little wolf' and the other one would be called Xiaolong (Syaoron) or 'little dragon' in both Chinese and Japanese.

Syaoron = Xiaolong = 小龍: 小= small, little 龍= dragon, especially a Chinese dragon

Syaoran = Xiaolang = 小狼: 小= small, little 狼= wolf

This image from Holitsuba should give us context of who's who.

(Image Source)

"Notes on characters: Sakura and Syaoran obviously like each other, and Syaoron appears to like teasing his younger brother about that. Syaoron also appears to be the more mature twin of the pair, while Syaoran gives off a more innocent air and is more easily startled."

-quote from tsubasa.fandom

The kanji isn't listed on the source website. Without knowing the original kanji used for which character, it's just a 50/50 chance. Mistakes and mistransations can happen to anyone.

I delved into the JP wiki, and this is what I found.

小狼（シャオラン）

B組。海外からの留学生。真面目で素直だが、成績は四月一日以下。サッカー部と掛け持ちで剣道部所属。サクラとは恋仲（第1話）。

Xiaolang (Syaoran)

"Class B. An international student from overseas. Diligent and honest, but academic performance is below average compared to Watanuki. Also a member of both the soccer club and the kendo club. In a romantic relationship with Sakura (Episode 1)."

And, this:

小龍（シャオロン）

C組。小狼の双子の兄で、留学生。小狼とほとんど瓜二つでありながら、性格は多少真面目とは言い難い性格。バスケットボール部と掛け持ちで弓道部所属。第二部にて初登場した。原作における『小狼』に当たる人物。

Xiaolong (Syaoron)

"Class C. Twin brother of Syaoran, also an exchange student. Nearly identical to Syaoran in appearance, but with a slightly less serious personality. A member of both the basketball club and the archery club. First appeared in the second part. Corresponds to the character '小狼' in the original work."

Syaoran is more serious while Syaoron is light-hearted.

Syaoran is on the left, and Syaoron is on the right.

(That means the fandom link was incorrect about Syaoron being serious/Syaoran being innocent)

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

Chapitre 205 - Divine Providence Broken

Splash Text: He knew the truth, that this peace would not last too long…

aka HIM. 

MR PROBLEMS HIMSELF. 

As usual he has more calm and grace than would be expected from someone who has caused so much trouble for literally every single living person - but of course he does, it’s Clow Reed. 

But Clow Reed aside there are some incredibly fun visual choices all over this. Beneath his robes you can see the same kind of traditional clothing that Lava Lamp and his father wore, tying the bloodline together in a way you can actually see. He also has butterfly clasps holding the robe closed, which evoke Yuuko Ichihara but also a bit of Watanuki, who is just as much his descendant as Lava Lamp is (and there are two butterflies, which would match their duality). 

Clow himself gazes peacefully out at scenery that we can’t see, but we CAN see the bare branches of a tree with three birds perched nearby. The birds could easily be argued to be a sign of anyone you really wanted it to be. Is it the remaining Tsubasa family - Fai, Kurogane, and Lava Lamp? Is Lava Lamp on a separate branch because he’s the only one of them who comes from a different timeline?

Is it maybe the three Syaorans, with Watanuki and Lava Lamp on one branch and our Clone Syaoran on another (or the other way around?)? Or is it the Sakuras, with the original ‘Sakura’ frozen in time on her own branch, while the other Sakura and her clone sit on the other?

Are the branches of the tree a sign of diverging paths in time? Of timelines cut off and restarted and choices leading into different directions? Is the number of birds a representation of that original timeline (ie, 1 bird) has now become a new timeline altogether, but resulted in more birds than there were originally due to the disturbance? Or is the fact that we see BOTH scenarios at the same time a sign that the broken universe can still be mended, and the three as a whole will grow again in the future? Or perhaps a sign of how Clamp's future vision worked, seeing multiple paths and timelines at once? 

OR. Are they just pretty birds? The most deceptive option?!

Either way, we’ve had several other covers of the Tsubasa family standing in a dead-looking tree, and here we have Clow Reed calmly watching the same kind of tree - but from a distance.

Because he’s dead now. c:

[lemonidae]

BEST DARK HAIRED CHARACTER TOURNAMENT

Round 1-C

Kurogane Haganemaru (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

Touya Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

VOTE

Kimihiro Watanuki (xxxHolic)

Shizuka Doumeki (xxxHolic)

VOTE

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs)

VOTE

Yuuichirou Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph)

Guren Ichinose (Owari no Seraph)

VOTE

Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Miya Chinen (SK8 The Infinity)

VOTE

Vanitas (Vanitas no Karte)

Seigi Nakata (Housekishou Richard)

VOTE

Cheng Xiaoshi (Link Click)

Yang Jinghua (SpiritPact)

VOTE

Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (Tiger & Bunny)

Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)

VOTE

Eiji Okumura (Banana Fish)

Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!)

VOTE

Makoto Edamura (Great Pretender)

Hidenori Gotou (Samurai Flamenco)

VOTE

Johnny Rayflo (Vassalord)

Sherlock Holmes (Yuukoku no Moriarty)

VOTE

Hiromu Fujiyoshi (Tadaima, Okaeri)

Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

VOTE

[damnhitsuzen]

New chapter

Different Directions - Chapter 10: Loved It's been one shit week. One of the reasons I wrote this fic much faster than planned was that it helped me to make peace with my own grief. Both as a Ukrainian living through a war, and my personal, weird grief, the one you get in advance: my grandma was slowly dying from cancer, fading away and losing parts of herself more and more every day. We cared for her ourselves, so this year I learned a lot more about palliative care that I ever planned to. Yesterday she died in what I hope was a light, freeing death. This chapter was to be published yesterday, but of course, plans changed. Still I have to something with myself today, why not post it? The next one is going to be the hardest one, the one I planned right from the start. What a coincidence, huh

This chapter has a lot of answers, bit still not all of them. I am not too fond of it, but there are some parts I loved. I just had to play with Watanuki's lost memories, because he is a very clever guy and no way he never made the connections about the role of C!Sakura and C!Syaoran in his life. And at first I surprised myself by inserting the CCS!Sakura to the plot, but it makes so much sense! She is another dreamseer, after all, and of course that weird network of Sakuras in dream would drag her into this dream as well.

You will need two last omakes of Horitsuba for this - Get ready to meet the Exchange student and that last one about the costumed play. And the soundtrack to this chapter is Hozier's "Talk", because imagine being loved by Watanuki?

In the end, I want to tell everybody going through loss and grief right now that there's still light to be found around you. It might not change anything or eclipse that hollowness inside. But it can give you a moment of rest, an accidental smile to relax tense jaws, a warmness of someone's genuine interest and concern. Allow yourself this light and this smile and this rest. Love to all my readers and big hugs to everyone commenting, you are the best!

[sakuraswordly]

From what I wrote in Announce7: Link(Special: A little of Eda and Yuko relationship) And this video looks at how similar Hooty and Mokona are.

Edalyn: But Clow was okay to change Hooty's name to "Mokona". That's cute but weird. No wonder why Fei Wang couldn't notice him, he's the protection of the shop too.

Punch: Hooty really is Mokona?!

Edalyn: Oh! I also heard that there was a good drin..

Punch: No spoilers, thank you!

Remember White Mokona and Black Mokona still had similler abilities and secret techniques. After all, Clow Reed had created the two Mokonas with Yuko after encountering the original Mokona: a white Mokona that could travel through worlds. Black Mokona had a blue gem made by Clow Reed and has the ability to seal magical power and also holds Sakura's memories of Syaroan and Watanuki's memory of his past.

Also, According to Dana Terrace, Hooty has an evil twin called "Booty". So in Tsubasa of Phantasia (AU), Booty is White Mokona.

I already introduced that Yuko and Lilith Clawthorne are the same person in Tsubasa of Phantasia. And Yuko had a sister named Edalyn Clawthorne

The relationship between Yuko and Mokona is the same as with Lilith and Hooty. Because Original Black Mokona is also Hooty itself in Tsubasa of Phantasia.

Well we don't know what Hooty was, even Kyle said Mokona was a strange creature. So if you want to know 2 Mokona's 108 secret techniques in Tsubasa of Phantasia, you can check Hooty's secret techniques in the Owl House series more.

[trcquotes]

Watanuki: “This year’s Horitsuba Festival was so much fun. B and C class’ maid café was the best!” Sigh! It sure was! The girls were all so adorable! Sakura: ...💦

[enderwalking]

I've been laughing about how all of this must be incomprehensible to everyone else seeing it because all the analysis is buried in us going a bit feral over a convoluted manga that ended back in 2009 (but also, everyone should go read Tsubasa reservoir chronicles. Clamps ability to set up an emotionally devastating reveal by laying the foundation almost solely in comedy is really cool. By which i mean certain reveals still haunt me ten years after i first read them)

Sometimes I think about an actual trc au fic and I'm like. For legibility to readers who don't know trc (even to those who do tbh) and to avoid an early tip off, it would be best to just nameswap cphil and cwil (resulting in cphil being called. Phil.) But. The idea of calling cphil 'wil' and then very clearly describing cphil, no explanation, in a fic is so fucking funny to me for no good reason

You know what really fucks me up about the whole "Sakuras memories getting sacrificed to save her life" thing is that, kurofai and syaosaku are very much paralleled in this "one person sacrifices to save the others life, fundamentally altering something about the person being saved in the process" (Sakuras memories, fai becoming a vampire) and actually there's also a discussion to be had about how both of these situations cause a level of dependence on the person doing the wishing as well that i hadnt previously considered but i am now oh my god? but mostly I think about how, at the end of it all, fai at least is able to get mad about it. He has the full context of what he's gained and lost, he can be pissed about it and he can make that kuroganes problem (i genuinely cant remember the name of the world after acid tokyo because i just call it the divorce arc)

Sakura? The nature of the sacrifice means she can never properly comprehend what was given up. She isn't even given the ability to be mad about what's been taken from her, because the rules of the sacrifice mean she can't even realize what precisely was taken from her! She gets close to the thought that maybe she knew syaoran before, even vaguely, and her body immediately brainfogs and then emergency reboots. It's such a specific kind of horrifying.

Theres something neat about ctubbo and cranboo both mapping so well onto different elements of Sakura. Ctubbo with the questions of agency and self sacrifice, and cranboo with the question of, how much are you still you, with your memories gone? And the answer seeming to be: still you, but the context with which you view the world changes. And there are times when that matters, and times when it doesn't

Oh no I thought about the beginning, more lighthearted worlds and got blindsided by c!Phil and c!ranboo running a cafe together in oto,, promiseduo my promiseduo,,,,

And u know what, I think it would be fun to get to explore ctechno and ctubbo in a world where they don't have all that hurt built up between them, so I'm now on the ctubbo syaoran (but who the hell is watanuki in this set up)

EVERYONE READ TSUBASA RESERVOIR CHRONICLES NEOOWWWOWWWW and god god you're completely right about the dependency aspect of those relationships and like. yeah. Yeah.

omg cpromise running a lil cafe......cfireworks mentorship arc would actually be so sweet too :(((( but the peerpressures of it all AUGH IT'S TOO HARD TO DECIDE and the problem with watanuki is i was just thinking is that HE IS ALSO VERY CRANBOOCORE this is bc cranboo is the specialest guy ever and everything is about him forever obviously!!! ok but genuinely i feel like i can't even begin to approach watanuki in this context because i can't even really decide where i want to put cranboo, also watanuki opens up the whole xxxholic side of things as well which is an entirely different beast and. yeah. god.

[tomoyoo]

What if…

[themidnightcircusshow]

Broke: everything focusing on the clones being R!Syaoran's parents

Woke: everything that remembers the clones are also WATANUKI'S parents

[koushirouizumi]

{T.R.C x H.O.L.I.C R.E.I} ~ Ch. 31 + The {U N U S U A L} F l o w e r + The {S A K U R A} T R E E "THE P E R S O N Who CALLS ME by my FIRST N A M E IS..."

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[limitless-paper]

[noa-ciharu]

Do you think the moment C!Syaoran stabbed R!Syaoran's thigh is the precise moment where Kimihiro fell from the window?

I never thought about it, but now that you've mentioned it, yes it's definitely possible.

Watanuki sort of out of sudden falls out of the window. Nothing pushed him, nor he consciously tried to kill himself. Later on it's revealed that was because of Himawari's curse of bringing bad luck to those around her. So I always attributed window fall that

Ngl, I don't understand a thing about whole clone thing in trc and xxxholic and how they're connected. I understand Watanuki is somehow a clone of one of Syaoran's and that Syaoran and Sakura are his parents (?) but that's all I know. So I Googled the scene and found these two xxxholic pages:

Which basically confirms what you've said: the moment one Syaoran stabbed another, Watanuki unconsciously threw himself from the window

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

VISIONS: SUCCESS!

Ohoho do I spy a panel of Lava Lamp and his [redacted], Watanuki, standing back to back (as if they were a matching pair) surrounded by a mysterious and unknowable landscape? 

How appropriate!

Let’s say nothing whatsoever about that! c:

Sakura is also having big visions of The Pool, The Tsubasa Room, and what looks like her own wings - so some pretty terrible spoilers for how things are going for her. 

OOH did she see something that happens to Lava Lamp?

I love the double image of Lava Lamp in her eyes, which matches BOTH her vision of Lava Lamp and Watanuki as [redacted], AND the general Double Syaoran Future we’re dealing with in the present. I wonder how much of that she saw? I wonder how many of those details were even physically possible to foresee before the timeline went weird?

And then she went to sleep!

So relatable.

[lilover131]

Do you think the moment C!Syaoran stabbed R!Syaoran's thigh is the same precise moment when Kimihiro fell from the window?

I'm SO glad you asked me this, because I can give you a definitive answer for this! So the answer is no. The moment Watanuki (Kimihiro) fell through the window was not at the same moment R!Syaoran's thigh was stabbed. I looked up the dates for when the chapters were released in serialization too just to make sure. So the chapter where R!Syaoran was stabbed in the thigh occurred in TRC chapter 123, which was released around July 28th, 2006 (maybe not that exact date, but at least in that week), and the chapter where Watanuki fell through the window in XXXHolic was released on the week of August 23rd, 2006 via chapter 116, nearly a full month later. But I like your thinking! Here's the fun part of this answer. I can actually tell you that there is a definitive parallel Tsubasa moment for the time Watanuki fell through the window. It did not happen at the same points in their life or at the same time in the manga's serialization, but R!Syaoran's 'window' moment was actually when he fought Fei Wang Reed in the ruins on Sakura's 7th birthday. The reason I know this is because when both R!Syaoran and Watanuki woke up in Yuuko's place with their injuries, CLAMP drew the pages exactly the same way, and the two had bandages in exactly the same places.

This scene also makes my blood boil because it essentially means that the injuries Fei Wang Reed gave to poor 7 year old R!Syaoran was the equivalent to falling out of a two story window with a pane of glass.

It's also fun to compare how the both of them handled their injuries differently. Like R!Syaoran not listening when told to rest, and Watanuki being a good boy and staying put in that bed until he was all better. I hope this answers your question!