Clamp no Kiseki, Vol. 1

CLAMPノキセキ [Clamp no Kiseki] #1

by Clamp

The US version of Volume 1 will include: box with 3 chess pieces, magazine and FREE chess board. (In Japan, the chess board is available with a collector's box for the magazines (that we're not offering) and 2 bonus chess pieces (that we're also not offering)...but we will just have the chess board free in Vol. 1)

Genres: Manga, Comics Manga, Art

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Ōkawa Nanase 大川七瀬
[born: 2 May 1967; Ōsaka, bloodtype: A]

Mokona Apapa もこなあぱぱ
[born: 16 Jun 1968, Kyōto; bloodtype: A]

Nekoi Mick 猫井みっく
[born: 21 Jan 1969, Kyōto; bloodtype: O]

Igarashi Satsuki 五十嵐さつき
[born: 8 Feb 1969, Kyōto; bloodtype: A]


CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member dōjinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. Other former members of CLAMP also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shinya Ōmi. Currently, there are four members in the group.

In 2004, CLAMP's 15th anniversary as a mangaka group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA, a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of CLAMP simply wanted to try out new names. In a later interview with Ohkawa, it was revealed that initially Mokona wanted to drop her surname because it sounded too immature for her liking, while Nekoi disliked people commenting that her name was the same as Mick Jagger's. Ohkawa and Igarashi, wanting to go with the flow of Nekoi's and Mokona's name changes, changed their names as well.

In 2006, they made their first USA public debut at Anime Expo in Anaheim, California. They were well received at the convention, with 6,000 fans in attendance at their panel.

Reviews

[Bibliothecat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review for complete series

No matter how much I like CLAMP, CLAMP no Kiseki is, unfortunately, the type of companion book I have very little use for. I'll pick up an artbook by CLAMP any day, but this is a series of 12 fanbooks; each dealing with one or more CLAMP works. They're mostly filled with interviews and how certain aspects of the story came to be. Mind you, it's generally interesting but it just doesn't seem very necessary. Some people might love this kind of thing, but I would never have bothered with these if it hadn't been for the chess figures that came with it.

One of the more interesting aspects was seeing a few pictures of CLAMP's workspace. There are also short comics added in the volumes and a couple of illustrations. The illustrations can pretty much all be found in the equivalent artbooks, but once again, it is nice to see some of xxxHolic's illustrations as that particular artbook is hard to get.

I'm sure this set is great for those who love to know a lot about the making-of and the artists behind the works they read. It's can definitely be interesting but fanbooks simply have never been my thing.

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of CLAMP as a group (2004), they in conjecture with Tokyopop for the North American release decided to issue a twelve volume series that covered CLAMP's magna and anime works up to that point along with a collectible chess board with three pieces given in each volume.

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is happening this weekend (11–12 May) and I thought that I would review CLAMP no Kiseki – a set that I got years ago for the chess pieces, but never read. So, I thought that I would review it as the festival is happening.

CLAMP no Kiseki, Vol. 1 covers the first nine tankōbon of Cardcaptor Sakura, character profiles, official art, interviews with CLAMP about their most popular series, and an exclusive short comic with a special contribution from Yoshiki Tanaka.

Included in this volume is a free foldable chessboard and three chess pieces: White Queen Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura), White Pawn Mokona Modoki (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle), and Black Pawn Mokona Modoki (xxxHolic).

All in all, CLAMP no Kiseki, Vol. 1 is a beautiful book of art, lore, and history that celebrates the work of the manga artist group CLAMP.

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd already read the interview in a magazine and the art is a bit on the light side, but the interview with an author they worked with at the beginning of their career is interesting and the two little comics are funny.
This is mostly something you read because you got it with the chess pieces, aka, the reason for buying this set in the first place.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Estado: todos los tomos/capítulos leidos.