#clampverse

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION

Key visuals showcase different works and the 5 themes of the 2024 exhibition:

C for COLOR. CLAMP colors the world.

L for LOVE. CLAMP draws the forms of love.

A for ADVENTURE. CLAMP weaves the stories of adventure.

M for MAGIC. CLAMP casts its magic.

P for Phrase. CLAMP spins the phrases.

2nd set: [x]

#clamp #clamp exhibition #cardcaptor sakura #magic knight rayearth #xxxholic #rg veda #x 1999 #ccs #mkr #yuuko ichihara #sakura kinomoto #hikaru kidou #kamui shirou #ashura #yuuko #clampverse #clamp these are great and all but where is the color #where is the color in the color poster. ladies please #also I wanted TRC syaoran in 'adventure' #but I understand they gotta represent rg veda somewhere

[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)

#clampverse #trc x holic #holic: refs #young kimihiro #yuuko and kimihiro #watanuki vs fei wong #trc: refs #trc: quotes #trc spoilers #holic spoilers #koushirouizumi holic #(No rb for now But) #(I'll likely be saving this elsewhere shortly haha) #(tHIS WAS ALSO ME *YEARS AGO* WHEN FIRST READING IT) #(NOPE MY OPINION *HAS NOT CHANGED*) #(Yuuko stands there STEADFAST AT FULL HEIGHT IN FULL OUTFIT GEAR COVERING Watanukis ears UNFLINCHING) #(YUUKO KNOWS WATANUKI SHOULD NOT LISTEN) #(THE SERIES ITSELF KNOWS WATANUKI SHOULD NOT LISTEN) #(And Yet This {Wider} Fan Base) #(OK but also Yuuko covering Watanukis ears Mega Relatable in general for various Other {mAYBE RELATED TO WATANUKI} Reasons) #(Also because SO MUCH ELSE was going on in that scene and Watanuki was just {mAYBE} 'HEARING' EVERYTHING)

[apollolewis]

I love how men in Clamp's art style have the thinnest waistline known to man. Those men look like they always wear corsets. They have the waistline of a woman in a victorian pamphlet.

#clamp manga #clamp art #clamp anime #clampverse #cardcaptor sakura #drug and drop #legal drug manga

[aph-japan]

#repeat insp #amvs insp #a city with no people #clampverse #aphjapan no rb #(Need this as ref again for A Thing) #what is happiness to you? #if that person cant like me for who i am then that person isnt for me #(..Next thing you know theyll be saying TouxYuki isnt canon AgainTM too--)

[prontaentrega]

that one strating reading comics/starting reading manga meme always bothered me because clearly you dont know any comics outside of mainline dc/marvel but most importantly you don't know about the clampverse

#←burdened by extensive clampverse knowledge #chizitxt

[tsubasaclones]

They're besties btw. If you even care.

#their friendship is the most important thing in the entire clampverse. btw.

[noa-ciharu]

"Can't you see I'm in middle of homoerotic courtship battle with Kamui right now? Do I look like I wanna leave? No. Now don't distract me I need to watch out for those kitty claws"

#i joke how Sakura is only character in clampverse with a gun but i forgot Fuuma has a gun too #he gave her a gun later on i think #also is this fighting or flirting? #tsubasa chronicle #fuuma monou #fuukam

[ghost-bard]

The equivalent of Hetalia for shonen girlies is Sengoku Basara you will not change my mind i watched both

#manga #anime #sengoku basara #hetalia #o no ghost is back into their middle school/early highschool interests #aka clampverse and sengoku basara #i feel better about watching sb more than hetali cuz. hetalias fandom is a bit weird about history #whereas sengoku basara is obviously not historically accurate lmao #idk its just yknow

[qwartzy-rereads-x]

i think this is how everyone visualizes kamui when they think of him

#clamp #x/1999 #qwartzy rereads x #shirou kamui #monou kotori #monou fuuma #volume 4 #prettiest boy in the clampverse

[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

#i cant wait to deep dive into all the clamp properties i havent yet i just get the feeling nothing will hit the same #i would suspect kurofai because its been linked to my otp at birth by clamp government but im gonna be real #i do not like kurogane very much from the hundred or so chapters i read but in like a funny way #fai is so annoying and he hides layers i know some spoilers abt bcs its inevitable but #i genuinely love a bitch whose entire grift is to be gay and annoying i relate and it lights up a room #girls who are irritating <3 #hes also the treasured gay husband of choice of a treasured oomf i could never hate him thats my oomf in law #i will get back to tsuba eventually but i wasnt enjoying it much without more engagement with CCS/clampverse #like i feel like id rather make my way through the back catalog and come back #my brain is all over the place so ill never get to be non chaotic and random about how and when i read little chapters of stuff but #from a brain wants to pick it apart and experience it front id say rgveda and tokyo babylon r probably gonna b priorities #the aesthetics r so different and im MOSTLY spoiler free and they are so interesting #also when i paused my tsuba reading i was spoiiiiled with ashura visuals we love a bad bitch with pronouns #i wish clamp leaned into their nb yaoi flavour more theres something so juicy abt that #sometimes i forget watanuki isnt actually a nb yaoi figurehead in canon because he is in my brain and noones told me im wrong 🫶

[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.

#mine #touya kinomoto #kinomoto touya #ccs #tsukishiro yukito #cardcaptor sakura #clamp #touyuki #yukito tsukishiro #sakura kinomoto

[skellietoonz]

who in the CLAMPverse has a breeding kink

#skellie.txt #i've been sad and bawling my eyes out for the last few hours distract me

[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 to Yuuko {Holic}

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

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

"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 {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 {Holic}

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

"{Doumeki} didn't want {YOU} to vanish forever." - Yuuko to Kimihiro; on Doumeki {Holic}

"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?" "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 {Holic}

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

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

"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"

"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 {C.C.S}, 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 C.C.S'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 (C.L.A.M.P) {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 (C.L.A.M.P) {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 {Holic}

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

-Observations made when rereading many C.LA.M.P 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)

#clampverse #holic refs #douwata analysis #douxwata #shizuka x kimihiro #kimihiro refs #ccs refs #a spec kimihiro #ace kimihiro #a spec doumeki #queer doumeki #ace and queer doumeki #ace and queer kimihiro #(bANGS FISTS DOWN) #(ILL RECOMPILE ALL THIS WHEN I CAN PROPERLY REFIND ALL THE SCENES IN H.Q. TO G I F MYSELF B U T) #(HI YES HELLO THE EXACT KIMIHIRO x KOBATO PARALLEL I FOUND WHILE DIGGING THROUGH ENDLESS 'SOMEONE JUST FOR ME' LORES) #in which kimihiro actually does want to LIVE and doumeki is realizing it DOESNT MATTER if kimihiro lives as 'HUMAN' or NOT #(TheSame MightGo ForCertain C.C.SCharas c OGHS Im Coming Back To Them Later Tho) #(ok I am using tags very limitedly for my blog though if you accidentally find this through Search I APOLOGIZE that its not rbable yet) #(Maybe I'll have a set finished in time for C.L.A.M.P Day Sobs) #(Im also trying to use less commonly used tags yEAH Anyway) #(SAVES ALL THESE FOR REFERRING TO AND FUTURE SCREAMING ABOUT HOLIC + C.L.A.M.P LORE) #rei spoilers

[birdmenmanga]

sorry guys my brain is going so fast in this waffle house (my futon) tonite. anyways when I was younger I was always vaguely affronted by the anime adaptation of many of CLAMP's works changing things because why do that to someone's story?? but now that I'm older and I've actually spent time noticing what they actually changed I have to say that at least for ccs and angelic layer. most of these changes were actually for the better imo. they made these changes to make the story more coherent, often at the cost of CLAMPverse Easter eggs

like for example in angelic layer they made misaki's mom have a degenerative muscle disorder that slowly stripped her off her ability to walk. when Misaki was younger, she left to the big city to receive treatment, feeling like she had failed as a single mother by being disabled. she felt too ashamed of her rapidly worsening legs and didn't want to return home until she could walk again. months turned to years and now she's been gone for all of her daughter's formative years. and now you're going to finally run into her? in a thing so frivolous as a game tournament of all things ??? God that just sets up so much great conflict you know.

and the fact that the fighting dolls are prototype prosthetics that they commercialized in order to fund more research. it's literally such a coherent story. they needed her to stay as a treat subject for this study.

in the angelic layer manga that aspect of the story completely didn't exist and she was just being like. a deadbeat mom (surely there's like some kind of justification but like. it pales in comparison to what the anime did)

another thing was the romance between her mom and ichiro-- this also didn't occur in angelic layer because ichiro's married to Hideki's landlord in Chobits. you do not find this out until chobits comes out years later. but in the anime you have this guy who accidentally fell in love with the test subject for his research study and then moves mountains and parts seas to continue that research knowing a functioning prosthetic can bring her back together with her daughter. (additionally I like that the story ends without those prosthetics being made-- of course Misaki will still love her mother even if she's wheelchair bound. she doesn't need her mother to be able, she just wants her in her life) like this is neat but it also feels like CLAMP shot themselves in the foot because they were too committed to creating a multiverse whose continuity was absolute

#just thinking thoughts... #i have too many thoughts about ccs's changes that i think it deserves its own separate post #but yeah. i dunno. clamp was very conflict adverse in angelic layer #and while i think the love triangle between kotaro and [other girl] was completely unnecessary #i do really really enjoy the depth they added to her mom and ichiro #angelic layer

[haro-hawayu]

CCS: Clear Card Ch. 80

FINAL CHAPTER! I actually read this the day it came out, but didn't get to finish this post and it was sitting in my drafts for a few days TuT. This chapter can be found on CLAMP-net’s YouTube Channel. As always, please check out @meimi-haneoka's post on the latest chapter for EN-JPN translation differences!!

Links for previous chapter reactions can be found here.

Reading Reactions:

And for our final chapter, our wonderful protagonist/heroine, Sakura

Whoaaa, so did Sakura split the books in order to better hide them?

Fujitaka-papa so kind.

I also can't help but made me think of Yuuko's shop...

Eriol and Sakura keeping us readers up to speed on what's happened XD

WHERE IS MOMO???

Awww Flight is still there!!

UM, THE KEYS?? MORE TRC REFERENCES???

Touya is the same as ever haha~always teasing, but always so kind

Lol, love that we can see Kero-chan and Touya being in the same scene even when things are back to "daily life" things

SYAORAN

SYAOSAKU ARE SO CUTE GAHHH

I really love how Yukito's bonding with Nakuru and Spinel~

AKIHO TuT

I'm sad that she's transferring, but at the same time, am happy that she's happy.

WHAAA STOPPED TIME!! STOPPED TIME?!!

I wonder if one of the major factors of Eriol deciding to help them stemmed from Clow & Yuuko stuff... oof, not the TRC/Holic feels again

Yes, KEEP TALKING KAITO! So many overdued words!!

asdfjsldjfj REAL NAME REVELATION!

I'm SO HAPPY THAT THEY'RE TALKING!!! TUT

Annnnd they're still keeping a space for her (i.e. Eriol buying the house so Akiho's stuff remains, Akiho's room remaining as is in the Kinomoto home), even tho she's leaving, she has a place with the people she's leaving behind, a place to return to

Awww it's cute that the boys are talking ahahah--they can actually be friends!! They even exchanged numbers!!

asdfjslajlk AKIHO HAS A REAL NAME TOO

It makes so much sense too!! TuT

THE END (????)

~~

Wow, just wow.

I'm sad that we didn't get to see Momo returning... I'm hoping that the special chapter that's coming out next year will address this... is it too much to ask???

For the most part, I am satisfied with this ending. There are some hinted tie-ins with TRC (the tattoo, the wand), prob a bit more than I expected, so I wonder if TRC will uhhh get a little jumpstart, or if we can see what's been going on over at the other side of things... Clear Card arc's end leaves things very hopeful. Even though the way they talked about how Kaito's time being "stopped" makes me think about Yuuko, there seems to be so much more hope that Akiho & Kaito will be able to find a solution to this, whereas with Yuuko, there seemed to be so much regret and problems as a result.

Speaking of Akiho & Kaito (I'll still call them as such LOL, their true names can be just for the ones they shared with... like how TRC SyaoSaku will always be SyaoSaku to me even after their name revelation), I'm glad they were able to have that talk in the end. With Kaito apologizing for his actions, and knowing WHAT he did wrong. As sad as I feel about the two of them leaving their friends, the fact that they will be together makes me feel very happy. I found it so cute at the end where Akiho shares her true name with Sakura and not Kaito yet bc she's still a bit upset with him XD oh Akiho~

This is so surreal because back then, it felt like such a far-fetched dream for there to be a CCS sequel. I still remember when TRC was FIRST announced ~2003 (wow 20 yrs ago), I thought it was a sequel since it's featuring Syaoran and Sakura. And when it was addressed that it's not the SAME two, I was hoping we will at least find out what happens after end of CCS bc of CLAMPverse (what I called CLAMP's version of multiverse). Seeing an ACTUAL CCS sequel just made me so so happy (although a part of me feared: but at what cost??!!--I think this was slight TRC/Holic trauma speaking). There definitely were some dark moments, especially involving Akiho, but I'm glad it had a good end. The anime adaptation was great as well, so I really look forward to the continuation.

CCS was the first anime series that I watched (USA dub) that got me into anime; in fact, it's still my favorite anime series of all time! But I was a very immature fan back then and it's kinda embarassing to admit LOL. I used to really dislike Meiling back then and wondered why they had to create her at all when I found out she was anime-only character (I saw her as a threat to SyaoSaku relationship). I also did not like the idea of Eriol x Kaho because I liked Eriol x Tomoyo more (ET still has a very special place in my heart... being one of my earliest uhh... fanon ships)... it was also to the point that I kinda disliked Kaho, until I rewatched CCS series in it's entirety. I love both Meiling and Kaho A LOT now btw. But gosh, I was such a silly child then... cuz I literally was XD I guess my point is that I'm glad that as an older fan, I am still able to follow Sakura's journey and the "essence" of the series/characters has not changed even after all this time.

Until next time~

#cardcaptor sakura #clear card hen #clear card arc #ccs #manga #clamp

[neokonewman]

I don’t go here, buuuut

Fellow CLAMP fans. Who let Clow Reed out of the CLAMPverse?

#genshin impact #clamp #cardcaptor sakura #clow reed #pantalone #sir your multiverse privileges have long since been revoked #you are still in timeout for timey rhymey shenanigans #neo muses #neo memes