[Event] Clamp à Japan Expo

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

AOL News France has a short clip of CLAMP at a news conference in regards to their first visit to Paris and the Japan Expo over the weekend.
(quick translation by cutesherry)

I imagine that there were a lot of news organizations interviewing CLAMP. Feel free to mention any other news or interview links that you find. Thx.

Comments

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

My quick translation of the part that surprised me the most:

Ohkawa: "We would like to ask the fans to be patient a bit longer. Of course, we don't want to keep the Ending a secret, they will see really soon. We have almost finished the story, but with everything that happened in the japanese actuality, politics, various facts, like for example the 30 volunteers, our story is related with all of this. We didn't want to shock anyone so we decided to leave it aside a little and we don't know yet when we will be able to finish it."

WTH??!! @___@

[jaina-torsec.livejournal.com]

I suppose they're referring to X.

I was at the press conference they gave, and when asked whether they'd finish X, they said to be patient, that the end was written but that they didn't know when they would be publishing it.

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

I also immediately thought of X when Clamp talked about politics and such; but the thing is that X has been on hiatus for many years now, so no matter what issue it was, it must be quite out dated by now no matter how you look at it ^^;;
And since they talked about something that was ending 'really soon', the 2 mangas on going who were indeed announced to end soon were Holic/TRC, which releases coincidently slowed down dramatically lately...
Then again, I REALLY don't see what would those two have to do with Japan issues or politics at all, so I agree with you about X ^___^

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

No, I'm pretty sure is X. They are being polite with the "really soon" (they are REALLY polite), that's why they say the "please be patient" line.

Those controversies they talk about are all about X.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

so we decided to leave it aside a little and we don't know yet when we will be able to finish it

They are working on Holic and TRC right now.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

With 'They are being polite with the "really soon"' you mean they mean they're saying really soon but actually it might be years far away? ;_;
Or there's still ho I'll see the end of X before the end of the world?

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

I would lie to you if I tell you I know what CLAMP meant. But it sounded to me like aren't the type to tell their fans who got very anxious when X was put on hiatus, "hey, you have to wait at least 3 more years!".

But I don't think they were lying when they said they are planning to finish it.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Let's hope they at least plan to do so. It's 3 years from when they said there were no problem with gohou Drug and they would continue it really soon... considering we still have seen nothing and considering with X there are problems I fear their really soon will mean 6 years...

Thank you a lot for translating and taking time to reply to my question!

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Wait. I didn't translate anything, I wasn't even there. Sorry for giving that impression. That was the OP's friend.

I'm just pretty sure it was X because I have heard them saying the exact same thing about X before.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Ops... sorry, I confused you with the translator... *hides in embarrassment*
That's sadly true...