[Cover] xxxHolic Volume 17+

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

CLAMP-NET updated with the cover to xxxHolic Volume 17. It will be released April 23rd.

And there will be special chapters coming up, too.
May 19: xxxHolic one-shot in Shonen Magazine
May 20: Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen in Zoukan Magazine SP (the 4th Horitsuba comic)
June 9: xxxHolic resumes in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine with a color cover and chapter pages

For all three magazines, CLAMP will draw 3 different KUO cards.

Comments

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

Ahhh that cover looks gorgeous *A* And gjdklfjdfks more Horitsuba!? I wasn't expecting that at all, awesome!

Thanks for the update o/

[yamhu.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for the info !

[ragingfirefall.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a one-shot? Something else to tide us over till June! I wonder what the story will be.
Thanks for the info!

[sinistersundown.livejournal.com]

So awesome, it's great to have things to look forward to during this long wait. :D

[clstmk.livejournal.com]

Yay for 4th Horitsuba manga!

It's nice that they are entertaining with xxxHOLiC even with the long break they have!

[niveous-magics.livejournal.com]

Holitsuba! Holitsuba!!!! I'm so excited :DDDDDD Absolutely can't wait

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the news!

And so! It seems like Clamp weren't as evil as we originally thought they were....wait, no, they ARE evil....
*pondering*
Uhhm, and so, I personally believe it seems their workaholic characters do not allow them to just take a break doing nothing for months, so we got special chapters here and there, lucky us! :D

[lovelessinma.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, new Horitsuba??? Thank you so much for the info, this just made my day (TWT)

[tess4.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, so pretty :)

[satchithuong.livejournal.com]

Watanuki, you became the true-housewife with these expression, didn't you? =))

[6dragonfly9.livejournal.com]

So we weren't totally abandoned by Clamp for 2 months after all! TwT

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

'workholic' does seem to fit them. fans like to jump on them when they take breaks, but really, they definitely take on more projects than your average mangaka.

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

Tsubasa and xxxHolic and actually the first Clamp series that I actually followed week after week for 6 years non stop...in the creation and release of a manga, there might be pauses, breaks, vacations, even a hiatus for sickness or whatever and such, it's absolutely normal, the mangakas are only humans; but the past 1-2 years, the insane breaks of these 2 series, even if it was for the sake of keeping them synchronized or the like, definitely brought the fans to the edge; personally, at some point I sadly became used to it and didn't care that much anymore aha~ ^^;;
I believe that 'period' of crazy trc/holic breaks that went on for months on and off is what made the fans so sensitive to the concept of 'breaks', especially if you consider that they are used to have their monthly/weekly releases of all the others series they follow normally, since most mangakas can't allow themselves the luxury to 'stop' their series and take the risk of being forgotten, the manga industry is an harsh world =___=
The 7 mangas that comes immediately to my mind which got hiatus were all by famous mangakas and could 'allow' themselves to do it: Nodame Cantabile, DGrayMan, Glass No Kamen, Cantarella, DNAngel, Fushigi Yuugi Genbu and Nana.


That said, while taking so many projects is interesting and most definitely praise worthy of them, having so many unfinished series is a lot less: at this right moment, they have 3 halted series (X for 7 years, Clover for 11 years and Lawful Drug for 4-5 years) and 1 dropped project (Legend of Chun Hyang, I liked that one, such a shame ;___;).