How many volumes will Kobato have?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Recently the producer printing Kobato in Italy declared Kobato will stop at volume 6... has that been confirmed by some official source? Is Kobato going to count only 6 volumes?

PS: if this sort fo question isn't allowed feel free to delete this.

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[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

questions are a-ok here. :)

nope, no official word from clamp has ever been posted. 6 seems reasonable considering where the story is now and the fact that monthly newtype chapters are only 14-15 pages. maybe there will be something in this month's newtype?

[samekh.livejournal.com]

It could just be that the Italian publishers are dropping the book due to sales reasons. That's often the case with yet unfinished series, especially with no word from the Japanese publishers as of yet about the books completion.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

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Oh, okay. Yes, it would make sense for Kobato to end up at volume 6 thought this means it's about to end and it makes me sad... ;_;
Let's hope it will have a good ending at least...

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a possibility, but if that's the case they would have stopped at volume 4 (that had been just printed) instead than wait 2/3 months, print vol 5, wait 2/3 months, print volume 6 and then interrupt everything (that editor doesn't exactly have a fixed schedule about printing Kobato but the wait is of around 2/3 months). Plus, it was worded in a way that seemed to imply the series would end not the printing of the series in Italy.
That was why I wanted to know if there are official comfirmations about this...

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

from past volumes, it seems 1 volume every year at xmas is what is released, so maybe volume 6 will come out at the end of next year. So it's very possible that its run in Newtype could end sometime next year. i haven't looked to see which drop is in which volume, so can't predict about how many drops are left. if they stretch it out to 7? then in 2 years? haha... seems like a long time to drag out what's going on now.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

That's true. While a side of me doesn't want Kobato to end a small corner of me hope they would finally get the time they need to end X as they promised long, long ago... but I know I should do better than get my hopes up. CLAMP, the world might end in 2012, shouldn't you hurry up and end X?

[arekuru.livejournal.com]

Even if it does end at six volumes, remember when xxxHolic "ended" and we got xxxHolic Rou? (Not that I am in any way complaining about that.) Who knows with Clamp these days.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's rather true...

[valiantnight.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't leave us hanging, I'm happy. XD Hell, they could even pull a xxxHOLiC and give us a new series for Kobato! :DD Speaking of new series, wonder if there's gonna be one for TRC? Considering that one episode where the group ended up in Kobato's world... Jeez, make us more confused with how your worlds and manga eventually intercept one another, why don't you, CLAMP?!

I have yet to decide what ending I'd like for Kobato... Personally, I'd love it to bits and pieces if Ioryogi stays with Kobato. <3 MOVE ASIDE, FUJIMOTO. (shoves) XDDD

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

I think there are still a lot of things to say and reveal in Kobato.
Still, the fact we only got 14 pages per month might have killed it off somehow...? It's really difficult to keep up with it, and Clamp are forced to either put too many info in a few pages, or go in a 'normal' pace and make everyone yawn.
It wouldn't be a surprise if there is only 6 volumes though: Clamp's works' rushed endings are well known by all of us by now, and most of their mangas don't have that many volumes, TRC being the exception and xxxholic seems to be following closely in its footsteps but still is 10 volumes behind.
Also, Clamp are notorious to leave us wondering about a thousand things and don't answer all the questions we have, so reasons like "Kobato won't end because we still need to know this and that" are no good ^^;

[alex-of-h.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm an Italian Clamp Fan. Jpop, who publishes Kobato, wrote that the series will end with the sixth tankobon. Jpop also started re-publishing X, and announced that Clamp and Kadokawa reached an accord with Japan for X's end.Clamp are busy at the moment, but they will announce a date soon. Jpop thinks about 2011. Other voices want the date of publishing to be in February, but personally I think it's too early. But THERE WILL BE AN END, FINALLY!
Beg u pardon for my english!

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Hello, fellow Italian fan!
Yes, I know it was J-Pop who declared Kobato will end at volume 6 but as asking if CLAMP confirmed this. J-Pop is making many interesting declarations (like the one about X) but so far I don't hear CLAMP backing them up with words and, more important, FACTS (they had declared countless times they will end X but so far I still have to see it finished)
(also X reprint hasn't started yet in Italy... but I take this as a good sign. I hope J-Pop is waiting for CLAMP to restart X so they will be sure they'll manage to reprint it all without interruptions)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

It'll be cute if there will be a Kobato 2!
Oh, I would love if they were to give a decent continuation to TRC, possibly one that would explain something about the vampires and hunters but I'm not getting my hopes up.
LOL Well, considering Ioryogi loves the angel inside Kobato I would be really sorry if he had to leave her... but if same souls are foreordained to fall in love for the same person does that mean Ioryogi and Fujimoto are the same soul and therefore kind of the same person?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Exactly. TRC was brutally ended leaving a lot of things unexplained so I wouldn't be surprised if they were to do the same for Kobato... ;_;
Though I hope Kobato will have a much better ending than TRC...

[titangrain.livejournal.com]

J-Pop X vol.1 was on sale at their stand in Lucca (Lucca Comics and Games) last weekend so the reprint has started. I think they know many fans wouldn't buy the new edition if it's still not complete as the previous ones 'cause CLAMP haven't written the end yet, that's why they made that announcement. I was waiting to know something from CLAMP themeselves too, reading about it here in the community, 'cause J-pop can say what they want, but I'll wait to buy CLAMP works only when they're really really ended! TRC was such a delusion... >.

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

I've asked this question on another post (sorry), but on the subject of Kobato, does anyone know where I can find scans or translations?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Sory, I didn't see your post or I wouldn't have asked the same question... -_-
starlady38 usually makes wonderful translations for Kobato.

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

You don't need to apologise, I didn't do a proper post, just randomly asked it.

And yeah, I have tried Starlady, and she does do great translations, but she doesn't seem to be translating it anymore. Thanks anyway :)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Since I didn't see any info about it on the J-Pop web I had assumed it hadn't started yet. But it makes sense they had started it at Lucca although really, I would have preferred if they had started it after CLAMP had officially declared 'on day X we'll resume the serialization of X...' or something like that...

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay.
Are you sure? Because she has the translation of the last chap of Kobato (the one printed in september) and, if I'm not wrong the next one should be out this month (I seem to remember Kobato taking a break in October...)

[hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't know - apologies to Starlady. I didn't know that Kobato had taken a break. Thanks for telling me.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[valiantnight.livejournal.com]

:DD

Indeed. Wish they'd explain further or something. XD Give us a prequel, I don't care! Just tell us what the hell was going on!

Hm... Well, I dunno. I mean looking at Kohaku (the angel, if I remember her name right), she has said that it didn't matter if the soul she loved didn't love her in his reincarnations as long they could be together, meaning there *is* a possibility that you won't be/fall in love with your 'soulmate', like how Fujimoto was - still is, in the manga - in love with Sayaka-sensei. :\

And then there's this weird thing about the people in different worlds with the same souls having the general same physical appearances anyway. Considering how different Ioryogi is from Fujimoto, I wouldn't really theorise things like that. In fact, I refuse to believe such a theory!! XD Ioryogi is Ioryogi! Fujimoto is Fujimoto! I don't want them to be the same people!!

...then *again* (god, I'm tiring myself out with all this rationalising), if the angel and Kobato share the same souls and the angel likes Ioryogi... while Kobato likes Fujimoto, there is a possibility to your theory after all. UNLESS, like I said earlier, that the whole soulmate thing isn't a 100% thing, which is more likely because as humans, you can fall in love with more than one person, you just love them differently. I'm sure CLAMP knows that too lol.

I'm getting a headache from all of this... XD;

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Same here!

Oh, I think Fujimoto's love for Sayaka will end up being like Shuiichiro's love for Hotaru. In fact Fujimoto is starting to think much more often at Kobato although undoubtely Sayaka is important to him but, after all, Sayaka (along with her father) had been for a long time his only family and she's in need of help. It's normal he cares deeply about her.

If I don't remember wrong we didn't exactly see the real apparence of Ioryogi... and in TRC there were characters that had the same appearene of others but with a character slightly different (after all Ioryogi's experiences are different from Fujimoto, what about him being a royalty while Fujimoto is an orphan?).

Though I don't know if my theory is right even if although CLAMP should know in real life you can fall in love with more than one person they seem to stick on their red thread theory. There are more people you can love but if you get to meet your soulmate everything else will become second best.

Well, CLAMP's manga has the bad habit of causing headaches when you try to make sense of them.