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Well, the subject of this post almost says it all: there is a 'CCS Limited Shop' which, as its name says, will be open for a limited time: from today, September 16th until October 4th at the Tokyo Shinjuku Marui Annex.

There will be CCS goods sold there, including pre-release and new products.
There is also an Exhibition Corner, showing off cell images and character panel of the anime "Card Captor Sakura".

In addition, the Lolita clothing brand "BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT" in sales in the 7th floor in the over-the-counter, will be responsible for the exhibition of the collaboration dress (I believe it's the Sakura pink Lolita dress that was revealed recently, which is a replica of the ilustration of the 2016 artbook cover).

There will  be a lottery: the customers who spend more than 2160jpy will be able to participate, the prizes are:
A賞　ミニスタンディ　　（全５種）　※１点お選びいただけます。  - mini Stan di (all five) ※ 1 point you can choose.
B賞　ブロマイドセット　（３種１組）  - bromide set (three one set)
C賞　ポストカード  - Post Card

And finally, there will also be a Magic Photo shoot corner for the fans to take pictures: (from the looks of it, they put accessories on the side *wand, Kero*, that's a nice touch ^_^)

【開催期間】
2016年9月16日(金)～10月4日(火)

【開催場所】
新宿マルイアネックス 7F イベントスペース ONE Labo

【営業時間】
11:00～21:00　日曜祝日は11:00～20:30

※19・22日の祝日はマルコとマルオの7日間の為、21：00までの営業とさせていただきます。
※ 最終日は19:00までの営業とさせていただきます。
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[Holding period]
September 16th, 2016 (Friday) to October 4th (Tuesday)

【Venue】
Shinjuku Marui Annex 7F event space ONE Labo

【business hours】
11:00 to 21:00 Sundays and public holidays 11:00 to 20:30

※ 19 · 22 days of public holiday because of Marco and Maruo of 7 days 21: 00 will be operating with is up to.
※ last day it will be considered as open until 19:00.

[Source: https://www.0101.co.jp/005/store-info/fair.html?article_id=1463]

The Nakayoshi 08 was barely released today, but we are already looking forward the next one being released on August 2d ^^;

The 09 issue will include a Kero Spray Pen. It comes also with 4 pens: you put a color pen inside the spray pen, and then you only need to press Kero and you will get splashes of colors on paper~



It was also confirmed that the 3rd chapter will also include a color page ^__^
In the 90's manga, every single chapter got a color page! And it looks like it's the same now: having a new CCS illustration by CLAMP every month is such a luxury!

★連載第３話には特別ふろくも登場！
なかよし9月号（8月3日発売)の第3話もカラー付きで掲載予定！ そして
なんとなんと、ふろくにオリジナル開発の『ケロちゃんスプラッシュシステム』がつくぞ！
このスプラッシュシステムって何？？と思った人は、ぜひ８月号をチェックだ！！

Thanks to the new website, we also got info about the next issue of Nakayoshi and more precisely, CCS CC 2nd chapter of course ;)

他にも連載開始20周年の記念企画が目白押し！

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I already made another post with some pages, but here goes a few more preview pictures.
Nonetheless, I will not be posting anymore even if I see more of them: the full chapter will definitely be available online in the next few days, so I think this is more than enough already ^^; (though, in my case, I will be patient and wait until I get my own copy of the magazine next week...well, I'll try not to spoil myself!)

It seems like this page in particular might be some sort of like the opening of this new arc, it says "When all cards are aligned, that's not the ending, that is the beginning of the ending".
I personally take this as CLAMP annoucement that this is truly THE END, and that we won't ever see more CCS beyond this manga in the future, this is the final ending.
Most fans of CLAMP always ask for it: to end their series, but for this one particular case of CCS, I felt my heart drop when I saw this sentence...



“Yeah, I’m also happy.”
“U-Um, thanks for coming back home with me. You’re staying on that mansion again, right? Even though it’s the other way…”
“I just wanted to be with you a little longer.”



Syaoran gives back the teddy bear to Sakura and tells her it might be missing her after being apart from her for long. He suggest to exchange their teddy bears for a while (why...? @_@ don't freak me out from the first chapter, Syaoran!)



I do not know what this wing accessory is (a gift from Syaoran?), but she put it inside the jewellery box together with her Star Key.



[source:chibiyuuto]

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Now, let's talk about something real important : we got the name of the third arc of Card Captor Sakura > After the Clow Cards arc (vol01-06) and the Sakura Cards arc (vol07-12), we are not celebrating the beginning of the Clear Cards arc.
This is only an opinion of mine: but it looks like we might surprisingly get 6 volumes, that is, IF Clamp continue the trend of 6 books per arc, which doesn't feel like such a far fetched idea actually. Especially if this is the "ultimate ending" that will conclude forever their most popular series, which made them known worldwide.



[source:chibiyuuto]

These are 2 pictures released previously: I thought that the cards being blank was only to emphasis Sakura, or because the drawing would be too 'heavy' with so many cards with such an intricate design, but no, it seems like this was about this "Clear Card" arc after all!

Yes!!! Because a new manga is definitely not enough, OF COURSE, we would also get a new anime that goes with it  XD
I am SO SO SO happy about this!! Of course, I don't expect it to be aired until 2017 best case scenario (after all, they need material to rely on to make an anime, and for the time being, chapter 01 hasn't even been released...), nonetheless, it means new episodes, seeing my favorite characters animated again, tons of new anime illustrations in magazines, artbooks, new songs, possible OVA/movies, tons of goods (ugh, wait, that one is scary, damn, more money to spend...)

> Apart from carrying the first chapter of the new Card Captor Sakura serialization, the upcoming issue of Nakayoshi magazine is also announcing that a “new anime project” is in the works!

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And here goes a preview of the splash page of chapter01, scheduled to be released on June 3rd: the illustration is very pretty, but Sakura looks too young in it.