Mangaka: CLAMP

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Hello everybody!

How are you? As always I wish you are fine.

On Tuesday finally the second partial exams ended, and I was really really happy because that day there were no homework T^T , and I read the whole day and watch DEXTER. I was really, really happy.

         Anyway, today I'm going to introduce you another topic which I'd never mentioned before, well, I'd mentioned it before, but not really deep as I'm going to do in this post…      MANGAKA!!! ^-^

         When you were younger maybe you watched in TV those animes like Cardcaptor Sakura, RG Veda, Chobits; or have heard about Code Geass, xxxHoLic, Tsubasa, Kobato, Clover, X/1999, Clamp School Detectives, Magic Knight Rayearth, Tokyo Babylon, Blood-C, Wish, or The One I Love.

If any of those heard somehow familiar to you, well, those animes and mangas were created or illustrated by CLAMP.  :D

            CLAMP nowadays is a group of four Japanese Mangaka women, they're well known all around the world. Their mangas and animes are available in most of the countries and have reached a very diverse audience as they have published comics in multiple genres and themes (from childish and comedic to much more dramatic and teen-rated). OɜO

         This Mangaka group banded together in the late 1980's, and started with thirteen members, some of them were Okawa Nanase/Ageha(leader), Apapa Mokona, Nekoi Tsubaki, Igarashi Satsuki, O-Kyon, Nanao Sei, Sei Leeza, Hishika Soushi, Akiyama Tamayo, Inoue Yuzuru, Nakamori Kazue, and Oumi Shinya.

         Before they began creating works as CLAMP, some members created Doujinshi series: Captain Tsubasa and Saint Seiya. They stopped publishing those doujinshi in 1987 and started to work in the manga in which they debuted on the market, RG Veda. However, when the manga was accepted by Shinshokan's(a publishing company) Wings magazine, the group had already went down to seven, and the other members left the group in the early 90's(many of their most famous series were released in that decade), leaving the group with just four members:  Nanase(leader), Mokona, Nekoi, and Satsuki. They are the members that continues in the group until today, being them whom we know as CLAMP, whom switch roles for the work and publication each series.*.*

 

            As I've mentioned before CLAMP published comics of several genres and that had caught an also diverse public, but also, CLAMP's manga drawings are distinguished by its diverse visual style that changes according to the audience to which they're intended and are highly detailed (detailed hair, heavily stylized eyes and human figures, elaborate clothing). Another characteristic that they have in the drawings is that they frequently features one-eye characters or characters that lose their sight in one eye and then, something comes later on to supplement the loss in vision, this may be inspired from Okawa poor right-eye vision. In their stories there's the common idea of soul-mates or couples that are tied together by fate, disregard of gender or biological age. In some CLAMP mangas you may see that they just don't treat themes superficially, they do also have some hidden critics or purposes in their stories (a critic to government or to society, etc.), and that had made some of their publications to be censored by government or other organizations.  OwO

            Besides all things that have happened to CLAMP, the group continues to be successful nowadays, and the series they produced in they early years continue being a sensation to the to the audience, also some of their stories had become legends in the anime and manga otaku world. :)

I wish you had liked my post,

I wish you all to have a nice day, GBU,

Good bye, and good luck　:D　ありがとうございました！　

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