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CLAMP EXHIBITION

New Key Visuals: Color - Love - Adventure - Magic - Phrase

The National Art Center, Tokyo July 3 - September 23, 2024

[nargneppon]

[koushirouizumi]

"God told me that if I had any wishes, that they would grant just one." - Kobato {Kobato}

"...I... I still... haven't granted it. ... Your wish... I promised... ...that I'd grant it... ...I promised..." - Kimihiro Watanuki to Yuuko {xxxHolic}

"I answered that I wanted to live." - Kobato {Kobato}

"I'll do whatever I can because I want to be here." - Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"What is happiness {/to you}?" - {Chobits}; Dark Chii {as Red 'Atashi'} to Chii {Pink 'Atashi'} {Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc}; Lilie Shinomoto to Sakura [IMPORTANT NOTE:] {Sakura relating this to a canon Non-human Character}

"My wish is for you to go on existing. That's ALL I want." - Yuuko to Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"But the one Tsuyuri {Kohane} cares about most is YOU." - Shizuka Doumeki to Kimihiro Watanuki {xxxHolic}

"{Doumeki} didn't want {YOU} to vanish FOREVER." - Yuuko to Watanuki; on Doumeki {xxxHolic}

"To be happy... that's a rather vague goal, don't you think?" "{YES}, but that's what makes it {'INTERESTING'}. All the more interesting... in that most people would consider it {IMPOSSIBLE}." "{Impossible}. How so?..." - Zima to Dita; {Chobits}

(More Observations + A Conclusion of Sorts {mainly for xxxHolic's WATANUKI}- {&Shizuka Doumeki} under the 'Cut'!)

{Note: This commentary was made before originally seeing the very end of+special chapter of 'Clear Card Arc', [also] xxxHolic Rei's 2k25 continuation [which I am r e a d i n g!]- Overall, I still [personally] feel most of the parallels hold up!} (You are free to disagree, but I will not be [ d e b a t i n g ] them on my things.) This compilation is a CELEBRATION of recurring CLAMP themes in their {S T O R I E S}!!

[Note: P o s i t i v e / R e s p e c t f u l C o m m e n t s or T a g s O K!] {*S p a c i n g is to K e e p O u t of certain S e a r c h e s!!}

"Well, you need a {life}... a {soul}. And if you're not alive... If you don't have a {soul}... what then? Then happiness is just a story... in a fairy tale book." - Zima to Dita; {Chobits}

"Even if a {combination}/{of two [or more] people} Looks a bit 'odd' on the outside... They can still be happy on the inside." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, to Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"The greatest happiness for me is to let the person I most like have the most happiness." - Tomoyo; {about Sakura} {Card Captor Sakura}

"One day a man had a dream. He dreamed that he was a butterfly. He fluttered and fluttered, flew and flew. He so loved the feeling of freedom… That he decided that he was a butterfly. But when he woke up, he wasn’t a butterfly. He was a human after all. Then the man thought… “I wonder if I, The Man, dreamed that I was a butterfly… Or if this moment is truly the dream. Maybe the man I am now is a dream that a butterfly is having"" - Haruka Doumeki, who primarily communicates to Watanuki through dreams; relating a story, about dreams {xxxHolic}

"Some things are worth caring about." - Doumeki to Kimihiro {xxxHolic} {Heavily implied to be about Watanuki}

"{Yuuko said} 'at this rate', {Watanuki would} 'disappear'" - Implied by Doumeki {xxxHolic}

"I don't love Chii because 'I wanted' to 'make love' to {Chii}.

'I wanted' to 'make love' to {have sex with} Chii because I LOVE {CHII}." - Hideki Motosuwa, on Chii {Chobits}

"Chii Persocom." "Yeah" "Chii is not human." "Yeah"

"Can't do SOME things. ..." {Implied as: 'Have sex with'}

"YEAH." - Hideki; - Chii to Hideki {Chobits}

"Happiness... That is..." - Someone Just For Me {Chobits} (Storybook)

"Maybe the man I am now is

a dream that a BUTTERFLY is having" - Haruka Doumeki, relating "Chou no Yume" to Watanuki,

"Because if we can all find that special person{/people}, then the world would be a happy place. The love that we all feel may not be the SAME, but it won’t matter if it’s the ‘someone just for you’." - C.L.A.M.P {Chobits}

"Happiness doesn't just come in one shape." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, implied relevant to Ichiro and Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"I wanted to create, with {"Sakura"}, a series with a girl who saw {MINORITIES} as normal. For example, Syaoran and Eriol are foreign exchange students, but to Sakura they’re the same as {people} who transferred in from a local school. Similarly, Sakura believes in all the forms of love {Sakura} sees. Towards the end {of "Sakura"'s 1st series} I had several characters give advice to a worried Sakura, showing that there are many kinds and forms of love. I wondered how the series would be received, since it ran in Nakayoshi, but it was received better than I expected. - Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP) {x}

"Ohkawa: (…) I am glad that the readers are happy that Sakura and Syaoran got together, but that anyone would think it’s {just} because they make a normal {combination}/couple… it’s a little disconcerting. Sakura didn’t chose Syaoran because {Syaoran}'s a boy close to {Sakura} in age. If Syaoran had been a girl, if they had been far apart in age, as long as {Syaoran} was still Syaoran, I think Sakura would have fallen in love with {Syaoran}. It’d sadden me if you thought they’re a good {combination} because they’re 'normal'." - Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP) {x}

"Normal? What’s normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is ‘abnormal’ if it has no negative affect on the world at large?" - Yuuko {xxxHolic}

"I don't see anything wrong with being what everyone calls 'not normal'." - Yuuko to Watanuki {xxxHolic}

-Observations made when rereading mANY CLAMP Lores (To Be Re-Compiled, Someday)

Doumeki, probably:

"I don't love Watanuki because I wanted to 'have sex with' Watanuki."

"I wanted to 'make love' to Watanuki because I love Watanuki"

{AND IF WATANUKI EVER ISN'T FULLY 'HUMAN' ANYMORE?}

{Holic x Drug & Drop Cross-over} (Read panels right-to-left)

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

Need a name for whatever the fuck this guy had going on

Call that a Diabolical Simp.

[sakupanjuhime]

CLAMP: Yes, we love all our works equally: Card Captor Sakura, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic *looks at smudged writing on hand* Tokyo Bachelor, Get 7 and not-Xxxholic.

[vestal-spirit]

Ask Sakura-hime

Reply of princess Sakura for Russian Ask CLAMPverse

Q: All your fellow travelers are guys. Probably, you can not talk with them about everything and they will not understand you in everything. Don't you feel lonely?

[ohhalefire]

Colourized my favourite broken assholes because I am CLAMP garbage ❤  I hate shading clothes so damn much I s2g

Manip credit: [ x ]

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