So I have the shiny newtype in my hands. It's like a new born baby, totally useless but utterly cute.

So what's inside ?
- The usual : Their iconic manga and their characters (Tokyo Babylon got more page than RG veda *weird*)

- The nice touch : a retrospective of many articles about clamp series (the lego feature didn't make the list T_T)

- The big surprise : Remember Yuukoi.e. clamp is a fan of Cat's eyes ? They did an illustration for a city hunter article... sweet !

- The practical : nice pictures without taglines because we are all layout whores.

- The next in line : ad for Clamp newtype PASTEL tagline : How to hit your fan in their weakpoint to make massive damage

- The you're going to cry because you are not in japan right now merchandise page : special mention for Emily avoid page 132 !

- The X fans are gonna love it while I will wait a translation to eventually find it funny page : A Comic in clamp no kiseki style where Kamui is under fuma's sword and suddenly disappear. He realize he's now inside Yuuko's shop. And as usually it ends up in mayhem and chaos with Watanuki being annoyed with the mess. By the way Kamui in that little comic had been kobato-ed. HA !

- The booklet : no color illustrations ! Well to be honest just like your average tank. The format is indeed really cool because Mokona's drawings are very detailed and you couldn't appreciate all of it with the quality of Asuka pages.
To be honest I felt a pinch in my heart when I open it because first think I saw was the double black pages. I don't even know why.

( the pictures )

I went to the bookshop this morning to do some inquiring about the Clamp NEWTYPE. Of course I ended up not booking the magazine and buying other stuff.

French version of FMA tank 8
Fabien Vautrin I love you ! (And before Fabrice start calling doctors, I'm not crazy I was only kidding) Well I don't love your stiffer than stiffy the stiffed stick translation but the fact that your Edition House did one of the Flame Alchemist 0 in a nice little booklet.
FMA is probably selling itself like hot cake right now. Can't wait to buy the artbook (again)

Volume 8 good memories :
- Al seeing the truth
- Barry in love with Hawkeye (and provoking Roy's fire)
- May imagining Prince Charming Edward Elric
- Al losing his big brother statut to his baby brother
- Black Ayate and Den omake.

NEW TYPE October : REI and KAWORU cover -don't read if you didn't see evangelion ep 24-
How many version of Evangelion will we have to watch ? A serie of 4 new movies is on production (wiki and gainax)Well if it means Kaworu bring it on.
While I would love to see more of him, the only problem I have with Kaworu, is that you get to feel how awesome he could have been with zero information (canon facts are compressed into 15 mins of one episode). It's really frustrating.

I didn't have the time to feel sad about his death the first time around. Everything happened too fast in episode 24 and now each time I'm watching that particular episode it's painful to see him in Shinji's hand during what seems the longest still scene in an animated show (one full minute I believe) and not wanting him to die.
And each time I have a glimpse of Kaworu (who seems to be in every group illustration) It feels like he's the most wasted character ever written on TV.

ANIMATION NOTE
A while ago Alex mentioned an interview about xxxHOLIC in Animation Note in his Clamp news June Edition.

Well I picked it up by chance (the cover was an old Gankutsuou illustration while clamp is mentionned in a small font) and was glad I did it. Last time I felt so happy about a magazine was probably when they released their first pretty pictures in Frau Magazine.

The magazine is fairly new (n°2) and doesn't really play in the Animemedia/ Newtype field. the inside of the magazine features interviews and doesn't overkill your eyes with flashy ads. It's not oriented toward fanbase (no drool worthy illustrations) and has a making-of/behind the scene feeling ♥ ♥ ♥

Gankutsuou scans
How many layers and patterns you can find in one picture of gankutsuou. There's also one page of storyboard

Clamp scans
There's Ohkawa and xxxholic's director interview. The rest is very clamp centric. You can see a timeline of what have been animated from their work. More picture of their studio and the last page is a big picture of the fantastic four (I will say it again : Igarashi san, please marry me!)