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!)