I was in Tokyo a few weeks ago and saw CLAMP’s exhibit, so I’ve been thinking about reading through CLAMP’s catalog. Wondering if there’s any interest in starting a CLAMP book club?
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I don’t know that I’d join in on everything*, but I do love CLAMP and would join (or comment on favorites) with a group. It’d give me an excuse to buy more of their manga too 
*In particular, I think I need a pretty long cooldown on Cardcaptor Sakura 
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Agree about CCS. I got through most of the first series, but I fell off because there were a few too many teacher-student relationships that had me feeling a little nauseous lol
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I might be in, but there are a few titles of them that I’d probably skip (either because to me they are too convoluted (like Tsubasa reservoir chronicle) or not my cup of tea (like Kobato))
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Tsubasa (and X) I’d say should be later things we read since they pull in a lot of characters from other stories. If we ever got through that many manga anyway
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That was my thought as well. I’ve read X (in English) before, but I would like to read some of the other manga that are referenced, like CLAMP学園探偵団[愛蔵版] | L25??, but I don’t have super strong feelings one way or another.
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There’s also 東京BABYLON―A save Tokyo city story 1 | L24?? from X. I at one point had that set but gave it away because it doesn’t have furigana and thought I’d never be able to read it…
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I might be interested in reading Kobato, but I think it’s out of print and the digital quality isn’t great. Other than that, probably not since their most popular series are a bit long for my taste.
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Yeah I wish the digital scans were better quality it’s so annoying
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They’re doing a ton of re-releases lately so there’s a chance we could get a new one…
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Quickly scanning through their catalog, these are also pretty short, as well:
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Definitely interested. Would particularly love to do Magic Knight Rayearth, but down for anything
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Isekai before it was overdone!
Apparently I already have the first volume of this. Must have gotten it for free at some point.
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GATE 7 | L24?? only has 4 books (and I have them all already so I might be particularly interested in reading them )
Always down for Rayearth. I read it (with a very loose definition of “read” since I did a lot more looking at pictures) as a teenager and I don’t think ever since.
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I started reading Rayearth years ago as my first manga in Japanese but then I pivoted to Sailor Moon because I wanted that to be first one I finished lol, so I never finished reading Rayearth. I would definitely be interested in returning to that
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If we go with Rayearth, any thoughts on when to start or what the schedule should be?
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There’s 6 books total… I think somewhere between half a book to a full book a week puts us on a reasonable trajectory to finish the series and move on to others.
For starting times it’ll depend on if people want to try and get the physical books or not, but 3-4 weeks I think is usually what other clubs do.
I think there’s a lot fewer of us here though, so we could be a little less formal if we wanted to.
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Rayearth was one of the first manga I read in Japanese, so I might be up for a nostalgic re-read (I still have the books I bought in book-off when I was first in Japan in 2004). We could also read the first three only, since it’s more “original series plus sequel series” rather than a single six book series.
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I thought it was just the first three, I forgot there was a second series. In any case, I’m OK with reading just the first three or all six, whatever others are interested in doing. I also think a book per week is reasonable.
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I always forget that they are technically two series. I’d be fine with just doing the first 3. That way we could get to another series quickly.
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