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Ōkawa Nanase 大川七瀬

[born: 2 May 1967; Ōsaka, bloodtype: A]

Mokona Apapa もこなあぱぱ

[born: 16 Jun 1968, Kyōto; bloodtype: A]

Nekoi Mick 猫井みっく

[born: 21 Jan 1969, Kyōto; bloodtype: O]

Igarashi Satsuki 五十嵐さつき

[born: 8 Feb 1969, Kyōto; bloodtype: A]

CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member dōjinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. Other former members of CLAMP also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shinya Ōmi. Currently, there are four members in the group.

In 2004, CLAMP's 15th anniversary as a mangaka group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA, a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of CLAMP simply wanted to try out new names. In a later interview with Ohkawa, it was revealed that initially Mokona wanted to drop her surname because it sounded too immature for her liking, while Nekoi disliked people commenting that her name was the same as Mick Jagger's. Ohkawa and Igarashi, wanting to go with the flow of Nekoi's and Mokona's name changes, changed their names as well.

In 2006, they made their first USA public debut at Anime Expo in Anaheim, California. They were well received at the convention, with 6,000 fans in attendance at their panel.


“If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.”
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“Girls are always at their best smiling.”
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“Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your “body”, and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.”
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“From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.”
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“It's tough when anyone is hurt, it's painful and awful.”
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“Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.”
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“To change yourself means to change the future.”
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“Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.”
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“People are the world's strangest creature.”
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“Be selfish, be unreasonable, and don't worry about it. We're girls, so we are allowed. Being a girl is a privilege, and we should take full advantage of that fact. We have the right and the duty to act as we please. But a boy who makes a girl cry is worthless and he brings shame into the romance and makes it untrue.”
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“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.”
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“Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.”
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“There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.”
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“There is something you can do. You can smile. Sakura-chan, your smile is like food to a starving man for Syaoran-kun.”
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“I am not... your Sakura”
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“If you kill Syaoran-kun, it will all be over! You and I will be over too!”
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“Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san”
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“Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright”
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“Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!”
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“If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?”
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“You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!”
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“... and once again ... we will head toward that time.”
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“Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.”
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“You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?”
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“Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.”
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“It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.”
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“All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.”
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“All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.”
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“The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.”
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“Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.”
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“But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.”
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“If you don't want her to go, you should say it. Those jerks who can't say a word no matter how much time passes ... I just don't get them. If they're doing whatever the hell they want ... then you should do what you want too. I hate those jerks who fool themselves into thinking that just because they clam up, nobody knows what's going on with them!!”
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“The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.”
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“I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than to go along on the trip." 'Well, I can't wait.' "Are you that afraid to believe in someone?”
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“After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.”
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“The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!”
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“A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with." "A price, once paid, cannot be returned.”
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“I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!”
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“At that moment, I was sure ... he would cry. It seems that Sakura-chan is the most important person in the world to Syaoran-kun. So when she said, "who are you?" I felt certain he would cry. I wonder if he's crying now.”
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“You'll stay here with me?" "Yeah" "If I fall asleep like this ... the first thing i'll see when I wake up ... will be you.”
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“Subaru...thinks that you're special. That's why I want to trust you...Don't forget...There is a definite crime that can't be made up...There's no one who can't love someone...Sei-chan...-Hokuto Sumeragi”
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“Good guys are either taken or gay”
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“This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.”
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“The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel...... declares the beginning of everything”
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“If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.”
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“Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.”
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“However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.”
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“If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.”
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“But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.”
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“You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so...you must protect what you must protect. ”
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