New CCS artwork (mobile game) - november -
This is the latest CCS illustration released, I unfortunately can't post more views at the moment since, unlike the previous months, they did not offer several pics, but only 'awarded' one, I got Sakura (I wanted Syaoran!). Hopefully, it might reset tomorrow and I might be given something else? edit: such convenient thing did not happen...that said, the Sakura pic might actually be the only one available atm (maybe) since I did not find anything else in the archive in which all existing cards should be listed.
The reason why they are celebrating is because this artwork is meant as a 'thank you' for playing the mobile game until now (the 'name' of the card is '無ﾊｯﾋﾟｰｴﾝﾄﾞのお祝い(UR)' = 'Celebration of the non-happy ending (UR)', not sure what they mean by that, it feels a bit strange?), the game is ending soon, in december, I don't know why they decided to do that one month prior though, can we assume this is the last illustration Clamp will draw? Who knows...
About the picture itself, while I'm always super happy to see Syaoran of course (and smiling at that! so sweet!!! <3), the general feeling is surprisingly... old fashioned? You know, the whole 'all the characters in the center blowing off that ribbon thing', it just feels like I already saw that kind of pic countless times before.
EDIT: as written bellow, after the pic, they will stop releasing any new material starting Oct 31th at 15h, meaning the likeliness of this being the last artwork is very high.
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EDIT (Nov1st): full view available! And behold: first drawing of Eriol in 13 years!
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EDIT: from the look of the following text published, it seems like there will be no new elements added to the game from now on, meaning this might indeed be the very last CCS artwork ;_;
I just looked again at Clamp's schedule and the nothingness in it really made me sigh...ugh D: Th next few months will be very boring...To start with, I'm not impressed with Gate7, and both xxxholic and Drug&Drop did not really catch my attention enough either, at least not for the moment, and anyway, there are so few chapters of each series released (+ Gate7 is on hiatus) that it's hard to follow even if I want to.
Clamp, these worldwide known workaholic women, the creators of such amazing series are not doing too good in my books recently...I never thought I would say that, but all these people along the years who asked for a continuation of CCS might not have been that wrong or crazy, in the aspect that Clamp should stick to what they do the best and what was most liked, even though I do understand they are interested in trying out many different style of drawings, genres and stories, and that was one of their charms, but it's not quite working right now...
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