Clamp in Wonderland
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Clamp in Wonderland is a series of music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s produced by Clamp
Clamp (manga artists)
, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader , who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively ,...

, a creative team
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 made up by Satsuki Igarashi
Satsuki Igarashi
is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. Her duties in the team are Nanase Ohkawa's sounding board, and the character designer of Chobits and line artist for Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle....

, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi
Tsubaki Nekoi
is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the co-director and her duties in the team include applying screentones and correcting manga illustrations. She was also the lead artist on Legal Drug, The One I Love, Wish, Suki and xxxHolic...

 (Formerly Mick Nekoi) and Mokona
Mokona
is the pen name of the lead artist, colorist, and composition designer of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She was formerly known as . Clamp has had a huge impact on the "manga explosion" according to an account in the New York Times in 2006. Their artwork has been characterized as "fluid"...

 (formerly Mokona Apapa).

The short films feature characters from the group's entire canon of work. The first spans Clamp's career from their beginnings until the year 1994. The sequel Clamp in Wonderland 2 includes over 100 characters from the Clamp universe.

The videos were released to DVD on October 26, 2007 as Clamp In Wonderland 1&2 1989-2006 (BCBA-3143).

Production

  • Original concept/Original character design: Clamp 
  • Planning: Nanase Ohkawa
  • Producer: Satsuki Igarashi
    Satsuki Igarashi
    is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. Her duties in the team are Nanase Ohkawa's sounding board, and the character designer of Chobits and line artist for Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle....

  • Production producer: Masaki Sawanobori, Kazuhiko Ikekuchi, Masao Maruyama
  • Storyboard: Mokona Apapa
    Mokona
    is the pen name of the lead artist, colorist, and composition designer of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She was formerly known as . Clamp has had a huge impact on the "manga explosion" according to an account in the New York Times in 2006. Their artwork has been characterized as "fluid"...

    , Mick Nekoi
    Tsubaki Nekoi
    is a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp. She is the co-director and her duties in the team include applying screentones and correcting manga illustrations. She was also the lead artist on Legal Drug, The One I Love, Wish, Suki and xxxHolic...

  • Director: Morio Asaka
    Morio Asaka
    is a Japanese anime director.A graduate of the Osaka Designers' College, he is a member of the studio Madhouse. His noted works include, among others, Cardcaptor Sakura , Galaxy Angel, Gunslinger Girl, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII and Nana.-Directorial style:Asaka has covered a wide range of...

  • Character design/Art director: Kumiko Takahashi
    Kumiko Takahashi
    is Japanese animator and character designer. She is noted for her work as a character designer and animation director on numerous anime series, such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Witch Hunter Robin and Ouran High School Host Club....

  • Music production: Clamp Co., Ltd.
  • In collaboration with: Clamp Research Department, Clamp Research Department's Secretarial Office, Shelty Co., Ltd.
  • Production: Animate
    Animate
    is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, there are 38 Animate stores in Japan, and two in Taipei, Taiwan...


Theme songs

Opening theme
    • Lyricist: Nanase Ohkawa
    • Song: Junko Hirotani


Ending theme
    • Lyricist: Nanase Ohkawa
    • Song: Junko Hirotani

Production

  • Original creator: Clamp
  • Planning: Nanase Ohkawa
  • Director: Clamp
  • Producer: Mitsuyuki Masuhara
  • Opening storyboard: Mokona
  • Ending storyboard: Tsubaki Nekoi
  • Character designer/Animation director (Opening): Hiromi Katō
  • Animation director (Ending): Yoshinori Kanemori
  • Color setting: Naoko Kodama
  • Art director: Akemi Konno
  • Director of photography: Yuki Hama
  • Editing: Kashiko Kimura
  • Animation production: MADHOUSE
  • General producer: PYROTECHNIST

Theme songs

Opening theme
  • action! by Maaya Sakamoto
    Maaya Sakamoto
    is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, and voice actress. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime series Little Twins, but is more well known for her role as Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne...

    • Composer: h-wonder
    • Lyrics: Maaya Sakamoto
      Maaya Sakamoto
      is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, and voice actress. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime series Little Twins, but is more well known for her role as Hitomi Kanzaki in the hit anime series The Vision of Escaflowne...



Ending theme
  • Oh YEAH! by Round Table feat. Nino
    Round Table (band)
    Round Table is a Japanese pop band known mostly for their Anime soundtracks. They are most popularly known in the Anime demographic for their hit single, "Let Me Be With You" - the opening song for the anime Chobits. The band was formed in 1997 with Katsutoshi Kitagawa and Rieko Ito as band...


Soundtrack

Clamp In Wonderland 1&2 1989-2006 Theme Song Collection (VTCL-60003) was released on October 24, 2007.
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