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XXXHOLiC Gets New Short Anime on Magazine Present DVD
posted on by Egan Loo
The Japanese publisher Kodansha is offering a new short anime based on Clamp's xxxHOLiC manga series to buyers of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Magazine Special, and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. Mailaway offer cards for the DVD present are included in this year's 25th issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, the sixth issue of Magazine Special, and the July issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.
The three magazines are also celebrating xxxHOLiC's move from Weekly Shōnen Magazine to Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine with mailaway offers for prepaid QUO cards. Weekly Shōnen Magazine's QUO card has an illustration of CLAMP's Tsubasa manga characters Syaoran and Sakura, Magazine Special's QUO card has Tsubasa's Kurogane and Fay, and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine has xxxHOLiC's Watanuki and Doumeki. (Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine is also offering a display mounting for all three cards.)
The same 25th issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine is shipping on Wednesday with a special 26-page, one-shot xxxHOLiC story. Namoshiro Tanahashi is launching a new Hammer Session! In High School manga series in the next issue. Not coincidentally, a television drama adaptation of Tanahashi's original Hammer Session! con artist manga will premiere in July.
Source: Comic Natalie
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