CLAMP designing costumes for Tekken 6, anime fan girls squee

by Andrew Yoon on Jun 17th 2009 10:30PM

Tekken 6 continues to get more bizarre. Famed all-female mangaka group CLAMP (known for Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999, xxxHolic, Code Geass) is designing new costume designs for Namco Bandai's upcoming fighter. Here, we see Jin wearing a wardrobe that would fit perfectly in CLAMP's Tsubasa Chronicle.

Obviously, the addition of one of the most popular shoujo groups in Japan is meant to increase Tekken's appeal beyond male gamers. In fact, the high-pitched ringing you may be hearing right now is the sound of thousands of anime fan girls squeeing in unison whilst holding onto Kero-chan plushies.

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Tags: anime, clamp, costume, Microsoft, tekken, tekken-6, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (65)

Tekken 6 miniature doll fighting mode CONFIRMED!

and here comes the Yaoi....

You act as if fangirls hadn't ALREADY written Tekken yaoi.

There's ALWAYS yaoi. I think it's a corollary to Rule 34.

What is Yaoi and why do fangirls write it? And please, don't LMGT4U.

TEST COMMENT

@Izeas GT
Try watching shows with an all female cast. I've never seen yaoi involving Strike Witches, Lucky Star or K-ON! Feels good.

All right, they're the exception. Unless somebody does a gender-flip.

or do what I do, watch the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and in between having your insanity slowly kill itself imagine what it would be like to have sex with god

That doesn't answer the question of why fangirls write it.

Thanks for the link.

Technically, that's "Tsubasa RESERVOIR Chronicle."

For non-anime fans, they did the character designs for Sunrise's alternate-history mecha series Code Geass, too. I wonder if they're intentionally expanding into contract work.

basically, they popularized drawing peoples heads in the shapes of turnips

And bodies like overextended stick figures.

What I never understand is how CCS manage to go from ultimate shojo manga to shonen anime (and dare I say with the best action scenes for the next couple of years)?

You look like a good person to ask.........What sort of promo items do you think would fans like for Tekken 6 launch? Something rather inexpensive but unique and useful?
Any ideas?

Chi in a fighting game? Thats hot.

Yes, but she'd have the dumbest ending ever.

Totally ignoring there there's other fun parts of her robo body that don't have swtiches embeded in them.

Seriously, who builds an anatomically correct sentient gynoid capable of love and puts its memory-wiping reset switch THERE instead of, say, inside the ear thingies, with a button that needs to be held down with a pen for five seconds?

Well... In the anime, it's suggested that she can. I think it happens in the pornstar arch. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the perv starts to tip her bits then Freya comes in and says something like, "Only the one just for Chi can touch you here." then later on, Chi puts Hideki's hand thar and says "Only the one just for Chi can come inside."

In the manga... I don't know... They say he can't, then they hint that she has a special ability. I would say that special ability is the program that gives Persicoms the ability to "feel", but in context I would think it's something else more relationship oriented.

I want a persicom. :D

Just stick it in her pooper!

MY POINT EXACTLY. She's got 3 inputs. Only one is off limits. Geesh.

Hell, she still has hands.

@rushtodeath: I like the way you think.

They should fix the juggling system instead. If someone gets you into one or two juggling combos there's really nothing you can do...GAME OVER. It's just annyoing, i want a good clean fight damnit!

I'm of course referring to the online matches here, I don't give a "%¤ about these silly costumes. ;)

"noob detected"

What's your psn name? I'd love to kick your ass sometime :D

I'll take this as a sign that Namco Bandai will make an arcade DBZ game, seeing how Tekken 6 is now SOLD OUT to FANGirlS.

As well as costume will they provide alternate models where everyone has noodle proportioned limbs?

I love Code Geass, this is great news.

Heh, gotta agree, some of the stuff in Code Geass looked great, specially Zero's costume, and Collen's fight suit wasn't too bad either.

I wish I had Geass... :(

Heh, you wouldn't want me to have Geass, either Lelouche's or Rolo's...
Either giving me the ability to manipulate and control someone, even though I can use it only once on a person, or the ability to slow everyone's perception of time, would be dangerous with me :D

Let's see just how FABULOUS the costumes can be.

CLAMP desinging costumes for Tekken 6...

and there gonna be FAAAAABUULOUSSSSSSS

Hearing high pitched squeals? I'm hearing something different. It's kind of muffled, but it still sounds very angry. It sounds something like: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Man, I must be getting old since half that article didn't make sense to me. A list of terms I was completely unfamiliar with:

CLAMP
mangaka
Cardcaptor Sakura
X/1999
xxxHolic
Code Geass
Tsubasa Chronicle
shoujo
Kero-chan

And since it was mentioned in the comments, I should add that I have no idea what 'yaoi' is either.

So, do you have to be living in Japan (or madly in love with the country) to understand this post?

Good sir, CLAMP is one of the best manga artists (mangaka) to exist. They've been around for 22 years. Rather than bore everyone with their history, I'll simply post a link to their Wiki for those who are interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)

X/1999 and xxxHOLiC are some of the best CLAMP works.

Manga-ka: someone who writes/draws manga.
CLAMP: a group of four women who've made some very popular manga.
Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999, xxxHolic, Tsubasa: some of CLAMP's better-known manga, which also include Magic Knight Rayearth, Chobits, Angelic Layer, and Tokyo Babylon. They're popular in America, too, just go into a bookstore.
Shoujo: Japanese for "girl." In an English context, usually refers to "shoujo manga," or "girls' comics." A lot of CLAMP's stuff is this.
Kero-chan: the mascot character from Cardcaptor Sakura.
Yaoi: ...you know what? No. Google this one yourself.

CLAMP: artists who draw stick figures, then add noodle arms/legs and turnip heads. They tend make all the males ridiculous pretty boys. Think Sephiroth and Cloud times 9000
mangaka: manga artists
Cardcaptor Sakura: manga
X/1999:manga
xxxHolic:manga
Code Geass: animu that became manga
Tsubasa Chronicle:manga
Shoujo: girls manga. Shounen would be boys manga
Kero-chan: mascot for Cardcaptor Sakura
Yaoi: http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/296625?search=Miles_Edgeworth

Freaking sweet, Code Geass is awesome.

And for the female characters: Chobits-inspired costumes. Either that, or C.C.'s signature outfit. Viva la Pizza Butt!

Sweet.

Lelouch dies.

Again

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

just kidding, I saw the ending and I must say: Way better than Death Notes and a hell of a lot better than Evangelions (yes, all 20 of them)

You asshole...

ALL HAIL BRITANIA!!!

That costume is awesome.

it probably took them 5 minutes to make, since they basically copied Lelouch's emperor outfit and added some red to it

@Chad
You my friend need to go through their entire library of work you'll see that their art takes more than 5 minutes to create. And I'm not merely referring to this post, you've continually taken stabs at CLAMP your comments on this story.

I do not wish to start an argument, I simply suggest you look into their work and not judge them on character design alone. Though I do think they have some excellent character designs, their environment backgrounds are visually stunning as well.

I actually like CLAMPs design. But the facts remain:

1.Most of the males are pretty boys

COUGHCOUGHLELOUCHCOUGHCOUGH
COUGHSPINZAKUCOUGH
COUGHSCHNEIZELCOUGHCOUGHCOUGH

2. The characters limbs are noodles and their heads are turnips

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/CODE_GEASS_R2_-_01_-_Large_36.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Cgr20212-1-.jpg

3. If you take the outfit Jin has on, replace the red with gold and blue, you essentially have Lelouch's emperor outfit

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/codegeass/images/4/47/Emperor_Lelouch.jpg

I agree with all your points Mr. Chad. I still like many of their character designs though, regardless of their noodle like limbs and vegetable shaped craniums and pretty boy good looks. Their work is meant for a female audience after all, though doesn't mean I myself can't enjoy their stories and art. I sure hope they finish Legal Drug one of these days.

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