Shounen Gate 7 by CLAMP

[Akiyama]

Gate 7 by Clamp
Genre: Action, Alternate Reality, Fantasy
Serialized: Jump SQ
Summary and Preview:
Takamoto Chikahito is a high school student on a trip to Kyoto, Japan. He is overwhelmed by the historical structures and shrines around him. While crossing a bridge he slips into an alternate world where he encounters 3 strangers and aberrations. A girl named Hana appears and saves his life. These abnormal people take Takamoto in to question him. They are curious to know how he was also to slip through the barrier and want to erase some of his memories. Takamoto is immune to the spell and Hana helps his escape back to the world he knows.
Release from CXC
Labeled as a oneshot but will become a monthly series in February.

New Series From CLAMP, Mangakas of Tsubasa, xxxholic, and Many More

 

[Jaymie]

It was a solid series opener. It sets a really nice tone, and it established an interesting main cast. A lot of things are still very confusing, however. Thankfully we got the spoiler summary that describes what the series will be about.

 

[conn-man]

Really like the concept the story given in the summary, I'll give it a read soon.

I know clamp is good, trc is all I've read by them but this looks promising.

 

[Negative Syndicate]

Isn't that a summary for the proto-type of Gate 7, which it planned to release at Dark Horse?

I read the one shot, and it was very different from the summary.

 

[Akiyama]

You're correct, so I went ahead and typed my own.

I wish the beginning was longer but it leaves us wanting more and lots of mysteries to be solved.

 

[<.Haruka.>]

Can't wait to read Gate 7. It's good Clamp would release this as one-shot first so that readers would have a glimpse of what will this new series would be all about.
Hopefully this would be a good one like those previous releases from Clamp.

 

[Kaiten]

With the first official chapter coming I finally got around to reading the one shot. Not much to say about the plot, almost nothing was revealed. The characters look interesting, at least. The art was spectacular, every bit as amazing as Tsubasa and xxxholic. While there wasn't much to take away from the prologue, I will definitely read the serialization.

 

[•Sasuke•]

i read it too it's interesting

and the first chapter is also scanned in chinese

http://coldpic.sfacg.com/AllComic/533/001/

the raw is out on raw-bunko too

 

[<.Haruka.>]

English translations for chapter 1...

..from cmertb, http://mangahelpers.com/t/cmertb/releases/27569
and
..from Starlady38

Spoiler

!!! page 01
Kyoto, which I've longed for since I was small.

But I, Takamoto Chikahito, have always lived in Tokyo,
And I never had the chance to visit even once.

Takamoto: There were educational trips to Hiroshima and Kyushu, too.

But in the autumn of my second year in high school, I persuaded my mother, and I finally came to Kyoto.

Naturally I didn't have any experiences that you'd call mysterious.

After all, I transferred to a Kyoto high school,
And furthermore, I did it alone.

Takamoto: Two years from now is a delicate time!

Today is my first day of searching for an apartment to live alone in.

FX: Walking steadily

It's the second time I've come to Kyoto, though.
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!!! page 02-03
The beauty the old capital hides,

Now, when it opens, vividly--

Chapter 1: Chikahito and Hana
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!!! page 04
Anyway, I investigated on the net for a notable place,
But finding one near the school was pretty difficult.

FX: Pages flipping

Takamoto: Above all, it's that I'm a high school student living alone.

There's almost nowhere that's okay with minors.
And if there is, it doesn't match my budget.

This is why mother wasn't opposed when I decided to transfer to school in Kyoto, huh.

Takamoto: …I thought she'd cry, at least.

But though Mother ran around saying I couldn't transfer into another prefecture,

Takamoto: But I love it, so I'm happy--
Kyoto.

I decided on Kyoto.
Why?

I want to be excused from meeting something like I did the time I came before.
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!!! page 05
Anyway, I didn't understand at all what that was.

Besides
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!!! page 06
FX: Snapping out of it!!

We…well, we won't meet again…right.
An extraordinarily cute kid, though.

FX: Sigh

Takamoto: Or not!

FX: Clenching fists
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!!! page 07
FX: Stomach rumbling

Takamoto: I haven't had anything to eat since I came on the first shinkansen this morning.

FX: Rummaging

Takamoto: There's a store near hear that I wanted to go to before.

FX: Beep beep

Takamoto: Let's see, the main shop is ahead,

This is the north shop.

There it is!

It's a bit sad to eat alone, but

FX: Door clattering

FX: Beaming

Staff: Welcome!

But this is the nishin soba I've longed for.

[TN: Nishin soba, which is soba topped with herring, is a Kyoto meibutsu, or local specialty. It's good.]
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!!! page 08
FX: Staring

Takamoto: Augh!!

Tachibana; You're noisy.

FX: Popping up

FX: Huh?!

Sakura: You have as huge a voice as ever.

FX: Popping up
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!!! page 09
Takamoto: Wh…why are you here!?

FX: Grasp

FX: Kiss

FX: Gasp

FX: Grip
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!!! page 10
FX: Sitting down

FX: Sitting down

Waiter: Four nishin soba!

Takamoto: Huh?

FX: Footsteps

Waiter: Sorry for the wait!

Takamoto: Huh?

Huh!?

FX: Setting down

FX: Sparkling eyes
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!!! page 11
Takamoto: Why is there a portion for me?

Sakura: That's Hana's portion.

She always eats two.

Another nishin soba--

FX: Inhaling

Waiter: Right!

Tachibana: It's not speed eating, Hana.

FX: Nodding

Tachibana: It's hot.

Sakura: Right,

Thanks for the food.
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!!! page 12
FX: Eating

FX: Happy

Takamoto: It's delicious.

FX: Nodding

Takamoto: Wait,
It's the same development as before!

FX: Auugh!

Tachibana: Don't yell in the store.

FX: Gobbling

Takamoto: S…sorry.

Sakura: Hana finally handed it over, but it'll get stale.
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!!! page 13
FX: Devouring

FX: Slurping

FX: Blowing on the noodles

Takamoto: Ri, right!

Thanks for the meal!

Waiter: Thank you!

Takamoto: Ah--
So that's what nishin soba tastes like.

FX: Beaming

Sakura: Was that your first nishin soba?

Takamoto: Yes.
But since I'm going to live here from now on, I'll come again.

Sakura: Live here?

Takamoto: I'm transferring to a high school here,
And I'm in the middle of looking for a place to live on my own.

[TN: They've eaten at Matsuba, a famous nishin soba joint downtown.]
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!!! page 14
Tachibana: …What about your mother?

Takamoto: Well,
She suddenly decided to take a company transfer overseas,
So we'd be parting no matter what.

Sakura: Oh,
So that's how it is.

FX: Looking around

Takamoto: Um, is something…

Tachibana: ……

Hana,
You can't be…
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!!! page 15
FX: Walking along

FX: Stopping

Hana: We've arrived.

FX: Grab

Takamoto: Augh!
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!!! page 16
Takamoto: I've
Seen this place on TV.

It's famous for starting and ending relationships.

There it is!

[TN: They're at Yasui Jinja in eastern Kyoto--the "enkiri, enmusubi-ishi" Takamoto's talking about is a huge rock completely covered with paper inori.]
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!!! page 17
Takamoto: It's certain that if you pass through this rock from the front to the back, you'll cut a bad connection.

If you pass through from back to front, you'll make a good one.

Hana: Is this your first time here too?

Takamoto: Y--
Yeah.

Hana: Are you glad?
That we came.

FX: Nodding

Takamoto: It's a shrine I wanted to visit--
Yes.

Sakura: Oh--the ema are as amazing as ever.

Takamoto: Are they different from normal ema somehow?
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!!! page 18
Sakura: Their shape is.

FX: Popping forward

Sakura: But, take a good look at all the wishes.

Takamoto: "Let my son separate from his lover and wake up."

"Let him leave his current wife and marry me."

"Let my boss be transferred immediately and never come back again."

"Let the harmful relationship with my cousin who's in it for the money be severed."

"Let the living ghost of the girl my boyfriend was dating before not appear again."

Wait,
These are all pointing fingers!

Sakura: Just as you'd expect of a shrine mainly for benefit in this world.

Takamoto: They're quite open about it.
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!!! page 19
Sakura: A place like this, it piles up easily.
That's just why people like us are called upon.

Takamoto: Do--
Do you mean--

Could--

Could you possibly--
That thing, the time before…

Tachibana: Encirclement.
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!!! page 20
Sakura: Yeah.

FX: Silent splash
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!!! page 21-22
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!!! page 23
Takamoto: We're in a weird place again!!

Tachinbana: Why is he in here?

FX: Finger pointing

Sakura: I left Chikahito-kun out precisely.

Takamoto: What is this place!?
And what the heck is going on!?

Hana: I knew it.

Takamoto: Huh?

What…

!

FX: Shrieking
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!!! page 24
FX: Shrieking

FX: Flapping

FX: Thump
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!!! page 25
Takamoto: Augh!!!

FX: Noogie

Tachibana: I said you're too noisy.

Sakura: So,

Your perception?

Tachibana: Inzoku,

Sui,

Shishi.

[TN: Lunar genus, water, lion]
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!!! page 26
Sakura: It's not a lion-dog, but a
Very fine lion.

[TN: This word for 'lion' can also mean the left-hand guardian lion-dog at a shrine.]

Tachibana: There are as many people's wishes stiffening it as those paper prayers.
It'll become a wild lion.
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!!! page 27
FX: Roaring

Sakura: This'll make "Toyotomi" excited.

Tachibana: We'll make them pay.
Precisely.

Takamoto: But why do you have that leeway!
I don't understand what it's doing, but it's making a racket!
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!!! page 28
Hana: A racket.

Sakura: Just wait a bit.

We're in the middle of a job right now.

Now then.

Lunar genus means that the weapon creation this time is--

FX: Gasp
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!!! page 29
FX: Breathing in

Takamoto: Before, I'm sure…

Sakura: I did it.
That's because that was solar genus.

Takamoto: Solar??

[TN: This is out of onmyou, or yin-yang. Solar is also bright, obverse, male; lunar is also dark, reverse, female.]

Hana: A racket!

Sakura: People too, and things like that,
Are all divided into solar and lunar types.

That's why, to dispel it,

A weapon that opposes it is necessary.
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!!! page 30
Sakura: I'm lunar.

Tachibana is solar,

And Hana--
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!!! page 31
FX: Jumping

FX: Sudden

Takamoto: Look out!
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!!! page 32
FX: Quick movement

FX: Sudden

FX: Whoosh

Whoosh

Quick

FX: Grab

Sakura: You're in danger, Chikahito-kun.

Takamoto: But that kid--!!

Tachibana: If you went, what could you do?

Takamoto: Bu…
But!
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!!! page 33
Tachibana: Is Hana really
That far behind that thing?

FX: Fong [magic]

Hana: Myouhou. [TN: Mysterious method]

FX: Roar

Hana: Kasha. [TN: Fire chariot]
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!!! page 34
FX: Wind (of motion)

Fx: Quick movement
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!!! page 35-36
FX: Shrieking

FX: Roaring
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!!! page 37
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!!! page 38
FX: Jumping

Hana: It's fine if you live with Hana and the rest.

Takamoto: Huh?

Tachibana: I knew it, that time.

Takamoto: Huh?
Huh?

Sakura: You brought your technique to bear, huh,
Using myouhou.

Hana: Yeah.

Takamoto: Brought to bear?
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!!! page 39
Sakura: Your lips
Were sucked, right? By Hana?

FX: Blushing

Hana: Myouhou,

Modoridori. [TN: The returning bird]

Sakura: It's a technique that makes the person it's used on return to the person who used it on them, without fail.

Takamoto: Then--!
The fact that I'm living in Kyoto, too--!?

Hana: Is that bad?

Takamoto: I--it's not bad.

I really do love Kyoto.
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!!! page 40
Hana: Then,
Let's live together.

FX: Humming

FX: Um, um

Takamoto: Bu, but!

Sakura: Chikahito-kun, you can cook, right?
So you'll be helping us out.

Tachibana: …If it's what Hana wants.

Then,
I felt it incredibly strongly,
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!!! page 41
FX: Slowly

Takamoto: I'll be in your care.

That I wanted to be at this kid's side.
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!!! page 42
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!!! page 43
Sakura: Once again,

I'm Sakura.

This is Tachibana.

And
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!!! page 44
Hana: A racket!

Takamoto: Huh?

Hana: A racket!

FX: Swaying

Sakura: You've taken a liking to him, huh, Hana.

Tachibana: Hmph.

That's what I thought,

FX: Shaking

And though it might already be too late for starting to have regrets,

I'm okay with that!

source: http://starlady38.livejournal.com/419208.html

 

[shukketsumaru]

Yay, new CLAMP series. I know it's going to be good since I have no clue what's going on. The other series started like that for me too.

Frankly though, I'm hoping for a bit more connectedness with the rest of the CLAMP multiverse. It's way too subtle in Kobato, though I understand heavier allusions are only possible due plot points that surround Clow or Yuuko and anything less would be basically fan service like the fillers in the Kobato anime.

 

[•Sasuke•]

Gate 7 chap 1 by cxc

http://cxcscans.phpbb9.com/n247-manga-gate-7-chapter-1

 

[saladesu]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

I always love CLAMP's art, so this was a treat to the eyes as always I've read both the One-shot and Chapter 1, was hoping that since the one-shot revealed practically nothing, the first chapter might take care of some of that (since it appears the one-shot is more like a prologue than anything else)... But the first chapter was equally uninformative. That was a little disappointing imo.

I agree with Shukketsumaru that some CLAMP crossovers would be nice But in that case I better get off my lazy ass and actually finish/catch up with Kobato, TRC and Holic

 

[shouryuujo]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

nice one by clamp. the pain of unfinised X still burns inside me though....

 

[wulfy]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

woooooooooo
Another series by CLAMP ( ´▽｀)
looking forward to it~

 

[saladesu]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

nice one by clamp. the pain of unfinised X still burns inside me though....

Same here

We can only hope Gate 7 either is as good as X/1999 or better still, incorporates some of its characters :3 Since it does deal with all these priestess kinda people in a modern Japanese context, it wouldn't be weird at all to have characters such as Arashi, Sorata, Subaru etc making an appearance! (we can hope...)

Now that XXXHOLiC is over hopefully CLAMP goes back to work on X/1999 though, that would really be the best case scenario! It's nice that they are working on a new project, but doing so at the expense of an old project would be sad.

 

[Negative Syndicate]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

Clamp has two more unfinished series other than X. I wonder when Clamp going to finish those unfinished series.

 

[Kaiten]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

Finally read it. The art was as lovely as expected. Hana should be at least a solid heroine, though I find glasses guy slightly bland and fussy. Id' prefer if he were more like Sayoran and less like Watanaki. I would have liked if chapter one built a little more on the one shot but it was an entertaining, engaging chapter. There is plenty I would like to know: who are Sakura, Tachibana, and Hana? What are they doing when the enter that separate dimensions, and how is glasses guy connected to them. I'm looking forward to chapter 2!

 

[Bugzee]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

After reading one chapter, I would say the art appeals more to me than the "story plot" thus far. Yep. It's too early for me to say anything else. I find the group to have a weird and kinda odd duty/job-like role though~ There must be more to it~

 

[Kaiten]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

I expect Gate 7 to move at the same pace as early Tsubasa: a few chapters introducing the characters, a few more to establish the plot before the proper storyline starts. Being a monthly might slow things down a bit though.

 

[Akiyama]

Re: [NEW] Gate 7 by CLAMP

I have fallen in love with Hana. She is very cute in both normal and chibi form. I thought the transition of oneshot into a series was well done. The title 'Gate 7' is still a mystery but I didn't expect an explanation in the 1st chapter.