THE LIBRARY
Collector guides, cover censuses, and edition answers, documented issue by issue. Every page answers one specific question, completely.
X
13 shelves
The X Manga Gallery
All eighteen volumes of CLAMP’s X documented: the complete English cover run pictured, every Japanese Asuka Comics release date and ISBN, and the 2023 Premium…
The History of X
X began in Monthly Asuka in May 1992, ran through earthquakes, a film, a TV series, and a hiatus that never ended. The documented history of CLAMP’s apocalypse.
Who Are the Seven Seals and the Seven Angels?
The Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth, member by member: the seven who protect humanity, the seven who would end it, and the two dreamgazers who watch them.
Who Are Kamui and Fuma?
One name, two boys: Kamui Shiro, who must choose the world’s fate, and Fuma Monou, the best friend fated to become whatever Kamui refuses to be.
Why Was X Never Finished?
Not a cancellation and not a feud: the documented record, from CLAMP’s own 2004 PUFF interview, of earthquakes, a murder case, and an ending a magazine could not…
What Is the X Movie?
Rintaro’s 1996 film: 97 minutes, Nobuteru Yuki designs, X Japan on the theme, real Tokyo photographed street by street, and an ending the manga never gave.
How Does the X TV Series End?
Kawajiri’s 24-episode series follows the manga faithfully, then has to finish it. How the 2001 ending works, and how it differs from the film and the page.
How Does X Connect to Tsubasa?
In Tsubasa’s ruined Tokyo, the Dragons of Earth hold the government building’s water and Kamui and Subaru are vampire twins on the run from Seishiro. The…
What Are the English Editions of X?
Viz’s X/1999 singles, the retitling, the Animerica Extra serialization, and the 3-in-1 omnibuses that restored the right-to-left page. A complete English map.
The Tarot Art of X
Each original volume of X hid a major arcana illustration on its jacket flap. How CLAMP built a tarot into a manga, and how Kadokawa turned it into nineteen…
What Are the X Art Books?
X ZERO and X INFINITY, the two Illustrated Collections: what is in them, when they appeared, and why ZERO holds the tarot card the manga volumes never printed.
How Can You Tell a First Printing of X?
The colophon test for the Asuka Comics volumes, the connecting spines, the flap tarot, and how the 2023 Premium Collection differs at a glance.
Collecting X
A field guide to the shelf: the Asuka set and its spines, the English singles and omnibuses, the art books, the tarot cards, and the film and series on disc.
