Questions about CLAMP("All-female anime studio"),Japanese anime studios
OhSojourner
uncovering is sparse and I'd like to get to the bottom of this,
information-wise.
What is CLAMP, anyways? When "X" was shown at a local theatre the
local paper reported it as being produced by an "all-female animation
studio". Yet Mad-House was the studio that produced the film, Rintaro
was the director and the background art was done by another well-known
male artist. So the newspaper report was in error.
I understand CLAMP studio is headed up by four female artists, yet
I've also seen it referred to as an "all-female studio headed up by
these four artists", implying there may be more employees. What,
exactly, is the situation? Does CLAMP merely refer to the four
artists, or do they also have a staff? And why is it all-female? If
there are more staff members, is it still a relatively small studio?
Do other Japanese anime companies only employ male artists? Is it
common to have same-sex companies in Japan, especially if their staff
numbers are small? Is Japanese culture so different that they don't
think about sex-based hiring discrimination as the case is in Western
countries?
Edward Cha
animated 'X' was created was made by an 'all-female studio.' In other
words, the comics was done by females, but the animation was not.
It don't think that it is common for companies to hire only women in
Japan. However, the creation of comics is very 'homey' in that it is
often done in an apartment-like space; I have heard of other comic
creators who work only with females and female assistants (Takahashi
Rumiko, for example). Clamp probably is like this - female
artists/writers and female assistants.
Animation studios seem to be male-dominated, in my opinion. I'm not
clear on that, but that's my impression.
Comic studios probably aren't like a company, either - more like a bunch
of people hired personally by the main creators (artists). They usually
work for a magazine, which pays them for the comic.
There are also a lot of girl comics in Japan; I wouldn't be surprised to
hear that most of them are done by all-female studios like Clamp, since
men are usually loath to draw (or read) such things.
Ed
OhSojourner (ohsoj...@aol.com) wrote:
: I'm crossposting this to the animation newsgroups because the info I'm
Fillerbunny
The way I understand it, CLAMP grew out of the doujinshi scene which is
based around "circles". Circles are just a group of individuals with common
interests/styles that choose to publish together. That being the case, a
circle will tend to be same sex esp. in the case of very "shonen" or
"shoujo" type books. Artists like Tesuya Egawa are know to use a very large
and mized-sex group of assistants and CLAMP may very well use thier own
assistants, but CLAMP as I understand it refers to the original four
creators, who are still in carge of writing and drawing all of thier comics.
My two cents.
Filler
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Nagata Yoshihiro
ohsoj...@aol.com writes:
>> I understand CLAMP studio is headed up by four female artists, yet
`studio' sounds like company or mechanical physical room.
( Like Photo studio, terms used in Japan ).
Circle or Member or unit , more better, I feel.
>> I've also seen it referred to as an "all-female studio headed up by
>> these four artists", implying there may be more employees. What,
>> exactly, is the situation? Does CLAMP merely refer to the four
There may be Assistant staff , Like other Comic creators.
# but I'm not sure.
And I read in X related book, Original member (Comic market period)
was chaned. Recent member are, Mokona apapa, Ookawa nanase ,
igarashi satsuki, nekoi mikku.
But, Is it really? :-p
http://comic.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime/1004623219/73
-> //www.ifrance.com/clamp/?????/clamp.html
>> Do other Japanese anime companies only employ male artists? Is it
??
>> common to have same-sex companies in Japan, especially if their staff
same-sex comanies?
>> there are more staff members, is it still a relatively small studio?
CLAMP was ONLY name of cirlcle. Comics created by four member,
worked on EQUAL TERM :-)
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Nagata Yoshihiro
ec...@blue.seas.upenn.edu writes:
>> It don't think that it is common for companies to hire only women in
>> Japan. However, the creation of comics is very 'homey' in that it is
>> often done in an apartment-like space; I have heard of other comic
>> creators who work only with females and female assistants (Takahashi
>> Rumiko, for example). Clamp probably is like this - female
>> artists/writers and female assistants.
Yes. There is Main Creater, and support member. But,
CLAMP, They are EQUAL TERM situation.
Matthew Cline
unto us these blasphemous ravings:
> What is CLAMP, anyways? When "X" was shown at a local theatre the
> local paper reported it as being produced by an "all-female animation
> studio". Yet Mad-House was the studio that produced the film, Rintaro
> was the director and the background art was done by another well-known
> male artist. So the newspaper report was in error.
> I understand CLAMP studio is headed up by four female artists, yet
> I've also seen it referred to as an "all-female studio headed up by
> these four artists", implying there may be more employees. What,
> exactly, is the situation? Does CLAMP merely refer to the four
> artists, or do they also have a staff? And why is it all-female? If
> there are more staff members, is it still a relatively small studio?
"CLAMP", just by itself, refers to the four manga (comic book) artists;
they don't do any of the animation itself, and only have creative control
over the animation that's based off of their manga. As for why it's all
female... Well, CLAMP started out as a doujinshi (amature manga) artists
assoication, which had something like 12 to 20 members, and then dwindled
down to it's current four. I'm guessing that the doujinshi they made was
stuff that would mainly interest women, so there weren't any men who wanted
to join the group, but that's just a guess. There might be other reasons
from Japanese culture that same-sex doujinshi groups form. Or maybe it was
just coincidence that the four remaining members were female. <shrug>
Edward Cha
: >> often done in an apartment-like space; I have heard of other comic
: >> creators who work only with females and female assistants (Takahashi
: >> Rumiko, for example). Clamp probably is like this - female
: >> artists/writers and female assistants.
: Yes. There is Main Creater, and support member. But,
: CLAMP, They are EQUAL TERM situation.
Okay, so there are four Clamp members. But do they have assistants?
No? They do all the mundane work (drawing backgrounds, writing sound
effects, adding tone) themselves?
Ed
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Matthew Cline
> Okay, so there are four Clamp members. But do they have assistants?
> No? They do all the mundane work (drawing backgrounds, writing sound
> effects, adding tone) themselves?
Yep, no assistants, they do it all themselves.
Matthew Cline
unto us these blasphemous ravings:
> It don't think that it is common for companies to hire only women in
> Japan. However, the creation of comics is very 'homey' in that it is
> often done in an apartment-like space; I have heard of other comic
> creators who work only with females and female assistants (Takahashi
> Rumiko, for example).
Yes, Takahashi has only female assistants: she prefers to work in her
pajamas, and isn't quite comfortable working with men when dressed like
that.
OhSojourner
> I'd guess that the studio that produced the comics from which the
> animated 'X' was created was made by an 'all-female studio.' In other
> words, the comics was done by females, but the animation was not.
>
> It don't think that it is common for companies to hire only women in
> Japan. However, the creation of comics is very 'homey' in that it is
> often done in an apartment-like space; I have heard of other comic
> creators who work only with females and female assistants (Takahashi
> Rumiko, for example). Clamp probably is like this - female
> artists/writers and female assistants.
From what you describe, it sounds more like an affiliation of
independent artists who collaborate, but are not officially
"incorporated" as a company. Am I correct in assuming this? And I
suppose a "studio" can simply refer to a group of artists who agree to
work under one banner?
> Animation studios seem to be male-dominated, in my opinion. I'm not
> clear on that, but that's my impression.
Do you mean the kind of corporate companies where all the employees
are housed inside one building? I was trying to figure out what the
case may be regarding the major anime productions studios; however
since I know no Japanese, I wouldn't be able to tell who did what just
by looking at the credits.
> Comic studios probably aren't like a company, either - more like a bunch
> of people hired personally by the main creators (artists). They usually
> work for a magazine, which pays them for the comic.
>
> There are also a lot of girl comics in Japan; I wouldn't be surprised to
> hear that most of them are done by all-female studios like Clamp, since
> men are usually loath to draw (or read) such things.
Is the culture there very divided, demographic-wise? (No judgment
about it, just curious).