Lantern
Series titles: xxx ホリック, xxxHOLiC
- Studio
- Production I.G, CLAMP, Kodansha, Ayakashi Workshop
- Animation studio
- Production I.G
- Distributor
- Tokyo Broadcast System, Mainichi Broadcast System
Synopsis
Watanuki is cleaning the treasure storage and finds a little framed portrait. Suddenly, a human-size lady cat clad in a green kimono jumps out of the frame and lands on Watanuki. Not surprised at all, Yuko and Mokona just invite the new guest to drink some sake. And after the drinking party, Watanuki receives a lantern from the lady cat...
Characters
Yuko Ichihara, Kimihiro Watanuki, Shizuka Domeki, Himawari Kunogi, Maru, Moro, Mokona
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Tsutomu Mizushima
Writing
- Writer
- Tsutomu Mizushima
- Story Supervisors
- Michiko Yokote, Ageha Okawa
Animation
- Animator
- Junichiro Taniguchi, Hiroyo Izumi (Animation Directors)
Voices
- Voice
- Sayaka Ohara (Yuko Ichihara), Jun Fukuyama (Kimihiro Watanuki), Kazuya Nakai (Shizuka Domeki), Shizuka Ito (Himawari Kunogi), Kazuko Kojima (Maru), Hisayo Mochizuki (Moro), Mika Kikuchi (Mokona)
Music
- Music
- S.E.N.S. Project
Editing
- Editor
- Taeko Hamauzu
Crew
- Art Director
- Hiromasa Ogura
- Character Design
- Kazuchika Kise
- Storyboards
- Tsutomu Mizushima
- Accessory Design
- Minoru Ueda
- Color Setting
- Idumi Hirose
- Director of Photography
- Yohei Konishi
- Sound Director
- Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
- Series Composition
- Ageha Ohkawa, Michiko Yokote
Companies and other credits
- Original Manga: CLAMP (Mokona, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, Satsuki Igarashi)(Published in "Weekly Young Magazine, " Kodansha)
Production notes
After the feature film "xxxHOLiC - A Midsummer Night's Dream" was released in the summer of 2005, CLAMP and Production I.G continued their collaboration with a brand- new TV series. This time, the whole series concept was supervised by Michiko Yokote ("Cowboy Bebop," "Bleach") and CLAMP's Ageha Okawa in person.
Studio 5 ("
Studio 5 ("