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61-417: [REDACTED] An image depicting three versions of Syaoran by Clamp. Left: Syaoran Li from Cardcaptor Sakura . Centre: the clone Syaoran from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle . Right: the original Syaoran from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle . Syaoran (小狼 Xiǎoláng ; シャオラン Shaoran ) is the given name of three fictional characters created by Clamp : Syaoran Li ,

122-550: A storage clamp , in the sense of "a bunch of potatoes". This is referenced in Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders , where a teacher is observed saying: "The name 'Clamp' incorporates the words 'hinge,' as well as 'potato mountain,' within its definition." Clamp originally began in the mid-1980s as an eleven-member dōjinshi circle, to fill a booth vacancy at Dream Comic, a doujin event in Osaka. To fill

183-465: A Rolling Stones member . Ohkawa and Igarashi, wanting to go with the flow of Nekoi's and Mokona's name changes, changed their names as well. In 2006, Clamp provided the character designs for Code Geass . This came into fruition after producer Yoshitaka Kawaguchi called them. This also marked Clamp's first time being requested to provide a character design for an anime series not originally created by them. Ohkawa made her first appearance overseas at

244-457: A column in the gojūon , while the number of presses determines the row. For example, the '2' button corresponds to the ka -column ( ka , ki , ku , ke , ko ), and the button is pressed repeatedly to get the intended kana. In each entry, the top entry is the hiragana, the second entry is the corresponding katakana, the third entry is the Hepburn romanization of the kana, and the fourth entry

305-503: A diverse body of work. Clamp's genres vary widely, from childish and comedic ( Cardcaptor Sakura , Chobits , Clamp School Detectives ) to more dramatic and teen-rated ( xxxHolic , X ) series. Furthermore, drawing from the idea of Osamu Tezuka's Star System as they did in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle , Clamp often crossover characters from their own series into their other works, which gives rise to

366-436: A fan comic. After seeing the comic digest of the manga series that Clamp had published, an editor for Shinshokan 's Wings manga magazine asked the group to work for them. They submitted an approximately sixty-page story as a sample, but the work was rejected. Ohkawa later lambasted the draft, stating that "everything was bad" and attributing the quality to the group's lack of experience, since they had never before completed

427-557: A female audience, Chobits marked the first time Clamp wrote for an older teen male audience. Clamp began writing the two works that tell separate parts of the same overarching plot, xxxHolic serialized in Young Magazine beginning in 2003 followed by Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine beginning in the same year. Tsubasa marked the first time Clamp had ever tried writing for

488-442: A loosely defined "Clamp Universe". Although most of their manga are female-oriented, Clamp has also attracted male readers in their early works through their handling of fight scenes in X and Tokyo Babylon . Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is a male-oriented manga but Clamp still added multiple motifs to attracts readers such as Syaoran's romantic journey. xxxHolic is an adult-oriented manga but it uses Kimihiro Watanuki as

549-552: A lot of other people". Perhaps drawing inspiration from Ohkawa's own poor right-eye vision, Clamp frequently features one-eyed characters or characters that lose their sight in one eye as means to express the feeling of loneliness (for example, Subaru and Seishirō in Tokyo Babylon and X and Fay in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ). However, there is always something later on that comes to supplement

610-414: A magazine), storyboarding takes twelve hours, the script takes eight hours to write, and the artwork depends on the story. For example, a chapter of xxxHolic takes two days, whereas a chapter of X took four to five days. In general, Ohkawa gets her inspiration for the group from everyday events such as dreams or the news. Unlike most manga artists who specialize in a single genre, Clamp has created

671-514: A new series in the Cardfight!! Vanguard franchise will begin on April 3, 2021, and will feature character designs by Clamp. The new series will be called Vanguard overDress . In June 2021, it was announced that Clamp will collaborate with Netflix to produce an original anime series based on the Grimms' Fairy Tales , with Wit Studio handling the animation. In March 2024, the series' title

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732-407: A protagonist that would attract a female demographic. The current members of Clamp took art-focused classes during their high school. However, Tsubaki Nekoi feels that, aside from basic art skills, drawing manga requires a different skill set; however, none of the group members has worked as an assistant for already established manga artists, and most of their ability is self-taught. Clamp's manga

793-515: A sample story and sketch for their editor and receiving approval, Ohkawa assigns the roles to each group member and then chooses the visual styles depending on factors such as the complexity of the story, the chosen art style, and its relationship to the group's other works. Ohkawa provides a rough draft for each chapter detailing things such as dialogue, panel size, props, movement, and character's emotions. On average for each chapter that they produce (for Clamp, an average of 20 pages of artwork in

854-489: A story as a cohesive group. The group was given another chance at publication should they submit a new story that Shinshokan liked; this time, they submitted RG Veda , which was serialized in Wings magazine. During the time before their official debut, the group moved to Tokyo and rented a small, two-bedroom apartment. Ohkawa stated that she thought she was "gonna die there". Nekoi stated that "the only private space [they] had

915-504: A twelve-part magazine series entitled Clamp no Kiseki that contained a plethora of information for fans. The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA , a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of Clamp simply wanted to try out new names. In a later interview with Ohkawa, it was revealed that initially Mokona wanted to drop her surname because it sounded too immature for her liking, while Nekoi disliked people mistakenly commenting on her as

976-475: A unifying tone", and creates "absorbing, complex narratives that appeal to both male and female readers". All these factors result in "a cult following devoted to anything and everything the group publishes". The Anime Encyclopedia authors stated that "whatever Clamp are on, we'd like some". Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies stated that Clamp's works "are among the most successful manga and anime with Western fans". Goj%C5%ABon In

1037-769: A vacancy next to Yun Kōga 's CLUB/Y booth, they called themselves CLAMP, since club and clamp both started with kura ( クラ ) in Katakana spelling, and the booths were sorted according to gojūon order. The original circle included O-Kyon ( お·きょん ) , Sei Nanao ( 七穂せい , Nanao Sei ) , Tamayo Akiyama ( 秋山 たまよ , Akiyama Tamayo ) , Leeza Sei ( 聖りいざ , Sei Riiza ) , Sōshi Hishika ( 日鷺総司 , Hishika Sōshi ) , Kazue Nakamori ( 中森かずえ , Nakamori Kazue ) , and Shinya Ōmi ( 大海神哉 , Ōmi Shin'ya ) . Three of Clamp's artists— Mokona , Tsubaki Nekoi , and Satsuki Igarashi —first began drawing manga when they were teenagers, inspired by friends. The three artists were good friends in

1098-534: A younger male audience, although their first work published in the Shōnen demographic was Angelic Layer . In 2004, Clamp's 15th anniversary as a manga artist group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa , Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona , Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. To celebrate Clamp's 15th anniversary, Tokyopop released

1159-624: Is also the reason the three girls consider each other "sisters"; another idea that elaborates people being tied together (family cannot be chosen). Clamp also explores the idea of chaste or pure love (as in the manga Chobits ). Clamp's disregard for sex or gender (or at times biological age) in these couples has led them to write same-sex couples into many of their manga in contrast to many other manga artists (for example, Tōya and Yukito in Cardcaptor Sakura ). A number of such couples have been shown together across parallel dimensions in

1220-520: Is at the end) and the diacritics do not follow the usual pattern: p/b (as in Sanskrit) is the usual unvoiced/voiced pattern, and [h] has different articulation. This is because /h/ was previously [p] , and pronouncing /h/ as [h] is recent. (More detail at Old Japanese: Consonants ; in brief: prior to Old Japanese, modern /h/ was presumably [p] , as in Ryukyuan languages . Proto-Japanese

1281-572: Is believed to have split into Old Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages in the Yamato period (250–710). In Old Japanese (from 9th century) and on to the 17th century, /h/ was pronounced [ɸ] . The earliest evidence was from 842, by the monk Ennin , writing in the Zaitōki that Sanskrit /p/ is more labial than Japanese. The Portuguese later transcribed the は-row as fa/fi/fu/fe/fo .) Moraic n ( ん )

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1342-409: Is distinguished by its diverse visual styles. Their work Clover , for example, is remarkable for its heavy use of negative space . Clamp's works span a wide variety of themes. As opposed to keeping consistent themes across their works or having individual themes for each work, Nanase Ohkawa stated "we come up with a new theme for each story. One thing to say each time." Their works often deal with

1403-677: Is the prevalent system for collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method. Other systems used are the iroha ordering, and, for kanji, the radical ordering. The gojūon arrangement is thought to have been influenced by both the Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit and the Chinese fanqie system. The monk Kūkai introduced the Siddhaṃ script to Japan in 806 on his return from China. Belonging to

1464-624: Is the pronunciation written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Please see Japanese phonology for more details on the individual sounds. The rows are referred to as dan ( 段 ) , and the columns as gyō ( 行 ) . They are named for their first entry, thus the rows are (top to bottom) あ段、い段、う段、え段、お段 while the columns are (right to left) あ行、か行、さ行、た行、な行、は行、ま行、や行、ら行、わ行 . These are sometimes written in katakana, such as ア行 , and conspicuously used when referring to Japanese verb conjugation – for example,

1525-835: The Blood: The Last Vampire spin off anime, Blood-C , as they are responsible for designing the characters and providing the story. Ohkawa wrote the scripts with series supervisor, Junichi Fujisaku for both anime series and the sequel movie, Blood-C: The Last Dark . Legal Drug restarted serialization in the same year in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace under the new title of Drug and Drop . A new xxxHolic manga titled XXXHOLiC Rei also started serialization in Kodansha's Young Magazine in March 2013. Clamp also provided character design for Studio Deen 's

1586-586: The Brahmic family of scripts , the Sanskrit ordering of letters was used for it. Buddhist monks who invented katakana chose to use the word order of Sanskrit and Siddham , since important Buddhist writings were written with those alphabets. In an unusual set of events, although it uses Sanskrit organization (grid, with order of consonants and vowels), it also uses the Chinese order of writing (in columns, right-to-left). The order of consonants and vowels, and

1647-611: The Taipei International Book Exhibition sponsored by Production I.G that same year. During an interview there, she announced that Clamp would be making its first United States public debut at Anime Expo in July in Anaheim, California co-sponsored by Anime Expo, Del Rey Manga , Funimation and Tokyopop. They were well received at the convention as fans completely filled all 6,000 seats present in

1708-450: The gojūon , smaller versions of kana are treated in the same way as full-size versions: Voiced versions (those with a dakuten ) are classified under their unvoiced versions; If the words are otherwise identical, the voiced version is placed after the unvoiced; handakuten are placed after dakuten. For example, and To remember the gojūon , various mnemonics have been devised. For example, The first letters in such phrases give

1769-475: The Clamp multiverse . Although Clamp often writes romantic works, Ohkawa has mentioned that she feels that it is more putting one's life on the line than love that causes women to grow or change. Clamp never features love as a central theme; Ohkawa stated in an interview with Takeshi Oshiguchi in 1997 for Animerica that she is not "good at love stories" since her "idea of a relationship is different from that of

1830-523: The Japanese language, the gojūon ( 五十音 , Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo(d)ʑɯꜜːoɴ] , lit. "fifty sounds") is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes , roughly analogous to alphabetical order . The "fifty" ( gojū ) in its name refers to the 5×10 grid in which the characters are displayed. Each kana, which may be a hiragana or katakana character, corresponds to one sound in Japanese. As depicted at

1891-419: The alternative iroha ordering is from the 1079 text Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi ( 金光明最勝王経音義 ) . Gojūon ordering was first used for a dictionary in the 1484 Onkochishinsho ( 温故知新書 ) ; following this use, gojūon and iroha were both used for a time, but today gojūon is more prevalent. Today the gojūon system forms the basis of input methods for Japanese mobile phones – each key corresponds to

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1952-462: The anime adaptation of Kabukibu! , which aired in April 2017. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card began serialization in 2016 with an anime that aired from January to June 2018 on NHK . On October 19, 2020, the official Clamp fans website posted a link to a YouTube video due to start on October 25, 2020. These daily links are each accompanied by a graphic displaying the number of days to go until

2013-467: The announcement, and a single word. Each word relates to a chapter of Tokyo Babylon from the respectively numbered tankobon volume. This has caused speculation among Clamp's fans that a new Tokyo Babylon related work is due to be announced. On October 25, 2020, at 15:00 UTC (October 26, 2020 at midnight Japan Standard Time), a trailer was released for a new anime adaptation of Tokyo Babylon . The new series, Tokyo Babylon 2021 , will be released and set

2074-568: The auditorium of the focus panel in addition to more on the waiting list. By 2006, Clamp had reportedly sold in excess of 90 million copies of their manga internationally. While Tsubasa ended in October 2009, xxxHolic ended in early 2011. The authors were satisfied with the two manga ending commenting it was difficult to serialize the two interconnected manga at the same time due to Tsubasa ' s focus on action which required them to write side stories for xxxHolic . Clamp collaborated in

2135-597: The grid at the end: with 5 gaps and 1 extra character, the current number of distinct kana in a moraic chart in modern Japanese is therefore 46. Some of these gaps have always existed as gaps in sound: there was no yi or wu even in Old Japanese , with the kana for i and u doubling up for those phantom values. Ye persisted long enough for kana to be developed for it, but disappeared in Early Middle Japanese , having merged with e . Much later, with

2196-486: The grid does not exactly accord with Sanskrit ordering of Modern Japanese; that is because the grid is based on Old Japanese , and some sounds have changed in the interim. What is now s / さ was previously pronounced either [ts] or [s] , hence its location corresponding to Sanskrit /t͡ʃ/ ; in Sanskrit /s/ appears towards the end of the list. Kana starting with h (e.g. は ), b (e.g. ば ) and p (e.g. ぱ ) are placed where p/b are in Sanskrit (in Sanskrit, h

2257-461: The grid layout, originates in Sanskrit shiksha ( śikṣā , Hindu phonetics and phonology), and Brāhmī script , as reflected throughout the Brahmic family of scripts . Specifically, the consonants are ordered from the back to the front of the mouth ( velar to labial ). The Sanskrit was written left-to-right, with vowels changing in rows, not columns; writing the grid vertically follows Chinese writing convention . There are three ways in which

2318-409: The group cross-reference each other, and characters reappear in multiple works by the group, with Tsubasa , a series set across multiple dimensions, featuring multiple alternative versions of characters from past works. Clamp are noted as among the most critically and commercially acclaimed manga artists in Japan, and as of 2007, have sold nearly 100 million books worldwide. The name "Clamp" refers to

2379-459: The group stopped dōjinshi and began creating original work; it was at this time they began working on RG Veda , a loose adaptation of the Rigveda . Their first collaborative work was entitled "Clamp", which they continued to work on until shortly after their debut. The group debuted as professional manga artists when they decided to print the manga RG Veda , which they had first started as

2440-771: The group's artwork and storytelling style as having "struck a strong chord with male and female manga readers". The group was placed third after the winner for the Shogakukan Manga Award in the Children's category in 1999. Their work Cardcaptor Sakura won the Seiun Award for best manga in 2001. Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007. Various of their selling series include xxxHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle that have sold over eleven million and twenty million volumes, respectively. When asked about

2501-456: The loss in vision. Mystery has surrounded the members of Clamp as, in order to avoid being harassed by overzealous fans, they avoid making public appearances. In polls conducted by marketing research firm Oricon , Clamp was elected ninth most popular manga artist from Japan in 2007, while they were eighth in 2008, sharing the spot with Fujiko F. Fujio . Gen Fukunaga , the president and CEO of Funimation , has praised Clamp as being "one of

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2562-422: The male protagonist of Cardcaptor Sakura Syaoran (clone) , the first protagonist and later antagonist of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Syaoran (original) , the second protagonist of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and the character from which the first protagonist was cloned [REDACTED] Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share

2623-479: The most acclaimed groups of artists in Japan". According to Charles Solomon, a journalist for The New York Times , Clamp "ranks among the most successful creators of manga ... in Japan and the United States". Dallas Middaugh, associate publisher of Del Rey Manga , stated that Clamp was an integral part of "manga explosion" that has been occurring in the United States over the past few years. He also praised

2684-428: The right using hiragana characters, the sequence begins with あ ( a ), い ( i ), う ( u ), え ( e ), お ( o ), then continues with か ( ka ), き ( ki ), く ( ku ), け ( ke ), こ ( ko ), and so on and so forth for a total of ten rows of five columns. Although nominally containing 50 characters, the grid is not completely filled, and, further, there is an extra character added outside

2745-493: The same name (or similar names). If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syaoran&oldid=1227668444 " Category : Set index articles on characters Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Clamp (manga artists) Clamp

2806-486: The same school. They met and befriended Nanase Ohkawa through one of her friends who had bought comics from Mokona. The original group of twelve members began to meet at every event held in Osaka and Kobe, which usually occurred once a month. Before they began creating original work, the group produced dōjinshi of Captain Tsubasa , and yaoi dōjinshi of Saint Seiya and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . However, in 1987,

2867-411: The schedules for time allotted to each individual work. They do not have any assistants, stating that assistants would slow them down because they would not understand the "years worth of jargon" they created among themselves. Once Ohkawa has conceived a story, the four members of the group gather "to discuss the purpose of the story and its main characters". After the group members become familiar with

2928-414: The spelling reforms after World War II , the kana for wi and we were replaced with i and e , the sounds they had merged with. The kana for moraic n (hiragana ん ) is not part of the grid, as it was introduced long after the gojūon ordering was devised. (Previously mu (hiragana む ) was used for this sound.) The gojūon contains all the basic kana, but it does not include: The gojūon order

2989-417: The story in the year 2021. It was to be made by the studio GoHands . The series was to debut in April 2021, but was postponed due to the production team's plagiarism incident. On March 28, 2021, the production committee announced that the series's production was discontinued, and Clamp and the production committee will restart the anime series with a different studio. In January 2021, it was announced that

3050-482: The story, Ohkawa drafts an outline for the story and determines the story's setting. The ending for each story is predetermined. Ohkawa designs many of the characters early in the story's development; frequently appearing guest characters are designed from the beginning whereas minor characters are designed early on. As Ohkawa drafts the outline, the other three members formulate character designs by creating character profile sheets so as to avoid confusion. After drawing

3111-656: The theme of human fate that relates to Ohkawa's view on life; Ohkawa believes that "fate is something you choose", not a "mystical force manipulating your destiny", and that with determination and resolve, "you can change your fate". Also common is the idea of soulmates , or couples tied together by fate . Syaoran and Sakura (featured in both Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ) are among Clamp's signature couples that best fits this representation. As also seen in Magic Knight Rayearth , three girls are bound together by fate to save Cephiro. Fate

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3172-445: The universal popularity of Clamp's works, John Oppliger of AnimeNation stated that although it is "not based on originality [or] their artistic skill", they possess a distinct style that "perfectly mesh[es] the conventional attributes of shōnen and shōjo manga ". He also pointed out that Clamp often "recycles" characters from their own earlier works, which gave rise to "a loosely defined 'Clamp Universe' that gives much of their work

3233-411: The verb yomu ( 読む , "read") is of ma-gyō go-dan katsuyō ( マ行 五段活用 , " ma -column 5-class conjugation") type. Meiji writers, including grammarians and phonologists, often grouped kana into classes. The word they used was 音 ( on , literally "sound"), but their descriptions were based largely on Japanese orthography and the organization of the gojūon table: In the ordering based on

3294-407: The work of the characters and backgrounds or have one person draw all the art depending on the story. The three artists try to stay as "close as possible" to Ohkawa's original designs. Ohkawa advises the artists on what colors to use. Although Ohkawa chooses which projects they decide to decline or accept, Satsuki Igarashi decides on the actual time and order the group works on each project, creating

3355-802: The work that the three artists Mokona, Nekoi, and Igarashi enjoyed working on most. In March 1990, Wings began serializing Tokyo Babylon . In December 1990, Monthly Asuka ran Clamp School Detectives , and in May 1992, it began serializing X . Clamp was serialized by many other magazines and publishers including Kobunsha publishing Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales on June 10, 1992. In 1993, Clamp released two different manga: in March, Miyuki-chan in Wonderland , which began serializing in Newtype , and in November, Magic Knight Rayearth which

3416-624: Was first formed in the mid-1980s as an eleven-member group creating dōjinshi (self-published fan works ), and began creating original manga in 1987. By the time the group made its mainstream publishing debut with RG Veda in 1989, it was reduced to seven members; three more members left in 1993, leaving the four current members of the group. Notable works by Clamp include X (1992), Magic Knight Rayearth (1993), Cardcaptor Sakura (1996) and its sequel Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (2016), Chobits (2000), and xxxHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (both 2003). Various series by

3477-477: Was not present in Old Japanese (it developed following Chinese borrowings), does not fit with other characters due to having no vowel, and thus is attached at the end of the grid, as in Sanskrit treatment of miscellaneous characters. The earliest example of a gojūon -style layout dates from a manuscript known as Kujakukyō Ongi ( 孔雀経音義 ) dated c.  1004 –1028. In contrast, the earliest example of

3538-598: Was originally planned to be a single story rather than a series, although because of good reader response and higher-than-expected sales for its first volume Shinshokan permitted the group to create more volumes, however after each chapter of the manga was released, Shinshokan threatened that it would cease serialization should its popularity fall. In July 1989, Genki Comics began serializing Clamp's second work, Man of Many Faces . Genki Comics began serializing Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders in August 1991, which became

3599-459: Was revealed as The Grimm Variations , which was released as a Netflix exclusive in April 2024. The members of Clamp all share a single workplace and as such do not need to arrange specific meetings. Nanase Ohkawa acts as the group's spokesperson, producer-director, and storyboarder. Mokona is the chief character designer, while Igarashi and Nekoi work for the background; however, the three often shuffle their roles. Sometimes, they may split

3660-1015: Was serialized in Nakayoshi . Nakayoshi also began to serialize Cardcaptor Sakura in May 1996; Ohkawa, Clamp's leader and storyboarder, particularly enjoyed working on Cardcaptor Sakura because unlike many of her previous works, it wasn't tragic. Kadokawa Shoten published The One I Love on July 17, 1995. Wish first began serializing in Asuka Comics DX in October 1996. In December 1998, Suki: A Like Story began first serializing in Asuka Comics DX, and in January 1999, Angelic Layer first began serializing in Monthly Shōnen Ace . In 2001, Young Magazine began serializing Clamp's Chobits which completed its run in 2002. Although their previous works are targeted at

3721-507: Was under [their] desk." By the time RG Veda debuted, its members had gone down to seven. During the production of the manga RG Veda , O-Kyon had left the group. In June 1990, Nanao officially left the group (last mentioned in Shōten 6 ). Hishika, Nakamori and Ōmi officially left in March 1993 (as mentioned in the Shōten 3). In October 1992, Akiyama and Sei officially left the group. RG Veda

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