Japanese: クローバー (CLAMP)
English: Clover
Type: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 20
Status: Completed
Published: 1997 to 1999
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shoujo
Authors: CLAMP, Ohkawa Ageha (Story), CLAMP, Apapa Mokona (Art)
Serialization: Amie Magazine
Synopsis: Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future - pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Suu and Kazuhiko have never met . . . yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact being two distant voices: that of her elderly "grandma," General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, Oruha. And Suu has been kept in that cage all these years because of what she is, and what the Clover Leaf Project found her to be -- a military top secret, and the most dangerous person in the world.
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CLAMP is a four-woman manga studio:
Former members:
O-Kyon, NANAO Sei, AKIYAMA Tamayo,
SEI Leeza, HISHIKA Soushi, NAKAMORI
Kazue and OUMI Shinya. (Baka updates)
Image: MAL
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Status in Country of Origin
4 Volumes 1997 (Complete/Discontinued)
2 Volumes 2008 (Complete)
English volumes
Clover was first published in English by Tokyopop as individual volumes from May 15, 2001 to March 20, 2002. After Tokyopop became defunct, the license was taken over by Dark Horse, who published the title complete in one omnibus volume on May 13, 2009, as well as digitally on May 21, 2014.
Groups Scanlating
Be With You Scans
SS-Project
Licensed in English
Dark Horse (1 Volume - Complete)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Side notes: As I'm writing this I'm totally not knowing how much/ or if there was any changes made since it was published as first time in Japan (4 volumes - I've read the first volume of this instalment.) Still as you can guess there probably has been some changes so that the manga could get some kind of finnish as it was reopened for a new release almost ten years later. CLAMP has few series that are like this they lack the proper ending but it's good that they work as they can to make the series complete. The art is on good level and is something that you can wait from their works. For me the story at the beginning was too loose and jumpy so that would have needed some rethinking... and maybe that was one reason for the update done.^-^
Main characters
Suu (スウ)
Suu is the main character of the series.
In the futuristic world that she inhabits, the military conducted a search for gifted children nicknamed "Clovers", who seemingly have the magical ability to manipulate technology. Demonstrations of their powers include teleportation and summoning weapons from thin air. Suu is one of these children.
Being isolated from the rest of mankind, Suu craves for company, and as for her only wish, she asks to visit "Fairy Park." Her escort is Kazuhiko, an ex-military soldier who has been forced to undertake the task. It is later revealed that Kazuhiko and Sū are connected through Kazuhiko's deceased lover, Oruha.
Fay Ryu Kazuhiko (琉・F・和彦)
Kazuhiko served in the army until Oruha was killed onstage on her birthday. he then swore to seek revenge for his lost lover, and is later assigned to protect Suu on her journey.
Source: MAL
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