as Kobato. in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine from October 10, 2006, to July 8, 2011. Kadokawa Shoten collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from December 26, 2007, to August 24, 2011. In April 2007, Newtype USA announced a special agreement with manga powerhouse Clamp to exclusively serialize Kobato., in the pages of the magazine. Kobato began its serial run in the June 2007 issue of Newtype USA, and was to continue its exclusive serialization through the May 2008 issue, comprising 12 installments in total. However Newtype USA ceased publication with the February 2008 issue, having serialised 9 of the 12 installments. In July 2009, Yen Press announced that they had acquired the license to publish Kobato in English in North America during their panel at San Diego Comic-Con International. The manga was released in North America in May 2010 in honor of CLAMP's 20th anniversary. In Europe, the series was licensed by Pika Édition for France, JPF for Poland and Norma Editorial for Spain. Anime A 24-episode anime adaption aired on autumn of 2009, animated by Madhouse and supervised by CLAMP's Nanase Ohkawa. xxxHolic writer Michiko Yokote is also supervising the scripts along with Ohkawa. The anime began its broadcast on October 6, 2009. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series. On October 17, 2012, Crunchyroll announced that the anime would be available on their website through their anime catalog. Hiromi Katō, the character designer of Kobato., said that "Kobato. itself is kind of different from past CLAMP works, especially the way the eyes are drawn, we are trying to make it as close as we can to the original. The costumes will change in each episode." The opening theme "Magic Number" is performed by Maaya Sakamoto and the ending themes "Jellyfish no Kokuhaku" (episodes 1-19) and "Watashi ni Dekiru Koto" (episodes 20-23) by Megumi Nakajima. CLAMP in Wonderland Kobato., along with most of CLAMP's other titles, appeared in CLAMP's second music video, CLAMP in Wonderland 2, which was the first time the characters Kobato and Ioryogi were animated. Others Two Kobato. light novels were published by Kadokawa Shoten. The first one titled was released on April 15, 2010. The second one, followed it on July 15, 2010. Two guidebooks from the series have also been released by Kadokawa. The first one, , was released on March 4, 2010. A guidebook of the series, , was released on May