Chobits
"Chobits" was adapted as a 26-episode-long anime television series broadcast on TBS and Animax from April to September 2002. In addition, it has spawned two video games as well as various merchandise such as figurines, collectable cards, calendars, and artbooks.
Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales
The all-female manga artist group Clamp began "Shirahime-Syo" after the editor of Kobunsha's manga magazine "Bar Pretty" requested that the group to make a manga for the company. Prior to that, the group had watched an episode of the television show "Manga Japanese Legends", which had "impressed" them. A preview poster for the manga appeared in the March 1992 issue of "Bar Pretty", the magazine's final one, depicting Shirahime. At that point, the characters and story type were undecided, although the concept had been determined. Shirahime's character design had been used earlier on a postcard in the group's newsletter; at the time, they had considered using the character in a future story dealing with folklore. They considered Shirahime not quite a "yuki-onna", but more similar to the eponymous character of Osama Tezuka's manga "Phoenix" in that she was a vital supporting character "who exists separately outside the individual stories". Although the group lacked the time to research a time period for the costumes of the characters, the costume "trends" differed from chapter to chapter to evoke the sense that each chapter occurred in a different time period.