REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IN THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CLAMP MANGA X

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the vision of death represented in two illustrations derived from the manga X, created by CLAMP, which was published in Japan between 1992 and 2002 and imported to Mexico between 2003 and 2005. We argue that these illustrations areconstructed with an aesthetic based on neo-baroque quotes of symbols and representations of death, both western and Japanese. These constellations of imaginary are based on the scheme of the representation of death and the transit of the daytime regime ofthe image to the smoothing of the complementary nocturnal regime. They are not only reworkings of the western personification of Death. We base our analysis on the paradigm of indicia inferences of Carlo Ginzburg, by which we trace the referents in the graph and history to which the illustrations belong, and then examine the way in the long duration of the imaginary, it is cited in an ephemeral medium and mobile, which transforms and mixes its properties. Our primary source is the digital version of both illustrations.