Confusion re: CLAMP

[spleen.livejournal.com]

When I was reading the official website for credits and I read this:

キャラクターデザイン原案: ＣＬＡＭＰ

Which means the original character designs are by CLAMP. But since then read in several places that it was originally produced/created by CLAMP, so I'm confused.

My Japanese isn't that great (maybe I missed something?), so I ask for comfirmation: What is CLAMP's part in this series? Are they related to the manga? I had believed the anime came before the manga, am I mistaken?

It's weird when several sources all say different things, though I don't see where anything official says these things. -_o

I'm inclinded to believe the official website, and that some fan websites and such are mistaken.

Thank you for any comfirmation ahead of time.

Comments

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

there is a manga but the manga is no related in anything to the anime
Sunrise and specificaly the director friend of Clamp want to do a serie based in the manga but only for the mecha and the basic trama but he wants strong a upper characters in it so he talk with Clamp and the designe characters and some background for them this in a lot in conversation with the director and Clamp still have this conversation with the director but the history line is from him and sunrise