![]() ![]() But not before Kero hijacks the show with a virtually useless and unhelpful (though still humorous) recap of the story so far, accompanied with a special appearance by Suppi.Ĭlear Card’s debut hits all the right beats you’d expect of your typical Cardcaptor Sakura episode. For longtime fans of the series, the brand new Clear Card arc actually picks up right after the events of the original story, and the episode opens with Sakura getting ready for her first day at middle school. Even after 18 years since the final episode of the original anime series was aired, returning to Tomoeda and the Kinomoto household feels refreshing and blissfully nostalgic at the same time. In any case, thank you to everyone who has been able to keep up with the post! I know that this show wasn’t the easiest to tackle (especially if you didn’t have nostalgia amping up all the slower moments), but hopefully another season in the future will wrap things all up and make it all worth it.There are few things in this world as pure and earnest as the universe of CLAMP’s beloved anime and manga series, Cardcaptor Sakura. Maybe then we can have a nice analysis on more specific parts of the show once there’s some material to actually talk about! ![]() And as I said earlier, with the way things ended, it’d be very easy for another season to pick up right where things left off once there’s enough material to do so. ![]() As a sequel to an insanely successful and popular show, I think it did the series justice by staying on topic and giving fans both new and old exactly what they were promised - Sakura being a Card Captor. Overall, I don’t think there’s much to say about the show as a whole at this point. And if anything, everyone had “aged” just enough to make it feel like the events of the original were way in the past. With the timeline ever-so-slightly ahead of where the original left off, you didn’t have to subvert your expectations too much since everyone involved did age a bit. Luckily, as with all shows, the open-ended ending of the second-cour leaves it wide open for another season to swoop on in and continue right where things left off.īacktracking to our characters, I don’t think there’s much to say here except it was a treat to see everyone. That said, I suppose there isn’t much you can do when the source material isn’t finished and making an anime- original ending isn’t really an option. Because as much as this is as how about Sakura capturing Cards, the true meat of the show comes from the story (and mysteries) that are constantly moving and changing amongst the set pieces of capturing cards. The biggest of which being the pacing and episode after episode of things happening, but nothing really pushing the plot forward. It had all the elements of what one would expect from a Cardcaptor show except the execution of some of those elements felt a little lackluster. That said, I must say that the story for this sequel was something that I had some problems with. Between Kero-chan doing his thing to new character Akiho appearing to round things out for the non-magical characters, there was a nice mix between old and new that helped Clear Card Hen stand out on its own. I don’t know about you, but there’s something powerful about seeing characters that we grew up with getting a chance to continue their story. ![]() Pacing problems aside (which we’ll dive into in a little), the power of nostalgia combined with a solid IP is nothing to scoff at. That was such an awkward place to end things - but considering that the source for Clear Card Hen is still on-going, I guess this wasn’t the worst place to leave things for a potential sequel.īoy, after years of not watching anything Cardcaptor related, it was a real treat to see a new adaptation finally making its way to our desktop and television screens. ![]()
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