I know she has experience with using magic cards now, and everyday her magic is growing, but one of the best things about the original series was watching her struggle.
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I always thought it was a shame that we didn’t get to see an interplay between the cards or more time spent on Sakura figuring out how to use them. Other than that, the clear cards feel lifeless and devoid of their own personalities. In Clear Card the only real card that we see significant interaction with is Flight. Just watching the development of her relationship with Touya was enough to make every episode she was featured in interesting. Mirror, for instance, was really interesting every time she appeared in the series. I loved seeing her interaction with the cards and their own subsequent personalities. By both getting rid of those cards and sidelining her interaction with the new ones she creates, an integral part of Sakura’s character is being removed from the series. One of the main aspects of the series and of Sakura’s character was her interaction with and her care for the cards that she captured. But, in doing so, they lost the excitement and the character of the series. It makes the cards feel like an afterthought and not an integral part of the series.Īnd maybe that’s what they were going for with this series, more emphasis on the slice of life and fashion elements of the story and less on the magical parts. Often the episodes will play out with Sakura in school or having picnics with her friends for over half the episode, and after the episode is nearly over, then we’ll get to see a new card. With Clear Card, what we get are episodes skewed more towards Sakura’s time in school and with her friends than on her adventures as a magical girl. The episodes were laid out in such a way that we got to see a good amount of both sides, with each episode’s story revolving around one or more cards. One of the things I loved about the original series was how CLAMP handled the balance between Sakura’s duties as a magical girl and her being just another elementary student. If you want to see more of my thoughts on the art, you can check out my mid-season review.
Most of my concerns rest with the story, I really don’t have any problem with the art in the anime. This review is probably going to end up being pretty spoilery, so if you haven’t caught up on the new series, I suggest you go watch it before reading further. Now, I can definitively say after watching the last episode that I honestly have more questions now than I did then. There were a ton of questions circling around at that time about where the story would go, what kind of reveals we would see later on, and predictions on where the story around Akiho might go. I knew there was a chance it would turn out to be a sub-par remake, but I honestly had faith that CLAMP wouldn’t let one of their most popular series fail like that.īack at the end of last season, the middle of the series, I wrote a blog post talking about Clear Card as it stood then and my hopes for where the story may go from there. To say that I was looking forward to this series when it was announced would be an understatement. It was one of the first magical girl series to really break the mold of what it meant to be a magical girl, doing away with transformation sequences, actually adding characterization to the male leads/love interest, and promoting positive views of single parenthood and same-sex relationships. It’s one that’s been a favorite of mine since early childhood and, because of this series, I was introduced to many more brilliant CLAMP series like xxxHolic and Kobato.
Cardcaptor Sakura is one of my all-time favorite series. The title of this blog post makes it sound like I’m feeling a bit betrayed right now, and in a way that is true.
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