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Clear Card PV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrF5qt_LBlc The Original wikipedia posted:The story focuses on Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.  Clear Card Sakura is starting middle school, Syaoran is finally back and everything is perfect. Until it’s not. A mysterious being haunts Sakura’s dreams and after waking up she finds out the art of her cards has vanished leaving them clear. Is Clear Card a sequel? A remake? It’s a sequel to the 90s anime based the manga of the same name (which is a sequel to the original manga). The canon status of the second movie (Sealed Card) which gave a proper ending to the anime is a bit in the air (speculation tumblr link) but the timeline works in any case. ”Why should I watch it?” - It's really pretty. Both the original and the sequel are animated by Madhouse. - It’s easily CLAMP’s best and most popular work. - It’s one of the best examples of the magical girl genre (before it began getting all deconstructed). - If you watched it when you were a kid, watching the sequel is like shooting up nostalgia straight up your veins since it has almost all the staff from the original. - I was lucky enough to watch a proper dub when I was a kid, but if you watched CardCaptors please know that it butchered the show and the original is very different. - Moe is a thing thanks to the original. Okay, maybe not 100% but it definitely is one of the first and best examples of it. - It has some small LGBT elements, some are handed well, some are skipped in the anime. - (Most of) the filler episodes are actually good. The manga is a lot more compressed and while it has some interesting things that didn’t make the cut, the anime is the superior version. Having read the manga is probably enough to be able to watch the new season though. - It’s the cutest thing ever. "Where and when can I watch it?" Every sunday at Crunchyroll and Funimation. Characters (I'm going to add some of the manga elements since it's not clear which exactly is the canon for the sequel)  Sakura Kinomoto The main character. Clumsy and not especially book-smart but extremely athletic, which gives her a very needed advantage when dealing with magical mishaps. She’s extremely kind-hearted, making her unable to see the bad in anything or anyone.  Syaoran Li Originally he was Sakura’s rival for the capture of the cards but Sakura ended up winning the cards and his heart. He was kind of an rear end at first but he got better (one of the rare cases of a male tsundere). Like Sakura, he’s extremely naive and he constantly falls for the lies his classmates (good naturedly) tell him, but has much more experience fighting than she does.  Tomoyo Daidouji Sakura’s best friend and self-appointed documentarian of her adventures. She’s rich and uses her money to make costumes for Sakura (much to her embarrassment) and to help her in her adventures. In the manga she loves Sakura as more than a friend but in the anime it’s only minimally implied.  Kero (Cerberus) The obligatory magical animal, he is one of the guardians of the Clow Cards and was in charge of choosing the candidate to be the next master of the cards. He’s bossy, demanding, and gluttonous and spends most of his time playing video games so he’s basically a goon, but he really cares about Sakura.  Yue The other guardian. Much more serious than his counterpart but ends up warming up to Sakura. He was in charge of testing the candidate Kerberos chose. Yukito Yue’s human “mask” but ended up having his own personality and interests. He can’t remember what Yue does so they try to not involve him too much in magical stuff since he’s technically a muggle.  Eriol Hiiragizawa The reincarnation of Clow Reed (the original creator of the cards), he was in change of executing a centuries-old plan for leaving the cards with Sakura. In the manga he’s only half a reincarnation and is plagued by visions of the future until he is able to give half his magical power to  Fujitaka Kinomoto Sakura’s widowed father. A good guy. He was deeply in love with Sakura’s mother and was able to see her again after receiving Eriol’s power in the manga, since he’s Clow Reed’s other reincarnation (it gets weird, okay?)  Touya Kinomoto Sakura’s brother. He bullies her a bit but is always making sure she’s safe. He was able to see ghosts and knows about Sakura’s magical side job but hasn’t told her. In love (and maybe in a relationship?) with Yukito. Some of Sakura's classmates:  Yamazaki likes to tells outlandish stories and both Sakura and Syaoran believe them all.  Chiharu is Yamazaki's childhood friend and maybe girlfriend? In the manga they are definitely a couple by the end of the original and the first episode of Clear Card seems to imply the same.  Rika was the mature one and had a crush on her teacher for the longest time. In the manga the teacher liked her back (thankfully it never goes past a promise to get together when she grows up but ick). At some point since the 90s someone told CLAMP that teacher-student relationships are gross and in Clear Card she died on her way back to her home planet (aka transferred schools / was written out). -------  Two mystery characters from the OP that haven’t appeared yet. ------- OP https://twitter.com/fluffykatsudon/status/949814117560389634 The cutest ED ever https://twitter.com/pKjd/status/949776721665912832 -------  Please don't post spoilers from the Clear Card manga.
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nielsm posted:Must be banned by school regulations. Middle school is serious business EDIT: Rewatching it, it looks like everyone got a bit modernized even though I only noticed Yue's changes when I first watched the first episode. For example Yukito:  
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Card Captor Sakura was a really good show and I'm down for watching this, but first, are the movies worth watching? I never saw them and was thinking they'd be a good way to refresh my memories before the new season starts. Canon issues and all I'd still recommend everyone to watch the second movie, it's top CCS, the pinnacle of the series. The first is... eh.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:25
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Something that amused me a bit yesterday is that from what I remember from the manga, Sakura's one of the most powerful magic users in the world after Eriol divided his powers but no one has bothered to train her at all, never uses magic for anything other than making videos with Tomoyo, etc. In the end she ended up getting saved by the new key.
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Fangz posted:I think kinda that was the point, IIRC, in that Clow's magic really brought him nothing except misery. Yeah, but I feel leaving Sakura untrained doesn't really solve that problem if she's going to have all that power anyway. I mean, maybe if she was trained she would have known what to do when the clear card attacked her without having to depend on having had a magic dream induced by someone else. 
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Strange Quark posted:My impression was that Clow didn’t want to be the most powerful magician anymore because he was bored by it, though that may be colored by the fact I tend to think of him as kind of a selfish dick. If it were something that he thought would lead to unhappiness, I don’t think he would have pushed it onto Sakura. While I do agree that Clow is a selfish dick, I think Eriol isn't, and he addresses that concern in the manga (Clow and him could see the future making them miserable, would Sakura have the same problem?) and he says that he would have never done anything if it mean giving that kind of problem to her.
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Rodyle posted:wow I totally forgot about Eriol's weird teacher relationship. Kaho: "It's okay, he's actually 500 years old!" Also, Kaho was in a relationship with Touya when he was in middle school. I guess Eriol only has a couple of years left before he ages out. It looks like she was too important to Poochie her but ugh.
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Rodyle posted:Good lord for a series of what, 8 tanks total? There sure is all kinds of poo poo I forgot! There's a reason why this thread's title almost was "Clear-ly better than the manga"
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Top-Tomoyo in this episode.
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Jan 14, 2018 02:27
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Hot take: Siege is a trash card and it felt very random how it appeared from nowhere. It did lead to this great shot though:
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If you're American go watch the best CCS-related media ever released: http://www.crunchyrollmovienight.com/
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Jan 19, 2018 02:28
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Platinum and Yoru no Uta! I actually liked Ashita e no melody, can't even remember the first movie's theme.
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Silver2195 posted:The end of episode 64 surprised me a little, with Eriol saying to himself that he felt bad about what he was doing to Sakura. I could imagine scenarios (albeit far-fetched ones; my point about just asking Sakura to transform the cards still stands) where this is consistent with his actions, but it certainly isn't consistent with the way his facial expressions have been depicted or how he's been voice acted up to this point, or even with some of the things he says to Spinner and Ruby. I love your posts. I don't really remember what I thought during the original run since it was so long ago so it's interesting to read a fresh look.
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This is a safe space, please don't talk about the T-word. 
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