at this point i look forward to your ccs liveblogging so much its become part of watching the show to me dggssdddgdd!!!!

WOW WOW WOW I’M SO VERY HONORED 💜

I still have no idea why Syaoran is holding seances for his girlfriend’s teddy bear

FOR THE DRAMA

Next season of Sakura should be a spin off with Tomoyo as a main character, the plot is just Tomoyo trying to film Sakura, sometimes it’s cards related stuff, sometimes it’s just slice of life. Also Tomoyo is the one behind the Kero explain stuff segments and we get to see the behind the scenes for that. The OPs and EDs are Tomoyo doing the filming of the previous OPs and EDs (There’s already one of that for the first opening of the original)

^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don’t even have anything to add, I’m just patiently waiting for CLAMP to announce “FilmMaker Tomoyo”

Not to ruin everyone’s fun with the time traveler Tomoyo, but I think she just put a camera in the top of a desk and let it record everything in that fixed point, while she was with another camera that she could move and zoom in on what she wanted. But the most important question is why did she chose to film that angle? It’s literally the opposite way the audience is, you are just getting the backs of everyone, Tomoyo, I thought you knew better than this

no she’s definitely a time traveler how ELSE would she have the foresight to thematically match each battle outfit to the card before she even knows what the card is

also if you ever need to ask why Tomoyo is doing what she’s doing with the camera, the answer is “for the drama”

The thing about clear card is that 90% of the time they forget they have a plot, but somehow whatever they are showing is entertainment enough (at least for me) that I could watch that forever, give me an entire episode about tips for cooking, or about weird musical instruments or children books, but then when we get to the 10% of “plot” and it’s actually “everyone around Sakura Knows Something but won’t tell her” and that’s so much more frustrating than having 100% no plot

This analysis perfectly captures the pacing issues with Cardcaptor Sakura, thank you! I’m perfectly happy with the slice-of-life stuff, but the interpersonal relationships are so engaging by themselves that the actual magical girl plot comes off kind of jarring. It’s like if you were watching Care Bears and every episode ended with a voiceover narration that says “yes, all seems well… but someone is going to murder Cozy Heart Penguin in the next few weeks, and no one knows how or why”

I high key ship Thanos and Sailor Galaxia

I was completely unprepared to find this in my inbox and started laughing out loud. thank you anon for this moment of levity. 

Any idea where I could watch the Viz dub? I’m really curious to check it out but they only released it in America, not in Europe :(

I was in Europe last summer, and the way I got around the “not available in your country” messages was to use a VPN app and choose United States as location. (Unsurprisingly, I was also using it to watch Sailor Moon on the VIZ site.) I haven’t been able to find any non-US streaming sites that have it though, if you have any leads leave a reply! 

By now I’m just staring suspiciously at Yamazaki and wondering what HE’S hiding. And what Fujitaka’s been up to offscreen. (I mean, hopefully Kero and Yue tell Sakura after they’ve calmed down from ‘shit she’s really powerful’, but as it stands basically every dude in the show is keeping some big secret.)

I can’t believe we let all the other random bullshit distract us from the true question on all our minds, which is 

WHERE

THE HECK

IS YAMAZAKI

He’s not in the new OP with everyone else, and he hasn’t appeared or even been mentioned since Nightmare Zoo. Did he lie to us about his own existence? Was his presence in this reality just another prank? Is he the third most powerful magician that Kero was talking about? Where do the mysteries end?

Couldn’t they just truncated them telling the story to move the plot on instead of taking up the majority of the last half of the ep? I did like Syaorans aggressive organ playing as a way to tell the kids to stfu

I’m really curious about why they decided to make “Buying Mittens” such a big focus! I assumed that it would be an easy 1:1 allegory for something that’s going on in the larger narrative, but I honestly can’t figure it out. The story was wonderful even though I don’t know why it was there. That’s how they keep me watching every single week! 

Les Miserables anon again. What if Nadeshiko died so Sakura could live, much like Fantine died for Cosette? Yes, I realize this is a huge reach, but it technically would work for the storyline of CCS.

Okay I never would have considered that the characters of Cardcaptor Sakura would map so perfectly onto the plot of Les Miserables because, like, one is so happy and one is so sad. But now that I think about it, Tomoyo is if Eponine had a crush on Cosette instead of Marius.