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「さくらとお庭でおにごっこ」 (Sakura to Oniwa de Onigokko)
“Sakura and A Game of Tag in the Garden”
While it may not have been much different than last week’s episode, I really appreciated that we got to see a card with a different personality than the ones we’ve already seen.
General Impressions
Overall, I thought this week’s episode was actually pretty good. All things considered, it was a nice mix of slice-of-life elements with our typical new-card-a-week setup. However, I think the personality of the new Flight Card is what really tickled my pickle. Specifically, I thought it was cool to see a card finally appear that wasn’t out to wreak havoc and/or harm Sakura in the process. Looking back at things, every single card up until this week has done something that you’d consider hostile. From locking Sakura and her friends up in an inescapable room to trying to slam her straight into a giant Sakura tree, it wasn’t that much of a stretch to assume that every new encounter would be a dangerous one for her.
But after this week, it looks like we’ve finally broken from that pattern and encountered a card that seems to be in it just to have some fun. With a ribbon like appearance that had a personality reflecting its appearance, it was cool to see Sakura exploit her strongest charm point — being friendly and open. Because even if she can do some awesome flips and can hold her own in a fight, it’s clear that she isn’t the type of person who’d go out of her way to physically fight. And when you factor that into the way she behaves while in Cardcaptor mode, it creates this awesome moment where instead of having a disconnect between the everyday Sakura, we get to see her find success just be being her regular ol’ self.
Besides the actual meat of the episode, there were also some pretty cool moments that were note worthy. Amongst all the awesome scenes with Kero-chan and Tomoe showing off all of her sweet tech (the drone was kind of ugly, but the quality from a lens that tiny was impressive), the coolest thing this week had to be when Syaoran summoned his sword. Besides looking like the cool kid I remembered from the original Cardcaptor series, it’s cool to actually have some confirmation that he’s still a capable person when it comes to handling magic.
Anyways, with the story foreshadowing a big battle to come and Sakura quickly racking up new cards, I can’t wait to see where all this leads to. Hopefully we’ll get to see sooner rather than later since it looks like we’re going to swing over to Akiho’s place next week and hopefully that means we’ll finally get some of the answers we’re looking for.
Catch you next week!
Preview
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it was great to see a card with personallity and gentle unlike the ones she seen before
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This show is so pure, there’s no thought for what would really happen if a girl wearing a big, flouncy skirt starting flying around above a boy who liked her.
The weirdest boner, obviously.
No screenshots of Sakura using Gravitation to bypass the maze? I thought that segment was awesome. Some really innovative card use that she just came up with on the fly.
Finally I got a comment through! Every comment I’ve tried to post for the last two weeks has just disappeared. Did someone put an agressive new spam blocker on your comment section, or something?
Not that I know of.
If it happens again, ping me on twitter @rctakaii and I’ll check the logs.
@Takaii: You aren’t accepting direct messages on twitter, so I can’t contact you to let you know that it’s happened again.
This card looks like it part of the Princess Costume from the opening so it may turn out to be important in the future.
Mobility cards are always important in the Cardcaptor series. The predecessor(s) of this card, Jump & Fly, are some of the most used card in the old series.
https://randomc.net/image/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen%20-%2007%20-%20Large%20Preview%2003.jpg
Now here’s a guy who simpley looks like he’s one hell of a butler.
https://randomc.net/image/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2006.jpg
Was also glad to see Tomoyo’s mother again.
You sure do love putting that ending card in the 6 images you pick for the teaser.
I watched the clip of Lee releasing his sword, loved the music, Tsubasa feelings!
Show Spoiler ▼
From 4th grade to Middle School technology had advanced this much.
https://randomc.net/image/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2002.jpg
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No one’s mentioned how the “Fly” card was Sakura’s most used card in the previous series. It would allow Sakura to fly around with wings, was her first card captured, etc. “Gale” doesn’t have the same friendliness as “Flight”.
Also, a lot of time spent on the Record card making realistic holograms, but no one can see how to use it?
Well, “Gale” is more akin to an aggressive and offensive “Windy” card (“Windy” being defensive and gentle).
https://randomc.net/image/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen/Cardcaptor%20Sakura%20Clear%20Card%20Hen%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2033.jpg
The flying animation was really, really good.