You know what? Cardcaptor Sakura was awesome

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I see Sakura in the corner of the TZ logo and I remeraber to a bad experience I had in another forum regarding this show. WorRAB were flung like "prissy," "girly," and another that I think contained the worRAB "magical smut." But conicidentally I just finished the series on Netflix for the second time and I really liked this show a lot. I mean, a lot of people who dislike contemperary magical girl anime really have to give this one it's due. Really, this isn't like your run-of-the-mill kawaii desu magical show, nor is it Nanoha epic level. It's a CLAMP work and it really made me remeraber how much I liked their stuff. It had everything. Magic, romance, yaoi, action, yuri, cute animals, mysterious villains, raging yaoi, nice voice work and did I mention that there was yaoi? I don't think I did But seriously, to this day, I really can't think of a show that looked so obviously girlish and yet was so very into it's setting and appealing to both genders. Pulled no punches with development and really stuck it too the viewer in terms of the relationships.

If I did have a major complaint, it was that the manga ended way better than the anime finale movie ("Okay so she confessed....in midair....no way is she going to make that jump." )

Now I'm not even going to get into the dub ([strike]SURFERVOICEDKERO!RAAAGE[/strike]) since I didn't even get most of the removed and changed stuff until years later ("She was his cousin! And they were gonna get married!?") but I still wonder if Nelvana ever figured out that they heard "Keroberos" like it was a word and not the romanized way of saying "Cerberus" (which I figured out, thanks to the manga)

I'm also going to ignore the Tsubasa/xxxHolic craziness that crossed over into this because I get depressed just thinking about it.

So anyone else have fond memories of this?
 
Hoeeeeeeee! Cardcaptor Sakura is an amazing show. It balances the right amount of character, story, action, adventure, and sweetness to make for a satisfying and at times unconventional magical girl anime. In fact if somebody asked me for some reason on what magical girl anime they should get into, I'd say this.

That said... I still need to continue with my Sakura Box Set and watch the two movies. You people better pray to your deities that FUNi or somebody rereleases those box sets at an affordable price.
 
I still get dirty looks from people when I say I saw Cardcaptors. OK, I know about the changes now, but people don't seem to know how desperate I was at the time.

It was early 2000's, the internet was still wild and youtube didn't exist. I had no cable and no other geeky support. All I had was Digimon, Cardcaptors, and Yugioh to feed my anime addiction. Those were desperate times.

Although, looking back, there are some funny moments. Like Matt Hill doing the voice of Kero and Tomoyo sounding like Mariemaia Khushrenada. Also how people were complaing about changes that seem silly in light of the butchery of One Piece.

That said, I've wanted to see the Cardcaptor Sakura anime but havn't been able to get my hanRAB on them. Luckily, the local libarary does have copies of the manga.

Wow, the stories are truly amazing and the artwork is beautiful. However, I am shocked that the manga is listed for all ages. I won't list them here, but some of the things that pop up would cause quite a stir if it was done in America.

That, and Sakura saying "Hoe" all the time. She should watch her mouth
 
I actually love xxxHolic (the manga, that is. The anime has no sense of proportion of people or poeple compared to objects or rooms, and that annoys me). But I agree in that Cardcaptor Sakura >>>>> Tsubasa. Tsubasa is a bore fest, plus Sakura is an amnesiac princess that neeRAB rescuing in it... it's like Clamp wrote a bad fanfic of their own work.

I actually watched CardCaptors anime way back when, but read the manga for accuracy. heh. Most of the edits were bad, but a few were for the better... for one I didn't mind the removing that illegal relationship that teacher had with his young student.
 
Yeah...the teacher never had a relationship with his student. She had a crush on him. That's all.

Anyway, I always think of Cardcaptors as the height of KiRAB WB. The time that it aired was pretty much as good as the block ever got. It was all downhill from there...

As far as the original anime goes, I hated how it had such an anticlimactic ending. I like epic endings myself.
 
Cardcaptor Sakura was girly and sugary sweet, but boy, it's by far the most charmingly delightful show I've ever seen. It holRAB a special place in my heart... officially the first anime I watched in Japanese, Vol. 10 was the first DVD I ever purchased (after then-Pioneer stopped the VHS releases halfway through). It's also got a permanent place in my Top 10 favorite anime of all time. Somehow CLAMP found a way to produce an anime that was infinitely difficult to find anything wrong with it. Sakura was the girl nobody could hate, and if anyone did, she always found a way to win them over in a charming way. Plus, Tomoyo and her obsession with wanting to create battle costumes for Sakura and getting her to wear them... priceless.

I'm a guy praising such a non-guy show, and I could care less. If I ever have a daughter, I'll likely show her this series as an introduction to anime.

Honestly, anyone who watched CCS the whole way through and didn't like it... they honestly have no taste or are too chicken to admit they love it.

(And we all have Nelvana turning CCS to Cardcaptors to thank for it. Can't believe I'm saying this almost a decade later, but... thanks, Nelvana. )
 
I remeraber watching the Nelvana dub and thinking it was an awful show. Not because of the butchering since I wasn't aware of that, it just seemed to have no real goal or anything. Trying to shove Syaoran into the spotlight didn't even work since he wasn't the one capturing those things.

I watched the spanish dub a year or so later, and amazingly enough, it was 10x girlier yet managed to tell a much better story. Everything made more sense, and the soundtrack wasn't so terribly generic. Sure, all the relationships were pretty frightning (what? I was like 11 or 12 when I saw it) but they weren't hogging attention from the story. It's definitely worth watching if you can handle overly-sugar visuals and the female perspective.
 
It didn't help that they skipped almost half the episodes in the US and showed the rest out of order.

While we're on the subject, does anyone remeraber those talking Kero dolls? I remeraber the EB in my mall having a ton of those things back in Christmas 2000.
 
Oh? I didn't see the Japanese version, only the edited dub. And read half of the manga. A friend who does own the whole original anime said the teacher had given the girl an engagement ring. I believed them I mean, 'cause there are a lot of odd relationships going on in... well, everything that Clamp writes.
 
CCS is a wonderful show, and that's the sole reason I actually paid ~$1000 for the blu-ray box sets out here in Japan.

That and I don't need subs anymore; I couldn't help myself .
 
That's true, in the manga Terada gave Rika a ring and tells her that he hopes it will one day become a wedding ring, or something along those lines. But there was nothing "illegal" about their relationship, and I'm not sure why someone would imply that. The manga is all about love (behind all the magic) and how love usually crosses the boundaries set by society (hence all the odd couplings). It's clear that Terada/Rika is an unorthodox relationship, but they never crossed the line and the ring is a clear sign that if anything were to happen between them it would be when she was of age (and no longer his student). But their whole relationship is downplayed in the anime anyway, so you could argue it's no more than a crush.

Anyway, to be honest I grew up with Cardcaptors and really enjoyed it...which was kind of erabarrassing being a guy and all. Even though they tried to make it more shounen, the merchandise they sold was totally aimed at girls (which makes me wonder why they bothered to change it all). Sometime during Cardcaptors I ran across a copy of the manga at my library and that introduced me to the original, which made me appreciate the series even more. So needless to say it's always been a personal favorite of mine. However, when I recently rewatched the series a few months ago it occurs to me how poor of an adaptation it really was. It was a great show because the animation and voice actors were stellar and all the anime-original stuff was great, but in the process of that they lost so much of what made the manga really stand out...it made me sad each time I came across a moment that was missing. I still enjoy it, and I rather like the second movie...but it really can't top the manga. My two cents, anyway.
 
It was a show that had potential with his concept but it was always wasted on Sakura's stupidity refusing to hurt anyone. It could've explored a lot more into the magical subject. but instead it stayed like a Yaoi Sailor Moon. For what I seen most people like it because it's a "Cute" Show about magical girls.
 
Tsubasa isn't that bad really, at least not in manga format. I collect it and xxxHolic and like it despite not actually owning other CLAMP manga. It changes a lot and arguably gets better as the story goes on. And hey, CLAMP is even bringing it to a conclusive end, which is a fate not all of their manga have met with. But hey, different topic.



Isn't that true of nearly every magical girl protagonist ever conceived in history? Just saying.

CCS is probably still what CLAMP deserves to be remerabered for the most. As I said in our recent magical girl thread, it wins points for Sakura "dealing with situations as opposed to generic monsters." No generic transformations either, Tomoyo just gives her costumes. It doesn't have a standard fight against 2D villains. Nor does it eventually overreach and end up doing far too much (hi Nanoha, how are you doing?). It's an example to look to. It basically broke the genre's rules, which as far as I'm concerned are past due to be redefined entirely.



Good lord, you must really love the show. I have to admit though, deep down, I'm quite impressed. I understand that the remastered footage is quite nice. Maybe if it ever comes to R1 DVD again, it'll be in even better quality there.
 
Well, I don't buy many DVRAB at all. That and macross F blu-rays are the two purchases I've made this entire year.

So well, if you amortize it over 9 months, that's only like $100 on anime discs a month. Not THAT crazy , unlike those people who buy like $1000s of dollars a month on anime...
 
Well I didn't mean Tsubasa/xxxHolic was bad, (I just like xxxHolic a lot better) I meant the recent revelations regarding the manga and the fate of CCS' Sakura and Shaoran depresses me.
Hey it did not do too much! (At least not before season 3)

At least she actually hurts people. (So much so, that's a meme now anyway)
 
I will call this show the greatest magical girl show ever til the end of time

what!!?, i always assumed CCS Sakura and Shaoran lived happily ever after!, what do they say that makes you depressed!?? (seriously, tell me) (never read Tsubasa or xxxHolic), i cant believe they would ruin that!!!
 
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