No, I don't hate her (points to the Sakura figure perched on his
computer monitor), so put away the thumb-screws and napalm. It's
just that Sakura seems like she'd be a candidate for bashing, yet
I've never come across even a hint of her being hated.
For one thing, she gets in the way of a yaoi paring between
Syaoran and Eriol. Not only are they both male (which seems to
be all that's needed for the rabid yaoi fangirls), but they're
both bishounen. However, the only Syaoran/Eriol sites or
fanfics I've seen are firmly tongue-in-cheek. Is there
something about either Syaoran or Eriol that makes them
un-slashable? Is there something about the the pairing that
strikes even the most rabid of yaoi fanpoodles as Not Quite
Right? They can't bring themselves to "remove"
Sakura-the-obstacle? Or maybe the canonical Touya/Yukito
pairing is enough for them...
Also, I'd think that there must be at least a few fangirls out
there who are jealous of Sakura for getting Syaoran. Even if
the grown fangirls who have a Shota-complex don't want to admit
to lusting after a grade-schooler, there must be some
ten-year-old girls who've watched the dubbed Card
Captors , and who loathe
Sakura for stealing their pwecious widdle Syaoran from
them. Yet, there's nothing out there.
Have I just not searched the CCS fandom deeply enough to find
the Lovecraftian horror of Sakura-bashing, lurking within it's
non-Euclidean lair? Or has CLAMP managed to do the impossible,
and created a truly non-hateable character?