Anime Rewatch Episodes 53 & 54

Feb 28, 2014 09:10

This is the post for discussing the next two episodes of our community anime rewatch. Please join in anytime! All previous posts can be found by using the "anime discussion" tag ( Read more... )

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chrysalisdreams March 2 2014, 22:55:37 UTC
One of my friends used to use her calendar as a diary. She would write in tiny lettering in it, so it had more than just date & time appointment stuff. Watching "Calendar of Memories" made me think of that. And that calendar... was it just for one year? Which year? She was still modeling, so Sakura probably would not have been born yet. How much information would anyone even have in a calendar or day timer? It's kind of a weird keepsake ( ... )

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mellowcandle March 7 2014, 00:29:12 UTC
As much as I dislike this episode, it does solidify my love for Sonomi. Though it would be nice if she acknowledged Touya, too, but baby steps, I guess.

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mellowcandle March 2 2014, 23:37:42 UTC
Now that I'm able to get caught up, I was finally going to put down my thoughts on Yue, and here he's goes absent for two episodes again. What exactly is the point of him as a guardian? We've got a panicky card on the loose, and Sakura calls Tomoyo and Syaoran. Not Yuekito. Yep.

The Calendar episode bothers me for so many reasons, and that's because I have my own very dirty lens on this whole family estrangement topic. So Gramps can cry me a river all day long. And the melodramatic music was just too much. Yeah, not feeling sorry for him. I'm too tired in real life of adults being assholes and children suffering to feel any sympathy here. Oh, and hey Gramps. Instead of buying shit for these kids you know next to nothing about, maybe spend time with them (and, like, tell the truth about who you are and stuff). Buying presents does not make up for their total lack of place in the Amamiya family.

Also the animation in this one is weird. Touya's features especially are out of proportion or something.

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peacewish March 4 2014, 14:28:42 UTC
per episode 53 ( ... )

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mellowcandle March 6 2014, 23:55:45 UTC
What's Eriol's scheme as he poisons Touya's bike with power, anyway?

My theory was it was just a general powering, like maybe he expected someone to ride it, things go wonky, and Sakura has to use a card that way. Otherwise that's just way too specific a plot maneuver.

And the next morning, Sakura remembers that Touya warned her to not ride his bike, and puts two and two together, and realizes that Touya can see and feel a lot of the magic in their world

Ha, or in my world, before even leaving, Touya says, "Hey there's some weird juju coming from my bike; did you see anyone touch it?" Because she should already know that he knows.

Geez, imagine how short this season would have been if the characters had talked to each other like normal people.

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peacewish March 5 2014, 02:56:49 UTC
per episode 54 ( ... )

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peacewish March 5 2014, 02:57:02 UTC
Okay, watching this park scene again, I have to say I'm with L-chan. It's beautifully drawn, with the pinks flying around and the shimmering tears streaming down Grandpa's cheeks, but I have about zero patience for the dialogue. When I was 20, it was tragic and heartfelt. Now I'm 34, and it's stupid. You're a rich and powerful man who runs corporations and owns mansions. Who's stopping you from getting to know your two descendants? NO ONE. What, are you so very busy? You must be in your sixties at least, maybe seventies, and you know you don't have much longer to live. It has been over a YEAR since you put forth that one pathetic effort into getting to know Sakura in the countryside, which by the way barely counts because she still doesn't know who you are. You have yet to attempt to meet Touya. What, exactly, are you waiting for? Until you're literally on death's doormat? Here are these two kids, one of whom is determinedly doing her best to make sure you're happy (and the other grudgingly helping her out), dropping ( ... )

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mellowcandle March 7 2014, 00:22:41 UTC
When I was 20, it was tragic and heartfelt. Now I'm 34, and it's stupid.

I've always thought it was stupid, and it's only gotten stupider. (Isn't that the same swell of music we were supposed to find overwrought and ridiculous in the Dream episode?) Why do the children always have to make the overtures? I see this so much in fiction/tv, the child who has been harboring hurt for years gets guilted into finally reaching out to the adult who abandoned them, and it sucks. Touya's a much better sibling than I would be for going along, but I know he did it for his sister and maybe for his mother, but certainly not for that old man who can stick it.

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mellowcandle March 7 2014, 00:12:13 UTC
I love this bit with Sakura trotting around and parading her eyeglass-case.

Is that what it is? All these years I've just thought it was a random little thing she knew how to make. I never realized it was supposed to be something.

In the manga, of which I only read bits and pieces, I'm pretty sure Touya didn't get anything at all.

If I remember right, the manga had Sakura make Gramps Valentine's candy, and so the gift was him reciprocating for White Day, which is why Touya was shut out. It's not an excuse, but it's why, I guess. Still completely shitty of Gramps, given that he could have made Touya's a birthday gift or something.

The box is too small to be anything really nice. It's probably a desk set like in Dead Poets Society or something equally generic and impersonal. Or porn. I've always liked imagining it was porn. What eighteen-year-old boy couldn't make use of that?

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