Anime Rewatch Episodes 69 & 70

[mellowcandle]

This is the post for discussing the last two episodes of our community anime rewatch. If you wanted to be fashionably late, this is your time to jump in! All previous posts can be found by using the "anime discussion" tag

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[mellowcandle]

I’d like to point out how this walk into the mansion so perfectly sums up Tomoyo’s character.

There's also a moment in the beginning in the classroom where she sees the awkwardness between Sakura and Syaoran since the confession, and I don't know if the animator did this on purpose, but she gets this sad look on her face, like she knows she's officially lost. It was always easy to be happy that Sakura was happy when Sakura loved Yukito, because everyone (except Sakura, and Clow apparently) knew that nothing would ever happen there. This is real, though, and Tomoyo is having to accept that. (Or maybe I'm reading into it, but I hope that's what was intended.) For all of Tomoyo's Sueish virtues, she is an awesome friend.

Thank God for L-chan’s WIDK for letting us see what happened between Touya and Kaho, because the writers sure as hell didn’t want us know.

Although now I want to write a different version with less soul-baring and more making out, because that's really why CLAMP couldn't show it to us.

Granted, at least the writers didn’t waste our time like the manga with Sakura walking us through all the tedious subplots

My God that sucked. I've talked about the wasted episodes, but that was a waste of a whole volume.

but I’m still ticked about Yukito and Touya talking about Clow and discussing Yukito’s true origins in under 60 seconds, without even a Sakura in the room, much less KERO who is Yukito’s actual brother and given that Yukito has just learned he has no real family on this Earth you’d think he’d be really happy to meet his own blood (sort of) brother.

As much as I loved that they deliberately showed Fujitaka sleeping along with everyone else in the darkness falls montage, because I hated the idea of him being half-Clow, I'll add in my being ticked that we never saw what HE thought of any of this. We never got to see him finding out and meeting Kero and so much stuff that could have been interesting and fun.