Anime Rewatch: The Sealed Card

[mellowcandle]

This is the post for discussing Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card.

Discuss anything about the movie that you wish: the animation, the plot, the characters and relationships, its place in canon (or if you even give it one), moments you appreciate or those that bug you, plot holes, retcons and fanwanks, the music, the bonus short, and so on....

Comments

[butterflydrming]

I still love that the first scene is of the guardians and Card Master. The magic of CCS made it dear to my heart. I never get enough of fire breathing Kero and certainly never enough of weapon-weilding Yue. He is ever so elegant, pulling that bow

[mellowcandle]

I do like the animation in this one. The characters all look lovely. Although apparently Rika got some sort of henna rinse

[peacewish]

I got to be just about the last person in the world to watch the grand finale to CCS, since I’d already moved to Thailand by then and had to get a friend to ship it to me. How eagerly I devoured it, there on my laptop in my little cheap motel room! Gawd, and I was still in Thailand when this shrine got started and I wrote my first challenges. How old do I feel now

[peacewish]

So, did Naoko just rip off Romeo and Juliet to write this play, or what? What’s the point of being the most creative writer in class if you’re just going to plagiarize other plots? (says the ten year fanfic writer

[mellowcandle]

Terada, let these kids go already. They’re in sixth grade now! Gonna follow them all the way to graduation, or what?

He's Mr. Feeny! He can't let them go! Although I've gotten used to this in other anime, where the same homeroom teacher stays with the same class each year.

THIS BIT between Fujitaka and Sonomi about Fuji missing Tomoyo’s song is what has me convinced that Fuji is secretly Tomoyo’s father.

I always wondered if Tomoyo was maybe the result of some Threesome We Must Never Speak of Again. It would explain why Sonomi completely dropped out of their lives and never met Sakura before now. Maybe that would have also necessitated a quickie arranged marriage to our missing Daidouji-san, too.

And WHY THE HELL does Tomoyo have a prepared outfit for Syaoran standing by?

Because she's Tomoyo, dammit! You think she didn't have these outfits ready to go from the second she and Meiling started plotting? She didn't know when the time would come, but she would find a way to get them into those clothes.

how out of this world

[peacewish]

It took me over a day to remember how to find the Kero special on the DVD main menu. That’s blonde for you

[mellowcandle]

It took me over a day to remember how to find the Kero special on the DVD main menu.

They sure hid it, didn't they? I couldn't find it right away either. And before Pioneer released it, I had a bootleg copy, and I don't know how many times I watched the movie before I even realized there was a short on there, too. Since I'd finished the series, it was like a fun little surprise, there's more show! Then I saw it was basically another f'ing Spinel episode, and I was like, Oh.

I’d like to ceremonially acknowledge the one scene in this entire series that has Eriol and Meilin in the same room.

I'm disappointed we never saw Meiling and Sonomi together, especially since Meiling was staying with Tomoyo in the movie. Talk about kindred spirits.

I appreciate the attempt of the artists to draw this special in a different scale

It reminded me of Muppet Babies.