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....

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[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)

Sigh, yes, Clamp forcing its protagonists to give up their most precious feeling for some prized thing is pretty well done by now. It doesn’t even really make sense, consistently speaking, with this world, since Sakura never had to give anything up to capture/transfer the cards before, except a little of her own energy.

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

Oh yes, let’s cast Li into the role of prince in spite of all proven inability to act. I can only assume they had no understudies and everyone else was literally locked into their own duties. It’s a bit contrived, but that’s just stating the obvious.

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 realize this creates lots of creepy implications for Tomoyo’s crush on Sakura, but I don’t care.

Meilin, with your ribbons wound around the braids, you are just so cute right now.

Was Sonomi holding hands with Fuji right there? Whoa!

Touya’s flat expression as he watches Li ‘act’ with Sakura on stage is too funny. “Can’t act his way out of a paper bag” indeed. Touya is not falling for this, not for a sec. But then there’s that line Sakura has in the play, “Please take me out of your heart.” It seems to me that it should have been foreshadowing for Li forgetting his love for Sakura, which ends up not happening. Not that I exactly wanted a sad ending, but since Clamp makes such a big deal out of always exchanging value for value and making the proper sacrifice for victory, Li’s ability to withstand the card’s theft and still be in love with Sakura afterwards seems like a cop out. It bothered me so much that I wrote a drabble about how Li actually loved his sword more than anything, and once the movie is over doesn’t care so much about it anymore. Sakura was only his second-most love after all. J

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

If Sakura’s grip on Time is weakening and she’s about to get run over by the roller coaster, why doesn’t Kero or Yue fly up to get her instead of just standing there and shouting warnings?

AW YEAH here comes my fave bit in the movie. Probably the whole series, in fact. Syaoran, leap up the cars of the ferris wheel like the badass that you are. And check out that guitar!

Uh, I guess I spent the entire series waiting for that moment, because I have literally nothing else to say about the rest of the movie. Sakura’s ‘fight’ against Void is fairly non-descript, and won by virtue of Sakura being sweet and friendly, like usual. I already mentioned my distaste for the deux ex machina that allows Syaoran to still be in love with Sakura, and how out of this world bizarre it is that Kero still feels the need to act like a doll in front of Yukito. And… that’s it. The series is done. How can it be over already?

No, wait! There’s still the great Takoyaki adventure! I’ll save that for tomorrow, though.

[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 bizarre it is that Kero still feels the need to act like a doll in front of Yukito.

Habit. That's the only way I can explain it. It's a reflex. Also I guess CLAMP thinks it's funny. It's not.