In this series I detail
the few series I have given a 5/5 too and why.
What is it?
Long ago the Great Sorcerer
Clow Reed managed to combine Western and Eastern Magic and sealed the 52
spirits, the Clow Spirits, inside the Clow Cards. When his descendent Sakura
Kinomoto accidentally releases them, she must set off to recapture them and
stop the devastation they could potentially bring unleashed.
Why do I love it?
Reading or watching
Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most light of heart experiences I have ever
had. I don’t mean to say that it’s comedic, though it is at times, I mean to
say it literally makes you feel like you’re walking on air and viewing the
world from the sky.
The world of Cardcaptor
Sakura is probably the brightest world I have ever seen, no one in CCS is evil
or even close, even the dangerous clow spirits are just acting according to
their nature, and nothing, no matter how bad it seems, is ever hopeless. CCS is
a word of unremitting, unceasing optimism and hopefulness.
The series is surprisingly
intellectually stimulating, as you find yourself trying to figure out how to capture
a Clow Spirit with Sakura’s set of cards, or any set you can imagine. And this
intellectual stimulation is backed by and teaches Sakura’s core ethos: that you
can always make a situation better if you maintain hope, and she manages to
capture cards thought impossible with this.
Cardcaptor Sakura is a
series that is perhaps the perfect series for cheering you up, it’s a world
that almost trains you to be optimistic and presents a perfectly soft world where
everyone’s soul is light and bright and somehow never dims each other by comparison.
5/5 Moments:
*Sakura defeating the
Illusion card by realizing her real mother would never do anything to hurt her
and would remain apart from her if it was to protect her (The Illusion was in a
lake and drew Sakura closer by pretending to be the ghost of her mother)
*Sakura’s battle with Yue
in every version
*Sakura lighting up The
Darkness by realizing that the Light exists within side of her and releasing it
*Sakura finally getting
The Dash not by trying to force it to be caught but by offering it friendship
and love and allowing it to decide to run to her
*When Tomoyo’s voice is
stolen by the Voice and Sakura is in tears about Tomoyo’s plight and Syaoran
who had until then been only focused on his goal declares his intent to help
them return Tomoyo’s voice
*Touya despite hating
Syaoran putting it aside and actually taking care of him after regonizing his
younger sister’s love for him
*Eriol’s commentary on
Sakura being the nice mistress of the cards, them no longer being clow cards
but sakura cards and on her nature
*Sakura capturing Shadow
with a set of cards said to be impossible
Favorite Moment:
At the end of the Second
Movie, The Nothing, the sealed card of the negative energy made from all the 52
other cards, threatens everything. It only wants to not be alone anymore, but
everything it touches, everything it’s aura comes into contact with disappears
into nothingness. Everyone tries to fight Nothing but cease to exist. The
Nothing erases the last of Sakura’s cards save for the Nameless Card
representing Sakura’s love for Syaoran.
Sakura learns of The
Nothing’s motivation and promises she can make her never alone again and
manages to seal The Nothing by fusing it with the Nameless Card to Form the
Hope, representing Sakura’s unending hope that even from nothing things will
get better, the hope’s potency restoring everything. And Sakura and Syaoran
finally confess their love to each other which they did in the manga but not
the anime.
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