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Mar 10, 2018 2:53 PM
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Seems with every passing episode, Akiho grows closer with Sakura.
It's interesting to see the two discuss more about their family.

There's still cryptic clues about the mysterious events going around Sakura's life this season. I kinda like her battle outfit this episode when she fights the Snooze card.
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Mar 10, 2018 5:35 PM
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Great episode again.

Was nice to hear Meilin in the beginning.

Seeing Sakura and Akiho connect with each other put a smile on my face. :)
I loved that moment they shared over disliking the same ingredient. XD

The roller skates, it's been quite a while. <3

We got two cards this episode, Snooze and Labyrinth. The way with which Sakura caught Snooze was really clever.
That said, why didn't she just capture Labyrinth from the get go? I assume she thought they were all just one card.

Kaito is suspicious, the stuffed animal that Akiho has is even more suspicious. I expected some kind of reveal at the end but nothing happened.
Mar 10, 2018 6:12 PM
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ah, Sakura and Akiho together are so cute <3 I'm still waiting for her stuffed bunny to be revealed as a living thing like Kero!
the labyrinth outside of Sakura's house looked really cool too!
Mar 10, 2018 8:49 PM
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Yes that is a very nice picture of Nedeshiko.

I would also like to try that omelette roll Sakura made.

Akiho is a very lively one.

Lol at Kero there giving a cold stare to Sakura, he wants them sweets.

After seeing those photos of the prince & princess I still think of the Sleeping Beauty play where the male & female spots were reversed for Sakura & Syaoran.

I just had to google search what Konjac is since neither of them like it, it's a Yam by the looks of it but is apparently good for us.

Nice to see Sakura use the roller skates again, almost saw them every episode in the original series.

The gravitation card was perfect for a place where you go sideways and upsides like that.

2 cards at the same time, that wasn't easy but Sakura & Kero worked well together to get them.
Mar 10, 2018 8:52 PM
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A card within a card. We need to go deeper.

When Akiho first appeared, I tried to look up manga spoilers about her to find out what her deal was... and I didn't find any. I'm still hoping it's a Sailor Saturn sort of situation. One commenter on CR guesses that Kaito might be her familiar, but I don't like the idea of a third set of one master and two created familiars; I'd rather he be a natural born human.

It'd be fun if the plush animal was a red herring, an actual stuffed animal.
Mar 10, 2018 9:28 PM
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Great episode again.

Was nice to hear Meilin in the beginning.

Seeing Sakura and Akiho connect with each other put a smile on my face. :)
I loved that moment they shared over disliking the same ingredient. XD

The roller skates, it's been quite a while. <3

We got two cards this episode, Snooze and Labyrinth. The way with which Sakura caught Snooze was really clever.
That said, why didn't she just capture Labyrinth from the get go? I assume she thought they were all just one card.

Kaito is suspicious, the stuffed animal that Akiho has is even more suspicious. I expected some kind of reveal at the end but nothing happened.
from the next episode preview it seems eriol will reveal something
Mar 10, 2018 9:32 PM
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Finally the scenes of the roller skates, thanks madhouse
Mar 10, 2018 11:25 PM
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Is Akiho Sakura's deceased mother?
Mar 10, 2018 11:28 PM
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Yay, Sakura and Akiho's friendship deepened this episode! It was also great to see Sakura use her signature roller skates again~

What was with the red moon at the end though?

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Mar 11, 2018 12:54 AM

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two cards in a row.

I think things started to get serious next week. and I wouldn't surprise if any of Akiho acquaintance are involved.
Mar 11, 2018 3:25 AM
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Is Akiho Sakura's deceased mother?


Now that you're saying it ... they do have a lot in common, don't they? I mean ... both have a similar look (although we've seen young Nadeshiko and she looked just a bit different from Akiho, but that was mostly due to the long hair), even similar attitudes (both are super clumsy and bad cooks), and what is also suspicious Akiho has an awful lot in common with Sakura ... so it would make sense. I don't know if I should believe in this theory or not but it would definitely make sense.
Mar 11, 2018 5:29 AM

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I thought it was interesting that they used images from Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2, it kinda makes it canon again, but, at the same time, the movie does not really go with the beggining of the season. lol
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phantomfandom said:
Is Akiho Sakura's deceased mother?


Now that you're saying it ... they do have a lot in common, don't they? I mean ... both have a similar look (although we've seen young Nadeshiko and she looked just a bit different from Akiho, but that was mostly due to the long hair), even similar attitudes (both are super clumsy and bad cooks), and what is also suspicious Akiho has an awful lot in common with Sakura ... so it would make sense. I don't know if I should believe in this theory or not but it would definitely make sense.


Sakura's dad should spot the similarity immediately but interesting that he has to do more research and no one's at home. Seems like they intentionally avoid the meeting of these two characters to me?
Mar 11, 2018 6:34 AM
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my reaction be like: Sleeping for almost half the episode for today....

the second half of the episode where sakura were catching the sleeping card and surprisingly the labyrinth card were nice... 2 cards in one day is a good one..
Mar 11, 2018 6:50 AM

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phantomfandom said:
softspiral said:


Now that you're saying it ... they do have a lot in common, don't they? I mean ... both have a similar look (although we've seen young Nadeshiko and she looked just a bit different from Akiho, but that was mostly due to the long hair), even similar attitudes (both are super clumsy and bad cooks), and what is also suspicious Akiho has an awful lot in common with Sakura ... so it would make sense. I don't know if I should believe in this theory or not but it would definitely make sense.


Sakura's dad should spot the similarity immediately but interesting that he has to do more research and no one's at home. Seems like they intentionally avoid the meeting of these two characters to me?

That's exactly what I thought, how convenient. And the scene with Sakura saying she changed her picture seems intentional so we can notice the similar look.
Another possibility I've thought is that Akiho is Sakura's counterpart in another dimension, sort of what they did in Tsubasa Chronicles. Or, this may be even more far-fetched, but note that late in Tsubasa Chronicles manga
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phantomfandom said:


Sakura's dad should spot the similarity immediately but interesting that he has to do more research and no one's at home. Seems like they intentionally avoid the meeting of these two characters to me?

That's exactly what I thought, how convenient. And the scene with Sakura saying she changed her picture seems intentional so we can notice the similar look.
Another possibility I've thought is that Akiho is Sakura's counterpart in another dimension, sort of what they did in Tsubasa Chronicles. Or, this may be even more far-fetched, but note that late in Tsubasa Chronicles manga


That's what I was initially thinking as well. Akiho being a counterpart to Sakura would make a lot of sense, especially with those crystals that come out whenever she captures a card - you know, sort of a distorted reflection. Most of the new cards are sort of similar but still different incarnations of the Clow Cards - again, distorted reflections. EDIT: And now that I'm thinking about it ... you could say that Sakura herself is a similar yet different reflection of her mother. Many characters already stated how similar both were and yet how Sakura is still Sakura and not Nadeshiko.

I don't remember much about Tsubasa though to talk about that theory ... sorry! Currently, re-reading it. I will keep that in mind though!

Also, in the Clear Card Manga wasn't there a scene about Fujitaka mentioning how odd it was that he hasn't seen Nadeshiko's ghost in awhile that they omitted from the anime? Seems to connect to some of our theories and I dunno but this story's mysteries have never been that difficult to figure out way before they are actually revealed, soooo we might be right about it.
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What's the difficulty of making such a simple story have consistency?
At first it was following from the ova because we need to have the two bears okay, but then we have flashbacks from the last episode from the anime and then the second movie is not canon, but now it is, like ?????????????
I guess the script writers just don't care, they will just go with whatever they feel at the moment.
As much as I'm having fun, I still have a problem with that.

The episode was nice, but it also made me hungry. Seeing Sakura and Akiho bounding through food was cute.
Akiho would be frustrated to know that the play doesn't have an end. I would like to see Sakura trying to explain that.

The action scenes had really cool animation, it was a blast to watch. Also rollerblades are love <3
We already had a labyrinth card, this time the name wasn't even changed to a synonym lol.

Ominous red moon at the end, what it will bring us...
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Mar 12, 2018 3:04 AM

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Rollerblades Sakura is the best Sakura!

Great episode, sad but I couldn't care much for Akiho's visit, I just think that she's not that interesting of a character and the whole friendship stuff made me roll my eyes a bit.

But the person I do find interesting is Kaito. He seems ominous despite how nice he
s been. The card capture segment was really really enjoyable.
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The past two episodes have been SO good! The animation has improved and the action scenes and card hunting have been a lot more fun. AHH I hope it carries on like this because I was a little disappointed up 'till episode 8.
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Two cards in 1 episode again huh...Sakura might have trouble which one to pick if the has too many cards.
Anyway, Akiho visited the place of Sakura and they had fun eating a lot!
That alternate dimension full of stairs was mezmerizing!
Sakura in rollerblades suits her a lot!
4/5.


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Is Akiho Sakura's deceased mother?

I believe so, and it's getting more apparent because of the subtle hinting they're showing every episode Akiho shows up. I was waiting for Akiho to look at the picture but making her react to it would probably spoil it too soon.
My main reason to think this is that CLAMP's notoriously known for multiverse, time travel and paradoxes and even cross overs.
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Man that photo album made me remember how the original series looked way better

Episode itself was alright I guess
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Late to the party but I made a thing. XD









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I find it dumb how Sakura uses the Gravitation card instead of just using the flight card which does the same thing (move her around), but is much better.

Sakura took a little time to capture the two cards, but the truth is that she could have capture both instantly. If she was flying she would had an easier time capturing the card and even if she was not she did got close enough to the card to just use her staff. The labyrinth card required 0 thought process to be captured so she could have done that as soon as she noticed that the place was a different card.

It seems like Clamp i doing this just to make things look more complicated.
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Yay, Sakura and Akiho's friendship deepened this episode! It was also great to see Sakura use her signature roller skates again~

What was with the red moon at the end though?

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I think I am having a premonition of something sinister and very evil gonna happen. But since it's CCS I hope it doesn't become too dark. Wasn't there another moon shown before Eriol appeared? I just keep on having this feeling that Kaito is up to something. Like when he said if Sakura was kind to Akiho-chan as well and then he smiled hearing that she was. I just felt something. But I don't want to think him as a bad person since Akiho-chan is so precious and she loves him. :|

Well, Eriol will appear in the next episode so we might get some clues.

Btw, I want to make it clear that while I like Akiho-chan, I will never allow her to become BFF#1 for Sakura. No one's taking BFF#1 from Tomoyo-chan! She can fight over BFF#2 with Meiling and Chiharu. BFF#1 is not for sale. >,<

Ah! And I didn't fail to notice that Sakura actually does love Touya! I mean she has someone who eats konjac for her! Such a roundabout way for her to say that she loves her brother. <3
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Is it just me or are these clear cards just the same as the clow cards with different names?
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Am I missing something or didn't they retcon movie 2 from canon? but now they just showed it's canon again?? I'm gonna think about this some more, I mean, I guess they COULD go together if we move around the order?

I never thought about it but yeah! Akiho DOES bear a resemblance to Nadeshiko! I'm sure it's on purpose since she's like a reflection of Sakura. If we're bringing TRC into this I was thinking maybe this has something to do with

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Why does she keep using Gravitation? Flight literally renders Gravitation pointless. Did they just confirm the movie was 100% canon?
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Are they just rehashing the cards from last season and giving them different names? lol
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well seems like the exchange student is suspicious afterall...we already know who is coming in sakuras dream...hmm
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Interesting. Never thought of putting the cable of the earphones on the back instead of the usual front. That is actually pretty smart.
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I am still confused a bit by one detail:
Sakura showed her photo album with staging, that was in 2nd movie.
But, after prologue (OVA, that was before this TV) and some episodes we saw Akiho's mansion.
That why i am confused as hell right now.
Is 2nd movie not canon in this timeline?
I can close my eyes at very fast technological progress (plasma-screen TV, smartphones, quadracopters and etc.), but... In 2nd movie someone demolished Eriol's mansion and build up an entire amusement park (which are opened up sealed "The Nothing" card).
Maybe some parts on 2nd movie are canonical (like staging) and some - are not (like demolished mansion)?
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Sakura got two cards at once in this episode!

Akiho and Kaito seem very friendly. If there's anything evil about them in any way, they're doing a really good job of hiding it.

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