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My First Manga Preview. Manga First Impression No.1

The continuation of the one most beloved magical girl franchise title "Card Captor Sakura", Took place 2 years after the events of the initial series. In these new chapters, Sakura is now attending middle school along with familiar faces from the previous. The story started where the original manga left off and that’s the copacetic reunion of Sakura and Syaoran.

For over the course of time some changes are indeed present that made the sequel consistent towards the prequel. One such thing is the maturity of some characters and the interaction of syaoran and sakura ... but they still retain the personality that made them recognizable so I will say the characters are ok. I am looking forward for further development of sakura and syaoran relationship since even though we already know their feelings from each other which is no doubt strong; it still evident by the fact that they are not a couple and some hint possible romantic bonds might occur in future chapters that the series might possibly bring

Moving along to what the new storyline has to offer from chapter 1 to 4. Here’s my first impression impugn. First of all it look good to see the characters again with their quirky jokes and their friendly interaction with one another, no complaining about that but it seems like card captor sakura goes back again into square one for the third time. I would like to bring out is that sakura is back hunting “new cards” again and this all her previous cards are indeed reset back to powerless card. It’s not really a problem for me if sakura is going to hunt new cards again but the previous cards losing power and started to renewed again is something that is already done before in the prequel so it’s might be better if sakura still have the previous card working and since nothing actually happening in sakura powers and there is no logical reason behind except the fact there is new mysterious being introduced is something I won’t believe to be logical. The conclusion I would say is that there is an interference from unknown force which is the only the thing keep the story moving forward.

For the artistic drawing, I shall honestly say the art style still retain and distinguishable from the later. Considering the fact that it is almost 17 years since the completion of the manga from 1996-2000. So here I give clamp applause, not most manga artist retains their hand drawn style. For the new cards, I like the idea of having glossy transparent cards and the new design introduce cards; it’s interesting, especially the names.

Overall I the new Card Captor Sakura have a good potential start. Even it suffers from recycling the ideas and themes that already been used in the previous story. It didn’t get rid of the fact that the characters are still worth reading for.

For enjoyment, I am reading the chapters solely because of the likable cast since you won’t be reading this without finishing the former which is very solid of its own. I would like to expect more character exploration between the cast and since this is new beginning, introducing new characters to add some flavor might not hurt the story.

I will update my preview after read the following chapters. So I am looking forward for some improvement of characters and the revelation but I am also prepared to the possible outcome that the sequel might not be as good as the former.

Making a CardCaptor Sakura sequel... Where the protagonist is not the CardCaptor Sakura herself!

At the begining, clearcard had an interresting proposal, although quiet unoriginal. The Sakura Cards dissapears, and She starts creating new cards as a result of her powers increasing. That's not something new, but We are so happy to see our best girl again that We can easily brush this repetitive plot. What is hard to shallow is... The plot not focusing on Sakura at all.

Introduced on this sequel, Akiho and Kaito are good characters. They are surrounded in a mystery that made up an interresting story. But, when you plan on using ... them in a sequel from Cardcaptor Sakura, We would expect more of an actual exchange, for it to work together with a plot involving Sakura. Akiho is sweet, but felt much like a copy of Sakura, even if they were made to be parallels. Kaito was the mastermind, the main character, and the big revelation on the story. In the actual storyline, Sakura has been just helping the two of them see eye to eye, and understand each other. Were it a part of the story, it would be ok, but that was all the story was. Not even in the final battle, the decision, was left for Sakura to make. Instead, We had her play the role of a pawn, the acting of a detective and finally a support wingwomen for the two of them. The actual progress We see for Sakura is the slow but cute development of her relationship with Syaoran and, at the very end, her whole family supporting her.

The plot had many holes at the end that could easily continued a cool story, with the council of mages, collection of magic books aside from the clow and clockland, and even the collaboration of Syaoran's mother in the battle, as well as the mysteries of Sakura's mother past with Lillie. It could be easily used for another sequel in the future, but I won't keep my hopes up.

But overall, the art is still beautiful, and after so many years after the original CCS, I still enjoyed this sequel just for being able to eat crumbles of syaosaku and touyuki.