The OP1 “CLEAR” and the ED2 are my favourites. Had the season been longer, we could have dived deeper into her and Kaito’s backstory, but the conscious decision of the director and animators to keep everything as the material for the next season is hardly the right way to keep the audience interested throughout. But Touya’s secret power, which he will unleash whenever he feels right, serves no purpose in this season except being all words.Īkiho is a puppet and is painfully and repetitively so. Interaction of Touya and Yue, while remained interesting, was SO short that I am sure many viewers were left feeling unfulfilled.
#CARD CAPTOR SAKURA 2019 SERIES#
Romance of Syaoran and Sakura certainly took a backseat, which it shouldn’t have, after all those build-ups in CCS series and the movies.
Meanwhile, Syaoran boy keeps saying just “yeah” to everyone. Syaoran, while having frustratingly less dialogs except in the last three episodes, has grown up from that brat-y type of CCS.Īs for the other characters, well, we come to know very little about the old characters and even less about the new characters, rather than seeing them saying endless thank you to each other and praising each other. Even Anime-only Meilin has come a long way, she does not behave as she used to. But while nostalgia is the trump card, it is surprising to see Sakura herself not maturing with time. The only possible answer to this is that Madhouse is trying to grab the attention of the new younger audiences of Japan and around the world, for whom this sweetness of Sakura is new. Her “Oyeeeehhhhh”, the frequency of which is much more than her younger years (how?) and endlessly thanking and praising Akiho-chan, while are very cute for the first couple of times, quickly become repetitive aspects of her behaviour. But her behaviour still does not feel like older than that of CCS. What happened to the MC? Mind that, Sakura is fourteen now. This show does not give detailed attention to an important factor like character development, given the fact that it takes place some years later. The lunchtime banter among friends or “remember that?” between Sakura and Kero / Tomoyo/ ANYONE added surprisingly little to the actual story. In a dynamic medium like Anime, if one does not follow the audio-visual rule “show, don’t tell”, then it quickly becomes a boring tale. The answer is, “remember, we had here? Now we are here, doing, so lovely memory… etc etc”.
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Why are the episodes consuming so much time by revisiting the same locations to catch similar cards? Was a new location so hard to design? No. While there were SOL-ish elements in CCS, this sequel has stretched that into “I-will-read-a-WHOLE-story-to-kids-and-use-up-an-episode” level. The new narrative has such limited amount of new elements - only introducing new characters does not imply the story will immediately feel new. When a season is only 22 episodes long, this is certainly not the ideal way to advance a narrative. On the contrary, Clear Card-hen has a pace that certainly reminds you of all the bad fillers of shounen animes, the SOL way! Even after 16 episodes, the story reaches nowhere, taking quite a test of patience. It had decently paced narrative with immense character development, surprisingly good exploration of love, gender identity, sacrifice, family and most importantly, efficient magical world-building without expanding it in an out-of-control manner, in only 70 episodes. The original saga was not simply about a girl who can do magic and plays around with cards. Yes, of course I shall compare this to the original saga. Regarding Story and Character, I am going to be in rant-mode now, please bear with me. And precisely that is the reason Clear Card-hen has disappointed me.
is part of that older generation audience, and is a huge admirer of CCS. and parents moved around doing daily chores, smiling secretly at their kids’ lit-up faces.
The older audiences feel happy inside, thinking of good old days when the original show used to air and how they enjoyed it and talked about it with their friends or enjoyed the show alone while cuddling up with their house pet, The act of watching the sequel of a beloved show itself brings on enough nostalgia. Nostalgia, while is a strong tool to make a sequel successful with high ratings, is not enough if you are banking only… and only on it. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.'
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