#but i don't know where my clow card arc books are

[nyalisa-landale]

oh! i caught up on clear card arc while i was doing my nails. (reminder: i switched to the simuldub, so i’m three episodes behind crunchyroll.) things are getting interesting! i’m guessing the new OP came in the most recent japanese episode. i can’t wait to see it! ...in three weeks.

seriously, though, we have confirmation that kaito has moon magic, and basically confirmation that akiho is the one in sakura’s dreams. (which, i mean, we all knew from the start; and if she’s got guardians the same way sakura and eriol do, then it’s super obvious that kaito is her moon guardian and momo is her sun guardian. who is way better at the stuffed animal trick than kero lol) so, like i said... things are getting interesting! ...just in time for a fluff episode. i remember basically nothing about meiling, so that should be... fun? well, a card will still probably show up. that’ll be interesting.

i also have the first three volumes of the manga; i read the first two last night while waiting for fs, but i just finished the third one. it’s... a little bit behind the anime? snooze shows up in the last chapter, but sakura won’t catch it until the next one. which i don’t have because it’s in volume 4, which doesn’t come out until, like, june. (so unfair T_T)

but it’s really interesting comparing manga events versus anime events. so far sakura seems to have most of the same cards, but gravitation, at least, is anime-only. (which is a shame, because goddamn does that card seem useful. though, if she has flight, is it really that useful? hmm.) it’s also interesting how spiral comes in a completely different place and gets caught in a completely different way. also, syaoran showed off his new magic trick to help sakura catch hail in the anime, but he does it in the manga (with a different spell, but still) for spiral.

i wonder if the anime is going to include a full 52-card deck like the first two arcs? the manga seems likely to stick to the 19 cards... 

also, how in the hell is akiho connected to these cards?????? at first, when she said she came to japan because there was a book she wanted, i thought she meant the book of clow. (which, the anime can’t keep the pronunciation straight either! tomoyo totally said it the way i’m used to saying it! yay!) but in the dreams, it seems like what she actually wants is the staff of dreams... which isn’t sakura’s old staff, because that key is still with the book. full of transparent cards with no magic. how did that even happen???????? i’m excited and confused at the same time. i really don’t want sakura and akiho to have to fight, and i think that, if anyone can avoid fighting, it’s sakura. it’s never her first instinct. so if there’s some way to settle things without fighting, i’m sure she’ll figure it out. (i wonder what would happen if sakura tried using the clear cards with her star staff. would anything happen? hmm.)

on the other hand, what anime!eriol said about kaito... akiho doesn’t know what’s going on, obviously, we saw that when she was telling him about her dream. but kaito doesn’t seem completely clueless. whether he is or isn’t part of that order of magicians or whatever (i’ll have to rewatch that part; i couldn’t make out all of it - that’s my one complaint about the anime, i think; the action scenes are all really loud but then everyone talks really quietly. i’m constantly adjusting the volume. it’s really annoying.) remains to be seen... I wonder if the other caretakers in akiho’s family are, as well? maybe her whole family is part of it, and it’s expected that she will be in the future. i wonder if the clear cards are supposed to be hers? or maybe she’s supposed to retrieve the book of clow as part of some kind of initiation (that nobody bothered to tell her about). that alice in clockland book has to factor into all of this somehow, too... i mean, it seems pretty obvious with the dreams and all the clockwork, and kaito’s pocketwatch that the anime, at least, makes sure we see a lot of, indicates that he’s definitely involved... 

i know i’m way, way behind on the manga, since i’m not reading scanlations anymore... the site i was using quit doing it, or something, and i just never bothered to find another one. maybe i should? idk.

i really, really want to see what happens... but i guess it’s maybe a little bit telling that part of the reason i want to know so badly is so that i can factor it into the fic i was writing. sakura’s 16 in it so it would take place after all of this, and i want to know if i need to make changes. (because this is me, there is, at best, two or three chapters written, and nothing after that is set in stone. and honestly nothing before that is set in stone, either; most of what i did have written was on The Laptop That Never Was, and the chapter that i’d sent to a friend to beta for me was probably over skype, because i couldn’t find it in my email. ...or maybe it was that i could recover the first chapter because i did email it to her, but not the second chapter because i didn’t send her that one. that sounds more correct.)