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meganbmoore) wrote2008-09-29 12:49 pm
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Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Ch 198-200
THE TITLES PAGE OF CH 198 IS LETHAL! LETHAL! (It’s the one with the adolescent Kurogane and Fai, and the toddler Syaoran. I think the only reason a toddler Sakura wasn’t included is that she would make the cuteness level be so high that there would be no living fans left to support Clamp.) LITTLE ONES HUGGING AND BLUSHING AND HOLDING HANDS! Little Syaoran swearing to remove the seal FWR put of Little Sakura! And hey, Kurogane and Fai are back! Not even overwhelming cuteness could make me stop missing them.
I think I need to go back and reread the scene with the clones where clone!Sakura visits clone!Syaoran in vol 1. They were “cute but uninteresting” to me at the time, so I didn’t pay as much attention to them as I should have. Though I do think she was a lot more enthusiastic and touchy, and he was flustered and nervous, though I may be imposing drunk!clone!Sakura scenes on it. And also talks about cooking and how real!Syaoran (who is not really named “Syaoran,” just like “Sakura” isn’t her real name…) is a good cook and learned that from his father, who was a better cook than his mother. (Does this come up in a part of Cardcaptor Sakura that I haven’t read yet?) AND BOTH SERIES ARE GOING ON ABOUT COOKING!
So, unless Syaoran is a year or two older than Sakura, her comment about knowing him half her life means that both sets were 14 when the series started, right? (That is, the events here, which should be at the same point, as far as the timeline goes, as the beginning of the series.) Because she says that, shortly, she’ll have known him for “more than half my life,” and they met just before her seventh birthday. (Mind you, the ages were probably sated before, and I just forgot…) And doesn’t that girl know that saying you’ll tell someone something important on a special day means you won’t get to? Silly fictional characters, not reading the rulebooks in advance.
*runs around flailing some over the end of the chapter*
So, I’m thinking this is when FWR resets time and replaces them with the clones and alters family structures and such.
Ok, coments are a Tsubasa and xxxHolic spoiler free for all.
YOUR THEORIES! CRACK AND SERIOUS! GIVE THEM TO ME! Use spoilercode for other Clamp titles, please.
Spoiler code: <span style="color: #333333;background-color: #333333">Spoilers here.</span>
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and in several doujinshi I've read on CCS its mentioned what a good cook Syaoran is (not that doujinshi follows canon of course). I vaguely remember something about his baking for Yukito however (before they knew he was Yue and could explain Syaoran's NOT!yaoi love for him).
and I agree. that title image for 198 was so intensely cute
i want it in color however. they better include it in their next artbook. Honestly I'm so jumbled and confused because of this clone thing I'm not sure what happened to who when. And now this time stop and Fei Wong promising to help Syaoran...I'm tempted to re-read all 200 chapters again before the new chapter and take notes just to keep up. I'm pretty sure they are the same age (at least...clone!Syaoran said they met when he was 7 years old...i'm not exactly certain if that relates to real!sakura and real!syaoran's meeting though). I wanna say they're 15 now, but yeah re-reading will make that clearerhopefullyi really really want this to make sense. Hopefully another fan guide is coming out (the next english one is due out next summer w00t).
crack theories?
Watanuki will turn into a robotic chicken, real!Syaoran and real!sakura will have a bazillionty babies of cute together so that CLAMP has another reason to write a world-spanning and confusing manga and Yuuko will invent a new type of alcohol so that her, Doumeki and Mokona can torment chicken!Watanuki.
how's that for crack? XD
I admit the robot chicken idea was stolen from Planet Ladder howeverin all honesty I don't know what to expect anymore.no subject
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...so much love for you icon. V-Very yes. I love that doujin so much. ;~;
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i love your icon as well (I have a similiar one sitting on my hard drive somewhere in fact I think. well I should.)
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Eee, thanks~ :D (Haha, I need to make more RebornLambo icons in the near future. Slaaaacker is me.) ...and 25YO!Lambo is so much love, zomg. *_*
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I concur with your math re: ages--Original!Clow!Sakura was 14 at the time of the events Syaoran is relating in Ch 200. (I am just going to call him Syaoran, because otherwise it is too confusing.)
I have no new loony theories at this point. Except that CLAMP will top anything I could come up with. One of the high points of my was relating the plot of TRC (up to the return to Kurogane's world) and watching them boggle at the pure insanity. It was a ~1.5 hour discussion arising from the seemingly-innocent question of, "How did he lose his eye?"
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I can just imagine trying to explain almost any of the plot to someone who hasn't read the series.
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Speaking of which: 198. Syaoran on the cover of 198. So cute.
IIRC, Sakura was an almost-lethal cook in CCS. I don't remember so much about Syaoran, though.
As for the Syaoran + Watanuki thing, I think that they were just best friends and Watanuki sacrificed a lot for him (which is why Watanuki was with Yuuko that one night, looking frowny, and also--remember that comment that he made in vol. 1 or 2 to Yuuko, about everything turning out okay?), except he remembers nothing and Syaoran knows nothing. Sorry I can't bring any crack; I'll think of some later.
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No one in the world of manga will ever beat Fai for angst.
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lesbianswomen in the refrigeratormoms. Angelica from Gunslinger Girl, whose father ran her over with a car for the insurance money. lolol Kagura and Sadaharu I.no subject
Fai's angst is worthy of X--any one of those characters. Him, Kamui and Subaru should all sit down together and discuss who wins the angst!muffin contest for CLAMP. oddly enough all 3 have issues because of a guy...
no wait this is CLAMP, I take that back. if it was a guy-girl angst it wouldn't be half as much fun