meganbmoore | 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.
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I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the manga (I don't own the complete set, only the first series...I need to track down the second) but in the last or second to last episode of the anime (stupid american dub screwing with episodic order) it is mentioned that Syaoran is a very good cook (its the one where they go to Eriol's and he's expecting them and there's a party). It doesn't say in comparison to Sakura however.

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 clearer ~~hopefully~~

i 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 however~~ in all honesty I don't know what to expect anymore.

real!Sakura and real!Syaoran also met right before her 7th birthday. But I'm tempted to say they're at least 15 by the time we get to current events.

i'm pretty sure they are. I have this niggling remberance of it being mentioned back when I thought this was a continuation of CCS before it was licensed and I had to translate the characters on the advert I had found.

I-I am so sorry. This is off-topic to the post, but.

...so much love for you icon. V-Very yes. I love that doujin so much. ;~;

triple emphatic YES on every score. it was my very first Reborn doujinshi (actually don't tell my friends but I am only into the fandom because of all the beautiful, gorgeous and downright smexy rebornxlambo doujinshi out there) and still remains my favorite. NOW IF I CAN FIND IT I would be even happier. I found the companion (The Nightmare Before Christmas) however!

i love your icon as well (I have a similiar one sitting on my hard drive somewhere in fact I think. well I should.)

*snerks!* RebornxLambo is my addiction of the series. It's the only pair I'm actually into of the series... Hahaha. *wibbles* I would love to own doujin of the pairing, but alas, have not been so lucky. ;; I so cannot wait to see more of that series of those doujin because it's made of win. And I'll keep quiet on that. ;D

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. *_*

That chapter title page is weapons-grade cute.

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?"

I just think about adding Sakura to that page, and my brain starts shortcircuiting.

I can just imagine trying to explain almost any of the plot to someone who hasn't read the series.

I just caught up--THIS MAKES SYAORAN'S THING WITH SAKURA TOTALLY NOT!INCESTUOUS. AND O SYAORAN YOUR ANGST TRIES TO BE AS MASSIVE AS FAI'S AND FAILS. THAT DOESN'T MAKE WEE!YOU ANY LESS CUTE.

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.

I never got the "OMG NO INCEST!" bit as strongly as others.

No one in the world of manga will ever beat Fai for angst.

Fai's angst is truly epic, but who comes close? Hakkai, definitely. Izumi and Ed and Al in FMA, but mostly Izumi. Your pick of characters from X--I nominate the ~~lesbians~~ ~~women in the refrigerator~~ moms. Angelica from Gunslinger Girl, whose father ran her over with a car for the insurance money. lolol Kagura and Sadaharu I.

do you mean Izumi's angst anime!FMA or manga!FMA? though I don't know. Ed and Al's angst in either one is pretty top of the line there...

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~~

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Ch 198-200

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