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Mar 24, 2018 4:19 PM
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Syaoran is back :D

Looks like there's some sports competition but as usual, trouble came. This week, she managed to capture the Hail card. Impressive. Her outfit was relatively simple but well made. The ending was interesting as she has one of those bizarre dreams again.
Mar 24, 2018 7:03 PM
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Akiho having a recurring dream, reminds me of the original series when Sakura would have that same dream of her over and over again which eventually happened to be real.

Nice to Kero being very helpful there by gathering all the items Sakura needed.

Sakura must have learned basketball those moves from Yukito, she did great.

We can always rely on Tomoyo to have an outfit ready.

Great stuff by Syaoran there using all that fire magic against the hail.

Ah so now the mysterious being is present in the real world.

Oh look Meiling is back next time, she be a lot of fun if she is staying at Sakura's place.
Mar 24, 2018 7:15 PM
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Akiho is the Origami Killer.

Scarf down breakfast and almost choke, then casually walk to school at a normal pace.


Edit: Oh, yeah, Sakura says Kero has been sleeping a lot. If it's like Yukito's sleepiness, perhaps it could be due to Sakura's power being slowly drained in those dreams?
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Mar 24, 2018 7:43 PM
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Nice new spell from Syaoran. What was that glowing dot in his hand?

Also, was that the voice of Akiho-chan in the dream? Sakura looked like she recognized her voice.

And Meiling in the next episode means the entire episode will be a Filler. Bummer.
Mar 24, 2018 8:01 PM
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Seems like it'll be a break next week.

Syaoran throwing something to enhance his magic with as a last resort.... I wonder if that gem or something is important. I was also half expecting the new card to fly over to Syaoran like Clow Cards choosing owners. :P

Also seems like the new cards are reacting to Sakura's wishes/thoughts. The other day she was talking about the penguin park, and the exact same thing happened. Also the person in the dream is no longer just someone in a dream :O

Mar 24, 2018 8:38 PM
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A great episode and it seems to be quite important for many reasons:
1. They've made it almost certain that Akiho-chan is the masked figure or at least her Butler controlling/possessing her somehow
2. Got to see an amazing new spell from Li but they purposefully (I think) blocked our ability to hear the spell's name for some reason (at least in the subbed version I saw)...may have significant meaning later on if that wasn't a sound error lol. Also, his growing tension and worry is unnerving. He must know something is coming
3. Marks the second half of the season
4. Kero is sleeping more.. Which might be a bad sign that something is weakening him
Mar 24, 2018 8:50 PM
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anyone else think Li has the Sakura Cards (hence the fire power he had? perhaps why he was so upset? cause he has to keep the secret from Sakura? anyone? no? but then again, wouldn't sakura sense the cards? unless eriol did something to avoid that. honestly i dunno.
Mar 24, 2018 9:33 PM
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Now that we've had more of the dream revealed I'm thinking that the "D" in Yuna D. Kaito stands for "dragon"?

Or just another parallel to Fai?

At any rate the Clear Card arc is chock full of parallels to CCS and CLAMP's other works.

How many more Clear Cards must be collected before Syaoran and everyone in the know can execute their master plan?

I find it interesting that these "bootleg" versions of the cards don't drain Sakura's energy or some similar consequence when she captures them like in the first series.
A good author leaves the audience enough material to be satisfied with, yet yearning for more.
Mar 24, 2018 9:56 PM
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Good episode again.

Based on what Akiho says about her dream to Kaito, the possibility of her being the person in Sakura's dream is now very high. That also makes it possible for Kaito to be the dragon.

The compeitions were pretty nice to watch.

Tomoyo is the definition of preparedness. xD

We got the hail card this week. Li sure showed his skill this time, loved the fire magic he displayed.

Are we getting a new OP and ED next week?
Mar 24, 2018 10:35 PM
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This episode again teases the fact that Sakura's dad just can't meet Akiho. I'd still on Akiho = Sakura's mother camp. Sakura's dad look at Sakura's mother after just talking about Akiho is very suspicious.
Mar 24, 2018 10:42 PM

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Sakura desired a tie in the badminton match, then hail started to fall. It's like recording and flying too, maybe another cards are from Akiho's desires.
Mar 25, 2018 2:34 AM

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I wonder if anything unusual would happen if Fujitaka saw Akiho, let alone Kaito. He never gets the chance to meet them.

Sakura's lucky the badminton match between Syaoran and Akiho was called off. It looked like Akiho might have had the upper hand if Li was struggling playing against her.

It is great to see Syaoran helping Sakura, but hopefully his new magic is not the self-sacrificing and/or life-threatening type of powers. That would be worrying.

Sakura at least knows what kind of voice the mysterious figure has in her dream.

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Mar 25, 2018 4:29 AM
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I'm not quite sure how this series is going to end. On one hand, I believe that these new cards are upgraded versions of the Sakura Cards (like they were for the Clow Cards) and they'll be needed for the inevitable fight in the season finale, however after reading a few comments on Crunchyroll, it's highly likely that this mysterious Kaito is somehow behind these cards and is using Sakura to make them for Akiho because she unconsciously "wants" them and the key. And thus, by Sakura making these cards, she is slowing losing her own cards (which became transparent) and power for Akiho.

It'll be interesting to see how Akiho responds to the whole situation when she finally becomes aware of what's going on.

Also, I would love to know what's going on in Syaoran's head. For example, what he and Eriol know about what's going on, why his old powers no longer work, why he felt some sort of regret by using his new power. It's all very bizarre and I would love some answers as the weeks go into the second-cour.

Note: I've heard that the next episode of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen won't be airing next week but on the 7th of April instead. I don't know whether this is completely true or not, but just a heads up if so.
Mar 25, 2018 4:30 AM
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ohh My Akiho is also having a dream... sakura is also having a dream... ohh you know it already!!! hahaha... enemies are just there, you just dont know... hahahah
Mar 25, 2018 4:59 AM
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isuzusan said:
I'm not quite sure how this series is going to end. On one hand, I believe that these new cards are upgraded versions of the Sakura Cards (like they were for the Clow Cards) and they'll be needed for the inevitable fight in the season finale, however after reading a few comments on Crunchyroll, it's highly likely that this mysterious Kaito is somehow behind these cards and is using Sakura to make them for Akiho because she unconsciously "wants" them and the key. And thus, by Sakura making these cards, she is slowing losing her own cards (which became transparent) and power for Akiho.

It'll be interesting to see how Akiho responds to the whole situation when she finally becomes aware of what's going on.

Also, I would love to know what's going on in Syaoran's head. For example, what he and Eriol know about what's going on, why his old powers no longer work, why he felt some sort of regret by using his new power. It's all very bizarre and I would love some answers as the weeks go into the second-cour.

Note: I've heard that the next episode of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen won't be airing next week but on the 7th of April instead. I don't know whether this is completely true or not, but just a heads up if so.
yes there is no episode next week since they air the second movie again
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From what Kaito said in this episode, and from what we saw in Sakura's dream, I get the idea that Kaito created Akiho as part of a spell to steal the Sakura cards, and maybe even Sakura's magic power. Akiho is somehow Sakura's double, a mirror image, although she's unaware of it, and that's why the two of them are so attracted to one another. Akiho is like a doll or something, a puppet that Kaito controls, imbued with the desire to have Sakura's magic for herself. I suspect by the end of this series, Akiho will go full dark and turn on Sakura.

I definitely think someone is trying to steal Sakura's magic, but I don't think she's converting her own cards; I think when the enchantment that kept them as cards was a shattered (as evidenced by Sakura's first dream) they revealed their true/upgraded selves and were then released into the wild, probably because of Sakura's interference somehow. But Sakura wasn't supposed to get the key, Akiho was, and now those magic forces are attracted to Sakura and thus appear in response to her will. But she can only master them with the dream key, because they're no longer Clow OR Sakura cards, but greater magic forces.

I'm guessing Kaito is the dragon we saw in the new dream, and the magic society he's a part of doesn't want some "random" Japanese girl to have all this magic power at her fingertips. They probably want to control all magic, and/or use it to subjugate the world/magic users. I'm also guessing Eriol/Clow somehow knows all about this, and is forbidden from telling Sakura the whole story or interfering in any way, but he's told Li at least some of it, who has been looking after Sakura with Eriol's advice, even though he's probably not supposed to. I don't think Eriol is complicit in this society's plan, but I don't think he's going to do anything about it by himself. I think that's just because he trusts Sakura.

As for Kero (and Yue I guess)... I wonder about what will happen to them. As much as Sakura loves Kero, he's not her familiar; He was Clow's. With the cards no longer being Clow or Sakura cards, I think whatever tenuous connection he had to Sakura's magic power is fading, although so far he seems unaware of it.

I wouldn't be surprised if he disappears, or goes through a big transformation by the end of the series.
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Mar 25, 2018 6:19 AM

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Well well, things have become interesting lately. I stick with this theory of Kero being drained of power, but we don't know if the same thing is happening to Yue (who is doing nothing at all in this arc, by the way).

xxxATiON said:
Now that we've had more of the dream revealed I'm thinking that the "D" in Yuna D. Kaito stands for "dragon"?

Or just another parallel to Fai?

In the previous episode Eriol said it's some kind of title of some English mage order, which he probably belongs to. But yeah, he could also be the dragon.

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From what Kaito said in this episode, and from what we saw in Sakura's dream, I get the idea that Kaito created Akiho as part of a spell to steal the Sakura cards, and maybe even Sakura's magic power. Akiho is somehow Sakura's double, a mirror image, although she's unaware of it, and that's why the two of them are so attracted to one another. Akiho is like a doll or something, a puppet that Kaito controls, imbued with the desire to have Sakura's magic for herself. I suspect by the end of this series, Akiho will go full dark and turn on Sakura.

I definitely think someone is trying to steal Sakura's magic, but I don't think she's converting her own cards; I think when the enchantment that kept them as cards was a shattered (as evidenced by Sakura's first dream) they revealed their true/upgraded selves and were then released into the wild, probably because of Sakura's interference somehow. But Sakura wasn't supposed to get the key, Akiho was, and now those magic forces are attracted to Sakura and thus appear in response to her will. But she can only master them with the dream key, because they're no longer Clow OR Sakura cards, but greater magic forces.

I'm guessing Kaito is the dragon we saw in the new dream, and the magic society he's a part of doesn't want some "random" Japanese girl to have all this magic power at her fingertips. They probably want to control all magic, and/or use it to subjugate the world/magic users. I'm also guessing Eriol/Clow somehow knows all about this, and is forbidden from telling Sakura the whole story or interfering in any way, but he's told Li at least some of it, who has been looking after Sakura with Eriol's advice, even though he's probably not supposed to. I don't think Eriol is complicit in this society's plan, but I don't think he's going to do anything about it by himself. I think that's just because he trusts Sakura.

As for Kero (and Yue I guess)... I wonder about what will happen to them. As much as Sakura loves Kero, he's not her familiar; He was Clow's. With the cards no longer being Clow or Sakura cards, I think whatever tenuous connection he had to Sakura's magic power is fading, although so far he seems unaware of it.

I wouldn't be surprised if he disappears, or goes through a big transformation by the end of the series.

Interesting theory, I too think that someone is trying to get Sakura's magic from the episode where Akiho mentioned she had come to Japan to find a certain book. From the previous episode it seems more likely that Kaito is the mastermind, not Akiho who seems to be quite innocent about what's happening.
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Mar 25, 2018 9:11 AM

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it looks like Akiho is the culprit, it's like her other personality is the one doing that to Sakura.
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WHO WOULD YOU ROOT FOR:

Love of your life with who you finally reunited after being apart for years X This girl you met a month ago

Seriously?

Okay, so it seems the girls are either having the same dream or meeting in the same dream idk. Akiho seems totally fine with wanting to steal things from other people (I suppose she knows this is not just normal dream) and between that and having a personal slave, I think this girl is in need of a therapist.

Aaaand Sakura is late because that's a classic. But she was walking quite slowly for someone who was late.
When Kero told Syaoran he was still too immature and he was just like "Yeah, you're right" I just went OUCH dude, no need to belittle yourself like that. It hurts me. Even Kero felt guilty.

Then, sports competition. Our Sakura chan slam-dunks in the face of the haters and shows those middle school losers how to play the game. She's not interested in ties when she is the one playing, she just goes for the gold.

New card appears, same old same old, Syaoran has some new sick tricks and he doesn't seem to feel well using them which makes us, spectators, really confused. And Sakura might have noticed something was weird but Akiho appeared and she kinda forgot about it oops.

Meiling is back next episode, can she put some sense into Sakura's head?
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Mar 25, 2018 1:45 PM

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That concludes that Akiho is the masked one and Kaito is the dragon.

I'm right now just rooting for Syaoran, I guess he's still frustrated that he can't sense the CLEAR cards.

Meling returns next week, can't wait
Mar 25, 2018 4:55 PM

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So anyone else think Syaoran used the firey card in this episode?

They purposely cut what he said before using the fire spell and he seemed upset he needed to use it which is really suspicious and if Eriol knew someone was coming for the cards it could make sense he and Syaoran found a way to take the cards from Sakura temporarily so they cant be found and their plan is to have the clear cards be taken instead in hopes they will be useless to Akiho/Kaito considering no one beside Sakura can sense them.
Mar 25, 2018 8:04 PM

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I'm impressed about the amount of theories this plot has created since there are more questions than answers and to be honest, it's really entertaining to read them all. It makes me feel even more anxious for the upcoming episodes.

P.S.: It's like the third/fourth time Akiho tells Sakura she wants to watch the play's recording and I don't know if it's just me but maybe that moment would be also related to the plot at some point (like Akiho visiting Sakura's library too)... she seems so interested in it.

The speculations are strong in this series as I notice xD
Mar 25, 2018 10:10 PM

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Very interesting with akiho talking about the dream. I really want to know what's going on with the masked figure abdvwgat the want. I love the series but I want something exciting to happen XD
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horitsubastudent said:
WHO WOULD YOU ROOT FOR:

Love of your life with who you finally reunited after being apart for years X This girl you met a month ago

Seriously?


Glad to see I'm not the only who feel sorry for Syaoran that Sakura actually have trouble who to root for. I mean like seriously?
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Mar 26, 2018 10:08 PM
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Nice episode with sport theme
Mar 27, 2018 6:42 AM

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okay, got another card "hail"
up until now Sakura doesn't have fire based cards? good thing Shaoran is there to show-off and assist them!
the person on Sakura's dreams might be a celestial! lolz
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And now my only concern is if CCS is gonna cross-over with Tsubasa and XXXHOlic now....since Syaoran now has got some new stuff, and his new drawing sword skill
What has he been through with Eriol during his stay in Hong Kong? And the Kaito accidentally having the initial D similar to that of Fay....and Sakura still has to give her wand later right???!
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I'm not sure how off-track this is from the manga (if it is?), but looks like things are getting interesting~

When Fujitaka mentions that the library's all ready for Akiho's visit, I sorta wonder if there'll be some drama happening in the library in a later episode with Sakura and Akiho? Or just me over-thinking.

Sakura's sportsmanship is very impressive, I can only marvel at her fitness level. Or more specifically, I'm amazed at her successful goal shoots multiple times, especially from afar! #yougogirl

The badminton showdown between Syaoran and Akiho I really liked - though I really had hoped Syaoran could have done better (he seemed a bit worn out towards the end), it was a good match! How convenient for both of them to draw :p

Again, loving the teamwork of Sakura and Syaoran when going against Hail, and I enjoyed watching Syaoran's moves - conjuring his sword and all that jazz, almost seemed a little bit like Full Metal Alchemist-esque (or just me again).

With Sakura dreaming more and more of her encounter with the cloaked figure, this feels very reminiscent of the original series prior to Sakura's faceoff with Yue (Final Judgement).

Anyway, let's see how things progress~
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Sakura mentioning Kero being more sleepy reminded me of Yue fading away because he didn't have enough magic to sustain him. I don't think this is what's happening to Kero. I don't remember if the anime talked about it, but in the manga, it's said that Kero sustains himself because his power comes from the sun. It might be a throwaway line, but if it's not, I kind of doubt it's from Sakura's magic being different. I hope he gets to join Sakura in the dreams from sleeping more often :(

It's practically certain Akiho is the cloaked figure now. It might be too soon to call Kaito as the dragon, Momo has to fall somewhere in this. I'm skeptical of that rabbit lol.

Everything is leading up to Sakura's library. I'm soo ready for that setting to trigger something in Akiho. I know the focus has been on the second movie, but what about the first?! There's so many similarities with it, I hope that was canon too.
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God they really can't telegraph this anymore that they have. The only question is why?
Apr 1, 2018 12:23 PM

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And here I thought we'd finally find a use for Record. Kero's basically a drone now, well, really he's Tomoyo's camera :P
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Nobody gonna mention Sakura's basketball skills? Lmao
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No other show, I repeat, absolutely no other show, can beat CCS: Clear Card, last season or the new Spring season!
Apr 5, 2018 3:11 PM
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It's just me or someone notice this to, Syaoran-kun new fire spell look like Syaoran from Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles hien?
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hmm nice to see the cousin again..this season is so wholesome
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Everything is about to be connected now. Now it's more obvious who the cloaked person is.
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It appears that Akiho is the cloaked person in Sakura's dream, but she doesn't realize that Sakura is the person that's she's seeing in her dream. It appears that Kaito is manipulating Akiho into getting the key from Sakura.

Also, Shaoran's magic is definitely a lot stronger than it used to be.

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