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Animation: No complaints

Sounds: No complaints

Plot: Lots of complaints. The first half of this season builds a number of interesting scenarios with some rather deep messages- death is permanent, coping with your past, what it means to love someone vs what it means to love your idea of someone- these ideas disappear in the second portion of this season and are replaced with numerous cheesy platitudes and reused worlds. There is also a guy in a tank of water who bears a striking resemblance to the main character, but nothing about him is ever explained. The villain with muttonchops and a monocle seems important but is ... passed over and replaced with a person who is- apparently- a sentient version of Sakura's feathers, it is never explained why these particular memories are able to achieve sentience, or why they are all together for that matter.

Characters: Lots of complaints, I'll just list them by character.

Syaoran- Generic hero, his childhood friend and possible love interest is in danger and he needs to help her. Nothing ever comes of a rather intense scene wherein Syaoran seems to forget who he is for a moment and utterly destroys a guardian in the lands of Rekord.

Kurogane: Generic monsters-destroyed-my-village fighter.

Sakura: Cardboard cut out love interest and plot device. She demonstrated the possibility of being interesting, then Mokona's spell backfired.

Fai- On the verge of becoming interesting. Like Syaoran, there are numerous hints up to the land of Rekord that imply something not quiet right about our little Wizard friend. It's a good thing Mokona's teleporting spell backfired, or else you may have had to develop a less than Black-and-white character with (GASP) complexities that stem beyond happy-go-lucky Fai. Why, in the first season, does Fai give us the impression his own life isn't worth all that much to him? Why, in this season, does Fai go out of his way to help that girl from Chobits? Why is that tattoo so important to him? Who is King Ashura? Who is Yuui?(Oh wait, the name Yuui isn't even mentioned because that takes us to close to a character being three dimensional and not all-good or all-bad.)

Yuuko- I've been building a bit of a theme here, up until Mokona's teleportation spell backfires in the Land of Rekord a number of characters seem to be on the verge of becoming interesting. Yuuko's personality before Rekord is a complete 180 from her personality after Rekord. In the final arc of the show Yuuko spits out this “Be good so good things happen to you!” line that her character lacks both the moral authority and stupidity to blurt out. What happened to the character who demands equal compensation for all services rendered and why would someone with a philosophy like that spout such idiotic none sense? What happened to the character who attempted to work around the fate she was provided without breaking the codes she adhered to? I really don't even know what to say, I'm pretty sure I suffered a concussion from the amount of times my head hit my desk when that line came up on my subtitles.

This series wasn't just bad in the way some series are bad: It was bad because it was so disappointing.