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I watched a bunch of this as young kid (age 3-6-ish) never knowing what anime was at that time. I didn't remember it very well.

Re-watching it as an adult in Japanese I slowly remembered bits and pieces of it.

The show is far better than I thought it would be, I didn't expect to like it that much, I just thought it would be a fun nostalgia trip. But Cardcaptor Sakura is a complete masterpiece.

This is peak wholesome! It belongs in the #1 slot of the iyashikei genre. Yet there's far more to it than that. This show is a romance unlike any ... I've ever seen before.

Everything about this show is perfected to a level which you rarely see. The animation, though the style may look dated to some is beautiful and brimming with beauty, artistry, cuteness, mysteriousness and conveys a child-like sense of adventure and wonder I haven't felt in over a decade.

The music at first seemed lacking to me, but as I continued watching the show I grew to appreciate the subtleness and nuance of the pieces. Tracks like "Oomide ga Kiechau" / "My Memories Will Disappear" in particular stand out as unbelievably beautiful. It turns out to all anime soundtracks doesn't need a bombastic orchestra, choir or pipe organ to sound epic or bring tears to your eyes. The Japanese intros are also god-tier, I've learned all the lyrics.

The story is one of the most complex, subtle, and believable romances I've ever seen and it is all cleverly disguised a magical girl story. Not to say the magical girl aspect of the show isn't great too, it's one of the greatest. The staff of sealing chants are permanently engrained into my memory and I couldn't be happier.

Colour me not just surprised but utterly shocked at how good this show is. I have been emotionally moved to a degree I could not have predicted if someone hit me right in the face with it.

10/10

As for the English dub, let's not talk about that.

It's appalling how people have rated this masterpiece so low without even watching it just because they hate traps or tentacles.

This is THE best-animated tentacle hentai since the original Mahou Shoujo Ai (Sexy Magical Girl) and in many ways surpasses it. Ahh...If only it were uncensored. Consentacles for the win!

Story is almost a parody of tentacle hentai but with many new innovations.
Characters are all HOT af, especially the trap when he gets transformed into a woman for real.
As mentioned above, the animation is great.
The soundtrack is decent by hentai standards, but it's no Ma ga Ochiru Yoru (The Night When Evil ... Falls)
The voice acting is excellent.

If you like tentacles even a little bit, you will love this!

I only wish it were uncensored (yeah I know those days are long gone, but a guy can dream right?) and a bit longer.

I'm honestly not sure where to start with this one...this show honestly had so much promise, the premise sounds amazing. However, I think the two-episode length destroyed this show, everything goes by too quickly and you barely have time to process the plot.

The boarder-line hentai Yuri scenes in episode one were fantastic, made my heart skip a beat and I beamed with joy. The turn of events at the end of episode one was quite shocking and dark. It defiantly grabbed my attention. Episode two was very, very dark.

The ending was just so totally out of the blue and then some. I wanted to ... love this show. The premise is great, the characters are interesting, and the art is good. But it just went way to dark for me, I'm after wholesome Yuri, not dark, oddly happy yet oddly depressing Yuri.

I am very conflicted on this show, the way it turned from wholesome to dark in the span of minute honestly made me angry. I feel a bit cheated and tricked. Yet I can't ignore the fact that the show brought out such strong emotions in me. And thus, the writing is quite good despite me disagreeing with the direction the show took.

I wonder what we could have had if this show had the budget of Bloom Into You...