はにゃーん

Noth­ing much hap­pens in this episode in terms of devel­op­ment or char­ac­ter estab­lish­ment (if there was­n’t a Clow Card in these types of episodes, I would call them [good] filler), but it was extreme­ly fun nonethe­less. The episode title is “Saku­ra’s Lit­tle Adven­ture” — which is a great title, I see the pun there — but if I were to rename it, “Hon­ey, I Shrunk Saku­ra” would be it.

As TsukuyomiMagi99 said in a com­ment on my last post, Saku­ra is indeed real­ly cute when she’s scared. Here though, she actu­al­ly could have died mul­ti­ple times through­out the episode, which I’m real­ly not okay with.

Becom­ing a cat’s chew toy, or see­ing a pray­ing man­tis up-close after being shrunk down to fun size by The Lit­tle card, does­n’t sound very fun at all if you were in Saku­ra’s shoes.

Behold, the most vicious death you’ll ever see in Card­cap­tor Saku­ra. R.I.P. Pray­ing Man­tis-kun

I know they’re real­ly friend­ly at heart, but some of the Clow Cards are some­what unset­tling with their ambigu­ous inno­cence. The Lit­tle was hav­ing way too much fun with Saku­ra’s mis­ery, for instance.

Also:

Anti Bul­ly Ranger Saku­ra

さくら怪獣じゃないもん!

So, Touya. After all the jokes about Saku­ra being a mon­ster that will stomp all over you, it seems like the sit­u­a­tion has been reversed.

How do you like it now?

Aha­ha­ha­ha­ha. Ha. Ha.

Ha.

That’s not a good thing, is it? ;_;

You know, back when I was just get­ting into Card­cap­tor Saku­ra dur­ing my younger days, I kin­da want­ed this to be Kero’s true form.

Just look at how majes­tic he is!

So for all of the oth­er old school CCS fans out there, how many of you guys were also scream­ing at the screen, “DON’T TOUCH IT!” when you first watched this episode? I remem­ber me doing it in my head, and I swear my heart was skip­ping a beat before Mini Saku­ra flew in and I was like, “Thank god they’re not doing that”. My imma­ture lit­tle head was mak­ing pre­dic­tions on what was going to hap­pen next. “The Lit­tle is going to turn every­thing lit­tle so noth­ing makes a dif­fer­ence” might have been one of them.

(Side Note: Tomoyo looks real­ly adorable with the twin­tail hair­style)

YO YOU BETTER BACK THE FUCK UP BEFORE YOU GET SMACKED THE FUCK UP

Sor­ry, I’m in the mood for poten­tial CCS reac­tion images. 😛

WOOP WOOP

Oh my god… well, that’s one way to use a Clow Card.

Rev­e­la­tion #1: Saku­ra end­ed world hunger. It’s in her char­ac­ter, she has the pow­ers, and it’s there­fore wel­come in my head­canon.

Rev­e­la­tion #2: If the events of this episode did­n’t cre­ate a per­ma­nent trau­ma between Saku­ra and big hous­es, her dream of liv­ing in a big house will par­tial­ly come true because her future in-laws are liv­ing it big in Chi­nese man­sions (she’ll prob­a­bly con­tin­ue to live a qui­et life in Tomoe­da though, which in all hon­esty seems like the life I desire as well).

Rev­e­la­tion #3: Touya makes fun of Saku­ra in this episode, as usu­al. He says that Saku­ra isn’t fit to be a princess liv­ing in a giantic cas­tle. How­ev­er, she has an alter­nate uni­verse coun­ter­part, who is a princess and grew up liv­ing in a big cas­tle.

Hm.

My OTP tran­scends space and time. As con­vo­lut­ed as it got with the clone/time loop bull­shit, Tsub­asa ‑RESER­Voir CHRoN­i­CLE- real­ly hit a lot of notes right when it came to CLAMP throw­backs (espe­cial­ly when the orig­i­nal CCS Saku­ra actu­al­ly appears).

(I’m look­ing for­ward to Tsub­asa World Chron­i­cle: Nirai Kanai-hen, by the way.)

The best part of this bat­tle cos­tume is def­i­nite­ly her huge rib­bon.