The comic starts out looking sugary sweet but then gradually escalates its weirdness, all while maintaining the sweet veneer.
This series of posts, especially the last one, have highlighted some of the creepy relationships in the series, but this brief laundry list of objections can’t capture the overall effect. Her ribbons, however … The Effect of the Presentation Her creators and fans both treat Sakura Kinomoto more like a fashion doll than like a human being, so I suspect I’m not the only one who doesn’t find her personality particularly captivating. In both versions, the heroine is uninteresting. Both the manga and anime continuously shatter my suspension of disbelief with their depictions of grade-school children who lethargically discuss abstract concepts over tea. I might, admittedly, have appreciated it more if I had been more familiar with its genre before I read it, but when I watched the anime years later, my reaction was basically the same: Though I acknowledged its high production values, I didn’t think the story was especially good. It proved to be rather saccharine even for my tastes, and I never found the story or the characters especially engaging. I didn’t know Clamp’s reputation and didn’t know what to expect, but I thought it looked cute.
Number 1: Everything “Some magical girl idol or other can … ah, forget it …” OverviewĬardcaptor Sakura was the first magical-girl story, and may even have been the first manga, I ever read. Here is the final thing I hate about Cardcaptor Sakura: … Okay, where was I? Ah, yes: hate, burning hate. Magical girl battles are all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. What is she planning to do with that thing? It’s all gonna end in tears when she puts an eye out. Look at the way she’s threatening us with that giant, winged claw hammer.
Just look at that picture up at the top there. Fiery rage has consumed my soul and burned all to ash in the end, nothing remains … except my hate. We come now to the final day, the final hate, the final boss, of Ten Things I Hate about Cardcaptor Sakura.