History Headscratchers / CardCaptorSakura

* I find the creations of Clow Reed and Eriol confusing because they seem to lack defined rules other than they all have wings of some sort and the sun guardians are lions, whereas the moon guardians are people, and seem to set up patterns that just aren't there. Why are there 2 lions, a butterfly women, and a angel instead of 2 angels and 2 lions? Or 2 butterfly people and 2 lions? Or just have all be lions or people? Also, they all have "false forms" which fail to show a pattern. One false form is a man that isn't aware of his true self, the rest are aware of their real self. The butterfly "women" is the only one without a true gender and the only one who considers herself female. The lions have mini cat forms and are gluttonous, yet the angel can't eat except in his false form. Shouldn't they all be able to eat, or all not be able to? Shouldn't they all be aware of themselves as false forms or all not be aware? Why is Kerberos named that when all the rest have names themed around their attributes? We have "Yue" which means moon, "Ruby ''Moon''" and "Spinel ''Sun''" and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "Kerberos".]] Spinel Sun looks more like a moon guardian than a sun guardian. Basically, they're all over the place to me. I'm not necessarily asking for answers to every single one of these questions, I'm just trying to explain my thinking and clear up my confusion.

* I find the creations of Clow Reed and Eriol confusing because they seem to lack defined rules other than they all have wings of some sort and the sun guardians are lions, whereas the moon guardians are people, and seem to set up patterns that just aren't there. Why are there 2 lions, a butterfly women, and a angel instead of 2 angels and 2 lions? Or 2 butterfly people and 2 lions? Or just have all be lions or people? Also, they all have "false forms" which fail to show a pattern. One false form is a man that isn't aware of his true self, the rest are aware of their real self. The butterfly "women" is the only one without a true gender and the only one who considers herself female. The lions have mini cat forms and are gluttonous, yet the angel can't eat except in his false form. Shouldn't they all be able to eat, or all not be able to? Shouldn't they all be aware of themselves as false forms or all not be aware? Why is Kerberos named that when all the rest have names themed around their attributes? We have "Yue" which means moon, Ruby ''Moon'' and Spinel ''Sun'' and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Kerberos.]] Spinel Sun looks more like a moon guardian than a sun guardian. Basically, they're all over the place to me. I'm not necessarily asking for answers to every single one of these questions, I'm just trying to explain my thinking and clear up my confusion.

* I find the creations of Clow Reed and Eriol confusing because they seem to lack defined rules other than they all have wings of some sort and the sun guardians are lions, whereas the moon guardians are people, and seem to set up patterns that just aren't there. Why are there 2 lions, a butterfly women, and a angel instead of 2 angels and 2 lions? Or 2 butterfly people and 2 lions? Or just have all be lions or people? Also, they all have "false forms" which fail to show a pattern. One false form is a man that isn't aware of his true self, the rest are aware of their real self. The butterfly "women" is the only one without a true gender and the only one who considers herself female. The lions have mini cat forms and are gluttonous, yet the angel can't eat except in his false form. Shouldn't they all be able to eat, or all not be able to? Shouldn't they all be aware of themselves as false forms or all not be aware? Why is Kerberos named that when all the rest have names themed around their attributes? We have "Yue" which means moon, Ruby ''Moon'' and Spinel ''Sun'' and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Kerberos.]] Spinel Sun looks more like a moon guardian than a sun guardian. Basically, they're all over the place to me. I'm not necessarily asking for answers to every single of these questions, I'm just trying to explain my thinking and clear up my confusion.

* I find the creations of Clow Reed and Eriol confusing because they seem to lack defined rules other than they all have wings of some sort and the sun guardians are lions, whereas the moon guardians are people, and seem to set up patterns that just aren't there. Why are there 2 lions, a butterfly women, and a angel instead of 2 angels and 2 lions? Or 2 butterfly people and 2 lions? Or just have all be lions or people? Also, they all have "false forms" which fail to show a pattern. One false form is a man that isn't aware of his true self, the rest are aware of their real self. The butterfly "women" is the only one without a true gender and the only one who considers herself female. The lions have mini cat forms and are gluttonous, yet the angel can't eat except in his false form. Shouldn't they all be able to eat, or all not be able to? Shouldn't they all be aware of themselves as false forms or all not be aware? Why is Kerberos named that when all the rest have names themed around their attributes? We have "Yue" which means moon, Ruby ''Moon'' and Spinel ''Sun'' and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Kerberos.]] Spinel Sun looks more like a moon guardian, or even a Dark Type {[Pokemon}}, than a sun guardian. Basically, they're all over the place to me. I'm not necessarily asking for answers to every single of these questions, I'm just trying to explain my thinking and clear up my confusion.

** Kero was in a very terrible mood during that and also hurt by Sakura's magic. He probably was first asleep for a long time and then not in any mood to really look around. That plus hiding in the picnic basket makes it possible Kero didn't notice. Though why ''Sakura'' didn't comment on how surprised Kero is about Tomoyo's house...

* In episode 6 after Sakura's near-mishap Yukito tells her that Tomoyo was gonna look after her 'plush toy' (i.e. Kero), which means she took him home with her, but in episode 11 Kero doesn't actively guide Sakura to Tomoyo's place until he has a look round and exhibits some surprise upon seeing just what her home is like.

* What was Tomoyo thinking when she designed the Bat Burglar costume? Don't you think fingerless gloves are a little too inapporpiate for a museum robbery? You know, fingers are exposed and Sakura could have perfectly left fingerprints, that means leaving evidence for museum aurtorities if they noticed the painting changed.

* Alright, so I know that Yukito [[spoiler: is Yue's temporary form, but how does that work exactly? Are they the same person with different minds and hearts, or the same person with different minds, or two people in one body?]]

** Because Nelvana is not the only one who dubbed the anime, there is also the Animax dub. The second movie english dub also had the original names aswell. And other non-english dubs also brought the original names, such as the Latin-America version. In fact, if this is a page about CARDCAPTOR SAKURA, why should anyone follow the CARDCAPTORS dub names?

* Why the hell is everybody here using the original Japanese names to refer to the characters instead of the dubbed English names? What, do you guys actually expect everyone to have memorized the original language names?!

* What happened to Eriol's house to make it fall into such rapid disrepair in four months?

** The entity coming out of The Mirror acts independent of whoever it takes the image of, where this isn't the case with The Twin. People duplicated by The Twin act and speak exactly the same at the exact same time, nor do they know they've been copied, going off how Wei acted. I don't think The Watery is actually able to make it rain. The Watery can absorb water into itself (as it does when Rika almost drowns) but not make it rain. It's the equivalent of a fire hydrant to The Rain's rainstorm. The Cloud makes it rain as a side-effect of covering the sky with very thick clouds rather than actually being able to make it rain by will. The Storm is a blend of The Rain, The Windy, The Thunder, and possibly The Snow and/or The Freeze if it can make it hail. Honestly, the only redundant card I see is The Cloud. As to the foul-mouthed person directly above this who seems to hate the anime, The Return and The Time aren't the same cards. Nor's The Mist, since it also has time powers of a sort. The Return allows only one person to go back years and years in time, where The Time can stop time and reverse it by one whole day, forcing the day to repeat itself exactly the same; I presume by Clow shushing Sakura that The Return allows one to change history if they chose to interact with it where you can't do this with The Time, as the day will repeat itself exactly the same way as it did the first time; only people who have magical abilities will change things and even then, as we see from The Time's episode, it's only very minor changes; they're still compelled to follow the day exactly the same, even if they don't mean to. Li walking after the recorder test is a good example. The Mist also has time properties, as it speeds up decay time for all nonliving matter. The Song copies singing and only singing; The Voice will take any voice-speaking or singing- that it likes, rendering the person completely mute. The Loop and The Maze are two totally different cards and not even remotely similar so I don't get where calling them redundant to each other comes from. The Maze constructs mazes and The Loop bends time and space to make basically a racetrack. There's no way to get lost in The Loop. As to The Bubble, it's meant for cleaning and isn't redundant at all since no other card has the same properties.

** The anime invents a whole lot of redundant cards. The Return ''and'' the Time? the Song ''and'' the Voice? the Loop ''and'' the Maze? the fucking ''Bubble''?

** The anime invents a whole lot of redundant cards. The Return ''and'' the Time? the Song ''and'' the Voice? the Loop ''and'' the Maze? the fucking ''[[WhatKindOfALamePowerIsHeartAnyway Bubble]]''?

* So we have the Mirror Card, which can make itself into a double of anyone, and in the anime, we have the Twin Card, which can duplicate anything, including people......what exactly was the point of having two cards with nearly the exact same function? This goes for the Watery and the Rain as well.

*** Plus, as Tomoyo herself said, if you truly love someone, you'll want them to be happy, even if they aren't with you. Tomoyo was wise beyond her years, and realized that Sakura and
Syaoran loved each other, and that Sakura would be happiest with him, not knowing, rather than carrying the burden of knowing that she had to turn down her best friend.

*** Plus, as Tomoyo herself said, if you truly love someone, you'll want them to be happy, even if they aren't with you. Tomoyo was wise beyond her years, and realized that Sakura and Syaoran loved each other, and that Sakura would be happiest with him, not knowing, rather than carrying the burden of knowing that she had to turn down her best friend.

*** Going by the cycling of the school uniforms, the manga actually does take place over three years. Also, there are textual clues that indicate that capturing the cards happens over two years. Most notably, it says that the talent show featuring the play of Sleeping Beauty happens in December, so it has to have been a year since Syaoran's arrival, since that happened at the end of December. Also, in the manga, the first chapter of Volume 9 happens on March 14 (White Day), but Sakura also says that it's ''not'' a school day, which means it's a Sunday, since Japanese schools hold class on Saturdays. If you make the reasonable assumption that the series starts in the same year that the first chapter was published (1996), then it ''has'' to happen over three years, since 1999 is the first year after 1996 that has March 14 fall on a Sunday. The simplest explanation is that [=CLAMP=] didn't do the calculations to figure things out. I've simply resolved the discrepancy by adopting a headcanon that Sakura was in third grade and Touya and Yukito were in their first year of High school when the series started and that Touya and Yukito met in their third year of middle. And even that only works if you assume that the final school year of the manga runs into April.

** Actually it's two years. In the first volume Sakura says that she has been searching for the cards for two months, and Touya is introduced as a second year in High School. The japanese school year starts in April and ends in March of the next year with one week-one month off. By the time Sakura meets Syaoran she is nearing the end of her adventures, and its the middle of the Japanese school year. Then the final judgement happens and Sakura outright says that she's in the fifth grade. The manga ends with Syaoran leaving when they are still in the fifth grade. There is no third year, as the series makes it clear that Sakura is 10 year old 4th grader at the beginning and 11 fifth and the end of the series (minus the epilogue where she is a middle school student). Touya and Yukito are also in their second year of Highschool in the first half of the manga and 3rd year in the second (according to the blurbs at the beginning of the chapters). Because Sakura's birthday is right at the beginning of the new school year if another year passed then the manga would make note of it. But since they hadn't then that means that only two years passed.

*** Eriol's got a [[RuleOfDrama flair for the dramatic.]] Look at his hat and tell me it's not true!

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** He was probably trying to make the "danger" more real, since we all know people can go above their usual limits when in danger. And he could reveal himself safely at the end because Sakura's magic kept on getting stronger with each changed card. Was his decision really the right decision, though? I think not, but then again humans can make mistakes, and the same applies to characters in a story.

* Couldn't Eriol have revealed himself to Sakura at the beginning? If he had explained the need to change the cards and said he'll give her situations to change the cards, Sakura would still be determined to succeed and change the cards, and when she was given a trial by Eriol, she would still have a reason for changing a card. Besides, in Eriol's final challenge, Sakura knew who was causing things to happen, was told what to do to pass the challenge, and had reason to change the cards. Why couldn't Eriol have handled every other challenge with Sakura knowing?