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** There is a simple explanation for it. People tend to become used to presence of other things/people even if they are annoying. And if Tomoyo wanted to associate herself with Sakura for whatever reason and only showed her insanity after Sakura got used to her, Sakura wouldn't really care to stop associating herself with Tomoyo because it would've become part of her life by then.


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** If anything, I think it has to be asked whether her feelings for Sakura really are "love" that is identical to what older people feel, or merely a childish fondness of someone. I think it's the latter, and generally speaking people her age are seldom able to form relationships of this kind. People tend to forget about this because most of us are adults (surprisingly, considering the original target demographic) and for us such relationships are a normal thing.
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** Actually its 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.
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**It does take place over almost three years. In the manga when Sakura meets Syaoron for the first time, she said that she had been looking for the cards for 9 months. Also by the end of the series before the timeskip, Sakura was 12. So she start when she was 9 or 10 and has been going for almost 3 years.
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** This is a result of the manga taking place over a much shorter timeframe, with the anime adding a whole bunch of padding and extra cards without really correcting the timeline. CCS doesn't actually take place over three years, it takes place over ONE.
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*** He probably just told her that to calm her nerves. Imagine knowing that the person you like just stripped you down and changed your clothes? It's quite obviously nothing pedophilic, [[seeing as Yukito is, well, gay, and for Sakura's older brother at that.]]

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*** He probably just told her that to calm her nerves. Imagine knowing that the person you like just stripped you down and changed your clothes? It's quite obviously nothing pedophilic, [[seeing seeing as Yukito is, well, gay, and for Sakura's older brother at that.]]
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* It doesn't really bug me (although it does fit in FridgeLogic), but am I the only one that found it absolutely hilarious when [[FanDumb the title actually split Card and Captor with the justification being the dub?]] [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke The irony of course being that people are willing to literally desecrate the franchise name as a result of complaining about the dub descecrating the franchise name.]] Not only that, it's a CriticalResearchFailure, as IMDB kindly points out.]]

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* It doesn't really bug me (although it does fit in FridgeLogic), but am I the only one that found it absolutely hilarious when [[FanDumb [[FanDub the title actually split Card and Captor with the justification being the dub?]] [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke The irony of course being that people are willing to literally desecrate the franchise name as a result of complaining about the dub descecrating the franchise name.]] Not only that, it's a CriticalResearchFailure, as IMDB kindly points out.]]



*** Maybe it was Yue?

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*** Maybe it was Yue?
Yue?
***He probably just told her that to calm her nerves. Imagine knowing that the person you like just stripped you down and changed your clothes? It's quite obviously nothing pedophilic, [[seeing as Yukito is, well, gay, and for Sakura's older brother at that.]]
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***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.
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*If you watch the timeline in which CCS takes place very closely, you'll realize that there is a serious inconsistency where Touya (and by extension, Yukito) is concerned. CCS takes place over three years--the first arc takes up two (there were about 5-6 months before hand we didn't even see in the canon), and the second arc takes up another year on its own. When the series starts, Sakura has just started her fourth year of elementary school, and Touya and Yukito have just started their second year of high school. We know this because it is said a year later that Touya met Yukito in his first year of high school, since Yukito has been a character all along, we must therefore conclude that this is their second year. But there are only 3 years of high school in Japan. If Touya and Yukito were in their second year of high school when the series began, why are they apparently still in high school two years later?
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** Eriol? Yuuko, maybe?
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*** Actually, the reason for the plot was that Clow ''couldn't'' divide his own powers, but he knew that Sakura could. As for the book - Fujitaka probably had it all along (although he [[PerceptionFilter may not have been aware of it]]). 'Reincarnation' isn't really the right word - it is implied in the manga that Fujitaka and Eriol were created rather than born; Fujitaka has no memory of his childhood because he never had one.
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** Don't forget that the name was chosen by people who didn't understand the story. Heck, it's highly possible that nobody at Nelvana has a look at the original script.
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*** Maybe it was Yue?
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**I think there is a mistranslation going on here. Cerberus DOES need to draw magic from Sakura like everyone else--he says so in vol 7 when he's talking to Yue. What he actually says is that he can eat food to give himself enough energy to get by when he doesn't receive enough magic from Sakura to sustain him (unlike Yue, for whom this apparently does not work...), but he still relies on her support.
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** And speaking about grandparents, when he rescued Sakura from the Illusion card from drowning (in the manga), he takes her to his home. Sakura finds herself with different clothes, and Yukito tells her that it was his grandmother who changed her clothes... [[UnfortunateImplications but if Yukito lives alone...]]
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* How does Yukito have a house? Clothes? Food? He doesn't have any real grandparents, either, yet, he never notices.
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*** While he can't actually seal cards, he does ''capture'' a few of them, in the anime at least--he played a key role in weakening several cards, to the point where they chose him as their owner after being sealed--notably, I specifically remember the Time card going to him, because he didn't use another card to shield himself from its power. So while he can't seal cards, he does capture them, and he refers to himself as a cardcaptor on a few occasions.
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** Duh. We're not talking about the original title, we're talking about the word "Cardcaptors." This isn't an issue of translation or adaptation, it's an issue of ''fact.'' Li doesn't capture cards. He can ''wield'' cards, so ''Cardwielders'' or ''Card Magicians'' or the like would be perfectly okay, but he can't ''capture'' cards. So where did the dubbers get the idea that they can pluralize Sakura's title?
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* What the heck is up with Twin Bells? Even after the "curse" had been lifted, it still was a WeirdnessMagnet with a naive shopkeeper. Who kept sending her weird magical artifacts?
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** Also, Fujitaka is an archaeology professor and has an ''entire basement of books''. It's highly conceivable that he noticed the Clow at a used book sale somewhere, thought it was nifty looking and picked it up with the intention of studying it someday.
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** 'Cardcaptors' is just the dub title. The original Japanese title is 'Cardcaptor Sakura' in the singular.
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*** Well, technically speaking, most of the power (at least half) went into the cards and into Sakura. The whole reason for the plot was Clow wanting to dial down his power level, after all
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** That's right. When Clow reincarnated, all the powers (and memories, apparently) went to Eriol, whereas the rest of him, the part that just wanted to be a normal person and raise a family, went to Fujitaka.

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* How did that book get into their basement? Also, if magic in inherited, wouldn't it have reacted to her father?

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* How did that book get into their basement? Also, if magic in inherited, wouldn't it have reacted to her father?Sakura's father?
** The father didn't have magic powers though, didn't he? They all ended up with Eriol, didn't they?
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*How did that book get into their basement? Also, if magic in inherited, wouldn't it have reacted to her father?
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** In case you didn't notice, Sakura tends to be kinda slow.
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* How come Tomoyo, being so smart and confident, never got to say her feelings to Sakura? Her are no weaker then Li's, why then she said: "they better stay in my heart"? Or is it just anime fault?

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* How come Tomoyo, being so smart and confident, never got to say her feelings to Sakura? Her Hers are no weaker then Li's, why then she said: "they better stay in my heart"? Or is it just anime fault?
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* Even if Sakura failed to convert all of the Clow Cards shouldn't the one's associated with the Sun have survived, since its established that Kero doesn't need to draw magic from someone else because he's associated with the Sun.

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* Even if Sakura failed to convert all of the Clow Cards shouldn't the one's associated with the Sun have survived, since its it's established that Kero doesn't need to draw magic from someone else because he's associated with the Sun.
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** Except the cards don't route power through Kero or Yue, they route power through their creator - Clow ( and later Sakura when she remade them ). Kero just rules the Sun aligned cards, he doesn't power them. Just like the Moon aligned cards, the Sun aligned are basically on batteries until they're linked to Sakura's star.

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** Except the cards don't route power through Kero or Yue, they route power through their creator - Clow ( and (and later Sakura when she remade them ).them). Kero just rules the Sun aligned cards, he doesn't power them. Just like the Moon aligned cards, the Sun aligned are basically on batteries until they're linked to Sakura's star.
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** Nah, it's the money, I don't talk to my cousins anymore and they're not even insane.

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