History WMG / CardcaptorSakura

Let's face it, the products Tomoyo brings out from her mother's company look very similar in terms of design to Piffle Princess products that appear in other CLAMP manga. While Icchan is responsible for Piffle Princess's [[Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer Angelic Layer]] branch, there's nothing to suggest that he's in charge of the whole company. It would also make sense, considering that one Tomoyo in ''[[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Tsubasa]]'' was president of Piffle Princess. It would also explain why in later series like ''Manga/DrugAndDrop'' Piffle Princess has branched out into clothing.

* I can only hope so Yuna D. Kaito is such an obvious supervillain name Cobra Commander is facepalming. Only in a series as old as CardcaptorSakura could you get away with such a name with nobody suspecting or even commenting on such a name and its UnfortunateImplications.

** Supported by the fact that in ''Manga/XxxHolic'' we find out that Sakura paid her Star Staff to Ichihara Yuuko (the reason has major spoilers for both Holic and Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle). It doesn't mention what happened to the Cards or Kero and Yue (we ''may'' find out once Holic and TRC finally finish up, but this is Clamp), but presumably Sakura wouldn't have let anything bad happen to them. So she may have found a way to support them without the staff.

(Copy and pasting from ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' since it's relevant. Spoilers are for that series.) Syaoran is stated in CCS to be 'Clow's Relative' and it's mostly been assumed that he's descended from a cousin of Clow's from the Li Clan. But we are never given a reason for Yuuko's [[spoiler:death, although her youthful appearance suggests she was physically young (excluding any influence her magic had on her ageing)]], and it's never said that Clow never had children. What if Yuuko [[spoiler:died giving birth and Clow's grief at this is what caused him to wish to see her once more]]? Clow could have left the child to be raised by his Li family, knowing that he would have to [[spoiler:fix the problems said wish caused throughout space/time]]. This could also mean that Meilin is also directly descended from them which would explain some of her physical resemblance to Yuuko.

Either it's because everyone wants to forget it ever existed in the first place. Apparently even CLAMP seeing as they made a sequel to Cardcaptor Sakura in the first place to retcon it out of existence Anime/DragonBallSuper style. But why hasn't anyone talked about how this would affect the events of Manga/XXXholic and Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle. Since they do technically follow up the events of Cardcaptor Sakura even if they create the anime industry equivalent of the clone saga with it.

* Counter-argument: Cardcaptor Sakura is by Madhouse Studios not SHAFT so a good deal of the WMG is pretty erroneous. However, the parallels found in Cardcaptor Sakura and Madoka can be seen.

[[WMG: Akiho Shinomoto will be revealed as the antagonist for the Clear Card arc]]

** Counter-argument: Cardcaptor Sakura is by Madhouse Studios not SHAFT so a good deal of the WMG is already wrong. However, the parallels can be seen.

[[WMG: Clear-card-hen in SHAFT's attempt at a Madoka clone.]]
It's becoming more and more painfully clear in retrospect with every episode that Clear card is not just a revival of the franchise. But an experiment to make it into a series more relevant to today's audiences. So SHAFT decided to basically shove as many Madoka elements into the sequel as possible. An older cast and new cards for merchandising and because of the Japanese porn laws. With several of the clear cards being more like witches and the Apppear card being Nagisa Momoe/Charlotte in all but name. A DevilInPlainSight with Akiho, Yuna, and Momo. Bonus points for Akiho being similar to Moemura, Yuna being Homura in drag and Momo being the lovechild of Hedonism bot and Kyubey. And to a lesser extent a massively nerfed Syaoran because now that he's Sakura's boyfriend he must now become Tuxedo Shota and become the third great UselessBoyfriend. And the fact that the plot is heavily if not completely built on PoorCommunicationKills.

It's becoming more and more painfully clear in retrospect with every episode that Clear card is not just a revival of the franchise. But an experiment to make it into a series more relevant to today's audiences. So SHAFT decided to basically shove as many Madoka elements into the sequel as possible. An older cast and new cards for merchandising and because of the Japanese porn laws. With several of the clear cards being more like witches and the Apppear card being Nagisa Momoe/Charlotte in all but name. A DevilInPLainSight with Akiho, Yuna, and Momo. Bonus points for Akiho being similar to Moemura, Yuna being a genderswapped Homura and Momo being the lovechild of Hedonism bot and Kyubey. And to a lesser extent a massively nerfed Syaoran because now that he's Sakura's boyfriend he must now become Tuxedo Shota and become the third great UselessBoyfriend.

* BS You know it's true. And you know Sakura is gonna HeelFaceTurn it at the end like all the other villains as a big middle finger to Urobochi and SHAFT.

[[WMG: Akiho's plushie is the main villain of Clear card-hen]]

She's the cloaked figure from Sakura's dreams, a rival magical girl intent on claiming the cards for herself. In addition, her guardian Yuna D. Kaito and her plush toy Momo are her guardians, akin to Kero and Yue or Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon

[[WMG:Keroberos and Yue and Spinnel Sun and Ruby Moon were lovers/mates prior to the former's sealing inside the Book of Clow, which wiped their memories of the latter.]]

There are lots of parallels between both series: cute, permanently happy girls with guardian angels doing magical things. Keroberos has a plush toy form, Takuto and Meroko have plush toy forms. Yuki can turn himself into a human, Takuto and Meroko can turn themselves into humans. The whole thing sounds like some fantasy made up by Mitsuki to pretend that she wasn't fated to die. Sakura's guardians even have rivals (Spinel Sun/ Ruby Moon), which are just more edgy versions of Kero and Yue. Izumi and Jonathan, anyone? Sakura's friends still have the generic personalities that Mitsuki's friends have, and Sakura loses a parent (Mitsuki loses both). Mitsuki probably felt left out while her shinigami were defying the laws of physics, so I'm guessing she just imagined that she had magical powers and that the shinigami would help her capture cards instead of capturing souls by themselves.

[[WMG: Keroberos is an assumed name.]]

* Though Keroberos may be a complete [[BlindIdiotTranslation mess up]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherub Cherub]] -> Xerub -> Kerub which are winged lion, men, bull, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment eagles]].

* The logic on this one is pretty simple. Eriol is [[spoiler: the reincarnation of Clow Reed that contains all the memories of the original]]. Clow Reed was very involved with Yuuko and [[spoiler: wished her to open her eyes when she died, causing her continued existence and a lot of the problems in the ''Manga/XxxHolic'' story]], so he probably was at the very least a friend and must have known that the butterfly was her symbol. So when Eriol went to make Ruby Moon and Spinnel Sun as alternates to Yue and Keroberos he gave them butterfly wings and a darker color scheme as homage to her. It also explains why, despite being a technically [[NoBiologicalSex sexless]] spirit, Ruby Moon [[WholesomeCrossdresser dresses]] and [[GenkiGirl acts]] the way 'she' does.

Let's face it, the products Tomoyo brings out from her mother's company look very similar in terms of design to Piffle Princess products that appear in other CLAMP manga. While Icchan is responsible for Piffle Princess's [[Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer Angelic Layer]] branch, there's nothing to suggest that he's in charge of the whole company. It would also make sense, considering that one Tomoyo in ''[[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Tsubasa]]'' was president of Piffle Princess. It would also explain why in later series like ''LegalDrug'' Piffle Princess has branched out into clothing.