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Catch Me Catch You: Part 5
Another easy start, with a line mostly in English. そう Nice To Meet You Good To See You きっと Simply put, そう means “so”. Easy enough. And きっと is “surely” or “certainly”. “So, nice to meet you, good to see...
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General Speech Patterns in Cardcaptor Sakura
I’ll be (slowly) doing a series of posts on dialogue translation, using Cardcaptor Sakura as the material. Whether or not I can make it through all 70 episodes, I don’t know, but I imagine many things...
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Cardcaptor Sakura: The AnimeCartoon Bootleg
The company which releases “AnimeCartoon” DVDs is a known bootlegger (and also goes by Anime Studio, among other names). The next bootleg I’m looking at is an AnimeCartoon “release”. What I’m not...
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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Mini Bootleg
This is yet another release of the AnimeCartoon copies of the episodes, but not released by AnimeCartoon. What’s special about this release is that it comes on only two dual-layer DVDs. It may read...
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Planning a Forest Visit
Wow, talk about biting off more than I could chew here! If I took a smaller portion, I would have had this complete many months ago Because of the sheer amount of time and effort I put into it, I ended...
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Cardcaptor Apparel: Pajamas and Rollerblades
While Tomoyo provides costumes for Sakura to wear when capturing Clow Cards (and other magical excursions), Sakura’s first capture takes place before Tomoyo knows about Sakura’s Cardcaptor position....
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Cardcaptor Apparel: Red, White, and Navy Blue Caped Outfit
This red and blue ensemble is Tomoyo’s first outfit worn by Sakura. Tomoyo has a lot more where this came from, and each battle will surely give her inspiration for more designs. Sakura wears this...
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Sakura’s Magical Footwear
Lately I’ve been going through episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura episodes, preparing write-ups on Sakura’s Cardcaptor outfits. I’ve become more observant of what characters are wearing when, and am taking...
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Cardcaptor Apparel: Water Jester
Sakura wears this in episode three, “Sakura’s Heart-Racing First Date”. I don’t understand the jester theme to the outfit, but maybe that’s just what it is: a theme. Does Tomoyo sit around thinking,...
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Sports Apparel: Tennis Uniform
If there’s one thing that does not interest me, it’s sports. However, there are two sports which generally have nice uniforms: tennis and soccer. (It’s only a coincidence that tennis is about the only...
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Forget Realism, Let’s Have Some Magic
Over at Borderline Hikikomori, Crisu writes about attempting a lecture on mahou shoujo. To this, Damien Kellis of Moe Check! responds with a piece on shoujo versus shounen. Considering that I’ve spent...
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Cardcaptor Apparel: Pink with a Hoop Skirt
This outfit was originally designed by Tomoyo with the Fly card in mind, as that’s the card Sakura was up against when she wore it in the manga. In the anime, Tomoyo plans to have Sakura wear it for a...
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Sakura’s Pajama Collection
My original post on Sakura’s cardcaptor apparel involved the pink pajamas she wore when capturing her second Clow Card, before Tomoyo stepped in to provide costumes. Throughout the series and movies,...
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Sakura’s Name and the FLY Card
Back in early 2007, Damien Kellis wrote: Here, also, there’s a rather glaring plot hole that will become clear in episode 4: Kero-chan tells Sakura to try using the new Fly card, before Sakura writes...
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Cardcaptor Sakura will be released on DVD in Australia starting in September of 2012. Originally slated for a July release, Madman will release Cardcaptor Sakura in two box sets, with five DVDs per set...
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