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A review by keikoreadsmanga
Cardcaptor Sakura Collector's Edition 1 by CLAMP
4.0
Wow! This is more fruitful than the animated series!
I tried watching at least 3 episodes of the anime before I opened this volume! And it's just sad that the anime didn't follow the story faithfully. There are also few arrangements with any signals of queerness which is a shame, ehem, the bicycle scene with Touya and Yukito. Must be the Japanese censorship, no? So, I guess, I won't watch the anime anymore (augh, even though I love the sequence and the art, really nostalgic) I'll just continue reading this.
I love that Clamp is not afraid to put queerness (shounen and shoujo-ai) in her work, considering this is a publication from the 90s. And I saw how homophobia spread like a plague throughout the world in that decade (and the decades before that of course). So, it put a smile on my face.
But, despite Clamp's bravery to create this masterpiece, I have to give it 4 out of 5 stars because of the detail about Sakura's mother being a minor (16 years of age) when she married Sakura's father (25 years of age)—and he happened to be her teacher. I'm not into that, and I guess the world is not ready yet for that kind of relationship too.
I tried watching at least 3 episodes of the anime before I opened this volume! And it's just sad that the anime didn't follow the story faithfully. There are also few arrangements with any signals of queerness which is a shame, ehem, the bicycle scene with Touya and Yukito. Must be the Japanese censorship, no? So, I guess, I won't watch the anime anymore (augh, even though I love the sequence and the art, really nostalgic) I'll just continue reading this.
I love that Clamp is not afraid to put queerness (shounen and shoujo-ai) in her work, considering this is a publication from the 90s. And I saw how homophobia spread like a plague throughout the world in that decade (and the decades before that of course). So, it put a smile on my face.
But, despite Clamp's bravery to create this masterpiece, I have to give it 4 out of 5 stars because of the detail about Sakura's mother being a minor (16 years of age) when she married Sakura's father (25 years of age)—and he happened to be her teacher. I'm not into that, and I guess the world is not ready yet for that kind of relationship too.