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This week's Tsubasa: Chapter 204
Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states. We have been and always will be the United States of America. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
Change has not come to Japan, however. And this week's Tsubasa still sucks big floppy donkey balls.
The chapter opens with a beautiful Kurogane/Fay frontpiece. Just beautiful. It is also the first and last good thing about this chapter.
Next, we have six solid pages of Yuuko and FWR talking to each other. AGAIN. And they both say the exact same things that they've been saying to each other for the past two hundred chapters. AGAIN. To recap: Yuuko says that Syaoran has made a choice. FWR is all like, blah blah blah I will fulfill my wish no matter what. Yuuko looks at the picture of Syaoran with his parents (still with their faces hidden by a conveniently-drawn glare on the glass frame), and remembers how Syaoran shouted at Watanuki not to disappear. And how Watanuki paid the price of his memories in order to save Syaoran. Therefore, the two boys have the same wish. Um, they for each other not to die? I think that's what Yuuko is talking about. It's hard to tell with all of the rhetorical beating around the bush. Then Yuuko looks up and says that the time for the "final choice" has come.
Cut back to Our Heroes in the ruins. Syaoran explains that the time inside the ruins has been frozen ever since the moment that he made his wish. The three of them walk deeper into the ruins, and all of a sudden they see...
Sakura. Frozen as she was seven years ago, with FWR's black slimy tentacles of doom surrounding her, screaming and reaching out for Syaoran's hand.
WOW.
Hookay, let's back up for a moment: Because Sakura was frozen in time, she's still seven years old.
Syaoran, however, has aged up to fourteen years old.
Thank you, CLAMP. And here I foolishly thought that this romance couldn't possibly get any sicker. Now not only is Syaoran dating an AU version of his mom, but now she's half his age, too. As in, only seven years old. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Syaoran tells the others that he wound back time to this moment, Sakura's seventh birthday. Which also happened to be his seventh birthday as well.
Mokona, again, is like "NO FUCKING WAY! You and Sakura have the same birthday?!"
Syaoran explains that, when Sakura was seven years old, she asked to "decide" Syaoran's birthday. Anyway, in a flashback, we see seven-year-old Sakura take Syaoran's hand and declare, "Then your birthday will be the same as mine, on April first!" Then we see fourteen-year-old Sakura saying, "Oh yeah, that's right. Your birthday is the same as mine, on April first!" Then both flashback!Sakura say, in tandem, "If we can celebrate our birthdays together every year, we can make lots of happy memories!"
This is immediately followed by a panel of Syaoran looking up at frozen, screaming Sakura. I think CLAMP is trying for tragic irony. But honestly, the juxtaposition just made me laugh.
Plot holes: Why did Sakura need to decide on a birthday for Syaoran? Was it because he refused to tell her his real birthday, as per Yuuko's rules, so she had to make one up? Or was it because Clow Country doesn't have the same calendar as Earth, which would have made celebrating the universe-displaced Syaoran's birthday an impossibility unless Sakura put her foot down and did something heroic about it? If that's the case, then why did Sakura say "April first"? Do they even have "April" in Clow Country? Granted, the date is written in kanji, so it could maybe have meant to be read like "the first day of the fourth month" which is totally appropriate for a fantasy setting. However, in Japanese, there are ways to distinguish between "April" specifically and "the fourth month" generally, but CLAMP didn't use any of those methods, so... I think they literally meant "April"...
I should stop thinking about this too much.
Anyway, point: Syaoran is fourteen years old, Sakura is seven years old and his mom, and this could not possibly get any more repulsive.
Syaoran looks up at frozen!Sakura and is sad. Suddenly, however, we hear (er, "read") footsteps. Syaoran turns.
Cloney is standing behind him, looking, as usual, bloody and vaguely menacing.
The chapter ends.
Next week: No new chapter. Maybe we should be grateful.
Change has not come to Japan, however. And this week's Tsubasa still sucks big floppy donkey balls.
The chapter opens with a beautiful Kurogane/Fay frontpiece. Just beautiful. It is also the first and last good thing about this chapter.
Next, we have six solid pages of Yuuko and FWR talking to each other. AGAIN. And they both say the exact same things that they've been saying to each other for the past two hundred chapters. AGAIN. To recap: Yuuko says that Syaoran has made a choice. FWR is all like, blah blah blah I will fulfill my wish no matter what. Yuuko looks at the picture of Syaoran with his parents (still with their faces hidden by a conveniently-drawn glare on the glass frame), and remembers how Syaoran shouted at Watanuki not to disappear. And how Watanuki paid the price of his memories in order to save Syaoran. Therefore, the two boys have the same wish. Um, they for each other not to die? I think that's what Yuuko is talking about. It's hard to tell with all of the rhetorical beating around the bush. Then Yuuko looks up and says that the time for the "final choice" has come.
Cut back to Our Heroes in the ruins. Syaoran explains that the time inside the ruins has been frozen ever since the moment that he made his wish. The three of them walk deeper into the ruins, and all of a sudden they see...
Sakura. Frozen as she was seven years ago, with FWR's black slimy tentacles of doom surrounding her, screaming and reaching out for Syaoran's hand.
WOW.
Hookay, let's back up for a moment: Because Sakura was frozen in time, she's still seven years old.
Syaoran, however, has aged up to fourteen years old.
Thank you, CLAMP. And here I foolishly thought that this romance couldn't possibly get any sicker. Now not only is Syaoran dating an AU version of his mom, but now she's half his age, too. As in, only seven years old. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Syaoran tells the others that he wound back time to this moment, Sakura's seventh birthday. Which also happened to be his seventh birthday as well.
Mokona, again, is like "NO FUCKING WAY! You and Sakura have the same birthday?!"
Syaoran explains that, when Sakura was seven years old, she asked to "decide" Syaoran's birthday. Anyway, in a flashback, we see seven-year-old Sakura take Syaoran's hand and declare, "Then your birthday will be the same as mine, on April first!" Then we see fourteen-year-old Sakura saying, "Oh yeah, that's right. Your birthday is the same as mine, on April first!" Then both flashback!Sakura say, in tandem, "If we can celebrate our birthdays together every year, we can make lots of happy memories!"
This is immediately followed by a panel of Syaoran looking up at frozen, screaming Sakura. I think CLAMP is trying for tragic irony. But honestly, the juxtaposition just made me laugh.
Plot holes: Why did Sakura need to decide on a birthday for Syaoran? Was it because he refused to tell her his real birthday, as per Yuuko's rules, so she had to make one up? Or was it because Clow Country doesn't have the same calendar as Earth, which would have made celebrating the universe-displaced Syaoran's birthday an impossibility unless Sakura put her foot down and did something heroic about it? If that's the case, then why did Sakura say "April first"? Do they even have "April" in Clow Country? Granted, the date is written in kanji, so it could maybe have meant to be read like "the first day of the fourth month" which is totally appropriate for a fantasy setting. However, in Japanese, there are ways to distinguish between "April" specifically and "the fourth month" generally, but CLAMP didn't use any of those methods, so... I think they literally meant "April"...
I should stop thinking about this too much.
Anyway, point: Syaoran is fourteen years old, Sakura is seven years old and his mom, and this could not possibly get any more repulsive.
Syaoran looks up at frozen!Sakura and is sad. Suddenly, however, we hear (er, "read") footsteps. Syaoran turns.
Cloney is standing behind him, looking, as usual, bloody and vaguely menacing.
The chapter ends.
Next week: No new chapter. Maybe we should be grateful.