I like your observations about the first chapter. :)
RE: 191. Yes, that's an accurate translation. Sakura says "my real name isn't Sakura," just like Syaoran's real name isn't Syaoran.
This absolutely does NOT mitigate the squick for me, however, as Sakura is still the same person as Syaoran's mom. We know because the manga keeps emphasizing the fact that Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, is the AU version of Syaoran's grandmother. Raaaarrrrrgh. So even if Princess Sakura has a different name than Sakura Kinomoto, the problem is that biologically - genetically - she's still the same person.
I think by "failed creations" made with "harvested souls," FWR was referring to his faceless battle drones that he made using the souls taken by the "wings" from xxxHOLiC.
Yeah, I get that, but it still confuses me.
In what sense were the battle drones failures, even? I mean, did FWR *not* want an army of mindlessly obedient asskickers?
If he was trying to create something more, like a *real* clone, why couldn't he do it? My question is, for the guy who created Cloney and Clone Princess and Xing Huo, why couldn't he have succeeded in cloning whatever-the-heck-it-was that resulted in those battle drones?
Re: The Logic, I Want It Back-- Or Was It Ever Here?
RE: 191. Yes, that's an accurate translation. Sakura says "my real name isn't Sakura," just like Syaoran's real name isn't Syaoran.
This absolutely does NOT mitigate the squick for me, however, as Sakura is still the same person as Syaoran's mom. We know because the manga keeps emphasizing the fact that Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, is the AU version of Syaoran's grandmother. Raaaarrrrrgh. So even if Princess Sakura has a different name than Sakura Kinomoto, the problem is that biologically - genetically - she's still the same person.
I think by "failed creations" made with "harvested souls," FWR was referring to his faceless battle drones that he made using the souls taken by the "wings" from xxxHOLiC.
Yeah, I get that, but it still confuses me.
In what sense were the battle drones failures, even? I mean, did FWR *not* want an army of mindlessly obedient asskickers?
If he was trying to create something more, like a *real* clone, why couldn't he do it? My question is, for the guy who created Cloney and Clone Princess and Xing Huo, why couldn't he have succeeded in cloning whatever-the-heck-it-was that resulted in those battle drones?
Something isn't adding up.