All right, so I've finished all of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga! It was incredible. The more I read, the more I remembered how important Sakura was to me when I was younger. I've always loved witches, and any stories about witches, and Cardcaptor is a classic. Sakura as a character is naive and smart, embraces her emotions, and uses them to be strong, without letting them cloud her judgment. I would say a central theme of the manga is coming to terms with your emotions and your relationships, and embracing them as strengths. It is a manga for young girls, so this theme is not surprising.
Though, what is surprising, as I talked about in my last post about Cardcaptor Sakura, is the amount of underage student-teacher relationships. Holy shit are there so many. By the end of Cardcaptor we have:
- Fujitaka and Nadeshiko: Sakura's parents. Fujitaka was Nadeshiko's teacher. When they married, she was 16 and he was 25.
- Rika and Terada: Rika is Sakura's age, aka 10 years old, and Terada is their teacher. He gives her an engagement ring.
- Toya and Kaho: Toya is Sakura's 15 year-old brother. He had a relationship with Kaho while she was a substitute for his class in his first year of high school.
- Eriol and Kaho: Eriol is a transfer student to Tomoeda Elementary, and at the end, he and Kaho confess their love to each other. Eriol is not a typical 10 year-old, but either way it's creepy.
A lot of manga tend to have very questionable relationships, but it is really pronounced in Cardcaptor Sakura. This is still an important manga to me, and a classic, even though the mythology is kind of ridiculous, and the arc of the whole series is very contrived. This is a series to read to find joy in the ridiculousness of it all.
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