Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Episode 12 Review

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Sakura’s school is having its annual ball sports festival&period; A climactic showdown between Sakura’s boyfriend and her new best friend is cut short by a sudden unexpected hailstorm centered on the school&period; Clearly&comma; this is the work of a card&period; Sakura and friends must capture the card before anyone gets hurt&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;137134" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-137134" style&equals;"width&colon; 955px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-137134 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;30183416&sol;now-sailor-sakura&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"955" height&equals;"537" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-137134" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Source&colon; Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card&comma; Studio Madhouse<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h2><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The Card<&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It seems like the old rules where the person who forces the card to show its true form owns the card are no longer relevant&period; Granted&comma; that hasn’t been relevant in a while&comma; but they’re bringing everything else about the first season back&period; Why not one of the driving sources of conflict as well&quest; This would have been a great time to give Syaoran a card since he’s the one who did all the heavy lifting this episode&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you all remember when the original dub was being brought over&quest; It was marketed as just Cardcaptors&comma; and the localization team did everything they could to make Syaoran a more prominent character so that it would appeal to their young boy target audience&period; It feels a little like CLAMP is trying to do that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;137133" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-137133" style&equals;"width&colon; 954px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-137133 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;30183348&sol;fire-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"954" height&equals;"536" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-137133" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Source&colon; Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card&comma; Studio Madhouse<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Once again&comma; I’m a little disappointed in how these battles are going&period;  I mentioned it in last episode’s recap&comma; but Sakura’s greatest asset is her ability to think on her feet&period; The fact that she’s been forgetting basic things like &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;attack the ice card with fire” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;capture the card while it’s vulnerable” is upsetting&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It’s interesting that Syaoran has access to higher level spells&comma; and his line about the old ones not working as well anymore may suggest some interesting plot developments down the line&period; But that makes me wonder&semi; if Sakura is as powerful a mage as everyone says&comma; why isn’t anyone teaching her any magic&quest; She can use the cards&comma; but she seems totally in the dark when it comes to non-card based spells&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">I’m starting to wonder if Sakura being slower on the uptake than usual is a plot point&comma; or if it’s just bad writing&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Akiho<&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">This episode finally confirms what fans have been speculating about since Akiho was introduced&period; Akiho is the mysterious cloaked figure from Sakura’s dreams&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">This is good for a number of reasons&period; Namely&comma; the plot might start moving forward soon&period; To be honest&comma; them drawing it out for so long was getting a little insulting&period; It was obvious to anyone watching that Akiho was the mysterious cloaked person&comma; because who else could it possibly be&quest; One of Sakura’s non-magical friends who aren’t mysterious transfer students who live in Eriol’s old house with their magical butler&quest; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Kero<&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">They’re only beginning to sow the seeds on this one&comma; but I wouldn’t be surprised if Kero dies or gets close enough to make everyone very emotional about it by the end of the season&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Yue and Yukito have brought up the fact that if they run out of magic&comma; they will die multiple times over the course of the season&period; Kero has been eating and sleeping more than usual like Yukito did before Toya gave him all his magic&period; With the Clow Cards&comma; the source of magic that keeps Kero alive&comma; in the state they’re in&comma; it wouldn’t shock me if a future episode centered around trying to save Kero from disappearing&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;