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I finished cardcaptor clear card. it was... not great. even setting aside its extremely weak ending (it just sorta stops without concluding anything, combined with the weird number of episodes I almost thought I missed something) it has a ton of issues.

Last time I brought it up I said that it didn't really change/modernize at all, but after watching more of it I realized that's not quite true. It did modernize, just in a not very good way. I feel like the current trend for magical girls is either really grim and edgy, or super slice of life cute girls doing cute things + magic. It obviously couldn't do the first, so it went for the second, writing most of the male characters mostly out of the story. Her brother barely ever shows up. The guy she had a crush on barely does anything. Her mentor/guardian is off in europe the whole time and doesn't even answer the phone. Even the main male romantic lead gets shoved aside in favour of cooking scenes and other cutesy stuff. Most of the time he just shows up right at the end of the episode with some lame "sorry I wasn't here earlier" and him and sakura barely ever have any conversations of any decent length at all. It feels like the romance has taken multiple steps backward and then been hidden out of sight and it sucks.

they also really messed up tomoyo since now like 95% of her personality is wanting to film sakura (it used to be maybe 50-60% max) and she's just one note and super boring. So yeah, there's another change, but again a change for the worse.

I don't want to only hate on it, because it's not completely awful and there are definitely worse shows out there. But the big issue is that it's extremely similar to the first series, and when I compare them at all it comes out on the bottom in almost every way (the animation looking a lot nicer is probably the only thing it has over the previous seasons). And I can't not compare it either, since everything it does just reminds me of it. A significant amount of the bgm is lifted straight from the first series, not remixed or redone or anything. The locations all look the same, the characters look and sound the same, the plot is structured the same way, a lot of the individual events are the same to an almost uncanny degree. They graduated and went to a new school but it doesn't feel like it at all, since everyone's still doing the same things at the school, all the important school features (lawn to eat lunch, soccer field, out-of-the-way bench) are all just how they were before, and even their uniform looks the same

super disappointed in it all around. but enough negativity, time for a cheer up song https://files.catbox.moe/x4xqyk.mp3
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