Thursday, March 22, 2007

It's Sakura Time

Well, I got the first two volumes of CardCaptor Sakura in the mail today, so I was finally able start reading the series (I got numbers 3-6 in the mail yesterday ^_^). And the verdict is… absolutely adorable! Sakura and Syaoran are so cute as little 10 year olds! And it’s so amusing how they’re the same and yet not the same as their Tsubasa counterparts. The Sakura of CCS is very energetic and athletic. She usually reacts to being teased by her brother with some sort of violent action. It’s very hilarious to see a little girl take down a 17 year old with a flying kick ^_^ In fact, it’s so funny, I scanned it for you, although my scanner cut off part of the page. Enjoy… Despite this, her character is still very cheerful and friendly (not to mention chock-full of magic). I think I may like the CCS version of Sakura better. She not so much of a damsel-in-distress (the Tsubasa version needs to start dealing out some flying kicks as well, then she’d be cooler ^_^ Sorry, I like characters who kick). And as for Syaoran, he’s a rude little snot (at least when he first shows up, I’m not that far in the series yet, but the Guardian of the Clow Cards calls him “that pokey little bug boy” ^_^) but otherwise seems to be in line with the personality of the Tsubasa version, with the added bonus of his own magic powers (yes, there is a very important reason why the Syaoran of TRC doesn’t have any magic, but I’m not going to tell you why ^_^ It’s a major plot secret that I kind of wish I hadn’t discovered yet >_< Curse you Wikipedia!) Touya and Yukito are pretty much the same (you may remember them as the King and High Priest from TRC Sakura’s home world). All in all, I’m quite enjoying the series. The cuteness has won me over. I surrender ^_^ Oh, I just remembered! Today I saw an ad for the Sony Reader! It’s kind of like a palm pilot, but it’s made exclusively for reading ebooks. It’s about the size of a paperback, and can hold hundreds of books in its memory. I want it so bad! But it’s really expensive, somewhere around $300-$400 >_< I shall have to save my money for quite some time to get it. I could carry around so many books with it O_O It boggles the mind. Anyway, enough with my book dreams. Oh wow, I can’t believe I didn’t mention this yet. Speaking of things that boggle the mind, I had to make a fully articulated model of my hand out of cardboard for my 3-D class last week, and it had to be exactly 3 times the dimensions of mine. It took me thirty hours to do it, and by the end of the project, I was pretty sure that my instructor must run the arts and crafts activities in Hell during his free time or something *shudder* I never want to see cardboard again. I think it’s time for some more manga therapy to make me feel better. Later ^_^ -Quotation of the Day- Sakura: “B-bug boy?” Kero-chan: “He’s a teenie-weenie pookie-pooh if you ask me.” Sakura:*whispering to Tomoyo* “Kero-chan’s mad 'cause Li called him a stuffed animal.” Kero-chan: “Hmph!” -CardCaptor Sakura, Vol 2-

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