It seems that Akiho feel down, but it becomes obvious why.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 22 (END) – The Surprising Reveal and Cliffhanger
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 21 – Sakura and Understanding Her Real Self
While Sakura wakes up after collapsing from last time, Eriol shares some stuff about Kaito to Kero and Yue.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 20 – Visiting the Past
Sakura’s grandfather makes a surprise visit. It’s obvious that Sakura was looking forward to that date with Syaoran.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 19 – A Heartwarming Reading
Sakura takes a breather from capturing cards as she decides to read picture books to children with Akiho.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 16 – A Mysterious Challenger Appears
Leaving off from last time, Sakura tries to find the culprit behind the earthquakes. Also, a mysterious being decides to fight Sakura and Meiling.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 15 – Nostalgic Play Viewing Sessions
From the looks of it, Akiho finally gets her wish granted. Yes, Sakura, Meiling and Akiho goes to Tomoyo’s house to have a viewing party of various elementary school plays.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 14 – When Sakura’s Friends Become a Little Bit Beastly…
If you recall from yesterday, Sakura starts seeing cat ears and tail on Meiling. You might think that she is hallucinating. However, all of this might just be an illusion.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 13 – Meiling Makes a Surprise Visit
After Sakura finished her cheerleading practice, she saw someone familiar waiting for her. Guess who it is?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 12 – Unexpected Hail Storms and Familiar Dreams
While Sakura participates in a ball tournament in her class against other classes in her grade, something strange happens. Yes, it started to hail around the school.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 11 – The Mystery of the Upside-Down Penguins
It’s obvious that Tomoyo is leading the way with new recording technologies.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 10 – Sleepy Akiho and Return of the Roller Blades
While Sakura is making dinner, a special guest ring the doorbell. Yes, it’s Akiho.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 9 – Sakura’s Special Aquarium Date
At last, Sakura goes on a date with Syaoran. How will it turn out?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 8 – More Clues Behind Sakura’s Clock Dream Revealed
At last, Sakura with Tomoyo pays a visit to Akiho’s house. While visiting, Akiho shows them a mysterious book. What is it?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 7 – Tomoyo Discovers Drones and The Game of Tag in a Garden
Sakura and Tomoyo spends time at Tomoyo’s house as she shows off her new high-tech gadget. However, a strange wind blows over and it wants to play tag. What is it?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 6 – Lovely Singing and The Strange Noise
Sakura once again sees the masked and hooded figure again. Also, a certain girl makes a special call for Sakura.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 5 – A Strange Force in the Park
Sakura goes to a cherry blossom tree viewing party. Once she arrived, she notices a force that pushes her back. What is it?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 4 – The Mysterious and Lovely Transfer Student
Apparently, a new and lovely transfer student shows up. Will Sakura be able to become friends with her?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 3 – Sakura’s Wet Card Capturing
After managing to capture Siege, the next day, it started to rain heavily. Sakura and Tomoyo eventually notices that something strange is happening with the rain. What is it?
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 2 – Cooking Fun and Escaping From a Room Without an Exist
From last time, Sakura manages to capture a new clear card with a different key. However, there are still many questions that are left unanswered.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen – Episode 1 – Return of Sakura and Cards Turning Clear
It has been a decade in a making, but it’s time to take that nostalgia trip.
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Kobato – Final Review
Kobato is one of those CLAMP animes where it starts off slow until towards the middle/end where it gets all complicated and they end simple. Kobato is one of them, a naive girl sent on a mission to fill a bottle with a stuffed dog named Ioryogi. To get konpieto, you have to heal people’s hearts. Since Kobato is still an ongoing manga series in a shouen magazine (yes, Kobato is a Shouen anime, not Shoujo), there are going to be filler episodes. Although they managed to pull it off, only a few episodes were mixed bags, especially Episode 21. Yes, that episode…
Down to the story, which like mentioned earlier, Kobato needs to fill this bottle to the top with konpieto to go to some place she wants to go. To do that, you need to fill the bottle, but sometimes she fails to do so because she does other things besides doing that. On top of it, there are loan sharks who want to close down the nursery, soKobato attempts to help the nursery while finishing her mission. At least the first half was about that. Second half seems to use original material including the decision of closing down the nursery, which irked me a bit since Sayaka actually liked that loan sharker all along… and yeah… The last two episodes screams Clannad and then a few years passed and stuff… Overall, the ending redeemed itself to be at least a good story, but with a good number of flaws.
Some have pointed out that the character designs are different than the manga. Kobato is stupid than naive and Fujimoto is a jerkass more than ever. I can’t recall how many times Kobato said “You are so mean” and “meanie” because of it and it’s moe as well, which is why it’s Shouen. Anyways, throughout the story, Kobato seems to mature alot and towards the end. Fujimoto tries to push her away until that very last moment in Episode 23 and it’s obvious who is Kobato’s love interest is… since it’s romance after all. Besides the main characters and the children at the daycare, as usual, CLAMP loves to make cameos in their works. These include characters from Chobits, Wish, and Tsubasa Chronicles. Yep, that hows it goes.
Madhouse seems to have done a really good job with the animation. No wonder… They animated several CLAMP productions and some notable recent productions such as Summer Wars. Music for the most part is good, although the new ED was only used for the last few episodes… ouch…
Overall, Kobato is a good watch, but has flaws as mentioned. Some people may complain about the slowness and then the complicated plot towards the end, but nevertheless, shouldn’t really write it off so quickly. What the content has shown in the anime pretty much shown that it’s somewhat rushed since it only had 24 episodes, but if it was a bit longer and there was more manga content to work with, I think it would have done a little better. Anyways, if you still want more after this, read the manga. I’m pretty sure that the manga ending is going to be different from the Anime since of length constraints and allow for a bit more in depth storytelling.
Final Grade
8.7/10, B+
Kobato – Episode 24 Thoughts and Impressions (END)
The ending overall is good and the last two episodes pretty much redeemed itself. In this episode focuses Fujimoto after the aftermath. His is depressed because of what happened, which made people wonder. Then, he comes home one day and finds a pink Konpieto fall out of somewhere and then using the picture, ask people where she is. The only one that knows her is of course, Kohaku. She explains about what happened to her. Few years later, Fujimoto works as a lawyer was told to go to this house and he does. He plays that very familiar song on the piano and the girl comes over and he does his thing, gives back the Konpieto he finds and have her sing that song. Soon after, something happened and that girl, well Kobato regains her memories and she runs over and hugs Fujimoto.
Overall, although the ending is cliched in some aspects, it’s really heartwarming ending. Sure the bunny has a obnoxious giggle, but it turns out well in the end and the first time ever we ever saw her hatless… Well, maybe because she was hiding that thing on her head before. Also, as you see in the credits, everyone grew up or gone on to do their jobs and also the daycare comes back, well in a different form.
Anyways, stay tuned for the final review… I have to go back and think about it before I start writing. :p
Overall Rating
8.7/10
Kobato – Episode 23 Thoughts and Impressions
As they all say, all good things come to the end. Kobato uses her remaining time to make Fujimoto happy by taking him to the park and stuff. They even went on a boat ride and Kobato couldn’t even row the boat correctly, which is the funny part. However the second part gets a hell alot more serious She says farewell to the landlord, Chitose and Kobato and Ioryogi leaves to the place where she first arrived. Fujimoto comes home and finds out that Kobato left and he looked everywhere to find him. After Kobato failing to fill the bottle, Fujimoto came and finds out that Kobato is actually dead all along and needed to fill the bottle so that she would reborn or revived in the world. After Fujimoto shattered the wall, the last Konpieto came, but after it filled, the contract cannot be changed and Kobato disappears along with Ushagi.
I swear, Ushagi is one mean bunny… or rather, nightmare fuel. I bet after the viewer saw what Ushagi did, well, I guess viewers are going to gain an irrational fear of bunnies now because they will giggle that makes you disappear in your dream and gold a freaking flower and do bad stuff. As Ioryogi said, you cannot change her fate at all… and that you are stuck what you have… unless you have a Deus ex machina. I think it was too late for Fujimoto to show his true feelings towards the end… and well, we don’t know how it will turn out until the next Episode… so stay tuned…
Kobato – Episode 22 Thoughts and Impressions
Well, this is near the end of the journey of Kobato. In the beginning, we see Kobato as a child with dolls and someone looks vastly like Fujimoto. Well, this is obviously a happy dream that Kobato was having, but her chest hurts that indicate a feeling of love of some sort. As decided in Episode 21, we go more in depth on why Sayaka decides to close the nursery. She says it’s because Fujimoto seems to be too attached to that place, and now with the Nursery gone, Fujimoto still continues to work despite this because he is a perfectionist.
Fujimoto goes to the nursery for the last time and look at the organ and went back to work. Soon, all the belongings are hauled away and the former nursery children, Sayaka and Kobato watches the nursery being demolished. Meanwhile, Fujimoto was in a gaze and got into an accident while driving, making one of his arms unusable. Domoto was there with Kobato and while Fujimoto and Kobato walking, Fujimoto finally snaps and saying that all Kobato is doing is annoying her. This causes Kobato be upset. Ushagi-san then comes down from the sky giving a flower that indicates that Kobato only have until the next moon as Ioryogi said and if she fails to fill the bottle up, her fate will be sealed. He tries to beg for an extension, but Ushagi doesn’t allow it and leaves.
Overall, this episode was better than the last episode, although we know already the manga will definitely have a different ending compared to the Anime. Yes, some typical fetish fuel in a scene where Kobato and Ioryogi meets (and Kobato was, well… you know…). Also, the dream suggests something that Kobato desires (well, at least in the Anime), which is some type of relationship with Fujimoto. Anyways, we find out in the two part finale if Kobato succeeds or not… Stay tuned…
Verdict
8.7/10