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Ha-chan ([info]agent_hyatt) wrote,
@ 2008-07-13 15:40:00


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Hyatt vs. TvTropes Wiki
(Sakura asks Eriol about the religious beliefs of the people at the Church. Eriol responds not with a description of Christianity, but with what might as well be a description of Shinto. Sakura is moved when she hears it, and anyone who knows anything about Christianity is hit with a Broken Aesop.)

When did this happen? Must be in the anime, if it happened at all.

(Before I edited): In Cardcaptor Sakura, the final three episodes are given almost entirely to Sakura and Syaoran puzzling out their feelings about each other, to the point of ignoring all else almost entirely.

Guess I just imagined Sakura going back in time to talk to Clow Reed and the final confrontation with Eriol.

Tomoyo acknowledges Sakura is a little dense with subtley and had an almost competely lack of romantic interest in anyone at the time, and decides to explain more fully when they're older. It doesn't really come up again once Syaoran enters the picture; Tomoyo was both a Muggle and largely defined by her relation to Sakura, so it was a pretty serious Road Cone.

Guess I also imagined Sakura's crush on Yukito, and all the times after Syaoran shows up that Tomoyo talks about the "one she loves" with Sakura.

In Card Captor Sakura, we find out that Syaoran's, and to some extent Sakura's, romantic feelings for Yukito were not simply crushes but in fact caused by magic. This effect did not occur to anyone else in similar situations.

Or I didn't imagine it, it just wasn't real. Even though three characters said that it was real and not due to magic or Sakura misunderstanding family love.

And who else would be in that position? Kaho? Eriol? Both of them know all about magic attraction and presumably how to counter it.

The Card Captor Sakura manga last few panels suggests Syaoran and Sakura's relationship gets better and becomes fairly stable, but this is mostly skimmed over, probably due to the disinterest of the young female audience once UST is resolved.

Okay, that time they were just reaching and talking out of their ass. So much so that I deleted it for being a bad example.

I swear, half the CCS examples were written by someone with a hate-on for every character who isn't Tomoyo and who keeps Tomoyo/Sakura from happening. It gets really annoying.

ETA: Though conspicuously missing from the American dub, Cardcaptor Sakura gets plenty of attention from her costume conspirator and confidante, Tomoyo, without actually sealing the deal.

That's all it says for CCS in the "Shipping" article. Who the hell wrote these examples, and what delusional fandom-world do they live in?!


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[info]ladyofviolets
2008-07-13 11:36 pm UTC (link)
Tv tropes is one fun place, but there are times when I wonder wtf are the other tropers thinking. ~_~;;

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[info]agent_hyatt
2008-07-14 01:13 am UTC (link)
At least for the CCS examples and others with similar sentiments, they're thinking with their prejudices. They don't like X aspect of canon, so they mentally rewrite it to fit a trope to prove how bad X is.

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[info]ladyofviolets
2008-07-14 11:31 am UTC (link)
The same happens with the Code Geass fandom. Apparently Lelouch can rape the dog to his heart's content and still be adored, whereas every other dog rapist must be immediately shot to the head.

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[info]ladyofviolets
2008-07-15 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Pretty mild compared to most examples on this page, but being a kids' show, Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer deserves a mention. Resident obligatory Bishonen Oujirou is seventeen years old. His love interest in the manga? Twelve. But wait, it gets worse. In the anime version, he's still seventeen, and his love interest is still twelve, but it's a different girl, and he's still getting over his first love: her mother. Throw in the fact that he offered to be her photographer, his stepbrother semi-stalks her and is also in love with her mother, and you know Freud would have a field day here. The anime company really outdid the original creators here... And they're CLAMP, for heaven's sake! To be fair, only Misaki's, Hatoko's and Ringo's ages were given in the manga. Oujirou could be twelve there for all we know.

... D=

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