![]() If so, deal X Damage to your Opponent, and for the turn this gains the following ability. CX COMBO When this attacks, if “Transparent Feelings” is in your Climax Zone, you may pay cost. If this is in the Front Row, all your ::Clear Card:: Characters gain +1500 Power. In the end, I decided to try both the English and the Japanese sets and put my thoughts here. Let’s put aside for the moment how I felt when Bushiroad announced a Japanese version as well. So when I heard that Bushiroad SEA was releasing an English-exclusive Cardcaptor set, I was ecstatic. In spite of these reservations, this handsome edition would make a splendid special gift for a fan – or a new reader to the series.I’m a big fan of the original Cardcaptor Sakura series as well as the sequel, Clear Card. Anita Sengupta was the translator for the original Tokyopop edition and she is credited here alongside Mika Onishi with Karen McGillicuddy named for ‘Additional Translation’. It isn’t entirely clear to what extent this translation has been altered for the new edition (without attempting a word-for-word comparison). ![]() On the plus side, the extra-large format means the wonderful art by CLAMP can be appreciated and studied in detail and the high quality glossy white paper shows the panels off to their best advantage. A collectible card is included as well, but not a Clow Card some sources suggest that it’s a part of a picture that when matched to the other collectible cards will, apparently, make a whole ‘new’ image – other sources that these are replicas of the phone cards issued at the time. But retailing at $29.99 per volume, how essential is it for collectors? Disappointments first: the only colour page, lovely as it is, is the same as the cover image – and I’d hoped for many more as well as extras (there are, to be fair, two pages of Translation Notes). ![]() This handsome gold-embossed hardback collector’s edition from Kodansha is the latest version of the beloved magic girl series by CLAMP. (Nakayoshi is the Kodansha magazine in which the series first appeared.) They seem (from my detective work) to be the Nakayoshi 60th Anniversary edition, in which the original twelve volumes have been reorganized into nine with new cover art by the four mangaka. Now Kodansha (the original Japanese publisher) is issuing these collector’s editions, as well as the ongoing new Cardcaptor Sakura series Clear Card. This is CLAMP at their best, before they moved the characters into a bewildering succession of parallel worlds in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.įirst published in 1996, the twelve volumes were brought out in English by TokyoPop in the early noughties – and then in a special omnibus edition by Dark Horse ( reviewed by Darkstorm for Anime UK News in 2011). The freshness and verve of this enchanting series leap from the page – and even if the technology is dated, the charm of the characters has not faded with the passage of time and the story unfolds in a way guaranteed to make readers keep turning the pages. So it’s good to find this well-loved series being kept in print with a glossy new collector’s edition – although you’ll need deep pockets to collect this version if it’s going to run to twelve volumes. However we only get a tantalising glimpse of the person who is going to become very important in her life – and her rival in capturing the Clow Cards – on the last page of this volume.Ĭardcaptor Sakura was one of the first magical girl series to make an impression in the West (albeit, for many of us, in a horribly mangled US version of the TV anime). ![]() We meet Sakura’s BFF Tomoya (who insists on recording all Sakura’s exploits on video and soon begins to create special outfits for her to wear on camera), Toya, Sakura’s annoying (in her eyes) big brother who is seven years her senior, and gentle-natured Yuki, his best friend, whom Sakura has a crush on. But now that the Clow Cards – created by Clow Reed, a powerful sorcerer – have been set free, she’ll have to become a Cardcaptor and capture them all or the spirits of the cards will wreak havoc on her home town. Opening the book releases magical spirits and the guardian beast on the cover: Kero – or Cerberus – a winged lion who (in chibi form). One day, Sakura Kinomoto, a cheerful fourth-grader (ten years old) who loves to roller-skate to school, discovers a mysterious old book in her archaeologist father’s library. If their seal is broken, disaster will befall.’
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