{"id":28,"date":"2004-04-15T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=28"},"modified":"2004-04-15T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T07:19:06","slug":"cardcaptor-sakura-episode-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Cardcaptor Sakura &#8211; episode one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist and just put the first DVD in the player for &#8220;sampling&#8221; today.<br \/>\nNow this is truly something great!<br \/>\nForget anything you heard about <I>Cardcaptors<\/i>; this is not it.<\/p>\n<p>Basically it&#8217;s a magical girl show about Kinomoto Sakura who opens an ancient book, freeing the magic cards within. The guardian of the cards, Kero-chan, demands that she get them back lest they wreak havoc on the world!<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of <i>Cardcaptor Sakura<\/i> is little more than a cursory glance at the life of Sakura, but it&#8217;s not a heavy introduction episode. A surprising part of the way it was presented was all of the music. It almost never stopped, like the episode was simply the unrelenting spirit of Sakura.<br \/>\nEssentially it was a preview of what was to come, setting up her homelife, her school life and her &#8220;professional&#8221; life.<br \/>\nReluctant heroes and heroines are starting to get a bit old, however, but I think they&#8217;re a staple that will forever be with us. As long as they can overcome that, it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>The light of the series is Kero-chan and Sakura! Their rapport is great, and Hisakawa Aya&#8217;s voice is just spot on. Ogata Megumi really had the teenage boy voice downpat by then, too.<br \/>\nTomoyo is presently very over the top and obvious, in a good way, and there&#8217;s just a visual richness to the series that was lacking before (for reasons unknown, back in the day I watched several thousand episodes of <i>Cardcaptors<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a magic to <i>Cardcaptor Sakura<\/I>: CLAMP magic. It&#8217;s just like one big splash of colour at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist and just put the first DVD in the player for &#8220;sampling&#8221; today. Now this is truly something great! Forget anything you heard about Cardcaptors; this is not it. Basically it&#8217;s a magical girl show about Kinomoto Sakura who opens an ancient book, freeing the magic cards within. The guardian of the cards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardcaptor-sakura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}