The seventh birthday
-01- (splash: Fujitaka and Nadeshiko)
The remaining hope
in proportion to the poured love.
The rest
is simply to believe.
-02-
Shaoran: Today is the fifth day since I came to this world, huh?
Shaoran: In the few days I've been shown around, this country
Shaoran: was peace itself.
Shaoran: Everyone looks happy...
-03-
Man: Prince!
Touya: Yeah!
Man: Please give this apple to the princess.
Townspeople: Is she still going through cleansing?
Townspeople: It might be for an important ceremony but it's still troublesome.
Townspeople: But it's only a little longer
until the birthday.
Shaoran: Birthday?
Yukito: Sakura-hime's, you know.
Shaoran: Is that so?
Yukito: The princess is in cleansing for her birthday ceremony.
Yukito: Her seventh birthday.
-04-
Yukito: When that ceremony is over,
Sakura-hime will formally become a candidate for priest of those ruins.
Man: Please take this apple too,
Man: since Sakura-hime loves apples!
Man: Her birthday is a festival day.
Townspeople: We gotta celebrate it in high spirits!
Townspeople: Please look forward to it!
-05-
Touya: Thanks.
Apple-kun: Hey, hey!
Who are you?
Touya: A freeloader at the castle.
Apple-kun: Oh, I see!
Apple-kun: Clow country is a nice place!
Shaoran: I agree.
-06-
Shaoran: ... This country,
and the royals living in the castle, I really care about them.
Shaoran: Two more days I can stay in this world...
Something's gonna happen within that time.
Shaoran: What I'm waiting for is...
-07-
Sakura: Still up?
Sakura: I thought it'd be no use if you were asleep,
and came quietly.
Shaoran: I can tell.
From your presence.
Sakura: That it's me?
Shaoran: Yeah.
-08-
Shaoran: You're wet.
Sakura: I came straight from the cleansing grounds.
Sakura: Because we have
Sakura: ... no more than two days.
Sakura: Hey!
Sakura: Won't you go see the stars tomorrow night?
Shaoran: Stars?
Sakura: That's right.
-09-
Sakura: While the sun is up, I've got to go to the cleansing grounds,
so after night falls,
Sakura: at the highest place in the castle, there's an observatory, (T/N: She says something like "star viewing stand". I figured "observatory" would be reasonable.)
and the stars you see from there are really pretty,
Sakura: so I wanted to see them with you.
Shaoran: Yeah...
Please take me there.
Sakura: Okay!
-10-
Yuuko: This shop,
Yuuko: and these children,
Yuuko: they were created for the sake of what is to occur.
-11-
Yuuko: After two days,
Yuuko: everything will...
-12-
Nadeshiko: Morning!
You're up early.
Shaoran: Good morning.
Nadeshiko: Are you going to breakfast?
Shaoran: Yes.
Nadeshiko: ... Today makes it one day more till the cleansing is over.
-13-
Nadeshiko: I want with all my heart for the cleansing
Nadeshiko: to end without incident.
Shaoran: Don't you see it in dreams?
Nadeshiko: Although I can see the future in dreams,
Nadeshiko: it's not like I know everything that's going to happen.
-14-
Nadeshiko: But
Nadeshiko: that's precisely why I can wish for a happy future.
Shaoran: My mother... also said that.
Nadeshiko: ... I see.
Nadeshiko: I'd like to meet
Nadeshiko: your mother.
-15-
Nadeshiko: Well, take care.
Today we have apple pah'yu.
Shaoran: I'm off.
Nadeshiko: ... I wish for your and Sakura-hime's future
to be a happy one.
-16-
Sakura: Shhh...
Quietly...
Shaoran: Amazing...
Sakura: Like it?
-17-
Shaoran: Yeah.
It's pretty.
Sakura: Thank you for being ha-... (T/N: Cut-off sentence, so I'm guessing on the "thank you" part. It's eiher "thank you" or "I'm glad".)
Sakura: Eh...?
-18-
Shaoran: What's wrong?
Sakura: A sound...
Teaser: Where will that timbre
lure the princess,
the two of them!?
Page 5: Haha, "freeloader". (笑) Other than that, Apple-kun! He's the same as always too, I wonder if he had a tourism career ahead of him.
Page 15: Do people in Clow-koku eat anything else?
Page 18: What I said in the cut text: WTF, Fei Wang? I thought she wasn't ready! Or does Fei Wang for once have nothing to do with this?
July 11 2008, 13:07:26 UTC 3 years ago
July 11 2008, 15:10:49 UTC 3 years ago
so we must t wait two chapters more in order to move on!!!!?
July 11 2008, 18:07:06 UTC 3 years ago
Hmm... Cue Princess/Syaoran swap maybe anyone?
But one things been bugging me since this arc started... We have Fujitaka and Nadeshiko as King and High Priestess, yes? But in the early flashbacks, when Touya is talking about his Dad and his uncomfy feeling with C!Syaoran (clone, yes?), don't we have Clow instead, and Fujitaka is C!S's 'father' the archaeologist that 'found' him?
So is someone playing mindfuck games with the entire population of Clow? (can you mind wipe an entire country?)Do Sakura and Touya have different fathers? Or did the memories get switched when the Princesses get switched?
Ideas anyone? It's annoying the hell outta me.
July 11 2008, 19:43:46 UTC 3 years ago
July 12 2008, 05:14:59 UTC 3 years ago
July 12 2008, 10:44:59 UTC 3 years ago
July 11 2008, 20:09:23 UTC 3 years ago
The mess with Fujitaka, Nadeshiko and Clow-ou isn't the only thing that points to a mindwipe. How the heck else would the ruins lose all their religious significance and become a digging site almost overnight? Although I don't have a clear idea on the details, I think Shaoran's rewind-and-swap is related to this. The biggest problem is where Clow-ou came from and where Nadeshiko disappeared off to.
July 12 2008, 05:33:16 UTC 3 years ago
It's been bugging me so much one of my best friends and I took a day to go over everything we've read and see if we could make more sense of it. The Nadeshiko thing was one giant WTF? when I saw it. She threw most of my theories out the window.
Syaoran having something to do with it make a lot of sense considering Fujitaka's job in his original world.
I'm wondering now if my theory that Clow-ou is actually CCS Clow holds more or less ground than it did before. O_O
Anonymous
July 12 2008, 10:34:11 UTC 3 years ago
July 12 2008, 10:46:20 UTC 3 years ago
July 12 2008, 19:13:02 UTC 3 years ago
Thank you ^^
July 13 2008, 05:17:21 UTC 3 years ago
Raw manga
Sorry if I'm seam rude, because this is the first time I visit this journal, but might I ask you where did you get the raw manga chapters ?Tks! =D
July 13 2008, 20:33:13 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Raw manga
We used to have a very nice scanner who'd scan both Holic and Tsubasa and post them for anyone who wanted to get the chapters, no friending needed. Unfortunately she's vanished from LJ and no one seems to know what happened.For Tsubasa there's still a regular scanner over at M-H. For Holic you should check
July 13 2008, 23:39:36 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Raw manga
Tks ! =DJuly 13 2008, 06:02:12 UTC 3 years ago
I dismissed it when Sakura (back in Infinity or Tokyo) told Yuuko her father's name was Clow... but that Sakura turned out to be a replica of the real Sakura, so it might make sense that after realizing the truth, she would refer to Clow as her father rather than Fujitaka (or maybe the true Sakura still thinks Clow is her father and the copy is just retaining that). O_o