#8.1.20

i’m trying to focus, trying to make sure i’m the same me as before, but… how can anyone really remember that? how do you know you’re the same person that went to sleep? 

After the world cup Dawn Scott had been stagnant in her role for some time so she spoke with US Soccer to see if she could extend her role to have input into sports science strategy for the youth national teams too.

They said no.

That’s why I haven’t been as active, because nothing has really happened. Except for one thing. 

I had a spirit pay me a visit. Here are my notes on it: 

It’s worth noting that this entity felt extremely powerful, actually. Like they didn’t come off that way, but they had a tremendous amount of energy. Anyways, I kind of felt him lingering around in not good ways, so I decided to confront him today and tell him that I wasn’t interested. I told him that I’m not interested and that I don’t have the time anyways, and then I banished him lol.

Honestly there were a lot of red flags with him. The biggest red flag is that he tricked me. Oh I forgot to talk about that. I was in void space, and I thought that I had entered back into my Astral Keep, but everything felt off and my guides weren’t around, so I determined that it wasn’t real. As soon as I did, it all faded, and that’s when he came out. Very big red flag lol. Other red flags was that he was demanding, and had a pretty threatening attitude/aura. It did make it a little bit difficult, because spirits that are more... dark? I’m not sure what species this spirit was, but like with demonic and hell-esque species, that is in their nature. So that’s why I decided to give him a little time, to try and figure out if it was just his nature, or if he was being malicious. I definitely think it was the latter, although I’m sure that whatever species he was also contributed to it.

Anyways, that’s it for now. I’m going to be taking it easy today. I hope that everyone has a great day!

My baby has the best spirit 🙌🏼💙

I am inclined to say I prefer the OG anime + movie’s version of events, the specifics of Sakura’s response in that I found to be way cuter, and I love that the airport scene meant Wei could have a really nice moment, but I won’t deny the appeal of this one too. It definitely feels a lot less, I suppose random? For Syaoran to confess and Sakura returns his feelings before he leaves rather than, Syaoran confesses, Sakura asks for the bear but it’s technically not a confession because in a followup movie where Syaoran just comes back because Tomoyo emailed Meilin Sakura has to try to confess multiple times and only wait until the plot lets her to manage that confession, plus this does use the bear thing more meaningfully for the bear Sakura made while retaining some of the importance of Syaoran’s bear, whereas in the OG anime + movie Sakura doesn’t even make a bear and the movie undermines the importance of Syaoran’s bear. This one’s definitely stronger in those ways but idk, movie had some delayed gratification that I appreciated, as I already said it’s cuter, and I like the way the play they’re in reflects their feelings. Both are really good though.

Of course, this OVA is from Clear Card, it’s like 17 years after the OG finished. So there’s some stuff to talk about with that. First of all, shoutouts to every single seiyuu, they got the entire OG cast in for every character that appeared and that’s already really impressive, but even more so is the fact that they all sound pretty much identical to how they used to. That’s awesome, I’m really glad they managed that. Touya and Yukito sound a tiny bit more gruff but that’s really it, they still sound like themselves and are voiced by the same people so yeah, that was really great. And then there’s the visuals, by far the biggest change. It’s 2017, everything’s digital, there’s been a pretty big overhaul to the colour palette, it’s quite a lot brighter than the 90s anime, down to Sakura’s hair going from brown to this sort of almost orange-blond-brown colour, and then the male faces have also been smoothed out a lot, there’s a 3D bus that looks fine but like eh, etc. I would still say that this looked pretty, the animation was of course very polished, the artwork very nice, and all of the characters do still look absolutely adorable, though I think I prefer the look of the original anime. This still looks great, it’s recognisably Cardcaptor Sakura, but I think it’ll take a bit to get used to, even if I still do like it of course. Also a brief sidenote, it’s kinda weird seeing this anime that very obviously looks like a modern anime, but the tech is all still late 90s stuff. Like, Sakura and Tomoyo still have those phones Sonomi made, Kero-chan’s still playing an SNES, stuff like that. It’d be ridiculous if they changed the tech, fucky as hell if the world jumped 20 years in age but the characters didn’t, I just find it interesting that sort of, I guess dissonance that exists in a modern sequel still set in the 90s to a show from the 90s set in the 90s, you know?