Wait, she doesn’t exist in the manga??? 
My biggest annoyance in the anime is a filler??? Or am I misunderstanding?
Edit: Oh, just read your comment below about it being retrofitted into the Clear Card thingy. But does she not appear at all in the CCS manga? That would be a dream 
Yeah, she’s an anime original character character. If I recall correctly, in the clear card manga, even there she’s just acknowledged with a “Oh, she sent a letter”
This was really hard and annoying to do. As said before it didn’t feel much like reading at all 
I’m really worried about whether I’ll survive week number 2 but I’ll try.
If I find the time this week I might try re-reading and coming up with questions.
Thanks! I actually have a follow-up question - is it common to see different kanji with the same reading used interchangeably (戒め and 縛め)? Is there any reason for that? Although they have somewhat a similar meaning, looking in isolation gives a bit of a weird translation…
Let’s go ! Being level 40 in WK, I usually don’t struggle too much with kanjis, but this week had more unknown ones than I expected.
Since it’s fairly short, I can probably try to do a full translation this week.
We finally caught up with it !
[here comes the iconic line]
KEY that conceals the power of shadows ! Reveal your true form to us ! is that what ware no mae means ? Or is it “before us”, kinda like the expression 目の前 ?
By the contract [that binds us ?], [I] order you ! is もと here 元 ?
REVEAL !
Sakura ! [Use] the card !
I know !
Card created by “Clamp” (???) ! Lend power to my (our ?) KEY !
Transfer the power that reside in this card to that KEY !
I’m missing something here. Not sure what 我に力を is doing. I’m missing a verb and a subject. Is Sakura forcing that transfer ? Is there a transfer from the card to the key then from the key to Sakura ?
Windy ! it’s funnier if you read this as “Wendy’s!”
Wind ! Become binding chains ! Since she is using となれ, “let the wind be binding chains” may be a better translation
Return back to the shape where you belong ! I’m struggling more with english than with japanese here ^^
[something] card ! seriously, what’s written here ?
Plus a fair amount of “krrr krr” “Booom” “whooooosh” everywhere.
Beside the archaic forms, this isn’t actually so hard (unless I’m way off of course 
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Thanks for all the questions and comments here so far, this was definitely a challenge but I feel like I’m learning a lot already! My question feels like such a silly one but it’s really throwing me. The large speech bubble on page 12 is written in katakana but I can’t for the life of me figure out what the second character is. Can someone help?
It’s ロ
When handwritten it can often look a lot less boxy, almost more like an English n with an extra stroke
The word is Clow, which is a character name. The cards are Clow Cards, because as the incantation says, they’re cards made by Clow.
So there’s a couple of reasons a manga might have unusual kanji choices:
This もと is normally written with 下 in kanji, though jotoba tells me 元 is also a valid spelling.
の前 here does have the same “in front”/“before” meaning as 目の前 here.
[something] card ! seriously, what’s written here ?
クロウ which is Clow, which is a character name. It’s a made up name.
Ah that makes sense, thank you so much!
This is really helpful, thank you!
Is this the same form being used in ‘秘めし’ in the sentence 闇の力を秘めし『鍵』よ? So it’s like “key that conceals”? I was struggling with what し means here
Yes, 秘めし is another verb in this dreaded classical attributive form. Please bear in mind that the 創りし and 宿りし forms that we saw so far are forms of yodan verbs (to keep things brief, classical Japanese had four and not five-step verbs) but 秘める is a so-called kami ichidan verb, where the form is 秘めし and not *秘めりし. All in all, the whole phrase means: “O key that conceals the power of darkness!” 
I’m in group 2 here (since I’m definitely not the target of ABBC as someone also reading along with IM ), but! I have so much I’m reading now in and out of bookclubs, I don’t mind the pace. It’s a nice easy “check the box” for me each week before I spend a lot of time on the IMC reads.
this post may of help to you, re: page 10.
I assume 貸せ is implied to be the verb because it was just used in the previous speech bubble in a similar phrase?
so if i need to start looking up the vocab of literally every text bubble, im going to have to assume that this is a level thats probably too high for me…
So there’s three things to consider there:
At level 10 I absolutely continue to stumble over random first-month-of-Japanese-class (took a few classes years ago) vocabulary among all the words I hadn’t learned before.
I don’t know what you’ve done vocab-wise outside of WK (I think you mentioned in another post that you have used Genki?), but in general:
So, now you have a choice:
Finished this week! Wow, it felt like I had to look up almost every word… but then when I checked the frequency of the words I was looking up, they were mostly in the top 2,000 (and sometimes even in the top 500)! I’m used to Satori Reader stories, which feel like they try to build your vocab up in slow increments, so this was a bit of a shock for me. But it definitely felt rewarding to know that all of the new words I’m learning are super common!
Apologies if I got the page number wrong since I am using the ebook, but a quick question!
Some context if helpful - This is the first time I am trying to read a manga in Japanese and I actually have not seen the anime (I know, I know - I am just as shocked at myself as you may be 
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Why is 鍵 (かぎ) in brackets in this sentence - 闇の力を秘めし「鍵」よ！
Without the brackets it reads (I think) - “The power of darkness is hidden!” - which makes complete sense. But with the brackets it reads… awkwardly? (“The power of darkness is hidden (key)!”)
My guess is that “key” in in quotes because the item doesn’t look like a key.
The clause before it (闇の力を秘めし) is modifying “key”, which in English we typically place after the noun (rather than before) as “key that hides the power of darkness”.
I really enjoyed looking up words for these first few pages! I also liked this part (In the manga, the words「封印解除」are furigana’d as レリーズ (release)) When reading, I thought it said フリーズ (freeze) lol
Furigana is so tiny but every manga I’ve seen has tiny furigana!
