カードキャプターさくら・Card Captor Sakura Offshoot Book Club🌸Vol 12 - Starting May 9th!

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Welcome to the thread for Vol 12 of the カードキャプターさくら Offshoot Book Club!

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Last Volume	Current Volume	Next Volume
Vol 11	Vol 12	That’s All, Folks!
Home Thread

Current Week	2
Start Page	51
End page	82

Last Panel

How To Participate:

There are three editions of Cardcaptor Sakura, all of which can be used for this book club.

For the Vol 12 reading, you will need one of the following:

• the original edition (OG) or refurbished edition (RE) of カードキャプターさくら Vol 12 (softcover, hardcover or digital)

• the anniversary edition (AE) of カードキャプターさくら Vol 9 (hardcover)

Differences Between Editions

Card Captor Sakura has three editions: the original edition (OG), the refurbishment edition (RE), and the anniversary edition (AE).

• The paperback copy is OG, the original hardcover version is RE.

• Digital versions are mostly RE, but some are OG.

• To distinguish between OG and RE books, look between chapters. If there’s a picture of Kero-chan and the words “refurbishment edition,” you have an RE book.

• The AE is a newer hardback edition. It has more chapters than either OG or RE books. For example, vol 1 of AE contains chapters 6 and 7, which are part of vol 2 for the OG and RE.

• To check if your hardcover book is AE, simply look at the cover. It’ll say なかよし60周年記念版 on it near the bottom!

This reading is for カードキャプターさくら (Cardcaptor Sakura), NOT カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編 (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card). Buy carefully!

Schedule:

Note: all page numbers are based on the print version of the refurbishment edition (RE).

If you are reading the digital edition of the RE, the digital page count will be a few pages ahead of the print. Please check how many pages off your copy is before using the page numbers below.

If you aren’t reading the refurbishment edition, the page numbers will be completely different than those listed below. Please pay special attention to the chapter number and the last panel for every week, which should be the same between editions.

Week	Date	Chapter	Pages (RE)	Page Count (no inter-chapter art)
1	May 9th	46	7-50	41
2	May 16th	47	51-82	29
3	May 23rd	48	83-114	29
4	May 30th	49	115-147	29
5	Jun 6th	50	148-187	40

Weekly Last Panels

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Vocabulary:

The vocabulary list hasn’t been in use for the last few volumes, but you’re welcome to contribute if you’re interested in doing so!

If you do, please add vocabulary using printed page numbers for consistency, even if you are using a digital edition.

Wanikani ABBC OFFSHOOT - Card Captor Sakura Vol 12 Vocab Sheet

Otherwise, consider using Manga Kotoba for your vocabulary needs!

Discussion Guidelines

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

1. Any potential spoilers, predictions and conjecture for the current week’s reading or earlier should be covered with a spoiler tag.

2. All spoilers outside the current week’s reading (whether related to Card Captor Sakura or not) should be covered with a spoiler tag, and please label where the spoiler comes from if it’s not clear from the context.

Posting Advice

• When asking for help, please mention the page number and your book edition

• Check before posting if your question has already been asked and answered. You might be able to join an ongoing conversation!

• Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these book clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

Membership

Will you be reading vol 12 with the book club?

• Yes
• Yes, but I might start late
• Maybe
• No

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[zucchi]

Week 1: Chap 46
We’re finally here! The very last volume! Sakura has accomplished so much… but the surprises aren’t over yet!

Check out the home post for details on the week’s reading.

Happy discussing!

Participation Poll:

• I’m reading along
• I’ve already read this part
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished

[zucchi]

Week 2: Chap 47
A chapter passes so quickly! Sakura’s faced a lot of intense magical battles in the past, but her current issues are of a quieter sort, it seems…

Check out the home post for details on the week’s reading.

Happy discussing!

Participation Poll:

• I’m reading along
• I’ve already read this part
• I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this section yet
• I’m reading this after the book club has finished

[Dimsumwitch]

Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

wanikani forums are getting mad at me for not posting a complete sentence but it’s hard to express the emotions with this volume wow

[jablekanji]

Read the first two chapters this morning!! This is actually my first time reading to the end of a plot focused manga in… many years. I’m really enjoying that this whole final volume is dedicated to the story resolution. I think I was worried that due to the serialized format that it would end rather abruptly. That said, I want to be invested in the love plot lines here but I’m having trouble buying in. I can sort of get the li sakura thing (although she should be w tomoyo for sure), but I feel like the kaho eriole thing was super out of left field. Maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention - curious what others think.

[zucchi]

Congratulations! It feels good to finish a series. Especially one with so much care put into the ending!

RE: Pairing 1

Since Sakura is super oblivious in terms of love, I think the only way Sakura and Tomoyo would have ended up together was if Tomoyo confessed, which she was never going to do – she made it clear pretty early on that her focus was on Sakura’s happiness, and she seems to have decided the way to make Sakura happy is to help her find romance with someone else – first she helps Sakura spend time with Yukito, and then she encourages Li to confess.

As to why Tomoyo does that, I think a big part of it was that Sakura had a huge crush on Yukito – to pursue Sakura at that point, Tomoyo would have to be willing to cause Sakura a lot of internal conflict, which is not at all her style.

As for why she didn’t pursue Sakura afterwards, it’s harder to tell. Eriol says she has great powers of observation – maybe she simply felt that Sakura wasn’t romantically interested in her. Maybe she wanted to make sure how Sakura felt about Li before making any romantic decisions herself. But I think it’s more that she’s someone who deliberately puts herself on the sidelines and says things like “I just want you to be happy,” so she’s very unlikely to end up with someone who isn’t actively pursuing her.

RE: Pairing 2

This pairing is less established than the other one, but I do think it’s plausible.

Near the end of Vol 6, Kaho helps Sakura defeat Yue by giving her a bell made by Clow. It’s implied she has a significant history with Clow because she can talk in detail about what happened when he died, and her whole duty has been to wait for the new master to appear so she can pass on the bell. This isn’t necessarily a romantic history, but you have to care about someone a whole lot to sit around for an untold number of years waiting to pass on something they made to someone who isn’t even born yet.

Anyways, after this, at the end of Vol 6, Kaho goes to England. Eriol first appears at the beginning of Vol 7.

Kaho says at the beginning of the volume 12 she and Eriol met while she was in England, so they met between those two points. I guess there’s a decent time skip between those volumes!

Anyways, after having just had to fulfill a duty which started with Clow’s death, I’m sure meeting his reincarnation was quite an emotional moment, especially since he seems to have explained everything to her.

The fact Eriol explained everything to Kaho also means that, for quite some time, Kaho has been potentially the only human on Earth who knows what he’s up to (since Ruby and Spinel aren’t human). They were also clearly on the same page, or Kaho wouldn’t be willing to send those cryptic letters to Sakura.

Also, Eriol and Kaho seem seem to live together? Either that or Kaho is just super comfortable in Eriol’s house and visits a lot. Them living together would certainly explain how Eriol gets away with living alone as a child without seeming to have any parents/other adults in his life. (Though to be fair, Li also doesn’t appear to have any adults with him in Japan.)

While most of this is only explained in Vol 12, the fact that Kaho’s relationship with Clow was established in Vol 6 makes it easier for me to believe she and his reincarnation could fall in love (particularly because he retained his memories).