The series features multiple moments where Tomoyo, flanked by a storm of flower petals and romantic imagery, admits that she loves Sakura, only for Sakura to respond the same, albeit in a platonic sense.Īt times, this affection appears to be pure in nature, with Tomoyo valuing Sakura’s happiness over her own, especially when Sakura ends up falling in love with Syaoran. Furthermore, it becomes more complicated when we consider that Yukito is in actuality two people: Yukito Tsukishiro and his alter-ego, Yue.Īnd then there’s Tomoyo, Sakura’s best friend and confidant who is consistently in love with her card-capturing friend. This love quadrangle surrounding Sakura, Syaoran, Yukito, and Touya is already complicated, with numerous periphery relationships. We also know that Touya dated Kaho Mizuki in eighth grade, but it is uncertain if he found her genuinely attractive, or if this experience showed him he had little interest in women. Of course, Touya seems uninterested in romantic involvement with anyone other than Yukito, even in the face of Nakuru Akizuki’s, AKA Ruby Moon’s, repeated flirtations with him. Touya and Yukito are unambiguously queer, though it’s uncertain whether the two are bisexual, like Syaoran, or gay. More important though, is that Yuktio already has a crush of his own, in Sakura’s elder brother, Touya.
This is partly because both are around twelve, while Yukito is in his teens. Ultimately, though, both Sakura and Syaoran end up failing to attract Yukito. Therefore, Yukito, who is tied in with the Moon energy generated by Yue, exudes an aura that Syaoran simply can’t resist. It’s later revealed that Syaoran’s attraction toward people is less determined on a person’s gender and more on their connection to Moon energy. The two clashed in a contest for love, since both of them had a crush on one Yukito Tsukishiro. Ironically, Syaoran was not just Sakura’s rival for the Cards, at first. Their love grows to be so powerful that it’s able to transcend reality, with their alternate incarnations in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle still being tied together by their mutual attraction. Little by little, they begin working with one another, before becoming romantically involved. While the two are established at first as rivals who compete over the Clow Cards, they are eventually drawn closer. The series’ most iconic relationship is arguably that of the titular Sakura Kinomoto and her male counterpart, Syaoran Li. Specifically, characters can be attracted to any number of people for any number of reasons, with many players falling somewhere in the middle on the Kinsey Scale. One very important element of Cardcaptor Sakura is that of fluid sexuality. Every character experiences a crush on at least one character, with every taboo, for better or worse, being explored in the process.
Cardcaptor Sakura’s love polygon proves to be less of a triangular shape, and more an exploration of a line game, where every character exists on an interconnected grid, and every single dot must link in one way or another to its neighbors. It’s not uncommon for shojo manga to indulge in the occasional love triangle, in which characters remain infatuated with one another and compete for one another’s affections. Of all the thirsty works CLAMP has created, though, none can surpass Cardcaptor Sakura in terms of sheer burning desire. But more than that, not only is taboo love valid, but every character should be so incredibly thirsty for their partner that their entire lives will sometimes revolve around romance.
The four-woman team of manga artists - whose work includes Chobits, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, and Magic Knight Rayearth - have functioned under the driving philosophy that all love is valid, regardless of society’s taboos. Few manga are as thirsty as CLAMP’s manga.
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