Release Date: Winter or Spring 2000
Word count: 11,077
Word count: 11,077
Thoughts: Syaoran mouthing off at the music teacher was funny. Him making the distinction between liking music vs not liking to sing in front of others is nice foreshadowing. This was also the first mention of the Winter Concert!
Why does Sakura ask who is Ryuuren (when she found the compositions) if she heard his name in the flashback? I guess if Wish-chan re-edits, Syoaran's father's identity should be more cloaked in secrecy.
Syaoran sneaking in Sakura's window will never stop being precious. When he looked at the music, his eyes had a painful look. First hint of Leiyun!
Nadeshiko was 14 and Ryuuren was 17. Three years isn't much of a gap, but because of puberty and life experiences, at those ages there might as well be a decade between them.
So Real!Syoaran was playing the entire time that Ghost!Syaoran and company were in the flashback. I never thought about what their bodies would be doing during time travel.
It's incredibly wild so see Syaoran and Meilin speak furtively about Leiyun so early in Arc I and then in Arc IV he becomes a prominent character.
Wish-chan's understanding of music and how a harmony could be joined to a piece and completely change the effect is mind boggling. I'm the wife of a composer and funny enough my husband teaches counterpoint: two melodies playing together harmoniously as one.
She apologized for the length of the chapter and said she would try to make them shorter. Ha. Ha ha ha…
Fanart spotlight: The fandom was so lucky to have Asumei around to capture a lot of moments. Violin is a lovely fanart and the fall leaves go perfectly with the NT timeline too.
Thank goodness for your blog! Even when I read this for the first time and then reread it back in 2012-2014 I had totally forgotten that Leiyun was first hinted in Arc 1. Always thought it was in Arc 2. When I read the chapter I was hyped at the future drama but sad at the same time because the Syaoran's and Meilin's image of Leiyun will be shattered later on.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed at all of the plot ideas that Wish-chan had in mind so long ago. The most we ever learn about Leiyun in the early days was when Syaoran told Sakura about his cousin during a thunderstorm (so fitting, haha). And Wish-chan's fanart definitely helps job our memories of that scene.
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