Release date: Late Fall 2000
Word count: 9680
Word count: 9680
Thoughts: So Tomoyo gave all of her friends brand new outfits that she designed to all her friends for the airport. The possibilities are endless for rich characters.
Ah, so Syaoran busted the credit limit on his mother's card to pay for the necklace. Someone of Yelan's stature would have a higher limit than that but at least is explains how Syaoran purchased the necklace.
Letting a couple 14-year-olds take care of a bomb threat sounds incredibly stressful.
The occasional commentary of the mother and daughter who interpreted S&S as actors in an action movie was cute.
Syaoran knocking out the guards and then threatening the life of another guard was chilling. How did he pass security with that knife?
This was the first time Wish-chan wrote an intense against the clock chapter and she did a great job. Even though I knew the outcome, I was very much hooked.
When Miho is introduced, she's such a brat. It's incredible how much she develops as a character through out the series.
Fanart spotlight: This is a fanart that I drew with MS Paint specifiy for the Out of Time prompt in the NT 100 Themes Challenge. I loved the way that it turned out even if I did cheat by significantly reducing the number of wires!
The bomb scene sure was intense. I couldn't stop reading it!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that Syaoran put a language spell on them but is this ever used again in NT?
Rereading this chapter, with the knowledge of what will happen in the future, sort of gave me a connection to the April's Fools "murder" when Syaoran says that he has killed people before and then dismisses it and asks Sakura if she thinks he's capable of that.
Miho was such a brat but now I can't imagine the story without her. I know Kai was the product of a writer's block and he doesn't officially appear until Arc 2 (idk how much of their story was created before KMO) but what I found weird was that Miho says she saw the movie because her uncle is the owner of the company. She kept in contact? None of her family, except for Kaho, wanted to take her in and make sure she alright after what happened to the Tanakas.
Alas we will never know if the spell still worked since Sakura and friends never went back to an English speaking country. This could have been tested in Hong Kong but everyone's already used to speaking to Sakura in Japanese.
DeleteMaybe it was the kind of uncle who was too busy running a company to take on a ward. She could come to visit but it was no home for a child. And when you think of it, we don't learn about Miho's lost brother until the middle of Arc 2. I'd love to have a Miho character profile one day as well as her origins story explaining how she came to be.