Release date: April 1st, 2001
Word count: 2765
(Note: Be sure to read the blog post for Chapter 22: No More Solitude before reading ahead!)
Word count: 2765
(Note: Be sure to read the blog post for Chapter 22: No More Solitude before reading ahead!)
Thoughts: The pink background that Wish-chan selected for this chapter on her site is so pretty! It's definitely a perk that you can't get anymore on FF. Speaking of her site, thanks to her old Updates page, from here on in I will have the exact release date.
It's not always too easy to pinpoint the exact incision of these special chapters, but if anyone wants to follow the time line, I'd say that this chapter comes in right after The Joker visits Meilin in Ch 22. If this chapter came out when Wish-chan started using the decimal format, it would have been labeled as "Chapter 22.5".
Leave it to Tomoyo to call up Syaoran and let him know it was Sakura's birthday. I still remember that it was The Dark Ones who tampered with his calendar.
The pink balloon with the note inside is certainly Syaoran's MO at this point.
The image of Syaoran painstakingly tying a multitude of ribbons on the branches for Sakura is so endearing.
While no one could ever forget the amazing pink chiffon cake in Arc 4, it turns out that the first cake Syaoran made for Sakura was a strawberry and cream Kero-chan head shaped cake! Anyone else forgot about the food fight in this chapter?
This chapter is also the origin of, "Go home and look into the mirror." when Sakura asked Syaoran what was his wish. Sigh, Sakura you are so oblivious.
Fanart spotlight: I originally drew the pink ribbon trees for the Birthday prompt in the New Trials Fanart100 until I replaced it with Wish-chan's Birthday Omake. However, it was not in vain because it was then used for the Everything For You prompt in the NT 100 Themes Challenge!
Having watched Clear Card Arc, the fact that the cake SxS are eating is a replicate of Kero-chan's face reminds me of when Sakura and Akiho make cakes and Akiho suggests Sakura to make a cake in the shape of Kero. When Sakura thinks Syaoran might not like it, Akiho says that's because it would be too cute to eat it.
ReplyDeleteNice catch! I think there's at least two Kero-shaped cakes in NT: this one and the one in the Arc 3 NYE special (http://fav.me/d4qxi7o). Remember in the last chapter when Syaoran misinterpreted Sakura's bear drawings as Kero-chan? She got so annoyed because she knew that Syaoran didn't even like Kero-chan, hahaha.
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