Manga Review: Cardcaptor Sakura Vol.2

                                            Cardcaptor Sakura Vol.2 Review

The second volume starts off with Sakura enjoying field day at her school were she competes in a race and does a cheer leading routine. At the field day event Sakura meets Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi for the first time and learns that she and her father, Fujitaka have knew each other because through Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko who happens to that Sonomi and Nadeshiko were cousins. Sonomi has always disliked Fujitaka because she feels he stole Nadeshiko from her but does admit that he made Nadeshiko very happy. Also during field day the Flower card causes a lot of flowers to fall down so Sakura has to capture it but not before Flower dances with her.

The second story of the volume deals with a new student named Syaoran Li who transfers into Sakura's class who doesn't seem to like her and knows about the Clow Cards, he also has magic of his own. Later on in this story Sakura's friend Rika's mind is taken over by the Sword Card and ends up attacking Sakura, Sakura is of course reluctant to fight her friend and since her and Kero-chan were talking about what to do Sakura is almost cut in half by the Sword Card but Syaoran saves her(which of course made me all happy but then he was mean to her). Sakura then decides to use the illusion card to distract Rika with an image of her beloved which happens to be Terada-Sensei, Sakura plan works and she's able to capture the card.

In the last chapter of the volume Sakura is shown through one of Tomoyo's videos of Sakura that she has recently captured the Thunder Card(that really should be called lightening since that's what it acts like). Later on in the chapter Sakura finds out that the Shadow Card is causing trouble so she sets out to capture the card but has trouble at first but after seeing that Syaoran's lighting spell help to tame the Shadow Card she uses Thunder and then Sword to capture Shadow. After she does this Sakura thanks Syaoran for his help while she smiles and wrap his small injury with a piece of cloth this causes him to blush but he acts like he still doesn't like her.

Through out this volume a lot is learned about the characters and their relationship with each other such as the fact that Tomoyo is actually in love with Sakura but is pretty sure that Sakura will never feel the same way. I also liked seeing how protective Touya can be over Sakura with how much he worries about her after he saw Syaoran be mean to her and how much he dislikes him for that. I also liked the strange crush that Syaoran develops on Yukito and like that both him and Sakura are always so cutely embarrassed when Yukito is nice to them. I also like all the times Touya and Yukito tend to stare at each other and Touya's tendency of brush things off of Yukito's shoulders. I find the relationship between Rika and Terada-sensei to be both creepy and sweet but I find it strange that they would already be engaged.

I overall loved this volume just like I do the rest of the series and I liked that one of my favorite characters were introduced in this volume. Please tell me your thoughts on the series.