I believe the last time I said that volume two of Card Captor Sakura only had the creditless first ending animation for an extra. When opening the DVD case for the last episode on the disc, however, I discovered a postcard that was packaged inside the case. Basically, it's this picture (which I posted back during Valentine's Day), except with a few changes to the background, a large "Happy Valentine's Day" at the top, and a small CCS logo at the bottom right. So there's an extra, um, extra. I may scan it in if I ever get my scanner working again.

Episode 8 of CCS, "Sakura's Rival Appears", introduces Li Syaoran (also often romanized as "Shaoran", and it really is the same thing; I'm just used to "Syaoran"), perpetually-scowling kid from Hong Kong who seems to have a better grasp of Japanese than most ten-year old Hong Kong kids. (Not to mention the whole bit about his name being technically in Mandarin instead of Cantonese.) While he does turn up as a rival, I think it's safely far past the statute of spoiler limitations to say that he doesn't stay as a rival for very long.

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