All the tears. Such the best! And now Tsubasa is made even more meaningful than it already was.

I'm probably taking all of this way too seriously. ( )

Cardcaptor Sakura is the perfect example of a series that gets better and better as it goes on, and manages to end even more beautifully.

I expected romance of a sort going into this series, but I didn't expect it to explore so many different kinds of love--the love one has for family, the love they have for friends, the way love that one has for different people can be so similar and yet so immensely different at the same time, the way loving someone sometimes means seeing them happy with someone else--so simply and stirringly. This final omnibus is full of all sorts of love, and all of it is so charmingly portrayed.

Sakura's conversations with Yukito in this volume were so well done. Yukito and Yue were great characters, but the way Yukito treated and spoke to Sakura always felt warm and tender. Really wonderful character.

Syaoran and Sakura's relationship was in part a vehicle for showing the characters' growth as they became more familiar with their heart and desires, but also served as a reminder to readers that you sometimes have to search within yourself for some time before realizing what and who you want.

Relationships aside, Sakura's powers and role truly came full circle in the end, and I feel like everything was resolved or concluded neatly. The only thing I don't feel was truly ever explained is why Clow made the cards in the first place. Sakura could use them to defeat enemies, but the only enemies she ever HAD to defeat in the course of the story were the cards that she was capturing, and then those in her battles to change the cards.

I plan to start both xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa next, since they're side-by-side reads, so maybe that (Clow's reason for making the cards) will come up. But as this was my first foray into this series, I have no idea if it will.

In all, after the weirdness of the kid-adult relationships that were so prevalent in the first omnibus, I loved everything about this series. I'm so glad I finally got around to it, because I've been meaning to for years. ( )