Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Prologue – Sakura and the Two Bears

I have a few grievances with this OVA. Firstly, who is it intended for? I assume those solely who read the manga because anyone coming off of the anime if going to have one jarring experience. Even if you put the change in art style the direction and pacing aside, this is nothing like the original series and it doesn't even try to fashion some kind of coherency between the series and the OVA leaving a good chunk of audience lost along the way. Secondly the art design, I was worried when I saw the promotional material before the OVA and it seems my worries came truebecause every poster they released made Sakura and Tomoyo look like card board cut outs everything felt so stiff and sure enough I got the exact same feeling from the OVA, now I know that the original series spent most of its time on still frames (Most anime does in all fairness) but just about everything felt stiff, it's like in a plea to be just like the manga they had to have everything as picture perfect as possible, I mean there are people posting screenshots of the OVA and the manga side by side for comparison and it's practically identical, but that isn't the point of animation the point is to adapt the manga not become the manga itself. And to top it all off everyone had this weird fucking shine on them 24/7 like I was half expecting when the perspective panned out away from Sakura it was going to expose a person standing there with a lightbulb inches away from her face and they just followed her around the entire thing over saturating the fuck out of everything and everyone. The effect worked when there were darker scenes like when it's evening or when we have that really cool representation of Sakura's card possession, but that was because they effect had enough contrast in those scenes to make it pop. I Just....I feel like this was rushed HEAVILY, and I prey to god that the series isn't going to have this annoying stilted and over saturation problem when it officially releases.

Excuse my english: This prologue is the ending of the manga, so I've heard but I haven't read the manga. Although I havn't read the manga, watching this alternate ending (technically speaking the "True Ending") was a breathtaking expirience. I loved the old show, and was pretty happy about the ending it had including the second movie, but this prologue hited me in the childhood. The nostalgia of seeing some characters again, the storytelling, the music, the hype for a Sakura comeback, etc.. was almost like when I saw the first part of Digimon Tri. I just can't wait for this new show that's a directsequel to this prologue just keep in mind that the events of episodes 69 and 70 of the old show are still kinda oficial but not entierly, plus the second movie is no longer "the oficial ending". Nothing more to say to my reader other than "Watch it, its good even thoe you're not familiar or a big fan of the show and fans will enjoy it from the second the hit the play button".

Not sure if this is a review... I was so confused as I just finished the anime and the two movies today. At first, I thought this was the continuation of the anime and Shaoran somehow came back to Japan after the 2nd movie, but why is Eriol back here? and then I started reading other reviews. I'm usually a manga reader but idk why I wanted to watch the anime more than reading the manga so I haven't read the manga for CCS. Tbh I quite like this version too, not that I like the colors tho. (I prefer Sakura stop saying hoee all thetime, pls don't kill me) Oh and I like the fact that the same Voice actors came back for this, and wow to keep the same voice from 20 years ago(?). well im looking forward to watching the sequel tomorrow