There's a reason why this show is loved and you explained a great deal why.

You've got some good taste, anon.

Lots of people bring up classics as being shows like Cowboy Bebop or DBZ, but CCS will always be the number one for me.

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Thanks doc

It´s great, It was the best thing CLAMP created, try reading Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and XXXholic now.

Read, don't watch the anime.

Excellent taste, /a/non.

CCS is what got me hooked on anime, and it remains my favourite to this day. I know exactly how you feel.

You know it's ironic when the only good anime CLAMP was involved is the one where their ridiculous Noodle anatomy isn't featured

Too bad Tsubasa cocked it all up.

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Why can't we just pretend that Tsubasa doesn't exist at all?

Is the quality worth it for the coalgirls shit or should I just stick to dvd rips

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You know that it´s not a sequel right?

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Don't you even think about DVD rips.

Ah well OP as much as I agree with your description of CCS, Revolutionary Girl Utena aired a year earlier and that's also what I would call an 'intelligent' mahou shoujo.

If I ever have a girl I'm going to make her watch both.

Yeah, I just started blasting through it too, after the Illusion episode where Sakura wears her hands-down best outfit. CLAMP is all over the place in quality of their stories, but at least for CCS, tons of credit to Madhouse for making a really damn good looking show when most anime for kids even at that time still looked like ass. Some episodes, like The Silent one, did some really nice stuff with angles, moonlight, and darkness in the museum. There's a clear directorial vision put into the scene composition, again very rare for children's anime.

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Congrats OP. You've discovered the best anime ever made.

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I downloaded 66.3GB 720p pack from Coalgirls which includes 70 episodes, 2 movies and 3 specials. IMHO it was worth it, I was amazed at how nice motion of Sakura on her roller-skates is. Visuals of cards are also often quite fancy, so all in all if you don't mind having torrent run for about 3 days - go for it.

CCS, back when CLAMP was still good.

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Well Utena isn't exactly for kids so there's a difference.

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I downloaded the 80gb for the 70 episodes in 1080p and the CG movies which end up being about 23gbs. Quality difference is basically unnoticable, but it's still worth it.

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At least go with the 720p. The BluRay really highlights a lot of the little things on the cels, like little gaps in the linework, but the backgrounds really stick out.

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I noticed the roller skates too, then noticed a lot of reused animation for a few episodes, like when she takes the corner, or when she does her little spin the camera tilted up with the sakura trees in bloom above her. Still nice, though.

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You are right, although I never had a sense of it being a very cheap move, scenes that had reused animation were often quite different from original, or at least had some frames that nicely clouded repeatability of them. Oh, and animation with Sakura growing to the size of telephone pole was in 1 episode and I never saw it again until a beginning of 31, so all in all I don't consider it a major flaw that I would see somewhere else.

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Yeah, it's nothing big. It's not egregious reuse of animation like your typical mahou shoujo transformation sequence, or when they go through the motions of a special attack. Every card capture is different, from different angles, with Sakura wearing different clothes.