Kirei Blossom: Everyone's favourite New Trials, as a movie. Well, the first trailer was for the first NT movie, which incorporated Arc I and Arc II. Needless to say, that movie was a huge success and was played to packed audiences for months on end. At first, people were curious and went to see what all the fuss was really about – but soon, as the craze spread widely and the fanbase kept increasing, people stampeded towards the theaters, even standing in line for hours and hours on end in order to get the tickets.
As people stood in lines, they waved around colourful posters proclaiming their love for the various characters, and arguing over what the best scene was, or best character. Some swooned and shouted out, "Syaoran's the best!", others squealed, "Kaitou Magician!! Kyaaaa!," and yet others yelled themselves hoarse in defending Aki, Eron or Eriol. There was even an enthusiastic girl jumping up and down holding a Yamazaki-Chiharu poster!
Girls also dragged their boyfriends along to the movie, because they wanted them to learn a few lessons from the superb male characters. Of course, the guys were outwardly reluctant, grumbling to themselves, because why should they go watch a shoujo movie?? But secretly, they loved the movie too, because who can withstand a movie with cute-Sakura-chan in it, right? Plus the action and swordfighting was amazing!
And a few years after that initial craze, comes along the sequel! The Arc III NT Movie! Hanyaan! You can't imagine the thrill of sitting in a dark theater, waiting for some regular, ordinary movie to start, when suddenly on screen, this trailer pops up! Anyway, I should shut up now. You guys have to see for yourselves…
A little guide:
The centered bold text are words-to-read that flash up on the screen in front of a black background.. you know, like in a real trailer.
--Text within dashes implies a scene--
Speech is in quotations. 'Voiceover' means that you're not seeing the actual person talking, but looking at a different scene while hearing their voices.
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New Trials - Arc III Movie Trailer
The following PREVIEW has been approved for
ALL AUDIENCES
By the Motion Picture Association Of America
--View of a deserted road in Tomoeda, on a bright autumn morning. Leaves of amber, golden and red fall from the trees lining the road, carpeting the path. Camera moves along the path across to an apartment complex--
--Scene shifts to a bedroom in the apartment, where Sakura sleepily grabs her alarm clock --
Sakura: "Hoe! We're late for school!"
--Full of energy, Sakura runs to the bedroom across the hall and jumps onto the bed--
Sakura: "Syaoran! Wake up!"
Once More, the Journey Continues
--At Seijou Junior High, the hallways bustle with the usual activity. Then a hush falls as a lean person, dressed completely in black and wearing sunglasses steps forward, looking intimidating. He stops in front of Sakura--
Sakura: "..Kaitou Magician?"
Kai: "Uh uh, call me Mizuki Kai from now on. I'm getting my education!"
--Shift to a scene where Tomoyo swerves around nervously. A crystal dart pierces through her heart. As her violet eyes glaze over and become unfocused, a shadow crouches behind her--
--Eron walks up to Syaoran and holds out his hand--
Eron: "We stand on equal grounds, Li Syaoran. The only thing you hold over me is that you knew her five years ago."
--Syaoran scowls in disgust and firmly grips Eron's hand, sealing a bet--
Syaoran: "One thing for sure is that I'll never be beaten by you."
--In Syaoran's living room, Miho takes out a picture from her pocket and stares at it hard--
Miho: "All I have left of my brother is one small picture of him and me."
--She holds out the picture to all her friends gathered around her--
Miho (voiceover):"Is it so wrong to wish to find him again?"
--Sakura peeks out from behind the heavy stage curtains at the packed audience seated in a theater building--
Sakura: "I've never been more nervous before."
--She turns to look at Syaoran, standing beside her--
Syaoran: "We'll be fine. Do your best on stage tonight. I'll do mine."
--Camera switches over to the audience side, with a full view of the large stage. A colourful banner hangs above the stage reading, 'Seijou Junior High Musical Production: Star-Crossed.' The audience breaks out in applause as the stage lights turn on and the thick velvet curtain starts to open with a swish--
--The sound of applause continues as the screen goes black --
Where Each New Day is a New Adventure
--Sakura steps in a room and faces three women, one holding a spindle of thread, one holding a rod, and another holding a pair of scissors. The woman lifts the scissors to the thread, ready to cut it--
--With a black sword in her hand, Tomoyo strikes down at Syaoran, who expertly blocks with his own sword. Regaining posture, Tomoyo strikes down again with lightning speed, slicing Syaoran's sword in half--
--Erika glares at Eron--
Erika: "I don't see why you anguish over Sakura. You have plenty of girls to pick from with your popularity."
--Miho enters a hospital room. On the bed, propped up by pillows sits a woman in her late thirties with long auburn hair braided back. Miara looks up in surprise, and Miho runs forward, throwing herself into her mother's wide open arms --
Miho (voiceover): "I came, Mother. I came."
--Yukito leads a group of students down the Kinhoshi Hospital corridors--
Yukito: "I didn't know that you guys would be doing volunteer work here. It's really nice to see familiar faces."
--Meilin tosses and turns feverishly in bed. Syaoran places a hand on her forehead--
Meilin (voiceover): "Syaoran… I have to tell you something."
--In the school gym, everything is turned to crystal. As a little blue fairy creature sends out a hail of crystal arrows, Kai smiles recklessly and sends off counteractive arrows, hitting every single arrow heading towards him with deadly aim--
A New Obstacle
--Sakura runs through twisting, contorted surroundings depicting battlefields, poverty and sickness as people all around her suffer. She stops when her path is blocked by hundreds of black scurrying rats, and gazes around helplessly, tears streaming down her face--
Sakura (voiceover): "What am I really doing? Why am I fighting the Dark Ones?"
--Switch to a different scene. Dropping onto her knees, Sakura winces with pain as a force attacks her and her body starts to shrink in size--
Sakura (voiceover): "…I think it's foolish to be fighting the Dark Ones when I don't even know the reason why."
--Erika grips Sakura by her hair near her scalp and shoves her face into the muddy ground--
Erika (voiceover): "It's because Amamiya Hayashi murdered Ruichi-sama!"
--Sakura and Syaoran run through the empty Tokyo streets. The ground rumbles from an earthquake--
Syaoran (voiceover): "You're defending yourself and the people you love. Isn't that the best motive of all?"
--At an archery court, Miho stares ahead at a young man with silky auburn hair and gray eyes. He hits arrow after arrow at the bulls-eye with perfect precision. Turning around, his eyes meet Miho's and he smiles--
Mikai: "Miho? Why you grew so much I thought you were someone else."
--Miho crumples to her knees and begins sobbing--
Miho: "You're my 'nii-chan, no one else. I finally found you!"
--In a hospital room, Meilin fingers the cast on her leg and looks straight at Kai--
Meilin: "I can't tell Syaoran that the Li Council has voted to remove him as the Chosen One if he doesn't return to Hong Kong immediately."
--The screen turns black--
A New Sunrise
--A five-year-old girl with bright green eyes looks up--
Tomoyo (voiceover): "Sakura-chan? Just look at you – kawaii!"
--At King Penguin Park, silhouetted against the dusky evening sky, Syaoran looks straight ahead of him. Behind him, five-year-old Sakura, wrapped in an overlarge green jacket stares down at the ground--
Syaoran (voiceover): "I think we have more arguments and misunderstandings than times of understanding and truthfulness..."
--In a different scene, Syaoran plays the violin on stage in front of the entire school--
Syaoran (voiceover): "…I wanted to apologize for all the things I've done and said to injure her."
--In an orphanage, in a room full of children, a seven year old boy with dark hair smashes up a Lego castle and knocks toys to the ground while children cry at him to stop--
--Sitting at a restaurant table, Subaru smiles angelically and looks up at Sakura and Syaoran--
"Kaijuu-neechan, I want one more birthday present. I want you to kiss the grouchy nii-san!"
--Sakura and Syaoran bonk him on the head, identically red--
--Standing in the middle of an unkempt patch of land, Mikai places a hand over Miho's forehead. Rays of rainbow light stream out and ripple over Miho's body and suddenly, Miho's body dissolves into thin air--
Sakura (voiceover): "Stay away from him! That's not your brother—he's only an illusion, a replica. No, Miho-chan!!"
--With a vacant look in his eyes, Eron stares around at the cramped, messy orphanage room with faded wallpaper and spider-webs on the ceiling. At the sound of one of the children bawling when another pushes him off the rocking horse, Eron cringes--
Sakura (voiceover): "I still can't help being drawn to Eron, as if he is kind of a puzzle I have to figure out to find out the truth."
--Still looking around dazed, Eron flinches and steps back at Sakura's touch. His breathing is uneven--
Syaoran (voiceover): "I do wish you'll be careful of Eron. Don't trust him. Don't offer him sympathy. He will turn it on you later on."
A Stunning Tale of Hopes, Dreams, Fears and Doubts
--Standing in an abandoned night street, silhouetted by a lamppost, Syaoran draws out his sword and extends it out to Erika, hilt-side, who grasps it with nervous hands. Carefully, Syaoran takes the sword tip and places it perpendicular to his throat--
Syaoran (voiceover): "You're merely a shadow of your twin brother, merely half a person. If you take away your twin, you have no reason to exist."
--In a beautiful and vibrant fantasy land, with the warm rays of the afternoon sun shining down on them, Sakura and Syaoran run away from a group of guards on horses. A river of pink lemonade flows beside them, and all the trees and flowers are covered with baked goods--
--Up in the vivid cerulean blue sky above them, Eriol, Tomoyo and Kero-chan ride a majestic green dragon-like creature with a polka-dot ribbon tied to its tail. Smiling in rapture, Tomoyo holds onto Eriol's shirt with one hand to keep balance and gathers her long hair with her other hand to keep it from being blown into her face--
--In the classroom, students giggle as Sakura looks around blankly while the teacher scolds her--
Sakura (voiceover): "Hoee, it's so frustrating, not being able to hear anything!"
--Erika takes a crisp ivory ofuda and with the sharp edge slits open the edge of her fingertip. Squeezing the tip of her finger, she lets a drop of ruby red blood splatter in the center--
--A rainy afternoon. Completely soaked, Kai solemnly kneels in front of a small, nameless tombstone, heedless to the wetness seeping through his clothes. Meilin steps up beside him, holding an umbrella over his head, shielding him from the rain--
Kai (voiceover): "Didn't I say before that we two have a lot in common?"
--Wiping his sunglasses on her handkerchief, Meilin looks up into Kai's eyes – a pair of eyes filled with sadness, pain and loneliness. Suddenly, Kai stumbles forward and leans his head against her shoulder, wrapping his arms around her. The umbrella falls to the ground with a splash--
An intertwining Saga of Family, Friendship and Love
--Standing in the bare backyard of a large estate, Syaoran brings his sword down with a swish, producing a blaze of blue fire which strikes a nearby tree, splintering the trunk--
Meilin (voiceover): "You don't know anything about him! You don't know anything about how hard it is to be a Li…"
--Sakura runs towards Syaoran, sword in hand, ready to attack him. Stepping forward, Syaoran grips the sword with his bare hand and hugs her close, as crimson blood drips from his hand onto the ground--
Meilin (voiceover): "…and how hard it is to have your whole family pressing on your back because you are the Chosen One…"
--With redoubled fierceness in her attack, Sakura yanks the sword out of Syaoran's grip, slashing right through his palm in two deep, horizontal cuts. Then she strikes down on Syaoran's shoulder blade with a loud crack, making him crumple onto his knees--
Meilin (voiceover): "…You don't know how hard it is for him to stand with his head up proudly, acting as if everything is all right. You don't know how hard he tries!"
--In a forest clearing, Syaoran leaps up into the air, sword extended out behind him. Slashing down his sword, a majestic blue dragon with gleaming silvery scales roars out in full speed, illuminating the entire scene with an electric blue light--
Syaoran (voiceover): "Shen-Lung Tai-Feng!!"
--The entire screen turns bright blue before dimming to the next scene--
--Li Ryuuren stands wordlessly on the Kinomoto resident garden and stares at Nadeshiko, sitting on a wicker chair set up on the back porch. They look at each other, almost paralyzed. In the background, a ten-year-old boy and two toddlers look on curiously--
--Switch to a different scene. Eating lunch together on the school rooftop, Sakura and Syaoran use their chopsticks to playfully fight, fencing style, over the fried shrimps in Sakura's bento--
Tomoyo (voiceover): "They seem to have learned how to do telepathy. It's a pity I can't videotape it."
--Meilin spins around, facing Kai--
Meilin: "You're still Tanaka Mikai, whether you acknowledge it or not! Why can't you return to your mother and sister?"
--In a dark hospital room, in front of Miara's bed, twelve-year-old Mikai collapses to the ground onto his knees, head lowered and hair covering his face. His shoulders tremble, and tears stream down his cheeks--
Kai (voiceover): "What do you want me to do? How do you expect me to return after all these years, after abandoning her and Mother?"
--Standing alone on a barren piece of land, Miho's eyes widen and she stares ahead at a hazy outline of a person just visible through the fog. A pair of sad and wistful steel-blue eyes stare solemnly back at her, his auburn hair sweeping across his forehead in the wind--
Kai (voiceover): "It's not a matter of 'would I' but 'can I.' I can't anymore!"
--Camera quickly pans around areas in Tomoeda as a major earthquake strikes. A few buildings collapse and small fires break out--
--Switch to the orphanage backyard. Eron sits on the back porch steps, fiddling with an eye-like gem hanging from a black cord around his neck. Sakura kneels in front of him. The entire ground shakes unstably from the earthquake, and a few tiles from the roof slide off and crash onto the ground beside them--
Sakura: "I like Eron-kun; I like Eron-kun a lot. I think family business is family business and friends are friends."
--A crack on the ground Sakura sits on starts to grow wider and wider. Without thinking, Eron leaps up from his sitting position and shoves Sakura's body out of danger's way--
Sakura (voiceover): "I think I want to try trusting you, Eron-kun."
--Nighttime. A golden-white light blazes around Sakura and her skin glows pearl-like. One by one, the Sakura Cards rise up, and surround her in a rose-coloured circle. The golden twelve-pointed star symbol of the Sakura Cards appears at her feet, etching its mark wide across the forest ground--
Eriol (voiceover): "Li Syaoran, do you truly think that Card Mistress Sakura needs you?
--Raising her hand, Sakura summons a card without her staff. Upon command, one of the brightly glowing cards around her levitates into the air and sprouts into the lithe, leafy formed Woody which grows thick vines all around Sakura like a cocoon, concealing her from the onlookers--
Eriol (voiceover): "Your existence is making her dependent and impedes upon her growing to her fullest potential."
--Smiling crookedly, Syaoran looks up with blazing fire-amber eyes, holding something tight in his palm--
Syaoran (voiceover): "I will protect her dream with the last drop of blood I have left in my body. I'm going to fight till the end."
--With a sense of confidence and authority, Syaoran throws Sakura's Star-Key up into the air. A flash of light envelops him, as the key trembles and then radiates an explosion of powers. As Sakura's magic circle glows at his feet, the key elongates into a long rich green-black staff with a complex gold emblem of a star and moon intertwined at the tip--
An Intricately Woven Story Threading Together the Varied Colours of Life
--Completely soaked in sweat, Kai stumbles towards the kitchen sink to fill a glass of water. Gasping, he clutches his chest and doubles over in pain, the glass shattering on the floor--
Meilin (voiceover): "Idiot! You've been walking around for the past months with a bullet buried beneath your skin, as if nothing's wrong?"
--Sakura winces in pain as gripping her shoulders tightly, Eron digs his fingernails into her skin and slams her into the lamppost behind her--
--In a school hallway, Syaoran knocks Eron to the ground. Wrestling on the floor, Syaoran punches Eron repeatedly, beating him to pulp--
--Touya crosses his arms and frowns at Syaoran--
Touya: "Stay away from my sister. You're no good for her. Can't you see that you're going to end up hurting her in the end?"
--A cottage at the base of a jagged mountain. With the moon shining brightly outside the window, Syaoran kneels next to a bed and gazes at Sakura's sleeping profile. Carefully, he brushes a lock of hair covering her cheek. Flinching under his touch, Sakura opens her eyes. --
Syaoran (voiceover): "You're the one who doesn't understand words, Kinomoto Touya. I threw away family and home for Sakura. To be by her side…"
--Startled, Sakura looks up at Syaoran and he bends over to kiss her--
Syaoran (voiceover): "…No matter what you do, you can't stop my heart, for as long as it's beating, it will beat for her."
--A furious blizzard rages on a mountainside during nighttime. Miho struggles through the snow, while ahead a figure in black walks calmly onward. Placing her foot on a large footprint in the snow, Miho quickly hops onto the next footprint, then the next--
Miho (voiceover): "I've searched, I've dreamed, I've gone half-insane…"
--As a huge silver wolf attacks them, Kai pushes Miho out of the way and the creature's claws slash through his jacket-front, knocking him to the snow-covered ground--
Miho (voiceover): "…Now all I can do is pray and leave the rest to him."
--Taking a closer look at his injury, Miho opens up the front of Kai's shredded jacket. A silver locket tumbles out from under his shirt--
--Sakura, dressed in a pink kimono with purple obi, chatters excitedly with her friends at a festival. From a distance, Eron watches her--
Eron (voiceover): "Life seems so much sweeter when I see it in your eyes. Do I really stand no chance?"
--With the rays of morning sunlight flooding in through the wide-open bedroom window, Sakura wakes up groggily. Sitting up, she blinks several times and then gasping, throws off her blanket to reveal Syaoran, fast asleep, curled up in the center of her bed and using her lap as a pillow. Wolfie-chan, also asleep, snuggles against Syaoran's chest contentedly. Sakura gapes at them--
Syaoran (voiceover): "Sakura, I got a letter from home, telling me to come back."
--Sakura and Syaoran have lunch at a small café. Behind them, Kero-chan gobbles up a chocolate cake, and a baby smears the chocolate decoration on her cheeks--
Syaoran (voiceover): "But I'm not going back!"
--A huge palace of ice, quickly melting, with everything disintegrating into slush. Eron runs across a narrow bridge of ice towards Erika on the opposite side. Stepping back, Erika's foot slips, making her tumble off the bridge and Eron throws himself on the edge of the bridge, desperately grabbing her wrist--
Eron (voiceover): "All I ever wanted was for my sister to have a healthy heart and for us to live happily together. Is that too much for a person like me to ask?"
--The entire bridge gives way and Eron and Erika fall towards the rushing river below. Eron reaches out and holds Erika close to him as they fall together--
--Images flash by quickly. There's a sudden power outage in an amusement park, and a roller coaster screeches to a halt in the middle of a 360-degree revolution, suspended completely upside down from the track. Together, everyone helps re-build a marvelous ice palace by grasping Eriol's sun-staff one by one; Sakura stands at the center of a star, spokes extended out to each of the individuals standing around her. Laughing, Meilin pulls a red Santa-hat over Kai's head. Sakura and Syaoran simultaneously clasp matching watches on their left wrists and hold up their hands against each other's, bursting out in laughter. Tomoyo holds up Wolfie-chan, dressed in a frilly triple-tier lace dress with a big red bow around its neck and a ridiculously floppy sunbonnet with little holes for the ears. Syaoran efficiently slices up piles of vegetables as the chefs look on in awe. Kai patiently tells stories to a group of children, a girl with blonde hair and pigtails sitting on his lap. The entire gang watch a splendid sunrise over the snow-covered mountaintops, a smile on all of their faces--
Sakura (voiceover): "I wish such happy times will last."
--Sakura and Syaoran sleep blissfully on the bus ride home, sitting side by side, Sakura's head on Syaoran's shoulder--
--The screen goes black and silent--
--From the depths of the blackness, a pair of icy blue eyes pierces through, gazing piercingly, mercilessly--
As Storm clouds Loom Overhead
--Camera pans around a crowded, chaotic hospital waiting room. Various newspapers are displayed on stands, one prominent headline standing out from the rest: "MYSERIOUS EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN—A NEW STRAND OF PLAGUE?"
--On the school rooftop. Completely exhausted, Sakura manages to swing down a sword, piercing a giant black King Rat through its stomach--
Sakura: "This is for Syaoran's father!"
--Sitting by Subaru's bedside, Sakura reads him stories from a picture book--
--Syaoran breaks into a fit of coughing, the white handkerchief held to his mouth stained with red. Eyes wide, Sakura takes Syaoran's right hand out of his pocket and yanks up the sleeve to reveal his arm turned completely gray and stiff from the elbow down. Unable to hold back tears, Sakura throws her arms around him--
--Revert back to the rooftop. Sakura raises the sword again fiercely and stabs the rat again--
Sakura: "This is for Miho-chan and her family!"
--As the doctors and nurses hurry a stretcher carrying Subaru down the hallway, Sakura screams desperately after him--
--A letter with the words, "My last wish is I want Sakura-nee-chan to be happy." Sakura crumples up the letter, tears welling from her eyes--
--Back to the scene on the rooftop. Tears dripping down her face, onto the sword, Sakura strikes the sword down mercilessly, pinning the rat down straight through its heart to the ground--
Sakura: "And this is for me!"
--Golden-brown hair whipping over her sweaty face, Sakura continues to pour out her magic. As the gem around her neck cracks and the light fades, the screen turns to black-and-white and Sakura falls, in slow motion, toppling into Syaoran's arms--
Voiceover: "No! Sakura!"
And Lightening Threatens to Strike at Every Turn
--A beeping of life-support machines, as Sakura lies in a coma on a hospital bed--
Eriol (voiceover): "She won't survive another week."
--Syaoran leans over the bed, staring at Sakura's white face--
Syaoran (voiceover): "When you wake, I might not be the same anymore. I'm not going to have any powers."
--He kisses her lightly on the forehead--
Syaoran (voiceover): "This is the last gift I can give you."
Will This Be the Final Heartbreak?
--With the seaside harbour in the background, Sakura desperately races down a road after a tall figure in a long navy-blue coat, as he fades away into the mist--
Sakura: "Syaoran! SYAORAN!!"
--Screen blacks out and words flash on the screen--
Wish-Chan's Cardcaptor Sakura: New Trials – Arc III
--Sheets of paper blow away with the breeze over the sea--
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