Tsubasa Chronicle/Doodler Mokona

Doodler Mokona
Season 2, Episode 11
Airdate	July 8, 2006
Written by
Directed by
← 2x10 Feelings That Surpass Time	2x12 → A Dangerous Road
Tsubasa Chronicle — Season Two

Doodler Mokona is the eleventh episode of the second season of Tsubasa Chronicle, and the thirty-seventh episode overall. Sakura and the others are drawn into a cartoony world.

Guest Stars:

Plot Overview

Syaoran, Sakura, Kurogane and Fai arrive in another world only to discover that they have been turned into super-deformed (chibi) versions of themselves. When they turn to Mokona for an explanation, it is nowhere to be seen.

Mokona is somewhere else, asleep on a couch. It does not appear to be super-deformed.

The group begins to look for Mokona, and as they walk, Sakura tells Syaoran about the latest memory she recovered. She remembers the ruins in Clow, and Syaoran mentions that he's been there. The conversation ends when Sakura asks where he lived, since Sakura is not allowed to regain any memories of Syaoran.

Mokona wakes up, but does not see anyone. It begins to look around, and eventually spots one of Sakura's feathers, which is part of a pen hovering on a desk. On the desk is a drawing of Syaoran, Sakura, Fai, and Kurogane in super-deformed style. A woman comes in and explains to Mokona that the pen is enchanted, and that she is a storyteller. As a storyteller, she controls everything about the world of the story. Mokona begs for her to give the feather back, but she says that first they must save Sakura and the others from the story. Because the story was created with Sakura's feather, it drew her and the others into its world. To get them out, Mokona must rewrite the story to provide a path of escape.

Because Mokona cannot concentrate, Mokonas begin appearing throughout the world. So Mokona erases the world that's there and drops them into a setting it's more familiar with, a school. Kurogane is the homeroom teacher, Sakura is one of his students, and Syaoran is the new boy in class. Mokona writes the story so that Syaoran and Sakura knew each other from when they were young. They are interrupted during lunch by the science teacher Fai, who wants Syaoran to investigate some ruins.

At the ruins, they accidentally release a curse, which possesses Kurogane and turns him into a giant dinosaur rampaging through the streets. The only way to break the curse is for a holy man and woman to kiss, but Syaoran and Sakura are interrupted by Kurogane's ray beams. Suzuran and Sōseki kiss instead, causing a giant Mokona robot to emerge. It begins to battle Kurogane, but instead sucks him in, then the others. They emerge inside the room where Mokona is. None of them remember what happened, and Mokona looks around to find that the storyteller has disappeared. Mokona is a bit sad, so Sakura allows it to keep the feather for a bit longer. Mokona transports them to another world. When the leave, the room and everything else disappears.

Notes

Locations

• Storyteller's real world, storyteller's imaginary world

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Sakura, Syaoran, Kurogane, and Fai arrive in an imaginary world created by one of Sakura's feathers. Mokona arrives in the real world, where the feather is. It uses the feather to draw them out. Sakura allows Mokona to keep the feather for now.

Characters

• Sakura's Memory: Sakura remembers the ruins in Clow, and how they used to make the ground tremble. Syaoran suggests that maybe they were wings trying to fly away.

Referbacks

• Suzuran scolds Sōseki much like she did at their wedding in 2x10.
• Syaoran recalls Sakura almost remembering something about him and then being knocked unconscious in 1x18. Under the terms of his agreement with Yūko in 1x02, Sakura cannot regain any of her memories of Syaoran.
• The imaginary class is full of characters we've met before, including Ryuoh, Primera, Keifer, Kyle Rondart, Yuzuriha, Masayoshi, Kotoko, the gang leader from the Hanshin Republic, and the Ryoshi's son.

Trivia

Bumper

• Mokona

Nicknames

• Mokona calls for "Kuro-rin"

Allusions and References

• Super Deformed: The people in the imaginary world are super-deformed style. Super-deformed characters have large heads, small bodies, and big eyes.
• Setsubun: A Japanese ritual where soybeans are thrown out the door to symbolize the throwing out of evil.

CLAMP References

• Cardcaptor Sakura: Syaoran being the new kid in class is similiar to Syaoran Li's situation on Cardcaptor Sakura, where he was the new kid in class sent to sit near Sakura.

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