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CCS/PokeSpe Mock-Up (Yellow and The Gang)

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"If PokeSpe's Trainer Yellow has her own Shojo …I think the opening theme would be Catch You Catch Me from the first Cardcaptor Sakura opening. I don’t know, it seems to suit her and her feelings for Red in the Yellow Arc. A young girl who has a crush on her older sempai? Very Sakura to Yukito."

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This has taken a few days to complete. I originally intended to put this together with the Title Mock-Up, but because this part took so much longer I decided to release them seperately. Again a lot of the character choices were thanks to my discussion with Araki. If you would like me to go into depth with them then here they are...

Yellow / Sakura Kinomoto: As already stated in the Title-Mock Up, I decided to make Yellow the focus of this art project because she to me felt like a good character to be the focus of a Pokemon Shojo Anime. She has supernatural powers that make her the closest thing to a Magic Girl that Pokemon Special has. Moreover her personality, arc and quirks make her a heroine that is not too dissimilar to Sakura.

Blue / Tomoyo Daidouji: The choice is really between Blue and Crys, but I felt that Blue deserved it just that little bit more. While not being anything like Tomoyo in terms of her personality, they are both a little "crazy". In influence over Yellow's life that Blue has is not unlike the influence that Tomoyo has over Sakura's. Blue loves to be the puppet master, which relationship-wise is exactly what Tomoyo does: very happily pairing off the people around her. Really there is no one better to be Yellow's BFF.

Red / Yukito Tsukishrio: This similarity was the entire launch pad for this concept. The song Catch You, Catch Me is about Sakura's crush on Yukito and her inability to tell him how she feels. Yellow's relationship with Red is very much like this, especially in the Yellow and GCS Arcs where she clearly has a huge crush on Red but cannot really put her feelings for him into words. Moreover, while I think that SpecialShipping undoubtedly has more weight as a serious ship than a nevership like Sakura's feelings for Yukito, there are parallels nonetheless. Plus Red's kindness towards Yellow is not unlike Yukito's to Sakura.

Green / Touya Kinomoto: Green's training of Yellow and his protectiveness of her at the end of the FRLG Arc before they are frozen is very Big Brotherly. His calm, aloof and snarky nature is very, very much like Touya's. (PS: This is also a fanservice to Araki and by extension the OriginalShippers, seeing as this is basically Touya/Green x Yukito/Red.)

Lance / Syaoran Li: This position was the hardest to fill. I had a few people say Lance, a few others saying Silver. Frankly I would have been happy with either one of them and just chose Lance in the end as fanservice to the GrantedShippers. I might even redraw this later with Silver instead just to keep the balance. For more justification as to why I chose Lance, after Red he is probably the second most popular person to pair Yellow with (more so than Silver) and again their personalities are not dissimilar.

And that's it for now. I probably will be doing Mock-Ups of Kero and Fujitaka's screenshots too with PokeSpe characters, so send in your suggestions. I'm pretty much decided on who Fujitaka's counterpart would be (No prizes for guessing who) but Kero's is still undecided. I've already had two suggestions. :)
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mewstein's avatar
Wow, when I first looked at this I assumed all the drawings were yours! Your style is very similar to the CCS anime (which one of my favourite shows when I was a kid - did you used to watch it after school on CITV too?).