I guess I mentally filter out some of the CLAMP weirdness and always read that as more of the kind of crush you might have on someone you really look up to and not so much a romantic longing, or if there was an attraction there, she was oblivious to it ("oblivious" being one of her defining traits).
Sakura herself might be bi, but it's really hard to say at this late date how much of that was intended by CLAMP, and how much was just multiple generations of yurijin doujinka providing justice for Tomoyo.
CLAMP's stuff is loaded with problematic queer energy but they're more about traumatic age gaps and old-school yaoi vibes (aside from Cardcaptor, which has both age gaps _and_ yaoi swapped for yuri), and not the kind of sweaty bisexual upheaval that characterizes Eva
really loving this new line of deluxe wideban editions of Moyoco Anno’s josei and seinen works but can’t help but wish that Sugar Sugar Rune and her other shoujo titles got the same treatment
I very aggressively do not want to know the context for this post
it’s always such a treat when I get to hit an unsuspecting group of normies with that baffling first SAC ED
this show was the summit of disaster bisexual representation and it has not yet been approached, much less surpassed
