It’s Cardcaptor Sakura episode 20, and Meilin joins Sakura, Tomoyo, and Shaoran’s class as a new transfer student, and has a shocking pronouncement regarding Shaoran.

The morning at school, Sakura and Tomoyo recall the previous afternoon with Meilin rushing into Shaoran’s condo and booting the two of them out. Shaoran then shows up looking worn out and apprehensive. Mr. Terada then announces that Meilin is transferring into the class, and that she’s Shaoran’s cousin.

However, spotting Sakura trying to chat with Shaoran, Meilin rushes over and proclaims that Shaoran is her fiance. Shaoran attempts to weakly protest, but to no avail. Over lunch, Shaoran tries to convince Meilin to go back to Hong Kong, but she proclaims that she’s going to stay and help Shaoran catch the Clow Cards instead. During gym, the Meilin vs. Sakura battle really heats up as Meilin engages in a one-sided battle against Sakura in gymnastics, and loses anyway.

That evening, Sakura sees news that there have been several attacks on black-belt martial artists by a girl. The reports said that the girl appeared to challenge the black belts and was wearing weird clothes. This made Sakura suspect that it might be a Clow Card.

Sakura, Kero, and Tomoyo go out to find the card, only to run into Meilin. Suddenly the card shows up, which Kero identifies as the Fight card, and challenges Meilin. Meilin appears to hold her own to begin with, but soon Fight gets the advantage, and she’s saved by Shaoran showing up. It’s then revealed that Meilin had Wei use Shaoran’s compass to find the card, revealing that she has no magical powers of her own.

Fight then appears again and continues it’s fight with Meilin, but Fight soon gets the upper hand. Tomoyo remarks that the Fight card seems similar to the Power card from before, causing Sakura to try activating the Power card. She is then able to use it to knock Fight out, allowing her to seal it.

So we get our first big pieces of information about Meilin: she’s Shaoran’s cousin (though we don’t know how distant), declares that Shaoran is her fiance, and, despite being a Li, has absolutely no magical powers of her own, causing Shaoran quite a bit of trouble as she’s determined to help him capture Clow Cards.

We also tend to see a lot of cards coming in similar pairs, whether it’s Float and Fly, Fight and Power, or Shield and Sword. Also, now 20 episodes into the series, Sakura or Shaoran have now captured 21 cards (two episodes where Sakura got 2 cards – episode 1 with Windy and Fly, and episode 4 with Rain and Wood; and one episode where she didn’t catch any cards – episode 16).

Also, sorry for taking so long to post this. This got lost along with everything else in the delay. I’ll try to post episode 21 tomorrow, but I haven’t reviewed it yet so…we’ll see.