The Big | |
Name | |
Kanji | 大 |
Katakana | ビッグ |
Magic | |
Sign | Sun |
Hierarchy | The Light |
Magic Type | Western Magic |
Temperament | Docile |
Important Events | |
Captured (Anime) |
Episode 31 |
Captured (Manga) |
N/A |
Transformed (Anime) |
Episode 55 |
Transformed (Manga) |
N/A |
"Transform me into a tower that looms high into the skies. Big!"
―Sakura Kinomoto activates The Big for the first time.[1]
The Big is a Clow Card with the power to grow creatures and objects in size. It is aligned under The Light card and its opposing card, The Little.
It is one of the fifty-three Clow Cards in the anime.
Appearance[]
Big manifests as an extremely tall, slim and lithe, blue-colored, young woman. She is dressed in medieval garb, draped all in cognate shades of blue, with long sleeves that obscure its hands and she wears a divided hennin atop her head with draping fabric at each end. In addition, Big also wears a long, billowing blue cape draped across her shoulders that falls down along her back. Her intimidating height belies her actual gentle nature.
Personality[]
Big is a seemingly harmless and benign card and was content to allow Sakura to seal her away with no protest or hostility. Although she is relatively gentle, when freed, Big is not discriminate or inconspicuous with what she enlarges, and this can lead to problems.
Magic and Abilities[]
Growth Magic: Big has the power to make anything grow in size to towering heights.
Fortune Telling: All Clow Cards have the ability to help their user predict the future. Their method of fortune-telling is similar to that of tarot cards. The interpretation of the message the Clow Cards relay depends on the magical power of the user.
Synopsis[]
Capture[]
Big first appeared and was captured by Sakura Kinomoto in Episode 31 of the anime. It did not appear in the manga. One night the card took to sitting beside the town fountain and is the cause behind the sudden growth of the creatures in its immediate vicinity; including a stray cat, a red koi fish swimming in the fountain's pool and some plants nestled beside the fountain the Card was sitting on.
Following the card's trail back to the fountain, Sakura confronts the card revealing her intent to capture her. Big only responds by offering a sweet smile and proceeds to calmly stand up and allow her to do so. As the card straightens up to its full and towering height, Sakura is momentarily taken back by just how tall Big is, but she quickly resolves and seals it. After Big is sealed away the enlarged animals and plants revert to their original size. Big is instrumental later that same night when it is invoked again.
Sakura and the Nameless Book[]
Not long after, Sakura and the gang later encounter an assemble of assorted animals with crazy swirling eyes at Tomoeda park – written down by Sakura's school friend: Naoko Yanagisawa, and given existence by the book-like Create card – the phenomenon takes a sudden perilous twist when Naoko writes about an "enormous giant king of all the winged animals" appearing,[1] and it comes to life in the form of a colossal fire breathing pink dragon stalking towards Tomoeda.
Syaoran Li’s attempts to halt its determined advance are rendered futile and the others are seemingly powerless to prevent its advance into town. Kero observes that the Dragon is simply too big: giving him an idea that Sakura reluctantly follows only after being urged by Tomoyo Daidouji.
Sakura invokes the Big and the card promptly enlarges her along with the Sealing Wand. From regular to gigantic, she rapidly grows to a prestigious height. The group cheer but Sakura finds it ‘embarrassing’ to be so large.
After some ardent encouragement from Kero, Sakura chases after the Dragon and she promptly catches it up. She grasps hold its long serpentine tail and pulls back: momentarily halting its advance. The Dragon gives a tremendous roar of surprised rage but it is prevented from advancing any further. Sakura initially appears victorious, but she is unfamiliar with actual combat and can only cling on to the Dragon's tail, bringing the clash to a grinding halt. The two giants are in stalemate while below sleeping Tomoeda is a carpet of lights and shadow beneath beneath their giant feet. The entire spectacle can be seen outside Naoko's window but she remains oblivious and carries on writing in the Create book.
Sakura and the Dragon are still in deadlock above Tomoeda, when the Dragon unexpectedly turns on Sakura and begins pursuing her. The size upgrade backfires making her an easy target for the Dragon to blast. The two stomp around the park until the Dragon is finally able to land a hit on her back and push her hard into the ground. While Sakura is cowering, the Dragon builds up a blast of fire to finish her off, but it never comes.
Naoko abruptly stops writing in the Create at that moment, and without a writer to sustain it the Dragon begins to slowly fade away. Sakura seizes the opportunity and seals Create away. Kero congratulates her but ogles she "really is huge,". Sakura slumps to her knees and remarks how embarrassed she is.
Transformation: Sakura from Wonderland[]
Big appears again in Episode 55. At the start Sakura is reading from Alice in Wonderland and sympathizes with the title character. She knows about changing size and thinks back to her first encounters with the Little and Big card's: first being shrunk an inch tall and then growing gigantic and wrestling with the Dragon. “It’s very tough,” Sakura comments empathetically.[2]
After falling into a simulacrum world of Wonderland inside a book and inhabited by copies of her friends assuming the roles featured in the story, Sakura endures several trails. One is shrinking to a few inches high after drinking some tea at the Mad Hatter (Touya)'s tea party.
Sakura takes out the Big card and transforms it into a Sakura card, and uses it to restore herself to her normal size. Initially Sakura is successful and begins growing to her original height but the plan quickly backfires when Sakura carries on growing past her normal size and keeps on growing and then some. She shoots up past the neighboring trees and shoots up further before she finally stops, but is rendered gigantic.
Dismayed, Sakura laments she is now too big. Closer to the sky she is able to spy the book mark left behind by Eriol Hiiragizawa in the form of a leaf hidden amongst the clouds, and it becomes imperative later in the episode when she escapes from Wonderland.
Sakura is able to rectify her current problem by transforming the Little card to reverse the effect and shrink her down back to her regular size, and this time she is successful.[2]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Big greatly parallels her sister card, The Little.
- The kanji at the top of the card: 大, (Pronounced Oh) means 'big' in Japanese.
References[]
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