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  Okay, here's where we hit a speed bump. If you're a conservative American, you might not like what we have to say about this. None of Clockwork Blue have grown up in America, so we might not share your values. And if you know anything about Card Captor Sakura at all, you that Rika Sasaki is a touchy subject. So if you're easily offended, I suggest you look elsewhere.
May we introduce Sakura's Tomoeda classmate Rika Sasaki:
Birthday: June 24
Favourite Colour: White
Blood Type: A
Favourite Subject: P.E.
Least Favourite Subject: none
Favourite Flower: Daisy
Favourite Food: Muffin
Least Favourite Food: Tofu
 Name info: Rika means 'skilled advantage' or 'lucky to have such a talented child'. Sasaki means 'help'.
 Rika is very pretty, mature and intelligent, acting more like an adult than a child. She's talented in pretty much every way that one can expect her to be and extremely motherly and kind-hearted. She is particularly good at household things, such as making lunch-boxes and sewing, once again the ideal little Betty Crocker.
What’s controversial about Rika depends on whether you follow the comic book or the anime. Like many of CLAMP's relationships, they're miss-matched, taboo and strictly platonic. So is it with Rika Sasaki and Yoshiyuki Terada. There is a big age difference between the two of them, as Yoshiyuki is Rika's teacher, and in the manga, Yoshiyuki returns Rika's affections as much as she does his. They're 'engaged', that is, he have her a pretty pearl ring and the two of them keep it a big secret from the school.
 In the anime, however, all it seems to be is a sweet little girl who has a crush on her teacher. He teases her a little but there's nothing going on between them. Lots of kids get crushes on their teachers in grade school, so my wonder is why they tried so hard to eliminate this 'crush' from the American version of the Sakura series. In fact, in the American version, Rika actually seems to be afraid of Yoshiyuki. Considering I have yet to see a Clamp relationship that's anything more than platonic, the American version is really confusing. I'll stick to Italian and Japanese, thank you.
Essays written by visitors on this topic:
By Ruby Moon
 What do we think of Rika?
 Richard: Considering one of my dearest friends was in a similar relationship (though she was significantly older at the time) I really understand what it's all about. I wonder how mature is mature on Rika's part, though. Does she really understand what'd going on around her, or is she caught in her fantasy of handsome Clamp man on a white horse with daisies in his arms? I like Rika very much because I do believe in this case she really has reached the maturity level they require of her. After all, everyone keeps saying it.
Viscay: I am not going to comment big on this but I see nothing wrong with Rika or Yoshiyuki. Leave it alone.
Riki: I suppose since everyone else did it's more than my duty to comment on this whole kankei as well. So I'll say that for a while, I was in a big debate about her with some people in a chat room. I support Rika and Yoshiyuke to an extent for personal reasons, but she is rather young. I won't say who, but someone of intimacy with me was betrothed since the day she was born, and my fiancé and I also had a greater age difference between us than Rika and Yoshiyuki. However like Richard said, does Rika really understand what she's getting into? For the general American child, I'd say no, but there's a big difference between American and European/Japanese culture. Depends on which eyes you look through.
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