Fueled with the high-octane shipping juices spiked with bro solidarity, Zyl is willing to press further than I dared to go:

Of course the big question from this episode is: "How much of Bible Black Eyes Sakura is the real Sakura?" Those tending towards Yes, like Steve and Aizen, also seem to have react unfavourably to Sakura hereon. Or as divine puts it so well, Sakura is "now the antagonist of the series, which should make all her haters out there happy." I'm personally more with Rozza C in assuming that Sakura is being controlled though not all the time and more via manipulative suggestion than robotic mind control.

Anyhow the Really Big Question for me is: Without Moderator influence, would Sakura still prefer Natsuru Girl Type??

Zyl's agenda here is — although I'm second-guessing — if Shuzuku finds a way to exorcise Moderators, Sakura will revert to her old self, and then they live happily ever after (and Shizuku is either killed or goes Ami). I don't think this chance is very fat. I assumed that Sakura was bipolar back in ep.2 times. But without a personal dog in the fight, I have no need to cling to any ray of hope for Natsuru.

One word of warning though. I heard that in the original novels, they ran for 13 volumes without giving an explanation to Sakura's identity. Then in the manga fork, she's one of the whites. I think it should be clear by now that anime creates its own continuity. This at least gives us a hope that Sakura's question may be resolved some time by the end of Spring 2010, if the creators are smart.