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Cardcaptor Sakura
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カードキャプターさくら
(Kādokyaputā Sakura)
Genre Magical girl, romance
Manga
Written by Clamp
Published by Kodansha
English publisher
Madman Entertainment
Kodansha Comics
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Nakayoshi
Original run May 1996June 2000
Volumes 12 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Morio Asaka
Produced by Eizo Kondo
Written by Nanase Ohkawa
Music by Takayuki Negishi
Studio Madhouse
Licensed by
Madman Entertainment
NIS America
Network NHK BS2
English network
RTÉ2
Animax
Original run April 7, 1998March 21, 2000
Episodes 70 (List of episodes)
Other

Cardcaptor Sakura is a manga series from Japan. It is also an anime series. Cardcaptor Sakura is sometimes abbreviated as CCS.

Cardcaptor Sakura was created in 1996 by a team of artists named CLAMP. CLAMP has created many other series, but Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most popular. The manga was first published in Nakayoshi from 1996 to 2000. The story is about Sakura Kinomoto, a middle school student who accidentally frees a deck of magical cards from a book hidden in her father's study. The book's guard, Keroberos, gives Sakura the task to find and capture the troublemaking cards. The series focuses on themes of love and family, Sakura and her friends, and their different relationships.

The anime aired on Japanese television from 1998 to 2000, changing parts of the manga's story and introducing new characters, and has two films as well. The English version of the anime was licensed by Nelvana, renamed Cardcaptors, and the story was changed a lot to suit an American audience.

Story

Ten-year old Sakura Kinomoto is an athletic girl in middle school. She finds a strange book, named the Clow Book, in her father's study. She finds the Clow Cards inside. She learns the cards are magical, accidentally setting them free when she calls the name of the Windy Card. The book's guardian, Kero, gives Sakura the task of finding and capturing the cards, using the Clow Wand to seal them in their card forms. Sakura is helped by her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji, who designs Sakura's battle costumes and records her adventures on a video camera. Sakura meets Syaoran Li, a boy of her age and a relative of the Clow Cards' creator Clow Reed. Syaoran wants to capture the cards himself, becoming Sakura's rival, though they later become friends. The two capture all of the cards between them, but have to face the second guardian of the Clow Cards, Yue, to decide who will become the new master of the cards. Yue is revealed to be the true form of Yukito Tsukishiro, the friend of Sakura's older brother Toya. Sakura defeats Yue and becomes the new owner of the Clow Cards.

Eriol Hiiragizawa, a student from England, arrives in Sakura's town and begins causing magical troubles around town. Sakura learns she has to transform the cards into Sakura Cards to continue using their magic or they would become normal cards. Eriol is revealed to be a reborn Clow Reed, and after tasking Sakura with one last challenge, all of the cards are successfully transformed. Syaoran, who fell in love with Sakura, confesses to her, who comes to love him in return. Syaoran returns home to Hong Kong but returns two years later to be with Sakura.

Characters

The characters' Japanese names are followed by their English names.

  • Sakura Kinomoto(木之本櫻) / Sakura Avalon
  • Toya Kinomoto(木之本桃矢) / Tori Avalon
  • Fujitaka Kinomoto(木之本藤隆) / Aiden Avalon
  • Nadeshiko Kinomoto(木之本撫子) / Natasha Avalon

  • Syaoran Li(李小狼) / Li Showron
  • Meiling Li(李每鈴) / Meilin Rae

  • Tomoyo Daidouji(大道寺知世) / Madison Taylor
  • Sonomi Daidouji(大道寺園美) / Samantha Taylor

  • Eriol Hiiragizawa(桐澤エリオル) / Eli Moon
  • Kaho Mizuki(觀月歌帆) / Layla Mackenzie
  • Yukito Tsukishiro(月城雪兎) / Julian Star
  • Clow Reed / Clow Reed

  • Keroberos(ケロベロス) / Cerberus
  • Yue(ユエ) / Yue
  • Spinel Sun(スピネル-サン) / Spinner Sun
  • Ruby Moon (Nakuru Akizuki/秋月奈久留) / Ruby Moon

  • Chiharu Mihara(三原千春) / Chelsea
  • Rika Sasaki(佐佐木 利佳) / Rita
  • Takashi Yamazaki(山崎貴史) / Zachary
  • Naoko Yanagisawa(柳澤奈緖子) / Nikki

  • Maki Matsumoto / Maggie
  • Yoshiyuki Terada(寺田良幸) / Mr. Terada

Media

Cardcaptor Sakura is shown in many countries around the world. CCS is popular, because it is very cute. There are many posters and many toys about CCS.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Cardcaptor Sakura para niños

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