

He is allowed to attempt the final judgment but fails. Li manages to catch several cards by playing a major role in helping Sakura seal them. He eventually falls in love with her, though she is slow to realize it due to her own feelings for Yukito.
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As the series progresses, he comes to respect Sakura and becomes her friend and ally. As such, he believes that he should be the one to inherit the Clow Cards and tries to capture the cards for himself. Li Showron - Li Showron (Syaoran Li) is the supporting character and a distant relative of Clow Reed, the creator of the Clow Cards. Soon after, Sakura develops similar feelings towards Li, although she doesn't realize them until he confesses. Sakura maintains a crush on Yukito Tsukishiro for most of the manga and anime, but when she finally confesses to Yukito, she is gently rejected and she realizes that she loved him because of his resemblance to her father. However, she hates math and has an open fear of ghosts. Named after the Japanese word for "cherry blossom", Sakura is skilled in sports at school, being called the "best baton twirler in school" by her friends. Sakura is portrayed as a well-loved, pretty, cheerful, cute and at times a naïve ten-year old. Sakura Avalon - Sakura Avalon (Sakura Kinomoto) is the titular protagonist and the eponymous heroine of Cardcaptor Sakura. Sakura's older brother Tori Avalon watches over her, while pretending that he is unaware of what is going on. Cerberus acts as her guide, while her best friend and second cousin Madison Taylor films her exploits and provides her with battle costumes.

As she finds each card, she battles its magical personification and defeats it to seal it away. The guardian Beast of the Seal, Cerberus, emerges from the book and tells her it is now her responsibility to retrieve the missing cards. Each card has its own personality and characteristics and can assume alternate forms when activated. The series ran for 39 episodes, changing the original episode order but finishing with the show's actual final episode.Ĭardcaptors premiered on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on Monday, Jbut was short lived on the block, ending on June 22, 2001.Ĭardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old fourth grader Sakura Avalon accidentally releases a set of magical cards called Clow Cards from the Clow Book, created and named after half-English, half-Chinese sorcerer Clow Reed. The first episode aired in Kids' WB's version was "Sakura's Rival", the eighth episode of the series, having removed episodes focusing on Sakura and to have the show start with Li's arrival. The editing to the original dub was done to refocus the series to be more action oriented for the appeal of male viewers, as they were seen as the largest audience of animation at the time. The version aired on Kids' WB featured heavily edited and reordered episodes, with some episodes left out completely. Nelvana licensed the anime series and first film for North American broadcast and distribution, renaming it Cardcaptors.Ĭardcaptors first aired in the United States on Kids' WB between Jand December 14, 2001.

Two anime films were produced by Madhouse in August 1999 and July 2000. The 70-episode anime series was produced by Madhouse and aired on Japan's NHK from April 1998 to March 2000. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world. The story focuses on Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. Status Ended Cardcaptor Sakura abbreviated as CCS or simply Cardcaptors, is a Japanese anime series based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp.
