card captor sakura
"Cardcaptor Sakura" might just be CLAMP's most well-known series. "Cardcaptor Sakura" started running in Nakayoshi magazine in 1996 in Japan. In 1998, the ever-popular magical girl manga was made into an anime by MADHOUSE. A few years later, it was liscensed by Nelvana, translated and placed on the WB's Saturday morning kids block as "Cardcaptors." It was terribly Americanized, with all the names of characters and places changed to sound more "American." Due to Cardcaptor Sakura's immense popular with anime fans in the U.S., Pioneer released the animated series uncut and subtitled to give fans another choice. Besides the Cardcaptor Sakura TV series, two movies were released (released in the United States as Cardcaptors: The Movie/Cardcaptor Sakura: the Movie and Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card).
One day while home alone, ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto hears a noise in her dad's library. She goes to see what it is and finds a glowing book. She opens it and finds a deck of cards inside. She picks up the first one and reads it: "Windy..." The rest of the cards are then blown out of her house and out into the world. Suddenly, the front cover of the book begins to glow and off of it comes a strange little yellow creature with wings. The creature is Keroberos, Guardian of the Clow Cards. He beseeches Sakura to become the Cardcaptor and capture the rest of the Clow Cards (which are the cards she caused to blow across her town) or the world could be in grave danger.



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