• Manga 1-13 released by the artist group Clamp (Also have done Magic Knights Rayearth, X, RG Veda, and many other good stuff)
• 1-70something?
• 2 Movies?
• Several video games so I hear.

PLOT: Kinomoto Sakura is a 10 year old girl who accidentally releases the Clow Cards upon the world. Together with Kerberos and her sidekick Li Syraon, she must capture them all to prevent something bad from happening to the world.

RECOMMENDATION: It's a cute and funny story. Surpising amount of references to homosexuality, but I hear it's typical of Clamp

IF YOU LIKED THIS... YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE: Sailor Moon, which seems to be what CCS (Card Captor Sakura) is making fun of.

Kinomoto Sakura: 10 year old normal girl who uses magic. She's pretty cute, but too young for you filthy old otakus.

Daidouji Tomoyo: Even cuter 10 year old girl who is Sakura's best friend. Rich, super nice, cute, designer, voiced by Iwao Junko, and your atypical stalker, she's one of my favorite characters.  Which is why I must kill WB for turning her into a valley girl. There assumption that children can't digest "nice" is an insult to America's stupid children and an annoyance to fans of the original CCS.

Yukito: Sakura's brother's best friend. It is heavily implied that Yukito is Sakura's brother's special friend.

Li Syraon: China boy who is a descendent of the original creator of the Clow Cards. Don't get me wrong, Li's a great character and he's so funny, but it pisses me off that WB is trying to pass him off as the main character...

All the openings and endings are pretty well animated... except the first ending...

This is even more star cast than Evangelion!!! Actually there are a lot of overlap. Dang, look at how many of them have links to pages that I tribute to them!!!

Voice actors:

• Opening, ending, and Kero Chan Check taken out unnecessarily.
• Episode order will be determined by popularity, not by continunity or original order, isn't that retarded?
• Name changes made unnecessarily... well, perhaps stupid people might have trouble with Japanese names, but most people that I know can learn NEW names.
• Unnecessary relationship changes. I mean, I expected homophobic, ignorant dubbers to take out all the relationships that stray from grown heterosexual relationships, however I was extremely surprised when "Zachery" and the girl who is his girlfriend are made into cousins for no apparent reason. Yes, let's protect children from the concept of relationships, all we have to do is lock them in a sensory deprivation tank till they grow up.
• WB attempts to pass Li off as the main character in the commercials and show itself. So the focus is kinda off Sakura, which is totally idiotic considering that she IS the main character.
• Tomoyo is an air head and Li and Sakura are uninteresting jerks, I belive the dub script writers are to thank for this one. It's like they never saw the show, or at least, are such jerks themselves that they can't understand the concept of "cute", "friendly", genunine "innocence".
• Music changed unnecessarily..
• They invented a stupid line "Expect the unexpected" which is just corny...

• When Sakura mentions her dream to Kero, Kero guesses that it might be a premonition. In the dub Kero dismisses it like an idiot.
• I think they cut the scene where Sakura dreams about Yukito.
• Rika and the teacher's platonic relationship is cut out.
• Li's mean stare seems more intense in the original version. Heck, everything is better in the original version.
• When Li is introduced, you see the teacher write Li's name in Kanji, but when you look at the board it is blank. Stupid Americans.
• When Li sees Yukito for the first time, Li doesn't blush. It's pretty much a given that any homosexual references will be taken out... Stupid Americans.
• When Sakura asks why Rika isn't heading home, Tomoyo says Rika is going to buy a present for a "person that she likes very much".
• Kero's story about the Li family seems different in the dub.

• When Sakura mentions the Li family clothes, she isn't insulting them, she just says that she saw it in her dream, surprising Li because that is a sign of magical strength.
• When Yamazaki (Zachery) tells Li to help clean, he doesn't just give him a bunch of chores, he also tells Li to be in charge of singing and dancing. Thus is the start of Yamazaki's career in exaggeration.
• After school ends, Rika is staring at the teacher. In the dub the teacher is saying something to her.
• I wasn't watching, but I think they cut out the flowery image that Tomoyo has of Sakura.
• Yukito isn't suggestion that Touyo is a kind brother at the end of the episode. He suggests that Touyo has a "sister complex".
• After Sakura gives Yukito a present, Li takes out a box of chocolate and also gives it to Yukito. In the dub the scene is cut so that it appears as if Sakura gives the chocolate.
• The end of the episode is cut. Tomoyo suggests to Sakura that Li is also a "rival of love", and the last scene is of Sakura doing a double take with Li and Yukito in the background, quite funny.

Episode 12 Changes ("Sakura's Neverending Day")

• When Li gets the Time card, Kero explains that the card goes to the one who seals it. In the dub Kero is clueless.

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