Syaoran wants to capture the cards himself, becoming Sakura's rival, though they later become friends. Sakura meets Syaoran Li, a boy of her age and a relative of the Clow Cards' creator Clow Reed. Sakura is helped by her best friend Tomoyo Daidouji, who designs Sakura's battle costumes and records her adventures on a video camera. 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. She learns the cards are magical, accidentally setting them free when she calls the name of the Windy Card. She finds a strange book, named the Clow Book, in her father's study. Ten-year old Sakura Kinomoto is an athletic girl in middle school. The English version of the anime was licensed by Nelvana, renamed Cardcaptors, and the story was changed a lot to suit an American audience. 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 series focuses on themes of love and family, Sakura and her friends, and their different relationships.
The book's guard, Keroberos, gives Sakura the task to find and capture the troublemaking cards.
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 manga was first published in Nakayoshi from 1996 to 2000. CLAMP has created many other series, but Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most popular. Cardcaptor Sakura is sometimes abbreviated as CCS.Ĭardcaptor Sakura was created in 1996 by a team of artists named CLAMP. Cardcaptor Sakura is a manga series from Japan.