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Cardcaptor Sakura
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Sakura Tange
Sakura Kinomoto (voice)
92 eps
Junko Iwao
Tomoyo Daidouji (voice)
92 eps
Motoko Kumai
Syaoran Li (voice)
92 eps
Aya Hisakawa
Kerberos (voice)
92 eps
Emi Shinohara
Naoko Yanagisawa (voice)
92 eps
Hideyuki Tanaka
Fujitaka Kinomoto (voice)
92 eps
Masaya Onosaka
Kerberos(big) (voice)
92 eps
Megumi Ogata
Yukito Tsukishiro (voice)
92 eps
Tomokazu Seki
Touya Kinomoto (voice)
92 eps
Yukana
Meiling Li (voice)
92 eps
Tomoko Kawakami
Rika Sasaki (voice)
92 eps
Nozomu Sasaki
Eriol Hiiragizawa (voice)
92 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Cardcaptor Sakura actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Cardcaptor Sakura reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 92 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
19985 episodes
Best episode · S00E05 Prologue: Sakura and the Two Bears
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
199835 episodes
7.7IMDbBest episode · S01E02 Sakura's Wonderful Friend
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
199911 episodes
7.6IMDbBest episode · S02E01 Sakura and the Snowy New School Year
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
199924 episodes
7.6IMDbBest episode · S03E01 Sakura and the Mysterious Transfer Student
Season 4 · Complete
Clear Card
201822 episodes
6.2IMDbAs Sakura settles into a normal routine, she prepares to face her newest challenge - junior high! While her classes are challenging, things start looking up when Xiaolang Li reappears and says he'll be staying for good. But when she has a strange dream about a mysterious figure and wakes to find her Clow Cards completely clear, she must return to her duty as Cardcaptor.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S04E22
Sakura's Clear Cards
- Directed by Kunio Wakabayashi
- Written by Nanase Okawa
S04E21
Sakura, the Mirror, and the Key of Memories
- Directed by Hideki Hosokawa
- Written by Nanase Okawa
S04E20
Sakura, Rainbows, and Grandpa
- Directed by Naoki Hishikawa
- Written by Nanase Okawa
S04E19
Sakura and Akiho's Lullaby
- Directed by Akira Kato
- Written by Nanase Okawa
S04E18
Sakura and the Fire and Water Birds
- Directed by Tetsuo Ichimura
- Written by Nanase Okawa
S04E17
Sakura and the Crazy Sweets
- Directed by Yuki Nishibata
- Written by Nanase Okawa
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Eizo KondoProducer
Writing
- Nanase OkawaWriter
- Hiroshi IshiiWriter
- Jiro KanekoWriter
Direction
- Mitsutaka NoshitaniDirector
- Junichi SakataDirector
- Kazunori MizunoDirector
- Sunao KatabuchiDirector
- Toshiaki KamiharaDirector
- Akira KatoDirector
Cinematography
- Hisao ShiraiDirector of Photography
Music
- Takayuki NegishiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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