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 Julian Star.
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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 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 Julian Star for most of the series, but when she finally confesses to him, 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 naïve ten-year old. Sakura Avalon - Sakura Avalon is the titular protagonist and the eponymous heroine of Cardcaptor Sakura. However, the two eventually become allies in their quest to seal the Clow Cards. Li Showron, a distant relative of Clow Reed, believes that he should be the one to inherit the Clow Cards and tries to capture the cards for himself. 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 using other sealed cards and defeats it to seal it away. Cerberus makes Sakura sign a contract agreeing that she will re-collect all the cards before they bring havoc to the world.Įach card has its own personality and characteristics and can assume alternate forms when activated. Once the cards are released, she is confronted by the guardian of the cards, Cerberus, who had been asleep when Sakura opened the book. When Sakura opens the "Clow Book" she accidentally releases a set of magical cards called "Clow Cards".
The series begins in the city of Readington with Sakura Avalon, the ten-year-old daughter of a widowed archaeologist, who stumbles upon an ancient book in her father's study. The musical score was also completely replaced with new music and some of the sound effects were replaced when they could not be separated into separate tracks.Ĭardcaptors premiered on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block on Monday, Jbut was short lived on the block, completing its run on June 22, 2001. Additionally, character names were changed, some Japanese text was changed to English, and controversial subjects such as same-sex relationships were edited out. To achieve this, episodes focusing on Sakura were removed so that the series started with Li's arrival in the episode "Sakura's Rival" (the eighth episode of the Japanese version). The editing 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 English adaptation ( Cardcaptors) that aired on Kids' WB was edited down to 39 episodes and featured heavily edited and reordered episodes, with several episodes left out completely. Cardcaptors aired in the United States on The WB's Kids' WB programming block from J to December 14, 2001. In 2000, Nelvana licensed the anime series for North American broadcast and distribution and contracted Ocean Studios to make an English dub, renaming it Cardcaptors. The 70-episode Cardcaptor Sakura was produced by Madhouse and aired on Japan's NHK from Apto March 21, 2000. 39 ( List of Episodes) Cardcaptors is the English adaptation of the Japanese anime series Cardcaptor Sakura, which is based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp.