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Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most successful anime work by CLAMP. I admit that I've spent almost all my free time watching the series over and over again. I first learn about this anime in a TV network here in the Philippines. It has this really awesome storyline and it got even better in season 2 and 3 because it focuses on Sakura-chan and Syaoran-kun's relationship. The first season focuses on completing the Clow cards, cards which was made by a magician named Clow Reed and possesses great powers.

Plot

Kinomoto Sakura, the heroin of the story, was a ten year old fourth grader of Tomoeda Elementary School. She was just an ordinary, cheerful and athletic girl before she open a strange book and met Keroberos, the guardian of the Clow Cards. Because Sakura opened the book and let loose all of the Clow Cards, it's her duty as the chosen Cardcaptor (she was chosen by Kero) to capture all of the Clow Cards to stop all the strange events happenings cause by Clow Cards in Tomoeda City.



Because of her undeniable cuteness, her bestfriend, Daidouji Tomoyo, a fourth grader too like Sakura but a really intelligent one unlike her, often records everything about Sakura. Even in normal days and normal circumstances. In the first part of the series, after knowing Sakura's secret as a Cardcaptor, she immediately offers her costumes and special moves to complete the Super Girl (as she imagine it) Sakura would be. But their relationship doesn't ends there. There are several episodes in which shows how Tomoyo loves Sakura more than a friend. And the fact that they are cousins (because Tomoyo's mom and Sakura's mom are cousins) which was not directly said but instead has been revealed when the Kinomoto Family along with Tsukishiro Yukito have a little summer vacation out-of-town.

Syaoran is another Cardcaptor in the first season. He is one of the direct descendants of Clow Reed and he is very well trained for his mission: to capture the Clow Cards. At first, he's relationship with Sakura wasn't that tight and after he ambushed Sakura to get her Clow Card, he gained disrespect from Touya, Sakura's elder brother.


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