Cardcaptor Sakura 27 characters information list! All the information covered up to Clear Card Arc [Spoiler alert]

The original manga Cardcaptor Sakura celebrated its 25 anniversary in 2021.

 

This is a list of information on the characters that appear in this title, which is popular among men and women of all ages and is currently being serialized in the “Clear Card Arc”.

 

The 27 characters listed are Clow Cards (Sakura Cards) related characters, Close friends of Sakura, and new characters from the latest chapter “Clear Card Arc”!

 

We will feature the difference between the original and the anime, and some surprising story backgrounds you didn’t realize as a child. And spoilers are included.

 

We will have a summary of the anime at the end of the article, so make sure you check that out too!

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura Characters List

Main Characters

• Sakura Kinomoto

 

Voicec actor: Sakura Tange

 

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Birthday: April 1

Age: 9

Favorite Flower: Cherry blossom

 

<Incantations & Spells>

“Key which hides the powers of the (dark), Reveal your true form before me. I, Sakura Kinomoto, command you under our contract. Release!”

• Clow Wand: Powers of the dark
• Star Wand: Powers of the star
• Dream Wand: Powers of the dreams

 

Sakura is the main character and the only Cardcaptor.

She attends Tomoeda Elementary School and she belongs to the cheer-leading club.

Her habit is to say “Hanyaan~” and “Hoeh!”.

 

After she accidentally found a bright shining book in her father’s study, she was designated as the Cardcaptor by the Cerberus, the beast of a seal.

There is a difference here between the anime and the original. In the original, the Cerberus is why she became a Cardcaptor, but in the anime, Sakura herself is why she became a Cardcaptor.

 

She is very athletic and a kind person who cares about her friends.

She is a single-mindedly hard worker and “Everything will definitely be alright” is her invincible spell.

 

She lost her mother when she was young and now lives with her father and brother, and she also does household chores such as cooking and cleaning.

 

 

• Kero-chan

 

Voice actor: Aya Hisakawa

 

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Birthday: –

Age: –

Favorite Flower: Sunflower

 

A beast of a seal who is always together with Sakura.

He is one of the Guardians of the Clow Cards which was created by Clow and he selected Sakura as a Cardcaptor.

 

He speaks a fluent Osaka dialect and he is a happy character with a narcist personality.

 

We pretend he is a stuffed toy when he is in front of a stranger, but Sakura’s brother Touya seems to have noticed it…?

 

He is a foodie who loves snacks and Takoyaki, and his room is the bottom drawer in Sakura’s studying desk.

 

 

• Cerberus

 

Voice actor: Masaya Onosaka

 

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Birthday: –

Age: –

Favorite Flower: Sunflower

 

He is the true form of Kero-chan.

His appearance is different from Kero-chan, but they are the same person so he speaks in an Osaka dialect as well.

 

In the original manga, they needed The Firey card to transform Kero-chan into this appearance, but in the anime, they needed The Firey and The Earthy cards as well.

In the original, he fought The Earthy in the true form, but in the anime, he fought in his false form.

 

 

• Tomoyo Daidouji

 

Voice actor: Junko Iwao

 

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Birthday: September 3

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Magnolia, Cherry blossom

 

Tomoyo is Sakura’s best friend and second cousin.

She is one of the few people who knows that Sakura is a Cardcaptor.

 

She loves Sakura and made a battle costume for her to wear when capturing the Clow Cards.

Tomoyo haven’t any magical powers, but she follows Sakura to take pictures of her wearing the costumes she made.

 

She is rich young lady, and she always says “~desuwa” at the end of her sentence (This is a common way to make a sentence sound more feminine).

 

Tomoyo is very good at reading people’s minds and insightful.

She was the first person to notice when Syaoran was having a crush, and also showed a mature side that belies her age, helped Meiling when she was heartbroken with sympathy.

 

 

• Syaoran Li

 

Voice actor: Motoko Kumai

 

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Birthday: July 13

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Paeony

 

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• Kashin Shourai (Fire)
• Suiryuu Shourai (Water)
• Raitei Shourai (Lightening)
• Fuuka Shorai (Wind)

 

Syaoran came from Hong Kong and transferred to Tomoeda Elementary School just to collect Clow Cards.

He have very strong magical powers because he is a distant relative of the Clow Reed who created the Clow Cards.

 

In the anime, he falls in love with Yukito together with Sakura, but it was the magical powers of the moon from Yukito and not the sensation of love that was attracting him.

Later on, he falls in love with Sakura who was his rival at first, and they both start liking each other (They start as a couple in the Clear Card Arc).

 

He doesn’t talk a lot but he hates losing and has high pride.

It’s not depicted in the original, but he has a fiance (Meiling Li) in the anime.

 

 

• Touya Kinomoto

 

Voice actor: Tomokazu Seki

 

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Birthday: February 29

Age: 16

Favorite flower: Peach

 

Touya is Sakura’s older brother.

He teases Sakura by calling her “Kaiju” (meaning monster), but he is a nice brother who cares about his sister.

They don’t have a mother, so he mostly does the household chores and he is good at cooking.

 

He has a strong spiritual awareness and intuition, and he already knew that Sakura is a Cardcaptor, about Kero-chan, and the identity of Yukito, but he didn’t want to bother them so he pretended he doesn’t know the truth.

 

He always acts offensive to Syaoran since he knows Syaoran is trying to take away his beloved sister from him, so they both fight a lot.

 

He have different type of magical powers from Sakura, even though they’re siblings.

However, he lost his magical powers by giving all his powers to save Yukito when he was disappearing.

 

 

• Yukito Tsukishiro

 

Voice actor: Megumi Ogata

 

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Birthday: December 25

Age: 16

Favorite flower: Hepatica

 

Yukito is Touya’s classmate and best friend.

He is very smart and athletic but doesn’t belong to any clubs.

 

He was Sakura’s first love.

He has white-toned skin and is a relaxed person and a little goofy.

Despite his appearance, he has a huge appetite.

 

He is not a human but Yue’s false form, but he doesn’t know that either.

When he changes back to Yue, Yukito gets unconscious and doesn’t remember what happens during the time he is Yue.

 

He once was disappearing from the loss of his magical powers, but received Touya’s powers and revived.

 

 

• Yue

 

Voice actor: Megumi Ogata

 

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Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Yue is one of the Guardians of the Clow Cards and the true form of Yukito.

His symbol is the moon.

When Sakura found the book, he was already living as Yukito so he was not pictured on the back cover.

 

Yukito doesn’t know the existence of Yue, but Yue understands everything Yukito does.

However, Yue respects Yukito’s wishes and doesn’t come out that often.

 

Yue can’t produce magical powers on his own, so he had to receive them from others, or otherwise, he will disappear.

 

 

Relatives of the main characters

• Fujitaka Kinomoto

 

Voice actor: Hideyuki Tanaka

 

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Birthday: January 3

Age: 43

Favorite flower: Dianthus, Peach, Cherry blossom

 

Fujitaka is the father of Touya and Sakura.

He teaches archaeology at a university.

 

He has a very warm and kind personality and always smiling.
He speaks politely to his family as well, and calls them by their honorific titles such as “Sakura-san, Touya-kun”.

 

He doesn’t have magical powers or spiritual awareness like Sakura and Touya, so he knows nothing about the Clow Cards or the Cardcaptor.

 

In the original, he is depicted as the reincarnation of Clow Reed and the alter ego of Eriol, but this story setting is not depicted in the anime.

 

 

• Nadeshiko Kinomoto

 

Voice actor: Yuko Minaguchi

 

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Birthday: May 20

Age: 27 (Died)

Favorite flower: Wisteria, Peach, Cherry blossom

 

Nadeshiko is Fujitaka’s wife and mother of Touya and Sakura.

She died when Sakura was 3 years old, so she was already deceased when the story started.

 

After her death, she existed as a ghost and stayed around her family, but after Touya proceeded to Junior High, she disappeared.

Only Touya, who had a strong spiritual power noticed her mother being a ghost.

 

Fujitaka was her high school teacher and they met when Nadeshiko was in high school, and when she was 16, they got married going against their parent’s objection.

 

 

• Sonomi Daidouji

 

Voice actor: Miki Ito

 

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Birthday: October 13

Age: –

Favorite flower: Dianthus

 

Sonomi is Tomoyo’s mother and Nadeshiko’s cousin.

She is now the president of a large toy company.

 

Sonomi adores Nadeshiko, and when she heard Nadeshiko was getting married to Fujitaka at the age of 16, she was the one who objected the most.

She didn’t like Fujitaka because he took Nadeshiko from her, but inside her heart, she acknowledges that Nadeshiko was happy with Fukitaka. She also dotes on Sakura.

 

The love she had for Nadeshiko was different from a family and friend bond.

She makes her daughter Tomoyo, grow her hair to make her look like Nadeshiko. We can see her feelings for Nadeshiko were special from that act too.

 

 

Clow Card Arc

• Clow Reed

 

Voice actor: Kazuo Hayashi

 

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Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Clow Reed is the creator of the Clow Cards, a magician, and a fortune teller.

He has a very strong magical power that he could create new magics and predict the future.

 

He is a little weird and likes pranking people.

He is already deceased. In the original, Eriol and Fujitaka are his alter ego, but in the anime, only Eriol is.

 

In the original, when Clow’s soul separated into two, all the magical powers were handed over to Eriol, so Fujitaka does not have any magical powers.

However, Eriol’s magic doesn’t affect Fujitaka since Fujitaka is also an alter ego of Clow.

 

 

• Kaho Mizuki

 

Voice actor: Emi Shinohara

 

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Birthday: February 11

Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Kaho is the daughter of the priest at the Tsukimine Shrine, and also a teacher at Tomoeda Elementary School.

 

She was dating Touya (a junior high school student at that time) during her teaching practice but broke up when she studied abroad.

She met Eriol during her study abroad in the UK and fell in love with him.

 

Tsukimine Shrine is a place related to Clow, and Kaho knows how to use the Moon Bell, she also has a strong moon power and prediction ability.

 

She is a very beautiful woman who watches Sakura as she collects the Clow Cards, but Kaho is terrible with directions and cooking.

 

Her favorite phrase is “There are no coincidences in this world, only inevitability”.

 

 

Sakura Card Arc

• Eriol Hiiragizawa

 

Voice actor: Nozomu Sasaki

 

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Birthday: March 23

Age: –

Favorite flower: Cherry blossom

 

Eriol is Sakura’s classmate and he transferred from the UK.

His real identity is the reincarnation of Clow Reed and inherits memories of a previous life and magical powers.

 

As Spinel said, “He waited for a long time to be the same age as Sakura so that he could be by her side as a classmate,” his age is unknown but he looks like a nine-year-old boy.

 

Sakura is an important person to him and he always watches over her, but his feelings toward her are different from love.

He doesn’t care when Syaoran gets jealous of him, and shows support instead.

 

He sometimes acts like an enemy wielding Sakura, but he was doing that to prevent the Clow Cards from losing their powers.

 

 

• Suppi

 

Voice Actor: Yumi Toma

 

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Age: –

Favorite flower: Poppy

 

Suppi is one of the guardians of Eriol whom Eriol created.

 

His symbol is the Sun, the same as Cerberus.

Also, like Kero, he has a false form and a true form. Usually, he lives in his false form which is a black cat with wings.

 

Sakura calls him Spinel, but his nickname is Suppi.

He speaks politely and has a chill character.

 

He loves spicy foods and his favorite food is Takoyaki.

When he eats sweet foods he gets drunk, destroys things, and goes crazy but the way he speaks gets younger and becomes cute.

 

 

• Spinel Sun

 

Voice actor: Katsuyuki Konishi

 

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Favorite flower: Poppy

 

Eriol is one of the guardians of Eriol whom Eriol created and the true form of Suppi.

He can fire a beam from his mouth.

 

He once went back to the UK but came back to Japan with Ruby in the Clear Card Arc to give his magical powers to Cerberus and Yue.

 

After that, he became to stick together with Cerberus and he acts like a doll as same as Cerberus.

He and Cerberus and great friends that they even play video games together.

 

 

• Nakuru Akizuki

 

Voice actor: Ryoka Yuzuki

 

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Birthday: October 13

Age: 16

Favorite flower: Dutchman’s pipe cactus

 

Nakuru transferred to Seijou High School where Touya and Yukito attend.

Her true identity is as same as Spinel Sun, a guardian created by Eriol, and her symbol is the moon.

 

She doesn’t have any gender, but she dresses like a woman because she wants to wear cute school uniforms.

 

She started to like Touya (his magical powers), and she regards Yukito (Yue) as her rival.

She teases Touya and hugs him in an important situation, and disturbs Yukito by hiding and provoking him. Touya says to her “It’s so tiring”.

 

 

• Ruby Moon

 

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Birthday: October 13

Age: –

Favorite flower: Dutchman’s pipe cactus

 

Ruby Moon is the true form of Nakuru Akizuki.

 

She possesses Nakuru’s memory, and Nakuru as well possesses Ruby Moon’s memory.

So unlike Yukito, whether she’s Nakuru or Ruby Moon, the way she speaks and her personalities remain the same.

 

She approached Touya because she liked his magical powers, but even after Touya lost his power, she kept approaching him and disturbs Yukito and has fun with it.

 

 

Clear Card Arc

• Akiho Shinomoto

 

Voice actor: Minori Suzuki

 

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Birthday: September 18

Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Akiho transferred to Tomoeda Junior High School.

 

Before she came to Japan, she used to travel around the world collecting books.

The reason she came to Japan is also because “There was a book that she desperately wanted.”

Akiho and Sakura both dislike Konjac so they both got along with each other.

 

Her true identity is the forbidden magical tool created by the magical British association and her clan.

Because Akiho herself doesn’t have any magical powers, she read magical books from all around the world and inputs them into herself as a magical tool.

However, there is a risk that if she puts in too much information her heart will collapse.

 

 

• Yuna D. Kaito

 

Voice actor: Natsuki Hanae

 

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Birthday: March 6

Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Yuna D. Kaito is Akiho’s butler.

 

His true identity is Magician of the magical British association. His magical power is so strong that Eriol even said “His magical power is even stronger than mine”.

 

His goal is to obtain the Clear Card that Sakura makes.

He wants to save Akiho by using the Clear Card and the book which Momo is protecting.

 

He can use magic that can travel back through time, but it is high-risk magic and it will be too much for his body if used continuously.

 

 

• Momo

 

Voice actor: Minako Kotobuki

 

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Age: –

Favorite flower: –

 

Momo is Akiho’s favorite plush toy she carries around on her bag.

Her true identity is a beast whose master is the book of time.

 

Kaito only knows her true identity, so she moves around, eats, and talks only in front of him.

The doll’s appearance is her borrowed form as same as Cerberus, and she seems to have a true form but hasn’t revealed it yet.

 

She cares about Kaito of how he uses his magic too much and shortens his life.

Her favorite food is chocolate.

The ring she had on her left ear was gifted by Akiho’s mother.

 

 

Sakura’s friends & Tomoeda Elementary School officials

• Rika Sasaki (Image right)

 

Voice actor: Tomoko Kawakami, Saki Fujita (Clear Card Arc)

 

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Birthday: June 24

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Margaret

 

Rika is Sakura’s classmate and mature and calm personality.

 

She is dating her homeroom teacher Terada in the original but in the anime, it is described as admiration, not romantic love.

She is good at cooking and sometimes gives her homemade lunch to Terada.

 

She and Sakura attended the same elementary school but they both entered a different junior high school.

 

 

• Naoko Yanagisawa (Image left)

 

Voice actor: Emi Motoi

 

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Birthday: October 11

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Crape myrtle

 

Naoko is Sakura’s classmate, she has very good grades but is not good at sports.

 

She loves reading and is a dreamer. She is good at writing stories so she has written a script for her school play.

Also, she likes scary stories and, because Sakura doesn’t like ghosts, she scares her by telling her scary stories.

 

Although she is unaware of it, she has many contacts with the Crow Cards and has used The Create in the anime.

 

 

• Chiharu Mihara (Image left)

 

Voice actor: Miwa Matsumoto

 

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Birthday: May 28

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Freesia

 

Chiharu is Sakura’s classmate and she belongs to the cheerleading club same as Sakura.

 

She always reacts to her childhood friend Yamazaki’s jokes.

They seem like they’re not getting along but they’re actually dating each other.

 

She loves plush toy.

In the original, she has an older sister who is a year older.

 

 

• Takashi Yamazaki (Image left)

 

Voice actor: Issei Miyazaki

 

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Birthday: June 1

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Red spider lily

 

Takashi is Sakura’s classmate and Chiharu’s childhood friend and boyfriend.

 

He is the class chairman and is very reliable, but always tells jokes to people.

He is good at sewing, and in the anime, he is also good at sports and cooking.

 

He has narrow eyes, but when he gets his feet stepped on, his eyes get open.

He especially has good chemistry with Eriol, and they both be together a lot.

 

 

• Meiling Li

 

Voice actor: Yukana

 

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Birthday: March 25

Age: 9

Favorite flower: Lotus

 

Meiling is Syaoran’s cousin and Sakura’s classmate.

She is only depicted in the anime and doesn’t appear in the original manga.

 

She was Syaoran’s fiance but since Syaoran started to have feelings for Sakura, she broke off the engagement.

She was crying on Tomoyo’s lap and that was a sad moment.

 

 

• Yoshiyuki Terada

 

Voice actor: Toru Furusawa

 

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Birthday: July 18

Age: –

Favorite flower: Margaret

 

Yoshiyuki is Sakura’s homeroom teacher and P.E. teacher.

 

In the original, he is dating Rika.

There are depictions of them officially dating, such as the scene where he gives Rika an engagement ring.

 

In the anime, he is the person Rika admires.

However, there are also scenes in which he seems to have romantic feelings for her, such as when his eyes meet Rika’s in class, he is embarrassed and involuntarily looks away.

 

 

About the anime series Cardcaptor Sakura

Cardcaptor Sakura is a very popular manga written by an all-female Japanese manga artist group, Clamp, and was serialized in the shojo-manga magazine Nakayoshi from 1996 to 2000.

 

It got animated in 1998. Same as the original manga, it had two parts, Clow Card Arc and Sakura Card Arc. It was shown on TV until March 2000 (break period included).

 

For the 20th anniversary project of its manga, they started serializing the Clear Card Arc on Nakayoshi. It got animated in January 2018.

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura “Clow Card Arc”

 

[Broadcasting period]

April 7th, 1998 – June 1999 (break period included)

 

[Episodes]

46 episodes

 

[Summary Plot]

Sakura Kinomoto is a 4th-grade student who is good at sports.

One day, when Sakura came home from school, she felt someone was in the book stacks in the basement where nobody should be.

She went downstairs and found a book shining in gold.

There was a card inside the book, and as she read the letters written on it, a strong wind blew up and all the cards flew away.

And from the remaining book, there appeared a weird creature calling himself Cerberus, and he said there will be a disaster when the seal of the Clow card is broken.

Cerberus gave Sakura the sealing key and told Sakura to be the Cardcaptor, who captures cards.

From that night, Sakura confronts the cards using her magic powers…

Will Sakura be able to collect back all the cards?

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura “Sakura Card Arc”

 

[Broadcasting period]

September 1999 – March 2000

 

[Episodes]

24 episodes

 

[Summary Plot]

Sakura was accepted as the new owner of the Clow Cards.

The new semester started at school, and a mysterious boy named Eriol Hiiragizawa transferred to her school.

Since then, strange things started to happen again in Tomoeda.

By using her new shaped wand, she starts reincarnating the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards and…

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura “Clear Card Arc”

 

[Broadcasting period]

January 2018 – June 10th, 2018

 

[Episodes]

22 episodes

 

[Summary Plot]

Sakura collected all the Clow Cards that bring disaster to the world and changed to her own card by using magic.

She proceeded to her 1st year in Junior High School in April when the Cherry blossoms were fully blooming.

At Junior High, she reunited with Syaoran who came back from Hongkong and was happy being able to attend the same school.

However, one night, something weird started to happen to the cards Sakura collected…!

Moreover, strange things kept happening in Tomoeda, and Sakura started to collect the cards again led by the key she met in her dreams.

At the same time, a girl transfers to her class…

 

 

About the Cardcaptor Sakura movie

2 movies in total have been made for Cardcaptor Sakura.

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie

 

Released on August 1999.

The story is about the time between the Clow Card Arc and Sakura Card Arc.

Sakura and her friends are in 4th grade and the location is in Hongkong.

 

[Summary Plot]

One day Sakura participates in a lottery at a shopping street near her house, and she won a vacation ticket to Hongkong.

This was Sakura’s first trip abroad.

Kero-chan was also excited to go together.

Sakura’s father could not go together because of his business trip, so her brother Touya decided to go with them as a guardian.

In addition, her best friend Tomoyo and her longed-for Yukito also join her on a fun trip to Hong Kong.

There was a beautiful cityscape of Hongkong welcoming them.

Sakura was super excited to see these places for the first time, but there was always this weird little bird flying around her.

That night, Sakura saw a strange dream.

The white cloth were hanging in a space with water.

And there was this mysterious mage…

Was this trip a trap? Set in the ancient magical city of Hong Kong, Cardcaptor Sakura is in the greatest danger!

 

 

Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card

 

The second movie was released on July 2000.

It was released together with “Leave it to Kero!”.

The film is a sequel to the last anime episode, and Sakura and her friends are on their 6th-grade summer vacation.

The film is set in Nadeshiko Festival in Tomoeda.

 

[Summary Plot]

Sakura’s 6th grade class2 was planning a play at the Nadeshiko Festival and they were busy all summer training for that.

One day, Sakura bumped into Syaoran Li who she thought went back to Hong Kong.

Sakura still hasn’t replied to Syaoran after he confessed his feelings to her, and Sakura tries to tell her feelings too but she always ends up failing.

Finally, at the amusement park where Tomoyo invited her, she had a chance to tell Syaoran that she also has feelings for him.

However, she felt this strange feeling.

It was the Clow Cards she thought she already sealed! And Sakura’s magical powers start to disappear!

She confronts the strongest Clow Card, and Sakura’s final battle begins!

 

 

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