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luugi
I believe Cardcaptor Sakura to be one of the best magical girl type shoujo anime out there.
Now as someone who doesn't really watch much of this genre I don't have a lot to compare CCS to, but that is because frankly most anime like this doesn't interest me that much. I often find myself bored by what feels like the same unrealistic romance tropes portrayed in magical girl shoujo, the classic girl meets boy and immediately falls in love after some heroic type antics. Don't get me wrong, classic idealized romance can be enjoyable from time to time, but in a long series of over 40 episodes or so the constant fawning over each other can get repetitive. The ability to stray away from this overused trope is what I believe makes Cardcaptor Sakura worthy of high praise.
The relationships betw…
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NOTE: I am not comparing this anime to the manga.
Story: The story itself is good. The plot on paper seems like it would be a great action-packed anime with lots of complex relationships and a cool backstory. The problem arises in the execution itself. The story is dragged out slightly, with pacing issues riddled throughout the series. Leading up to the finale of the first season was definitely dragged out, with a dream sequence appearing in the last 15 episodes that were just repeated over and over again and got really tiring. The second season could have been done better, with what feels like a cheap ending.
Art: The art was lacking unfortunately. The art in the cards themselves were great, but this was short lived and the rest of the series felt like it copied and pasted throughout th…
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Cardcaptor Sakura is probably the most underrated anime I have come across since 2016. People tend to misjudge the anime for being a happy-go-lucky magical girl anime. Well, this show is definitely more than it sounds and here's why:
Story: The story development for this anime was really great, even though the latter part seemed to be a bit repetitive, the overall storyline did well. Cardcaptor Sakura starts off slow, and then gets fun filled until you reach the latter half, where things begin to get emotional. This is a 70 episode long anime after all, but I assure you the story does not go down hill once.
Characters: Oh man. The characters were really something else. Firstly our protagonist, Sakura Kinomoto, was a gem. She has a sweet personality, she cares more for others than just he…
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There is no way any of the reviewers are happily binging on all seventy episodes plus the two movies. Much of the reviews are saturated in rosey nostalgia.
If you have the simplistic mentality and patience of a nine/ten year old-middle school student, this will seem like one of the greatest things you have seen. As a forth grader watching Cardcaptors on WB11, it was greater than Pokemon or Sailor Moon combined. Cardcaptors, despite the horrific voice acting and terrible pop music, shaved off the fluff and filler that plagued the original seasons 1 and 2 to create an engaging narrative. (From hindsight, before it got cancelled.)
However, if you try to revisit nostalgia as a viewer who has aged seventeen years from the age of the heroine, rewatching the entire series will be a dreadfully…
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As I grew up with Nelvana's English production of Cardcaptor Sakura and eagerly munched my way through other magical girl titles like Princess Tutu and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I knew I had to come back to this one to watch it through with all of the nuances it had to offer.
What I expected and what I received are two entirely different stories.
Cardcaptor Sakura ends up playing out in a shallow way. It's not that it ends up with some great hidden truths to be discovered near the very end or that multiple stories coalesce in some satisfactory way; it's that there is genuinely very little below the surface in terms of story and character.
We, the audience, spend a lot of time with Sakura. Sakura is seen cooking, cleaning, and going to school, but what changes in her character between t…
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Adorned with a glorious outfit, lovingly crafted by her best friend, the Cardcaptor takes her stance in wake of the challenge that lies before her. Illuminated by the pearlescent glow of the moon, the card spins frantically, before eventually grinding to a halt. Silent. Still. Untouched. Suddenly, bursting outwards in a sea of flames, consuming the once night sky and claiming it as its own, the card reveals its true form and surrounds the young girl in a prison of flames. Unaffected at the fiery blaze before her, the Cardcaptor stands her ground, readying her staff to tame the beast which threatens her. It’s time to add another card to the roster…
Magical girls! I’m pretty sure it goes without saying, but the magical girl genre is a staple of the medium, and certainly has been ever since…
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My first review in MAL. I will try to be honest and not hurt anyone or offend him, but not for that I will leave my personal opinion.
CCS is basically a mixture of Dragon Ball-Inuyasha-Detective Conan-Pokemon-Harry Potter. A search for letters that fly through an entire city with different powers that casually appear near the protagonist, which must catch them all and she is destined to save the world. Clearer, I can not.
As the episodes pass, we see how the characters get involved in complicated situations, where they repeat various comic situations, dialogues, blushing, transformation sequences, which lose the joke as in the 12 episodes. It is interesting to see the different abilities of the cards and the ways of catching them, although some are so obvious, and seldom do not try to catc…
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During my childhood, I was never able to have the experience of watching most anime on TV, sometimes I would just see fast glimpses of Hamtaro, DBZ, Pokemon and such, but was never able to experience the magical feeling of a mahou shojo like this one. Card Captor Sakura has now become my favorite Anime so far since I started watching it at the age of 11 years, the age in which I was introduced to the world of japanese animation.
Story 10/10
We follow the life of Sakura Kinomoto, a charismatic, perseverant, innocent girl who doesn't excel at school and has numerous friends like the sweet Tomoyo Daidoji. One day, as she is cleaning and tiding up the house, she hears strange noises coming from the attic. This is where her life changes completely, as she finds the mystical Clow book, sealed…
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Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the best animes I've seen, but like some others I had once thought this anime would be like all the other magic girl animes and I had also thought it would take me ages to finish and it would make me loose interest but I was really wrong. I watched Cardcaptor Sakura mainly because this anime popped up everywhere on suggestions, so I decided to watch it.
The first episode, I have to say, didn't get my attention, but then I watched the second episode which then had me hooked. Episode after episode I would be on the edge for the anime to continue it's story and it was seriously amazing, it will defiantly be worth watching!
Rating : 10/10
I love this anime, the plot is amazing, although I had expected it to be one of yet again those magic girl serious but Cardcap…
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I'll go ahead and say this is my favorite series.
Overview/Opinion:
I should clarify that and say, if the Monogatari series were one series and not multiple series, they might beat out Cardcaptor Sakura, but as single series go, this one for me is the best.
Cardcaptor Sakura wins me over not because it has the highest quality story or characters, or sound or even animation. Haibane Renmei has it beat on all those counts. Except plot maybe, but stuff like Death Note has it bear there. It is the best because it is seventy episodes long and the quality stays pretty darn amazing for the whole seventy episodes.
Premise:
Fifth grade girl Sakura comes home one day, finds magic book in her father's basement library, opens book, magic cards fly out and hide themselves all over town. Kero, guard…
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How can anyone possibly hate a show this cute? I certainly can't. And I've yet to hear of somebody who does.
This is a spoiler free review.
*Story*
The story is basically about the daily life of an elementary schoolgirl who also captures magic cards in cute outfits in her spare time. It's a nice change of pace from other mahou shoujo anime.
For a change, it's nice that it doesn't have any villains that send their minions to cause mischief on an episodic basis and instead it's about a girl collecting cards and gaining their magical powers on an episodic basis. It's good because there's no need for villains and the episodic structure makes more sense since it's practically impossible to find all the cards in one go. With villains around, there's normally no internal logic behind the epis…
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When I first saw Cardcaptor Sakura, I was thinking : "another magic girl series. and this time she has a stuffed animal with her." Every time I finished an anime, I would look for recommendations and almost every time Cardcaptor Sakura was there! Now I really regret not watching it earlier. It was just so amazing, despite the fact that it was SEVENTY episodes with three seasons together. The first and second seasons were mainly about Sakura, the main character, collecting the clow cardst that she had spread throughout the world by accident. To be perfectly honest, it could have ended there, but I am SOOOO glad that it didn't. The third season was my absolute favorite. For three reasons: (1) it had A LOT of character development (2) a hint of romance (the kiddy kind, but it worked) and (3)…
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cardcaptor sakura...i still remember back in 98 when i saw this anime on my local tv network.i was so suprised to actually watch in tv(in greece where anime arent really popular especially back in the 90s) a brand new production that was OFFICIALY(probably dubbed by the production company and not the local network) dubbed with great voice actors(most anime outside japan are dubbed by horrible voice actors.never understood why).it had a catchy op and even though at the time i was around 15yo i didnt mind its childish theme(at least thats what i thought about anime with elementary kids for main roles) and watched it until the middle of the series.unfortunately it would appear that it didnt have much fans in my country so i never got to see the rest of it cause the network didnt buy the rest…
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Cardcaptor Sakura is perhaps the best mahou shoujo anime produced. It's more than just a classic or a title that's influential. It's an example of a series that was not afraid to take risks and defy common conventions of the genre in order to maximize quality. And while Cardcaptor Sakura may seem like a standard mahou shoujo anime at first glance, there is a lot more depth here than a cursory glance might reveal.
The premise itself is fairly typical for a mahou shoujo anime. A happy-go-lucky girl suddenly comes across magical power and begins her quest alongside a cute lion-like caricature serving as her guardian and mentor. Sakura's role as the chief protagonist is to capture the fifty-three magical cards of Clow Reed, each inhabiting a unique power that inconveniences Sakura and the pe…
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Cardcaptor Sakura may be Clamp's best known work and stand alongside Sailor Moon as one of the most influential magical girl anime out there. The manga ran for four years and inspired several spin offs including two movies, some drama CDs, ten video games and a seventy episode anime which is what I'll be talking about today.
Cardcaptor Sakura is a highly episodic anime. The framing device is that young Kinomoto Sakura finds a strange book in her basement. When she opens it a large number of cards escape in a flash of light. Keroberos, who looks like a plush bear with a lion tail and wings, explains that Sakura has just unleashed a set of magic cards and this could have dire consequences if she doesn't catch them. For that end he grants her the power to seal the cards. Things get complica…
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Cardcaptor Sakura is a great show, though you’ll notice that it’s really classic. I don’t watch many magical girl anime so I can’t really say for sure how Cardcaptor Sakura is better or worse than other magical girl anime. The only thing I’m looking forward in this anime is the “romance” part but I guess it exceeded my expectations positively.
Story: 7/10
The story was good but neither great nor outstanding. The anime was more episodic than I thought. You can seriously see the pattern: Sakura lives her life normally, notices a card or meets one, tries to capture it, she gets a card (at least 1 in every episode). Regardless of Sakura, you’d always see Tomoyo with her camcorder, and creator of Sakura’s battle costumes; Toya, who has weird abilities, shows up in a sudden in most bad timing…
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When I was young, I watched the English dub of Cardcaptors. It became a childhood favourite. I didn't really watch anime in general(especially in the Japanese voices) till I rewatched this series in the original voices, uncensored, and it what lead me to watch other great animes like Clannad, and Code Geass.
I remember the series was very boring in the end as a kid. I never realize that the third season was censored to the point of being broken, completely removing what the third season was primarily about, and fill it with flashbacks to make a full episode. Do not watch the English dub at all. You are missing so much.
The show is very cute, and would seem like a girls show, which it is to a point. But this show is good for both male and female, and all ages. Being a male, I never mind i…
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Cardcaptor Sakura is a classic. It is one of those anime that everyone could enjoy, regardless of age and gender. While being a typical magical girl anime, the plot is actually intertwined with lots of comedy and romance. There's not a lot of drama (yet), except maybe recurring goofs and difficulties that each characters face. However, that is the true magic of Cardcaptor Sakura. It has such a high enjoyment value that you will often forget that you are watching someone capturing cards, but rather, live through the experiences of a not-so-typical elementary girl whose life was changed in many ways by the cards she will make her own.
Story: 9/10
The first and second season, in my opinion, is not most impressive plot-wise. It is pretty much very episodic, with recurring goofs such as Sakur…
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This is one of the very few animes I have seen that have a changing love triangle and that is hat really catches my heart and makes me want to watch. It changes froma sakura shaoran yukito to a skaura shaoran meilin and i won't go on from there.
Storyline: As I said, twisting love triangles behind the ever changing main story. The main story is wonderful to. Going from capturing clow cards to changing them all into Sakura Cards before they turn into ordinary cards.
Art: I must say this is one of the bestly drawn animes too. It isn't all blood this head popping off that. And drawing the cards themselves (not in card form) was beautiful.
Sound: The music is very suitable for the anime. Though only once did I dislike the sound and that was meilin's annoying voice.
Character: They are very…
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I am not sure why I like this anime. The reason is that I have a short attention span - so if I were to watch an anime it should be one that constantly changes. The problem with Card Captor Sakura is that the plot per episode doesn't change much. It's always about Sakura and company realizes something's fishy, then they find out it's because of a card, then Sakura captures the card, then everyone's happy. It's pretty much like that per episode, but for some reason, I think I like it.
I did have some problems during the middle part. I started to get bored, until the sleeping beauty episode. That one was cute. Maybe that's why I like it so much - it's cute. Sakura's cute. Tomoyo's cute. Shaoran's cute. Kero - chan is cute. The whole thing is cute. I really like the Sakura and Shaoran love m…
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