History Manga / CardcaptorSakura

* {{Bookends}}:
** A minor case in the anime's Clow Card arc: Windy is the first card Sakura uses to aid her catch Fly, and also the last card she uses during the final judgement [[spoiler:to entrap Yue, who by that time wasn't aware it wasn't drawing its powers from the Moon anymore]]. If it counts, Windy is also the first card to be used with Sakura's star rod (though it was not transformed into a Sakura Card until later).
** The first Clear Card Sakura captures/creates is Gale, an apparent sequel/upgrade to Windy.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The main element cards are just the element with "y," lending itself to some odd GratuitousEnglish. The four cards are: Watery, Firey, Earthy, and Windy.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Somehow, the scene with Kero getting drunk off chocolate managed to get by Nelvana. His [[Creator/MattHill dub voice actor]] doesn't even try to disguise it. The dub also tried to edit out most romantic links in the show, naturally the gay and inter generation ones with most vehemence. Since the original edit's plot revolved greatly around romance by it's closing points, this naturally was impossible to take out entirely (American and Canadian audiences were likely baffled as to why Syaoran was perpetually blushing for no explained reason).
** [[http://blog.jemolian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cardcaptor.jpg This may look plain, but take a look at which finger Sakura is holding one of the Clow Cards without the other indexes.]]
** Several scenes where Tomoyo is filming Sakura while in her Cardcaptor outfits have them at angles where it looks like the camera's aimed right up Sakura's skirt.
%%% "Especially in the promotional art." is not context

** Kero eats a box of chocolates; unfortunately, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar they were '''liquor''' chocolates.]] Ends with a "What happened last night?" moment.

An incredibly iconic MagicalGirl manga written and illustrated by Creator/{{CLAMP}} and first serialized in ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}'' from 1996 to 2000, with an anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} airing on NHK[[note]]first on the expanded tier [=BS2=] satellite service, and in repeats on the Educational over-the-air network[[/note]] from 1998 to 2000.

An incredibly iconic MagicalGirl manga written and illustrated by Creator/{{CLAMP}} and first serialized in ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}'' from 1996 to 2000, with an anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} airing on NHK[[note]]first on the expanded tier BS2 satellite service, and in repeats on the Educational over-the-air network[[/note]] from 1998 to 2000.

* ThemeTuneExtended: All of the show's original themes had full versions recorded and released on a soundtrack album. Season Two used it's full theme during the closing of it's finale.

** Often used by Syaoran in early episodes and chapters, who does not refer to Sakura by any actual name. This is ended after her DisneyDeath in ''Sakura, Shaoran and The Elevator' leads him to yell her first name in anguish. Sakura having heard this, asks to continue this trend and to call "Shaoran-kun" by first name in return. Notably Sakura, much to her joy, is discovered to be the only person outside family that Syaoran refers to by first name (or allows the referral of his own). This trait is not present in the English dub, where both characters refer to each other by first name from the beginning.

* RescueRomance: Expectedly done for a lot of {{Ship Tease}}s between Shaoran and Sakura. Somewhat one sided however, only Shaoran had his romantic feelings galvanised by such, whenever he rescued Sakura however, she just thought he was being kind.

* ShipTease: Done endlessly and mercilessly throughout the series, especially during the later stories. Instances such as ''Sakura, Shaoran and the Elevator'' exist as little more than episode long ship teases. What many consider the biggest folly in the ''Cardcaptors'' dub was trying to erase nearly ''all'' of these scenes (though due to some of them being in pivotal scenes or necessary transitions, some light instances such as Syaoran's blushing were kept in the dub).

--->'''Syaoran''' But you woke up because she scattered the cards, right, Cerberus? Besides, she said that he had moved to Tomoeda City long before that...
--->'''Ms.Mizuki''' Someone... Someone might have made it so that it would happen that way. There's no such thing as coincidence in this world, there is only inevitability.
** Invoked in the Sakura Card Arc too Eriol too, who has set all events to force Sakura to transform the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards

* BareYourMidriff: Sakura has [[https://ccsakura.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Twin_Coat_Costume two]] [[https://ccsakura.fandom.com/wiki/Silent_Bat_Burglar_Costume outfits]] that shows her belly button.

* IconicOutfit: Several of Sakura's "battle costumes", but the one most associated with her is her pink dress/hat/wings combo (which she wears in the image above and in the anime's first opening). Special mention also goes to the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot rubber]] {{Meido}} CatGirl [[https://ccsakura.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Thunder_Cat_Costume one]].

* CulturalTranslation: The Nelvana dub renamed the characters' residence from Tomoeda to Reedington and implied it was an American town, despite the Japanese text remaining, ''as well as the Tokyo Tower''.

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: Sakura's outfits often sport this, in varying grades.

An incredibly iconic MagicalGirl manga written and illustrated by Creator/{{CLAMP}} and published between 1996-2000, with an anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} airing on NHK[[note]]first on the expanded tier BS2 satellite service, and in repeats on the Educational over-the-air network[[/note]] between 1998-2000.

* SiblingYinYang: Played literally with Kerberos and Yue.

* SlapSlapKiss: Chiharu and Yamazaki.

* StabTheSky

* StealthMentor: Eriol.

* TropeOverdosed

* {{Adorkable}}: Sakura, even at her most competent, usually comes off as endearingly naive and clumsy. Syaoran soon proves to be similarly buffoonish.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: An {{Omake}} suggested that the entire series had been filmed and edited by Tomoyo, and included her attempt to film and record the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vw2UfF3I opening song]].

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Nelvana's ''Cardcaptors'' dub managed to, somehow, turn a romance-heavy anime into a No Hugging No Kissing series. This doesn't just remove the instances of KissingCousins, same-sex romance or MayDecemberRomance; even the most acceptable pairs (mainly Syaoran/Sakura) became devoid of romantic interest. This became particularly bad in the Sakura Cards arc, in which Syaoran's feelings towards Sakura sometimes got 50% of an episode. In the dub, all the romantic scenes are cut out and the dialogue is changed to some more generic subjects (fighting the forces of evil, etc). To fill in the minutes of lost footage, many flashbacks were added. For example, while ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' last episode is an intense, emotion-filled finale, ''Cardcaptors'' last episode is almost a ClipShow.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Nelvana's ''Cardcaptors'' dub managed to, somehow, turn a romance-heavy anime into a No Hugging No Kissing series. This isn't just [[KissingCousins about]] [[HoYay the]] [[LesYay controversial]] [[MayDecemberRomance stuff]]; even the most acceptable pairs (mainly Syaoran/Sakura) became devoid of romantic interest. This became particularly bad in the Sakura Cards arc, in which Syaoran's feelings towards Sakura sometimes got 50% of an episode. In the dub, all the romantic scenes are cut out and the dialogue is changed to some more generic subjects (fighting the forces of evil, etc). To fill in the minutes of lost footage, many flashbacks were added. For example, while ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' last episode is an intense, emotion-filled finale, ''Cardcaptors'' last episode is almost a ClipShow.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: In addition to removing AgeGapRomance, KissingCousins and same-sex romances, the Nelvana dub of ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' rewrote even the least controversial pairings as platonic friendships. The Sakura Cards arc had to be heavily edited, as Syaoran's feelings for Sakura sometimes took up 50% of an episode. All of the romantic scenes were cut, and the more romance-laden lines were replaced by lines about something more generic (such as fighting the forces of evil). Many flashbacks were added in their places; while the last episode of ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' is an intense, emotion-filled finale, the last episode of ''Cardcaptors'' is almost a ClipShow.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Nelvana's ''Cardcaptors'' dub managed to, somehow, turn a romance-heavy anime into a No Hugging No Kissing series. This isn't just [[KissingCousins about]] [[HoYay the]] [[LesYay controversial]] [[MayDecemberRomance stuff]]; even the most acceptable pairs (mainly Syaoran/Sakura) became devoid of romantic interest. This became particularly bad in the Sakura Cards arc, in which Syaoran's feelings towards Sakura sometimes got 50% of an episode. In the dub, all the romantic scenes are cut out and the dialogue is changed to some more generic subjects (fighting the forces of evil, etc). To fill in the minutes of lost footage, many flashbacks were added. For example, while ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' last episode is an intense, emotion-filled finale, ''Cardcaptors'' last episode is almost a ClipShow.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Generally, characters in the Nelvana English dub tend to display more attitude than in the original Japanese. For instance, Sakura is more of a tomboy, with a low-pitched voice to match, and is even fairly snarky at times. Kero sounds and acts like Mushu from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. Madison, as Tomoyo is known in the dub, has ValleyGirl traits to her (though still being a model student).

** Meiling becomes a new rival just as Syaoran starts losing steam. Again Sakura ends up shooting it down.

* AdvertisedExtra: Sakura's father appears in the opening titles' cast roll of the first few episodes, despite being a fairly minor character. He is replaced by Syaoran after he appears in the series (see EvolvingCredits).
* AllegedLookalikes: Sonomi comments on Sakura's similarity to her mother, even though Touya has more of a resemblance - in fact, Sakura seems to look more like ''Sonomi,'' and Tomoyo (Sonomi's daughter) resembles Nadeshiko a bit as well, with her long hair. In fact, she mentions that Sonomi requested that she kept her hair long because it reminded her of Nadeshiko.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Sakura to Meiling somewhat, is purer in personality, bests her at many aspects such as athleticism (somewhat inadvertently) and ultimately wins over Syaoran's affections without even meaning to.

* EvolvingCredits: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example. Partway through season one, Li is added to the opening following his introduction to the story. He appears for just one second along with the other supporting characters. Everything else in the intro stays the same. In the American uncut DVD release, this version of the intro was never used.

** Yamazaki. There was ''one'' scene in the manga where he opens them. Just one though.

** In the episode when Sakura catches The Power card Yamazaki's eyes open for a moment when he and Syaoran are startled by the loud noise and the ground shaking at the zoo.

** Tomoyo's custom made outfits are often thematically related to the card being captured in the episode, including the times when the card appears unexpectedly and Tomoyo couldn't have known beforehand to bring, let alone design and sew, the righ outfit.

Creator/{{Geneon}}, who released a subtitled version of the TV series, took over the dubbing of the second movie, making it far more faithful to the original. The manga was originally licensed by Creator/TokyoPop and is now out of print. It was rescue-licensed by Creator/DarkHorseComics, who made four omnibuses ofnthe series, though their release is also out of print. The license was transferred to Kodansha Comics USA, who plans on making nine hardcover volumes of the series. The anime has now been rescued by [[Creator/NipponIchi NIS America]], and both movie are rescued by Creator/DiscotekMedia. In the former's case, the Animax dub was used for the release, while in the first movie's case, the Nelvana dub (which was visually uncut) was retained. The second movie also retains the old Pioneer[=/=]Geneon dub.