History YMMV / CardcaptorSakura

** Numerous fanfics had Sakura as a princess with Syaoran as a prince or someone who loves her, and equally vice versa. Come ''Tsubasa'', and that's what happens.

** The Light and Dark cards (whose real forms are feminine) appear to be close to each other when they reveal themselves to Sakura,

* ValuesDissonance: This series has an astonishingly casual view of May/December teacher/student relationships, which would had induced a lot more uproar if it was released in an era past its own. Sakura's mother and father met when he was a high school teacher and she was a highschool student. Sakura's older brother and his (student) teacher had a brief romance, but dropped it for reasons that had nothing to do with age inappropriateness and more with [[spoiler: her leaving ''and'' knowing that they'd fall for others]]. One of Sakura's prepubescent classmates, Rika, has a crush on their teacher... and in the manga, he returns it! And this is shown as romantic and dreamy. Nelvana even changed a line about Rika liking Mr. Terada to her finding him intimidating, which may not have been strictly necessary as he's oblivious to her PrecociousCrush, but does eliminate that element. Upon the release of the ''Clear Card'' arc in 2016, Rika's appearances are vastly scaled back, ostensibly because her voice actress passed away, with CLAMP claiming that no one else could match the original voice performance, but it's more likely to avoid any uncomfortable implications concerning Rika's relationship with her teacher.

* CluelessAesop: Like several other works by Creator/{{CLAMP}}, the series tries to send the message that your love for someone is valid regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation. This would be a pretty powerful message to a young female audience who would likely be experiencing crushes for the first time, reassuring them that their love isn't silly or shallow and that even if nothing comes of your first crush, your feelings are still real. However, this doesn't really work with how [[TeacherStudentRomance relationships between students and teachers]] are presented, ''especially'' with Mr. Terada and Rika's relationship in the manga; having a crush on your teacher is one thing, but having the teacher actually return those feelings only seems to promote predatory relationships instead.

** The anime is also heavily unpopular among evangelical Protestant Christian in South Korea ever since it was localized and aired due to occult elements.

* CriticalBacklash: The Nelvana dub, to some - on the one hand, it went through some {{Bowdlerisation}} and [[CulturalTranslation got the general 90's treatment for most anime at the time]]... but on the other hand, some fans ''prefer'' it that way, as that adaptation [[{{Shonen}} isn't as cuteness-oriented and has more action]], has Sakura less fragile and slightly more of an ActionGirl, and a lot of the InUniverse shipping is less blatant.

** Other than the original series of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', ''Bakuten Shoot Beyblade'', ''[[Manga/RurouniKenshin Samurai X]]'', ''Manga/Cyborg009'' and [[AndTheRest whatever else Animax Asia aired during 2004]], ''[=Card Captor Sakura=]'' was one of Philippines' favored in earlier 00's, if not '''''adored''''' anime series. This series ''alone'' gave birth to a new generation of Creator/{{CLAMP}} fans, fil-otaku and fujoshi. Unfortunately, the SequelSeries' Filipino Dub got CutShort, so it's currently unknown so far if the Filipino Dub could be finished if [[HesBack the Company airing it could return]].
** It also was wildly popular in Latin America, thanks to a really good dub, compared with the first English one. It does help that Cloverway managed to get the rights of the original Japanese version from NHK, rather than getting the same rights from Nelvana, despite Nelvana having rights for the whole American continent besides the U.S. and Canada. In fact, the series was widely popular in the whole of Latin America, in part thanks to the Mexican dub and because it was aired at prime time by Cartoon Network in the region, and amongst other anime such as ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', ''Maya the Bee'', and ''Manga/DragonBall'', it found a place in the pop culture, becoming a staple of the 90's generation childhood [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXXlRmeHx8 memories]].

** The Nelvana dub ended before ''The Sealed Card'' was released but still edited the final episode to name the 53rd card. It's name? "The Hope."

* RomanticPlotTumor: In the last part of the series a ''lot'' of time is spent on Syaoran's mounting feelings for Sakura, to the point where quite a few fans thought it started impinging upon the rest of the plot. This affected the {{Creator/Nelvana}} English dub (which edited out most romantic elements) to the point that a lot of later episodes, came out empty and nonsensical when diluted to the remainder of the plot, often retooled into clip shows.

** The Song card's singing in the darkened school can be creepy
** The Shadow card, which looks like the Ghost of Christmas Future.

* ValuesDissonance: This series has an astonishingly casual view of May/December teacher/student relationships, which would had induced a lot more uproar if it was released in an era past its own. Sakura's mother and father met when he was a high school teacher and she was a highschool student. Sakura's older brother and his (student) teacher had a brief romance, but dropped it for reasons that had nothing to do with age inappropriateness and more with [[spoiler: her leaving ''and'' knowing that they'd fall for others]]. One of Sakura's prepubescent classmates, Rika, has a crush on their teacher... and in the manga, he returns it! And this is shown as romantic and dreamy. Nelvana even changed a line about Rika liking Mr. Terada to her finding him intimidating, which may not have been strictly necessary as he's oblivious to her PrecociousCrush, but does eliminate that element. Upon the release of the ''Clear Card'' arc in 2016, Rika is written out in the sequel, ostensibly because her voice actress passed away, with CLAMP claiming that no one else could match the original voice performance, but it's more likely to avoid any uncomfortable implications concerning Rika's relationship with her teacher.

** The Nelvana dub line says that "Cardcaptors of the clow Expect the unexpected". Which became the CatchPhrase for the US version of the reality TV series ''Series/BigBrother''.

** The big "twist" that the season builds up to, [[spoiler:that is, that Eriol is Clow's reincarnation and wants to put Sakura to test]], is [[CaptainObviousReveal pretty easy to guess]] for anyone older than twelve.