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| 6 | ->''"Key that hides the power of darkness, reveal your true powers before me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract. Release!"'' |
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| 8 | 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 Creator/{{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. |
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| 10 | One day, an ordinary [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent elementary school girl]] named Sakura Kinomoto wanders into her father's basement and accidentally opens a mystical tome containing a deck of tarot-like cards. The magical cards are scattered throughout town, each one possessing its own unique power and posing the risk of causing some serious mischief if left unchecked. |
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| 12 | Kerberos, the guardian spirit of the book, immediately drafts Sakura into becoming a "Cardcaptor" by giving her a magical wand capable of sealing and controlling the power of the cards. Now, with the aid of her best friend Tomoyo, Sakura must recover and master all of the missing cards before they can cause some ''real'' trouble. |
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| 14 | One of, if not Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s most iconic manga series, it was adapted into a seventy-episode anime and two movies, which [[AdaptationExpansion added a lot of new elements in the process]]. Alongside ''Manga/SailorMoon'', it is widely considered to be a TropeCodifier for the MagicalGirl genre, and its influence remains nigh-universal, particularly in Japan. |
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| 16 | The anime was dubbed by Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Creator/TheOceanGroup as ''Cardcaptors'', airing in the US on ''Creator/KidsWB'' with much {{Bowdlerization}} in the process.[[labelnote:*]]Most of which [[ScrewedByTheNetwork was actually done by Kids' WB!]], [[MisBlamed not Nelvana]].[[/labelnote]] The US version changed many details and even the episode order to shoehorn deuteragonist Syaoran Li into a co-protagonist slot with Sakura in an attempt to make the show appeal more towards the young boy demographic that became the block's top priority thanks to ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokemon]]''. This version even aired on ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' for about two weeks in order to promote the series' upcoming second season. The Canadian and UK releases kept the original episode order while Australia and New Zealand used the Japanese credits, which undid some of the meddling. An alternate dub from Omni Productions aired on Animax stations around the world. |
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| 18 | 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 of the 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. |
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| 20 | In 2016, ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' returned with a sequel titled ''Manga/CardcaptorSakuraClearCard'', which takes place directly after the original series. |
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| 22 | Compare ''Manga/SailorMoon'', which is the other "major" example most English-speakers think of vis-à-vis {{Magical Girl}}s. Contrast ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', and also ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', the most notable {{Deconstruction}}s of the ''whole'' [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction genre and concept]] (and the last of which feels aimed rather squarely at this series in particular). |
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| 24 | See the [[Characters/CardcaptorSakura character page]] for more information. |
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| 26 | !!''Cardcaptor Sakura'' provides examples of: |
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| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 30 | [[folder:Tropes A to D]] |
| 31 | * AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: Sakura accidentally releases all the Clow Cards from what was supposed to be their final resting place. [[spoiler: Or so that was what was said in the beginning; in truth, Clow counted on that happening as he chose Sakura to be his heir and to take care of what he left behind.]] |
| 32 | * ActionizedAdaptation: |
| 33 | ** The anime adaptation adds many more cards for Sakura to collect, resulting in more fight scenes and cards being used in battle. |
| 34 | ** The movies are also more action-oriented than the manga. |
| 35 | ** The Nelvana dub rearranges the plot to accelerate Syaoran's arrival and increase his narrative status as TheRival, making Sakura's quest a competition from the word go -- further, it removes most of the romance arc between Sakura and Syaoran, which is the basis of much of the second season. For all intents and purposes, Nelvana's ''Cardcaptors'' is {{Shonen}} with a female lead. |
| 36 | * AdaptationExpansion: The anime largely runs the same story but adds extra plot points and characters. The reason the expansion works instead of falling apart is because Nanase Okawa, writer of the manga, wrote and oversaw the anime as well. |
| 37 | ** The original manga features nineteen cards. The anime has ''fifty-two'', though some are only shown in the first movie. |
| 38 | ** Syaoran's role in the story. He arrives much earlier before most of the cards are collected. A stipulation is also added so he can capture some cards for himself (actually, anyone who has magical powers and the strongest involvement in capturing a card is capable of capturing them), and even obtain a chance at being their master, thus making him a legitimate rival for Sakura. |
| 39 | ** Syaoran's cousin Meiling and guardian/butler Wei are anime-exclusive characters. The rest of Syaoran's family get more time as well. |
| 40 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild: Syaoran most of the time acts more like an adult, and puts on an impressive intellectual and aloof front. He's sometimes shown to be as naive as Sakura however, and is completely helpless to infatuations. |
| 41 | * AdaptationalProtagonist: When Creator/{{Nelvana}} brought the anime adaptation over to the West, several episodes were cut out or rewrote. Li Syaoran goes from LoveInterest to Sakura's {{Deuteragonist}}. Nelvana even renamed the series ''Card Captors'' to reflect their now equal standing. In the original version, Li starts out as TheRival for the Clow Cards and remains an important but secondary character. |
| 42 | * AdvertisedExtra: Sakura's father appears in the opening titles' cast roll for the first eight episodes, despite being a fairly minor character. He is replaced by Syaoran after he appears in the series (see EvolvingCredits). |
| 43 | * AffectionateNickname: Touya always calls Yukito "Yuki." Kero refers to him as "Yuki-usagi" ("Yuki-bunny" or "snow bunny"), a straight pronunciation of the kanji for "Yukito." It becomes a nickname by ''Clear Card'', once Yukito is aware of Kero and his magical nature. |
| 44 | * 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. |
| 45 | * AlternativeForeignThemeSong: |
| 46 | ** The ''Cardcaptors'' opening is more dramatic and plays up the high fantasy element, while also spelling out the plot. |
| 47 | ** The Korean dub has an 80s-esque [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Yn4WNULsE opening]] song. |
| 48 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: |
| 49 | ** 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. |
| 50 | ** Syaoran seems to consider Sakura his better counterpart, ultimately taking his designated role as master of the cards, due to having greater wisdom and care for them that assisted in her judgements. As Sakura insists however, her own flaws and dependence on Syaoran may prevent her from being a full-on example of the trope. |
| 51 | * AmicableExes: Kaho Mizuki predicted this fate for her and Touya when she broke up with him. While Touya is absolutely floored by seeing her again, indicating that he still bears a few scars from the whole thing, he doesn't hold any animosity towards Kaho and she's quick to encourage him to make his feelings clear to Yukito, the person he's fallen in love with since she left-- which she also predicted. In the end, he's annoyed and embarrassed by how all of her predictions came true, and the prediction about them becoming friends is the reason he wants to avoid her, not because he's still holding a grudge but because he doesn't want her to be so right all the time. |
| 52 | * AnimationBump: Some later points of the anime have noticeably crisper animation. Very noticeable in ''The Sealed Card''. |
| 53 | * {{Antimatter}}: Card number 53's negative powers pull a Magical Variant of antimatter annihilation on anything it targets. |
| 54 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Especially in the Nelvana dub, it's sometimes baffling how long it takes Sakura and Madison to even consider that a Clow Card is behind the strangeness of the week. |
| 55 | ** In [[Recap/CardCaptorSakuraSakurasHeartRacingFirstDate Episode 3]], Sakura knows right away that the the whirlpool that nearly drowned an aquarium worker wasn't due to a drain coming unplugged like the staff said because the water level didn't go down. But she has to take another trip to the aquarium before she even considers that it's a Clow Card. |
| 56 | ** In [[Recap/CardCaptorSakuraSakuraPandaAndACuteShop Episode 5]], a stuffed panda mysteriously disappears and reappears across town. Sakura and Madison spend quite a bit of time under the assumption that a burglar robbed the girl's room and escaped in about 3 seconds. By this point, she'd already captured six Clow Cards, so it's a bit embarrassing for her to not instantly realize that a Clow Card must be behind this impossible event. |
| 57 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: Pre Character Development, Syaoran says that no one but him is entitled to the Clow Cards and Sakura's name is 'weakling'. |
| 58 | * ArtShift: When declaring "Suppie" his [[TheRival rival]] in TheMovie, Kero gets animated very exaggeratedly and [[HotBlooded hot-bloodedly]]. This carries over into the next shot with a regular -- and nonplussed -- Sakura. |
| 59 | * AssumingTheAudiencesAge: In the "Leave it To Kero" segments, Kero assumes that the viewer is a child and asks them things like if they're helping with chores or doing their homework. |
| 60 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: |
| 61 | ** In order to fight a dragon summoned by The Create card, Sakura has to use The Big card to make herself equal size. She's not happy about this. |
| 62 | ** When she counteracts her [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinkage]] while trapped in Alice In Wonderland, insects and a cat are this to her. |
| 63 | ** Her revenge fantasies of someday being taller than Touya also tend to invoke this. |
| 64 | ** The Jump ''tries'' this in its début episode because it's an aggressive card like The Watery though unlike Watery, it's also extremely ''stupid'' and so it ultimately fails. Instead of physically growing, The Jump makes a giant version of itself using innumerable plush toys surrounding its body. |
| 65 | * AuthorAvatar: |
| 66 | ** Tomoyo, and it's not at all subtle. In fact, there's even a Bonus video that jokingly suggests the whole series was single-handedly filmed by her. And that somehow includes even the sequences where no cameras were present by any conceivable means. She's a ShipperOnDeck too. Yup. That was subtler. Notably in the ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' {{crossover}} event of ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', whenever Sakura wins in a fight, a bush moves up to her, revealing Tomoyo recorded the whole thing. |
| 67 | ** Syaoran has ''four'' sisters who suffer from CutenessProximity and become {{Love Freak}}s in the presence of anything they think looks cute. |
| 68 | * BackFromTheDead: People return after being wiped out of existence. This isn't explained until ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' elaborates that death and being magically erased aren't the same thing. |
| 69 | * BadassAdorable: Sakura, the card captor, is quite endearing when catching cards and otherwise. |
| 70 | %%** Meiling and Syaoran (once he starts going {{Tsundere}} for Sakura). |
| 71 | * BadassArmFold: Firey is introduced in this pose. She's a mighty card. |
| 72 | * BadassNormal: |
| 73 | ** Meiling, who has no magical power, fights The Fight card, effectively holding off a card that's more or less perfect at martial arts. |
| 74 | ** Syaoran in Episode 33 evades, lures and exposes The Freeze card without any magic, and earlier ''punches'' apart the magical ice forming on Sakura. For his efforts he gets to keep [[MonsterOfTheWeek that episode]]'s card. |
| 75 | ** Syaoran and Meiling's perfectly synchronized attack against the Twin Card because of their old school training. |
| 76 | * BetaCouple: |
| 77 | ** Takashi Yamazaki and Chiharu Mihara. Yes, that's right. Fourth-graders who already have [[PuppyLove years of experience]] in dealing with relationships. |
| 78 | ** To a lesser extent, Touya and Yukito. They're a lot more comfortable with each other than Sakura and Syaoran. While Yukito admits in a later episode to not being sure if Touya likes him the same way, he's quite sure where he stands and they're both a lot more matter-of-fact and aware of their own feelings. |
| 79 | %% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BetweenMyLegs: Seen with Sakura's legs in several episodes. |
| 80 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: While near perpetually friendly and innocent in demeanor, it is a bad idea to insult Sakura, or even worse, call her [[BerserkButton a "monster"]]. |
| 81 | * BeyondTheImpossible: The price for sealing card #53 'Void' was the 'precious feeling' of the most powerful mage. This ended up being [[spoiler: Syaoran]] due to the other candidate being exhausted at the time. The card was sealed and transformed but [[spoiler: Syaoran]] didn't forget after all. [[spoiler: Probably because The Nothing was merged with The Nameless Card to become a Sakura Card (''[[MeaningfulName The Hope]]''), which was made from Sakura's love for Syaoran. Thus, it acted something like a very effective CurseEscapeClause; the "price" was still paid in a fashion.]] |
| 82 | * {{BFS}}: Syaoran's sword. Luckily, it is a magic sword, or a skinny little boy like Syaoran probably wouldn't even be able to pick it up, much less wield it effectively. |
| 83 | * BigBad: [[spoiler: Averted. There is no 'evil mastermind' behind the card's antics. They're just independently mischievous. Yue was dormant for the first two seasons and Eriol, at most, invoked the appearance of this trope to help Sakura and the cards]]. |
| 84 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 85 | ** Touya has one for Sakura to the point where he can tell the difference between her and The Mirror. {{Lampshaded}} by Yukito in which he tells Touya he has a 'little sister complex'. The fact that he met Syaoran when he was trying to bully Sakura into giving him the Cards she had caught until then ''really'' doesn't help. |
| 86 | ** Syaoran himself shows traits of this towards Meiling, possible inversion since his age comparison to either of them is unspecified. |
| 87 | * BigDamnReunion: In the ending of the manga, [[spoiler:Fujitaka gains the ability to see spirits thanks to Eriol sharing his power with him and this allows him to have a sweet reunion with his wife's ghost]]. Also, the last pages are the reunion between Sakura and Syaoran after he finally returns to Japan to be with Sakura a few years after he left. |
| 88 | * BigEater: Yukito and Kerberos both have formidable appetites. Sakura can put it away too. |
| 89 | * BigFancyHouse: Tomoyo's mansion is the most prominent (seeing it for the first time stuns Sakura), but other characters have their own, too. The Li family, for instance, have a big place as well. |
| 90 | * BigWhat: Kero's reaction to Sakura admitting she accidentally released all the cards in the first episode. |
| 91 | * BittersweetEnding: The Nelvana dub did not release ''The Sealed Card'' and cut out most of the final episode's romantic context, including the final airport scene. Meaning that Sakura and Syaoran do not happily reunite and the series ends rather bleakly on the note of Syaoran leaving forever and Sakura creating her 53rd card through her tears (which through startling coincidence, the dub edits as "The Hope"). |
| 92 | * BlessedWithSuck: Yue. Though powerful, strong, and intimidating, being the moon means he's only as good as his Master/Mistress. The balance of his creation also predisposes him to the little inconvenience of imminent death while his brother can go about as he pleases. |
| 93 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: [[Creator/NipponIchi NISA]]'s DVD/Blu-Ray sets, while appreciated, have been getting flack for the poor translation of the subtitles, an infamous example being that Sakura calls Syaoran "bestie," which is ''completely'' different from what was intended. This is especially odd, since {{Creator/Geneon}}'s old DVD sets had a pretty good translation for their subtitles, and they could've just reused that. |
| 94 | * {{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). |
| 95 | * {{Bowdlerization}}: |
| 96 | ** The original manga ''rejoices'' in TeacherStudentRomance, and especially with elementary school children, be it Sakura's parents ([[{{Ephebophile}} 25 and 16 at marriage]], and Nadeshiko pregnant at 17), Sakura's older brother Touya and his middle school teacher Mizuki (who left him to go study in England... and eventually enter a relationship with the (seemingly) 11-year-old Eriol), or 11-year-old Rika and her teacher Mr. Terada. The anime dials this back by turning Rika's romance into a one-sided crush and by only having Touya and Mizuki seen admitting their feelings, while the manga goes into enough detail to show they had a relationship of some length. |
| 97 | ** Many of the characters are made to respond emotionally to magical power, especially that owned by other people, ''i.e.'' [[EmotionControl magic forcefully alters their feelings into]] either [[LoveIsInTheAir drawing them together]] or [[HatePlague making them dislike each other]], which in the former case the manga treats as legitimate romance. Sakura, Syaoran, Kero-chan, Touya, and Mizuki-sensei are all indicated to have this condition (e.g. Syaoran is attracted to Yukito because they both have moon-based magic, but his mutual antagonism with Kero and his dislike of Mizuki-sensei happen because the Kero has sun magic and Mizuki-sensei has dissimilar moon magic -- Mizuki-sensei goes so far as to indicate Syaoran ''can't'' like her). Of all the affected characters, only Syaoran manages to get over his magical magnetization. The anime downplays this ''very much''. |
| 98 | ** The Nelvana dub removed all of the (perfectly innocent and totally non-explicit) same-sex relationships from the show, to say nothing of the 31 episodes that were not aired at all. |
| 99 | ** The episodes omitted by WB had been dubbed and still aired in particular regions such as Europe (though is lacking one episode due to the two part finale being merged into one episode). Note it also gets rid of most heterosexual relationships as well. As a result of deleting most of Sakura and Syaoran's romantic infatuation, a lot of the final episode is omitted and the dub is given a much more BittersweetEnding. |
| 100 | * BreakTheCutie: There are several events that make Sakura sad enough to cry, such as the fallout of catching Sleep or the Final Judgement. |
| 101 | * BruceLeeClone: Bruce Lee's name in Japanese would be Li Syaoron. Referenced in ''Tsubasa Chronicle'' when Fay writes Li's name down as "Little Puppy". |
| 102 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 103 | ** Syaoran essentially becomes the ButtMonkey once Meiling is introduced, having to bear all the collateral damage of her GenkiGirl tendencies. When Meiling leaves, he's constantly left a blushing jelly by Sakura. She effectively makes him her Butt Monkey by ''being unfailingly kind and affectionate to him.'' The universe just loves to find any conceivable opportunity to embarrass him outright, as if to prove he's NotSoAboveItAll. Repeatedly. Poor, poor Syaoran... |
| 104 | ** Poor Yamazaki, every time he's caught lying. Apart from being strangled, dragged and stomped on a regular basis, on one occasion he was buried neck deep in sand and was used as target practice with a volleyball. |
| 105 | ** Sakura is probably the one case that rarely does anything to bring it on herself. She's just a clumsy ExtremeDoormat that got dragged into something huge, and gets into a lot of {{slapstick}}. |
| 106 | * CannotSpitItOut: Three separate characters even. Ruby Moon/Nakuru kept interrupting Touya, and lots of things happened preventing Sakura and Syaoran from spitting it out. Kero = Bad ''for'' spitting stuff out. |
| 107 | * CanonDiscontinuity: The arrival of the ''Clear Card'' arc has decanonised (or at least {{Retcon}}ned) the [[DistantFinale epilogue chapter]] of the original manga, which had Syaoran returning after three years, where the new series has him returning while Sakura is still in her first year of middle school. |
| 108 | * CanonForeigner: Meiling is an anime-exclusive character. |
| 109 | * CaptureBalls: Sakura accidentally releases several creatures/spirits sealed inside cards, and has the ability to seal them back into their card form. Other characters like Li/Syaoran can still use the cards however, and and any magical tool created by Clow Reed (who captured the creatures/spirits in the first place) can manipulate the cards. |
| 110 | * CardsOfPower: The Clow Cards contain magical spirits and each card allows Sakura to have access to various types of powers such as PlayingWithFire or MakingASplash. |
| 111 | * CastFullOfGay: The series' key characters are all LGBTQ+ in some capacity. Sakura, Touya and Syaoran are all bi, Tomoyo is a lesbian, Yukito is gay, and Nakuru/Ruby Moon is genderless. |
| 112 | * ChaseScene: Kero and Spinel Sun pursue a ball of fried octopus [[PinballProjectile on a complicated path all over town]] in the [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Bonus episode]] following the ending of the second movie. |
| 113 | * CheerfulChild: |
| 114 | ** Watch a single scene with Sakura and try with all your might ''not'' to say "Awwwwww...". |
| 115 | ** Tomoyo, who in some places is even more cheerful than Sakura herself. |
| 116 | * ChekhovsGun: The Nameless card with the heart on it was more than just a SequelHook, and [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower its true power is revealed at the last moment]] [[spoiler: Combining with the Nothing card to form the Hope card without anyone having to sacrifice their own love.]] |
| 117 | * CherryBlossoms: Sakura's namesake; she roller-blades through a shower of them in the first episode. Also appears in touching scenes in the manga. |
| 118 | ** In episode 10, the school is buried under a huge amount of cherry blossom petals. |
| 119 | * TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Clow Reed, in a rare good example that doesn't have any anger or angst motivating it, and creates a major GambitPileup. CCS is perhaps the only part of the game that makes any sense at all.]] |
| 120 | * ChildMage: Sakura and Syaoran are elementary school level mages. It shows in how Sakura's only magic is using the cards because she doesn't know anything else. Syaoran was raised in it so he has techniques. |
| 121 | * ChildrenDoTheHousework: [[MissingMom Sakura Kinomoto's mother died when she was three years old]] and her father works as a professor at a university. While their father can cook, Sakura and her older brother Touya are both also responsible around the house, doing chores and taking turns cooking dinner to not let their father overwork himself. |
| 122 | * TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: Sakura was chosen by Clow Reed to be his successor. It was NOT a coincidence that she found the Book of Clow and released the cards. That was inevitable.]] |
| 123 | * ClassTrip: A recurring thing in the anime, allowing for Sakura to deal with the Card of the week or even the Trial of the week come Season 3. |
| 124 | * ClingyJealousGirl: At first, Meiling would literally cling to Syaoran's arm and throw Death Glares at Sakura. Then she befriends Sakura while still clinging to Syaoran's arm, and ultimately joins the IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy club with Tomoyo and Touya. |
| 125 | * ClipItsWings: In the penultimate episode, Sakura attempts to use the Fly card to fight. Her opponent shoots one of the wings with a laser blast, setting it on fire. |
| 126 | * ClipShow: The closing scenes of both Seasons Two and Three in the anime due to edits. The Nelvana dub edited a lot of points in the series into such in place of omitted footage. The original edit includes recaps and flashbacks, but far more moderately. |
| 127 | * ComicBookTime: The first episode of Clear Card exhibits this. Sakura is just starting her first year of middle school, but everyone is now using smartphones, and Kero-chan's video game system has been upgrade to a [=PS3=]. |
| 128 | * ConsummateLiar: |
| 129 | ** Yamazaki. A RunningGag in the series is Sakura and Syaoran falling for it every time. |
| 130 | ** Averted every single time, when [[LivingLieDetector Chiharu]] [[ThatLiarLies points it out]], as a result he ends up as a BadLiar. |
| 131 | ** Eriol. When he [[NotSoAboveItAll teams up]] with Yamazaki, they really play this trope straight. |
| 132 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Many episodes have Sakura stumbling into a Clow Card by pure random chance. Sometimes she will go to a place for reasons that have nothing to do with looking for Clow Cards, and a card will just happen to be there anyway. |
| 133 | ** 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 right outfit. |
| 134 | * CooldownHug: Sakura does one to Dash's physical form after converting it into a Sakura Card turns it rampant. |
| 135 | * CostumePorn: Besides the many marvelous outfits Sakura goes Cardcapturing in, even her everyday clothes have flair. See UnlimitedWardrobe for more details. And remember, everyone, it's Creator/{{CLAMP}}! |
| 136 | * CrashIntoHello: Sakura's crashed into Yukito at least twice, met Kaho exactly as described on the Trope page, ended up running into her brother just as she confessed taking his share of cake. In the Sealed Card, she runs into Syaoran around a bend, and then later into Yukito (again) while crying. |
| 137 | * CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Kero, Yue, and the later Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon were created by Clow Reed. We neither get nasty results from them or HumansAreTheRealMonsters type reactions to them. |
| 138 | * CrossDresser: Both the plays in the TV series have the main characters playing Gender swapped roles. Hilarity Ensues. And yeah, it's CLAMP again. |
| 139 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: |
| 140 | ** Sakura herself. Despite being extremely naive and occasionally outright [[TheDitz ditzy]] at times (believes every last one of Yamazaki's ridiculous stories and is completely oblivious to the fact that her two best friends are infatuated with her) she has moments of remarkable inspiration, particularly when it comes to the use of her magic. |
| 141 | ** Syaoran meanwhile is more of a [[NotSoAboveItAll Crouching Badass, Hidden Moron]]. He's normally cool and collective, but has occasional bouts of poor judgement or naivete, he also falls for the pathological liar's lies 100% and is somewhat inept around romantic emotions. |
| 142 | * 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''. Also, while the series is heavily rooted in Chinese and Japanese mythology, the dub interprets many things from an Myth/ArthurianLegend lens (e.g. Sakura's surname being Avalon, the movie's relationship between Clow Reed and the Sorceress being a parallel to MerlinAndNimue). |
| 143 | * CuteBruiser: The Power and The Fight have attractive humanoid forms. Also, Meiling and Syaoran, and even Sakura when she uses The Power card. |
| 144 | * CuteClumsyGirl: |
| 145 | ** Nadeshiko. Like mother, like daughter it seems. |
| 146 | ** Twin Bells's shopkeeper, Maki Matsumoto as well. Sakura met when she was stumbling through shop set-up. |
| 147 | * CuteOversizedSleeves: Some of the card personifications have oversized sleeves, but [[https://ccsakura.fandom.com/wiki/The_Little?file=LittlenSakura.png The Little]] uses the oversized sleeves to symbolize the cuteness of the personification. |
| 148 | * CutenessOverload: Tomoyo brings this on herself by dressing up her beloved Sakura in cute outfits. It works out-of-universe too. It won an award for [[spoiler: the cutest character of the year]]. |
| 149 | * TheCutie: The show ''really'' emphasises Sakura's innocence. The ''Cardcaptors'' dub tried to tone this down, if only to the extent of being a standard sweet little kid than overwhelmingly kind and cheery. |
| 150 | * DarkerAndEdgier: A rare case where the English dub is this to the original edit. ''Cardcaptors'' edits out a lot of the cutesier or more laid back undertones of the story to remake them (occasionally hap hazardously) into more actionized plot lines. The music and dialogue is far less quirky and sometimes brooding, and for some reason, a lot of {{Wild Take}}s and SuperDeformed antics have been edited out. Noticeably, taking out most romantic context and lacking a dub of ''The Sealed Card'' made the ending much more downbeat as well. Hell, just compare the intros: the original is about Sakura musing about her crush on Yukito and the first dub is about the urgency involved in catching the Clow Cards before they cause trouble. |
| 151 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Prominent in the anime. Though Sakura is the main character, most significant cast members get at least one or two spotlight episodes and a healthy amount of screen time otherwise. Syaoran tended to get the lion's share. |
| 152 | * DependingOnTheArtist: A few elements, but most notable by far was ''Sakura's hair color''. Even among the CLAMP artists, her hair color could vary between strawberry blonde, a light red, a very pale brown and then all the way down to chestnut brown. The anime stuck mostly to a mid-tone brown but could still vary, especially depending on lighting conditions. Fan artists, of course, will happily pick one of the ''many'' published hair colors and run with it and it alone. The 2017 Clear Card anime adaptation, curiously, opts more for the strawberry blonde interpretation -- despite the fact that it's meant to be a ''direct sequel'' to the original, stridently brown-haired 1997 show. |
| 153 | * DeusExMachina: A JustifiedTrope in episode 6 when Sakura encounters [[spoiler: the illusion card, which, on the date her dead mother's birthday, adopts her form, and thus lures Sakura into falling off a cliff. Before hitting the ground nonetheless a translucid hand (presumably that of her real mom) appears out of nowhere and slows down her fall]]. As a backup Deus Ex Machina Yukito just happened to be passing by at that precise moment to come and pick her up. It counts as this trope because it was not yet established that [[spoiler: Nadeshiko was still hanging around her family as a ghost.]] |
| 154 | * DieOrFly: Deliberately invoked by Eriol to help Sakura change the cards. She either succeeds or bad things happen to her or those around her. |
| 155 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In episode 43, a random woman hums the second season opening as she walks to a mailbox. |
| 156 | * DirectLineToTheAuthor: 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]]. |
| 157 | * DisappearedDad: |
| 158 | ** Tomoyo's father doesn't seem to exist, and Sakura muses to herself that it seems to be a "complicated matter". Also, Syaoran's father passed away when he was very young. Neither one influences the plot. |
| 159 | ** Yukito lives with his grandparents, who are conveniently away on vacation or leaving the house early / late every day. [[spoiler: It's because they don't exist at all.]] |
| 160 | * DistressBall: |
| 161 | ** Meiling could be [[TheDitz incredibly stupid]] at times, usually ending up as the ButtMonkey, or worse, seriously endangering herself and others. On one occasion she went after the Fight card despite the fact that she had no magical powers. Or the occasion where she was in possession of the Shot Card. Syaoran could have been killed. |
| 162 | ** Sakura also played this trope on numerous occasions, and it has been used for Syaoran to end up in an embarrassingly intimate scenario with her exposing his Dere-Dere side. The most prominent example is when she tried to convert all the cards at once despite lacking enough power, which, apart from being a very reckless thing to do, sent the Dash card panicking as it was not transformed without a sufficiently strong need. And in that episode, Sakura also uses the Jump Card despite the fact that her powers are so drained she's sure not to make it safely enough. Guess who rescues her... |
| 163 | ** And in episode 69 she even tries to fight Eriol, who has retained ''all'' his powers from his previous life as Clow Reed. |
| 164 | ** She had to learn the hard way that putting off writing your name on the card you've captured is not at all recommended. |
| 165 | ** The SickEpisode where she was burning with high fever and tried to capture a card by herself barely able to stand. Cue [[TheRival the rival party]] to the rescue. |
| 166 | * TheDitz: Sakura and Meiling whenever her Genkiness goes overboard. [[PingPongNaivete These two also seem to take turns at this trope]]. When one of them acts the Ditz, the other usually is intelligent. |
| 167 | * TheDividual: For logistical purposes, The Light and The Dark are generally regarded as a pair. Sakura even complies with their request to be sealed together. |
| 168 | ** Similarly, at the end of the Sakura Card arc, The Light and The Dark must be transformed into Sakura cards together, with Kero stating "Light and Dark are always together". |
| 169 | * DoggedNiceGuy: Syaoran in his [[{{Tsundere}} 'dere dere']] moods. Taken to extremes around Sakura in later episodes, though she rarely sees it as anything more than him being a kind friend to her. |
| 170 | * DubInducedPlothole: |
| 171 | ** The ''Cardcaptors'' English dub redid a ''lot'' of things about the original, so unsurprisingly some plotholes ensued: |
| 172 | *** Due to [[AnachronicOrder episode shuffling]], the dub has Kero advising Sakura to use Windy, Fly, and Shadow to capture the Watery card because they're her oldest cards. In the actual anime, those are the only cards she had at the time. Even worse, an episode that aired beforehand in that run showed Sakura as already possessing Watery. |
| 173 | *** The episode with Sakura's {{doppelganger}} has her use her captured Clow Cards to identify its nature. The card symbolizing what it's seeking is The Flower. This is intended to refer to her brother Touya, [[MeaningfulName whose name meant "peach blossom"]], but his DubNameChange to Tori meant Sakura somehow deduces this from a mere screenshot of Tori standing among cherry blossoms. |
| 174 | ** The official English release of the manga has Syaoran calling Sakura by her first name in one of their exchanges in Chapter 17, even though the Japanese keeps the HeyYou approach. This becomes inconsistent when Syaoran dramatically calls Sakura by her name for what's supposed to be the first time in Chapter 23, which makes Sakura really happy and prompts her to call him by his first name; in the English release the two keep the same conversation, making Sakura's "You've never called me by my first name before!" hilariously wrong. |
| 175 | * DubNameChange: |
| 176 | ** Nearly every character except Sakura suffer from name changes in both the English and French dubs, as it was very popular to do back when they aired. |
| 177 | ** In the Korean dub, Sakura is renamed to Cherry. This is fitting, because Sakura means "cherry blossom". |
| 178 | * DubPersonalityChange: 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. Madison, as Tomoyo is known in the dub, has ValleyGirl traits to her (though still being a model student). |
| 179 | * DubPronunciationChange: The ''Cardcaptors'' dub changed the way Sakura's name is pronounced from "Sock-oo-ra" to "Sa-koo-ra". |
| 180 | * DramaticIrony: The audience learns fairly early on that the NewTransferStudent Eriol is the reincarnation of Clow Reed, while the other characters are left in the dark until the finale. That being said, the audience is left to wonder for quite some time why the guy who was spoken of so highly all this time is now acting like a creepy antagonist. |
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| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Tropes E to L]] |
| 184 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Back when Syaoran first uses The Time card to help Sakura defeat The Power, he shows no visible strain of using it, likely that the amount of magic for using it has not been established. Later, any usage of Time leaves both Syaoran and Sakura drained of magic once they use it. |
| 185 | * TheEeyore: Even after revealing their soft side, Syaoran and Yue are still rather humorless and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] in tone. [[spoiler: Spinel Sun also seems to count as one]]. |
| 186 | * ElementalRockPaperScissors: Played in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin standard textbook style]]. [[spoiler: Earthy is captured by Wood and Firey by a combination of Windy and Watery]]. |
| 187 | * ElementNumberFive: The Nothing, as appears in the second movie. Technically element number 53, but who's counting? |
| 188 | * EmotionControl: In the manga, it turns out that magical characters are attracted or repelled by one another based on the sun-based or moon-based magic that they may have -- magical polarity becomes the basis of romance or hatred for multiple characters (the only relationship between magical characters that definitively ''isn't'' driven by magic is between Sakura and Syaoran, who overcomes his magical attraction to Yukito and begins pursuing Sakura). The anime [[{{Bowdlerization}} deliberately refused to mention this]]. |
| 189 | %%* EmpathicWeapon: The cards, especially Mirror. |
| 190 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Whatever happens to TheChosenOne if they fail to master the Clow Cards, will be this on a very personal level. Namely, [[spoiler: your family and friends will no longer care about you, you about them, or them about each other.]] |
| 191 | * EnergyBeings: The Card Spirits, though they usually take the form of humanoids (often, though not always, beautiful women) or strange animals. Of special mention is the Illusion Card, which even in its true form is formless; it can be commanded to take the form of anyone or anything. [[spoiler: Sakura uses it to take the Sword Card from Rika by having the Illusion card transform into their teacher, whom Rika has a crush on (and in the manga an actual relationship with).]] |
| 192 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: |
| 193 | ** Sakura herself isn't bad, both Syaoran and Tomoyo are ''very'' much in love with her. |
| 194 | ** Kaho, who Sakura seems to 'admire' greatly and is described as really, really pretty. |
| 195 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Yukito has Sakura, Syaoran, and Touya fall for him. |
| 196 | * EveryoneIsBi: Everyone. Syaoran had a crush on Yukito for half the series, Sakura herself admitted that her feelings for Kaho were the same as her feelings for Yukito, and so on. |
| 197 | * EveryoneIsRelated: |
| 198 | ** In the manga, [[spoiler:Clow's mother is Syaoran's great, great, [...] grandmother. Sakura's father is one of Clow Reed's reincarnations. Put this all together and Sakura and Syaoran are actually veritable cousins, or possibly even half-siblings, depending on how you look at the reincarnation aspect of family trees. This being [[CLAMP]], one must wonder whether or not this was deliberate.]] |
| 199 | ** Rarely if ever mentioned beyond its introduction, but Sakura and Tomoyo are second cousins. |
| 200 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: During a flashback of Sonomi's memories with Nadeshiko, we see a pair of female students that heavily resemble Chiharu and Rika, possibly being their mothers. |
| 201 | * EvilSorcerer: The first movie had Clow Reed's former student Madoushi, particularly in the dub (where she was also his girlfriend at one point). |
| 202 | * EvolvingCredits: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example. Beginning with episode 9, following his introduction to the story, Syaoran replaces Fujitaka in the opening. 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, but it's included in NIS America's Blu-ray release. |
| 203 | * ExtremeDoormat: Reconstructed. Sakura is near flawlessly passive and polite to everyone, no matter how much abuse or soul crushing banter they lay onto her. This undying kind streak however always manages to get to those around her, with even the coldest of hearts ultimately becoming loyal friends. |
| 204 | * EyesAlwaysShut: |
| 205 | ** Yamazaki. There was ''only one'' scene in the manga where he opens them. |
| 206 | ** There was a special in the anime that Sakura, Meiling, Syaoran and Tomoyo wondering about why his eyes are always closed. When they realize he actually opened them earlier in the episode and actually found the thing (a blue mailbox) he had been talking about, they conclude that he only opens his eyes when he tells the truth. [[spoiler: Actually, he only opens them when someone steps on his foot]]. |
| 207 | ** 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. |
| 208 | ** [[TheChessmaster Clow Reed]] in the anime. The only time his eyes are open is in a bonus art pic, where they are shown to be blue. |
| 209 | * TheFaceless: All characters who appear in Sakura's foretelling dreams. [[spoiler: Their faces are shown over time (except Yue)]]. Also Eriol and his guardians in scenes where he watches from the shadows. Interestingly in the bonus extra episode after the second movie, only Kero and Suppie's faces are shown, while the faces of the rest of the cast, including Sakura, are deliberately not covered by the camera. |
| 210 | %%* {{Fainting}} |
| 211 | %%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The Dream Card Episode. |
| 212 | %%**Yukito repeatedly fainting for Touya to catch him. Eventually it starts going the other way after Touya gives Yue his powers. |
| 213 | * FaintInShock: When Sakura hugs Syaoran for the first time in "Recap/CardCaptorSakuraSakuraAndTheShrineOfMemories", the shock of it proves too much for the poor kid and he faints. Doesn't help that he's already completely exhausted. |
| 214 | * FairyCompanion: Kero's SleepModeSize is a flying stuffed animal, and he gives advice. |
| 215 | * FalseStart: Most of the second half of the manga and Season 3 of the anime is about Syaoran trying to work up the nerve for a LoveConfession and something interrupting. ''The Sealed Card'' likewise but from Sakura's side. |
| 216 | * FanOfTheUnderdog: |
| 217 | ** Meiling of the anime adaption, [[StalkerWithACrush idolizing Syaoran]] and being the only other member of the Cardcaptor group that considers him most deserving of the title of Master Of The Cards. |
| 218 | ** Sakura also exists as an interesting light variation, in that despite being Syaoran's [[TheRival rival]], she looks up to him greatly and is largely convinced of his superior intelligence and competence. Her extremely affectionate treatment towards Syaoran would naturally also play into his own opinion of her. In addition, Sakura is also kind and supportive to Meiling ([[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy which leads the latter to accept her as Syaoran's true love]]). |
| 219 | * {{Flanderization}}: In the anime. |
| 220 | ** Sakura's naivete and {{Moe}}-aspects. Sometimes a bit too much. To play on Syaoran's own Flanderization, she also became a bit more [[GenkiGirl perky and over affectionate]]. |
| 221 | ** Syaoran's [[{{Tsundere}} romantic awkwardness]] to the point of becoming a [[ShrinkingViolet meek]] DoggedNiceGuy. His difficult temper is also exaggerated sometimes. |
| 222 | ** Tomoyo's fawning over Sakura shifts to somewhat [[CloudCuckooLander bizarre lengths]] later on (not that it was subtle before however). Any small trace of her personality not revolved around Sakura in anyway is forgotten about in the final arc. |
| 223 | ** As a somewhat aversion, Big Kero seems to become more [[CloudCuckooLander "Little Kero-ish"]] as the series progresses. |
| 224 | * FloralThemeNaming: The Kinomotos all have plant-related names: Sakura's name means "cherry blossom", Touya has the kanji for "peach" in his name, the "fuji" in Fujitaka's name means "wisteria", and Nadeshiko's name refers to a pink variety of dianthus. [[note]]Specifically, ''Dianthus superbus'', the "fringed pink."[[/note]] Their family name, Kinomoto, means "root of the tree". |
| 225 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In episode 27 (of the original series) Li mentions to Sakura that people with magical power are drawn to each other while warning her to be careful around Mizuki. Moments after this she argues that she can't help what she feels around Mizuki or [[spoiler: Yukito]]. This is reinforced when both she and Li admit that they were [[spoiler: drawn to Yukito]] at first sight exactly the same way Sakura was [[spoiler: drawn to Mizuki when they first met]]. |
| 226 | * FreakyFridayFlip: Syaoran and Kero in episode 32 thanks to the Change Card. In the dub, their voices also switch over. It only lasts for one day. |
| 227 | %%* FreeRangeChildren |
| 228 | * FreeSamplePlotCoupon: In the first episode, while the rest of the Clow Cards were freed, the Windy remains (Sakura having had it in her hand when she read its name). |
| 229 | * FreezeFrameBonus: In episode 18, Sakura's bookshelf contains a book by or about -- of all people -- ''Che Guevara''. She's 10, by the way. |
| 230 | * FriendlyRival: Syaoran tried to be a full on ruthless rival to Sakura at first, but gradually caved in to Sakura's kind nature. Meiling followed suit. In most episodes of the second season they are casually hanging out with her and Tomoyo or teaming up to collect cards. Who earns them slowly becomes an afterthought, and in some cases they even give the other their earned cards out of sympathy or gratitude. |
| 231 | * FriendshipSong: "Anata to Ireba" is a CD-exclusive song about the friendship between Sakura and Tomoyo. |
| 232 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Sakura in a rather swift period of time can endear herself to any living entity due to her everpresent compassion and innocence, even Syaoran's strict and stoic mother (Li Yelan) can't resist after just one day with her and even gives a very motherly kiss. Note that at that time Syaoran was still seeing Sakura as a rival (if now to a rather lingering degree). By the end of the story, this is true of ''every single character'' in the show, even the bitter and lonely Nothing Card, which becomes The Hope. It's [[LampshadeHanging openly stated in the manga]] that everyone loves Sakura. |
| 233 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "Sakura and the Snowy Ski Class", one tracking shot follows Syaoran as he skis. In the background, you can see Chiharu strangling Yamazaki with no context given. |
| 234 | * GardenGarment: The 'Woody' card wears plants. |
| 235 | * GenerationXerox: Sonomi loved Sakura's mother Nadeshiko, and her daughter Tomoyo follows the trend with Sakura. In both cases it ends up unrequited. It's also averted in the way they react to it though: Sonomi dealt with it by developing a seething hatred for the man Nadeshiko married, thinking of him as the one annoying bug Sonomi couldn't keep away from Nadeshiko. Tomoyo dealt with it by practically ''cheering'' the prospect of Sakura being happy together with Syaoran; Tomoyo's personality, unlike her mother's, was not adversely impacted by rejection. |
| 236 | * GenkiGirl: Meiling is full of energy and it makes her quite the {{Determinator}}. Sakura has a lot of Genki moments too. |
| 237 | * GenreSavvy: Tomoyo insists that Sakura wear costumes and have a signature pose because that's what in-universe fictional [[MagicalGirl magical girls]] are supposed to do. Also, she has a crush and thinks it's cute. |
| 238 | * GhostLegLottery: Mizuki uses the ghost leg to select students' roles for a school play. |
| 239 | %%* GiantPoofySleeves |
| 240 | %%* GirlishPigtails: Sakura and Chiharu. |
| 241 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Sakura's friends have them and shop for them. Kero has to act this part for Sakura and it works because of this trope. |
| 242 | * GottaCatchEmAll: Played straight in the first season with Sakura catching Clow's cards and then tweaked in the third season [[spoiler:as Sakura is forced to turn all the Clow Cards she's ''already'' captured into Sakura Cards]]. |
| 243 | * GroundhogDayLoop: Anime only. The Time Card resets the same day thrice till it's captured. Though after reading ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' one wonders how it did not screw up TheMultiverse in the process (though the multiverse was invented later). |
| 244 | * HappilyEverAfter: Rather a surprise, coming from Creator/{{CLAMP}}. |
| 245 | ** In the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ccsmangaending_4870.jpg manga]]. Together Forever. |
| 246 | ** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ccs27_320.jpg And this is how it ends in the anime]]. While it didn't address some points in the manga, [[AdaptationExpansion the plot was considerably more elaborate]]. |
| 247 | * HappyEnding: Both manga and anime. Both share a feature: post [[LoveConfession love confessions]], the moment Sakura hugs Syaoran, the series is over. |
| 248 | * HappyHarlequinHat: One of Sakura's costumes as well as more than a few of the Clow Card spirits themselves wear hats like this. |
| 249 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Using the power of the card's creatively is the key, regarding of how "useless" they might appear. |
| 250 | * HeyYou: |
| 251 | ** 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, Syaoran and The Elevator" leads him to yell her first name in anguish. Sakura having heard this, asks to continue this trend and to call "Syaoran-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. |
| 252 | ** Some manga translations switched. The German version, in Volume 1 until 4, Sakura and Syaoran refer to each other by first name. Volume 5, though, switches it to Syaoran not using her name at all (until Sakura falls down a crack in the ground and he yells her name) while Sakura calls him Li. |
| 253 | ** In the Japanese, this also applies to Touya and Yue. Both avoid calling (most) other characters by name -- likely because it would require them to acknowledge their level of affection for the person in question. Similar to Syaoran, but these two take it a step farther by even avoiding intimate pronouns whenever possible. In Touya's case, it also makes his nicknaming Yukito "Yuki" all the more conspicuous. |
| 254 | * HideYourLesbians: Tomoyo never gets to confess her true feelings to Sakura. This is in stark contrast with Syaoran, who gets ''encouraged'' to do this -- [[ShipperOnDeck by Tomoyo, no less.]] |
| 255 | * HitodamaLight: PlayedForLaughs when Kero dons hitodama and a CreepyMonotone when he is particularly annoyed at Sakura -- [[BigEater because she got to eat a delicious cake and he didn't]]. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash Then Tomoyo appears behind Sakura and reveals she got him a slice anyway]]]]. |
| 256 | * HotBlooded: Meiling is passionate about whatever she's doing, be it baking, racing, or going after Clow cards. |
| 257 | * HowDoIShotWeb: When [[FreakyFridayFlip in Kero's body]], Syaoran cannot use his wings, falling out of a window twice. |
| 258 | %%* HypnoTrinket |
| 259 | * 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/Episode_8_Battle_Costume one]]. |
| 260 | * IKnowYourTrueName: The only way Sakura can capture [[spoiler:Mirror]] is by discovering which card it is. This card can NoSell everything until then. |
| 261 | * InASingleBound: Jump Card can cross HUGE distances (whole city blocks), [[RoofHopping roof hop with ease]], reach heights to ''the top of Tokyo tower'' and always lands soft from any height with exceptional accuracy. It can literally land on a dime. Syaoran too, for that matter: Even without magic, he seems to have springs for legs that allow him to reach impossible heights, even to the tops of trees and in a series of jumps gets to the top of a several storey high Ferris wheel with no problems. |
| 262 | * InconsistentDub: At first, the Fly was translated as "Wings" in the Greek dub (which is the closest translation), then was changed to "Fly" but with the meaning of "Rush" (as the word "Fly" can mean either "Fly" like in "Fly in the Sky" or "Fly" like "Rush" in Greek). |
| 263 | * InconsistentSpelling: |
| 264 | ** Tangentially related; the merchandise can't decide whether it wants to use Chinese or Japanese spellings, so we get "Syaoran" and "Meiling" on the same things. "Syaoran" is Japanese Romaji with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki Kunrei Romanization]] method (seldom used outside Japan and not often even there). "Shaoran" is Romaji with the more widely-used Hepburn system. Shaoran's Chinese name would be romanized as "Xiaolang", meaning "little wolf". "Meirin" would be the appropriate Japanese Romaji for Meiling's name (which means "Strawberry Bell", amusingly enough). |
| 265 | ** Interestingly, [[Creator/NipponIchi NIS America]], during their license rescue, brought the hammer down as they are occasionally wont to do... and decided to cleave for the ''Chinese'' readings of the Li family names over everything else. While this makes the most sense from an English-language perspective, it's also the first time a product release has ever formally referred to the male lead as "Xiaolang" and throws some fans off-balance. (Hilariously, this means "Meiling" remains unchanged, comparatively.) |
| 266 | * IncredibleShrinkingMan: Sakura twice over, first after getting victimized by the Little Card, and later when sucked into Eriol's ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]'' illusion. She uses the Little Card to shrink again in the latter, but only to revert to normal size after [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever an enlargement spell]]. |
| 267 | * InMediasRes: The manga begins with Sakura in the middle of finding and capturing a Clow Card, and a later flashback shows how she found the book and was tasked with being a cardcaptor. The anime begins before that flashback takes place. |
| 268 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Sakura never has a cruel bone in her body, but is ridiculously naive and terrible at reading emotions. She obliviously exasperates Syaoran's crush on her, and she is occasionally rather inconsiderate toward Kero (though Kero himself dishes this back at times as well). She also never has the foggiest clue that Tomoyo is in love with her, let alone the fact that by cheering Sakura and Syaoran on, Tomoyo is making a huge sacrifice for her sake. |
| 269 | * InstantExpert: Anyone who uses the Sword Card instantly gets ImplausibleFencingPowers. Many of the other cards also give this, such as The Fight. |
| 270 | * IntoxicationEnsues: |
| 271 | ** Suppie (Spinel Sun). Eating ''anything'' which has sugar in it ''in any amount'' results in a massive out of control drunken spree that sends him on a sugar binge. As a side effect a drunk Suppie becomes much cuter and hilarious but eventually he starts firing these, and then hell breaks loose. |
| 272 | ** Kero eats a box of chocolates; unfortunately, they were '''liquor''' chocolates. Ends with a "What happened last night?" moment. |
| 273 | * InvertedPortrait: Sakura herself briefly in the third anime OP. |
| 274 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Both Meiling and Tomoyo accept their crushes will be happy with other people. Yukito attempts this, but [[spoiler:he gets to be with his beloved]], so it doesn't count. |
| 275 | * JediMindTrick: Eriol. No civilians notice anything odd or for that matter are even present at the scene of action, not even when huge earthquakes and large masses of rock rip through the town. |
| 276 | * TheJoyOfFirstFlight: Sakura gets pretty giggly after using the newly captured Fly Card for the first time. |
| 277 | %%%%% This is a list. It is not context. |
| 278 | %%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Syaoran, Meiling, and Touya. |
| 279 | * KissingCousins: Averted. |
| 280 | ** The only canonical two couples who are cousins never kiss and (in the case of Syaoran and Meiling) eventually break up. Likewise, [[spoiler:Nadeshiko and Sonomi]] were cousins, but it was one-sided on [[spoiler:Sonomi]]'s part. |
| 281 | ** A GenerationXerox results in [[spoiler:Tomoyo crushing on Sakura]], but again it's unrequited. The difference here is that [[spoiler:Tomoyo]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy is OK with her being happy with someone else]]. |
| 282 | * KnightTemplar: The Nothing Card of the second movie after centuries being hidden and alone, is vehement on being reunited with it's fellow cards, whether they want it or not, and also has nothing against erasing huge populations of innocent beings in her frenzied search. [[spoiler: In a rare case for the trope, she gets the point in the end and reverses everything after being caught by Sakura, so she can be accepted willingly as a friend]]. [[spoiler: Ruby Moon, while mostly working with Eriol in assisting Sakura, seems to gain a self proclaimed rivalry with Yue to potentially murderous ambitions]]. |
| 283 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: Touya [[spoiler: because he made a promise to his mother while she was dying to always protect Sakura]]. |
| 284 | * LastDayOfNormalcy: Half part of the first episode shows Sakura's daily life. She takes the breakfast made by her father Fujitaka as her brother Toya teases her, while Sakura's voice presents them and explains her mother died long ago; she goes to school on skates, has a crush on Toya's best friend Yukito and, on her turn, is idolized by her own friend Tomoyo. When she comes back home, her family still hasn't come, and Sakura is frightened of a weird som at Fujitaka's library. She doesn't find anyone there, but sees a shining book and accidentaly liberates the cards kept inside it. |
| 285 | * LateForSchool: Sakura's biggest "Hoee!"s are usually reserved for this. The best one was when she arrives to class about 5 seconds before Terada walks in. |
| 286 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 287 | ** A [[LampshadedTrope lampshading]] of the many relationships in the series: |
| 288 | --->'''Tomoyo:''' It seems our relationship chart has gotten rather complicated. |
| 289 | ** In the FreakyFridayFlip episode, she [[LampshadedTrope notes that]] the combination of a comical Li and serious Kero provides excellent humour. |
| 290 | --->'''Tomoyo:''' You have the perfect timing, as if I was watching a wonderful comic combo... |
| 291 | * LighterAndSofter: This perhaps one of the most light-hearted CLAMP works, lacking the violence and tragedy elements present in other series like ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' and ''Manga/{{X 1999}}''. |
| 292 | * LiteralCliffhanger: The final scene of the anime at the end of the Sealed Card movie, though after everything that's happened, it's a very mild example. It was eventually subverted: A lesser known fact is that the minor Cliffhanger at the end of the anime was indeed settled [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110210042711/ccs/images/thumb/3/3d/Ccs26.jpg/742px-Ccs26.jpg by the Bonus Art Poster]] that came out in the DVD. Also see WhatHappenedToTheMouse below. |
| 293 | * TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Or better said, "the little book that wasn't in my basement yesterday". Also the Twin Bells gift shop. |
| 294 | * LivingLabyrinth: The Maze card. |
| 295 | * LogicalWeakness: The Clow Cards' weaknesses are fairly straightforward, in keeping with the power held in them. For example, Sakura traps the Water Card by trapping in an industrial-sized freezer, with Wind speeding up the process. |
| 296 | * LongDistanceRelationship: Happens at the end where [[spoiler:Sakura and Syaoran hook up right before he returns to Hong Kong and she remains in Japan]]. It gets subverted in the manga, where it is revealed that Syaoran [[spoiler:finally moved back to Tomoeda after three long years in Hong Kong, apparently just to be with Sakura at Seijuu Junior High]]. Also subverted in the ''Clear Card'' sequel, where [[spoiler:Syaoran returns during Sakura's first year in middle school]]. |
| 297 | * LongRunnerTechMarchesOn: While the series isn't exactly a LongRunner as such, the ''Clear Card'' series (written 16 years after the original manga ended) picks up less than a year later, but Sakura has gone from having an old-fashioned analogue mobile phone and writing letters, to using a modern smartphone and communicating by email. Also, judging from the controller Kero plays games on, her games console has gone from a [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] to either a [[Platform/PlayStation3 PS3]] or [[Platform/PlayStation4 PS4]]. |
| 298 | %%* LongingLook |
| 299 | * LoveDodecahedron: Meiling has the hots for her cousin Syaoran, who is at first in love with Yukito -- but then so is Sakura, who also has Tomoyo after her, but Yukito sees both of them as siblings, and instead prefers Sakura's brother Touya, whose ex Kaho is in a relationship with [[spoiler:Eriol]], who ''seemed'' (at least, to Syaoran) to like Sakura, who eventually ends up with Syaoran. |
| 300 | * LoveRevelationEpiphany: Sakura to Syaoran's confession in the anime finale. |
| 301 | * LoyalPhlebotinum: [[EmpathicWeapon The Cards]]. However before the judgement, the cards choose either Syaoran or Sakura depending on who had the significant role in its capture. |
| 302 | * LuminescentBlush: Some of the funniest moments in the series are due to the fact that if there's even the slightest chance at pulling this off, it ''will'' happen to poor Syaoran. To name some examples: |
| 303 | ** Syaoran's very first blush when Sakura hugs him after capturing the Return card. He never quite managed to pull another one like ''that'' since. |
| 304 | ** He gets it when he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext in Kero's body]] and Yukito hands him to Sakura, asking if she dropped a plush toy. |
| 305 | ** Also, he spends almost half his screen time in the red and even maroon from Season 3 on. This guy could give tomatoes and beetroots a lesson in turning red. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Tropes M to P]] |
| 309 | * MadeOfIron: Most of the time, no one gets even slightly injured. Not even after being buried under tidal waves, falling from any height (even landing hard on some occasions), rocked by gigantic earthquakes, hit by explosions of antimatter type magic, repeatedly slammed into walls and even steel girders, pierced by razor sharp crystal shards, almost drowned by huge water spouts, surrounded by raging fires and so on. But the worst offender is when Sakura is not even scratched after being hit and sent flying by a fast moving roller coaster. |
| 310 | * MagicAIsMagicA: In the episode "Sakura and her Kind Father," while capturing a card Sakura accidentally breaks the laptop containing the research her dad had slaved over for days. The whole scene is played in an actual heartbreaking way, as she realizes this is something she can't fix with magic. |
| 311 | * MagicalGirl: Sakura is one of the most well-known examples of this trope, second only to Franchise/SailorMoon herself. |
| 312 | * MagicalIncantation: Fairly long ones. |
| 313 | * MagicWand: Sakura and [[spoiler:Eriol]] wield one. |
| 314 | * MascotsLoveSugar: |
| 315 | ** Kero constantly eats sweets despite the fact that he not only doesn't need to eat but is also just barely larger than the utensils. This has caused problems on several occasions, including briefly living in another house after getting drunk off chocolates that contain brandy, giving random answers on Sakura's math homework sheets to get it out of the way so she'll buy him pastries and, of course, being fed by Sakura for over a year for his own amusement. |
| 316 | ** Spinel enjoys sweet things, but only after eating them when he is put in a state of alcohol-free drunkenness. |
| 317 | * MaybeEverAfter: The ending of the TV series. [[SequelHook Averted]] when the Second Movie came along. |
| 318 | * MeaningfulName: Anyone with the kanji for "moon" in their name will have a magical connection to the moon; Nakuru Akizuki and Yukito Tsukishiro both have ''doubly'' meaningful names. Lampshaded by Kero in episode 47 of the anime when he starts inquiring about the kanji for Eriol's name. |
| 319 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Averted with a vengeance. Sakura's mother passed away when she was three and she lives with her father and teenage brother, who both cook, clean, and sew, and she occasionally mentions how they taught or are still teaching her how. It's also mentioned that her mother was somewhat clumsy and a terrible cook-- not to mention rich enough that her family can afford paid housekeeing. Her male classmates, Syaoran, Yamazaki, and Eriol, are also all mentioned to be good cooks, Yamazaki and Eriol can both sew, and Syaoran (who lives alone in the manga) and Eriol (who lives with his magical familiars) both have immaculately clean spaces. Yukito also lives alone, and doesn't seem to have any trouble. |
| 320 | * MercurysWings: The Nothing (or alternatively, The Hope Card) from the second movie has wings on its head. |
| 321 | * MissingMom: Sakura's mom, Nadeshiko died when Sakura was only three. On a few occasions her ghost appears, once as a trick by a Clow Card and another when she checks on Sakura when she's sick and helps relieve her fever. |
| 322 | * MistakenForGay: Syaoran thought he had a crush on Yukito, but it later turned out [[spoiler: he was just attracted to the high amount of moon energy inside him]]. |
| 323 | * MobileMaze: In the Maze Card episode, Sakura cannot simply fly out of the maze because the walls will magically grow too high to fly over, and if Syaoran tries to cut through the walls with his sword, they will magically re-form again. |
| 324 | * MomentKiller: Too many to list, but Syaoran's attempted love confessions and Touya trying to tell Yukito the truth about himself, and then in the Sealed Card Sakura's own attempts at love confessions. In fact one occasion Sakura was interrupted by The Nothing in a play while playing the part of the princess about to tell the prince how she feels. |
| 325 | * MonogenderMonsters: The Clow Cards are mostly women or gender neutral forces/concepts. |
| 326 | * MoodWhiplash: The Sleep Card episode. For the most part, it is a cheerful glimpse into Sakura's dad's university life with Sakura ever so eager to help. And then, just after she seals the card, disaster strikes. |
| 327 | * TheMovie: Two of them in fact; the first one is literally named after this trope. The first one happens exactly half way through the TV series, and the second one concludes the anime. |
| 328 | * {{Mukokuseki}}: Rather prevalent on everyone, although Syaoran and Meiling get to look somewhat more "asian" (likely due to being Chinese). Sakura is the most blatantly noticeable in this regard, though, since she's got big round ''green'' eyes, reddish-brown hair (that seems to vary a bit depending on the lighting present) and a very fair complexion... and she is still, in theory, 100% Yamato in ancestry.[[note]]Well, okay, 98% Yamato thanks to her relation to Clow Reed, although Reed's own ancestry is confusing as heck, and both sides of her family have been in Japan for centuries now.[[/note]] Heck, at times she almost doesn't look ''related'' to her brother or father at all. Selling her as a caucasian in the dub (with the family name change to "Avalon") was not particularly difficult. |
| 329 | * MundaneUtility: Because the flower shop was closed, Sakura once used The Flower to make an armful of flowers she wanted. |
| 330 | * MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Chinese and Western magic, before Clow combined them in the Clow Cards. |
| 331 | * NeverGrewUp: Eriol |
| 332 | * NeverSayDie: Regarding Yukito and Yue. |
| 333 | * NightAndDayDuo: The Clow Cards [[SolarAndLunar fall under either 'sun' or 'moon' domains]], and are "led" by Sakura's two magical companions: the fire-breathing lion Kerberos (sun) and the mysteriously beautiful humanoid Yue (moon). Their designs reflect this as well, with Kerberos being golden and Yue having a white and blue color scheme. In particular, the Light and Dark card spirits, who are so closely intertwined that they request to be sealed together. |
| 334 | * NightmareFetishist: Naoko |
| 335 | * NoblewomansLaugh: Meiling gives these on occasion, usually when appearing triumphant -- and often to Sakura. |
| 336 | * NoBiologicalSex: Ruby Moon is technically genderless, but chooses to pass herself off as female because, as she puts it, girls get to wear cuter clothes. |
| 337 | * NoEndorHolocaust: Eriol puts the entire town to sleep for Sakura's final test. The fact that many people would be in life-threatening situations if put asleep, such as when driving, is ignored. |
| 338 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: |
| 339 | ** Yue to Sakura in the Final Judgment. Although not terribly violent, it's still significantly darker than anything before that point. Sakura cries out in pain as she's thrown into steel girders and hit by sharp crystal shards, unable and unwilling to fight back. |
| 340 | ** Syaoran's battle with Yue beforehand isn't suggested to be much better, [[GoryDiscretionShot if less graphic]]. We hear a loud offscreen yell in pain before he reappears battered and bruised and barely able to stand. Naturally Sakura, Yue's next opponent is rightfully horrified. |
| 341 | * 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 least controversial 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. |
| 342 | * NoOntologicalInertia: |
| 343 | ** The Clow Cards and Yue. They've only survived for so long because they were running on batteries. |
| 344 | ** Averted with Kerberos. In the Japanese manga, he says he is 'self-sustaining' because he can supplement food as energy when he doesn't receive the amount he needs from Sakura. An odd version of this trope because both Cards and their protectors have technically survived the death of their creator. |
| 345 | ** Anything done by the Clow Cards is undone once they're caught. |
| 346 | * NothingIsScarier: The SceneryGorn the Nothing caused in The Sealed Card, made worse by the fact you can still see what most of the things taken used to be. [[NightmareFuel Goodness]]. |
| 347 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Poor Syaoran, no matter how hard he tries to act dignified and stoic his mystique is always destroyed by some affectionate soul, usually Sakura, reducing him to an (adorable) piece of jelly. |
| 348 | * NotSoStoic: Syaoran started crossing the line regularly after Meiling came along, though by the end of Season 2, once he's fallen for Sakura he probably spends more time ''in'' this trope than out of it. And then we have Yue, who's even more stoic, but even he can't resist Sakura's Moe and CheerfulChild tendencies. And let's not forget Touya. |
| 349 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Anyone with magic who falls, ''Repeatedly''! Only Touya gets injured in a fall. No matter the height, others always break the fall with hardly even a small scratch! At worst! |
| 350 | * ObliviousToLove: |
| 351 | ** [[TheDitz Sakura]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded repeatedly]]. In fact, Syaoran's LoveConfession is a such a huge shock to her when it finally comes, that she can hardly function till she realizes her own feelings. |
| 352 | ** Syaoran himself suffers quite a lot from not recognizing his own feelings and (later on) even SelectiveObliviousness. Ironically for all his experience with this trope he is left clueless against Sakura's incredible [[GenreBlind Genre Blindness]]. |
| 353 | * OfficialCouple: Sakura and Syaoran. CLAMP made doubly sure that this pairing is backed up by PLENTY of canon. Tsubasa wouldn't happen if this pairing didn't come true, period. Tsubasa also backs up Touya and Yukito's relationship, and every other CLAMP pairing, gay or straight. While creating some of its own on the side. An interview with CLAMP involved an offhanded comment that Syaoran and Sakura are, like most CLAMP couples, 100% soulmates and didn't end up together for a "normal pairing" like some people thought; Syaoran and Sakura would have fallen in love even if Syaoran had been a girl or there had been an age gap. |
| 354 | * OmniscientMoralityLicense: [[spoiler:Clow, and later Eriol.]] |
| 355 | * OnceAnEpisode: Sakura captures one card in almost every episode. |
| 356 | * TheOneGuy: Syaoran is the only male character in the main group of four protagonists. That goes true for his family as well (''4 older sisters and his mom''). In fact in the manga it is [[LampshadeHanging explicitly commented]] that he has a very feminine family. |
| 357 | * OurFairiesAreDifferent: A majority of the Clow Cards' spirit forms resemble elves or fairies. |
| 358 | * PairTheSuitors: One of the initial sources of Syaoran's rivalry toward Sakura is that they both have crushes on Yukito. Once Syaoran realizes that [[spoiler:he's more attracted to Yukito's moon-based magic than Yukito himself]], he starts crushing on Sakura instead, and they end the series as the OfficialCouple. |
| 359 | * PerpetualFrowner: |
| 360 | ** Syaoran, except when he's doing a LuminescentBlush. |
| 361 | ** The Nothing card especially so, Until she does a HeelFaceTurn after getting a heart (literally) and becomes a ... |
| 362 | * PerpetualSmiler: Clow and Eriol. Even Fujitaka and for the most part, Yukito can qualify for this. |
| 363 | * PersonalityPowers: Kerberos and Yue. [[InvertedTrope The inversion]] is Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun. |
| 364 | * PerspectiveFlip: Most of the series is played through Sakura's point of view. However, many later parts focus on another character and their relationship with her. Syaoran and Eriol were most prominent cases. |
| 365 | * PimpedOutDress: Sakura's outfits are frequently like this thanks to Tomoyo. |
| 366 | * PingPongNaivete: Sakura is often proved to very resourceful and cunning in her handling of the cards and the perils they cause, however she also has a rather realistic childlike complex, viewing ethics and emotions in a very simplistic manner, and often acting outright oblivious to those of others right in front of her face. She somehow [[ObliviousToLove never figures out by herself that her two best friends are madly in love with her]] (neither of whom are even remotely shrewd about it). |
| 367 | * PinkySwear: Sakura and Syaoran. He's too overwhelmed to refuse! |
| 368 | * PlotTriggeringBook: When Sakura discovers the Book of Clow in her basement she accidentally releases all but one of the mayhem-inducing magical cards inside. She is then tasked by the guardian of the book to recapture the cards. |
| 369 | * PointyEars: Many of the more humanoid Clow Cards possess these. |
| 370 | * PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Clow sets in motion the events of the plot]] partially because while being strong enough [[spoiler:to predict the future with intense accuracy, he couldn't control it. Sakura, being stronger, can also predict the future but can turn it off, unlike Clow]]. And that's the one sensible part of an incomprehensibly huge GambitPileup. |
| 371 | * ThePowerOfLove: The whole story is built around this trope. Prevails in spite of ''everything''. In the manga it succeeds [[spoiler: in bringing Syaoran back to Japan to be with Sakura]]. The anime takes this to the next level very literally when [[spoiler: Sakura creates the nameless card with a winged heart. Later this card merges with the Nothing at the last minute to form the Hope card, and ensuring that Sakura and Syaoran's love survive intact even against the otherwise unconquerable]]. |
| 372 | * PowerStrainBlackout: Used with abandon for ShipTease most prominently throughout Season 3. As Sakura drains herself by creating her own cards, she usually faints from the best possible position to fall into Syaoran. LuminescentBlush ensues. |
| 373 | * PragmaticAdaptation: |
| 374 | ** Among others, the ending is the most notable case in the series. The manga explicitly states [[spoiler: (when Yukito consoles Sakura when she makes the teddy bear for Syaoran)]] that overcoming the Long Distance barrier testifies to ThePowerOfLove. The impact of long distance is toned down in the anime with characters frequently and liberally using air travel [[spoiler: (e.g. Meiling, who makes 7 trips in total)]] whenever needed (and [[PutOnABus not needed]]), unlike the manga. The anime instead shows the triumph of ThePowerOfLove by having them [[spoiler: capture card #53, which [[RelationshipSabotage threatens to take away one's deepest love, plus its genocidal tendencies]]]]. |
| 375 | ** This is also an interesting case in that not only are there many events that didn't appear in the source material, but even those events that did appear in the manga were almost always retold, keeping the fundamentals the same but reordering them, changing the locations, etc. Example: in both versions, Windy is the first card Sakura acquires, but whereas the manga has her capturing Woody next (off-screen) and then Jump, the anime has her capture Fly second. [[note]]The Fly encounter itself is a good example of this too. In the manga, Sakura first encounters it at school, then at home, failing to capture it each time, then finally at home again, where she captures it by figuring out that it's just injured and agitated. The anime just has her encounter it at home on her first night of being a Cardcaptor, and she captures it by restraining it with Windy -- something she tried in the manga, for that matter, but which didn't work because Fly is another Wind elemental card.[[/note]] |
| 376 | ** Syaoran's characterization in the anime doesn't support the manga type of ending -- he doesn't live alone and is essentially a mature kid looked after by Wei with his family members showing up. In the manga, he is a loner, there's only a passing reference to his family and he's practically a fully independent adult in a child's body. [[spoiler: And a bunch of formalities and work in the manga (details never mentioned) is replaced by the ability to make vacation visits in the anime]]. |
| 377 | ** The anime tends to avoid making too much note of Sakura's power capacities, and also omits her receiving half of Eriol's powers. The result makes Sakura look somewhat more mortal (something admittedly necessary for any tension in ''The Sealed Card'') and, alongside Syaoran's AdaptationExpansion as a rival, more of an underdog who completes her quest through resilience and virtues. |
| 378 | * PrecisionFStrike: In the seventh episode, a child at the museum who turns out to be important to the plot of the episode curses at whatever's been messing up a certain painting before lunging at it -- and getting blown back in time a few seconds for the effort. |
| 379 | %%* PrescienceIsPredictable: [[spoiler:Clow]]. |
| 380 | %%* TheProfessor: Sakura's dad, though younger than usual. |
| 381 | * PsychoRangers: |
| 382 | ** Eriol, Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon play this against Sakura, Kero and Yue respectively (at least it seems). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because Clow Reed wanted to set up the last fight between Eriol and Sakura, so he had to neutralize the powers of Kero and Yue with their counterparts. |
| 383 | ** Syaoran and Meiling also play a lower key example to Sakura and Tomoyo early on. |
| 384 | * PsychoticSmirk: Nakaru occasionally gives one to Yukito, something he never quite catches. Eriol occasionally gives something of similar effect [[spoiler: even if his intentions are ultimately less antagonistic]]. |
| 385 | * PureMagicBeing: Yue is in danger of ceasing to exist because Sakura is too young to generate enough magic to support his existence. |
| 386 | * PutOnABus: |
| 387 | ** Meiling leaves Japan before the Final Judgement in the anime, although she does return a couple of times later on. |
| 388 | ** Kaho at the end of the Clow Card arc in both versions, though as she writes letters to Sakura, her presence is still felt. [[spoiler:She comes back in person in the finale]]. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Tropes Q to Z]] |
| 392 | * {{Raiju}}: The manifestation of the Thunder card is Raiju, the Thunder Beast. It looks like a big electric wolf. |
| 393 | * RealityWarper: Several Cards have that power, but most notably The Create and The Time. [[spoiler: It's also worth a mention that Clow Reed himself turns out to have been one come ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'']] |
| 394 | * RealityWritingBook: The Create Card is a RealityWarper book that makes everything written in it materialize. |
| 395 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: |
| 396 | ** Clow Reed, and by extension, his creations, the Clow Cards and Kero and Yue. |
| 397 | ** [[spoiler:Eriol, thanks to being the half-{{Reincarnation}} of Clow Reed along with Fujitaka]]. |
| 398 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 399 | ** Kero is the outgoing, emotional and hot-blooded Red Oni to Yue's cold, introspective, and totally dispassionate Blue Oni. |
| 400 | ** [[spoiler:Ruby Moon is the more expressive and outgoing Red Oni to her fellow guardian Spinel Sun's quiet and calm Blue Oni.]]. |
| 401 | * {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:In the manga, Clow has two reincarnations: Eriol and Fujitaka]]. In the anime, he [[spoiler:only has Eriol]]. |
| 402 | * RelationshipSabotage: Among the other challenges of capturing the Clow Cards, there is a serious risk of everyone losing all their feelings for those whom they love the most. In the manga this turns out to be just a big {{Macguffin}} for capturing the cards, but in the anime, it is really a serious problem. |
| 403 | * RescueRomance: Expectedly done for a lot of {{Ship Tease}}s between Syaoran and Sakura. Somewhat one sided however, only Syaoran had his romantic feelings galvanised by such, whenever he rescued Sakura however, she just thought he was being kind. |
| 404 | * TheRival: |
| 405 | ** Syaoran and Sakura start like this, but it's not long before it gets averted as [[FriendToAllLivingThings Sakura has problems resenting Syaoran as one]]. |
| 406 | ** Meiling becomes a new rival just as Syaoran starts losing steam. Again, Sakura ends up shooting it down. |
| 407 | ** Kerberos and Spinel Sun. Ruby Moon sees Yue as one. |
| 408 | * RoleCalled: The series' title refers to the protagonist Sakura and her role as the Cardcaptor. |
| 409 | * RunningGag: |
| 410 | ** Tomoyo, every time she talks about videotaping Sakura or her latest costume, which is about half a dozen times an episode. All the more funnier because it comes at the most (in)appropriate moment. |
| 411 | --->(''in the middle of Snow Card's fierce blizzard''): "At this rate...at this rate...''I can't film Sakura!''" |
| 412 | ** Touya calls Sakura a monster. Sakura proceeds to grind his foot into the floor. |
| 413 | * RuleOfCute: Sakura's wears a fancy new outfit to nearly every encounter, which is {{Hand Wave}}d away with the explanation that her cousin Tomoyo makes them. Where the ten-year-old Tomoyo developed her mastery of fashion and handicraft, endless creativity, and the ability to make them so quickly without flaw is not explained. |
| 414 | * SailorFuku: The girls' uniforms at Tomoeda Elementary are this. The boys' uniforms have a sailor collar as well. |
| 415 | * SameContentDifferentRating: Before [=FUNimation=] acquired the streaming rights, the series was either TV-PG or TV-Y7. After [=FUNimation=] acquired it, it became TV-14. Scuttlebug is, the controversies surrounding Terada have a quite bit to do with that. |
| 416 | * SayMyName: SAKURAAAAAAAAAA! |
| 417 | * SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: In fact, Tomoeda Elementary has uniforms for ''every'' occasion! |
| 418 | * ScrewDestiny: Sakura and Syaoran's love seems destined to be doomed by Card #53, until the PowerOfLove (literally) pulls a feat of Card redemption. |
| 419 | * SecondLove: Both Sakura and Syaoran's first love was [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Yukito]]. They eventually end up with each other. Yukito is SecondLove for [[spoiler: Sakura's older brother, Touya]]. When they break up, Kaho tells Touya that next time they meet, they'll both have {{Second Love}}s. She's right; [[spoiler:Touya has Yukito, and Kaho has Eriol]]. |
| 420 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Yukito and Touya. |
| 421 | * ShipperOnDeck: Eriol. He is actively responsible for [[spoiler: helping Syaoran realize his feelings for Sakura, and for letting Sakura know that Yukito only loves her platonically as family]]. Closely followed by Tomoyo, Meiling [[spoiler: who really make selfless sacrifices]] and even Yue [[spoiler: who clarifies the Law of Magical attraction vs real love]] and even Wei [[spoiler: he encourages Syaoran to give Sakura the teddy bear]]. |
| 422 | * ShipTease: Done endlessly and mercilessly throughout the series, especially during the later stories. Instances such as ''Sakura, Syaoran 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). |
| 423 | * ShoutOut: |
| 424 | ** The Animax dub of episode 33 has Sakura humming the theme tune to ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. |
| 425 | ** Tomoyo's habit of following around the titular character with her camera is eerily similar to the 1984 MagicalGirl anime ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy'', where the titular Persia is followed around by her classmate Kishin, who is eager to take photos of her. |
| 426 | ** Sakura's "Catch You Catch Me" costume is essentially a frillier version of Pico's outfit in original 20th century productions of ''Theatre/DreamAfterDream''. |
| 427 | ** When Sakura activates the "Capture" spell, a Proton Stream sound effect from ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' can very obviously be heard.[[note]]More specifically, it's the one just after Ray says "Aim for the flattop!" in the climax.[[/note]] ''This carries over to all languages on the Netflix version.'' |
| 428 | ** In "Sakura and her Dream Self", the movie theater has a poster for ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Second Contact]]'', which is accurate to the original film's Japanese poster, except that all the Borg are replaced by [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Cactaurs]]. |
| 429 | * ShrinkingViolet: Rika Sasaki, but not to the extreme. She's mostly like that when around Terada. |
| 430 | * SiblingYinYang: Played literally with Kerberos and Yue. Kerberos is friendly and boastful and represents the Sun and Yang, while Yue is cold and distant and represents the Moon and Yin. |
| 431 | * SiblingTriangle: Sakura's first crush is on Yukito, who her brother also has feelings for. Both Yukito and Touya are aware of her crush but haven't actually talked about their feelings for each other, so they both pretend to be oblivious to it and treat Sakura as kindly as possible, until she and Yukito talk it out and she realizes it's Touya Yukito really loves. |
| 432 | * SickEpisode: Sakura has a fever in "Sakura's Dizzy Fever Day". |
| 433 | * SignificantNameShift: Syaoran calls Sakura anything but her name. [[spoiler:He doesn't use her real name until the episode they're locked in an elevator together and Sakura falls through a mysterious hole. He's so shocked that he yells for her, [[FirstNameBasis calling her "Sakura"]], and when she floats back up by using the Float card, she acknowledges the [[SignificantNameShift change]] with happiness.]] Because of this, Sakura feels obliged to refer to Syaoran formally as "Li-kun". [[spoiler:The moment he finally refers to her by first name, she asks if she can do the same, leading her to gleefully call out "Syaoran-kun" any moment she can.]] |
| 434 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Sakura took Syaoran only after his gentler side began to show. |
| 435 | * SinisterSuffocation: The Illusion card has no offensive powers of its own, but lures Sakura to a lake by taking on the appearance of the young girl's mother. Once Sakura embraces the creature, it dives into the water and attempts to drown the protagonist. The Illusion is notorious in that it came remarkably close to killing the heroine, to the point the spirit of Sakura's real mother shows up later in the chapter to express how worried she was about her daughter. |
| 436 | * SlapSlapKiss: Chiharu and Yamazaki. |
| 437 | * SleepModeSize: Kerberos isn't supposed to look like a teddy bear. [[spoiler:Neither is Spinel Sun]]. |
| 438 | * SocialServicesDoesNotExist: While Syaoran had a butler in the anime to watch over him during his stay in Japan, he lived on his own in the manga. |
| 439 | * SolarAndLunar: Kerberos and Yue not only represent the powers of each, but their personalities, coloring, and their manner of life as well (Kero can generate energy, while Yue can not). |
| 440 | * SomethingForEveryone: The Illusion Card has this effect, taking a form to each viewer depending on what frightens them the most or what they desire. For example, Sakura saw her mother, allowing the card to have a strong hold over her, while Tomoyo, anticlimactically, merely saw a food item because she was hungry. |
| 441 | * TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Greek dub kept all the insert songs in Japanese. |
| 442 | * SourSupporter: The dub tried to make Syaoran bitter over Sakura winning the final judgement instead of him (likely to fill the large hole cutting out his romantic sub plot left). This is lacking in the original, outside some failed [[{{Jerkass}} failed attempts at jerkassery]], Syaoran had lost almost all of his competitive streak by the time Sakura won. |
| 443 | * SphereOfDestruction: Card #53 (The Nothing) is notorious for doing a special version of BeamSpam with this, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of holes all over the city. |
| 444 | * StalkerWithACrush: |
| 445 | ** Tomoyo, to some degree. ''Much'' gentler and reasonable than the standard, of course (if you consider being with your best friend stalking). |
| 446 | ** Meiling is this until she realizes that Syaoran loves Sakura. |
| 447 | * StarPower: The whole second series is about Sakura having to transfer the Clow Cards from their old energy source (The Sun and the Moon, which her predecessor used) over to her power source -- the power of her star. |
| 448 | %% * StealthMentor: Eriol. |
| 449 | * StrangerSafety: A strange old man befriends ten-year-old Sakura. [[spoiler:It turns out to be her great grandfather, but she didn't know it at the time and went off with what could very well have been a creep showing unnatural interest in her]]. |
| 450 | * StrawLoser: Meiling seemed to exist largely to make ditzy Sakura and moody Syaoran look more competent in early episodes. Even Tomoyo, despite being even more of TheLoad, is more well adjusted about it than her. She undergoes serious CharacterDevelopment in her last appearances however. |
| 451 | * SubordinateExcuse: A ''lot'' of the fans think Yue felt this way towards Clow. |
| 452 | * SupernaturalSealing: This is the entire point of ''Cardcaptor Sakura''. Sakura accidentally released the cards, so she has to go capture them again. Clow Cards need a master or they run amok. That's why Clow Reed sealed them in the first place, in preparation for the time after his death. When Sakura seals a card she becomes its master. This drains her magic energy, but as her power increases the recovery time shortens. |
| 453 | * SurvivalMantra: "Everything will be alright." This actually enhances her powers on occasion. The Hope Card appears to be the personified form of this. And is specifically referred to as her 'invincible spell' in both the manga and anime. When she says it you know everything's going to end well. |
| 454 | * SwissArmyTears: [[spoiler: Sakura crying over Shaoran leaving in th final episode creates the Nameless Card.]] |
| 455 | * SwordFight: Averted with extreme prejudice during the Sword Card episode. Syaoran tries to start one, but Sakura instantly rules it out. He basically missed his only chance to use his sword as anything other than a wand. |
| 456 | * TarotMotifs: Clow Cards are reminiscent of Tarot cards, and at one point are used to divine. |
| 457 | * TeacherStudentRomance: |
| 458 | ** Third grade teacher and student romance, complete with engagement ring. To their credit, they'll be waiting until she's older. And in the anime it's a one sided crush from the student. |
| 459 | ** Kaho's and Touya's relationship is an aversion; though they met when Kaho was Touya's student teacher, they only confessed romantic feelings after Kaho's teaching position had ended. |
| 460 | ** Played straight with Fujitaka and Nadeshiko; Fujitaka was a teacher in the high school Nadeshiko attended. It's implied that they started living together even before she graduated. |
| 461 | * TemptingFate: When Sakura plays a prince in a school play, Kero compliments her costume, and Madison says that she should wear it for her next card capture. [[spoiler: Two Clow Cards make their presence known shortly thereafter, disrupting the play and ensuring that Sakura does, in fact, seal them while in costume.]] |
| 462 | * ThemeTuneExtended: All of the show's original themes had full versions recorded and released on a soundtrack album. Season 2 used its full theme during the closing of its finale. |
| 463 | * ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: In the English dub, the dub often does it's best to avoid saying the series takes place in Japan, despite the fact that TokyoTower can often be seen in the background of most episodes, and at one point being the stage for one of the major battles in the series. The dubbers often get around this by just referring to it as '[[MetaphoricallyTrue a radio tower]]'. |
| 464 | * ToastOfTardiness: Sakura sometimes grabs a piece of toast and runs out the door to avoid being late (or to just be early enough to [[PrecociousCrush see Yukito]] before school), but she eats the toast fairly quickly and never crashes into anyone. |
| 465 | * TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Tomoeda, being a suburb of Tokyo. Although Clow Reed is half-Chinese and half-British ([[spoiler:and, come ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', has any number of ''dimensions'' to choose from as a permanent residence]]), he did live in Tomoeda at least for a time, and [[spoiler:when it came to reincarnating and establishing a successor]], he decided to do so in Tomoeda. It makes you wonder what it was about that town. |
| 466 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 467 | ** Sakura through her evolution into Master Of The Cards becomes far more capable and intelligent (if still adorably dizzy and naive about it). |
| 468 | ** Meiling to a lesser degree, changes from TheLoad into a BadassNormal in her final appearances. |
| 469 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 470 | ** Syaoran evolves from Sakura's [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogrant]] [[TheRival Rival]] to a [[ShrinkingViolet meek, soft spoken]] DoggedNiceGuy, Meiling undergoes a similar evolution in the anime. Both were largely a result of Sakura's own increasingly [[{{Moe}} docile and sweet-natured aspects]] ([[CheerfulChild not that she wasn't all that kind to begin with however]]). |
| 471 | ** Also happens with Yue, who started out cold and rather cruel towards Sakura because he didn't want to have to accept having a new master after Clow Reed died. Once again Sakura's kind and gentle nature allows her to break through the harsh exterior. The moment he comforts her when she learns he and Yukito had been in danger of vanishing really shows how he's grown to love her too. |
| 472 | * ToyDisguise: Kero normally manages to pull this off in his lesser form, being a very small mouse-like creature with wings. |
| 473 | * TrainStationGoodbye: ''Airport goodbye''. With Meiling, twice. Also the TV Series Ending and the last chapter of the manga, when Syaoran has to go back to Hong Kong and Sakura meets him at the airport. |
| 474 | * TransformationIsAFreeAction[=/=]TalkingIsAFreeAction: As expected of this genre, every single time. |
| 475 | * TransformationSequence: For turning Sakura's Key of Clow into her Sealing Wand. Averted in the case of her outfit, however, since unlike most {{Magical Girl}}s she doesn't use any kind of magic to change her clothes; instead, Tomoyo [[IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable provides different costumes for her]]. |
| 476 | * TreacherousSpiritChase: The Illusion card shows people whatever they're thinking about, but it can also show them someone they love or miss and lead them to their doom. |
| 477 | %%* JustForFun/TropeOverdosed |
| 478 | * TrueCompanions: Any part of Sakura's band (even the rivals ultimately) are shown to be devoted to each other. Most attempts to capture the cards involve a great deal of teamwork. Expect some form of bonding to occur at least OnceAnEpisode. |
| 479 | * {{Tsundere}}: |
| 480 | ** Syaoran is a ''male'' example. Touya, too. A more traditional female one is Chiharu. |
| 481 | ** The seemingly cold and unfeeling moon guardian Yue of all people turns out to have these tendencies, ''especially'' towards Sakura. |
| 482 | * UndressingTheUnconscious: In one episode, Sakura wakes up at Yukito's house in different clothes; apparently, his [[InvisibleParents unseen grandmother]] changed her. The thing is, [[spoiler:Yukito's grandparents never existed, and he lives alone. Yukito has some heavy memory magic placed on him, so while he was definitely the one to change Sakura, it's not certain whether he forgot or lied]]. |
| 483 | * TheUnfavorite: |
| 484 | ** Tomoyo seems to be one to her own ''mother'' Sonomi, compared with Sakura. Sonomi was obsessed with Nadeshiko when they were younger, and seems to have transferred her affection to Nadeshiko's daughter. Despite [[ParentsAsPeople barely having time for her own family,]] Sonomi manages to make time to attend Sakura's school sporting events and even chaperone her on vacation. Anytime they're on screen together Sonomi fusses over Sakura and practically ignores Tomoyo[[note]]This may be an ObserverEffect or UnreliableNarrator; since Sakura is the main character, there'd be no point in Sonomi being in the scene if not to interact with her[[/note]]. Tomoyo even tells Sakura at one point that Sonomi grows Tomoyo's hair long and styles it like Nadeshiko's in order to remember her. At least one scene in the anime depicts Tomoyo with Sonomi, who has arrived home in worry after hearing she has fallen suddenly sick ([[spoiler:though she actually lost her voice due to a Clow Card]]) and is shown doting over her in a similar manner as Sakura, even babying her a little. This does at least give the idea of how loving she is to her daughter by normality, which we don't get to see because the series is from Sakura's POV and not Tomoyo's. Add to that Sakura herself is extremely protective and kind towards Tomoyo, maybe she doesn't have it quite so bad. |
| 485 | ** Kero sees himself as this compared to Yue for both Clow Reed and Sakura, and calls out the latter on this when she treats him more regimented than Yue (albeit largely due to her being intimidated around Yue as well as her occasional [[InnocentlyInsensitive Innocent Insensitivity]] towards Kero). |
| 486 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: |
| 487 | ** CLAMP takes full advantage of this trope. Not only with the battle costumes Tomoyo makes (not even one is worn more than once!), Sakura's everyday clothes and accessories are numerous too, and while they repeat from time to time, they usually change every season. You could think that CLAMP would take a break by letting Sakura and her friends use school uniforms more often, but even the school wardrobe is much more varied than in most anime and manga series, with different types of uniforms for spring and winter, coats, hats, gym clothes, swimsuits, special uniforms for sports competitions, [[PomPomGirl two different cheerleader uniforms]] (one for practices and one for competitions)... heck, the school even has special clothes specific for some school trips (and most of these come in both girl and boy versions). |
| 488 | ** The little segment "Kero-chan ni Omakase" was added later to the anime to show off the great variety of clothes and accessories. |
| 489 | ** In interviews, CLAMP stated that they deliberately approached the UnlimitedWardrobe trope for Sakura to make her, as both a character and a MagicalGirl, stand out among other characters in the genre who are limited to either one uniform or the same uniform with touch-ups, a la ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', especially since unlike most magical girls Sakura doesn't have a TransformationSequence that changes her outfit. |
| 490 | * VerbalTic: |
| 491 | ** Sakura: HOE!? HOEEEEEEEE!!!!! Also her 'HANYAN!' when she's flustered. |
| 492 | ** Similarly Syaoran: [[LuminescentBlush KAAAAAAAA!!!]] |
| 493 | * VineTentacles: The Wood is a Clow card that personifies plant life. Upon being activated, it usually manifests as a stream of vines that restrain Sakura's target. |
| 494 | * VoicesAreMental: Averted in the original; only the speech patterns switch with the characters' minds. |
| 495 | * WeirdnessCensor: |
| 496 | ** Only Sakura and Syaoran notice the strange occurrences with the Clow Cards because everyone else's minds reject that which they can't understand. |
| 497 | ** And on the rare occasion when it actually gets noticed, LaserGuidedAmnesia strikes. |
| 498 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Poor Sakura is this to the point it pivots the entire story. |
| 499 | ** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in the Clow Card Arc as stated by Ms. Mizuki in episode 46: |
| 500 | --->'''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... |
| 501 | --->'''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. |
| 502 | ** Invoked in the Sakura Card Arc to Eriol too, who has set all events to force Sakura to transform the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards. |
| 503 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 504 | ** The anime omits ''way too many'' plot points from the conclusion of the manga, leaving it at a less Sugar Filled Ending. |
| 505 | ** In the anime not all of the 53 cards were shown being captured. The Through for example. |
| 506 | ** In the final ending of the TV series Syaoran does not permanently move to Tomoeda (the second movie rectifies this). |
| 507 | ** The teddy bears. [[spoiler: Sakura never gives Syaoran one in the anime]]. |
| 508 | ** Touya's motorbike. [[spoiler:A ChekhovsGun in the manga, as Touya gives Sakura a ride with it so she can make it to the bus station in time to give Syaoran her bear]]. The manga also explains why the motorbike disappears; it's because Sakura wouldn't be able to keep up with a motorbike on her rollerblades. |
| 509 | ** Kaho's SecondLove (in the flashback to her relationship with Touya, she tells him that next time they meet, they'll both have new loves). [[spoiler:In the manga, she's in love with Eriol]]. |
| 510 | ** [[spoiler: The splitting of Eriol's magic and the revelation of Fujitaka Kinomoto being the other half of Clow Reed are missing as well. As a result Fujitaka doesn't get to be reunited with his wife's spirit again]]. |
| 511 | ** The Cliffhanger-esque ending of the Sealed Card didn't go down too well with many fans either, especially when compared to the last frame of the manga. While using the Jump Card clearly indicates what will happen, it's not the same as seeing it happen. |
| 512 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: While many of the Clow Cards do have formidable abilities, it's hard to see things like "The Sweet," "The Cloud," and "The Glow" be used for anything devastating in battle or stealth. "The Song" is also, in essence, a music recorder. |
| 513 | * WhiteAndGreyMorality: This show has no villains; in the first arc, [[MonsterOfTheWeek the Cards]] are portrayed more as mischievous beings than truly evil troublemakers (if somewhat inept to their occasionally dangerous powers) and are all subject to DefeatMeansFriendship, and in the second arc, the "villain" is quickly hinted (and revealed at the end) to be much more of a TricksterMentor. All the intelligent characters are presented as decent people, which underscores the "Humans Are Good" part of the trope. |
| 514 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Yue is a rare variety that starts off antagonistic but eventually grows to care for Sakura once he accepts that she's not Clow, but doesn't have to be. |
| 515 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: |
| 516 | ** Tomoyo is extremely perceptive of the motives and secrets of people around her. This is even lampshaded in the manga when [[spoiler:Eriol comments that her powers of perception are more valuable to her and her friends than magic]]. |
| 517 | ** Syaoran as well, who is extremely serious, non nonsense in tone, and has vast intellect regarding the cards and their heritage. He is suggested to be well educated as well. That said, PingPongNaivete and NotSoAboveItAll moments come at his expense a lot more. |
| 518 | ** Eriol is this, but that kind of comes with the territory of being the reincarnation of someone who was Really700YearsOld by the time he died and remembers all of it. [[spoiler: And even in this life he's not the child he appears to be, because he stopped his aging.]] |
| 519 | * WomenAreWiser: Played with. Most of the male cast are more morally ambiguous and arrogant. The female cast, though also seem more world wary and intelligent. For example Sakura is more kind natured and humble than Syaoran, but also far more childish, scatterbrained, and ''incredibly'' naïve. |
| 520 | * TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Syaoran, when he is thrown aside by Yue in the Final Judgement.]] |
| 521 | %%** Alas, poor Kero-chan. |
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