Trivia / Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card

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• Career Resurrection: After their career fluctuated with the controversial Tsubusa Chronicle and xxxHolic endings, the negative reception of Blood-C and their newer works which are a hit-or-miss, CLAMP released the sequel of Cardcaptor Sakura in 2016 which earned good sales and a 2018 anime series with the old cast and staff returning.
• The Other Darrin:
  • For the Japanese cast, due to Tomoko Kawakami dying of ovarian cancer in 2011, Saki Fujita becomes the second voice actress for Rika.
  • The original series had a case of Dueling Dubs with the English releases, with three voice casts to choose from overall. For Clear Card, the dub was instead done in-house by Funimation. Amusingly enough, however, the dub combines this with Mythology Gag — the new voice actors for Sakura and Shaoran are playing the original counterparts of their roles from Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-.
• Role Reprise:
  • Returning from the Cardcaptor Sakura TV series and theatrical films are Sakura Tange as Sakura Kinomoto, Motoko Kumai as Shaoran Li, Aya Hisakawa and Masaya Onosaka as Kero, Hideyuki Tanaka as Fujitaka Kinomoto, Tomokazu Seki as Toya Kinomoto, Junko Iwao as Tomoyo Daidoji, Megumi Ogata as Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue, Yuko Minaguchi as Nadeshiko Kinomoto, Miki Itō as Sonomi Daidouji, Issei Miyazaki as Takashi Miyazaki and Ryōka Yuzuki as Nakuru Akizuki.
  • In the English dub, Monica Rial and Jason Liebrecht reprise their roles as Sakura and Shaoran, respectively, from Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: One of the most bizarre examples of this trope ever, as the show was pulled in the Philippines because it had the bad luck of being shown on Yey!, one of the cable channels owned by ABS-CBN, one of the broadcasting networks critical against President Rodrigo Duterte^note Duterte threatened to shut down the network ever since he became President which many media watchdogs believe that it may have something to do with the network not showing much of his election ads back in the 2016 presidential campaign. It doesn't help that on February 2020, the solicitor general's office filed a petition at the Supreme Court to end ABS-CBN's franchise due to allegations of foreigners involved in the company's ownership, though media watchdogs contend that this is politically motivated by Duterte and his cronies. Back in May 2020, the National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on the network to stop its broadcasting operation which they reluctantly comply. However, its cable channels were still airing which is why Yey! was able to air two episodes of Clear Card until NTC issued another cease-and-desist order on ABS-CBN to shut down its cable channels. And as a final nail to the coffin, the House committee formally rejected ABS-CBN's franchise on July 10, 2020. Though its online platforms and streaming service such as iWant are not affected by the shutdown, it remained unclear whether Clear Card would be returning until A2Z Channel 11, which is owned by Zoe Broadcasting Network with ABS-CBN serving as its primary blocktime partner, would air the show on September 4, 2021.
• Self-Adaptation: Like with the previous series, Nanase Ohkawa (the head writer of both the original manga and Clear Card) returned as a writer for this anime. For this series, she was the sole writer for all the episodes.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Some of the English voice actors in the Clear Card series are signed onto this for its family-friendly content, after being in violent series like Attack on Titan.
• Troubled Production: Big time with the Latin American Spanish dub: Originally, Cristina Hernández, Luis Daniel Ramírez and Yamil Atala were planned to reprise their roles as Sakura, Touya and Kero, while Memo Aponte was planned to voice Syaoran replacing Uraz Huerta. Unfortunately, things went sour in sudden way: Luis Daniel Ramírez was vetoed by many voice acting studios, following many accusations of sexual harassment against him, while Memo Aponte was both involved in many scandals as well, which also caused him to retire from acting altogether. Combined with the death of Tomoyo's voice actress Monica Villaseñor the whole mess soured Hernández to the point of throwing the towel on dubbing the series, leaving the possibility that someone else would dub the show without her at the helm or even voicing Sakura. However, in a rather sudden turn of events, it was announced that the Clear Card series would get a dubbed version at 2024, through is still unknown if Hernández would reprise Sakura or would be voiced by someone else.^note It is worth mentioning that, outside her, the only living and active voice actors at 2024 are the mentioned Yamil Atala as Kero, Enzo Fortuny as Yukito/Yue, Isabel Martiñón as Chiharu, Gaby Willer as Meilin, Dulce Guerrero as Kaho Mizuki, and Circe Luna as Rika. Aside the mentioned vetoed actors, there's many voice actors that are either retired from acting (Mónica Manjarrez as Sonomi Daidouji and Ernesto Lezama as Spinel Sun), dead (Enrique Mederos as Fujitaka Kinomoto and Esteban Siller as Masaki Amamiya) or simply unavailable.

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