A 10-year-old accidentally dooms the world with a deck of cards and somehow makes it adorable.
5.025 minSeason 4 • Episode 22
LatestSakura has seen the mysterious robed person in her dreams many times. It turns out Akiho has been having the same dreams herself, and she's grown worried over their unsettling contents.
Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.
Costume
Tomoyo sews 50+ outfits because friendship means couture.
Direction
CLAMP's vision: every frame is a pastel fever dream.
Writing
Subverts magical girl tropes before Madoka made it cool.
Sakura Tange
Sakura Kinomoto (voice)
Junko Iwao
Tomoyo Daidouji (voice)
Motoko Kumai
Syaoran Li (voice)
Aya Hisakawa
Kerberos (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Naoko Yanagisawa (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Fujitaka Kinomoto (voice)
Masaya Onosaka
Kerberos(big) (voice)
Megumi Ogata
Yukito Tsukishiro (voice)
Tomokazu Seki
Touya Kinomoto (voice)
Yukana
Meiling Li (voice)
Tomoko Kawakami
Rika Sasaki (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Eriol Hiiragizawa (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Defined the 'magical girl' genre for a generation and influenced everything from Sailor Moon Crystal to modern isekai power systems.
The anime significantly expanded Tomoyo's role compared to the manga because test audiences adored her obsessive devotion—studio knew what the people wanted.
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