Card Captor Sakura Review
By enriya
Card Captor Sakura Review
CLAMP
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Plot Synopsis
10-year-old Sakura Kinomoto returns home from a typical day at school, after having a mysterious dream about a book that morning, and hears strange noises coming from her basement, where her father's library is. Upon investigating, Sakura stumbles upon the magical book of The Clow, and breaks its magical seal. Inside of the book, she finds a stack of cards, known as Clow cards. She accidentally scatters the cards after she says the word "windy", the name of the first card she picks up.
When the wind dies down, a small yellow creature named Kerberos rises from the book. He introduces himself as the guardian of the Clow cards, and Sakura, upon scattering them, has woken him up. He tells Sakura that she must now gather all of the Clow cards to prevent something terrible from happening. The story begins here, and with the help of Kero-chan (as he becomes known), and Sakura's best friend Tomoyo Daidouji (who videotapes all of Sakura's adventures and makes all of her costumes), Sakura sets out on her journey to collect all the Clow cards. Along her way she meets new friends, new enemies, and many challenges.Story & Characters
This is by far the best story that i have read and watched. It is about a 10 year old girl named Sakura Kinomoto going down in the basement and opening a book setting the clow cards free thus starting her adventure. She then sets out to bring the clow cards back. Along the way her best friend tomoyo is taping all the scenes where she captures them. Also she meets her new rival and the close friend Syaoran. As the story goes she then has to turn them all into sakura cards so they won\'t turn into ordinary cards. There is in all 12 books, 70 episodes, and 2 movies. The show is awesome and the manga is even better. This story is for kids of all ages. If you read it or watch it you will love it. It has action, adventure, comedy, and romance all in it. It never makes you bored when u are reading or watching it. It always keeps you interested. The story has so many twist and turns that you will never know what happens next.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Art
Clamp is always know for there great mangas and images. In this manga the artwork is the best i think so far. I love how sharp the detail is and how you can see in there expression of what they are thinking. Everyone has there one personalties and you can see it. You can see sakura as this fun, free and innocent girl. Tomoyo is this calm and quiet girl. Syaoran is strong, brave and courages. Kero can be smart if he wants to but around food he changes. Yue is quiet and when he says something he means it. In the artwork you can tell how different they are and how they are not. Every image that you see is clear and sharp so you know what happens. You can tell when someone is sad or when someone is happy.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Sound
The OSTs are awesome. I listen to them all the time. The songs in the anime are something that you can\'t hate you will want to listen to them over and over again. The voicing goes perfect with all the characters. They sound the way the should sound in the characters personality. The music goes with what is happening in the anime. If something is sad then a sad sound will play and if something is happy then cheerful music will play. On the first movie the ending song goes great with when u see the last image of sakura looking outside of the train. Or when she jumps into syaoran arms of the ending of the movie. The last episode of the anime when they touch each others hand and the song plays it goes with what is happening.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Presentation
CardCaptor Sakura will keep you locked in your seat and wanting to see the next episode or read the next book. It has everything that you can dream of.
It has comedy like when tomoyo makes sakura put a costume on every times she goes into battle or when syaoran was sleeping beauty and sakura was the prince.
It has action like all the times she has to capture the cards or fight yue in the final judgement days.
It has romance like with Rika and the teacher or Syaoran and Meling or Sakura and Syaoran. Everytime you see someone blush or cry it makes you said or go Kawaii.
CCS has everyhting that you can think of and more. Clamp made it so you would enjoy it and want to rewatch it over and over again. Or just pick up the book and read it from the beginning. I love CCS because it never is boring it always has something that happens. It always has twist and turns that you wouldn\'t expect to happen.
Clamp did a awesome job and i hope the next mangas that come out turn out like this one. Because so far i think this is one of the best that they have had.
I say read it once and see what it is like and then you will know what i mean.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Final Verdict
10.00 (excellent)
Reviewed by enriya, 1y 11wk ago
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Never should anime get 10/10. I know it's your point of view.
I was getting bored after about 40 or so eps, but I watched it till the end (I am proud ^^). I watched the movies also they were good. I should also point out it's not anime for men or older audience (simply put it will probably bore you to death).
As for OST I totaly agree with you: it's awesome in every aspect (though I recommend NGE and Mai's OSTs which imo are the best out there).
I would rate it 7 in my book
I totally agree... The whole capturing sequence kinda gets old and boring in a while.
10 is definitely too much. A 8 would be more appropiate. ONly epics should get 10 and this isnt one.
I think this anime derserves at most a good 9 it is very colorful and the characters are diverse as well as one of which is completely dense. ^^ but most people like that about some characters.
Perfect 10 is fanworship
' I
love CCS too, but I'd probably give it around an 8.5... a 10 makes reviews seem
staged.
i love cardcaptors. it's my favorite anime! i watched when i was younger, it seems a little chidish now but i still love it =D. i would only give it around a 8 though...haha i dont think anything should get 10/10 because nothing is perfect.
^_^ I saw cardcaptors and I must admit I throughly enjoyed it thou a 10/10 is extreme too~! It was more like 8.9/10. Pretty good but the japanese version kinda disappointed me T.T
But its good all rounder so yea~
^_^
Wou bow too much
to CLAMP and Mokona.
I say- and I am-
a member of Sakura,
I would treat this
like:
Story and Characters: 6
Why are all the cards
caught in the vicinity of Sakura's house?
Why not some place else?
Art: 8.5
I have seen better.
But then again, they are few.
Sound: ?
I have never heard the characters speak Japanese.
But most of the songs are awesome.
Presentation: 6
The fight scenes are rather restrained-
especially in Sakura's fight with Yue.
But romance? High quality.
You haven't seen the world yet, kiddo.
There are better anime than this.
oh! I see. I love clamp.
Please read A Reviewer's Guide to Minitokyo Reviews
Note in particular the following section:
In all honesty, your review is a very poor effort. You toss out glowing adjectives left and right, and yet you never truly explain why. You hand out perfect scores with abandon, and never properly explain your rationale for doing so. Scores of 10 are supposed to be few and far between, as they are intended to indicate the pinnacle of human achievement, and yet you give out four such scores here. You may like CCS, but that is no reason to score the series that way.
In the future, if you just want to rave about your favorite anime, please don't do so by cluttering up our reviews section. Instead, go find a thread in the forum to post in; ones about your favorite series, favorite characters, etc. are a dime a dozen.
*gasp* Shame on you to judge so quickly! Every single anime has a fault and Card Captor Sakura is no different. Personally, I think you are brain-washed by your own view on the Anime, you are hooked into thinking it's 100% brilliance, when EVERYTHING has a fault.
I think this review was a praising, not a critisize.
So harsh, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I think this anime is cute, I prefer the voices for the dubbed version, it just annoys me that so many episodes were altered or taken out in the dubbed version. Certain things should just not be touched. The first season like the first movie were better. Though the second season wasn't too bad either, I liked how certain characters started to bond together more. Even though it was in enjoyable anime, I too would only rate it an 8.
The anime is extremely boring!
The art fails to show a lot of details & the soundtrack over dramatizes moments.
With indulgence this anime deserves: 7/10
I understand that you love it, but try to look at the frailties too when writing a review.