Our story begins as a fourth grade student named
Sakura Kinomoto hears a sound coming from her house's basement,
which happens to be her father's large library. She  doesn't see anybody around, but does notice
a book which is strangely glowing. Sakura opens the book and finds a
stack of cards set inside. The top one says "The Windy" and once she
reads these words, the entire stack of cards blows away, all over
town! A moment later Sakura is greeted by a funny looking creature,
very much resembling a stuffed animal. His name is Kero-chan and he
tells Sakura that he is the guardian of the cards. The book
originally contains some magic cards call "Clow Cards" but had
escaped while Kerberos had fallen a sleep. Kerberos is a gaurdian of
the Clow Cards. Upon seeing that they are now gone, Kero-chan takes
action and insists that Sakura must become a Card Captor whether she
likes it or not.
He feels that she is a prime candidate
because not only was she partly responsible for their escape, but
because only those with some amount of magic are able to open the
book, and she did. Kero-chan then gives Sakura a small key which,
with magic words, can turn into a larger wand. With this wand Sakura
will be able to use and contain Clow Cards. Sakura isn't really sure
what being a Card Captor is all about, but she soon discovers after
waking up in the middle of the night to see a gigantic bird soar
across the sky outside of her window. Kero-chan tells her that this
is a Clow Card known as "The Fly", and that it has come to life. He
pushes Sakura outside with her rollerblades and tells her to contain
the card, without even much instruction at all! The bird swoops at
Sakura and she quickly dodges in fear of her life. After much poking
and prodding from Kero-chan, plus the suggestion of using the only
card not swept away, The Windy, Sakura finally works up the courage
to grab onto the bird with it's next swoop and climb on top. Sakura
then instructs The Windy card to bind the bird so that she may
return it to it's card form without any struggling. The plan works
and Sakura is glad that her adventure is over, but in truth this is
only the beginning and Sakura has many more cards to catch. Some
cards are friendly and easy to catch, while others are mean and take
extreme efforts.
With every card Sakura gathers, she gains
more power which she can put to use when capturing the remaining
cards. Sakura only shares her secret with her best friend, Tomoyo,
who is thrilled to learn that her favorite person in the world is
now a magical girl. She excitedly puts together an interesting
collection of costumes for Sakura and always tags along when there's
a card to be caught. Tomoyo feels that it is important to keep a
record of important events, and Card  Capturing is among them, so she carries a
video camera with her. Things seem to be going well until a new
student from Hong Kong enters Sakura's class. His name is Shaolin
and he too, claims to capture Clow Cards. Sakura's confidence
shatters as he repeatedly tells her that her powers are inadequate
for capturing cards. Once all these cards are collected, Sakura has
to face the judge, Yue. He is the examiner to see if Sakura has the
strength and power to become the master/mistress of the Clow Cards.
If she wins and defeats Yue, then the cards will be hers. If she is
defeated by Yue, then the Clow Cards will be returned and she will
forget everything about it. At the end, she had defeated Yue with
her strong will and became the new master of The Clow Cards. Sakura
also made a new wand/magic stick with her own powers. Clows powers
are the Sun and Moon, but Sakura's own powers are neither the Sun or
Moon. Its the Star power.
The second season, Sakura's chores
are to transform all the clow cards to "star cards". Each time she
transform a clow card, she get's closer to gaining powers as
powerful as CLow Reed. The time being of changing her clow cards,
there are three characters that are bad guys but actually good guys.
"Eriol" an exchange student from England, always treats Sakura very
nice and it makes Li jealous. But little does Sakura know, Eriol is
the recarntion of Clow Reed. |
