Resembling the great Oriental myths and legends
of history, Cardcaptors is the epic story of an ordinary young girl
who becomes a hero as she struggles to save the world from
destructive magical forces. In ancient times, a powerful sorcerer
names Clow Reed harnessed the power of magic into separate, distinct
entitles - Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Clouds, Wind, Rain and
Electricity. When the entities became unwieldy and dangerous, he
captured their powers and contained then within cards. These Clow
Cards were put into the mystical Clow Book and sealed to protect the
world. Clow Reed designed the book so it could only be released by
someone possessing magical powers. To protect the book's contact,
Clow Reed created a protector Keroberos, the guard Beast of the
Seal, who rules the Sun. "Kero" embodies the form of a small yellow
creature who becomes the Cardcaptor's valued mentor and teacher. And
the back of the book, Clow Reed created Yue, who rules the moon. Yue
is the judge of those who come into possession of the cards,
deciding if they are worthy of such possession. The
Clow Book was carefully hidden from prying eyes for thousands of
years, only to be discovered by the archaeologist Aiden Avalon,
father of the future Cardcaptor Sakura. Possessing
no magic himself, Aiden was unable to open the book, and it
collected dust on his shelf until it was accidentally opened by his
daughter Sakura, releasing the magical powers that had been so
carefully contained by Clow Reed into out present world.
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.And now, it is Sakura's
destiny to collect the Clow Cards, harnessing their power and
keeping them from causing trouble in the world once more. For she is
the Cardcaptor.
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. |