Sakura Kinomoto

This article is about the title character from Cardcaptor Sakura. For the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle characters with the same name and similar character design, see Sakura (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle) and Tsubasa (Sakura).
Sakura Kinomoto
Cardcaptor Sakura character
Sakura in her elementary school uniform, illustration by Clamp
First appearanceChapter 1 (manga)
Created byClamp
Voiced by
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  • Cardcaptor Sakura
  • Sakura Avalon
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Sakura Kinomoto (Japanese: 木之本 桜, Hepburn: Kinomoto Sakura) is the main protagonist and title character of Clamp's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura. In the English anime adaptation by Nelvana of the series, Cardcaptors, she is known as Sakura Avalon, though her surname was changed back in the second film's dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment.

A student in the town of Tomoeda, Japan, Sakura Kinomoto was originally nine years old when she began her journey as the Cardcaptor, an unintentional student of the mystical deceased magus Clow. Breaking the seal on his spellbook, she released several powerful spirits from their prison in the form of tarot cards, which then went out to cause chaos and havoc in her hometown. Working alongside the two familiars of the book, Cerberus and Yue, Sakura set out to capture each of the cards and restore their seals, gaining their abilities for her own use in the process. It took four years, but Sakura succeeded in capturing, and sealing, each of the Clow Cards, as well as transforming them into her own creation, Sakura Cards, further increasing her abilities with them.

For all Japanese-language productions of the anime (including films, audio CDs, and video games), Sakura is voiced by Sakura Tange. For the Nelvana English-language dub production, she is voiced by Carly McKillip through Cardcaptors and the first film. In the Animax English-language dub production, which is much closer to the Japanese original than the Nelvana version (in terms of scenes cut), she is voiced by Andrea Kwan.[2] She is voiced in the second film by Kari Wahlgren. For the English-language dub of the Clear Card series, she is voiced by Monica Rial,[1] who also does the voice of her counterpart in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Monica Rial, Jason Liebrecht Return for Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card English Dub". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  2. ^ "Voice Compare: Sakura Kinomoto". Behind the Voice Actors. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Tsubasa DVD 7–9". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-01-23.