"CardCaptors" (2000) TV series

Writers:

Clamp (comic)
Jennifer Pertsch (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy

Tagline:

Expect The Unexpected

Plot:

CardCaptors is the American version of the Japanese anime Card Captor Sakura. The main characters are Sakura Avalon and Li Showron...

Plot Keywords:

Anime | Magic | Magic Wand

Cast

Carly McKillip	...	Sakura Avalon (voice)
Rhys Huber	...	Li Showron (voice)
Matt Hill	...	Keroberos (voice)
Maggie Blue O'Hara	...	Madison Taylor (voice)
Tony Sampson	...	Tori Avalon (voice)
Sam Vincent	...	Julian Star / Yue (voice)
Brian Drummond	...	Aiden Avalon / Mr. Terada (voice)
Linda Rae	...	Layla MacKenzie (voice)
Kelly Sheridan	...	Nikki (voice)
Jocelyne Loewen	...	Chelsea (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Francis	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Janyse Jaud	...	Natasha (voice)
Jordan Killik	...	Li Showron #2 (voice)
Sarah Lafleur	...	Ruby (voice)
Kirby Morrow	...	Sakura's Dad (voice)
Colin Murdock	...	Spinner Sun (voice)
Richard Newman	...	Keroberos (voice)
Bill Switzer	...	Eli Moon (voice)
Nicole Oliver	...	Meilin Rae (voice) (uncredited)
Dale Wilson	...	Clow Reed (voice) (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Clamp		comic
Jennifer Pertsch		writer

Original Music by
Dave Doré

Casting by
Karl Willems

Art Department
George Peter Gatsis	....	graphic designer

Music Department
Neil Parfitt	....	music editor

Other crew
Lucia Frangione	....	adaptor: English

Production Companies

• Nelvana
• The Ocean Group

Distributors

• Kids' WB
• Pioneer Entertainment
• Teletoon

Other Companies

• NHK Enterprises  original publisher
• NHK  original publisher
• Nelvana  dubbing
• The Ocean Group  dubbing

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA | Japan | Canada

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

UK:PG (some epiosodes) | UK:U (some epiosodes) | USA:TV-Y7

Company:

Nelvana

Trivia:

In the U.S. and Canada the show was place out of order and skipped around. However in most other countries they followed the original story line.

Goofs:

Plot holes: The scenes shown at the end of early episodes are spoilers for as-yet-not-seen episodes

Quotes:

Tori: Don't pick on my sister, kid. Why don't you go home before someone gets hurt? Namely you...

Movie Connections:

Alternate language version of "Cardcaptor Sakura" (1998)

Better than most!

Okay, this is the thing about anime. When they're released in the UK or US, they get ruined! They are dubbed with worse voices, gave different names and personalities, relationships between characters are changed as are theme songs. Cardcaptors is actually called Card Captor Sakura and even the episodes were shown in the wrong order when shown on UK television!!! So...what are the good points about this anime? Well, I personally like Madison who is Sakura's rich best friend. She has the habit of following Sakura 24/7 with a camcorder to catch footage of her in action. In the subtitled version, their relationship extends beyond friendship but this cannot be shown on UK television especially to kids at daytime hours because networks would get in a whole lot of trouble. So subtitles are better in the long run and even though I hate Sailor Moon, I find this series refreshing to watch and it never really has any bad moments...although I wonder why all series have to have a cute animal in it? Pikachu (Pokemon), Ryo-Ohki (Tenchi Muyo) and in this is Kero...although he does have a short temper so he's not all cute!!!