The classic magical girl series returns with its original voice cast!
It's been over fifteen years since the Cardcaptor Sakura anime finished its story with Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card. Following the story of Sakura, an elemtnary school girl who discovers a magic book in her fathers basement, the series ran for seventy episodes and two feature films.
Earlier this year a sequel manga series had begun publication in Nakayoshi entitled, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc. The story of that manga followed Sakura's graduation from Tomoeda Elementary School. Now in her first year of junior high school, Sakura sees a mysterious dream, and an incident takes place. Kind of bare bones, but it gets fleshed out as it goes along. With the announcement of this anime series that would adapt the manga, we also got confirmatin the original following original voice cast members would return for their iconic roles.
- Sakura Tange as Sakura Kinomoto
- Aya Hisakawa as Keroberos
- Junko Iwao as Tomoyo Daidoji
- Motoko Kumai as Syaoran Li
- Megumi Ogata as Yukito Tsukishiro
- Tomokazu Seki as Toya Kinomoto
The series is set to premiere on NHK in January 2018 with Morio Asaka as director for the new series. No word yet on if any English companies have licensed the anime but we'll keep you posted. If it is dubbed, it's likely it'll be given a faithful translation unlike the somewhat infamous Kids WB edit of the show. No word on how many episodes this anime will be, but if it follows the path of the original series, it will take longer to tell the story then the manga does.
Stay tuned to Den of Geek for all things Cardcapor Sakura! Thanks to Anime News Network for the information.
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