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Summary: Awesome!
Review: A long time ago, an ancient wizard named Clow created a large of mystical cards, each with it's own unique power. The cards could occasionally escape from their card forms and take on forms of their own. For example, the Power card has incredible strength, and it can lend that strength to other creatures if it wants to. However, when the Power card is not in a card form, it looks like a harmless, sweet, pink little midget girl. Eventually, Clow decided that the Clow cards were too wild to control, so he trapped them in their card forms, then locked them in a mystical book which he called the Clow Book. Clow then summoned Kerosberos, a mystical beast who is the lord of the sun, to watch over the Clow Cards and make sure no one lets them out of the book. And just to make sure the Clow Cards stayed in the book,(Clow DID NOT want these cards to escape!)Clow put a magical seal on the book, and only someone with magical power could open it. Unfortunately, all of Clow's hard work was wasted when a young descendant of his named Sakura innocently decided to open the Clow Book to see what was inside. Kerosberos was sleeping at the time, but when he woke up, boy was he ever ticked off! Now Sakura has to capture all the cards and put them back in the book. Sakura occasionally gets help from her ever-serious classmate and fellow cardcaptor, Li(prounounced Lee)and sometimes Li captures a card before Sakura can get to it. Cardcaptors is A LOT like Pokemon, only with cards. However, it's unique in it's own way, too. The only thing I don't like about Cardcaptors is that Nelvana decided to rearrange the order in which the episodes were aired. For example, in the "first" episode, Sakura already has at least eight cards with her! How can that be if the series just started?! That's all I have to say!
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Summary: Yuck.
Review: If watching butchered anime is your idea of fun, go ahead and buy this tape. Otherwise, buy the uncut, subtitled Cardcaptor Sakura tapes.
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Summary: Cardcaptor Sakura-- Terrific! Cardcaptors-- could be better
Review: I've watched "Cardcaptors" on Kids' WB, and I have to admit that it *is* good. But not as good as it could be. The original, Cardcaptor Sakura, is a wonderful anime, and it's just so enjoyable. Unfortunately, when bringing it to the U.S., they "butchered" CCS, so it's not quite the same anymore. Poor Tomoyo (Madison in the U.S.) became a valley girl, and the "first" U.S. episode is actually the 8th Japanese one. This was done to make Li Syaoran (Li Showron) more like the main character, which he clearly isn't. They also skipped many other episodes, and cut out and changed the dialogue of a whole bunch of parts.
Even though CCS has been so butchered in its transformation to Cardcaptors, it still contains some of that wonderfulness. Well, maybe not. I personally suggest buying the real thing (uncut with English subtitles) instead of the dubbed and butchered version. =)
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Summary: Good For A Child's Show, Not For An Anime Show
Review: Well, I am a huge anime fan. Also, I am a huge fan of Cardcaptor Sakura. Though, let me make it clear, I am not a fan of Cardcaptors. This show is an insult to CLAMP (the 4 women who created the original)! Many changes such as needless cuts, name changes, many dialouge changes, and mixed episode orders make this show incompetent. After all of that it would still be decent but they did two things that changed it for the worse. BAAAD voice acting and trying to make Saoyran another main character so it would appeal to boys! He is not, as the 12-year-old reviewer stated, Sakura's partner. He is a supporting character. They also made dialouge changes to make him sound stronger and gruffer but instead they made him a bully. Not to mention they cut out his harmless crush on Sakura's bro. BOTTEM LINE: Not bad for a kid's show but otaku need not apply. Get the subbed under the title, "Cardcaptor Sakura."
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Summary: Nice stuff--but a bit confusing
Review: For a lot of anime fans, this show is known better as "Card Captor Sakura." But what we have here is also an interesting show in its own right.As has been said, this version, entitled "Card Captors," is about a girl named Sakura and her partner Li (who strangely enough, gets much less screen time than Sakura) who go about capturing magical cards that Sakura accidentally released from a book. This version collects the episodes in the order that they aired on Kid's WB. Many viewers may be confused about certain events as the episodes were aired in a very random order, unlike the original Card Captor Sakura series, which aired in a definite, intended order. For example, in this version the 4th episode refers to the first episode as "yesterday." For many viewers in the know, we know that the 4th episode should have actually aired after the first one, and so forth. Either way, this version can be treated as a sample, or a fragmented pleasure. While many episodes stand well on their own, loyal fans may be frustrated by the continuity.
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Summary: Not 'Card Captor Sakura', but an incredible simulation.
Review: This DVD contains the US 'remix' of the original Japanese 'Card Captor Sakura' series, now called "Cardcaptors". The basic story is that in ancient times, the elemental forces of magic were sealed in some cards and locked them away in a book (the clow book), which can only be opened by someone with the appropriate power. Guess what, Sakura, the star of our show, has the power, but when she opens the book the cards fly away. With the help of the winged beast Cerberus (Kero), her good friend Madison (formerly Tomoyo) and schoolboy rival Li, Sakura's "gotta catch 'em all" and return the cards to their rightful form. Because CardCaptors is aimed at children, some character names have been changed from the original Japanese, and the focus of the show is more on Li and Sakura as a card-capturing team rather than Sakura on her own. Some elements of the original Japanese series aren't present here, either because they might offend an easily-offended audience, or because they were thought to be too "girlie" to keep the attention of boys. CardCaptors starts from around the eighth episode of the original CCS series, where Li is introduced, and focuses more on the action-based episodes, leaving out many of those pesky "girlie" episodes entirely. If you've seen CCS before, treat CardCaptors as a remix of the show you already know. Spot the differences. Enjoy them. If you've only ever seen CardCaptors, check out the original 'Card Captor Sakura' as well - you'll find it a treasure trove of extra untold stories and deeper plot lines. However you get into either series, whichever one you've seen first, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Avoid Bad Dub, Get the Pioneer Version
Review: Cardcaptor Sakura is a wonderful series and I recommend it wholeheartedly to everyone. However, people should not be tricked into thinking that Cardcaptors is the same thing as Cardcaptor Sakura. They most certainly are not. If you are thinking about purchasing this dvd, do yourself a favor and instead buy Cardcaptor Sakura Vol. 1- The Clow. Not only will you get the original storyline from the japanese series and spare yourself the complete hack job Nelvana did attempting to put it on the American market; you will get more episodes and a storyline that makes more sense. I think if you read more of the reviews you will find that those who have seen both Cardcaptors and Cardcaptor Sakura agree that Cardcaptors is no more than a grotesque cut and paste editing project on a fantasic series.
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