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Summary: Sakura All the Way! ^_^
Review: Cardcaptors Sakura #1 rox da house! Ok, off the slang. I thought that this comic book had really sweet (cool) animation. I liked how they showed their actions in the book. For instance, when they're mad, you can tell THEY'RE MAD. It's really nice also because there are five of the smaller comic books combined into one for less mula, I mean money. The five main characters are Toya (Sakura's brother), Yuki (Toya's handsome friend), Tomoyo (Sakura's rich best friend), Kerberos (Kero is his nickname and he's the 'keeper of the clow cards'. A funny and hilarious 'stuffed animal' who talks), and, of course, SAKURA (The main character of the comic who is trying to find and capture all the clow cards). Sakura, the cardcaptor, was your average, athletic, fourth grader until she went down into the basement. There she found the Clow card book. Suddenly, when she opened it, images of creatures flew out of the book, surronding her, then left out of the room. Little did she know that this was the start of a hectic, long-going adventure. The comic book is also interesting because, like all Japanese comics, they have a little romance going on between two character, Yuki and Sakura. Hopefully, if you buy this book, you'll enjoy it as much as I do and be in suspense waiting for the next book supposedly coming out on December 31, 2000. ^_^
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Summary: The best shoujo manga and best CLAMP work I've read
Review: CLAMP has outdone themselves again. An ordinary girl named Sakura accidentally comes upon a magical book with missing cards. Without the book to hold the cards in, the cards become alive and wreck havoc on the world. It becomes Sakura's responsibility to capture those cards strategically. When she captures a card, she gains the ability to control that card. For example, capturing the Wind card allows her to control winds, and so forth. There are plenty of twists and side stories as well. CLAMP's artwork far surprasses all the other shoujo manga (Sailor Moon, Fushigi Yuugi, etc.)... in fact, their uniqueness and usage of detail make them my favorite manga artist overall. Card Captor Sakura is stellar, and unlike other shoujo mangas, Sakura doesn't wear the same boring uniform every day, which was a big plus for me. Eye candy aside, the story itself is excellently written and engrossing. If you are familiar with Magic Knight Rayearth or X/1999--the other two CLAMP works that are more well known here in the USA--I believe that Card Captor Sakura is better than either. Magic Knight Rayearth, at least the manga, was simply too short and much too rushed. On the other hand, X/1999 is much too drawn-out and confusing and shallow (due to the fact that fighting and gore scenes take up the vast majority of the manga's content). Card Captor Sakura has just the right combination of romance, action, humor, plot, pace, and mystery.
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Summary: Cute book
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed these books, having read volumes 1 and 2 so far. The characters and plot are extremely cute and has a sort of light, happy feeling to it. Being a shoujo manga, there also isn't any heavy violence or anything like that.
However, there are slight hints of homosexuality and incest (ie. between Sakura and Tomoyo, Sonomi and Nadeshiko), but they are very slight and only come up a few times, and they do not hinder the reading of this manga at all. Anyway, if you enjoy shoujo mangas in the "magical girl" genre, go buy this book! You won't regret it.
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Summary: Elf-cute fantasy adventures for the preteen girls
Review: CLAMP is well-noted for its dewy-eyed "shojo" world of wistful-looking reed-thin teenage waifs with BIG liquid eyes, long flowing hair, and uncanny ability to wield magic. Here it is all about a plucky, slightly ditzy young girl named Sakura - this time she's at a foal-legged prepubescent age and thus still in elementary school. Sakura ventures into her father's study one day and finds a mysterious book there. But when she opens it, she accidently frees all the mischievous elemental sprites to wreak havoc upon her pretty too-good-to-be-true utopian world where she lives and is loved by all. So what looks like a baby winged lion cub darts out to scold Sakura for what she has done, so it makes her into a magical superheroine with the great task to collect all the "Cards" before they could do any real damage. Sakura's best friend, Tomoyo who worships her ground a bit too much for her own good, enthusiastically lends her all sorts of really fancy costumes for her big exploits. Also caught up in the whole whirlwird of flying cards and very frightening perils are Toya, Sakura's pesky older brother and his friend, Yuki the sweet-faced heartthrob Sakura's always mooning over. (He looks alot like her loving dad, so small wonder!) Her deceased mother even comes breezing back as a gorgeous fairy princess that her little daughter would often picture in her young mind. So welcome back to such a dreamy childhood fantasyland full of so much innocence and beauty it's a bit silly, yet it would still make a great escapist for all the manga lovers!
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Summary: Cardcaptor Sakura- My favorite Manga!
Review: Cardcaptor Sakura is another masterpiece created by Clamp! Cardcaptor Sakura is about a girl named Sakura who accidentally stumbles upon a book in her father's books. When she opens it, all these cards fly out. Also, Kero, Guardian of the Clow Cards, appears. He makes Sakura a Cardcaptor. Her job is to collect all the Clow Cards before they cause too much mischief. Characters:
Clow Reed-a powerful magician who created the Clow Cards and sealed them away in a book
Li and Melin-related to each other, Li has special powers similar to Sakura's because he's related to Clow Reed
Toya-Sakura's big brother
Yukito (or Yuki)-Toya's friend, Sakura really likes him!
Tomoyo-Sakura's best friend, likes to video tape Sakura catching Clow Cards
Ms. Mitsuki-a substitute teacher, mysterious
Sakura's father-a teacher, really nice
Sakura's mother- she's deceased, the parts about Sakura's mother make it sad If you read these, I would have the next one ready because are really fast reads, and they're good!
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Summary: Great Manga!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This manga is pretty cool. I got it a couple of days ago and I finished it in one day! Sailor Moon, to me, it similiar to CardCaptor Sakura. They break the book into 3 parts. They have little profiles for Sakura, Tomoyo, Toya, and Yukito. One of the top MANGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Card Captor Sakura~~> SUPER KAWAII!
Review: I've been following along Card Captor Sakura for the past year, and lets say: I LOVE IT! I absolutely hate the ENGLISH version of CCS tho, and wish that they (Nelvana) would at least fix the anime. The manga translators did a good job! They fit it to be a lot like the original! Card Captor Sakura is about a 10 year old girl, who lives with her father and brother (her mom died when she was young). Basically, one day she accidentally opens a book, and all the cards fly away (in the manga, the cards were already missing) and then Keroberus (Kero-chan ^_^) emerges from the book, he kind of fell asleep, and forgot to watch the cards. Now, Kero-chan turns Sakura into (Super Heroine to the extreme) CARD CAPTOR SAKURA! And now they must find the Clow Cards and prevent them from causing chaos to the world!
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Summary: I've enjoyed what I've read so far
Review: Okay, so I resisted reading this because all I could think of when I heard the title was "cutesy kiddy cartoon." It's bad to judge something when you don't know much about it. The artwork in this manga is amazingly detailed. In this book, Sakura takes part in field day, deals with a few Clow cards (I'm still trying to figure those out, so I'm looking forward to getting ahold of the first book), and meets Li (a boy who doesn't seem to like her at all). There's a lot about Sakura's relationships with other people, particuarly her friends and Yuki, a guy she likes. Incidentally, Li also seems to like Yuki. This book deals a lot with "who likes who," which I'm guessing is the same for the whole series. I'm looking forward to reading some more.
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Summary: First Impressions
Review: As CCS was my very first taste of CLAMP, I'd have to say this book was AWESOME. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous, and all of the characters are nothing short of lovable! Like all shoujo comics though, you have to keep in mind that this is focused towards little girls, and lacks the aspects of bloody fights and rolling heads. Also, as most dubs go, some of the translations are incorrect... But even so, I give this manga full stars. The storyline is really cute, and I was totally stunned. :)
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Summary: The beginning of Cardcaptor Sakura in manga form...
Review: Up until now I've never read the Cardcaptor Sakura manga. I've seen the anime(in it's unbutchered form) first, and I kinda expected the manga to be identical to the anime. Boy was I wrong; the manga starts off with Sakura already gaining her title as the 'Cardcaptor'. Alot of other things are vastly different too; the whole series moves along quicker than the anime, and the situations sometimes are completely new or different. Either way it's all still good, for a shojo manga. One thing that really stands out as 'different' in the first volume would definetly be how Sakura captures the Windy card. It's quite different if you've seen the anime. Again, it's very good reading; it's like a cross-between of Sailor Moon and Pokemon: It's got the cute girls, strange outfits, and loads of relationships between almost every character like in Sailor Moon, and then they've got the spirits that reside in the cards that come out to assist Sakura by fighting against other cards, and the strategies that Sakura must think of in order to beat the opposing forces like in Pokemon. So either way, even if you're not a girl, you just may enjoy this.
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