From CLAMP comes the engaging tale of Sakura, an average 4th grade girl, who accidentally finds an enchanted book called The Clow in her father's library. The book once contained a set of magical Clow Cards, but they all escaped while the guardian of the book fell asleep. Now, Sakura is thrust into a mystical journey to capture all the Clow Cards before they wreak chaos and destruction.
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As seen on TV! Includes free Clow Card Bookmark and bonus color pages! By CLAMP, the all-female team that is one of the hottest groups of manga creators in Japan today.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Instant Classic.....,
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This review is from: Cardcaptor Sakura - 100% Authentic Manga Volume 1 (Cardcaptor Sakura Authentic Manga) (Paperback)
Someone reccomended this series to me because me and Sakura shared a name. I wasn't a big shoujo fan, but I ended up buying them all. Funny, endearing and heartfelt, Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the best manga ever written. (Although I must say, something is lost when it is translated into English. It's good nonetheless.) The story goes that a girl named Sakura opens a book in her father's library and releases spirit cards created centuries ago by a magician named Clow into the world. It is now her task, accompanied by the sun guardian Kero (looks like a lion in full form) and (later) the moon guardian Yue (reminiscent of an angel) to capture them and return them to the book. The cards periodically appear to wreak havoc, and Sakura goes out to combat them with a mix of magic and courage. Her best friend Tomoyo (Madison in the TV series) is always there to make sure she looks sharp in one of her costumes and film the whole affair. Along with capturing the cards, she strives to win over her rival Li Shaolan, a descendant from Clow's family and fellow cardcaptor. Through all the typical fantasy manga in the series wends a funny, painful story about Sakura's relationships with her friends and family, and about their relationships with each other. A must have, with a little bit of fantasy, comedy, and romance and drama to please everyone.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favorite CLAMP title so far!,
By Angelica Brenner (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cardcaptor Sakura - 100% Authentic Manga Volume 1 (Cardcaptor Sakura Authentic Manga) (Paperback)
This series is absolutely wonderful. It's about Sakura, a 10-year-old girl who finds a magic book inside her father's library. Inside the book is a set of magic cards, which escape and cause trouble all over the city. So, she sets out to find and capture all the cards, with the help of a magical beast named Kero.
This is a series by CLAMP (for those who don't know, they're a very popular comic-making team from Japan) , so of course the artwork is beautiful, and the story is sweet without getting too sugary. It's mostly meant for girls, but some boys might like the card-capturing action scenes. And it's an "all-ages" book, so it's good for everyone to read!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
RETURNING CARDS TO THE CLOW,
By Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cardcaptor Sakura - 100% Authentic Manga Volume 1 (Cardcaptor Sakura Authentic Manga) (Paperback)
Sakura Kinomoto, a Japanese fourth grader at Tomoeda Elementary, has been thrust into her destiny with the discovery of the "The Clow", a book of magic which contains the powerful "Clow Cards". These magical cards were imbued with the sorcery of the great magician, Clow Reed. Unfortunately, Sakura had no idea what she was doing when she opened it and the cards have been scattered all through the city. It's not totally her fault since Cerberus, or Kero-chan, the guardian of the book was napping on the job. Now, not only are the living cards wreaking havoc, but he has lost most of his power and now displays his weakness in the form of a winged lion cub with an Osakan accent. Dubbing Sakura a "Cardcaptor", its up to the duo to find all the cards before the spirits contained within them hurt someone. They won't be alone though. Tagging along for the adventure is Tomoya, Sakura's classmate and best buddy, whose ultra-rich mother will supply the dough for neat gadgets right out of James Bond, and also a constant line-up of costumes. Add to that Tomoya's video documenting of Sakura's exploits and the adventure begins!
There's not a lot of originality in Cardcaptor Sakura. It's not her fault that Sakura has to conform to the magical girl mythos of transformation and battle scenes with sometimes barely scary spirits. One of the things that makes this book more interesting is the absence of Sakura's mother who died many years ago. Her at times melancholy thoughts of this relationship that never had time to blossom really informs everything she does, especially when she thinks she sees her mother disturbing the living as a ghostly apparition. I also enjoyed the pluck and innocence of most of the storyline as Sakura takes on the daunting task of being a Cardcaptor with hardly a protest to atone for her mistake. The action scenes were done well and the manga as a whole has great art which at times seems uber-cute but can be creepy and spooky at other times. Perhaps the creepiest thing about it is that the male characters all seem like castrated geldings and have an odd capacity to invade the space of traditional Japanese women.
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