

Yukito, the object of Sakura and Syaoran's affections is revealed to be Yue, the Judge. When Sakura captures the final card, her judgment begins. When Sakura captures the Firey Card, Kero transforms into his true form: Cerberus. Sakura later meets Mizuki at a café where she learns that Mizuki knows of the Clow Cards and of "The Judge, Yue." Cards captured: Dark and Light. He asks if she intends to intervene, but Mizuki says she has a different role to play. Kero believes Mizuki is his lunar counterpart, Yue. Kaho Mizuki seeks Kero out and they discuss what will happen to the world. Syaoran immediately distrusts her as he senses immense magical power from her. Sakura gets a new math teacher, Kaho Mizuki, who has romantic history with her older brother. Cards captured: Flower, Sword, Thunder, and Shadow. He also seeks to capture the Clow Cards to prevent evil from befalling the world, but doesn't trust Sakura's abilities to succeed.

Sakura's rival, Li Syaoran, transfers into her school from Hong Kong. Cards captured: Windy, Wood, Jump, Watery, and Illusion. He tasks her with capturing the cards and returning them to the Clow Book. Kero fosters a contract between Sakura and the Clow Key to make her into a Cardcaptor. The guardian beast of the seal, Kero, reveals that the cards were created by a powerful sorcerer named Clow Reed, and with the cards released, disaster will befall the world. Sakura finds the Clow Book in her father's basement library and accidentally releases the Clow Card.
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Dark Horse Manga published an English edition of the series in four omnibus volumes containing three of the original volumes each from October 2010 to September 2012. Madman Entertainment used Tokyopop's English translation to release the series in Australia and New Zealand. They were also released individually from July 6, 2004, to June 7, 2005. The re-released volumes were updated to match the orientation and cover styling of the final six volumes. On October 7, 2003, and May 4, 2004, Tokyopop re-released the first six volumes in two box sets, each containing three volumes. Volumes seven through twelve were released in the original orientation with the subtitle Master of the Clow. Tokyopop released the first six volumes with the book "flipped" from the original Japanese orientation, in which the book is read from right-to-left, to the Western format with text oriented from left-to-right. It released the volumes of Cardcaptor Sakura from March 1, 2000, to August 5, 2003. Cardcaptor Sakura was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Tokyopop. Kodansha released the first six volumes in bilingual editions that included both Japanese and English from May 12, 2000, to July 13, 2001. The manga series is licensed for regional language releases by Pika Édition in France, Star Comics in Italy, Egmont Manga & Anime in Germany, Editora JBC in Brazil, Ever Glory Publishing in Taiwan, Glènat España in Spain, Editorial Ivrea in Argentina, and Editorial Toukan in Mexico.

Madhouse also produced two animated films released in 19. Cardcaptor Sakura was adapted into a 70-episode anime series by Madhouse that aired in Japan on NHK from April 8, 1998, to March 21, 2000. Starting in March 2015, Kodansha began re-releasing the series in a nine-volume special edition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nakayoshi. Kodansha re-released the series in a hardcover edition from March 5, 2004, to February 2, 2005. The 50 unnamed chapters were collected and published in 12 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha starting on Novemthe last volume was released on July 31, 2000. She is tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world. The series focuses on Sakura Kinomoto, a fourth grade elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book in which they had been sealed for years. The first chapter premiered in the May 1996 issue of Nakayoshi, where it was serialized monthly until its conclusion in the June 2000 issue. The manga series Cardcaptor Sakura is written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. The cover of the first volume of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga released by Kodansha on November 22, 1996, in Japan.
