Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2

Right now you can watch Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. A 9/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Sakura Tange — the performance elevates material that could easily tip into self-seriousness. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 keeps coming up in conversation. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 through its more ambitious moments. Season 2 of Cardcaptor Sakura includes 11 episodes. It aired from April 1999 to June 1999. This season stars Sakura Tange, Junko Iwao and Motoko Kumai. Sakura Tange and Junko Iwao lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1999. What separates Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. This is the rare one where the reputation undersells the reality.

Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Sakura Tange anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract moments feel personal. If you have been burned by ambitious sci-fi before, this is the exception.

🎬 Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2 — Episode Guide

Sakura and the Snowy New School Year

1999-04-05

A new trimester starts and Sakura is now a fifth grader. She walks to school with Yukito, who gives Sakura a watch as a late birthday and start of fifth grade present. Sakura's new homeroom teacher turns out to be Ms. Mizuki. Sakura looks out the window and thinks she sees cherry blossoms, but reali...

Sakura and Tomoyo's Vanished Voice

1999-04-12

Sakura and her friends are at a picnic with a portable karaoke device Tomoyo got from her mother's company. It is Tomoyo's turn to sing, and she begins singing. The next day at school, Sakura and Tomoyo talk about the song that Tomoyo will sing in choir. At cheerleading practice, Sakura, Chiharu, an...

Sakura's Merry Strawberry Hunt

1999-04-19

Sakura's grade goes on a field trip to pick strawberries. Sakura and Tomoyo bump into Yukito and Toya who are working part-time at the strawberry field. On the way to the greenhouse, Syaoran senses something from the storehouse, but Meilin pushes him along. The class enters the greenhouse and begins...

Sakura's Dizzy Fever Day

1999-04-26

Sakura has a fever, but goes to school anyway because of a group project. Later, Sakura gets dizzy and is sent home with Toya by the nurse. Toya stays home to watch over her. When Toya is making food for her, Sakura senses a Clow Card, and it turns out to be the Cloud card. Sakura uses the Mirror ca...

Sakura and the Sakura in the Dream

1999-05-10

Sakura, Tomoyo, Meilin and Syaoran head into town for a day of fun. The four are not alone in their venture as the Dream, in the form of a butterfly, tags along. When the group enters Tokyo Tower to see an exhibit there, Sakura falls under the Dream's spell. At first, the vision that the Dream prese...

Sakura and Shaoran and a Sea of Sand

1999-05-17

Ms. Mizuki announces that the class will by doing a play for the school arts festival. Sakura realizes that the woman she sees in her reoccurring dream is Ms. Mizuki. Roles are assigned by amida drawing. Sakura has the role of the prince and Syaoran is the princess. The two have lunch with Yukito, w...

Sakura's Pitch-Dark Literary Fest

1999-05-24

Sakura and Syaoran are working hard at memorizing the play. Finally the day of the play comes, and after a few denials about going out on stage from Syaoran, the play is on. The play goes well until right before Sakura and Syaoran kiss, when the Dark card appears. Sakura is almost lost in the Dark c...

Sakura's Goodbye to Meiling

1999-05-31

Meilin gets a call from her mother, who wants her to come home. Meilin tells Sakura the next day that she is going back to Hong Kong next week. Syaoran appears, and asks Meilin if she told the teacher she is going back to Hong Kong yet. Meilin asks Syaoran if he feels she is getting in his way, and ...

Sakura and Kero and the Mysterious Teacher

1999-06-07

Sakura once again has the dream in which she is facing the Tokyo Tower. She clearly sees Ms. Mizuki, but this time, Mizuki is accompanied by another figure with long hair and wings. She wakes up early to see Yukito compete in an archery competition. Sakura explains what she knows of her dream to Ker...

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Sakura and the Last Clow Card

1999-06-14

The earthquake was caused by the Earthy card. Ms. Mizuki is nearby, but there is nothing going on around her. Sakura uses to Sleep card to put everyone except herself, Kero, Tomoyo, and Syaoran asleep; Ms. Mizuki is not affected by the card, however. Sakura uses the Fly card to see from above; while...

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Sakura and the Final Judgment

1999-06-21

Sakura initially refuses to fight Yue, but after he repeatedly attacks her she tries to find card that can confine him without hurting him. She uses the Woody card, but it is a card under Yue's sign of the moon, and he turns it against her, and Yue declares she has failed. Sakura learns that if she ...