Sakura Kinomoto

Sakura Kinomoto Everything will be alright. Gender: Female Type: The Most Powerful Magician Around Age: 10 Species: Human Portrayed by: Sakura Tange (Japanese) Carly McKillip (Nelvana dub) Andrea Kwan (Animax dub) Kari Wahlgren (2nd film) Monica Rial (Clear Card arc) Status: Alive Media of origin: Cardcaptor Sakura

Sakura Kinomoto (木之本 桜, Kinomoto Sakura) is a fictional character, the heroine and the main protagonist of CLAMP's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura and its anime adaptation. She is introduced as a 10-year-old girl who lives in the town of Tomoeda in Japan where she attends Tomoeda Elementary School during the Clow Card Arc and Sakura Card Arc story-line. In Clear Card Arc story-line, she is a freshmen attending Tomoeda Junior High School.

Why She Magically Rocks

1. She is not only arguably CLAMP's most iconic character, but one of the most iconic magical girls.
2. She is very energetic, cute, happy, giggly, beautiful, sweet, cheerful, and kind.
3. Thanks to her best friend Tomoyo, she has lots of different outfits that all look great and are appropriate for her missions. Her school uniforms are also good-looking.
4. She undergoes character development, from being an inept mage bewildered by her responsibility to catch the Clow Cards, to being the most powerful magician in the world, earning her deserved title of the Master of the Clow.
   • The Sakura Card arc shows her emotional maturity. Even though she was sad that her crush, Yukito, didn't like her back, she still wanted him to be happy, and encouraged him to be in a relationship with Touya.
   • Although she has a rivalry with Touya, her older brother, but when she realizes that Touya was trying to protect her and performed a sacrifice for Yukito's sake, she's in tears over how badly she misjudged him.
5. She is very athletic, being a member of her school's cheer-leading squad, and being an impressive inline roller skater.
6. She is a very optimistic, all-loving character. Her catchphrase is "everything will be alright." She does get angry with her older brother Touya, who often teases her, but she still loves him and cares about him. She also does her best to be friendly with everyone, even her rivals and antagonists. Her kindness even helped forge a strong bond between her and her former rival, Syaoran Li.
7. Her Japanese voice sounds adorable, especially when she goes "HOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEE?"
8. Her cards give her all sorts of amazing powers, such as controlling wind, light, water, darkness, earth, putting people to sleep, flying, manipulating time, and leaping to great heights,

Bad Qualities

1. She can be quite wrathful towards Touya and Kero, though she does care about her.
2. The anime made her slightly more ditzy and unaware by the time of the Sakura Cards arc.
3. Her voice actress in the dub can be a hit or miss, like Andrea Kwan and Carly McKillip, the latter for sounding too much like a teenager or like a boy due to her low-pitched tone.

Trivia

• Coincidentally, she and her Japanese voice actress share the name "Sakura".

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