CARDCAPTOR SAKURA: CLEAR CARDS First new Cardcaptor Sakura anime in almost 20 years

SAKURA IS BACK!!
The spring anime season has just kicked off in Japan, bringing with it some highly anticipated premiers such as the second season of Attack on Titan. Fans of classic magical girl series Cardcaptor Sakrua, though, still have a long wait ahead of them for the start of the anime’s Clear Card Arc, which is scheduled to begin airing next winter, 18 years after the end of the series Sakura Card Arc.

But the producers of the follow-up are throwing the Cardcaptor faithful a bone by releasing a preview video of yet another new piece of animation titled Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Arc Prologue: Sakura and the Two Bears.

illed as “the story that leads to the Clear Card Arc,” Sakura and the Two Bears is a continuation of the events of the Sakura Arc’s final episode, in which Sakura receives a stuffed bear from fellow magic-user Syaoran, who has confessed his love for her before leaving Japan for Hong Kong. “I have to tell Syaoran my true feelings,” says Sakura in the preview video’s narration, and to do so she begins making “a certain something.”