Good news for Cardcaptor Sakura fans! CLAMP’s Nanase Ohkawa is confirmed to handle the scripts for the upcoming anime adaptation of Card Captor Sakura Clear Card-hen (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc). This announcement has been revealed on Wednesday in the February issue of Nakayoshi magazine.
Morio Asaka (director of the first anime and the two animated films) will return to direct the new anime project which is slated for a January 2018 premiere. The following seiyuus will also return to reprise their roles. Below are the names of the returning cast:
Sakura Tange as Sakura Kinomoto
Aya Hisakawa as Keroberos
Junko Iwao as Tomoyo Daidōji
Motoko Kumai as Syaoran Li
Megumi Ogata as Yukito Tsukishiro
Tomokazu Seki as Tōya Kinomoto
As a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original manga series, the all-girls manga group CLAMP released the sequel manga Card Captor Sakura Clear Card-hen last June 3. The manga takes place after Sakura Kinomoto graduates from Tomoeda Elementary School and into her junior high school year.
We can’t for the return of this well-loved magical girl series!
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