Sorry I wasn’t able to post this yesterday. I have lots of screencaps to make up for it^^;
So this movie starts out with a construction scene. It seems Eirol’s old house is getting torn down. Tomoyo is having fun filming Sakura using her cards. She even got Kero and Yue in on it. (Kero, I can see, but I don’t know how she talked Yue into it.) Sakrua admits to Tomoyo that Syaoran confessed his feelings to her, but she hasn’t replied yet.
The next day, Sakura rushes off to school. It is summer, but her class is putting on a play for the cultural festival. Skaura is playing the princess and Yamazaki is the prince. After practice, she and Tomoyo pass by the construction area. It seems that a new amusement park is being built. But Sakura senses something strange. When she runs in its direction, who should she run into but Syaoran! He and Meiling are on summer break too, and Tomoyo and Meiling are conspiring to get Syaoran and Sakura together. They go so far as to get them to have dinner alone at Sakura’s house. Only one problem. They keep getting interrupted, first by Kero, and then by Toya and Yuki! Toya in particular is not happy to see Syaoran. That night, after our heroes are asleep, a Sakrua Card flies off.
For the next several days, Meiling and Syaoran follow Sakura and Tomoyo to their practices. Several things around town seem to be missing, though. After one practice, they run into Toya and Yuki. Since Toya scared Sakura, Yuki makes him by ice cream for everyone. Sakura admits to Yuki she found the one she likes. Several more Cards disappear.
One day, there is no practice, so everyone goes to the amusement park. Tomoyo and Meiling try to get Sakua and Syaroan alone again, especially on the ferris wheel. But just as Sakura is about to confess her feelings, they both feel the presence of a Clow Card again. Running off to find it, they find a Card that looks like a girl, but she takes several more Cards before vanishing.
Worried, Sakura tells Kero when she gets home about what happened. And then who should call but Eirol from England. He apologizes that he didn’t remember earlier, but there is one last Clow Card that not even the guardians know about. The Clow Cards are all positive, meaning they do something. This Card is negative to balance them out. this new card is the Emptiness and erases things. Hence, why things have been disappearing around town. Only it is as powerful as all the other Cards combined. Since the other Cards are now all Sakura Cards and Eirol’s old house has been disturbed, it has been unsealed. Sakura can change it to a Sakura Card and reseal it, but Eirol says the price will be someones (probably Sakura) most precious feelings. This is all Eirol can say before being cut off by the Emptiness.
When Sakura tells Syaoran this the next day, Syaoran says they may have no choice but to give up their most precious feelings to save the town, which upsets Sakura a ton. She runs into Yuki, who takes her aside. When Sakura has trouble telling what’s going on, Yue appears, who encourages her.
Sakura is still worried the next day. Tomoyo and Meiling try to cheer her up, when more Cards disappear. And this time things start disappearing at school too. Sakura uses Sleep so no one will notice, but that Card ends up disappearing too. When everyone wakes up, it turns out Yamazaki has hurt his arm when he fell asleep. Terada-sensei is about to cancel the show, but he insists Syaoran takes his place.
And so the show goes on with Syaoran playing the prince. Actually, it follows real life in a way in the way the princess struggles telling the prince her feelings. Unfortunately, the Emptiness strikes again, taking away many more cards. Everyone disappears except Syaoran, Sakura, Meilling, Tomoyo, Yue, and Kero. Before going off, Tomoyo insists on new costumes, but this time she gives a reason. It is her way of making sure they come back alright.
The Emptiness takes even more Cards, even though Sakura tries to stop this with Windy, and now Meiling and Tomoyo are gone. But now Yue and Kero know where the Emptiness is hiding: at the new amusement park.
Emptiness attacks, and Sakura uses Jump to get out of the way on some high tracks. So Emptiness sends a train to knock her off. Sakura stops this momentarily with Time, but she can’t hold it. Luckily, Kero saves her. Yue and then Kero both try to take on the Emptiness, but both disappear. Syaoran realizes that this Card relies on Clow’s magic, but he doesn’t use Clow’s magic. So he goes after the Emptiness and actually makes her flinch. Too bad she knocks him off the ferris wheel. Sakura is quite upset and goes after the Emptiness with Fly until it gets taken. She then uses Shield to protect herself from falling rubble. That is the last Card, and it gets taken too. Thankfully, Syaoran is okay, though a little worse for ware. The Emptiness says how she was all alone away from everyone (the other Cards) and how lonely she was. But Sakura says real friendship isn’t forced. At this, all the Cards are freed and the Emptiness is devastated. But Sakura says she can join the others. She changes the Emptiness into a Sakura Card, but he magic backlashes onto Syaoran. Sakura fears his most important feeling (of her) has been taken away. This, however, gives her the courage to finally confess her feelings. And Syaoran still returns them. The one Card Sakrua made herself, now holds the Emptiness, but is now the Hope, and it protected Syaoran from the backlash. Everything goes back to normal, everyone returns, and Sakura and Syaoran live happily ever after!
But this is not quite the end. There is still Kero’s Special afterwards.
Eirol, Tomoyo, and Syaoran are over at Sakura’s place for tea. But this special really features Kero and Suppie. Sakura leaves them some takoyoaki in her bedroom. Suupie at first isn’t sure about this, but after one bite he is convinced. However, when they get to the last one, they start arguing about who should get it. And mayhem ensues, especially once the takoyaki gets knocked out the window. Things get even crazier when it gets exchanged with Yamazaki’s bouncy ball that looks exactly like takoyaki. Kero manages to grab a toy car, but Suppie eats some cake and goes into hyper spitting death beams mode. Eventually, the rubber ball gets exchanged back with the takoyaki (makes you wonder about exactly how many stories of Yamazaki are actually true). The doughy part around the octopus inside breaks off . . . and then falls into another octopus treat that uses octopus pieces. Suppie and Kero return despondent. Sakura arrives with more takoyaki, so all is well again. Especially since Suppie is to worn out to notice anything! Kero does leave him the last piece, though^^;
And thus ends Card Captor Sakura! Next up for detailed episode summaries, Ronin Warriors, also known as Yoroiden Samurai Troopers. Yes it’s retro. It’s also my first anime. Which is why I keep going back to it:) Look forward to it starting next week!
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