The Worst Episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura

#1 Worst Episode
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6.9/10(117 votes)
#1 - Sakura and the Panda and the Cute Store
S1:E55/5/1998
On the way to school, Sakura meets Maki Matsumoto who is opening a stuffed doll shop called Twin Bells. Sakura and her friends visit the shop after school to find most of the merchandise unpacked, so they offer to help. Chiharu Mihara, who has a fondness for stuffed animals, buys a stuffed panda, but it disappears shortly after taking it home. Sakura discovers the panda back in Twin Bells and Maki explain the reason for opening the shop and her business has been plagued by mysterious happenings that almost forced her to close down. While Tomoyo distracts Maki in the back, Sakura and Kero search the shop to find The Jump, which escapes with all the stuffed dolls in the shop. At Penguin Park, The Jump grows into a giant by absorbing the stuffed dolls, but it knocks itself out after it trips and falls allowing Sakura to capture it.
Director:Mamoru Kanbe
Writer:Hiroshi Ishii
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Director:Mamoru Kanbe
Writer:Hiroshi Ishii
7.2/10(151 votes)
#2 - Sakura's Wonderful Friend
S1:E24/14/1998
Tomoyo meets Cerberus after she discovers Sakura's secret and gets a full explanation of the lost Clow Cards and Sakura's designation as Cardcaptor. Cerberus gets given the nickname "Kero-chan" that will stick for the rest of the series. The next day, the students find the school's desks and equipment in large piles. Kero believes it was the work of the card and forces Sakura to go to school at night where she confronts The Shadow. Using the Windy card's binding ability, Sakura is able to capture the Shadow card. Sakura finally accepts her role as a Cardcaptor because of Tomoyo's support.
Director:Yorimichi Nakano
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Yorimichi Nakano
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.2/10(78 votes)
#3 - Sakura's Sweet Cooking
S1:E2911/10/1998
Sakura practices in the kitchen with her father for an upcoming home-economics class, as Sakura is worried about how she will do. Sakura's classmates decide which cakes they will bake. The following day, everyone begins making their various cakes, but after leaving them to bake over lunch, they come back to find them to be far too sweet. The next day, everyone starts over and make sure they measure the ingredients correctly. Sakura and Syaoran sense a Clow Card, and afterwards everyone except them exits the classroom. They discover it to be the Sweet card, which flies around the room turning everything into sweets and confections. Sakura captures the card after throwing salt on it to temporarily immobilize it, which causes the room to revert back to normal. After everyone comes back, and the cakes have turned out great, except for Meilin's, who made hers too hard.
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4.0/10(1 votes)
#4 - Sakura and Akiho's Lullaby
S4:E195/20/2018
Sakura is finally about to go and read to children with Yukito, and she invites Akiho, Syaoran, and Tomoyo to come along. Sakura's enthusiasm convinces Akiho to join her for the reading, while Syaoran agrees to contribute a piano accompaniment.
Director:Akira Kato
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Akira Kato
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.3/10(134 votes)
#5 - Sakura's Heart-throbbing First Date
S1:E34/21/1998
Sakura's class is on a field trip to the aquarium. During the penguin show, something catches the trainer's leg and a penguin and pulls them into the water, but they are saved by Sakura's brother, Toya, who is working part-time there. At school, Tomoyo gives Sakura and Cerberus mobile phones and on the way home, Sakura bumps into Yukito who invites her on a casual "date" which is at a cafe where Yukito knew Toya was working. While they are eating, The Watery breaks the glass of the aquarium causing a flood. For the first time Sakura has to formulate a plan to capture a card, rather than jumping into battle and attacking with Windy. Using her wits and an unintentional clue from Yukito, she lures Watery into a freezer to immobilizes and capture it.
Director:Sunao Katabuchi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Sunao Katabuchi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.3/10(127 votes)
#6 - Sakura's Exhausting Sunday
S1:E44/28/1998
While cleaning the house, Sakura finds two dormant Clow Cards, The Wood and The Rain. But while running an errand for her father, the two cards activate creating a jungle inside the house. Sakura uses The Watery to capture The Rain card and The Wood yields on her own. Sakura gets the hard-earned lesson that a card is not fully subdued until she signs her name on it.
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5.0/10(1 votes)
#7 - Sakura and the Upside-down Penguin
S4:E113/18/2018
Syaoran meets Kaito through a chance encounter on the way home from school. He informs Eriol, whom he's beem secretly keeping in touch with, and they both begin to suspect Kaito is a very powerful magician.
Director:Toshihiro Kikuchi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Toshihiro Kikuchi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
5.0/10(1 votes)
#8 - Sakura and Welcome Back, Meiling
S4:E134/8/2018
Sakura is overjoyed to see Syaoran's cousin, Meiling, make an unannounced visit from Hong Kong. Meiling asks to stay at Sakura's house, so they head straight there. Meanwhile, the power Toya lost by giving it to Yukito is gradually starting to return.
Director:Masaharu Tomoda
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Masaharu Tomoda
Writer:Nanase Okawa
5.0/10(1 votes)
#9 - Sakura and the Crazy Sweets
S4:E175/6/2018
Today is the cooking lesson in home ec class that everyone's been looking forward to. Sakura's morning is thrown into a panic when she forgets her apron, but she and her friends are excited to make roll cakes in class.
Director:Yuki Nishibata
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Yuki Nishibata
Writer:Nanase Okawa
5.0/10(1 votes)
#10 - Sakura's Clear Cards
S4:E226/10/2018
Sakura has seen the mysterious robed person in her dreams many times. It turns out Akiho has been having the same dreams herself, and she's grown worried over their unsettling contents.
Director:Kunio Wakabayashi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Kunio Wakabayashi
Writer:Nanase Okawa
6.0/10(1 votes)
#11 - Sakura and the Icy Ball-Sports Tournament
S4:E123/25/2018
It's the day of the ball-sports tournament everyone's been looking forward to. The athletic Sakura makes a strong g showing in the basketball event!
Director:Hideki Hosokawa
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Hideki Hosokawa
Writer:Nanase Okawa
6.0/10(1 votes)
#12 - Sakura, Rainbows, and Grandpa
S4:E205/27/2018
Sakura is spending her Sunday morning making rolled omelets for the homemade lunches she's taking for her outing with Syaoran.
Director:Naoki Hishikawa
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Naoki Hishikawa
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.4/10(96 votes)
#13 - Sakura and the Elephant's Strength Contest
S1:E137/7/1998
Sakura's class is visiting the zoo for a field trip and her group is assigned to observe the elephants. Near noon, something begins to break open the cages causing chaos among the visitors and Kero is positive it's a Clow Card. The Power card, although invisible, begins to torment the elephants and Sakura steps in to save them by challenging it to a game of tug-of-war. Sakura is no match for the Power card even with the help of the elephants. Just as Sakura is about to lose, Syaoran uses the Time card to stop time to help her win the battle, thus tricking Power into surrendering.
Director:Kazunori Mizuno
Writers:Nanase Okawa, Hiroshi Ishii
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Director:Kazunori Mizuno
Writers:Nanase Okawa, Hiroshi Ishii
7.4/10(93 votes)
#14 - Sakura and Kero's Big Fight
S1:E157/21/1998
Syaoran captures his second Clow Card after defeating the Storm card. Tension develops between Kero and Sakura over the Syaoran issue which builds into a fight the next day after Kero makes a mess after building a room inside Sakura's desk drawer. While Sakura is at school, Kero eats liquor-filled chocolate and wanders out the window drunk. The next day, he finds himself with a young girl named Akane who lives alone with her mother. Unable to escape, Kero secretly contacts the worried Sakura by fax. Akane wishes she could fly to see her father in heaven and the Float card makes her dreams come true. Sakura comes to her rescue and brings Kero back home. As a way of making amends, Sakura redesigns her bottom desk drawer to become Cerberus's bedroom from now on.
Director:Masaru Kitao
Writer:Jiro Kaneko
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Director:Masaru Kitao
Writer:Jiro Kaneko
7.4/10(90 votes)
#15 - Sakura's Scary Courage Test
S1:E178/11/1998
Sakura and her class is on a trip to the beach for a few days. On the first night, Naoko tells one of her scary story causing Sakura to flee to the teacher's lodging, but she is found by Syaoran who senses something in a cave nearby. Together at the beach, the two have their first civil conversation where Syaoran tells Sakura about Wei, a person he lives with. A test of courage is held the next night where the students must enter the cave and place a candle next to the shrine inside. But once inside, Sakura's friends begin to disappear. Syaoran, the only one left, forbids Sakura from panicking and walks her through the process of capturing the Erase card even while he's starting to fade away. Syaoran refuses the card after Sakura offers to give it to him.
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7.4/10(81 votes)
#16 - Sakura's Long Marathon
S1:E219/16/1998
During a school race, Meiling is determined to win with Syaoran, in their usual "One-Two Finish" they were known for in their previous school. During the race, both Syaoran and Sakura take off at top speed after seeing that Yukito is watching. As the run, the Loop card causes traps Sakura and Syaoran, causing them to run in circles. After they realize what has happened, Sakura is able to use the Sword card to cut the loop. Syaoran carries Meiling, who hurt her ankle, the rest of the way to the finish line, joined by Sakura.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.4/10(77 votes)
#17 - Sakura's Cold Ice Skating
S1:E3312/15/1998
Sakura’s fourth grade class takes a trip to the town’s ice skating rink. At the ice skating rink, the students begin to feel low, freezing temperatures due to the Freeze card. Eventually, the Freeze card beings to freeze everyone by covering them with ice, except those with magical powers, which include Sakura, Syaoran, and Ms. McKenzie, who was hiding near the back of the rink during Freeze’s appearance. With the help of Syaoran’s distractions, Sakura is able to capture the Freeze card into a clow card and ultimately, Syaoran became the master of the Freeze card due to his idea of getting Freeze to appear out of the ice rink.
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Writer:Unknown
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7.4/10(75 votes)
#18 - Sakura and the Nameless Book
S1:E3111/24/1998
Naoko, Sakura's classmate and friend, goes to a bookstore and buys a mysterious book which has no title and the things she writes in it comes to life. Sakura catches the card which appears to be the Create card by using the newly captured Big to enlarge her size and seal the dragon she encountered away.
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7.4/10(72 votes)
#19 - Sakura and the Calendar of Memories
S3:E810/26/1999
Fujitaka gives Sakura her mother's old calendar, and learns about her great-grandfather (the two had previously met, though Sakura remains unaware of his identity) and how he disapproved of his granddaughter's marriage to Fujitaka. Hoping to set things right, Sakura hand-makes a gift and uses the Flower card to decorate it, along with a letter about how happy her mother was.
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7.4/10(72 votes)
#20 - Sakura and Sakura in Wonderland
S3:E911/2/1999
While reading Alice in Wonderland, Sakura is sucked into the book's fantasy due to another of Eriol's enchantments, this time on a leaf he gave Sakura to use as a bookmark. There she meets the story's characters who have taken on the forms of her friends and family: Eriol is the Cheshire Cat, Yukito is the White Rabbit, Toya is the Mad Hatter, Syaoran is Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee, Tomoyo is Humpty Dumpty, and Kero is the Red Queen.
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7.4/10(70 votes)
#21 - Sakura and the Dangerous Piano
S3:E39/21/1999
Exhausted from the events of the other night, Sakura remains in bed and sleeps into the afternoon before being visited by Syaoran and Tomoyo. Kero explains that Sakura used a great deal of power to transform the Clow Card, explaining her sudden tiredness. Since the Fiery Card was transformed to be under jurisdiction of Sakura's power, Sakura's friends henceforth transform the cards into "Sakura Cards". Later at school, Sakura overhears Eriol playing the piano and has Tomoyo sing to his music; unbeknownst to them, however, Eriol enchants the piano while he plays.
Director:Unknown
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7.4/10(68 votes)
#22 - Sakura's Sheep Warning!?
S3:E610/12/1999
Yue secretly confides with Kerberos that he has recently been losing his energy, and that Sakura's powers alone aren't enough to help him maintain himself; he adds that if his power disappears, both he and his alter ego Yukito, who is oblivious to this incident but growing increasingly aware of it, will fade from existence. Toya, who is aware of Yukito's predicament, attempts to tell him the truth, but is once again interrupted by Nakuru, making it clear she is doing so on purpose. Meanwhile, Sakura's attention is drawn to a large, deep hole in the middle of the playground. She is able to enter the hole, though her friends are not since it is sealed by Clow Reed's magic.
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7.0/10(1 votes)
#23 - Sakura's Thrilling Aquarium Visit
S4:E93/4/2018
Sakura invites Syaoran out for the day with tickets given to her by her father. She's worked hard on the rolled omelets for their lunch, and now they make their way to the aquarium Sakura visited when she captured the Clow Card, Watery.
Director:Tetsuo Ichimura
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Tetsuo Ichimura
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.0/10(1 votes)
#24 - Sakura and the Sleep Labyrinth
S4:E103/11/2018
Akiho pays a visit to Sakura's house one evening while her father and brother are both away. They look at Sakura's elementary school pictures and have dinner together, but then Akiho suddenly falls asleep.
Director:Toshiaki Kamihara
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Toshiaki Kamihara
Writer:Nanase Okawa
7.0/10(1 votes)
#25 - Sakura and the Fire and Water Birds
S4:E185/13/2018
When Sakura senses a card late at night, she heads to Tsukimine Shrine with Kero-chan, Tomoyo, and Syaoran.
Director:Tetsuo Ichimura
Writer:Nanase Okawa
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Director:Tetsuo Ichimura
Writer:Nanase Okawa