Sakura Kinomoto is the main protagonist and title character of Clamp's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura.
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29 Facts About Sakura Kinomoto
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Ohkawa wanted the heroine Sakura Kinomoto to be in the same age group as the majority of Nakayoshis readers so that fans could relate to her.
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Sakura Kinomoto explained that the reason Tomoyo and Sakura did not end up together was not because Tomoyo is a girl, but rather because Sakura did not love Tomoyo in a romantic way.
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Sakura Kinomoto was designed to capture the image of Mokona's then two-year-old niece Kawaji.
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The popularity and success of Cardcaptor Sakura Kinomoto led to the creations of several toys of the Clow Cards, including a set of toy cards released by the Nakayoshi magazine to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary.
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In Nelvana's English adaptation titled "Cardcaptors", Sakura Kinomoto was originally going to be called Nikki, but they later decided to keep her first original given name because of the reception of the Cardcaptors adaptation plus the difficulty and expense of editing out numerous appearances of her name in romaji in the anime series.
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Sakura Kinomoto is portrayed as a young girl with magical powers she inherited from Clow Reed.
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In some of her dreams, Sakura Kinomoto sees the man she loves, Yukito Tsukishiro, and often interacts with him as her brother, Toya, is a classmate of him.
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Sakura Kinomoto is unaware Toya possesses magic powers but she keeps it a secret though Toya is clearly able to tell when her sister is making magic.
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Sakura Kinomoto goes through a character arc when Toya is hurt by the spirit of the magic card Mirror.
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Sakura Kinomoto is unaware that Syaoran develops feelings for her rather but they become close when he aids her whenever she becomes concerned about how to solve her issues.
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Sakura Kinomoto herself develops romantic feelings towards Sakura Kinomoto but her naivety makes her not understand her own feelings.
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Writer Kiyoshi Saiga comments that the focus on multiple types of relationships is Clamp's signature style of writing and Cardcaptor Sakura Kinomoto heavily focuses on these ideas rather than the search for magic cards.
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Saiga further comments that Sakura Kinomoto is an audience surrogate as across the narrative, both the reader and Sakura Kinomoto mature and explore the concept what is the love they seek.
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Still, Sakura Kinomoto stands out within magical girls as, rather than changing like other superheroes, Sakura Kinomoto's optimistic feelings remain the same in the manga.
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Sakura Kinomoto is introduced as a nine-year-old girl who lives in the town of Tomoeda in Japan, where she attends Tomoeda Elementary School.
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Sakura Kinomoto has short, honey brown hair, fair skin, and emerald green eyes.
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Sakura Kinomoto is seven years older than her, but it never bothers her.
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Sakura Kinomoto's winter school uniform is a black long sleeved shirt with red and white sleevecuffs, a white neckerchief with a red stripe, and a white pleated miniskirt with a frilly white knee-length petticoat.
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Sakura Kinomoto's summer uniform is a white half-sleeved shirt with a red neckerchief and a black pleated miniskirt.
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However, like Clow Reed's magic, Sakura Kinomoto's is a balance of sun and moon magic.
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In Cardcaptor Sakura Kinomoto Movie 2: The Sealed Card, she learns that there is a fifty-third Clow Card, The Nothing, which acts as a balance to the positive magic of the others.
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Sakura Kinomoto is a playable character in eight of the Cardcaptor Sakura Kinomoto video games, and her character design is featured in the series' version of Tetris.
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The character design of Sakura Kinomoto is reused in the Clamp series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, which presents an alternate world story that uses characters from many of the group's previous series.
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Sakura Kinomoto plays an important role during the last arc of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, in a dream to a reincarnated Princess Sakura Kinomoto.
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Sakura Kinomoto appeared in the OVA Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations as a spirit or vision that Princess Sakura Kinomoto sees, which guides her back to where see came from, the Tocho when she gets lost.
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In both 1999 and 2000, Sakura Kinomoto won the Animage Grand Prix for "Best Female Character".
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