Everyone celebrated Sakura's birthday together again this year! Sakura Fest 2018 - Sakura and Happy Easter for Everyone" Night Session Report!

The TV anime "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc" is currently airing. On April 1, the birthday of the main character Sakura Kinomoto, "Sakura Fest 2018 - Happy Easter for Sakura and Everyone" was held at the Maihama Amphitheater.

The cast included Sakura Tange (Sakura Kinomoto), Junko Iwao (Tomoyo Daidoji), Aya Kugawa (Cerberus), Imotoko Kumamoto (Li Xiaolou), Emi Ogata (Yue Tsukijo), Minori Suzuki (Akiho Uchinomoto), Natsuki Hanae (Yuna D. Kaito), and the theme song performers, Saori Hayami and Kiyono Anno, who sang the theme song.

Card Captor Sakura" is a popular manga serialized in "Nakayoshi" (Kodansha) from 1996 to 2000 by CLAMP, the hit maker of "Magic Knight Rayearth" and "XXXHOLiC", etc. When the TV anime was aired on NHK in 1998, its popularity accelerated even further. The popularity of the manga accelerated when it was made into an animated TV series on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1998, becoming a huge boom that transcended gender and generation. In 2016, the 20th anniversary of the serialization, a new sequel, "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc," began serialization, and an anime version started on NHK BS Premium on January 7, 2012.
⇒Spring 2018 Anime

Following last year, "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc" held a special event "Sakura Fest 2018: Happy Easter for Sakura and Everyone" on April 1, the birthday of the main character, Sakura Kinomoto. Two performances were held at Maihama Amphitheater, one in the daytime and the other at night, with Sakura Tange playing Sakura Kinomoto, Junko Iwao (Tomoyo Daidoji), Aya Hisakawa (Cerberus), Imotoko Kumamoto (Li Syaorou), Emi Ogata (Sessho Tsukishiro/Yue), Minori Suzuki (Akiho Uchinomoto), Natsuki Hanae (Una D. Kaito), Minori Suzuki (Akiho Uchinomoto), and Natsuki Hanae (Yuna D. Kaito). Natsuki Hanae (Yuna D. Kaito), and the main cast of the "Clear Card Arc," including new characters, are all present. In addition, Saori Hayami, who handled the ED theme, and Kiyono Anno, who handled the opening for the second season, also made an appearance.
Under the title of "Happy Easter for Sakura and Everyone," the event included talks and readings on the theme of "Easter.

At the opening, the film's mascot characters, Kero-chan and Supi, appeared in stuffed animals using the amphitheater's famous seriage. They explained what "Easter" was to the audience, many of whom were also little friends, and from everywhere came cheers of "Cute! and cheers of "cute!" came from all around.

The audience was even more excited when "Happy Easter for Sakura and everyone else" was shown on the screen and the title was called out.

Assuming that the audience had already watched the main story, the first topic was to look back on "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc" while showing the movie on the screen.
Sakura and her friends have moved on to junior high school, but Tomoyo still keeps the camera on Sakura, and the scene of the irritating reunion between Syaoran and Sakura, who now go to the same junior high school, the jawing scene between Tsuki (Yue) and Sakura, and the appearance of new characters, Akiho and Kaiwatari, were shown on the screen one after another. The scenes of new characters, Akiho and Kaito, were shown on the screen one after another.
The "Wand of Dreams" appeared on stage, and Ms. Tange with the wand in her hand chanted the spell. The audience was entertained by a large-scale device in which the "seri" on the stage opened to release the seal and the "seri" closed again to seal it with "Secure" when "Release" was chanted.

After the announcement that the "Card Captor Sakura Exhibition" would be held at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in October, the entire cast performed a reading.

The story began with Sakura trying to cook eggs and realizing that there were no eggs in the refrigerator, and she and her friends went to various places to look for eggs. During the Easter egg making scene, a large egg actually appeared on stage, and the cast members had to decorate it with various items.

Tange-san and Kugawa-san, who happened to draw Kero-chan together during the daytime session, tried to draw Suppy during the nighttime session, Hanae-san and Suzuki-san wrote "true love," and the cast members decorated the Easter eggs in their own ways. The reading was full of ad-libs, and the audience was very satisfied with the cast's spirit of service.

The audience was very satisfied with the service spirit of the cast members. After a video message from Maaya Sakamoto, who was in charge of the opening theme, Ms. Hayami performed "Jewelry," the ending theme. Kiyono Yasuno, who is in charge of the new opening theme, and Suzuki, who plays the role of Akiho, appeared on stage as the ending theme artists, and the three talked about their favorite characters.

After that, Ms. Yasuno performed the new opening theme song "Rocket Beat" in full for the first time, and Ms. Suzuki sang the new ending theme song "Rewind" with a lot of love for Sakura from her childhood, enlivening the audience.

After the songs, the audience celebrated Sakura's birthday on April 1. Ms. Tange blew out the candles on the cake depicting Sakura holding a Kero-chan pancake, and again expressed her gratitude to the fans.

The event ended with comments from the cast and artists wishing that the event would be held again next year.
At the end of the event, Kero-chan and Suppy appeared on stage again, and Kero-chan promoted the program's corner, "Kero-chan omakase! a corner of the program. As Suppy urged her to "wind it up," she ended the event by saying, "Kero-chan, check it out! and the event celebrating Sakura's birthday came to an end with smiles on the audience's faces.

The TV anime "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc" will be broadcast on NHK BS Premium and also on NHK E-television from April 4, so be sure to check it out.

Production Information
TV anime "Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc

＜Broadcast Information
NHK E-television will start airing the anime from April 4 (Wed.).
NHK E-television every Wednesday from 7:25 p.m.

NHK BS Premium
NHK BS Premium every Sunday from 7:30 a.m!
Re-broadcast: Every Friday from 11:45 p.m.

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