Episode 1!

So, obviously the first episode has to establish all of our characters and give us the basic gist of the plot! So we have Sakura who lives with her brother and father - mother mysteriously died! She's 10 years old and an excellent student that her peers look up to. ESPECIALLY her best friend Tomoyo who I'm pretty sure fancies Sakura as she likes to film her etc.

Sakura has a MAJOR crush on her brother's pal, Yukito who has a bit of a girl voice and throws her candy and trout while riding a bike casually through the school gates.

It's all cute and tee-hee until Sakura discovers The Clow in her house and accidentally harnesses that power of The Windy card which blows them all away. Kiro pops out of the book and is all like 'we need to go get them back' and all of a sudden a GIANT BIRD THAT NOBODY ELSE SEES is flying about. It's The Fly. Sakura manages to capture it back and all is well!

It definitely reminds me all over again of why I love this anime. It's so cute and features a lot of gorgeous drawings of the card creatures. The magic involved is brilliant too and I can see why I loved watching it while I was 10 - who wouldn't want to be the Card Captor?!