                 Card Captor Sakura TV Episode 1
                      air date - 04/07/98

                  Episode translations by Rabi
        'Leave It To Kero' translations by Rabi & murasaki
                     09/05/98, version 1.1

* Translator's note: I prefer "Kerberos" instead of "Cerberus" even though
the latter is the "official" CLAMP English name for "keruberosu" even
though the former makes more sense as the contraction for "Kero."

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NOTE: Neither Japanese nor English is my first language.  Do not expect
these translations to be 100% correct.  Use these translations at your own
risk.

          ===== Opening Song =====

          ===== Begin Episode =====

Sakura: Who is... calling me?

Title: Sakura and the Mysterious Magic Book

Sakura: So this is the noise.

Fujitaka: Sakura, breakfast is ready!

Sakura: Okay!
Sakura: I'm Sakura Kinomoto, a 4th-grader in Tomoeda Elementary School.
Sakura: My favorite subjects are P.E. and Music.
Sakura:  Math is my least favorite.
Sakura: Basically, I'm an energetic girl.
Sakura: My family members are...
Sakura: G'morning!

Touya: What were you rampaging in your room for?

Sakura: I'm not rampaging!

Touya: Then you were running around noisily.

Sakura: I was only walking like normal!

Touya: Even your normal walking alone sounds like monsters swaggering.

Sakura: I'm not a monster!
Sakura: This is my mean brother, Touya, a high school junior.

Touya:  You're too small to be a monster anyway.

Sakura: He goes to Seijou High School, which is right next to my 
elementary school.
Sakura: He's always mean.
Sakura: Just because he's a bit taller.  That's so unfair!
Sakura: Someday I'll become as big as a telephone pole, and...
Sakura: ..step on him for sure!

Fujitaka: You two get along well in the morning.

Sakura: This is my father, Fujitaka.
Sakura: He's an archaeology professor at a university.
Sakura: A kind person who's very good at cooking and sewing.
Sakura: He's my favorite!

Fujitaka: Here you go.

Sakura: Wow, it looks good.
Sakura: I'm eating!
Sakura: This is my family.
Sakura: Huh?  My Mother?
Sakura: She passed away when I was 3 years old.
Sakura: But, I'm not lonely.  I have Father.
Sakura: And even though my brother is mean, he's around too.

Fujitaka: Is it good?

Sakura: Yeah!

Touya: Thanks for the food.

Sakura: Leaving already?

Touya: Soccer practice in the morning.

Fujitaka: Be careful.

Touya: I'm going.

Sakura: Wa...Wait for me!
Sakura: Phank you phor the phood.

Fujitaka: Are you all right?
Fujitaka: Here is your lunch.

Sakura: Where's Touya?

Fujitaka: He just left.

Sakura: Already!

Fujitaka: Club activities today?

Sakura: Yeah.
Sakura: I'm going!

Fujitaka: Be careful!

Sakura: Where's he gone already?
Sakura: Ah, there he is.
Sakura: Wa...Wait for me!

Touya: It's fine even if you leave a little later, you know?

Sakura: But...
Sakura: But Touya always goes to school together with that person ...

Touya: Yuki!

Yukito: G'morning!

Touya: Yo!

Yukito: G'morning, Touya.
Yukito: G'morning, Sakura.  You got up early today, didn't you?

Sakura: Yeah!

Touya: 'Cuz she finished breakfast in 5 minutes.

Yukito: Sakura, you're full of energy today too.

Sakura: He is Yukito Tsukishiro.
Sakura: He's in my brother's class, also a high school junior.
Sakura: I almost couldn't believe that he's a friend of my barbarous 
brother.

Sakura: A kind and wonderful person.

Yukito: See you later, Sakura.

Sakura: Oh?
Sakura: We're here already.

Yukito: See you later!

Sakura: Yukito...

Tomoyo: That was smart, was it not?

Sakura: To...Tomoyo.

Tomoyo: A present when he is leaving, he knows what is to be done.

Sakura: G...G'morning, Tomoyo.

Tomoyo: Good morning, Sakura.

Sakura: Tomoyo Daidouji.  She's my best friend.
Sakura: She's smart and pretty, the daughter of the president of a huge 
company.

Tomoyo: You looked so cute just now.

Sakura: Huh?

Tomoyo: You were all enchanted, holding the candy so firmly.

Sakura: Well, Tomoyo...

Tomoyo: I wish I kept it on video.

Sakura: Did you hear?
Sakura: Taking videos and photos are Tomoyo's hobbies, but she takes 
everything of me...

Tomoyo: Oh, that's right.  I bought a new video camera.
Tomoyo: Let me take videos of you some other time, okay?

Sakura: Ye...Yeah.  But don't you take other things more interesting 
than just me?

Tomoyo: There is nothing else more interesting and cuter than you, 
Sakura!

Tomoyo: I will bring the video camera starting tomorrow right away!

Sakura: Just as I thought, Tomoyo might be a bit weird...

Teacher: 'And then, I can see the face of a boy,'
Teacher: 'whose mouth popped open like an O-shape.'
Teacher: 'I was quite surprised.'
Teacher: 'I thought it was a magic orange.'

Sakura: I wonder if that's me...

Tomoyo: That looks like a cute drawing.  What is it?

Teacher:  Well then, Miss Kinomoto.

Sakura: Um...  Today...
Sakura: Ye...Yes!

Teacher: Please read.

Sakura: I'll tell you later.

Tomoyo: From the 12th line.

Sakura: 'I thought it was magic orange.'
Sakura: 'Because in any case, the butterfly has changed its shape.'

Girls: Wow, that's awesome!

Naoko: Sakura's awesome!

Chiharu: That's so cool!

Teacher: Thank you, Miss Kinomoto.
Teacher: Next, we will practise tossing.
Teacher: Everyone, please have the batons ready.

Girls: Yes!

Sakura: After all, the dream did bug me.
Sakura: I'll tell Tomoyo next time.

Chiharu: Sakura is really good at sports and also at baton,
Chiharu: but once in a while she's like that, isn't she?

Sakura: I'm back!

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Board: Fujitaka    Will be back at 9pm today. 
                   Please heat up curry for dinner. 
                   Snacks are in the fridge.
Board: Touya       4pm Part-time job 
                   7pm Back
Board: Sakura      As usual

#########################################################

Sakura: 'Will be back at 9pm...'
Sakura: Oh no, Father will be back late.
Sakura: Someone's here?
Sakura: Bo...Both Father and Touya aren't here...

# Break

Sakura: It's from Father's library.
Sakura: What should I do if it's a burglar?
Sakura: I'll look quietly from the door.
Sakura: If anyone's here, I'll call the police!
Sakura: No one's here...
Sakura: It's that book.
Sakura: A card?
Sakura: Wind... Eh?
Sakura: Um...
Sakura: Wind... Windy...
Sakura: What is this?

Kero: Hellooo!

Sakura: Huh?!

Kero: So you were able to wake me up.

Sakura: Osaka dialect?

Kero: Well, this book was in Osaka for quite a while.
Kero: So I picked up the Osaka dialect.

Sakura:  Where's the battery? The switch?

Kero:  Whoa... Whatcha doin'?!

Sakura: Where's the sound coming out from?

Kero: I'm not a toy!
Kero: I'm Kerberos, Beast of the Seal who guards this book.

Sakura: Seal?  Kerberos?

Kero: That's right.
Kero: To guard these cards in this book from becomin' evil is my...
Kero: The cards are all gone?! Why?  Why's that?!
Kero: Where in the world did they go?

Sakura: This?

Kero: This is it!  This is it! This is it!!
Kero: Then, what about the other cards?

Sakura: I said, 'Windy,'
Sakura: then suddenly the wind came,
Sakura: and they all flew away.

Kero: I see.
Kero: What?!

Sakura: Thanks for the food!

Kero: Where are you bringing that to?

Sakura: I'm studying, so I'm eating it in my room.
Sakura: How is it?

Kero: This is bad.  I have absolutely no idea where the cards are.

Sakura: Here.

Kero: It looks good.
Kero: This book contains the 'Clow Cards.'

Sakura: Clow Cards?

Kero: 'Clow Cards.  When the Seal is broken, a disaster will befall 
upon this world.'
Kero: Those are special cards created by a powerful magician named 
Clow Reed.
Kero: Each card has its own life and holds stunnin' power.
Kero: They all do whatever they want, and no normal beings can win 
against them.
Kero: That's why Clow created this book, and put me, Beast of the 
Seal, on the cover.
Kero: Anyway, with the one to bring the cards back...
Kero: ... you , I'll be your companion.

Sakura: Why me?

Kero: It was you who scattered them with the magic card of the wind, 
right?

Sakura: Bu...But, it's your job to seal the cards properly, isn't it?

Kero: Well, I fell asleep by mistake...

Sakura: For how long?

Kero: About 30 years...

Sakura: And you call yourself Beast of the Seal?

Kero: Lotsa things happen in life!  C'mon!

Sakura: So that noise was you snoring, wasn't it?

Kero: In any case, the fact that you could open this book...
Kero: ...means that you could use a bit of magic.
Kero: What's your name?

Sakura: Sakura.

Kero: All right, Sakura.  Stand over there.

Sakura: Huh?
Sakura: Huh?

Kero: O Key of the Seal.
Kero: There is one who wishes for a contract with thee.
Kero: A girl.  Named Sakura.
Kero: O Key, grant her power!
Kero: Release!
Kero: Sakura, take the wand!
Kero: All right!
Kero: It's the birth of the Card Captor!!

Sakura: This is totally, totally, totally impossible!

Kero: Wow!  This is soft!

Sakura: There's no way I'm the Card Captor!

Kero: Card Captor, the one who captures the Clow Cards.
Kero: Isn't that cool?

Sakura: I'm just a normal grade- schooler, you know?
Sakura: I have nothing to do with the disaster of the world.

Kero: Who was the one that scattered the card with this?

Sakura: Who was the one that didn't watch the cards and fell asleep?
Sakura: Such strong wind...

Kero: Sakura!

Sakura: What's that?!

Kero: It's a Clow Card.

Sakura: Huh?

Kero: That's the card, Fly .
Kero: It's not the time to admire!  Hurry!

Sakura: For what?

Kero: Card Captor Sakura's first job!

Sakura: Wha...What?!
Sakura: Why in my pyjama...

Kero: What's the world's one and only Card Captor sayin'?

Sakura: That's so huge!  I can't do it!

Kero: Don't say discouragin' things!
Kero: Sakura, magic!
Kero: That key!  Do it the way I taught you just now!

Sakura: O Key which hides the forces of darkness,
Sakura: reveal thy true form before me.
Sakura: I, Sakura, command thee under contract.
Sakura: Release!

Kero: Okay, Sakura?  The card Fly is of the element wind.
Kero: You should be able to capture it with Windy .

Sakura: Is this really so?

Kero: Anyway, get a little closer.

Sakura: What should I do?  It came flying!

Kero: Sakura, the card Windy !
Kero: This is bad.  It's comin' again!
Kero: Hurry!  Use the card Windy !

Sakura: But this is...
Sakura: I can't do it!

Kero: Isn't Card Captor the one who's gonna do somethin' about that?

Sakura: Something...
Sakura: Maybe I can do something...

Kero: What are you gonna do?!
Kero: Sakura!
Kero: Sakura!

Sakura: O Wind, become a chain of admonition.
Sakura:  Windy !
Sakura: Return to thy form which thou should be! Clow Card!

Kero: Well done, Sakura!

Sakura: I thought I was going to die!

Kero: You're truly the Card Captor that I counted on.

Sakura: I didn't say a single word that I'm doing this!

Kero: You'll become a good adult when you gain lots of experience.
Kero: Now, the card you captured with all that effort, try tapping it.

Sakura: What will that do?

Kero: Just do it.

Sakura:  Fly !

Kero: How's it?  Feels good, doesn't it?

Sakura: Yeah!

Kero: I'll depend on you from now on, okay?  Card Captor Sakura?

Sakura: Yeah!
Sakura: I didn't say I'm doing it!

          ===== Ending song =====

        ===== Leave It To Kero =====

Screen: Leave It To Kero!

Kero: Hellooo!
Kero: Leave It To Kero!
Kero: I'm your host, Kerberos! Nice meetin' ya.
Kero: Here, I'll comment on various things appearin' on Card Captor 
Sakura.
Kero: A corner just for Sakura's fans.

Kero: Here!  This is for today.
Kero: Ta-ta!  The uniform of Tomoeda Elementary School!

Kero: The uniform has 2 types, short sleeves and long sleeves.
Kero: But this time, she's wearin' long sleeves.
Kero: With the navy color as the basic design, it looks kinda 
stylish, doesn't it?
Kero: And the school badge on the left sleeve is the accent to the 
uniform.
Kero: To make it better, there's a cute hat that goes with it too!

Kero: And now, Kero Check!!
Kero: The check-point for this time is the skirt!
Kero: The white pleated skirt looks pretty good on Sakura, doesn't it?
Kero: By the way, the boy's looks like this.

Kero: And so, that's all for today.
Kero: How's it?  Pretty easy to understand, right?
Kero: From now on, I'll keep checkin' on detail things.
Kero: So, everyone, look forward to it.

Kero: Later!

           ===== Preview =====

Screen: Next Episode Preview

Sakura: Somehow, I sealed the card Fly ,
Sakura: but there's just no way I'm the Card Captor!
Sakura: This time, it has become a big problem for my friends.
Sakura: Besides, I wonder what video it is that Tomoyo wants to show me.
Sakura: Card Captor Sakura.
Sakura: Sakura's Wonderful Friend.

Title: Sakura's Wonderful Friend

Sakura: Next time too, together with Sakura, 'Release!'
