Sakura Kinomoto

Sakura Kinomoto is a character from Cardcaptor Sakura who serves as a good user. Sakura is introduced as a 10 year-old girl who lives in the town of Tomoeda in Japan, where she attends Tomoeda Elementary School during the Clow Card Arc and Sakura Card Arc story-line. In Clear Card Arc story-line, she is a freshmen attending Tomoeda Junior High School.

## Appearance

In the anime, Sakura has short brown hair, short all-round with 2 raised partings, 2 curved ahoges, and 2 long thin strands on sides, and emerald green eyes. In certain manga sketches and official artwork, this sometimes changes. In addition to her anime hair and eyes, her hair is sometimes colored auburn, her eyes are sometimes colored grey or blue, and her skin is sometimes snow white. As a child, she is naturally short in height, but slowly grows as the years pass by.

Sakura's outfits change frequently throughout the series. In almost every single episode, her most iconic everyday outfit is her school uniform, which is doubled as her combative sailor-suited battle outfit, the latter of which changes depending on the season. Her winter school uniform is a black long sleeved shirt with red and white sleeve cuffs, a white neckerchief with a red stripe, and a white pleated miniskirt with a frilly white knee-length petticoat. On particularly cold days, she wears a thick black coat with her schools insignia on the back. Her summer uniform is a white half-sleeved shirt with a red neckerchief and a black pleated miniskirt. All year round, a pair of very shiny black Mary Jane shoes are worn along with white socks and a white sailor hat with a black trim.

## Personality

Sakura is a very energetic, cute, tough, happy, giggly, beautiful, sweet, cheerful, kind and tomboyish ten-year-old girl. She is very athletic, being a member of her school's cheer-leading squad and an excellent runner, a trait she inherited from her father, a very tough fighter, and is very good at skating, sports and video gaming. Her "invincible spell" "Everything will surely be all right" ("絶対大丈夫だよ" "Zettai daijoubu da yo") has carried her through innumerable trials and obstacles as she masters her magical skills. Her catchphrase is "Hoeh!" ("ほえ！" "hoe!") which is usually stretched and is used whenever she is shocked or scared even the slightest. She also frequently shouts "KERO, NO!!!" when scolding Kero.

She often comes across as naïve, clumsy, dense and clueless, but she has her perceptive moments on occasion. Her favorite foods are omelette and noodles with seafood and her favorite recipe is pancakes. Her birthday is on April the first. She hates mathematics, loves gym and music, and her blood type is A.

Sakura's optimistic and trustworthy character allows her to be friendly with everybody, she is very outgoing and the entire series focuses on the friendships she creates with people, whether strangers, loose acquaintances, or rivals. In fact, her personality is a dominating factor in her relationships, especially with Syaoran Li. Though sometimes she's quite gullible and believes what everyone tells her, her charm can win over anyone (as shown with Syaoran in the series). She's also known to be very scared of ghosts.

She became scared of ghosts because her brother, who could see spirits, would usually point them out. Though she couldn't see them, the descriptions of having 'one eye' or 'missing a hand' would frighten her. Therefore she felt a deep fear of ghosts from a young age. Ironically, she has no fear of Clow Cards. This is apparent when Sakura finds out that the ghost in the park is actually a Clow Card and was no longer scared by it. She is known to be clueless about things relating to herself but perceptive of others. Though when she finds out information about her friends, she usually keeps quiet about it.

Despite her sweet nature, cuteness and beauty, Sakura has been shown to have a very vicious temper, rather she's punching with her barefists and kicking with her black Mary Jane shoes, due to her tomboyishness. This is often seen when Touya teases her by calling her a monster and once when she and Kero got into a fight. Her temper is sometimes so vicious that it once scared Touya. That said, she rarely, if ever, gets physically violent; at most, every so often, she'll just occasionally flail her arms wildly while expressing her anger at Touya. These fits of anger also tend to be pretty intense, but short, and she's quick to forgive, as shown by the fact that she almost never seems to hold a grudge. In fact, despite Touya's frequent teasing, she's often civil and friendly to him by default until her anger is renewed whenever he takes another opportunity to do so.