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New Cardcaptor Sakura Manga is Sequel Launching in June

Series takes place in Sakura’s 1st year of junior high school

The June issue of Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine is announcing on Saturday that the members of the creative team CLAMP are launching the new Cardcaptor Sakura sequel manga series in the magazine’s July issue on June 3. The manga will take place after titular character Sakura graduates from Tomoeda Elementary School, in her first year of junior high school. Sakura sees a mysterious dream, and an incident takes place.

The magazine notes that the manga series has sold over 12 million copies.

The magazine announced last month that CLAMP will publish a new manga in the franchise.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the original manga. NHK’s BS Premium began re-running the Clow Card arc of the Cardcaptor Sakura anime on April 6. A book compiling previously published illustrations shipped on March 24. Six Animate Cafés in Japan began hosting a Cardcaptor Sakura theme starting on April 1.

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