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Cardcaptor Sakura: Season 3

24 episodes Premiered Sep 7, 1999 Updated Sep 18, 2026

Cardcaptor Sakura Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes.

Previously on Cardcaptor Sakura

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2.
  • Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

Cardcaptor Sakura Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes.

Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Sakura and the Mysterious Transfer Student

Sep 7, 1999

Sakura’s class receives a new transfer student, Eriol Hiiragizawa, a boy from England, and he starts charming Sakura, making Syaoran jealous. Later on, Sakura receives a vision fro

S3·E2 Core

Sakura and the Awakened Key of Star

Sep 14, 1999

Rain still falls on Tomoeda. In her kitchen, Sakura thinks about the previous night when she was unable to release her key into the staff. Touya comes downstairs and notes that she

S3·E3 Core

Sakura and the Dangerous Piano

Sep 21, 1999

Exhausted from the events of the other night, Sakura remains in bed and sleeps into the afternoon before being visited by Syaoran and Tomoyo. Kero explains that Sakura used a great

S3·E4 Core

Sakura and Shaoran and the Invisible Threads

Sep 28, 1999

Sakura begins to wonder if the bizarre goings on are connected to Clow Reed's presence, though she is aware that Clow is long deceased. At recess, Rika shows everyone a teddy bear

S3·E5 Core

Sakura and the Big Stuffed Doll

Oct 5, 1999

Several people at school have started making their own teddy bears to give to their loved ones, while Eriol helps Sakura make her bear for Yukito, secretly enchanting one of its ea

S3·E6 Core

Sakura's Sheep Warning!?

Oct 12, 1999

Yue secretly confides with Kerberos that he has recently been losing his energy, and that Sakura's powers alone aren't enough to help him maintain himself; he adds that if his powe

S3·E7 Core

Sakura and the Panic Bicycle

Oct 19, 1999

Sakura learns that the Clow Cards she is unable to use are beginning to lose their power, and will become ordinary cards if they aren't converted into Sakura Cards. Unwilling to le

S3·E8 Core

Sakura and the Calendar of Memories

Oct 26, 1999

Fujitaka gives Sakura her mother's old calendar, and learns about her great-grandfather (the two had previously met, though Sakura remains unaware of his identity) and how he disap

S3·E9 Core

Sakura and Sakura in Wonderland

Nov 2, 1999

While reading Alice in Wonderland, Sakura is sucked into the book's fantasy due to another of Eriol's enchantments, this time on a leaf he gave Sakura to use as a bookmark. There s

S3·E10 Core

Sakura and Kero and a Candy Date??

Nov 9, 1999

Sakura's school is hosting a bazaar, and Kero attends to eat sweets, hiding in the woods. Nakuru, meanwhile, brings Spinel Sun along and hides him in the same forest while she atte

S3·E11 Core

Sakura and Shaoran and the Elevator

Nov 16, 1999

Syaoran's feelings for Sakura have been steadily increasing, though he still doesn't understand why, and Sakura remains blissfully unaware of it. Soon Sakura invites him to go to a

S3·E12 Core

Sakura and Double Trouble

Nov 30, 1999

Eriol casts a spell on Kerberos and Yue so that they are unable to revert to their guise forms, much to Sakura's dismay, since it is understandably difficult to hide their true for

S3·E13 Core

Sakura and Tomoyo and the Ball Trap

Dec 7, 1999

Sakura grows in magical strength and power for every Clow Card she transforms into a Sakura Card, while Yue's energy begins to falter. Yue also comes to the realization that Eriol

S3·E14 Core

Sakura and Her Precious Friend

Dec 14, 1999

Remembering his promise to Meiling that he would be her "fiancé" until he found someone he loved more, Syaoran calls her to tell her that he is in love with Sakura, though he is ta

S3·E15 Core

Sakura and Card and Present

Dec 21, 1999

Kero is almost positive that Toya knows everything about Sakura's secret, though Sakura dismisses his claims, saying Toya would make fun of her if he did. Toya, meanwhile, is certa

S3·E16 Core

Sakura and the Mysterious Fortune

Jan 4, 2000

Sakura goes to a New Year's festival and notices that Yukito isn't around. Toya goes to check on him, discovering that he has not only collapsed from fatigue, but he's also beginni

S3·E17 Core

Sakura and the Pool and the Big Wave

Jan 11, 2000

Sakura and her friends go spend the day at a new indoor water park, where Eriol causes the water to rise to dangerous levels. When Rika, who has trouble swimming, nearly drowns, Sa

S3·E18 Core

Sakura and the Snow-blowing Ski School

Jan 18, 2000

There is an avalanche that Sakura must stop. She transforms & uses The Time(Which we all know uses alot of magic), The Fly to get to the spot of the avalanche, and attempts to use

S3·E19 Mytharc

Sakura and Yukito and His Fading Power

Feb 15, 2000

Toya and Yukito are starring in an independent film directed by Nakuru for their school fair, and Nakuru gives Sakura a role. Sakura later begins to notice that Yukito is losing hi

S3·E20 Core

Sakura's Most Favorite Person

Feb 22, 2000

After viewing Nakuru's film, Sakura tours the high school fair with her friends, while Toya comforts Yukito when he appears troubled by the fact that he is not human. Alone with Yu

S3·E21 Core

Sakura and Shaoran and the Tsukimine Shrine

Feb 29, 2000

Sakura heads to school in the morning, but does not see Yukito. She notices that there is a festival and asks Syaoran whether he wants to go to the festival at Tsukimine Shrine. He

S3·E22 Core

Sakura and the Past and Clow Reed

Mar 7, 2000

Sakura uses the Return card with the help of the cherry blossom tree at the temple. In the past she first sees Keroberos and Yue talking. Kerobers says hes concerned about the cher

S3·E23 Mytharc

Sakura meets Clow Reed

Mar 14, 2000

Eroile stands above Sakura, Synoran, Kero and Tomoyo, and reveals the truth at last: He is the reincarnation of Clow Reed himself! He then casts a spell that eclipses both the sun

S3·E24 Mytharc

Sakura and her True Feelings

Mar 21, 2000

The challenge is over at last. All the cards have been captured, all have been turned. The tests are over, or are they? There may be just one remaining, one that may have to be