But right now lovers of Japanese animation are waiting for a different Sakura, as magical girl Sakura Kinomoto, star of Cardcaptor Sakura, will be making her long-awaited anime return this fall.
September will see the release of Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Arc Prologue: Sakura and the Two Bears, an OVA (direct-to-video) lead-up to the upcoming Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Arc TV series, which will start airing in Japan in January of 2018.
Kodansha Comics, the rights holders of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga, have announced that the OVA will be shown at Anime Expo on Saturday, July 1.
As previously revealed, Sakura and the Two Bears picks up right where the original TV anime left off.