Card Captor Sakura

French edition published by Pika Édition, written and illustrated by the CLAMP collective.

New school year, new mystery: Sakura has barely had time to savor her title of Mistress of the Cards when she discovers, to her horror, that they are losing their power one by one, becoming blank and silent. This volume opens the series' second great arc, the transformation of the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards.

A new transfer student, Eriol Hiiragizawa, makes an entrance that is as charming as it is unsettling: his enigmatic smile and mysterious hints suggest he is not entirely unconnected to what's happening to the cards. CLAMP sets a more hushed, more melancholy mood here, where the carefree spirit of the early volumes gives way to more intimate stakes.

Sakura must now restore the cards' power by infusing them with her own magic rather than simply capturing them — a process that demands new maturity and inner strength from her, and which brings her even closer to Shaoran, forced to leave and then return to Tomoeda over the course of this volume.