The official website for the television anime of CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card manga began streaming a new promotional video focusing on Syaoran Li on Friday.

The anime will premiere on NHK BS Premium at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 7, 2018. The anime will then repeat on Fridays at 11:45 p.m. Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs in Japan, and Funimation will stream the dub on FunimationNow. NHK reported earlier this month that the series will have 26 episodes.

Morio Asaka is returning from the first television anime series and two films to direct the new series at Madhouse. CLAMP's Nanase Ohkawa is handling the series composition and is writing the scripts. Kunihiko Hamada (animation director for previous TV series and two films) is the character designer with costume and card designs by CLAMP's Mokona. Masafumi Mima is directing the sound, and Takayuki Negishi is composing the music. NHK, Kodansha, and NHK Enterprise are producing.

The main returning cast includes:







Sakura Tange as Sakura Kinomoto Aya Hisakawa as Keroberos





Junko Iwao as Tomoyo Daidōji





Motoko Kumai as Syaoran Li





Megumi Ogata as Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue





Tomokazu Seki as Tōya Kinomoto





Nozomu Sasaki as Eriol Hiiragizawa





Emi Shinohara as Kaho Mizuki





Hideyuki Tanaka as Fujitaka Kinomoto

Yumi Touma as Spinel Sun

Ryoka Yuzuki as Nakuru Akizuki/Ruby Moon

Issei Miyazaki as Takashi Yamazaki

Miwa Matsumoto as Chiharu Mihara

Emi Motoi as Naoko Yanagisawa

New characters include:







Minori Suzuki as Akiho, a new friend of Sakura's who has transferred from Hong Kong. She has lived abroad for a long time in France, Germany, and so on. Her favorite stuffed animal is named Momo. Natsuki Hanae as Yuna, who takes care of Akiho. He is good at making delicious black tea and sweets.

