Original Animated Videos or OAV's are animated features produced for the home market, meaning they bypass any broadcasting on television or showing in theatres and are only available for retail sale or as a bonus for those who purchase a particular item. In some instances, the term can also be used to refer to a brief anime series with only a few episodes or to animated special produced for an anime series not part of the season lineup.
In total, three OAV's were produced for Cardcaptor Sakura, each with a running time of only five minutes. To fans of the series, these OAV's have become known as Video Diaries, which is short for their relatively long title. To obtain the Video Diaries, you needed to first purchase the first season on VHS, the second and third season on VHS as well as 9 Cardcaptor Sakura DVD's and after collecting tokens, you could then redeem the Video Diaries. More recently however, the Video Diaries are available to those who purchase the third Cardcaptor Sakura Box Set.
Below you can find further information on the OAV's!
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Tomoyo convices Sakura to film the opening for "Sakura-chan's Memorial," - a collection of 35 video tapes containing recordings of Sakura's Cardcaptor adventures which Tomoyo intends to broadcast on television, much to Sakura's dismay. The opening Tomoyo produces is in fact Catch You Catch Me, the opening sequence for the first season of Cardcaptor Sakura... |
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To Sakura's delight, Eriol has come over to help her and Tomoyo bake cupcakes and a cake. Soon after they finish baking the cupcakes though, they begin to disappear. Sakura and Tomoyo suspect the greedy Kero-chan, however, they have no proof. So, in order to catch him, they devise a cunning plan... |
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It seems that Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Meiling have figured out how to tell when Takashi is lying and when he is telling the truth. Or so they thought... |
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