Sakura and Tomoyo have won a trip to Hong Kong – a place full of magic and mystery! But little do they know that winning the trip was the result of an evil power beckoning the Cardcaptor into its grasp! Joining the duo in Hong Kong are Sharoan and Meilin, as well as Sharoan's mother, who warns Sakura to stay clear of water due to a mysterious impending danger. Yet all the caution in the world can’t stop Sakura's intense dreams of a lady in the water from occurring. Mysterious forces are at work; can the restless evil be put to rest, or will it swallow the entire city beneath its thunderous flow of water?
Once there lived an eccentric author called Drosselmeyer who wrote grand tragedies - one of them was the tale of a prince who sealed away an evil raven by breaking his own heart into tiny pieces. However, before the story could be completed, the author died and the tale took on a life of its own. Now, in a town where fiction and reality meet, the story continues on its tragic course with Ahiru, a duck who transforms into the beautiful Princess Tutu in order to restore the prince's heart. But will Ahiru's act of love be enough to defy the story's terrible destiny and lead to a happy ending?
You're getting to the end of the CCS franchise and you're thinking it might be time to find the next best magical girl show. Well, how about trying a magical girl show that's basically JUST AS GOOD? I recommend Princess Tutu for anyone looking for funny, eccentric, and emotional shoujo. Ahiru is adorable, plucky, and positive like just Sakura, and the world she lives in is also gorgeous and magical. You won't regret it!
The god Mauser delivered unto a world of magic a prophecy: if the Scrapped Princess is allowed to live, she will destroy the entire world. But the knight who was to kill her could not end the life of a newborn child, and so she lived. Fifteen years later, her adopted brother and sister have sworn to protect her, and together they travel from town to town, searching for a life she can't have.
Scrapped Princess shares that same innocent approach as CCS. If you like a story where the central character is up-beat, relationships are sweet, the magic is truly fantastical and the peril is real without being bloody or graphic, then check out SP as well. Unlike CCS, it is set in a fantasy world, but like CCS it is also quite rosy in tone.