The series was released by Bandai Visual to 18 VHS, LD and DVD compilation volumes between September 1998 and May 2000.

[8][9] Geneon USA/Pioneer Family Entertainment released dubbed Cardcaptors episodes to nine VHS and DVD compilation volumes between November 2000 and July 2002.

The Cardcaptor Sakura TV series DVDs went out-of-print at the end of 2006 when the license expired.

Madman Entertainment released Cardcaptor Sakura in its uncut form in two DVD collection boxes in September 2012 and November 2012.

[10][11] NIS America re-released the entire series on DVD and Blu-ray in August 2014, featuring Japanese audio and an unedited English dub.

[2] Art direction is handled by Katsufumi Hariu and character design is done by Kumiko Takahashi.

The first season, consisting of 35 episodes, aired between April 7 and December 29, 1998 on Japanese satellite television channel NHK BS2.

[15][16] Three DVD box set volumes were released between April 1 and August 10, 2005 by Geneon Universal Entertainment.

Potentially controversial material was removed, and the series was refocused to be more action-oriented to try to appeal to male viewers, as they were seen as the largest audience of animation at the time.

[9][22] In Nelvana's airing of the series in the United Kingdom in 2001 on Nickelodeon and CITV, the skipped episodes were restored, but other edits remained.

The Cardcaptor Sakura TV series DVDs went out-of-print at the end of 2006 when the license expired.

[12] Madman Entertainment licensed the original Cardcaptor Sakura episodes in its uncut form with Japanese audio and English subtitles,[33] and later released the series in two DVD box collections, one consisting of season one and the other consisting of seasons two and three.