Yukito Tsukishiro Quotes

4 quotes from Cardcaptor Sakura, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.

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“If you really like Sakura so much, you should stop making fun of her.”

Yukito Tsukishiro, Cardcaptor Sakura Source / locator: Anime, Clow Card arc episode 6 (Wikiquote section "Sakura and Her Memories of Her Mother"; official guide 第6話「さくらとおかあさんの思い出」). Said to Touya. English transcription; Wikiquote does not credit the translation, and no particular dub or subtitle release is established. The line uses the Japanese character names, and the page elsewhere carries two different renderings of one Sakura Card arc scene, so it mixes unidentified translations. Episode number checked against the official Japanese episode guide; read October 14, 2026. Wikiquote · Transcription

Touya has an easy defense here. Yukito is telling a high-school brother to stop doing what older brothers do, and Touya's reply, that he is the only one who gets to play with her, makes the teasing sound like ownership rather than affection. Concede that much, and the advice still hits the right target. Yukito is the one person present who sees through the act; he even names it, asking whether Touya has heard of a sister complex, and gets told to shut up. The episode around them is about the Kinomoto mother. In the official guide, Sakura goes back into the woods at night to check a ghost sighting and finds what looks like her dead mother, which turns out to be a card. Touya's own relation to that mother is shown in episode 39, when her ghost appears at Sakura's bedside and he is the one who speaks to her. A brother who sees what his sister cannot has reasons to keep his care disguised as jokes. Yukito, who in the Sakura Card arc turns out to depend on magic received from Touya, is the only person Touya lets past the disguise.

Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.

“If you want to see that person, and if that person wants to see you, too, you'll definitely meet again. If you both feel that way, you'll both be okay.”

Yukito Tsukishiro, Cardcaptor Sakura Source / locator: Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc Prologue, Sakura and the Two Bears (2017 OVA; Anime News Network lists it as released September 13, 2017). Wikiquote section "Sakura and the Two Bears"; said to Sakura. English transcription; Wikiquote does not credit the translation, and no particular dub or subtitle release is established. Read October 14, 2026. Wikiquote · Transcription ANN · Editorial article 2+ source organizations

Yukito has stood on the other side of this question. In the Sakura Card arc's twentieth episode, the official guide says, Sakura confessed her feelings to him among the star decorations at his high school's festival; in Wikiquote's transcript she later tells Syaoran that Yukito said she loved him the way she loves her father, and that someday she would find the person she loves most, who would love her most too. The 2017 prologue follows the manga's continuity rather than the TV series', so this is an echo across versions, not a sequel scene. The phrasing still matches: he opens by asking whether she has found the person she loves the most. He knew it would not be him, and now that person is returning to Hong Kong. His reassurance is conditional, polite and practical, resting on both people wanting it, which is how he turned her down in the first place: kindly, and without pretending. A forecaster is checking his forecast, and he is glad to have been right.

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“Actually I had a foretelling dream myself last night. In the dream, my breakfast was a roasted fish. And I really had fish for breakfast. I was so happy I had 6 more bowls of rice!”

Yukito Tsukishiro, Cardcaptor Sakura Source / locator: original Cardcaptor Sakura television series; Wikiquote section 1.08 (Sakura's Rival Appears (Sakura's Rival)); numbering is relative to its named season/series. Wikiquote English anime transcription, checked October 14, 2026; licensed English language track not established. Wikiquote · Transcription

Kero has already told Sakura about foretelling dreams when Yukito offers the same category. She recognizes the agreement. Yukito then supplies a breakfast prediction whose happy fulfillment ends in six extra bowls of rice. The scale changes abruptly, but he has not rejected the premise that a dream can anticipate something real. That combination gives the scene an unusual form of reassurance: the strange possibility remains intact while its example becomes thoroughly ordinary. A flat dismissal would isolate Sakura with what Kero told her. A solemn confirmation would make every dream sound like a warning. Yukito offers neither. His delight in the fish makes room for prediction without demanding alarm, although an anecdote about breakfast cannot explain whatever prompted her concern. The joke's usefulness lies in that limited scope. He can make the subject easier to discuss without acquiring the knowledge needed to resolve it, and the oversized appetite keeps his reassurance recognizably his.

“...I'll leave what roles you're playing for when I see it, then.”

Yukito Tsukishiro, Cardcaptor Sakura Source / locator: original Cardcaptor Sakura television series; Wikiquote section 2.06, Sakura, Syaoran and the Sea of Sand (The Sands of Time). Numbering is local to the named source season/series. Rendering evidence: uncredited English anime transcription checked 2026-10-14 at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardcaptor_Sakura. No named dub or subtitle release established; no licensed playback verified. Wikiquote · Transcription

Asked which roles they will play, Sakura and Syaoran look embarrassed. Yukito changes the terms of his curiosity: he will discover the answer when he watches. The information remains interesting without having to be supplied on demand. That can be read as avoiding an awkward conversation rather than doing anything particularly kind. He does not solve their discomfort or explain why the roles trouble them. But neither task is necessary for the useful part of his response. His question has made them hesitate, and he can remove that immediate pressure without requiring a confession about the hesitation itself. Waiting becomes a considerate action because he has something he wants to know and chooses not to collect it yet. The source does not establish that he has guessed the roles. His tact works without that hidden knowledge: the embarrassment is enough information to change how he asks.