Year after year, it seems like Nintendo neglects the Metroid franchise. Despite being one of the company's oldest and most critically acclaimed IPs, it appears Nintendo simply doesn't know how to move the franchise forward.

After publisher Kodansha announced earlier this year that a new Cardcaptor Sakura manga was on the way, and that it wasn’t going to be a one-time deal, but a full-fledged sequel series. And just today, Sakura made her triumphant return to the pages of monthly girls’ manga anthology Nakayoshi with the start of the story’s “Clear Card Arc,” in which the titular card capturer, plus her friends Tomoyo and Syaoran, are now junior high school students.