Temple of Yokyun Puts Sakura on S-VHS
1999 · Original tapes and working subtitle scripts
Across the Pacific, Temple of Yokyun was creating another English-subtitled Sakura run. Gamera's surviving personal tape inventory names Yokyun on S-VHS volumes covering episodes 1–4, 5–8 and 9–12, with the first volume even identified as the group's own work. The collection places those tapes among many other fansubbed anime rather than in a later digital release list.
This is a second named production trail, with actual tape blocks and an original producer credit. Nothing about the matching early episodes means Hooseki and Yokyun issued one joint edition.
SOURCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20010406091501/http://wasabi-anime.com/Gamera_List.htm
Axia, Gamera and the Work Behind the Subtitles
November 3, 1999 · Original Wasabi Anime production report
Wasabi Anime's own news page catches the team mid-production. On November 3, 1999, Gamera reported that Axia had completed the translation for episode 20 and had translated episodes 21 and 22 earlier from television sources. Gamera still needed to time episode 20. The account is a rare reminder that translation, editing, timing and mastering were different jobs, even when viewers encountered the result as one tape.
Wasabi Anime was a nonprofit club meeting at San Diego State University, and its historical website is the same operation linked from AniDB's [WA] entry. AniDB's later update stamp does not move this original translation work into 2004.
SOURCE: http://wasabi-anime.com/ (archived news pages, 1999–2001)
The Original Script Names the People
Episodes 5–7 · SSA subtitle credits preserved by Hooseki
An original SubStation Alpha script credits Temple of Yokyun as the production, Axia translating for Wasabi Anime, Yas contributing additional translation and kuromaku handling original editing and timing. It also says Gamera retimed the work for LaserDisc. Later credits inside the same three-episode script name Axia and Gamera again. These are the fansubbers identifying their own work, not collectors trying to reconstruct it decades later.
Kuromaku also appears on Studio Hooseki's staff list. That establishes a connection through a person, while the Hooseki server's surviving Yokyun files establish that the scripts were shared or preserved across those circles. Neither fact alone makes the Hooseki edition and the Yokyun edition a formally joint release.
SOURCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20021018121216/http://anime.jyu.fi/greyhawk/hooseki/downloads/CardCaptorSakura/yokyun/
Twenty-Four Yokyun Episodes, Then a Change of Distribution
October 3, 2000 · Six four-episode subtitled tape volumes
A Wasabi Anime distribution page archived October 3, 2000 names six Temple of Yokyun subtitle volumes, covering Cardcaptor Sakura episodes 1–4, 5–8, 9–12, 13–16, 17–20 and 21–24. All six appeared under retired titles, no longer available through the public request list.
But the explanation underneath changes the story: the team said it was still translating and subtitling the whole series for its club screenings. Twenty-four episodes have a clear history as completed tape volumes; how much farther the private club project ultimately progressed remains unknown. Retiring the request service was not an announcement that translation had stopped.
SOURCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20001003102417/http://wasabi-anime.com/wasabi.html
A Sakura Movie on the Side
March–April 2000 · Separate theatrical production
The same team was active beyond the television tapes. On March 25, 2000, Gamera announced that the group had translated, edited, timed and subtitled Cardcaptor Sakura: The Motion Picture; in April he wrote that requests for it were keeping him busy. This shows how a club could work on new material even while a long television project continued.
The film is not part of the television series' 70-episode count, and its release belongs to the movie's separate history.
