“ | The one who was Clow Reed in a previous life. | „ |
~ Spinel Sun |
Spinel Sun (スピネル・サン, Supineru San) is a fictional character in Clamp's anime and manga series Cardcaptor Sakura. He is known as Spinner Sun in the English adaptation Cardcaptors. He is counterpart of Kero.
He was voiced by Yumi Touma in his false form while Katsuyuki Konishi voices his true self in the Japanese version and Colin Murdock (both forms) in the Cardcaptor, his false form is voiced by the late Philece Sampler in the 2nd Movie and Apphia Yu (false form) in the Clear Card Arc in the English version.
Appearance
In his borrowed form, he looks like a small black cat with butterfly-like blue wings. Once transformed, though, he resembles a black panther with pointy ears, enlarged wings, and a blue gem in the middle of his forehead. The gem is also placed into the silver butterfly armor he wears on his chest. Being a cat, his pupils are slits.
Personality
Spinel is one of Eriol Hiiragizawa's guardians, designed to be the counterpart of Cerberus but they are completely different. While Cerberus tends to be active, energetic and spends the days playing video games, Spinel is calm and refined, spending much of his time reading while hating loud noises. Although they tend to argue a lot, their bond is that of friends.
Spinel's "weakness", given to him by an amused Eriol, is anything sugary or sweet-filled. Eating any amount of them will cause him to become "drunk," which in Spinel's case is a state of loud, frenzied gluttony while acting like a spoiled child, a state that is worse than that of the much older Cerberus, who regularly has sugar and is used to it.
In this state, Spinel can also become easily emotional and he has the ability to fire energy balls from his mouth which on one occasion forced Kero to temporarily abandon his usual fondness for sweets as he attempted to stop Spinel from causing havoc. Kero even had to change into his true form to deflect the damage from one of Spinel's energy balls. Because of this vulnerability, Spinel expresses a distaste for sweets.
Trivia
- His Japanese voice actor, Yumi Tōma, also voiced Lei Fang in Dead or Alive, Sylphiel Nels Lahda in Slayers, and Urd in Oh My Goddess!.
- His Japanese voice actor, Katsuyuki Konishi, also voiced Kenta Usui in Karin, Tengen Uzui in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kamina in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Koutarou Amon in Tokyo Ghoul, Kenshiro in Fist of the North Star video games, Optimus Prime in Transformers: Energon/Super Link, xander in Fire Emblem Fates, Hubert von Vestra in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Laxus Dreyar, Yuri Dreyar in Fairy Tail, Hagi in Blood+, America in Hetalia, Bulat in Akame ga Kill!, Fuegoleon Vermillion in Black Clover, Char Aznable in Mobile Suit Gundam, Rush in Mega Man 3, Agito Makishima in Guyver: Bioboosted Armor (2006 series), Naomasa Ii in Samurai Warriors 4-II, Lloyd Irving in Tales of Symphonia, Ranzal in Dragalia Lost, Tsumugu Kinagase, Guts in Kill la Kill, Komui Lee in D. Gray-man, Keiichiro Washizuka in The Last Blade, Odanna in Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-, Genzo Shibata in Kemono Michi, Hachi in Darling in the Franxx, Toshiie Maeda in Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends, Shūhei Hisagi in Bleach, Tanktop Master in One Punch Man and Marbas in The Tale of the Outcasts.
- His second English voice actress, Philece Sampler also voiced Mimi Tachikawa in Digimon Adventure series, Cody Hida, Catherine Deneuve in Digimon Adventure 02, Yuzuriha Nekoi in X, Jeri Katou in Digimon Tamers Movie: Runaway Locomon, Nanami in Digimon Data Squad, Toph Beifong (Elderly) in The Legend of Korra, Taokaka in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Sexy Silvia in Viewtiful Joe and Taeko Minazuki in Ai Yori Aoshi.
- His third English voice actress, Apphia Yu, also voices Shigure Sohma as Child from Remake/Reboot of Fruits Basket.
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