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Sky Kids Acquires Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS for U.K. and Ireland
posted on by Andrew Osmond
In a press release, it has been announced that the Sky Kids app has acquired the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens series for the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Sky Kids will screen the series from October 2022. In addition, the app is now offering the second seasons of both the original Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens is the seventh series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise. The anime premiered on TV Tokyo and BS-TV Tokyo in April 2020. The anime suspended production after the fifth episode aired in May 2020, but then resumed broadcast in June 2020, and began airing more new episodes in August 2020.
The anime features a protagonist in elementary school for the first time in the franchise. The anime has a new "Rush Duel" rule and takes place in the future in the town of Gōha. Yūga Ōdō, a fifth-grade student, loves both inventions and dueling. His classmate Rook is a self-styled "number one duelist at Gōha 7 Elementary School." Gakuto is the school's student council president, and Romin is Yūga's classmate.
The new anime commemorates the 20th anniversary of the anime franchise. Konami had announced the series with the teasing phrase, "the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series will change."
The franchise also includes two manga. Megumi Sasaki launched the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens: Boku no Road Gakuen (My Road Academy) comedy spinoff manga in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine last August. Tasuku Sugie and Masahiro Hikokubo launched the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens: Rook! Bakuretsu Hadō Den!! (Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens: Rook! Legend of Exploding Military Rule!!) manga in Shueisha's V Jump magazine last September.
Sky Kids is available on Google Play and the App Store.
