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Current 'D Series' for Cardfight!! Vanguard Anime to Continue for 9 Seasons
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Bushiroad announced during its New Year Grand Presentation at Tokyo Dome City Hall on Monday that it will produce up to nine seasons for the current "D Series" of the Cardfight!! Vanguard anime. The D Series, which refers to both the latest product line for the card game and the anime series, is slated to continue until December 2025.
The Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress anime's first two seasons launched the D Series in April 2021. The most recent Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress anime's first season is considered the third overall season of the D Series, while its upcoming second season will be the fourth overall. The anime's "Season 3," which will be the D Series' fifth season, will premiere in July 2023. The series' sixth season is scheduled to begin around early 2024, and the seventh season is slated for a mid-2024 premiere. The eighth season will debut around early 2025, and the ninth season will finish the D Series starting around the middle of 2025.
The second season of the Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress anime will premiere on TV Aichi, TV Tokyo, the official Cardfight!! Vanguard YouTube channel, Amazon Prime Video, U-NEXT, and d Anime Store in Japan on January 14. Crunchyroll and HIDIVE will stream the season as it airs in Japan.
The anime's first season premiered on the TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, and TV Osaka channels on July 4. HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired.
Ryūtarō Suzuki is the series' new director, taking over from Ken Mori, who is now in a chief director position. Satoshi Nakamura is in charge of the series scripts, replacing Mori and Natsuko Takahashi. Tomokatsu Nagasaku is the character designer alongside Hiroyuki Saita, and is now also a chief animation director alongside Ga Young Park and Hatsuhi Yoshitake (Hiroyuki Saita is no longer chief animation director). Hiroyuki Oguri is the unit animation director. Osamu Masayama is the art advisor. Yuushi Koshida is credited for 3D CG. Hikari Komiya is credited for color setting. All other main staff members return from the previous anime.
Idol group Strawberry Prince will perform the second season's opening theme song "Accelerate." In addition, Strawberry Prince members Rinu and Satomi will voice the characters Reno Akai and Tenma Sakurai, respectively.
The new anime features 16 fighters chosen from all over the country to compete against each other in the Deluxe tournament.
Quily launched a new manga based on the anime titled Cardfight!! Vanguard Youth Quake in Bushiroad's Monthly Bushiroad magazine in June 2022.
The first season of Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress premiered in Japan in April 2021, and it also debuted on the official Cardfight!! Vanguard YouTube channel with English subtitles. Funimation, Sentai Filmworks (via HIDIVE), Crunchyroll, and YouTube streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The English dub of the first season debuted on the franchise's YouTube channel in July 2021.
The second season of the anime premiered in October 2021, and ended with its 13th episode in December 2021. The second season's English dub debuted on the franchise's YouTube channel in January 2022.
Bushiroad announced during the "Bushiroad TCG Strategy Presentation 2021" livestream event in September 2021 that the Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress television anime series would get a third and fourth season.
Source: Comic Natalie
