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[@Darkflo23]

Melfi into Zeus is genius .

[@RomArt-rx5yz]

Zoos jumpscare

[@Gebirges]

It's that one meme panel with Ib who wants to touch the Mellfi and it transforms into Zeus

[@Fikri_A777]

Melffy into zeus is cannon now, they pilot the zeus

[@moorejim13]

Thats also what it feels like in game

[@Metallicamilo311]

@@moorejim13 also has downerd magician

[@stefaniagerardo7562]

they casually dropped the smoothest transition on trish into the melffy holyyy

[@pableitor2009]

And then melffy into zeus after tapping the screen (They attacked you directly)

[@RavenCloak13]

Idol STORM in Yugioh form.

[@wikiwikiwa]

needed more trish imo

[@kauanjos3199]

Farfa: "I'm not into anime" MF after they release a yugioh animation:

[@nziom]

i'd become a weeb if we get albaz alore as an anime

[@Ritoploy]

Nah fr he be talking down on mad anime and now he set claiming anime 🤣

[@thatwackycardgame5655]

@@nziomwelcome to the club. But fr, Albaz lore animated with that beautiful style would be a wet dream for me

[@tcoren1]

I found it funny how he starts it off making fun of the DARK MAGICIAN BATTT people in the beginning, and by the end he himself was batchesting

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

The one time where everyone understands each other batchesting.

[@SDREHXC]

That’s how you know it’s good, when you wanna cringe but it’s also really cool “I should be cringing but I’m nottttttttt 🫨🫨🫨”

[@solobugg5087]

Cuz it wasn't Dark Magician for once, it was real yugioh cards and archetypes being put in the spotlight

[@breadguy6599]

they will batchest in everything anyway

[@W_Sir_Morpheus]

This dudes attitude just sucks if it isn't some meta deck BS I swear

[@ggnore8501]

I swear to god, the melffy staring contest into the gundam battle will always get me

[@MansMan42069]

Melffy Rabby: *"Stare into the face of death."*

[@HyperWhale286]

I feel like this is just an anniversary vid to show off what the new studio can do. I got so freaking hyped for this. Can't wait for the card lore anime already

[@Supergupo]

Feel like the Raye teaser at the end might have suggested an anime based on the Sky Striker Manga, but everything else was just a neat showcase of the new studio's ability, with each video highlighting a different animation style, even going 3D w/Zeus+Typhon

[@gabrielarocena3074]

For the forseeable future, the Sky Striker storyline from OCG stories will be their main project, with some of the studio resources dedicated to do animated trailers for the big product releases such as the Core Boosters, Structure Decks and Deck Build Packs. But I could see them eventually branch off towards more card storylines in an anthology format, since some storylines like Solfacord or Zeus can just be adapted to a 15-20 minute OVA. The more extensive storylines like Duel Terminal and Visas would require much more funding and time to develop.

[@btg009]

It is

[@Marcopolo9]

It is just a video for promoting the 25 yrs anniversary sadly.

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

It is - but it IS telling that the first promo they did was yugioh card lore, which ends on sky striker which just finished its manga.

[@yuricahere]

zeus piloted by melffys is officially cannon

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Avram found dead in a ditch somewhere 😔

[@PepegaSanya]

World Legacy truthers (I am one of them) will cope by saying their lore will get a full separate trailer because it will be the first one

[@RomArt-rx5yz]

He Probably died after the end of the world legacy events

[@Kostte-zp6he]

i mean world legacy already have their own visual novel in md. but i think they dont show any guardragon card.

[@VixYW]

How? Who managed to out him? lol

[@tcoren1]

@@PepegaSanyathey unbanned Ib in the TCG and OCG simultaneously for a reason trust trust

[@joeymayson8279]

Zeus really detached 2 just to drop a nuke

[@jeraldwashingtonjr5641]

Go! Wipe the entire board clean! VOLTAGE END!

[@christopherhale3140]

I know they said this is just a demo reel for their new animation studio, but I sincerely hope it's also serving as a backdoor pilot for a lore anime, because if we got a full series based on what we saw here I would absolutely lose it.

[@galaxyvulture6649]

There's definitely a higher chance now with them branching out with lore. They started incorporating it a lot in master duel, they made a sky striker manga, and there's light novels apparently. With the success of master duel I could see them pushing it more. Lore in this game has been getting far more popular too.

[@RavenCloak13]

To add on to what Galaxy said, it just be economical. Especially since Yugioh is there most profitable IP because they fucked up there games division when they tried to move into Pachinko but then Corona hit. THEY CAN GET SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY FROM THIS! THE MERCH ALONE WOULD MAX THE FUCK OUT IN POTENTIAL!

[@jabermogwai5996]

@@RavenCloak13 i will straight out buy all the Melfys merchs

[@ensemble3647]

I would kill to see the Visas lore in Anime form. Let me hug the sad water girls.

[@christopherhale3140]

@@RavenCloak13 Yeah, absolutely. Between the pre-built storylines like Duel Terminal or World Legacy and the _dozens_ of archetypes that could easily carry a 12-episode anime on their own, Konami is sitting on an absolute goldmine of content that could keep the money rolling in for a couple decades; and that mine is only getting deeper, since Konami just keeps on printing new archetypes with banger concepts and aesthetics.

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

Animated Charmers has actually killed me. Eria my beloved. Zeus vs Typhon goes harder than diamonds. Ki-sikil is pure condensed gremlin and I love it.

[@IamJerf]

Charmers animated almost made me shed a tear, I love this archetype alot and I still want new supports for them

[@idosarts_and_krafts]

Zeus vs Ty-PHON is understandable They are gundams after all

[@blackjacksetzer7748]

4:56 do with this as you wish

[@mohammedhany5640]

Invoked player when they normal summon aleister :

[@Gebirges]

Farfagasm

[@oetziXVIII]

new sub notification??

[@Lich_V.]

new mbt sub sound

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

I see why aleister became mad,he activated invocation more times than what his soul could handle

[@nightknight498]

Absolutely this was just a showcase of what the Staff in the studio is capable of, different genres in different artstyles and so on, but Konami has to know that they can't just drop something like this without following through with an actual lore anime at this point.

[@RavenCloak13]

Especially with tie in stuff they could do with Albaz and the new Albaz lore collection boxes coming this year, Sky Strikers manga exist already, Zeus was too damn hype and just imagine if they added Drytron/Ursartic or Kozmos to Zeus lore or even introduce a whole Olympian mechs vs Greek Titans mechs. Visa Starfrost would be an easy series to make, Live Twins being promotional use mascots in VTuber space and Duel Terminal lore alone can make multiple series. Charmers would be a massive amount of merch sales on magical girl school life with some Dharc ship baiting thrown in. This would make people buy SOOOOO much merch. Hell, they already making new figures to sell in general.

[@MansMan42069]

The Albaz lore might be big, but Magistus is potentially bigger. Magistus is the origin point of Invoked, Witchcrafter, and Endymion. From that we go to Spellbooks and the Skilled Magicians; each leading to Dark Magician, Buster Blader, Gaia/BLS, Archfiends, and Kuriboh.

[@OhitsONnow]

Wait. Forreal? Magistus links into Dark Magicians?

[@MansMan42069]

@@OhitsONnow Endymion's school is where the Skilled Magicians learned magic. Skilled Dark Magician becomes Dark Magician as seen in its effect. Endymion was one of the Magistus along with Crowley (Aleister the Invoker), Rilliona (Witchcrafter Madame Verre), and Zoroa.

[@TruongNguyen-vy7rw]

​@@OhitsONnow they use the same kind of magic(look at the magic circle)

[@r3zaful]

​@@MansMan42069spellbook institute la maison and Endymion citadel. Aleister is the founding father of la maison, while Endymion citadel is where Aleister studied magic. Also la maison and the citadel are at war twice, the first war ends in the birth of the world of prophecy. The current war is where Aleister personally engage with Endymion, selene and verre.

[@ghiffaribara2949]

Im not really sure if Dark Magician tied to Magistus, but maybe there's other version of Dark Magician if there's really one

[@Mr.Stitch]

"This is just to showcase what the studio is capable blah blah blah blah" mf ain't no way they don't make *some* kind of animated series or short stories now

[@thefinalday5858]

Yes i know just dont get too hyped i expect one off 5 to 12 min episodes of stuff

[@galaxyvulture6649]

​@@thefinalday5858I mean I'll gladly take that. Ovas are cool as hell and they already started making manga for yugioh lore.

[@anonymous71207]

Honestly something like Hisuian Snow or Paldean Winds would be sick

[@tcoren1]

BTW the full zeus and six sams animations are a bit longer, konami cut them down for the 6 minutes animation

[@habo249]

Where can I find the full animations? Those 2 were my favorite parts

[@tcoren1]

@@habo249 Go to the yugioh OCG channel, it should be the first result when you search "yugioh animation". Then look at it's recent videos, it has all the individual segments, but only zeus and six sams are different to my knowledge. To future proof my answer if anyone reads it months from now, the individual videos are respectively titled "05 遊戯王カードゲーム25周年特別映像「Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES」/ 神をも殺す最終兵器、天霆號アーゼウス" and "06 遊戯王カードゲーム25周年特別映像「Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES」/ 真六武衆見参！"

[@orionn5290]

​@@habo249it's on the official ocg channel i believe

[@ghiffaribara2949]

I need it as well

[@maunabesanika]

​@@habo249check the yugioh ocg or konami youtube channel, they upload it separately

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

KOnami Animation Studio logo does the Konami Code at the end, if you look at the D-Pad.

[@eonwavelength6269]

Did somebody say IcE BaRrIeRs!? Count me the fuck in. I love ice barriers and even tortured myself in MD to play it.

[@MansMan42069]

Ice Barriers means Dragunity, so I'm in too!

[@austinclubb2093]

I'm assuming this will be more like the Star Wars anime that came out a year or two ago, which is a great thing.

[@jonathanclark7556]

I agree

[@PathBeyondTheDark]

They said it's just a demo reel for the new studio. Don't get hopes up.

[@jonathanclark7556]

All we have is hope.

[@RavenCloak13]

The term Chronicles used says 100%. Or some are anthology like Visions while others would be more long form like Albaz, Sky Strikers, Visa Starfrost, World Legacy, Duel Terminal and so on. The anthology ones would probably be cute or cool one offs like Zeus or Fire Beast vs Atlantic or Solcaford and Mellyfies. And Live Twins being promotional type characters for upcoming projects and you could even have movies like Gold Pride that's just a massive space race like Red Line.

[@Kostte-zp6he]

man, i always giggle when a big thump sound and its just show diabellstar sleeping. like they knew just how strong snake eyes diabellstar engine are.

[@nathiselva8368]

I can't describe how much HYPE I'm feeling right now ALBAZ LORE LET'S GO

[@dantevega5103]

Can’t wait for Avram to say “check this out!”

[@AnimeRush739]

We should express gratitude for the fact that they are creating animation in our generation, as they could have chosen to do it 50 years from now when we would be much older.

[@reiezevan]

The sudden change of the soundtrack being on a full gundam mecha soundtrack battle music on the Zeus vs Typhon part was epic…i need more

[@Ruby_Mullz]

We’ve been asking for this since DT 1. Please don’t let this just be a trailer for the studio!

[@mayonasepizza]

this is gonna be so good when it drops on the 35th anniversary

[@ImMacke3000]

If my girl and Mo Ye are drowning...

[@denglong7180]

Yes. Mo ye is part of Albaz lore...

[@sekaihunter9378]

Longyuan about to massacre the entire Icejade tribe using Mo Ye's sword he murdered her to get: 😈😈😈

[@davidjimenez3822]

​@@sekaihunter9378 tbf she comes back as Aegirine's ice boat thingy she uses to beat up Longyuan

[@russm4391]

It’s not even a card game at this point it’s a whole action anime

[@petarradojevic7619]

I was BEGGING for an arcane style Yu-Gi-Oh anime and it looks like we're getting it FINALLY

[@EpicNinjaShiro]

If they do a Pokemon Origins style thing, it'll all be well in the end.

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

Honestly, anime based on card lore would be the best thing they could do for promoting the card game since 5Ds. I doubt the card game anime brings anyone new in, especially since they've moved on to Rush Duel to get around the endless one-upmanship (I still want more colors of extra deck cards tho) but taking cards out of the picture would give much wider appeal. I was just doing the World Legacy solo mode on MD, that shit could use a 26 episode fantasy epic.

[@Red_Steampunker]

I was always saying how cool all the lore is. It’s so hard to get the stories right with just art and some hints alone. Making it nearly impossible to explain why I like to so much to clueless people. Master duel does some of the lore with its solo modes, but it’s so short or just repeats flavor text or what it does. It doesn’t fulfill what I wanted so badly. I guess if we get hyped enough, they will make all the shows we could hope for. Even making more card lore to make even more animes. The dream. Makes you wanna play a ton of bad decks, but i already play Albaz purely because of the lore.

[@DaShikuXI]

Honestly man I's love to see mini-anime series on the different lore universes within YGO. Monster lore is so underexplored. Basically take the story missions from Master Duel and turn them into anime.

[@ovelhadogelo]

I never though you would react to that. And the most impressive part is that it wasn't that annoying to watch! Congrats everyone, and thank you for the reaction.~

[@someone_normal8414]

Every archetype they showed was amazing especially zeus (ofc) but they forgot shiranui/mayakashi 😢😭

[@YuiraKun]

No traptrix 😭

[@dontedoestuff]

I’ve been telling my friends for years that a Yugioh anthology anime about different archetype lore would be iconic especially with how much source material to pull from.

[@gerhmanthefirsthoonter161]

I only care about the magistus one because giga chad Endymion will be animated.

[@randomdeliveryguy]

SELENE MY WIFE WILL BE ON SCREEN GETTING PREGNANT AND USING 3 COUNTERS FROM THE FIELD TO BIRTH A BABY

[@tcoren1]

@@randomdeliveryguymost normal Endymion fan

[@gerhmanthefirsthoonter161]

​@@randomdeliveryguy easy buddy ... i thaught the endymion fanbase was among the sanest in yugioh .

[@rovad55]

Endymion mewing on big screen tv

[@guardianm4browning111]

Trifgaming would have losing his mind when ELECTRUMITE is animated. 😵

[@bladearmorginga6582]

Honestly just lil animated episodes about yugioh card lore would be sick as hell

[@needahobby6830]

if they give is us an episode about buster blader i'm gonna cry

[@korutodark7855]

1:26 Um that guy is Gigobyte. Which in this version of him, he becomes a loyal Familliar. While Gogiga Gagagigo is his dark adult version where he becomes too greedy for power. They are the same guy but with different stories. That's only the tip of how dark his story is.

[@ReaperModd]

Time Thief needs an episode/season it also ties into S-Force story as well

[@esrohm6460]

so are zeus and the other zeus actually canonically enemies? when is visas encounter them just blowing up the next planet before he can do anything there

[@ggnore8501]

Yes they're actually enemies from the Greek myth

[@Bruham2]

Have you read TY-PHON they’re obviously enemies

[@grodon909]

Yeah, there's lore in VBEX: "A diabolic nightmare ironically crowned with the name of a God, it was originally constructed to counter a threat. Matching its title of ‘Sky Thunder’, it can burn the sky with thunder, shatter the stars themselves, and slay even the Gods. “WE. SHOULD. DESTROY. THE. DISASTER. WITH. THE. LAST. AND. ULTIMATE. ATTACK. BY. MANKIND.”… The “Counter-Offensive Weapon AA-ZEUS” is the 12th Weapon, designed to fight fate, that humanity created in the face of countless threats of extinction."

[@tcoren1]

@@Bruham2can summon itself if opponent summoned (since xyz+zeus=2 summons) Zeus can't use his effect Can bounce zeus They weren't being subtle

[@furymonger5395]

I can honestly see them releasing lore anime episodes that coincides with new cards that may come out in the future to bulild hype with new sets.

[@retrocd8976]

Yugioh card's lore as an anime would be amazing. Seeing their stories animated and fleshed out/explained properly would be great. And there are so many stories they could do for a season.

[@TheCaptainsolis]

Chills! Literal chills

[@jonmichaelgalindo]

No release date info yet. Haven't watched ygo since middle school, and suddenly hyped.

[@Raickten]

Btw The Albaz Lore clip was the onlyone in a "movie" format so maybe just maybe xD

[@HIMMBelljuvo]

The Zeus sequence was metal AF

[@Megaduuz]

Look back at the Konami animation logo does the whole "Konami Code", up up down down left right left right A B.

[@RavenCloak13]

Yep. It's the Konami code.

[@Alan-id9si]

This is the most excited Farfa has ever been to see Albaz.

[@Scytherman]

Goosebumps seeing Ecclesia and Albaz' first encounter.

[@nikospatouxeas4877]

Brooo, if they make the Fallen of Albaz lore a series I will literally by his starlight rare the next day I swear!

[@vitamins17]

Im with Farfa, i would also play really bad decks watching all these anime lol

[@Abyssionknight]

The idea of animated lore videos for archetypes makes me happy. I don't expect an actual anime, but even if they just take the stories told in card art and animate it so people can actually understand the lore and appreciate the cards more that'd be a huge W imo.

[@voxsvoxs4261]

I hope, they do an anime where it's one episode per archetype, that would be really nice.

[@shadowslayer3899]

But Zeus cant detach 2 with Ty-phon, how!?😭😭

[@randomdeliveryguy]

Scream made him lose 500 attack.

[@henrychen4947]

​@@randomdeliveryguy but in space no one can hear you "scream"

[@thestain8004]

I just imagine a star wars visions style anthology series where we get 40 ish minute short films dedicated to different archetypes' lore. It would be amazing

[@Ice-Climber]

One thing; it's not a trailer. It's just a short.

[@VixYW]

It's a freaking waste of potential and oportunity if they don't capitalize on it further than that.

[@symphonixblades]

specially with all the positive attention this showcase is getting ​@@VixYW

[@Gradashy]

With all the community reception, possible will not be a short for so long ;P

[@pierreauburtin2218]

Don't know what to say ... I'm so f*cking happy right now ^^

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

7:18 - If overdosing on the Copium doesn't kill him the withdrawal will.

[@Lyricaon]

I think it would be cool if they would not give each deck a whole show but if they would make it like black mirror and do 45min.-1h episodes that are independed from each other, each covering a different deck or story line.

[@ghiffaribara2949]

If they decide to make anime on lore cards i bet they'll do it like this maybe even shorter like 20 min, but for the bigger and popular lore cards like Branded Visas and World Legacy they could be more than an episode just covering the important parts of the story. But it's not going to be good though

[@derekmiller408]

You knew they had to put striker right at the end

[@mimesforcrimes8393]

Okay I just realized. If we are getting Charmers and Trishula, WE ARE GETTING THE FULL DUEL TERMINAL LORE! Wynn eventually becomes El Shaddol Winda, and that leads to Naturias and Qliphorts, and traces back to Gem Knights (I wonder if the Steven Universe fan base will go soyjack mode and say Konami copied Cartoon Network...) And Zefra. Meanwhile Trishula is the final part of the Worms saga of Duel Terminal where the unleash Trish to freeze the whole world over so quickly that the Worms don't adapt, which means we WILL get X-Sabers, Jurracs, Mist Valley and Dragunity, Fabled, etc. Cannot wait!!!!

[@skybattler2624]

Sorry to break it to you, but Wynn is Winda's younger sister and was sent outside of the Duel Terminal Lore into another world. I know there is a seperate book about this.

[@IamJerf]

Wynn is not Winda, she's her sister canonically

[@mimesforcrimes8393]

May or may not know the complete details of the Duel Terminal lore it seems

[@jimmyha1898]

Zeus vs Typhon. This needs to happen in a series. We need an anime of them so badly.

[@yusiuc5533]

Can’t wait to see VFD in anime version lol !!!

[@kevinkirkwood8844]

The magistus lore might also be really cool to see animated we can see Alastair and Endymions storylines play out

[@NrgBuster]

They have more than enough archetypes to do an anthology series covering 12 per season, with bigger ones like Albaz and Sky Strikers getting an episode per season. This would def have a market

[@christopherbravo1813]

Imagine if they ddi in fact make an anime out of this and the *GOLDEN CASTLE OF STROMBERG* showed up at some point.

[@dadaddy5308]

Dude, if they make a duel terminal anime, holy shitt its going to be gass

[@gabrielsalinas1019]

Now I realize, we could get finally an explanation of eldrich lore, and it could go hard

[@ianthefifth7790]

I dont think ive ever been this hype for any other media in my life. I NEED THE ALBAZ LORE

[@pedrofelipefreitas2666]

Sky Strikers already has a manga being serialized, so they're likely to be the first archetypes to be adapted.

[@Vinylmelody1517]

I don't see us getting all of this, but I can definitely see sky striker and magistus getting adapted because of the Manga. And hopefully having a dedicated studio means Konami can also return to doing a non rush duel anime again

[@pamonja4301]

I really hope this a teaser for something, but I cant bring myself to believe it

[@pilzgnom2329]

Even some of my non ygo friends are exited about this i love what this could do for the game

[@srg_aliens]

yugioh vr was also announced.

[@Concobhar]

The Zeus part was insane.

[@michielderpya]

holy shiiit the trishula and zeus ones are insaaaaane

[@Billy_Wyatt]

Konami has to see the potential, there's so much to be explored with the shown archetypes in their anime form.

[@sol-dono1235]

i can see them making 11minute episodes of different archetype lore

[@Thousandeyes85]

Looks like farfa finally gets his wish

[@jeremiahbennett3004]

Sadly it seems this isn't going to be an anime itself, but rather is just a showcase for konamis new animation studio, not entirely out of the cards yet though, because i really hope this becomes a series.

[@mysticstrikeforce5957]

i always wish we can see what these stories we always hear about come to real life before they became a card for a card game for kids

[@Dovahzhul]

If only they put this much work into their games 😂

[@adandyguyinspace5783]

They could blend different archetypes into separate anime for each genre. For instance they could mix Six Samurai, their ninja cards, the the original ninja cards, and make a sengoku era anime. Or they could do Noble Knights, Dark Magician, Charmers etc. and do a fantasy anime.

[@beppe1922]

I wonder if this animation was just a tease of what will be in the 25th anniversary set.

[@sekaihunter9378]

Avram reaction: 💀 Master Peace reaction: ☠️☠️☠️

[@batriam5921]

While this was probably mostly to show off the new studio, they would also have to be stupid not to see how much everyone wants an anime. like make a good anime and time it with some good new support for thr archetypr the anime is about and make easy money and happy fans

[@Amazigh_Gaming]

The all mighty Zeus man cool af❤

[@lewismossop]

I'm so happy for my boy v-sauce

[@johnnywilson3071]

I wish they animated Typhon nullifying Zeus' power after he uses the "move".

[@AccelSternritter]

Apparently Konami animation is a new studio is this was like them showing off their skills. We are probably getting a Sky Striker anime since the manga with their story ended not too long ago.

[@joemarais7683]

I hope this is to gauge community reception for a change to the anime format. I would take YuGiOh animes changing to being about the cards' story itself, even if they're just 2 or 3 episode Arcs per deck. Probably would sell new garbage cards as well if they include them as part of existing stories, at least better than how Sevens "sold" rush duels.

[@ItsmisterX]

Duel terminal, world legacy, and albaz lore would require at least 2-3 seasons each with how much content there are in the story

[@sgt.milkshake3352]

People talking about World Legacy, and that'd awesome, but I'd also love to see the whole Draco/Foes/TK/Crystron/Zoo lore. Masterpiece vs VFD hell yeah.

[@moorejim13]

I kinda wish i got to see Despia in motion

[@b_but_not_2b]

Skull Servants slice of life when?

[@MillenniumEarl014]

The skull servant works at a bookstore?

[@kyriellepunongbayan6909]

card lore anime should be the thing

[@middlemist809]

I feel like Konami forgot pendulum was a thing so they added that final Solfachord scene.

[@vareos9874]

I would love to see a Yugioh Anime where they actually play good cards

[@christopherhale3140]

Unfortunately, a YGO Master Duel anime that actually follows the real life metagame would be basically unwatchable. It would be about 7 minutes of player one chaining together a 20 card combo, and then 7 minutes of the second player chaining together their own 20 card combo that either completely dismantles the first player’s combo or gets undone by their turn 1 boss monster’s effects, at which point the duel would basically be over. There’s a reason why Konami stopped making Master Duel animes with VRAINS; even at that point it had become almost impossible to write narratively satisfying duels with metagame-relevant cards, and the power creep has only gotten worse since then. Basically the only way forward on the anime front is either more Rush Duel animes (since Rush Duel seems to have been specifically designed to be more resistant to power creep) or _hopefully_ one or more anime’s about the actual card characters like what was shown in this video.

[@Momo_pstat4]

Melphy lore lets goooooo!