Summary
- Konami releases new Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Chronicles series monthly on YouTube, focusing on Sky Striker Ace storyline.
- KONAMI Animation produces the series, adapting Sky Striker Ace card archetype into an anime storyline.
- Series emphasizes monster cards as characters like OG titles did, focusing on development and connection between characters.
Konami Digital Entertainment released the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles, a brand-new series of promotional anime shorts to the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG YouTube Channel, on Tuesday. New episodes of the series will be released on a monthly basis. Episode 1 focuses on the Sky Striker Ace storyline, which will continue through to May, followed by The Fallen & The Virtuous, coming in June.
KONAMI Animation, the company’s resident animation studio that was announced in February 2024, will be producing the series, which is the second Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles anime project after the one released in commemoration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary.
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To counter the great powers surrounding the mighty empire, the “Sky Striker” was developed using advanced military technology. Its power was enough to instantly change the course of battle. The girl “Raye,” entrusted with the “Sky Striker,” repeatedly encounters the girl “Roze” from the hostile nation wielding equal power on the battlefield. Each time they clash with the “Sky Striker,” Raye gradually gets a glimpse of the “human heart” within Roze and rises up to free her!
To meet Roze not as a “weapon” but as a “person”—
– Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles Sky Striker Arc official description
About the New Yu-Gi-Oh! Short Anime
Card Families as Characters
The new promotional Yu-Gi-Oh! short anime follows the Sky Striker Ace storyline, which is based on the Sky Striker Ace card archetype, a family of female monster cars and their associated auxiliary cards. The anime is adapted from Shin Yoshida (series composition, several Yu-Gi-Oh! projects from the main franchise) and Naohito Miyoshi’s (story & art, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V) Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories manga, which launched in Shueisha’s V Jump magazine in April 2022, beginning with the aforementioned Sky Striker Ace story centering Sky Striker Ace – Raye, as she fights to protect those closest to her, but also develops a connection to Roze, the pilot of a Sky Striker from an enemy nation.
The stories that lie within the cards come to life…
What is interesting about Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles is its focus on monster cards as characters, which isn’t completely beyond the scope of what the OG titles in the franchise did in a number of arcs; like the immense power of the Egyptian God Cards, which affected the environment (which is the same idea as the Dragon cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s), the hilarious Ojama Trio and even the development of an ego seen with Yubel in GX. The cast of the Sky Striker Ace arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles includes Anna Nagase (Ushio Kofune, Summer Time Rendering) as Raye and Nene Hieda (Kamome Kushima, Summer Pockets) as Roze.
Source: ANN
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