Summary
Konami Digital Entertainment released the first episode ofYu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles, a brand-new series of promotional anime shorts to theYu-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 secondYu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chroniclesanime project after the one released incommemoration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary.
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 promotionalYu-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, severalYu-Gi-Oh!projects from the main franchise) and Naohito Miyoshi’s (story & art,Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V)Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Storiesmanga, 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 aboutYu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chroniclesis 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 ofthe Egyptian God Cards, which affected the environment (which is the same idea as the Dragon cards inYu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s), the hilarious Ojama Trio and even the development of an ego seen with Yubel inGX. The cast of the Sky Striker Ace arc ofYu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The ChroniclesincludesAnna Nagase (Ushio Kofune,Summer Time Rendering) as Raye and Nene Hieda (Kamome Kushima,Summer Pockets) as Roze.
