This week's episode of the rebooted
Weekly Bites series features live-size replicas of Blaster Blade and Blaster Dark's swords.
Image 10: "Aichi's Wind!!"
The fourth round of the shop showdown is Sendо̄ Aichi versus Sо̄ryū Leon. Struggling against something Leon calls "the Wind," Aichi witnesses a completely different image in their fight from anything he's seen before.
Image 12 "The Mysterious Enemy, Foo Fighter!!" airing July 21st introduces the Foo Fighters, and begins their arc of the anime series.
There are several differences between the Foo Fighters of the reboot and those of the 2011 anime series:
- In the first season, Team Foo Fighter was Japan's strongest team. In the 2018 series, the Foo Fighters are a Card Gang.
- In the original anime the battle against them was set in the national championship tournament, but in the reboot they are fought as part of everyday life.
- In the 2011 version of this arc, Aichi used Shadow Paladin; in the 2018 version, he continues to use Royal Paladin.
- In the first season, Ren wanted Kai to return to him. In this season, Ren wants to ____ Kai.
This is all based directly on Itо̄ Akira's
Cardfight!! Vanguard manga, and with his supervision additional scenes (not found in the comics) are also being developed. The manga was originally published simultaneous to the first season; internationally it's published by Vertical Inc.
The Q4 versus Foo Fighter arc is adapted directly from volumes 2 through 5 of the manga.
Itо̄ Akira's character design of Suzugamori Ren, which can be found in the in-between pages of volume 3. Itо̄-sensei is excited that the Foo Fighter arc is finally beginning.
Image 12 "The Mysterious Enemy, Foo Fighter!!"
A member of the mysterious gang "Foo Fighter," Kawanami Minami, suddenly appears in the peaceful Card Capital. He uses a dangerous piece of equipment called the "VF Gloves" to make the damage from a fight become real.
This twelfth episode is a straight adaptation of the manga's fifth chapter.
Kai, Ren, and Aichi's story
"The real battle begins between Kai with his painful past and Ren driven mad by his "PSY Qualia."
Can Aichi save these two, caught up in their chain of battles...?"
