Vanguard Zero mobile app to hit Spring 2019 for English, World Championship locations announced

Team Q4 playmat given out to those that attended Bushiroad's Anime Expo 2018 panel.

At Bushiroad's Anime Expo 2018 panel today, it was announced that the Android and iOS mobile game Cardfight!! Vanguard Zero will be launching in English Spring 2019; the Japanese edition was previously announced for Winter 2018. The app will provide players with an opportunity to relive the anime series and cardfight their rivals from anywhere in the world.

As previously announced, the autumn circuit for Vanguard will be split into separate best-of-one Premium and Standard tournaments. According to our sources on-site, participants in the Standard tournament will receive an alternate artwork print of Wingal and a Team Q4 deckbox, while participants in the Premium tournament will receive a promotional print of Lizard Soldier Conroe and a Team Striders deckbox.


The top 8 playmat for Standard will feature Blaster Blade, and the top 8 playmat for Premium will feature Chronojet Dragon Z. The tournament champions will receive promotional prints of King of Knights Alfred (Standard) and Dragonic Waterfall (Premium) and participants will also be able to get limited edition Blaster Blade sleeves at the tournaments.

The North American locations for the 2018 world championships are presented below, in chronological order. In addition to these locations, tournaments will also take place in Western Europe, South America, and Asia-Oceania.

• Chicago - August 25~26
• New Jersey - September 1~2
• Toronto, Ontario - September 1~2
• Texas - September 15~16
• Richmond, British Columbia - September 22~23
• Georgia - October 6~7
• California - November 10~11
• Hawaii - November 17~18
• Mexico - November 24~25

The California regional will take place as part of Chara Expo 2018, featuring special guests Kitta Izumi (voice of Tokura Misaki) Mimori Suzuko (voice of Tatsunagi Suiko) Morishima Shuuta (voice of Nitta Shin) and Maeda Seiji. (Voice of Inenaga Ichirо̄, and a "Vanguard evangelist" on-stream.)

The Ultra Rare Extra Booster was also announced at the panel, simultaneous to its reveal at BCF2018 Nagoya. No English release date was given, but the set arrives in Japan October 19th.

News: Bushiroad USA to Launch "Cardfight Online," Touken Ranbu to See International Release

July 2nd, 2015. Today at Anime Expo 2015 in California, CEO Kidani Takaaki announced that Bushiroad Inc. will be launching an exclusive English-language product this year, titled Cardfight!! Online. The web-based game will be exclusive to the English format, and will have no Japanese equivalent; moreover, Bushiroad will also be bringing over G-Title Booster 01: Touken Ranbu -ONLINE- to the English-language format on October 30th, in keeping with their vision of synchronizing the English and Japanese game formats. A trailer for the game was uploaded shortly after the live announcement and is provided below.

Details at this time are sparse, but the interface for the game bears a startling resemblance to that devised for the Nintendo 3DS games Cardfight!! Vanguard Ride to Victory!! and Lock on Victory!!, as well as to a Flash tutorial game created to introduce Vanguard to the west several years ago. According to Kidani, the game will be coming soon, within 2015. The interface features two players with the names Aichi Sendou and Toshiki Kai, but these may merely be usernames, as the decks used in preview screenshots are both Gear Chronicle decks.

What has been shown of Cardfight!! Online indicates a 30-minute time limit on games, as well as automated process of turn order through the different phases.

In years past the original English-language Cardfight!! Vanguard fan community developed around the BYOND client Cardfight Capital, used to play the Cardfight!! Vanguard trading card game online through a manual (rather than automated) simulator. Cardfight Capital was shut down by Bushiroad in early 2013, deeply fragmenting the community and making it difficult to introduce new players to the game without having physical product on hand. While some fled to other, less successful clients to play Vanguard online with, the announcement of Cardfight!! Online points to a new officially-sponsored future for digital play of the Cardfight!! Vanguard trading card game.

Bushiroad has also opened an official Twitter account for the game @CardfightOnline. The company has since clarified that the game will be free-to-play with in-game transactions upon release. Bushiroad released a statement through the account this evening stating that these transactions will not be the only way to receive cards in the web game. The open beta for Cardfight!! Online will begin in late 2015.

Rumor: World Championship 2013 Locations, Restricted List Will Not be Modified for WCS2013, Ride to Victory to See International Release

Updated 7/10/2013: Bushiroad USA has confirmed much of the information below.
Cardfighters that attended day 2 of Bushiroad's Anime Expo 2013 event have leaked information on the upcoming WCS2013 international tournament, confirmed since February but now with concrete dates and locations provided. This information is being attributed to Bushiroad's general manager for the Cardfight!! Vanguard USA Facebook page "Doctor K" J-Kim, who was hosting a Q&A panel that day.

WCS2013 will be taking place in December 2013, with the North American national championship taking place earlier on, in November. Seven qualifier locations have been put out so far;

1. Dallas, Texas - September
2. Chicago, Illinois - September 15th
3. Hawaii (exact city to be announced) - September
4. Seattle, Washington - September
5. New York, New York - September
6. Atlanta, Georgia - October 13th
7. Los Angeles, California - November

Additionally, Los Angeles is speculated to be the location of the championship finals. The location list suggests that this will be in the same format of WCS2012, with cardfighters attending each qualifier independently and the top two of each tournament going on to the finals, rather than using the Challenge Cup format of qualifying at a shop before going to a qualifier. While this information has not been confirmed by Bushiroad, it is considered very likely to be accurate based on the source attributed and the timing of the AX2013 event.

While there was some discussion that the English format restricted list may be modified to be closer to Japan's January 2013 list following the Challenge Cup, as Dragonic Overlord The End accounted for five of the top eight decks used in the Challenge Cup finals, according to this AX leak the restricted list will not be modified prior to the WCS2013 regional qualifiers. Furthermore, the reason for the sudden flurry of releases in English from EB04 through BT11 is because Bushiroad is moving towards simultaneous English and Japanese releases for Cardfight!! Vanguard. Simultaneous release appears to be becoming Bushiroad's default policy following the announcement of the Future Card Buddyfight franchise, and this direction will support Bushiroad's overall goal of creating a competitive environment more similar to Weiss Schwarz so that even underrated and unpopular clans will be able to do well, making favorites more practical.

Doctor K also alluded that official tagfight tournaments and an English release of the Nintendo 3DS Cardfight!! Vanguard TCG simulator, Cardfight!! Vanguard Ride to Victory!! are both being considered by Bushiroad's Japanese and international branches. Fighters have been anxious for the game's international release ever since it was first announced, and Bushiroad has appeared responsive, replying to inquiries about the game through Facebook and uploading videos of the game for those that are eager for it to be distributed in other regions.

(via Trigger Capital)

News: Kira Kira Cards to Host Free Tournament at AX2013, Clash of the Knights and Dragons Box as Prize

An employee of the card shop Kira Kira Cards, based out of Monterey Park, California, has informed us that the store will be hosting a double elimination Cardfight!! Vanguard TCG tournament at Anime Expo 2013 in Los Angeles. AX2013 will be taking place from July 4th-7th.

The tournament will have no entry fee, will allow for up to 64 cardfighters to participate, and one box of the soon to be released VGE-BT09: Clash of the Knights and Dragons booster set will be given to the fighter that takes first place, with a second box being split among second through eighth place. Playmats may also be given out as additional prizes.

Registration will take place throughout the first day of AX at the shop's booth, #1432 in the exhibition hall, with the actual tournament taking place on the second day at the Table Top Gaming Room. On-site registration may also be done from 10:00-10:30 AM of the second day.