"I'll do it, Morishima. I'll show you me when I'm playing seriously." (ʘ‿ʘ✿)
Kitta Izumi and Morishima Shuuta, the respective voices of Tokura Misaki and Nitta Shin in the Cardfight!! Vanguard anime series, appeared in a special tutorial video for the new Standard-format Vanguard trading card game. Morishima plays the Royal Paladin Star Drive deck while Kitta plays the Kagerо̄ Crested Dragon deck.
In the video, they demonstrate:
The basics of setting a First Vanguard, drive checking triggers, and conducting battle.
The new redraw/mulligan procedure. (You stack the cards you're putting back on the bottom of your deck, then draw the replacements, then shuffle.)
How to apply the Imaginary Gift ability, "Force."
Although much of the video is in Japanese, the terminology used is mostly romanized English that will ring familiar to any avid viewers of the officially-subbed anime series.
This morning Bushiroad of Japan's weekly information bulletin guest starred seiyuu Morishima Shuuta (voice of Nitta Shin) and Yanagita Junichi (voice of Anjou Mamoru) in a featured fight between Shin's Yasuie and Mamoru's Dragonic Blademaster decks. The broadcast also revealed two upcoming promotional sleeves from the Get! Treasure Campaign, featuring Deity of the Evening Moon Tsukuyomi and Death Star-vader “∞” Glendios from G-FC01: Fighter's Collection 2015. The sleeves will go out in early June. Doctor O also took the opportunity to introduce several cards for both Murakumo and Kagerou from Sovereign Star Dragon, but these announcements were preempted three hours earlier by Japanese fans leaking the remaining cards of the set, much to the company's chagrin. The full video of the broadcast, including the fight, is presented below.
(Note that there is an audio desynch in the below video, and a brief interruption at the 43 minute mark. This is a consequence of recording the broadcast as it was originally airing.)
The fight between Morishima and Yanagita begins at 13:08 (standup at 15:44) in the video and ends at 48:28. The decklists used by them are provided below. Yanagita checked more triggers overall than Morishima, giving him considerable freedom with the use of his hand and taking early damage. Morishima initially got more setup off of striding first, superior calling two copies of his first vanguard Onifundou with Yasuie's skill and using two of their soulblast skills to return them to hand to gain 20000 shield, while also calling a unit from the top three cards of the deck to replace them. (This would be a net +4, but the replacement units called by the Onifundou copies return to the bottom of the deck at the end of the turn, mitigating it down to a net +2; Morishima averted this by calling Cat Devil with Onifundou and putting it into soul, still taking the negative but gaining soul that could be used for his remaining Onifundou next turn. Making his third turn a +2 in card advantage overall, discounting draw triggers.)
Yanagita retaliated with Blademaster's on-stride skill to retire the booster Ataka, comboing this to his rearguard Soheyl's autoskill to give him +5000 power. (As this only activates when a rearguard in the same column is put into the drop zone, later retires were not applicable to Soheyl.) Using the stride Divine Dragon Knight Mustafa, he then retired Tokubei and gave Mustafa an on-hit unflip. With Twilight Arrow's counterblast, Yanagita then retired the Onifundou that remained on the field, neutralizing the advantage Morishima had built up in the previous turn. Yanagita then forced him to five damage in that turn, and with only one unit in play, to meet the conditions for Homura Raider during the stride step Morishima was forced to clone his draw trigger Cat Rouge. And when Morishima attempted to go on the offensive, Yanagita guarded with the promo card Lizard Soldier Belogue--Belogue's skill allows it to retire an opponent's rested rearguard during the guard step if the guard is successful, meaning that Yanagita could completely nullify Homura Raider's skill by retiring one of the rested Cat Rogues, preventing Homura Raider from returning three units with the same name to the deck and restanding. Since Homura Raider had already received drive check -1 from its own skill, it wouldn't even get a single triple drive, let alone four drive checks; retiring Cat Rogue would incur a net -4 for the entire turn against Morishima. Morishima-as-Shin had to beg Yanagita-as-Mamoru not to do it in order for them to show Homura Raider's skill on camera, illustrating the vast disparity in support between Kagerou and Murakumo.
Yanagita obliged, retiring Fujino and using a Protect Orb Dragon to achieve perfect defense against Homura Raider. Although Morishima enjoyed a brief window with which to win the game on his second twin drive, failing to check a critical trigger prevented him from sealing it, causing Yanagita to win on his following turn.
Morishima's game was incredibly skillful overall. By standing his boosters and giving them power with his stand triggers, he was better able to take advantage of Ushimitsu Train's double superior call to clone Tokubei twice. His main misplay was fielding and then targeting units which only had one or less copies remaining in deck, in this case Nyudo Cloud. Doing otherwise would have given him two attacks, one for 12000 power and another 34000 power. His second was in using Fujino to attack the vanguard instead of the rearguard, exposing him to Belogue's skill, which otherwise can't be used while protecting rearguards. However, in general there was little else that could be done on his end of the game to fight back once Yanagita swung the game in his favor with Mustafa, Twilight Arrow and Soheyl. Making his one opening in the opponent's defenses with Homura Raider's second attack was his one chance to end the game.
Doctor O proceeded with an overview of several cards from Sovereign Star Dragon, including Dragon Knight Emad, Mustafa, Homura Raider and Hidden Scroll. However, all of these units were already spoiled by this time thanks to fan efforts. After a brief overview of the currently ongoing Cardfight!! Vanguard G the above sleeves were unveiled, and Doctor O closed out the broadcast alongside his guests imploring viewers to "Ride KYUN Vanguard!"
Almost seventeen thousand people tuned in to view the live broadcast
during its run. Bushiroad's weekly information bulletins air every
Tuesday evening at
8:00 PM Japanese Standard Time. They first began in late January to
accommodate a new information distribution model for Cardfight!! Vanguard G, as the amount of card information covered in Monthly Bushiroad magazine decreased and was redirected to other routes of distribution. The previous week's broadcast introduced Spear Cross Dragon and several other units from Sovereign Star Dragon, and the week before covered Deletor cards from the same set. Next week's episode will be a special G-BT03 release party guest starring Ishii Mark, seiyuu for Shindou Chrono.
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Nitta Shin/新田シン Age: Unconfirmed; no younger than 25. Anime Biography:
The manager of Card Capital, and Misaki's cousin. Shin is the one who initially brings the
cast together by holding the shop tournament that leads to Team Q4's
formation. While he doesn't himself fight, he knows much about Vanguard
and provides moral and strategic support to the kids.
Note that while Crunchyroll's subtitles waver in referring to him as Misaki's cousin or uncle, Bushiroad's blog states that during production he was referred to as the nephew of one of her parents.
Spoiler warning: Season 1 details follow. Misaki's parents died ten years ago in a car accident. At this time, Shin was still in high school(his uniform is the same one that Kai wears, indicating him to be at least 15 years old.) He became Misaki's guardian from then on, and the manager of Card Capital until she could come of age to inherit what her parents left behind. Shin appears to have overcome his grief at their deaths, and holds no resentment toward his "promotion" to both parent and manager, but he has difficulty raising Misaki due to being a kid at the time of their passing. Shin is no father, but he does appear to have learned from this experience, and later in the series acts as a parent might while coaching Aichi.
Shin eventually arranges a training camp along with Team Caesar, bringing both groups together on a camping trip where they restructure their decks to prepare for the upcoming season. In ride 52 he prompts Team Q4 to again rethink their overall strategy, in order to finally put an end to the Foo Fighters' scheming. Spoilers end here.
Manga Biography:
Shin's role is lessened in the manga, where the tournament arc doesn't
take place. However, he appears to act as an emotional pillar for
Misaki, attempting to get his cold niece to open up to others, and is
instrumental in arranging her fight with Aichi. Decks: Shin
has not been shown to fight, though he is the one who built Misaki's first
deck. In addition to this, he is the primary supplier for Team Q4's card supply.
