New ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ Anime to Premiere in May!

Attention duelists! The sixth anime of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise titled Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS is slated to premiere in Japan in May. This announcement was confirmed on Saturday in the 2017 16th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. Before the release of the anime, a TV special titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Labo will premiere on April 5.

So far, two new duelists have been revealed namely Aoi Zaizen and Go Onizuka. The story of the new Yu-Gi-Oh anime is centered on Yusaku Fujiki who is a skilled hacker with a sharp mind. His ace monster in the anime is name “Decoe Talker” who possesses a giant sword. When Yusaku enters the VR space to have duels, he transforms from his school uniform into his handle character “Playmaker”.

The new theme for the anime is “Let’s take one step forward and try it”. With this upcoming series, there are more reasons for Yu-Gi-Oh anime and duelists to be hyped about.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! started out as a Japanese manga series about gaming written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi, but is known mostly in America for it’s stylized anime and card games, after the anime appeared on major US television networks. The original manga was published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine between September 30, 1996 and March 8, 2004, almost a decade ago. The plot followed the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, who solves the ancient Millennium Puzzle. Yugi awakens a gambling alter-ego, an ancient Egyptian Pharoah within his body that solves his conflicts using various games.