Duel Masters Versus TV Anime to Premiere in April

The newest Duel Masters television series, Duel Masters Versus, was announced with an official website on Saturday. The series will premiere on TV Tokyo on April 5 at 8:30 a.m.

Shinobu Sasaki (Gintama', Battle Spirits: Brave episode director) is directing the series at Ascension and Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment, with Yoichi Kato (Mushibugyō, Yōkai Watch) in charge of series composition. Yosuke Yabumoto (Inazuma Eleven GO, Saint Seiya Omega animation director) is designing the characters, with Shinji Kawai serving as art director. Yoshiyuki Chōnan (Kizuna Ichigeki, One Piece Episode of Luffy: Hand Island no Bōken production manager) is the animation producer.

Akiko Fujita (Duel Masters Victory V3, Servant × Service) is returning as sound director, with Norihide Tanaka (Duel Masters, Hayate the Combat Butler!!) as music producer and Jun'ichi Igarashi (Duel Masters, Duel Masters: Lunatic God Saga) in charge of music. Japanese punk band Gagaga Sp is performing the opening theme song.

Takao Murakami, Shutaro Furuya, Koichiro Maki, and Shin Jingūji are supervising the anime. Masue Hironori and Naruto Nishite cooperated on the original concept.

Returning main cast members include:

Yumiko Kobayashi as Shōta Kirifuda
Ryuuzou Ishino as Bucchake
Eriko Hirata as Ben-chan
New cast members include:

Masayoshi Sugawara as Hokaben
Sakura Tange as Ruru Takigawa
Fumie Mizusawa as Lucifer
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kojirō
Setsuji Satoh as hot-blooded narrator
The franchise's latest television anime series, Duel Masters Victory V3, premiered in Japan last April in the same Saturday timeslot.

 

Is Duel Masters that one from a while ago where the OP was like
"Who's the kid with the spiky hair? Shobu(?)!
*something something something*
Creatures battle in the zone~ Shobu!
Gonna take the trophy home~"
And they were constantly breaking the 4th wall?

 

This is Duel Masters @mafiacow

 

duel masters, I use to love watching that show , i even had the cards and use to duel my friends
you have 5 shields and summon cards with mana.
The new series, probably won't have the same old main character though,unless i misread something , will it?