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Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Revealed

  • Dec. 13th, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Aki


Some early information on the previously mentioned new Yu-Gi-Oh series has been leaked! Titled "Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal," the series will focus on a new duelist named Yuma Tsukumo. As I expected, the new series will launch this April. Besides the anime, a manga adaptation will also be released. Judging by the little bit we can see of the series, Zexal will be abandoning the idea of older characters in 5D's & instead focus on younger characters.

Original Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi & his Studio Dice will once again create the story & characters. The anime episodes will be directed by Satoshi Kuwahara (Black Jack 21, Tezuka Osamu ga Kieta, Astro Boy: Shinsen-gumi), scripts by Shin Yoshida (Yu-Gi-Oh DM, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Yu-Gi-Oh 3D), character design adaptations by Hirotoshi Takaya (Chouja Reideen, Eyeshield 21, Kekkaishi), & duels will once again be supervised by Masahiro Hikokubo, who's done the same for every single past YGO series & movie.

Personally I wonder how the title is supposed to be pronounced by English speakers. The katakana indicates that the Japanese pronunciation for Zexal is "Ze-a-ru." So is "Zay-al" correct? Or how about simply "Zeal"? Either way, it's apparent that the X is supposed to be silent. Anyway, more information as it becomes available!

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-13/yu-gi-oh-zexal-anime-manga-revealed

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[info]linka13 wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 08:37 am (UTC)
The first manga chapter has actually already cropped up. Some pictures, linked from where I've been linked to:

http://l.pic.to/19gt5v-1-e7bb.jpg
http://i.pic.to/17gzj1-1-f303.jpg
http://k.pic.to/14jxa9-2-485f.jpg
http://k.pic.to/14jxa9-1-485f.jpg
http://f.pic.to/1cpijp-1-251e.jpg

As far as anyone can tell, Yuma's parents used to be explorers/archeologists, but they ended up dying in one of their adventures. Yuma was left a necklace as a keepsake from his mother. Also, there is a need summoning mechanic around overlapping two monsters of the same level to form a new one, though the others don't go to the graveyard-- the card is placed on top of them. Apparently current translations state that this is Exceeds Summon.

This is just what I've gotten from the chat I'm in.
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[info]rhodanum wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 02:51 pm (UTC)
If it's not much of a bother, can you upload some of these to an image hosting site of something else like that? I keep seeing the links thrown around, but I can't see any of the images, regardless of what browser I'm using (I only get a Japanese-language error about not being on a mobile device).
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[info]linka13 wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 04:15 pm (UTC)
Ah, sorry, they seem to be down now. D: I didn't realize they'd end up doing that.

I'll end up linking things as well once higher quality scans crop up, so please be patient.
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[info]rhodanum wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 04:17 pm (UTC)
Don't worry about it -- someone on my f!list managed to save them and upload them to an image-hosting service just now. ^^
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[info]linka13 wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 04:37 pm (UTC)
You mind putting down some links? For Neb's sake here.
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[info]rhodanum wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 04:47 pm (UTC)
Sure!

V-JUMP links: 1, 2 3.

Manga: Cover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

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[info]linka13 wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 05:06 pm (UTC)
Thanks there.
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[info]nebs66 wrote:
Dec. 15th, 2010 09:39 am (UTC)
Awesome, thanks for that!
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[info]nebs66 wrote:
Dec. 15th, 2010 09:43 am (UTC)
Boy, they sure started getting that manga out quick, didn't they? o.O Can't believe how fast they churned this out.

Guess this means we'll have three different ongoing Yu-Gi-Oh manga series at once now? GX, 5D's, & now Zexal. Pretty cool that they're doing that, actually.
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[info]linka13 wrote:
Dec. 15th, 2010 10:01 am (UTC)
I believe that GX is actually nearing it's climax/ending soon-- I know that the big bad's been introduced as an active character, and unless if they can think of new things to do for it, the manga series will end quickly enough to give focus to 5D's and Zexal.

GX manga's been cool and all but given it's monthly serialization I doubt it'll last past this main arc that it's had going on with American Academy.
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[info]cody_shiranai wrote:
Dec. 14th, 2010 03:27 pm (UTC)
Card Game Wars!!!
It's pretty well accepted already that this is a DIRECT counterattack to Card Fight! Vanguard, especially given what that show is bringing to the battlefield.

It might as well be declaring World War on Konami and NAS.
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[info]GunplaLgcyExtrm wrote:
Dec. 15th, 2010 12:13 am (UTC)
Is it too much to ask
for the lead character to have well... normal hair, Judai's was good but still... I'm getting tired or porcupine hair for the lead protagonist DX
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[info]sith_50pcac wrote:
Dec. 15th, 2010 12:49 am (UTC)
Oh my gawd this new series looks like a mix between beyblade, Bakugan, and the new digimon series. I'll give the story a shot but i find using kids as protagonists is a little cheap, we had yugi who looked like a kid, then judai was a pre-teen, and Yusei(best of them all), was the adult, not to mention they use 3D glasses to see the monsters. Why did Kazuki takahashi break his promise that 5ds would be the final series. WHY!?
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