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“Shy middle-schooler Aichi's life changes after reuniting with Kai, the giver of his treasured Vanguard card "Blaster Blade."”
Cardfight!! Vanguard (2018)
カードファイト!! ヴァンガード (2018)
6.75
6,045 rank · 15,629 viewers · 51 favorites
Action
Strategy Game
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Synopsis
Shy middle-schooler Aichi's life changes after reuniting with Kai, the giver of his treasured Vanguard card "Blaster Blade."
The main protagonist Sendou Aichi, is a timid and mundane third-year middle school boy. The thing that supported Aichi's heart, was the "Blaster Blade" card that he received as a child. It's an important rare card from "Vanguard", a card game with the imaginary world of "Planet Cray" as its stage. From the day he reunited with the person who gave him that card "Toshiki Kai", Aichi's everyday life began to change. (Source: Crunchyroll)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 4 viewers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 3
σ 2.55
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.55 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 3.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 3.00
Running avg · Nov 2018 → Jun 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Amazing at advertising the card game. Ok story, but the characters are fun and very likable. The fights are faster than the original and have less pauses in the fights. There is always something...”
- 8 “Keep in mind that this review is written based only on anime (I know that this version comes from the manga. After I finished watching the "original" story, I gave myself the opportunity to see the...”
- 10 “Okay, so it seems like I am the first one to write a review about this anime series. First let's talk about the story. Now I am not reading the manga of this anime and I know that this is the...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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- Format 52 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 19h 56m all episodes
- Aired May 2018 – May 2019 Spring 2018
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-13873 catalog
Produced by
- Ace Crew Entertainment Producer