Cardfight!! Vanguard: Legion Mate-hen

In the wake of Aichi Sendou's heroic defeat of Link Joker, Toshiki Kai believes the world has returned to normal. However, during a routine visit to Card Capital, Kai discovers that everyone else has completely forgotten who Aichi is. Compelled to solve the mystery behind his friend's disappearance, Kai sets out to look for clues.

While searching Aichi's high school, Kai sees a vision of Blaster Blade, Aichi's favorite Cardfight Vanguard unit. Suddenly, a stack of cards materializes in his hand: Aichi's Royal Paladin deck. Using these familiar cards, Kai challenges Aichi's companions to duels that help them recall their dear friend's impact on their lives. After regaining their memories, they join forces with Kai to find Aichi-—and to bring him home at any cost.

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Kai, Toshiki Main

Satou, Takuya Japanese

Tokura, Misaki Main

Kitta, Izumi Japanese

Miwa, Taishi Main

Morikubo, Shoutarou Japanese

Souryuu, Leon Main

Kanbara, Daichi Japanese

Katsuragi, Kamui Main

Ishikawa, Shizuka Japanese

Ishida, Naoki Main

Nara, Tooru Japanese

Sendou, Aichi Supporting

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Suzugamori, Ren Supporting

Abe, Atsushi Japanese

Tatsunagi, Kourin Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Sendou, Emi Supporting

Enomoto, Atsuko Japanese

Tsuji, Hatsuki Director

Takadera, Takeshi Sound Director

Umemoto, Yui Episode Director, Assistant Director

Suzuki, Takaaki Episode Director

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Sep 1, 2014

glaceon_cute

Recommended

Preliminary (26/33 eps)

I watched 4 seasons without even playing the game in real life, but I do understand the rules and enjoy the fights though. We get new rule for every season, and this one is no exception. Now we get something so dazzling, which is called "Legion MATE". Okay, just the word choice is so weird, and the word "mate" is being repeated again and again whenever characters talk about Aichi - our forgotten protagonist. Well, I'm sure you will get used to it, just like I did.

Please note that this anime, or the whole series, is there for the purpose of promoting cardgame and selling ... desks in real life. People watch this mostly to know the power of cards instead of reading plain Wikipedia. Thus, the plot of the anime is not something splendid or awesome, it happens to show the cards. Although I'm saying that, I actually enjoy its simple plot. I love how they shift Kai to be protagonist now to make him gain more development, especially after season 3, where he has many problems. His problems is being showed here as well as an element to build up his character. Maybe this season is actually the first time we see him acts like a leader, a friend, and a "mate" of Aichi. We see him struggle to overcome his sin in the previous season, and his interaction with others. However, other characters like Misaki and Kamui are being overshadowed.

The Quatre Knights is not really an interesting gang, but the director at least cares to create the background for every member, though most of them don't make sense at all (Anyway, turning off your brain is the best way to enjoy this anime). As Cardfight on Moon is not magical enough, we have them fighting by Ice and Fire Power like they just come out from Sailor Moon. I don't think it's necessary at all but it doesn't hurt anyone, I guess. We also have a little plot twist with Serra - one of the Knights and Leon and Ren, which I think is a step-up from previous season that I find it rather interesting.

The art is decent enough for a long series like this, though sometime they make such silly mistake like the cards in Damage Zone change magically in the next scene. Some of the animation appears to be great when the characters summon their Ace Cards. The voice acting is great, and their screams are marvelous, I should say.

The Openings don't appeal much to me, but I like the second ending, it gives me warmth. I kind of sympathize with Aichi right now. The OST is plain boring, well, I didn't expect anything from its music anyway. Hopefully I can hear "Believe in my existence" as insert song once again, maybe in the last fight that probably would happen between Kai and Aichi.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 31, 2016

MoonTurkey

Not Recommended

Story: To quote Drawn Together "I am on a neverending quest to save my boyfriend" is the story this time around, it's practically filler this time around which is probably why it was never dubbed, taking all the effort and development the characters had throughout the first 3 seasons and tossing it out the window. It's incredibly predictable with its fights and doesn't have any excitement or thrill of the match.

Art: pretty standard with the series, no drops in animation or anything.

Sound: In terms of voice acting this was terrible, some of the new characters sounded painfully annoying I will get to a certain ... person int he character section and in one episode this one guy who they kept cutting to during a fight with Koutei who is my personal favourite since his fights are always fun and he would speak in such an obnoxious, annoying way that i was tempted to just edit out the scenes of him because of how bad he is. Music is pretty standard.

Characters: Congratulations Vanguard, you introduced a character who I hate more than Nagisa and Asaka if that was your intention this whole time, good job. Rati Curtie has got to be one of the most annoying, obnoxious, smug little brat and what's worse is that she plays my favourite clan and just treats one of the best characters terribly, I don't know why we should feel sorry for her when all she does is annoy and treat people like crap. I cheered whenever something bad happened to her and she is one of the reasons I was so close to quitting the show. Every other new character is unlikeable I hated every new character introduced.

Enjoyment: there was no enjoyment in this series, aside from one cardfight everything else was incredibly hollow and bland.

Overall: This series was terrible but does it deserve a 1? No because the original cast saved it and it was cool seeing their new decks in action that was it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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Nov 12, 2024

ajw215799

Not Recommended

I’m so mortified that this is from the same writer as the A Channel anime, I want to put my head through a wall. The entire premise of this season seems to be based on the series compositor having taken a trip to London and sat in a pub listening to people talk. This season has no style, no substance, plot holes you could throw whole buildings through and utterly unlikeable characters with motivations that are more implausible than any conspiracy theory to ever exist. I’m so glad that G moves on to a whole new set of characters because I couldn’t stand to be ... with these characters any longer. Just as long as I don’t have to listen to anyone try to force British slang spoken in English into any more anime because repeatedly hearing them say mate was utterly grating.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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