Cardfight!! Vanguard Episode 7

Opening Theme:
"Vanguard" by JAM Project
Ending Theme:
"Diamond Star" (ダイヤモンドスター☆) by Natsuko Aso

Genres: action
Themes: card games, demons, monsters


As such, if you pick up the first volume of the series under the otherwise reasonable assumption that you will understand the plot, you are going to be in for an unhappy surprise. The book begins smack dab in the middle of an ongoing crisis of some sort, so abruptly that you wonder if the Media Blasters edition isn't missing a sheaf of introductory pages. (It isn't…but it is missing one page from a phone conversation between Natsui and Ritsu a little later on. A page from Nanao's kidnapping, erroneously printed twice, once in its correct context and once in this incorrect one, appears instead. Given that, along with a number of blatant typos throughout, you might be right to be suspicious.) Figuring out what is going on becomes an arduous process of deduction that requires paging back and forth between the contents of the first forty pages or so and a one-page Character Information/Story Background. And this is altogether too much effort to be wasted on this mindless piece of BL puffery. (Tojo's messy layouts don't help reading comprehension either.)

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