Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES: KONAMI animation announcement

A showcase advertising Konami’s new animation department was shown at the Tokyo Dome, depicting several different themes.

KONAMI animation’s showcase Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES started with Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl spotting and following a light, alongside Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Red-Eyes Black Dragon.

It should be noted this is not a trailer for upcoming shows, but more of a demo reel to showcase the talents of KONAMI animation, with a variety of animation styles.

It then showed short videos for the following themes:

Maiden with Eyes of Blue and Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon

The Spirit Charmers

The Third Ice Dragon, Trishula Unleashed

Melffys of the Joyous Forest

The Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder (this one uses CG animation)

The Legendary Six Samurai!

Live☆Twin is… Evil★Twin?

Fallen of Albaz

After a brief showcase of animated appearances of Magicians of Bonds and Unity and Dragon of Soul and Pride, there were also some more brief animations.

“Exodia” the Guardian God of the Palace

“Visas” the Glimmers through Stars and Frost

“Fire Kings” vs “Atlanteans” the Ocean up in Flames

“Diabellstar” the Curse Defying Witch

“Dragon Rulers” the Paranormal Calamity

“Magistus” the Great Sorcery

“Solfachord” the Ensemble of Happiness got a longer section.

The video concluded with Sky Striker Ace – Raye and Sky Striker Ace – Roze clashing.

The staff behind the video were as follows:

• Planning

  Konami Digital Entertainment

• Produce

  KONAMI animation

• Animation Producer

  Isamu Abe

  Daisuke Tsuboi

  Yasuhiro Aoki

  Mitsutaka Echigo

  Atsushi Tsubokawa

• Chief Director

  Takashi Kaiga

• Director

  Aoi Fudeo

  Junya Tanaka

  Yuto Nakawada

  Seiya Miyajima

  Atsushi Tsujimoto

  Ken Takahashi

• Character Design

  Takahiro Sasaki

  Kazuto Wakayama

  Yo Morimoto

  Nobuyoshi Nishimura

  Yoshihiro Nagamori

• 2D Drawing Director

  Chikara Hashidume

• Key Animator

  Tatsuya Miki

  Sirao

  Ozora Kondo

  Sheng meng chen

  Shaolin

  Yuiti Hinata

  Syun

  Ryuji Iwata

  Yuta kevin Kenmotsu

  Ao Fujimori

  Ryota Kuratani

  Tsubasa Funabashi

  Yuri Kubo

  J.C.STAFF

  Kenichiro Aoki

  Reo Nakamura

  Shuto Fujita

  Kaito Kono

  Manami Tanaka

  Mako Yamashita

  Ryoka Tanaka

• In=Between Animation Checker

  Takako Kawano

  Hiroshi Ukawa

  Rina Takizawa

• In=Between Animator

  Sachika Shimizu

  Hironori Nakamura

  Honoka Fukumoto

  Kyota Miyamoto

  Studio BUS

  iris media

  Seven seas

  Revival

  TripleA

  Rad Plus

  studio L

  studio μ

• Art Director

  Yoichiro Yamamoto

  Taketo Gonpei

• Art

  Goofy.inc

  Makoto Ota

  Masaki Watanabe

  GK sales

  Haruki Saito

  Toan Sang

  PEEC Animation

  BIEN THUOC

  NGUYEN HANG

  HOANG THY

  LINH TRANG

• Color Styling

  Koji Sakaue

  Ayaka Iwamoto

• CG Designer

  Kanemori Yasuda

  Midori Suzuki

• CG Animator

  Masaki Sasahara

  Fumiya Nakamura

• CG Effect Animator

  Tatsuya Tsukamoto

  Ai Fujiwara

• CG BG Designer

  Tatsuto Yabe

  Sachiko Shibai

  Maiho Shimazaki

  Mayuko Hori

• Composit Director

  Kaori Izumi

  Toma Hayashima

  Tasuku Ozu

  Kohei Honami

  Shiori Furusho

  Yuta Katayama

• 2D Design Works

  Takanari Hirayama

• Special Effects

  Taiki Sugiyama

• Production Chief

  Kota Hashiguchi

• Production Staff

  Kazuki Ishikawa

  Tomoki Yoshizawa

  Shoya Watabe

  Kenichi Kurihara

• Production Cooperation

  J.C.STAFF

  AtoriE

• Music Director

  Hiroshi Chiba

• Music

  Shinkichi Mitsunobu

  Noriyuki Asakura

  Shiho Terada

• Music Management

  Miyuki Arai

• Sound Effect

  Hiroyuki Yoshimura

• Production

  KONAMI animation

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