Yu-Gi-Oh! Promotional Net Anime Shorts Debut on YouTube
Konami Digital Entertainment launched the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles, a series of promotional net anime shorts, on Tuesday. The series is streaming on the "Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Channel" on YouTube, with a new episode debuting every month. The first episode focuses on the Sky Striker Ace storyline and will continue through May. The second arc is titled "The Fallen & The Virtuous" and will air in June.Subtitles are available in English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). The channel describes the story of the first arc: KONAMI animation is animating the shorts. Konami had announced the new studio in February 2024, alongside a previous Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles anime short to mark the game's 25th anniversary.Shin Yoshida and Naohito Miyoshi's Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories manga launched in Shueisha's V Jump magazine in April 2022 with the Sky Strikers storyline, which centered on Sky Striker Ace - Raye, who resolves to fight in order to protect her beloved family. The arc ended in October 2023.The Madō Taisen-hen (Magical War arc) of Shin Yoshida and Naohito Miyoshi's Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories manga will start serialization in the magazine's next issue on May 21.The manga serializes alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Structures manga. Masashi Sato launched the manga in June 2019. The series is also related to the franchise's Official Card Game (OCG).The latest anime in the franchise is Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!, the eighth main anime series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The anime premiered in April 2022, and entered its third year of airing in April 2024. The anime ended on March 30.Sources: Press release, Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG's YouTube channel, Konami via Crunchyroll
