Cardfight!! Vanguard 10

The Destiny Conductor

Turned into a PSY Qualia zombie, the once meek and unfailingly polite Aichi Sendou comes to bark, “How dare you touch me so casually!” to his pals. The always cool Kouji Ibuki, who introduced them to the game once upon a time, now declares, “I’m Vanguard’s enemy!” It’s all the doing of Takuto Tatsunagi, who's targeted the very bonds linking the cardfighters to their font of imagination, Planet Cray. Or is it?
As friendships forged in the crucible of battle get warped and dear memories threaten to fade, who will stand up to the vicious rich kid?

Akira Itou is a writer, gamer, and international best-selling comic artist. Over the last decade his work has been associated with some of the world's most popular trading card games - YuGiOh and Vanguard. Raised in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Itoh cut his teeth as an assistant for Studio Dice and YuGiOh creator Kazuki Takahashi. After working as an assistant on the original YuGiOh comic, Itoh would evnetually come to draw the YuGiOh sequel YuGiOh R. The series was a regular feature in Shonen Jump Magazine for four years and significantly expanded the brand from comic for teens to full-blown gaming narrative. After working with the YuGiOh franchise for nearly a decade, Itoh would pair up with Japanese trading card leaders BushiRoad to develop a new card game - Vanguard. Vanguard would premiere as a serialized manga in 2010 to lay the foundation for a TRPG which would debut globally February 2011. The brand has spun-off a weekly prime-time animated TV series, which is currently available globally in English on YouTube, with Itou as the writer.