Cardfight!! Vanguard is getting a new television anime. The franchise's official X account announced Cardfight!! Vanguard Veil Lift on Wednesday, with an announcement video and a promise of more details on December 7.
A second season of the Ghost Meets Gal mini anime was announced in the same batch, with an announcement image instead of a video.
What we know about Veil Lift
Almost nothing yet, and that is the honest answer. The announcement gives a title and a date for the follow-up announcement. Bushiroad has not confirmed a premiere window, a studio, a cast or a story.
What does line up is timing. The franchise previously teased that a completely new television anime would air in 2027 to mark its 15th anniversary, and Veil Lift is the title that tease was pointing at. December 7 should settle whether it lands in 2027 as planned.
The Ghost Meets Gal mini anime returns
The mini anime adapts Kaeru DX's Ghost Meets Gal manga, and AtoriE is producing it. The first run debuted on September 5 at 8:00 a.m. JST, the same weekend morning slot the main Vanguard anime uses.
The cast so far: Karin Kagami, who voiced Urara Haneyama in Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress, plays Rubuna. Yuka Nishio, the voice of Nao Inabe in Divinez, plays Santi. The theme song, "Nikoichi Mirai," comes from BanG Dream!'s Mugendai Mewtype.
Bringing back voice actors from earlier Vanguard series for a comedy spinoff is a cheap way to keep the older audience engaged between main entries, and it has worked for the franchise before.
The Divinez finale is still running
Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez Unmei Seisen-hen, translated as The Fated Star Battle Arc, is a three-episode arc and the close of the DivineZ saga. It premieres November 7 at 8:00 a.m. JST on TV Aichi and six TV Tokyo stations, then streams in Japan on ABEMA, d Anime Store, DMM TV, Hulu, Prime Video, U-NEXT, Niconico and others from the same day.
Kis-My-Ft2 perform the theme song "Escape." Toshiya Miyata, the group member who voices protagonist Akina Myodo, wrote the lyrics.
Three episodes to end a saga is tight. It also means the franchise clears its schedule right before the anniversary year starts, which is the practical reason Veil Lift exists.
A very long series, in order
Vanguard's current D Series started in April 2021 with the first two seasons of overDress. will+Dress followed: its first season in July 2022, counted as the third D Series season, then two more in January and July 2023. Divinez arrived in January 2024 as season six, Divinez Season 2 in July 2024 as season seven, the DELUXE Arc in January 2025 as season eight, and DELUXE Finals in July 2025 as season nine, which aired its 12th and final episode on October 4.
Bushiroad originally said it would produce up to nine seasons of the D Series, then later confirmed plans for a 10th and beyond. The count matters less than the pattern: this franchise ships a new season roughly every six months and treats the anime as a commercial for the card game.
Why the announcement matters less than December
For players, a new TV anime is a marketing beat. The product is the card game, and the anime exists to introduce new cards and mechanics to a young audience.
For everyone else, the useful information is the December 7 date. That is when a title becomes a show with a studio and a cast, and when it becomes possible to say whether this is a fresh start for newcomers or another arc for people already eight seasons deep. Vanguard has never been an easy entry point, and a 15th anniversary series is the obvious moment to fix that.
We covered another card game getting an anime push, the Naruto card game launching worldwide in June 2027, and that one is aimed at a much broader audience than Vanguard's core.
Source: Anime News Network, citing the Cardfight!! Vanguard franchise’s official X account
Featured image: Ghost Meets Gal mini anime second season announcement image, via Anime News Network.
