Takei Draws 3 Cards for New Cardfight Vanguard Expansion

For the latest Card Fight!! Vanguard (カードファイト!! ヴァンガード)expansion in Japan released yesterday, Demonic Lord Invasion (BT03) (魔候襲来), Hiroyuki Takei has drawn three pieces of artwork for the new cards. In our original article we were only aware of the first card. The following is the complete listing of all 3 cards drawn by Takei from the BT03 expansion.

BT03/006 (BT03/S05)
Full Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi (満月の女神 ツクヨミ)
United Sanctuary/Noble/Oracle Think Tank
Normal/3/Twin Drive/11000/-/1
Continuous [V/R]: When you don’t have a「Half Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi」,「Crescent Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi」, and「Godhawk, Ichibyoshi」in your Soul, this Unit loses -2000 Power.
Startup [V]: [Counter Blast (2)] If you have 6 or more《Oracle Think Tank》in your Soul, draw 2 cards, and choose 1 card from your Hand and send it to the Soul.

BT03/007
Half Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi (半月の女神 ツクヨミ)
United Sanctuary/Noble/Oracle Think Tank
Normal/2/Intercept/9000/5000/1
Auto: When this Unit is called to the [V] Circle, and you have 「Crescent Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi」, and「Godhawk, Ichibyoshi」in your Soul, you may Soul Charge (2).
Auto [V]: During the Start of your Ride Phase, look at the top 5 cards of your Deck, search for up to 1 「Full Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi」, Ride it, and place the remaining cards at the bottom of your Deck in any order. If you Ride, you cannot perform a Normal Ride for that Ride Phase.

BT03/071
Crescent Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi (三日月の女神 ツクヨミ)
United Sanctuary/Noble/Oracle Think Tank
Normal/1/Boost/7000/5000/1
Auto [V]: During the Start of your Ride Phase, look at the top 5 cards of your Deck, search for up to 1 「Half Moon Goddess, Tsukuyomi」, Ride it, and place the remaining cards at the bottom of your Deck in any order. If you Ride, you cannot perform a Normal Ride for that Ride Phase.

(Source: http://cfv-cafe.blogspot.com/2011/05/cardfight-vanguard-set-3-demonic.html )

Takei Draws Two More Cards and Models a Trading Figure

Update: Additional corrected information about Hiroyuki Takei’s Cardfight Vanguard card art can be found in this news post.

Continuing in Cardfight Vanguard, Hiroyuki Takei has drawn a third piece of art for the series. Takei has created artwork for each expansion set for the Cardfight Vanguard card game. The card is called “Tsukuyomi Moon Goddess ( 満月の女神 ツクヨミ ).” It was featured as a “Card of the Day” on the official Cardfight Vanguard blog on August 2nd. The sample image can be found on the left.

Additionally Takei has drawn artwork for the card game Samurai Wars (戦国大戦) with two familiar looking characters from Shaman King. The card is called “Kenshin Uesugi” (上杉謙信), and looks very similar to Yoh and Amidamaru. The card game also features art from other mangaka such as Kōji Kumeta who writes Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (さよなら 絶望先生). The card game is published by Sega who also published Phantasy Star Portable 2on the PSP where Takei created a special character for the game (with references to Jyuki Ningen Jumbor).

Finally, coming onNovember 25h, 2011, Takei will have his designs in an figure in the Battle Break ( バトルブレイク ) trading figure game. The design has not be released yet. A promo image has been included.

(Sources: Takei-Fan http://blog.livedoor.jp/takeifan/, It’s like the Japanese version of Shaman King Nation, but we’re older.)

Takei Draws Another Cardfight Vanguard Card Art

In the recently released expansion set for the Cardfight Vanguard Card game, “Wild Dragon Soul Dance” Takei has drawn another piece of art for the card game. The card is numbered BT02/037 and is called Bermuda Cadet Caravelle (バミューダ△候補生 キャラベル) with a rarity of rare. The flavor text reads: “The candet lives make an effort. To one day sing at the center stage” (候補生達は努力する。いつかセンターで歌うために。). The official page for this card can be found here.

Takei had drawn one piece of card art in the initial set, which more information can be found in this previous article.

(Image from: http://yuyu-tei.jp/game_vg/carddetail/cardpreview.php?MODE=sell&VER=bt02&CID=10037 )

New Ultimo Releases & Takei’s Cardfight!! Vanguard Card

With Viz’s new faster volume release schedule, Ultimo volume 4 was released today in the USA. It is $9.99 for chapters 13-16. The ISBN is 978-1421539522 and is 200 pages. Viz’s summery:

Karakuri New Dawn Yamato wakes up again on the 21st century day that he first encountered Ultimo, and soon learns that he was sent back in time and it’s up to him to prevent total world annihilation. But does he really have the ability to stop the apocalypse–and save Ultimo!–in just 24 hours? On a breakneck tour to meet up with all the dôji, Yamato gets into a skirmish with Iruma and Jealousy and must again go back (way back) in time to make things right…

Being released later on March 4th, is Ultimo volume 6  (機巧童子ULTIMO　6巻) in Japan. It will be priced at 460円. It will be 194 pages and the ISBN is 978-4088702025. The final cover image is shown on the left. It will contain chapters 21 through 24. These chapters have not yet been released by Viz in English.

In other Ultimo news, Ultimo chapter 26 will be released in JumpSQ next month. This chapter will feature a color page.

In a previous news story, Takei commented that he has drawn some card artwork for the new series, Cardfight!! Vanguard. Shown on the left is the card that Takei drew. This creature has been featured in the Anime series (which can be seen on Crunchyroll), though doesn’t follow Takei’s exact design. More information about the card (in Japanese) can be found on the official website.

Sources: Negative Syndicate, Bushiroad Inc.