Cardfight!! Vanguard Announces New TV Anime in 2027, Debuts Unmei Seisen-hen in Theaters in October 2026

Cardfight!! Vanguard Announces New TV Anime in 2027, Debuts Unmei Seisen-hen in Theaters in October 2026

A new Cardfight!! Vanguard TV anime series will be released in 2027, celebrating the franchise’s 15th anniversary. Additional details on the new series were not revealed, as of the time of writing. 

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  カードファイト!! ヴァンガード
    TVアニメ完全新作 始動
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   2027年の放送をお楽しみに!#ヴァンガード pic.twitter.com/wY2eBYWTTI

— カードファイト!! ヴァンガード公式 (@cfvanguard_PR) April 10, 2026

It was also announced on the franchise’s Twitter/X account that the upcoming Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez Unmei Seisen-hen anime will receive a theatrical release in Japan on October 2, 2026. It will serve as the final story arc for the Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez series. Kinema Citrus will be in charge of the animation production. 

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Divinez最終章──その決着は「運命星戦編」へ

キャラクターデザイン原案 #CLAMP
アニメーション制作 #キネマシトラス

2026年10月2日(金)公開!… pic.twitter.com/9UXWpSbfa8

— カードファイト!! ヴァンガード公式 (@cfvanguard_PR) April 10, 2026

Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez: Genma Seisen-hen aired for 12 episodes from January 10, 2026 to April 11, 2026 and was part of Cardfight Vanguard’s D Series anime. Past seasons from the Divinez series include seasons one and two of Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez in 2024, as well as Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez DELUXE Arc and Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez DELUXE Finals in 2025. 

The staff for the Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez anime include Taku Yamada (Dropkick on My Devil!!! X co-director, Koikimo assistant director) as director, Shun Menjo (Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress trilogy card fight composition) and Takahito Onishi (Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress Season 3 co-series composer) as series composers, and Tomokatsu Nagasaku (Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress co-character designer) and Hiroyuki Saita (Revue Starlight) as character designers. Kinema Citrus, Gift Animation, and STUDIO JEMI handled the animation production. 

Meanwhile, some of the voice cast from Genma Seisen-hen include: 

  • • Toshiya Miyata as Akina Myodo
  • • Eri Yukimura as Hikari Myodo
  • • Ikumi Hasegawa as Kurumi Ishikawa
  • • Jun Fukuyama as Gabwelius
  • • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryuga Fushimi

Previous D Series entries (not counting seasons/cours) include 2021’s Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress and 2022’s Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress. Non-D Series anime entries in the franchise include 2011’s Cardfight!! Vanguard, 2014’s Cardfight!! Vanguard G, and 2018’s Cardfight!! Vanguard

Cardfight!! Vanguard is a Bushiroad multimedia franchise that started in 2011 and revolves around a trading card game. The D Series was created to commemorate Cardfight!! Vanguard’s 10th anniversary and features original character designs from manga collective CLAMP.

©VANGUARD Divinez Character Design ©2021-2026 CLAMP・ST

Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez is available on the official Cardfight!! Vanguard YouTube channel, which describes the first episode as:

One day, a youth named Akina Myodo from Kanazawa of Kaga obtains a mysterious card after experiencing a vision of planet Cray. That card is proof that he has been chosen as the Fated One of Miracles, and an invitation to the “Fated Clash”, where the last one standing can have their wish granted.

Sources: Cardfight!! Vanguard Official Twitter (2), Anime News Network

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