TV Tokyo introduced on Saturday that the eighth essential anime sequence within the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!, will premiere in April 2022.

The anime will characteristic an alien as a protagonist for the primary time within the franchise.

The present will star: (character identify spellings not confirmed)

• Arthur Lounsbery as Yudias Belgar
• Toshiki Kumagai as Yūhi Ōdō
• Kōkō Fukushima as Yuamu Ōdō
• Takuya Eguchi as Zwijo

Nobuhiro Kondo (Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens each seasons) is directing the anime at studio Bridge. Naoto Hashimoto is the assistant director. Toshimitsu Takeuchi (Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens) is overseeing the sequence scripts, and Masahiro Hikokubo is once more accountable for the duel structure. Kazuko Tadano and Hiromi Matsushita additionally return from Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens the character designers, and Hiroshi Yamamoto can be returning because the sound director.

The anime will happen within the birthplace of “Rush Duel,” Mutsuba-cho. Siblings Yūhi and Yuamu run UTS, a gaggle that removes troublesome aliens. In the future they discover a spaceship, and inside they discover Yudias, an alien from the planet Belgar. Yudias has come to Earth to seek for Rush Duel to hopefully lead him and his mates (who’ve been chased out of their star system) into a brand new future. Nevertheless, Yudias himself is aware of nothing about Rush Duel. Yūhi then challenges Yudias to a duel.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens, the most recent anime within the franchise, premiered on TV Tokyo and BS-TV Tokyo in April 2020. The anime suspended manufacturing after the fifth episode aired in Might 2020, however then resumed broadcast in June 2020, and commenced airing extra new episodes in August 2020. The anime moved timeslots from Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. to Sundays at 7:30 a.m. on April 4.

The anime incorporates a protagonist in elementary faculty for the primary time within the franchise, and it commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the anime franchise. The anime has additionally impressed two manga variations.

Sources: Yu-Gi-Oh! anime’s Twitter account (hyperlink 2), Comedian Natalie