Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game: The Chronicles

nah this shit 3 minutes fr branded bros its so over.

I knew it was going to be short, but it really feels like they enslaved one guy to animate the entire thing overtime. They actually made a trailer to promote a trailer to promote the shitty card game that is Yugioh.

The animation itself is really nice, and the VAs they got fit their respective roles pretty well....aaaand that pretty much the only positives. The length really makes you question why we even had voice acting to begin with. The hype for the preview trailer (which was basically half the length of this animation btw) is ... completely gone.

When people asked for an anime about the lore of the cards, we wanted an actual anime and not a glorified trailer to sell product. But alas, let's not forget Konami manages this IP. Yugioh's anime historically have been tragically mismanaged somehow worse than what Bandai has done with Digimon at times. Seriously they gave fucking RUSH DUEL an entire 92 ep. anime. The Sky Striker lore already has a manga, so it wouldn't have been impossible to adapt it into a 10-20 min 12 ep anime or something akin to that.

Did they really think newcomers would watch this and go "Oh my god, I love Sky Striker Ace Raye! Guess I'll buy the cards"??? No wonder why YGO struggles to get new players when Konami is this out of touch. I take any opportunity to laugh at the clowns running the Konami circus but this is just sad.

The animation studio behind this actually got greenlit for a full anime on their JRPG title "Genso Suikoden", so good for the fans of that, but this gets a 3 min ep a month? I still watched the trailer with enjoyment and will continue to do so, but it leaves so much to be desired. Truly a Komoney moment of all time.

Alright, let's quickly talk about Yugioh Chronicles. This show in a very short span of time has already garnered quite about of negativity in the single episode it has released. So this review is purely in place to suade you to the other side.

Have we got a story? No, not really. In the single 4 minute clip we essentially received nothing. Just a nicely animated fight scene with some voice acting, no lore, no explanation for anything. I'm certainly no expert, however I have played the game and I do enjoy the show from time to time so take this from a very casual yugioh ... fan. The PV (which mind you, is longer than a single episode??) was very well done and set us up for something extraordinary which so far has been failed to be delivered on. This review may very well fall into obscurity however, I think based solely on the animation and voice acting, such a short clip isn't going to damage you at all. It's nice to look at if nothing else and since it's not super long, you're not locking yourself into something. Am I hoping for better down the line? Absolutely. But, I think it'd be fair to allow the show a bit more time before we slander it to oblivion.

So much wait and delays for THIS???

After over a year of teasing and anticipation, Konami drops a 3-minute animation and expects us to applaud? This isn’t a Sky Striker anime—it’s a glorified trailer, and not even a good one. No story setup, no character exploration, just a flashy encounter that feels like a commercial break more than a narrative experience.

Konami feeds on disappointment, it seems. Every time fans start to hope for meaningful content, they get baited into this kind of hollow reveal. It's not even the runtime that’s the biggest insult—it’s the complete lack of substance. Was this really worth hyping for over a ... year? Because if this is what they call a payoff, they’re more out of touch than we thought.

Honestly, this feels like Pupa-level disappointment—and people are only going easy on it because they've been conditioned to expect so little from Konami at this point. That bar is so low, anything remotely animated gets a .

This could’ve been so much more. The Sky Striker lore has potential—plenty of fan engagement, cool designs, and a world ripe for development. But this? It’s like they made something just to say “we did it,” and moved on.