Current Events > What are some good "game battle" anime?

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Not really interested in VR/deep dive stuff. I'm talking like, YuGiOh, or No Game No Life.

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Beyblade.

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Phi Brain had a lot of puzzle action. It's not like an overarching game like Yugioh, though, so maybe that's not what you're looking for.

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kaiji

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8Haef5Wd8

Gundam Build Fighters

They fight with Gunpla using a system that uses particles to move their models. It's my most favourite Gundam show and it's not even a traditional Gundam show. Openings are great too.

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Legendz. It seems like a goofy Digimon knock off but it gets pretty heavy feels at times.

Yu yu Hakusho

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Thanks for the recs, my dudes.

Already saw YuYu and Kaiji, they were awesome.

I'll check out the others. But I don't know if I'm being memed with Beyblades. <_<

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AlisLandale posted...

Thanks for the recs, my dudes.

Already saw YuYu and Kaiji, they were awesome.

I'll check out the others. But I don't know if I'm being memed with Beyblades. <_<

You know me. You gotta trust my recommendation. Gundam Build Fighters is really well liked. Even non-Gundam fans can enjoy it.

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WIXOSS is an underrated gem. It's basically the Madoka Magica of card game anime. Four seasons of high-stakes card battles, psychological drama, corrupted wishes, cute girls suffering horrific life-altering emotional trauma, and more.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/22273/Selector_Infected_WIXOSS
https://myanimelist.net/anime/24037/Selector_Spread_WIXOSS
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33197/Lostorage_Incited_WIXOSS
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34607/Lostorage_Conflated_WIXOSS

For a much more light-hearted show, I'll also mention Angelic Layer. It's from CLAMP, the same manga group that wrote/drew Cardcaptor Sakura, and it's about a sport where people build mechanical dolls that they control mentally to have them fight each other in competitions. There are some surprisingly great fights between the dolls, and the main character's development throughout the series is really good. It's kind of an old and dated series (it's from 2001) but the art still looks good even today. It's a CLAMP series, after all.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52/Kidou_Tenshi_Angelic_Layer
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Calwings posted...

For a much more light-hearted show, I'll also mention Angelic Layer. It's from CLAMP, the same manga group that wrote/drew Cardcaptor Sakura, and it's about a sport where people build mechanical dolls that they control mentally to have them fight each other in competitions. There are some surprisingly great fights between the dolls, and the main character's development throughout the series is really good. It's kind of an old and dated series (it's from 2001) but the art still looks good even today. It's a CLAMP series, after all.

I was thinking of this when I brought up Gundam Build Fighters. I've seen people say how it's similar to Angelic Layer.

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SDBZ posted...

I was thinking of this when I brought up Gundam Build Fighters. I've seen people say how it's similar to Angelic Layer.

I haven't seen GBF, but I know what it's like and they're definitely similar shows.
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Calwings posted...

I haven't seen GBF, but I know what it's like and they're definitely similar shows.

I should watch Angelic Layer

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Third one in the same vein of BF and Angelic Layer is Plawres Sanshiro.
Check out the "proxy battle" tag on anidb, might have what you're after.
https://anidb.net/tag/2863/animetb

Kakegurui

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One Outs.

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One Outs is another good one. It has one of the funniest games (the one where a winner can be decided only by who breaks the most rules in the baseball game) I've ever seen.

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Gundam Build Fighters is pretty good. WIXOSS looked cool from the one random episode I saw of it.

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Btooom
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I dont know how well it holds up now but I loved the first 2 seasons of Bakugan when I was in middle school . Seasons 3 and 4 were awful though lol

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