A shop tournament flyer is released for Card Capital where the regulars of the shop compete. Even though Aichi said he wouldn’t enter, he’s having doubts now. Emi doesn’t help his decision. He knows he’s not that strong, but he still wants to enter and try out his new deck and card, Alfred.

Aichi enters the shop planning to enter the tournament, but then hears that everyone else is amazingly good. With only two places left Nitta tries to get Aichi to enter, but he backs off. Until Kai appears and hands in his application, so with one spot left, Aichi decides to enter. But as he slams his application down, someone else does it too and claims he did it 0.1 second faster.

Of course, the dispute can’t be settled by words, so they’ll duel it out on the battlegrounds for the last spot in the tournament.

It begins! The other guy, we’ll call him glasses guy, cos he wears glasses and I don’t know his name… he uses Megacolony cards, whatever they are.

Aichi takes first turn. He rides a grade one, moves the original grade 0 to rear-guard and summons out a third rear-guard with the grade 0’s skill. Glasses guy is unimpressed by the ‘weaklings’. He also mixes up factions, clans, types, archetypes whatever you want to call them, of cards. I’ll call them archetypes as I’m more used to the word. He also rides a grade 1 and summons a second and attacks with both dealing 2 damage. 2-0.

Next turn, Aichi rides Blaster Blade! He then calls 2 more to the field and attacks 3 times. 2 goes through. 2-2.

Glasses guy rides a grade 2 and summons more. One of his new summons has a new ablity which taps Aichi’s rear guard. He attacks with all three front line monsters and one is guarded. So 4-2.

Kai, who’s watching the fight, deems glasses guy nothing special as he hasn’t seen why Aichi’s gathering so many of his monsters. And we’ll soon find out.

Aichi draws. And from his hand, he rides The King of Knights, Alfred! Which is apparently the best of the best in the Royal Paladin archetype, or main monster. He also calls out Gancelot. He attacks with Alfred. With the drive trigger checks, he draws a critical trigger, +1 damage to Alfred and gives the +5k power to Gancelot. Now he activates Alfred’s ability, +2k power for every rear guard Royal Paladin. The attack easily goes through and deals 2 damage. With the damage triggers glasses guy gets a critical trigger increasing his vanguard’s power by 5k. Aichi boosts Gancelot with rear guard, but is guarded. 4-4.

Glasses guy rides his grade 3 which also has the ability to tap, and so he taps one of Aichi’s rear guard again. He tries to attack with all three, but to no avail as Aichi guards them all.

Aichi removes his tapped rear guard for a weaker but non tapped monster. First attack with Gancelot is guarded. Second attack gets through. And with Alfred as his final attack, he wins!

Glasses guy congratulates Aichi and wishes him the best for the tournament. Aichi catches up to Kai as he leaves the shop, but he’s still being a jerk and saying Aichi’s not good enough yet. But even still, Aichi believes he’ll work his way up the tournament and face him.


Did we ever get to hear that glasses guy’s name? Or did I miss it completely? I doubt the latter, but I don’t like betting on my hearing… I’ll rewatch it at some point then.

So the shop tournament is in a different layout than I thought. From what I gather, each shop sets up their own tournaments for regular customers. A rather small tourney I guess. But no matter, a tourney’s a tourney, and I’ll enjoy it nonetheless. What I’m hoping is that it’ll end up like Beyblade i.e. the first tourney is just the tourney to gather up a team for bigger worldwide tourneys. Wonder what the possibility of that is. It would be if the series is a 50 odd or even 20 odd episode one. But I’m not sure how long it is yet, here’s hoping it’s longer than 13 cos I’m enjoying the series and I wanna see Misaki and Kai duel more!

I have to say I quite agree that Aichi’s gotten better at using his cards. He was doing ability this ability that and moving them around the board. Quite entertaining I thought. But according to Kai he’s still not quite good enough yet. Wonder how much better and more to the game there is. I guess one thing is learning all the archetypes and have a rough idea of all the cards, so you won’t be annoying your opponent when you have to stop and ask him what the card does every time he plays something new.  This of course, is speaking from experience.

I got annoyed at how fast people deem themselves in a pinch even though they’ve barely had a turn. I mean Aichi got 2 damages and thinks he’s backed into a corner. What else did he expect that glasses guy to do? Summon a monster and not attack? And also, why was that glasses guy so worried, what part of his calculations said Aichi will not attack when he can? *sigh* guess it’s all there to make it more ‘exciting’…

Anyway, Aichi’s getting better with each episode. The next episode is the beginning of the tournament. Wonder who fights who first. And I’m expecting to see some new characters as well. Maybe some sort of evil organization hoping to summon the actual monsters from Cray, which is an actual planet in another dimension, to take over the world? That’d be fun, I don’t care if that’s copying the other TCG animes, I’d enjoy it.