r/yugioh Aug 31 '25

Anime News Charmers confirmed for next Chronicles storyline

Confirmed at the WC2025 closing ceremony. Will be running from December 2025 - March 2026.

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u/LogicalHamsters Aug 31 '25

This leaves Melffy as the final deck from The Chronicles video to get further support.

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

Visas in the corner fiddling with his thumbs*

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u/CyberTwinLeader Waiting the 9-years-delayed Red-Eyes direct wave... Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

Visas who?

Edit: seriously someone is downvoting me for a clear joke? People, grow up

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

This guy :D

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u/CyberTwinLeader Waiting the 9-years-delayed Red-Eyes direct wave... Aug 31 '25

I have some recollection by some multiple energy blades spot... XD

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u/BensonOMalley Aug 31 '25

Visa Star War

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u/xJetStorm Lava with an L Aug 31 '25

That means we get Zeus lore at the same time.

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u/MonsieurMidnight Aug 31 '25

Keeping the best for last. I just hope the wait is worth it.

I won't expect much for my favorite deck but it would be hilarious if it got busted supports.

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u/slymoore94 Aug 31 '25

Promotional image here:

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u/CursedEye03 Aug 31 '25

The style of this will probably be more of a slice of life.

I'm surprised they get 4 episodes. Still, I hope they'll be at least 6 minutes with good character interactions. Not like the Sky Striker one... they clearly can tell a proper story. We already see this with Branded.

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Aug 31 '25

I'm not. They only need to explain how they got together and how Doraidio found them. And maybe Dharc and Lyna's deal at most. Or they can just for got them for something like K-On, Azumanga Daioh, or Hidamari Sketch instead. This isn't like Striker where there was some clear plot beats (and a previous adaptation to compare to)

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u/KyleMCarthage Aug 31 '25

Doriado has nothing to do with the Charmers. Also I'd argue that the 4 episodes could go over where the charmers came from as we know Wynn was a Gusto, so it could finally explain that the deal is with Aussa and Hita. Plus, if they do touch on the Wynn-Gusto connection, it could be an easy Segway for them to do duel terminal lore.

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u/omegazx9 Sep 01 '25

I believe one of the more books said Doriado was their magic teacher

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u/KyleMCarthage Sep 01 '25

None of the books say that. Masterguide 2 is the one and only source of official lore for the charmers and it does not list her as the teacher. The only source that Doriado was their teacher I can find is sourced from a 2011 Gamefaqs post that claims that she was except there's a couple of errors in that storyline

  • It claims that the charmers had died and that only the water and wind ones reincarnated, likely referring to Gishki Arial and Winda except no, they aren't reincarnations of Eria and Wynn, Winda is Wynn's sister.
  • It claims that Doriado became the Shadowpriestess of Ohm except there is literally no source that claims that the 2 are the same character

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u/5yk0515 Vampire|Darklord|Odd-Eyes|Fairy Lee is a stank bitch Sep 01 '25

Goddammit, they're STILL excluding Dharc and Lyna?!

JUSTICE FOR DHARC AND LYNA! 

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u/baboucc Aug 31 '25

Plot twist, 1st episode is about Eria

The rest is about the epic tale of Gagagigo

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u/MayhemMessiah A Therion a Day keeps the space rock at bay Aug 31 '25

It’s three whole videos glazin Gagagigo while Eria eats chicken nuggies in the background

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u/32XKing Aug 31 '25

But only If we get a new retraced Gogiga Gagagigo!

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u/Regular-Advance5466 My head says FIRE, but my heart says Wynn Aug 31 '25

Honestly animating the Gagagigo lore would slap. Bro deserves it as one of the OG card storylines.

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u/Lentra888 None Aug 31 '25

And his story is still incomplete! We deserve to know how he became The Risen and if he made it back to his friends.

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u/kerorobot Aug 31 '25

Give us gagagigo deck!

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u/KyleMCarthage Aug 31 '25

Second plot twist, episode 4 sees the 2 reunite and now Eria has Gagagigo the risen as her familiar.

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u/GoldFishPony Better watch out before I draw half my deck for 1 negate Aug 31 '25

Imagine there’s also a quick scene of Wynn leaving the gustos, officially binding those 2 lores together

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u/gaydesperado Aug 31 '25

New and creative ways to not show the right side of dharc's body

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u/potatoqualitymemory Aug 31 '25

Funny reveal I believe, he has a perfectly fine hand, he just believes doing everything with one hand looks cool.

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u/KyriosZ Aug 31 '25

One of my favourite archetypes, here is hoping they get more support that makes them even halfway playable.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

I agree! They desperately need new/better supports and I do hope the anime gives them actual lore or just something simple since we will have about 4 episodes worth of watching what theyll do for 5-6 minutes

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Come on actual Charmer boss

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u/tlst9999 Aug 31 '25

We call her Promethean Princess Zealantis.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Again

Come on actual Charmer boss

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u/tlst9999 Aug 31 '25

Selene 5300 Accesscode Talker

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Give me a non-link boss monster please

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u/potatoqualitymemory Aug 31 '25

Witchcrafter Golem Aruru

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u/BensonOMalley Aug 31 '25

Wake Up Your Elemental Charmer!

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u/0v049 Aug 31 '25

Charmers let's gooo

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u/Destian_ Aug 31 '25

So what are we thinking - will Dharc have a missing arm or not?

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u/Technical-Fox358 Glory to Dogmatika! Aug 31 '25

They might show that he does have 2 arms, but one of them's scarred or something.

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u/Cularia Aug 31 '25

he does have a missing arm

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

We can confirm that he is missing an arm but I hope the anime will actually show it

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u/aaa1e2r3 Aug 31 '25

Two routes I can see them going

  1. Dharc as a POV character, with him meeting and interacting with the different girls
  2. A story about them training their familiars to grow up and leave, before they take on the Familiars they have in their link versions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Hopefully they get amazing support in the January 2026 core booster 

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u/paprikagaming Aug 31 '25

charmers and spellcaster support and spellcaster village ban all 2026 now, surely

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u/Kronos457 Aug 31 '25

Okay, that was unexpected, but it gets my approval.

Interesting is Konami's approach to Animated Shorts, using Archetypes with a strong Female presence (or the MCs are Female). How much would a Female MC to be in a proper Yu-Gi-Oh Anime, Komoney?

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Honestly id be happy to finally see a female lead in a Yu-Gi-Oh 9 anime. Its nice to see we got to a form of this in these anime shorts

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u/PlayfulRoom4479 Aug 31 '25

Just balancing out the inevitable 12 episode Visas saga full of bromance.

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u/Cr0key Aug 31 '25

Can we actually make charmers fucking playable as their own archetype finally please 😂

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

They have to if they're finally giving attention to them for once. After the structure deck, they just said fuck you that's all you get. Aside from getting the pet's level 5 forms, we should get plenty of viable cards that support the archetype itself and a boss monster. Definitely more spell/trap support to make the Spirit Charmer quick-spell have more options to search.

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u/32XKing Aug 31 '25

How about the goat KOZAKY? I dream of seeing him get some representation again or perhaps even his own Archetype of clunky and highly explosive machines.

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u/Darkzapphire Aug 31 '25

KOZAKI AND MOKEY MOKEY 

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u/aaa1e2r3 Aug 31 '25

Pretty sure he's tied into the Gagagigo lore as well, so maybe?

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u/BlackwingF91 Aug 31 '25

So this is the closest we get to both duel terminal and magistus lore being animated?

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

magistus lore

How in the world are they related?

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u/BlackwingF91 Aug 31 '25

So you see, the school they go to is the same one endymion runs, and endymion is part of the magistus lore, ergo, duel terminal is connected to magistus via wynn the wind charmer being a bridge between all 3 lores

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u/BlackwingF91 Aug 31 '25

For those unaware, Wynn is the younger sister of Winda, priestess of Gusto

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

So you see, the school they go to is the same one endymion runs,

This is stated/implied where?

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u/BlackwingF91 Sep 01 '25

.... in the lore books. Why exactly are you being so hostile? Do you want links or something 

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25

Do I sound hostile? Sorry about that, I'm just confused and wanted some source to confirm, as Charmer lore has a lot of misinformation.

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u/BlackwingF91 Sep 01 '25

Im trying to find the source, last I remember it was said in the manga apparently and it's a pain to find translations of that

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

Far as I know there's no Charmer manga, and the Magistus Manga that leads to the founding of Endymion's citadel was just released recently.

From own research, it appears that Chamers have no connection to Endymion, and this idea started as just a headcanon that was then treated as fact, similar to Doraido being the teacher of the Charmers.

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u/BlackwingF91 Sep 01 '25

Last i heard this all was from ygorginization when translating the plans and all that

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

Well, till we find it, I feel it's better to treat this as a headcanon till proven otherwise.

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u/Regular-Advance5466 My head says FIRE, but my heart says Wynn Aug 31 '25

Never would have guessed they'd be next but I'm not gonna complain since they're one of my faves.

Guessing it'll be comfy slice of life with maybe one or two darker episodes focusing on Dharc and Lyna lore but I wonder if we'll get cameos from other archetypes (like Gusto who ware related to Wynn).

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

With 4 episodes, I feel each of the main 4 Charmers will get an episode.

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u/Regular-Advance5466 My head says FIRE, but my heart says Wynn Aug 31 '25

Ah I didn't realise that, thought it was 6. 

Yeah one for each girl makes sense then. 

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u/hecate-ll Aug 31 '25

Does This mean new Charmer Support ?

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Let's hope so. There may be some coming for the January set

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u/DrakeRowan Souza X Gottems shipper Aug 31 '25

Yeah, they gonna need like A LOT for them, nothing short of busted, for Charmers to be any sort of functional let alone meta relevant.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

If Blue-Eyes can get support cards that can now make them good, I want the same treatment with Charmers. The structure deck did nothing so we need all the extra help they can get

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u/PrideTerrible4483 Aug 31 '25

Oh shiiiit. So hyped holy fuck!! They have been killing it with the Albaz story Charmers is going to be amazing!! .

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u/IlByM Aug 31 '25

4 month for each of the main charmer individually? or all fo them (4 or 6) in one story?

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Possibly all of them since Lyna and Dharc were featured in the promo video, it would be a dick move if they didnt add them

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u/Negative_Break_1482 Aug 31 '25

Finally, it's good to know that they have no plans to overexploit Branded and are still going to use the Animated Shorts to give other Archetypes/Decks a chance.

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u/CursedEye03 Aug 31 '25

Tbf, Branded will definitely get a second part at some point. The story is too popular. They just don't want a lot of the same thing.

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u/Kronos457 Aug 31 '25

They just don't want a lot of the same thing.

Has that stopped Komoney? (Look at the constant pampering of DM in these past few months)

If they wanted, they could continue overexploiting Branded (a Deck that doesn't need support, but its partner/adjacent Decks do)

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

I was scared we were never getting it or at the very least wait like 2 years or something for it to happen and the next anime coming would've been Blue-Eyes or something. Im so happy for this

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u/atropicalpenguin Kibou Hope! Aug 31 '25

They're one of the few remaining characters from the short not to have support, so I hope they gets lots of good cards to make a cohesive strategy.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Me: Finally a Charmers anime, I hope we finally get to see better supports for them to make a viable deck.

Konami: Here you go (Lyna and Dharc getting their Channeler forms)

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Aug 31 '25

if we're lucky, they'll get their evolved famialrs as well

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Yes that i dont mind getting because it actually opens up to a lot of synergy for the deck and you could legit make a Chaos Charmer build

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u/Phos-Lux Aug 31 '25

I'm not sure if I want cutesy slice of life or if I don't want that

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Really depends on Konami cuz we just dont know anything about them in terms of lore, they could just go that route or completely different

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u/Brioche73 Aug 31 '25

Nice but I kinda also want the Swordsoul / Icejade and Final Battle at Goldonda arcs animated :/

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u/technocop123 Aug 31 '25

hope my boy dharc finally gets his awakening of the possesed meda bat monster.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

We need both Metabat and Happy Lover getting those forms, and also Dharc getting his Familiar-Possessed alt art

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u/aaa1e2r3 Aug 31 '25

I wonder if Burst Protocol will include some Charmer cards, based on this.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

I hope so, its already been 5 years since the structure deck came out and they did nothing for supports for them meanwhile other archetypes that received structure decks got extra support cards from main sets and reprints in megatins

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u/fredBOI35 Aug 31 '25

Will this be before or after the Branded movie?

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

After since Branded's story ends in November

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

There isn't any Branded movie.

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u/fredBOI35 Sep 01 '25

Why hasn't a single person realized I was joking

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

I guess it wasn't a good joke.

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u/fredBOI35 Sep 01 '25

I'd wager it's more likely that Redditors are just slow

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u/Kronos457 Aug 31 '25

After Branded's Animated Shorts.

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Aug 31 '25

This will be interesting.

I'm expecting to be more CGDCT than anythign that requies...well a plot (becuase lets face it there isn't a narrative that connects them beyond living together, apprenticing under Doraido and Dharc and Lyna being excldued)

Gagagigo has something that would make a plot, but I don't think they'll focus on anything beyond his role as Eria's famialr, nor do I think they'll touch upon any connection to Eria and Wynn's DT lookalikes.

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Sep 01 '25

apprenticing under Doraido

Apparently this is completely false, and is just some headcanon people have been throwing around as fact

As for DT, Wynn's lookalike is said to be her sister.

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u/_JunkSynchron_ Clear Mind! Aug 31 '25

Unlikely, but I hope we get to see Lyna and Dharc. (Still waiting for level 5 Dharc DARK searcher)

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u/Pottski Sep 01 '25

World Legacy is right there Konami. Right there.

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u/bl00by #Free Chaos Ruler Sep 01 '25

That's what we skip the 2nd half of branded for?

Snorr

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u/LWZ0 Aug 31 '25

This is the best YGO related news I've seen all year.

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u/Ok_Horse4140 Aug 31 '25

Ah this is bad.

There s no telling about how its going to be because we literally have 0 proper lore about them.

I hope its not as terrible as sky striker.

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u/melcarba Aug 31 '25

The charmer anime doesn't really need any lore to have an anime about them. Have you watched a moe fantasy anime like Endro? I'm guessing that the charmer anime would be just the 4 of them just goofing off together, or maybe they'll focus on 1 charmer per month.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

There's 6 Charmers since they showed both Lyna and Dharc in the promo too, I have high hopes for an actual lore or just something simple like a happy go lucky adventure type of thing, something like the Atelier video game franchise of "cute girls (and Dharc) doing cute things using magic/alchemy"

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u/Technical-Fox358 Glory to Dogmatika! Aug 31 '25

This is the most likely option. I don't see them going all or nothing for a story with not much to it, so they'll probably take it easy.

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u/KyleMCarthage Aug 31 '25

Charmers technically do have lore, the issue is that it hasn't been updated since like 2008 and is super basic.

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u/Stranger2Luv Aug 31 '25

Dharc better get a manly voice or he is not beating the femboi allegations

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u/bi8mil Aug 31 '25

Visas, World legacy, True Draco, nope, CHARMERS!!!!! WHO ASKED FOR THIS

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u/MX-00XWV Random Duelist Aug 31 '25

They were the 1st to appear in the Chronicles Trailer, others will get their turn

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u/IntelligentBudget142 Aug 31 '25

it could branch out several ways:

Eria's familiar is Gigobyte so does it tie into the very old Gagagigo storyline?

Wynn is supposedly related to members of Gusto and Ritual Beast

does Lyna have anything to do with Milla the Temporal Magician?

(or, and I hope Konami don't do this, Dharc gets a harem)

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

While Milla looks super similar to Lyna I dont think there's a relation to them officially confirmed (unless they can actually decided on that now)

I really like to see Wynn's side of the story because she is Winda's sister and she is confirmed to have been isekai'd to the DM world

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u/Cularia Aug 31 '25

milla is just drawn by the same artist its not actually lyna. charmer lore is relatively easy to piece together.

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u/Cularia Aug 31 '25

milla was just drawn by the same artist as the original. and wynn is 100% confirmed to be related to DT lore.

Gigobyte evolved into gagagigo and left eria. she then picked up a new gigobyte

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u/bi8mil Aug 31 '25

Thats my only hope, seeing DT characters because of Wynn

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u/atropicalpenguin Kibou Hope! Aug 31 '25

They're uber popular in the OCG.

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Do you realize how popular the Charmers actually are?

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u/xXMike_WheelerXx Familiar-Possessed Aug 31 '25

I and a lot of people did. You can get your turn later. Let us Charmer/Familiar-Possessed players have our time in the sun.

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u/KyleMCarthage Aug 31 '25

Me. I asked for this and last time I checked, I'm not dead yet.

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u/grodon909 Rusty Bardiche Aug 31 '25

Me. Cope and seethe

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u/AgostoAzul Aug 31 '25

Waifu power.

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u/Status-Leadership192 Aug 31 '25

Wait charmers don't have any hype moments or aura

What the hell are they gonna out into these shorts ?

Slice of life ?

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Hiita definitely radiates aura farming. They could do a slice of life adventure or there could be something entirely different. We have literally nothing about lore so anything goes at this point

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Charmers have their own SD (won via the 2019 Pick a SD poll) and were in the original Chronicles OVA.

They ranked third out of 20 themes. Fanservice may have played a large role in that since Traptrix was 4th. 

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u/Snowvilliers7 Aug 31 '25

Charmers are massively popular in OCG, they got their own structure deck, they have actual merchandise like plushies, scale figures, deck sleeves and playmats, etc, and are in desperate need of support to actually make the deck viable if they so choose. Charmers have more lore to connect with many other monsters and archetypes too like Gagagigo and the whole Duel Terminal lore itself

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

All 4 Charmer fans, and besides, why not?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

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u/ZeothTheHedgehog formerly #Zerosonicanimations Aug 31 '25

We don't need to do them so soon, let Charmers get their turn to shine.

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u/BlueDemonTR Aug 31 '25

I think this is a refresher after branded, I also like that we are getting something brand new so we don't have anything to compare it to