Bandai Announces English Version of Union Arena

Bandai’s card business department has announced the release of Union Arena English version, the English-language version of the Japanese card game, Union Arena, which was released in March 2023. The trading card game lets many popular anime and game titles battle using one set of rules. Once a person learns the rules, they will be able to play with any of the participating anime and game titles, many titles have already been added in Japan.

The release is not merely a simple adaptation of Japanese to English. The titles included in the lineup will be selected especially for North America and the brand logo and card back will also be specially designed for this English release as well.

The first three titles, BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War, HUNTER X HUNTER and Jujutsu Kaisen, will kick things off.

Also, to commemorate the English version announcement, Masakazu Morita (voice of Ichigo Kurosaki in the TV anime, “BLEACH”), Megumi Han (voice of Gon in the TV anime, “HUNTER X HUNTER”) and Junya Enoki (voice of Yuji Itadori in the TV anime, “Jujutsu Kaisen”) all provided comments that were shared during the initial announcement.

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