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Cardfight!! Vanguard Gaiden:
Shining Swordsman
(カードファイト！！ヴァンガード外伝 光の剣士)
- Volume 1

Official Release Date: 26th April 2014
Offical Price: 580 Yen (including Tax)

Cardfight!! Vanguard Gaiden: Shining Swordsman (カードファイト！！ヴァンガード外伝 光の剣士) is a side story manga featuring the units from Cardfight!! Vanguard. Being overseen by Akira Ito and illustrated by Makoto Koshimizu. It's currently being published in Monthly Bushiroad alongside Mini Vanguard and Cardfight!! Vanguard Manga.

Summary:
Far away, in the universe, lays a earthlike planet called Cray. Living on that planet are not your average creatures. Elves, dragons, giants, zombies, mermaids, humans and a whole lot more live on this planet. Follow Blaster Blade, the protagonist, and his friends as they journey through their homeland. Battling foes and meeting new allies everyday. Now a mysterious force threaten their homeland. It is up to them to save their home before its too late. Will they prevail or die trying?

Main Cast:
- Blaster Blade (The Protagonist)
- Alfred

Minor Characters:
(This is the list of minor characters that appear in Cardfight!! Vanguard Gaiden: Shining Swordsman. These characters appear in the card game themselves, but instead of being cards they are real and alive. Most appear only once or be background characters. Some of them are also exclusive characters from this manga.)

(i) Royal Paladin

King
He is the current king of the United Sanctuary and Alfred's father or maybe uncle depending on how their relationship would play out. He is troubled by what is currently happening to Cray and what is going to happen. He is shown to wield a curved blade.

Knight of Conviction, Bors
He appears briefly in chapter one alongside Elaine and Miru Biru. He seems troubled by the news of an invasion and what Alfred is trying to do.

Yggdrasil Maiden, Elaine
She appears briefly in chapter one alongside Bors and Miru Biru. She was later shown with her other friends to help the other soliders on their recovery.

Miru Biru
It appeared alongside Elaine and Bors on a borderlines of the United Sanctuary.

Knight of Silence, Gallatin
He appears next to Stardust and Morgana on the borderlines.

Knight of Rose, Morgana
She appears alongside Stardust and Gallatin. She and the others are dumbed founded that Alfred would literally be taking charge in the battle.

Blaster Javelin Normally
He appeared around the corner when Alfred mentioned his plan for the battle. He was smirking with a smile. Judging from the phonetics of his name, his name may be Lars. He is quite skilled with his javelin as he was able to defeat several Dark Irregulars by himself. He was later shown to be fighting the Giant Demon, however, he also substain some injuries as well.

He and Ahmes was shown to be talking to each other about what happened and how they could get strong. They both later on appeared alongside each other to see what this so called weapon maker has made for the Royal Paladins in order to improve their power. He volunteered in place of Ahmes since he wanted to see if he could use this new weapon. Although the weapon proved to be quite powerful, Lars's thoughts about power revealed the hidden darkness within the javelin causing him to be corrupted in the end. When he tried to kill the king, Alfred and Ahmes stepped in to stop him. Due to the dark power having just corrupted him, he didn't have control over it and ended up stabbing himself in the chest with his own javelin.

Yunos
He appeared alongside Blaster Javelin Normally. He was basically laughing with his friends and appears quite free of mind. His name is Yunos. A basic soldier at heart, he is new to the whole battle experience, however, he is quite skilled with a sword though his casual personality often gets him into trouble more than anything. He admires Ahmes a lot and looks up to him due to his swordsmaship. He was told to stay away from the Gaint Demon, but he didn't obey due to him not wanting to be weak in front of others. He tried to do something to the demon itself, however, it backfired on him when it stopped his sword with it's mouth. Lola then intervere causing her to substain the more serious injuries while Yunos was knocked back away. He is currently substaining some head injuries, but is alright enough to stand and talk.

Later he was shown to be working himself to exhuastion on improving his skills so that he would not be a burden to the others around him.

Lola
She appeared in chapter one and is shown to be a rather strong fighter. As seen in some conversations, her name is Lola. She shielded Yunos from getting seriously hurt by demon, however, by doing so she suffer severe injuries alongside Yunos. She was shown to be alive at the end of the battle.

She was shown to be in suspended in a tube. Due to her being a mage and suffering the blunt of the demon's attack, she was placed in the tube in order to keep her vitals in check.

Male Soldier
He appeared with the Female Soldier. He briefly explained what the plan was to the group and is shown to be a strong fighter as he was able to defeat a group of Dark Irregular with the swing of his axe. After seeing his friends getting hurt, he decided to face the Giant Demon head on. Although he was able to stop it for a bit, the demon still remained on its warpath. He appeared once more again only to be shown with head injuries. Once more he fought against the demon only to be shoved aside by it. He is alive though he suffer injuries much more worst than the others.

He was shown to be recovering with the help from Elaine and her friends.

Little Sage, Marron
Appearing in chapter one, he along with the rest took battle against the Dark Irregulars.

Demon Slaying Knight, Lohengrin
He appeared in chapter one where he informed the Royal Paladins about the incoming invasion from the Dark Zone. He was about to die though he was saved by both Alfred and Ahmes. He was told to stay before with the back up army in case things esclated upwards. When the Giant Demon came around to them, he told the army to stand their grounds, however, that did not last. The demon then launched a series of lasers at the army, killing several and serverely injuring some. It is not known of his status currently.

Guraimu
He made a small cameo appearance in chapter 2 before shortly getting blasted at by a beam from the Giant Demon. His status is currently unknown.

Pure Heart Jewel Knight, Ashlei
She appeared briefly with other Royal Paladins during the unvieling of the new weapons.

Leading Jewel Knight, Salome
She was shown to be fighting off the hoard of demons that was attacking the nation.

Seeker, Sing Saver Dragon
It appeared when the United Sanctuary was being attacked by the Monster. Although it was able to stop it just enough for the other Royal Paladins to gain the upper hand, it was shortly defeated by the monster. It was laying dead on the ruined pavement when Blaster Meister appeared in front of it.

Strangley enough he resembles Phantom Blaster Dragon although it's not clear on what relationship they have.

Soul Saver Dragon
It has small mentions thoughout the series with very brief appearances, however; those appearances are from people's memories and tales.of it. It has yet to make an actual appearance.

(ii) Oracle Think Tank

CEO Amaterasu
She made her appearance when Sakuya foreseen a terrible future that will befall onto the United Sanctuary. Amaterasu then told the battle maidens to signal the others on what is happening.

Goddess of Flower Divination, Sakuya
She appears in chapter one in where she stands in front of the Jindai Sakura, the Ancient Cherry Blossom, in a secret room deep within the Oracle Think Tank main headquarters. A single cherry blosson fell into her hand showing her the future. It foretold her of a terrible future that will befall on Cray and the Nations as well.

(iii) Dark Irregulars

Gwynn the Ripper
He appears to be the ring leader of the invasion of the United Sanctuary. He was later defeated.

Blue Dust
He appeared alongside the other Dark Irregulars. He was about to attack Alfred from above, but was defeated before that action happen.

Werewolf Sieger
It appeared in front of the Royal Paladins. It was about to strike Lohengrin, but was stopped by Alfred. Before he could move towards Alfred, Blaster Blade went ahead to cut him in half.

(iv) Other Characers

Unknown Demons
They are unnamed demons that wanders around the Dark Zone with no intentions and live on their own rules. They are known to join with the Dark Irregulars on their plans of invading the border lines or causing trouble in their own nation. Currently no one knows of what their plans are.

Giant Demon
The demon is a giant ten foot demon that appeared in front of Alfred and the others. He used to be a human soldier before dark magic befell on him turning him into the demon. Although Alfred told the others to stop hurting the demon as he believes that it would be better to retreat instead because he can't stand to see others getting hurt anymore. When it tried to kill Alfred, or rather the fact that Alfred was in front of it, Ahmes and the others, mainly Ahmes, didn't want to chance it. It was able to cause many casualties before it was finally put down by Ahmes.

Somehow the Giant Demon's flesh slowly began to mutant on its own and sudden started to create smaller verisons of itself. They then started to go crazy on the United Sanctuary causing damage to the city.

Monster
This creature came from the corrupted matter of the Giant Demon that was slain just a bit before. It was much bigger, and had a much harder armor protecting it. Although Singer Saver Dragon appeared and tried to help, he was unable to fight off the demon and in the end was destroyed by it.

United Sanctuary Citizens
They are normal averge people who lives in the United Sanctuary in harmony and peace. Due to the recent events and unseen forces approaching Cray, they are scared about what comes next. They were all shown to be running away in fear from the Monster that is causing massive damage to the city.

Blaster Meister
A rather mysterious person who offered the king of the United Sanctuary some weapons called the Blaster Weapons series saying that they will help improve the military power of the Royal Paladins. Although tempting as it seems, Ahmes was rather unsure about the weapons and advised the king to not accepted the weapons as they are unsure about what the weapons can do. Lars offered to check the weapons himself though the weapon itself turned out to be a wolf in sheep's clothings. In the end, he was caged up in a prison. Although he was kept in the prison, he was later shown to be released (probably due to the outbreak of the Monster and its minions). He was last seen looking at the dead corpse of Seeker, Sing Saver Dragon.

Promo:

PR/0201
King of Knights, Ezer (騎士王 エゼル)
United Sanctuary/Human/Royal Paladin
Normal/3/Twin Drive!!/11000/-/1
Activate [V]: [Counter Blast (2)] Search your deck for up to one card with 「Alfred」 in its card name, ride it as [Stand], and shuffle your deck. If you rode, choose your vanguard, and that unit gets [Power] +5000 until end of turn.
Auto [V]: When this unit attacks a vanguard, this unit gets [Power] +2000 until end of that battle.