History YMMV / CardfightVanguard

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacters: Leon didn't appear of was even mentioned at all in the "[=PSYqualia=] zombie" arc which is really a waste considering the Destiny Conductor wanted Aichi and Ren as his pawns since they are both natural [=PSYqualia=] users, but for some reason there wasn't any mention nor appearance of Leon whose inclusion could have been an interesting and new plot exclusive to the anime or an antagonist who shows how powerful a [=PSYqualia=] user turned into a [=PSYqualia=] zombie could be along with getting lots of {{Call Back}}s to the original series' Season 2.

*** ''Vanguard G'' gets off to a great start with its opening, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXptHLajPI Break It]]'', sung by none other than ''Creator/MamoruMiyano''. He later goes on to another great opening with ''Shout'' a great opening matching the tone of Stride Gate

*** For the 2018 reboot, it has the powerful ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtBGVlEkSA Legendary]]'', preformed by [[VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty Roselia]]. There's even an official [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhj2Hj5U4w Engrish version]] for the dub!

* AwesomeMusic:

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yipmwZUZws Everyone, Stride Like Ibuki]]
** Chrono: "[[LampshadeHanging There are so many Overlords.]]"
*** Dragonic Overlord: "[[HilariousInHindsight There are so many Chronos.]]"

** [[spoiler:If the Apostles in GZ weren't worthless enough, Gyze himself figures out a way to disappoint over two SERIES worth of build up. You beat Shiranui, the BigBad of the previous season, and then lose to every member of Try 3. While we knew Chrono was going to win, he also lost to Tokoha and Shion who he was fighting at the same time. That's right the FINAL BOSS OF VANGUARD G GETS ONE WIN!]]

** Vanguard G tends to subvert this trend by having either the main antagonist lose at the end or have their subordinates lose before hand to help hype up the next fight. However, as if to respond to how abysmal the heroes win-lose record was in Legon Mate, GZ makes the villians look like chumps. [[spoiler:It was established early in NEXT that difriders are difficult opponents to defeat due to their connection to their units, this was made obvious when Team Diffrider only started losing near the end when the protagonists connections to their own units became stronger. In GZ, the apostles, a villian group comprised of nothing but diffriders and posed a strong threat towards the heroes, are defeated rater easily, typically getting only one win and then lose the next fight. Valeos and Chaos Breaker were the only ones to defy this trope, but it made them so worthless as villians in the end. Gastile, the supposed leader, doesn't even get a win before being defeated.]]

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It certainly was not intended to be so, but the United Sanctuary Branch Manager's speech after winning his exhibition match at the start of Vanguard G's regionals in episode 27 is ''so'' mean-spirited and hateful and just plain ''rude'', but done in a rather over the top fashion that leaves the audience dumbstruck, can come off as being unintentionally ''hilarious'' when taking everything into consideration. Doesn't help that he is a tall, [[AnimeHair wild]]-[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair haired]], slender {{Bishonen}} young man in an immaculate suit wearing [[GuyLiner eye shadow]]. Him [[MicDrop dropping the mic]] [[RefugeInAudacity when he's finished his speech before walking off just completely sells it]], too.

** Of the G era characters, nobody comes close to the epicness that is Kanzaki. Dispite being the main antagonist of Season 1 of Vanguard G, he steals every scene he shows up in due to his over the top personality and style.

** Chrono vs Rive, the father and son fight, the former champion vs the newly crowned Under 20 Champion, whatever title you wanna give it, don't bother because it never happened. A fight that was basically an entire '''SERIES''' worth of build up... only for Chrono to meet Rive at some desert to reclaim his G-Zone and never talking to him for the rest of the series.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Remember all those neat characters that were introduced or re-introduced in G NEXT who had their own motivations and desires for entering the Under 20 Tournament? GZ certainly doesn't. If your name isn't Kazuma or Onimaru or if you aren't apart of TRY3 or Q4, you aren't important.
** Primary example is GZ's treatment of Team New Nippon, established early on as a strong threat in NEXT, later Kai personally trained Arata and Makoto to help save Noa, but then lose to Gredora once and never fight onscreen again.
** Frankly, even Kazuma and Kazumi were wasted. In the first half of GZ, it's established that Kazuma's deeply insecure about how much Chrono's helped him and wants to repay him... only to wind up possessed and incapable of doing anything for the rest of the show, forcing him to rely on Chrono's help yet again. Meanwhile, Kazumi spends the entire season trying to protect his little brother and make up for failing him as a child... only to fail again at every single chance he gets and needing Chrono to help Kazuma for him. Neither of them get any resolution on their main issues.

* TheUntwist: Many fans thought Ace was [[spoiler:a disguised Am]] well before it was confirmed in episode 17 of GIRS Crisis. It became more obvious when the episode preview showed that Ace's clan was a Granblue deck focusing on Nightrose, Am's deck.

*** For the 2018 reboot, it has the powerful ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtBGVlEkSA Legendary]]'', preformed by [[Anime/BangDream Roselia]]. There's even an official [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhj2Hj5U4w Engrish version]] for the dub!

*** She averts this later in the season when she rebuilds her deck from the Tsukuyomi/Amaterasu build to the soulless Scarlet Witch, {{Coco}} build and stops losing altogether. Later she obtains the Goddess of Sun, Amaterasu crossride which has a Limit Break and she continues to win.

** [[spoiler: Kai's turn to evil in Season 3]]. Well-done engaging CharacterDevelopment clearing up hanging character threads from Season 1, or a cheap rehash of [[spoiler: Aichi's corruption by Psyqualia in Season 1]]?*** Made worse when Kai became Season 4's protagonist instead of Aichi. A potentially interesting change in protagonist which could result in a great redemption arc of a season, or more aggressive shilling for a character who's already had the lion's share of it in the tail end of Season 3?

* CharacterDerailment: A common complaint about the last two seasons of G, but most noticeable with Chrono. As early as the first episode of G, he is show to be an attentive, caring person who tries to help people even when others ignore them. Come NEXT, and he flat out states he doesn't care that Kazumi Onimaru's being forcibly possessed because the tournament and his own rivalry with Shiranui is more important. Even after he finds out Kazumi is Kazuma's brother, he ''still'' never once offers to help save him.
* ClicheStorm

** Frankly, even Kazuma and Kazumi were wasted. In the first half of GZ, it's established that Kazuma's deeply insecure about how much Chrono's helped him and wants to repay him... only to wind up possessed and incapable of doing anything for the rest of the show, forcing him to rely on Chrono's help yet again. Meanwhile, Kazumi spends the entire season trying to protect his little brother and make up for failing him as a child... only to fail again at every single chance he gets. Neither of them get any resolution on their main issues.

** [[spoiler:If the Apostles in GZ weren't worthless enough, Gyze himself figures out a way to disappoint over two SERIES worth of build up. You beat Onimaru, the BigBad of the previous season, and then lose to every member of Try 3. While we knew Chrono was going to win, he also lost to Tokoha and Shion who he was fighting at the same time. That's right the FINAL BOSS OF VANGUARD G GETS ONE WIN!]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Remember all those neat characters that were introduced or re-introduced in NEXT who had their own motivations and desires for entering the Under 20 Tournament? GZ certainly doesn't. If your name isn't Kazuma or Onimaru or if you aren't apart of TRY3 or Q4, you aren't important.

** Vanguard G tends to subvert this trend by having either the main antagonist lose at the end or have their subordinates lose before hand to help hype up the next fight. However, as if to respond to how abysmal the heroes win-lose record was in Legon Mate, GZ makes the villians look like chumps. [[spoiler:It was established early in NEXT that difriders are difficult opponents to defeat due to their connection to their units, this was made obvious when Team Diffrider only started losing near the end when the protagonists connections to their own units became stronger. In GZ, the apostles, a villian group comprised of nothing but diffriders and posedd a strong threat towards the heroes, are defeated rater easily, typically getting only one win and then lose the next fight. Valeos and Chaos Breaker were the only ones to defy this trope, but it made them so worthless as villians in the end. Gastile, the supposed leader, doesn't even get a win before being defeated.]]

*** The Original Generation's are done by JAMProject, what do you expect? In Season 3, Psychic Lover took over in performing the first and third openings, while DAIGO performed the second one. Even so, they are still awesome.

* GameBreaker: Has it's [[GameBreaker/CardfightVanguard own page.]]
* HoYay: Has it's [[HoYay/CardfightVanguard own page.]]

* AccidentalInnuendo: The word ''Mate'' is becoming this in the latest season, the Legion Mate Arc. It's funny enough to say it to another person that is of the opposite gender, it's even funnier to say it to a person with the [[HoYay same]] [[LesYay gender]].
** The problem is that the anime seems to be using it in the British/Australian sense of a friend. But between the word's ''endless'' repetition and a certain ''other'' use it has, it's very easy to start seeing it as innuendo.
** Even the British/Australians see it as an innuendo.
** The {{Engrish}} lyrics to the first theme song: "We can't hold back this feeling any longer. Come on, tear off everything you've got! ''Get crazy way!''" It doesn't help that this is shown over images of [[HoYay Aichi and Kai.]]
* AntiClimaxBoss: Ren in the final arc of season 1. Made worse by being a combination of this trope and IdiotBall--Against Kai he plays very well, but when he goes up against Aichi? He practically throws his hand away on early guard and call maneuvers that don't match up with his established play style, lucks into drawing Phantom Blaster Overlord, and he attacks a unit that Aichi would have ''had'' to voluntarily retire anyway for his own strategy to work. Compared to the previous four, incredibly tense and wildly unpredictable fights it comes off as a major letdown.
** Arguably justified. He wanted to toy with Aichi, and generally cause him to suffer a slow defeat before succumbing to [=PSYqualia=]. He thought he'd win regardless, and didn't realize he could lose until it was too late to do anything about it.

* AwesomeMusic: The openings aside, the soundtrack of the anime is very good until fans are wondering when will the OST be released.
** As it turns out, the OST will be released in September 2012 along with special boxes of Set 8.
** Arc 2 of Link Joker has provided some ''very'' excellent music for the series.
* BadassDecay / TheWorfEffect: Kourin can be seen to suffer from a combination of these tropes. She's initially portrayed as a strong fighter and [[CurbstompBattle curbstomps]] Aichi on their first meeting. She is then [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] by [[BigBad Ren]], [[spoiler: [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide Aichi]]]], and [[spoiler: [[TheAce Kai]]]] in her following three fights.

*** She averts this later in the season when she rebuilds her deck from the Tsukuyomi/Amaterasu build to the soulless Scarlet Witch, CoCo build and stops losing altogether. Later she obtains the Goddess of Sun, Amaterasu crossride which has a Limit Break and she continues to win.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Kai. You either think he's Badass or a SmugSnake with obscene trigger luck.
** Though there is some middle ground where he's likeable, but his portrayal in official material like his profile, and his portrayal in show don't line up. This troper's major issue with Kai is the inconsistency here, but he is still likeable as an elite, cool player.

** [[spoiler: Kai's turn to evil in Season 3]]. Well-done engaging CharacterDevelopment clearing up hanging character threads from Season 1, or a cheap rehash of [[spoiler: Aichi's corruption by Psyqualia in Season 1]]?

** Kai appearing as the cover character for the Seeker Trial Deck, indicating that he will be Season 4's protagonist instead of Aichi. A potentially interesting change in protagonist which could result in a great redemption arc of a season, or more aggressive shilling for a character who's already had the lion's share of it in the tail end of Season 3?
** Legion Mate, with uneven writing and some predictable and repetitive fights making it not live up to Link Joker's level of quality, with some people declaring it even worse than Asia Circuit.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In Episode 46 of Vanguard G, [[spoiler: after losing to Chrono and resigning his post as the Branch Manager of the United Sanctuary district]] Kanzaki rides his horse down the side of the UN HQ building on his way out. [[SincerityMode No, really.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The openings. They're done by JAMProject, what do you expect? In Season 3, Psychic Lover took over in performing the first and third openings, while DAIGO performed the second one. Even so, they are still awesome.
** For the BGM, there's also ''In Order to Move Forward'', which is with a single exception only used for the last fight of the season so far.
** Other pieces of awesome from the BGM are ''Kai's Theme'', ''Kai's Determination'', ''The Power of Psyqualia'', ''Ren's Power'', and from unreleased tracks from ''Link Joker Hen'', Ren's new theme and the Link Joker theme.
** ''Vanguard G'' gets off to a great start with its opening, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXptHLajPI Break It]]'', sung by none other than ''Creator/MamoruMiyano''. He later goes on to another great opening with ''Shout'' a great opening matching the tone of Stride Gate.
* DesignatedVillain: The Quatre Knights pretty much seem to be this. Even though they're the antagonists of Season 4, all of them except Neve ([[CharacterisationMarchesOn in his first appearance anyway]]) are fairly respectful to the mates despite the whole Judgment thing, and it's being heavily suggested that they're keeping Aichi sealed away to protect the world from Link Joker. [[spoiler: Never mind that Aichi himself chose them and asked them to do it.]] The only reason that they're antagonists is that they're standing between the mates and Aichi.
** [[spoiler:Later averted for Raul Cera, who is TheChessmaster and wants to break the Aichi's seals in order to gain the power of Link Joker and [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer both Earth and Cray]].]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Nubatama Clan largely because it was neglected by Bushiroad thanks to balance issues, until BT 13.

* EpilepticTrees: Some started growing early in when Shin read out the marketing fluff for the Vanguard Gloves, which stated they had 'crystals mined from the Planet Cray', Cray being the planet on which the Units battle. These trees got a right watering after one of Kai's lines in Episode 40 to Aichi regarding [[spoiler: PSY Qualia]], said line being 'you're the one who's doing the fighting'. Fans have theorized from this that Cray is real and that [[spoiler: PSY Qualia]] is allowing your Vanguard to take control of the fight in your place.
** And to everyone's surprise, [[spoiler:that's not far off, just the other way around. Cray is real, and when two Vanguard players with PSY Qualia fight, they control the outcome of the battles raging across Cray]].
* EvilIsCool: [[spoiler: PSY Qualia Aichi]] suffers a lot from this. When Episode 50 first aired, there was a notable backlash from people who complained that [[spoiler: Aichi]] was going to go back to [[spoiler: his]] 'wimpy old self'. Because, you know, that's [[SarcasmMode obviously worse]] than being DrunkOnTheDarkSide due to PsychicPowers.
* FandomNod: Bushiroad's April Fools joke for 2013 was announcing a Vanguard MMO called Chronicles of Cray, with one of the starting Clans for the game being Sky Paladin. Sky Paladins were a fan-made Clan created by a user on the Vanguard wiki.
* GameBreaker: A Majesty Lord Blaster deck. The deck is obscenely broken. Not only does its ace card have the potential for a permanent extra Critical and 12000 Power, said ace has a dedicated searcher (Wingal Brave), which happens to be the deck's starter Vanguard and can also search out either of the two cards needed to activate Majesty's skill. Then there's Starcall Trumpeter, which can call out Blaster Blade or Blaster Dark from the deck for Counterblast 2. And finally, Solitary Knight Gancelot, which can return itself from the hand to the deck to search out Blaster Blade from the deck. It's a ridiculously efficient Toolbox which creates a monster of a Vanguard, usually by Turn 3 (not coincidentally when you'll tend to Ride Majesty Lord Blaster). Once this combo is fully set up, the opponent may as well just give up there, because bar extremely ridiculous luck, they're pretty much doomed to lose.
** Subverted with the rest of the game, as Vanguard is noted as an exceptionally ''balanced'' card game. However, much ''much'' earlier around set 2 there was Barcgal, who wasn't a GameBreaker on his own--it was his ability to unavoidably add five cards to the soul and set up Soul Saver Dragon's soulblast that made him broken. This ''ruined'' the Japanese national competition at the time, as the entire senior division was won by Royal Paladin Barcgal-SSD decks(the junior division was considerably [[RuleOfFun more creative.]]) It's difficult to tell how much of this was actually broken though, and how much of it was the ''mindset'' that it was broken encouraging people to use Royal Paladins before the other clans, as Barcgal is now restricted in the Japanese format...and not in the English one. The Majesty Lord Blaster deck was also recently proven in Japan's competitions to still be vulnerable to the other clans' {{GameBreaker}}s, like Dragonic Overlord The End and Phantom Blaster Overlord, bringing into question if the game was really broken or just broken for those outside the three 12000-13000 power clans.
* HilariousInHindsight: When Episode 33 first aired, there was some speculation among fans that Koutei had a way to Superior Ride Daiyusha, explaining [[spoiler: how he had a Grade 3 Vanguard while Ren was at Grade 1]]. Cue the July 2012 issue of KeroKero Ace, revealing that in Set 8, exactly such a Unit will be released, Dimensional Robot, Gouyusha.

* LesYay: Misaki and Asaka get just a bit in Episode 84. Just a little.
** Emi and Mai spend all of episode 115 fangirling over Rekka.
** In Episode 118, Kourin and Misaki get cast in the parts of King of Knights, Alfred and CEO Amaterasu in Shingo's play. In a play where the two play out a 'knight saves princess from dragon' story. Not to mention a shot where Misaki is lying on her bed, watching Ultra Rare perform on TV.
** From the card game lore, Dark Cloak Revenger, Tartu's Card of the Day profile consists of laying on the LesYay of her obsession with Darkness Maiden, Macha.
** Luna and Am from GIRS Crisis, mostly on Luna's side though. One has to wonder if it's truly just respect and admiration she feels for her Idol sempai Am.
* MarySue: Blond Ezel is frequently accused of being one, owing to his sudden appearance and WordOfGod that he was previously in the Royal Paladins all along, being universally loved in the United Sanctuary, taking over for the previous heroes when they were sealed, and eventually defying the previously stated canon (specifically the need for all seven Sacred Beast Armors to free the trapped heroes) to break the seal just by going into his SuperMode. And judging by his artwork for Set 14, he's now gained the ability of "Unlock", with no mention of where and from whom he learned it from.

* MemeticMutation: Quite a few phrases got mutated among the fandom

*** Dragonic Overlord: "There are so many Chronos."

* {{Narm}}: The Stand Up! Vanguard live-action drama quickly degenerates into hilarity even when it's trying to be serious. One of the most drastic examples is when [[spoiler: Hiroki's teacher is hit by a car.]] The scene degenerates into {{Narm}} because it's shot at a bizarre angle, making it look like she's actually flying.
** NarmCharm: That said, the drama still manages to be entertaining, if only because of [[LargeHam Daigo]].

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Kai, big time. By the end of Season 3, many fans were annoyed with him becoming the FinalBoss for no apparent reason other than Bushiroad deciding to resurrect Overlord out of the blue to [[MerchandiseDriven push even more Kagero cards.]] This wasn't helped by the implication that Kai was going to be EasilyForgiven for all the evil he'd allowed to happen and participated in through a BrainwashedAndCrazy HandWave, leaving him to [[spoiler: become Season 4's protagonist]]. THEN [[WhamEpisode Episode 162]] aired, revealing that [[spoiler: Kai wasn't BrainwashedAndCrazy and knew what he was doing the whole time, but couldn't stop himself because he's addicted to power to the point he couldn't refuse Link Joker despite knowing it was evil. Add in the idea that he truly hates himself for doing it and hurting Aichi, and that he wants to commit suicide]] and with just one episode, Kai was solidly rescued. Even the idea of [[spoiler: him as Season 4's protagonist was helped by the implication that he's trying to save Aichi to find redemption for what he did.]]

* SeasonalRot: A frequent complaint about Asia Circuit Hen, coupled with the time-old accusation that the writers ran out of ideas after Season 1.
** Case in point, Team Q4 has lost every stage they've been in (despite winning smaller fights). One episode even goes so far as to talk about the "value of losing"...

* TheScrappy: In the card game, Murakumo. They're seen as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Nubatama, and the common belief is that Bushiroad only created Murakumo to avoid following up Nubatama because the latter are too hard to balance (their gimmick being hand destruction in a game where the hand is very important). It doesn't help that in the manga, the first Murakumo cards ''were'' Nubatama.
** However, the Set 9 boosts to Murakumo have made the fanbase warm up to them a bit more.
** Shingo is one for the anime. There isn't much that he contributes to, well, anything. He's also not that great of a cardfighter, but endlessly insults Naoki for being "A beginner". Not to mention underestimating people's talent for ridiculous reasons (Not seeing them in a Vanguard magazine or enjoying a deck with cute cards). He also switches deck nearly every fight, not sticking to the deck he is most likely to win with which is a Murakumo deck ironically.
** Ezel, as shown by the negative reaction to his return in Set 14. He's frequently seen as a MarySue due to the AbortedArc of the Seven Beast Armors resulting in the focus of the end of the War of Liberation being on his SuperMode (which apparently was able to break the seal despite it previously being stated all seven armors were needed for that). That combined with how bad Season 2 is considered to be resulted in Ezel becoming fairly despised. Then his first mention in Set 15's lore was him unreversing Luquier with the suggestion that he's going to single-handedly unreverse ''ALL'' of the Reverses (not helped by the clear implication that he was the mysterious figure who unreversed Ethics Buster), and the fandom's dislike of him only grew.

* TakeThatScrappy: Liberator, Monarch Sanctuary Alfred's lore notes that Ezel was decisively defeated by Link Joker.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Fans were debating Ren's gender up until the first episode where he got speaking lines aired.

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Following Episode 24 and her backstory, Misaki may just count. Having her parents die in a tragic accident while she was young is bad enough, but due to her [[CursedWithAwesome 'perfect memory']], any time she gets too involved in Vanguard somehow, all the painful memories come flooding back. She spent whoever knows how long avoiding playing, but ultimately in Episode 24, it all comes crashing down...]]
* {{Wangst}}: Although she gets over it eventually, Misaki's angst stemming from [[spoiler:her parents' deaths]] falls into this.
** Well, to be fair, she does relive the event constantly in her mind due to her memory, so the pain stays rather fresh.
** The angst Aichi was feeling over his loss to [[spoiler:Tetsu]] was kinda unreasonable and handled badly, considering how [[spoiler: he acknowledged that he's not that good a Vanguard player and even he volunteered to be the member of the team to sit out of the fights at the nationals. And then he lost to one of the best Vanguard players on a top rated team, and then started angsting about it as if it were the end of the world.]]
*** This make a bit more sense if you realize that the problem wasn't that he ''lost'', he was a bit disappointed about it, but was otherwise fine. The problem is that he thinks that it's entirely his fault that ''his team'' lost. (Which is nonsense, since Misaki lost too, but Ren basically hammered it into his head.) And his team includes Kai, and Aichi is obsessed with trying to get Kai to acknowledge him.
*** Though honestly, a pretty large portion of that is probably [[BigBad Ren's]] fault. He seemed at least not as bad until Ren decided to rub it into his face.
*** Well...Ren actually isn't too far off, though obviously it was just to kick Aichi when he was down. Remember that Aichi was the one that ended up deciding the order for their first match against Jurassic Party. Due to the way the tiebreaker worked, which was where a team received a point for a game win and lost one for a game loss, had Aichi sent Kai in first or second they would've forced another tie with the team that ended up moving on in second place in the block. On top of that, compared to his other teammates, he was the only one who did not win a single game over any of the matches which also would've helped them advance from the block. In the end, that's what really hurt. Not only was Ren essentially kicking him while he was down he knew that, how unfair it might be to bring on someone with his limited national experience, he maintained a lot of blame for them not moving on (Kamui being the other big offender for bailing).
*** Shion during Girs Crisis. After the first G-Quest event, Shion, who had just been named the new head of the Kiba family, was coxed into a sealed cardfight (fighting out of the packs) with the stakes being his family's sword. Upon losing, he finds out that those weren't the only stakes. There was a takeover in progress of the Kiba company but it was still on the fence, unfortunately, Shion's actions ended up tilting it against his favor. As such, the business was taken over, his family losing nearly all of their riches, and Shion is forced to move to an apartment by himself. And then Kai shows up as Shion, at his lowest point, challenges Kai to cardfight after cardfight, losing all of them. Fortunately, this does nothing but light a fire in his heart giving him a very strong character arc throughout Girs Crisis and Stride Gate.

** Vanguard G completely discarded explaining how the game is developing, units' skills in favor of giving the units a much more variety of movement (Some say it has taken the Wixoss route), a point which was brought up by the director of the Neon Messiah movie. While some fans welcomed the change, but others want the development of the fight and the skills be explained.
*** This can be especially jarring to fans as Vanguard G is supposed to be a series reboot both for the anime and the game. Those that appreciate the changes also note that this also gives way to more character development as time is not spent explaining skills. Those that have problems note that the lack of rule explanation will give newcomers a hard time to get into the game both in the anime and in real life. This is most apparent in the first episode where first episodes of new seasons of Vanguard reintroduces the game, it's rules and the new mechanic introduced in the season. The first episode of G only explain a small chunk of the rules, especially the conditions for the new Generation Stride mechanic. Needless to say, these fans were elated when they showed a single Drive Trigger Check in the fifth episode.
*** They have started explaining skills in larger fights so at least in higher stakes matches, we can follow the action more easily.

** Another example from the anime is Nagisa. Literally the only thing in her personality is being a StalkerWithACrush for Kamui. No matter what episode she appears in she only ever talks about Kamui and how he's her boyfriend and they will get married one day. This one aspect made many fans dislike her, especially since Kamui doesn't like her that way, and it is implied that Nagisa knows how he really feels about her and doesn't care because she will force him to marry her. It also doesn't help that at times '''nobody else''' ever realizes that Kamui doesn't like her. Even the girl that he really likes, Emi, is oblivious to is suffering and [[ShipperOnDeck supports him being with Nagisa]] and has no idea he actually likes her.