Funny / Cardfight!! Vanguard (V Series)

In General

• Continuing the trend from previous series. Every single one of the Next Episode Preview is funny, because they are more like meta comments about the characters' lives and behavior or are just flat-out ridiculous rather than information about the next episode.
• In the Extra Story IF, Ibuki is more or less done with everything especially the show's Genre Shift and wants everything to go back to normal, not helping the matter is that he's the Butt-Monkey in the arc and ends up both physically and mentally injured and frequently gets Dope Slap by Suiko whenever they teleport to the IF World .

Series

Foo Fighter Arc

• Image 1. Kai is different than the original series. Both he Misaki and Misaki are more hotheaded.
• Preview of Image 4. We hear Aichi asking Kai why he adds "the" before Vanguard. Kai says the person who taught him Vanguard did that and he tries to get Aichi to do it too. Aichi tries to do it, but can't, because it's to embarrassing for him to say it.
• Image 4, Shin’s overall enthusiasm for Misaki starting a cardfight. Telling everyone to imagine Misaki as Lozenge Magus. Doing so creates a small blush for the boys in the audience and leads to Misaki to kick him into the wall.
  • Preview of Image 5: Emi’s admiration of Misaki down to imitating her lines trying to be like Misaki, and Aichi panicking as she does.
• Image 7: Kenji's acting like an Hot-Blooded mecha pilot during cardfights goes on by having him do the Next Episode Preview treating the show as a Brave Series-esque series about Super Dimensional Robo, Daiyusha.
• The preview of Image 11 involves Aichi speaking about how Blaster Blade was speaking to him when he was constructing a deck. Apparently he told Aichi to do things like "go to bed now, or you'll have trouble waking up tomorrow", "comb out your bedhead", and "chew properly during meals". When Miwa asks Kai what he thinks, Kai says that it wasn't Blaster Blade. It was Aichi's little sister, Emi.
• In the preview of Image 15 Ren thinks that Kyou is a girl. It must be seen to believe.
• Image 20: First, we have another Kamui mispronouncing PSYqualia. Second, we have Ren being lost on his way to Card Capital. Third we have Misaki grabbing Aichi away from Ren, in a way that can potentially be described as a girl protectively grabbing a boyfriend. Fourth, we have Ren nicknaming Misaki as Misa-Q/Misakyu, calling her that twice.
• Image 22: Misaki hugging Aichi out of the blue. Miwa and Kamui were completely dumbstruck, with the former stammering while asking Misaki if she had feelings for Aichi. The lavender girl was confused with that statement and said that she was giving Aichi some encouragement. Honestly you can't deceive us.
• Image 26: This episode is a humongous parody focusing on the units in Cray that goes around Breaking the Fourth Wall, referencing shows on Earth, all just to introduce units used by the main characters. It even confirms that Soul Saver Dragon is female, because of her assets.

High School Arc

• Image 28: Many students try to join the Cardfight Club Aichi makes, because Kourin is a member, but despite being unable to defeat her, they keep trying to win against her after Aichi gives them tips on how to play better. Kourin eventually has enough of this and tells Aichi to stop giving them tips, or else this would continue forever.
• Image 29: Naoki begins his first turn in his fight against Kourin and he begins with riding another unit while completely forgetting to ''draw'' a card at the beginning of his turn. Everyone who knows about Vanguard can't believe he forgot about drawing. Misaki's face is especially hilarious. When pointed out Naoki tries to claim he intended to, in order to break the ice. What's even more hilarious is the fact he trained a bit against Shin for this fight, but somehow still forgot about such a basic rule.
  • Also Kourin's getting pretty jealous that Aichi seems to get along with Naoki.
  "It feels like I'm the one standing between these two!"
  "He looks happier now than he did when I joined the club."
• Image 31: Every one of Akari's thoughts about Misaki joining Cardfight Club are hilarious, because she sees many moments as situations related to love which isn't far of the thoughts towards the audiences especially since the wording the characters use doesn't help that matter.
  (Aichi asking Misaki to join the Cardfight Club)
  Aichi: "Misaki! Um, I never actually told you this yet... so now I will. When I first thought about starting the Cardfight Club, I imagined you being a part of it, Misaki. Misaki, please help me to start up the Cardfight Club. Would you?
  Akari: "Who is this boy? It's like he's confessing his love to Misaki!"
  
  (Kourin asking why Misaki won't join the Cardfight Club)
  Kourin: "Misaki Tokura. I challenge you to a Vanguard fight."
  Akari: "Huh?"
  Misaki: "Why?"
  Kourin: "I want to see just how good of a fighter you could possibly be, and yet turn down Aichi's invitation."
  Akari: "C-Could this situation be... some desperate kind of Love Triangle?!"
  Cue Akari imagining Aichi, Kourin and Misaki in a triangle, with Aichi being their love interest while Kourin and Misaki glared at each other as love rival to gain Aichi's affection
  Kourin and Misaki: (with Luminescent Blush) "No!"
  • Also there is this (O_O) look on Misaki's face when Akari just took out the former's deck from her own bag.
  • In the original series it was rumored that Misaki is a delinquent, but the V series ramps them up such as that she has Psychic Powers and is able to control the entire school with them. What's even more hilarious is that they said this in front of Aichi who has actual Psychic Powers.
  • They also asked why Aichi knows her and Aichi replies they are part of the same crew. This causes Naoki and Shingo to think that Aichi is part of her gang and imagine Aichi dressed up as a delinquent and saying "What're you lookin' at?! Huh?!" with a mean face in contrast to his normal appearance.
• Preview for Image 33 at end of Image 32: Like in Season 3, the Running Gag of Naoki commenting that sailor uniform does not fit Suiko. Suiko was so amused that her tone just made her sound horny for Naoki.
• The preview at the end of Image 34. Even Ibuki thinks that a sailor uniform does not suit Suiko and she goes ballistic instead of amused.
• Image 40. Even though the arc is starting to get serious, There are lots of funny moments to be had.
  • Ren's Accidental Misnaming of Miwa as "Biwa" and him once again calling Misaki "Misa-Q".
  • Ren and Tetsu decides to stay at Kai's apartment because the situation was emergency. Kai immediately went ballistic all about it. Likewise, even Misaki felt awkward since Tetsu requested to put Asaka into her care and she cannot be staying with an apartment full of guys. It ends with Kai yelling Big "NO!".
  • Naoki misnamed PSYqualia as Sai (Rhino)- Cold- Lia, which once again got Kyou annoyed before a Sneeze Cut to Kamui, whom had previously done the same.
  • The next episode preview chat, Kai asked if Ren know what to buy when he suggested a type of dish that needs to be cooked manually. Ren just thought they can just get them all at the frozen food section. Kai just proceeds to leave for grocery shopping.
• Image 41.
  • Things become tense when Aichi was mad at Ibuki for erasing Kyou's bond with vanguard until Shingo arrived and intervene, Kamui, Ibuki and Aichi had this Flat "What" response from things became suddenly awkward. On top of that, there's Rekka who was scared about Ibuki's presence to delete and decides to let Shingo, who she just infected with PSYqualia Zombie and the others to handle this while she runs away..
  • Continuing from previous Image, we see Tetsu at Kai's apartment, helping Kai with making gyoza. Then Ren suddenly came and asked to borrow Kai's pajama while in a towel and still dripping wet. Kai went ballistic and berates him for not drying his body properly. Then Ren just takes off his towel and said he did, in front of Kai. Luckily, Ren's bottom part was censored throughout this moment. Kai went ballistic again when those two freeloaders acting so carefree on him.
• Image 42. Apart from Aichi having a serious fight against Naoki, we saw Kai had Miwa tag along in shopping for groceries. Miwa had the Imagine Spot that Kai was planning to use him in carrying all the goods so his first action when Kai is distracted was ran away as far as he can. This alone is funny enough but then in mid of the episode we learn that Kai was really planning to do so like Miwa had thought. Since Miwa ran away, he called Tetsu to take over for that task, which he does not mind at all.
• Image 47—or rather, the preview for Image 48 at the end. In a callback to the preview for Image 13, Aichi and Ren SING A SONG about having become PSYqualia Zombies. It's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.
  • Also the fact that Ren mentioned in the song that VF Gloves is no longer needed when becoming PSYqualia Zombie, there's Tetsu mentioning that they are in a loss for it because there's 30,000 copies of the VF Gloves.
• Image 52. Another parody episode recapping various units appeared in the last arc, and more "commercial breaks" featuring stuff such as a Soul Of Chogokin-like figure of Takuto's assistant Ushimaru, whose first release comes with a body pillow of her.

High School Arc Continued

• Dimension 1:
  • It turns out the actual reason the student council wants the Cardfight Club to disband isn't just because they don't have enough members, but also because they don't want to pay for their travel and stay expenses for the tournament which in turn forces them to eat a cheaper snack every day.
  • During the Cardfight Club's attempt to recruit a new member, Naoki tries to look friendly by smiling, but only manages to look scarier than normal. Misaki then calls him out on scaring everyone... by performing an Angry Collar Grab on him which in turn just causes more people to run away from them.
  • Just like in the original every scene with Nakagami is rather hilarious since he still is as loud and bombastic as ever:
    • In his first appearance he showcases his "powers" by guessing his cards correctly with his eyes closed and gets them all correct. However Naoki then points out that the bandage covering his left eye is probably see-through.
    • His face when he learns that he needs 5 members to make his club official.
    • When he fills in his club appliance paper he starts to freak out, because he doesn't have enough members. His solution is claiming that he can't control the power sealed in his right arm which he uses to scratch a chalkboard to cause everyone an Ear Ache and begging him to stop. He then uses this as an excuse to leave.
    • During the rather tense talk between the Cardfight Club and Student Council, he just suddenly appears out of nowhere to say that if the Cardfight Club loses, they have to join his Psychic Research Society. This just causes some awkwardness and confusion to their talk.
• Dimension 3: Eru unlocking and revealing his various magical symbols... only for Misaki to notice every time that he copied them from various Isekai series.
• Dimension 5: The elementary school versions of the Trinity Dragons are pretty much a crowning moment of funny in themselves, but special mention has to go to the reveal of the secret origin of their team name: Nagisa had been calling them the "3 Stooges" and when Kyou recovered fully from his Deletion, he referred to them as "third-rate dregs." Kei misinterpreted "dregs" as being short for "Dragons" and the others agreed that "three dragons" was way better than "three stooges," then made it cooler by replacing the "three" with "trinity."
• Dimension 7 preview: Throughout the episode Greion was pretty much a terrifying monster stalking Ibuki while taunting him, but in the preview he starts speaking English badly and call him Joe Ibuki.

Shinemon Arc

• Remind 1: Shinemon's utter failure at realizing that Ninja Master is his friend Mark despite the fact he's not even hiding his beard and is still using his regular deck.
• Remind 3:
  • The preview is about Mikuru and Rive talking about how the latter's son's hair looks like, in the end they all refer to swirls which means that Chrono was born with that hair.
  • Shinemon's currently holing himself even more up at Card Capital than before. Why? Because he's afraid of Esuka's wrath for what happens in the previous episode. To make it even funnier he describes it as something terrifying and unable to say which just scares Tatsuya.^Explanation What Shinemon actually saw was Esuka getting out of the shower and no she wasn't actually that angry about it, because she considers him a kid.
  • As a result of how Shinemon's holes himself up, he's currently failing class and needs to retake exams. At first he managed to pass his first exam with the same pencil trick Chrono used in G. However it later turns out he has to redo pretty much EVERY exam and as the final punchline, he has to do physical education and health after doing those. All Shinemon could do was scream "NO" at the end.
• Remind 6:
  • When Shinemon wants to know why Nanami is so fixated on Esuka, he makes the conclusion that she is Esuka's daughter, causing everyone to Face Fault.
  • When Shinemon asks Nanami about her backstory, he interrupts her, because he didn't know that Esuka plays Vanguard and after Tatsuya's explanation he then says he doesn't actually care about that.
• Remind 9:
  • Shinemon promises with Tatsuya and Mark that none of them eat the food Esuka brought only to change their mind when they are hungry. They then talk about their resistance to Esuka while stuffing their face with the food and talking about how delicious it is, but doesn't change their mind!
• Remind 18: Shinemon tries to fight Hitomi, but her deck only has copies of Top Idol, Riviere. The crowd then boos Shinemon for making her sad with Mark even saying he should get banned from the shop. What makes this even funnier is the Fridge Logic that Riviere is a very rare card which means that Hitomi must have a lot of luck or payed lots of money to get 50 copies.
• Remind 19:
  • The entire episode is this due to Shinemon's way of retelling the arc to the cast of the previous arc which he states is the absolute truth.
  • It turns out Mark was there and tells everyone how much of the truth was distorted. Thus Shinemon is forced to repent while wearing a board that says "I am a liar".
  • Various characters get their own screen with a title Shin made up, but special mention goes to Kanzaki, who's drawn in the style of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • The preview has the cast wondering how much of the story is true with Morikawa even thinking that the old issue of Monthly Vanguard is a fake created by Shin.
• Remind 20:
  • Ryutarou's team for the Asia Circuit consists of himself, the bear from his first appearance and a monkey.
  • Kanzaki's team consists of himself and Nanami and Tonori who in turn have a face which just says that they are dismayed to be with him.
  • When Kanzaki defeats Ryutarou, the latter tries to be a Graceful Loser. As in tries, cause he can't stand Kanzaki's verbal abuse and nearly caused an actual fight against him if it wasn't for his teammates holding him back.
• Remind 29:
  • Some kids doodling on Shin's face and glasses when he sleeps and when he wakes up he wonders why the world is suddenly so blurry. It is even implied he walked that way to Esuka who in turn wiped it away for him.
  • Chrono's face after accidentally scaring the guy who tried to sell the deck Chrono found just says: "Why is he running away? Was my face that scary?"
  • Everyone at the Vanguard Committee failing to recognize Shin with Kanzaki even calling him "This creepy man in an apron".
  • Chrono's embarrassment that many units share his name.
• Remind 31:
  • During the first segment, Esaka had dressed Nanami and Mikuru up as idols for a Vanguard event. Said event has the three of them "attacking" the fans who showed up to the event, one of which includes a young Miwa.
  • The present cast are still on wondering if Shin's story was true and naturally their imagination is hilarious
    • First up they actually wonder if Shin truly is "Shinemon Nitta" due to their different appearances.
    • They end up concluding that Shin killed "Shinemon Nitta" and took his identity to promote the shop.
    • Note that Aichi and Kai, two of the most rational characters in the series, also got into the discussion with great interest.
    • What's really hilarious when you stop and think about it is that they could have just waited for Misaki to show up to clear all of this up.
  • Kyou telling everyone that Nanami and Tonari, who in the present are famous fighters, were in the shop. Naturally Morikawa and Miwa are rather angry Shin didn't tell them. Thus they fire Shin and promote Sub Manager to manager position.

Extra Story -IF- Arc

• if 1:
  • The entire concept of Emi being a Magical Girl fighting against an evil empire led by Aichi is rather chuckleworthy.
  • For some reason Ibuki's Jammer imposter throws trash away in Chrono's shoelocker and it is implied to be a regular occurance.
  • Ibuki is more or less done with everything and just wants to get everything over with.
  • Ibuki comments that the other Ibuki is looks evil compared to him, only for Shuka and Emi to tell him that they don't trulylook that much different.
  • The subversion of Duels Decide Everything:
    Ibuki: [After seeing his imposter transform into Greion.] All right! It's a Vanguard showdown! [Greion responds by blasting him] But we're supposed to decide who wins with a cardfight.
    Shuka: Please think about this rationally.
    Emi: Cardfighting against bad guys?!
    Shuka: Don't be ridiculous!
    Ibuki: Say what?!
• if 2: After Ibuki returns to the real world injured, Suiko dresses up his wounds and wonders what he did during his mission at the if world, Ibuki told her that he fought Greion and this causes Suiko to get offended and gives him a Dope Slap to his back. Not to mention the sound Ibuki made is hilarious and we also got to see Suiko's handprint mark on his back.
• if 3:
  • Ibuki attempts to go to the castle to reason and challenge Aichi, but gets thrown out immediately with a Wingal chasing him and biting his butt.
  • Jammer's diversion this time is Esuka replacing Suiko as a member of Ultra Rare, which is more or less just an aspiring idol group unlike the original.
• if 4:
  • Ibuki and Suiko's Big "WHAT?!" reaction when they found out that Tetsu is a sucessfull businessman instead of being Ren's right-hand man.
  • When they paid a visit to Tetsuo, he mistook Ibuki as Suiko's manager.
  • Tetsu gives all of his VF accessories for Ibuki to try and the latter gets electric shock whenever he wears a new items.
• if 5:
  • It is funny to see Kawanami not only replacing Ren as the president of Vanguard Club and Asaka's love interest but also cosplaying Ren's Season 1 outfit.
  • As soon as Mask the Dark makes his debut, Ibuki immediately recognizes he's actually Ren. He isn't very happy about that.
• if 6:
  • Suiko forcing Ibuki to dress and act as a maid.
  • After being transported to the If world, the thugs mistook Ibuki for a woman and attempt to flirt with him.
  • Ibuki and Suiko having a hard time recalling Kyou's name.
• if 10:
  • Ibuki and Suiko are both unable to read what's written on their Shogi tile-like costumes^note They respectively say "Shoe locker" and "Uniform: a stretch" and every time they're going to discover the truth something interrupts the scene.
  • Suiko notices that Eru is the episode's Jammer by noticing that his eye and arm bandages are mirrored (covering the right eye and the left arm instead of the opposite). Ibuki thought it was just a very common animation error.
• if 12: Emi tries to fight against past Ren to get his Blaster Dark, but just like with Hitomi in the Shinemon arc, she doesn't know the rules:
  • First up she does have a proper deck, however it is a Gear Chronicle deck much to the surprise of Asaka and Tetsu since at that time period it is still known as a mysterious and unknown clan, which just makes you wonder why she chose that one in particular.
  • She chose Interdimensional Dragon, Chronoscommand Dragon as her Starting Vanguard which not only is a grade 4 unit, but also is not released or even revealed as a part of the Standard Format during the time the episode premiered.
  • On her first turn she shows her entire hand and tries to attack thus making it clear to everyone that she's a beginner.
• if 13: If Mask the Dark's true identity was obvious from the start... we get Mask the Rekka, who doesn't even bother to hide her name.
• if 21
  • The entire beginning scene with the Tatsunagi Sentai/Rangers Ultra Rare, complete with Ibuki in a Greion costume as the Monster of the Week.
  • When the girls are about to arrive at the Tatsunagi Residence, Ibuki attempts to Bridal Carry Suiko, but she instead falls on him.
  • In the end we see our main heroes going forward, sure that now the barrier is gone and they can restore the original timeline... and then Ibuki slams on the barrier.

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