In this era, children and adults enjoy Augmented Reality Duels. The series is set in a city in the near future, Heartland City. On July 11, 2014, it was announced that new episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL would premiere on each week up until the conclusion of Season 3.

Vortexx came to an end on September 27, 2014, and was replaced with a live-action E/I block from Litton Entertainment named One Magnificent Morning. Official English subtitled episodes can be found on Hulu, though only available within the United States thus far. The second season was brought to CW4KIDS's second Cartoon Block, Vortexx. The first season of the English dubbed version premiered on Octoon the CW4KIDS Toonzai. Starting with the show's fourth arc, the show was advertised under the name Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL II (pronounced zay-al sekando in Japanese, pronounced zek-sul second in English), but both NAS and TV Tokyo classify it as the same show, with the episode numbers continuing from where it was left off instead of returning to the start. It also starts the use of the Series 7 card layout replacing the Series 3 layout used in later episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the majority of episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. It introduces the Xyz Summon mechanic and Xyz Monsters. The anime first aired on Apin popular evening slots in Japan on TV Tokyo. It was followed by Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V on April 6, 2014. Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (pronounced /zeaɾɯ/ in Japanese, mimicking the English word 'zeal' pronounced /ˈzek.səl/ 'ZECK-sul' in English) is a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series and the successor to the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's series.

Kazuki Takahashi / Studio Dice (original concept).For the card, see Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (card).

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