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Bushiroad Expo 2025 Hits Mumbai on April 12-13

Bushiroad's website is detailing plans for its Bushiroad Expo 2025 exhibition that will take place take place at Jio World Center during Mumbai Comic Con on April 12 and April 13. The event will host playable demos of the Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact fighting game and the Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days2 game.

The event will also have a demo booth for the BanG Dream! AI Singing Synthesizer Yumenokessho, a PalVerse exhibition corner, card displays, figurine displays, TCG demo sessions, and merchandise sales.

Bushiroad Games and Eighting will launch a 2D 3v3 fighting game based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga titled Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact on July 17 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The game was originally slated to release last year, but was delayed.

The game's playable characters include Gon, Killua, Leorio, Kurapika, Hisoka, Netero, Bisky, Machi, Uvogin, Chrollo, Feitan, Meruem, Genthru, Razor, Morel, and Kite. Arc System Works is publishing the game outside of Japan and will release it in English. Rollback netcode will only be available on the PlayStation 5 and Steam versions of the game. Cross-platform play will not be available.

The Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days2 sequel game released for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on January 30, 2025.

FuRyu's Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days game (pictured right) launched for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in Japanese and English on November 2022. The card game featured protagonist Yuki Ichidoji, voiced by Yūka Nishio. Yuki is a second-year high school student at Omi Academy who tails her brother into the world of Vanguard. Other characters include Rasen Ichidoji, Gosetsu Katsushika, and Kanji Meguro.

The story is based in the world of the Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress television anime series, and several characters from the show appear in the game. Co-creator Akira Itō is the original character designer. The first season of Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress premiered in Japan in April 2021, and it also debuted on the official Cardfight!! Vanguard YouTube channel with English subtitles.

Bushiroad launched its Bushiroad Games label in January 2023.

Source: Bushiroad's website