Danball Senki W (anime) (2024)

Danball Senki W (ダンボール戦機W (ダブル) Cardboard Chronicles W) is the sequel of the first season of Danball Senki.

Plot[]

The year 2051, one year after the final battle against the Innovators. Peace has returned thanks to the world's newest hobby, the Little Battle Experience (LBX for short). Ban Yamano, is now a popular LBX Champion across the globe amongst the LBX battle population. But the peace doesn't last long as a new terrorist organization called the Detector threatens the world by brainjacking LBXs.

With his LBX Odin destroyed and Ami and Kazuya mysteriously abducted, Ban joins up with the karate-girl, Ran Hanasaki and the arcade-otaku, Hiro Oozora to fight against this new threat. Following the battle towards N-City, they meet up with Jessica Kaios, Jin Kaidou and a fully recuperated Yuuya Haibara.

As the battle against the Detector continues, a new hidden evil comes to light after discovering the true nature of the Detector's terrorist acts. And what hidden potential lies within the newcomer, Hiro.

Story[]

Detector arc[]

Ban, together with his new allies Hiro and Ran workedtogether to stop Detector’s ambition and rescue Kazuya and Ami. They were thenjoined by Jessica, Jin, Yuuya to thwart the brainjacking events at a fewcountries while investigating about Omega Dain regarding M-chip. Along thebattle, Kirito, a mysterious strong LBX player, who was a test player for OmegaDain always interrupt Ban and his friends for personal benefits. One ofDetector’s attempt was believe to be the assassination of President ClaudiaLenneton of Nation A during her inauguration speech, which takes place simultaneouslyat Artemis Tournament. During the brainjacking event at Egypt, Hiro is revealto have the ability to predict the future.

Paradisearc[]

During the events of brainjackingin Australia, Ban and the others confronted Detector and was surprised to learnthat Professor Yamano himself was the Detector’s man in mask. Professor Yamanoexplained that the series of brainjacking was in fact to inform Ban and theothers that Omega Dain, attempted to use Paradise, a spatial military baseddisguised as a communication satellite.

Ban and the others managed tofind and infiltrate the tanker, Future Hope that was believe to be the controlcentre for Paradise. During the infiltration, Hiro had an unexpected reunionwith his mother, Haruka who was working with Omega Dain as she develop a pairof AIs to manage Paradise called Adam and Eve. Ban and the others alsoencounter Dr. Mummy, who claimed himself as Lex.

Haruka who realised her errors byher own son, Hiro, assisted him and his friends to conquer Future Hope andperforms a shutdown on Adam and Eve. She then revealed the mastermind of OmegaDain, which is in fact Nation A’s Vice President, Alferdo Gardyne. WhenSecretary Kaios inform President Lenneton regarding this matter, Gardyne revealhis true colours and abducted both the President and NICS Secretary, taking themto the National Defense HQ.

As this happens, Hiro had asudden revelation of both President Lenneton and Secretary Kaios got caught inan explosion at the stated place. Haruka reveal that National Defense HQ isalso a satellite management centre and that the President’s activation code isneeded to utilise Paradise from there. Aware that Hiro’s prediction was not alie, Ban and the others rushes to the National Defense HQ to save them andprevent Paradise from being activated. During their rescue mission, Gelatointerrupts Ban and the others but they managed to beat him in an LBX battle.Professor Yamano told Gelato the truth and Gelato assisted NICS team in savingthe hostages from being caught in the explosion.

However, Gardyne does not stopthere. After failing to obtain the activation code from the President, hedeparted to Paradise to activate Adam and Eve directly, not knowing that Kiritosecretly followed them. As NICS team are preparing to launch into space,Gardyne had Paradise destroyed an unmanned island using the main laser beforehe took control of NICS HQ, activating its emergency system and trapped SecretaryKaios and President Lenneton along with NICS staff for 24 hours. Haruka revealthat the laser’s next target is NICS HQ itself and that they have 6 hours leftbefore the Paradise Main Laser is fully charged. Hiro and the others rushes intospace via Duck Shuttle Kai after an interference during the launching at massdriver.

Duck Shuttle Kai was attacked bya massive army of LBXs but Ban and the others managed to dealt with it with newLBXs, Ikaros Zero, Ikaros Force and Minerva Kai. They also managed to approach anddocked into Paradise without being hit by Paradise laser thanks to the evasionprogram developed by Haruka and Otacross.

Time is running out and NICS teamrushes towards the control room. However, Kirito appear and gets in their wayto gain experience for Cyclops AI to evolve it to Perfect Brain. It wasrevealed that he wants to use Cyclops AI to create emotion for an androidcalled Amy, who was based on his girlfriend that died in an accident. Kiritomanages to complete Cyclops AI, only for it to be taken by Gardyne’s LBX, Zeuswho revealed that Kirito was being used and that Cyclops AI is incompatiblewith android and can only be used by LBXs. Kirito fell into despair when herealised what happened.

Despite what happened, Ban andthe others proceeded to the main control room and confronted Gardyne. Duringthe confrontation, Gardyne was betrayed by Dr Mummy, who was revealed to beMami, Lex’s little sister. Mami revealed that she wants to use Paradise tocarry out his brother’s will. Ban and the others managed to stop her. However,Adam and Eve began to gone haywire when Haruka decides to deactivate them onceand for all, supporting Mami’s ambition. Hiro and Ban worked together andmanaged to defeat Zeus and Killer Droid Pegasus that was controlled by Adam andEve. With Haruka’s help, they managed to deactivate Adam and Eve, shutting downParadise for good. Mami, Gardyne and Bishop were arrested and the peace isrestored.

Mizelarc[]

A new brainjacking suddenly occurdespite M-Chips were removed and it was caused by an LBX called Vector. Ban andhis friends encounter a mysterious boy called Mizel, who uses Vector to takecontrol of computer or LBXs by touching them, which was named Ghostjacked byNICS. Mizel uses Vector’s power to steal the stealth aircraft, Eclipse andremodelled it, having the capability to transform into a giant robot. Mizelannounces his goal, to optimize Earth and make it reborn into Perfect World.Mizel, using Vectors and Mizel Trouzer, conquer almost every country’simportant places and Seto 50’s bombs as part of his Perfect World plan.

Ban and the others were helplessto stop Mizel because the Vectors were way too tough and they had no method offighting Mizel Trouzer as well as he obtained Seto 50s. Professor Yamanobelieves there is only one way to encounter Mizel, which is using AX-000.However, its blueprints was lost and the LBX itself needs a different material forits core box. Ban and the others went to Innovator Research Facility and themine in China to get the respective items. During their efforts to get eitherone, Mizel interrupts them while conquering every LBX makers to enforce hisVectors. He even assaulted them when Professor Yamano and the others weredeveloping the new LBX based on AX-000, O-Legion and in fact managed to stealit by infusing his virus during the development.

Left with no other way to counterMizel, the people of the world who loves LBXs sent their LBX related-data toTiny Orbit in order to create new LBXs to counter O-Legion. Mizel once moreinterrupts them but this time Ban and the others managed to defend against him.Later, they learn about Mizel’s identity, who is in fact a virus program createdby Adam and Eve, or in other words, Haruka herself. The virus program itselfentered one of the androids body created by Omega Dain. Despite the bittertruth that Mizel pointed out regarding humans, Hiro and the others chooses tofight against Mizel, believing in mankind’s potential in creating a betterfuture. During this time, Ban and Hiro obtain Odin Mk-2 and Achilles D9, theLBXs developed using the power of the people who loved LBXs.

Mizel then makes his move toconquer the Earth by sending a massive amount of Vectors to attack Tokio Cityand then devastated it with Mizel Trouzer’s power. He sent a notice for mankindto surrender within 24 hours. However, mankind refused to give up and come upwith a plan by trapping Mizel Trouzer in Grand Sphere, a giant D-Egg made byhaving massive amount of LBXs to generate it. Jin and the others infiltrate thegiant robot to disable its limbs and succeeded but they were trapped in theircontrol pods. Ban, Hiro and Ran went into Mizel Trouzer directly to battleMizel, who transferred his consciousness into O-Legion, evolving it into MizelO-Legion. They manage to beat Mizel, at the cost of the loss of Ran’s LBX,Minerva Kai. However, Mizel’s defeat causes the trio to be trapped in the giantrobot that began to collapse and the Seto 50 bomb inside it began itscountdown. With the help of Jin and the others, they managed to save Ban, Hiroand Ran from the explosion. Peace is restored and everyone return to theirdaily lives.

Characters[]

• See Danball Senki Characters

Staff[]

• Original Creator: LEVEL-5
• Original Story, Planning, Chief Supervisor: Akihiro Hino
• Original Character Design, LBX Concept Designer: Jun Sonobe
• Director: Naohito Takahashi
• Series Composition: Atsuhiro Tomioka
• Art Director: Toshihiro Kohama, Yoshio Tanioka
• Chief Animation Director: Hiroyuki Nishimura
• Action Director: Kouji Fukazawa
• CGI Director: Dai Seo
• Director of Photography: Koji Yamakoshi
• Animation Producer: Shukichi Kanda
• Producer: Kiyofumi Kajiwara, Yoshikazu Kuretani
• Music: Rei Kondoh
• Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
• Supervisor: Toshiato Okuno, Masakazu Kubo
• Editor: Daisuke Imai
• Color Designer: Aki Watanabe
• Animation Studio: Oriental Light and Magic (OLA)
• Licensed by: Dentsu Entertainment USA
• Network: TV Tokyo

Episodes[]

• See Danball Senki W Episodes in Episode Guide

External Links[]

• Danball Senki W on TV-Tokyo
• Danball Senki W on Wikipedia
• Danball Senki W on Anime News Network

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