Battle Spirits

Battle Spirits is a long-running Japanese multimedia franchise centered on a strategic card game, expanded through multiple anime series that reinterpret its core concepts across different worlds and timelines. While each installment tells a self-contained story, all Battle Spirits anime share common foundations: a universe shaped by powerful beings known as Spirits, conflicts between worlds or factions, and protagonists who grow through battles that test not only skill, but conviction, responsibility, and identity. As the series progresses, its tone evolves—from lighthearted competition to large-scale conflicts involving destiny, sacrifice, and the balance between worlds. Rather than following a single continuous narrative, the Battle Spirits franchise presents thematic continuity, reimagining its mythology, settings, and characters with each new series while maintaining the same underlying spirit-based battle system and core ideas of growth and choice. (Source: Kaize)