Build Divide: Code Black is the rare card game anime not relegated to kids’ show status, but is it actually any good?
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First Look: Build Divide: Code Black
By playing and winning games of Build Divide, you can earn key chips. If you collect twenty-one of those, you get a shot at being able to play…
Autumn 2021 First Impressions – Build-Divide -#000000 Code Black
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First Impression: BUILD-DIVIDE -#000000- CODE BLACK
A girl wakes up in the middle of a parking lot, and a boy, in a bed of asters at the foot of a tori gate. Cut to…
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 02
「ひとりぼっちのひなどり」 (Hitoribotchi no Hinadori) "Lonely Baby Bird" Starting to look a lot like a harem.
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 03
「か-ける思い」 (Ka-keru Omoi) "Fiery Feelings" Build Divide is at its best when actual battles are happening.
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 06
「光の道」 (Hikari no Michi) "Path of Light" Dam, I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 05
「ケーキと釣り針」 (Kēki to Tsuribari) "Cake and Fishhook" What the hell! Not a single battle this episode!
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 04
「花に嵐」 (Hana ni Arashi) "Flower and Storm" That’s right, bread is the real currency.
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 01
「星に願いを」 (Hoshi ni Negai o) "When You Wish Upon a Star" This is a TCG through and through, and it wears its inspirations hard on its sleeve.
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 07 & 08
"Ah! Vous dirai-je, Mer" &「埋められた追憶」 (Umerareta Tsuioku) "Buried Memories" Beach paradise and buried secrets.
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 09 & 10
「星を掴む人」 (Hoshi o Tsukamu Hito) "Reach for the Stars" & 「願い事」 (Negaigoto) "A Wish" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Build Divide -#000000- Code Black – 11 & 12 (END)
「裏と表」 (Ura to Omote) "Heads or Tails" & 「道の果て」 (Michi no Hate) "End of the Road" Teruto escapes from The Matrix.
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