Duel Masters LOST: Danzai no Shonen Anime Debuts October 9
The announcement arrived alongside a slate of supplementary content, including the Return of Duel Masters Lost Mini shorts and recap videos, showing the franchise is treating the fourth chapter as an event with its own marketing cadence rather than a standalone premiere.
Key Facts
- Duel Masters LOST: Danzai no Shonen begins streaming on October 9, 2026.
- The fourth anime chapter will have four episodes, streaming every other Friday at 9:00 p.m. JST.
- Nina Tamaki voices Kami Misaki Lost, having previously voiced a mysterious boy in the earlier anime.
- Riki Fukushima returns as director at J.C. Staff and SMDE, with Yuji Matsukura supervising animation production.
- The Return of Duel Masters Lost Mini short anime starts streaming on August 29, 2026.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer.
The Duel Masters LOST anime series will stream its fourth part, Duel Masters LOST: Danzai no Shonen (The Sentencing Boy), starting October 9, 2026. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions announced the debut date, a four-episode run, and a new key visual on August 22. New episodes will stream every other Friday at 9:00 p.m. JST on the official Duel Masters YouTube channel, called DueTube, and other streaming services. The key visual shows the mysterious boy Kami Misaki Lost holding the Crystal Card while protagonist Zanba Win reaches toward him. The story follows Win, who leaves a lighthouse carrying the sensation of having taken a life through further assimilation with the Jashin Emperor, into a battle over the Crystal Card in Shinjuku, where suspicious deaths continue. Nina Tamaki voices Lost, having previously voiced a mysterious boy in the earlier anime. Riki Fukushima returns as director at J.C. Staff and SMDE, with Yuji Matsukura supervising animation production. Yoichi Kato returns for series scripts, Chikara Hashizume returns as character designer, and Go Sakabe returns for music.
The fourth manga chapter ran in the same magazine from March 26 to July 2, and its final installment announced the series will have a fifth part. The manga is written by Shigenobu Matsumoto with art by Hiroshi Kanebayashi, serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly CoroCoro Comic. The announcement came with several connected initiatives. A new run of the short anime "The Return of Duel Masters Lost Mini," showing the shrunken Win's daily life, starts August 29, streaming Saturdays at noon. The official site is distributing SNS icons for the new characters Dream Bolmeteus White Dragon, Suijin Mizuhanome no Kami, and Lost. Three recap videos narrated by Meguru Hayama, voiced by Yusuke Shirai, roll out on DueTube starting August 22. Chapter 3, "Sun of Oblivion," gets a BS12 broadcast starting September 2, airing Wednesdays at 2:00 a.m. with navigator Niika Katori and Win, plus seven days of catch-up on TVer. Tsukuyomi's "Cantare," heard in the ending of Episode 4 of "Death God Under the Moon," gets a digital release September 9. The full cast includes Shotaro Uzawa as Win, Wataru Hatano as Abysbel, Kana Hishikawa as Niika, and Mariya Ise as Tsukumiya. Kashitaro Ito performs the opening theme "Ayakashi Ayashi"; Tsukuyomi performs the ending "Sakujitsu feat. Yoshino." The trading card game has sold for over 20 years since 2002.
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