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　As a Japanese player of the game, I am glad to introduce this great Trading Card Game (aka Collectable Card Game, CCG for more common among the game industries in global) for TCG players (or many yet-to-see newcomers who start playing TCGs with Battle Spirits TCG) of oversea countries.
　I have heard that Bandai will have first Battle Spirits TCG 「バトルスピリッツ」 demo event at GAMA Trade Show in April 14 to 17. So some of you may already played the game. It's not hard to imagine that there will be a lot chances to experience the game everywhere in U.S., and I can assure you that excitement will not just end till following North American release of this summer. Considering the current big hits and movements of Battle Spirits TCG in Japan (We had first National Championship in April 19th of 2009, just last week and not a year have passed since the game have first came out last autumn!), there is nothing to feel strange if the game would make a success in North American markets, or I can say there are chances that this TCG will make even greater success considering the affinities in game taste between Battle Spirits TCG and other TCGs originated from U.S.

　Some of you might noticed that this blog entitled "VS system" 「VSシステム」(of UDE TCG products) in its name. I am a VS system player in Japan, and this blog "The VS system information outpost, in Tsukuba and Tsuchiura region" 「つくば・土浦VSシステム広報局」 was originally started to empower VS system TCG launch in Japan 2005 to 2007, which had so much difficulties and hard times.
　Unfortunately we could not spread the fun of VS system TCG well in Japan, and the VS system development (in global, by UDE) officially ended at the end of January 2009. It is sad to see that there is no more new product of a game you love, as always. I liked VS system so much, not just as a TCG player but a long time American comics fan. But there are times to move on, and we had many great new TCGs from 2007 to 2008 in Japan.
　I can name many recent Bandai TCGs that I have played with, such as "Rangers Strike"「レンジャーズストライク」 (a TCG which features original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series in Japan by Touei Corp, and other TV hero programs such as "Masked Rider" series or "Big Blue Beetleborg", etc), "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Battle Card" 「ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ＡＢＣ」(Featuring a popular Japanese Manga comic series by Hirohiko Araki), "Kekkai-shi" 「結界師カードバトル」, "Deltora Quest" 「デルトラクエスト カードゲーム」, or "SD Gundam Battle Rave" 「ガンダムバトレイヴ」which uses sorted cards in a file instead of a card deck like "Zatch Bell", not to mention other titles translated and sold in oversea such as "Naruto", "Bleach" and "Full Metal Alchemist", and so on.

　I re-started this blog as an information/strategy tip site for multiple TCGs which I am/was playing, and Battle Spirits TCG is the latest and biggest addition of the list. I am glad to share the fun of Battle Spirits TCG with you, and hoping that this little (or maybe too long for a blog diary, as my friends repeatedly buzzes at me) introduction article would be your help to enjoy the game and its entertaining and enchanting worlds.

　As there are more and more difficulties in purchasing the latest sets of VS system, I started personally creating and printing some all new fan-made sets "VS system the Transformers motion picture starter set"　「VSシステム劇場版トランスフォーマーセット」 and two expansions of "VS system Touhou starter set" 「VSシステム東方セット」(you can find out what the "Touhou project" STG series is, in Touhou Wiki at http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki). With all my knowledge as a former judge and help and effort of my friends, we sold some copies each contained 60 cards, as a pair of 30 card decks which you can play the game immediately, at several fan-cons of Transformers or Touhou Project in Japan. You can see some of them listed in english at "VS Touhou Spoiler (English) " categories, but sorry that the list is not complete and archived just only half cards of the first set. We are still working on of what we can everyday!

　This blog service "Hatena diaries" 「はてなダイアリー」 was originated from "Hatena search", a semi-wikipedia experimental web service. Hatena diary auto link-up system will check this article and automatically link certain underlined japanese word objects to relating other hatena site entries (probably to a site with japanese explanations). I hope you can manage to see some visual images, as an annotation for my introductory texts.