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Bushiroad Sues Future Card Buddyfight Creator Yoshimasa Ikeda
posted on by Alex Mateo
Yoshimasa Ikeda and his company Studio Ikecchi, for disseminating confidential information about Buddyfight as well as for copyright infringement and credibility damage to the company.
Bushiroad said that its contract with Ikeda states that he would agree to withhold confidential information and not disclose information about his work. The company asserted that Ikeda had broken that agreement twice in the past, and he had to apologize for his actions on both times. Although Bushiroad said that it asked him to comply twice, Ikeda has continued to violate the agreement through text posts and videos. He also reportedly used images of Future Card Buddyfight without the company's consent and has made statements that damage the credibility of Bushiroad on services such as Discord. Bushiroad decided that discussion as a form of resolution would be difficult at this point, which led to its decision to sue Ikeda and Studio Ikecchi.
Bushiroad announced in June that the Future Card Buddyfight card game was ceasing product development and releases. The announcement in Japanese stated that official tournaments and events, shop tournaments, customer and rule , and defect exchanges would end on May 31, 2021, while the announcement in English stated that they would continue until June 30, 2021.
Bushiroad launched the trading card game in 2014.
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The Future Card Buddyfight Ace manga launched in May 2018 and Shogakukan Asia is publishing the series in English.
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Thanks to ravegrl for the news tip.
