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Gigant Big-Shot Tsukasa

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16351638 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chō-Bakuretsu I-Jigen Menko Battle Gigant Shooter Tsukasa (超爆裂異次元メンコバトル ギガントシューター つかさ, Chō-Bakuretsu I-Jigen Menko Batoru Giganto Shūtā Tsukasa; lit. 'Super Explosive Card Battle Gigant Shooter Tsukasa') is a 32-episode comedy and card battle anime television series produced by Bushiroad. It is animated by Fanworks and Forest Hunting One, and ran on NHK E from April 1, 2014 to February 10, 2015. An English dub of the series aired on May 27, 2017 on Disney XD Asia., under the title Gigant Big-Shot Tsukasa.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gigant Big-Shot Tsukasa” is japanese anime television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gigant, Big-Shot and Tsukasa, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gigant, Big-Shot and Tsukasa is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese anime television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16351638. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gigant Big-Shot Tsukasa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.