I honestly consider the anime at times better then the vanguard anime because it's bad in a good way. The card game does have skill to it more then vanguard does. I think the main reason is just people just hate Gao Spoiler
for being too good as he wins every game with no loses.
I do agree with Cherry. Anime does hurt it a lot. Also the script for Buddyfight isn't the best in the world. At times you want to cringe at it. But it has it's good moments.