Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Coming Soon! [UPDATED 2]

On the February issue of V Jump, reveals the details on the new Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga on Saturday!

Called Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal it will premiere next spring in Golden Time, the popular evening timeslot on TV Tokyo and its other affiliate stations.

The series is set in the near future. Yuuma Tsukumo is number one bad boy at his school. Something unexpected happens as Ryoga challenges him to a Duel. When the mysterious entity Astral appears before them a new legend begins.

In this new series, a new type of summoning is introduced. Called Exceed Summon! This type of summoning is first seen in the manga version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. This type of summoning allows you to overlay monsters of the same level and put the new monster on top. It doesn't clog up the grave, and could help Konami change the emphasis away from the graveyard if this thing goes big.

In this scan, I can clearly see Yuuma's "scouter," and it seems, he is amazed with this kind of summon!

Yu-Gi-Oh! creator, Kazuki Takahashi and Studio Dice (Weekly Shonen Jump) are credited with the original story and the original character designs of the anime.

A scan of the manga... and I can't figure out what is the gimmick this time around!

Satoshi Kuwahara (Black Jack 21, Tezuka Osamu ga Kieta?! 20 Seiki Saigo no Kaijiken, Astro Boy: Shinsen-gumi) is directing off scripts that are supervised by Shin Yoshida (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time).

Masahiro Hikokubo is credited with "Dual Layout" as he was for the previous television series. Hirotoshi Takaya (The Brave of Gold Goldran, Chouja Reideen, Eyeshield 21, Kekkaishi) is designing the characters for anime. 

Source: Moe Ota-News Shokuhō via ANN, garfield15 of HJU (for the synopsis and manga image), Dark Kabuto (for the Exceed Summon), cohenmarioman (for the mechanics of Exceed Summon)