Say goodbye to one of the most charming YGO rivals of all times. He deserved better. Episode 117: 交わらない道 – Majiwaranai Michi (Paths That Won't Intersect) After finding out where Ai is, Yusaku heads to an island located on the outskirts of Den City, all by himself. Ai has already started making copies of himself on the island, using the SOLtiS he acquired from SOL Technologies. Ai reveals his motive for attacking humans, as well as all the thoughts he's been keeping to himself. And now, with the future of the world on the line, Yusaku and Ai begin their first and final battle.
Let the next YGO be grounded with no futuristic shit and no "save the world with card games" retardation.
Austin Bailey
There can't be any over the top developments if you do that.
Thomas Gomez
>no futuristic shit Fair >no "save the world with card games" retardation I legit think it's impossible to make a card game show with any amount of stakes unless it involves some external factor like Shadow Games or some shit
Aiden Powell
Holy shit, this show is still running? Did things get better?
Julian Murphy
It can just be a generic shounen about a kid that's bad at YGO and wants to get better to win the world championship or whatever. It's all about the execution.
Jonathan Butler
locals shit would be boring too. It's 2020, making such a vanilla plot for celebration of the world's most crazy-face anime series? I doubt this.
Ayden Hernandez
Next show will be WIXOSS with YGO cards.
Ryder Foster
As soon as you stop being gay.
Cameron James
as expected, this is what all these posters mean just go read the current manga for that.
I don't care about these cliche tournament plots.
Carson Russell
At least you can't fuck that sort of plot up like they've done in the last two series.
Anthony Fisher
Post cereal boxes
Benjamin Gonzalez
European setting with female MC. Driven by revenge dueling underground
It's pretty much impossible to have any sort of stakes in those types of shows. The most that the villains of the show could do is like, steal a deck or something. Maybe beat someone up but past that there's not much someone can do to really be a villain and on top of that the entire show would pretty much be tournament arcs with minimal breaks >Kid joins locals >plays some games there (maybe like 10 episodes max of this shit before it gets boring) >signs up for regionals >tournament arc >more locals >signs up for nationals >tournament arc >gets into worlds >more locals >tournament arc >show is over They pretty much need something supernatural or wacky to make it work like the OCG Structures manga
Jaxon Rogers
>Did things get better? The show got a premature death what do you think?
David Stewart
What do you mean? People hate Yuma because he is annoying, not because he is bad at the game.
Juan Rodriguez
Wait. So what'll be Pandor's role in the plot? Her name suggests she should be somewhat relevant but if that's all she's doing I would have rather seeing Hayami fight Ai to protect Zaizen.
Luke Hernandez
It's getting axed.
Landon Perry
There's definitely an emphasis on him getting better to win a championship.
Joshua Gomez
Mirror Force was peak Vr/a/ins
Alexander Nelson
He's the childish kind of fun. True annoying was Yuya, forcing egao on everyone's throat in the most serious arcs.
Yeah, but, again, it's because his personality is annoying. If you've seen more than a few shounen, you should know that there are other ways to characterize a main character with a similar goal/path.
Easton Perez
>Ai summons a Link 5 during his duel/PM summons a Link 6 during his duel >use it as the cover >add some of the anime cards still on backlog >make 80% of the set be game original like always
Gavin Phillips
You posted that there was no way to screw it up though.
Carson Collins
What was the last main booster set where the majority of cards were anime stuff?
Ian Butler
I mean the plot, not some characters. You can't fuck up a simple plot like that like ARC-V and VRAINS did to theirs because of how simple it is.
William Green
Just mix both. Have your smaller scale story about someone getting better but slowly introduce more supernatural elements into the story. Transition from smaller scale to full blown 5ds/GX/DM crazy by the end. This way we get to know the characters and develop them on a more intimate level before things fall apart and people start dying
Xavier Torres
VRAINS plot isn't fucked.
Aiden Ross
>"save the world with card games" retardation But that's half the appeal of YGO
Eli Nelson
The early sets of VRAINS, when they were printing the initial wave of the very few VRAINS decks ever printed
Isaiah Hill
What's with wanting foreigners in yugioh?
Mason Nguyen
So just GX except actually properly planned ahead.
Connor Foster
Stop having extremely high expectations for children's anime. You are almost certainly not going to like it as much as when you were not an adult.
Caleb Thomas
Essentially, yes.A properly planned out GX would be the perfect way to have smaller scale conflict, standard shonen escalation and YGO madness. It'd have everything a ygofag would want
Isaac Scott
I don't think wanting small scale tournament arcs all the time counts as "high expectations."
Easton Foster
GX was necessarily dependent on having a world ending conflict every fifty episodes.
Bentley Reed
I don't think lowering the scale or wanting decent character development is having high expectations NuhUh-kun
Christopher Rivera
>boring protagonist >muh cyberse >rival whos one of the few sources for entertainment >so many archetypes that will never get made >no tournament arc >terribly written female characters >predictable plot >getting axed in about a month or 2 >recaps I'm starting to think VRAINS may have been a slight letdown.
It's hyping yourself up to believe they won't go into world ending or super serious conflict at any point when they've shown they'll bounce right into at any time.
Logan Adams
>a slight letdown it's more than that not even the real card game survived how bad vrains impacted the series
Tyler Sanders
>it's more than that not even the real card game survived how bad vrains impacted the series How fucking delusional are anti-vrains fags exactly?
i wasn't talking about the success of the game you idiot but the health of the game link summoning brought ftk's and loops to the game and introduced extra linking that can stop you from playing the game
Jordan Walker
So it's pretty much over already, how would you rank Vrains assuming the last few episodes are decent?
Thomas Butler
>gross profits >below black clover user... this is ink for axing a series
Assuming that the last duel is god tier and that Revolver vs SB has a good resolution (it won't, everyone knows it will be a draw from Exploderokket and the whole motivation for the duel is pointless), I'll give it a plus simply for not shitting itself completely like ARC-V. Season 1 was peak VRAINS and it was boring as fuck. Season 2 is even more boring. Season 3 is a whole bunch of wasted potential unless it has a good resolution.
Angel Carter
>Soulburner dueled 2 times >Revolver dueled 1 time >Playmaker dueled 1 time Based Chadburner
Who cares about Emma, really. I wish the old hag had stayed away from the main cast. She and her brother were a waste of time. Lost Incident children would have been better.
Jason Ward
nobody on Yea Forums plays the tcg user and what i told said to you was all true if you don't believe me then go back and see how many people complained about firewall bringing back ftk's and loops in to the game during 2018
Asher Young
Yes. Don't listen to these weaboos:
Jackson Price
Now you're just getting into ranker bullshit.
Nicholas Johnson
For the few autistlovefags that still lurk these threads, don't be sad if Aoi and Yusaku don't get a scene together again. Since Aoi is the only girl of Yusaku's age he knows and the main girl, that alone makes her the clear endgame for Yusaku. Well, that would normally be the case but since Aoi and Yusaku haven't really shown any type of attraction I guess it will depend on how VRAINS ends.
I don't think they set themselves up into a postion where they can't have all the other characters absent for the ending. It's not like GX where they already showed everyone's ending.
Jack Taylor
>Pandor didn't turn evil Welp, the autistic revolverhater was wrong after all. Revolver managed to do something right for once
No. He deserves somethig better than Aoi. I think Miyu would fit him the most since them both share the same harsh childhood. Miyu must have also seen the footage of the ignis war. She will want to know who Playmaker is and since they share link sense she probably won't have a hard time finding him. It's all set up for them to share their lifes together.
>And now, with the future of the world on the line, Yusaku and Ai begin their first and final battle. Where's the imbecile who said this wasn't gonna be the final duel? I bet you must be feeling pretty stupid right now
>I was really looking forward to something that had not been foreshadowed at all
Jaxson Miller
>Gem-Knight FTK >Tier 0 SPYRAL ft. Firewall >Gouki Knightmare Extra Link ft. Firewall >DARK Warrior Gumblar Handloop >Rhongomyniad Turbo >Starving Venom Lyrilusc Pendulum FTK >Utopic ZEXAL Turbo >Amaryllis Plant FTK >Samsara Lotus Plant FTK >Assault Core/Wind-Up Bat/Grapha Cannon Soldier Firewall FTK >Danger! Saryuja FTK >Dragon Link Gumblar Handloop
Grayson Perry
So when do the pissfag and delusional miyufag finally leave?
Jeremiah Rodriguez
>I was really looking forward to SOLTIS versions of the Ignis dueling their counterparts First was Jin being relevant, then Spectre being relevant together with the other Lost Incident Kids, S4 and VRAINS II. If ARC-V didn't exist VRAINS would be known as the season to BTFO all the fans expectations
>VRAINS ending in september AAHAHAHAHHAHAH, VRAINS LASTING UNTIL MARCH FAGGOTS WHERE? VRAINS HAVING 140+ EPISODES WHERE? GET FUUUUUUCKED FAGGOTS AHAHAHAHAHHA
Kayden Gutierrez
This is the only reason i like Yusaku. The fucker is more OP than Atem and Yusei combined
You're the only one who'll get fucked if you believe the production issues will go away.
Lucas Robinson
and don't forget that firewall caused some cards to get hit instead of it so it can dodge the banlist for almost the entirety of 2018 and was also protected by shueisha
>No I won't, at least ygo7 won't be remembered as the only ygo to get cancelled early because it's such a flop, Can't be cancelled early if it wasn't planned to go on as long. And you're so unaware, you don't even know about the toei series or the fact that GX was only 180 episodes. Dumb flop poster, go back to your WSJ ranking threads.
Everyone in this show deserved better (except Go) what a incredible waste if charming designs and ideas And you know what's the worst part? If the next series isn't a DM reboot it'll be a Youkai Watch looking toddler shit starring an ugly Yuma-tier sperg
Easton Robinson
I fucking swear if Kiku doesn't appear outside a flashback
Yugioh will be fine no matter how bad things get because konami only cares about card sales in the end
Jose Richardson
They want character interaction heavy segments instead of card games.
Aiden Diaz
I regret picking this up. If only I knew it isn't well received.
Mason Howard
>So it's pretty much over already, how would you rank Vrains assuming the last few episodes are decent? Writing wise VRAINS is definitely better than ARC-V for the simple fact that it didn't turn a Nazi army into good guys with the power of EGAO. On the other hand ARC-V was more enjoyable as a whole so i personally gotta put VRAINS in last place
So with Vrains ending early, can we say Bohman is the Zorc/Darkness/Z-One/Don Thousand/Z-ARC and Ai is the Atem/Yugi/Jack/Astral/Reiji?
David Myers
It was forced and he should do something bigger for all this foreshadowing
Wyatt Allen
As long as they have Hikokubo as their duel writer the card game segments are unsalvageable so might as well scratch the card game aspect altogether and go for a Duel Terminal/True Draco/World Legacy/whateveristhenextstoryline adaptation.
I'm not the one complaining about interaction. There are a lot of people who can't handle a slightly different type of story.
Austin Bell
This is why I listed whatever the next archetype storyline is as a possibility. >The anime has to showcase effects They nerf/buff most of them and that doesn't mean anything when you consider that Hikokubo doesn't know how to play with the cards.
Neither Ai nor Pandor. Besides, I meant it as Bohman basically being the Final Boss while Ai is the Ceremonial Duel (ending with his death). The former's Deck in his last Duel reeks of Final Boss gimmick while Ai's Deck is actually cohesive for example.
Jaxon Roberts
Let's have GX's mangaka be the duel writer for YGO7
Well you can't mention Yuya/Yuzu without bringing up the manga ending so I'd say that evens it out.
Christopher Wright
>They nerf/buff most of them Yeah, but they'll still want to actually show off the card game for real. We're not looking at digimon here.
Blake Smith
Just looked that up. It's just a ygo ripoff. And a very weaboo one. I'd rather watch regular anime over it.
Cooper Martinez
Thank goodness. It's a shitty ship in both mediums after all.
Daniel Hughes
Don't know what that has to do with Aoi but whatever
Brandon King
>a very weaboo one Where do you people even come from?
Jaxon Evans
It's not just effects, but rather the game itself. YGO is a difficult game to get into, and many kids/new players will be willing to sit down and look at a rule book. By seeing the characters play in the anime, they get a general idea on how the game works.
Matthew Jackson
Surely they'll be too busy spouting nonsense about the currently airing characters.
Parker Torres
probably gamefaqs or some other normie communities. These posts aren't even reddit tier.
Cringecuck
Jayden Cox
What the fuck do you think yugioh, or for that matter other anime is. You're a weeb yourself son.
I come from /his/ if you are so interested on me. Wanna date? put on a nice dress and we can talk.
Gabriel Martin
they don't learn the game from the rulebook or the anime the anime just gives them interest to play once they go into any simulator they play until they learn the rules and decks the used
Juan Russell
Yeah, I'm sure they had planned for the final season of Vrains to be less than 20 episodes. All part of their master plan to purposefully make things anti-climactic.
Owen Taylor
>octobor vjump climaxfags were right >tweetfags were right >lastduelfags were right >s3 will go on until 2020fags were wrong >s4 fags were wrong OH NO NO NO NO NO NO AHAHAHHAHA
Jayden Morris
Is it confirmed that VRAINS will end in the coming weeks.
If we ended on high climaxes then GX would have ended after Yubel, 5DS at Godwin, ZEXAL at Vector and Arc-V at Sora vs Shun.
Carson Howard
>Yusaku is a quickCHAD based
Tyler Powell
If vrains does really end I'm getting into the actual game. I'm tired of not understanding half the things that happen during duels. Watching the monsters and action was entertaining enough to me but I guess it's time to get down the rabbit hole.
There is no official confirmation yet, but everything points to it. There is even an anime coming to take VRAINS's timeslot now.
Nathaniel Green
Same here. I need ygo in my life one way or the other.
Blake Sullivan
And I almost forgot Yugi vs Malik for DM.
Jack Smith
There are so many things that would feel really off if vrains ended after ai vs Yusaku that I can't bring myself to accept that it is ending.
Easton Ward
Kek.
Levi Long
It's just sort of a card game about playing a card game. Very low supernatural elements for the first 100 or so episodes, and even then the card game is the focus and not entirely saving the world.
Then the latter seasons kind of ramp that shit up. Also MC is kind of a loser and doesn't win every match, more so loses a bunch of the first ones he plays which might not be so exciting.
Iunno, I like it for different reasons than Yugioh. But can see why a fan of one wouldn't like the other.
Ian Anderson
Bastion had a decent ammount of spotlight, thouth. A better representative of gx would be Chumley.
Ian Roberts
So, 100 episodes for the next one?
Colton Gomez
IWAE. This is now a WAGA MAO thread
Leo Powell
Please, we're going for a 26 episode season.
Jonathan Bailey
You guys say that but couldn't be bothered to do so during arcV so why act like "this time for sure!"
Grayson Flores
10 episodes, if you're lucky a swimsuit OVA.
Elijah Roberts
How would you have likey pic related to perform instead of what we got?
maybe this time they will do it for real since vrains is ending sooner than expected
Luis Mitchell
I didn't watch arcV. I only watched gx back during the day.
Hudson Davis
What are they goint to fill the next 2 booster packs with if not anime archetypes? Also, when was the last time that we got a cover monster that didn't show up first in the show?
>when was the last time that we got a cover monster that didn't show up first in the show? i'm not sure but this probably happened before at some point
Cameron Mitchell
I know how to play but I'm not up to date with the meta. Plus, I wasn't even here when arc-V aired.
Matthew Lopez
>implying that anime decks get printed
Chase Gutierrez
Yeah, the "Vol 1, 2, 3, etc" times.
Connor Reyes
>Inb4 it is only now that we get the multiple unprinted decks of VRAINS.
Adrian Parker
>2020 >4th generation uh, guys?
Andrew Perry
>What are they goint to fill the next 2 booster packs with if not anime archetypes? They don't print shit from VRAINS. They have dozens of archetypes to choose from if they really wanted to put anime stuff into the last Link era set. They most likely will just whatever new big boss appears in Ai vs Playmaker as the cover and add some of the anime cards on backlog like random dork dragons, random cyberse and stuff like the Altergeist/Marincess Link 4.
Jose Morgan
I'll wonder how they would sell girly cards in a DM super scenario.
Liam Roberts
>Also, when was the last time that we got a cover monster that didn't show up first in the show? Not counting non-main sets? Flaming Eternity, with Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys.
Sebastian Adams
>I'll wonder how they would sell girly cards in a DM super scenario. if the cards are good and have potential to be meta it will get bought 100%
Brandon Stewart
wasn't there some Arc-V deck that didn't get printed until last year
Logan Brooks
I mean there aren't many girls in DM to play them. There were only 4 duels with girls in the manga.
Mason Turner
Yes, but Vrains was obnoxious with not printing new Decks unless they were used by main characters. Without counting Dinowrestlers and Marincess since they just replaced Goukis and Trickstars, the only actual new Vrains Decks we have gotten since Season 2 started are Salamangreats and @Ignisters.
James Gutierrez
>>She is a girl in Yugioh. Why the fuck did you expected her to amount to anything? It turns out I am the fool
Luke Morris
add some new female characters then
Xavier Nguyen
Every player got BTFO you retard
Jonathan Rogers
I mean VRAINS decks. It's common for series to not print every single archetype, but VRAINS in particular barely prints any. Pretty much every major character of ARC-V except Akaba Leo has their deck printed. The 3 Knights of Hanoi, Specter, Blood Shepherd, Lightning, Windy, Earth, Bohman, Haru, Roboppi, none of them do.
Liam Garcia
I'm legitimately not sure whether to rank it above or lower than Arc-V, my least favorite series. I can't tell whether it's worse to be given high hopes and then have those hopes completely fucked or to have little hope going in and the show doing nothing to make it feel better.
I think I might rank it the lowest solely because I didn't like any characters that much except Revolver. At least in Arc-V I got to be disappointed in the writing in characters I liked
Ethan Sanchez
They did but they were all filler.
Daniel Parker
>the most pathetic main girl in the entire franchise Worse than Kotori?
Brandon Gomez
>Ai and Yusaku's Final Bosses >Salamangreats Lemming, Zebroid X and Shrine. Synchro and Tuner if we are lucky tomorrow >Marincess Basilalima and Great Bubble Reef >Noctovision Dragon >Gouki Iron Claw, Guts, Diver, Double Impact and The Powerload Ogre >Altergeist Pookuery, Fiflajert and Memorygant >Tindangle Returner and Stairs of Mail The cast's recent backlog fits like a glove.
Gabriel Harris
Bohman was a big part of why I started not liking the series as much
Jackson Wood
then just wait until they finally allow a female to be the main character someday
I give Zexal a lot of credit for turning me around on Yuma who I really hated in the beginning. It's funny how Yuma never really changes as a person but gets better as a duelist and the circumstances around him make you sort of appreciate what he's about more.
Also, Yuma at least stands for, like, something at all. Which is more than I can say for Yusaku and even Yuya to an extent
Justin Ward
Vrains needed more cute TEEN girls like Miyu and Kiku but actually recurrent.
Nathaniel Collins
No, I'm just saying they don't have prominent female characters to shill girly cards.
Michael Ross
Kotori was at least cute and fun to watch. The complete opposite of Aoi
>GX would have ended after Yubel, Probably a good idea honestly >5DS at Godwin That wasn't even the best deal in that season. >ZEXAL at Vector No Nasch no buy >Arc-V at Sora vs Shun. Yuya vs. Reiji round 2. Series ends in a giant fuck you cliffhanger. Still better than the actual ending though
Oliver Collins
>they don't have prominent female characters to shill girly cards they can do what they did with aoi she shilled trickstars well but didn't get treated well but that's mainly due to yoshida if they get better writers the future series might have better female leads
Gavin Johnson
What happened to the cute blue trap?
Anthony Adams
>they can do what they did with aoi she shilled trickstars well but didn't get treated well Aoi is a prominent female duelist regardless of win record. DM doesn't have anything comparable.
Grayson Perry
He's never coming back after they made his monsters synchro irl
Connor Gray
WE BETTER GET THAT HOT DOG TRUCK HAPPY ENDING OR ELSE.
The blue trap became less of a trap and his story reached a reasonable end so now we have a prequel about the shopkeeper's crazy adventures in high school
>but that's mainly due to yoshida if they get better writers the future series might have better female leads They have had 3 separate chances with different writers to get even one girl written correctly. Aki, Yuzu and Aoi are the only duelists who it felt like were even remotely connected to the larger overall plot and they fucked them up in different ways. It doesn't matter who the writer is, they cannot do girls to save their lives.
Which sucks because I tend to like YGO character designs but I just know they're gonna job half the time
Isaiah Young
There were two new Manga coming out instead of vrains. Where's the other one?
>DM doesn't have anything comparable it was hard to shill things during Dm Because the card game was being introduced at the time and archetypes were not a thing yet so anzu or mai didn't really have things worth shilling
Charles Davis
It's oddly cathartic how, in a series where most of the characters are consumed by grudges and personal baggage, Yuma spends most of his time trying to connect with people or telling them to stop being assholes to each other. It feels considerably more genuine than Yuya's EGAO or Yusei's KIZUNA.
Dominic Gray
Do you want NAS to work animators to death on two big productions at once?
Luis Thomas
I was thinking of picking it up for him. I didn’t know his anime already ended.
Ian Ross
What's the second one?
Oliver Long
His run is still worth watching and it's only 65 episodes compared to the 196 of the original. He's also very likely to return since they're doing this weird thing where the prequel is still part of the same series
Isaiah Brown
The next series?
Luke Nelson
Are you retarded?
Landon King
Not that user, but you do realize that anime production starts well in advance of airing, right? That VRAINS itself was largely unable to do this is even why there were so many early recap episodes.
Anthony Howard
NAS never actually worked on vrains. They just half assed shit. Surely they could half ass it some more while working on 7.
He has a point. Unless the YGO anime is cancelled like for good or something, they are likely working on YGO7 now
Jace Thompson
I wish Battle Spirits was more popular. But I know very well it will never be as more known as something like Vanguard because a)it peaked too early and b)it doesn't get subbed timely and c) the character designs look too youthful unlike YGO and Vnaguard
There's a new ONA coming out for it's 10th anniversary of that one series that it peaked at, Battle Spirits Brave, that has the few fans hyped
I guess I'm the opposite from most people here since I think something that stays consistently mediocre is still better than starting out promising and failing to live up to the hype. So I'd rank it above Arc-V and post DS 5Ds Kinda middling but never quite reaching the lowest points of the franchise.
>few fans I've been seeing this shit on my TL twitter all the time with tons of retweets though
Luis Ross
I think the issue is that something can be mediocre consistently as long as the characters are enjoyable. I don't think too many characters were enjoyable except for Revolver. There just was much for them to do except follow the plot along.
For fuck's sake, a running gag around here was "okay Yusaku will make friends in this arc right?"
Hunter Cox
I wouldn't take retweets as an indication of a big fanbase. Those are mostly japanese onlookers.
Colton Gutierrez
>8300 monster >Yuma beats over it with 79200 Beautiful The sheer amount of UNGA never ceases ro move to tears.
>There just was much for them to do except follow the plot along. Yeah, that was definitely an issue. One thing I want for YGO7 is Vrains' tight plotting with actually good characters that are fun to watch.
Isaiah Ortiz
>tight plotting
You could make everything that happened in VRAINS 1/2 of the episodes it currently has.
Arc-V's ambition is the bad kind of ambition. Ambition that failed but went all the way should be praised even if you didn't like it, like the last season of Duel Monsters. It wasn't the arc Kaz really wanted and the animated version looked pretty bad but he tried his best to make it work.
Arc-V put it's hopes too high and then didn't want to actually keep going so they just relied on conventions of the series and couldn't think the plot through. That deserves strong ridicule. What makes it worse is that it's not like they didn't have enough episodes
William Clark
Same could be said for almost all of the seasons. Maybe Yugioh should go to a 50-70 episode season.
Aiden Sanchez
The biggest problem with vrains is its characters are fucking shit. Simple as. Tells a lot when characters like roboppi and ai already have a better rep than yuzaku. Like how the fuck am I supposed to root for PM to win his duel when the good and fun character is the one that could lose. Like if Ai destroys the humans and revives his family I'll call that a win.
It can never do that because the anime is just advertisement
Owen Campbell
More like Arc-V became so bad it seemed like they wanted to fail purposely.
Henry Parker
Most advertisement anime is 50-70 episodes and they do it just fine.
Jacob Smith
One day maybe yugioh will be seasonal.
Ayden Baker
The problem with Playmaker is that his growth is hard to tell because he didn't suffer through defeat or loss, that was his default from the start of the series and so he's just been kind of angry on a revenge burn for so many episodes until now it shifts and he doesn't have enough of a personality to show for viewers to identify or sympathize with his plight. The lost incident is barely worth remembering at this point.
That's why Ai's deal is much easier to feel for, because he's been through some shit that was shown that was significant that the viewer can appreciate.
Luke Edwards
Most advertisement anime aren't the biggest card game in the world. Also you realize that if the anime were yearly, they'd have to invent a new rule every year right?
Ian Russell
I feel more for fucking Blood Shepherd than I do Shitmaker
Boy SoL sure was the worst Yugioh tech company we've had to date, like what the fuck was that?
Jason James
Yuma was boring with how repetitive he was both character and duel wise.
He did the same thing Yuya did but with Kattonbingu instead,he said it in every damn duel.
Aiden Richardson
I'm convinced that they knew the writing was on the wall and started cutting the season down months back. That's why YGO7 was announced as soon as it was, and to cut their losses they'll just give up on Vrains. Which is why the plot points are all being left to the wind
Liam Hall
They come across overly corrupt and incompetent, perfect in a cartoon way I think.
Asher Smith
>YGO7 was announced as soon as it was Fairly certain Arc V was announced around the same time. And there's still absolutely nothing to show for YGO7 so it's not like they moved up the schedule or anything.
Colton Perry
Aikatsu is moving from Thursday to Saturday morning. Do you think that Vrains will shift there? Not to possibly rain on your it got cancelled party or anything.
Jonathan Anderson
Egao is about getting other people to do something. Kattobingu is a matter of self-affirmation.
You're boiling the subject down to the simple presence of a character tic, when the actual problem people have is how these tics actually impact or are executed within their respective works.
>That's why YGO7 was announced as soon as it was But YGO7 hasn't been announced yet
Joshua King
We didn't get a fucking Kattobingu world.
Ayden Brown
Depends if there's an announcement soon or not. There's actually a timeslot on saturday airing ygo reruns so they already have a booked slot and all. But still unlikely.
Anthony Harris
Based Boomer
Benjamin Lee
Have they ever moved before? If they've kept the timeslot then no, it's dead Jim.
Thomas Fisher
based and truthpilled, original Yugi > all
Liam Cooper
Yuma did not force Kattobingu on his opponents. That's what made it slightly more tolerable. Yuya was screaming about EGAO for every fucking thing to solve the world's problems. "These kids are hungry? Egao. These guys are trying to kil us? Egao. There's a fucking baby? Apparently the last duel needs to be about making it EGAO".
Cameron Miller
I think they announced a new season or crossover or something. I don't think vrains has anything like that.
Mason Harris
Arc-V was a Sunday show, airing where Pokemon is now.
Cooper Nelson
seriously could any of your current pink haired femboy characters take even 1000LP from Yami Yugi? if yugioh even still has LP
Brayden Evans
Yugi's deck is total garbage.
Colton Brown
Arc-V didn't move timeslots though
Camden Thompson
Judai could.
Jayden Howard
wew
Asher Campbell
Zexal moved I think from a monday to sunday, also in October. But moving just for half a year would be odd.
>Playmaker hasn't lost a single duel >Loses vs Ai >Ai nukes humans >Series ends How do you want it to end?
Austin Howard
was there no new episode today?
Noah Davis
Yugi wasn't even the best Exodia user. That was Amon from GX.
Leo Sanders
Weevilmind.
Julian Thompson
VRAINS R2 HERE WE GO BABEEEEY
Jaxon Hill
But in the end it boilled down to people doing what Yuma wanted,just like the EGAO thing.
Yuma more so in season 1 was extremely autistic about people using dueling for revenge despite Shark having a very valid reason to be pissed.
Kaito even tells him off about his attitude during the Barian Onslaught Arc but nothing comes out of it since everybody hops on Yuma's bing anyways.
In the end its Yuma yelling about Kattobingu in serious situations and people still follow him in his autism.
Does that sound similiar?Its the same situation as the 2nd half of Arc V.
Kevin Bennett
vrains II soon it will go the zexal 2 part route
Mason Butler
Start Ignis RequAIem.
Christopher Nguyen
It's a Tuesday.
Blake Jackson
literally who?
>watches filler
t. xyz syncro etc zoomer
and?
yes, some kiddo from a dueling academy is better than the pharaoh of egypt
Charles Sanchez
What's funny is that the only time he even used Exodia was when he happened to draw into all the pieces after stalling on "set monster, pass" for the majority of a literal 22-turn duel.
Blake Butler
airs in like 10 hours m8
Jaxson Taylor
You sound upset. Maybe you should smile more, user. Lemme help you out.
And Yuma still wanted to be friends with him despite him killing people he knew,which is what Kaito told him of on.Shark was being serious,Yuma was not.
Heck he was still calling Alito his friend,despite him mocking and killing Gauche who has been a bro to Yuma.
I don't get why YGO has this thing about making the villains buff for the big battle. Getting muscular isn't going to make your dueling better.
Getting more monstrous is one thing but getting buff is just weird
Kayden Peterson
>But in the end it boilled down to people doing what Yuma wanted All Yuma ever wanted was for people to stop being dicks to one another, and it's ultimately everyone else's choice to take up the hand he extends to them. When Yuma puts his faith in Vector and gives him yet another chance, Vector decides to be a better person because he's moved by Yuma's compassion, not because he buys into a fucking kattobingu cult philosophy. The motivations in play here are nowhere near as asinine. >Yuma more so in season 1 was extremely autistic about people using dueling for revenge despite Shark having a very valid reason to be pissed Please don't tell me you're unironically defending the cycle of revenge that landed everyone in that situation to begin with.
Revenge never did anything for anyone in ZEXAL. The obsession with getting back at people who have wronged you is what ruined multiple families up until that point, as well as the Barian Emperors later down the line. Nasch fucking loses everything because of muh revenge. You're saying Yuma should just sit on the sidelines while everyone, including some of his friends, are trying to kill each other?
Yuma was being serious. He wanted to save everyone. Alito is the perfect example. Yuma knew Alito was a good boi and then he came back evil because of Vector so Yuma wanted to bring back the real Alito.
Showing Yusuke that she won't let go once she wraps her legs round him. She's getting his kids.
Juan Howard
Who had the best summon chants in Vrains?
Alexander Cooper
I didn't know yugioh fags had such bad taste, ahiru no sora is great
Ayden Jackson
>sports anime Not even yugioh can be as drawn out as this.
Colton Carter
>All Yuma ever wanted was for people to stop being dicks to one another, and it's ultimately everyone else's choice to take up the hand he extends to them. When Yuma puts his faith in Vector and gives him yet another chance, Vector decides to be a better person because he's moved by Yuma's compassion, not because he buys into a fucking kattobingu cult philosophy. The motivations in play here are nowhere near as asinine.
The problem was the exxecution(just like the egao thing)Yuma even had issues even by seeing Shark vs III duel,when they were not even being dicks,just competitive.
Also no comment on Vector's forced redemption.
>Please don't tell me you're unironically defending the cycle of revenge that landed everyone in that situation to begin with.
No what i am saying is that Yuma was putting more emphasis on Shark using dueling for a revenge with a very valid grudge behind it instead of having an issue with IV burning Shark's sister.
>Revenge never did anything for anyone in ZEXAL. The obsession with getting back at people who have wronged you is what ruined multiple families up until that point, as well as the Barian Emperors later down the line. Nasch fucking loses everything because of muh revenge. You're saying Yuma should just sit on the sidelines while everyone, including some of his friends, are trying to kill each other?
Yuma has an obsession with them not fighting each other instead of caring what they did with each other.
Alito kills Gauche,mocks him in front of Yuma but Yuma still calls him his friend,because its ok that he killed Gauche since he rejoined his harem now.
Also Nauch did not lose everything because of revenge,he lost everything because life hates him,he is the Future Trunks of Zexal in terms of not being able to catch a break.
Sebastian Ward
Touma?
Brayden Sanchez
don't worry man I'm probably gonna watch it
Liam Flores
Not him but Yuma didn't know about what happened to Shark's sister. IV told him after losing to Shark the duel.
Andrew Reyes
More like obssession with everybody holding hands with each other,again Kaito calls him out on that.
>Alito was a good boi and then he came back evil because of Vector so Yuma wanted to bring back the real Alito.
Guess what?The Alito that killed Gauche was the 'good boi' since by that point Donny's brainwash had worn off so he had to apply it again.
Sebastian Barnes
Does it have any cute girls or is it a sausagefest?
Hudson Perez
Boy. I'm so fucking on edge this week. I hope they release any announcement soon. I am going crazy with all this speculation.
>No what i am saying is that Yuma was putting more emphasis on Shark using dueling for a revenge with a very valid grudge behind it Whether or not Shark has understandable reasons for being pissed does not undermine the point that revenge is stupid and meaningless. It's consistently so within ZEXAL's narrative.
Hell, when Yuma himself falls into it, it feeds into events that almost tear him and Astral apart. >Alito kills Gauche,mocks him in front of Yuma The Alito who was under two layers of brainwashing? That Alito? >Also Nauch did not lose everything because of revenge Nasch literally lost everything because of revenge. His inability to let go is what drove him into a long war and battle that ultimately resulted in the destruction of his people.
Samuel Lee
>I am going crazy with all this speculation Whats there to speculate? VRAINS is over
>Playmaker can't meet with Ai unless he has the letter >Revolver will get the letter if Soulburner lose Revolver is going to lose, isn't he?
Adam Allen
Main girl, not half man half dragon chimera.
Thomas Morris
I'd rather have some type variety rather than pigeonholing types like that
Jaxson Smith
>YGO7's main girl is actually a literal god
Adam Scott
If it's ending they won't say anything unfortunately. For seasonal anime, they usually announce how many eps it has but long running shows are different.
I don't think it's that they're shit so much that they aren't allowed to do anything. The structure of most of VRAINS has been >Yusaku gets a lead >He and whoever is riding his coattails goes after it >Rinse and repeat So everyone in the cast is just a prop for whatever mission falls into Playmaker's lap. I think it would have worked better if they let the characters have their own subplots and explore the world that way, and get back together when their interests coincide. Imagine the Miyu plotline was brought in earlier and Aoi, with Emma's help, searched for clues on helping her, which brings them to Earth, Aqua, and finally leads to Lightning, instead of >Aoi and Emma follow Playmaker because SoL >Earth messages Playmaker because reasons >Aqua shows up and lands on Aoi's lap because reasons >Also, Miyu exists
Benjamin Brooks
It's not pigeonholing anything new.
Grayson Turner
Whatever
Christopher Peterson
10/10 ending
Nathan Rodriguez
What do you think the next "buy" character will be like?
Crow, Takeru, Johan all have the exact same personality so I’m guessing something like them
Alexander Turner
She's there to reestablish relations between humans and AI.
Jayden Collins
To have Ai's baby who will be the Ignis to live peacefully with humans.
Michael Edwards
>yfw the series ends with revulva having a lower winrate than go and aoi OH NO NO NO NO NO AHAHAHAHAHA
Jayden Lewis
>Maybe they should have extended arc-v. Fixed.
Lucas Smith
>shitvuova is going to lose while shilling a structure deck >he will be forever remembered as that pathetic rival who loses while shilling >he will be forever remembered as having a lower winrate than blue jobber oh no no no no no no ahahahhahaha
This all happened because of over extension. DSOD made a structural weakness and it just kept going.
Matthew Morris
>So what'll be Pandor's role in the plot? She is a woman (AI), so of course Yoshida was going to make her useless and axe her at some point.
Brandon Barnes
No
Jeremiah Johnson
Implying a fifth arc of Arc-V wouldn't have been kino. More if it was heavily related to Zarc's background bonus point if it somehow revealed us a Ritual Dimension.
Juan Bennett
Vrains was such shit, I barely remember anything from S1, S2 felt like a long boring tournament arc and S3 is wasted potential. The only fun parts were S1 Revolver, Lightning being chuuni and the beginning of S3
I think they just gave one a week ago, so not anytime soon.
Parker Rogers
First week of the new month.
Elijah Hall
So, next week? Oh boy.
James Reyes
Just kys, delusional cuck.
Lincoln Gray
Funny coming from a Miyufag.
Jonathan Fisher
what was wrong with Friends?
Christian Collins
Any show that takes place in New York is by definition bad. I think it is big in China, though.
Leo Sanchez
How i met your mother wasnt bad
Jason Cooper
I think they are a pripara poster.
Zachary Price
Yusaku never lost and he runs the only main character ace monster ever banned in the physical game, so, yes.
Juan Gray
How the fuck is vrains ending in early October when Link Vrains pack 3 is coming in December?
Josiah Hughes
World legacy pack filler?
Blake Johnson
Nice try onee-chan, I just don't like Friends, I'm an OGfag.
Hunter King
Kind of but everytime i want Ono back i remmeber. WHO IN HIS RIGHT FUCKING MIND TURNS AN ARMY OF KILLERS TO GOOD GUYS JUST LIKE THAT
Isaac Thompson
You can have card releases without its respective commercial. The fact is there's just too much evidence suggesting otherwise.
>animators/storyboarders confirming they're done with production >YGO 7 announced way earlier than usual >117 summary describes the "final battle" >timeslot being taken over and unlikely it's just switching timeslots
Landon Hernandez
LVP is completely unrelated to the anime and most of it is support to game original archetypes. Are you retarded?
Charles Richardson
Who could forget the last Link Vrains pack, featuring such anime archetypes as Fire Fists, Magical Musket, Thunder Dragon, and Six Samurai?
Jaxon Perez
>Miyufag Stop spreading your delusional disease.
Nolan Allen
It features Links for GOs and previous series' Archetypes.
Justin Stewart
Because the early 2010s was the beginning of all idol anime.
Brandon Myers
>Aoi only gets to Fusion summon and nothing else while using Trickstars >Loses it when switched to Marincess and became Links only >Go gets to Fusion and Synchro while using Dinowrestlers >Loses them when went back to Goukis and became Links only
It was the beginning of Aikatsu as a franchise, yes.
Jason Davis
A Gouki Synchro would have been based.
Ian Hill
Ai took the YGO staff and replaced them with his SOLtis army
Brandon Long
The bounty hunters had fusion and synchro, so Aoi got fusion while Emma got synchro, because they were working together.
Anthony Rogers
>meanwhile CHADburner gets TWO Xyz's >forcedvulva will probably debut tracer tonight (inb4 game original lmao) and have TWO tuners
Christopher Powell
I want you and Yoshida out of this franchise
Jacob Cox
I miss Yuzu and Gon
Jack Allen
Don't forget Yuki Kaiji being done with a character and V-Jump saying the Climax of the Anime. VRAINS is ending only people in denial are the fags who still believe we are getting an S4
Levi Thompson
Not even S4, S3 is being cancelled
Thomas Howard
>Yuzu literally only gets Fusions and nothing else, not even Pendulums >Literally gets cucked by Serena
>s4fags >vrainswilllasttillmarchfags >restoflostincidentchildrenfags >jinfags >miyufags >SOLfags >chesspiecefags >pandorwilldefinitelyturnevilfags >aoiwilldosomething lmao based yoshida dabbing on all these niggers, someone post the pics of playmaker, soulburner and revolver posters
Cooper Martinez
Let's not pretend Yuzu had anything outside of S1
Andrew Diaz
You are talking about a franchise that put 5 weeks of live action comedy to not leave us without YGO more than two weeks. This all think is too odd to jump on quick conclusions.
Chase Anderson
>>Literally gets cucked by Serena shes the best ruri it's only natural for that to happen and to add to that lunalights won a ycs in 2018 so that just makes it 100% that serena is best ruri
Isaiah Jenkins
And don't forget autistlovefags, SoltisIgnisfags and VRAINS IIFags
>Yuzu get cucked in the anime >So she cucks Yuuya in the manga pottery
Carter Thomas
Soulburner was a waste of time. He doesn't even offer anything interesting to the dynamics of the anime. He's literally just there to sell yuki kaji and salamangreats.
Just think of this trio. Playmaker wants humans and AI to cooperate, Revolver wants humans to rule over AI, and Soulburner wants humans and AI to cooperate. It's redundant and things would have been better if he was actually on the side of lightning.
Henry Davis
Yeah, I really should take the opinions of someone who hates vrains and perpetually shitposts about it seriously.
Easton Ross
>Liking VRAINS Da fuck?
Nicholas Powell
>Not liking vrains wat
Caleb Russell
I'm not an idiot who would keep watching shit I hate. There's no benefit, even if I played the game I could always just read card info that gets posted.
Isaac Gray
it doesn't matter if you like vrains or not in the end vrains will be remembered as a low point in the franchise and possibly the weakest spinoff even weaker than arc-v
Camden Edwards
Oh NOW it doesn't matter?
Dominic Mitchell
Are you living under a rock to think that Vrains isn't either hated or seen as extremely mediocre and uninteresting?
Levi Brooks
Nostalgic faggots say this every goddamn series.
David Morales
It's fine. Vrains might not live up to anyone's expectation but it didn't become something so shit that would leave people in agony like ArcV.
Jaxon Lopez
yes but this actually works on vrains
Adrian Myers
It's never been more true. Other shows at least had high points. GX is remembered for dinosaurs attacking satellites and dark shit. 5Ds is remember for a great 64 episode run. Zexal is remembered for a drastically improved second half. Arc-V is remembered for having a lot of promise in the first season that gets squandered.
Vrains will be remembered for having a lot of recaps.
William Cooper
I honestly almost forgot about the recaps.
Evan Miller
Same, I always forget until some rando brings it up
I'm not the one forgetting Vrains has had 7 recap episodes
Tyler Reyes
No it doesn't. You probably don't even believe that yourself. Of course it's a hype faggot. I don't think everything drastically bouncing is actually good for a long running series. And people will remember vrains for stuff like mirror force or go. These characters aren't totally uninteresting like you claim.
Thomas King
>Go >Interesting Easily the biggest joke in the show together with Aoi
Ethan Jackson
How sad is it that the best things you can come up with are a bad meme and a character whose character arc was completely fucked? Not even a span of episodes people will remember, because it's become obvious that none of the seasons are going to be especially memorable in the long run.
Carter Jenkins
Literally the only good thing the vrains era brought was Rei. That's it. The anime is absolute shit, a literal shitshow.
how could I forget irlfags when the fucking series is about VR
Aiden Gomez
The mirror force gag worked once and that's about it. Revolver went down the shitter after s1. They tried to hit lightning twice by giving him more nostalgia traps and it was just meh.
What joke? Anime isn't funny. That's what people keep bringing up as "hype" moments so that's what I mentioned. Not that the other characters are bad, but it's about on par with the dumb shit that's get brought up from other series like the dinosaur satellite or invisible misawa.
Brody Reed
vrains will be forever remembered as the series that got axed halfway through the 3rd year lmao
Gabriel Sullivan
And the only spinoff with no Manga
Ayden Howard
>An anime being memorable and talked about long after its release is just "hype" This is just sad, the ways Vrainsfags are trying to justify how weak and dull their show is
Owen Wilson
And being the only season with no video game.
Adam Torres
and the only spinoff where the ace monster got banned
Give up, no one remember everything about any of these long running series off hand. Otherwise they would remember all the down time each one consistently has.
Lucas Bennett
>anime isn't funny >it's the "yugioh is serious and not real anime but actually westernized" anime fag lmao
Adam Brown
No. Japanese people just aren't funny.
Angel Barnes
But they remember the important bits, which is why the points I listed are brought up time and time again. But Vrains has no important bits, because it was a nonstop trashfire from a production standpoint, that enough people presumably stopped watching to warrant giving it the axe half a year before the next series starts.
Benjamin Carter
maybe if they kept evilvolver the show could have gone for the full year, yet again fujovulva ruins the series
Jaxson Lopez
THIS THIS IS THE PROBLEM, THEY TURNED HIM TO GENERIC BORING FUJO EXPOSITION MAN
Cooper Jackson
I give Vrains a lot of shit (and still will) but I appreciate that the staff realized the Link summoning animation they initially had was dogshit
Thomas Brooks
season 1 revolver would have won against lightning
Luis Lopez
VRAINS is still too profitable for the your supposed audience drops that you don't have any proof for to even matter. It's clear they no longer have the ability to produce two long running series for yugioh at the same time anymore.
Connor Diaz
>you don't have any proof lmao way to out yourself, see you at the end of September
Daniel Miller
>VRAINS is still too profitable Then why is it getting cancelled? Come on man, the show isnt popular
Blake Green
You don't have any proof of audience drops but there's tons of proof of production problems. And you'll definitely be saying all this shit again next series because it's not going to be like anime for 10-15 years ago but a lot closer to Arc-V and VRAINS. Even if it's some kind of DM reboot.
Josiah Turner
>Then why is it getting cancelled? They can't produce two anime at the same time anymore. Anime industry isn't getting any better.
Eli Barnes
Don't forget the part where he spend 98% of his time scowling.
Chase Walker
And you don't have any proof that they are any less equipped to deal with "two anime at the same time". In fact, if anything they should be better, since GX was abruptly ended and that led to 5Ds being shifted way up in start date.
Also, it's funny how you still can't actually provide a better defense of Vrains than "it has Go in it", as though that's supposed to be praise.
>And you don't have any proof that they are any less equipped to deal with "two anime at the same time". VRAINS has half the number of animation studios as arc-v, multiple recaps, and had to have live action for the first five weeks. Now that it seems like they announced the next anime and are ending vrains, it's very easy to tell they can't manage multiple productions. You act like so much about vrains but seem to forget all the production problems when it suits yourself. >Also, it's funny how you still can't actually provide a better defense of Vrains than "it has Go in it", Your defense of GX was dinosaurs and satellites and dark shit, when it couldn't keep shit straight for even half as long as 5DS. And your defense Arc-V was that it showed "promise". Well Spectre showed "promise" and it didn't mean shit.
Nathan Hall
Next month
Mason Young
>Well Spectre showed "promise" and it didn't mean shit. Edgy faces aren't "promise" user
Isaac King
He laid a mysterious scenario, and it didn't really pay off at all. He was supposed to drum up sympathy for the villain in the mean time.
Nathaniel Allen
>Well Spectre showed "promise I think having an interesting backstory is slightly different to the kind of promise Arc-V had
Jacob Hernandez
You can't compare an edgy dude being raised by a tree to an interdimensional war . >interesting backstory A FUCKING TREE
Brandon Roberts
Wasn't one of the main parts of the hyping up of arc-v its ambitious mystery?
