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.
oh my god its actually ending. and Yusaku will have dueled a total of ONE time.
Jayden Walker
Soulbuner is literally the best character in vrains >shilled his deck and made everyone BUY salamangreats >won the 2019 worlds >won his last two duels before the show ends >will finish the series with a respectable win/loss rate >had the best ignis >the most charismatic and fun character
Did you skip the preview? Yusaku meets Ai but they still fight in the Vrains. It's Yusaku vs Revolver 4 all over again. A perfect chance to have a duel in real life wasted.
Gavin Garcia
>the most charismatic and fun character He's way too fucking whiny.
That’s a kind of fucked backstory and I would’ve felt for him more if Pokémon hadn’t done the exact same thing with one of their fun and charismatic characters a few months back
Dunno, feels kind of neat that from the 3rd Bohman Duel onwards PM was kind of the secret weapon and so Dueled last. I hope he uses more new cards than just his Final Boss, though.
Josiah Cook
He's so fucking handsome. As someone who's watching this for cute boys, this episode really delivered, especially that Soulburner hair. Thank you based Noh.
Bentley Fisher
What if this is all a trick or misunderstanding and vrains continues after ai vs yusaku
Tyler Sanders
I don't know what shuiesha would be angling with that one.
Chase Gomez
I wonder if they'll change up yugioh design style for characters after vrains, to make things easier to draw
I don't know why ppl equate winrate = good character
>the most charismatic and fun character What was charismatic or fun about him? He doesn't even have a good chemistry with Yusaku.
Robert Torres
>the most charismatic and fun character Inarguably Ai. This thread seems calmer, so now that it's ending, what do you think were the biggest mistakes of Vrains? I'd say it's making this charismaless, ever-shifting bore of a character the main antagonist of the longest arc in YGO anime history. He's overshadowed by Lightning and Windy at every turn, Hydradrives are a mess that shift gimmicks almost every duel, and Bohman himself just had almost nothing going on as a character.
>tthe main antagonist of the longest arc in YGO anime history. Isn't that battle city?
Dominic Young
The style is the franchise's soul. It is 10000× times more apealing than your average moe anime style.
Wyatt Baker
>that name >that purple eye glow >that symbol lighting up over the whole duel field Absolutely based.
Jason Garcia
Battle City was split into two separate arcs, and Marik gets replaced by himself before the first part of Battle City is over.
Tyler Martin
There was literally no point in Bohman’s character. Everything he did could’ve been done by Lightning and nothing would have been different. And it was clear the writers had no idea what to do with him until 3/4 into the season because of how much they jumped around with his character.
Jayden Gonzalez
I think he was the only part that went to plan actually. AI gets smarter was the only consistent part of that arc.
Evan Morris
Well they could’ve handled it way better. Remember when he was the slim shady?
Benjamin Martinez
I mean there could’ve been more battle damage and wildly animated scenes but it was mostly talking the whole time
Christopher Garcia
I honestly think Bohman wasn't even supposed to originally be an AI. He had the whole lost memory gimmick that Yusaku had. It didn't go anywhere and they just dropped it and made him a plot device
its sad how bohman grew more as a character than yusaku.
Daniel Green
I think soulburner really got in the way of most things.
Jason Perez
I like how distinct it looks but when you have relatively untrained people dry heaving at having to draw complex motions with hands or line heavy characters, well...
Christian Russell
I think the lost memory was a translation error, and he meant the years he lost to ptsd. Ai had missing memory for a little bit
Jose Morris
So how about those chess pieces am I right?
Daniel Robinson
I don't think chess pieces were voiced by any super stars.
Landon Flores
This. No way Yusaku has missing memories when there's constant flashbacks of pretty much the whole lost incident from his POV (meeting Ryoken, losing a lot during the LI, getting rescued, getting therapy afterwards etc).
Camden Perry
>What is Dark Signer 5D's >What is Zexal >What is Standard Arc-V
Kevin Mitchell
What if they swapped BM and SB's win loss records?
Bohman still beat Soulburner and could easily beat Revolver he fits the bill not some beast dick user like cowards who can’t reply Yea Forums posts with proper language and shitpost August autists. Fuck most haters in the world have a weakness they will know when I come to them with my Pisces power.
Blake King
LOL! Bohman beats Revolver hands down. It’s sad they got less interaction during Lightning’s duel. Lightning should have asked Bohman to take his place to duel Revolcer
Nolan Hughes
Bohman being conceptualized as some digital AI buddha (anti buddha?) who will unify all to reach digi nirvana made it difficult to make him compelling compared to lightning who had human-like passions
Asher Gutierrez
And Revolver should have had an ignis like Windy on his side. Since Specter is connected to Earth Ignis. Go and Specter haven’t even dueled the right for Earth. The worst ignis award goes to him instead of Light
Jackson Wilson
You ever wonder if vrainsfags, vrains haters and the crossboarding fags that hate anime but love YGO are all watching different versions of the same show?
Dominic Long
Yusaku has gone through major shit. How the fuck does he not keep up with trauma.
Parker Gomez
Yeah he's komokuten.
Cooper Cooper
I mean, it's not that uncommon for people to conclude wildly different things playing out while watching the same exact event. It's why different opinions exist
Gabriel Lee
Are you trying to be philosophical? Never mind the show, of course everyone experiences reality differently. We're all products of our environment/past/upbringing etc.
Aaron Lopez
If next mc is more genki I wouldnt mind seeing an "ultimate bluffer" type character. Kinda like someone who acts like sawatari outwardly but panics on the inside
Jaxson Wright
Where is Quickdraw? I need Revolver as a therapist with Soulburner on the couch.
Ironically enough, the biggest problem in VRAINS is that the plot is synchronous. With the exception of people typing, there is at most one thing going on at any time. Jim gets abducted, THEN we get the Windy thing, THEN we get the Earth thing, THEN we get the Go thing, THEN we get the Blood Shepherd thing, THEN we get sequential hotel duels.
Jace Butler
The biggest reality splitting in recent memory happened in 2016. Some thought it was the end of the world, others thought it was a kind of last stand
Zachary Richardson
This duel was so good. How did they do it?
Aaron Reed
>no furious dragon >just burning draw This kind of sucks.
Xavier Collins
It involved two of the only four characters we actually care about
Zachary Nelson
>Jim Where's Jim user when you need him
Leo Collins
>burning draw card >effect is nothing like the skill
Wyatt Stewart
By turning off most of the viewers until they were mostly left with ones who will watch anything.
100% this. Nothing in Vrains feels like it exists or moves until Yusaku is told about it and loading screens to the location. Characters do not have any lives or motivations outside of whatever is the BIG PLOT and flashbacks before they find a way to off the character. Vrains feels like watching Yoshida's solo let's play of an MMO
Carter Richardson
Revolver carried the whole duel. He set it all up.
Weekends, bro. That shows Vrains was really not bad and people that shit on it are haters. When a product is really bad the oppinions are almost never different. Like late arcV.
Julian Roberts
Imagine if everyone who had died in the second season had just stayed dead, and Queen had the whatever MacGuffin instead of Akira. We'd be exactly where we are now, just a dozen episodes earlier.
Samuel Miller
>Yoshida's solo let's play of an MMO Why is this so accurate...
Justin Brown
Not sure I trust an esl on the CR translations which have been shaky in quality before
Sol were set up as an antagonistic force, but they were never once portrayed as THE big bads. It will never be printed.
Kevin Myers
They were set up as amounting to something, which they didn't
William Robinson
I became disappointed in the anime a lot before that to really care, dear user. So glad it's ending.
Luke Diaz
Big whoop.
Hunter Gutierrez
Duel links skill material.
Lucas Edwards
Like all Arc-V conflicts were solved without Yuya, because he literally worsened every possible situation.
Juan Miller
>the possession of the equipped monster cannot switch literally Rent free the card
Nathan Robinson
>Who cares if a show falls apart and doesn't deliver on even basic setup? Big whoop XDXD
Ayden Wilson
they can't make skills of things your game doesn't have user
Justin Brown
Sol were sub-villains who got dicked around by bigger bads and the protagonists at every turn. Just because they didn't meet your headcanon expectations doesn't mean they didn't deliver on what they were shown to be at every turn, incompetent greedy stooges.
Blake Edwards
>what is zexal the tournament format forced Yuma to solve everything for a major arc.
Jacob Martinez
You seem to be confusing headcanon for expecting them to ever matter and not just be a way to fill space. Which is a basic assumption that any non-retard should expect out of a story that doesn't completely suck.
Joshua Allen
I think they wrote their way out of this one, it's not the same as mysterious 5DS man really.
Ryder Turner
This episode was really something else. I've never felt like this for VRAINS before or even ARC-V. KINO OVERLOAD. Not only was this a good duel but the writing was amazing. Both Revolver and Soulburner got perfect send-offs and I couldn't be more satisfied. THIS is the kind of dueling I want from this franchise. You shill cards and make the audience FEEL for these characters. PM Vs Ai will have it hard to surpass this.
They did matter, their resources put Kogami in position to begin the Hanoi experiment, they covered all traces of it up for years, their Link Vrains was the setting for almost all conflicts in the first two seasons, their security stooges were minor antagonists in the first season, and they brought Blood Shepherd and antagonist Go into the second season, leading to Earth's death. Finally, whatever Ai's goal is required Sol's resources. Go jerk off to virtual world fillers if you want corporate heads playing card games.
Chase Howard
>Queen exists >THEREFORE THE OTHER CHESS PIECES MUST HAVE CEASED TO EXIST You spastic freak, Akira working directly with the Queen means he's above the knights and rooks and whoever he was meeting with in the first season. The other pieces are simply irrelevant at that point. You don't know what a retcon means.
Jayden Morris
But they never got established as mastermind puppeteers or even duelists. Their company just kept getting screwed over.
Angel Edwards
Unironically the best duel Vrains had. Now i feel kinda sad that they'll leave it with lots of plotholes but i hope at least they throw out all the budget on these last episodes.
Isaac Sanders
Hindsight is 20/20. They were an opposing faction to Hanoi and had their own motives. Funny thing is, they pretty much retcon the whole chess gimmick with the Three Kings. They're not represented by chess pieces at all.
Landon Turner
All of that is them relegated either to the background or them just passively letting things happen. They could be erased from the show and replaced with a nameless corporation that made Link Vrains but otherwise does nothing, and next to nothing would have to change.
Luis Young
having so little characters. I get it, Arc-V made a mistake of having so MANY fucking characters to handle and still give them proper resolutions, ending on their character arcs being thrown aside since they couldn't manage to give them even a little screentime.
But their main cast is so small, it makes it hard to care for them. They lose and are resurrected like it's just a weekend hangover, and they make their "deaths" seem way too more dramatic than they warrant when we know they're not losing anything at the end, just being removed from the plot.
They hyped Blood Shepherd and Emma as some of the best duelists only to have them lose EVERY SINGLE DUEL except one. And Emma only won against a fucking comic relief. They didn't know what the fuck to do with their season 1 characters, we got Aoi going from Blue Girl to Blue Maiden just to end up being little less than an aesthetic makeover.
And so many of these mistakes can be chalked up to the cast being so small. They could have given roles to different characters if they bothered introducing more characters in season 2 and season 1, at least then our main characters wouldn't look like chumps.
Duels are also way too fucking long. When every single turn is like Yusei's back on combo mode in 5d's, it gets tiresome.
Nathaniel Morgan
After this duel there's no denying Soulburner is the best character of VRAINS. He is literally soul incarnate
I liked him more than ever before in this episode but only because of his extra backstory bit, which was hamfisted and should have been mentioned ages ago. He's meh.
Jace Clark
do you realize that the arc-v hate was a meme.
Dominic Flores
>simply irrelevant >implying they were ever relevant to begin with
Did anyone else get a little feelsy or hype when Flame popped up? I wasn’t expecting it and just hearing his voice again was based
Brayden Johnson
Flame never amounted to anything. They could have do so many cool things with him, but he existed just so Soulburner could talk to someone during his duels.
I couldn't get hyped for him anymore. Wasted potential, just like mostly all in this spinoff.
Joseph Baker
Your pic just shows Sol being a stupid greedy corporation, just like everything else they ever did does. How does it establish them as mastermind puppeteers or duelists?
Brody Brown
>they're written as incompetent so it's okay for them to be incompetent for the entire series
??? what's even their point then.
Aaron Moore
Do elaborate on all this potential they wasted with Flame, tell us about all the cool things he could have done. I'll wait.
Tyler Scott
it stablishes them as being a fucking threat. You don't randomly drop lines like that expecting the baddies just to drop like retards after a single protagonist goes like them - subverting expectations is nice when your show is actually good.
>all the other Ignis are actually dead >for realsies
What the fuck? So what was all that about SOLTIS versions of the other Ignis? Was that just speculation?
Josiah White
They just wanted a more powerful AI to generate data material for vrains. It's not a stroke of evil genius.
Ethan Green
He could get a solo duel like Earth or Windy. Could get a human form like Ai instead of dying to literally-whohman Could interact with more characters than just with Takeru, Ai and Windy
plenty of it.
Joseph Taylor
Your post is illegible.
Zachary Fisher
it's not illegible you retard. After a single protagonist goes AFTER them*, you bitch.
Jace Hernandez
VRAINS apologists are on another level of retarded. They're reaching desperately to try and make sense out of this mess.
Whatever.
Robert Fisher
It was a good duel in a vacuum, but I had really hard time caring about soul burner and revolver. Revolver was kinda fun in s1, but everything after that was kinda bland.
Carson Gomez
>He could get a solo duel like Earth or Windy. Why? >Could get a human form like Ai instead of dying to literally-whohman I'm sure there are plenty of fan arts out there of human Flame, go find one you like. If Flame had survived the last arc, he'd probably talk Ai out of the drastic measures he's taken. >Could interact with more characters than just with Takeru, Ai and Windy He's spoken with some of the other characters. Who exactly do you wish to have seen him interact with?
Grayson Stewart
>>He could get a solo duel like Earth or Windy. >Why?
To not be just Soulburner's decoration for one.
>Who exactly do you wish to have seen him interact with? Lightning, Aqua, Earth, Revolver. Too many characters to list. He barely mattered to anything.
Michael Jones
He did speak with Lightning when Lightning revealed his true aims. Aqua and Earth are the actually irrelevant plot coupons.
Jose Long
Using Zeroboros was the only way. Soulburner only had 1 draw to do something and Savage would negate that. As for the brain control seeSoulburner had to use something out of Battle beast to match up to him.
Oliver Miller
Hopefully the next anime gets rid of the shitty MR4 and let's people play how they want again rather than actually forcing Links on players.
Anthony Ortiz
>they're irrelevant so it's good, why should it be changed >based VRAINS ha-ha
Lincoln Johnson
I hope they force the players to only play one extra deck method of their choice.
Sebastian Gray
>unironically not getting hyped whenever Flame and Soulburner do a Burning Draw
Carson Flores
sorry I don't like late inserts with no charisma. At this point the Johan archetype is a fucking meme because of how overdone it is.
Dylan Morales
I'm surprised that speed duels have been so irrelevant this arc. Roboppi vs Emma and Blood Shepherd and Ai vs Go were the only ones shown, weren't they? After Roboppi brought up his skill like it would be a big thing, it's odd.
Carson Butler
I want traditional cool looking duel disks back both Zexal and ARCV had absolutely horrible duel disk, I'm fine with the one Yusaku and Takeru used tho
Something just felt off so I re-watched the episode, searched for the card, read it and deleted the reply.
Joshua Gonzalez
Of Konami's choice? Because that was basically what Link and MR4 was.
Daniel Williams
Soulburner is hardly a Johan archetype. The OPs and Ends liked to to push this idea, but the writers never bothered to put in the work.
Christian Foster
Imagine still crying about this 3 years later.
Ethan Walker
>Imagine user wanting to revert back the shitty changes made by VRAINS
wow, so strange right.
Parker Hernandez
I think everyone who hated it GX forgave it after season 3, if it weren't for that season, then it'd probably get bashed as much as arc-V.
Xavier Ortiz
>force >choice pick one
Aiden Roberts
Remember when people for some reason knew how to Speed Duel was a plot point?
Julian Hill
I like the basic D-Pad and a few of the custom ones, but most of the custom ones are just bad. Look at Merags and tell me how that is supposed to work.
Jaxon Thomas
I thought they were mocking the card for not being like the skill. Just like how armityle in real life isn't like the one in the anime
Colton Rogers
In the current state of the game? It’s amazing. The fact that the Link monster can be anyone gives it better usage.
Too bad if it ever gets printed it’ll have a “Salamangreat Link” restriction
Kayden Phillips
They probably fell for the whole "Ygo cycle meme."
Shit dueling from Soulburner. >Battle beast worthy card >Topdecks draw card to topdeck 4 more including a monster reborn and all he needs.
Oliver Bennett
Stop being a bitch and play some link monsters. It won't kill the purity of your precious Koa'ki Meiru deck.
Austin Lewis
That looks so stupid. How are you supposed to close so you can dramatically pop it open at tournaments?
Matthew Kelly
>Just like how armityle in real life isn't like the one in the anime Armityle appeared in one duel, and got printed accurately to its anime self. Infamously, it then appeared in another duel, and THEN got a whole new effect added to it, after it had been printed.
Josiah Cruz
True, S3 was a game changer. S4 was trying to fix all the loose ends of GX with duct tape.
Justin Turner
no I pick both.
Matthew Sullivan
>Soulburner is hardly a Johan archetype He was basically one when he was first introduced. What separates him is his backstory, and loss of flame.
Zachary Lopez
man I never was really attached to VRAINS or it's cast but with this episode and these fanarts i'm starting to get sad It wasn't a good show but it didn't deserve to end this early
Oh no Zexal is still bad, for as much as GX gets shit on for its SOL moments, Zexal cramps that shit up to eleven and don't tell me it gets good at the end, the barian and shark "KINO" can't fucking surpass GX's HAOU arc and even comparing each other is an insult to GX. Fuck, GX gave us the chazz and wonder autismo Judai, Shark is just another sasuke and the photon memelord is meh at best
Owen Roberts
ygo7 won't be bad they axed vrains so they can have more time to work on it before release
Nathan Roberts
>axed > Queen of Sol gets destroyed first episodes of season Sorry no, this was intended
Connor Brown
Fuck. That was great. Count me in.
Luke Cook
Easily Vrains. Bunch of recaps, worst cast of characters, shit production, and overall boring.
Hunter Hernandez
So what exactly is this early rumor ending that I keep hearing about ?
Lincoln Garcia
Based
Brandon Rivera
Yusaku's "lost time" was a metaphor, while Ai never lost his memories (Revolver said so in their 3rd Duel).
Mason Gomez
Shouldn't that tell you they never recovered to full production capacity when they could release multiple series in succession with no breaks? Don't fool yourself they aren't going to have movie grade animation. As for writing we have no idea who is going to be writing, and they never found someone as competent or as available as Yoshida.
Elijah Bennett
you know what? why couldn't be the she the one to defeat Roboppy? I mean Soulburner already had this duel to show off and end his character arc properly, why couldn't Aoi have something like that too?
Julian Allen
The latest V-Jump cover said Vrains is reaching its climax and tv listings confirm Vrains' slot is being taken by another show after September.
Asher Sanchez
Better it be this way than end up like fubuki.
Mason Evans
Because Roboppi had to slap his opponent around to show off his evolution. There were already enough complaints about it being a pity win for Soulburner, imagine if a pity win were Aoi's last duel after Ai shitstomped her.
Angel Hughes
Wow, that's fucking awful. What's the remaining previews outside of the OP if there's any?
Zachary Sullivan
everyone in this show but PM and SB are a bunch of Fubukis
Parker Jenkins
Next week.
Jeremiah Nelson
Not really, Fubuki was comic relief and didn't get a lot of screen time on the whole.
Chase Phillips
Thank you, just last question. Do we know the tv show taking it's place? Or is that also next week
Nathaniel Lewis
Damn, the duel was intense
though it really was dumb that Revolver banished his 1 negate and Autorokket for S/T removal
Ethan Roberts
aiharu no sora. it's a sports anime.
Camden Watson
amazing how this is ending and we never got to know what happened to Yusaku's parents
Joseph King
They don't even matter. Like Yusei's mother.
Camden Reed
Likely died in a car accident as it was the trend in Vrains.
Andrew Morgan
So what do we call this duel? Battle of the Structure Decks?
Not many cards from soulburner's structure deck though.
Parker Carter
There were only like 5 times in its entire run where Vrains got me invested enough to even open the thread, but this still makes me sad. Especially since it doesn't seem like it was planned in advance, if the third "season" suddenly being just half as long as the previous ones is any indication.
Henry Miller
Neostorm Access. Firewall Dragon Darkfluid.
Josiah Sanchez
There's no wait PM Vs Ai is topping this duel
Julian Ward
That was hype as fuck.
Luke James
So then what the fuck are we not getting Link 6 or 7?
Leo Carter
no because those can cause ruling nightmares if they were made real
Brandon Adams
Link 6 next duel probably.
Bentley Scott
This duel felt like Yuya and Reiji’s ceremonial duel where philosophically it was a test but Reiji/Revolver were still trying to fuck over Yuya/Takeru the best they could. Flame’s spirit even came back kind of, just like the other Yuus
Connor Robinson
Not the user you're talking to, but we dont expect getting Pokemon SM tier animation. But we do expect better quality in art and animation. And the writing not being all over the place.
Vrains probably had at least 2-3 months in the production phase(which is terrible btw).
It being off the air is a good thing. More production time, the better.
Luke Brooks
>SOL moments = bad I bet VRAINS is your favorite anime ever
John Young
No, they can't.
Asher Cox
I doubt Ai will even get a link 5. Go boil your head until the arc-v is burned out of it.
Joshua Perez
It just doesn't sit right with me. If they were back to where they were in terms of production capability mid arc-v, why would they need the break? I don't think they got as many animation studios anymore.
Asher Martin
Link-6 we sure are getting at least 1 as Yusaku's Final Boss, but not 7 and 8 because Konami likely doesn't want to allow V Extra Links yet (Yusaku's Final Boss' Arrows would be Darkfluid's plus a center down one).
William Campbell
I CAN'T BELIEVE I WASTED 116 WEEKS OF MY LIFE FOR THIS
Imagine if VRAINS isnt ending yet and all this shitposting was for naught.
Jordan Myers
>anime!Violet Chimera requires Heatleo as one of its Fusion Materials >anime!Wolvie can add ANY card from the GY to the hand How weird they didn't update neither them or Fury of Fire to their irl versions while Pyro Phoenix was.
Caleb Hughes
And Fusion of Fire too.
Brody Smith
It's not just going to jump time slots without a major announcement.
Jonathan Morales
Imagine if the shitposting is real and your comment was for nothing
Samuel Wilson
>pooor user still hope he series get to live 20 more painful weeks Just let it go gracefully youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk
Grayson Barnes
>Soulburner, near loss and surrounded by everything that could trigger him (except Despair from the Dark), begins to hallucinate Flame in his duel disk >doesn't question it, just happy to have his friend back >Revolver and co just stare on confused >Soulburner talks to the Flame hallucination throughout the duel for tips >Have the "let me go Soulburner" moment near the end >Disappear into sparkles >Soulburner does his victory Would've been cooler
I’d like to but after today’s episode, I can’t. It was one of those character sendoff episodes and honestly I couldn’t have asked for a better way to do so. This was probably Vrains’ best episode
Jonathan Moore
Revolver-sama, Firewall is still banned
Isaac Brooks
Revolver-Sama, you're too fucking sexy.
Aaron Torres
>shilled his deck and made everyone BUY salamangreats The meta warping around Links and the lack of decent Link archetypes made this possible. >Won 2019 worlds See above >won his last 2 duels Revolver lost his duel because he is a shit and could have won had he used his cards differently. Roboppy would have won but plot gave Soulburner the win. >will finish the series with a respectable win/loss rate Because he barely dueled and the series is ending soon. >had the best Ignis Windy was best Ignis >the most charismatic and fun character He is a literal meathead yankee who stands out because the rest of the cast is more mature than him.
Jose Jenkins
They clearly weren't. The ygo movie took a toll on Arc Vs production.
Studio gallop and Dong woo are the only studios that work on ygo.
Carter Scott
>This was probably Vrains’ best episode For all the shit that VRAINS gets, it has some pretty fucking good duels >Revolver vs Playmaker (Extra Link plus that Decode Endo) >Lightning vs Spectre (Extra Links back-to-back, stealing Judgment Arrows etc.) >Yusaku vs Bohman (Darkfluid duel) >Yusaku vs Go (As bad as Neo Storm Access is, Firewall eXceed and the proceeding OTK was sweet as fuck) >Roboppi vs Soulburner (Excellent send-off to Roboppi, episode went from tense to sad as fuck episode out of no-where) And now Soulburner vs Revolver
>The ygo movie took a toll on Arc Vs production. Jesus fucking christ, it's been years, YEARS of arcfags parroting this. It's not true, it never was.
Eli Gomez
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Link 6 is possible but you are expecting too much. Just like different scale pendulums. Maybe in the future they'll print some based on anime moments like Yuma's non-rank xyz. Come next series another broken card will appear. Firewall will either get errata'd or dropped to 1, banned and then errata'd. Patience. I know. And you are too.
>but you are expecting too much. Just like different scale pendulums Nah, they just took too long on LINK-4s. Not having LINK-7s or 8s would be like not having any Level 11s or 12s
Angel Smith
>warrior that will just doube it's chances of getting banned
Kevin Mitchell
Not if its a retake on Hope
Benjamin Sanchez
Link-7s and 8s will be some special shit in another series. Like ultra polymerization. At least link 7 will.
Nicholas Robinson
Even though I get your point about how these duels were very well directed, I didn't feel anything watching them because I don't give a shit about any of the characters.
Jonathan Lopez
How can you not feel anything for lightning or roboppi?
Connor Long
Yes. Good riddance.
Christopher Wilson
>Soulburner >barely dueled
wtf are we watching the same show? He stole like all of Playmaker's screentime in S2 and S3. Also dueled like everyone relevant from S1 to kick their jobber butts.
David Jenkins
Yeah, I think his character actively hurt the anime, Kaji was good in that phoenix wright anime though.
>There were only like 5 times in its entire run where Vrains got me invested enough to even open the thread Hell, I'm having trouble even thinking of five.
Owen Brooks
If anything, Link 5 is the Level 11/12. Link 4 were cemented as the boss monster links with Borreload and the link 4 they printed. They may go as far as Link 6 and only because of the 6 Attributes/6 monster zones pattern.
Leo Taylor
Literally Fire Crow.
Sebastian Evans
>Revolver vs Playmaker >Yusaku vs Bohman >Yusaku vs Go What are you smoking?
Ayden Lopez
Karmacept dragon seems like it has really limited use.
Season 2: >49: Bit/Boot >51-52: GO Onizuka >56: Blue Girl >61-63: Blood Shepherd (I don't count the flashback duel as he doesn't use Salamangreats here, and it runs on the same episode clock anyway) >84: Revolver (interrupted very early on) >88-89: Windy >94-95: Bohman >112-114: Roboppy >115-116: Revolver
I don't count the Bit/Boot rematch or the Ai copy since they are just minor inconvenience duels. Got about 17 episodes worth of duels, and most of them are 2- or 3-parters. Soulburner got 8 actual duels in total, 9 if that first match with Revolver counts.
John Stewart
>Revolver vs Playmaker That duel had the reveal of Extra Links in the show, on top of that they also did a Double Extra Link/O-Link. Plus, there was the ending attack of Decode reaching very high unga bunga numbers. I enjoyed it a lot. >Yusaku vs Bohman While a bunch of the duels they had in the past were lack-luster, the final one isn't. They have the subplot of the Neuron Link killing everyone and the Hanoi squad trying to get a fix for that, Akira smashing that fucking enter key to save the day, the first LINK-5 shown beyond Match Winners, Ai having to sacrifice all his friends for Darkfluid to exist and finally, the summon of Darkfluid allowing for a decently satisfying end to the season >Yusaku vs Go Go in his anorexic bounty hunter state is a delight to watch in my opinion. Him doing the whole "Brain Hack" shit cracked me up and having Playmaker out his field using eXceed was cool as fuck. The only thing that really lets it down is the whole "SECOND ACTIVATION" of Neo Storm Access. They should've had Go develop a change of heart or get so arrogant that he allows them to use it rather than the pure retardation that occurred there. Go vs Earth was also neat mostly because of the dissection scene which was honestly the most depressing fucking scene in this show watching Earth beg for his life to deaf ears
Landon Parker
The blood shepherd is a two for one kind of thing.
Dylan Stewart
you forgot the REAL good ones:
>Brave Max vs Knight Of Hanoi and >Takeru vs random guy in the flashback
Christian Thomas
>the final one isn't The final one had episodes where exactly one turn goes by
Jason Collins
>This was probably Vrains’ best episode This honestly, its been a long time since an episode in VRAINS managed to meet my expectations. Last thread OP wasn't joking when he said it would be the best episode of the season. I almost teared up when Flame appeared and Soulburner started talking about his parents
and we've had episodes where no duel takes place, what's your point?
Ian Bailey
DM once had an 8 episode duel.
Jaxson James
So you just like big numbers and will take it to heart if the characters keep repeating how important something is.
Jordan Gomez
>like big numbers Nothing wrong with that user
Elijah Foster
Now that the show is reaching its end, even if Tag Force games were still a thing, VRAINS cast is so meh they wouldnt make for interesting partners to interact with
Jason Thomas
>Not wanting to fug Baira, Aqua or Roboppi
Gabriel Watson
Like self inserters care about the "depth of character".
Colton Carter
if you wanted tag force you should have never asked for konami to make that duel terminal into an actual game (duel links)
Xavier Hall
That it's not a good duel when it moves at a glacial pace and next to nothing happens (and Bohman's ultimate monsters were extremely disappointing and bland, which kinda fits the show).
Anthony Powell
Konami stopped giving a fuck about their games after 5Ds ended
Chase Collins
How can Ygo7 female lead top a World champion with 4 different great designs and 2 top tier decks that had meta impact throughout the entire meta of the link era?
she's not even the current world champion aoi is old news
Julian Thomas
at least previous TF games had alternate endings for various characters, what would Revolver endings be?
Bentley Cooper
Never said there was. But they don't make up for an empty duel. A good duel should have weight and meaning, not just characters doing long combos to get a big number.
Jaxson Rogers
Marincess has had no meta impact, it's just a bunch of people assuming they must be meta and then nothing happening.
Michael Campbell
Tag force games would suck under MR4.
Hunter Gray
You don't know what you're talking about. Why do you think h-games bother writing storylines instead of just 20 hours of the player banging Mob-chan?
Joshua Reed
Tag Force Arc-V is decent, it just really came out too early and is missing some of the best cards(synchro,xyz,&pend) from arc-v.
Brody Johnson
But there is? Don't you pay attention to the conversation in the duel?
Robert Butler
>it just really came out too early and is missing some of the best cards(synchro,xyz,&pend) from arc-v. and when Konami made a new game featuring late Arc-V cards, it was a poorly made and didnt have what made TF and WC games fun
Joseph Baker
I wouldn't call most of those story lines character pieces. More like fantasy experiences for the reader.
Noah Allen
Everyone always said that they need a trap searcher to be good.
Jace Ortiz
Seeing Yusaku being lovey dovey with you would be the weirdest shit. I only get it to tag duel with Aoi and even then she is a boring bitch
Four episodes of >Revolver is so tough, Extra Link is so special >Bohman is so tough, Neuron Link is so special is not conversation. It's just pointless wank.
Ryan King
Is going to be the DM/Zexal of a new trinity so she's going to be another Anzu/Kotori who is just there to cheer the MC and promote traditional gender roles to children
Juan Barnes
>pointless wank I'm sure you can reduce a lot of battle shonen dialogue this way. But it's not only that.
Elijah Jones
just wait for the last Vrains episode, I-I swear
Aiden Davis
Are we assuming yoshida is writing this one too?
Elijah Morris
Does he even has work outside YGO?
Camden Perez
>But it's not only that. What else is it? What does Extra Link mean to Revolver or Yusaku? What does Neuron Link or Darkfluid mean to Bohman or Yusaku? Are they culminations or refutations of their ideals? Do they represent anything about the character's motivation or have parallels to how they overcome their struggles?
Kayden Thomas
>What else is it? What does Extra Link mean to Revolver or Yusaku? Surpassing human intelligence. They're very upfront about the connections to their ideas. Darkfluid is the power of the ignis creation. They have tons of exposition for this kind of stuff. It's not aimed at a very old audience.
Noah Williams
>Surpassing human intelligence That means nothing. It doesn't even make sense, considering Revolver is trying to knock society back to a pre-network area. >Darkfluid is the power of the ignis creation Against an Ignis creation, using Ignis creations. Cyberse was never doubted, nor did Yusaku ever have to prove anything about it.
Landon Jackson
I'm feeling it. YGO7 will be the best anime ever released and the card game will enter a permanent 2014-tier state of fun and greatness. YGO will become the #1 entertainment media franchise worldwide.
Samuel Reyes
>considering Revolver is trying to knock society back to a pre-network area. Using the Cyberse technology his father created. He's possessing the might of AI to surpass human intelligence through his extra link. Do you forget his whole possessing poison to fight poison thing. >Against an Ignis creation, using Ignis creations. Against the ignis creation that was created through force and evil. Yusaku combined his human strength and willing bonds of the ignis against the pure AI. Darkfluid represents ignis creation and Yusaku at the same time. Firewall dragon was pulled from the storm access and fits Yusaku. I feel we need to go back to the swamp and lava battleguard days so posters can't pretend this shit isn't simple.
Jeremiah Green
I used to think VRAINS would end in a disappointing manner but this episode alone has finally ended VRAINS in a higher note than ARCV
>He's possessing the might of AI to surpass human intelligence through his extra link. Except he's still using 3/5 Dragons for it, and the Extra Monster Zone limitation had never been mentioned in the anime before that duel, much less mentioned to be a human limitation. >Yusaku combined his human strength and willing bonds of the ignis against the pure AI Except he didn't have jack shit to do with Darkfluid's creation, Ai just hopped out to grab it, and Windy and Earth were unconscious and Lightning was flat-out unwilling.
Hudson Stewart
I dont think sol is that high on the list of things vrains couldve done better compared to the more fundamental issues with the main cast
Asher Stewart
Hes actually done a lot of work outside yugioh, including other anime originals (including one that got dicked over and slashed in half during prpduction like s3 lol). He doesnt have trouble finding work, which is why I think hell probably leave for some other gig or leave anime for a while again
Lucas James
How not? Literally just watch it, I went in with low expectations and it was really exciting and emotive. It was a great episodes.
Ryder Adams
Finished watching the episode and holy fuck this unironically had legit SOUL
Ryder Phillips
How many episodes left if it ends this season?
Elijah Diaz
This reminds me of how people were excited for bahamut virgin soul before it enraged everyone Anime deserves to be cut shorter again next time if it's going to continue to be at the level of vrains and has 0 intrigue
Eli Cooper
>worst cast Vrains' cast is great. The problem is how they were utilized. The group being so small should've made it so that their interactions would be more meaningful and you could see how they change from the conflicts they'e going through. The show tried to do that, like saying Playmaker respected and knew Go, o how Aoi was fighting for others, but feels transpaent when most of the time is spent on life-threatening duels. If the characters ever make it to duel links, I'd expect that they would be much more enjoyable with how it usually does a good job at giving flavor text with events.
Jack Myers
Even in the scenario that yugioh 7 starts out good no one's going to be able to fully trust it 100% unless it's good to the very end bc of arc v
>Except he's still using 3/5 Dragons for it The dragons that possess things. Borreload specifically and he had a large emphasis on manipulating AI. Having big links and combinations have been shown many times to be amazing to everyone. >Except he didn't have jack shit to do with Darkfluid's creation He's the basis of Ai and the various igns had been working with him for a long time. He wielded it together with them. >Windy and Earth were unconscious Earth was always on the side of Aqua and Windy was manipulated into being evil. >Lightning was flat-out unwilling. Which is why he didn't show up in the neo tempest attack. VRAINS was never heady in its messaging. I don't think any yugioh is.
Joseph Sanders
I really dont get how some of the storyboarders, episode directors, and animation directors can show so much dedication to a show like this, but the writers for a lot of vrains just take the bland or lazy routes in what they do
Benjamin Morgan
Season 3 and 4 soured me on GX.Nothing but edge for the sake of appearing mature and deep.
The only redeemable thing about those seasons were some of the characters.
David Miller
The episode is ruined by how hard they tried to shill basedburner in the past. The dude is just unlikable.
Sebastian Mitchell
Reminds me of how the voice actor of Lion-o in the 2011 thundercats show ended up writing 2 episodes that were way better than the rest of the show outside of the pilot, because he was the only one who seemed to care
Landon Fisher
t.seething revulvafag, seethe more because your shitty character can't even win shilling a structure deck lmao
David Morales
reminder that photon chad is the only one to not lose to "I win lol" formation.
Well it's not like yusaku has done anything this entire arc
Anthony Wood
If everything about Vrains being cancelled is true, then it maybe a possibility.
How?? Most of cast were legit boring. Literally cardboard personalities. Go is easily the worst character in Vrains.
What's the point of teasing Soulburner to be the Johan of this series and don't even bother going through with it? They don't even feel like friends, but more as an accomplice
Not really assuming anything, they treat basic combos as amazing. Firewall dragon has always been representative of Yusaku's heroic savior attitude. Revolver controlled AI and people constantly. They showed that Earth and Windy were good. Yusaku expressed his willingness to work with AI a lot. I'm not going to call it a great narrative but that's more because how simple these things usually are.
Jaxson Hernandez
Not the ship/friendship I wanted, but it was good.
VRAINS Season 1 was great though, the build up to the final duel was great.
Justin Collins
That's a load of shit. Yu-Gi-Oh is perfectly capable of tying the duels to the narrative. Just look at Yusei vs Placido (Yusei accepting his father's role in Zero Reverse, but choosing to believe in Synchro and surpass its fate), Yuma vs Elphis (Yuma showing an alternative to Astral World's elitism and obtaining Shining Draw), or even Yuzu vs Masumi (Yuzu obtaining Fusion but ultimately winning because she no longer lets her doubts distract her). VRAINS can't even get that.
Sebastian Campbell
Gorgeous art, post more pls
Elijah Wood
He has a decade and a half of experience, from an inbetweener grunt to key animator in GX, then his first AD opportunity in 5d's
Evan Adams
>pic Cute.
Nathaniel Clark
I'd argue that everything went to shit around the same time Playmaker had a second duel with Bohman. Bohman killed S2
Kevin Davis
That's not Ghost Girl.
Plus Yugioh females have been sucking since Zexal. The last one (who is basically the face of female yugioh) is Akiza.
Her character's only competition is Dark Magician girl too
Where did I say duels don't tie into the narrative? And vrains has an okay narrative I just don't think the simple shonen narratives are really anything special is all. And besides vrains' narrative is about yusaku being the hero that connects people and AI. It accomplishes that. You guys just want some super ambitious story instead of something simple.
Xavier Davis
Target 1 "Borrel" Link Monster in your GY; Special Summon 1 "Borrel" Link Monster from your Extra Deck with the same Link Rating as that monster, but a different name, and if you do, its ATK becomes halved, its effects are negated, also it is destroyed during the End Phase. You can banish this card and 2 "Rokket" monsters from your GY; Special Summon 1 Link-2 DARK Link Monster from your Extra Deck to your zone a "Borrel" Link Monster points to. (This is treated as a Link Summon.) You can only use each effect of "Borrel Half Replace" once per turn.
>vrains' narrative is about yusaku being the hero that connects people and AI He doesn't. Almost all of the AI are dead. He never connects anybody, he just solves whatever the problem is that got dumped on his lap then fucks off to the wienermobile. >You guys just want some super ambitious story instead of something simple I've given multiple examples of simple stuff they've done in previous Yu-Gi-Oh series. Nothing they haven't done before.
Adam James
How come you dont respect aki enough to use her real name
Eli Taylor
Not that guy but:
Sounds to me like the writers just threw their hands up and said "FUCK IT, REVOLVER WAS RIGHT"
Wow, that's some laziness right there. If anything the storyline should have just ended after Bohman was beaten given how they clearly didn't have a good enough story on their hands.
Aki sounds like a sneeze. Akiza sounds like an actual Yugioh name
Easton Sanchez
>He doesn't. Almost all of the AI are dead. He helped Takeru and Flame connect by being heroic. He connected with Ai being a hero. He got Revolver to be more accepting of AI by opposing him. Just because many are lost doesn't mean all hope is lost for cooperation between humans and AI. >I've given multiple examples of simple stuff they've done in previous Yu-Gi-Oh series. But I never denied they did simple narratives. And it's what they're still doing in vrains.
Evan Davis
If you control no cards: Target 1 Link Monster your opponent controls; draw cards equal to its Link Rating. You can only activate 1 "Burning Draw" per turn. [...] the turn you activate this card.
Target 1 "Salamangreat" Link Monster in your GY; Special Summon it, but it cannot attack or activate its effects for the rest of this turn, then inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Link Rating x 200.
>He helped Takeru and Flame connect And then Flame died. >He connected with Ai And then Ai turned evil. >He got Revolver to be more accepting of AI And then Revolver tried to kill Ignis anyway.
Gavin Martinez
Who knows what were they thinking.
You usually don't make the MC face the main villain SEVERAL times right from the beginning, and when you do, you certainly shouldn't have the villain losing those encounters.
Jordan Watson
I respect the Black Rose if her thorns can cut through Yea Forums stalkers and autistic shitposters with a life.
Mason Russell
still waiting for this one to get printed, mainly because I like the art >Rising Fire gets printed first and turned into a Salamangreat card when it's not supposed to be
Stop fucking with Aki! She has nothing to do with your fake daydreams and dick like Yea Forums Yugioh high level shitposting by bots who aren’t prepared for success.
Easton Jones
Well Yuma showed all kinds of people a different way of going about things and then they died and fought each other to death anyway. Yusaku can only do so much. At least the world isn't destroyed so they can try again.
Robert Long
it's ok
Benjamin Ramirez
Don’t forget Soulburner you lost to me. I may have shown respect for only the duels but your Blue Maiden was my first pray.
[ Cyberse / Effect ] Once per turn: You can reveal this card in your hand; Special Summon 1 "Salamangreat" monster from your hand whose Level is less than or equal to the total Link Rating of the Link Monsters on the field. If this card is in your GY and a Link Summoned "Salamangreat" Link Monster left the field because of an opponent's card effect this turn: You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 "Salamangreat" Link Monster from your GY with a lower Link Rating than the Link Monster that left the field, then negate the effects of all face-up monsters currently on the field until the end of this turn. The monster Special Summoned by this effect is destroyed during the End Phase. You can only use each effect of "Salamangreat Salamandra" once per turn.
See that avatar on Link Evolution soon and I’ll bust her bubbles.
Alexander Clark
At this point it's obvious that Vrains was axed. The fact that there won't be a proper ceremonial duel, and that Revolver and/or Soulburner will never duel Ai means this arc was probably a token arc for a season that already had its days numbered
Jordan Hughes
Still no Salamangreat Synchro this Soulobamanator went in hell for today’s duel victory by fluke.
Thomas Nelson
Yea Forums dicks who still stalk my posts would be shredded like Crow on that card cover with a dick drawn in their mouth.
Dominic Hill
Aoi's a hands on girl can't you tell by all the hearts?
They want to give a "He could have win if he had managed to get it out" idea so people keep on buying the starter.
Xavier Russell
So he did nothing, but that's okay because there's only so much he can do. And VRAINS is awful, but that's okay because you shouldn't expect much from shounen. Wow. The world must be so much fun for you.
Owen Cox
oh shit, now that makes sense
Juan Morgan
Should've just summoned Bomber Dragon instead of Zeroboros
Nah. Bomber dragon would have pointed to monster zones wereas the move of Zeroboros banishing itself and coming back in the central monster zone so it's marters point to the extra monster zones virtually preventing Soulburner from summoning something from his extra deck was such an amazing thing to watch.
Bomber Dragon also would have won him the duel that turn.
Connor Cruz
I was trying to refer to Bomber Dragon's burn effect.
Ryder Robinson
Lost incident children were the characters who had the strongest motivation of them all. They would always deliver. Too bad we only had the pleasure to watch 3 of them dueling.
Wyatt Cox
four.
Camden Gonzalez
so the Ignis are going to stay dead? damn, for a kids show that's dark
Robert Baker
Yes. If the trend for "the third ygo" is to be even more perfect than the one before I expect the Yu of Ygo 9 to never even draw.
Samuel Jenkins
Yusei didn't have a draw
Ayden Smith
go to /dng/
Asher Perry
Jin doesn't count. He was a voiceless marionette similar to Strings. It would have been way better if he had been mindcontrolled into an evil version of himself a la Jonouchi and that it be Shoichi who save him instead of a pretty much pointless duel with Yusaku.
just direct him to /dlg/ /dng/ don't welcome Yea Forums refuges plus they like 5ds there and Yea Forums is more of a zexal/gx board
Ethan Morales
They could be forced into doing it just like Yugi and Jonouchi.
Carson Martin
Yea Forums and vr/a/ins are quite different from each other, though.
William Miller
But he's not a threat or a powerful duelist, Playmaker is.
Anthony Rodriguez
Technically doesn't count, he fell off that bike before he could lose
Parker Cooper
>technically lost to Kiryu. it was a no result
Christopher Murphy
Playmaker would have also made a great opponent for Jin since they both are LI children.
David Allen
>technically "Technically" is the only way he didn't lose.
Camden Foster
Playmaker never required their opponents to make a dumb mistake/desition to win. Yusei did.
Luke Cruz
Playmaker already did his battle against another victim with spectre.
Colton Lee
Yes.
John Lee
And that was an amazing duel. I wish all the other LI children had dueled him as well.
Mason Adams
Off the top of my head >Bohman could have used spammed Monarch's effect immediately instead of waiting for Playmaker to set up his field >Bohman could have attacked with Dragrid before activating its effect
Julian Peterson
Blue Angel would've beaten Playmaker on her first turn, but she misplayed
Aaron Wright
Soulburner could have been good for him to face someone else who was bonded with their ignis but that's probably another draft of vrains.
Jeremiah Baker
Still not as bad as winning because your opponent didn't want to end their turn
Jace Hernandez
I don't know who designed trickstar initially but they really fucked up.
I really wish we had had a real tournament arc so PM/Yusaku vs Soulburner/Takeru could be doable.
Anthony Thomas
Is that the best that can be said for VRAINS? It's not as bad as the worst parts of the other series?
Owen Wright
The worst part of 5ds was the early first tournament and not even the lowest of vrains was worse than it.
Owen Mitchell
They didn't fuck up, they made a meta deck that sold cards. As opposed to Melodious, which sold 0 cards.
Ryder Sanchez
Were there any giant misplays Aoi made against Spectre like her other duels?
Bentley Reyes
The post was about comparing Yusaku's victories to Yusei's. I mentioned a Yusei victory. What's the problem?
Kevin Sanchez
So, in other words, yeah.
Matthew Foster
>vrainsfags are this delusional
Charles Morris
I enjoyed this episode more than any part of 5ds and I just finished watching it.
Daniel Turner
i think is in the middle of all of the spin offs in a good way, i probably will remember it years after.
Easton Wood
But it possibly changed the course of her character because they were too good in the first set.
Oliver Diaz
I think the point was that Yusei once was put into a really vulnerable situation. He didnt die, but he didnt win either God-man yusaku has never almost died like that because victory is ensured
Austin Murphy
That part of 5ds did intrigue and mystery way better than vrains ever did
Chase King
>Five out of six cards in the first pack >One decent promo >Then nothing but shit until they give the character a new deck. Trickstars are suffering.
Isaiah Russell
The lost incident hooked me good, whereas the only reason I kept on watching 5ds was because everyone said it got better later.
Adrian Gomez
All the early intrigue actually led up to a full conclusion for all main characters involved by the end of dark singers Compare that to the handling of lost incident
Blake Diaz
just watch the next spin-off retard
Kevin Hernandez
>next spin-off See you in April.
Owen James
Only godwin. The other characters were straightforward.
Nathan Nguyen
Why would anyone put yugioh anime as a reason to live... it can be a fun weekly event, but the highlight? I'd understand if they meant the entire franchise as a whole since theres a lot someone can do with the card game
Zachary Martin
Yeah it didn't go over well. Just like goukis.
Ian Bailey
Childhood, bro. I would give my life for YGO.
Evan White
The scenes where jack and Yusei view a vision of the threat of the oncoming dark singers were part of an amazingly well directed episode where Yusei and Jack's grudge plus the build up of the future story are tied together and come to a head.
Vrains has some isolated well directed episodes here and there but never anything like that. Ironically, the lack of magic in a premise makes a yugioh anime feel less grounded when it comes to compelling reasons for why card games are the choice of medium for conflict resolution
Gabriel Nguyen
This shit is finally over, when will they fucking stop the over futuristic pink hair gum crap and finally fucking stick to what works like 5d's or gx ?
Jacob Cooper
>. Ironically, the lack of magic in a premise makes a yugioh anime feel less grounded when it comes to compelling reasons for why card games are the choice of medium for conflict resolution This, I kinda wish they went back to magic, although you can argue that it wasn't left with the amount of B.S the ignis, and Bohman could pull off inside of Vrains.
Dylan Collins
Yugioh 2011 over the nexus was one of the best games ever on ds, it's a shame they don't try to remake it or something on pc with 2019 standards
Jonathan Price
That's more telling what's going to happen than an actual mystery though.
Austin Young
Data material is like magic but one step away, but there's still that obstacle of being one step separated. When magic is explicitly a force in the characters' lives, theres an obvious reason why card games are a fighting ritual and why the rules of that universe execute consequences on the losers.
Arc v was even worse than vrains on the issue of why losing or winning in a duel really matters that much and has inescapable consequences
Thomas Turner
The mystery was the details of why any of that is a looming threat in the first place
Jaxson Jackson
>>won his last two duels before the show ends
Roboppi won in spirit.
Benjamin Price
Which they explain later without a surprise. I think the mystery is what godwin's plan is.
Cameron Diaz
>Roboppi won in spirit. cope
Lucas Martin
The point is that they built up intrigue and then used that build up to a climax with dark signer battles.... did you just rank a mystery lower because the show did its job of giving exposition on it in later episodes like it should for the payoff.............
Juan Bennett
Soulburner LITERALLY said that he was out of ways to counter, and only won because Roboppi bluescreened and ended his turn before attacking.
Roboppy losing to Soulburner was just like Jean losing to Yusei. Both were bullshit.
Brayden Price
At this point, magic would be more structured. We wouldn't have to deal with >It's a super special algorithm but because X is so smart he backtraced it but Y has a virus that can haxxor it but X came up with a new algorithm that can't be haxxor'd
At some point they didnt even bother with the computer hacker stuff anymore, especially with yusaku since bohman and lightning were openly available to duel
Lincoln Bailey
Based Rishidposter
Charles Gomez
The haru of DM.
Levi Johnson
I'm saying it was part of the mystery in the first 3 cours or so, which the intrigue behind Godwin is connected to later on. Because the show did its job of introducing an initial point of intrigue before resolving it and then setting up a new one
You're not very bright, are you...
Grayson Bennett
Soulburner beat a malfunctioning Roomba and then his therapist. I'm sure his parents must be so proud of him.
Lincoln Carter
Yeah it was intriguing but it was straightforward. Everything but godwin was.
Lucas Peterson
A mystery can still be straightforward once everything is known by the audience, like kid detective stories. That doesnt change what it's called or what it is.
Jordan Stewart
Well I think that's more like the circumstances around the mystery than the mystery itself.
Jeremiah Wood
Zexal was the only really far future series. Vrains might as well be 5 years from now
Chase Carter
at least he's not a jobber
William Lee
What are you even trying to say now?
Lucas Smith
He fits the definition more than anyone in the series. He gets a lot of attention and a good win record, then loses to Bohman to make Bohman look strong.
Jackson White
The core mystery is why godwin is doing what he's doing. That has a surprising resolution. If they weren't trying to surprise you with a resolution, it's just sort of exposition.
Ayden Turner
at least he isn't a loser, like losevulva with a lower winrate than aoi
William Garcia
Most important mystery doesnt mean it's the isolated, singular mystery where there are no others
Still paid off better than how lost incident was handled
Grayson Robinson
Yep. He holds the coveted position of number two on top of the shitheap.
Zachary White
Well why call them mysteries if they just straight up explain them without any surprises. Those are more like questions.
John Cruz
Any mystery starts with a question
John Richardson
The perps of the lost incident and why exactly they did it was a mystery in early vrains that got explained pretty straightforwardly
Logan Wood
I think the main mystery is who was the voice,
Hudson Sanders
And revolver told yusaku plainly to his face it was him
Lincoln Torres
reboot when ? there's no beating nostalgiafags or boomers
Sebastian Russell
And that was the surprise.
Cooper Adams
To yusaku, yes. He was also surprised finding out that Kogami was legally considered dead but apparently that doesnt count?
Aiden Barnes
Being that the guy he was hunting was the guy who talked to him while in the chamber. I, mean.
