Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS

Rate Yusaku's walk cycle.

Episode 118: 無謀な提案 – Mubō na Teian
(A Reckless Proposal)
Playmaker barely manages to fend off Ai's attacks. Having found an opening, Playmaker attempts to launch an attack against Ai. However, Ai knows Playmaker inside and out, and can predict everything he will do. Ai then unites the feelings of all the Ignises, and brings about the advent of the ultimate Cyberse monster.

Cast:
Fujiki Yusaku/Playmaker: Ishige Shoya
Ai: Sakurai Takahiro
Kusanagi Shoichi: Kimura Subaru
Extras

Script: 吉田伸 || Yoshida Shin

Episode 119: 壊れゆく自我 – Kowareyuku Jiga
(A Broken Ego)
Having learned about Ai's sorrow, Playmaker tries to convince him to stop the battle. However, Ai has already made up his mind, and won't back down no matter what. Ai then makes a proposal to Playmaker.

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Is he trying to be quiet?

fujo otp

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The CHAD stride

>soulburner leaves forever
>wonder why he ever came in the first place
Should have been a villain.

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>Ai already assembled at least Dark Templar, Earth Golem, Fire Phoenix, Light Dragon and Wind Pegasus going by the preview.
Will be hype if he really links the 6 @Ignister Bosses off for the Ultimate Cyberse. Also, chibi Dark Templar confirmed.

>post yfw yusaku plays pic related

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Oh shit pendulums confirmed.

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The card Revolver gave to Playmaker was this one.

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I can't believe that VRAINS is so crappy that it's ending early holy fuck

No he didn't

Firewall vs Borreload
Giant Ogre vs Borrelsword
Magnus Dux vs eXcharge

Only good because firewall and playmaker absolutely BTFO revulva
Trash duel
Only good bevause lightning absolutely BTFO revulva

Final duel hype
>Ai always looked over yusaku for the cyberse deck
Based

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>Trash duel
Go is too cool for any of his duels to be trash.

Why is he putting clock in the trash?

Why doesnt yugioh hire better writers?
They do it like pokemon with the anime being 100% uptime all the time season after season but they dont bother to pay a good writers.
They dont show off the product well either.
?????

>The duel that introduced Mirror Force was bad
wow

He used to assure me a 20K attack clock dragon when firewall was around. I made this image for this small little fellow a meme after winning over the monthly icon of /dng/. I'm just glad he finally got played since he's still a based card.

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The anime retcons Ai into being competent when he was just half-assing everything from the start.

>character that is extremely forgettable and carried by mostalgia trap is bad
Yeah it is

Nah, kill yourself

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The farewell was really well done. No words needed and no music other than the sea.

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>>soulburner leaves forever
>>wonder why he ever came in the first place
This. Fire Crow had no point at all.

Y'know I just realized that in the end Links never got an upgraded version like super poly, accel synchro, rank-up, or ____-pendulum. Remember the old days when we were theorycrafting about hyperlinks and shit?

I always thought those were one note jokes. The fact they wouldn't bring in link 5s kind of shows that they were the only barrier.

Go seethe more revulvafag, your tears will feed me forever

I can't believe they showed us Aoi about to assault her brother on the bed.

He's going all out from the start.

A well done scene.

Good times but still. Extra-Link, Link Magic and combining Ritual, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz with Links is also quite fine. Maybe Link-5s being so exclusive are the upgrade.

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>exists to BTFO all of s1 characters except playmaker and Ai
>BTFO's revulva in his shilling episode
Soulburner is based as fuck

>ultimate Cyberse monster
Will it be a Link-8 or is the L8 dream dead?

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>act confident and pretend you're supposed to be there.

Soulburner is cringe and forced.

A link-6 would be fine.

Was it storm access in a card?

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A chad stride since he's confident with how often he infiltrated buildings.

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What is he actually asking Revolver to do here?

Less cringe and forced than revulva that's for sure, force booster pack and structure deck shilling episodes and lose, like who fucking does that, what a waste of fucking time

Forever remember pain and suffering he caused to 6 children

Here's your (You) you dumb shitposter who contributes nothing to the thread.

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I wish but they all ship Ryoken/Yusaku

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How am I shitposting if i'm just stating facts, revulva is a useless fucking character, with worse winrate than aoi

Seems as if they're actually dueling in the remnants of the cyberse world. A powerful place to choose for their final battle.

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what attribute is that?

I wish they weren't in a Data Storm so we could feel the full impact of seeing the wastleland that once was the Cyberse World. Or Duel in that grassy hill that had the Ignis' gravestones.

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What's Ai's proposal? live in Ailand with him?

Maybe they are saving it later for a more impactful scene with Ai once the data storm subsides.

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The only way left that I would respect vrains is if it's brave enough to pull a bittersweet ending unlike the previous serieses. Will the pull a bittersweet ending or will they pull a Zexal and revive everyone?

I don't think it'll revive anyone who isn't human.

>bittersweet ending
Arc-V was bittersweet if not full on BAD END

Pandor isn't here, Ai.

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Everyone had egao though.

>Ray banished from existence
>Reira died inside
>Shun died inside
>Z-ARC's struck in a baby

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im on ep 30. Does this series get better. They finally got rid of that ridiculously long animation for link summoning but now they have like a stupid filler ep every few eps.

Nope it stays bland and one note the whole way through

32 is an exposition episode, 43 is an exposition episode but that one has twists and a duel.

The last season is fun.

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So this was the high point of soulburner, correct?

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Last episode.

apart from a cameo in the final ep, this is probably the last time we'll ever see revolver. So how do you guys feel about him in the end? I liked autistic chunni revolver back at s1 but s2-s3 revolver is just a normal unautistic chuuni so I didn't like him as much since he was boring without his autism

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I didn't think he had as much grievance against revolver without an ignis.

Yes, but none of his other Duels had such a huge emotional impact. Against BS, SB already had gotten past his trauma in the very same flashback with an entire episode dedicated to it; and against Bohman, the only strong scene was Flame's death, and nothing was done with Bohman's "You finally don't decide your own destiny" symbolism considering he had to get his RNG hax device sabotaged for Dragrid to fumble.

A great rival. His late seasons version was quite nice too with the occasional hype moments he got like summoning savage.

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> Against BS, SB already had gotten past his trauma in the very same flashback with an entire episode dedicated to it
That's not something the audience knew, besides it's the only duel where soulburner was on the ropes without ignis shenanigans.

I liked him in S1 more, they really toned down his smug hamminess in S2-3 and I didn't really like that

This is getting good.

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At the start, but we found out about it later, which made all that fear in the previous episode worthless. And SB was in the ropes basically during all of his Duels, classic of the MC syndrome.

No, it's boring all the way through.

>a broken ego
whose ego is breaking? It's kinda confusing. The duel it's been pretty intense so far.

It already is.

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Does it follow the same naming style as the Yuya magicians?

Still, I'm real disappointed that two YGO series flopped because of nonsense in the creation room, I want the Zexalfags to remember this, remember this and understand that if your director wasn't a well known guy who had tons of connections and favors to call in Zexal would have suffered the exact same fate!

I get comeback scenarios, but this one was actually interrupted.

Ai's, considering his Deck is narcissistic as fuck, and PM in the previous episode's preview saying "You want me to choose how you die?".

I like him. His character is great and I like his design and gun.dek. Shame he got shafted beyond S1 although S2 had some great moments with him.
He's all right in my book.

So far the durl hss been more entertaining than Revolver vs Soulburner 1/2. They better also supass 2/2. That'd let vrains end with 3 amazingly good durls in a row.

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It's not magician, it's just mage.

The ultimate cyberse shall soon appear.

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but how can the ultimate cyberse appear when he's banned?

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What does he do?

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Marriage.

>now they have like a stupid filler ep every few eps.
Are you talking about the recaps? Are you really too stupid to skip recaps?

He has evolved into a great link-5.

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Ah, so it's not a something no majiushi card. Got it.

If this is a Link 2, I'm going to be so pissed that they nerfed Dark Knight IRL to require 3 monsters.

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Ai doesn't exist as a legal entity.

It requires 3 in the Anime too.

Storm access card.

Where they are going there is no such things as "legal entities".

Rank em.

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The law exists, even in VR.

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What's he mean by that? I thought at the start of this Hanoi was finished and were going to turn themselves in anyway? Their purpose will be over after Yusaku kills Ai what could possibly be left for them especially with SOS being effectively burned to the ground

Kaiba > Jack > Reiji > Manjoume > Kaito

Soulburner wants them to play superhero in VRAINS whenever evil rears it head.

Kiryu over the rest.

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You can only control 1 "CompromA.I.se". Once per turn: You can target 1 "@Ignister" monster you control; place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell. Once per turn, if a monster(s) is Special Summoned: You can target 1 "@Ignister" Monster Card in your Spell & Trap Zone; Special Summon it.

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He's being a tsundere. He's thankful to Revolver and doesnt want him to go to jail but doesnt want to show it.

So why are they surrounded by a data storm if this isn't a speed duel?

"Code Talker" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. Once per turn, during the Battle Step, if your "Code Talker" monster battles an opponent's monster: You can change that opponent's monster's ATK to 0 until the end of the Battle Phase, also monsters cannot be destroyed by that battle, and neither player takes any battle damage from that battle. During the Damage Step, when your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card while this card is in your GY and your "Code Talker" monster is battling: You can banish this card from your GY; negate the activation, and if you do, "Code Talker" monsters you currently control gain 700 ATK.

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Because Ai wants it.

Does he not understand that Vrains will be destroyed with Ai's defeat and with SOS tech now destroyed it won't be coming back this time?
Oh, so he's still retarded
Because dramatic finish where the storm disappears after Ai loses and with his loss somehow the Ignis world starts to revive or something

>Does he not understand that Vrains will be destroyed with Ai's defeat and with SOS tech now destroyed it won't be coming back this time?
There'll be some kind of vr network successor if nothing else.

What is Ai doing with Doyon?

The animator didn't live up to Yusaku's chadness.

That's doshin.

But that's forbidden love...

Pretty good ep. I'm really glad they finally addressed the cyberse deck and the camera watching Yusaku all the way back in episode 1.

>finally use each other's real names
Nice. Also Ryoken popping up out of nowhere on his boat, throwing one card, then immediately leaving was just the right touch of chuuni. What a great scene.

So did Ai leave that deck in the warehouse then?

Bottom-Right, Top-Right
[ Cyberse / Link / Effect ]
You can target 1 Cyberse monster in your GY; Special Summon it in Defense Position. You can only use this effect of "Splash Mage" once per turn.
ATK / 1100 LINK – 2

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Of course he did that snake stuff is all him.

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Most likely yeah. The gist is that he wanted to get rid of Hanoi, and basically orchestrated Yusaku meeting Kusanagi, leading to them finding the deck. I'll bet Ai spread the rumour of the cyberse deck puzzle in the first place.

I can't wait for them to get western names. They are kinda confusing right now.

So, will we get the more titles for this month's episodes other than the two episodes from yesterday?

One more probably this sunday.

Probably next week. I really wanted them to set clear that vrains is finishing already

Is that Doshin? I thought Ai was stealing gold bars from Goblin King.

IT WAS ME YUSAKU!
IT WAS ME ALL ALONGGGG
I like, wonder how the real thing will be

That green part is clearly the bottom of doshin.

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Make sure the Lost Incident or something like it doesn't happen again since Revolver is actually pretty serious about protecting people. He worded in a roundabout way, but that's what he meant. No one else but Ryoken and the Lost Children is going to care about preventing that kind of suffering.

People will say things like, "What an unfortunate event," but no one will actually do anything to stop it from happening again.

Are they gonna pull Lightning 2.0?
>"Everything that happened in vrains including the destruction of hanoi, the creation of bohman, and the deaths of my fellow ignises, was all according to my plan!"

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>inb4 he manipulated Lighting into doing all of those things

No, they just said Ai was responsible for putting Yusaku on the path of revenge against hanoi.

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>gets asked to protect Link Vrains/the network
>fucks off from Den City on his boat instead

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They already showed how they can operate from the sea

silly, it's still all according to Lightning's plan

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He looks tired. I hope he and Yusaku can get some sleep after this is all over.

I like him. My sentiments are the same as the others; I think S1 Revolver is the best Revolver, but S2-3 is still good.

Revolver gave Playmaker Topologina Nabee

I know, but it's funny when he's got a perfectly good house there. Not to mention technically the knights and Spectre are still dead. Did he just throw everyone's bodies onto the boat?

would be unironically kino

Pandor is coming. They mentioned Pandora's box.

tfw VRAINS ends with final boss entity being born but unresolved, akin to Zexal's ED

Pandor and Ai get married and have many AI babies.

The hand came out of nowhere though.

youtube.com/watch?v=X4k_CHwPkJ8

>Ai will fuck who is essentially his cousin
Goddamn more incest subtext

God I can just see it.
>PM and Ai finally settle their duel but before Ai offs himself they both feel a tremor in the network or whatever
>Some evil shit is on the loose
>Cue Revolver also appearing
>Soulburner logs in too because why not
>They all fly off into the sunset.

>everything happened according to keikaku
decent cap but that was completely unnecessary

We all know he gave him pic related
.

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It only needs to be used at one junction of the duel and nowhere else?

Keikaku means "my plan" I guess

Give me a CG model

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Extend VRAINS to 150 episodes, but on the cost of YGO7 having little to no budget

>tfw he meant to throw this
>accidentally throws rokket support instead
>PM can't do jack with the card

Ai needs a girl who has a savior complex with him too?

He only set up the Cyberse Deck and PM vs Faust.

Kill yourself.

I looked at this and though it was a fusion of light dragon and wind pegasus for a second. Also he doesn't need a CG model when their link 4 will definitely need one.

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???

You mistyped link 6

no u

Skipping from 3 to 6 seems kind of drastic.

This episode was something else. I only wish they had dueled in the real world.

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>streaming

>I only wish they had dueled in the real world.
I thought that way too, but after seeing that dramatic as fuck raging datastorm in the background, this is much better.

>downloading something you're only going to watch once

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>expecting Yea Forums's culture on Vrains threads.

What do you think of his entrance?

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This episode was really good. Can we go 4 for 4? Writers are going all out these past few episodes

Indeed, that kinda made up for it but still...Yusaku has never dueled.

You wanted them to duel in the robot factory? That's not a very climatic location.

Backup operator only gets to show up in card art it seems.

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Why Ai looks like he was a character from some otome game?

Laughed pretty hard.

He's a fancy pants boy. It's about as far as you can get from Yusaku's style of dress.

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10/10 would stride into his lair if I got a welcome like that.

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That whole second row looks like it would never be printed. What's with all the generic "link" cards anyway?

He really needs that mask back.

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That's it. Revolver gave Yusaku a dark dragon token generator and then transmitted borreload furious dragon over to him.

How are they going to resolve her?

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By showing her washing her bed sheets

Stuffing her bra

Akira will wake up as she's straddling him.

>Borrelcode Talker

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Stuffing it won’t even get to Aki/Asukas level

Who would want to emulate them though?

I mean at least they were better main girls.

Asuka didn't get to duel for nearly 70 episodes and might as well have been cut out of the plot. Aki is all over the place with her development and is part of the half of the cast they didn't know what to do with and has to sit on the sidelines during another drawn out tournament arc.

I can think of a couple people.

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Giving her a random duel which somehow ends with her saying that she has resolvd all of her problems.

Take a guess.

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No one in vrains is literally omnipotent though

I don't think wearing a matching outfit with ghost girl is really emulating asuka or aki.

"The adventure continues" is different from the show ending on "Revolver's Big Mistake"
At this point I doubt anything will come of pandor except her being revolvers solution to AI

Duel Monsters was better than all the ridiculous shit today. Do you even have Millennium Items?

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Like pretty much everything this episode, it might have worked if they had done the legwork.

No, but 3-4 out of 7 of those barely have a reason to exist.

based nostalgiabro

Legwork? This is VRAINS we have no time for that

cope

cute MS Paint drawings

>Minor villain needs magic bullshit and has to establish there being more Millennium Items
>Minor villain needs magic bullshit and to be a foil to Atem
>Season One villain needs magic bullshit
>Season Two exposition lady needs magic bullshit
>Season Two villain needs magic bullshit

People may not like him but I have faith in Yoshida to not screw up. The writing's been hitting a lot of the emotional beats. All that's left is to connect the dots, tidy up the details and we're home free.

>magic bullshit
need some more cope here

God I wish yugioh would bring magic back to the premise. Even if it just uses a plain current or near future setting again

only if we go back to the "minimalist" animation.

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what are attacks in the new ones like?

The future is now user, we are only going to get more and more scifi from now on.

I am expecting dueling in space in YGO7.

implying

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It's frustrating because this season could have been good, but they're still not playing with the themes. Everything has been straight-forward. Ai's exposition this episode carried no weight. I'm not saying it's wrong for his ultimate goal to be suicAide by Playmaker, but they could at least pretend his actions have any more meaning than that.

>playing with the themes
>pretend his actions have any more meaning than that
something something nihilism

stay mad

Depends on the attack I guess.

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Magi tech settings arent new in anime, it doesnt always have to be mutually exclusive

I also wish they'd address and tighten up some basic things for any premise they do, like how magic laws tied to cards being present makes it obvious why card games become a preferred medium, and going back to the unspoken rule of anime duelists not being allowed to read each other's cards directly since card effects are basically a character's toolkit of shounen powers. Instead of playing so fast and loose with even the basic stuff like this for 6 years.
Also the characters issue of making sure the cast can actually play off of each other and have some chemistry

You say it's not wrong for him to want to die, then say his actions should lead to something else. No? Of course his desire to off himself would lead to his actions of.....getting himself in a suicidal duel. Any other result would just be plain misleading. I genuinely don't get what you want man.

I'm mostly pissed because they clearly could have done so, but they just don't. Like, instead of giving him a fucking island, dumping him in the middle of VRAINS, and specifically planning for somebody to attack Roboppi, he could have just put him somewhere safe to live out the rest of his life. Then, when he's attacked by somebody, it's a reaffirmation of the necessity of what he's doing. That even if they're just living out their last days away from everyone, AI's will still be hunted by humans. Even if it's total bullshit, it's at least pretending to make a point instead of just
>You have to beat this mook to proceed

This feels like jumping through unnecessary hoops to ensure themes that aren't even what they're trying to present this season.

To use another Yoshida example, think of Nasch vs IV. It has the front side of Nasch needing to beat IV and a bunch of other people down to proceed, and a back side of Nasch trying to use IV to force him to stick with the path he's now on. It's not that either of them are totally bogus, but he will act extra hammy to accomplish the second. This arc is a lot like that, except Ai's purported objective doesn't really make sense.

>Magi tech
Also arent several popular archetypes in the game visually themed as something like this? Magic + tech/future would be aesthetically perfectly in line with the franchise

>end goal: suicide by Playmaker
>easy mode: duel PM, lose, delete self
>normal mode: disguise as garden variety villain, lose, delete self
>AI mode:
>eliminate head of SOL, steal robot control code part 1
>kill a massive chunk of cast, steal robot control code part 2
>feed kind partner who trusted you that will break any second to the dogs to deliver a pointless letter
>have factory mass produce an army of you for the purpose of...stuff because reasons
>all of this just to get a single duel with PM who is just wondering "what the fuck bro why"
>this is considered 10/10 writing by vrainsfags

My memory of Zexal is bad, but if I'm getting this right, you're saying Nasch needed to defeat others for a meta "the show needs to continue" reason and an in-universe "I'm too far gone now, it's all or nothing" plot reason.

I....don't really see how it's similar? The reason for Ai's actions now is he's basically lonely. If he wins he gets to repopulate the world with other free-will AIs and stops being lonely. If he loses he dies, which also eliminates the loneliness.

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He had no other choice with roboppi after the backup since him breaking down was inevitable, so he gave him a fun time for his last moments. Being the last ignis and making a bunch of copies of yourself isn't too far out of consideration after everything that happened.

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This is the final boss villain?

>tfw Queen backstory never ever
We don't know why is she SOL's head, whether she was smart to work on the scientific stuff herself and so on

Meanwhile we wasted time on Bohman's "backup" made up stories because why not.

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It's the closest we'll ever get.

>no pendulums in vrains
it's not fair

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Absolutely based.

They're both plot reasons. Get past IV, get to Yuma, get the Numbers, ensure Barian survival, and lock himself into this fate. They're both valid things he wants to accomplish. The problem I have with what they're doing with Ai is that his keAikaku goes out of it's way to hurt people for the sake of hurting people. There's no reason he has to take over SOL and make SOLtis to make AI.

it's fair and good. pendulums were a mistake

im shure he duels a lot on the duel club.

I think he doesnt mean a meta perspective.
On first glance Nasch fights IV because IV wants to stop the Barians. At the same time Nasch fights IV because by doing so he locks himself into his fate as a Barian and their plan because he belives that after that there is no going back.

Blame Asano I guess.

Remember how Yuzu gave up dueling forever?

Just dont fucking even think about ever mentioning that again ok

Pendulums were too good for VRAINS

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No, I didn't watch arc-v. I remember how Aki became a doctor but I don't think that involved her giving up dueling necessarily.

Aki eventually learned how to ride a motorcycle, so it wasn't all that bad

This has to be the most boring final battle in YGO ive seen yet

I'll take your word for it since I didn't keep up with Vrains.

Arc-V kinda broke me.

No.

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More like it's agreed upon that they were a mistake

>Episode looked like shit
>Sloppy writing
>Next episode also looks like shit animation wise.
I guess 116 really ended being the best episode after all. A shame but lets not kid ourselves. Ai Vs Yusaku never had a lot of potential to begin with

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brainlet take

>Pendulums doing anything without electrumite
No not really

Kiku exists after all huh? Takeru will go to put the bun in the oven. Literally best finale ever

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>Forgetting Arc-V

You don't decide anything. The start was already good.
>Ai vs Yusaku never had a lot of potential
Don't kid yourself. Now that's an obvious lie.

>he thinks pendulums need electrumite to do plays

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>goes out of it's way to hurt people for the sake of hurting people.
How so? He only targeted the two top people of SOL for their code keys, then let every other staff off.
>There's no reason he has to take over SOL and make SOLtis to make AI.
He wanted the SOLtis android bodies, of course he had to take over the warehouse/factory if he wants to obtain them en masse.

Okay I think I'm getting the point, which is that the duel serves two purposes.

Thing is, what Ai is doing did further his two endgame options.
>Option 1: Get SOLtis bots and duplicate himself for more friends. To do this needs code keys from SOL top execs. One happens to have ordered the dissection of a friend, no love lost there. Another is a known ally, which brings him to
>Option 2: Die by Playmaker's hand. Going after Akira will set off everyone, including Playmaker.
In that sense, it all lines up and what he did does serve multiple purposes.

Here's your (You). It's already more entertaining.

>Caring about shillburner

>Ai fighting against the very thing he created in a suicidal battle in the remains of his homeland
>shit
okay fujo

This shit was so gay i wouldn't be surprised if Revolver was supposed to be Soulburner rival all along

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>he never got to say goodbye to playmaker
bros...

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>Thinks
Pendulums don't do anything without their mistake of a link-2
>inb4 guardragons or astrograph

>Supposed rival when he was around longer

>They do it like pokemon with the anime being 100% uptime all the time season after season but they dont bother to pay a good writers.
The League in SM looks like ass tho

Yoshida is an expert when it comes to foreshadowing

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They did though after he gave him the mail.

they wont, her best scene was the autistic bench date and thats it.

>he doesn't know
just put another link 2 on the board and go off with a big pendulum summon, electrumite is not the only card in the deck that generates advantage

ARC-V had the saddest ending in all the franchise but only Shun and Leo suffered. Nobody seemed to care Reira was a baby. Also no one gives a fuck about Joeri/Serena and Rin/Hugo in that world

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i still don't understand why they brought back those legacy characters just for them to job horribly

The only season worth watching in VRAINS is three.

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It's the only thing that assures that the summoning mechanic works with all the free advantage or gets to the right scales. A single negate or solemn shuts down pendulums and at this point they are just a mash. Pendulums don't have an identity anymore, now they're just electrumite turbo.

>He only targeted the two top people of SOL for their code keys
And left them (and possibly Blood Shepard and Ghost Girl) in comas, despite showing with Blue Maiden that he doesn't need to do that.
>He wanted the SOLtis android bodies
But why does he want those? SOLtis has never been a requirement for AI. Neither for their creation, nor their development. What's preventing him from just letting them exist in the network, and obtaining physical bodies as he and Roboppi did if they wish?

The fuck are you talking about retard? The latest episode is the best VRAINS has to offer

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Emma fucking wishes her butt was that nice.

That's the most basic thing but electrumite assures that you get to do a lot before you pendulum summon. Sometimes with a bad hand you have to pendulum summon first before getting the cards back from the extra.

You're right but I wish just as much that pendulums wouldn't have to rely that much on the card.

t. i don't actually play pendulums
>It's the only thing that assures that the summoning mechanic works with all the free advantage or gets to the right scales.

senpai, if your pendulum deck needs to summon electrumite to have scales and cards to pendulum summon it's entirely your fault for being a shitty deckbuilder

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He is a good rival considering the tone and setting of the show. When compared to other rivals he is probably the weakest but was still entertaining from time to time. I would say he served his job well.

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Every pendulum deck not named magicians, mythical beasts, zefra or endymion can't do well without electrumite. Dinomists, majespecter and abyss actor still struggle with their scale setup.

>Sometimes with a bad hand
well that's your problem, pendulums with a bad hand can still put up good boards, all pendulums can be used as scales and you shouldn't run cards that don't generate you advantage in a combo deck

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>And left them (and possibly Blood Shepard and Ghost Girl) in comas, despite showing with Blue Maiden that he doesn't need to do that.
True, but I'll put that in the "things to rile up Playmaker" pile.

>But why does he want those?
Because he wants the other AIs to interact with humans, experience the human world, and grow from that. AIs with no specialised vessel can only appear in blurred instances (like Flame trying to contact Takeru).

>So far the durl hss been more entertaining than Revolver vs Soulburner 1/
How? the animation was worse and the episode itself rushed with all the goodbye dialog. Not to mention Ai's reason to duel Yusaku and everything about it including the field is boring. Seriously couldn't the writers have tried a bit more? Is the last duel for gods sake

ah well that is true, but those decks were already bad to begin with

To be fair, Roboppi defeated Blood Shepard and Ghost Girl, but Ai did do that to the Knights of Hanoi, so nevermind.

Haters are getting ridiculous now, kek.

So who was controlling the boat?

Too chad

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Noh last hurray in the Anime was 116. Hopefully, we see him again for ep 120

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Ironic that you would call out bad deckbuilding.

At least you admit that they rely on just electrumite to do a lot.

It's the opposite. Yusaku is a chad while yuya can't do anything else but blindly follow the EGAO.

>At least you admit that they rely on just electrumite to do a lot.
No i don't, you said it yourself here:
>Every pendulum deck not named magicians, mythical beasts, zefra or endymion can't do well without electrumite
those are the only pendulum decks that matter

If that happens they should just give Yusaku a plane ticket to go to whatever place Pandor is hiding and have everyone move on with their lives.

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Absolutely rude and not pendulumpilled.

No.

Pretty Kino. S3 Ai is the best

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i still love all pendulum bros, let's egao together user

It's kind of a tradition that the former summoning method is nerfed to not outshine the current one, at least in that era. So, in the next season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Links will be irrelevant or just nonexistent.

>This episode was really good.
Meh only good part was the beginning then it all went downhill pretty fast

vrains S3 is the equivalent of GX S4

Noh is out. We'll probably get 3 animation directors instead.

The 2nd half of this episode was the great part.

desu i'm expecting links to get ultra fucked in MR5 to push another summoning mechanic, otherwise people will keep playing links over whatever's new

Would've laughed if Yusaku dueled the previous protagonist and the duel had an inconclusive note

>How are they going to resolve her?
Taking a piss, a fitting way to go, to be honest

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Standard and Synchro Yuya were miles better than Yusaku.

Current yusaku is quite entertaining so I will have to disagree until this is finished.

It's alright.

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Didn't Judai go for suicidal attack against Osiris just to feel the thrill of dueling Atem?

other protagonists showing up in the current series is a good trope if done well, it's sad that yugioh can't really do this because of the alternate dimmensions shit

I don't think Takeru is gone yet

That's pretty sad considering how that would make Vrains just having two seasons planned. But then Bohman wasted like half of the S2 episodes, so that would mean only one season remains. Then we have to remember all the recaps in S1, so that would mean Vrains was practically fucked since the beginning.

But user everybody knows Judai lost the duel.

Yuya wouldn't work since it's already confirmed that pendulums don't exist in vrains. Nobody is sure on which protags like yugi, judai or yusei could appear but I doubt this is even an option.

GX S4 had more episodes and actual conclusions to the cast. They can't really be compared

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I'd buy that if they they gave any indication that the human world is meant to be important in this show. Nearly every duel has been entirely virtual, and many episodes have been the same. Why would Ai believe that interacting with people in meatspace would be important, when the show goes out of its way to only put importance on cyberspace?

He'll probably contribute some key animation for one more ep because he always does the most work

>Ai was the mastermind all along
Wake me up when the duel is over

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Bohman is the ultimate proof that vrains wouldnt have used any extra time optimally anyway

The best conclusion for Judai

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>no ace upgrade
>no meta tier deck
>no fusion in anime
worst rival, reiji tier boredom and worst series.
You better make up for this ygo7

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>Yusaku becomes so mesmerized by Yuya's EGAO or Yuma's KATTOBINGU that he goes for a suicide attack

>Gets a final duel with the MC rival
>Gets the best looking episodes
>Duels twice in the last season
>Leaves satisfied to fuck his childhood friend
>Deck wins Worlds
They really went all out with Soulburner. Probably the best ending for any character in this show

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Yeah they can. They gave plenty of characters conclusions. GX s4 was filled with even more filler stuff anyway anyway.

You shouldn't expect much out of ygo7 since even a break wont change current industry conditions
That said, I dont think I can stand another 3 more years of watching a show constantly struggling to get by

>No ace upgrade
He has a synchro, fusion and xyz version
>No meta tier deck
Borrels are staple extra deck monsters since release and rokket dragon link is the current top tier in the OCG
>Worst rival
He was very entertaining so no
>Worst series
Big no

>They gave plenty of characters conclusions
Kek don't kid yourself

Try watching the vrains ending once, speedwatcher-kun.

borrelsword is technically an upgrade

rokket link was a thing in the OCG and it still is if you count dragonlink as rokkets

but yeah the fusion should have appeared in the anime

A weak start for the final duel. The duel itself was good but the lackluster animation and out of nowhere revelation bought it down. Next one doesn't look very good either so hopefully, 119 makes up for it

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>using the ED as proof of anything

>Try watching the vrains ending once
lmao

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it's not fair

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The revelation was well done and didn't come out of nowhere when it gave closure to why yusaku started this mission or obtained his deck. This is a lot better than what they did with lightning. The animation was fine and above average.

>lackluster animation
Seriously, who had the great idea of bringing pic related to the most importnat duel?

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Is that Spectre for ants?

That animation is based as fuck.

>This is a lot better than what they did with lightning
It was on the same level
>The animation was fine and above average
HAHAHAHA

In Yuya's defense, Pendulums didn't exist in Standard until he created them.

>He has a synchro, fusion and xyz version
Those are different versions not a Link evolution.
>>No meta tier deck
>Borrels are staple extra deck monsters since release and rokket dragon link is the current top tier in the OCG
Whats the point of using a card without it's bros. Call me a purityfag but rokkets should play together.
>>Worst rival
>He was very entertaining so no
For ants and this is coming from a rivalfag. He is Reiji tier of bad
>>Worst series
>Big no
Between constant recaps, production issues and interactionless characters it's the worst series overall. Don't get me wrong I will probably rewatch it for Ghostgirl ass, Cyberse Witch ass and giggles.

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Everything about Synchro was insufferable to me, characters included, so I'm also going to disagree. I don't think Yuya was better than Yusaku by then and certainly not by a mile, let alone several.

>Whats the point of using a card without it's bros. Call me a purityfag but rokkets should play together.
Trickstar mostly got by on its first set, rokkets can get by on the third to last or so.

>It was on the same level
Not at all.
>Has no arguments
You're not worth arguing with

He's the amon of vrains.

Borreload Savage Dragon is an upgrade. Were you expecting a Link 5 or something?

That's how every vrains villain has been.

Haven't played rokkets for a long time bit last time they were tier shit and I doubt NAS has made any cards worth using.
Meanwhile salamcrows are everyFwhere. Stop bs yourself

I think soulburner went through some revision.

>>no ace upgrade
what is borrelsword savage and furious dragons
>>no meta tier deck
rokkets can into guardragon combos are meta right now in the tcg/ocg
>no fusion in anime
it wouldn't have mattered if he summed furious anyway
>worst rival
sure but season 1 revolver is better
>worst series
we can agree on that

>synchro
>upgrade
>not even 3 headed
kek

During synchro I was distracted by hotels and how middling or terrible any new characters were in synchro besides the very brief Sergei moments to look at how yuya was during that time. I probably remember more of yugo than yuya during synchro arc

Links don't seem to support the upgrade philosophy with how they can be summoned without overly specific materials most of the time. Besides crystal heart stuff, I guess.

Leave YGO7 to me

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>borrelsword savage and furious
for the 100th time
impure grabo, not my link 5
Boycott nas and konami
#Notmylink5

It's more like having no one else around than having a choice

Who said it had to come from NAS? OCG makes cards too.

>>

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>impure garbo
yugioh is not about playing pure decks it's more fun and more optimal to mix cards for better consistency that's been the case since early Dm decks

Yeah, exactly.

I don't like anything about Arc-V's Synchro arc except for the music and a few of the cards. As a story, it's just so irredeemably bad to me that I can't agree with any aspect of it being superior to either its predecessors or successor series. I don't like it when anyone acts like anything beyond Reiji vs Yuya 2 is worth saving, because it's not.

>great rival
33% winrate
lmao delusional

who know inner working of shueista, nas and konami but it seems that konami has little input on tv cards or they are really dumb. Could be the latter.
mine is bigger than yours

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Synchro arc's story ended like a wet fart so I guess it was a microcosm of things to come for the whole show

> ygo
>fun
It's a circlejerk of tier meta decks

>It's a circlejerk of tier meta decks
you act like you play the game to even know lots of rogue decks like altergiest are still topping

Hikokubo and the writers know what they're doing, kabuki theater.

Even if ppl think it's executed underwhelmingly I dont see how ai's plan is broken in logic. Along the way of trying to create AI beings who will live in the world and showing Yusaku his desire for AI (whether or not the soltis actually activate in the end), he picked up hostages to force yusaku into a duel

When and why winrates matter to the quality of a character again?

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Haven't played for a long time but nothing could have changed dramatically.
Some rogue decks topping can't change the horrible game that komami is promoting. If you wanna play you either join the big boys club and play meta or go home.

It's yusakufags trying to defend how boring their character is

>Haven't played for a long time
>thinks he knows the game
opinion discarded

Just some shitposters who think anzu is relevant for her winrate.

>thinks konami actually cares about the players
fifthybillion keks

I stopped playing you-hi-oh after xyz. Now I just play Duel links.

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>Implying they don't
They're a business

>Revolver saying goodbye to everyone
>Soulburner taking about living with Kiku once the whole mess is over
>Final battle being said multiple times
I don't know guys, i think VRAINS is really after all

that has nothing to do with anything but konami not caring means nothing to the players because the players themselves know this and still yugioh just because they want to

Yup, welcome to last week's news

f,s and z are sidegrades at best,eokkets aren't meta, dragon link != rokkeks

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>Crow Win ratio 79%
>Crow is a good character

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>Business actually care about people over money
Im certain that you think that you are intelligent and that what you said makes perfect sense. You pure, blind, innocent and naive soul

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Do you have the other dark knight animation?

>forgets the incident
I don't get it. Was that the goal?

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Yes it's painfully obvious so I have stopped playing. Might get back into the game but im in no hurry.

To be able to move on from a traumatic event?? Yes of course, there's absolutely nothing remotely confusing about that.

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Move on, sure. But forget?

Maybe more like not having to remember it daily. Hes not going to forget his dead parents' memory

Can this be used effectively in marincess?

I am browsing other Yu-Gi-Oh! communities and there are actually people who think that after today's episode, Ai manipulated everything and is evil.

Even though the only thing he said he did was give Yusaku the Cyberse deck.

I don't understand how some people function and I'm convinced half the people who hate this series don't even watch the episodes.

the other 3d one

Theres a lot in vrains that's a stretch but the duel ghost and snake guarding the cyberse deck visually looked like something Ai would make

Ai pointing yusaku and kusanagi with hints to create a nuisance for hanoi is a pretty minor thing compared to lightning's backstory

>I'm convinced half the people who hate this series don't even watch the episodes
cope

They are retarded but I can see the resemblance between
>it was all Lightning all along!
and
>it was all Ai all along!
Its more lazyness of writing than having any deeper implication of Ai being evil or anything.
Rather than evil, he has a very unhealthy case of depression.

Emma got toned

>mfw lost children fags
>mfw Sol fags
>mfw Queen fags
>mfw soltis ignis fags
>mfw Pandor surprise villain fags
>mfw pendulum fags
>mfw season 4 fags
Vrains just keeps disappointing people and it's the best

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you forgot the firewallfags

That's konami, not vrains. VRAINS gave firewall plenty of forms and support.

yeah but he never showed up ever again though

Ngl I still want to see how the other ignis would look in soltis form

>Ai watching PM from a gargoyle at the start of episode 1 was a hint he would do the same later in the episode via one of the hotdog truck's screens
>Yusaku guesses right away Ai handed Cyberse Wizard to Naoki because of the tracker he had put on it, and later he tells PM to defeat Faust fast so he doesn't spill the beans about Kogami's simulations
>The Cyberse Deck's dungeon monster looking like Ai
>Hearing his thoughts after Windy's failed erasure with him using his human voice telling us in addition to the above he wasn't what he seemed. Also, evil wisdom and the DARK Attribute symbol on Bohman's Judgment Dice
Foreshadowing was there. Still, pretty disturbing being a clown was genuine along with his manipulative acts. Only answering what's the truth Lightning was talking about remains.

>IRL Duels
>Autistlovefags

Besides arc-v they don't fool around with romance a lot anyway

It was still weird to me that it's a big deal for 3 out of 4 pairings that the yu and bracelet girl know each other but zarc and ray were disconnected strangers. Oh well

>yfw the card Ryoken gave Yusaku is Monster Reborn

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There are big gaps for appearances of monsters much longer than firewall I think. decode went like 40 episodes.

Longest gap was from Akira's Tindangles.

decode talker is not the ace monster not showing up for a while is understandable but firewall not appearing after it got banned is not a coincidence or a matter of time

Playmaker didn't get as many duels and he won't summon the same monsters every duel.

So, Revolver and other knights are not going to jail? Well, fuck.

You had to know that wasn't going to happen.

I understand that. But still i really want them in jail. Where they all but Specter belong.

We already got a jail scene with baira.

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What other ancient civilization is there left to have magic cards come from?

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why the fuck are ceremonial duels ALWAYS hype?

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they were a mistake this is Konami basically admitting it

SB vs Revolver was the ceremonial duel

Chinese myth
Sumerian/babylonian
Or just plain native japanese myth

Feels sort of weird for OG Monster Reborn and Polymerization to not make an appearance during a YGO anime.

no, that seemed more like the final rival duel.

this is the climactic 'MC vs his ghost partner' duel, a la yugi vs atem or yuma vs astral.

This is Yuma vs Astral without any of the soul and heart that carried that duel. Ai and Yusaku did not have enough depth to their relationship to earn this duel

>Chinese myth
Mizael
>Sumerian/babylonian
Maybe
>plain native japanese myth
That's VRAINS. The most major gods are untouched though.

>judai vs yubel

Hindu.

that wasn't a ceremonial duel.

GX didn't really have one, unless you count judai vs yugi.

Decode Talker has consistently received top billing alongside Firewall for a long time and when all of the MC's aces were displayed on that one wall, Decode Talker was present and Firewall was not. It was also treated very ace-like in this latest episode. Whether or not it was intended to be the ace monster at the beginning of things (probably not), it is one now.

Also when all of the aces got new artwork, Decode Talker got one too. So yeah.

>Judai Vs Yubel
>Ceremonial duel
I know this may sound shocking to you, but GX didn't end with season 3

You can fight spirit partners for less is all.

Do you think Baira was fucking in jail?

Yeah, I feel you. I had a feeling it wasn't going to happen but I wanted to see it just to be shocked. I seriously would have laughed my ass off if VRAINS cut to a court scene.

I dont really count something that goes out of it's way to avoid explicit magic where you have to dig with a shovel to make the connections
Mizael lived somewhere around the Mediterranean region, same as vector/shark/durbe

Also the point isnt that the magic element has to directly come from a real world reference either (barian and astral might be tied to an irl concept but not explicitly tied to any specific myth), just that it's there as part of the laws of the world and the ritual of card games

I don't give a fuck what anybody says, Yusaku vs Ai has me gripped by the balls, and waiting for it was much harder than waiting for Soulburner vs Revolver.

>Mediterranean
It was China.

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I literally wasn't waiting for SB Vs RV at all but it ended being the best duel of VRAINS. Ai Vs PM just feels ehh. No way they can live up to that duel

Yeah where the number was, but mizael clearly wasnt actually living in china in the flashback

They fucked up, should have had Playmaker Vs Ai before Revolver Vs Soulburner

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Theres a lot they couldve done differently but that doesnt even make sense

>best duel of vrains
>I nuke my own field full of negates for no real reason
>I draw 5 for free using a plot card

Don't forget
>Revolver doesn't use Tracer or Borreload's effects the first turn for some reason
>Kernel exists

burning draw needed to be in the first 20 episodes for it to work.

Get bored already

>Ai Vs PM three-part duel will look like shit because SB took the budget
They call him Chadburner for nothing baby

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I thought it was pretty well animated and I enjoyed that part of it, but the stuff mentioned here, and here really brings it down for me.

Because you can't be bothered to think of a decent name or proofread your posts?

Same but then i remember Yugioh has never had good duel writing so it all comes down to th feelings the duels try to convey. That's what matters in the end

Cope

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except this duel has even worse duel writing than your so called no yugioh duel has good duel writing, like absolute dogshit duel writing

I really enjoyed Revolver vs Yusaku in Season 1.

I also really enjoyed Yusaku vs Bohman finale.

I enjoyed Yuma vs Eliphas, Judai vs Trueman, Judai vs Darkness, every Yusei vs Jack duel, and so on and so forth. Yu-Gi-Oh!'s duel writing is fine even when characters are deliberately tossing all their resources in the garbage to summon their ace.

But Soulburner and Revolver don't even need to do that. Things like Kernel and banishing Savage didn't come off as stylish, it came off as basically a free win.

It doesnt have as much to it but at the same time ai is the only one yusaku has a relationship with in the first place

How was the duel writing quality in the spinoff mangas?

the writers are not technical or know about the game enough to pull a full duel without misplays misplays have to exist so that casual enjoy the show if the duels were written by people who know and are good at the game casuals wouldn't even understand what happens during the duels because of the over the top 15 minutes complicated combos

>spinoff mangas
Lol nobody cares about those

I agree that the feelings and stuff are more important than the mechanics, but I don't really care enough for the conflict between the two of them and for what I did care, I found it very hard to overlook banishing Savage Dragon.

Atleast it had ETERNAL AVENGE
youtube.com/watch?v=WRA-nBtm1LA

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>Yugioh has never had good duel writing
It has had passing duel writing. It has had duels where the cards and plays are symbolic, or build off themes that have presented themselves through the season. They are perfectly capable of writing decent duels.

>Could've summoned Bomber Dragon instead of Zeroboros to burn Soulburner for game

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That one is actually understandable as it's implied he gave it to Pandora.

What about that time metal was immune to magic?

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>Use Borreload's effect as you have previously done and win this turn
vs
>Don't do it, let Soulburner spam combos next turn, then you spam combos next turn only to nuke your own field, then die
I think you're full of shit.

banishing a omninegate with 3 counters, a borrel and rokket ready (if he didn't summon to link zone) is more than just a fucking misplay you fucking retard, don't try to defend this dogshit duel because MUH NOH GIL BO, fucking even casuals know how borrels work

I fucking love this. Attacking the moon and shit cracks me up. Are people really that butthurt about it? The game didn't even officially exist yet.

What about it?

Well the other duelist kingdom duels had a warped and crazy logic to them, this one just came off lazy.

borreload couldn't take chimera you idiot because of the equip spell
>fucking even casuals know how borrels work
anons here couldn't even figure out how borreload can play around magic cylinder casuals barely know what goes on during duels

>Complaining about duel writing
Seriously? we all know if the writers want they can make the character draw the most OP card inimaginable. In the end, it really doesn't matter

Man if I was paying this game and somebody fused a magic card with Mammoth Graveyard to take down my BEUD I'd kill myself too.

no one carea about burning draw, it's banishing your fucking omni negator with 4500 and another potential rokket disruption just to gain a measly 700 atk

No, but it could target Quadborrel to drop its ATK and prevent Soulburner from activating Geyser.

geyser can still be activated even if borreload activated it's effects

It's not the most important thing in the world but when it's noticeable, it's noticeable.

Soulburner vs Revolver wasn't even stylishly done because they both could have gone at each other way better than they did. Kernel and Burning Draw really drag down the duel because it's like, "Soulburner lost, so we'll have to introduce an escape button."

>Burning Draw would've been a dead card if Zeroboros was using it's TCG text

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People in this thread have actual autism and like to pat themselves on the back by thinking they are smarter than the writers.

At least that was on a card text. The attributal and type struggles were more out there.

holy shit lets not forget chimera has 1800(1300 if borreload uses effect) and even if he tries to attack with chimera and destroy borreload (the only monster he could destroy by battle), savage has 3 counters available to negate chimeras attack effect

I think if you're saying something as bold as, "This is the best duel," or, "This is the best duel of the series," then you have to be fair to other people's criticisms. It's not like people are going

>lol but why didn't he otk him

Soulburner had been suped up with Kernel and still pretty much lost. You can't be mad at someone saying that it wasn't the best duel because, well, it wasn't.

>and still pretty much lost
how ? he won the duel it's not his fault the writers hate revolver and made him missplay on purpose

>well, it wasn't.
Even with all its faults, it is easily the best in VRAINS. Granted, VRAINS really doesn't really have much else going for it but still

>bro this is the best duel in the series
>no it isn't here are some valid complaints
>lmao bro you have autism lmao best duel, duel writing has always been trash blah blah blah
you're fucking retarded, an actual nigger

Ehhh i mean sure there were misplays like in most duels (Roboppi Vs SB) but overall the duel was pretty strong and nothing in the show compares to it so far. Ai Vs PM has potential tho

im naming mine Emma
why does Sword/Shield have so many VRAINS similarities recently anyway

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>overall the duel was pretty strong
only because of soulburner, revolver is fucking trash

I felt the duel writing for Lightning vs Revolver showed that they still have the capacity to write okay duels. I can't say I'm not disappointed they couldn't live up to that.

Am I the only one who likes Yusaku vs Revolver MR4 1 & 2?

Nobody talks about them.

I fucking love VRAINS!

I miss Cracker Dragon.

When did Hikokubo peaked?

It's kinda hard to get excited when they immediate follow Revolver forcing a tie. It's like they just wasted the viewer's time and expect them to want to see more.

>Lightning vs Revolver showed that they still have the capacity to write okay duels
I would agree with literally any other duel but
>1LP
Was plain retarded

1 was fine, revolver didn't really have the foresight to think firewall would go that high in atk which is why he used magna instead of anesth, 2 was a bit iffy with drop frame wedge and zero extra link but it's still fine, all his other duels though afterwards are fucking dogshit

that duel is just as bad because it's technically a draw but ended up a win for lightning because he cheated

I liked their second duel but also this
Even then their 2nd duel is definitely in the Top 5

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I can't defend that ending, but the duel did a really good job of showing Lightning's mindset.
>Immediately drop a Judgment Arrows searcher, even if it gives the opponent a big advantage, then gets Mind Crush'd
>Completely neuter Colosseum to get Judgment Arrows back
>Gets his monsters ATK dropped so Judgment Arrows doesn't mean anything, tries to play dirty
>Can't get away with that, flips over the table because he absolutely does not want to lose

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I like Decode Talker's insane boost in ATK and the "NAAAAAAAAAAAAANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII?"

I hope Ishige and Takeuchi continue to gain more roles after Vrains is over.

It's plot is the most interesting and complex of all the series so far. It tackles the most important subject of the 21st century (artificial intelligence) in an interesting way. An example of this is when Ai mentions that his clones can potentially be good or bad towards humanity. When most people think about AI they say it will be a good or bad thing for humanity without accepting it will be somewhere between both.

This is even more evident when you analyze the six Ignis. On one spectrum you have Windy and Lighting who opposed humanity. On the other you have Flame and Aqua who bonded with humans. In the middle you have Earth and Ai. Earth initially opposed the idea of working with humans and then came around to trusting them. Ai initially worked with a human and then fought against them. Bohman was most representative of AI. He got progressively "better" every time he dueled. His goal of merging all consciousness into himself represents what a "God AI" would be.

It could have been better written though. With less flashback episodes and meaningless filler duels. Link summoning is a failed mechanic that did the opposite of what it was meant to do. Credit to them for bringing back other summons in s2 even if they never felt as relevant as they did in Arc-V. Although the game is complex IRL it was always easy to follow duels in previous series. Duels in VRAINS are just summoning fests.

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>It's plot is the most interesting and complex of all the series so far

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5ds I guess

Vrains unironically has the most simple plot because of how singularly tracked it is. Most of the time theres only one thing going on and in between events it's just the other characters getting updated on that thing if they're not coma'd yet. It's the opposite to later arc v where characters were scrambling around in different locations doing (often stupid) things chronologically at the same time

Animate her.

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Senpai I gotchu

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They look nothing alike besides one color.

Kaito only had an ace upgrade

How will they top Aoi? Is it even possible?

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Based Yuzu. A toast for her, and Yuya and his pendulum.
Also FUCK link and vrainlets. Aka the real mistakes

Monster reincarnation appeared though. That's has to count for something. Also I wouldn't be surprised if an ankh showed up in an artwork somewhere.

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Kiku should be the only thing that exists from his storyline.

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Say what?

I think most of his story line didn't pan out so well.

Could have been done better but then again VRAINS has terrible writing so there's not much we can do about it.

Now you reminded me on how Monster Reincarnation was used/seen more than Reborn back in GX

>Could have been done better
not without scrapping the character for an entirely different characterization. the other characters are fine.

Aside from the AI aspect, I honestly like the emotional themes they tried to handle. Coping with trauma, regret, dealing with loss and grief etc. If Yoshida hadn't been pulled out of retirement and given more time to work on this, I believe it could've worked out a lot better. But I still like the show for what it is now.

Why didn't he use this one earlier when he had a lot of talker plays?

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>that did the opposite of what it was meant to do.
fine then. Tell me what it was meant to do? Cause you sound like one of those retards saying "konami is trying to slow down the game guyz" when links were first introduced.

The anime shows its best glimmers of being good when it's about healing from scars or the burden of the past and how they echo into the present and future. But even though that's probably the most memorable theme from it, it's packed with things like bohman and go who are frankly just a drag

She's still out there.

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Imagine fucking 4 Pandors at once

Gosh golly, having 4 dicks must get difficult, user

I think he meant in VR

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>the other characters are fine
like hell they are

fine for yugioh characters.

In that case Soulburner should be fine too

Go is probably the biggest case of "does he really need to be here"

I think his jealousy adds something more than the second playmaker act.

Not only Go but also Aoi. After all, if they don't accomplish a single thing in the story then what's the point? Go was entertaining at least but Aoi was useless from beginning to end

>soulburner
>accomplish
he was a tag along.

Funny cause in a way, Go has that past thing going on too, his past failure to defeat Revolver was essentially tying him down all throughout S2 and he thought defeating PM was the way to escape it.

Hey, he had a genuine reason to be after Revolver. That's more than you can say about other characters who were just there to die multiple times.

Yeah, then he lost from an asspull, recovered offscreen and died again

Yeah, that resolution was really stupid

If it wasn't a repaste of the motivation of playmaker with it playing out in nearly the same way it might have been worth exploring.

Hardly the same. What did Playmaker lost exactly? Six months of his life? Takeru lost his parents and that stunted his growth. He lost a lot more than Yusaku and his reason for revenge was more believable.

Playmaker's parents aren't around either. Besides after the "I said something horrible to my parents" I'm not sure it's a great motivation anymore. Even if I excluded motivations it's still too close to how playmaker dealt with revolver. All the way down to resolution. Playmaker and Revolver shouldn't end up having the same interactions as Revolver and Soulburner. Takreru was just too redundant.

>"I said something horrible to my parents" I'm not sure it's a great motivation anymore
You talk as if that alone is his entire motivation

>Playmaker and Revolver shouldn't end up having the same interactions as Revolver and Soulburner.
I agree to some extent but even then we needed to see more of the Lost children and of course they are gonna have similar issues

>Playmaker's parents aren't around either.
So? Yusaku's problem is being robbed of his childhood. Takeru's is more about his broken family. Is completely fine to have him be part of the plot. Also, that at least gives Revolver a reason to still be relevant and it paid off

They did the whole "he can't let go" in season one is the thing. If playmaker played a more active part in all of this maybe it would have made sense but it really didn't come together.

> Takeru's is more about his broken family
It didn't focus on him repairing his family, it was another repressed revenge quest.
>Also, that at least gives Revolver a reason to still be relevant and it paid off
His general opposition to ignis did that.

>His general opposition to ignis did that.
And its a damn shame nothing happens with that

That's what happens when "20th anniversary hype" decides it needs to take the second half of the season.

That opposition originated from his father anyway. I see it as now he's made peace with that, and moved on to his next mission, which is protecting the network or something.

But it shouldn't end through soulburner, his hate of AIs should be end through fighting AIs.

But the hate wasn't really his in the first place. It's fine if he lets go of the past along with Soulburner.

Nice try, but his actions suggested otherwise. He led all those assaults. It fading because of soulburner is only because the series couldn't get an opportunity to explore it anymore.

I think I'm going to stop series fagging.

Today I realized they all have their faults that can be perceived as detrimental to the franchise as a whole, but the fact of the matter is Yu-Gi-Oh! as a card game is still going strong, so the franchise can't be doing that poorly. I appreciate 5 of the 6, and that's enough for me. The only series I don't think I can excuse is Arc-V.

Well feel free to think of it how you want, but even by the end of S2 his edge was already fading. This is an okay conclusion of that.

So what was in the letter?

If Ai was in SOL technologies and everyone knew that, why fight Roboppi at all? Revolver seemed to know exactly where Yusaku was headed in order to give him that card, so what gives?

Zexal is perfect and way better than everything else though

Revolver is monitoring him.