#I'm watching YGO Arc-V

[shitpostingkats]

I'm not joking when I say I find Kite in a normal polo shirt the singlehanded funniest thing this entire series has ever done.

#KITE IN NORMAL CLOTHES IS SO INSANELY CURSED AND FUNNY #TO ME. #every time he's on screen I'm laughing so hard I can't focus #WHY DID THEY DRESS HIM IN COUNTRY CLUBCORE #spk watches arc-v #yugioh #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #kite tenjo #kaito tenjo

[blastthechaos]

The fact Zarc takes over Yuya to Pendulum Summon for the first time against Strong Ishijima when he was about to lose and needed to win the most due to how important this duel was for him, despite basically revealing Pendulum to the world which means other people will be able to get it, tells me one of two things.

1:Zarc had some care (despite never admitting it) about his Fragment stake on this fight and choose to take over and win so he wouldn't feel crushed.

Or 2:Zarc thought that if he lost here in front of everyone after everything he said and did would make him look like the loser of the century and he really did not want that reputation preceding him, so he took over because he didn't want this pipsqueak soiling his reputation.

#Yugioh Arc V #Zarc #Yuya Sakaki #YGO Arc V #Yu-Gi-Oh #Zarc:'Seriously? After all that speech that you were gonna fight and do rgiht by your dad you're going to lose? #'Step aside you little shit I wanted to save this for later but i'm gonna let a tomato head saddle me with the Mega Loser reputation' #Now watch how a true pro and someone that does not suck do it and you better take notes' #Or something like this

[squishosaur]

girl..... what is happening.....

#i'm like. liveblogging. #livedrawing #i have yhe show going in the corner and i'm drawing at the same time ajdndndm #everyone's after him oh my god... #yuya sakaki #ygo arc v #my art :> #doodles #digital art #no alt text #lys watches arc v

[birdhouseblog23]

Duel Links/ Yu-Gi-Oh Theory:

Yusaku's Homura Arc (Edited 3/3/24)

@Spoilers for Madoka Magica Rebellion Movie and Vrains anime@

Am I the only one who believes Yusaku will go through a Homura Akemi arc in Duel Links? When I think about it, their arcs may not be close but the similarities are there in terms of their situations.

-Both Lost someone they hold dear to save the world from destruction.

-Both characters suffer a case of trauma in their past they're trying to resolve, only to relive a new trauma in the present losing that special someone and they're never coming back.

-Both characters want to change, to move on from the loss of someone they hold dear keeping their promise, but at some point will start questioning their motivation to wanting to keep that promise developing an inner conflict and turning them into an antagonist.

The problem is we still don't know what happened to Yusaku after the 6 month time skip when he found out Ai 2.0 was resurrected through the digital cloud system of Duel Links. Maybe they'll explain it more in future Vrain World stories, to get to know Yusaku's inner conflicts, but I doubt it.

Yusaku is the only protagonist so far that was left with a bittersweet if not bad ending, with a weird uplifting open-ended finale in the anime and Duel Links story. And now that Duel Links exists, foes from the past will defiantly resurrect from the digital grave and will come after Yusaku to harm Ai due to his existence as an Ignis.

Yusaku going down the route Homura went through in the Rebellion movie is something that CAN happen.

Both characters want to save their only friend from a fate worse than death, yet refuse to move on not wanting to bear that much regret. Whereas Homura wants nothing more than to make her friends turn against her to become the villain of her story to keep Madoka safe, Yusaku has his friends trying to help him, getting into duels to stop him. His friends keep him from going down the path of despair.

Now chances are Yusaku might get himself together at one point in time, but that's not the case, at least from how the circumstances that led to Yusaku down this path. Yusaku has been through some crazy conflicts with someone getting hurt or nearly erased from existence. Let alone how it affects him mentally.

-His past trauma in the Lost Incident

-Losing all of his closest friends and allies during the war with Boman and Lighting.

-The never-ending conflict of A.I. at war with humanity with seemingly no conclusion as to how both groups will cooperate for peace.

-And the final nail in the coffin, the death of Ai and Ai's plan to save Yusaku from that non-conclusive future of a.i. and humanity at war with no clear winner.

Yusaku will soon realize that he'll take matters into his own hands. Yusaku will only end up becoming a demon, a devil, to the point he would have to betray his friends and Ai to become their enemy if means protecting the one person he cares so much.

Let's not forget that Yusaku has Link sense. An ability that I doubt they will bring back to how lackluster its powers work only to connect plot threads, but it clearly shows that Yusaku has a psychic link between the real world and the cyber world through this power that he could most certainly use against the dream cloud system to intact his plans moving forward.

Yusaku would become a HUGE threat to Duel Links. No amount of heart of the cards is going to change his mind from his goals, but I could see the other Yugioh protagonists trying to help him at one point to save him from going down this path of despair. Or at least have a.i. come to his senses. And by doing so, yusaku will need to forgive himself for what happened in season 2 and let go of past Ai to accept the new Ai.

#i am so tired #This theory got me thinking for MONTHS since I finished watching Vrains #Yusaku going on his full villain route at any moment #If this actually happens I'm calling it #Yusei would be a HUGE support aid to getting through to Yusaku #Villian!yusaku can happen it's just a matter of time #I can imagine tot musica playing the background #imma go to bed now #yugioh #yugioh 5ds #yugioh gx #yugioh arc v #yugioh sevens #yugioh vrains #ygo vrains #ai vrains #yusaku fujiki #playmaker #ryoken kogami #duel links #yugioh duel links #yugioh zexal

[overobsessedfanboy23]

Unpopular opinion apparently but I don’t mind Z-Arc’s dub voice? Maybe I’m just too used to voices like Yami Marik’s to find it all that annoying but honestly, I’m more so impressed with Mike Liscio’s vocal range: he plays all four of Yuya’s counterparts and Z-Arc and Ai in the next show, VRAINS and all six of them sound very distinct from each other. That’s just insanely talented.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #z-arc arc v #yuya sakaki #I have no intention of watching VRAINS dubbed #it's too hard to find and I'm currently rewatching it in sub with my find #plus the problems with it from the clips I've seen would probably be too much for me #but Ai's voice acting is a clear highlight that I wanted to give props to

[jhessail]

Riley x Declan duel *Head in hands* Do we really need this

#Jhessail watches #ygo arc v #Like I know I'm watching an anime about card games that happen every episode #BUT SERIOUSLY #I'm more interested in the Yugo x Yuri battle that didn't finish last episode #Just #Sigh

[waveridden]

took a break from zexal and now i'm back in it but the pace of these last ~25 episodes is just exhausting. we're getting there. slowly.

#waveridden.txt #ygo tag #i have uhhh 16 episodes left? and then in the new year i'm gonna do arc-v probably #my goal for this year is. finish zexal. finish trigun because i watched it like six months ago and forgot to finish it

[purpleleafsyt]

I'm not sorry to the people who follow me for tmnt but I am about to be so annoying about yugioh just you wait

Thoughhh you won't actually see art of it for several months,, my queue is backed up until August/September

#purpletalks #especially arc v #I've watched dm and arc v in full several times and will eventually finish the other shows #actually I'm rewatching arc v right now #and I am having Thoughts about them #you know the hyperfixation(on arc v) stemming from a special interest(ygo as a whole) is strong when I change my pfp #also !! I'm not leaving tmnt at all I just really like ygo as well #and want to have more of it on my blog

[acerikus]

Ygo is so funny bc I fell behind with go rush AGES ago (think not long after the episode where yudias got turned back into himself after he got turned into a shirt(????)) but I never unfollowed the tag, so occasionally I just see the most wildly out of context discourse 😂

#some of the ways ppl are discussing ship discourse and its relation to canon too makes me think the law of even number ygo remains true #if u don't know what i mean. think hard about some things that gx zexal and vrains had that dm 5ds and arc v didn't exactly #(i can't speak for sevens bc i never watched and I'm still early in go rush)

[opaleyedprince]

tag game: mutuals i'd like to get to know better

tagged by @strixhaven - ty for the tag!

last song i listened to: roxas and riku's themes from the kh 2.5 ost - fun fact i actually hadn't gotten all that into kh until right before kh3 was about to come out so i spent the months preparing for it to drop by inhaling every single bit of it i could get my hands on; it has one of my favorite osts and is one of my favorite game series ever. also donald duck can cast fucking zettaflare.

currently watching: (seasonal shows) the dunmeshi anime and a condition called love - i also watched cherry magic while that was coming out and found it pretty cute; more generally i'm watching bnha, jjk, and i started ygo: arc v. apart from shows, i'm in the middle of a bloodborne playthrough watch.

sweet/savory/spicy? hit me w/any of them but spicy first please. then perhaps sweet to follow up - i like to have smth chocolately with/after i eat something really spicy, it's delicious MWAH

relationship status: i'm getting degrees man idk i'm married to my work and art/writing (aroace + bi + who give a shit i'm fighting for my life rn) and most importantly. the great outdoors -puts on cowboy hat- yeehaw

current obsession: my own ocs :3 and my friend's ocs :3 and making ocs and talking abt ocs and seeing people talk abt/make ocs. and some fun little medias (fe:3h, dunmeshi, bloodborne, bnha) and also doll collecting. i need to visit some thrift + antique stores round here

tagging! @arealcrow, @tokkionline, @dilfbuck, @wright-phoenix, @bethesdas,

@devilbrakers @katsigian and YOU! yes you reading this if you wanna do it

#opal.txt #tag games #i'm like hehehe romance anime. do u want to watch horror movies w/me also -puts on the ritual- #i contain multitudes

[enter-the-performapals]

@arcvmonth Day 23: Back At Class, They Never Taught A Thing

Gah, I haven't been able to find much time to put into arc v month for the last two weeks, but I'm trying my best! Slowly!

So, I went into watching Arc V after not really liking ygo in my childhood, so I had no idea of anything that happened in the previous series going into it. I had no idea why Obelisk Force was called that, nor what the colors meant with the Academia students.

That is, when I got to the end of my Arc V rewatch late last year, and was recommended to watch GX by an IRL friend who's also into ygo. While I still have yet to finish it (I'm around halfway through year 2) I can happily say I know enough about Slifer/Osiris Red, Ra Yellow and Obelisk Blue to say that Serena probably wasn't great at studying while at the Academy.

I know we don't really see a lot of interaction between Joeri and Serena throughout Arc V, but I imagine theyd study together. Or they'd see one another studying and go and harass the other when theyre bored.

#dont know how i feel about predatorshipping #but im warming up to it tbh #arcvmonth #arcvmonth2023 #ygo arc v #yugioh arc v #original art #doodle #serena arc v #joeri arc v #yuri (arc v) #celina arc v #predatorshipping

[shitpostingkats]

This city is literally in an active riot state.

#I love Crow and his kids #never let a government coup get in the way of your special interests #spk watches arc v #yugioh #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #crow hogan #yeah I'm posting about the bird guy again

[zxal]

hey im interested in getting into ygo do u have any recs or recommended orders of reading/watching theres a lot from the looks of it on anilist so i was wondering about your preferences o:

ANON I ABSOLUTELY DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm only about halfway through the sequels (i just started arc-v) so I'm not like the most knowledgable person in the world but I can give you my personal recs. COME CLOSER!!!!!

First of all, every yugioh series is totally independent from each other (sort of - gx is set directly after dm and leans on its worldbuilding quite a bit, and 5ds takes place in the same universe as well though a bit further in the future, but you can watch them on their own with no problem) so if there's one in particular that grabs you there's nothing stopping you from jumping straight to it - that being said I've been watching all of the anime in release order (ygo dm -> gx -> 5ds -> zexal -> arc-v (i am here) -> vrains -> sevens -> go rush) and I've been enjoying it a lot. I also wouldn't recommend watching arc-v in particular without having watched the ones before it as it probably won't really have any impact for you. Now for specific recommendations (in order) !!!! SORRY THIS GOT REALLY LONG.

yugioh manga - START HERE !!!!! the original story by kazuki takahashi. high school boy inherits an ancient magical artifact containing a spirit that's really, really good at playing games (and inflicting psychological torment on bullies). I have to give it a warning for some shonen-typical creepiness towards female characters in the early chapters, but it's REALLY worth reading and it's a story that's so near and dear to my heart. this is the fastest and easiest way to start loving yugioh. Its worth noting that the original ygo manga is the ONLY manga (afaik) that tells the same story as its anime + i haven't read any of the others aside from a little bit of the gx manga, so the rest of my recs are anime-only

(optional) yugioh season 0 / 1998 / toei - a one-season anime based on the early manga chapters. if you like the horror vibes of the manga you'll enjoy this a lot. really fun 90s animation with a killer soundtrack, but generally not considered """canon"""

yugioh duel monsters - this is the one most people watched as a kid. it's an adaptation of the manga, but with most of the early chapters cut out so as to get straight to the card games + some extra arcs added in. this is most people's favorites and the most popular! you can also watch this in lieu of the manga, but you will be missing a LOT of the early story or experiencing it in condensed form (and the plot of ygo dm is already patchy At Best).

yugioh gx - direct anime sequel to ygo dm. boy goes to gamer school to become the next king of games + high school shenanigans ensue. gx is a really charming, goofy romp with a super lighthearted s1, an interesting s2 and a shockingly engrossing s3. s4 (the last 25 episodes or so) never got dubbed in english so if you're a dub enjoyer like me you'll have to switch to subs to get the full story

yugioh 5ds - direct sequel to gx, though further in the future than gx was to dm. card games on motorcycles are real and so is class warfare and the surveillance state. iirc this is the only yugioh anime that was rated 4+ - it has a slightly more mature tone but there's still plenty of lighthearted fun to be had. Really strong s1 with a second season that falls off a little bit, at least to me, but is still absolutely worth watching. s2 is missing a number of episodes in the english dub, so again if you're a dub enjoyer you will find yourself quite confused by the end. its probably worth watching s2 entirely sub-only (something i still need to do)

yugioh zexal - the first of the sequels that is possibly set in a different universe entirely (or just the really distant future). middle school boy gets a magic necklace from his dad that has an alien inside. zexal is a lot of peoples favorites and now that I've watched it I GET IT. Really strong story + pacing from beginning to end and a really endearing cast of characters. It's silly and goofy and fun but DAMN DOES IT COHERE.

yugioh arc-v - the first of the sequels that is DEFINITELY set in a different universe entirely. this is the one I'm watching currently so i don't have much to say about it yet GET BACK TO ME ON THIS ONE. this one boy's dream is to become the greatest clown who ever lived (tragic) (inspiring)

INHALES LOUDLY. that was probably more info than you wanted BUT I HOPE THAT HELPED AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT? again I recommend reading the original ygo manga first and i think that will give you a good idea of whether you are down with the yugioh silliness or not. It's important to remember that this is a very silly anime series about card games but like. As long as you can buy into the worldbuilding and accept that this is just How Things Are in the world of ygo, it's suuuuuuuch a fun world to sink your teeth into.

#.txt #I like................................Yugioh. #and then after arc-v is vrains -> sevens -> go rush but like i said im not there yet #but i will probably be there. soon. i have been watching arc-v at an alarming rate #i thought about adding the movies to this post but i. decided to spare you (for now) #therw was also no room for a dub vs. sub discussion though that is a discussion i'm happy to have #i watch dubs mostly because it's much easier for me to focus on but also because. i simply. like them #also because yugioh is silly to me. and the dubs add to the silliness #but sometimes the dub doesnt give you all the information so you gotta Know. #i found out there is like a major plot point of zexal thats revealed in the last episode BUT ONLY IN THE SUB. NOT IN THE DUB #but thats how it is. that's the price we pay for silly voice #i don't think i would have gotten through 5ds without the dub. greg abbey is so good as yusei

[squishosaur]

MORE OF THEM.... but it is sora mostly

#sora perse #sora shiunin #gong strong #julia krystal #masumi kotsu #ygo arc v #yugioh arc v #my art :> #doodles #lys watches arc v #<- new tag so you can ignore it if you want sjdndjdnf #I HAVE TO DRAW DECLAN ALSO #guy with double ds.... <- about his cards ajdjdnd #contract girlie... #why's he normalcore #also little german boy what even #what's he saying... i genuinely have to read the captions for him #also why is sora narrating like he knows everything.... lol #AND WHY DO THEY NOT KNOW THE BASICS OF DUELING.... #anyway i'm obsessed with declan 'i'm interested in your father's dueling legacy and i have Waited to meet you' okay girl why so weird abt it

[bestygogirl]

BEST YGO GIRL: Round 3, Group C

Match 1

please use this as an opportunity to say why you like a character, not why you don't.

Propaganda under the cut!

Masumi Kotsu

she's the coolest and best duelist of the LDS trio it isn't even close. also has a gay little rivalry with Yuzu which is a delight. honestly her or mieru should have gotten a shot at being a lancer. one of the strongest side characters of s1

Luca

She’s a sweet little gal who can see duel spirits!!

luna/luka/ruka can see duel monsters spirits. she had a heavy burden placed on her when she was THREE YEARS OLD to protect the world of duel monsters spirits. as if that is enough to put on her shoulders, she's also sickly and oh yeah, they decided to also give a signer mark. she's three. she's on her death bed. she's expected to save two worlds. like this kid literally cannot catch a break. oh yeah, also her parents? they're never around. only person in her life is her twin brother, who is loud and that rubs against her autism in the wrong way. yes, she's autistic. do not argue with me. no i'm serious don't argue with me. lil miss luka has the failure to be diagnosed all weird little autistic girls are subjected. if she was a boy, y'all would see her autism for what it is but that's not the point of this rant. anyway her first time meeting yusei, she didn't care about his criminal mark because his duel monster friends said he's okay and that's good enough for her: the duel monsters said this criminal on her couch is a good guy! therefore acab. this is also the first time an adult has ever treated her like her thoughts and opinions matter, mostly because there was never an adult in her goddamn life in the first place (shout out to her parents for ABANDONING TWO TWELVE YEAR OLDS to their own fuckin devices). can't forget the fortune cup, where lua takes her place at first and LOSES IN THE FIRST ROUND, damaging her professional duel record (not like it matters because the writers decided it didn't matter what luka does after the series ANYWAY so who cares if her record is damaged :) ). she gets dragged in anyway and tortured by a child psychologist - classic weird autistic girl moment. during this she has a vision of the duel monster world and realizes oh yeah this is real, i'm supposed to protect this, and like. CANNOT. CATCH. A SINGLE. BREAK. aki takes an interest in luka because of her powers too! all while divine is a tool to her brother and she's forced to watch divine torture her brother :) awesome stuff. literally. cannot catch a fuckin break. next season her first duel is a loss against some weird kid from the future, and her second duel is against aporia where she literally dies (her brother brings her back to life). she is a character of untapped potential and deserves the world. vote for luka.

#best ygo girl poll #round 3 #yugioh arc v #masumi kotsu #julia krystal #yugioh 5ds #luna 5ds #luka 5ds #ruka 5ds #luca 5ds #i love you child but you have too many names...

[overobsessedfanboy23]

This goddamn sweetheart

Crow is just everyone’s father at this point.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #crow hogan #yugioh 5ds #ygo 5ds #this happens in arc v #but crow is from 5ds so yeah #I'm watching 5Ds after I finish Arc V #because I'm very into Arc V #but I'd like to see the origins of Crow after I finish