Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains

Well, I suspect we're gonna get a lot of background on Yusaku after this.

I bet 100 Quatloos that the friend Yusaku is looking for is actually Revolver.

I'd think that's a given at this point. Either that or they have a friend in common.

So, episode 12 Not much of a surprise, the Revolver/Yusaku connection got more obvious, Playmaker blasted him to Kingdom Come, Ignis recovered his form and SOL got shadier

Also, man, Playmaker really has a lot of graveyard traps.

edited 2nd Aug '17 10:03:18 AM by Blueace

Maybe he made graveyard traps a part of his regular strategy after whatever he went through ten years ago? Anyway, SOL is definitely suspicious now, and it may turn out that the people we think are the bad guys aren't so clear cut. Zaizen may be on the outs as well, due to learning details of whatever happened back then.

So, do you think Akira will be out and out fired? Or just demoted?

From what they were saying (what with mentioning a flat out replacement, I'd say fired...if he's lucky. We don't know how shady these dudes are yet. Their version of being fired might have the words out of a canon affixed to the end for all we know.

Yeah this just got many times more complicated. Whatever happened to Yusaku ten years ago is uber-tier classified. As in, possibly one of the reasons the Knights of Hanoi are criminals is because they know about it. And because SOL doesn't like people knowing, chances are there are more parties involved ten years ago than just the Knights. We could be looking at human experimentation, cognitive tampering, brain uploading...just the fact these shady dudes are involved, and want to replace someone for merely hearing tidbits about it says a lot.

Just a Recap Episode this week. Because 12 episodes is such a long time and we've probably forgotten all about how Playmaker defeated that first guy and that time he beat Go, and Blue Angel and Revolver.

What? He beat all those dudes? I totally forgot. Thank god for this recap ep!

Also, Yusaku is now ruining careers. Most evil protagonist ever.

Now, Ghost Girl's whole mercenary antics may start causing trouble. Imagine the mess SOL would land if the whole thing about Ignis, the incident and Revolver's accusations? (sure, Revolver might be considered to be crying wolf, but still).

Right now, outside of Zaizen, Yusauku, his buddy who's name I 've forgotten, and now those two reporters, she's the only one who knows about it about it...and still possess video evidence of it's existence...And she's apparently a Basic Instinct fan.

I mean, I'm not the only one who caught that right. I've still never even seen the full movie either.

But yeah, she's hella dangerous since I'd assume she still has an original copy of that video footage.

Yeeah, a Recap Episode this soon is pretty silly. Yusaku's been dueling dudes sure, but the plot hasn't really moved much. Thankfully that seems to be changing soon with his duel against Ema leading into an attempt to infiltrate SOL Technologies.

We need to get to the point where the regular cast expands soon so that Yusaku and Ignis have more people to bounce off of.

So, after reading a lot of what has already been said, and what we can pick apart from Yusaku's memories, it does make me think of what Reiji was doing, but without the "Let's fight to save our friends/love interests/whole universes in a war that will mess me and my whole idea of Dueling" up. I'm starting to get his major Child Soldier vibe. The Reasons to Stay Alive? Classic idea for psychological conditioning for Focus.

edited 10th Aug '17 9:43:32 PM by Aurabolt

So apparently there was a director change. https://ygorganization.com/vrains-director-change/

New Link Summoning animation looks miles better than the last one. Now it's more in line with everything else. Still hoping for actual chants, though.

Hm, I wonder if that was the reason behind the odd month-long delay.

Copy paste: So is whatever Ignis is doing with robomaid getting crap past radar? :P

It sure is. I don't even know what the alternative interpretation for that is supposed to be.

It trying to unlock him from the duel disk so he can escape from captivity.

Episode 15 finished the duel.

Next week, the infiltration.

Now, we just saw how troublesome it is to lock Zones in a Speed Duel.

This was definitely my favorite duel so far.

Personally I still think Yuusaku versus Aoi was the best one if only for the ending.

Where she falls into a coma?

Cause that's not a unique ending in Yugioh to be honest.

Double post:

Yusaku goes into the Sol Tech Mother computer.

Ema planned for this, using Playmaker as a decoy so that she and Zaizen can infiltrate themselves. Also, when Aoi spies on them, Ghost Girl spots her, and asks her to help Playmaker, which she does in spectacular fashion when he's getting whooped by some A.I. Duelists.

Aoi is looking to make a comeback, but lets hope she doesn't go the way of literally every other female duelist and main female character in this series.