Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains

He's like the Nega-Yusaku, which is awesome.

It also explains his name while making Revolver even more villainous since he took advantage of a child.

He's...honestly kind of like King Leo aka Tatsuya Sudou...

Instead of finding the incident in the past abhorrent or something to atone for, he loved every minute.

...and he involved fire. And he's the second in command of the villains with an obsession with his boss stemming from the past, and involvement in a way with one of the female heroes.

edited 19th Jan '18 12:51:34 AM by NickTheSwing

Of the "3000 ATK monster rivals" Revolver seems like the straight-up evilest so far.

Well, lets not forget Death T Kaiba.

Let us never forget Death T Kaiba.

Death-T Kaiba is interesting cause there's 2 flavors to him. Manga Kaiba is worse in what he does (hiring a serial child killer with a chainsaw, threatened to kill a baby, having electric chair and guillotine traps, the falling blocks of death room, simulated death experiences, ripping up valuable trading cards) but Toei Kaiba is worse in why he does what he does (unlike in the manga, he didn't lose to Yugi, didn't get a penalty game, and wasn't abused as a child, but he was so angry at tying a game he sent his Game Masters to kill/defeat Yugi, and built Death-T to kill Yugi and his friends).

…That also means the Experience of Death punishment was something Kaiba came up with on his own in the Toei anime, since he wasn't inspired to recreate it!

edited 19th Jan '18 12:15:58 PM by lalalei2001

New episode. Bad guy pulled a classic bad guy trick and Playmaker's on the ropes.

Yeah.

Didn't expect Zaizen to be the damsel and all. Shame too, as Yusaku finally found a way to attack Spectre. Wonder how he plans to win next week?

I'm just here waiting for someone to photoshop Kira's "Sheer Heart Attack has no weaknesses" scene into Spectre about his tree.

Double post for the new episode. This would have been the best VRAINS Duel so far if it weren't for Spectre falling for Playmaker's most obvious taunt.

Heh. Even Spectre himself admits it was a dumb move.

And props to Zaizen for doing what needed to be done. Good man.

But would Revolver respect him more if he had defeated Yusaku in a duel instead of just letting him fall to his death? Or does he only care about results?

I guess it's academic since Specter lost...

Honestly, I get the feeling he wouldn't.

Revolver just wants him out of the way. I get the feeling if he could just put a bullet in the real Playmaker's head, he'd do it.

You know, Spectre's play style really puts the sheer incompetence of Kitamura on further display. Kitamura lost extremely quickly...to a stall / reactive deck.

He probably tried to make a risky play... which Specter stopped or simply failed.

Nothing much to say about this episode...except that that part in the beginning of the first ep apparently happened five years before the start of the series.

Was that mentioned in episode 1 at any point? Because I don't re-call it at all.

It was mentioned right at the start of episode one, yes.

Guess I forgot. That was 37 episodes ago.

So damn, AI was ...an eye for 5 years? No wonder he was so happy to have his body back.

Revolver's trap was Mirror Force. I'm not sure if that's Narm or not due to how hyped up it was

That's amazing.

What's not so amazing is that I'm worried we're already repeating ARC-V's mistakes where, when the chips are down, the good guys end up jobbing their way through the series.

I legitimately laughed at the return of Mirror Force. It's not a bad idea, it is a lot of hype for such an old school card.

So because he had a broken card, he wins? I guess Vrains doesn't much care about the base rulesets when we can enjoy the past. That was a nice callback for the buildup.

Eh? OG Mirror Force isn't broken. It's a quintessential example of a card that only punishes your opponent as much as they allow it to.

In Go's place, I wouldn't have spent my entire hand on that board with my opponent having a face-down, when none of the resulting monsters are able to stop trap cards. Yes, he would have been unable to attack that turn. That's not the worst thing in the world, since he could have just shored up his defenses to survive a turn and then win. Instead, he wasted his hand of 6 cards there.

What's happening instead is that Revolver wins because he baited Go so hard, and Go fell for it.

edited 15th Feb '18 12:27:52 AM by burnpsy

Yeah, I don't usually commend Vrains on its writing, but this was perfect. Revolver knew Go was a passionate duelist hellbent on defeating him, so forcing him to have 4 Links on the field (which can't be in defense, for the record) was going to make it all but guaranteed Go was going to run face-first into the mirror force.

This isn't like a normal 'all according to plan' scenario in YGO where the villain has no way of possibly knowing what the opponent's plan is, because Revolver pretty much forced Go into the situation based on how he'd been dueling up until that point.

Pretty much. Revolver did set it up that Go had to have a certain number of links of the field to attack didn't he?

I do agree that Go should have recognized that he needed something to defend himself just in case however, but he might have thought Revolver was just trying to stall...except the face down should have really had him wary.