Does Romin's duel with the dish washing cheater count?
Because depending on if it does, they're either halfway there, or over halfway.
One Strip! One Strip!Me re: episode 19 - this show has a big brain.
During Sebastian's "seat of power" speech showing heads of state please tell me that the one at the end wasn't Trump. It went by quickly, but that hair certainly looked like Trump...
My Megaman and MegaTen RPG LiveblogsThat's a pretty rotten trick really. In that particular case, no matter who Mimi duelled again, they would have taken a loss, but it makes forcing her to duel her own son pointlessly cruel too.
One Strip! One Strip!True, but at least now Mimi's getting closer to understanding her son. For twenty one though:
I actually forgot that Sushiko and Nick Yagi are with Yuga's faction because of Menzaburo. Odds are they'll be some team tournament and they'll be in a 3 vs 3 match with Roa Romin and Team Protag. Not now.
Speaking of Mimi, yeah, one day's she's going to be the head of Goha Corp when the duel is over. But at least Yuga was kind enough to explain it to Yoshio without revealing it afterwards, and Mimi's a Kamen Rider now. Cute. But girl needs a break, backbreaking Toku poses is hard.
But for Noodle Sorako I'm not sure if she's an alien robot or just something Neil planned and organized, but the ending makes it seem like the former. But I gotta give Menzaburo credit for actually showing concern that if he won, she would die and he wouldn't be able to share ramen throughout the galaxy. I don't know why, but human concern feels so rare irl, but glad he got a new ace.
Next episode So Arata vs Luke....again, another Luke duel? But then again, its' most likely revenge so whatever.
Huh, so, it sounds like Neil debuts a brand-new summoning gimmick called "Maximum Summon" that seems to work like a Machine Emperor/that-undead-Blue-Eyes-White-Ultimate-Dragon-nonsense-from-Duelist-Kingdom combo (one monster made up of three separate cards each one being able to attack individually w. combined effects.)
Oh, and Cyverse lives.
Edited by ComicX6 on Nov 6th 2020 at 7:26:01 AM
My Megaman and MegaTen RPG LiveblogsThis week:
Gakuto does duel again. Otes sets up a duel against Romin, Rook/Luke and Gakuto, using Holograms to take on all three of them at once....but also reveals that he's also considered among Yuga's friends....so even if they win, they'll receive three penalties at once. Combined with Yuga getting one for losing to Neil, that'll bring them up to 5 losses, leaving them with only one more chance to win.
Also, Neil's maximum summon was possible because Yuga left some room for new rules, and Neil used it against him, causing the latter to have a bit of a Heroic BSoD.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Nov 14th 2020 at 9:46:49 AM
One Strip! One Strip!Just watch episode 23, and god, I like Neil a lot. I still don't feel like I understood all the characterization implications of his nakamisedoori filled with mismatched or otherwise nonsensical item, but the fact there's so much to unpack already immediately has my full attention. Really looking forward to seeing where his arc goes.
Looking back, I'm a little confused as to why Neil is doing all this again?
What does he even want?
One Strip! One Strip!Yeah up until the duel actually started I spent the first half of episode 23 as baffled as Yuga's group was. I'm getting some sort of invisible hand fatalism vibes from Neil at the moment but Sevens is clearly operating on a higher level than I am.
My Megaman and MegaTen RPG LiveblogsNeil is introduced through a flashback of a 3 years old dropping satellites just because he could, and then his 11 years old version starts talking about his providence. We later learn providence is just a word he arbitrarily uses for anything meaningful, like Yuga with Road and later Luke with Daor, but at first we know that, we assume he's saying providence with the actual meaning of the world: God's all-guiding will toward His creation. With this, our first (and therefore wrong) impression is that Neil is just an unempathetic genius kid with a massive god complex.
Later we get the Sebastian episode, where his own right-hand chair compares him a lot to Yuga, and he's shown to be a Benevolent Boss towards it. The we get the Mimi episode, where he helps her without ulterior motives and feels dirty upon finding out that the system was reading both contestants as Yuga's allies.
Then there's this episode, which had a lot. First, there's this nakamisedoori "made for anyone to understand what providence is". Its candy apples all taste different, its fortunes don't say anything, its shirts have sleeves in different sizes, ask for a manju and you'll get a piece of any size. The pattern here is that 'everything is uneven and you never know what you'll get. That's how Neil is defining providence.
Second, his duel with Top of Hexagon. During it, he shows that the reason he has been doing so much to observe Yuga throughout the whole arc is because Yuga is someone who broke the mold and he wanted to learn why and how to lead to Neil's own attempt to break the mold (Maximum Summon).
Lastly, his duel with Yuga, where the two of them are already on the same page about what providence is, so Neil brings on all the dramatic speeches about he show break God's chains and replace providence with his own providence. Knowing Neil define God's providence as random and unequal, his providence should be complete uniformity, but he still has properly talked about for us to know.
TL;DR Attack and dethrone God.
Wait, I don't recall him feeling guilty about that. Did I miss that part? I thought he fully expected that to happen.
One Strip! One Strip!Episode 26:
Neil busts out all the stops, but our hero triumphs, everyone's accounts no longer has penalties...and Neil reveals he was operating under the same rules and has his account cancelled, but seems pretty blasé about it. The important thing is Rush Duels are safe....barring the new villain who appears before the end credits saying (s)he'll(?) destroy Rush Duels.
One Strip! One Strip!I don't think the duels of Sevens are particularly great in a vacuum. I still vastly prefer the duel writing of ZeXal, GX and 5D's. This duel with Neil is the first duel where I'd say it's straight-up good rather than just passable. I'm not knocking on Sevens, though. The writing is so strong that its duels are allowed to be rather mediocre while still having a great show to watch. That, and the soundtrack is as good as it ever was (even if other soundtracks are still better, this one is by no means bad at all).
Episode 26....is still using the same opening.
What's up with that? Should we be at the point where we get something new?
Luke plays with himself (yeah, I know what I wrote, I don't care), and literally gets a new card out of nowhere. Next week, Romin has a duel against random sushi girl....I think. We know she's doing something.
One Strip! One Strip!Luke had some major "Virgil, Wrestling Superstar" energy this episode. Next week looks like complete nonsense other than properly introducing the new antagonist, but it'll be a Hiroki Nagao episode so it should be a looker.
Given that Luke was using two different decks and is a massive chuuni, the most reasonable explanation is that he's always had Miragears and just...never thought to include it in his normal deck until now.
I feel that short, wordless scene of Yuya finding one of Yuto's decks in a locker in ARC-V was one of the more graceful examples the franchise has had of justifying New Powers as the Plot Demands.
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We do have to talk about the Super Giant Robot, because with the way this show works, its going to happen eventually. And I wanna see when it does. Like imagine the President of Goha vs Yuga's robot as the finale of the show. That would be so hype!
Is basically next episode the g rated version of NTR meets in....wait no...okay but still, I wanna see how this plays out, because either one could win this duel. Nail said they'd risk 6 losses or have to win 6 victories so either one could happen.
But its fine, we haven't see either person duel since episode 9 so sure, bring on the characterization.