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Just block the anti Revolver tags I’ve been using if what I say here upsets you
I’ve rewatched a lot of Ryoken/Revolver clips to write this fanfic, because he’s definitely the character I have the least grasp on. You’d think rewatching him would help me make sense of my feelings, right? That’s what I thought would happen.
WRONG. Because for every moment I have where I feel like “perhaps I treated you too harshly” and he’s not as bad as I remember, he does something like GLOAT ABOUT EARTH’S DEATH TO AI’S FACE
And I realise, no, he’s worse than I remember. What the actual fuck is wrong with me? Why do I still like him? Why do I still want to write about him?
Why do you hurt me this way?
#yugioh#ygo#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#vrains#...this one's definitely more negative#anti ryoken kogami#anti revolver vrains#fanfic discussion#writing#seriously though HOW CAN YOU BE THIS HEARTLESS#AI WAS CRYING HIS EYES OUT#AND RYOKEN LITERALLY SMILES AT THAT PAIN#venting#rant#rants#I'm not as upset as I seem in the post don't worry#I have a coping mechanism to back me up here#and it's to add this to the list of things to call out Rev for in my fic#spoilers I guess#eh it may not even make the final draft let's be real
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Every day, Ryoken Kogami becomes more and more correct.
Death to AI stuff after all. Fuck AI Art. Fuck AI writing shit. Fuck Chatgbt
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It's such a tiny innocuous thing that really doesn't matter, but I feel like calling duel monsters a children's card game (when it's fundamentally baked into everyday life, and your social existence is judged by what you play and how you play it so very intensely, for everyone in-universe) is an absolute injustice to what it is for that universe of people.
#marwospeaking#The following tags are a rant. please skip if you are not interested in reading a whole rant#to be clear. actual real life ygo sure. you can call that a children's card game (even if card game is just easier anyway)#but. in universe you Would Not call it a children's card game. not even sure you'd call it a game at that point#ygo worldbuilding fascinates on different levels. and to be honest this thought came to be via the abridged Shun compilation video#because he does mention children's card game (paraphrased) often earlier on in reference to in-universe duel monsters#but. for some people it literally defines if you die or not (Shun Was/Is In A War). for others it's your ticket to not go to jail because#you're too powerful to not be let off the hook (survival of the fittest kinda stuff really)#if you even dare not show up to a match. with crowds Equal To A Football/Soccer Championship. your family is in social ruins (Yusho)#these cards house spirits. and can be used for so many varied things between ending the world. starting the world. and coldblooded murder#and treating all of that as though its below a character. not because they're untouchable. but because of an age demographic#I feel misses a point about Arc V that I'm not sure I can quite articulate without sounding fully manic#in other series too! Synchro causes the world to end because it attracts some giant anti-synchro bois (meklords)#Numbers can either possess or take the form of someone's personal desires and feelings (Titanic Moth and Hope Harbinger are the same card)#(just different monsters because two different people used the exact card)#The God cards. the sacred beasts. the whole of GX's dimensional shenanigans and most definitely Yubel and Winged Kuriboh#Even in Vrains. which is very mild compared to the previous 3 installments. its still baked in their society. Its just aggregated#into cyberspace. That's not mentioning the Tortures that revolved around duelling to train AIs on children's brains so you could have..#.. cyber immortality. and then you choose to kill the AIs that you see as like children to you - mentioned directly to your biological son#ANYWAY. tldr. Having an in-universe character calling Duel Monsters a children's card game outside of DM specifically is a fundamental..#.. misunderstanding of how important it socially is in-universe. and it'd be much more understandable for someone whose life isn't dictated#by how well he can play it to say anything along the lines of 'its beneath me!!' than fuckign Kurosaki Shun are you kidding me.#We won't make an actual point at how the social lives of people don't seem to be solved by talking as much as duelling. no. we'll say..#.. its for children so we can point and laugh at how weird it is!! Buddy I Have Fallen Asleep.#in other news exploring the navigation of a world where talking out problems would be weird without a duel to communicate should be..#.. done way more often. This world is as anti-talk no jutsu as much as it is very pro-punch no jutsu.#arc v#< because part of this was inspired off of some of Shun's abridged lines early on
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Episode 112.
After taking control, Ai fires everyone in SOL Tech, but gives them fat severance pays. After that, he makes LINK VRAINS free for everyone (the LINK VRAINS was closed in S3's first half, it is reopened by Ai), and renames it to LINK VRAINS Ai-Land.
Revolver lets go of the final Pandor.
Roboppi vs. Takeru starts, though Takeru does not start his turn. Roboppi's official romanization is indeed Roboppi.
The next episode preview presents Roboppi as the anti-hero protagonist.
Edit: Forgot to mention this, the shot of Kusanagi riding the hot dog stand truck in OP3 is from this episode.
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we’re soaaaaaaaaarin’
flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyin’ - //punted
but also.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
#natsumi talks vrains spoilers#so ai def gets the dramatics from revolver-sama confirmed.....#i know some of y'all anti-revolver-sama folks won't like me saying that but#it is what it is
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[Firestorm discord link!]
#ygo vrains#yugioh vrains#vrains#ygoedit#vrainsedit#mine#flashing gif#@ revolver i owe you a punch for making ai cry#and looking smug bc you're capitalising on ai's grief on LOSING HIS FRIEND FOR YOUR ANTI-IGNIS AGENDA#fuck you#anyways#aoi and miyu.... girlfriends. so pure#can't wait for inevitable aoi & miyu dream team once she's better
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I have no idea why this is so funny to me, but it is.
#vrains#vrains spoilers#togepi watches vrains#revolver (vrains)#my dragons attacks are too bright!#gotta make sure i have anti glare protection!!
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So like I'm enjoying vrains and such (though less comparison to earlier series would be nice), but I'm really worried about Yusaku's win rate being perfect. Yusaku can't lose against the KoH because if he does KoH get Ignis, and Yusaku will only duel KoH (and even when he dueled Go Ignis' life was on the line). So narratively speaking Yusaku can't lose. Yuma was in a similar situation in Zexal with Astral which he couldn't lose to certain people, but Yuma was more opened to dueling people so he was allowed to lose against some people like Takashi and Kaito. Like look at upcoming Yusaku v Revolver: If Yusaku loses he will lose Ignis and not get the medication program for Aoi. If Yusaku wins then the threat of the KoH diminishes greatly and Yusaku's glory in-world (and with the fandom) will only rise and it won't even be ep 20 yet. If the duel ends in a draw then Ignis is spread but the fate of Aoi is up in the air. I like Yusaku, but if all these stakes keep him narratively from losing then his duels get boring because I know he's going to win, and I shouldn't get that mentality this early in the series when he was had little growth in dueling and character.
#vrains#yugo#yusaku#revolver#sorry if this seems anti I'm just trying to express my confusion#and bit of worries#I'll leave rants to my main blog lol#or I'll try to for that#long post#my shit
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My Favorite YGO Rivals
We just started Sevens, and it’s still unclear who the main rival is at this point, so I thought I’d do a list of my favorite rivals in order. I had been wanting to do this for awhile now, so I thought I would finally get on it. Since a couple series feel like it has more than one rival, I’ll include them in the list.
NOTE: These are my personal opinions. Please do not leave mean comments of yours are different. Please respect my decisions.
8. Ryoken Kogami
While Ryoken/Revolver/Varis is a huge favorite among VRAINS fans, I was in the minority that couldn’t quite get fully behind his character. To me, it didn’t really feel like he had that much character development until the second half of S2. And another reason is he’s so devoted to following his father’s wishes. I understand why, but his father was not a good person. And his Dueling style always confuses me. I have grown to like him more than when he was first introduced, but this is where Ryoken is at on my list.
7. Reiji Akaba
The main reason Reiji (Declan in the dub) is so low on the list is because I didn’t watch ARC-V. I did get to know him more through liveblogs, and I enjoy his character. The opposite of Ryoken, Reiji knows what his father is doing is wrong and is determined to stop him. And I love how much trust he has in Yuya over the course of their adventure. Reiji may come off as harsh or distant, but he does have a kind heart, and I respect that.
6. Jun Manjoume
While Manjoume (Chazz Princeton in the dub) has some great humor moments, he feels underwhelming at times. I really like how he learns to value hard work over the course of the series, and the significance to use lower level monsters. He did have a lot of pressure put on him by his brothers in the first seasons, and starts to fight with how he wants to do things his way. Still, an occasionally comedic rival can take some edge off at times. His manga counterpart was much more serious and less spoiled. I think the GX anime would have been more interesting if they had Manjoume more like that.
5. Jack Atlas
Once again, a lower ranking because I’ve never watched ARC-V or 5Ds. I think I have Jack here in my rankings because of what I’ve seen in his character. For one, while he’s always serious, it’s easy to laugh at things he does, but in a good way. He’s not entirely open to how he feels about his friends, but he truly cares for them. And you got to love a Duelist who has such a strong connection to his ace monster.
4. Ryoga Kamishiro
Good old Shark (also known as Reginald Kastle). His life is a mess, but he’s a true friend. His role is like a seesaw, back and forth he goes. One day he’s a friend, the next he’s your enemy. I feel bad for some of the things he has to go through, but even when he tries to pull away, he can’t really do that. And I love his emo but also caring personality. Some of my favorite Duels in Zexal were ones when Shark got some action.
3. Edo Phoenix
At Number 3 is our destiny boy, Edo Phoenix (also Aster in the dub, which I think is a cooler name). I love his development from antagonistic rival to a strong ally. His anti-hero role gave GX a cool twist to the story, especially his deck being a dark counterpart to Jaden’s. I think it’s cool how he’s the only rival to use a “boku” pronoun in the original. Also, his dub voice actor played another favorite rival of mine in another franchise.
2. Seto Kaiba
With being the one who started it all, Kaiba had to be near the top. I have always loved his sarcasm and quick wit. Kaiba has gone through such drastic changes when he first appears in the manga up to his final role in Dark Side of Dimensions. A lot of times he has me rolling my eyes for his stubbornness and lack of cooperation, but there are times when you can really count on him. And of course, no one can beat his level of extraness. The only one who can truly get through Kaiba’s tough exterior is his brother Mokuba, and their relationship does warm my heart. I always enjoy seeing Kaiba being the most dramatic, extra man on the planet. XD
1. Kaito Tenjo
And my #1 rival is Kaito (Kite in dub)! He has so many similarities to Kaiba, but also still his own character. Like Kaiba, Kaito will do anything for his little brother, and has a very strong connection to his Ace monster. He is the only main character from Zexal to appear in ARC-V (there were a couple others, but they were minor characters, and were more cameos). Kaito is also the only rival to never lose to the protagonist in the anime (he did lose in the manga, but he wasn’t really himself at the time). Another big reason he’s at the top is because he is the only rival to have a Kuriboh card, Kuriphoton.
So that’s my list of rivals. Do you guys have any favorites? Let me know in the comments.
#yugioh#yugioh gx#yugioh 5ds#yugioh zexal#yugioh arc v#yugioh vrains#seto kaiba#jun manjoume#ed phoenix#edo phoenix#jack atlas#kaito tenjo#ryoga kamishiro#reiji akaba#ryoken kogami#chazz princeton#aster phoenix#kite tenjo#reginald kastle#declan akaba
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VRAINS Episode 105 Cast List + Episode 106 Summary
Episode 105: 迎撃 – Geigeki
(Counterattack)
Ai launched an attack against Queen. In order to steal the code necessary to infiltrate SOL’s system, Ai also sent an advance warning to Akira. Playmaker is filled with conflicting emotions after learning that Ai has started attacking humans. Meanwhile, Revolver sets up an anti-Ignis AI known as "Pandor", and heads off to fight against Ai.
Cast:
Fujiki Yusaku/Playmaker: Ishige Shoya
Homura Takeru/Soulburner: Kaji Yuki
Kusanagi Shoichi: Kimura Subaru
Kogami Ryoken/Revolver: Takeuchi Shunsuke
Ai: Sakurai Takahiro
Roboppy: Takahashi Minami
Zaizen Akira: Yamamoto Shoma
Zaizen Aoi/Blue Maiden: Nakashima Yuki
Dojun Kengo/Blood Shepherd: Okuda Takanori
Bessho Emma/Ghost Girl: Kamakura Yuna
Onizuka Gou/GO Onizuka: Hamano Daiki
Hayami: Ikki Chihiro
Shima Naoki/Brave Max: Sawashiro Chiharu
Pandor*: Kim Hyang-Lee
Extras
Script: 吉田伸 || Yoshida Shin
*It's also possible that the name is supposed to be Pandore, which is the French spelling for Pandora.
Episode 106: がんばれ！！ロボッピ – Ganbare!! Roboppi
(Fight on!! Roboppy!)
Blood Shepherd and Ghost Girl encounter Roboppy. They then start a Tag Duel.
Credits: DMC3444
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episode 9 thoughts
revolver vs playmaker round 1 hype! i somehow took another 19 screenshots this episode, even though it was mostly dueling. i guess these are just getting longer as the plot picks up, lol.
so first off:
this line, plus the little montage that follows it, i love. i love how they demonstrate what is going on in his head without telling us straight up yet. i love the air of mystery vrains managed to keep for it’s first season. we didn’t learn about our protag’s backstory until episode 20 or so. that’s so cool!
but yeah, yeah, mr. emissary of revenge.
i’ll talk a bit more about yusaku later. this is our first full episode with revolver, so he’ll be what i talk a lot about for this one. first off,
this line makes me laugh so much now that i know what’s to come. yeah, you didn’t care who he was at first, but later on you care so much that you risk eeeeeeeverything because of it, you absolute fool. i love you.
he also brings up the ignis, to yusaku’s surprise.
more so he acquired it and gave up trying to figure out what it is. again, i love the mystery here. how this line gets you questioning what is it? what do you know? and for me, originally, it also had me wondering are you really the bad guy here?
i love that shit. arc v has some amazing foreshadowing, but i feel like nobody really talks about how vrains actually had some and some really cool set ups, too. i don’t think it tops a5′s, no matter how... ridiculous, we’ll say, it got at the end, but this sets up the 43 reveal really nicely, because he doesn’t really explain anything else other than ignis bad here lol.
this also sets up revolver as a character pretty well, and also i did kind of laugh bc it sets up the rest of vrains, as well. everything in this show is so high stakes lol. a lot of people complained that it made some of the death scenes feel cheap, because every fuckin duel was life or death, and while i agree to an extent, it also is kinda cool when you think about how yusaku’s perspective on dueling was only challenged once, and that happened in the first 10 episodes lmao. dueling really is life or death in vrains, and i like that it doesn’t try and prove yusaku wrong for the most part on that.
moving onto everyone’s favorite meme speech:
i know people meme this to death, but i think it’s a good look at who revolver is, and sparks the beginnings of why part of the fandom thinks him an anti hero. because what he’s saying isn’t... it isn’t an evil thing to say, he’s even saying he wants people to wake up so they don’t destroy themselves and the world they’ve built, but i digress on the anti hero thing.
for another thing, though, we don’t really know right now that AI can have free will. i talked about it in my episode 1 thoughts, but vrains is a series that asks a lot of questions regarding free will, and what it means to be a human -- or to be real. revolver talks about breathing and having a heartbeat, but does that mean you don’t have emotions? your own thoughts and feelings? does that mean you can’t connect to others? revolver thinks yes, because he’s been conditioned to think of the ignis as evil and world destroying. had ai not gone off the deep end after s2, i think he would’ve come to accept that free will means that you can choose for yourself whether you’re good or bad, or whether you want to do good or bad things.
the other thing that’s interesting here is him referencing fake bonds. i think he’s talking about the KOH lackeys that they utilize throughout this season. they don’t really understand, they don’t believe in his cause, they just think he’s cool or they’re doing something cool or whatever. it’s a fairly thoughtless existence, and revolver recognizes it for what it is.
it also calls to question his relationship with his father -- the internet world is fiction. yes, the KOH were able to recreate his father’s brain into LV. but he’s essentially a dead man in the real world. he obviously understands this well, considering he’s the one that takes care of his father irl. i wonder if he holds some resentment, since it really seemed like he didn’t get to spend much time with his father until he was recreated in LV.
also, he apologizes here. you could not think much of it, but because i’m me, and clearly i like thinking way too much about everyone in this show, i’m going to do just that.
this is a stark contrast from the finale of s2, where revolver has completely lost himself and doesn’t care about anything else but fulfilling his father’s wish. it’s also a stark contrast to how he thinks of playmaker after he says his three things speech and revolver starts putting the pieces together on his identity.
he’s enjoying himself a little here,
but ultimately, he doesn’t care who he’s dueling. he himself doesn’t ever go after anyone he deems unnecessary -- hence the amount of lackeys. watching him lose himself this season all over again is going to be fun, lmao.
anyways, though,
honestly, much as i loved s3, i missed ai’s little quips like this lol. vrains has such a serious tone to it, which i love, but i also love these quick little moments of fun.
as a filthy shipper, i could go on and on about this, but i won’t. all i’ll say is i love how they are two sides of the same coin, and i love how vrains paints that picture here for us.
all we really know about yusaku so far is
1) he’s awful with people/doesn’t care about making friends
2) he’s got a strong, but self centered, sense of justice
and 3) he will fulfill his mission at all costs
the reason all the revolver vs playmaker duels were so enjoyable for me, at least, was because of how determined they both were. i love a5, it was my second fave series for a long time, but reiji vs yuya never felt like this. i haven’t watched zexal yet (i know, shame me), but in 5ds, jack vs yusei had a bit of this, but they were friends at their core. best friends. and gx was a mess with the rivalries, lol, so we won’t go there. anyways, my point here is that i really, really missed that. these two felt like actual rivals.
anyways, though, then we get this:
to which ai asks how long have you been able to do this? and after a quick shot of yusaku during the lost incident, he says:
this is the biggest thing i wish they hadn’t dropped or just starting ignoring for the most part in vrains. was this why yusaku was the sixth child??? i know takeru doesn’t really have this, or at least not that i remember, but do any of the other children? spectre could sense when earth was erased -- is that because earth was born from him, or is it because of link sense to some degree? or is the LI why yusaku developed link sense? if that’s the case, what made him different? ryoken’s interference?
and speaking of ryoken when it comes to link sense,
is that where his ability to control datastorms comes from??? i know he does one single thing with the storms in s2, but is that like, it? do we ever get to hear about why he can do this? i don’t remember oof. you’d think for how much i write about him, i would know this off hand lol. but seriously, i wonder if his influence in the LI caused yusaku to gain his link sense, and if it somehow effected him, too. that would’ve been so cool to see as a mini arc, or plot point, in s2, but kmoney had to shill a certain deck LOL (i kid i love takeru a lot)
moving on again, though,
if this was how this card worked in the TCG i’d actually still have it in my rokket deck, probs LOL
i love how vrains uses the link summoning chants as a way to get into character’s heads. not as hype as other summoning chants from other series or even vrains, but i really like them.
this is obviously a reference to stardust road. it’s subtle, but it’s there, and that’s so nifty. i didn’t even realize until i was rewatching this episode today that it was a reference to stardust road, or could at least be taken that way.
also,
this. this is so funny to me. ai is so offended that revolver somehow ripped this program. also, does this imply that windy, too, ripped ai’s program? or that he gave it to windy, back before he went all corrupt-y?
then there’s more duel stuff, but this is getting really long again, so i’ll stop myself there lol. i’ll probably watch another episode or two later since it looks my tentative plans have been cancelled lol. that’s fine by me tho, i’m sleepy, and there’s nothing more relaxing then getting to watch my favorite show~
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Out of context, this sounds like the most racist bigoted shit ever
And in context!
...Yeah it's the most racist bigoted shit imaginable.
#yugioh go rush spoilers#go rush spoilers#yugioh go rush#ygo go rush#go rush#phaser dunking is back on#this is more of a writing thing but it's still messed up#even more so since they forgave this fucker and he got no consequences#it's like the revolver thing but... not nearly as bad#it's briefer and this show still clearly says alien racism is wrong#vrains... never quite fully said revolver's anti ignis beliefs were wrong
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I know it’s a bit of spoilers for Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: Father Thy Blood (Season 3 Part 1), but I just thought I can show it to you guys. Playmaker (Yusaku) duels Revolver (Ryoken), who was under the control of a virus and once Playmaker won the duel, he tries to put an anti-virus program onto Revolver’s duel disk, but the virus tries to attack Playmaker. Revolver grabs the anti-virus and was about to insert it to his duel disk, however, the virus shocks Revolver’s heart, causing him pain (The virus infected Ryoken’s heart if Ryoken tries to do something), and Revolver collapses on the ground and the virus escaped. Playmaker tries to wake Revolver up, but when he leans onto Revolver’s chest, he didn’t hear a heartbeat at all, which made Playmaker shock of what the virus did to him. Soulburner (Takeru) suggests that Misaki can revive Revolver, but Misaki panics for a moment and then she faints. So Playmaker, since he has listen to Misaki’s instructions of first aid towards the mental hospital patients in real life, decides that he will revive Revolver in Link VRAINS, via CPR, mouth to mouth, and precordial thump (People write fanfic stories of VRAINS characters having sex in Link VRAINS, I write a fanfic story of VRAINS characters performing CPR in Link VRAINS). But after a couple of minutes of trying to bring Revolver back, everybody believes that Revolver is gone, but Playmaker doesn’t believe so as he try to do another precordial thump, but when he try to do a third precordial thump, Manato stops him and tells him that Revolver is dead and is never coming back, which made Playmaker cry in despair because he couldn’t save the person who saved him 10 years ago. Then suddenly, Ai notices that Revolver’s fingers twitched, then Misaki tells them that is a sign of coming back and tells Playmaker to keep on doing it again, in which Playmaker does with mouth to mouth and CPR, but by the time he counted to 15, Revolver began to cough hard as he came back, much to Playmaker’s relief.
#vrains#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#father thy blood#yusaku fujiki#playmaker#ryoken kogami#Revolver (vrains)#slight datastormshipping#cpr#mouth to mouth#precordial thump#resus#resuscitation
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Well now that the initial shock has settled in and everyone is basically in agreement that our new antagonists for season 3 are more then likely going to be Human!Ai and Human!Roboppy (probably more in a henchman-like role for her though (I can already tell the dialogue between these two is going to be hilarious), I wanted to go more in depth on this because there is just so much to dissect on what Ai is planning on doing and just how far he is willing to go to complete his goal of what we can all assume just from the ending of episode 103 is to bring back the other Ignis (Flame, Aqua, Windy, Earth, and even Lightning (who is the main reason the other four are dead in the first place).
The key thing to note in this whole thing from just the simple scenes of Ai at the beginning and end of episode 103 is that he seems to be driven by guilt. The guilt of not being able to save his kin. The guilt of being the last Ignis. Maybe some guilt of not being there when the Cyberse World was destroyed by Lightning and Bohman. Maybe if he was there, he could have been able to stop Lightning before any of these tragedies were set into motion. Maybe at that time he could have been able to talk Lightning out of his plan and try and help him not seem so inferior. After all, Lightning did say that Ai was the wisest of the Ignis and the one to truly show them what it meant to have free will.
Now we have already seen first hand what guilt can drive a person to do in this series. I mean look at Ryoken for example. He has a giant guilt complex. The guilt that lead him to freeing the Lost Children because of him leading to Yusaku kidnapping and what his father was doing to him and the rest of the children. The guilt that made him feel responsible for what happened to his father because of that one simple choice. The guilt that lead him to almost nuking the whole world wide web to make up, in his eyes, his previous mistake that got his father killed. Guilt is just terrifying on what it can lead someone to do to try and set things right. The purest of people can make the worst decisions when they aren’t thinking straight if they truly believe that it will make amends to their crimes, even if it means committing another crime to do so. And that’s exactly how I see season 3 playing out in terms of what they are going to do with Ai’s character.
I don’t see Ai as the villain in the typical sense. He isn’t going to be the bad guy just to be the bad guy and turn on humanity just because he feels like it or blames humanity for what happened to the others (since again that was all Lightning’s fault (but I guess you can make a case for Earth’s death but again that wouldn’t have happened if Lightning didn’t destroy the Cyberse World in the first placing, forcing everyone to flee for their lives). Again like Ryoken in season 1, he probably thinks he’s doing the right thing even if the way he’s going to go about it will be completely wrong. Now there’s the whole debate if he has gone a little crazy (as the new opening has shown with his psycho expressions that we are all familiar with when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh villains) but it is still up in the air at the moment if when Ai took in Lightning’s remaining power, he also took in some of his madness (in a Yubel/Light of Destruction kind of situation from GX) or when he reformed himself from the backup he left in Roboppy, he didn’t come back completely the same and became corrupted over time. Still I don’t think Ai will turn pure evil because of either of these reasons. His views might just get a little warped and mix in the already existing guilt of not being able to save his kin and that just doesn’t sound like a good combination to be left unchecked. It also doesn’t help that Ai was based on Yusaku and we all know how Yusaku handled his trauma during season 1. If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree with these two, revenge might just be Ai’s best medicine (btw amazing parenting right there, Yusaku).
Which leads me into what Ai is planning on doing from within SOL Technologies. Safe to say, there is a LOT Ai can gain if he’s able to take out Queen (which is what more then likely is going to happen). If he can take control of SOL, he has access to the main controls of Link Vrains and can start screwing with the system for whatever else he has planned. He will have their new androids, the SOLtiS, under his control (which he can use to give the other Ignises human bodies such as himself and Roboppy have (since I think they already stole two of them to give himself and her human forms) when he is able to bring them back or if he does go mad with power during all of this (since absolute power corrupts the mind absolutely is a thing), he will have an android army in the making). They still have some of Earth’s data (which I’m pretty sure Ai hasn’t forgotten that little detail and is probably going to enjoy murdering Queen for dissecting his friend (after all he said his famous “I’m starting to hate humans too” line after he found out what happened to Earth (again revenge is the best medicine) which he can use to find a way to bring back Earth or to use as a starting block on how to. And if all of Earth’s remaining data is still inside of Go, pretty sure SOL will still have Go’s file on hand, meaning that Ai can easily find him and take him out to get his buddy’s data back. And most importantly, Ai will have access to all the Lost Incident files. SOL Technologists was the one to cover the whole thing up so they should have records of everyone who was involved. If Ai really wants to bring everyone back, the best route, if he has no other options, might just be to recreate them from their source, aka their Origins.
I talked about this little theory of mine the other day so I’ll just quickly sum it up. Takeru, Miyu, Spectre, Jin, and WO aren’t in good positions right now and might have to go through the Lost Incident again just to bring back Flame, Aqua, Earth, Lightning, and Windy if Ai is really willing to go that far. Heck he might even guilt trip Takeru into willingly participating if he himself is missing Flame that much (since I think Soulburner is going to lose to Revolver because he doesn’t have Flame with him to help him and that’s what’s going to cause Takeru to really try and find a way to being his partner back). However they aren’t the only ones in danger. If Ai wants to recreate the Hanoi Project to a T, he might also go after the Knights of Hanoi since they were the ones to create the Ignis in the first place. Obviously since Dr. Kogami is dead, I don’t think they are going to be exactly perfect (more on that in a bit) so he’s going to go for the next best thing in Ryoken since he obviously knows the Ignis algorithm because his father taught him. He could also go after Blood Shepherd, Kusanagi, and/or Yusaku since they all also know their algorithm but Ryoken makes the most sense in this situation. Back to Ryoken, I think it might be some nice character development for him (since last episode kinda had him regress in it a bit in some people’s eyes) if he’s the one to try and get Ai to stop what he’s trying to do, not because of his whole anti-Ignis thing but because he knows what it is like to be completely driven by guilt and he also knows what it is like to lose someone dear (aka his father) and trying to being back the dead isn’t a good idea (if anyone here has seen Pet Sematary, you know what I’m talking about).
Which leads me into the fact that if the other Ignis do come back through this way, I don’t think they are going to be the exact same. They might not be fully operational, they might not have free will anymore or their memories, or they might all just come back as super anti-human and turn on their human friends (on that note I will cry if Flame comes back and tries to kill Takeru like Windy did with his partner). We saw what happened in ARC-V when Leo tried to play god and bring back Ray. Things go horribly wrong fast. This season could very well end up like that, where all the Ignis do stay dead, with Ai joining them, with the show ending on the note that we shouldn’t let technology get this advanced or bad things happen or on a more happy note with all the Ignis do coming back and showing us humans and artificial intelligence can live together just like how Yusaku and Ai dreamed of.
Now I want to talk about Yusaku and Ai and what the actual hell is going to happen between these two. Just from the new opening alone, these two are going to clash at some point but the question is over what? Where is the line going to be drawn between what is right and what’s wrong? I don’t anyone on Team Playmaker will object to trying to bring back the other Ignis (besides maybe Lightning) since Takeru clearly misses Flame and Aoi with Aqua. I’m willing to bet that Spectre would also want Earth to return and be able to meet his Ignis. So it has to be the method of what Ai is willing to do in order to accomplish his goal that is going to drive the wedge between these former partners. Like I stated before, if Ai is willing to try and recreate the Hanoi Project and put Takeru, Miyu, Spectre, Jin, and WO through that hell again just to recreate his family, obviously Yusaku is going to have a GIANT issue with that, even if he wouldn’t be about of it again. Yusaku has finally been able to move on from that event. Takeru finally has been able to move on. Everyone is finally looking to be able to move on (well we don’t know much about Miyu, Jin, and WO at the current moment but you get the idea). To thrust these teenagers back into this event is nothing short of just pure wrong. And Ai knows this. He knows VERY well what the Hanoi Project did to Yusaku. What it means to him to finally be able to move on from it. And yet if it means being able to bring back his kin, to fix everything that he blames himself for, a necessary evil is justified, right?
No, it isn’t. Not even in the slightest. Even if it doesn’t get to that point, going after SOL to begin with (from the looks of things) was a step in the wrong direction if Queen gets murdered next week (which again I can very well see happening if Ai is still pissed at her for murdering Earth). That’s why I see Playmaker being the one to confront Ai first, not the only way around because Ai has obviously no reason to go after Yusaku at all. He has risked his life time and time again to save his partner and might not want to bother him for something he purely blames himself for and trying to make immense to everyone he has made sad because of him not being able to save the others from within Bohman. Unless Ai goes freaking yandere crazy for some reason (which I’m not objecting to since since I’m ALL for the yanderes in this franchise (Yubel is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh character for a reason) and is willing to hurt Yusaku in order to protect him (for some reason I keep thinking of a scenario where Ai tries to use his and Yusaku’s Link Sense to try and rip Yusaku’s consciousness out of his human flesh and try and throw it into an android or make him into an A.I just so he can live forever and not pass away over time (because after this guilt trip, I think Ai will lose the last bit of his sanity if something does happen to Yusaku), I don’t think he will fight Playmaker until that line is drawn and Ai comes to the realization that since Playmaker isn’t with him, he has go to against him, even if that means it will destroyed both of them emotionally, especially in terms of the dream they share together.
So that’s pretty much my initial theories to what we could be expecting from Ai going forward into season 3. This season very well has the potential to be the best season yet for Vrains and I very much hope it doesn’t disappoint in regards to how they are going to write Ai in this role.
On one final random note, I am curious to know though if we are just going to be seeing him in his human form 24/7 now or if he will occasionally be back in his Ignis form once in a while. I mean from what I’ve been seeing, I don’t think anyone wants to see Ignis!Ai again because damn boy, you definitely took after Ryoken in the looks department after apparently digitally puberty hit you like a truck. On that note, Yusaku and Ryoken, do something about your teenager child before he actually does murder someone!
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So Episode 93.
Decode Talker Extended debuts in this episode as the ace card against Kusanagi.
Kusanagi's Codebreakers are DARK Warriors (like Destiny HEROes), but they are made of computer viruses (which look like sludge in their design), and like Ai's Ignisters, look similar to Yusaku's cards, with a more anti-hero bent like Destiny HEROes.
This is Kusanagi's first, and only Duel in series. None of his Spell/Traps have been printed, so it will be a while until we get new Codebrakers, but since it is one of the physically printed Decks, Kusanagi will likely make it to Duel Links.
With Ai, and Roboppi's status as the antagonists of S3, the only allies from S1 that didn't turn against Yusaku are Naoki, Aoi, and Revolver, both of which also served as antagonistic roles (Aoi working for Akira in early S2, Revolver's status as the main villain in S1, and later role as a pseudo-antagonist in the end of S3). I guess if there was a S4, Takeru, and some sort of resurrected Flame would have backstabbed Yusaku. He is truly Peter Parker.
(Yamamoto (Frog), and Saito (Pigeon) technically are forced to be against Yusaku for the final Duels of S2, so they also add up to the count.)
(Emma & Akira started as non-villainous antagonists, so you can put them wherever you can like.)
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Taking this Duel as a break for final boss rush, Boss Rush part 1 had the following Duels:
**Revolver vs. Soulburner (immediately aborted)
**Aoi vs. Haru
**Lightning vs. Spectre
**Takeru vs. Windy
**Aoi vs. Bohman
**Yusaku vs. Shoichi Kusanagi
So 2 of Yusaku's gang, 2 of Lightning's gang, and Kusanagi lost. Kusanagi's loss is technically worse for Yusaku than Lightning, as he is now stuck with the lesser Knights of Hanoi, as Emma & Akira are in LINK VRAINS 2.0, and as we later find out, Roboppi.
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are the salty arc-v elitiest those form back around 2016-2018? What happen?
I’m basically looking at this whole mess from my own little corner and just looking out the window and seeing the aftermath, so take this with a grain of salt.
HOWEVER, the gist of the entire situation (from what I’ve seen) is:
Arc V encounters production problems, thanks to Dark Side of Dimensions (even tho NO ONE wants to admit that, but. They dragged all the best creative folks in for that movie instead of balancing it out, so there’s no way DSOD isn’t a factor here). So yeah, around 2016.
Which in turn led to a lot of last minute decisions when it came to animation and plot in Arc V.
So then two really loud factions rose up as a result: the people who were all “Arc V was fine in the beginning, but now it fucking sucks” and then the people who were all “Arc V is a GREAT show and if you say anything that isn’t like what we say about it you’re WRONG!!!!”
(the Arc V elitists, in other words)
And, surprise, surprise, the Arc V fandom never really recovered from this split (among other divisive splits in the fandom). So when it was announced that Shin Yoshida (who he had nothing to do with the Arc V anime) would take the VRAINS helm as series composer, the divide got even worse.
So most of the folks who were all “Arc V fucking sucks now” basically praised the air waves that VRAINS embraced b/c of the dramatic departure from Arc V’s aesthetic.
Which then got on the nerves of the Arc V elitists, who decided to take it upon themselves, every week, to bash VRAINS. And it got really annoying real fast b/c their complaints would cycle between “Yusaku is a FUCKING ASSHOLE” and “uh yeah the plot’s not that good. boring. snooze.” Oddly enough, they still kept watching the series, even tho they hated it so damn much.
(I actually had a former mutual who claimed they hated the series but was only watching it b/c their friend was watching it and loved it and it was like. Pls do your friend a fucking favor and keep away from the show. They’d probably appreciate it more than you hate-watching it. Not that hard)
Oh, and when it was revealed that Kogami Ryoken was Yusaku’s special person? All hell broke loose, and the elitists decided to throw in “THIS SHOW CONDONES ABUSE!!!” in their weekly complaints. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But then, after the final Revolver-sama vs Playmaker duel, the Arc V elitists - from what I’ve seen - got eerily quiet. Probably b/c the Arc V manga was getting into full swing then, so they (in addition to some of the anti-Arc V faction who oddly praised the manga b/c of how different manga Yuya was from anime Yuya) were focusing their energy on that, thank goodness.
BUT NOW with the Arc V manga over and done and with VRAINS announcing its earlier than expected end date, the Arc V elitists have risen from their swamps and decided to bring their hate back in full force like they’re so enlightened, even tho we’ve BEEN sick and tired of that shit.
This is probably a lot more than you wanted to know, but I just want folks to get the full effect of how obnoxious this entire situation is. Especially for those of us who enjoy Arc V AND VRAINS.
#natsumi talks fandom#ah yeah blacklist that tag if u want to avoid fandom salt#also for someone who proclaims to not be involved in fandom behavior i sure know a lot about what went down LMAO#Anonymous
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