Anime | Manga Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

[Sendou Aichi 2,356]

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Pretty much the best episode out of all the episodes that came out after Leo's explanation about Zarc.

 

So lets see...firstly it was nice seeing the characters from the other dimension react to Zarc appearing. Academia's residents realizing what their actions have caused was okayish, mainly because that while there are duellists that fought for Academia for ideals, with Edo being the most extreme case, some of the duellists fought just for fun, like Sora. I don't like how the writer act like he did it for ideals or anything, or ignore the details of the flashbacks we got from Yuto and Shun, with only named Academia characters being like that, and the Obelisk Force.

Speaking of which, wtf happened to the Obelisk Force in this saga?   

 

Leo firetrucked up with Ray, as usual. Serves him right for what he did to Ruri and Serena.

Reira called Leo 'father.' Could be that he just considers him part of the family even though he didn't raise him, or that he was Ray's bro in the united dimension (I still hope that Reira's origin is the united dimension)

Seeing Edo and Sora was pretty nice. Kinda funny considering that for both of them, their heel-face turn could have been done better.

 

Now, for the duel  itself:

• Zarc, unsurprisingly, is using the servant archetype. I still don't know how Leo used pends though.
• Zarc itself as a boss card, and his deck as a whole, is actually pretty weak compared to the previous 2 final villains. Granted, he will probably receive a card upgrade in the anime(As in, an upgrade to Zarc)
• Honestly, I am not surprised by Z-arc's integration summon. Though the fact that he has a rank as well can also be a weakness, like RUM Revolution Force. #Rank13RR
• Edo destroying the monsters instead of the scales...just why.
• I actually expected new cards from Sora and Edo. Sadly we didn't get that.
• Kaito and I saved Edo and Sora from getting killed by Z-Arc. This duel is going to be Zarc vs duellist from the same dimension in 4 rows isn't it.

Sora giving the pendulum to Shun was a nice moment, showing both their character developments(Even though Sora's could have been done a lot more better). Sora and Shun's rivalry is the best rivalry in Arc-V, it is by far better than Reiji vs Yuya's, and kinda feels similar to the rivalries of the MCs and the Kaiba version of the previous YGOs, so seeing them interact is always nice. The ending of the episode was awesome too.

Lastly, some people wanted Edo and Sora to die, but I disagree with that. Since Zarc would just kill them, it means that they couldn't be brought back unless they do something like what Zexal did, which I am heavily against. Yes, carding is reverse-able, but in this case, it would just be a regular death.

The only option that remains is that the characters remain dead and are not brought back in the ending, and that will never happen in a YGO series.

I do have problems with how they just killed off the Ray girls however. 

Now for the preview...

Looks like we are getting a new Dark Rebellion monster. I really hope that Shun will use Revolution Force again in an attempt to bring Yuto back... I wanted him to do it against Ruri, but it fits the situation here as well.

 

 

 

[Yuya Sakaki 5,212]

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In short, a cluster*beep* of an episode.

• At the end there I was instantly reminded of Marik/Yami Marik vs Atem
• THE WHOLE DUEL WAS SET UP SO THE GRAVE WOULD BE FILLED WITH EXTRA DECK MONSTERS FOR RAY TO USE. SOUND FAMILIAR, 5D's FANS?? (Yusei vs Z-One)
• There was a dark entity that left Z-Arc, and according to Ray he's been sealed for good. Does this mean maybe the 4 Yu boys will duel the "final" villain?There're still 8 episodes left, no way it's over yet.
• AND WHERE ARE THE BRACELET GIRLS? WHO WAS THAT BABY IN CRADLE IN THE PREVIEW?
• As a note, I knew what the summary was for 141 so I kinda saw this coming. But now we can be certain it IS reality. I'm so confused right now...

 

Peace!

Edited January 30, 2017 by Yuya Sakaki

[Sendou Aichi 2,356]

Neo New Super Ultra Hyper Late 140 review:

 

 

 

Z-Arc's defeat is amazing...although my main issues with this episode are just with the previous episodes.

Firstly, Reiji's part. Overall enjoyable, and the upgrades are cool, but I wish we would have got 3 new boss monsters instead. But oh well. 

Rayra's part was also great, considering that Reira developed so much, it was pretty cool.

The best part is that we didn't get a Yuya vs Zarc! I honestly expected them to make it so Ray separates Yuya from Zarc with some BS explanation and then we get Yuya vs Zarc. And Yuya did technically defeat him by taking back control of his body.

 

The main issue with everyone vs Zarc is the duel writing. Reiji, Rayra and even Crow(that shilling powers) are the only ones who actually damaged Zarc's LP. Sure, the 4 cards' effect make it feel like team effort, but you could just bring any idiot who knows how to summon from the extra deck and he would suffice(replace Edo and Sora with random Academia duelists, Jack and Gong with security and Shun and random resistance survivors. The result would be the same). It would be much better if it was like with Godwin-either he was using an OP life recovering effect that doesn't involved canceling damage at the start and gets an insane amount of LP that just keeps getting reduced, or he starts with an insane LP by some rules, so the other characters can still be useful.

The second issue, is how boring Zarc is. He isn't intimidating like Z-One, Don Thousand, or heck, even Darkness(though I guess Fujiwara is honestly more fitting) who got cool card effects, although broken, but just got a counter to everything aside from Reiji and Ray's 4 cards. That doesn't make him impressive at all-it is just lame writing. While the other big bads' had broken deck, they didn't have a Mary Sue writing. They didn't counter everything their opponents did, but instead they just used the situation to their advantage(Z-One summoning his ace monster, for example)