this whole anime sounds like a forum rp that fell apart because people kept joining/leaving and the mods couldn't keep up with the overarching plot anymore
That, and if two of the mods had opposing ideas on how to progress said plot and kept trying to enforce *THEIR* vision of what it was going to be, while instead just executing both concepts in their worst possible incarnation.
It was a megamashup. Final Fantasy VII, Evangelion, Digimon, Star Wars(Synchro), Beethoven. Possibly some tokusatsus and InuYasha(I haven't watched Inuyasha closely), other Squaresoft games like Kingdom Hearts(haven't played except Chain of memories) or Chrono Trigger/Cross. Even Pokemon could be considered an influence as Sora's toy vendor tosses out things that look like Pokeballs, and "carding" could be a dark take on what is done to Pokemon.
The whole 4 yami thing not being able to meet each other and teleporting when they get too close and this yuzu chick always trying to bring them together but failing sounds like every time that Candace tries to show her mother what Phineas and Ferb have built in the backyard.
I can't believe you weren't floored by the genius writing at the end. They realized that the thing yuuya likes to do is make people smile, so they had a baby kidnap his best friend, and is his best friend, and is a boy, and is magic, and he had to make he/her smile to break the curse. Genius writing. Definitely not huffing paint when writing this.
Or you can love it while hating the ending, just like how you can admit the flaws of things that you like no matter how much you like it. In other words, No, that's not really saying anything.
I was gonna make a joke comment that was exactly 1472 words long, but you don't realize just how many words that is until you try and type that many for a joke.
DemiMax when I heard 1472 words I had flashbacks to the excruciating 2000 word essays I had to write last year. It put really put that number into perspective.
Once, the 4 dimensions of dueling were in harmony. But everything changed when the Fusion Dimension attacked The plot of Arc-V is so much like Avatar lol
The sad part is that Arc-V had some mad fucking potential. For the first time in a series all previous summoning mechanics were actually used extensively, and most characters actually ran a consistent deck that won't brick every five seconds irl. The plot wasn't afraid to go as dark as it needed to to get the story across and man did the plot have an ambitious setting. It was basically a wet dream for both casual fans and competitive players. And then shit went down and we got an ending making us want to stab the writers with a rusty spoon.
@@bonkwave1604 DW, you only missed Edo, Kaito and the sisters. And even if most of the duels involve one or multiple of them, the XYZ arc as a whole sucked horribly. And it only kept going downhill from there... (with occasional worthwhile parts. as in 1 every 10 episodes, if you're lucky)
At the time original flavor Duel Monsters came out, OCG hadn't even been released, so they were truly making shit up as they went along. Also, even though Duel Monsters cut back on the overt cruelty and Saw-like penchant for turture of manga-version Atem, he still killed at least two dudes in the anime.
Imagine calling someone "Young Lady" because you disagree with their hot takes on a TCG tie-in children's cartoon that stopped airing new episodes over twelve years ago
Javelin Melody lmao what? i almost popped a lung laughing when I read this, why are “D” and “puss” in quotes, why did you say “puss” that’s objectively the worst way to reference a vagina without just saying vagina, why say “D” and not just say Dick, why is “D” capitalized, and also why did you feel the need to explain what heterosexual means? i need to lie down omfg.
"The ending of Arc-V is bad" What are you talking about ? Arc-V ending doesn't exist. The last 10 ep doesn't exist. Only through this wisdome one can really apreciate this show.
Yes sawatari defeated zarc (LIKE HE FUCKING SHOULD HAVE SINCE IT WOULD BE THEMATICLLY FITTING TO HAVE YUYA BE DEFEATED BY THE ENTERTAINMENT DUELS HE BELIEVED IN BUT NOOOO THE WRITERS PULLED OUT THE BIGGEST PIECE OF SHIT DUEL WITH A MONSTER THAT HAD MORE FUCKING EFFECT THEN EARTHHEART DRAGON) and everyone lived happily ever after and that was the ending
Daddy Karina, I can't wait for your next episode about Class Struggles in 5Ds with a brief explanation as to why it's not about Kaiba's tragic existence
God... To this day most of my favourite characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise are from Arc-V... but good lord the plot just fails at the end. #YuboysAndBracletGirlsDeserveToLive #LeoShouldBeInJail #ScrewTheBabySmilingPlot
If only Yuzu and Serena didn't each have like 2.5 duels, and allowed to defend their own selves to an extent, instead of going into "let's save my girlfriend who isn't actually my girlfriend and who doesn't actually need to be saved cuz she beat my ass at the beginning of the series and beat my ultra evil reincarnation" mode. I feel like that could've paved the way for a female yugioh series, or at least strong female protags. I understand the show is aimed at young boys, but this whole damsel in distress bullshit is not something to keep feeding the younger generation.
That's so true! I mean they can really defend themselves pretty much especially since their personality shows its but no! They became dumsels in distress😢
@@cruzcruz377 imagine if they extended arc v to the length of the original DM anime and introduced between the standard and synchro dimension chapters and the other two (XYZ and fusion) and added a virtual world ish length mini arc centred on that dimensions respective bracelet girl (except fusion which instead shows Yuri and them slowly becoming the way they are now and eventually joining academia) and I would also extend the fusion arc and add a much larger arc but keep the full ending the way it is (the final reiji vs Yuya duel and the aftermath staying effectively the same(extend the gap between the end of the duel and the last screen so that every character gets a final last moment (and add a scene of zarc and Yuya after Yuya summons the last dragon talking (with a black glow enveloping the child) with the end of the duel having zarc surrender to Yuya with Yuyas hair changing to include all the yu boy's and zarcs hair colours and the after duel extended scene showing the entire world rewriting itself as with zarcs surrender to Yuya congratulating him on surpassing him as Riley smiles and he vanishes ) and the zarc duel yes that duel rewrite it completely and please change the horrible dub voice that makes me want to laugh firstly extend that duel so that zarc starts a interdimesional battle Royale (Note that the xyz arc is also being massively extended)
As a person who keeps up with the card game meta Yes, pendulum summoning has had multiple decks that were broken as fuck So over the years they've had to nerf the entire mechanic into the ground
As someone who also keeps up with the tcg, pendulum were only broken for like 2 weeks then got banned, then were good again for a few months and got banned again, now theyre really bad because konami really does not like them.
@@MrGshinobi it's a bit of a bigger discussion but really the mechanic is just so strong that your only options for balancing it with the rest of the game are printing cards with a lot of restrictions or just nerfing the whole mechanic like the state it's in now they didn't kill the game or anything (except pepe sorta did but ehhh) but it's an insane mechanic, yuya is truly a madlad
I mean when pendulum came out they wasnt that strong. They only meta deck(until 2016) was qliphort. After that they had like 4 more meta decks pepe(qith was tier 0 deck but get banned after 2 weeks or something),magicians,pendulum ftk and endymion. So pendulum could be broken but konami just kinda killed them with banlist and after they realesed endymion there wasnt to much pendulum suport or pendulum archtype.
I find it highly upsetting that Konami doesn't give the players pendulum decks to play with anymore. Sure, we got Endymion a while back, but all the other mechanics get tons of new archetypes every year. New fusion, synchro, XYZ, and Link decks (and some Ritual here and there) pop up like there's no tomorrow. But Pendulum? Nowhere to be seen. Even if we got archetypes that would never be meta-defining like Performapal or Magicians were, it'd still at least be something, but veternan Pendulum players don't even get that. It honestly saddens me.
@@FourthFall As somebody who has tested Dinomists (didn't build it because Electrumite got banned), I feel that Pendulum is actually a pretty bad mechanic on its own (at least post-MR3). You need to either be able to generate a lot of advantage or just not actually be reliant on your Pendulum Summon at all, because otherwise it takes three cards out of your five-card opening hand just to Pendulum Summon one monster. Decks like PePe or Endymion have been powerful because of their excellent card economics, not because of the mechanic itself. Keep in mind my perspective may be a bit skewed, I only started playing competitively at the start of the VRAINS era so I never experienced things like full-power Qliphorts outside of the old YGOPro AI duels.
"just remember we all have bad taste here on the basis of being yugioh fans" Truest meme of 2020 tbh arc V was the only series I watched all the way through, it had a weird way of sucking me in
we all have our series we actually bothered to finish in totality. me I have two in the form of GX and DM, which goes to show how much of a nerd I am i suppose.
My group of friends followed Arc-V religiously during its airing up until a couple weeks after the synchro arc. Whenever the topic of Arc-V comes up it's always a 2 hour long conversation of how much wasted potential there was.
These yu-gi-oh rambles are great. Without distracting music or random comical editing sound effects it makes it relaxing to listen to while multitasking. Even if you never make any more of these long winded rambles, I appreciate this
Isn't it odd out of all the Kaiba's Noah, mokuba, Gozobura it's the adopted boy who hates his father the most that wears the family name Kaiba on his sleeve.
as someone who has never watched a single episode of yugioh that wasn’t the abridged series, I absolutely have no context for anything but love every second of these videos
To me this was the most ambitious project they had but they messed up the ending.. badly...the build up was amazing...just a bad ending. Yuri and Dennis was my spirit animal and I loved his interactions pre Zarc. The bracelet girls got shafted the hardest
When they enter the synchro arc it went from a really interesting Yugioh story to a complete shitshow. That cyborg which became a d-wheel was the pinnacle of stupidity, only surpassed by Leo's stupid plan and motivations.
23:14 lmao I hated that shit so much. I was rewatching Jack’s duel against Sergey recently and those rich suits were talking about how much Jack gives them hope, I was just like “what do yall need hope for yall are literally at the top of the economic ladder”
Therapy : Expensive Watching an hour long video about how Arc V is bad and ruined our lives, knowing full well that I spent my entire first half of high school obsessing over this show (and in particular, your comics of the College AU) and all the fanfic and fanart I did and all the time I spent on it only for it to be bad and crush al my dreams and to finally see someone make the hour long video trashing it : Priceless
Arc V is wasted potential tbh, the first season is fine, though I'd say what hurts the series the most is the synchro dimension. I'm someone who loves Yugioh 5Ds, but the synchro dimension went on too long and I feel like not enough happened to justify how long we spent there. the time in the fusion and xyz dimension felt lacking, and think it's one of the reasons why the ending especially was really rushed. I love Arc V on concept, but the execution is just....well you know, bad.
I mean its not immediately bad, i think the episode up to the prison break one are pretty fun actually. It went really bad when they started the whole Friendship Cup for way too long
@@rahyansuryaramadhan7082 My comment is mainly talking about as a whole this is what hurt the series. Synchro dimension isn't terrible and as mentioned I love 5Ds but the Synchro dimension is way too long of an act as a whole especially when you compare the fusion and xyz dimension. The xyz dimension being the length of the synchro dimension made more sense because we had two main characters from there (we still didn't have a proper connection between Yuya and Yugo) Synchro dimension didn't even have Yuya and Yugo properly meet and meaningfully interact.
"it is sayd that every yugioh fan has like there favorite main characters. but they also have these side charterers there hopelessly obsessed with" ... silently thinks of Abidos the Third from gx
Eight characters were vital to the plot, one was the main character, four were tossed into the sidelines and not basically developed at all, three had no development, and barely got screentime. This is a really bad sign.
Your relationship with Arc V reminds me of my relationship with RWBY. it's like a cousin you love deeply and you have fond memories of, but they joined a cult and it took you like 2 years of watching them make crazy decisions before you realized you just couldn't have them be in your life anymore
I used to get angry at characters like Shinji, ranting about issues not as important as "the end of the world as we know it". But coronavirus and social climate made me see that people will focus on whatever instead of the big issues, so...points for being realistic I guess.
When it's something directly affecting them in their everyday life that actively threatens their welfare (e.g. police brutality), I can understand not focusing on the likes of corona or climate change. When it comes to the likes of the Tops...eh...police brutality and wage theft and whatnot might still be a big issue, but it's not really focused on concretely.
So look... 👐sis, Arc V is what I call my junk food anime. In fact I feel like Arc V is what helped really understand that you can classify certain anime as "junk food" I feel like even after Arc V my eyes were opened and I saw other anime that could also fall into the"junk food" category. And like actual junk food, there was no nutritional value to watching Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V. I wouldn't say I didn't get anything out of it or didn't have an impact on me (because I sure as shit started drawing awful fanart of it) but like the high I felt from Arc V...it's after eating a donut or eating chips like a machine. It feels good in the moment...then you crash and you feel filthy about yourself; especially by the end. I honestly don't know why I wrote all of that, I think watching this video was like watching my own slow growing frustration with the anime but in fast forward. This video almost felt like a round of consecutive punches to the gut at Mach five speeds. The only thing that probably helped was you're overall calm demeanor. But I writhed in my chair the more you brought to light Arc V's bullshit. Like reading what your favorite snack is made out of and feeling gross about it... Also Julia Krystal (Masumi Kotsu) was givin' shit. A character too good for that anime and that's the only anime will ever see her in, our queen was robbed!.... Anyway sorry, this is a long stupid rant from a tv show I otherwise don't think about as often. But anyone reading this...... you're right, I am dumb. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Here's a bunch of claps in hope that the Kaiba video gets made. But otherwise I hope you're doing well.
This was great! I felt bad for Shun so much. He really wanted to help get his sister back and ultimately failed. The high points for Arc V imo are the legacy characters and really cool archetypes (which became real!!!).
@@TheFlinchyDinosaur I don't know, it's not really childish, it just has simpler artstyle and rules, and is more light-hearted. But I mean... It can be pretty funny sometimes, definetly more than any of the yugioh series that far, and does a great job at using it's characters which are all pretty unique. And who knows, Zexal looked childish at first but became one of the darkest season so... Maybe it will change. We shouldn't assume something is bad just because it looks childish
ARC-V had flaws in regards to the plot and character development. The Bracelet Girls in particular were used for Leo's Revival Zero plot device. Yuzu and Serena, out of the 4, had a sufficient amount of screen time and duels. Although Yuzu could have dueled more imo. Had Yuzu learned all of the summoning methods, she would have competed against the likes of Yuya, Reiji, and other stronger duelists than her. If you get Rin and Ruri involved, such as escaping from Academia to find the Lancers, this would have developed their characterization even further.
The little note card that reads LORD HELP ME in the background gives me so much life and happiness. Thank you Karina, I'm almost certain that wasn't intentionally put in the background knowing your aesthetic but I still LOVE it out of context.
Me who hasn't watched yugioh: "this can't be so complicated" Me at minute 45: "Oh. My. God. WTF is going on" Also I love that by 47:56 Karina has already lost her mind and is laughing like a maniac
Literally said, "If you're going to leave a hate comment, here's your competition. Make it good. Entertain me." Literally the epitome of *_Yas. Queen. Slay._*
Me, who has watched ARC-V from start to finish when it aired: _grabs popcorn and bingo list_ Also, you've earned a subscriber for making an hour long video about an anime that YGO fans never discuss, let alone other anime goers. EDIT: So after watching the video, a few points! - Ray didn't become Reira. Reira was reincarnated into a baby like Yuya did before the series started, when the dimensions split, and Zarc was stuffed into her. Yuya had to make _Zarc_ smile to keep the dimensions from coming back together. - As far as timelines go, here's my timeline. I co-run a YGO roleplay server that tries to encompass everything, so we had to... wrack over it for a bit; DM is set in 1996, and lasts about six months. DSOD is in the manga timeline, so it doesn't really count (but you could probably make a case that it happened in the anime too.) GX is set in 2004, eight years after DM, and lasts for three years until 2007, when Judai graduates. Zero Reverse happens in late 2007 after Judai graduates, which is the _earliest_ 5D's can start. 5D's begins eighteen years later in 2025 and ends after two years in 2027. ZEXAL has a weird placing, but I've decided to make it concurrent with 5D's. There's no duel statues in Roku's place because at the time, Yusei only just became popular, so he isn't a 'legend class duelist' yet. So no Stardust Dragon statue. Synchros didn't show up because... Konami marketing Xyz. Now we get to ARC-V. Sorry to skimp out on it, but we literally just shoved it into its own timeline (that we can travel to, thanks Kaiba). Lastly, VRAINS (skipping Sevens because idk what to do with that either). VRAINS is said by the writers themselves to be 'ten years in the future' from when it airs, so since it airs in 2017, that would make VRAINS take place in 2027, the same year 5D's would end at its earliest. So to boil that down: DM - 8 years > GX - 18 years > 5D's + ZEXAL - 2 years ish? > VRAINS
1.) On the subject of Zexal and the Duel Lodge...your explanation of the very DM-oriented paraphernalia beyond the statues, e.g. the Eye from the Millennium Items, or Roku's many throwback cards to Yugi's deck specifically? 2.) ruclips.net/video/YZy_uLsCjYc/видео.html
We don't even want to get into the Arc-V manga where at the end it's revealed that Yuzu is the mother of the Yu-boys. nvm apparently we do get into that
Yeah, a problem with Arc-V: It's driven by 2 people who no longer exist. By the end, those two *still* don't exist, and now 6 other people also don't exist.
@@blaue_sophie1317 And despite spending time with Yugo, Yuzu never inquired anything about synchro summoning, which she could have learned to bolster her dueling skills.
I'm halfway through and this already sounds like my current dnd campaign. Everyone has their own goals and motives and none of them include stopping the war between the elemental planes that will probably kill everyone.
Yuya: tries to have fun and pop the crowd (have the crowd cheer)* Everyone else: Yuya! You need to take this seriously! Later Yuya: actually gets serious and worried about everything* Everyone else: God Yuya, why so serious? You need to lighten up.
"its cheaper to smile than go to therapy?" now you're OBJECTIVELY giving out the same advice as Yu Prime, just trying to keep everyone happy? ARE YOU CALLING US THE ANIME BABY? (I'm kidding.love ya. this was nuts. please do some Kaiba vids and put some shorts on twitter or something)
35:39 One of my favorite theories involved the first ending. Yuya is shown holding four popsicles: pink, purple, yellow, green. We had seen Rin, Yuzu, and Serena which correspond with green, pink, and purple, so some people were convinced the last girl would be yellow lol. The theory could still work if you make Serena the yellow one instead because of her bow.
as someone who has only watched like 1/3 of the first series, I adore your yugioh videos so much and I love learning your yugioh opinions and the out of context takes on it
Since you wanted to know what happened in production... Dark Side of Dimensions happened. The movie started production halfway through Arc-V, and supposedly funds and animators were funneled from Arc-V into DSoD, which led to a ton of delays in the middle of the Synchro Dimension arc.
I liked Arc V a lot....but I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t rewritten something’s in the ending and maybe even a concept for a forth season. Maybe I’ve thought of this way too much
In some way Arc-v was the best show, because unlike other Yugioh shows that tried to ignor past summoning mechanics and make the new ones overshadow them, this show celebrates every summoning mechanic (except Ritual).
That awkard moment in the last arc v episode when the plot resolution and the payoff is so confusing and nosense that the calm and collected Akaba Reiji can't help himself but laughing so hard in the face of everyone is priceless xD love that part ahah love the manga too
People in the comments will try to use the argument of "dsod ruined arc-v" which is so wrong in so many levels. Yes, the best animators from gallop went from working in arcv to working on dsod, which forced gallop to outsource cheap animation for arcv to keep the series going. However dsod's production had nothing to do with the quality of the writing of arcv, which was imo it's biggest problem, the lead writter from s1 of arcv left the series before they reached the synchro dimention, which meant that shit has already started to go bad for the production of arcv before dsod even came into play. Arcv was a shitshow because gallop had poor planning for the series in general, and this poor production quality affected vrains as well, and so much in fact that it had the actual director of the series apologize and change the writter very early on to attempt to save the series. Its clear why sevens was done by a different studio, gallop has been struggling for a good while and they needed a change of pace, the production of a show like a yugioh series is long and probably very hard to keep up with for them.
Do we know why said lead writer left in the first place? Was it like 5D's and someone else just offered more money? were they fed up with the production schedule? They just needed a long vacation?
I mean, even if it were true, I think DSOD would be worth it. It's one of the best pieces of YGO media we've gotten ever and a very strong sequel in general.
Arc Vs huge cast becomes so annoying when so many duels are solved by a random person interrupting (taking that sweet 2000 lp penalty) and then just winning the duel in their first turn
So really funny thing, you joked in the latest Drawfee video of “what if the viewership dropped during my yu gi oh rambles and returned right after,” but like. The opposite be true for me, I heard you explain it in that video and immediately had to find you explain this. I’ve never even seen this show, I’m just interested in what yall sayin! Thanks for making this sorta lo-fi by the way, this is a great thing to put on while winding down and getting some last-minute work done, really like how chill y’all explaining this
I loved Arc-V and was SO emotionally attached to Shun Kurosaki... the ending still haunts me (They even had that stupid duel in which Shun had to not hate Yuya if Yuya won... Literally, Shun was forced to be content by a cardgame)
3:35 same face university was my favorite damn thing for a hot second in high school. i didn't even finish arc v but sometimes i look back at that comic and remember it. it had everything: hot engineer rights; weed but not really; the cursed hot topic myspace photo; like 5 separate ill-advised kisses; yuri being an actually interesting character; gays absolutely everywhere; it was a good time. thank you for that, college karina.
this whole anime sounds like a forum rp that fell apart because people kept joining/leaving and the mods couldn't keep up with the overarching plot anymore
My God that is LITERALLY what happened lol
so
That may be a bit too accurate
I know this feeling all too well
That, and if two of the mods had opposing ideas on how to progress said plot and kept trying to enforce *THEIR* vision of what it was going to be, while instead just executing both concepts in their worst possible incarnation.
It was a megamashup. Final Fantasy VII, Evangelion, Digimon, Star Wars(Synchro), Beethoven. Possibly some tokusatsus and InuYasha(I haven't watched Inuyasha closely), other Squaresoft games like Kingdom Hearts(haven't played except Chain of memories) or Chrono Trigger/Cross. Even Pokemon could be considered an influence as Sora's toy vendor tosses out things that look like Pokeballs, and "carding" could be a dark take on what is done to Pokemon.
"We all have bad taste here on the basis of being Yugioh fans"
Get out of my head
🤣
Wow literally me
_"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"_
LOL
"Being a Yu-Gi-Oh GX fan made me illiterate"
Okay but like legit you didn't have to call me out like this.
Yo that made me *chuckle*
i feel really really sorry for Shun at the end, all the leaping and fighting he did for his sister just to have nothing at the end
Then the animators made him smile at the end like everything is fine and not like his sister and best friend are kinda dead
It’s the “this is fine” meme
yeah + additional of losing his best friend as well too geez why can't he have a break QwQ
@@strelitziamystery21 Everything is fine once they see Yuya's dump entertainment duel even they are during a fucking dimension war.
The whole 4 yami thing not being able to meet each other and teleporting when they get too close and this yuzu chick always trying to bring them together but failing sounds like every time that Candace tries to show her mother what Phineas and Ferb have built in the backyard.
So true XD
Karina: "so you know how in yu-gi-oh..."
Me, who has never seen a second of the show and knows next to nothing about it: *nodding*
shes just so relaxing to listen to. you dont even need to watch the show and you'll want her to speak more.
@@AmineSamus it's like an ASMR critique video
@@johnzigmund459 hi
Vrains also ended early
Hahahahahaahahaha
Same
I can't believe you weren't floored by the genius writing at the end. They realized that the thing yuuya likes to do is make people smile, so they had a baby kidnap his best friend, and is his best friend, and is a boy, and is magic, and he had to make he/her smile to break the curse. Genius writing. Definitely not huffing paint when writing this.
Yeah! Some people
I wonder if there is a fifth dimension where they play Dungeon Dice Monsters.
Thats called the banished zone
🤔
No one plays Dungeon Dice Monsters.
ah yes, the shadow realm
that's where my heart is
i wish i too had a bracelet that could cast banish twink
"i want that twink Obliterated"
Can I get a bracelet that sends them my way ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@nickalexander3755 you get it
Everyone I know that honestly loved Arc V has rewritten the ending in fanfic by this point and I think that really says something.
Or you can love it while hating the ending, just like how you can admit the flaws of things that you like no matter how much you like it.
In other words,
No, that's not really saying anything.
@@powerfulberry237 There's a certain point where flaws amount to a bit too much. Arc-V(a) is far, far past that tipping point.
@@christopherb501 i like the ending and the series as a whole to
Powerful BERRY precisely
Kenny Burkamp the only good ending bit was the final battle for me. It was a dream come true seeing all those legends dueling together.
Standard Dimension: Exists
Synchro Dimension: Exists
Xyz Dimension: Exists
Fusion Dimension: Exists
Yuri: IT'S FOUR TIMES THE GENOCIDE
Me:..... OK WHO LET HIM OUT OF HIS CELL
@@brox1195 *points at Yuya*
It's free real estate
Karina: The Yu-Bois
Me: That sounds like a K-POP band named by Pegasus.
That is absolutely the plot for my next yugi crossed dimensions fanfic.
LOL
whoever made arc v just watched kingdom hearts cutscenes and made it into an anime
best comment lol
So ... the best way to play kh
Hayabusa Ryuu naw bro that the wrong way to play
Don't insult Kingdom Hearts like that.
Same twat who came up with card games on motorcycles.
I was gonna make a joke comment that was exactly 1472 words long, but you don't realize just how many words that is until you try and type that many for a joke.
DemiMax when I heard 1472 words I had flashbacks to the excruciating 2000 word essays I had to write last year. It put really put that number into perspective.
You got 33 down, you just need 1439 more words.
Who even has the time to write down 1472 words for a RUclips comment?
Once, the 4 dimensions of dueling were in harmony.
But everything changed when the Fusion Dimension attacked
The plot of Arc-V is so much like Avatar lol
The main guy even has the learn the 4 styles of Extra Deck summoning
WhiteAurorus and I kinda love it for that 😂
unfunny spacing
Avatar State Yip Yip!
No. It wanted to be like avatar
okay I’m not even finished yet but YOU’RE THE SAME FACE COLLEGE AU ARTIST??? OH MY GOD I ADORE YOU
today on loving karina, we love karina in this household only
She's so adorable 😍
Very lovable - would defend from finger guns/10
I wonder what make her so lovable
The sad part is that Arc-V had some mad fucking potential. For the first time in a series all previous summoning mechanics were actually used extensively, and most characters actually ran a consistent deck that won't brick every five seconds irl. The plot wasn't afraid to go as dark as it needed to to get the story across and man did the plot have an ambitious setting.
It was basically a wet dream for both casual fans and competitive players.
And then shit went down and we got an ending making us want to stab the writers with a rusty spoon.
I had to drop out after the synchro dimension. Like I watched a bit into the xyz dimension but I couldnt bring myself to keep watching unfortunately.
@@bonkwave1604 DW, you only missed Edo, Kaito and the sisters. And even if most of the duels involve one or multiple of them, the XYZ arc as a whole sucked horribly. And it only kept going downhill from there... (with occasional worthwhile parts. as in 1 every 10 episodes, if you're lucky)
I would say that Vrains did this as well, but then again I haven’t finished it, and I haven’t heard very good things about it’s second half
i actually felt like stabbing myself with a spoon when i watched the later half of the show.
At the time original flavor Duel Monsters came out, OCG hadn't even been released, so they were truly making shit up as they went along.
Also, even though Duel Monsters cut back on the overt cruelty and Saw-like penchant for turture of manga-version Atem, he still killed at least two dudes in the anime.
Her: It ruined my life
Also her: Lemme cop this Arc V pillow.
Also her: Yugo is my twitter header.
She doesn't support her words!
That's how you know she's telling the truth.
Imagine calling someone "Young Lady" because you disagree with their hot takes on a TCG tie-in children's cartoon that stopped airing new episodes over twelve years ago
Lol! Where did this happen?
@@ninezerotwo1778 0:30 most top right
"you have no objective young lady"...lol what a ace attorney character
Socially awkward baby lesbian who wants to fight everyone is literally the best character type I can’t be convinced otherwise so don’t try.
@Javelin Melody ...what point are you trying to make, exactly...?
@Javelin Melody only to prevent the further overton window movement
Javelin Melody lmao what? i almost popped a lung laughing when I read this, why are “D” and “puss” in quotes, why did you say “puss” that’s objectively the worst way to reference a vagina without just saying vagina, why say “D” and not just say Dick, why is “D” capitalized, and also why did you feel the need to explain what heterosexual means? i need to lie down omfg.
Man I wanna know what that reply said lol
Please never stop talking about Yu-Gi-Oh! it makes me feel fulfilled to see literally anybody talk about this stupid beautiful series.
@ً Wut
@ً GX was based as hell idk what you're on bruv
@@phothewin6019 GX was boring af the entire first season
Your image is the definition of blursed
@@ienzio7795 That was the most fun season lol. It's the later seasons that took themselves too seriously that were more boring.
"The ending of Arc-V is bad"
What are you talking about ? Arc-V ending doesn't exist. The last 10 ep doesn't exist.
Only through this wisdome one can really apreciate this show.
@ULGROTHA Thanks you ! I'm not a native english speaker and I'm learning english ahah
Yes sawatari defeated zarc (LIKE HE FUCKING SHOULD HAVE SINCE IT WOULD BE THEMATICLLY FITTING TO HAVE YUYA BE DEFEATED BY THE ENTERTAINMENT DUELS HE BELIEVED IN BUT NOOOO THE WRITERS PULLED OUT THE BIGGEST PIECE OF SHIT DUEL WITH A MONSTER THAT HAD MORE FUCKING EFFECT THEN EARTHHEART DRAGON) and everyone lived happily ever after and that was the ending
all 4 nations lived in harmony until the fusion nation attacked
Considering his fanbase, Yuri was _one_ backstory away from being a Zuko or Azula...
Daddy Karina, I can't wait for your next episode about Class Struggles in 5Ds with a brief explanation as to why it's not about Kaiba's tragic existence
@Eggs in the Wind Oh what _is_ gender, really...
"Even if you love arc v you hate arc v" truer words could not exist.
Unless you swap out 'Arc-V' with 'RWBY' or 'Star Wars', of course.
Blank Blanckersen mhm
Arc-V does so much right and yet so much wrong. It's the series i'm most conflicted on.
God...
To this day most of my favourite characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise are from Arc-V... but good lord the plot just fails at the end.
#YuboysAndBracletGirlsDeserveToLive
#LeoShouldBeInJail
#ScrewTheBabySmilingPlot
“Even if you love Arc-V, you hate Arc-V”.
For me: I love Arc-V, I just hate the ending. Simple enough.
Let’s be real arc v is trash I’m sorry but it’s just the way I feel
@@ANTHONYACUNA1 Yeah it's not great. After Season 1 it starts to go downhill leading into Seasons 2 and 3
LordIron it was mostly the synchro arc that killed it and the whole zarc route I didn’t like it much looking back on it
agreed, love arc v and i love rewatching alot of the duels. the ending sucked but i dont hate it either. kinda rushed
@@AlexAV25 worst ending ever.
If only Yuzu and Serena didn't each have like 2.5 duels, and allowed to defend their own selves to an extent, instead of going into "let's save my girlfriend who isn't actually my girlfriend and who doesn't actually need to be saved cuz she beat my ass at the beginning of the series and beat my ultra evil reincarnation" mode. I feel like that could've paved the way for a female yugioh series, or at least strong female protags. I understand the show is aimed at young boys, but this whole damsel in distress bullshit is not something to keep feeding the younger generation.
That's so true! I mean they can really defend themselves pretty much especially since their personality shows its but no! They became dumsels in distress😢
Literally the first female main characters that are actually duelist and not bystanders in a while and they fuck it up
@@cruzcruz377 imagine if they extended arc v to the length of the original DM anime and introduced between the standard and synchro dimension chapters and the other two (XYZ and fusion) and added a virtual world ish length mini arc centred on that dimensions respective bracelet girl (except fusion which instead shows Yuri and them slowly becoming the way they are now and eventually joining academia) and I would also extend the fusion arc and add a much larger arc but keep the full ending the way it is (the final reiji vs Yuya duel and the aftermath staying effectively the same(extend the gap between the end of the duel and the last screen so that every character gets a final last moment (and add a scene of zarc and Yuya after Yuya summons the last dragon talking (with a black glow enveloping the child) with the end of the duel having zarc surrender to Yuya with Yuyas hair changing to include all the yu boy's and zarcs hair colours and the after duel extended scene showing the entire world rewriting itself as with zarcs surrender to Yuya congratulating him on surpassing him as Riley smiles and he vanishes ) and the zarc duel yes that duel rewrite it completely and please change the horrible dub voice that makes me want to laugh firstly extend that duel so that zarc starts a interdimesional battle Royale
(Note that the xyz arc is also being massively extended)
@@sebay4654 so your saying cut dark side of dimensions to another year?
As a person who keeps up with the card game meta
Yes, pendulum summoning has had multiple decks that were broken as fuck
So over the years they've had to nerf the entire mechanic into the ground
As someone who also keeps up with the tcg, pendulum were only broken for like 2 weeks then got banned, then were good again for a few months and got banned again, now theyre really bad because konami really does not like them.
@@MrGshinobi it's a bit of a bigger discussion but really the mechanic is just so strong that your only options for balancing it with the rest of the game are printing cards with a lot of restrictions or just nerfing the whole mechanic like the state it's in now
they didn't kill the game or anything (except pepe sorta did but ehhh) but it's an insane mechanic, yuya is truly a madlad
I mean when pendulum came out they wasnt that strong. They only meta deck(until 2016) was qliphort. After that they had like 4 more meta decks pepe(qith was tier 0 deck but get banned after 2 weeks or something),magicians,pendulum ftk and endymion. So pendulum could be broken but konami just kinda killed them with banlist and after they realesed endymion there wasnt to much pendulum suport or pendulum archtype.
I find it highly upsetting that Konami doesn't give the players pendulum decks to play with anymore. Sure, we got Endymion a while back, but all the other mechanics get tons of new archetypes every year. New fusion, synchro, XYZ, and Link decks (and some Ritual here and there) pop up like there's no tomorrow. But Pendulum? Nowhere to be seen. Even if we got archetypes that would never be meta-defining like Performapal or Magicians were, it'd still at least be something, but veternan Pendulum players don't even get that. It honestly saddens me.
@@FourthFall As somebody who has tested Dinomists (didn't build it because Electrumite got banned), I feel that Pendulum is actually a pretty bad mechanic on its own (at least post-MR3). You need to either be able to generate a lot of advantage or just not actually be reliant on your Pendulum Summon at all, because otherwise it takes three cards out of your five-card opening hand just to Pendulum Summon one monster. Decks like PePe or Endymion have been powerful because of their excellent card economics, not because of the mechanic itself.
Keep in mind my perspective may be a bit skewed, I only started playing competitively at the start of the VRAINS era so I never experienced things like full-power Qliphorts outside of the old YGOPro AI duels.
"Even if you love arc v, you hate arc v" u always speak to me on a spiritual level. Getting popcorn to finish this video xD
"just remember we all have bad taste here on the basis of being yugioh fans"
Truest meme of 2020
tbh arc V was the only series I watched all the way through, it had a weird way of sucking me in
Uhh....I never knew my mirror image coulf talk.
It was the soundtrack... And Asuka's new sexy outfit
we all have our series we actually bothered to finish in totality. me I have two in the form of GX and DM, which goes to show how much of a nerd I am i suppose.
The perfect Yugioh Podcast doesn't exi....
With no competition anyone can be the best
I know Karina can't read, but these videos bring me joy.
robesticles Can’t read? What do you mean? 😮
Karina: I haven't finished the video yet, but thank you for my life
My group of friends followed Arc-V religiously during its airing up until a couple weeks after the synchro arc. Whenever the topic of Arc-V comes up it's always a 2 hour long conversation of how much wasted potential there was.
As someone who finished Arc V a few weeks ago, sounds about right.
These yu-gi-oh rambles are great. Without distracting music or random comical editing sound effects it makes it relaxing to listen to while multitasking. Even if you never make any more of these long winded rambles, I appreciate this
The world needs to know about the president of Kaiba Corp.
Ah yes, Gozaburo.
Isn't it odd out of all the Kaiba's Noah, mokuba, Gozobura it's the adopted boy who hates his father the most that wears the family name Kaiba on his sleeve.
not really, its better to know about bakura the king of thieves, or kalin kessler the most badass rival of 5ds
I have three reasons that this should be about Varis.
I kid you. I have none.
as someone who has never watched a single episode of yugioh that wasn’t the abridged series, I absolutely have no context for anything but love every second of these videos
Basically, the 4 Yuyas combine to become a Melvin X Super Mega Ultra Chicken that got defeated by plot armor
For me Yugioh Duel monsters, is worth the watch just for yugioh the abriged series.
Watch Sevens. Seriously.
To me this was the most ambitious project they had but they messed up the ending.. badly...the build up was amazing...just a bad ending.
Yuri and Dennis was my spirit animal and I loved his interactions pre Zarc. The bracelet girls got shafted the hardest
Yuto's debut was badass. Too bad he's effectively dead by the end of the first season and isn't relevant again for another 20 or so episodes.
I'm constantly haunted by Arc V's butt rock English opening, it comes for me in the dreaming hour
This is the only podcast I tune in to
When they enter the synchro arc it went from a really interesting Yugioh story to a complete shitshow. That cyborg which became a d-wheel was the pinnacle of stupidity, only surpassed by Leo's stupid plan and motivations.
Aside from that, there was 5D’s pandering written all over
23:14 lmao I hated that shit so much. I was rewatching Jack’s duel against Sergey recently and those rich suits were talking about how much Jack gives them hope, I was just like “what do yall need hope for yall are literally at the top of the economic ladder”
Taxes?
"Even if you love ARC-V, you hate ARC-V" That's gotta be the most accurate statement I've ever heard about the series
Therapy : Expensive
Watching an hour long video about how Arc V is bad and ruined our lives, knowing full well that I spent my entire first half of high school obsessing over this show (and in particular, your comics of the College AU) and all the fanfic and fanart I did and all the time I spent on it only for it to be bad and crush al my dreams and to finally see someone make the hour long video trashing it : Priceless
Hey! Stop plagiarizing my life!
I know
Arc V is wasted potential tbh, the first season is fine, though I'd say what hurts the series the most is the synchro dimension. I'm someone who loves Yugioh 5Ds, but the synchro dimension went on too long and I feel like not enough happened to justify how long we spent there. the time in the fusion and xyz dimension felt lacking, and think it's one of the reasons why the ending especially was really rushed. I love Arc V on concept, but the execution is just....well you know, bad.
I feel exactly the same way.
the moment the Synchro Arc started was the moment when everything quickly rolled into a shit fest of the highest fucking degree
I mean its not immediately bad, i think the episode up to the prison break one are pretty fun actually. It went really bad when they started the whole Friendship Cup for way too long
@@rahyansuryaramadhan7082 My comment is mainly talking about as a whole this is what hurt the series. Synchro dimension isn't terrible and as mentioned I love 5Ds but the Synchro dimension is way too long of an act as a whole especially when you compare the fusion and xyz dimension.
The xyz dimension being the length of the synchro dimension made more sense because we had two main characters from there (we still didn't have a proper connection between Yuya and Yugo) Synchro dimension didn't even have Yuya and Yugo properly meet and meaningfully interact.
White - War - Creamite
Yugioh Arc V Synchro Arc wasn't as good as Yugioh 5ds.
"it is sayd that every yugioh fan has like there favorite main characters. but they also have these side charterers there hopelessly obsessed with"
... silently thinks of Abidos the Third from gx
Eight characters were vital to the plot, one was the main character, four were tossed into the sidelines and not basically developed at all, three had no development, and barely got screentime. This is a really bad sign.
Your relationship with Arc V reminds me of my relationship with RWBY. it's like a cousin you love deeply and you have fond memories of, but they joined a cult and it took you like 2 years of watching them make crazy decisions before you realized you just couldn't have them be in your life anymore
I just wait for him to say ladies and gentlemen, then I give up.
I used to get angry at characters like Shinji, ranting about issues not as important as "the end of the world as we know it". But coronavirus and social climate made me see that people will focus on whatever instead of the big issues, so...points for being realistic I guess.
When it's something directly affecting them in their everyday life that actively threatens their welfare (e.g. police brutality), I can understand not focusing on the likes of corona or climate change. When it comes to the likes of the Tops...eh...police brutality and wage theft and whatnot might still be a big issue, but it's not really focused on concretely.
So look... 👐sis, Arc V is what I call my junk food anime. In fact I feel like Arc V is what helped really understand that you can classify certain anime as "junk food" I feel like even after Arc V my eyes were opened and I saw other anime that could also fall into the"junk food" category. And like actual junk food, there was no nutritional value to watching Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V. I wouldn't say I didn't get anything out of it or didn't have an impact on me (because I sure as shit started drawing awful fanart of it) but like the high I felt from Arc V...it's after eating a donut or eating chips like a machine. It feels good in the moment...then you crash and you feel filthy about yourself; especially by the end.
I honestly don't know why I wrote all of that, I think watching this video was like watching my own slow growing frustration with the anime but in fast forward. This video almost felt like a round of consecutive punches to the gut at Mach five speeds. The only thing that probably helped was you're overall calm demeanor. But I writhed in my chair the more you brought to light Arc V's bullshit. Like reading what your favorite snack is made out of and feeling gross about it...
Also Julia Krystal (Masumi Kotsu) was givin' shit. A character too good for that anime and that's the only anime will ever see her in, our queen was robbed!....
Anyway sorry, this is a long stupid rant from a tv show I otherwise don't think about as often. But anyone reading this...... you're right, I am dumb.
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Here's a bunch of claps in hope that the Kaiba video gets made.
But otherwise I hope you're doing well.
karina is the depressed stoner lesbian of my dreams tbh
Kaolin Cash i think shes bi or something like that
She’s ace actually ☺️ she mentions it in her tumblr faq
Wait so she has 2500 attack and 2100 defense?
@@arbington 11/10 would pay 2 tributes to summon again
Arc 5 maybe a bit cringing but the best thing that ever happened to Yu-Gi-Oh! was card games on motorcycles.
The thrill of them bringing it back along with Jack. I’ll never get that from Yugioh again.😢
How about a massage chair as a duelist?
This was great! I felt bad for Shun so much. He really wanted to help get his sister back and ultimately failed.
The high points for Arc V imo are the legacy characters and really cool archetypes (which became real!!!).
When you said everyone has that one side character they love, I'm just thinking about how dope Bandit Kieth is
he's only dope IN AMERICA!
@@hornylink Every country is America... in AMERICA
yeah I always though it was cool. his chara design stuck with me
I'm happy Crow got a boyfriend at least
Can you explain that? It's long ago I watched that.
So Crow uses a bird deck, and his boyfriend uses a bee deck...
@@blaue_sophie1317 I agree I totally didn't get that vibe with him not that it's wrong. He still is one of my favorite characters
Now I have a reason to rewatch the show. Just to see that.😂
Kashloo Illu Lmao
This show needed to be like 8 seasons in order to fully develop everything
I agree
I would've been cool with that if it meant we didn't get Yugioh Sevens
@@TheFlinchyDinosaur yugioh sevens is actually good come on
@@bigfish5544 I gave Sevens a chance. I can't stand it. The show has always been for kids but it's never been childish
@@TheFlinchyDinosaur I don't know, it's not really childish, it just has simpler artstyle and rules, and is more light-hearted. But I mean... It can be pretty funny sometimes, definetly more than any of the yugioh series that far, and does a great job at using it's characters which are all pretty unique. And who knows, Zexal looked childish at first but became one of the darkest season so... Maybe it will change. We shouldn't assume something is bad just because it looks childish
ARC-V had flaws in regards to the plot and character development.
The Bracelet Girls in particular were used for Leo's Revival Zero plot device. Yuzu and Serena, out of the 4, had a sufficient amount of screen time and duels. Although Yuzu could have dueled more imo. Had Yuzu learned all of the summoning methods, she would have competed against the likes of Yuya, Reiji, and other stronger duelists than her. If you get Rin and Ruri involved, such as escaping from Academia to find the Lancers, this would have developed their characterization even further.
The little note card that reads LORD HELP ME in the background gives me so much life and happiness. Thank you Karina, I'm almost certain that wasn't intentionally put in the background knowing your aesthetic but I still LOVE it out of context.
Me who hasn't watched yugioh: "this can't be so complicated"
Me at minute 45: "Oh. My. God. WTF is going on"
Also I love that by 47:56 Karina has already lost her mind and is laughing like a maniac
I LITERALLY JUSTT FINISHED BINGE WATCHING ARC V LAST NIGHT!! ive been so emotional watching this series. it was better then i imagined it to be.
Literally said, "If you're going to leave a hate comment, here's your competition. Make it good. Entertain me." Literally the epitome of *_Yas. Queen. Slay._*
Me, who has watched ARC-V from start to finish when it aired: _grabs popcorn and bingo list_
Also, you've earned a subscriber for making an hour long video about an anime that YGO fans never discuss, let alone other anime goers.
EDIT: So after watching the video, a few points!
- Ray didn't become Reira. Reira was reincarnated into a baby like Yuya did before the series started, when the dimensions split, and Zarc was stuffed into her. Yuya had to make _Zarc_ smile to keep the dimensions from coming back together.
- As far as timelines go, here's my timeline. I co-run a YGO roleplay server that tries to encompass everything, so we had to... wrack over it for a bit;
DM is set in 1996, and lasts about six months. DSOD is in the manga timeline, so it doesn't really count (but you could probably make a case that it happened in the anime too.)
GX is set in 2004, eight years after DM, and lasts for three years until 2007, when Judai graduates.
Zero Reverse happens in late 2007 after Judai graduates, which is the _earliest_ 5D's can start. 5D's begins eighteen years later in 2025 and ends after two years in 2027.
ZEXAL has a weird placing, but I've decided to make it concurrent with 5D's. There's no duel statues in Roku's place because at the time, Yusei only just became popular, so he isn't a 'legend class duelist' yet. So no Stardust Dragon statue. Synchros didn't show up because... Konami marketing Xyz.
Now we get to ARC-V. Sorry to skimp out on it, but we literally just shoved it into its own timeline (that we can travel to, thanks Kaiba).
Lastly, VRAINS (skipping Sevens because idk what to do with that either). VRAINS is said by the writers themselves to be 'ten years in the future' from when it airs, so since it airs in 2017, that would make VRAINS take place in 2027, the same year 5D's would end at its earliest.
So to boil that down:
DM - 8 years > GX - 18 years > 5D's + ZEXAL - 2 years ish? > VRAINS
1.) On the subject of Zexal and the Duel Lodge...your explanation of the very DM-oriented paraphernalia beyond the statues, e.g. the Eye from the Millennium Items, or Roku's many throwback cards to Yugi's deck specifically?
2.) ruclips.net/video/YZy_uLsCjYc/видео.html
GX literally stands for generation 10
it has to be set 10 years after DM
@@angelakumar6604 The X stands for 'next'. 'GENEX' was the original title early in development.
We don't even want to get into the Arc-V manga where at the end it's revealed that Yuzu is the mother of the Yu-boys.
nvm apparently we do get into that
I found the manga really likeable personnally even though the end was weird
I’m glad I saved this my watch later, it’s such a comfort video
Yeah, a problem with Arc-V:
It's driven by 2 people who no longer exist. By the end, those two *still* don't exist, and now 6 other people also don't exist.
When the show started Yuzu was one of the characters I was most excited about.
She became a damsel in distress later on, unfortunately.
Yes, I thought she could be the best female lead in Yugioh. But she was so abused after the synchro season.
@@blaue_sophie1317 And despite spending time with Yugo, Yuzu never inquired anything about synchro summoning, which she could have learned to bolster her dueling skills.
@@tayirnull1567 i know, she could have learned synchro summoning! Like she learned fusion summoning! So much potential lost😢
I'm halfway through and this already sounds like my current dnd campaign. Everyone has their own goals and motives and none of them include stopping the war between the elemental planes that will probably kill everyone.
Yuya: tries to have fun and pop the crowd (have the crowd cheer)*
Everyone else: Yuya! You need to take this seriously!
Later
Yuya: actually gets serious and worried about everything*
Everyone else: God Yuya, why so serious? You need to lighten up.
“why did you choose to go to an all girls school?”
me: 48:37
"its cheaper to smile than go to therapy?"
now you're OBJECTIVELY giving out the same advice as Yu Prime, just trying to keep everyone happy? ARE YOU CALLING US THE ANIME BABY?
(I'm kidding.love ya. this was nuts. please do some Kaiba vids and put some shorts on twitter or something)
Sometimes it’s best to put out a smile amongst certain situations even if that smile is fake.
35:39
One of my favorite theories involved the first ending. Yuya is shown holding four popsicles: pink, purple, yellow, green. We had seen Rin, Yuzu, and Serena which correspond with green, pink, and purple, so some people were convinced the last girl would be yellow lol.
The theory could still work if you make Serena the yellow one instead because of her bow.
"Even if you love Arc V you hate Arc V"
How do you know me so well.
Seven years now since this show ended, and it STILL PO'S me each and every time I dwell on it.
as someone who has only watched like 1/3 of the first series, I adore your yugioh videos so much and I love learning your yugioh opinions and the out of context takes on it
Arc V has some of the highest highs and lowest lows in all of yugioh. Anyway stan bee king Shinji
Since you wanted to know what happened in production... Dark Side of Dimensions happened. The movie started production halfway through Arc-V, and supposedly funds and animators were funneled from Arc-V into DSoD, which led to a ton of delays in the middle of the Synchro Dimension arc.
I liked Arc V a lot....but I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t rewritten something’s in the ending and maybe even a concept for a forth season. Maybe I’ve thought of this way too much
"We all have bad tastes here on the basis of being Yu-Gi-Oh! fans"
Truer words have never been spoken. Trash 4 life.
In some way Arc-v was the best show, because unlike other Yugioh shows that tried to ignor past summoning mechanics and make the new ones overshadow them, this show celebrates every summoning mechanic (except Ritual).
Wasn't Asuka the only one who did ritual summons or am I wrong?
@@yukiseexyurumisee that’s right. She was the only one
These videos are what keeps me going, thank you Karina!
Arc V Manga: Time Travel
Arc V Anime: Dimensions
That awkard moment in the last arc v episode when the plot resolution and the payoff is so confusing and nosense that the calm and collected Akaba Reiji can't help himself but laughing so hard in the face of everyone is priceless xD
love that part ahah
love the manga too
People in the comments will try to use the argument of "dsod ruined arc-v" which is so wrong in so many levels.
Yes, the best animators from gallop went from working in arcv to working on dsod, which forced gallop to outsource cheap animation for arcv to keep the series going.
However dsod's production had nothing to do with the quality of the writing of arcv, which was imo it's biggest problem, the lead writter from s1 of arcv left the series before they reached the synchro dimention, which meant that shit has already started to go bad for the production of arcv before dsod even came into play.
Arcv was a shitshow because gallop had poor planning for the series in general, and this poor production quality affected vrains as well, and so much in fact that it had the actual director of the series apologize and change the writter very early on to attempt to save the series.
Its clear why sevens was done by a different studio, gallop has been struggling for a good while and they needed a change of pace, the production of a show like a yugioh series is long and probably very hard to keep up with for them.
Do we know why said lead writer left in the first place? Was it like 5D's and someone else just offered more money? were they fed up with the production schedule? They just needed a long vacation?
@@christopherb501 I don't think we know, those details are usually not made public
I mean, even if it were true, I think DSOD would be worth it. It's one of the best pieces of YGO media we've gotten ever and a very strong sequel in general.
@@Di7manya I cant agree enough with you, dsod is nearly perfect and im so glad it happened
Arc Vs huge cast becomes so annoying when so many duels are solved by a random person interrupting (taking that sweet 2000 lp penalty) and then just winning the duel in their first turn
i could listen to you talk about yu-gi-oh all day! i hope you make more of these.
So really funny thing, you joked in the latest Drawfee video of “what if the viewership dropped during my yu gi oh rambles and returned right after,” but like. The opposite be true for me, I heard you explain it in that video and immediately had to find you explain this. I’ve never even seen this show, I’m just interested in what yall sayin! Thanks for making this sorta lo-fi by the way, this is a great thing to put on while winding down and getting some last-minute work done, really like how chill y’all explaining this
I loved Arc-V and was SO emotionally attached to Shun Kurosaki... the ending still haunts me (They even had that stupid duel in which Shun had to not hate Yuya if Yuya won... Literally, Shun was forced to be content by a cardgame)
I absolutely love your YGO videos.
I love your voice so much, it's so calming to listen to
I wish I had the time to write you a 2k word comment, my condolences.
Could you do a video on your opinion on yugioh zexal I really like it but I would like to hear your thoughts
I've never watched any of these Yugis but gosh dang do I love listening to you rant about them
I actually loved this video, I have difficulty staying focused on things because they move so fast but your pace was on point. Keep it up!
3:35 same face university was my favorite damn thing for a hot second in high school. i didn't even finish arc v but sometimes i look back at that comic and remember it. it had everything: hot engineer rights; weed but not really; the cursed hot topic myspace photo; like 5 separate ill-advised kisses; yuri being an actually interesting character; gays absolutely everywhere;
it was a good time. thank you for that, college karina.
I know nothing about yugioh but my reaction to seeing this upload was "oh thank god"
This is approaching Kingdom Hearts levels of confusion and wasted potential
didnt watch arc v. after this vid, i feel like i didnt miss much. thx for saving my time, ill just rewatch gx now.