Yuri vs Yusho is definitely one of my favourites. It's rare enough that we see a protagonist with a father that actually gets to meet their kid but to have him actually duel as well?! The parents usually get so hyped up and in this case we actually get to see Yusho live up to it. Yusho figuring out Yuri's facedown card was super polymerization was one of the most amazing moments in the entire show and he truly lived up to his role as an entertainer. Even after that, managing to escape the vine castle that seems near impossible to get out of. It really was one of the most entertaining duels ever
The scene where raging dragon is first summoned is my absolute favorite scene in all of arc v and yugioh. And why raging dragon is my favorite card of all time.
The awkward part of Zarc is during the flashbacks they showed Zarc with a unique appearance but then when he finally shows it was just a draconic form of Yuya. The design of having it looking like Yuya in a different form but then saying it's not Yuya and it's Zarc who already has his own form just doesn't really feel like it fits at all. I mean they even show the outline of Zarc from the flashbacks during the intro and at least Ray has like a spirit form or something. It just feels like the Zarc we heard about is someone that we never actually got to see again and so all that build up of him from the flashbacks and intro was just a let down
@@Zombrosk. In a way I mostly think "what did people want?". Because in the flashback when he fused he was just a dragon causing destruction rather than dueling, and it still took a a lot of duelists to beat him, but I guess the idea is all he did when coming back was duel in 1 area and then lose whereas other final villains may have stuff happening with them throughout the entire season. Honestly quite a lot of final villains were disappointing. Nightshroud felt out of nowhere even though he was technically in early on, we didn't know what to make of it. Z-one was pretty confusing until we got to learn his motives which took till the end where it felt like it may've been too late. Don thousand basically lost to Vector but since Vector lost to Nash Don thousand has his powers back and sure he beats Mizar easily to show his power but he only got 2 duels. AI just felt too forced with his reasoning but I get overall it made sense and setting him up as a threat was actually really well done. Otes from Sevens felt more like a ceremonial duel since he just didn't feel like a boss, especially since we've literally only ever seen him lose every match
@@Zombrosk. The other thing is idk what they should do with him story wise. Cause in the end the incarnates just fused together again so I figure it may make more sense if we just get Zarc and Ray instead of Yuya and Zuzu. I get they're the main characters we've had this whole time, but the whole point is that they were saying Zarc and Ray are the original and Yuya and Zuzu are just a quarter of them anyway, it also means they're giving these 2 character special privilege over the other 3 quarter incarnates which doesn't seem fair since they're all equally a part of Zarc and Ray
@@Zombrosk. I guess if anything a happy ending might be where Zarc and Ray are alive but so are all 4 of each incarnates. Like maybe instead of just trying to defeat Zarc, they try to bring him back to the good boy he used to be, representing all the good aspects of the Yuboys. Since it should be Zarc himself who's evil, it should be humanity's dark influences. It's not like this darkness has to be it's own unique enemy, it can just be dealt with during the duel. Then maybe when Zarc get defeated in the final turn, a card is used which is also meant to split him apart, but instead of just splitting him into the 4 Yuboys, Zarc is also there so we get all 5 of them. Something similar to how Marik was fused with Ra and then after Ragnarok his good side was back
Zarc didn't really invoke feelings of fear compared to past villains like Zone, Malik, Bakura, Yubel, Supreme King, Godwin, etc, even though he was supposed to be the most scary out of all of them since he could use all Summoning methods.
Right especially when he freaks out at receiving damage meanwhile the original supreme king can have their board wiped and lose most of their life points and taunt their opponent for being unable to beat them in one turn, like anyone can be a huge threat when they literally have an unkillable 4K beat stick and gain life points instead of taking damage like he’s probably the worst duelist among all antagonists like literally anyone can hide behind a board like that you’d think for someone who was supposed to be the greatest duelist would actually show some skill
Vector. He quite literally steals the show whenever he is involved. He provokes both sides, his own Barian side, and Yuma’s, by injuring Alito, he induces the wrath of Gilag, who comes after him, but due to him befriending Yuma, Yuma gets involved, which allowed him to manipulate Yuma (who was without Astral’s help here) to use “Rank-up-Magic Limited Barian’s Force” to help Yuma, and in turn, convinces Yuma he is a good Barian, over time, Yuma gets several barian cards, which all came to a head with Vector revealing himself, and in such a way that emotionally hurt the protagonist, all while damaging his deck with a card that milled 5 cards for every “V” and “Barian” card, equating to 30 cards in total, as the barian and V cards were milled too. He had the bond between Yuma and Astral severed due to his plans, creating Dark Zexal, which nearly self-destructed if Yuma didn’t sever the merge. Let me remind you, Vector had Yuma dead-to-rites. Yuma only won through changing the card, (through revealing it’s true form, showing that Numeron energy is astral and barial energy, which is besides the point.)
Yugioh arc 5 was such a surprisingly good show I actually seriously enjoyed it and yuya and yuta are two of my favorite protagonists next to Jaden and yugi.
I did really enjoy Yuya and Yuta as characters, they had a great dynamic and their interactions were interesting, similar to how Yugi and the Pharaoh's dynamic worked but different. I also really liked Yuta's monsters especially his ace monster dark rebellion xyz dragon.
Honestly, as much as I love Zarc and his back story, I would have liked to see him having some instabilities from the forced reunion. Similar to how Roxas from Kingdom Hearts would respond to Riku when he spoke about Sora. Since the Yu-boys were apart of him, I think pieces of their memories resonating during the duel would have done a lot of good
Either pre-split Zarc was one of the most skilled duelists we've ever seen or everyone in the original dimension were absolute trash if Zarc was able to become World Champion with Odd-Eyes Dragon as his ace monster
@@romanfrancis1232 considering he was able to hear the voices of monsters, I would say he was probably the strongest duelist of his era. Especially since he did obtain the other dimensional dragons before he became the world Champion
The fact that all of this came at the expense of the bracelet girls, who already had it rough up till now, and had nothing to do after this, kind of soils these episodes for me.
I understand that, I feel towards the end of the show the roles and characterisation of the individual counterparts of the Yu-Boys and Zu-Girls was minimised, and they ultimately didn't return either which was a bad decision in my opinion. I would've preferred they stayed separate.
I have many fav duels throughout yugioh. But 1 that comes to mind as 1 of my favs is in yugioh gx when aster uses dreadmaster to not just decimate, but humiliate jaden to the point he goes into depression and can’t shuffle or see is cards anymore.
Yuri honestly felt like the true antagonist who needed a better redemption then what he got honestly, he should have been getting some redeeming qualities from the start of the synchro arc to the start of the fusion where he should have been the main focus of that honestly they really just did him bad and the freaking people who write a rewrite of the Yu-Gi-Oh! arc five did not help because the anime mistake
Honestly Arc V is my second favorite yugioh series, I especially liked the concept of the 4 different dimensions! But I also agree that the ending was quite a bit of a let down :(
@@Ocelot56 I get that, lots of good ideas but the ending didn’t quite get there, but like I’ve seen people say it’s still a better ending than the manga… I haven’t read it all but turns out that Yuzu is actually Yuya’s mother and Yusho’s wife!?
Really, Zarc was nothing more than an evil manipulating his counterparts from the shadows. Yuya and everyone else are their own individuals. Zarc and Ray too. That’s how I see it. All of that aside, Yuya’s struggle against Zarc, up until the final battle was the thing that kept Yuya’s character interesting to me. IMO, I could have forgiven Arc V’s bad ending if Yuya had been the one to fight Zarc instead. That’s all that I needed. Ray defeating Zarc was the VERY LAST thing I wanted because I wanted Zarc to not be defeated the same way. Hopefully, Duel Links will change things up when the time comes for Zarc to be in Duel Links.
If it wasn't a episode with Shay Or Declan this is easily the best one. The only other episode that get this is the first duel with Iggy after he told yuya to fall into darkness and got humbled hard.
The dark zexal duel which is episode 98 although the duel starts a few episodes before this episode. It’s my favorite episode of zexal as it shows the breaking point of two kind hearted characters and it’s fantastic
For me it's always interesting when the Mc against all odds back to the wall no standard out gives into the suffering the pain the unbridled rage and let's it subsume him atem dark jaiden supreme king the dark parts of the yuya the dark parts of zexal protag dark vrains protagonist and all the rest
This is the single best overkill moment in Yu-Gi-Oh. In Japanese, dub butchered it. This tops the infamous Berserker Soul overkill for me. As for favorite moment in Yu-Gi-Oh. Soulburner beating Revolver. That whole Duel is PEAK, and that finale is perfect.
It does though. Damn near every single raidraptor duel was absolutely amazing. Yuyas berserk duels went hard, the synchro arc and the first tournament finale were peak arcs on top of it. And several of the decks were just absolute fun to watch. That said, Yuyas acting kinda annoyed me, The synchro arc being the end of the bracelet girls having any relevance or agency in the series sucked, and the absolute travesty of the runup to the ending was the most disrespected I have ever felt watching a yugioh anime. The series was crazy highs and lows, and sadly ended with more lows than highs thanks to that last (z)arc.
@@SupremeKingZA-RC-EVE I was fine with the "evil entertainer" aspect of it, but for whatever reason, they went with the "sits on big boss monster" duelist, which honestly just didn't do it for me.
imagine Zarc being angry ON SCREEN after being revived.
Crazy talk
Yuri vs Yusho is definitely one of my favourites. It's rare enough that we see a protagonist with a father that actually gets to meet their kid but to have him actually duel as well?! The parents usually get so hyped up and in this case we actually get to see Yusho live up to it. Yusho figuring out Yuri's facedown card was super polymerization was one of the most amazing moments in the entire show and he truly lived up to his role as an entertainer. Even after that, managing to escape the vine castle that seems near impossible to get out of. It really was one of the most entertaining duels ever
The scene where raging dragon is first summoned is my absolute favorite scene in all of arc v and yugioh. And why raging dragon is my favorite card of all time.
It’s such a cool moment
The awkward part of Zarc is during the flashbacks they showed Zarc with a unique appearance but then when he finally shows it was just a draconic form of Yuya. The design of having it looking like Yuya in a different form but then saying it's not Yuya and it's Zarc who already has his own form just doesn't really feel like it fits at all. I mean they even show the outline of Zarc from the flashbacks during the intro and at least Ray has like a spirit form or something. It just feels like the Zarc we heard about is someone that we never actually got to see again and so all that build up of him from the flashbacks and intro was just a let down
Part of the reason Zarc is disappointing was being built up for so long then not meeting expectations
@@Zombrosk. In a way I mostly think "what did people want?". Because in the flashback when he fused he was just a dragon causing destruction rather than dueling, and it still took a a lot of duelists to beat him, but I guess the idea is all he did when coming back was duel in 1 area and then lose whereas other final villains may have stuff happening with them throughout the entire season. Honestly quite a lot of final villains were disappointing. Nightshroud felt out of nowhere even though he was technically in early on, we didn't know what to make of it. Z-one was pretty confusing until we got to learn his motives which took till the end where it felt like it may've been too late. Don thousand basically lost to Vector but since Vector lost to Nash Don thousand has his powers back and sure he beats Mizar easily to show his power but he only got 2 duels. AI just felt too forced with his reasoning but I get overall it made sense and setting him up as a threat was actually really well done. Otes from Sevens felt more like a ceremonial duel since he just didn't feel like a boss, especially since we've literally only ever seen him lose every match
@@Zombrosk. The other thing is idk what they should do with him story wise. Cause in the end the incarnates just fused together again so I figure it may make more sense if we just get Zarc and Ray instead of Yuya and Zuzu. I get they're the main characters we've had this whole time, but the whole point is that they were saying Zarc and Ray are the original and Yuya and Zuzu are just a quarter of them anyway, it also means they're giving these 2 character special privilege over the other 3 quarter incarnates which doesn't seem fair since they're all equally a part of Zarc and Ray
@@Zombrosk. I guess if anything a happy ending might be where Zarc and Ray are alive but so are all 4 of each incarnates. Like maybe instead of just trying to defeat Zarc, they try to bring him back to the good boy he used to be, representing all the good aspects of the Yuboys. Since it should be Zarc himself who's evil, it should be humanity's dark influences. It's not like this darkness has to be it's own unique enemy, it can just be dealt with during the duel. Then maybe when Zarc get defeated in the final turn, a card is used which is also meant to split him apart, but instead of just splitting him into the 4 Yuboys, Zarc is also there so we get all 5 of them. Something similar to how Marik was fused with Ra and then after Ragnarok his good side was back
@Sonadourge well the manga ending was quite the uno flip paradox ass-pull.
I expected Berzerk Yuya to be a taste of what Zarc could do...
@@senhorkorracha Yeah I think Zarc lost that sense of intimidation whereas berserk yuya was so unpredictable and dangerous
The animation for these episodes were so crispy too
@@thatoneguylegit9219 definitely
Honestly i think zark shouldve been something like guatro from xexal trying to "please the fans" or in this case "put on a show"
Zarc didn't really invoke feelings of fear compared to past villains like Zone, Malik, Bakura, Yubel, Supreme King, Godwin, etc, even though he was supposed to be the most scary out of all of them since he could use all Summoning methods.
Right especially when he freaks out at receiving damage meanwhile the original supreme king can have their board wiped and lose most of their life points and taunt their opponent for being unable to beat them in one turn, like anyone can be a huge threat when they literally have an unkillable 4K beat stick and gain life points instead of taking damage like he’s probably the worst duelist among all antagonists like literally anyone can hide behind a board like that you’d think for someone who was supposed to be the greatest duelist would actually show some skill
@@chunchunmaru07 Yeah I don’t think Zarc was an intimidating villain at all
Vector. He quite literally steals the show whenever he is involved. He provokes both sides, his own Barian side, and Yuma’s, by injuring Alito, he induces the wrath of Gilag, who comes after him, but due to him befriending Yuma, Yuma gets involved, which allowed him to manipulate Yuma (who was without Astral’s help here) to use “Rank-up-Magic Limited Barian’s Force” to help Yuma, and in turn, convinces Yuma he is a good Barian, over time, Yuma gets several barian cards, which all came to a head with Vector revealing himself, and in such a way that emotionally hurt the protagonist, all while damaging his deck with a card that milled 5 cards for every “V” and “Barian” card, equating to 30 cards in total, as the barian and V cards were milled too. He had the bond between Yuma and Astral severed due to his plans, creating Dark Zexal, which nearly self-destructed if Yuma didn’t sever the merge. Let me remind you, Vector had Yuma dead-to-rites. Yuma only won through changing the card, (through revealing it’s true form, showing that Numeron energy is astral and barial energy, which is besides the point.)
Yugioh arc 5 was such a surprisingly good show I actually seriously enjoyed it and yuya and yuta are two of my favorite protagonists next to Jaden and yugi.
I did really enjoy Yuya and Yuta as characters, they had a great dynamic and their interactions were interesting, similar to how Yugi and the Pharaoh's dynamic worked but different. I also really liked Yuta's monsters especially his ace monster dark rebellion xyz dragon.
Honestly, as much as I love Zarc and his back story, I would have liked to see him having some instabilities from the forced reunion. Similar to how Roxas from Kingdom Hearts would respond to Riku when he spoke about Sora. Since the Yu-boys were apart of him, I think pieces of their memories resonating during the duel would have done a lot of good
That’s a really good idea it would make perfect sense for that to be the case
Zarc really was a guy who didn’t have anything but his dragons, and his title as the World Duel Champion
Either pre-split Zarc was one of the most skilled duelists we've ever seen or everyone in the original dimension were absolute trash if Zarc was able to become World Champion with Odd-Eyes Dragon as his ace monster
@@romanfrancis1232 considering he was able to hear the voices of monsters, I would say he was probably the strongest duelist of his era. Especially since he did obtain the other dimensional dragons before he became the world Champion
The fact that all of this came at the expense of the bracelet girls, who already had it rough up till now, and had nothing to do after this, kind of soils these episodes for me.
I understand that, I feel towards the end of the show the roles and characterisation of the individual counterparts of the Yu-Boys and Zu-Girls was minimised, and they ultimately didn't return either which was a bad decision in my opinion. I would've preferred they stayed separate.
I have many fav duels throughout yugioh. But 1 that comes to mind as 1 of my favs is in yugioh gx when aster uses dreadmaster to not just decimate, but humiliate jaden to the point he goes into depression and can’t shuffle or see is cards anymore.
Yuri honestly felt like the true antagonist who needed a better redemption then what he got honestly, he should have been getting some redeeming qualities from the start of the synchro arc to the start of the fusion where he should have been the main focus of that honestly they really just did him bad and the freaking people who write a rewrite of the Yu-Gi-Oh! arc five did not help because the anime mistake
C/C/Cs first otk was so fucking cool
leo clutching it out against the aporia was one of my favs
i can hear Ren Suzugamori saying, "final turn."
Still had a better ending than the manga.
I really expected Zarc to be crazy mad with all 4 personalities inside him. But no, he was evil for the lamest reasons ever.
Yuri was better
I think if Zarc got the Yami Marik treatment he would have been so so good
My favorite scene is when Yusei is summoning Shooting Quasar Dragon against Z-ONE.
That is a fantastic choice, the music from that moment alone gives me chills it just fits the scene so well in it's orchestral glory
Honestly Arc V is my second favorite yugioh series, I especially liked the concept of the 4 different dimensions! But I also agree that the ending was quite a bit of a let down :(
@@Ocelot56 I get that, lots of good ideas but the ending didn’t quite get there, but like I’ve seen people say it’s still a better ending than the manga…
I haven’t read it all but turns out that Yuzu is actually Yuya’s mother and Yusho’s wife!?
Really, Zarc was nothing more than an evil manipulating his counterparts from the shadows.
Yuya and everyone else are their own individuals. Zarc and Ray too. That’s how I see it.
All of that aside, Yuya’s struggle against Zarc, up until the final battle was the thing that kept Yuya’s character interesting to me. IMO, I could have forgiven Arc V’s bad ending if Yuya had been the one to fight Zarc instead. That’s all that I needed.
Ray defeating Zarc was the VERY LAST thing I wanted because I wanted Zarc to not be defeated the same way. Hopefully, Duel Links will change things up when the time comes for Zarc to be in Duel Links.
If it wasn't a episode with Shay Or Declan this is easily the best one. The only other episode that get this is the first duel with Iggy after he told yuya to fall into darkness and got humbled hard.
In terms of Yuya having to hold back Zarc's influence I liked Yuya vs Yuri best
I agree, these were my favorite episodes, do you have any for zexal?
The dark zexal duel which is episode 98 although the duel starts a few episodes before this episode. It’s my favorite episode of zexal as it shows the breaking point of two kind hearted characters and it’s fantastic
@@ebot25sanimeandgaming3 understandable, mine was quattro in his meet and greet with Yuma's friends
@@Kingofghosts0e that was a pretty dark episode but even so it was so entertaining. How he “spoils” his fans was so crazy to find out
@@ebot25sanimeandgaming3 yeah, I loved it, it shows a dark side to a perceived nice character
Reminds me of yubel with the sadistic side
For me it's always interesting when the Mc against all odds back to the wall no standard out gives into the suffering the pain the unbridled rage and let's it subsume him atem dark jaiden supreme king the dark parts of the yuya the dark parts of zexal protag dark vrains protagonist and all the rest
This is the single best overkill moment in Yu-Gi-Oh. In Japanese, dub butchered it.
This tops the infamous Berserker Soul overkill for me.
As for favorite moment in Yu-Gi-Oh. Soulburner beating Revolver. That whole Duel is PEAK, and that finale is perfect.
Do u have any ideas on videos about Johan/Jesse from yugioh GX?
The ending was mid especially coming off from the ending of Zexal.
I say that it had the best open ending next to GX and 5Ds
Arc v is the worst ending in all of yugioh. Even sevenz is better@@SlickDraco
@@HyperFire16 you to read what I said they come back with a different answer before I got punch you forever assuming I was talking about arc v
@@SlickDraco 🥱
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I think only the classic series and 5D's had a somewhat decent ending.
@@petergohan That’s fair, personally the original series has my favourite ending
Make a Zexal video pls :D
Glad to see other people liking zexal:)
I plan to make one about a zexal character for sure, not sure who yet
The manga should of been the basis of the show the manga is so much better
Yugioh Arc-v has really high highs and really low lows
-The biggest yugioh Arc-v glazer
It does though. Damn near every single raidraptor duel was absolutely amazing. Yuyas berserk duels went hard, the synchro arc and the first tournament finale were peak arcs on top of it. And several of the decks were just absolute fun to watch.
That said, Yuyas acting kinda annoyed me, The synchro arc being the end of the bracelet girls having any relevance or agency in the series sucked, and the absolute travesty of the runup to the ending was the most disrespected I have ever felt watching a yugioh anime.
The series was crazy highs and lows, and sadly ended with more lows than highs thanks to that last (z)arc.
@@vla1ne I liked Z-arc as a villain but I didn’t like what they did with him I would’ve liked if he had more buildup and remained pure evil
@@SupremeKingZA-RC-EVE I was fine with the "evil entertainer" aspect of it, but for whatever reason, they went with the "sits on big boss monster" duelist, which honestly just didn't do it for me.
eew dub watcher
I never liked arc v