Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

[Stark700]

Wow, I gotta say the OST improved quite a bit. I'm curious to see what else Reiji will pull from his deck, maybe even Ritual monsters? I haven't seen that in a long time.

[DMurphy]

Originally Posted by Marina2

Sophia doesn't banish cards on the deck. Only hand , field and graveyard.

Oh, in that case, my bad, a player could survive Sophia showing up.

[YourIdeas]

Spoiler for Episode 13:

That. Fucking. Plot armor.

[magnumcyclonex]

Spoiler:

Man, I was reminded of Judai's first duel with Chronos in GX. Staring down 3 3k monstrosities. BTW, what happened to the Pendulum Scales? Why were they unstable?

[YourIdeas]

Originally Posted by magnumcyclonex

Spoiler:

Man, I was reminded of Judai's first duel with Chronos in GX. Staring down 3 3k monstrosities. BTW, what happened to the Pendulum Scales? Why were they unstable?

Spoiler:

The implication, I think, is that Reiji created his own pendulum monsters, hence why he used the word "prototype" when referring to them. This somehow created the effect where Kepler's pendulum scale drops by 5 and Galilei doubles at the end of each standby phase, but monsters whose levels aren't within the scales get destroyed.

This didn't seem like Reiji's intent, but given his reaction when he seems to realize how he can win the duel, it ends up playing into his plan that'll never get revealed.

[rladls2121]

In Yugioh Zexal, Kaito tells Yuma and Astral his full name himself without being asked.

The difference is Yuya asks Reiji his name.

[Stro]

Originally Posted by YourIdeas

Spoiler:

The implication, I think, is that Reiji created his own pendulum monsters, hence why he used the word "prototype" when referring to them. This somehow created the effect where Kepler's pendulum scale drops by 5 and Galilei doubles at the end of each standby phase, but monsters whose levels aren't within the scales get destroyed.

This didn't seem like Reiji's intent, but given his reaction when he seems to realize how he can win the duel, it ends up playing into his plan that'll never get revealed.

Spoiler:

I guess Reiji needs Yuya's Pendant to complete his pendulum monsters. Also I think that Reiji plan was to use pendulum summon for synchro summon or xyz summon

[elior]

Originally Posted by YourIdeas

Spoiler:

The implication, I think, is that Reiji created his own pendulum monsters, hence why he used the word "prototype" when referring to them. This somehow created the effect where Kepler's pendulum scale drops by 5 and Galilei doubles at the end of each standby phase, but monsters whose levels aren't within the scales get destroyed.

This didn't seem like Reiji's intent, but given his reaction when he seems to realize how he can win the duel, it ends up playing into his plan that'll never get revealed.

Spoiler for episode 13:

it was not plot armor the dual somone was just interfere the dual if yuya won it was plot armor

[YourIdeas]

Originally Posted by elior

Spoiler for episode 13:

it was not plot armor the dual somone was just interfere the dual if yuya won it was plot armor

It's plot armor in the sense that the protagonist, Yuuya, is pretty much not allowed to lose any important duels, less he harm himself or others around him. This applies whether he needs to win the duel, or a duel he should've lost is somehow cut short. In this case, losing would have meant having their school annexed to LDS.

The episode itself is pretty much recycled from an earlier episode in Zexal, where Yuuma and Astral lost to Kaito, and by extension, Yuuma would lose his soul and Astral would die, but before he can pull off the finishing move, a call comes up that freaks out Kaito so much that he can't take the extra 10 seconds to perform a final attack. Same deal here, just the stakes don't necessarily involve life and death.

[RX-78GP04G Gerbera]

Originally Posted by YourIdeas

It's plot armor in the sense that the protagonist, Yuuya, is pretty much not allowed to lose any important duels, less he harm himself or others around him. This applies whether he needs to win the duel, or a duel he should've lost is somehow cut short. In this case, losing would have meant having their school annexed to LDS.

The episode itself is pretty much recycled from an earlier episode in Zexal, where Yuuma and Astral lost to Kaito, and by extension, Yuuma would lose his soul and Astral would die, but before he can pull off the finishing move, a call comes up that freaks out Kaito so much that he can't take the extra 10 seconds to perform a final attack. Same deal here, just the stakes don't necessarily involve life and death.

Every Yu-Gi-Oh! series, and most shonen anime/manga in general, tends to have such plot armor. In terms of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yusei is pretty much the king of such plot armor.

[shadow1296]

Originally Posted by RX-78GP04G Gerbera

Every Yu-Gi-Oh! series, and most shonen anime/manga in general, tends to have such plot armor. In terms of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yusei is pretty much the king of such plot armor.

yes though i doubt crashing and getting a piece of metal in the gut that required surgery to remove as was a very good way to activate that plot armor

[magnumcyclonex]

Originally Posted by YourIdeas

It's plot armor in the sense that the protagonist, Yuuya, is pretty much not allowed to lose any important duels, less he harm himself or others around him. This applies whether he needs to win the duel, or a duel he should've lost is somehow cut short. In this case, losing would have meant having their school annexed to LDS.

The episode itself is pretty much recycled from an earlier episode in Zexal, where Yuuma and Astral lost to Kaito, and by extension, Yuuma would lose his soul and Astral would die, but before he can pull off the finishing move, a call comes up that freaks out Kaito so much that he can't take the extra 10 seconds to perform a final attack. Same deal here, just the stakes don't necessarily involve life and death.

I remember that duel and episode. That was a GOOD duel, knowing that they were completely owned and facing imminent doom. But alas, plot armor always decides that the protagonist must not suffer anything so drastic that would turn the entire anime upside down.

[Wandering Soul]

I saw the plot armor coming a mile away. They had to establish Reji as a serious threat but couldn't have Yuya lose the duel so they had to interrupt the duel. Reminds me of 5ds where they wanted to show off the Earthbound Immortals but had Yusei's bike break down so the duel was technically unresolved.

[RX-78GP04G Gerbera]

Originally Posted by the one above all

I saw the plot armor coming a mile away. They had to establish Reji as a serious threat but couldn't have Yuya lose the duel so they had to interrupt the duel. Reminds me of 5ds where they wanted to show off the Earthbound Immortals but had Yusei's bike break down so the duel was technically unresolved.

The problem with using plot armor right now is that it wasn't completely important to the plot. If it was a major Duel with something crucial to the plot that required Yuya not lose, there wouldn't be as big a problem (unless the plot require Yuya to lose like Yugi/Atem vs. Kaiba at Duelist Kingdom for character development between Yugi and Atem), but this is pretty much the equivalent of the first Duel (or even the graduation Duel) between Judai/Jaden vs. Ryo/Zane in GX where, the first time, Judai DID lose completely and tied at the graduation Duel.

[Awrya]

Well, that call was convenient.

Surprised to see Yuuya still believing that only he can do pendulum summon.
Didn't that LSD student took his pendulum cards and performed pendulum summon, proving that having pendulum cards allowed anyone to perform pendulum summon? Memory loss?

In M2 he could have XYZ for Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand before ending the turn for a little more insurance, but well.

[hamazura]

this yuuya attitude is so annoying
"hurr durr pendulum is special only to me and impossible other player can do that"
and i wonder if yuuya will learn other summon, its so boring with only circus monster, its so weak that he always need to rely on deus ex machina action fvking card.
and dat reiji possibility of pendulum evulotion.... nah, its probably just combining pendulum mass summon and then synchro-xyz, ez win ez life

[RX-78GP04G Gerbera]

Originally Posted by hamazura

this yuuya attitude is so annoying
"hurr durr pendulum is special only to me and impossible other player can do that"
and i wonder if yuuya will learn other summon, its so boring with only circus monster, its so weak that he always need to rely on deus ex machina action fvking card.
and dat reiji possibility of pendulum evulotion.... nah, its probably just combining pendulum mass summon and then synchro-xyz, ez win ez life

You're being a bit unfair to Yuya really...granted, I agree that (as I feared since hearing about them) Action Cards are really just an excuse for either player to pull a deus ex machina save without having to draw them and making it look like actual "cheating" like before, but seriously, criticizing Yuya for his Dueling style and using the same stuff?

Like Judai didn't use Fusion Monsters SO much? Or Yusei (and most others) with Synchros, especially Stardust Dragon-related stuff (and is the king of total deus ex machina asspull saves)? Or Yuma (and most others) with all the Xyzs, especially Hope/"Utopia" stuff? And ALL of them (including Yugi/Atem) using a bunch of smaller monsters and the whole "power of teamwork" and such to bring out bigger monsters rather than just getting (more) naturally bigger monsters?

Remember that Yu-Gi-Oh! is not SO much a deeply plot driven story so much as a big advertisement for the card game

[Marina2]

Originally Posted by Awrya

Well, that call was convenient.

Surprised to see Yuuya still believing that only he can do pendulum summon.
Didn't that LSD student took his pendulum cards and performed pendulum summon, proving that having pendulum cards allowed anyone to perform pendulum summon? Memory loss?

In M2 he could have XYZ for Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand before ending the turn for a little more insurance, but well.

Originally Posted by hamazura

this yuuya attitude is so annoying
"hurr durr pendulum is special only to me and impossible other player can do that"

I think what he acutally thoght is "I'm support to be the only person who has pendulum card." not "only he can do pendulum summon."

That LSD student used his cards so it doesn't count.

In Reiji's case he was like "WTF??, how did you have pendulum cards?"

[Blue-kun]

Man, this whole categorizing people based on what monsters they like to use is getting really, really dumb. It was good seeing Reiji actually use a deck that functions in... well, the way you'd expect a real deck to work.

And really, the whole setting in this show is baffling. I'm sure your 10 year old kid would be tired by now of seeing these guys treat different summon types as if it's some sort of AMAZING FEAT that can only be pulled out by the ~truly gifted people~. Like, just the idea that you have to take a course to learn how to summon something is beyond awful, lol.

Other than that, yeah, plot armor, Yuzu's character being completely destroyed in that duel against the Gem-Knight girl... ARC-V really not off to a good start for me. If you can even call 13 episodes in a "start".

[elior]

Spoiler for yugioh arc v episode 14:

this was funny episode then i expected shouzu dual was great and the dance scence was the most funny also what the effect of shuzo Entermate Plus Turtle?