I usually just buy the structure decks. They aren't too expensive and I prefer saving gems for the packs and other accessories. I think that the dub kept in Jack's love confession, but I know that they didn't do that when Carly died again, so that was probably one reason why that didn't happen here. We'll have another Carly event, so they could change the outcome. At least this will give some much needed attention to the pairing, so that's pretty neat.
I think that there were six or seven recap episodes, so taking those episodes out would leave Vrains with 113 or 114 episodes, which is pretty pathetic. It just shows how rushed the series has been even further. They could possibly still go that route for Ai, but I get the impression from the preview that he basically wants Yusaku to kill him due to how strong his grief over the other Ignis' deaths. I don't think that would work too well, but it might at least explain a bit as to why they suddenly made Ai a villain. To give Vrains some credit, Ai being the final villain isn't a terrible idea. I think it needed better setup and the writing is still pretty sloppy, but he may not end up being the worst final villain of a Yu-Gi-Oh! series. He's no Zarc by any means, but he does have personality and a personal connection to Yusaku, so he'll still be a step up from Don Thousand in that regard.
Not only do their storylines ultimately go nowhere, the characters just have so little impact on the plot. Aoi is just the token female lead. She got some token victories, but she is primarily used for angst and hyping up new characters for Yusaku to defeat. Her desire to become stronger in order to protect people is meaningless when she never gets a meaningful victory. Onizuka's character derailment subplot was especially pointless. He just reverted to his season one personality for his last duel of the series and we aren't going to see much, if any, of the result of his so called redemption. Spectre feels really pointless as a Lost Incident victim. They wanted to give more context for his relationship with Revolver, as well as possibly avoid having to create a new character as Earth's origin, but it just really didn't go anywhere. Making the cast full of AIs would have worked nicely with whole conflict between humans and AIs, but they probably still would have felt so pointless. They could have just made the series primarily about Yusaku, Revolver and introduce Takeru earlier, even though that would have probably changed too much of his backstory and season one in general. I have never seen a Yu-Gi-Oh! series care so little about most of its cast or be so against introducing new characters.
I'm still so happy about Vrains ending though. It is both amazing and pathetic to see that this series end in such a rushed manner. I've been meaning to start another Arc V rewatch. I love the series to pieces, but it can take awhile for me to rewatch anything. I may start it either before or after Vrains wraps up.
I think that there were six or seven recap episodes, so taking those episodes out would leave Vrains with 113 or 114 episodes, which is pretty pathetic. It just shows how rushed the series has been even further. They could possibly still go that route for Ai, but I get the impression from the preview that he basically wants Yusaku to kill him due to how strong his grief over the other Ignis' deaths. I don't think that would work too well, but it might at least explain a bit as to why they suddenly made Ai a villain. To give Vrains some credit, Ai being the final villain isn't a terrible idea. I think it needed better setup and the writing is still pretty sloppy, but he may not end up being the worst final villain of a Yu-Gi-Oh! series. He's no Zarc by any means, but he does have personality and a personal connection to Yusaku, so he'll still be a step up from Don Thousand in that regard.
Not only do their storylines ultimately go nowhere, the characters just have so little impact on the plot. Aoi is just the token female lead. She got some token victories, but she is primarily used for angst and hyping up new characters for Yusaku to defeat. Her desire to become stronger in order to protect people is meaningless when she never gets a meaningful victory. Onizuka's character derailment subplot was especially pointless. He just reverted to his season one personality for his last duel of the series and we aren't going to see much, if any, of the result of his so called redemption. Spectre feels really pointless as a Lost Incident victim. They wanted to give more context for his relationship with Revolver, as well as possibly avoid having to create a new character as Earth's origin, but it just really didn't go anywhere. Making the cast full of AIs would have worked nicely with whole conflict between humans and AIs, but they probably still would have felt so pointless. They could have just made the series primarily about Yusaku, Revolver and introduce Takeru earlier, even though that would have probably changed too much of his backstory and season one in general. I have never seen a Yu-Gi-Oh! series care so little about most of its cast or be so against introducing new characters.
I'm still so happy about Vrains ending though. It is both amazing and pathetic to see that this series end in such a rushed manner. I've been meaning to start another Arc V rewatch. I love the series to pieces, but it can take awhile for me to rewatch anything. I may start it either before or after Vrains wraps up.
See I never ended up buying a Red-Eyes deck. At the time it came out I was on a hiatus from the game so I missed out on farming any gems I'd use on it and instead focused on packs. I mean I'm not surprised they didn't include a Jack and Carly love confession. Maybe if Carly wasn't coming back for more roaming events I could have seen it happening. Not having any time is also a possibility. Either way they really did drop the ball with no Yusei and Kiryu interaction. Yeah it didn't make much sense. Like it was confirmed as a virtual world where Kaiba revived Yami Marik so it's not like it had to be a world where Yugi and Yami Yugi still shared the same body and thus couldn't duel.
Yeah you're right, I forgot about the delay. And I mean if you take away all the flashback episodes we didn't need and the series would be what, 10 episodes shorter? I mean there's still a chance that they will pull that card when Yusaku defeats Ai (because of course he will) and Ai will say that was his true agenda all along, because as you said it would certainly fit with how they both felt and interacted together since season 2. It would at least give more depth to them instead of this route that shows it was better for Yusaku when he said Ai was just his hostage and didn't care about him.
You're right there. If anything we'll get the standard bits of peace. Everyone coming to again and seeing Varis who was with him, Zaizen waking up and Aoi crying as she hugs him, Onizuka being surrounded by the kids again, Emma and her brother deciding to live their life together, ect. Standard generic stuff probably. Valid point there. That's why the characters felt overall useless to me though, because all of their plots ultimately went nowhere. Aoi, Onizuka, and Spectre could have easily just been replaced by other AI and it wouldn't have even made a difference honestly. At least then it could have furthered the AI and human bit more.
It's fine, naturally you're entitled to be upset about people disliking what you loved so much. I think we've all been there before. At least you can be happy about Vrains ending regardless. To kill time until the new series we should go back and watch Arc-V together! Nah I'm just kidding, I wouldn't suggest that haha. But yeah that's cool that now you'll have an extra half hour to watch something you'd prefer more.