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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Well I must say, this is entertaining. OP song showed a lot of action sequences, various new monsters, and the main characters. So far, I think Yuusaku is actually a cool MC. Setting takes mostly at a school academy so far so I think a lot of the events this season will take place there. Loved the bit of chess references from this episode. Technology in this show seems to be pretty advanced considering the way their city is run. I think some antagonists were introduced as well? Hope to know more about them. I think this show has a lot of potential tbh. Yuusaku's "transformation" is kinda dope. |
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| HOLY CRAP This episode was absolutely amazing. The animation looked beautiful, The opening was fantastic, the series starts right in the story, and the voice acting was so top notch. Honestly the hype was well worth the wait. In fact I went out of my way to watch a live stream of this episode just because I was that excited. I can't wait to re watch the episode when a better quality episode comes out. + The storyline and setting was dark + The character designs and animation was amazing. + Revolver in the first episode was also awesome to see. Anyways I better shut up. I'm rambling too much here because of my pure hype for this series. |
| They butchered the ending song(((But outside of that, the art and music was really good, and we also got a huge plot bombardment, which is a nice surprise, considering what YGO 1st eps tend to be(looking at you Arc-V). Also lol at Ignis, he's definetly my favorite in this(at least until Ema finally takes action). 10/10 would watch again with subs. P.S. So we have an antagonist with chess motifs and a dragon burning everybody to (virtual) death. Where have I seen this before... P.S.S And speaking of Arc-V,we saw Zoodiacs and Lswarms in the TV in the same way as in Yuya vs Strong match,so other Extra Deck monsters have a chance to appear. Yay for variety and more blackwings. |
ChainekJanMay 10, 2017 3:37 AM
ncky1988 said: Can i start watching this without having watched the previous series? (except the first series when i was younger) yup, just dive in fam ;) |
| Which sub group is handling this? W/o nyaa, I'm blind. Nothing on anidex currently. |
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mutsuto said: Which sub group is handling this? W/o nyaa, I'm blind. Nothing on anidex currently. Monosubs said that he will start subbing the moment the raw is out.Usually takes at least a day. There's also NAC, but they're a bit slower(48 hours) And,finally,PoS.Dont know whether they have plans to sub vrains or not ,but if they do, expect the subs to be out in the nearest 6 hours |
ChainekJan said: mutsuto said: Which sub group is handling this? W/o nyaa, I'm blind. Nothing on anidex currently. Monosubs said that he will start subbing the moment the raw is out.Usually takes at least a day. There's also NAC, but they're a bit slower(48 hours) And,finally,PoS.Dont know whether they have plans to sub vrains or not ,but if they do, expect the subs to be out in the nearest 6 hours I can be patient as a cucumber if it means better translations, presentation and timing. I'll happily wait weeks. I don't need sacrificing quality for being an early adopter. Which group do you think I should go for? edit: or is it a wait and see [or wait, and ask again here] situation? |
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mutsuto said: ChainekJan said: Monosubs said that he will start subbing the moment the raw is out.Usually takes at least a day. There's also NAC, but they're a bit slower(48 hours) And,finally,PoS.Dont know whether they have plans to sub vrains or not ,but if they do, expect the subs to be out in the nearest 6 hours I can be patient as a cucumber if it means better translations, presentation and timing. I'll happily wait weeks. I don't need sacrificing quality for being an early adopter. Which group do you think I should go for? edit: or is it a wait and see [or wait, and ask again here] situation? I mostly watch it raw and then read the script,so I'm not the best advisor. As far as I know though, both Mono and NAC do a very good job, but the former prefers to use TCG names/termins and doesn't have a clear schedule,sometimes falling behind an ep.On the other hand, I've never seen NAC's subs at sites like kissanime or gogo, so maybe they aren't really mainstream.But both of them are high-quality imo. |
ChainekJan said: mutsuto said: I can be patient as a cucumber if it means better translations, presentation and timing. I'll happily wait weeks. I don't need sacrificing quality for being an early adopter. Which group do you think I should go for? edit: or is it a wait and see [or wait, and ask again here] situation? I mostly watch it raw and then read the script,so I'm not the best advisor. As far as I know though, both Mono and NAC do a very good job, but the former prefers to use TCG names/termins and doesn't have a clear schedule,sometimes falling behind an ep.On the other hand, I've never seen NAC's subs at sites like kissanime or gogo, so maybe they aren't really mainstream.But both of them are high-quality imo. I've been out of the game for a long time, Mono uses TCG naming scheme, is that the japanese or american distribution of the card game? |
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mutsuto said: ChainekJan said: I mostly watch it raw and then read the script,so I'm not the best advisor. As far as I know though, both Mono and NAC do a very good job, but the former prefers to use TCG names/termins and doesn't have a clear schedule,sometimes falling behind an ep.On the other hand, I've never seen NAC's subs at sites like kissanime or gogo, so maybe they aren't really mainstream.But both of them are high-quality imo. I've been out of the game for a long time, Mono uses TCG naming scheme, is that the japanese or american distribution of the card game? American.Japanese is OCG. |
ChainekJan said: mutsuto said: I've been out of the game for a long time, Mono uses TCG naming scheme, is that the japanese or american distribution of the card game? American.Japanese is OCG. That explains why I has difficulty googling an answer "TCG vs CCG yugioh" |
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| There is so much potential already I hope this doesn't fail. I think I'll wait a year or so to fully watch this though like I did with Arc-V. Watching Yu-Gi-Oh weekly sucks. I love that Yusaku is like Yusei, but with a little more personality. And by little I do mean real little lol. It's still enough for me. I love that he has a silly companion too. It's like Yuma and Astral with opposite personalities. Also starting to wonder if this series is tossing aside the usual rival main character. It's not as obvious with this one and if it's Go then I may be disappointed (again, like with Arc-V). |
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| THIS WAS SO FUCKING GOOD YU-GI-OH IS SAVED |
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| So far so good now let's just hope they don't ruin it. Still not a fan of the character designs but they really haven't gotten any better after 5D's. not a fan of the talking dual disk I like the whole one eye thing but damn does that look like a toy (yes I'm aware it's a selling point) at least it's not a cg dual disk. |
| they focused on the story for the first episode instead of wanting to start with a duel, at least as a start was stronger first episode than its predecessors. |
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Monochrome said: pre relrelease material seems to day the egyptian as fuck looking guy is yusaku's rival.There is so much potential already I hope this doesn't fail. I think I'll wait a year or so to fully watch this though like I did with Arc-V. Watching Yu-Gi-Oh weekly sucks. I love that Yusaku is like Yusei, but with a little more personality. And by little I do mean real little lol. It's still enough for me. I love that he has a silly companion too. It's like Yuma and Astral with opposite personalities. Also starting to wonder if this series is tossing aside the usual rival main character. It's not as obvious with this one and if it's Go then I may be disappointed (again, like with Arc-V). |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| Duel Art Online is HERE BOIS GRAB THE WIND PLAYMAKER !!! |
| It looks cool, the MC is interesting. |
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SkyDrop said: The most coolest thing that confirmed me to continue to watch is that the Main Character, who looks really cool! god bless duel links for giving us that playmate and sleeves even if its just for promo character designs are so good |
| I was really looking forward to this and I wasn't disappointed. That was very exciting and definitely makes me want to watch more. Those knights were savage, they erased any innocent person they ran into too. Yuusaku had a great plan their taking Ignis for himself, looking forward to next time to see his dueling in action. Both opening and ending were pretty good. |
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| No duel? Not even a glimpse of a new LP counter? :( Amazing episode tho, sooo action-packed! Looks like Yusaku is not enjoying duels, hope his new surfboard will bring him egao... or not lol |
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| INTO THE VRAINS! I loved Episode 1. I liked Playmaker's and Ignil's wits. Playmaker is like Joesph Joestar as a duelist. I can imagine him going aginst Revolver and saying "Your next move will be..."/"Next, you'll play..." And then Revolver does the move/play, followed by "Damn you, Playmaker! Was this part of your hacks too?!". |
| Pretty neat. I like Yusaku quite a bit, and his friend who runs the hotdog stand seems just as chill. While I liked Yuya, its nice to have a more laid back protagonist this time around similar to that of Yusei. |
| I wasn't really impressed to be honest, the episode kinda lacked focus, there were too many characters that didn't need to be introduced so early, Yuusaku's flashback was pointless since nothing was explained or hinted in it, his conversation with his classmate was weird, and the animation is not as good as Arc-V's, something's off with the way the characters move. Complaints aside though, I like Yuusaku's character, his voice acting is great! I don't know why I actually thought he was gonna get a more feminine voice (like Johan's). Also, those villains look interesting, I'm curious to see what kind of decks they use, and if they're gonna use a common archetype (like how Academia duelists used Ancient Gears in Arc-V). That scene when the dragon was burning people to death, lol it seems like they're gonna use the idea of the virtual world as an excuse to show dark stuff like that, I like it! |
| HOLY! DID MATURE STUFF FINALLY INTO YU GI OH ANIME!? and NO DUEL for first episode this really new so killed by them = account deleted? |
| Into the Internet! |
| I'm deeply disappointed. As an anime watcher and as a TCG player. I had no great expectations about this because I really disliked the new rules that came with Link Summon, but I tought the anime would be entertaining... Yet, we got an edgy cool badass main character, like Yusei, and he's my least favorite mc... I really hope someday we get more charismatic mc's like Judai was. I'm not fond of the Speed Duels either, they feel awkward as Riding Duels, I hope they don't do stupid drama in middle of the duels like "oh no, he's gonna fall from his hoverboard thingy!"... I really tried to like this as much as I liked Arc-V (well, at least its first 50 episodes or so), but it seems unlikely. Hopefully we'll get the next series without gimmicky duels like Zexal was |
| It' already 10/10 material from the first episode. It take Arc-V 7 episode for it to be hot but in only one episode VRAINS manage to outstrip all other series. Seriously I just think that Konami learn from all of their mistake and pour their all into VRAINS. |
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| bruh this gives 5D's Vibes Great start ir8 8/8/ M8. |
| i'm trying to watch all prior yugioh series before watching vrains (a hard thing to do, considering i'm only 40 episodes into duel monsters!!! :'D) but looking at all these positive impressions is making me so happy. i'm glad vrains seems to be living up to the hype |
| Great start. Hoping this ends up better than the last 2 which were pretty disappointing. I`m curious if the Speed Duels are going to be based off of the real life version or end up being it's own thing. Not a big fan of it but maybe VRAINS will change my mind on it. |
| I really loved the first episode. The duel hasn't begun yet, but that's just hyping me up for the next episode. The MC seems to a pretty serious character, I needed this. I'm actually pretty excited to watch this new version of Yu-gi-oh. I quit during Zexal2 and didn't want to watch ARC-V, so it feels nice to come back to some Yu-gi-oh. |
| Good start. I liked the focus on the plot and our MC is decent for me so far. I'm getting the vibe that this is some kind of Digimon x Yugioh hybrid with the whole battle and stakes in the virtual world. The monitors being destroyed because of the damage in the Virtual World seemed a little odd but from I'm guessing it was some kind of surge? I haven't seen Yugioh since 5D's so I'm hoping I can understand the duels well enough since I'm not familiar with the more recent summoning mechanics. I was told that VRAINS isn't related to Arc-V and Zexal so I'm guessing I won't have a problem. Speed duels eh? While I much prefer the classic styled duels like in the original and GX, I suppose this could be interesting as well. |
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| Well, I like the main character already. The previous two didn't managed to. Though I dropped Arc V after the first episode but I watched Zexal until the second half. I like the virtual reality concept, there's a lot they can do with that. Hologram is so 2000s. I wonder what speed duel is like, I heard the new format changed the field a lot. |
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| The first episode was actually good. A lot better than the BS Zexal and the joke Arc-V anime. Looking forward to the next episode |
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| I didn't expect much after how bad Arc-V ended up being but this was actually really great =o I'm already super impressed with Yusaku because not only is he cool, calm and collected, but his analytical mindset and hacking skills EASILY makes him the most intelligent protagonist in the entire franchise, and I LOVE that Other than that, they did a nice job with the world building and especially when explaining the new mechanics in this series which btw are pretty neat and an interesting advancement for Duel Monsters (It's pretty fitting how you no longer have to physically own cards too) This really gave me a 5DS type of feel, so I'm hoping that this will not disappoint and actually live up to how great that and the previous series before it was....Also, seeing Yusaku transform and enter the Vrain World like that really reminded me of the Megaman Battle Network anime so that was pretty cool P.S. It's nice to have a MC with a lot of bass in his voice |
TokoyaMay 10, 2017 11:59 PM
| Arc-V had better characters. There is no one I can look forward to in VRAINS atm, design and personality-wise. Aoi is so overdesigned it hurts and I'll never get any cutesy feeling from that cluster. Shame it must be her and not Ema who is the main girl. I prefer colorful environments to the edgy city feeling they're aiming at. Can't understand the hype myself, considering not even a duel happened yet. But of course, "anything that's super mature is super cool!" I thought that mentality was long dead by 2017. All in all, the beginning was nothing special and didn't impress me. |
XeogranMay 11, 2017 2:22 AM
| Weakness is a sin! |
| I won't get my hope up, since they managed to butcher massive potential like Arc-V. |
| 2B or not 2B? |
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