The DOWNFALL of Yuzu Hiragi - Yuzu DESERVED BETTER
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Time for another rant-style video! One of the duels that has always really bothered me was Yuzu VS Yuri at the end of the first season. I discuss why I believe the portrayal of Yuzu in that duel was horrific, and why it was basically the beginning of the end for her character. I hope you leave your own thoughts on Yuzu, and I hope you all enjoy!
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The DOWNFALL of Yuzu Hiragi - Yuzu DESERVED BETTER
Yuzu: I have the best character development
Yuri: I'm about to end this woman whole career
Oh shoot...
Agreed. Arc V tried juggling too many characters, and some just vanished off the face of the earth like Barrett and Roger. Others like Yuzu were used to make the plot go where the gang needed to go in the Fusion Arc, and that was it. Still better than the manga lol
I think really problem it had too many Characters/IDEAS, and not enough time. Serious dimensions travel, legacy characters, dimensions war, yu-boys/yu-girls counterparts, so on. It wasted precious episode time on one-off characters. Like quiz boy, cook boy, fisher dough, ritual gal, jungle boy, officer dough. Like did we really need see three stupid one-off duels in a row? Why introduce much only immediately ditch it.
Plus, hardly anyone use ARC-V Mechanism beside Yuya, Declan, Sylvia, Zarc. Three out the four hardly ever duel. Odd-Eyes doesn’t even get a pendulum up-grade.
@@ffjj3964 yu-girls? Literally only one of them had yu in their name.
@@mavalagma29 Out of curiosity, you got a better name?
@@mavalagma29 Out of curiosity, you got a better name?
@@ffjj3964 they go by bracelet girls.
Everyone in ARC V deserved better specially Yuzu
Keep ranting Dylan
Very true, hope you enjoy the video!!
@@YugiohEverything I did it was great. I want more rants
@@kaisuzugamori4173
No need to be an a-hole dude.
Alexis
Yuto deserved better
Well, here's my thoughts.
Yuzu's character was indeed ruined, I think we can all agree on that, but I wouldn't place the moment of demise on Yuri's duel.
Because to me, the problem wasn't that Yuzu became a damsel in distress against Yuri specifically, but that she continued to be one afterwards. She lost to Sergey, got captured by Roger, got brainwashed, all the while begging Yuya for help.
That's right, I think putting her in this miserable position (even though your idea of making basically the same thing, but dueling instead or fleeing is very good) could've actually been a pretty neat idea. Not only does it establish Yuri as a fearsome villain, it could have also been a great source for character development.
Picture this : Yuzu is starting to handle the Fusion Summon thanks to Sora and starts gaining confidence as she wins duels. But then, Yuri shows up, and challenges her to a duel. And everything crumbles apart. While Bloom Diva falls under the attack of Starving Venom, she not only realizes how much she only scrapped the surface of the Fusion Summoning's power, but also how truly evil and fearsome it actually is. She remembers Yuto's warning, and the combination of fear, shattered confidence and guilt makes her run away. She's about to get carded, but Yugo shows up and accidentally saves the day, just like in the original.
Now, in the Synchro Dimension. Yuzu knows Yuri is the one responsible for the abduction of Ruri and, thanks to Yugo telling her, Rin. Her fear of being his next target and using the evil Fusion Summoning again prevents her entirely from dueling. But Yugo, who believes more than anyone else in the fun that occurs during duels (and his dumb enthousiastic attitude) manages to make Yuzu slowly regain confidence.
And then Yuri shows up, once again. Yugo stands in to protect Yuzu, but her bracelet triggers, and he disappears. No one can save her now, and she has nowhere to run. She has to fight. Trembling, she picks up her Duel Disk, and swears that no matter what happens, she won't back down this time.
Well, Yuri can't really lose here, so she gets carded, but you get my idea. ^^"
(Heck, I even thought of Sora interfering here ! Yuzu being on the verge of getting killed would have given him a valid reason to betray Academia in the first place. Yeah, little rant of my own : I love how Sora explains to Yuya how he and Yuzu are his two first and only friends, but they did nothing of it !)
Turning a brave character into a coward against a specific opponent can lead to great things if handled correctly.
So my point is : Yuri's duel wasn't what killed Yuzu, it's everything that happened afterwards.
Awesome rewrite idea! I honestly think that in that alternative series of events, they could've given Yuri the L, or at least had them draw the 2nd time. It would've been a shock result, and would've been an incredible win for her character.
Also, just wanted to add that despite her less prominent role in the 2nd half of the Syncrho arc, I love that she still has some shining moments. Even after being cuffed and captured buy Roger, she headbutted him to the floor and later taunts him for running away from the Lancers. I lived for those moments, and because of them I thought there was a chance the writers would improve her character. No such luck though:(
Let's not forget that she got nerve gassed by some bulky officers while trying to save/protect Riley on for the roles to be reversed
Next: The Yoshida Syndrome explained!
can I get a small preview?
Don't think we can really do that without a deep-dive into his _other_ works; Yugioh isn't the only franchise he's worked on.
What is Yoshida syndrome?
@@ericgabrielalvesdecarvalho3496 Shin Yoshida has written for scattered episodes across every single Gallop-era show (except THIS one, ironically), has been the series composer for the final arcs of the first two shows and nearly ALL of the rest of the shows afterward (Zexal and Vrains being completely overseen by him), written the last two (completed) manga series based on a show, and has been a controversial figure for those who have watched multiple Yugioh series and recognize his tropes. He tends towards raw escalation of concept*, existentialism for humanity on the whole albeit leaning into the abstract without specific arguments, protagonist-worship, shallow mythological references with the Bible in particular coming up quite a bit, and the thing we like to crack about the most, his chronic overlooking of and inability to write nuance with women. And with how prevalent he's been thru-out the whole franchise, having his fingerprints on every era and clearly setting precedents other writers decided to follow, he's overall come off as way more of a detriment than a boon in the long run. _Especially_ on that last point.
* as best seen with the ridiculously huge numbers of Zexal, and the "save the entire world" trope being so very commonplace since the first arc he oversaw, the infamous filler arc "Waking the Dragons"
@@christopherb501 Well, Shin Yoshida isn't writing for Sevens either, but I get the point. Shin Yoshida was an important writer for much of the Studio Gallop series.
The funny thing is, without it, even Studio Gallop crashed in Arc-V.
I will forever be sad that they did this to my girl, they basically killed off one of the best girls yugioh could have had, even better than Aki and she was really well written, but nope, I don't know what crack they were smoking when they got to epsiode 47 but well, it kinda started the downfall of Arc-V, like if they kept up with her character and kept doing her good, might've actually saved Arc-V, or at least made the second half... not as bad as it was.
Sadness is what i felt watching the downfall of such characters with potential
I always was disappointed with every yu-gi-oh season being sexist to girls as a whole. It defeats the point of girls being badasses.
If you like, I could suggest trying Cardfight Vanguard. The girls there are total badasses who kick ass and have a very good W/L mostly. Even the side girls have some cool character arcs. I've stopped watching yu-gi-oh at times for that cause.
@@skullzfc And then there are the people who complain that Romin in Sevens has defeated Yuga and Roa.
Sometimes you wonder if the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom really wants a strong female character who is skilled in dueling.
@@brunosanto3488 I ltireally saw a comment saying Romin is now a Mary Sue lmao. Peoeplw will never be satisfied
@@matts5164 If we are serious, Yu-Gi-Oh has "Gary Sue" thank you Yusei and Yusaku.
We haven't had "Mary Sue" in Yu-Gi-Oh proper (I thought about putting Ray from Arc-V for coming out of nowhere and beating Z-arc, but she's not a character)
I put more blame on the guy in the synchro arc who used the earthbound like cards, when he knocked yuzu into the air he knocked all of her fighting spirit out of her, and not only yuzu, selena ruri and rin also were done extremly dirty at the end
One or the other. Either way, the writers sucked.
I completely agree with Dylan in this one
Yes, I’m not gonna argue that this “duel” ( if you want to call it like that) served as a great introduction to Yuri as this twisted and psychotic character to be Yuya’s dark mirror. No disagreement on that
But to see Yuzu running away crying so pathetically like that absolutely send me FUMING!
If something I know about every YGO main cast is that they’re no cowards. They never run away from a duel no matter how overmatched they are
And to see Yuzu, the supposed female lead of the anime, who up until this point has been presented to us as this brave, strong, independent girl running away and begging Yuya for help like some sort of fairy tail princess just angered me, especially because after this episode, Yuzu’s character development became worse and worse
Sure, I understand why Yuzu must be frightened. After all, Yuri is an absolute PSYCOPATH of a duelist, and for her to see this boy, this monster to have the face of her childhood friend must be pretty traumatic to her
But it JUST DOESN’T feel right for her character up until this point in the to just simply run away crying like that and at least not give some sort of fight!!
The creators completely messed Yuzu up when they pulled the ‘Damsel in Distress’ trap card on her in that specific episode
This is one of my main reasons I sometimes dislike ARC-V, despite being on of my favorite animes
Yuzu could have been a amazing girl character if she had more duels and was more involved in the plot 😔😧
Agreed, Yuzu could've been a good character if she was a good character.
Winning or losing duels doesn’t have anything to do with character Development, They’ll still be the same character, I think it’s just simps that are upset about something so meaningless and stupid.
@@DragonSlicer wrong
Totally agree
@@DragonSlicer Actually, as silly as it seems, wins and losses ARE relevant in yugioh. Duels are frequently used as backdrops and vehicles for character growth and development. Characters achieving big wins are memorable and key moments for them and can boost confidence. A protagonist losing often leads to a period of self-reflection and improvement, ultimately expanding on and improving their character. Duels are important to theplot, action, AND characters, of every yugioh series.
Aoi is a great girl, Yuzu does deserve better. The Writers should've done a better job of writing her growth.
Yuri’s introduction isn’t that bad. It doesn’t even ruin Yuzu’s introduction that bad. The funny part is that Yuri states that Yuzu lasted the longest of all the bracelet girls.
Why is it that Yugioh ALWAYS has such prominent female characters that hold so much potential, only to screw it all up in the end? Have a decent ad rather great start up, but then flubbing it at afterward?
We could have had Yuzu also learn the other summoning methods as well by traveling in the other dimensions, like learning Synchro and Xyz. However, Yuzu never goes beyond Fusions. In fact, rather than being brainwashed and such, she oughta have also been absorbing her counterparts or at least learning her role in this whole fiasco.
The fact of the matter is, Yuzu not being allowed to ascend any higher in her level of Dueling because they felt the need to make her a damsel in distress and become nothing more than Yuya's love interest.
Hey, at least Yuzu and Serena managed to shine at some point in Arc-V. Rin and Ruri were mostly walking plot devices without much interaction or personality.
Not to mention that Yuzu's rival (Masumi) stopped appearing and being important.
Rather than brainwashed it'll be good if Yuzu or/and the other bracelet girls be carded instead.
Then looking at them carded we would see more of berserk Yuto, Yuya, and Yugo dueled against Yuri who the one carded them in the first place.
Great video as always Dylan I 100% agree. That’s what I hated about Yuzu she became damsel in distress and since then her usefulness plummeted tremendously. I know people talk bad about Aoi from Vrains but at least there were a lot more episodes with her which is what I prefer ALOT more than Yuzu which is crazy cause Vrains is the shortest anime series
Real talk if they had her come back " normally" in time to beat zarc does anyone think it would have been worth it
For me, it wouldn't have after she's been used as a hostage for 3 times in a row and being left unable to duel for the rest of the final season. However having Yuzu, a character that was built up, to defeat the big bad as they are the reincarnations of their original counterparts, would've soften the blow.
I also believe there wouldn't be anyone to hate on the ending if the rest of the story focused on bringing back the rest of the counterparts back to life, one by one.
Oh yeah! The rage boost I need for my upcoming fanfic, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Shattered Soul, a rewrite of ARC-V with Yuzu as the protagonist and switching the roles of the Bracelet Girls and Yu-Boys.
Tell me more about it
@@lithety5599 You can take a look here lionheartking.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_ARC-V:_Shattered_Soul
@@ragingyuzu1891 I was really hoping the final duel of the series would be Yuya vs the evil inside of him, having to face down the eventually summoned corrupted forms of the dimension dragons that held the respective bracelet girls in their orbs as prisoners. Yuya would have to defeat the monsters to free them and join them to his side, where he could trade his turn to let one of them go. That would have been so cool to see, unfortunately, we got what we got, hell, Yuya doesn't even get a duel against a big bad. :/
I hate the ZARC duel so much.
Hey, pal. Skevanat here. How's it going?
@@skevanat Hey there, I didn't know you had a UA-cam account as well.
As long as Romin doesn't end up the same, regardless on how many times she might lose in the future, I'll be happy. Although I do believe she has more wins to look forward to as well.
Let's hope the best for Romin but even if she should get the bad treatment suddenly, she still has the biggest wins any main girl ever had.
It's the least that can be done at this point. I do hope for the best out of Romin. She's pretty cool as far as I'm concerned.
Pray for Romin and that the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom does not end up ruining her (See everything that caused her victory against Roa)
Although I am more worried about Asana than about Romin, I would say xD
The problem with Arc-V was they tired juggling so many characters and so many plots and tried to go in so may directions were all they had to is make a good Yu-Gi-Oh series
Def.. I think bringing in legacy characters to an already loaded cast ended up backfiring really badly
@@YugiohEverything Should have either stuck with said loaded cast, or going with the legacy to begin with and NOT introduce a bunch of new people. Oh well...
True. Yuzu, and Arc V in general, had so much wasted potential.
I definitely agree, I think Yuzu may have been the worst in terms of the treatment she got
@@YugiohEverything Yeah, she went from one of the best developed female protagonists of the series, to a damsel in distress. Sad.
YES! YES! YES! YES TO EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO!
Can you also do one about the bracelet girls or the academia arc?
Yuzu: I'll be best girl!!!!!
Yuri: How dum is she?!
Here's to hoping that the main girl characters of Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens don't just suddenly go to SHIT 💩 🙏🙏
Well, pray a lot since there are people who are complaining that Romin has a lot of prominence (For being the center of attention in 2 of 13 Episodes) and that he did not deserve his victory against Roa.
Of the female characters in Sevens, the most "protected" character is Asana, but only because of her status as Yuga's rival.
Sevens has so many good stuff for it's girl characters. Romin is my favorite character (the only one that I'm enjoying even more than Yuga so far) Mimi is number 3, and Tiger and Asana are both in the top 10. And those are just my favorites. Overall it just does a good job at acknowledging that females can be... Just as relevant as males. Who would've thought. XD
Yuzu got reduced to the "Damsel in distress troupe".
I don't know why, but a lot of anime suck at writing female characters. They are always the damsel in distress which somehow makes writers think that it's good writing.
When I watched Arc-V I never rooted for Yuya because he always had these weird monologue that made him seem like he had multiple personality(before I even knew he split into four people.) He would be super happy in one duel and becomes depressed the next. When Yuzu got transported into the Synchro Dimension, I thought she was going to learn Synchro(from Yugo's guidance) and slowly progressed into all summoning methods, but nope, only Yuya and Declan are allowed to use all summoning methods. Only male leads are allowed to develop and become better.
Day 1530 of waiting for Synchro and Xyz support for Melodious.
It's mostly a shonen thing since the target audience is young boys(though personally even as a young boy I wanted all character, gender irrelevant to be interesting if they could be, and even taking an hypothetic macho young man I doubt it's to the point they want to see them be bad. But mostly though I think it's just you write better the gender you are.Not all of them are like this though and you generally find at least one important girl char, if not an equal number to the guys(rare but not unknown)
Harems are their own kinds of worms, one I like but still one, so let's not go there
That being said yu-gi-oh in general is bad at this. It's not they don't exist or have no value, but the female character are always so wasted you can't believe it's a coincidence(which it isn't: the worse yu-gi-oh seasons about this have that one director who openly admitted he doesn't know how to write female characters)
@@namoma4922 They need to reevaluate their target audience then. I started noticing bad writing for female characters when Alexis in GX stopped dueling on screen in season 3.
A lot of anime that I have seen always want to focus on the main protagonists and no one else. I get it, it's about the life of the MC, but I like side-characters. In Arc-V, I wanted to know more about Yuto and the other bracelet girls(besides Yuzu). However, Yuya hogged the stoplight. Declan didn't even duel as much as he did.
@@namoma4922 I still don't get this. Why even have female characters when they are wasted? As Waifubait?
I also don't understand how that director can be such a scrub. If he has no idea how to write female characters, then he should just write them as genderless characters or tomboys. I'd rather have characters with a lacking spectrum interms of genderinteressts and identity, than to have an absolute tragidy of a script.
@@Snowberries17 They sure need to that's for sure. Bad writing is bad writing
I legit thought at one point this show took place in Miami, Florida.
Given how dumb it turns out, that would make FAR too much sense.
When I was watching Arc-V I at first didnt notice how early Yuzus last "duel" was ( 77 against Sergey, because the one against Security doesnt count for me). But after watching it multiple times, I was shocked. Shocked how bad she was treated, she didnt even get the brainwash "bonus" no she gets creepily touched by the Doctor, triggers Yuyas Berserk button.... and that it is. We can all agree Arc-V did their cast dirty (Way too many characters with way to little focus). But Yuzu or even all Bracelet Girls just got thrown aside as soon as the series was at around the half way point
Yeah. Yuzu's treatment is much worse once you rewatch Arc-v. A talented, skilled and charismatic girl thrown into the dust in favor of the classic Yu-Gi-Oh trope of female characters.
Yuzu and Serena are my faves in Arc-V!
My favorite sex fantasy in arc v
People joke about ANY other female characters being useless and just calling out for the hero, if I'm not mistaken Yuzu literally did nothing BUT call out Yuya's name for the entirety of the duel with Leo Akaba (and then some if I recall).
In my opinion yuzu should have won against Dennis because sense Dennis was hiding his spy states it would have brought yuzu character up and put are suspicious off of dennis
In the Arc-V section of his "Duel Results I Would Completely Change" video.
Our new hope is in Romin at this point. First female leadish character that won over male counterpart fair and square
Asana: Am I a joke to you?
But seriously, I hope the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom won't be sad if Romin ends up being relegated (After all, it was the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom itself that doesn't accept that Romin beat Yuga and Roa)
@@brunosanto3488 Fandom: Can we have a main girl who actually gets big wins and isn't mistreated?
Romin: *exists*
Fandom: Beating protag and a rival within 10 episodes? She's a mary sue!
Romin: *gets bad treatment later (maybe)*
Fandom: And they do it again... when will a main girl get good treatment through the whole show??
Seriously, sometimes I don't understand the ygo fandom. You get something and it's still not right.
@@mikai4738 Aki, Yuzu and Aoi to Romin: Don't worry. They will value you when the time is right (Either by hook or by crook)
Are you going to do a rant on the ending of arc v ?
(Me watching the video title)
As Grom Hellscream would say: FINALLY!
I think ARC-V and 5Ds arguably had the best written female characters (until SEVENS) which is a pretty low standard if you think about it, since neither Aki nor Yuzu were ever relevant to the plot after their original story lines ended in their respective season's first halves.
So in a way, I think Yuzu definitely had more potential to be a more relevant character in the last half of ARC-V, but she still remains one of the most well-written female duelists in the whole show.
Can you PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!do one with yuto, they could've done A LOT BETTER WITH YUTO'S CHARACTER. I can't help but to be infuriated how my favorite yuboy was handled
Yes a 100% agree. Yuzu vs Yuri was a bad idea. Yeah you make Yuri look again but what's the point if your going to disrespect your own female lead. Atleast let her put up a fight but no heaven forbid the female lead wins against a psycho.
I agree. But u could also say d same with tori that only dueled once throughout zexal and it was a loss
And then there are people who complain about Romin for having beaten the main character and one of his rivals.....
As good friend Bwonsamdi would say.
Bwonsamdi: Yuzu was sacrificed to make an already menacing villain much more menacing. What happened at Arc-V is a tragedy.
I think the complaint comes from the fact that Romin beat them within 9 episodes? It's still stupid to call her a mary sue or saying both were totally undeserved wins tho. (especially her duel with Roa was probably the best back and fourth after Neil vs Yuga r2)
@@mikai4738 Rather, the complaints come from the scale of power. In Yu-Gi-Oh, there is the bad tradition that the protagonist, the best friend and the main rival were the best duelists and could not be defeated (other than the protagonist, another rival or the main villain).
Sevens broke this. The protagonist and the supposed main rival were defeated by the main female character (Who is part of the main group). And many say that Romin shouldn't have won against them because she doesn't have a dueling ability or a powerful archetype.
@@brunosanto3488 The power scaling doesn't work with Sevens. Like you said they broke it there. People could argue all day long to say who's stronger than who. Like Yuga has the most duels and wins (ofc as the protag) but also the most losses. Rook's undefeated so far but except Yuga (and Romin off-screen), all his opponents weren't that strong. Roa was called the strongest duelist by Rook but he only has 2 wins (not even against main characters) and 2 losses. Neil must be pretty strong since he won a tournament at the age of 5 and this was when he hasn't had Yggdrago yet...
@@mikai4738 Anything that Nail says is something that Provenance would say (which Yuga has already proven wrong).
So I really wish Gakuto would destroy Yggdrago to see if Nail is as good as Goha makes him look.
Yuri really did turn her into a card with 0 attack and defense points, even more worthless than kuriboh
Would have been better off being turned into a cat.
An example of this kind of duel done right is Kaito vs. Yuma & Astral in there first meeting. Kaito outplays them both at every single turn and similar to Yuzu vs Yuri, they were completely outmatched, and similarly they only were saved because something changed the status quo at the very end. That played up Kaito as a powerful foe while not degrading the characters that were already built. Unfortunately writing good villains is not easy and aside from Yami Marik & Bakura, Kaito and I guess Kiru yugioh has had a consistent problem with writing good villains.
Pegasus? Yubel? Nasch? Ai? Nothing good about any of them? Okay...
I’m not saying that there’s nothing good about the rest of them, I’m saying they just weren’t written as well those that I listed.
Serena and all the dimensional counterparts deserved way better
Nah Yuzu did way more tbh.
Yeah but Serena is better
@@ZarctheCelestialDuelist I see you everywhere man
@@Its.just.preston. Hi Preston
I remember loving their rivalry. You pretty much summed up ARC-V's problems. It had so much potential that ended up being wasted. They gave us a taste of the finest wine and then when we had that taste still lingering in our mouths, nothing but water.
Also, as always thanks for the video, Dyl!
I would argue her duel with Sergey was worse for her character for two reasons
Her Duel to Yuri solidifies how much of a threat he is since up to that point no matter how much the odds were stacked against her and no matter how impossible it looks to win she doesn't back down
that is until Yuri shows up, Yuzu has been shown time and time again to stand her ground and be very stubborn so by breaking her will to fight it shows that Yuri is not to be messed with, not only that but she saw him card two people she had trouble beating earlier and without breaking a sweat, she knows that carding is the same as killing so to her losing to Yuri isn't just "oh shucks I'll beat you next time" it's "THERE WON'T BE A NEXT TIME" plus Yuri is a predator looking for his prey that whole scene, and she's like 14 who really wants to die that young
the second reason is during the Sergey fight she's being played with and downright disrespected, yes she's never ridden a duel runner before but they also added action cards which are new to the synchro dimension, and the end of the duel she is flung into a building and after that never duels again and is relegated to damsel in distress the rest of the show
sorry for the long rant, but to me Yuri wouldn't be so loved if he wasn't introduced as such a threat so early otherwise Yuri would have like 4 duels, before losing to Yuya and while they would all be wins it wouldn't show off his cruelty and imposingness until the Yuya fight where he mocks Yuya's dad to taunt him
Yuri specifically said he wouldn't card her, bc he would be scolded cause at that point he was trying to follow the Professor's orders to get the girls to him
Also she did ride a Duel Runner before her duel with Sergey but I agree with your opinion on that duel
@@nicolasrey8773 well i meant more that they were all new to duel runners the way synchro was new to action cards, one was the others specialty
@@sdbzfan1 ahh ok then
Like with Aoi's duels in Vrains, I don't the specific "events" (Yuzu being scared witless, running from Yuri, etc.) aren't necessarily the problem, it was how they were portrayed: none of them had any idea what was coming, the abruptness of it would have thrown Yuzu off even further, that she was doing so well before Academia showed up would magnify any feelings of helplessness, and Yuri is pretty much the scariest character in the show, apart from the Doktor (and the Doktor is not a factor at that point).
I agree, they REALLY overdid the damsel in distress bit, but I think that the distress part was mostly warranted. Her running away all night was probably like with how Shun and Sora's duel was supposed to have gone roughly that long as well--the chronological structure of the Battle Royale presents a lot of problems.
P.S. I am NOT making excuses, I hate what they did, I believe understanding why they did what they did better equips me to correct that with my own stuff.
@@EthanKironus8067 to me the issue was never losing the duels, but what came after, yuzu wasnt a damsel, she was always striving to be better not just for yuya but for her fathers school
Agency is something yuzu had more then most if not all yugioh girls next to akiza as what they wanted for themselves wasnt aproval from the main guy but their own goals also related to dueling
During synchro i dont blame yuzu for as much until sergey because she is new to everything, she has to follow yugo around and we know yugo wont let anything happen to her, after that duel her lines can be boiled down to "yuya" over and over which is so sad, aoi's problem was not that she never won but that she was always disrespected in her duels it felt like the show was laughing at her
I honestly cant tell who had it worse between the two of them
We can kinda make the case that Serena is the main girl and Jack Atlas the rival of the protagonist. ARC-V was weird in that regard.
In that case, it's not like Serena got a good deal at Arc-V either. Well, she was great when she was controlled by the parasite (You could see that she could have been a convincing Sora-style villain)
All dudes in the game are the main rivals that's how it actually feels
I guess Reiji is Zane the op duelist that isn’t a main character
i don't agree, at all. While Serena was probably meant to replace Yuzu for the Synchro Dimension arc, she actually did nothing most of time. While Yuzu had some amazing onscreen duels and was originally meant to be one of the Lancers, Serena just "happened" to be there, had a onscreen duel against Dennis (but he wasn't even trying) and finally she was clapped by Obelisk Force at the end of season 1. In season 2 she literally had only 1 Onscreen duel in which she appeared to be super strong just because the duel was rigged in her favour and when she stopped cheating she instantly lost. Her last onscreen duel is the one vs Yuya and she was clapped as well while being helped by Ruri.
In the meanwhile, Yuzu still kept the plot going, had way better duels and she actually showed growth (especially in the first season).
I was reviewing the arcV man, I was shipping Yuya and Serena, they got kinda more interesting relationship each other, yuzu kinda was the sister the. I recall the end of the manga what a weird thing
When you think about it Yuzu's character is just like Arc V it's self great in the beginning then it just nosedives after that.
Ahaha, that's true 😂
I actually think her character became better over time, just like the show itself, up until the last season, where she becomes entirely irrelevant to the story/being used as a plot device.
Here a little game, you all can play
Question 1: What you know about Ray?
Question 2: What backstory Ray have?
Question 3: What girls on Arc V had some kind of superation or development (not counting yuzu)
Imagine Dylan making a video about the absolute joke of a villain that was Leo Akaba... That's would be a JOY to watch 😂😂
Oh hell yes please that would be great and hilarious ad the same time
Do an entire rant on arc v ending and it will last at least 2 hour video
Indeed. A rant on the final season of Arc V would be quite thrilling as well.
Damn. I've had completely erased that Zero-Turn-Kill with his own cards from my memories up until now
I can't imagine that he wouldn't be in the top 3 of a "Worst Villains" list. _No way_ you're finding multiple villains worse than HIM.
Yeah, she became a damsel in distress and only was able to scream "Yuya!" for help
Yeah. Because Yuya is the big hero, big strong d, protagonist.
Just like Kairi she too was a damsel in distress in her own timeline always wanting the main character to come and save her.😅
all the girls that made Ray, the best duelist, are worse than all Yu-boys. So embarrassing.
And unlike O’Brain (Axel in the dub) from GX during the Supreme King Arc. Who also ran away in fear due to the Supreme King power, dominating and menacing personality. Despite him being the hardest of the bunch, like Yuzu USED to be.
The difference here is how we, the audience are shown how powerful the Supreme King can be. Whereas with Yuri, we had to wait over 100 episode, nearly 80 episodes after his debut, just to see an actual, full length, duel with him and thus, get a actual gauge on how strong he is. All the while we are mostly told how menacing he can be.
Plus: he didn't actually run away _during_ a duel. He just saw his best friend get killed by their mutual friend, and ran from seeing what the latter had really become. Most people might have in that situation. _And_ he still voluntarily went back to deal with him soon after. Yuzu certainly never got that chance.
And supreme king in one episode shown why he is Evil
All the Bracelet girls got utterly wasted and dunked on more than Weasel by Yugi, all four of them deserved so much more
Yeah.
Yuzu and Serena got hella wasted potential.
Who the fuck was Rin
And Ruri was literally about to get rescued, but was mind controlled and dead.
They don’t deserve more.
They deserve so much more screen time so that we could get more into them as characters
I've been saying it: even _this_ result, as a moment, _could_ have worked, if we SAW how Yuzu could have been so thoroughly rattled. If we saw (or more likely were to infer) a Predaplant ripping a real person apart, or Yuri describes tortures Academia puts POWs thru with graphic detail and sadistic glee, or SOMETHING, I could buy that Yuzu is the same character and was so horrified by Yuri to the point of trauma. Do that, and we _see_ her deal with the results of said trauma, for better or worse, and it could have still been worked into a satisfying character arc, even with this moment at the front end. As is, it's lazy writing to force things into this point, and insulting that THIS was the best they could think to do with her.
Yuzu character should have been handed way better. I really thought that she a chance to be a great female character in Yu-Gi-Oh. She had a lot of potential and they runied her at the end
The way Yuzu was portrayed in her ill-fated duel with Yuri really left a black eye on her personality. The show painfully made her an afterthought from that moment, all the way to the end.
While you are right to an extent, I wouldn't blame it on the Yuri duel. All that really did was solidify how terrifying Yuri is, as he broke the spirit of such a strong and independent character like Yuzu. After that, she has plenty of great moments and character wins. Even when Roger/Roget cuffs captures her, she headbutts him to the floor and taunts him for running away from the Lancers. It's quite a while after that before her character starts falling apart.
9:40 This made me remember Tea's duel against the penguin guy(forgot his name😅) from Noah's arc in DM. In the sub, she wanted Yugi/Yami to save her, but she was fighting well on her own, which was very impressive to me when I first watched it. I wish they could have Yuzu's duel against Yuri in a similar way, but we didn't get that😔
Just do one for each girl pre-SEVENS, Dyl lol
Alexis and Aki are missing as the main female characters with potential and who were wasted.
I haven't seen Arc V, but from what I know, the show completely halts Yuzu's character development.
Although Aki disappointingly doesn't get nearly as many big moments as she deserved post Dark Signers, the show doesn't forget that she has a character arc to complete. Even though her development isn't done via dueling nearly as much as in both the Fortune Cup and Dark Signers Arc, she still grows and has a great sendoff at the end of the show along with the rest of the main cast.
So it sounds like it's not nearly as bad as what happened to Yuzu. Doesn't mean that it can't be disappointing, but I'm still just glad that it wasn't as bad as it could be.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 That's why 5D's is the best. All of Team 5D's gets satisfying closures. It makes sense since Aki and Ruka didn't have the dream of becoming duel king or anything of that sort so their story doesn't have to revolve around dueling.
@@azfarabdullah9638 Yeah, Aki's main character arc was getting a hold over her uncontrollable powers and learning to connect with people through her friendship with Yusei and the others, and she achieved both of those by the end of it.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 the problem I always had with the way Aki's character was handled was the fact that her powers just....disappeared mid-show? And she somehow was perfectly fine with that? I didn't really buy that at all. To me, it felt like a waste of all the development she had in the first season where it took her solong to finally accept her powers and control them. And then they just suddenly disappear? That was so odd to me. They did eventually come back, but at that point it felt almost pointless.
Yuzu deserved to be the third most important duelist after Yuya and Reiji. She could have learnt all the summoning methods, but they had to turn her into a damsel in distress. I mean, even her outfit during the final arc screams useless, since it looks like something Kotori, the most annoying crybaby in the universe, would wear! Shame on you, Studio Gallop! At least Studio Bridge does an awesome job with the girls.
Exactly, I think that if Konami or Shin Yoshida can ever reboot Arc V, I can imagine her being the female version of Joey Wheeler
Could have been the closest thing to an actual female protagonist only to be treated so terribly. And this is without Yoshida involved(animewise of course). With how the OCG is making more cards for different characters, I still hold out hope that one day she’ll finally get her own Synchro, XYZ and Pendulum(don’t know why they gave her Link).
The real problem is that she never overcomes that fear. The show just forgets about this moment and about Yuzu as a whole. But i disagree in that this takes out the good writing that they did for the character, in fact it could have been pretty good for her development, they needed to make her do something to overcome the trauma of the event so that it never happens again. But yeah the problem is, not only they didn't do that, but they completely stopped the writing of this character.
Basically, they forgot. They forgot Yuzu the same way they did Rin, Ruri and Serena (And the Gem-Knight girl)
Some things i would change in Arc-V:
1. Give Yuri a character that acts as his voice of reason, but is not always present so Yuri still does some of the messed up stuff he does throughout the anime
2. Make Yuzu win Sergey, but her D-Wheel "fails" (sabotage) and she falls into the building
3. Make Yuzu run away from Yuri in their first duel out of fear, but then make her Duel Yuri instead of Yusho for a second time, and then, instead of running, she faces him because she is tired
4. Instead of unifying the 4 girls and making Rey duel Zarc, make Yuzu duel Zarc while trying to make the 4 boys remember who they are as separate people, making them separate from Zarc, with Yuri being the only one that does not know himself, but Yuzu makes him want to learn
5. Add Vector as a legacy duelist and part of a group that supports the fusion dimension.
At this point you make a convincing argument that Yu-gi-oh! Might be a sexist franchise but then again, every competition anime predominantly targets a male audience because males consistently play games longer than females do.
The only thing I would remotely disagree with is that Masami could’ve been more underutilized than Yuzu was. At least Serena seemed to be a replacement for Yuzu for the latter half of the series. Masami wasn’t even used ever again after losing to Yuzu.
In feminist literature studies they call this "fridging", which is a reference to a movie where the main girl gets murdered and stuffed in to a fridge to upset the main protagonist. It fucking sucks, and it always has. Using female characters as plot devices for the male characters rather than letting them be characters that stand on their own is a massive problem in anime.
Yuzu actually definitely 10000000% deserved better and the rest of the Bracelet Girls.
Agreed, I thought Serena was probably the best treated, but even she deserved more closure at the end
@@YugiohEverything Definitely. Rin and Ruri definitely deserved better since they didn’t duel much and an arc to themselves.
@@rainbowdragon168 More than duels, Rin and Ruri need to interact with more characters and develop their personalities (Not just being kidnapped or brainwashed)
We know more about Sushiko and Ranze's interactions and personalities than we do about Rin and Ruri.
@@brunosanto3488 Yeah
We know about Zarc but about Ray? What we know?
The only other moment I could think of is when Axel Brodie ran away from the Supreme King in fear. But even THAT was predicated by him watching SK absolutely destroy Jim without hesitation and was forced to stare down his intense dark aura.
But even then Axel went back to confront the Supreme King.Yuzu never had that chance
Yuzu was a really great character for me, and yea when she dueled Yuri everything went wrong for her development like the writers just forgot that her development arc did not exist, but in the synchro dimension, especially in the friendship games it got a bit better, there were some moments were kinda weird but some quite good, for me at least....my favorite part of her dueling was how she was better than Yuya in some other way, well except in Yuri duel.....but.... Can I just say that Yuzu development wasn't the worst, I think that Reira had much worse development, I don't know I just don't like him especially in the end, it got annoying to see him in the screen time, though his duel with Reiji was a good turn of events....but I still think that he deserved how should I put it...being not so important? Heck in the finale where they fight Zarc....instead of Reira showing in it could have been Yuzu who battled him and show her development as a dullest....that's my opinion though
that was a long comment
Zarc was using Yuya’s body maybe the bracelet girls could’ve transformed to Ray maybe have Reira absorb them and she basically becomes Reira
Simp
I'm gonna step in and say that I don't think that this was the point that Yuzu was effectively killed off. When you say that "you sacrificed the legitimacy of Yuzu to make Yuri look better," you are excessively overstating this one loss, especially because, in my mind, the fan voices in the chat are right. This was a scene to establish who and what Yuri is: a serial killer. He is a sadistic predator that gets a twisted kick out of seeing people squirm. Given how his character is portrayed, it would actually make more sense to interpret the "you evaded me for the whole night," line as him saying "I've had my fun of chasing you around, so it's time I ended this duel."
There is also one other point about your interpretation of Yuzu's character at this point in the story that bothers me. She isn't a valkyrie. She had little confidence in herself going into this tournament - looking to prove to herself that she had what it took to help her dad's school, and become a great duelist in her own right. By her and the show's own admission, she wasn't anywhere near top tier at this point amongst the main cast. So the idea that a greenhorn duelist like her is going up against someone who is beyond graduate level, is a foregone conclusion at that point. And on top of that, let the girl be scared. As we have already established, Yuri is a rank sociopath and low-key axe murderer, and the way Academia duels is ruthless. So while it's a tad undignified, I don't think the idea of Yuzu being scared for her life against him should be interpreted as a character assassination moment, just a matter of her realizing that she met the absolute worst person at the absolute worst time.
Coming back from the fight with Yuri, Yuzu also still had some good moments with her character. Probably the highlight of her time on the show was her duel with Chojiro in the friendship cup, where she did her debut as an entertainment duelist. It was a well-earned victory, on top of being a great show to watch, especially because of how expertly she handled an opponent that the show had already established the credentials of. We also get to see her act more independently, as she had to navigate the show for a bit thinking that she was on her own, and had to get stronger to survive. Then, she redoubled her need to get better when she wanted to cheer Yuya up, which worked doubly well for her, because it showed her in the best possible light for her arc, as someone going out to perform for the sake of making others smile and feel better. This was, in my mind, the peak of her character, and it was well after she hit her lowest moment, as it often does.
I would say a better argument would be that the duel with Sergei was where the downfall began. The duel was an incredibly cruel affair toward the end, much like the meeting with Yuri, with the exception that she was nearly killed in the process this time. From the point she was launched off the side of that road into the building, Yuzu was effectively rendered null as a character. Her only other duel was the sort of thing with Sora and the chasers, and she was pretty much kidnapped or in holding the rest of the time after that. With that in mind, the little she actually did of her own volition, and the minimum growth from this point onward, I submit that the duel with Sergei was the downfall of Yuzu's character, not the one with Yuri.
Fairly made points.
While I may admit I didn't like the part where Yuzu begged to be saved and could've been left not saying the line at all, I do agree with your perspective, the duel with Sergey really did felt like the downfall. To me, the final part of that duel was way too over the top. And from then on, she got tied down by the plot in the worst possible way in comparison to the post-Yuri duel where she was given a chance to befriend Yugo and was given another fun duel.
I'm fine with that. But if that _is_ the case, then we need to SEE it. _We_ need to see whatever it was that Yuzu experienced, even if it was merely a threat, even if it was something he did to someone else, etc., to be satisfied in this overall turn. We need to have _some_ idea of what traumatized her so, not simply infer narrative ambiguity.
While I do agree, I think the story was trying to give some narrative queues without exactly giving up the ghost on his deck too early. The best example is how his fellow students:
1. Refer to him as “lord” Yuri and
2. Are absolutely pants-wittingly scared of him, to the point where one guy panics at the thought that Yuri may have been deployed because they were taking too long.
If the villains are scared of this guy, then by narrative logic, he must be something frightening, or something like that.
Not the best exude, but I do recognize the effort there.
Honestly, one of the biggest things that sorta pissed me off with Arc-V were the fact that there were 4 Yu-Boys and 4 Bracelet-Girl Characters! That's alot of Characters to Put into these series along with the fact that there are Multiple Dimensions for each! That in and Of itself never Should've happened when this series was being produced. Not only did it harm the Narrative, there's not even a Good Explanation other than ZARC and Ray.
It also Grinded my Gears that Arc-V decided to Throw in Past Yugioh Characters once they Started Dimension Hopping, even though there was Never Any Assurance of that when we were in the Standard Dimension! I guess it was for that Legacy Support! And Yet sadly characters like Joey, Mai, Duke Devlin, Rebecca, the Paradox Brothers, or Even Friggin "Bakura" were never shown in Standard to give us that Surprise Cameo and hint at that! I'm sure People/Fans of Yugioh would've started making Threats about that. But if they had been in the Series at the start it would've lessened the Amount "New Characters" shoved into anime.
But on a Negative note, it also ruins alot of the Newer Characters shown! What's the Point of even adding Most of them Like the You Show Trio: (fatkid) Futoshi, Ayu & Tatsuya, or Isao Kachidoki (Iggy), the Ninja Twins (Hikage & Tsukikage), OR freaking Yū Sakuragi (Kev Ravenwood in the Dub), all of them who I consider almost to be practically pointless since they don't have Enough character or even a full Background to be so Heavily focused on in the anime. Though Tsukikage obviously had proven more than useful with his skills, but I still don't consider him a full-on character, at least he got Development compared to the rest I listed, especially out of Literally 74 Characters that Popped up out of the Standard Dimension Alone! I get your suppose to have filler characters that serve a purpose. But when you have THIS many characters added, you need to cut back. Only about 20 of them were ever relevant, and sadly this is only Standard World! Synchro, XYZs, & and Fusion World have their own cast, and Its just as undercooked! But also have a Ton of Characters on their own! Had we not spent so much time in both Standard & Synchro, this all could've been Handles so much better!
A Detailed, Planned out, and Executed Plot (to Me) are more important than running through a Whole Rogues Gallery of Who's Who Characters with no Future in any of the events the main characters are to be involved in! If you don't have a plot going before the 10th ep rolls around, than How am I to be invested!?
Apparently they had this whole show planned out but DSODs development and existence hindered that plan as half the staff were moved to work on DSOD during Synchro
@@aozorahaou2643
Really now. Well that makes sense, but doesn’t excuse the lack of polish. Still If this was a Studio Mandate, then it obviously affected the Overall quality of the Show and would’ve lead to how it turned out.
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Also, what The Hell is DSOD!?
@@danielramsey6141 Dark Side Of Dimensions
Honestly, I actually think the way the show was going actually made the counterparts nessesary. The issue is that they wanted to explore everything too deeply, so we explored jack all outside of syncro in the end(I mean, let's compare that to GX. It clearly knew that exploring the other 11 dimensions it had in lore was just impossible, so it limits itself to two and one of them is also relagated to the function of a place the characters want to flee from asap.)
And well, that they also never actually banked on the counterpart-concept. There straight up are no other dimensional counterparts besides these people and even they have a backstory that makes them explicitly not a part of the world they live in(Which sucks).
I think the "damsel in distress' moment against Yuri would've been a lot better if Yuzu was able to overcome her fear and pose a credible threat to Yuri in a later rematch. I don't think a strong character getting "humiliated" is a necessarily a bad thing, but it would make more sense if that character was able to learn and grow from that experience. Unfortunately, the writers left Yuzu in the dust after that as you pointed out - which just sours what could've been a catalyst for later character development.
It's a good thing they learned from their mistake and didn't write the _next_ female lead to be dynamic and interesting only to take a painful, humiliating loss to the resident laughing psycho, and _never_ get comeuppance for it, right??? [/s]
It's funny that the part about the strong duelist being "humiliated" and learning to be better was best executed in Sevens. You have Romin losing to Sushiko (A minor character) using a strategy that counters Romin's strategy. Sushiko then tells her that she must improve her strategy so as not to fall into these situations. Romin listened her and improved her strategy: being able to defeat Yuga and Roa.
However, now they say that Romin is a 'Mary Sue' because he beat Yuga and Roa when this was because she had a "humiliation" and had character growth...
I never thought I would be disappointed on my birthday. They really shoud've done something better with Yuzu's character
Happy birthday and yes...yuzu character was destroyed
I'm so sorry
Let's be honest here.Every single character in Arc-V deserved better in some way
Sadly you're not wrong.
I think the anime was more ambitious than really needed
Yeah, Arc V treated its characters so bad in the final season that I cannot for the life of me put a top 10 list for for more than 6 characters. And I don't even have the Bracelet girls or half of the Yu boys.
@@YuzuMelodious literaly the anime Just was rushed but wasnt the rush fault, in one tweet of yugioh Studio, say that the final would be the same
Arc-V is so bad I want the main writer to apologize publicly. It's a pity considering how good it was and they even have good seiyuus in their arsenal.
The Yuri Yuzu Duel would be more forgivable if they DID SOMETHING WITH HER AFTER THIS.
A Yu-Gi-Oh! female lead character done dirty and pushed to the sidelines? Why, there's no way that could EVER happen!
Why is it so hard to just... You know, give a female character moments? Does being a girl really change that much? Hopefully Sevens doesn't do this to Romin, because her past two duels have both been incredible moments for her and her character.
hard to believe considering Yuzu and the other dimensional girls suppose to be the elite duelist that that can beat Zarc. But when they split, they all are worth than every Yu-boy.
@@M3rtyville Well. If we go to his dueling ability:
Yuzu has the same dueling ability as Yuya.
Serena was trained in an academy destined to declare war on the dimensions.
Rin managed to surpass Yugo in skill.
Ruri is talented.
In this order: Serena> Yuzu> Rin> Ruri
Women in yugioh deserve better
Sevens really does female characters right Studio Bridge really makes sure all characters have their chance to Shine and get consistent character arcs and growth while the old studio was only focused on the Male leads
Yeah sevens had handled there girls better than any of the Gallop YGOs
@@YugiohEverything Let's just hope it won't change with the next arcs.
I think it was okay to have Yuzu be afraid because of the circumstances. Also, running a swarm tactic deck is counterintuitive against Yuri's predaplants since it is just adding fuel to polys.
It would have ruined the suspense of Yuri's true fusion skills if we saw him stomp Yuzu onscreen, and we already saw Yuzu be stomped by a fusion specialist before. A bit of a lose-lose.
Still, I hard agree she should have had a more prominent duel presence latet on in the show. Her interactions in the synchro arc were great and I loved seeing her friendship with yugo. Shame arc V had like a million characters
A female Yugioh character getting bad treatment? Well that’s new
Also, notice how all these rants are from either Arc-V or Vrains, really goes to show the state of the anime for the past 6 years
It's true, but that doesn't mean that Zexal hasn't had his problems with female characters (I'm looking at Kotori and Rio)
Arc V and Vrains were the dark age for the Yugioh anime :(
Season 1 of Arc V is great tho and I pretend that Arc V had only 51 episodes LOL
@@brunosanto3488 Rio, maybe. But with Kotori it was safe to guess that she had negative potential after the first season or so meaning that while a terrible character you can really complain cause she never had any standards to drop from
I feel like the same could be said about 5ds as well as all of their female character's lost their relevance after the dark signers arc.
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It just became a Yusei, Crow and Jack show in the end.
Poor Aki and Leo :(
Has anyone here read Arc-V: Bonds of Pendulum? It's a very good rewrite of the later half of the series.
In fact I did. I may not have finished the last chunk after the Zarc duel but I was sure quite pleased. Even if I had an idea of where the twists were gonna go I gasped a few times.
I read that fanfic already and i'm done with it it was fun to read
I already did, and it was a fun ride, I'm about to give it a third reading.
@@ragingyuzu1891 cool i love you profile picture berserk yuzu
@@Medinacrystalheart thank you
I like Arc-V a lot, but there's a lot of glaring flaws in the execution of the series that could be improved very easily!
I see one of the glaring executions is how the Dimension Dragons were handled.
Definitely agree with that!
I accepted Arc-V even with its flaws for what it is: *What if Yu-Gi-Oh did a Kamen Rider Decade season?*
Manga however I'm not defending.
The synchro dimension was the downfall of ARC-V. I really didn't understand bringing back Crow and Jack to that extent. They almost have bigger roles in ARC-V than 5D's. All that came at the cost of actual ARC-V characters (e.g. Yuzu, Serena, Sora, even Yugo and Rin who were supposed to be the "main characters" of the synchro dimension) having good duels and character arcs after the start of the synchro dimension arc. The writers really destroyed the integrity of the series by relying on nostalgia and other previous shows.
With how much they were pushed, ya gotta wonder how 5D's would have turned out had Yoshida not oriented the egregious focus on Yusei instead...
That's Sadly the Major reason I think Everyone got pissed/Excited. The Return of Old Characters. I won't Lie, we managed to get a Few, though it really Surprises me that Kite was the Only one to make a Full-on Return in the XYZs Dimension.
But yeah, I think the Return of the Old Fan Favorites took away from the New Cast of Characters that came from Standard. I won't lie, it was an exciting change of pace, but it was Never Established back in Standard Dimension that there was anyone running around! Seriously, I get why Seto Kaiba and Yugi weren't around, since Yuya and Reiji were their Stand-ins! But if you asked me, they could've surprised us with even a Cameo from Mai Valentine, Joey, Duke Devlin (Ryuji), Rebecca, or even the Paradox Brothers! Hell, even Bakura and Pegasus are Fan-Favorites!
I'm glad Asuka/Alexis from GX made a return along with Aster/Edo Phoenix! Two Characters That I adored! But yeah, I feel that these characters and the rather Botched Execution after Episode 46 killed the series! It could've been saved had they planned to have these Guest Characters from the start!
@@danielramsey6141 It's okay to have cameos, but they literally gave ARC-V characters' moments to Jake Atlas and Crow. Like when Yuzu lost to Sergey only for Jake to destroy him an episode later. And the final for that cup should have been Yugo or Yuzu vs Yuya, not Jack vs Yuya. It undermines the actual ARC-V characters and turns them into side characters. The only "old characters" I liked were Alexis and Aster. Their roles were executed well; they pop in 1 or 2 duels to help the main characters out, but they don't steal their thunder.
@@mazsquared6676 That last sentence makes me wonder why they didn't bring back Chazz for a Meta-gag of him stealing the thunder of another character on something.
Without memes tho, it's a mixed bag. If they are only cameos, then bringing back old characters makes no sense, but then again, they probably only did it to make the dimensions more authentic. Considering at least 80% of the issues having nothing to do with the legacy characters tho, I don't think them having too much of a presence was ever the real issue anyways.
Can you please make a video about the moments in Yugioh where 4Kids didn't censor a specific part or duel. Like for example. Yugi vs Jonouchi in Domino Pier where the one who loses will drown into the ocean.
Something I think they should have done with Yuzu is have her master every summoning method just like Yuya did. My reason is because she was the main body for Ray just like Yuya was for Zarc. Ray exists to counter Zarc so however strong Zarc(Yuya) got Ray(Yuzu) should have gotten just as strong.
An even better Idea would've been to have one of the Bracelet Girls Fuse back Into Themselves either through Yuzu or Selena, that way there could've been a way to continue the Interactions and Give the Girls some form of Contact to the Boy(s) they share a connection with. Kinda like how Yuya and Yuga fused together.
Day 1526 of waiting for Melodious Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum.
Yugo could have taught her Synchro and maybe when she goes to the Yusho School in Fusion Dimension, Yusho can teach her XYZ
Here is how showing us how powerful Yuri is and also not sacrificing Yuzu’s character should’ve gone
Yuri and Yuzu are dueling (Yuzu duels competently) and as the duel comes to an end
Yuri: you put up a good fight but sadly you don’t know how to truly use Fusion Summoning and as such it’s time to end this charade, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon annihilate her life points
Yuzu: loses her life points
Yuri: tries to card her, then teleports away as Yugo appears and then resume the scene from the show
They did the same to rin and ruri they deserved better T_T
Poor Rin Rin
Not her fault Yuri was so powerful he kicked gx and zexal at once without trying. Even beat MCs dad and only lost when yuya dualed him.
Yuzu like most females in Yu-Gi-Oh are handled poorly in the later parts of the series as they either get less screentime or less of a role as the story goes on.
I believe Rin is the 5D's girl, don't recall Yuri and Serena ever interacted at all.
@@thatman666 i meant in general as he beat Alexis aster kaito yuyas dad and Rin in the flashback with yuzu offscreen. So he go to every world at least one victory.
Honestly Yuri should have been the final bad guy we he did so much work being dangerous and actually winning.
@@ivanbluecool okay, that's what you were saying.
@@thatman666 yeah but in general Yuri is an amazing duelist that can do a lot without needing much power from an outside source.
Yuri's character would have been better if he was cutting her off every attempt, instead of just slow walking around. It isn't shown why Yuzu is afraid either. Just big purple dragon.
Her next win is with Sora at the end, even though she just had to sit still too. She also stopped berserk Yuya from beating Leo because Reiji would have lost? Bah. Wasted potential the anime.
If that Venom Dragon was on an Egyptian God Card level I could see regular people cowering.
But they aren't backed by nearly the same significance.
If Yuri played Verte Anaconda I could see some cowering too. That card is bonkers.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Good thing Link Monsters weren't a thing back then.
Yugioh just seems to hate female lead characters in general.
Sevens seems to be on a good road to actually not make that mistake with Romin.
I mess this ranting series
Arc V in general was way too ambitious for its own good. Too much wasted potential, a bajillion characters with zero growth, etc...
Everyone was done dirty in Arc V really, not just Yuzu. I think Ruri and Rin were worse because they were just brainwash fodder and nothing else.
Bakugan Mechtanium Surge was even better than this train wreck really, but by a small margin.
Even Yuri was ruined at the end by suddenly becoming a nice guy out of nowhere after getting defeated and living inside Yuya. It would have been interesting to see how Yuya and the others would have dealt with a psycopath becoming a part of them, but no. Yuri's good now! I guess...he has friends, or something?
@@pietrocatalano4285 Yeah I know. How that happened is literally inconceivable. To give GX some credit, Edo was a "rival" or villian to Jaden then worked with him because there it was reasonable and explained somewhat. Yuri in general was a lackluster character really.
I don’t understand what problems Yu-Gi-Oh! writers have, like in my early childhood I watched a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Beyblade anime, and on Beyblade (metal fusion trilogy) they did such a great job with the characters. I feel always in Yu-Gi-Oh! they forget many characters, in Beyblade metal fusion and masters they had two big final championships and they were executed perfectly, we knew the villains and their power, this gave them the opportunity to be developed, have some wins, make we hate them and they give as well the protagonist some L’s to the main bad guy. This makes we know how powerful they are and such a threat they are. In Yu-Gi-Oh! we never see this, we never see the mais bad guys get wins, the protagonist never looses, so what is the real threat? They had such opportunities with championships like in 5ds (which is one of the best overall), but they didn’t showed us a single match of the bad guys (team new world I think) until the very end when they lost to the protagonists. In Beyblade this way all characters have personality and development, the villains are good and the protagonist gets the win, who watched metal fusion we knew how powerful Ryuga were getting to the last battle, in Yu-Gi-Oh! we never know how really powerful some characters are, so when they try to make this they end up leaving some characters behind like Zuzu (Yuzu), or some others, they get forgotten. I choose to compare with Beyblade because like I said I watched both, they are both like a big advertisement for a toy and are in anime style.
Well, that's a Yu-Gi-Oh problem since its inception: there are several characters that end up being irrelevant or filler at best.
The secondary characters that tend to stand out from the rest is because: their archetype is great, made a good impression, or are only relevant to part of the plot. The other characters are forgotten (Even popular minor characters stop showing up from time to time and are not mentioned)
And well, if it is already difficult for a main female character to stand out, imagine what happens with the secondary female characters.
Reminds me of how Duke just literally had no reason to be in the battle city arc of the original, except beat up a few goons upon his appearance. The anime actually bothered to give him a bit of relevance by putting him into the digital world arc(Thankfully), but it's still a major example of this flaw in Yu Gi Oh. In my opinion, characters should just not stick around if they have nothing to contribute.
I guess this is what they call "jumping the shark". Or was it something else? In any case, Yuzu was completely wasted in the show, which hurts especially because she was my favourite girl lead character in all of YGO up until she met Yuri. In fact, her earlier character arc still keeps her pretty high in my favourite list, but DAMN did the writers screw her over. She slowly started devolving more and more into a plot device. Though that didn't deminish how much I liked her character. Which is why it hurt so much to see her being treated and wasted like that. Yuzu was another step into the right direction after Aki, but they just HAD to fEFFk it up.
I agree that Yuzu's treatment later was more horrible than Aoi's overall. Sure, Aoi got brainwashed, put into a coma, got a faceplant after losing to Spectre... but she was at least still dueling in the last season and didn't wish for Yusaku, Akira or someone else saving her. I have no idea why the writers thought it's great to have Yuzu no duels for the last 65 episodes of Arc-V. And Yuzu's downfall really hurts more than Aoi's because Yuzu had her highs (duel-wise and character development) while there was a bit of character development for Aoi but duel-wise, nothing really there worth to mention tbh.
Doubly stings with the manga treatment to boot.
Oh Dylan don’t worry in the manga she became the mother of her crush
But let’s be honest Things were worse for Aoi Aizen
Alexis Rhodes
Aki from 5Ds.
@@davidwhidden9337 Well Aki is fantastic in the first season of 5ds
@@abdullahamr9941 Only in the 1st
Actually Dylan when Yuma faced Trey, Trey kinda erased the memories of Yuma and Yuma started acting like a coward, but thankfully Astral kept helping him
more like Trey erasing the kattobingu aspect from Yuma
Yuzu it was one of my favorite girl characters I'm glad that a lot of the series focused on her a lot more than past female protagonist in Yu-Gi-Oh but they should have given her more wins yeah cuz she was a Target they should have given her more duels to to fight and have more victories under her belt, they made her to dance on the stressed bait and just a love interest it didn't go anywhere I know Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't focus on that as much but still I let down which is why I quit watching Yu-Gi-Oh altogether.
Wow during your aoi zaizen deserved better i wrote a comment on how zuzu deserved better and now this video came out
I agree. Yuzu is such a great character in Arc-V and she deserved way better in it.
Great vid Dylan. Agreed, Yuzu's character development went downhill after her encounter with Yuri. Heck, all the Bracelet Girls could have been done better.
I agree!!!!!!
By the way Jasmine and Mindy acted like Yuzu/Zuzu was with Yuri
Because they were so scared of Maître Dinner(D) so much that they hugged each other and said they can't beat a pro
In the Pro-dueling episode in Season 2
Isn't it embarrassing that these dimensional girls suppose to rival the dimensional boys since Ray beat Zarc, but even the best of them can't beat a Yu-boy without being psychologically manipulating the other.
Yuya defeated 2 of them solo. And we know Yuri didn't lose to anyone before Yuya.
I don't know whether to call that inconsistency or weakness towards women. Anyway, Yuzu can be told that she rivals Yuya. Serena is skilled but she is far from having the same dueling skills as Yuri. Rin seems to have the same ability as Yugo (And I daresay she is better than him). Lastly, Yuto is superior to Ruri by far (And Ruri is the worst duelist of the 4 bracelet girls)
I feel like you make this video with every arc v character
Top 6 Arc-V Characters that deserve a Rant?
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I vote for Serena, Yuri, Shingo, Yuya and maybe Leo Akaba and Zarc but I argue the last two can't be talked about that much without talking about both simultaneously.
@@YuzuMelodious Basically, Shun, Yuto and the female characters (That includes the Tyler Sisters and the Gem-Knights girl)
@@brunosanto3488 Here are my 6 topics that deserve a rant:
Zarc and Ray
Leo Akaba and all of the underwhelming villains
Yuri and Serena connection
Egao/Yuya
Yuto and Yugo's treatment
Bracelet girls treatment (All of them)
The thing I find the most perplexing is that despite how much they screwed Yuzu over in the anime, she’s still better than she is in the Arc-V manga
You also forgot that she was about to duel 2 times in the fusion dimension but Alexis took her place which is kinda sad
Yeah that bugged me. Yuzu still had Sora's duel disk and given that she and Sora dueled against the Security fellas, she still had her Melodious cards to use in the Fusion dimension and yet the writing didn't bother to let her duel. I almost forgot she was going to duel again when she a Yugo were surrounded by Academia until Yuya showed up with Kachidoki there to have their second duel, leaving Yuzu, Shingo and Gogenzaka to just watch the duel.
Arc V and Vrains had so much potential to be better its not even funny....