I feel like my world is complete after watching this masterpiece. Yu-gi-oh is a lifestyle for me and I have never seen something that makes more sense than this and after reading all of the mangas this makes so much sense on why there isn't a VRains one and why Yusaku is literally my favorite protag
A little extra thing. This is something that gets lost in the dub, the way Aigami makes people disappear in the movie; your own existence in this dimension is defined by your links with other people, if someone doesn't know about anyone and no one knows about that someone then he would go into a lower plane of reality, Aigami has the power to break that links artificially. He is also trying to discover how to use the cube to canalize those links and ascend to a higher plane of existence (that's what Kaiba does at the end of the movie). And at the end of Vrains they say Link Vrains may now be connected to other realities and dimensions. I like to think that Vrains is a Ritual Dimenson, but not Arc V's ritual dimension, just another world with its own timeline (including the manga and DSOD). It conflicts less with the 4 shards of Zarc and all of that.
I don't see how the existence of a Ritual Dimension conflicts with Zarc being split into 4. I can see Ray having intentionally separated Ritual Summoning from the other dimensions out of fear that a Zarc fragment could end up learning Ritual Summoning and repeating history.
@@zojirushi1 I can believe that, which gives me the amusing idea of Kaiba stepping out the portal to duel Pharaoh and he's just like "who the **** are you?"
I just started watching some of this guys videos and he actually mentions that same theory at the end one of his videos . I think it was "why ritual summoning isn't used anymore".
I always liked the idea that Vrains is a disconnected "Ritual Dimension" or is on a timeline connected to the orginal Yugioh DM manga branched off from the anime timeline thanks to Darkseid of Dimensions. I'm just not exactly sure if that includes the other Yugioh mangas. I know most people don't like a large number of timeline branches but I prefer to think while the GX-Zexal manga's do take place in a timeline of the orginal Yugioh manga, the Darkside of Dimensions movie is another timeline split that eventually leads to the Vrains we see. (ArcV Manga's final boss and her legacy monsters make its placement more difficult for me personally) Mainly because if Kaiba already invented a much more advanced form of dueldisk shortly after the end of DM wouldn't it go to say by GX that technology would be more available.
It could be said that Kaiba never returned from the souls world and, Mokuba, being Kaiba's successor, has banned that technology as he maybe felt that it was too dangerous considering and went back to developing normal duel disk instead. Or it could be because Seto Kaiba does what Seto Kaiba do best and did not share any means or method of creating or using said tech before disappearing to fight Atem while the one that left behind are unable to figure how exactly that technology works.
not necessarily, for all we know that tech could of taken years to release to the public or only released gradually, if you think in terms of all the advancements in tech over time you can see that it slowly went to that reality but they weren't able to cross the physical barrier of the card even in vrains somewhat, there are still physical decks around. something tells me that people didn't want to move from the physical copies so physical copies continued to be printed and had fun with but can still be dueled with in a virtual world. this also explains how the duel disks got slightly more advanced and compact over time. my main question is how does vrains look less realistic then zexal and why the ritual monster revival other then rituals are not stopped by links? it just seems something weird to bring back other then the actual irl game said "hey, remember ritual cards and how we completely forgot about them? maybe its time we give them more limelight?" like just imagine that board meeting.
I do find a lot of validity in this theory. In addition to the idea that the Ritual dimension is a continued story of DM with its own GX story, 5Ds story, and Zexal story, continuing on to a world where Zarc never came to power, this would also explain why there are no pendulum monsters in Vrains.
Well pendulum monsters were still developed in the Arc-V manga, it’s more likely that most of the duelists just simply didn’t see any pendulum monsters that fit with their decks or that, much like they were made to be used for in the manga, pendulum cards are only used for entertainment purposes
There was even that episode where Yusaku brought his old duel disk to school which resembles the duel disk in battle city. In addition if you look at the tcg, both Black Luster Soldier and Relinquished who were originally ritual monsters got link retrains.
I believe Yugioh Everything said the same thing too, especially given the fact that the sky in DSOD during Kaiba's duel disk demonstration to the public looks the same as the sky in the VRAINS.
The eye of horus that apears at the begining of the first vrains intro now makes a lot more sense, it was extremely odd when you look at wrains in isolation
That one symbol fooled me for the entirety of the Vrains anime runtime that the Millenium items might make some sort of appearance again. I was so pissed when they never did
Ritual summons was actually gonna be the main Summon mechanic for the og duelist kingdom arc but it was changed last minute, black luster soldier was gonna be Yugis main ace monster.
Honestly, at first when I click on the video I didn't believe that you could have an explanation that Vrains IS the "Ritual Dimension". But it's a really good theory that I now believe and makes sense because if you think about it, Vrains don't have "Pendulums". Because as you said, Zarc was never got there.
I'm sold on the Ritual-Link connection, though I think it's more sensible for it to be an offshoot of the standard timeline as a result of Kaiba's traveling to the past at the end of DSOD to duel the Pharaoh. Without Kaiba in the present, Kaiba Corp was bought out by what eventually became Sol Tech, who developed Synchro and XYZ summoning WITHOUT their connected energy purposes as Kaiba wasn't alive to be the madlad to come up with using children's card games as an energy source. This explains how Synchro and XYZ summoning can exist without the advanced technology that their energy enabled.
@@JazzyWaffles Whether or not he travels to the afterlife or the past, we see Kaiba's body disintegrating like it did during the duel with Aigami/Zorc, which would suggest that this was a one-way trip and that Kaiba was unable to maintain himself in that dimension. Leaving him absent in his own timeline for Sol Tech to take over...
@@dungbeo9902 (apologies in advance for the long answer) So I've looked around for the post having seen pictures of the art you describe (which looks awesome), and I can't find the original instagram post made by takahashi. An english fan tumblr translates the caption at length, with a point made about how the image respresents a 'possible' future, but I've seen another fan tumblr that shows a screen cap that translates a much shorter text. Based on that, it's possible that Kaiba's pure will power allowed him to survive and return, but it's just as likely he did not. kazuki-yugioh-en.tumblr.com/post/152294876810/an-illustration-of-a-future-tidbit-of-the-movies aminotvxq.tumblr.com/post/152289290177/dsod-spoiler-note-the-story-of-persephone A way to make sense of this would be to suggest that there is a takahashi timeline which goes Manga then DSOD followed by the future depicted in his art. But there could also then be a Vrains timeline which goes Manga then DSOD and then Vrains, in which Kaiba never returns and history proceeds as I had suggested. There's no telling how many different stories Konami could create following from this premise (though I hope we get one where Yugi, Judai, Yusei, Yuma, Yuya and Yusaku get to team up ala Bonds Beyond Time).
Kaiba: “I’m stuck here? Well that sucks. Is there anything else to do besides dueling?” Yugi: “Your blue eyes white dragon became a Waifu card.” Kaiba: “So?” Yugi: “it’s simping for you! You gotta thrust the card! Remember what I have told you, Kaiba.”
Interesting connection between Vrains and DSoD. I was thinking that the height of ritual summoning was around Pharaoh Atem’s rule over Ancient Egypt. Without Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz energy; those summoning methods would have been harder to achieve leading to what we know as Master Rules 4 becoming standard once those methods were discovered. It wasn’t until later that Link Summoning was discovered that they were able to circumvent this limitation.
Wow, best theory i've seen in a long time. If Kaiba somehow made his own "Duel Links" in the manga, then that could explain how we ended up with Link Vrains and Speed Duels in the future.
Which in theory pulls in Duel Links as it's crossing point from DSOD and Vrains. Be a crossroad in the middle. Once DSOD ended Kaiba could've created Yu-gi-oh Duel Links as technology advancing it paved way for Vrains to be born in VR/simulation. In that theory DSOD is basically a precursor of events that transpired as it own timeline. Explains how SolTech managed to get the new duel Disks from DSOD into Vrains, they bought out KaibaCorp and inherited the technology they we're working on probably another head scratch Kaiba has died (given how many years have passed by) and in order to get out. Probably sold KC to them as part of liquidation of Kaiba's Properties he had no heirs and business partners we're left with only exit strategy.
@@kintsuki99 I disagree. The groundwork was already. This is why blue-eyes spirit dragon and azure eyes exist. Yusei went back in time and used his duel disk to link to yugis duel disk with Jaden. Causing jaden to win the Neo-spacian contest that created his cards and yuseis synchro summoning to be analyzed with his duel against paradox. In dark side of dimensions kaiba's "security tech shows him everything." Also of course kaiba would be invested malefic blue-eyes white dragon was used in the duel. Damn right he watched the duel.
I was watching your "Why no one uses ritual summoning" video, and your mentioning of the Numeron Code crash landing on earth got me thinking: When Playmaker summons Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, it shows a substance striking the surface of a barren planet and bringing forth life, and I believe the summoning chant says something to that effect. Could there be a connection here, or at least similar origins of dueling-and life- in these universes? EDIT: I realized that the VERY SET in which Darkfluid was released may allude to this theory by it's own name: Chaos Impact!
@@jonathangeorge3789 I don`t think that counts since it is part of the offshot series for Odd-Eyes Dragon, the one receiving ritual energy. We have Odd-Eyes Dragon for tribute summon, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon for xyz, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon for synchro, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon for fusion and Odd-Eyes Pendullum Dragon for pendullum. Excluding Odd- Eyes Dragon, who represents standart dimension, all the others have their advanced summoning method in their name. Odd-Eyes Dragon is the one of the first ever pendullum cards and was the representative for it, even though it is just a offshot of Odd-Eyes Dragon and shouldn't count because of that pendullum cards in the anime are normal monsters that receive the pendullum energy from Z-arc soul fragment so I think it counts.
Maybe something among the lines of ''Ancient magic ritual dragon'' for ritual summoning, ''Modern connector link dragon'' for links and ''New way maximum dragon'' for maximum summoning...
Hmm, not sure why I was thinking Night Flare Ritual Dragon, night maybe because traditionally it’s a blue color and flare can be for the fire usually around rituals… huh just thought of a possible name for a link dragon:Chain Signal Link Dragon
It's a good theory, just a couple holes with this: In Arc V, the world got split up based on Z-arc's ace monsters. which was an effect monster, fusion monster, synchro monster, and xyz monster, resulting in the standard, fusion, synchro, and xyz dimensions. In order for there to be a ritual dimension, there would need to be a ritual Dimension Dragon. The different worlds also know nothing of each other's summoning methods, such as the Synchro Dimension not knowing what a Xyz monster is. However we see ARC V Alexis using a ritual summoning deck, while Vrains has multiple uses of Synchro, Fusion and Xyz summoning The manga part of the theory is also very good, but with one hole: The arc v manga has pendulum summoning, which is a summoning method Z-arc invented, meanwhile Vrains clearly has no pendulum monsters as Z-arc never existed in the Vrains world, if it really was a continuation of the Manga, people would know and implement pendulum summoning I had an idea: What if the Vrains universe was an alternative universe where Z-one destroyed the Momentum energy generator? Momentum was the main source of energy for not only the vast technology, but also synchro summoning. At the end of 5ds, Yusei used a power source he found in space, which is suspected to be the cause of Xyz summoning, since they're creatures born from antimatter from a black hole. Then Arc V happens, the universe rips in 4 cause of Z-Arc, etc. In this alternative, if Momentum was destroyed, synchro summoning would also be destroyed, which also means Xyz monsters don't form. In Vrains you need a link monster so that multiple synchro, xyz or fusion monster can be summoned, in other words, the Xyz, Fusion, and Synchro energy aren't strong enough to be independent anymore, they needed to rely on Link monster energy. It also explains why in Arc V and Zexal, people could just build the overlay network by themselves when they had 2 or more monsters of the same level. Same with Synchro in Arc V and 5ds. But when an Synchro and Xyz summon was performed in the Vrains universe, some sort of machine was used to build the overlay network or align the tuner monsters with the normal monsters. After Z-one destroyed momentum energy, Synchro and Xyz were too weak to be summoned on their own, so people invented Link Summoning and relied on Link energy to sustain extra deck summonings. Unlike Arc V, Zexal, and 5ds where the energy source provided by Yusei and Momentum was enough for these summoning methods to be completely independent. Momentum energy is also what caused such a great technological progression in the Yugioh universe, but if Z-one destroyed it, it would make sense the world would revolt back to an age and appearance we're more familiar with today. However the knowledge they gained while Momentum was still active was kept, which is how they were able to build such an advanced VR system. Also explains why Pendulum summoning is not real in this universe, or why the knowledge of Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz is not restricted amongst everyone, since in this timeline, Z-arc never rose to power using his 4 dimension dragons (this new ruling would make it so at most, Z-arc could have 2 dimension dragons on the field at the same time, since speed duels have 3 normal, 1 extra deck monster zone, and he wouldn't have been able to sustain the dimension dragon's strength with their energies being so weak), so the world was never ripped into 4.
@@akiradkcn I had an idea: What if the Vrains universe was an alternative universe where Z-one destroyed the Momentum energy generator? Momentum was the main source of energy for not only the vast technology, but also synchro summoning. At the end of 5ds, Yusei used a power source he found in space, which is suspected to be the cause of Xyz summoning, since they're creatures born from antimatter from a black hole. Then Arc V happens, the universe rips in 4 cause of Z-Arc, etc. In this alternative, if Momentum was destroyed, synchro summoning would also be destroyed, which also means Xyz monsters don't form. In Vrains you need a link monster so that multiple synchro, xyz or fusion monster can be summoned, in other words, the Xyz, Fusion, and Synchro energy aren't strong enough to be independent anymore, they needed to rely on Link monster energy. It also explains why in Arc V and Zexal, people could just build the overlay network by themselves when they had 2 or more monsters of the same level. Same with Synchro in Arc V and 5ds. But when an Synchro and Xyz summon was performed in the Vrains universe, some sort of machine was used to build the overlay network or align the tuner monsters with the normal monsters. After Z-one destroyed momentum energy, Synchro and Xyz were too weak to be summoned on their own, so people invented Link Summoning and relied on Link energy to sustain extra deck summonings. Unlike Arc V, Zexal, and 5ds where the energy source provided by Yusei and Momentum was enough for these summoning methods to be completely independent. Momentum energy is also what caused such a great technological progression in the Yugioh universe, but if Z-one destroyed it, it would make sense the world would revolt back to an age and appearance we're more familiar with today. However the knowledge they gained while Momentum was still active was kept, which is how they were able to build such an advanced VR system. Also explains why Pendulum summoning is not real in this universe, or why the knowledge of Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz is not restricted amongst everyone, since in this timeline, Z-arc never rose to power using his 4 dimension dragons (this new ruling would make it so at most, Z-arc could have 2 dimension dragons on the field at the same time, since speed duels have 3 normal, 1 extra deck monster zone, and he wouldn't have been able to sustain the dimension dragon's strength with their energies being so weak), so the world was never ripped into 4.
You seriously just blew my mind. My jaw dropped when that final point came into play. I seriously need a breather. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for your Yugioh timeline theory. I sincerely hope you consider my previously proposed theory that Yuma is the great grandson of Yusei and Akiza. I actually have another bit of evidence for this theory that I find particularly interesting. Yusei got his name because his father wanted him to be the kind of person that binds people together, much like the Yusei Particles for which he is named. What is Yuma’s most defining characteristic, something he considers so important to his own identity that was the cost he paid The Door of Destiny to get the power of Zexal? His ability to connect with other people through dueling. Maybe it’s just a generic protagonist characteristic, but I find it suspicious how Yusei and Yuma are the only protagonists who are explicitly defined by being able to bring people together. Maybe they share a connection? A distant familial one? Just food for thought.
well technically,Yugi always talks about being close to his friends and even at tge end of dsod,he talks about playing card games at 1 point in the future(all of this proves the fact that yugi will keep i touch with everyone,getting a great bond with his friends and people on general).The same we can say about Jaden and Yuya(altho with a slim difference)
@@-whatever-5336 Yes, but Yusei and Yuma are the only ones whom characters explicitly take note of their ability to connect people. Yugi values his friends, but no one ever sees his ability to make friends as anything unique. Jaden grows to desire to connect people and duel spirits, but for most of the series he is left questioning his own future. Yuya’s entire arc can be summed up as him learning how to better connect people through the smiles he creates.
So I think the main problem in this theory is the lack of dimensional dragon. As the whole reason for the split is ZARC and his 4 dragons along with the en cards of which there are 4 and every time the total dimensions are brought up they are brought up as 4 dimensions. We also see Alexis use ritual summoning even though she never went to another dimension and we have seen that outside of the summoning dimensions main mechanic they don’t really know about it like when synchro didn’t know about xyz, fusion, or pendulum summoning
The Shadow Realm portion of this theory could also fit. Take a look at how dark the story is. Yusaku aka Playmaker is virtually undefeatable, but the more he wins in terms of the game, the more he loses outside of the game. His close allies either lose to his strongest enemies or they turn against him and he is forced to defeat them himself and they still suffer the same fate.
ngl I just thought that the standard dimension was the ritual dimension the people who populated it using ritual monsters but falling out of fashion like you stated in your other vids because the same people were there from that time period, and all 3 other summoning methods were invented by similar people. but I still thought link vrains was just not cannon. your theory makes a lot of sense tho I would go with it.
Playmaker obtained a Ritual and a Fusion Monster before the start of Season 2. If the Link Dimension really is a highly advanced Ritual Dimension, specifically sharing DM's timeline, this makes sense, because DM's main boss monster type was Rituals and Fusions. They would likely be the most readily available and easy to get, outside of Links, of course.
A few random thoughts: 1. One thing that may lend credence to this is the fact that DSoD and VRAINS came out around the same time (DSoD in 2016, VRAINS in 2017). 2. It's interesting to think that maybe the ritual dimension's versions of GX, 5Ds, and ZEXAL might be the manga versions since they follow a much different plot (at least GX and 5Ds, I know very little about the ZEXAL manga). 3. If this is true, it means that link summoning is like something straight out of Shin Megami Tensei. Turning ancient summoning rituals into programs that run on computers is a recurring theme in SMT games. 4. Of course it all links back to Seto Kaiba.
Zexal manga's overarching plot is very different (the barian world, rio, the arclights, etc, are never shown or brought up), but the basic premise of yuma and astral collecting numbers, kite collecting them to save hart, numbers club, etc, are the same. In fact the first couple chapters are basically just repeats of the first few anime episodes. All 100 original numbers exist in both the anime and manga, whether they be the mythyrian numbers, gimmick puppet numbers, etc, so it's likely that the arclights and the barian emperors did exist in the manga's canon, but again - they don't indicate that they exist either way. They actually do do something really cool in the astral vs yuma duel in which instead of astral using almost exclusively utopia variants, he uses a good 15 or 16 different numbers against yuma. Including number 6: chronomaly atlandis and number 30: gimmick puppet of strings.
Yup. So the branching goes like this: DM (manga) - GX (manga) - 5DS (manga) - Zexal (manga) - ArcV (anime) Then here's an intersection, Arc-V switching places with their continuation. The ArcV anime is on the manga timeline and viceversa. DM anime - GX anime - 5DS anime - Zexal anime - ArcV manga. Vrains would be born from the manga timeline AFTER the Arc V intersection. Making a 3rd line originating from the crossing point in where Arc v manga and anime switch places, because of the media the are distributed by. Not because of in universe reasons.
I have a theory that builds on your older theory where yusei created XYZ. The fact is that yusei also created galaxy eyes cards as auxiliary back gates if something went wrong with xyz. The proof for me is your theory and the similarities between galaxy eyes and the stardust dragon and its accel versions, as well as the enemies who fought against the synchre, such as the meklord. This theory occurred to me when I was playing with a friend and I was shifting from a galaxy eyes package to a meclord, and I noticed some similarities. I hope you guys write me what you think of my theory. (And BTW this video is awesome)
Galaxy-Eyes’ creation already has a creation story in the anime. Yusei had no part in its creation, directly. It was made with some light from Astral World, to an extent.
Exactly Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon is basically a depowered Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon who's born from the energy of Astral World. And that monster along with Tachyon Dragon and Dragulon are 3 separate pieces to the Numeron Dragon who created the YuGiOh universe to begin with. Along with the Legend that Photon, Dragulon, and Tachyon must fight to to awaken the Numeron Dragon
All of VRains I believe is one of the simulations AI ran. Starting with the final season where AI talked about how he ran simulations all feeling very real where they cannot co-exist AI and Playmaker. In the simulations, they ended with the destruction of earth and the death of playmaker. However, since the end with AI being deleted basically it is different. I believe Vrains is the simulation where the earth isn't destroyed and playmaker doesn't die. I believe its a simulation with the ending being the beginning of a new simulation with the creation of AI. Playmaker talks about how AI manipulated everything including helping playmaker get his deck makes it very strange. I feel it was one of the ways he was running simulations to try and have them co-exist with humans. Also with the technology Leap also very strange. There is no mention of Kaiba Corp or anything like that and With VR being used for the accident feels very weird when they had duel disk in previous series. I propose everything sets just before kaiba corp battle city when duel disk are widely avaliable. My reasoning is why is all the technology very low tech to our time outside of Vrains? in the simulations they show military technology from the 80s. Why is everything outside of vrains regular vehicles you find today? If kaiba corp did exist why would they need to basically VR in special rooms? the technology feels like old school scifi where in the 2000s where vr is in it's infant stages like the incident. I feel AI created the Link monsters in the ritual Dimension during the era of yugi muto and kaiba. which is why the technology has leaps of logic. Also the Android thing is a big leap of technology logic.
As someone who has only seen the 1st season of the original Yugioh anime and hasn't been playing the card game long but has enjoyed your Yugioh theories, here's my take. The events of Arc-V split the timeline and the Ritual dimension was an offshoot that never got involved in major events. Without Zarc around to screw up the timeline the events of the original manga happen with the big major exception that Fusion monsters are restricted from the start to only exist 1 per player at a time. (Don't know if this changes anything whatsoever.) Kaiba would later go on to discover Synchro like how in the original timeline he invented it, but finds it has the same innate summoning restrictions as Fusion. He tries to find ways around this, may or may not stumble upon XYZ and Pendulum as well, and eventually invents Link monsters, or gets close to inventing them. He may have been on the cusp of it but never fully realized them before Darkside of Dimensions, and if so someone else picked up where he left off. Events similar to that of GX probably happen but I doubt such a Fusion centered era would go unaffected by the restrictions and this creates divergence, however minor. By the end the timeline has diverged enough that Vrains is the Ritual dimension equivalent of the 5Ds era, and this timeline never gets the events of 5Ds nor of Zexal. Hope to see that timeline video sometime. You said ya want it out soon as possible but it's been 8 months. Guess it got pushed back between those deck profiles and Master Duel coming out or something. Good luck with it my dude.
I mean if the Ritual Dimension essentially progressed without Zarc that'd explain why Pendulums were never even mentioned in Vrains so it's a neat theory
Effin great bro. I always enjoy watching your videos. You have that kind of sincerity that makes want explore this franchise some more and binge their seasons with this new found understanding. Thanks man & have a lekker one!
Technically, since Pendulum never showed up in VRAINS, isn't it possible that VRAINS is simply the manga-timeline version of Arc-V? Could be, if Pendulum never existed, Action Duels never caught on, and thus people turned to other sources of entertainment, and decided to go play their card games in a virtual world, where they could meet new opponents from around the world without having to leave their home. Basically playing card games on the internet. To add to this, Charisma Duelists in VRAINS are essentially the same as Entertainment Duelists in Arc-V. Both are professional duelists, who make a living off of entertaining their audiences. But where as Entertainment Duelists in Arc-V did it with real-life performances, VRAINS' Charisma Duelists have taken to the internet (or Link VRAINS), because that's where their audience is to watch them. So maybe a disgruntled Zarc is actually out there in Link VRAINS, but we never see him. Or perhaps he is actually one of the people trying to destroy Link VRAINS, because it basically ended his Entertainment Dueling career before he became big. It's interesting to think about the possibilities, really, even though it's easy to get really far out there...
Love this video! Rituals are my favorite summoning method and this makes me feel like I do have a home after all. Plus it makes so much sense! They were bringing out Ritual monsters (relatively) casually in VRAINS and they weren't even always boss monsters. Which was weird since at most other times that Ritual monsters were used the series Ritual monsters got a fuck ton of ceremony and were almost always the boss monster of that character's deck. But if this is the Ritual Dimension then it makes sense that no one here would consider it as special as other dimensions do.
I saw this in my feed and had a double-take. Screw everything I was about to do, this comes first, and you never disappoint! I had been thinking a bit about this myself after drawing the DSOD and SOLTech connection! It's awesome to see you back in action after all this time, and I'm looking forward to what you have in store for us next!
This would also explain why VRAINS didn't feature any pendulum monsters even though it featured all other mechanics. I am not familiar with the Arc-V manga but I assume that without ZARC pendulum summoning wouldn't have been a widespread mechanic there
Huh this actually ended up sounding a lot more plausible than I thought it would be. Plus vrains doesn't have pendulums at all and zarc said he created pendulums so it makes sense that this is a timeline untouched by zarc
I think that sevens is gonna highlight each summoning mechanic in a lot of detail. Like we just got fusion, so I think next arc we’ll get ritual, then synchro, then XYZ, then pendulum and finally link, making 7 summoning methods including maximum.
So hyped for this new video! My fave summoning method is rituals so i enjoyed your theory a lot and agree, hope we have more videos soon since this is one of my fave channels
mini theory maybe the reason a zarc fragment never went to the ritual dimension is because zarc never had any ritual monster so none of the fragments went to that dimension
Man this theory is pretty much precise. The rely added on the link monsters allows you to connect your monsters. You can make good circuits. But you must have a link monster if you want extra deck monsters. But ritual is main deck monsters
I would think that if not for seto the game couldn't have moved on pasted rituals and that links were created because of a lack of duel disk technology. Maybe Vrains takes place in a reality where seto dies to Atem in one of his numerous near death experiences as atem is actually merged with the shard of Z-arc. This explains why Kaiba Corp isn't distributing the tech in Vrains since it likely collapsed and was sold off by the big five without seto in control, having perished in a "malfunction of his own Kaiba Corp Duel Disk." Z-arc gets defeated by yugi in a battle of the souls and atem is set free to return to the after life. Slowly the game rebuilds and someone repurposes seto's designs.
There's actually a very simple reason for why it's not. There's only four heavenly (or dimensional) dragons and then zarc. Zarc only had four aces until the Dragon zarc was made.
this blew my MIND what the hell man. top quality content, i'm a believer now. Also, my favourite Dimension has to, HAS TO be the Terminal World. Hidden Arsenal was my entire childhood.
And if there's no Zark fragment then there wouldn't be a Ray fragment either because there'd be nothing to watch over which explains why there's only four Zark and Ray fragments when there's five dimensions
I'm pretty sure your theories were never thought by the writers before, there is absolutely nothing to prove them right but they're cool. For example, I'm pretty sure Zexal and 5D's aren't meant to take place in the same canon. 5D's is just the world where the Astral world never rejected Chaos, leading to don thousand not being banished from the Astral world and therefore not creating the Barian world. With this, the Astral world would never had needed to send the Xyz summoning on earth and the numbers would never have been created. At that time, because the world lacked a proper source of energy, they created Synchro summoning and its bad repercussions. The only fact the Astral world, yugioh equivalent of heaven, was filled with chaos, might have been the cause to all the negative energy stuff going on in 5D's. I don't think Arc V was meant to fit into any timeline, your theory gives it a cool backstory but again, that's nothing close to even having any chance of being remotely Canon, I truly believe it only exists in its own universe with no connection to anything we know whatsoever. Otherwise yeah, Vrains is almost definitely Canonly established in the DSOD timeline, therfore, in the manga timeline. Even the ATK And LP animations are similar, with Kaiba possibly creating link vrains at the end of the movie. However, the 5D's, ZEXAL and Arc V mangas definitely don't take place in the same timeline, and are probably just alternative futures to vrains's. That's my point of view on the whole continuity at least
So what if Kaiba time traveling is the breaking point? Zarc (from what little I know, I'm only in 5Ds right now) can't time travel, so Kaiba traveling back in time affected reality. Rather than the 4 separate universes it brings them all into the same timeline. But as you said, the various special summons are weaker here, which could also be explained by the fact that they all occupy the same reality. One cannot exceed another in power as then it would become the dominant force. My point is that no matter what universe or special summoning mechanic, Seto freaking Kaiba has ruined the multiverse. I think we just proved that Seto Kaiba is stronger than Goku.
Idk if this is how it actually is, but I really like this theory anyway. Had a lot of really cool "Omg these things are all connected!" sort of moments. Very cool video :)
My hot take is that the original Duel Monsters setting is the Ritual Dimension, since it's full of occult and magical power dating back thousands of years that never shows up in Arc-V's Standard/Pendulum dimension, while the other series' settings have very clearly been altered somewhat to form the other dimensions. Vrains would exist in a hypothetical Link Dimension under this assumption, obviously. (And I guess there's a Rush Dimension? :) )
If link summoning is an augmented ritual summoning then that would mean link summoning is actually the height of ritual summoning, plugging that hole you mentioned
I do really like your theory. Maybe, this is the dimension Reiji saw there at the end of the Arc-V anime. Additionally, I know it's impossible, but I would have loved for this to be like a fifth dimension. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Vrains; however, I can't stop myself from imagining an alternative world. One where this is where some legacy character from Duel monsters were. I mean, it's perfect with the introduction of so many legacy ritual monsters. The Cyberse and Trickstar deck could have been really fitting for a Yu boy and Bracelet girl.
Ok, manga aside, I like the idea that vrains is the ritual dimension. I found this video and a couple others of yours because I'm rewatching Arc V atm. Thanks for the idea.
I'd propose a bit of a different timeline. The first three shows obviously follow each other, but then Vrains follows after 5Ds BEFORE the dimensional split. This is why we see fusion, synchro, and Xyz monsters in vrains, but not pendulum. The dimensional split then occurs, however zarc doesn't use ritual or link monsters, so no dimensions for those were made, with links being lost in the split. (He didn't need a link monster because, much like in our world, they realized that rule alteration was a mistake) Zexal actually takes to place in the Xyz dimension, which is why there are no synchro monsters, and very few fusion monsters. Leo has visited the dimension, introducing fusion, but it hasn't caught in yet. I believe this is the case due to the fact that while the fusion and synchro dimensions are very different than their original versions, the Xyz dimension looks almost identical, at least before it was invaded, including the hill top dojo they had up in being practically identical. Any minor differences can be chalked up to Yuma repairing things with the Numeron code at the end of zexal. After that shows conclusion, kite goes and meets up with some old friends from before he became a number hunter, and the arc 4 crew was either carded in the invasion or are off world with astral dealing with some other stuff. Then arc 5 happens, the dimensions remerge, and sevens may or may not be canon.
Synchro it's honestly my favorite dimension because save for the original series, watch will always hold a special place in my heart. 5ds is my favorite series.
i know it's technically filler but Noah Kaiba did live in a virtual simulation and he did use a ritual monster so maybe that ties in somehow also maybe the reason why there weren't many ritual monsters was due to Kaibas disdain of the past so maybe he decided not to print ritual cards as he saw them as relics from the past. After he came to accept the past he started printing more ritual cards going as far as to print a ritual support for his blue eyes and 2 new ritual forms for his blue eyes.
Took the "Link monster is a Ritual Monster with Arrow" into the whole new level
I feel like my world is complete after watching this masterpiece. Yu-gi-oh is a lifestyle for me and I have never seen something that makes more sense than this and after reading all of the mangas this makes so much sense on why there isn't a VRains one and why Yusaku is literally my favorite protag
Felt like I should let you know thanks to this theory I got an amazing basis for an Arc-V fanfic thank you good sir!
@@ArkanaPrincess noice
@@ArkanaPrincess on wattpad?
@@nivgaming1255 might when I get to it but not rn I've been at college so no time to work on it 😅
@@ArkanaPrincess got it
A little extra thing. This is something that gets lost in the dub, the way Aigami makes people disappear in the movie; your own existence in this dimension is defined by your links with other people, if someone doesn't know about anyone and no one knows about that someone then he would go into a lower plane of reality, Aigami has the power to break that links artificially. He is also trying to discover how to use the cube to canalize those links and ascend to a higher plane of existence (that's what Kaiba does at the end of the movie).
And at the end of Vrains they say Link Vrains may now be connected to other realities and dimensions.
I like to think that Vrains is a Ritual Dimenson, but not Arc V's ritual dimension, just another world with its own timeline (including the manga and DSOD). It conflicts less with the 4 shards of Zarc and all of that.
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I don't see how the existence of a Ritual Dimension conflicts with Zarc being split into 4. I can see Ray having intentionally separated Ritual Summoning from the other dimensions out of fear that a Zarc fragment could end up learning Ritual Summoning and repeating history.
@@BurstFlareTrue true.
The Ritual dimension could also be in Ancient Egypt with the OG summoners
Same one Kaiba went to in dsod too 👀
@@zojirushi1 I can believe that, which gives me the amusing idea of Kaiba stepping out the portal to duel Pharaoh and he's just like "who the **** are you?"
I just started watching some of this guys videos and he actually mentions that same theory at the end one of his videos . I think it was "why ritual summoning isn't used anymore".
Ritual is standard
@@donovanfaust3227 Exactly what I thought of
I always liked the idea that Vrains is a disconnected "Ritual Dimension" or is on a timeline connected to the orginal Yugioh DM manga branched off from the anime timeline thanks to Darkseid of Dimensions.
I'm just not exactly sure if that includes the other Yugioh mangas.
I know most people don't like a large number of timeline branches but I prefer to think while the GX-Zexal manga's do take place in a timeline of the orginal Yugioh manga, the Darkside of Dimensions movie is another timeline split that eventually leads to the Vrains we see.
(ArcV Manga's final boss and her legacy monsters make its placement more difficult for me personally)
Mainly because if Kaiba already invented a much more advanced form of dueldisk shortly after the end of DM wouldn't it go to say by GX that technology would be more available.
Just so long as we don't get the card game equivalent of He Who Remains, sure, why not.
Why all yugioh manga siries don't get it own anime?
It could be said that Kaiba never returned from the souls world and, Mokuba, being Kaiba's successor, has banned that technology as he maybe felt that it was too dangerous considering and went back to developing normal duel disk instead. Or it could be because Seto Kaiba does what Seto Kaiba do best and did not share any means or method of creating or using said tech before disappearing to fight Atem while the one that left behind are unable to figure how exactly that technology works.
not necessarily, for all we know that tech could of taken years to release to the public or only released gradually, if you think in terms of all the advancements in tech over time you can see that it slowly went to that reality but they weren't able to cross the physical barrier of the card even in vrains somewhat, there are still physical decks around. something tells me that people didn't want to move from the physical copies so physical copies continued to be printed and had fun with but can still be dueled with in a virtual world.
this also explains how the duel disks got slightly more advanced and compact over time. my main question is how does vrains look less realistic then zexal and why the ritual monster revival other then rituals are not stopped by links? it just seems something weird to bring back other then the actual irl game said "hey, remember ritual cards and how we completely forgot about them? maybe its time we give them more limelight?" like just imagine that board meeting.
I do find a lot of validity in this theory. In addition to the idea that the Ritual dimension is a continued story of DM with its own GX story, 5Ds story, and Zexal story, continuing on to a world where Zarc never came to power, this would also explain why there are no pendulum monsters in Vrains.
But they showed the pendulum zones in an episode
@@stonalisa3729 Animation error?
@@stonalisa3729 witch ep bro
Well pendulum monsters were still developed in the Arc-V manga, it’s more likely that most of the duelists just simply didn’t see any pendulum monsters that fit with their decks or that, much like they were made to be used for in the manga, pendulum cards are only used for entertainment purposes
@@Linkhood That's a fair assessment, considering that pendulum summoning was arguably hurt the most by master rule 4
There was even that episode where Yusaku brought his old duel disk to school which resembles the duel disk in battle city. In addition if you look at the tcg, both Black Luster Soldier and Relinquished who were originally ritual monsters got link retrains.
This is the first "Vrains is in the manga timeline" theory I've actually been happy with, seeing as how it ties in the anime as well
I believe Yugioh Everything said the same thing too, especially given the fact that the sky in DSOD during Kaiba's duel disk demonstration to the public looks the same as the sky in the VRAINS.
Glad to see a new video from you, especially now that RItual monsters have become my favorite since playing Drytron for months on end!
Yoo chaotic can you post some yugioh then
The eye of horus that apears at the begining of the first vrains intro now makes a lot more sense, it was extremely odd when you look at wrains in isolation
That one symbol fooled me for the entirety of the Vrains anime runtime that the Millenium items might make some sort of appearance again. I was so pissed when they never did
@@hyperlink6547 same
Ritual summons was actually gonna be the main Summon mechanic for the og duelist kingdom arc but it was changed last minute, black luster soldier was gonna be Yugis main ace monster.
Wasn't BLS a normal monster in the OCG tho?
Honestly, at first when I click on the video I didn't believe that you could have an explanation that Vrains IS the "Ritual Dimension". But it's a really good theory that I now believe and makes sense because if you think about it, Vrains don't have "Pendulums". Because as you said, Zarc was never got there.
I'm sold on the Ritual-Link connection, though I think it's more sensible for it to be an offshoot of the standard timeline as a result of Kaiba's traveling to the past at the end of DSOD to duel the Pharaoh.
Without Kaiba in the present, Kaiba Corp was bought out by what eventually became Sol Tech, who developed Synchro and XYZ summoning WITHOUT their connected energy purposes as Kaiba wasn't alive to be the madlad to come up with using children's card games as an energy source. This explains how Synchro and XYZ summoning can exist without the advanced technology that their energy enabled.
Kaiba was alive after that duel for sure. Takahashi's blog has a picture with Yugi and Kaiba in space.
He didn't travel to the past, he traveled to the afterlife.
@@JazzyWaffles Whether or not he travels to the afterlife or the past, we see Kaiba's body disintegrating like it did during the duel with Aigami/Zorc, which would suggest that this was a one-way trip and that Kaiba was unable to maintain himself in that dimension. Leaving him absent in his own timeline for Sol Tech to take over...
@@dungbeo9902 (apologies in advance for the long answer) So I've looked around for the post having seen pictures of the art you describe (which looks awesome), and I can't find the original instagram post made by takahashi. An english fan tumblr translates the caption at length, with a point made about how the image respresents a 'possible' future, but I've seen another fan tumblr that shows a screen cap that translates a much shorter text. Based on that, it's possible that Kaiba's pure will power allowed him to survive and return, but it's just as likely he did not.
kazuki-yugioh-en.tumblr.com/post/152294876810/an-illustration-of-a-future-tidbit-of-the-movies
aminotvxq.tumblr.com/post/152289290177/dsod-spoiler-note-the-story-of-persephone
A way to make sense of this would be to suggest that there is a takahashi timeline which goes Manga then DSOD followed by the future depicted in his art. But there could also then be a Vrains timeline which goes Manga then DSOD and then Vrains, in which Kaiba never returns and history proceeds as I had suggested.
There's no telling how many different stories Konami could create following from this premise (though I hope we get one where Yugi, Judai, Yusei, Yuma, Yuya and Yusaku get to team up ala Bonds Beyond Time).
Kaiba: “I’m stuck here? Well that sucks. Is there anything else to do besides dueling?”
Yugi: “Your blue eyes white dragon became a Waifu card.”
Kaiba: “So?”
Yugi: “it’s simping for you! You gotta thrust the card! Remember what I have told you, Kaiba.”
Interesting connection between Vrains and DSoD. I was thinking that the height of ritual summoning was around Pharaoh Atem’s rule over Ancient Egypt. Without Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz energy; those summoning methods would have been harder to achieve leading to what we know as Master Rules 4 becoming standard once those methods were discovered. It wasn’t until later that Link Summoning was discovered that they were able to circumvent this limitation.
Wow, best theory i've seen in a long time. If Kaiba somehow made his own "Duel Links" in the manga, then that could explain how we ended up with Link Vrains and Speed Duels in the future.
Which in theory pulls in Duel Links as it's crossing point from DSOD and Vrains. Be a crossroad in the middle. Once DSOD ended Kaiba could've created Yu-gi-oh Duel Links as technology advancing it paved way for Vrains to be born in VR/simulation. In that theory DSOD is basically a precursor of events that transpired as it own timeline. Explains how SolTech managed to get the new duel Disks from DSOD into Vrains, they bought out KaibaCorp and inherited the technology they we're working on probably another head scratch Kaiba has died (given how many years have passed by) and in order to get out. Probably sold KC to them as part of liquidation of Kaiba's Properties he had no heirs and business partners we're left with only exit strategy.
Ok I actually would love if this is canon having dsod be what links everything together is amazing
All we need now is for the original writer of yugioh to make this canon
I mean it is a fact that yusei developed synchro summoning by traveling back in time.
@@Blighted_Ashes Yusei's father developed Synchro, Yusei developed XYZ.
@@kintsuki99 I disagree. The groundwork was already. This is why blue-eyes spirit dragon and azure eyes exist. Yusei went back in time and used his duel disk to link to yugis duel disk with Jaden. Causing jaden to win the Neo-spacian contest that created his cards and yuseis synchro summoning to be analyzed with his duel against paradox. In dark side of dimensions kaiba's "security tech shows him everything." Also of course kaiba would be invested malefic blue-eyes white dragon was used in the duel. Damn right he watched the duel.
I was watching your "Why no one uses ritual summoning" video, and your mentioning of the Numeron Code crash landing on earth got me thinking: When Playmaker summons Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, it shows a substance striking the surface of a barren planet and bringing forth life, and I believe the summoning chant says something to that effect.
Could there be a connection here, or at least similar origins of dueling-and life- in these universes?
EDIT: I realized that the VERY SET in which Darkfluid was released may allude to this theory by it's own name: Chaos Impact!
I love poorly thought plot lines; they give room to this kind of interesting theories.
Now we need the "- ritual dragon"
We already have Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon, so its not that far of a stretch
@@jonathangeorge3789 I don`t think that counts since it is part of the offshot series for Odd-Eyes Dragon, the one receiving ritual energy.
We have Odd-Eyes Dragon for tribute summon, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon for xyz, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon for synchro, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon for fusion and Odd-Eyes Pendullum Dragon for pendullum. Excluding Odd- Eyes Dragon, who represents standart dimension, all the others have their advanced summoning method in their name. Odd-Eyes Dragon is the one of the first ever pendullum cards and was the representative for it, even though it is just a offshot of Odd-Eyes Dragon and shouldn't count because of that pendullum cards in the anime are normal monsters that receive the pendullum energy from Z-arc soul fragment so I think it counts.
Maybe something among the lines of ''Ancient magic ritual dragon'' for ritual summoning, ''Modern connector link dragon'' for links and ''New way maximum dragon'' for maximum summoning...
Hmm, not sure why I was thinking Night Flare Ritual Dragon, night maybe because traditionally it’s a blue color and flare can be for the fire usually around rituals… huh just thought of a possible name for a link dragon:Chain Signal Link Dragon
@@kintsuki99let's not forget Odd-Eyes ArcRay Dragon a combined form of Odd Eyes with it's brotheren counterparts to create ArcRay Dragon
It's a good theory, just a couple holes with this:
In Arc V, the world got split up based on Z-arc's ace monsters. which was an effect monster, fusion monster, synchro monster, and xyz monster, resulting in the standard, fusion, synchro, and xyz dimensions. In order for there to be a ritual dimension, there would need to be a ritual Dimension Dragon.
The different worlds also know nothing of each other's summoning methods, such as the Synchro Dimension not knowing what a Xyz monster is. However we see ARC V Alexis using a ritual summoning deck, while Vrains has multiple uses of Synchro, Fusion and Xyz summoning
The manga part of the theory is also very good, but with one hole: The arc v manga has pendulum summoning, which is a summoning method Z-arc invented, meanwhile Vrains clearly has no pendulum monsters as Z-arc never existed in the Vrains world, if it really was a continuation of the Manga, people would know and implement pendulum summoning
I had an idea:
What if the Vrains universe was an alternative universe where Z-one destroyed the Momentum energy generator?
Momentum was the main source of energy for not only the vast technology, but also synchro summoning. At the end of 5ds, Yusei used a power source he found in space, which is suspected to be the cause of Xyz summoning, since they're creatures born from antimatter from a black hole. Then Arc V happens, the universe rips in 4 cause of Z-Arc, etc.
In this alternative, if Momentum was destroyed, synchro summoning would also be destroyed, which also means Xyz monsters don't form.
In Vrains you need a link monster so that multiple synchro, xyz or fusion monster can be summoned, in other words, the Xyz, Fusion, and Synchro energy aren't strong enough to be independent anymore, they needed to rely on Link monster energy.
It also explains why in Arc V and Zexal, people could just build the overlay network by themselves when they had 2 or more monsters of the same level. Same with Synchro in Arc V and 5ds.
But when an Synchro and Xyz summon was performed in the Vrains universe, some sort of machine was used to build the overlay network or align the tuner monsters with the normal monsters.
After Z-one destroyed momentum energy, Synchro and Xyz were too weak to be summoned on their own, so people invented Link Summoning and relied on Link energy to sustain extra deck summonings.
Unlike Arc V, Zexal, and 5ds where the energy source provided by Yusei and Momentum was enough for these summoning methods to be completely independent.
Momentum energy is also what caused such a great technological progression in the Yugioh universe, but if Z-one destroyed it, it would make sense the world would revolt back to an age and appearance we're more familiar with today. However the knowledge they gained while Momentum was still active was kept, which is how they were able to build such an advanced VR system.
Also explains why Pendulum summoning is not real in this universe, or why the knowledge of Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz is not restricted amongst everyone, since in this timeline, Z-arc never rose to power using his 4 dimension dragons (this new ruling would make it so at most, Z-arc could have 2 dimension dragons on the field at the same time, since speed duels have 3 normal, 1 extra deck monster zone, and he wouldn't have been able to sustain the dimension dragon's strength with their energies being so weak), so the world was never ripped into 4.
Exactly
@@akiradkcn I had an idea:
What if the Vrains universe was an alternative universe where Z-one destroyed the Momentum energy generator?
Momentum was the main source of energy for not only the vast technology, but also synchro summoning. At the end of 5ds, Yusei used a power source he found in space, which is suspected to be the cause of Xyz summoning, since they're creatures born from antimatter from a black hole. Then Arc V happens, the universe rips in 4 cause of Z-Arc, etc.
In this alternative, if Momentum was destroyed, synchro summoning would also be destroyed, which also means Xyz monsters don't form.
In Vrains you need a link monster so that multiple synchro, xyz or fusion monster can be summoned, in other words, the Xyz, Fusion, and Synchro energy aren't strong enough to be independent anymore, they needed to rely on Link monster energy.
It also explains why in Arc V and Zexal, people could just build the overlay network by themselves when they had 2 or more monsters of the same level. Same with Synchro in Arc V and 5ds.
But when an Synchro and Xyz summon was performed in the Vrains universe, some sort of machine was used to build the overlay network or align the tuner monsters with the normal monsters.
After Z-one destroyed momentum energy, Synchro and Xyz were too weak to be summoned on their own, so people invented Link Summoning and relied on Link energy to sustain extra deck summonings.
Unlike Arc V, Zexal, and 5ds where the energy source provided by Yusei and Momentum was enough for these summoning methods to be completely independent.
Momentum energy is also what caused such a great technological progression in the Yugioh universe, but if Z-one destroyed it, it would make sense the world would revolt back to an age and appearance we're more familiar with today. However the knowledge they gained while Momentum was still active was kept, which is how they were able to build such an advanced VR system.
Also explains why Pendulum summoning is not real in this universe, or why the knowledge of Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz is not restricted amongst everyone, since in this timeline, Z-arc never rose to power using his 4 dimension dragons (this new ruling would make it so at most, Z-arc could have 2 dimension dragons on the field at the same time, since speed duels have 3 normal, 1 extra deck monster zone, and he wouldn't have been able to sustain the dimension dragon's strength with their energies being so weak), so the world was never ripped into 4.
You seriously just blew my mind. My jaw dropped when that final point came into play. I seriously need a breather.
Can’t wait to see what you have in store for your Yugioh timeline theory. I sincerely hope you consider my previously proposed theory that Yuma is the great grandson of Yusei and Akiza.
I actually have another bit of evidence for this theory that I find particularly interesting. Yusei got his name because his father wanted him to be the kind of person that binds people together, much like the Yusei Particles for which he is named.
What is Yuma’s most defining characteristic, something he considers so important to his own identity that was the cost he paid The Door of Destiny to get the power of Zexal? His ability to connect with other people through dueling.
Maybe it’s just a generic protagonist characteristic, but I find it suspicious how Yusei and Yuma are the only protagonists who are explicitly defined by being able to bring people together. Maybe they share a connection? A distant familial one? Just food for thought.
It's a spooky connection, I suppose ;)
well technically,Yugi always talks about being close to his friends and even at tge end of dsod,he talks about playing card games at 1 point in the future(all of this proves the fact that yugi will keep i touch with everyone,getting a great bond with his friends and people on general).The same we can say about Jaden and Yuya(altho with a slim difference)
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Yes, but Yusei and Yuma are the only ones whom characters explicitly take note of their ability to connect people. Yugi values his friends, but no one ever sees his ability to make friends as anything unique. Jaden grows to desire to connect people and duel spirits, but for most of the series he is left questioning his own future. Yuya’s entire arc can be summed up as him learning how to better connect people through the smiles he creates.
“But why would we need a manga if this is, in reality, the *story* of the manga?”
HOOOOO, now that’s heavy!
My guy, YOU ABSOLUTELY COOKED WITH THIS ONE
So I think the main problem in this theory is the lack of dimensional dragon. As the whole reason for the split is ZARC and his 4 dragons along with the en cards of which there are 4 and every time the total dimensions are brought up they are brought up as 4 dimensions. We also see Alexis use ritual summoning even though she never went to another dimension and we have seen that outside of the summoning dimensions main mechanic they don’t really know about it like when synchro didn’t know about xyz, fusion, or pendulum summoning
This video deserves so many more views, ive been waiting for this part of the series
Loved this theory and video! Also continue your GX Story Too!
Dude your theory's are like cannon to me I can't stop thinking about them
The Shadow Realm portion of this theory could also fit. Take a look at how dark the story is. Yusaku aka Playmaker is virtually undefeatable, but the more he wins in terms of the game, the more he loses outside of the game. His close allies either lose to his strongest enemies or they turn against him and he is forced to defeat them himself and they still suffer the same fate.
ngl I just thought that the standard dimension was the ritual dimension the people who populated it using ritual monsters but falling out of fashion like you stated in your other vids because the same people were there from that time period, and all 3 other summoning methods were invented by similar people. but I still thought link vrains was just not cannon. your theory makes a lot of sense tho I would go with it.
Playmaker obtained a Ritual and a Fusion Monster before the start of Season 2. If the Link Dimension really is a highly advanced Ritual Dimension, specifically sharing DM's timeline, this makes sense, because DM's main boss monster type was Rituals and Fusions. They would likely be the most readily available and easy to get, outside of Links, of course.
Been excited for this video for a long time! Didn’t disappoint!
A few random thoughts:
1. One thing that may lend credence to this is the fact that DSoD and VRAINS came out around the same time (DSoD in 2016, VRAINS in 2017).
2. It's interesting to think that maybe the ritual dimension's versions of GX, 5Ds, and ZEXAL might be the manga versions since they follow a much different plot (at least GX and 5Ds, I know very little about the ZEXAL manga).
3. If this is true, it means that link summoning is like something straight out of Shin Megami Tensei. Turning ancient summoning rituals into programs that run on computers is a recurring theme in SMT games.
4. Of course it all links back to Seto Kaiba.
Zexal manga's overarching plot is very different (the barian world, rio, the arclights, etc, are never shown or brought up), but the basic premise of yuma and astral collecting numbers, kite collecting them to save hart, numbers club, etc, are the same. In fact the first couple chapters are basically just repeats of the first few anime episodes.
All 100 original numbers exist in both the anime and manga, whether they be the mythyrian numbers, gimmick puppet numbers, etc, so it's likely that the arclights and the barian emperors did exist in the manga's canon, but again - they don't indicate that they exist either way. They actually do do something really cool in the astral vs yuma duel in which instead of astral using almost exclusively utopia variants, he uses a good 15 or 16 different numbers against yuma. Including number 6: chronomaly atlandis and number 30: gimmick puppet of strings.
Yup. So the branching goes like this:
DM (manga) - GX (manga) - 5DS (manga) - Zexal (manga) - ArcV (anime)
Then here's an intersection, Arc-V switching places with their continuation. The ArcV anime is on the manga timeline and viceversa.
DM anime - GX anime - 5DS anime - Zexal anime - ArcV manga.
Vrains would be born from the manga timeline AFTER the Arc V intersection. Making a 3rd line originating from the crossing point in where Arc v manga and anime switch places, because of the media the are distributed by. Not because of in universe reasons.
What I love about your videos is that you probably put more effort and thought in the continuity than the creators.
I have a theory that builds on your older theory where yusei created XYZ. The fact is that yusei also created galaxy eyes cards as auxiliary back gates if something went wrong with xyz. The proof for me is your theory and the similarities between galaxy eyes and the stardust dragon and its accel versions, as well as the enemies who fought against the synchre, such as the meklord. This theory occurred to me when I was playing with a friend and I was shifting from a galaxy eyes package to a meclord, and I noticed some similarities. I hope you guys write me what you think of my theory. (And BTW this video is awesome)
Galaxy-Eyes’ creation already has a creation story in the anime. Yusei had no part in its creation, directly. It was made with some light from Astral World, to an extent.
Exactly Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon is basically a depowered Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon who's born from the energy of Astral World.
And that monster along with Tachyon Dragon and Dragulon are 3 separate pieces to the Numeron Dragon who created the YuGiOh universe to begin with.
Along with the Legend that Photon, Dragulon, and Tachyon must fight to to awaken the Numeron Dragon
All of VRains I believe is one of the simulations AI ran. Starting with the final season where AI talked about how he ran simulations all feeling very real where they cannot co-exist AI and Playmaker. In the simulations, they ended with the destruction of earth and the death of playmaker. However, since the end with AI being deleted basically it is different. I believe Vrains is the simulation where the earth isn't destroyed and playmaker doesn't die. I believe its a simulation with the ending being the beginning of a new simulation with the creation of AI. Playmaker talks about how AI manipulated everything including helping playmaker get his deck makes it very strange. I feel it was one of the ways he was running simulations to try and have them co-exist with humans.
Also with the technology Leap also very strange. There is no mention of Kaiba Corp or anything like that and With VR being used for the accident feels very weird when they had duel disk in previous series. I propose everything sets just before kaiba corp battle city when duel disk are widely avaliable. My reasoning is why is all the technology very low tech to our time outside of Vrains? in the simulations they show military technology from the 80s.
Why is everything outside of vrains regular vehicles you find today? If kaiba corp did exist why would they need to basically VR in special rooms? the technology feels like old school scifi where in the 2000s where vr is in it's infant stages like the incident. I feel AI created the Link monsters in the ritual Dimension during the era of yugi muto and kaiba. which is why the technology has leaps of logic. Also the Android thing is a big leap of technology logic.
Don’t forget that the DM era already had advanced dueling virtual reality technology.
As someone who has only seen the 1st season of the original Yugioh anime and hasn't been playing the card game long but has enjoyed your Yugioh theories, here's my take.
The events of Arc-V split the timeline and the Ritual dimension was an offshoot that never got involved in major events. Without Zarc around to screw up the timeline the events of the original manga happen with the big major exception that Fusion monsters are restricted from the start to only exist 1 per player at a time. (Don't know if this changes anything whatsoever.) Kaiba would later go on to discover Synchro like how in the original timeline he invented it, but finds it has the same innate summoning restrictions as Fusion. He tries to find ways around this, may or may not stumble upon XYZ and Pendulum as well, and eventually invents Link monsters, or gets close to inventing them. He may have been on the cusp of it but never fully realized them before Darkside of Dimensions, and if so someone else picked up where he left off. Events similar to that of GX probably happen but I doubt such a Fusion centered era would go unaffected by the restrictions and this creates divergence, however minor. By the end the timeline has diverged enough that Vrains is the Ritual dimension equivalent of the 5Ds era, and this timeline never gets the events of 5Ds nor of Zexal.
Hope to see that timeline video sometime. You said ya want it out soon as possible but it's been 8 months. Guess it got pushed back between those deck profiles and Master Duel coming out or something. Good luck with it my dude.
we really dont deserve cool theorists like you and others, i actually love yall
I’ve been anticipating this. As always… It’s Time To Duel
this is the best theory.
so the 4 dimensions that we saw in arc v were anime timelines while Vrains is manga timeline
"Shadow Realm! Shadow Realm! Shadow Realm!"
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_It's more of a purple realm._
Your content is amazing dude - the analysis, delivery, everything! Keep up the good work!
I find this theory very all around solid. Great job, my favorite dimension is Fusion cause I love fusion summoning the most.
guys, it's coming! he finally remember his youtube password!
It was Password1
I mean if the Ritual Dimension essentially progressed without Zarc that'd explain why Pendulums were never even mentioned in Vrains so it's a neat theory
Finally after 2 years, thanks my G!!
Effin great bro. I always enjoy watching your videos. You have that kind of sincerity that makes want explore this franchise some more and binge their seasons with this new found understanding. Thanks man & have a lekker one!
Love too see your videos in my recommended I always know it will be good.
Technically, since Pendulum never showed up in VRAINS, isn't it possible that VRAINS is simply the manga-timeline version of Arc-V? Could be, if Pendulum never existed, Action Duels never caught on, and thus people turned to other sources of entertainment, and decided to go play their card games in a virtual world, where they could meet new opponents from around the world without having to leave their home. Basically playing card games on the internet. To add to this, Charisma Duelists in VRAINS are essentially the same as Entertainment Duelists in Arc-V. Both are professional duelists, who make a living off of entertaining their audiences. But where as Entertainment Duelists in Arc-V did it with real-life performances, VRAINS' Charisma Duelists have taken to the internet (or Link VRAINS), because that's where their audience is to watch them. So maybe a disgruntled Zarc is actually out there in Link VRAINS, but we never see him. Or perhaps he is actually one of the people trying to destroy Link VRAINS, because it basically ended his Entertainment Dueling career before he became big. It's interesting to think about the possibilities, really, even though it's easy to get really far out there...
Can wait to see Yu-Gi-Oh Gx rewritten ep 5.
Dude, your theories are all so great and funded in plausible explanations.
I really enjoy them!
Finally, I wanted to see this. Thank you for making it, and all your work.
This video made me feel a little better about it being my first day of school since summer break. Thanks man.
I just watched all your videos today so this is a great treat! Loving the content and looking forward to this one.
fun fact: the connection between software and rituals is the premise for the megami tensei franchise
Love this video! Rituals are my favorite summoning method and this makes me feel like I do have a home after all.
Plus it makes so much sense! They were bringing out Ritual monsters (relatively) casually in VRAINS and they weren't even always boss monsters. Which was weird since at most other times that Ritual monsters were used the series Ritual monsters got a fuck ton of ceremony and were almost always the boss monster of that character's deck. But if this is the Ritual Dimension then it makes sense that no one here would consider it as special as other dimensions do.
I saw this in my feed and had a double-take. Screw everything I was about to do, this comes first, and you never disappoint! I had been thinking a bit about this myself after drawing the DSOD and SOLTech connection! It's awesome to see you back in action after all this time, and I'm looking forward to what you have in store for us next!
This would also explain why VRAINS didn't feature any pendulum monsters even though it featured all other mechanics. I am not familiar with the Arc-V manga but I assume that without ZARC pendulum summoning wouldn't have been a widespread mechanic there
This is a very plausible theory, actually! Nicely done.
Yaaaayyyyy! I love ritual summoning, and I think your reasoning is quite solid.
Huh this actually ended up sounding a lot more plausible than I thought it would be. Plus vrains doesn't have pendulums at all and zarc said he created pendulums so it makes sense that this is a timeline untouched by zarc
Yeah it's even more make sense then i imagine it would be
I know it’s not that long, but it’s been 4 months, where were you?!
these theories are so outta nowhere yet so plausible
I have been waiting so long for the next video from you! Glad your back!
I think that sevens is gonna highlight each summoning mechanic in a lot of detail. Like we just got fusion, so I think next arc we’ll get ritual, then synchro, then XYZ, then pendulum and finally link, making 7 summoning methods including maximum.
So hyped for this new video! My fave summoning method is rituals so i enjoyed your theory a lot and agree, hope we have more videos soon since this is one of my fave channels
mini theory maybe the reason a zarc fragment never went to the ritual dimension is because zarc never had any ritual monster so none of the fragments went to that dimension
but arc v manga in it world(i think) so you say that yuya not the same as show yuya
You have hit the mark so well that you can't even get any closer.
Man this theory is pretty much precise. The rely added on the link monsters allows you to connect your monsters. You can make good circuits. But you must have a link monster if you want extra deck monsters. But ritual is main deck monsters
If only your conspiracy theories were the accepted canon 😔
I would think that if not for seto the game couldn't have moved on pasted rituals and that links were created because of a lack of duel disk technology. Maybe Vrains takes place in a reality where seto dies to Atem in one of his numerous near death experiences as atem is actually merged with the shard of Z-arc. This explains why Kaiba Corp isn't distributing the tech in Vrains since it likely collapsed and was sold off by the big five without seto in control, having perished in a "malfunction of his own Kaiba Corp Duel Disk." Z-arc gets defeated by yugi in a battle of the souls and atem is set free to return to the after life. Slowly the game rebuilds and someone repurposes seto's designs.
There's actually a very simple reason for why it's not. There's only four heavenly (or dimensional) dragons and then zarc. Zarc only had four aces until the Dragon zarc was made.
The computer protocol - ritual comparison gives me Megami Tensei vibes.
Yes. Exactly what I thought.
this blew my MIND what the hell man. top quality content, i'm a believer now.
Also, my favourite Dimension has to, HAS TO be the Terminal World. Hidden Arsenal was my entire childhood.
For XYZ being founded by Yusei refer to e116. There is talk about creating wormholes using momentum energy.
I hope you have a playlist for this beautiful series
Great for fanfic prompts
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This Video was so good! I'm looking forward to the next one!
And if there's no Zark fragment then there wouldn't be a Ray fragment either because there'd be nothing to watch over which explains why there's only four Zark and Ray fragments when there's five dimensions
I'm pretty sure your theories were never thought by the writers before, there is absolutely nothing to prove them right but they're cool.
For example, I'm pretty sure Zexal and 5D's aren't meant to take place in the same canon. 5D's is just the world where the Astral world never rejected Chaos, leading to don thousand not being banished from the Astral world and therefore not creating the Barian world. With this, the Astral world would never had needed to send the Xyz summoning on earth and the numbers would never have been created. At that time, because the world lacked a proper source of energy, they created Synchro summoning and its bad repercussions. The only fact the Astral world, yugioh equivalent of heaven, was filled with chaos, might have been the cause to all the negative energy stuff going on in 5D's.
I don't think Arc V was meant to fit into any timeline, your theory gives it a cool backstory but again, that's nothing close to even having any chance of being remotely Canon, I truly believe it only exists in its own universe with no connection to anything we know whatsoever.
Otherwise yeah, Vrains is almost definitely Canonly established in the DSOD timeline, therfore, in the manga timeline. Even the ATK And LP animations are similar, with Kaiba possibly creating link vrains at the end of the movie. However, the 5D's, ZEXAL and Arc V mangas definitely don't take place in the same timeline, and are probably just alternative futures to vrains's.
That's my point of view on the whole continuity at least
I hate that this may be true
So what if Kaiba time traveling is the breaking point? Zarc (from what little I know, I'm only in 5Ds right now) can't time travel, so Kaiba traveling back in time affected reality. Rather than the 4 separate universes it brings them all into the same timeline.
But as you said, the various special summons are weaker here, which could also be explained by the fact that they all occupy the same reality. One cannot exceed another in power as then it would become the dominant force.
My point is that no matter what universe or special summoning mechanic, Seto freaking Kaiba has ruined the multiverse.
I think we just proved that Seto Kaiba is stronger than Goku.
Accurate IMO, thanks for solving the enitre time line mystery.
also favorite is Synchro because man best summoning and monsters ever.
I love ritual summoning
It's less of a ritual dimension and more of a kaiba dimension.
I was waiting for this so long, but it worth it!
Idk if this is how it actually is, but I really like this theory anyway. Had a lot of really cool "Omg these things are all connected!" sort of moments. Very cool video :)
My hot take is that the original Duel Monsters setting is the Ritual Dimension, since it's full of occult and magical power dating back thousands of years that never shows up in Arc-V's Standard/Pendulum dimension, while the other series' settings have very clearly been altered somewhat to form the other dimensions. Vrains would exist in a hypothetical Link Dimension under this assumption, obviously. (And I guess there's a Rush Dimension? :) )
Make a theory video about Zarc and Zorc connection
Alexis Rhodes uses ritual monsters even in ARC V
I've long had this headcanon since Vrains was airing. Good to see some proof applied to the idea xD
If link summoning is an augmented ritual summoning then that would mean link summoning is actually the height of ritual summoning, plugging that hole you mentioned
I do really like your theory. Maybe, this is the dimension Reiji saw there at the end of the Arc-V anime.
Additionally, I know it's impossible, but I would have loved for this to be like a fifth dimension. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Vrains; however, I can't stop myself from imagining an alternative world. One where this is where some legacy character from Duel monsters were. I mean, it's perfect with the introduction of so many legacy ritual monsters. The Cyberse and Trickstar deck could have been really fitting for a Yu boy and Bracelet girl.
So Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS follow the manga timeline
5:00 aKsHuAlLy I think you mean Anthropologically. No kap tho good essay, makes me want to watch Arc V and Vrains
Ok, manga aside, I like the idea that vrains is the ritual dimension. I found this video and a couple others of yours because I'm rewatching Arc V atm. Thanks for the idea.
Ok you mad nut, this one is very well organized and the dark side of dimensions point makes sense when you think about it....
I'd propose a bit of a different timeline.
The first three shows obviously follow each other, but then Vrains follows after 5Ds BEFORE the dimensional split. This is why we see fusion, synchro, and Xyz monsters in vrains, but not pendulum.
The dimensional split then occurs, however zarc doesn't use ritual or link monsters, so no dimensions for those were made, with links being lost in the split. (He didn't need a link monster because, much like in our world, they realized that rule alteration was a mistake)
Zexal actually takes to place in the Xyz dimension, which is why there are no synchro monsters, and very few fusion monsters. Leo has visited the dimension, introducing fusion, but it hasn't caught in yet.
I believe this is the case due to the fact that while the fusion and synchro dimensions are very different than their original versions, the Xyz dimension looks almost identical, at least before it was invaded, including the hill top dojo they had up in being practically identical. Any minor differences can be chalked up to Yuma repairing things with the Numeron code at the end of zexal. After that shows conclusion, kite goes and meets up with some old friends from before he became a number hunter, and the arc 4 crew was either carded in the invasion or are off world with astral dealing with some other stuff.
Then arc 5 happens, the dimensions remerge, and sevens may or may not be canon.
This and your other videos are amazing!
Wow! Just subscribed today and so cool to see a new video!!
Synchro it's honestly my favorite dimension because save for the original series, watch will always hold a special place in my heart. 5ds is my favorite series.
i know it's technically filler but Noah Kaiba did live in a virtual simulation and he did use a ritual monster so maybe that ties in somehow also maybe the reason why there weren't many ritual monsters was due to Kaibas disdain of the past so maybe he decided not to print ritual cards as he saw them as relics from the past. After he came to accept the past he started printing more ritual cards going as far as to print a ritual support for his blue eyes and 2 new ritual forms for his blue eyes.