Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

But what I realized after seeing the sub...was Serena's name ever said by the other characters before the end of the episode, when Reiji called her by name? If not, how does he know her already?

 

Yeah, it wasn't mentioned. 

 

He also somehow intuits that the Professor that Barrett eludes to is Leo Akaba before saying "If so, then you two are" before trailing off (I think he would've finished with [from the Academia/the Fusion Dimension]" given the later message from his intel team when they tell him "President, there's no mistaking it. Your opponents are Duelists from the Fusion Dimension!" and he responds "I know".

 

Barrett's acting on orders from Leo Akaba, who's also responsible for Academia's attack on Heartland. But how did Leo Akaba go from setting up LDS to a position of power in Academia, and what's the connection between Academia and LDS that drives Yuto and Shun to retaliate Academia's attacks by coming to Standard and attacking LDS, how does Reiji know about Leo's role in Academia, and why is Reiji, the CEO of LDS, now cooperating with Shun against Leo and Academia, and what does Himika Akaba, Reiji's mother and head of LDS, know/think about Leo's actions and Reiji's opposition? What happened between the Akabas that left Reira so traumatized? 

 

Also, who are Shun and Barrett's Standard counterparts? Sawatari seems to be closest in facial structure to Shun and Barrett looks a bit like Strong Ishijima, but neither were remarked on by anyone on standard or mistaken for standard counterparts as Yuto was for Yuya and Serena was for Yuzu in spite of their dramatically different hair. 

 

I also find it hilarious that Hokuto's record is now 1-4 after winning 40 straight without losing a Life Point. He must've been beating on some awful players. 

[Slinky]

This is not a bad thing, though. If anything, it makes more connections between the already existing characters/plots.

 

But what I realized after seeing the sub...was Serena's name ever said by the other characters before the end of the episode, when Reiji called her by name? If not, how does he know her already?

 

I also noticed, thanks to the subs, that the character Reiji protected that was being targeted was the winner of the last tournament. Isao was the runner-up last year. That character used Xyz. It makes Isao's ignorance almost comical, because he lost to an Xyz Duelist previously.

 

I did notice that. I was like "Wait.. what? HE KNOWS HER?"

 

And I really wouldn't call it comical.  I'd call it pathetic.

[Blake]

This is not a bad thing, though. If anything, it makes more connections between the already existing characters/plots.
 
But what I realized after seeing the sub...was Serena's name ever said by the other characters before the end of the episode, when Reiji called her by name? If not, how does he know her already?
 
I also noticed, thanks to the subs, that the character Reiji protected that was being targeted was the winner of the last tournament. Isao was the runner-up last year. That character used Xyz. It makes Isao's ignorance almost comical, because he lost to an Xyz Duelist previously.

He probably lost in a similar manner too; he probably tried to use his Fusion's effect on the champ's Xyz, and it didn't work.

I did notice that. I was like "Wait.. what? HE KNOWS HER?"
 
And I really wouldn't call it comical.  I'd call it pathetic.

Actually, it isn't, really.

According to Hitler, Isao wasn't a Fusion user the year before, meaning that he likely DIDN'T have the same interaction he had this time.

He may have lost to the Xyz, but he wasn't using Benten or w/e it was when he lost to it.

[Slinky]

Uh..

Hitler?

[Blake]

[background=#fbfdfe]Also, who are Shun and Barrett's Standard counterparts? Sawatari seems to be closest in facial structure to Shun and Barrett looks a bit like Strong Ishijima, but neither were remarked on by anyone on standard or mistaken for standard counterparts as Yuto was for Yuya and Serena was for Yuzu in spite of their dramatically different hair colours. [/background]

Shun is implied to be the 'Reiji', despite the less than similar appearance.

Reiji Akaba (Red; Effect monster border, most likely)
Shun Kurosaki (Black; Xyz)
Sora Shiun'in (Forget what part, but it has Purple in it; Fusion.)

Uh..

Hitler?

nico smiley

[evilfusion]

Ah yes, I do remember now it being mentioned that Isao hadn't used Fusion previously.

 

Wiki's preview for next episode mentions that Reiji's visited other dimensions before.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Reiji Akaba (Red; Effect monster border, most likely)
Shun Kurosaki (Black; Xyz)
Sora Shiun'in (Forget what part, but it has Purple in it; Fusion.)

 

o_O

 

Interesting, so Sora could be Serena's brother since Shun is Ruri's, although it's pretty clear that Reiji and Yuzu aren't siblings unless some horrible plot twist appears. 

 

The colours could also just be a coincidence as none of them really resemble each other at all, especially Sora, unless something else was said to imply they're counterparts. 

[~Faytl~]

I will adamantly deny Sora being the counterpart to Reiji OR Shun till it's confirmed. Shun being Reiji's counterpart, sure, that's plausible, even though unlike Yuzu and Yuya's counterparts, people don't see Shun and automatically think it's Reiji (literally NOBODY mentioned them looking similar during his match with Sora, and we know most of the crowd there knows who Reiji is from them cheering for him when he showed up at the tournament). The color stuff in their name is likely just coincidence. The dude Gongenzaka dueled in round 2 had a name that began with Yu, and that didn't mean jack and neither does this.

[Blake]

How is it likely a coincidence. It was a coincidence when it was 2, three seems likely. The yu point is really weak, considering their colors correspond to where they come from/ 

 

Personally, I expect Sora to be related to the Shun/Reiji, and think he's akin to Reira, who he does resemble.

 

And even then, why MUST all counterparts look completely alike? We've seen a couple examples who do, but that doesn't mean everyone will guaranteed. It could be just as much a 'coincidence' as the names.

[evilfusion]

I don't think that every character in every dimension has a counterpart in the others, or in Standard.

 

Those who DO have counterparts that are visually almost identical to one another currently is restricted to Yuya and Yuzu. And those two characters in Standard have some sort of plot coupon that has been important so far, but the exact extent of its purposes are still unknown.

 

Yuya has his Pendulum. The extent of its power is unknown, but it literally seems to be the source of Pendulum cards. While Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri don't seem to have a plot coupon to this extent, the secondary coupon is their dragons. A Level 7 Dragon card with 2500/2000 stats in the form of their dimension's form of Summoning. The dragons are DEFINITELY connected in some form.

 

Yuzu has her bracelet. This bracelet has already been shown to react in some way to being in proximity with both Yuya and Yuto, but ALSO in proximity to Yuya/Yuto and Yugo, as Yugo also vanished when Yuzu arrived on the scene.

 

We can see that Serena has a bracelet as well. Quite a bit of focus was on it when Reiji grabbed her wrist, and the opening puts the bracelets in focus when Yuzu and Serena are shown. The bracelets are clearly important.

 

We can assume Ruri has a bracelet, and we know she's been captured/carded by the Fusion Dimension. Yugo made a comment possibly implying a Synchro counterpart to Yuzu also vanished, but this is speculation because we don't know what Yugo is looking for that he believes Yuto took.

 

When Yuri showed up at the end of the episode, he and the Professor drew attention to an image of Yuzu, and I think it was Yuri referred to her as the fourth piece. Of what? No idea yet, but again, Yuya and Yuzu are the only characters who definitely have direct counterparts.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

I don't think that every character in every dimension has a counterpart in the others, or in Standard.

 

Those who DO have counterparts that are visually almost identical to one another currently is restricted to Yuya and Yuzu. And those two characters in Standard have some sort of plot coupon that has been important so far, but the exact extent of its purposes are still unknown.

 

The existence of the Yuya and Yuzu counterparts beg the question of how the inter-dimensional cloning takes place and that it's not restricted to either one of them begs the question of how many people have counterparts. You're right to say there isn't any evidence to suggest that they're all counterparts, but I'd be shocked if there weren't others with counterparts than just Yuya and Yuzu.  

 

 

Personally, I expect Sora to be related to the Shun/Reiji, and think he's akin to Reira, who he does resemble.

 

I think that's more your inference than their implication. Anyway, Reira and Sora don't look much like each other to me (Reira is quite a bit younger and has different facial dimensions) but they both have teddy bears (and their names both end in "ra") so it is possible and certainly more plausible than Sora being a Shun and Reiji counterpart. I don't think there's enough evidence to call Shun and Reij counterparts at this point because of the differences in appearance unlike the "confirmed" counterparts, but I'll acknowledge the possibility.  

 

While we're talking about possibilities, there's also the idea that Academia is Duel Academy what with the and uniform styles and Fusion shenanigans (Jaden's Trademark), in which case Chazz Princeton and Sawatari mirror each other's appearance and personalities. If we were to go further beyond the Arc-V universe, Reiji Akaba mirrors Seto Kaiba and Yuya mirrors Yugi and Yusei in addition to his current clones. Could be a stretch to see them involve those characters given timeline issues and these are more likely recycled tropes than anything else, but I'll put it out there so I can say I said it if it happens.

[Jord200]

I also was reminded of Strong a bit, as far as Barret goes. Though there's something that bothers me..... Could Reiji himself be from the Fusion Dimension? Keep in mind, I haven't started Arc V yet. Still.....

[Timeline15]

Oh for the love of god, not the name theory again -_-

 

Shun is from the Xyz dimension, Xyz cards are black. Sora is from the Fusion dimension. Fusion cards are purple. Akaba is probably just a name. The name Isao has the word for Blue in it, does that mean kachidoki is a Ritual user? no.

 

This is a just as realistic, if not more realistic, explanation for their names. Why would some counterparts look the same, and some not? it's much more logical to think there's a pattern to how they work.

[Pchi]

Also, apparently, Serena shares her VA with Yuzu, which doesn't happen with Yuuya and his alternate selves.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Hmm, I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it.

For the most part, I generally don't look at the character's VAs unless they sound very similar.

 

In terms of Yuya, keep in mind that Yuri hasn't spoken yet; he MIGHT share a VA with Yuya or the other two, but assuming the trend holds, probably not.

[Pchi]

Hmm, I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it.
For the most part, I generally don't look at the character's VAs unless they sound very similar.

In terms of Yuya, keep in mind that Yuri hasn't spoken yet; he MIGHT share a VA with Yuya or the other two, but assuming the trend holds, probably not.

Not unlikely. Also, I'd like to note Hokuto's English name was revealed to be Dipper - from Big Dipper, the asterism known as Hokuto in Japan
*cue Gravity Falls jokes*

[Jord200]

I noticed something.... The red-headed loli who hangs out with the shivering dumbass and Takashi or whatever his name is. She ALSO has a bracelet..... 

 

Hm..... Its probably nothing, but eh, thought I would make note of it.

 

 

http://maikxjaku.tumblr.com/post/109599361875/bracelets-and-the-4-yuzus-theory 

 

I also found this. VEEEERRRRRY interesting.......

[~British Soul~]

http://maikxjaku.tumblr.com/post/109599361875/bracelets-and-the-4-yuzus-theory 

 

I also found this. VEEEERRRRRY interesting.......

Interesting indeed, and we know that Yuzu has been mistaken for Ruri, though Yuto explained to Shun that Yuzu wasn't Ruri, so if that theory is true, then their memories must've been tampered with.

[Blake]

Interesting indeed, and we know that Yuzu has been mistaken for Ruri, though Yuto explained to Shun that Yuzu wasn't Ruri, so if that theory is true, then their memories must've been tampered with.

Doesn't really hold up, though.

He stared her in the face multiple times before he decided she wasn't Ruri... And only then decided such because she used Fusion.

Only problem o have with the Ayu = Yuzu theory (though it does help the age discrepancy point between Sora and Reira) is that Leo Akaba said Yuzu was his fourth piece. Meaning he should have the other 3, including Serena. So Ayu being one seems a bit more difficult to believe... On the other hand, it would make her one-shot duel make more sense to.

[~British Soul~]

Doesn't really hold up, though.

He stared her in the face multiple times before he decided she wasn't Ruri... And only then decided such because she used Fusion.

Not to mentioned it was stated that Ruri would never use the summoning method of their enemy and Yuzu willingly learned fusion.

Though to be fair, I didn't want to belief that theory at this stage anyway.

 

Only problem I have with the Ayu = Yuzu theory (though it does help the age discrepancy point between Sora and Reira) is that Leo Akaba said Yuzu was his fourth piece. Meaning he should have the other 3, including Serena.

...and we know that Ruri had been captured by the Xyz dimension's enemy, and Yugo mentioned that he had something precious taken from him, so that could be Synchro Yuzu.

[~British Soul~]

Le SUBs: http://www.anime4you.net/watch/yu-gi-oh-arc-v-episode-41.html

[Timeline15]

hmm. very much a talky episode, so I can't really say much until subs are out, but this was probably the most exciting 'duel-free' episode in a long time. The new format for the tournament seems like it's going to be interesting.

[~British Soul~]

As this is a talky episode, some of my thoughts are based on assumptions.

[spoiler=Thoughts on 41 RAW]

- Reiji went to the Fusion Dimension when he was younger and used DD Cerebrus (Which must've been a non-Pendulum at the time) in a Battle Royal.
- I assume what Akaba Leo forced on Reiji's right wrist that sent him back to Standard prevents him from coming back to the Fusion Dimension, but will have to wait for subs to clarify this.
- Shun won his match offscreen, but it's assumed that he isn't
- For the last 16 of the Junior Youth class, it's a Battle Royal (Which begins at 12pm), and Nico mentioned something about Pendulum cards so there's a lot of them scattered about then.
- Shame this is a talky episode, because there are a number of interractions in the episode that I'll have to wait for the subs to cover.

[/spoiler]

[~Faytl~]

[spoiler=RAW]

So Reiji has been to Fusion Dimension before and knows Serena that way, so he's known all this extra dimension stuff since he was pretty young. It was weird seeing him so impassioned as a kid, now he's all hardened and serious.

 

Wonder what's happening with the Junior class, I didn't hear any mention of Reira.

 

The top 8 of the Youth class all seem to be from LDS, go figure, and they're in on the Reiji Army, it seems.

 

Sora is returning to Standard, yaaaay!

 

Next episode is all the competitors using the entire city as a Battle Royale. I did NOT see that coming. This is going to be INSANE and I love it. Hopefully it'll be way better than the Duel Coaster episodes of Zexal. I'm really excited for it. Though it occurs to me: Once Yuya establishes Pendulum Scales, EVERYONE will know where he is because they appear in pillars of light that shoot way the hell up into the sky :V Dunno if that'll actually come up, but it would be kind of funny.

[/spoiler]

[evilfusion]

So...much...talking...

 

That said, looking forward to subs.