Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS

[~British Soul~]

Info from the Org;

Including Staff, Yusaku’s Voice Actor, Music and Plot Outline

The animated series “Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS”, based on the work of Takahashi Kazuki, will have 石毛翔弥 (Ishige Shouya) as the voice of main character Fujiki Yusaku (a.k.a. Playmaker), who is a previously bit role actor in shows like “orange” and “Seiren”

Fujiki Yusaku is a high schoool student who dislikes standing out. In the new VR Space which is the stage for Duels in this new series, he takes on the alias “Playmaker”. Along with this cast announcement, we also introduce the Key Visual of Playmaker.

This animated series’ opening theme will be “With the Wind” by 富永TOMMY弘明 who has song songs for previous animated series like “Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure” (Sono Chi no Sadame.) The Director is Masahiro Hosoda. Series Direction is Yohida Shin. The animation studio is Gallop, and it will begin airing on TV Tokyo starting in May 2017.

Original Idea: Takahashi Kazuki & Studio Dice (Weekly Shonen Jump)
Director: 細田雅弘 Masahiro Hosoda (Directed “Virgin Fleet” and “Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods”, directed various episodes of Kaiji and Xros Wars)
Series Direction: 吉田伸 Yoshida Shin (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s 27 onwards and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL)
Duel Compositon: 彦久保雅博 Masahiro Hikokubo
Character Design: 原憲一 Hara Kenichi
Sound Director: 松岡裕紀 Matsuoka Hiroki (Sound Director for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, as well as ARC-V and ZEXAL)
Music: 光宗信吉 Mitsumune Shikichi (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Speed Grapher, Familiar of Zero, Rozen Maiden)
Animation Studio: ぎゃろっぷ Gallop
Production: テレビ東京 NAS (TV Tokyo) / (Nihon Ad Systems)

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Animated Series “Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS” Story Introduction”
There is a city where network systems have evolved: Den City(デンシティ ). In this city, with the advanced network technology developed by the corporation “SOL Technology”, a Virtual Reality space called “LINK VRAINS” has been developed, and in this VR Space people became excited over the latest way to Duel.

However, in 『LINK VRAINS』, a mysterious hacker group that hacks via Dueling has appeared: ハノイの騎士 (The Knights of Hanoi). Their goal is to destroy the “AI World” known as “Cyberse” that exists somewhere in the depths of the Network.

However, there is one Duelist who stands against the threat to 『LINK VRAINS』. His name is “Playmaker”. He has become famous in the Network World for crushing the “Knights of Hanoi” in fierce Duels, without mentioning his name. But the true identity of “Playmaker” is ordinary high school student “Fujiki Yusaku”, who pursues the “Knights of Hanoi” that appear in VRAINS in order to find out the truth of an incident that happened in the past.

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[Atypical-Abbie]

Cyber terrorists?! Oh dear, 4chan and Anonymous but playing card games? This better be adults only, because this could go wrong.

[Just Crouton]

"There is a city where network systems have evolved: Den City(デンシティ ). In this city, with the advanced network technology-"

 

[Astro Dude]

"There is a city where network systems have evolved: Den City(デンシティ ). In this city, with the advanced network technology-"

 

These knight guys better be all male.

[~British Soul~]

Whilst it is likely that they'll probs be all-male, I wouldn't be surprised if there are like one or two female knights as well.

[Dokutah]

some Footage: https://twitter.com/kazusa_tw/status/845486157391548417

[Atypical-Abbie]

some Footage: https://twitter.com/kazusa_tw/status/845486157391548417

The voiceover guy even says VRAINS like Dracula, come on, it must be a misspelling at this point!

[Astro Dude]

I bet this series will be like Chaotic, an online card game. Online yugioh... Hmmm...

[~British Soul~]

I bet this series will be like Chaotic...

Only better. Chaotic was seriously meh at best.

[Atypical-Abbie]

Heh, it would be funny if this series was just the characters sitting at their computers playing card games in VR the whole time, and its like a relatively normal world, but with crazy sheet happening in the VR world.

[Astro Dude]

Heh, it would be funny if this series was just the characters sitting at their computers playing card games in VR the whole time, and its like a relatively normal world, but with crazy sheet happening in the VR world.

Yeah. Maybe there would be a vr world where duelists can duel each other and learn from... Didn't Bakugan try this as well?

[~British Soul~]

Heh, it would be funny if this series was just the characters sitting at their computers playing card games in VR the whole time, and its like a relatively normal world, but with crazy sheet happening in the VR world.

They might as well have filmed the "characters sitting at their computers playing card games" parts as live action, having them play YGOpro or whatever, and there'd be no difference.

[Astro Dude]

Anyone wanna place bets this will end with Yusaku duelling his alter-ego in cyberspace?

 

Edit: Found something interesting.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3HfwudfuA

[-kyo-]

https://ygorganization.com/isbeingwiththewindmeaningusingguardiangrarl/

 

vrains will be using the speed duel format

im not looking forward to this

[~British Soul~]

vrains will be using the speed duel format

Oh.... wait for it.... boy

[Dokutah]

https://ygorganization.com/isbeingwiththewindmeaningusingguardiangrarl/

 

vrains will be using the speed duel format

im not looking forward to this

not confirm though which duel that use this format...could be only the irl duel that use thi, and the VR duel will using the regular ones

[~British Soul~]

imo, I'd assume the VR duels would use the speed duel format given it existed in Duel Terminals and Duel Links. Though only IRL duels using them instead of VR sounds plausible as well.

Just gotta wait on whether it's VR-only, IRL-only or both.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I haven't exactly played the Speed Duel format, so going to have to read up on it a bit. (I don't have access to Duel Links otherwise, so...) This can only end well (especially since it'll be a bit easier to make that Link necklace)...

 

Reserving further judgment until more info arrives.

[VCR_CAT]

For reference: A Speed Duel is a duel that has players sportings halved LP's, 20 card decks, 5 card ED's, and only 3 Main Monster Zones and 3 S/T Zones. There are still two ED Zones.

 

There's also a strong possibility that this will be treated like Turbo Duels, and that standing normal duels will still happen.

[~British Soul~]

For reference: A Speed Duel is a duel that has players sportings halved LP's, 20 card decks, 5 card ED's, and only 3 Main Monster Zones and 3 S/T Zones. There are still two ED Zones.

Not to mention the 4-card starting hands.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Speed Duels as in Speed Spells? Speed World 3? :>

 

Do want! 

[~British Soul~]

Speed Duels as in Speed Spells? Speed World 3? :>

 

Do want! 

Sure, let's go with that... (ofc I am aware you know what Speed duel format they're referring to)

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Alas.

 

Ironically, both Turbo Duels and Speed Duels slow down your standard 4000 LP anime bout.  

[~British Soul~]

I will say this though, with Speed Duels there'll be less duels that'd span across multiple episodes imo

 

Ironically, both Turbo Duels and Speed Duels slow down your standard 4000 LP anime bout.  

Oh the irony.

[~British Soul~]

 

The appearance of Aoi’s account, “Blue Angel“, that she uses to play her Trickstar Deck online, that’s headlined by her ace card, Trickstar Holly Angel!

 

Go Onizuka is confirmed to share the same appearance online and offline, seemingly. He’s also cited as being an Power Duelist a la Jack Atlas (i.e. very aggro style)