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I finished season 1 of Vrains and it was cool but I thought it needed about 2 billion more secret identity shenanigans
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So I went into a deep dive in my last two posts (1, 2) about all the problems I had with Vrains, and you'd think I didn't enjoy it, but in fact as I was watching, there was a separate, parallel version of Vrains that was playing in my head, a Yugioh I think we were robbed of and which fixes every problem I had with the first season, and that is Secret Identities AU.
Yusaku needs FRIENDS
This is YUGIOH.
This dynamic is everything I wanted from Vrains. Yusaku developing unexpected fondness for these bozos who think he needs a defense squad. I want Miraculous Ladybug levels of secret identity shenanigans. I want Yusaku slapping his duel disk every time Ai tries to blow their cover.
This AU sprung forth from the scene in the duel club where he shows Naoki his decoy deck. Having Yusaku passing as a bad duelist is 1) so funny, but 2) Yusaku needing to maintain his low profile is a useful contrivance for other characters to get more duels, and 3) I think it would be a really fun one-off episode where Yusaku has to duel using his bad deck. When he wins, Naoki is so proud he cries.
Having Yusaku actually have to interact with the other characters in the real world opens up Greek play levels of dramatic irony. The crux of a secret identity story is that every single interaction builds up anticipation, because you the viewer know that the other party is being deceived, and that the tension will snap when the secret is revealed.
I have zero anticipation about Playmaker's identity being revealed, because Aoi would be like "oh.... I guess he goes to my school" and Go would be like "have I seen that guy before?" But SIAU Playmaker? My guy is making friends just so he can betray them. Insane.
Go needs A ROLE IN THE STORY.
I said in my first post that Go isn't a rival or a best friend character. SIAU fixes this by making him both simultaneously.
Having him be the ace of the duel club is a natural replacement for his whole hero of the orphans schtick, while placing him directly the circle of relevance with the other characters. Instead of being disgruntled that the orphans suddenly like Playmaker more than him, he's disgruntled that Naoki and the duel club mooks are fawning over Playmaker -- which is actually just Naoki's character anyway.
I would kill for a big dramatic moment where Go learns that Playmaker and Yusaku are the same person, and even though Go feels betrayed that Yusaku has been deceiving him, he stands by Yusaku anyway because they're friends.
With a secret identity story, every conversation is working on multiple levels because each character is working with asymmetric information. You get these fascinating, layered scenes of two characters talking past each other because they cannot give up their secret.
Which would go especially hard with Go and Yusaku, because Go has legitimate criticisms of Playmaker in canon and Yusaku has legitimate reasoning behind the things he does, and as Go Onizuka and Playmaker they could never come to an understanding on them, but as Go and Yusaku, two friends in duel club, that door becomes open to them.
Aoi needs WRITING THAT ISN'T A TRAINWRECK
I made a whole post on this. Basically every problem would be solved if Akira doesn't know that she's Blue Angel. There's no reason for her to lose grotesquely against Yusaku, or have her basic autonomy called into question constantly.
Having her actively deceive her brother is delicious. Like I said in my last post, it's so obvious how Akira's overprotectiveness has taken its toll on Aoi, and pushed her into developing this other persona, Blue Angel. I want this absolutely dysfunctional sibling relationship so badly. The Blue Angel vs. Zaizen duel would make me lose my mind.
And a secret identities setting works so well with the potential themes of VRAINS as a stand-in for the internet and Blue Angel as an idol. Give me that Perfect Blue Satoshi Kon good stuff. Give me those themes about identity, and the different lives we live, outward and inward, online and offline.
This also helps Akira's character, because I think he would be much more interesting and relevantly positioned in the story if he stayed a SOL Technologies baddie. SOL Technologies has very little presence in season 1 despite being critical to the story. After Zaizen is replaced by an irrelevant clown, they don't do anything but send out mook AIs to get destroyed. By having a three-way standoff between Yusaku's squad, the Knights of Hanoi, and SOL Technologies, both Hanoi and SOL Technologies become more compelling. They've both got all the reason in the world to want to take down the other. Zaizen vs. Revolver or Spectre? That's good shit.
And don't get me started on how I would turn Revolver into a Secret Identities character.
#anyway hire me konami#I didn't even get into how I would involve kusanagi and ghost girl#yugioh vrains#yusaku fujiki#aoi zaizen#go onizuka#akira zaizen#naoki shima#ai vrains#ygo#pico art#pico commentary
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Akira if you don’t hold on you’re going to fall off!! 😋
#yugioh#yugioh vrains#vrains#akira zaizen#ema bessho#hireshipping#OH DEAR GOODNESS THIS TOOK SO LONG BUT HEHEEE they’re so worth it!!#HI GUYS I JUST FINISHED FINALS#BUT WYAH they are everything 2 me methinks!!#(me who accidentally ended up rewatching all of vrains for them OOPS)#val art#ALSO I APOLOGIZE IMMENSELY idk why it's so crunchy on mobile!! D:
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I love how Revolver has like, zero regard for any human life.
#compilation of every time someone goes 'but they could die!' and Revolver goes 'And?' WHEN#cause I can think of like three examples off the top of my head#he's such a bitch#spk watches vrains#vrains spoilers#yugioh#vrains#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#revolver vrains#ryoken kogami#akira zaizen
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Akira Zaizen and Ghost Girl/Ghost Gal - Vrains
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In Duel Links, Ghost Gal has left for now...but the VRAINS characters are seeing how Duel Links connects to other dimensions and trying to figure out Kaiba's plan! That includes the SEVENS world, but the DSOD world was not featured. Guess Kaiba encrypted that one too well. XD
Playmaker: That's... [he sees Yami Yugi and Jaden] Soulburner: They're Duelists we've never met... [he sees Yusei and Yuma] Blue Angel: From worlds we've never known... [she sees Yuya and Yuga] Playmaker: Dueling in ways we've never Dueled... Varis: ..........A network we can't decode...Read our memories...Recreate them...Take humanity's subconscious...Link their minds together...It's a Neuron Network! Ghost Gal: Link minds together? Neuron Network? You're saying that this huge network connects everyone's thoughts and emotions? Varis: LINK VRAINS converts our five senses into electric impulses to access the digital world. We can talk and communicate within the digital world of LINK VRAINS. But this is different. Playmaker: Our neurons themselves are connecting and interacting... Varis: Duel Links reads our memories and recreates them, but that's only a side effect. The network is actually sharing and linking us together. What will happen when every mind is united? If we find out, we'll know why Duel Links was created. Ghost Gal: After all consciousness is united as one...what happens next... Soulburner: Does it have something to do with what we just saw? Blue Angel: Unknown worlds...linked together... Ai: ...... Playmaker: Let's go home. There's nothing more we can do here. Ghost Gal: ...And that's what happened. There's nothing more to tell. This is so big that even I can't see the whole picture. I give up. Akira: Instead of finding answers, we only found more questions. Ghost Gal: Since I didn't technically fulfill my side of the deal, I'll settle for half pay. Akira: No, I'll pay you in full. But in exchange, I want you to keep gathering information for me. Ghost Gal: Are you serious? Don't you know when to raise the white flag? Akira: ....... Ghost Gal: ...Why are you staring at me like that? I know I'm gorgeous, but you're weirding me out. Akira: It's just that for someone who said they were giving up, you seem happy not to. Ghost Gal: ...Heh! Well, you are giving me a chance to find another treasure or two. And that's one bounty I love to hunt!
#yu gi oh#duel links#yu gi oh vrains#yu gi oh gx#yu gi oh 5ds#yu gi oh zexal#yu gi oh arc v#yu gi oh sevens#yusaku fujiki#ai#theodore hamilton#emma bessho#skye zaizen#roken kogami#akira zaizen#yami yugi#jaden yuki#yusei fudo#yuma tsukumo#yuya sakaki#yuga ohdo#seto kaiba
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If I wrote vrains I would have made akira and spectre half brothers because of a cheating scandal between akiras bio parents
Which I think would have been a better motive for spectre imo between him and blue angel instead of just “I’m fucking with you cause I can fuck with you>:)” but a “I’m fucking with you cause you took what I could of had”
#but yal ain’t ready for that conversation/j#yugioh#yugioh vrains#spectre (vrains)#aoi zaizen#skye zaizen#akira zaizen
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"Ai, living has no answer."
"When we're in pain, we search for an answer to feel better. A concise, absolute answer. But if you really want an answer… it's that there is no answer. There are no absolute in this world. Even if we think there is, in the end, it'll only make us feel better for a moment.
If there are no absolute, then what's left?
Bonds. Bonds between individuals. Bonds between one another. That's all there is.
That also changes with time. A huge trigger can cause a huge change. Bonds may be severed. But new bonds can also be formed. So living is a series of bonds.
That's what life is.
I have to do that forever?
Yes.
That's a lot of work.
Yeah.
I'd need to be so strong.
That's why people become stronger. That occasionally leads to conflicts. But even if that happens, we have to keep fighting. Keep searching for bonds, even if there's no answer.
You can't rush living."
So I saw on MyFigureCollection that October 13 was maybe possibly Yusaku's birthday, although I couldn't find any reliable source for this. I'd have loved to do something nice and light-hearted for the occasion, but I'm still feeling too strongly about it all. So here you are instead: Happy (maybe) Birthday, Yusaku! Please have some trauma to go with your trauma. Here's to another year of fending off expectations and looking for your own life and its non-answers with eyes wide open and always filled with hope.
#yu gi oh#vrains#vrains spoilers#SPOILERS#how do you tag so it really really doesn't show too obviously because seriously I'd feel horrible for completely spoiling#but I still wanted to share it because I KEEP CRYING#i told my *therapist* about it and we had almost a whole session about bonds and what they mean in terms of support and pressure#I also posted the quote on Facebook last week for my birthday with no explanation and completely out of context#and it was so amazing to have people compliment me on it and ask if they could reuse it#those were the same people who told me that anime would make my brain rot 20 years ago so that's nice turntable and all#i really want to write something heartfelt about it but i'm just rambling and honestly the quote is self-sufficient#i guess i'll just have to find a way to get it tattooed somewhere on my back now because it feels like the only way for me to recover#“I get it now; if you have bonds no one will forget you.” “I won't forget you.”#Vrains quote#VRAINS FEELS#i can't wait for more post-canon in Duel Links#maybe beginning of 2025 if i calculated correctly?#hoping for Akira Zaizen and his Tindangle deck that I'll be happy to destroy with my Revolver deck#and i also have kilowords upon kilowords to write about EVERYTHING but i still need a bit more time#okay that's too many tags i'm done gonna cry a Nile and a half now bye#edit HEY I FIGURED OUT THE “READ MORE” THING I feel less afraid of spoiling now but seriously if you haven't watched Vrains yet stop readin
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Duel Links: Akira Basic Sprites
#duel links#vrains#akira zaizen#official art#dl sprite tag#WHAT THE HECK AKIRA JUMPSCARE#I WASNT TOLF OF THIS#Found him lurking in the files with ema
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The Pandor scene in season 3 be like
Sub Revolver:
Dub Revolver:
#yugioh#ygo#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#vrains#ryoken kogami#revolver#revolver vrains#akira zaizen#shitpost#meme
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The Five Best Yugioh Older Brothers In No Order
Akira Zaizen.
Kite Tenjo/Kaito Tenjo
Seto Kaiba
Shay Obsidian/Shun Kurosaki
Reginald Kastle/ Ryouga Kamishiro/ Shark / Nash
#yugioh brothers#yugioh#yugioh vrains#yugioh zexal#yugioh dm#yugioh arc v#akira zaizen#seto kaiba#shay obsidian#shun kurosaki#reginald kastle#ryouga kamishiro#kite tenjo#kaito tenjo
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Today’s Big Bro is Akira Zaizen from Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains! He loves his little sister!
#akira zaizen#aoi zaizen#blue angel#yugioh vrains#yugioh#so a horse walks into a bar…#jk jk#dailybigbro#request
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Halloween episode of Yugioh Legends and You Show Yugioh
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Kanna: Akira!
Akira: Kanna take care of my sister for me
Cendrillon: Excellent work
Maleficent: This will more enough to revive Nightshroud
Flamdra: I'm very flamed up for the resurrection of Nightshroud
Thank you creators of You Show Yugioh, in memory of Kazuki Takahashi, may your legend live forever
#yugioh#kanna kakimari#yugioh legends#aoi zaizen#akira zaizen#camula#cendrillon#maleficent#flamdra#you show#Youtube#halloween#nightshroud
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Vrains was iconic for including two sibling characters, each of whom's character arcs revolved around protecting the other, who we get shown numerous childhood flashbacks of and basically their entire story of growing up together, only for one minor villain near the end of the show to reveal they're adoptive siblings and try to use that information to pit them against each other. And the sister just goes "Yeah, so?" and does a kickflip on his face and it never comes up again.
#Kolter and Jin are like the only fully biologically related siblings in the whole show#and its great#one of the themes of the show is family and fraternity#but like. sometimes family is Hatsune Miku and her ex-criminal big brother#and it's not weird at all#yugioh#vrains#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#akira zaizen#skye zaizen#aoi zaizen
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Akira Zaizen and Aoi Zaizen/Skye Zaizen - Vrains
#ROYGBIVrains#akira zaizen#aoi zaizen#skye zaizen#alternate outfit#40437A#526794#628986#CF996B#8D6945
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