#v; I'm Packing a Piece {Season 1}

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So Episode 33.

Apparently this episode is the second day of WDC, meaning all previous episodes happened in a day.

The opening part of this episode establishes the group dynamics between Arclights, though they will be important later on, and establishes V gave Shark Drake to Shark indirectly.

Since Arclights are now shown properly, OP2 no longer obscures them.

Group dynamic between Arclights right now is basically the same as Aporia, and his pieces. V is basically Jakob, IV is basically Placido, and III is basically Lucciano, with Tron basically being the completed Aporia. This episode is written by Shin Yoshida after all, and this is the standard structure he goes with 3+1 antagonist groups (7+1 antagonist groups are bit different).

IV considers his fans weak, but is willing to use them for getting Numbers, and clout.

This episode technically serves as the debut of Number 15, but more importantly it serves to remove Tetsuo, and Takashi from WDC.

As such, this episode is also the debut of Takashi's Debugger Deck, and Tetsuo's Xyz Monster, Tin Archduke (his other monsters appeared in Number 96 episode, episode 20). Takashi's Debugger Deck was one of the poll Decks for Collection Pack 2020, so OCG will print it eventually.

The cards IV uses in Duel besides Number 15 have not yet been printed, so we will see when they will be printed.

Number 15 is technically being controlled a smaller operator puppet, which I guess will become its own card later on.

This episode sets up IV as a false opposition to Yuma, but of course, Yuma's power level is not enough to challenge him, considering he just beat his two more talented friends despite them ganging up on him. Granted, you wouldn't know this during the airing, since OP2 implied Yuma would somehow challenge all of the Arclights, with the OP2 showing a confrontation with V in particular.

This was probably a decent red herring back then when Kaito was still an antagonist, and Shark wasn't fully part of the gang. It obviously doesn't hold in retrospect.

IV's status as the "cheating champion of Asia", as Shark would call him in ZEXAL II, will be kind of inverted, when his VA becomes Reiji's VA, who is closer to Takashi, and Tetsuo's initial interpretation of IV.

And yes, since Gimmick Puppets are one of the ZEXAL themes with Link monsters, we are obviously going to get Fusion/Synchro/Pendulum Gimmick Puppets to go full Reiji.

Of course, Tetsuo being defeated in Episode 8 of S2 makes ED2's focus on Tetsuo-Kotori-Yuma's childhood kind of pointless, though Tetsuo will technically have non-Dueling roles in later this Season.

There is probably several books of worth stuff about Yoshida's, and other writers' dropped ideas about Arclights, but I'm not that interested them, neither is OCG really. There are more important things to focus on, even with ZEXAL I.