Heya! I did, I went to the theater yesterday to check it out lol. Fun fact: pretty much all but four of the 15 people in my theater left during PoL’s credits, and one left a minute into VRAINS; I blame the theater since most people seem to have gotten a little notice either before/after PoL about the VRAINS preview but we didn’t lol.
Anywho, I posted a compilation of livetweets I did about it here! I’ll have some more in-depth thoughts when I give it a good side-by-side comparison sometime soon. I did like most of the voices, except for Spectre who sounds a bit snakier than I’d like compared to his JP voice.
AGHHHH This is a tough one, lol.
On one hand, I would say DM shouldn’t be involved because it’s already getting DSOD–which has also made ARC-V suffer quality-wise for a bit–but on the other, DM should because ARC-V is an anniversary series celebrating the whole franchise… And I still think there might be a chance that DSOD might have something to do with ARC-V’s plot.
I think I’d like to see DM characters worked in, but it really comes down to the execution; I wouldn’t want them to be shoehorned in like Team Ragnarok in 5D’s, but if they can work them in smoothly (like with JACK/Crow and like Kite/Asuka/Ed seem to be), then I’d be game for it. I could see Jonouchi maybe (though Crow’s a lot like his character personality-wise already)… Would be interesting if Mai showed up…