ok imma gonna say this right now but honest to god Blue Angel’s duel was hella more interesting than Playmaker’s.
playmaker’s is literally just “oh all the cards you sent to the grave from my hand happened to have an effect that activates in the grave so i can do something with them and win also when did i have cyberse wizard in my hand to summon it i thought my hand was empty at the start of this turn?”
blue angel’s is layers of strategy and also some poor sop thinking they can out-burn trickstars, fucking trickstars! you don’t out-burn trickstars. cue burn damage race. down to the wire. really nice. also they don’t stop to explain the effects every single time someone gets burned so you get rapid fire damage shots at each other like some kind of shootout. very quick very fast very good.
also good dynamic animation these duels too tbh, very nice. duels were fluid on both sides. very good. i appreciate this. new director is still showin his animation chops.
Idk if anyone else pointed this out but, the -code Talker monsters and the 6 Ais we saw early on have a connection, I’m calling it now.
I mean…
Decode Talker(dark attribute) and Ignis
Encode Talker (light attribute) and the yellow “light” ai.
Excode Talker (wind attribute) and the green “windy” ai
Note, all the -code Talker monsters have the same base body, dark coloured with lighter lines, the line colour matching an Ai’s body colour(more or less).
Which means, Yusaku will be getting three more-code Talker monsters. A water attribute, a fire attribute and an earth attribute more than likely, to go with the remaining ais.
(red ai is pictured above)
What kind of connection do they have, not idea, but they totally have one, I’m calling it now.
VRAINS Mystery Masterpost (Part 1: Episodes 1-14). Note that each masterpost will be listed on my page here so that way people can find them easier later down the road.
So I was bored and I figured that I’d rewatch VRAINS and note anything of interest that has yet to be explained by the show itself. While I was doing that, I thought about putting together a master list of mysteries and questions I had with the show while we’re still in the early stages.
The reason for doing this is to try and see what the VRAINS plot solves and what gets missed out on. I want to see how in-depth the show goes with answering our questions as well as wanting to see, later on, when everything appeared and how it all connects.
Granted, I probably missed a few questions here and there so if there’s a question someone has that hasn’t been answered by the show yet, send me a message and I’ll add it here!
I’m going to organize these as best as I can on an episode by episode basis. I’ll also add in references to quotes or actions of the cast as well as the episode numbers that the question first arises from. Any evidence supporting a question will also be quoted. When a mystery is solved, it will be crossed out and have the episode number that it was solved in written alongside it in the masterpost assigned to it.
I will also make a masterpost of (new) questions every ten episodes (so, when the show hits episode 20, 30, etc. I’m including ep 1-14 bc that’s where we’re at currently) so as to keep up with any new mysteries that appear. Questions mentioned in previous masterposts will not be re-brought up due to the fact that there are already quite a lot of questions the fandom needs answered and I prefer to split up the different questions and mysteries by each section of masterposts.
Okay, now, moving on, for the mysteries we have so far they are: