Introduction
Action Duels, which allow duelists to soar and swing alongside their Duel Monsters, are taking the world by storm. Due to an evolutionary breakthrough, the "Solid Vision" system is now able to provide Duel Monsters with mass.
Yuuya Sakaki is Yuusho Sakaki's son, the latter being the founder of You Show Duel School in Miami City. Yuusho insists that duels are not a tool of war, but rather are to bring smiles to people and thus introduced the concept of Entertainment Dueling. However, at the height of his fame, Yuusho disappears and fails to attend his duel with Strong Ishijima, the Action Duel champion. Although scarred by this sudden leave, Yuuya vows to become an Entertainment Duelist like his father.
Several years later, in the midst of a battle with Strong Ishijima, Yuuya's desperation to win brings forth a miracle. His pendant begins glowing, turning his cards into Pendulum Cards, which enables him to perform a Pendulum Summon—a summoning method unknown to the world and himself—gaining him fame overnight. As a result, Reiji Akaba, CEO of Leo Corporation and founder of the elite Leo Duel School, starts producing new Pendulum Cards to incorporate Pendulum Summoning into the system. Thus, the mysteries that surround Pendulum Summoning and Yuuya's father start to unravel, and Yuuya learns bit by bit what it takes to become an Entertainment Duelist.
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Audience reviews
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Indinera
It's your seasonal Yu-Gi-Oh! anime that you want to watch because you liked the OG anime and now play Yu-Gi-Oh TCG and want to watch your favorite deck and cards animated so you fell into the trap and you either fully enjoy it or die of cringe
Good duels, too much power of friendship sometimes and has a good story but it's a bit confusing so you might want to pay attention if you can endure the cringe moments
It fullfils it's purpose: entertaining but also kinda cringe
I most definitely won't rewatch it, but it was a decent experience, better if in company so you can laugh ar your friends or parter for their reactions.
Rated it a Shibireruuuuu~~ out of yuuuuuyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa----!!
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Yugioh Arc V is a great tribute to Yugioh’s history up to that point. The nods to the other shows could have easily overtaken Arc V, but the show knows to keep its focus on the main characters. The duels were fun and did not overstay their welcome (with a few exceptions). The characters were nothing special. Yuya has the same youthful idiot personality like a lot of the previous protagonists and his life interest is just The Girl. But they weren’t annoying like in Zexal, I even liked some of them. It was a nice return to form for the franchise. I would be okay with Arc V being the last Yugioh series.
Read at the sourceI--was
After the fall of western yugioh comunity caused by Zexal (which is a good show by the way), Arc V is known as the generation that united everyone one more time for a ride into a massive adventure. Rather, it tried, and failed miserably.
I will try my best not to spoil too much here but there are some things I cannot review without spoiling so you'll be warned. I doubt anyone reading this haven't been spoiled already, but just in case.
I believe Arc V is a series that should be rated in two times. One for how it looked at the beginning, and one at the end.because the show really just sank while on its way to greatness. Let us now begin.
╰──➤⊱Story: 10/10 (beginning) - literally 2/10 (end)
Oh boy where do I start. Arc V probably had the best introduction to the series of any yugioh sho…
Read at the sourceCyberXane
Its 2021 and I'm finally getting to this series after being out for 7 years. Took me about a week to finish and I can give a honest review. Though I'll try doing a no spoiler version, but if I do have a spoiler I'll label it
Story: It has such a great story, and I loved almost every minute of it. Of course it has alot of flaws, but even with those flaws I still find the overall story enjoyable. The flaws are mainly with the characters which I'll talk about in character tab. As far as the dueling mechanic for in real life dueling. For it's time it was almost accurate to a T. It just forgot the aspect that alot of people usually beat their opponent by turn 2-3.
In the show my favorite thing had to be the 10 second skip button as I do enjoy duels sometimes, but most of the duels is just ta…
Read at the sourceGwenpool
ARC-V is one of the most controversial YGO series - you either love it or you hate it. I fall in the former category, and I thought I'd talk about why I think it's great.
The story is easily one of my favorites of the franchise. The premise starts off simple: Yuya Sakaki and his friends want to become entertainment duelists: professional duelists who specialize in making duels into entertaining performances to wow the audience. With the power of a new way to summon monsters, Yuya is propelled into the public eye, for all the good and bad that entails. Over the course of the show, the plot unravels into a tale where Yuya's optimism and resolve is tested as he becomes embroiled in an interdimensional war.
Being a narrative about war, genocide and trauma, the story has a lot of dark elemen…
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WARNING SPOILERS DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS SHOW IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO TALK ABOUT IT WITHOUT SPOILING ANYTHING I tried as good as I can to keep it spoiler free but there are a few things I can't not spoil so consider this your warning if you want to watch it
this show it's a tragedy it had the potential, the potential to prove EVERYONE who ever said "Yugioh.... they should have stopped making those after INSERT DM/GX/5DS HERE" wrong. Season 1 was set up to do just that it had EVERYTHING YOU COULD HAVE WANTED IN THESE SHOWS it had likable characters, (ESPECIALLY THE FEMALES A RARITY IN THIS FRANCHISE) it was dark and mature but it never felt so dark to the point where it was overbearing, stakes were clear, unlike most shows these days MC's were allowed to lose so it didn't feel like y…
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tl;dr: Do NOT watch it. Even as a test ride, please don't.
Do you think Yu-Gi-Oh! could EVER get worse? You're served.
Arc-V starts with a decent purpose, an anniversary series that brings all past heroes of the franchise for cameos, what could go wrong, right?
No, not right.
Turns out it's a trainwreck. An interdimensional war is happening and who could stop it? A clown. Yuya is the worst main character in the franchise, and arguably one of the worst of all time, everything about him is wrong. The "rival" is more like a mentor, with no affinity between them, and you don't know when an arc starts or finish.
The plot is terrible (not that ygo is outstanding on it, but this time they surpassed themselves in how bad it could be) and the series had to be carried by the past heroes cameo…
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I finally finished Arc-V with an odd taste in my mouth, the last few episodes felt very pulled out of the ground with a dusting of an attempt to give a sense of finality to the show as a whole. It took me from April to September, with a break in-between because the series was a bit draining for me to watch. I rather enjoyed it when I started, but a friend gave me a warning about the end, how it wasn't very climactic, and they were right in the sense of the word.
Story -- 4/10
Going into the show, I'd say I gave the story about a 5-6 with Yuya being introduced, and the plot falling into place with a deep gloss over of the deeper side of the bigger plot that tried to be a plot. Then, everything went into fairly good pacing and I was feeling good about things. The duels were nice and spread…
Read at the sourceBrightonSM
Story (7): It's not that bad. Feel it can be daunting to understand if you didn't watch the four Yugioh series before it but it gets explained pretty well in my opinion.
Art (7): Visually appealing for the most part, colorful in many ways and the entertainment duel part of it makes it better.
Sound (7): Suspenseful soundtrack in some of the duels, easy to recognize themes for characters.
Character (6): The new characters are kinda whatever. They aren't unlikable but they aren't anything new personality wise.
Enjoyment (6): Sorry but the action cards really damaged this score for me personally.
Overall (6): It's alright, not terrible but nothing too special.
Main reasons I like this show:
- The abundance of extra deck summoning types. This is as close to real Yugioh as your going to…
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Dont watch this anime. I am a huge yugioh fan, ive seen every series, read every manga, play the card game, and by god, this is ....just the worst.
I will give that some episodes actually have some good animation, and on the whole i did like the music in this series, but thats the best thing i can say about it.
So lets start with the story. The first arc is not great, however in a stereotypical yugioh way. I mean, GX and Zexal didnt have strong starts either, right? In fact I would say Arc-V's start is better than Zexal's.It has your standard introducing characters through pretty low stakes duels, and the show introduces a pretty neat concept. Using all the summoning methods. Now, this is a brilliant idea, and theoretically should make the duels in the series very interesting. However th…
Read at the sourceThuki
The action duels are utterly ridiculuos, maybe the worst idea in the series. Deciding duels by randomly running around for cards is a disgrace for the whole series. Furthermore, this shows how bad the duels itself are written, because this "randomness" (which somehow almost alwys favoured Yuya) was a deciding factor in a lot of duels.
These are some serious issues, but there were a lot of redeeming points: the characters were not bad, Reiji was a great Seto Kaiba duplicate, maybe the best since the original, I also liked the Professor, and the 4 Yuyas and Yuzus as well. Getting back some of the old characters of the series was also nice.
Story is something yyou could expect from a children's card game anime, no more no less.
So in the end still better than Zexal, and at least on par wit…
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Alright,my first review and or therapeutic anger removal plan,what should i do first,why ARC-V of course,the anime that really didn't grab my attention due to how childishly boring it looked,but went and took a light Zexal II phase that made my attention span go "Ooh,that's nice, watch it!".
And oh boy was that mistake I ever regretted.
(Keep in mind that i will be spoiling very much of the story here,so,you are free to scroll really fast through this story section,and jump right into the other sections I'll put so you can learn more about ARC-V,and not about the story.)
Le Story Section.
The story is arguably the worst out of ALL the Yu-gi-oh series',even being worse than TDSOD (that's The Dark Side of Dimensions,for those who don't get it).How bad do you ask? It's bad enough that I g…
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------------------------------ALERT! CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS!-----------------------
I won't take long writing this. I don't know if you can call this a review either so I don't know if I', helpful or not. It's my fist time doing this, but Oh well. Here I go:
Arc-V is the fifth installment of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. It takes place in Miami City. Dueling has evolved in to Action Dueling allowing the duelists to touch their monsters and ride on them. The story follows Sakaki Yuya, a yong boy aiming to become a great Entertainment Duelist like his father Yushou, who disappeared 3 years ago.
The art hasn't really improved since Zexal (in my opinion), but they still managed to pull it off. The music is great. It fits the different situations.
Character development is great. You can see t…
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Extremely minor spoilers ahead that really only increase the intrigue one might have in the series----->
This is my first review: Initially, I was just writing a comment on my anime list for Arc-V but it ended up being so long that I decided I might as well post it here as well. Be gentle :)
This was the Yu-Gi-Oh Arc thus far with the most story and depth of characters. The first 50 episodes or so are reminiscent of previous Yu-Gi-Oh seasons, introducing mechanics such as the new Pendulum summoning method, and contains classic scenarios like duel tournaments. Even then, the inter-dimensional aspects of the story still shine through the first 50 episodes, providing cryptic twists, betrayals and mysteries to be continued through the following Synchro, Xyz and Fusion dimensions. Unfortunately…
Read at the sourceRhyned
I really enjoy watching yugioh 5D's. I even watched it twice.. But arc v is not
To make it short, I really hate Yugioh arc v very very much...
What I like for this series are:
1. Introducing pendulum summon
2. Introducing old characters from previous series (but they are different though)
But, I hate it because:
1. Duels dependent too much with action cards.. The character duel with run and jump to many place to gather the action card, for me, it is cheating.. Yuya cheat too much.. The duels in overall make me want to vomit. 2. For me, Yuya characteristic is as bad as Yuma. Different with Yusei, Yuya is too childish and too reckless.
3. Sometimes, I don't really understand. The characters battle just to decide whether the opponent is good or bad.... "Oh yeah.. I lost.. So, you are a go…
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To all Yu-Gi-Oh! fans I am sending the people who created this show a letter to get them to redo the ending. Tell me what you think of it, we can’t let Arc-V end the way it did. Please help me, boycott anything that has to do with Yu-Gi-Oh! until the creators agree to change the ending by bringing Yuya & Yuzu’s counterparts back to life and restore Reira to his true self.
Dear Director Katsumi Ono
Hi my name is A.J. DeNofa, I live in Pennsylvania in America and I have been
watching the dub for Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V since February 2016 as well as the
Japanese version on the internet. I want to say that I have never gotten so
emotionally attached to a show as I have with this one, but I don't mean
that in a good way. This series had the worst finale ever. Why? Why did you
end it without bring Y…
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Yugioh Arc V is the 5th installment of the Yugioh franchise, it is not the best anime within the franchise. (This is my second review, it is just updated)
The storyline starts a bit slow and repetitive sometimes near the beginning because it was meant to introduce to Pendulum Summoning as its main concept in dueling. The story does get interesting after episode 20 by how it introduced the darkness within Yuya and his counterparts. In addition, the story does become unpredictable and interesting as its strong points. Yet, it is not prefect on how the plot does feel rushed near the last couple episodes. It raise questions without having answers on how it is important to the plot as one of flaws of this franchise. For instance, a duel occurs in one episode when it should be in two or three e…
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