There are some standouts early on, notably Sora and Shun or Masumi and Yuzu, but after that point, Action Duels and Battle Royales grow on the show like a cancer. It was an okay idea, executed horribly, from the point onward of 'Let's bring back the one character 5Ds could have used less of!' And while Shun and Sawatari and Yuzu are pretty fun, the main drivers of the plot are Leo, a blithering idiot, Reiji, a worthless cheerleader, and Yuya, a moronic, god-empowered brat with seesawing character development and a strategy based on the show telling you that what you are watching is entertaining, who then turns into an overpowered ugly demon with a preposterously stupid motivation who ties up the show for five straight episodes on one duel.

I'm gonna be frank all the legacy characters are bad. So let's start with the characters! ARC-V has a lot of characters. ARC-V, no matter how you watch it, will have to end on one of the worst final arcs in modern anime. Some people say ZEXAL, but ZEXAL can be pretty decent with a watch guide in hand. It's the worst YGO series so far, and hopefully ever. The kind of bad that makes you wonder how the people who made it got paid. Let that set the mood.Īnyone who's followed my edit history can probably guess my opinion: ARC-V is bad. The title for this review is a comment on director Katsumi Ono's twitter, translated from Japanese.

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