I'm pretty sure the competitive scene could give less of a crap about Yusei, Yugi or Jaden returning to the anime though, maybe not every single competitive player but a good chunk of them wouldn't care.
Exactly. When the show already combines all 4 styles of summoning (Have yet to see Ritual Summoning, though), you can just as well put the protags in, for nostalgic pandering.
I was thinking the same thing. All Yugioh series took place in the original world. You can see the progression of the technology and summoning methods. If Zarc wanted to reunite his pieces he couldn't have the most powerful forces from the previous time line interfering. They weren't only the strongest/main characters, they were the ones with the most game changing magics. The Millennium items, Gentle Darkness, Crimson Dragon, Zexal. There's no way that he would be able to beat those powers if they came together.
because putting that much detail in to the hair if they showed all up in one episode even 5 minutes would take years to animate, even if a single hair is out of place you know that the fan boys would go psycho
@@YugiohEverything Oh People... this is REALLY OBVIOUS. C'mon people, seriously? This isnt even a Question. Yuri is literally using EVIL PLANTS! What do you think a Genocider like Zarc is, looking at Yuri and the other 3? 25% Evil??? That sounds more than wrong, doesnt it?? The obvious truth is, Reira fused the biggest heroes in history with Zarcs 4 Parts, but misunderstood Jaden and possibly also Yugi. Yugi was influenced by Atem A LOT, so i think that kinda was missing, but more importantly: Jaden was a Hero too, yes, BUT he became a Hero by fusing with multiple other evil entities so they could not harm anyone ever again!! Even if we dont go philosphical and say "Yugi was famous for and used to be a VESSEL, so that's why none other than Yuya Sakaki was the unstable member and the one who causes Zarc to return, becoming a Vessel for all the others (Yuri, Yugo and Yayayayu)" it's still obvious. Means: The Protagonists are not gone, they are ON SCREEN ALL THE TIME!!
I believe Zarc decided not to revive the main protagonists from the previous series because not only does he know that defeating them isn't certain but sending 4 avatars (Yu-boys) to take their place, i.e. Yuya instead of Yugi, Yuri instead of Judai, Yugo instead of Yusei and Yuto instead of Yuma, highly-guarantees his reinstatement back into the world without the interference of anyone who he knows is strong enough to prevent that, except for Ray but she hasn't been revived yet
***** Are not english dubbed. LOL. Japanese write them like that. How to think are english and originally with Yu. OMG. Watch in japanese opening, they write like that. Before duels same.First time I said, wtf, Hugo, but no,this is romanized write of the name. Only Yu is Yuya.
Yugi=card games in hell (shadow realm) Judai=card games at school Yusei=card games on motor cycles Yuma= Card games from a system Yuya=Card games on dragons
Yugi has the heart of the cards to draw exactly what he needs in any situation, and is the best strategist out of all 4 protags by far. Yuma can literally manifest whatever cards he needs through Zexal and shining draw even if it's not in his deck. Those two, at least, would easily win. Their plot powers are too strong.
There should have been more past characters in Arc-V including some classic Yugioh Protagonists. Here in my opinion who should've been in Arc-V. 1. Seto Kiaba (because of a certain theory) 2. Joey Wheeler (because I want to see his weird looking chin again) 3. Reginald Kastle (because Kaito wasn't enough) 4. Syrus or Chazz (because they only chose only 2 GX characters) 5. Yusei Fudo (because of a certain card!)
Yugi, Jaden, Yusai, and Yuma could have been manifested as fragments of Z-ARC in order to attempt to prevent Z-ARC from being reborn. Can you picture Z-ARC dueling Pharaoh Atem, Jaden/Yubel, Yusai, and Yuma within the minds of Yuya, Yugo, Yuto, and Yuri?
The simplest answer is that it would take away attention from Arc-V's protagonist Yuya by having previous show's protagonists playing an active role in the show.
Yugioh dm- the oldest Yugioh gx- the darkest Yugioh 5ds- the only yugioh where the rival has more duels than the protagonist Yugioh zexal- the protagonist with the more loss Yugioh arc v- the protagonist to not duel the final boss Yugioh vrains- the newest
I don't know, DM was pretty dark with the whole Necrofear baby thing, Dark Sanctuary, Marik's backstory (Japanese, not the filthy dub), and Zorc's Dragon dick.
actually dm was the darkest cos if u lost the duel ur legs'll get chopped off, u'd fall out the window, etc and there's a serial killer who killed 10 boy scouts and cut them into unusaul shapes with a chainsaw, there was a game where there's astack of money and uuse a knife to get as much money as you can and if u stb ur hand u lose, a man gets set on fire, yami marik skinning his dad's back till he dies etc
True but unfortunately that won’t happen. The only show they go back to is duel monsters. I think one day we will probably get a remake of the duel monsters anime.
to be honest i think that there will be a movie of all the protagonist coming together by a vortex but also the main villains so i believe if we were to ever see judai again it would be in a yugioh movie
Oh People... this is REALLY OBVIOUS. C'mon people, seriously? This isnt even a Question. Yuri is literally using EVIL PLANTS! What do you think a Genocider like Zarc is, looking at Yuri and the other 3? 25% Evil??? That sounds more than wrong, doesnt it?? The obvious truth is, Reira fused the biggest heroes in history with Zarcs 4 Parts, but misunderstood Jaden and possibly also Yugi. Yugi was influenced by Atem A LOT, so i think that kinda was missing, but more importantly: Jaden was a Hero too, yes, BUT he became a Hero by fusing with multiple other evil entities so they could not harm anyone ever again!! Even if we dont go philosphical and say "Yugi was famous for and used to be a VESSEL, so that's why none other than Yuya Sakaki was the unstable member and the one who causes Zarc to return, becoming a Vessel for all the others (Yuri, Yugo and Yayayayu)" it's still obvious. Means: The Protagonists are not gone, they are ON SCREEN ALL THE TIME!!
the reason and this is somewhat confirmed because one of the creators of arc-v sort of confirmed it is that the 4 dimensions are dimensions where the protagonists of each never existed and the events that transpired never happened. this is now from what i can tell a result of the original dimensions splitting into 4 new ones.
@@shawnlord3419 So basically it's just a cop-out. While Yuya only had Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon going for him, OG's had these: *Yugi* - Chaos Soldier, Buster Blader, Magician of Black Chaos, Dark Magician Girl, Arcana Knight Joker, Osiris, Obelisk, Ra, and Horakhty. *Judai* - Flame Wingman and Shining Flare Wingman, Absolute Zero, Gaia, Acid, Elixirir, Sunriser, Rainbow Neos, and Stratos. *Yusei* - Junk Warrior, Nitro Warrior, Turbo Warrior, Junk Archer, Junk Destroyer, Formula Synchron, Stardust Dragon, Shooting Star Dragon, Shooting Star Savior Dragon, and Shooting Quasar Dragon. *Yuma* - No. 39 Aspiring Emperor - Hope, Hope Ray V and Victory, Beyond the Hope, Hope Lightning, Gagaga Cowboy, and Future Hope.
Anayos while by the end of arc v he had all the dimsanol dragons and there evolved froms, techniquely z-arc as while and rainbow magion and a couple of paladin extra monsters and the other fused forms of the dimsonal dragons so he still had a lot going for him as while
Good question honestly! I'm not sure if there is a solid reason, but maybe they couldn't think of a reason as to why Yusei would have evil in his heart
Jorge Montoya If I think of a good enough reason then I definitely will! I don't make these theory videos too often, only when I can establish enough evidence! But I'll def look into it!
sorry i don't know when yuma went bad i only watched zexal for galaxy eyes lol, but id say yugi went bad because (untill yugi changed him) atem was quite a dark spirit and jaden had a dark side(the supreme king) where as yusei did not have any dark influence except maybe his rough life and the tragedies he went through as a child which couldve both been helped by his close relationships with his friends (as shown in beginning of bonds beyond time)
So the way I saw it, was just that things were split up at random almost. A big thing to note is that The City never had the momentum malfunction. I don't think it's that Yusei doesn't exist in The City, but without that explosion, he would have never been orphaned, he would have never met Martha, Jack, and Crow, and he would have never become a Duelist (since he most likely would've followed his passion, science and machinery, just like his father). So it's not that these characters don't exist, just that the specific coincidences that lead to their rise never happened.
Thats what I thought as well. Yuma would most likely be carded without Astral, Yugi is simply too old / not revelant anymore and lives in Standard or Fusion. But I can't figure out where Judai would be.
+Kisetokage Jaden is a Fusion user so he'd obviously be a Fusionite, where as Yugi would most likely live in Standard since there are not only Fusion but also Xyz monster that'll work well with his Dark Magician.
William Tibbits I know but since Standart didnt have Fusion, Synchro and Xyz originally, I guessed Yugi could live in both. I'm aware that Jaden would be in Fusion, but that also means he would be in Academia, because Asuka was there as well and nobody knows what the Academy is doing. However I doubt that Jaden would card people, but he isn't with the Resistance either. So he's just kinda not around. Maybe he's in Venice.
I still believe that the reason is because the other main characters would steal Yuya's spotlight and that's the reason that they gave us Asuka, Edo, Jack, Crow and Kaito just as fan service since they couldn't give us the main characters. But if Zarc manages to revive and no one can stop him i do hope that the main characters pop out of nowhere. And with your theory i guess it would make sense because it was Judai, Yusei and Yuma who united the other characters and with out them they couldn't meet or become friends.
But the counterparts are actually relevant to the plot and were Arc V chracters. They wouldn'T just give that much glory to an old MC in a new show(for good reason).
Megabuster Man Yeah, the writers kind of dropped the ball with GX. Although apparently, 5ds isn't too bad, if you can look past the whole "card games on motorcycles" bit.
This theory does make a lot of sense, and I agree with it. But for the people who have brains that can't comprehend this, you could just say the first 4 or 5 ( depending if Atem and Yugi count as one protagonist or two.) met Yuma before somehow and when the xyz dimension was attacked the protagonists other that Yuma, went there to help and got carded. ( but I doubt anyone would have the skills or even guts to card them)
well they might againest say jaden and yuma, since without the numbers yuma isnt as good (although hes still amazing after after all the experience he got from helping astral), and jaden just isn't known quite so widely as a great duelist like yusei and yugi, this is shown in gx where the only people who truly acknowledge his skill are those who know or have dueled him, where as yusei and yugi are well known to be insanely (to the point of being ridiculous) good duelists.
true...but Jaden also was never put on the same fame platforms as Yugi or Yusei either...everyone knew who they were because they were in broadcasted worldwide championships and whatnot...jaden was stuck in duel academy but his skill is definitely up there with them...id even say he's 2nd best with yusei as #1 in pure skill....yugi(atem) was a duel god for sure but got lucky way too much and cheated a lot too whether or not ppl like to admit it...hell jaden beat a guy who pretty much killed the entire world
I'm sorry but with the amount of power imbued into yugi I just can't see anyone else beating the king of games (who was said to create the game in the first place). He had all 3 god cards and exodia. I'm sorry but it's a win
otaku dx yeah,god card are shit now, yesterday i was able to summon 3 8 stars synchro monster in one turn that can only be defeated by banishing,obviously i won the duel in 2 turns
When you say Yugi, do you mean Atem? Because Yugi himself is actually pretty terrible. The most interesting character story wise is Yusei because he is more than just a child.
to me duel monsters is one of the worst ever first series of an anime. duelist kingdom sucked the virtual wold waking the dragon weren't good either. series 5 was way to jumbled. battle city was the best personally yugioh abridged makes the unbearable parts bearable.
anakin smith The abridges series is great xD But yeah, I think the people that say "Yugioh went to sh*t after DM" just let nostalgia play too much of a factor.. Also they probably never gave the shows after a chance, its one of my biggest pet peeves when people say that honestly haha
1:39Z-Arc Boys and Ray Akaba Girls. Standard/Pendulum: Yugi Muto as Yuya Sakaki and Tea Gardner as Zuzu Boyle. Fusion: Jaden Yuki as Yuri and Blair Flannigen as Celina. Synchro: Yusei Fudo as Yugo and Akiza Izinski as Rin. Xyz: Yuto as Yuma Tsukumo and Lulu Obsidian as Tori Meadows.
Bond beyond time 2 goddammit,there should be protagonists vs zarc,last series of arc v so dissapointing,it would have been more epic if there had been yuya,yuto,yugo and yuri face zarc instead just sealing him
TheLionTurtle You know when you think about it, Auska was the one the who had a part to play in making Yuri feel like an outcast and turning him evil which subsequently led to a number of things that helped further Zarc's revival. What do you know, she was important after all... Kind of... Poor Auska.😔
See I thought they were all just busy in their own lives I mean like here Yugi:possibly going through school Judai:traveling the world to get better at dueling Yusei:running his dad's company Yuma:basically the end of zexal I could be wrong but I also agree with that
I saw a different theory: When the world split into 4, Ray merged each of Z-arc’s counterparts with one of the protagonists First: Z-arc is a fully evil being, but only Joeri showed evil traits. It’s unlikely Z-arc was 75% good and 25% bad. Second: look at each of the characters closely: Yuya and Yugi: they both have multi coloured spikey hair split into 2 layers front and back. They both wear their school uniforms as a cape and carry some sort of pendant of power. When Yugi losr control to and almost killed Kaiba, he feared to duel again, not trusting himself. A nearly identical reaction to Yuya. When both characters find that their dueling might cause suffering for others. They halt, immediately. They both runs Magician decks mixed with dragons and strange creaturez. Yuto and Yuma: While Yuto may be more ruthless then Yuma’s cheery personality, we can see before the Acadamia invasion Yuto also had a friendly and cheerful personality, but it all changed with the kidnapping of a loved one and the calamity of war. Both share determination to try and achieve their goals no matter the cost or amount of attempts, the only difference being that Yuto is more successful in achieving his goals. Both run warrior and spellcaster based decks with warrior Xyz monsters. Yugo and Yusei: They both have nearly identical origin stories: growing up in poverty, however through savings and studies managed to build their own d-wheel, and escaped the poverty. Both show very little care for the Tops, and for security authority. Both run decks full of machine monsters that allow the user to synchro summon nearly any level of synchro monsters. Yuri and Jaden: Those who watched GX might think this one is insane, until they realize: By the end of Gx Jaden is revealed to be a reincarnation of the darkness of the Supreme King, Jaden is the Supreme King, and when the Supreme King took over Jaden committed atrocities. Furthermore, he fused the souls of himself and Yubel, meaning Jaden, Yubel, and the Supreme King are all the same person. And when Z-arc was added to the mix, it fully corrupted him. Yuri doesn’t duel cause he’s ordered to, he duels for fun, just like Jaden. He mocks his enemies while establishing a clear dominance, and plays in a way to slowly strip away and use his opponents cards to his advantage, just like the Supreme King. He finds great pleasure in malicious and sadistic plans and actions to psychologically torment his enemies: just like Yubel. Both Yuri and Yubel run dark plant based decks. And, the one card that Yuri, Jaden, the Supreme King, and Yubel have in common: Super Polymerization. A magical special card created by the Supreme King by sacrificing people through negative emotions, a one of a kind card.
Red Hood Indeed! Then again, this is just my theory, and who knows if the writers have actually given it this much thought! I'd like to think so though
5:29 Z-ARC Boys and Ray Akaba Girls Yugi Muto as Yuya Sakaki & Tea Gardner as Zuzu Boyle Yuri as Jaden Yuki & Celina as Blair Flanagan Yugo as Yusei Fudo & Rin as Akiza Isinski Yuto as Yuma Tsukumo & Tori Meadows as Lulu Obsidian
I hope Zarc gives us some exposition on that when he revives. And since Ray is gonna come back soon, she will probably do so aswell. I'm sure she knows something Leo doesn't.
Wow you've given me so much nostalgia. I remember watching Yugioh so much as a kid. Thank you for this. I appreciate you bringing back my love for Yugioh.
You, sir, have some crazy timing. I just started watching it about 6 minutes ago. I haven't made a decision yet, but I can already tell that it's leagues better than zexal.
Dylan Burgdorf That is awesome!! I hope you really do enjoy it! I liked it more than Zexal, but the main complaints with Arc-V are towards the middle-end so I hope you like it all the way through!
So far it's pretty good. I doubt that it will replace Battle City as my number one, but I love the fact that the duelists who aren't in some kind of shadow game finally have a reason to act like they've been been hit physically when they take damage. My only gripes are that the theme songs are meh, I personally prefer the mechanical duel disks over the laser ones, and Crunchyroll only has 60 episodes. 8/10 with a possibility of a better score in the future.
Dylan Burgdorf I watched all of zexal, and it was terrible, this one is good for itself but its way too much plot and not enough dueling for me, more like 5ds in the story set up, but a lot of pointless time filling goes on
I think that synchro monsters did not appear in zexal because of the ener-d. Yusei became a scientist at the end of 5ds and found a way to stabilize the energy production of Synchro monsters. If his theory wasn't a permanent fix and/or his team needed more time to get the stabilization right and create a permanent fix, the use of synchros would have been banned to prevent a zero reverse. If zexal takes place in the main timeline, then it would explain the lack of synchros. By the time zarc rolled around we know that synchro monsters were a thing again. So thus they were unbanned due to their stabilization finally being completed.
I came up with a filler series of the four (Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, and Yuma) getting their souls seperated from their bodies. Their souls would then be placed into an amulet which a new character would wear and have the four of them with him. (like Atem for Yugi) The characters goal would be to search for the bodies of the four and help them get their lives back. I thought it would be a good way to have the main characters meet and interact with each other better. But it is just a idea.
Kamen Rider Nexus i didn’t watch Arc V, but the D Wheel Jack uses mainly both in 5D’s and in Arc V is not Yusei’s original D Wheel, Jack said he broke it and replaced it with his current one
The real reason is because MCs from the previous series would steal the show from current MC. Maybe not so much Judai and Yuma, but if Yugi or Yusei shows up, everyone is going to be more interested in them than Yuya. The audience's focus will shift away from the intended main protagonist to whoever else the audience likes best, which would ruin the intended story. Good writers know this and will avoid writing in old main characters other than giving them a few seconds of cameo.
Well then, the writers f'ed up, if they wanted to show us a protagonist who becomes an antagonist. IDK, if I was in charge, I would make Zarc too powerful for Ray to handle, and then have the 4 previous protagonists show up, and defeat him in a swift fashion (like how Atem defeated Diva in DSoD).
Would have been cool if they maybe shown yusei, Yuki and Yugi watching the yuya or crow dueling to save the world or just showing Yuki and Yugi just chilling and yusei ridding his love (bike)
xXKaiserKnightAnimationsXx fuck all of them and make the duelist of the roses cannon and bring the rose duelist in this, since I stopped watching after 5D and the rest of the story seems like nonsense to me lol.
Another Theory says that Rey made the 4 Yu boys by combining the quarters of Zarc with the protags Yuya=Zarc+Yugi and Atem (literally can Create Cards that didn't exist before and we see Yuya do that alot) Yugo=Zarc+Yusei (have the same backstory atleast 95% is same like some scenes from both can be put side by side) Yuto=Zarc+Yuma and somewhat Astral (literally was a Nice boy like Yuma to 80% and 20% normal human only reason he seemed cold was because of the War) Yuri=Zarc+Jaden, Yubel and the Supreme King (where Rey somewhat miscalculated since, like Jaden has fun dueling, loke Yubel is Sadistic and like the Supreme King is arrogant and has the Skill to back up that Arrogance and like the SK he doesn't take his Enemies seriously) With this Theory that means Yuya possesses Yugi, Atem, Jaden, Supreme King, Yubel, Yusei, Yuma, Yuto, Yugo, Yuri and Zarc too (and somewhat Astral too) that would make him literally the most Powerful Duelist ever
The answer is so simple: Yusei can't meet Yugi. Or Yuma, or Yuya. There was a 100-year time gap in between 5Ds and Duel Monsters, and them meeting would implode the world and destroy everything. Also, timelines imploding would cause the dimensions imploding, causing the revival of both Zarc and Ray. At the same time. Because mass cannot intersect mass, the original dimension would be GIGANTIC. And four identical earths? Yeah no. The four earths in the intro would not be able to exist. Even if they did exist within space, are the four dimensions on the same earths or on different earths? If they were on the same earth, how are they shown as four identical earths? Wouldn't the dimensions intersect, creating the United World in the first place? Arc-V never split, it just reset. All the dimensions are one, otherwise how would they be able to travel between them?
Yeah, you're right. However, "Trudge" could, in fact, be the son/grandson of Yugi's former classmate (who only appeared in Season 0, I might add) and he is in fact Ushio the 3rd! Who looks just like his grandfather.
The reason the previous protagonist are not in ARC-V because the fusion, synchro, and xyz dimension is probably set from a different timeline. For example, when the Lancers traveled to the synchro dimension, Yusei didn't appear and we saw Crow, Jack, and Yuya's third counterpart, Yugo, who is the main character of the synchro dimension and when the Lancers traveled to the xyz and fusion dimension, Yuma and Judai didn't appear and we saw Yuya's two other counterparts, Yuto, who is the main character of the xyz dimension, and Yuri, who is the main character of the fusion dimension. Also we saw Kite from the xyz dimension and Alexis from the fusion dimension. I'm a couple episodes away from finishing the last season of the ARC-V. If you guys want me to edit something, comment down below.
Lets de-prove that theory with this example : Kite should be good. Kite lost his memories? It has to be that, otherwise, its a different kite. YUMA has Astral, and guess what Astral has, thats right, you guessed it, the NUMERON CODE, which means he can play god, theres no way Zarc is ever touching him, but counter statement, at the end of *ZeXal*, they all had to stop a new (unshown) villan, and that villan could've been Zarc, and if all these universes are really together, then he probably beat them, yada yada....
Hmm , that would actually be interesting if Zarc was the villain in Astral world! Never considered that, but keep in mind, if this is 100 years after Zexal, Yuma would be passed away, along with the rest of the Zexal cast. So the numeron code might not be in play anymore. But hey, you make a good point, and it is just a theory! There are definitely some holes in it
But isnt astral immortal so he would have the numeron code anyways and even if he wasnt immortal...the numeron code will still be with astral world and barian would be on their side and they could wreck him... BUT ANYWAYS has anyone thought that they might just exist in different dimensions? Like the other 4 protagonists are in a different dimension..As in like remember in GX there are 12 dimensions.....say the one in ARC-V is one of those dimensions and after it split and became 4 there were just another extra 3. Lets say astral is still alive cause hes immortal ...he probably wouldnt get involved unless the other dimensions REALLY needed help so he'd leave the job to the protagonists of ARC-V and only get involved if they needed it...so yeah. The wiki even says that the alexis rhodes in ARC-V is an alternate universe version of the one in GX...that means that that the other characters in the series are also alternate universe versions of the characters from the previous series..althought technically i think it would be alternate dimensions cause arent dimensions bigger than universes?.......Anyways yeah. I'd rather think of it this way as opposed to all the previous protagonists were just erased...and this is hopefully how it is despite the ending of the series.
Considering that the previous 4 protagonists all have some kind of power or magic involved, it’s possible that it protected them from being messed with.
I breathe in this theory!!! It makes perfect sense. My previous theory before the entire Zarc/Ray thing was revealed is that Akaba Leo is actually Kaiba Seto, but now that Ray and Zarc are introduced, I know better now. Now I was fiddling with this theory as well so I agree with you. But it would be nice to get explanation about why none of the original YGO series side chara such as Jounouchi/Joey or Anzu/Tea or even Bakura not mentioned....
Also as for the zarc resurrection theory it's likely that would have happened naturally if not for Ray's interference. From we saw of the bracelets, their primary function seems to be as a fail-safe preventing the Yu boys from meeting. If one of them enters the same area as another (providing one of the bracelet girls are near one of them) then the Yu boy who was originally there gets transported to another location. The fact that this system is the one used to stop Zarc's resurrection means that the way Zarc revives wouldn't be stopped by dueling. After all the way Zarc revives is by having all Yu boys in one place (and them dueling each other), so the theory that Zarc chose not to revive the four protagonist because they can stop his ressurrections doesn't hold a lot of weight. Also as Zarc aimed to be the strongest duelist by beating all others, preventing some of the strongest duelists from dueling doesn't make a lot of sense either. Finally, as I explained in the comment below at least Yusei is confirmed to exist in his dimension.
Thomas Newton he was a person but his insanity make him fuse whit his four dragons to obtain a "god-like power" in his words since he become so powerfull than no one was able to satisfie him/ be a good rival in a duel againts him, in that moment he fuse whit the dragons him lose his humanity (both spiritual and terranal)
Excellent theory! although I disagree with one thing. Jack, Crow, and Kaito would fight back with or without the involvement of Yusei and Yuma. To merge dimensions, Leo needs to invade all dimensions first. Crow would obviously fight back to protect the kids. Jack may fight because of his title as King. Kaito, the one person in Zexal who never lose to Yuma, would go so far as destroying the world to protect his brother. Bringing these 3 back is like signing the death certificate for Leo, which ultimately leads to Zarc's failure. And if Zarc needs to bring someone back no matter what, there are still plenty of better choices to choose from. 5D's has Aki, who was literally a witch without Yusei's involvement. Sherry who only wanted to avenge her father, or even Divine who might team up with Leo for his own benefit. Zexal has Vector, well, I don't need to explain, do I? Number 96, or Mr. Heartland. Not only are these characters less likely to oppose Leo, in case they do fight back, they are also arguably weaker than Jack, Crow, and Kaito.
I add just a couple extra, Why not revive Jonouichi and Kaiba, The Panda dude. I guess Kaiba could be bought and No one is Luckier than the God of Luck Himself. What I was getting at is it possible that he wanted to break friendships that transcended time, since they lead to powerful foes. I say the Army of Light is revealed; those forces mentioned and not shone are Leos forces trying to bring the worlds together.
Kody Tiffany Kaiba isnt really corruptable nor evil. hes more neutral throught the series, just wants to be a huge dick most of the time. but he has been known to put aside his hatred for yugi and his friends if ge deemed a threat large enough, or found out he was being used (like in the first movie). basicly, the moment kaiba realized what was going on, Zarc would, well, get a neutron blast to the face.
So make it clearly: Duel Monsters, Duel Monsters GX and 5D's are a Universe. ZEXAL is another Universe, not a sequel. Arc-V is another Universe that was done in 5 others universes. And the protagonists are not in Arc-V because they are not the protagonists in those series, that's simple. And the other's appearance was made just for the show and for the new cards for old cards support.
So I have a question so in the original dimension which you stated that you believe is canon and is the original Yu-Gi-Oh how many years do youy think it is in the future once you get to Arc- V
Guys in 5ds wasn't it about idk 30-40 years after gx? It's pretty simple why the protagonist aren't in here . Their dead they can't live forever. Now zexal I can see people questioning why isn't Yuma there?? But with yugi,judai, yusei their not alive anymore
I think they are hiding something for us, I think they will show the older protagonists and I hope that, or atleast they will show them at least smiling or just looking at the defeat of zarc. or maybe the protagonists are also split into 4. and I'm sure that every protagonist was in 1 of the 4 dimensions, because yugi mostly uses normal monsters, Judai uses fusion, Yusei uses synchro, yuma uses xyz. maybe before the split they were one?
meedogh Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei have all met before. There seems to be a split after 5Ds. Since Synchros would destroy the world, it was unlikely that Zexal takes place at that timeline, but there are statues of "legendary monsters" (used by the protagonists of DM) in Zexal that tie into Duel Monsters.
To be fair, part of the lore is that Yusei eventually focused his whole life into preventing the incident leading to the Kikoutei invasion, hence ultimately preventing it.
This is old but, maybe someone will see it, I believe that the old protagonists are in arc v and just don’t show up, I mean if z arc was messing up stuff in the go dimension, why didn’t they team up to stop them? They don’t because they would out shadow Yuya it’s his story, they had their turn, (no pun intended). They are alive, but they don’t show up
I think to prove that 4 protags were in the same timeline and the summoning method complex can take a history book. We could say like this: years after the time of 5Ds (when Yusei was already dead),ppl discovered XYZ,and probably Astral and Barian world. Then we have the time of Zexal when ppl forsook all Fusion and Synchro summon to pursuit XYZ (while a few ppl still fusion during the time of 5Ds). U see in the end of Zexal Yuma and his friends were going to attack "sth strange" that was invading Astral,Barian and the Earth. It could be that Yuma won,died of old age and over time Barian and Astral world became irrelevant. Or it could be that a great war broke out that destroyed Astral and Barian,but the Earth managed to survive and win,some duelists died in battle while some died of old age. Maybe due to the aftermath of the war that ppl realized they needed more than XYZ,or they just rediscovered Fusion and Synchro. Anyways,we have a renaissance on Fusion and Synchro and finally 3 summoning methods coexist equally (although Ritual wasn't recovered much XD). So years (maybe hundreds of) after Yuma's death and the renaissance,we have a new star named Zarc who could use all 3 summoning methods then the story just goes like what Yugioh Everything said.
I'm (partly) with you on that theory. ARC-V's story is far better structured and more complex than those of the older animes, so they must be hiding something from us. ARC-V seems more thought out, more precisely planned, while the older ones seem to have lots of improvisation. Also, I have a strange feeling that for some unexpected reason, Leo fails to revive Ray, or it just won't escalate as he planned. Zarc's revival on its own has a bigger probability. Just a thought.
Since the original timeline was destroyed. The world was rewritten as certain things was wiped out so no strong person could appear whether if it’s for a good or bad reason. The four Zarc beings were embedded then with the righteousness of the four heroes. Each of the Zarc beings possess goodness in them as they show characteristics from the four original protagonist.
I saw this vid and I never saw anything other than the original yugioh series and I thought this might tell me what the new one is like.....I wasn't wrong
switchtalent123 I can imagine how confusing this video was then! ALOT has happened since the original, and it definitely can be tricky to keep track of everything, especially with all the new summoning methods
that being said, I do appreciate that arc V is doing things besides just stringing card games together. its cool that you responded to me, best of luck to you
wait, if this is the case, then what dimension does vrains take place in? the link dimension (zarc mentioned something about a 5th dimension when he summoned his fusion/synchro/xyz/pendulum/effect monster)
Im slightly confuse, So this zarc dude plan this whole out since the first Yugioh!? And Pick who would be the main MC on each series and plan his survival all the way to now??
No zarc came after them but chose people close to the former protags that he idolised to resurrect long after their deaths. This probably didn't help but I hope it did :)
Nice theory as always. I have a timeline theory, but it does go against your theory of the five shows, first four and Arc-V's normal dimension, being on a unified timeline. Now, I'll admit that the theory is a bit of a stretch, considering there isn't a lot of hard evidence. The theory is that the first three shows, DM GX and 5D's, are all on the same timeline. However, Z-One and the Ark Cradle event caused the timeline to be split into three parts. I'll refer to these parts as follows: Original Timeline = Z-One never appeared in 5D's and the timeline ends with Z-One and the others going to the past. Yusei Timeline = Yusei wins the duel against Z-One Z-One Timeline = Z-One wins the duel against Yusei Now, that third timeline is probably the hardest to convince people that it exists since it involves a main character dying. However, this is a case where the villain winning does not mean the end of the world. Examples: Marik wanted to gain the power of the pharaoh, but his psycho side being in control would probably lead to the death of many people. Bakura and Dartz flat out were going to destroy the world. Yubel uniting all the dimensions had high potential of backfiring, but fortunately it didn't. The point is is that Z-One was only trying to get rid of Moment, not destroy the world. He wanted peace and happiness in his time, so he had to go the past. Back to the timeline theory, quite the segue I know. We established the first three shows take place on a Unified Timeline, then the Ark Cradle Event splits the timeline into three separate ones. Zexal's placement is not as hard to figure out as it may seem. The answer is in the lack of Synchros. Zexal takes place on the Yusei Timeline because the results of hearing what Synchro and Moment does in the future leads to the destruction of Moment before it can get out of hand, but in a more contained way than Z-One's idea of destroying it. What does Moment have to do with this? Well, Moment is what gives Synchros their "power", and destroying it caused the Synchros' "Power" to disappear making them useless. To make sure that Dueling would continue to evolve, XYZ monsters were introduced to see that would happen. Arc-V's placement may be the most difficult to reason out, and that is because of the returning characters as well as the four dimensions. However, your idea that Zarc revived those particular characters means the other four shows must have taken place before it, right? Which would mean that it takes place after Zexal on the Yusei Timeline, correct? Well, I believe that the show takes place on the Original Timeline. Why? Because all different Summoning methods are in this show. If it took place after Zexal, Synchros would not exist. Of course, Zexal taking place on one timeline and Arc-V taking place on another doesn't explain how Kaito returns in Arc-V. This is where the Multiple Worlds theory takes place. The theory is that for every decision that is made, another reality is created where a different decision was made. So, the Kaito and other returning characters we see in Arc-V are not the same as their original counterparts. Now, to explain Arc-V's placement, the answer is Z-Arc and Ray. Ray is Leo Akaba's daughter, and his wish to bring her back was what sent him off the deep end. As a result of reuniting her, and all of the dimensions, however, caused Z-Arc to return as well. After his defeat, and the subsequent re-splitting of him and Ray into the Yu Boys and the Bracelet Girls, Leo believes this to be the best possible solution. However, Z-Arc wasn't done as the damage he caused across all the dimensions were now converged in one. This leads to the destruction of many homes, and many lives are lost, including the Bracelet Girls. As Leo tries desperately to revive his daughter, again, a familiar energy is felt around the world. Z-Arc's final plan was to destroy the existence of all reality, not just humanity. He let people unknowingly create Moment Chambers around the world, and eventually they all were set off once he saw fit. How is Z-Arc still around? He is actually a spirit, like Atem and Yami Bakura. He houses himself in a prolific scientist and manipulates him into believing that Moment is the best solution to the problems of the world, and the other scientists trusted him. After the subsequent destruction of the world, and Leo's desperation to see his daughter, and everyone else at that point, caused him to become Z-One. Why did he choose that name? Z-One is just like Z-Arc in that it is a Z followed by a dash and then a three letter word so that he can remember who did this. The One represents the fact that he was the last person alive. Now, why did he go to the 5D's era instead of to when Z-Arc was first around? Because he wanted to erase the root of the problem, Moment. Z-Arc used all of the negative emotions in the world to cause Zero Reverse to happen and the subsequent end of the world. So, Leo decided the easiest way to do that was to destroy Moment before Z-Arc ever existed. END OF THEORY I will say that the last three or four paragraphs are pure speculation since we don't know how Arc-V is going to end. Also, wanted to throw this out there, the Z-One timeline I outlined earlier is where I believe the Sixth Show to take place. The Ark Cradle has caused the destruction of Neo Domino City and the people are trying to get back on their feet. (The show takes place far enough along that people remember it as a great tragedy, and that they are almost back to what it was like before then.) This allows us to see people duel for anything, food, money, etc. Also, since the characters will have a tendency to sacrifice to gain, this would allow Ritual Monsters to be the Fancy Summoning Method of the Show. It would also allow us to see something like how when a Dark Signer would Summon their Earthbound, innocent people were offered up. The same could happen when bad guys Ritual Summon. What do you think of the Timeline theory, and of the possible Sixth Series idea? I know there's a lot of reaching in the Timeline Theory, but then again when isn't there when it comes to making a theory?
I definitely like it! Love reading timeline possibilities like this, I slightly disagree, but the concept we agree on. There was something that happened that split the line after GX to 5Ds and Zexal. I would love to see the 6th series be on that Z-One timeline you mentioned!
For all the complicated theory reasons there's a very simple one - they would've stolen the spotlight from Yuya. That was probably the main reason they weren't included and if there're are other ones then they worked backwards from that. Although I don't think Zarc planned so far as to force Leo to fuse the dimensions. All he really needed was a way to cross between them. By that point the balance was broken and it all started spiraling towards the inevitable conclusion of his Avatars battling each other and merging together. The merging of the dimensions is not necessary for Zarc's revival. I think if he really did choose those characters then it was more along the lines of fostering the growth of his Avatars. Yugo has expressed his admiration of Jack and we know Yuto has also been impressed by Kaito. And most of them worked as a rival for the protagonists in the previous seasons. But that's only if he really chose them.
It's so damn embarassing that 2019 Card effects still get made up, misspelled or whatever. But mostly made up. So embarassing. Plot Holes, also Massive Ones, and of course, many characters are just left out of the show with no explanation at all. Yuuya is nothing compared to Jaden, who was never mentioned... The enemies are a joke: Whatever they cheat or not, but they Freaking Stupid. Especially Yuri could be defeated if ANYONE had A SINGLE CARD that can Destroy a Single Monster. He just summons high ATK and everyone says, and actually believes, you can't do anything against that... Sad...
I think the question is how he was able to split the dimension into 4 different ones in the first place? It was never shown if he had superpowers or not in the beginning, used a magic item or something,in the anime. All we know is that he was the best duelist of his time and used his monsters to do so(let's be real, that doesn't make much sense)
So if this is correct and that the united dimensions connected to the main timeline. Then what if Ray's idea wasn't to split herself up. She only meant to seperata zarc and the dimensions to make it harder. But what if she right before she went to confront zarc she also wanted to bring back the the four legendary heroes in each and every dimensions. So that if Zarc does try to come back they would put a stop to him. But sometihng had to go wrong. Zarc must've saw what Ray was doing and quickly acted to stop her from bringing back the four legendary duelist from the dead. along with that she also might've wanted to bring back their friends and companions as back up against. So Zarc aborted the main 4 heores. So as of now they were never even born. So Zarc is evil. And being the main protage(Antag now) then this must means with his growing power when he becomes one. No one will be able to stand up to him. Unless Ray finds a way to bring back atleast TWO of the old heroes. And Reiji cant stop Zarc. Him and Akaba leo BARELY held their own once Zarc Began awakening. Ray is the only thing that can stand a chance now. But his power seperately countinues to grow. The monsters evolve and fusion and overlay with each other to further increase their power. Im sorry but this might end with everoyne losing. If Ray uses the bracelet cards again. She might can correctly bring back. Yusei, Judai, Yuma, and the god Atem. anyways I hope you read this, sorry it was so long.
Really enjoyed reading that! I like this theory a lot, especially the part where something went wrong, because it seems something ALWAYS goes wrong in Yugioh hahah its possible this happened! Honestly, there is no wrong or right answers when speculating, just hope the show gives us more info soon!
the original Yu-Gi-Oh and GX were the only two good series; after that the whole idea of yugioh just got far too complicated, and they lost the whole meaning of the game by trying to make it "Better" with all these complicated summons, speed duels and Zexal crap. just...give us a good, original game of yu-gi-oh. like..Yugi vs Jaden. that would be nice.
This is late, but maybe the reason why the ARC-V world is the way it is is because it's in another universe altogether. That's probably why the first four aren't in ARC-V. In their place, are the Yu boys. Yuya starting out as a version of Yugi, particularly before he awakened his Pendulum powers, Yuri being an alternate version of Jaden/Judai, Yugo being an alternate version of Yusei, and Yuto being an alternate version of Yuma. It's kind of like Kamen Rider Decade (if you've watched that). Both go through alternate versions of the worlds of their predecessors and have to defeat the alternate versions of the heroes of the past in order to obtain and use their powers. That's also probably why they kept the Yu boys as one person towards the end of the show. As with Zarc, the Four Dragons belonged to Yuya, but he couldn't use them to their full ability without having the powers of his other selves at his disposal. Kind of like how Judai accepted that he needed to use both sides of himself to be complete, Yuya needed his three other selves to be complete also.
I am so happy I saw this on my recommendation list. Such an interesting video. I can really see this being a reason why the other 4 aren't here. Bloody amazing :)
