Was Blue Girl About To Defeat Soulburner? [Blue Girl's First Battle]

[@amateraceon5202]

"Blue Angel, now upgraded to Blue Girl" I never saw Vrains but this sounds like it would be a downgrade

[@thegreatscribbles960]

It kinda is...and then she gets another upgrade anyway it was a very weird time

[@fabiomoretti6388]

Trickstar being replaced by Marincess in the speed duel format isn’t an upgrade…

[@Zakading]

Yeah upgrades in VRAINS were weird. Blue Angel went to Blue Maiden, dropping the then meta relevant Trickstars with the, to this day, mediocre Marincess. Go Onizuka (the Gouki duelist) also went from a 150 kg hunk of prime cut meat to a scrawny ozempic addict and similarly dropped the top tier Gouki archetype for the abyssmal Dinowrestlers.

[@felipemendes5336]

@@Zakading Marincess have way more results meta wise than Trickstar what are you on about 😂😂😂

[@DarkSymphony777]

​@@Zakading dinowrestlers Don't you mean pankratops and friends

[@anonluxor470]

Honestly what was even the point of giving blue girl a new form if she was just gonna get destroyed it's like they had no faith in this character

[@dayvonlouis5187]

They didn’t it’s like she was designed to be the Yamcha on the side of the heroes despite her deck being a genuinely threatening one both in and out of universe

[@zerocalvin]

to rub salt into the wound, Blue Girl keep on losing even with the help of Aqua... she used to be unbeatable professional player in the vrains world... also new form is probably because her Blue Angel avatar was too corrupted to be used.

[@dayvonlouis5187]

@@zerocalvin that’s even worse to think about I don’t know who even had it worse Aki, Aoi or Ray and her Fragments Aki effectively got written out of significance in the story, Yuzu and her counterparts were relegated to being plot devices in an overly convoluted fetch quest and Aoi was turned into a metaphorical sandbag for most of the cast in Vrains like seriously what the hell

[@pn2294]

To advertise the new Fusion monsters

[@WyntheRogue]

@@dayvonlouis5187 The silver lining is with Studio Bridge and a new director for Sevens, we got to see Romin shine and Asana a few awesome moments as well. All that was needed was someone who wasn't afraid to write women without relying on outdated,sexist tropes.

[@JokerGuy420]

0:35 Yoo, What Soulburner so cheeked up all the sudden(feeling like the pyramids)

[@leeeyles1864]

Stupid, sexy, Soulburner.

[@DeadMedia-vf4je]

Lord forgive me for what I’m about to do

[@oldmanjenkinsgaming3555]

On god😂

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Yusaku: I think we can trust on Soulburner AI: why do you trust on him so quickly? Yusaku: I Have my reasons (The reasons: 0:35) "

[@bad-people6510]

If Jojo characters played card games.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

This duel.... Probably the most infuriating part is that Aoi/ Skye (Blue Girl/Gal) could have easily won, and say at the end "I won't take your Ignis away... BUT you will take us to where are you going instead". That way the story doesn't end immediately, and you keep Emma and Skye in the plot, even if only as spectators of what they will see with Windy and Bohman

[@dancostello4872]

Yes, I wanted something like this to happen! Just because a duel has stakes going into it doesn't mean they have to be strictly adhered to - someone winning a [bet/wager/agreement] but then moving the goalposts to suit them is quite a common trope in media, and if executed correctly is usually for the better. It would admittedly be hard to write because Aoi's primary objective was just obtaining an Ignis for Akira, so if we did rewrite the duel so she wins, we'd also need a scenario where she intentionally goes against her original plan and doesn't take Flame in favour of a more preferable alternative. Or you just press the 'plot device' button and have Kusanagi pull a fast one and give Soulburner an emergency logout before Aoi can steal Flame. My first idea was having Aoi win but then offer Soulburner a deal - she won't take Flame if he leads her to Playmaker so she can take Ai instead (as she also wants her runback from the S1 duel and prove that she can defeat Playmaker); Soulburner would agree, not remotely feeling like he's betraying Playmaker, because he knows full well that she won't win. Either way, it would have had more narrative weight later on because when Go reveals Earth's death at the hands of SOLTech, Aoi would realise that had she taken Flame to Akira like she initially planned, she'd have sentenced him to the same fate.

[@zexalbarian9819]

Dang right. But the writers knew what they were doing

[@ugochukwunyere3196]

@@zexalbarian9819if they did they wouldn’t have forgotten what Bella Madonna was

[@hawkihawkjetstream1657]

imo would have been more fun if Skye did take the Ignis, only for her brother to tell her not to let anyone know cause SOL tech would just kill him, and have her learn a little more about the Ignis from Flame, while Theo gets some character development, before they Duel again so he can get her back. Really was not a fan of 'Lost Incident guys are just the best... ignore Spectre he's weak.' Theo didn't have much character growth and it put down season 1 gang a lot to just have Theo show up and beat everyone and become Yusaku's main ally while Skye got completely shut out until Aqua showed up.

[@WarlockPhantom]

​@ugochukwunyere3196 No no.... The other commenter means the writers "KnEw" what they were doing. Think like, in a tv show when a character does something and the other character beside them says, "You know what you did" in a tone of voice that sounds defeated and snarky. The writers did indeed know exactly what they were doing by making the story what it was, and they still did it anyway.

[@jerbear8884]

I think the most frustrating part of this duel is the fact Soulburner had cards that specifically countered Blue Girl's deck and combos, and was already on a pretty big win streak. He didn't NEED the win from a narrative perspective. Furthermore, Aoi has some of the more difficult duels in the show (Prototype B and the one Knight of Hanoi she duels having counters to her burn strategies, her duel against Specter, and now this loss against Soulburner) To her credit, she does go toe to toe with two of the series main antagonists as Blue Maiden and holds her own fairly well.

[@mariowarion]

I have not seen any of the rush duel shows. Aoi and emma have the hardest competition of all yugioh girls. Izayoi faced misty who in best case is a tertiary villain of the dark signers arc and sherry who is a quarternary villain in the arc cradle arc in case you put antinomy above her. Aoi faced spectre during his debut who is the secondary villain of season 1, bohman who is the strongest villain of season 2 and Ai who is the main villain of season 3.

[@sasir2013]

​@@mariowarion Since you said you haven't watched rush, in both rush series the girls have fought the main character, and even won in particular cases XD

[@MarioMastar]

@@sasir2013 Yeah, Ronin is an exceptional duelist (though she is more interested in guitar playing) and Yua is not only the first female "Yu-tagonist" (well now that they're doing multiple of them) but she's also the owner of a company and also a high tier duelist, teaching the actual main protag Yudias how to duel while Yuhi (her brother who looks like Yuga) is apparently not very good. XD Though all in all, Rush really is a lot better than people give it credit for. Sure it seems slower paced and the plots are sillier, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on as the story really is about a kid trying to build a whole new dueling system that's more accessible to everyone. Yuga is extremely likeable and the others are very funny. Just a shame we can't watch Go Rush in english yet, literally we english speakers are getting the story in english in the game Duel Links, the first time we heard their english voices. Though I think Yuga's english voice was also revealed in a game first, Yugioh Cross Duel, though I don't know if the Yugioh Rush game that came out first was voiced in english.

[@radlaw3476]

​@@MarioMastar Wait a moment, is Yuga not the main character anymore?

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

@@jerbear8884 I would understand it if the writers we're at LEAST self-aware enough that they had a character point out "Blue Angel was a famous duelist, so characters who knew we're going Against her prepared their decks accordingly to counter her especifically"

[@bladersmosh]

After 2 whole years, we finally get another Vrains duel. Let’s hope for more. I’d love to see you do Blue Maiden vs Bohman because even though she lost and nearly had a full on panic attack when she thought she was out of options, she still stood strong and nearly beat the main antagonist of season 2. It shows Aoi at her best duel wise.

[@PhotonV10]

In last turn she should summon the marincess crown tail in def post, send the crystal heart to grave, and she could survive. Alas she protect the link and it's plot made her do it.

[@zexalbarian9819]

Facts. She is not weak she was showing growth especially when she dueled Ai with the help of her brother

[@epicmike205]

0:36 Ayy why SoulBurner cheeked up like that fr

[@ZeroHero3d]

Boy's double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon! Hella ass.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

His duel links defeat render. It's covered by his scarf in the game, but people made memes of him being caked up

[@FireFog44]

@@drakeredgrave6747 Its only covered/censored in the English version of the app, the one shown in the video is the actual original Japanese version.

[@NotNotKris]

Why's soulburner so caked up though 0:35

[@Forgettable_scribe]

It’s just so thick

[@francisharkins]

Salamangreats? Nah more like Salamancakes.... K, I'll go sit in the corner.

[@zomb_lat3night282]

I was just about to comment this xD

[@zomb_lat3night282]

​@francisharkins he's been banished face down

[@Ky0ko]

THATS WHAT I SAID

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Since the Trickstar deck was one of the most powerful of the era, the Vrains writers *Cough* YOSHIDA *Cough* always made Blue angel do a lot of misplays, and then made her hit her face against a wall or the floor

[@dajohnniesanders6997]

I'm pretty sure they have one of each trickster in the anime, making it impossible for duplicates card combos.

[@darkwolf9637]

Fun fact the main writer for duels in vrains said basically exactly this about soulburner. Basically he said he hated writings duels for soulburner because salamangreat was such a good deck it was really difficult to put him in losing situations without making him super unlucky or making him play like an idiot

[@samurexatlas7373]

@@dajohnniesanders6997 Lycoris at 2 copies minimum

[@dustinvance243]

​@@dajohnniesanders6997 nope. She does run multiple Lycoris and multiple reincarnations even the writers knew that this was trickstars most reliable win con and specifically highlight it in her duel with Spectre. The thing is they limited her to only using trickstar and later marincess cards. Which means she didn't have stuff like dark room of nightmare to stack with all the burn trickstars do or toxic hand traps like droll and lockbird for ripping the opponent's hand leaving them with nothing. Which is completely understandable because one, they aren't trickstar cards and 2, they'd completely screw up the duels involving her because she'd be too strong if she used those cards.

[@fnfgammer2014]

Why do people hate misplays in Vrain but have no problem with them in OCG Structures?

[@XxValonxX928]

0:36 I lost my train of thought because of Soulburner cheeks.

[@MRF0XTR0T]

Yo same. Had to do a double take to be sure 😂

[@markmorales7958]

SMG4 Luigi: (Neuron Activation)

[@Flarztheburningsoul]

Same.

[@blast4310]

Soulburner is thiccc

[@misteral9045]

Tight, petite, sculpted, looking back at us, pretending to be upset. HNNNGHHH.

[@Erablier]

First Vrains analysis was Blue Angel, second was Blue Girl, third will be Blue Maiden

[@bad-people6510]

Followed by Blue Genesis, Blue Sky, Blue Seed, Blue Sub-6, Perfect Blue, and Blue Man Group.

[@WarlockPhantom]

​@@bad-people6510 Don't forget Blue Baker, as her goose gets cooked every time.

[@lilbladeknight]

​​@@bad-people6510blue man group lol

[@roninwarriorsfan]

2 things: 1) one of them had to win because Aoi/Skye wanted to get an ignis for Akira 2) they decided who went first with a race, Soulburner knew that if he lost that race, then Trickstars would burn him everytime he tried to take cards out of his deck through drawing or searching

[@rusto_]

There's a few more things worth pointing out here as well There was no need to link off both Lycoris *and* the token for Holly Angel just to fuse for Sweet Guitar. She could have only used the token in order to summon Bloom (since Bloom requires a Level 2 or lower Trickstar), which means one less wasted card AND means there's one more name in GY for Bella Madonna instead of just sending a token to the abyss. Obviously, this is a shaky argument to make, but one nonetheless. If she has access to all Trickstar cards that were currently out in the OCG, then Trickstar Foxglove Witch would be in her Extra Deck, which is a Link-3 requiring 2+ Fairies. She could have made it with Divaridis with... let's say she uses the Bloom on the previous scenario. Foxglove burns on summon for each card the opponent controls, which is Heatleo and Gate of Fire, -400. Soulburner 900 -> 500LP. One more name in GY, Bella Madonna kills anyway. Let's say we just need the battle phase! Judai said duels are all about fighting, after all. Use her skill, mill whatever, add Lilybell to hand, special summon. The skill does not prevent the monster from being summoned that turn, as far as we know! Banish Fusion from GY, add back Corobane. Lilybell attack directly, win, as Raccoon can only be used while a Salamangreat is battling. But let's imagine that... she doesn't. Corobane is in the deck, I'm gonna use it! Switch Lycoris to ATK and attack into Heatleo with her. Soulburner has no choice but to use Raccoon here as otherwise he won't have a Salamangreat to gain LP with and prevent Corobane from activating. Soulburner 500 -> 2100, Blue Girl takes an unimportant 700. Attack with Foxglove into Heatleo, fire Corobane, 2200 ATK -> 4400, 4400 - 2300 is exact lethal, 2100 -> 0. Even if she inexplicably doesn't use Corobane here, Blue Girl takes 100 more by crashing Foxglove, Foxglove triggers and specials a Link-2 or lower Trickstar from the Extra Deck, then burns for 200 for each card he controls. Summon Holly, deal 400. Holly then gains 400 ATK, goes up to 2400. 2400 into 2300, activate Corobane to go up to 4400, still win. Now that was a bit ridiculous, giving her a card she doesn't have proof of owning for whatever reason, despite having been out for months beforehand. Okay, fine. Activate skill, mill 3 (since a token is a Trickstar monster), add Lilybell anyway, Lilybell special summon. Instead, she attacks with Lycoris first. Soulburner is forced to Raccoon here, 900 -> 2500 LP, Lycoris dies. Divaridis attacks Heatleo, fire Corobane, 3600 > 2300 -> 1300 damage, Soulburner drops from 2500 to 1200. Lilybell attack directly, 800 damage. Now, Soulburner is at 400 LP and can't afford to Burning Draw! Lilybell effect, add back Corobane, Blue Girl passes. Soulburner gets his dead draw, he attacks Lilybell. 2300 > 800, Blue Girl takes 1500 damage and goes to 2500. Next turn, Blue Girl still has the Corobane in hand. Divaridis in, fire Corobane, win. Well, did you notice something? Blue Girl doesn't Normal Summon in this critical turn! Yet another route, and the most efficient one of all. She can just add and then Normal Lilybell, not using the effect. Fusion grab Corobane, battle. Lycoris attacks first, forced to Raccoon, Lycoris dies. Divaridis attacks, fire Corobane, you've seen this before. However, this time, Lilybell can add back Lycoris. Since Lycoris is in GY, there's an empty zone on her field. Lycoris target Lilybell, bounce back and special, Lilybell's effect to special summon activates, attack directly 1 more time for game. Surely there's other lines I'm missing, but the tldr is that there's multiple ways she could have won this duel that never involved Fusion Summoning, Trickstar isn't just a burn deck after all.

[@Skullscorcher]

That’s a lot of information that burnt my brain 🧠

[@JanizMakudomaru]

Yeah, as a Trickstar main, you have listed EXACTLY the plays she could have made with what we've seen and she should have at the time and even without the focus on Burn Trickstars have poppy battle starts that can secure a win. Under the conditions of the anime duels, her archetype is so dangerous to most players that the nerf is malicious here practically every time.

[@serenitysilvermoon]

@Skullscorcher -200

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

​@Skullscorcher-400

[@a-void6774]

This is exactly why I can't deal with modern day Yu-Gi-Oh. It's all special summon, effect, special summon, effect, special summon, effect, graveyard effect, another special summon, then six hundred negates. It's fucking solitaire

[@joshfarmer8408]

I hate this duel SO MUCH. Soulburner did not need this win. And the fact that this is blue girls only duel before she transitions into blie maden is madness.

[@raikonzero]

It would also be her last duel with Trickstars because she would start using Marincess after she met Aqua and became Blue Maiden

[@esteban8471]

Flame was on the line so Soulburner unfortunately had to win.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

​@@esteban8471he didn’t need to WIN. He just had to not LOSE. I do understand what you are saying, but the key distinction is that...

[@drakeredgrave6747]

Like I said, he may not have needed the win but due to stakes he couldn't LOSE...these kinds of stakes caused similar situations in the other series as well...

[@themantyf1116]

@@drakeredgrave6747 and additionally... did he even have not to lose? Even ignoring how in previous seasons we had the likes of Kaito and Kiryu win duels with extremely high stakes, she is not like them: she isn't angry or cruel, and had Emma's influence to compensate for SOL's orders, meaning that even if she is trying to get it for Akira is easy to justify her actually not wanting to give Flame to SOL. Even if she won AND took Flame, it was unlikely to spell the end for him, they could have found a lot of ways around it, with the added benefit that it would have also given more interactions and development to both characters.

[@bradleyharris774]

12:38. Let's not kid ourselves, this card was designed specifically to screw over Blue Girl. Soulburner never uses this card ever again. I know extremely convenient, one-off cards are nothing new for the YuGiOh anime but this example feels especially egregious.

[@virtualcolt]

Anime devs: It was so difficult for us to make Salamangreats lose Also anime devs: Trickstars can otwhat now? Naaah, Blue Angel Girl Maiden is doing meh combos.

[@revolverkyosuke7049]

Also also anime devs: Let's give Salads the most BS cards we can think of. Like this Continuous Trap that shuts down specifically the Trickstar's strategy, or an Equip card that we will just give new effects as it goes on to screw over Revolver.

[@kiyomihattori6460]

@@joshfarmer8408 I thought people tolerated it at best.

[@JunkoEnoshima.]

@@joshfarmer8408Bro thinks he has a point when NONE of the Main characters had a practically meta deck and yet won against better decks. You have no problem when Atem wins with a deck consisted of random ass monsters with no synergy but SALAMANGREATS beating trickstars and rockets but losing to Hydradrive bothers you 😂 ? Comical

[@MarioMastar]

@@revolverkyosuke7049 both of which have nothing to do with what makes Salamangreats so good in the first place...that's the bigger bullsh8t.

[@MarioMastar]

@@joshfarmer8408 It's the bottom of every tier list I've ever seen. Yes it had excellent desk (and say waht you will about the LInk mechanic...I personally hate it and think it's what single handedly ruined Yugioh for casual players cause it's a free summon and not balanced at ALL, but I digress). VRAINS IIRC is the only series to be stopped short because of lack of popularity and I think resulted in the hard reboot with Rush Duel to get casual players back into the game.

[@filipvadas7602]

All the writting decisions in V-rains make total sense when you consider that even one of the lead writers for the Yugioh anime since GX stated that Yusaku was easily the hardest protagonist to write for , because his deck was actually OP at the time; making it difficult to give him organic feeling losses or stressful situation in Duels, while also making said Duel interesting. I have no trouble believing this issue bled to other characters as well with Skye/Blue Girl suffering the most because, realistically, her deck should have easily won her 80% of her Duels

[@ThiefofRPGistheWanderingSoul]

Glad you got another Vrains Duel under your belt, I can really feel how complicated it got. But, it's Duel #75 you've covered. Now the next series you haven't done in a long time is 5D's. Last one was Duel #56 where Yusei fought Malcolm's Thugs in an OTK. There are three duels I think would be great to see from 5D's avoiding the complication of the WRGP duels. Leo, Luna, and Jack vs. Aporia from episodes 141-143, which is a fan-favorite duel for how it did with the twins' relationship qnd paid off the Life Stream Dragon speculation that started in Season 2. Yusei vs Z-one from episodes 148-151, which'd be the first final boss duel you would cover. Finally, Jack vs Dark Signer Carly from episodes 58 and 59, a shorter but great duel that really has a lot of emotion on top of being just an interesting idea to play out a duel similar to Atticus versus Fujiwara.

[@GG-dt5hh]

If we want a 5Ds duel analysis, I have got to suggest Team 5Ds vs Team Taiyo. It's a long, chunky duel, but also one of the best ones in the whole franchise, imo

[@SirFailsalot91]

"Hey, this character has a stupidly powerful burn deck, how many duels should she win in the series?" "Ehh, one, two at most - nobody will care about her."

[@BlueAngelYuGiOh]

having a burn deck is not good in the anime... they only use them to make to opponent look better winning with 100 lp

[@roninwarriorsfan]

she won 3 duels. 1) against that security a.i, 2) against that k.o.h who was her nurse when she had that computer virus, and 3) haru

[@MrDarksol]

I know it's been years since this dual happened and I know that there's no one caring about this anymore but I still stand by this: Blue girl was robbed of her victory thanks to the Joey Wheeler/new best friend character for the main character victory lap. I mean come on in her first official duel as a supposed new person and she ends up losing to the first guy who pops up. Vrains really did this character dirty.

[@Alice_Haukea]

All female characters in Yugioh are done dirty. Remember 5D's? Remember how Aki wanted to become a riding duelist after experiencing it first hand with Yusei? She achieves that goal, but that plot point went nowhere. The final tournament arc was Jack, Crow and Yusei and Aki only had one duel moment where she was subbing in for Crow.

[@MrDarksol]

@Alice_Haukea Oh believe me I will always despise what happened to her in 5Ds especially when she had her role as a signer main character be taken away because of crow.

[@mariowarion]

@@Alice_Haukeacrow worked his ass off to make it possible for team 5D's to enter the tournament. He worked in multiple jobs, lived worse than he had to, he and yusei were working on the d-wheels (including izayoi's) and he was looking for sponsors. From a in-universe perspective he deserved it even more than jack to be a starter of team 5D's. It was his dream to enter the wrgp. Izayoi started with riding duels because she realized it's a more intimate way of dueling. The show also made a huge deal about how important experience is for a riding duel. Izayoi was still in her beginnings and barely defeated trudge. Crow meanwhile was a more experienced riding duelist who worked better with yusei and jack, given their past. I get that people feel like izayoi was neglected after the dark signers arc but the way things were written, I think it's only fair that crow got the starting spot over izayoi. I think people should rather blame how yugioh as a whole is written regarding character growth. Characters in yugioh come to themselves and grow through duels. Like in naruto. This writing style works well with characters who get many fights like Yusei, jack, naruto, sasuke, kakashi and more. But it's not the best choice if you have a big cast. People see izayoi, neji, rock lee and shino as wasted potential because they got neglected at some point after having multiple great fights/duels in the beginnings. The boruto anime showed that this style of writing can be avoided. In boruto the fights are not where characters come to themselves and grow, it's the natural outcome of the development that is already happening. The way characters interact each other, how they view themselves and how they perceive the world around themselves is so fundamentally different from naruto and yugioh. I think such a style would be interesting for a master duel series and make fans look beyond the "if female characters don't have many wins + a good win record = bad" view.

[@jacobisbell9388]

​@Alice_Haukea Don't forget Akizas greatest accomplishment in that one duel was still having something on the board after she got ftkd, couldn't they at least give her the one guy then Yusei has to solo 2 of the 3?

[@michaelguinnee-sh9xd]

@mariowarion I think you completely miss the problem with Crow. The issues with him started in season one since his introduction. By that point, it felt like all the main players on the good side were introduced during the fortune cup. Rex Goodwin even took all of them to the temple and explained the history of the signers and dark signers, where it was foreshadowed that Leo/lua would be a signer with life stream dragon. Then crow shows up out of nowhere, a dark signer is made for him to fight and Akiza is just pushed to the side after her battle, replacing her in the final battle when he wasn’t even a signer. His awkward inclusion in the story is why people made the theory he was supposed to be a dark signer. The issues with the second season have to due with the trio of jack, crow and yusei being the sole focus, with yusei not losing a single match his whole run. This issue could easily have been circumvented if they just switched the order/team around so that yusei wasn’t always the last person. Realistically, yugioh should probably use a bit of both styles for it’s characters, with some development happening from watching other while some from actual dueling. But no matter which style the series uses, the show actually need to put some focus on the characters for it to work, which can happen if the cast stays small and each character gets at least a decent amount of screen time and doesn’t just focus on the main character(im looking at you gx)

[@ZayZenBlaze]

Plot: Oh you improved? That’s great Blue Girl! Now take another loss.

[@MarioMastar]

At least she remains in the story...... RIP Akiza.... and at least she wasn't NEUTERED..... Double RIP Alexis and Mai.

[@zexalbarian9819]

D@mn😳😳

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Haha ​@@MarioMastar

[@KlementtM]

Next video: "Was Blue Girl About To Defeat The Plot?" And the answer may surprise you...

[@BlueAngelYuGiOh]

I wanna cry...

[@ElDiegoLapiz]

Oh my god, soulburner has a really thick............ plot armor...

[@dancostello4872]

Unrelated to the duel (which Soulburner had no business winning btw) but Blue Girl is unironically my favourite Aoi design, it's a shame this is her only duel with it.

[@Korlinium]

Nice analysis! For the mysterious cards in this duel, I have a few ideas. For Soulburner: One of Salamangreat Emerald Eagle OR Rise of the Salamangreat (he can't have both since having Heatleo on the field would mean he could use Rise's effect to Ritual Summon it, and if I'm understanding the card text right it would get around Birdhelm's effect since it doesn't target) and Cybersal Cyclone; Link Fire's Return is another possibility. Going off his line at the start of his final turn, this would assume he drew Rise/Emerald Eagle first and was banking on drawing the other one. For Blue Girl: Much less certain about hers since most of them would have some utility. Trickstar Treat is probably the safest bet since she had no traps in her hand during this duel.

[@zaquhe]

If Gate of Fire blocked effect damage that was 800-1000 or less, I can believe Soulburner would add it to his deck. 300 OF ALL VALUES THOUGH? Way too low. Gate of Fire must have a graveyard effect to make it worth playing.

[@DarkMagicianMana]

INSANE that the woman who got screwed over by the writers the hardest, was the only woman who could have beaten the strongest of men in the Yugioh she was part of. Even when Soulburner put Ring of Fire in his deck precisely because he knew Skye's playstyle, he wouldn't have won if it wasn't for those damn writers.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

@@DarkMagicianMana tbf fair the most BS cards was fusion of fire, gate of fire makes sense given all the context... The only way to change the context was to switch her role as an idol, which would also kind of affect her deck since most decks for the anime are somehow based on the characters...

[@defectivesickle5643]

It was the writers who gave Blue Girl the means to win in the first place. It's not like the soul of Skye was invading the script to influence the duel. If they want someone to win, they shouldn't give the other player the means to win unless they want it to be stated

[@sumtenwitty6021]

Men win again lads pop the champagne

[@MarioMastar]

@@defectivesickle5643 Yeah, I get sometimes you want to show how a particular deck could beat nearly impossible odds with strategy, but there's a MASSIVE difference between what Zexal does where Yuma DOES have a chance of winning if he just knew his own cards better and Astral helps him with those strategies, and...... "Oh looks, I drew the perfect card for this specific situation that happens to bring me back into the duel and turn the duel around! It's amazing that happened twice!" Plus the characters use 60 card decks (they never confirm they use 40, though in speed duel the default is 20 so plays like this are more likely), but having done thousands of speed duels in Duel Links, getting a "lucky draw" is all about the deck building BEFORE the duel happens. 1 in those 1000 involved me pulling a stupidly lucky card at the right time to turn a duel around like this, and I can assure you it had NOTHING to do with using a life point gain stall card to buy myself another turn. (it was actually a card I forgot was in my deck due to a mission and it just so happened to counter my opponent, but I since removed the card cause it was a dead draw 99% of the time, despite having an effect that you'd think would come up more often). IT'd be easier to believe he just happened to pull a Jaden and use Rainbow life to get his LP back. at least then it looks more like he planned a back up strategy and didn't just get really lucky.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Oh hush

[@nexus5253]

We have so few main girl vs best friend or rival duels which makes it all the sadder that this is considered one of the most frustrating duels in the franchise.

[@jackwendigo2112]

Blue Angel is the May of the season. 😢 Amazing duelist with amazing strategies that loses every time only for plot reasons.

[@Monty2289]

Losing through plot is an understatement because I feel like Playmaker gets maybe an over abundance of duels for a series where every characters on screen duels including Brave Max's dumb ass. I feel like allowing Aoi to be apart of the core would have been great. They waited too late while giving Aoi a THIRD persona on top of it. Its like they sacked Haru so they could advertize Marincess and they immediately threw her at the end game boss of the arc who HAD to win because he wasn't allowed to lose to anyone other than Playmaker and maiden had the Water Ignis. The writers loved Soulburner so much he was allowed to beat the MC's rival in probably one of the best duels in the entire YGO series. They couldn't have Aoi's new persona at the beginning of S2 get the Water Ignis then and win at least 2 more duels on screen including one with Windy and/or Lightning where she wins. And then her and Soulburner could have lost to a fully evolved Bohman. That would have went a long way to them not totally throwing this character in the trash

[@Ether_Liner_Ado_Edem]

Oh you finally did this duel huh? I hate how bro just had 1 specific card to shut down her whole strategy. I havent finished VRAINS yet but im already aware she got shafted so hard by the writers its absurd😭☠️

[@nexus5253]

It’s as if studio bridge saw vrains before writing Romin and thought “damage control”.

[@Ayuima69]

@@Ether_Liner_Ado_Edem I dunno Trickster irl is popular and strong when this came out I think. Pretty realistic to run anti meta cards. Probably the most realistic part of this show.

[@crocky6996]

Only one?

[@BlueAngelYuGiOh]

@@Ayuima69 I don't think Gate of Fire is antimeta when I'm the only one using effect damage on the world

[@Ayuima69]

@BlueAngelYuGiOh ?

[@travisgames6608]

That Soulburner 🍰 shot at 0:35 😂😂😂

[@TheCikoni]

Yay! another VRAINS duel!!! its my favorite spinoff season since the of series with Yugi. I wish Blue Angel/Girl/Maiden had gotten the proper spotlight she deserves, shes a great character with two really cool decks (Trickstar and Marincess) and its a shame she doesn't get a great win against anyone major. Perhaps if Vrains wasn't so short or didn't have the production issues behind the scenes we could've gotten something but sadly we'll never know. Hope to see more VRAINS duels! I know they're very complicated but I love them and I would love to see a video on Soulburner and Revolver's duel, easily one of the top 3 duels in VRAINS and in my opinion one of the best duels in the franchise

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

You can hear Dylan from Yu-Gi-Oh everything screaming Into The Ether

[@guymitchell9234]

Blue angel should’ve added back lycoris 100% on the third turn as it would’ve cut soulburner off his skill entirely and even without high sight a link two monsters targeting protection is far less superior than cutting soulburner off his skill

[@nickcasillas1618]

I love the detail you go into when you break down these duels. I would love to see you tackle more GX and 5DS era duels, like Jaden VS Sartorius or Yusei VS Jack’s final duel

[@Naxx03]

I hope one day you get to breakdown the first 3 duels of Playmaker vs Revolver. The first 2 are very early on so there aren't many possibilities as far Extra Deck goes, and the 3rd one is a speed duel which is very limiting, so it will probably be easy to breakdown. The 4th one has too many possible outcomes so I doubt we will see it anytime soon 😅

[@cameraredeye3115]

Nah, do all four and make it a movie. I wanna see that.

[@ryanbelmont2676]

I really don't know why, but there are some characters in Yu-Gi-Oh that have huge potential, but the show creators decide to just screw them over time and time again. Blue Angel is such a character. Hey TGS, I know a lot of people, including myself, have been asking you to do a duel analysis for the duel between Don Thousand vs Nasch and Yuma, and later Kite, but we're asking because of how well you've done previous duel analysis'. We just want to see how you would break it down and analyze how things would have gone if some things were played just a little differently. Anyway TGS, you do great videos and we appreciate you for it. I wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors and hope you stay safe.

[@QuantumB00]

00:32 No not the SoulBooty LMAO🍑

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Now we know why Yusaku dated him on season 2

[@DrMinaDeZoneAcerola]

Why is soulburner thicc???

[@chupameloscocos5919]

​@@DrMinaDeZoneAcerola reincarnation power 💔

[@fatman2671]

0:38 Ayyoo, why does my man's here have two pots of greed in both back pockets?? Soulburner? More like SoulBunner! And what's with the pose? Brother out here acting like a magnet! Gyat Dayum!!

[@jamessullivan9048]

Not the Vrains duel I expected an analysis on, but I'll take it.

[@princeami7344]

Was not expecting Soulburner to have quite such an... asset at 0:33

[@ivanbluecool]

Blue girl angel etc should have been destorying everyone in the anime with her burn deck which just wins going first and can probably lock turn three Just make it so she doesn't fight the main villain and give her a streak of using her deck correctly.

[@defectivesickle5643]

I think the VRAINS duel writer touted difficulty writing Soulburner because "he was too hard to have lose" Same could go for Blue Angel. I'm down to have characters lose but not this much in these ways

[@ivanbluecool]

@defectivesickle5643 problem with them is how the plot makes them lose. 5ds for example we see yusei go through different stragety in his head before the move is made showing he has plays and counter plays ready So when he wins we already got the set up for the turn. Here they just lose because plot needs it to happen for yusaku. If the opponent had a heal burn damage card and blue angel set her stragety up it would be a great twist and still give her kudos for having a 4k burn on turn one.

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

@@ivanbluecool Yusei duels are the definition of ass pulls and only so Yusei can win and his opponents play extremely poorly so he can never lose. Not to mention Yusei is the poster child of extremely circumstantial cards (usually traps) ever played for a hyper specific situation. Lots of duel either Yusei should have lost or if his opponents didn't play so badly.

[@ivanbluecool]

@soukenmarufwt5224 no they aren't and again soul burner and blue angel are basically that winning and losing making them worse as a result. Again read what I just said and take note even Yugo did it in arc v since thinking ahead and planning for a counter while you do a stragety isn't a pull it's literally using your brain and getting results

[@drakeredgrave6747]

​@@ivanbluecooljust because they show him planning the cards yusei gets a pass? That is very wrong since for all intents and purposes you are TECHNICALLY calling every protag and villain that don't have those kinds of scenes bad... Not only that but unfortunately that doesn't change the fact that yusei does have many MANY ass pulls and BS wins, nobody will forget team unicorn...

[@monkeyeattail]

0:32 Should have called him Hot Cakes.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

I am laughing

[@Wartornwarhead93]

Soulburner double cheeked up on a Saturday night

[@sondowultimate]

Not soul burner double cheeked up on this Sunday morning at 0:35!!!!

[@BlueAngelYuGiOh]

Yeah, I should have won that duel and we all know it ¬¬ I don't want to sound pedantic, but come on, Gate of Fire? I learned from my worst defeat, improved my deck, fought the second protagonist and his partner very well alone... and still lost. Defeating Soulburner would have improved my image a lot, he is the second best duelist, he even beat Revolva. Someone behind Vrains really hated me...

[@misterOrca4]

After watching the video yeah this was a Plot Armor Story. Soul Burner literally his own version of Super Poly and a Surprise counter effect for his opponents monster.

[@Shades14]

It's Skye. The answer is always no.

[@deaththesoul8]

If Blue Girl didn't activated Corobane she would have another turn an possibly win because she still has her field spell (and assuming that Corobane can special summon herself like in the tcg). On her turn: Summon Corobane-> because Soulburner has a card in the S/T, field summon a token->token+Corobane into any link2 (because I doubt she has a second Divaridis)->Field again to summon a token to a zone a link point to->Link2+token into Foxglove->Foxglove deals 200 for every card Soulburner controls, which is 2 (Violet Chimera and Gate of fire) so that's 400, over the limit of the trap and Soulburner has 100 lp, so Blue Girl wins. If Corobane doesn't summon herself, all she needs is to have another Trickstar in hand or Laurel. If she doesn't have Foxglove in her extra... well, it would depend on her hand, if she had a useless Trickstar card in hand, she can make crimson heart (with Coro and the toekn) to draw a card and hope to get an extender to make Bella Madonna and win that way.

[@PaperComa]

0:34 why is soulburner caked up like that tho

[@theshinobigamer5737]

“And The Penultimate/Final Turn..Of The Duel😗” Is still some of the hardest shit I’ve ever heard😭🔥 I always say it along with him

[@18nightc322]

Blue angel gets screwed every time

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Womp

[@trentgawd4292]

7:00 my favorite playmaker duel

[@samurexatlas7373]

11:36 Remember this is proto Salad. Bale doesn't exist yet. No SD cards do. Maybe Sunlight.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

I mean, he does just 6 episodes later. It's more so that he both didn't need it at that moment, and as stated, he'd lose more LP for little to no benefit... Fun fact that MAY be considered proof that he did have balelynx: In his first duel in his final turn his draw was monster reincarnation and he reacted positively meaning that he indeed could've played effectively with it(recover Meer, link into lynx, rest goes as does but no need for burning draw)...

[@klaviustanushi933]

Sometimes i forgot that Duel Links is basically the Vrains Digital World

[@victikirby15]

I love these Arc-V and Vrains analyses. It’s great seeing looks at more complex duels rather than the more simple DM stuff

[@tomtomas2723]

But Sam still doing DM/GX analysis over and over and over again

[@gunturadisurya8830]

@@tomtomas2723 Well, because it is much simpler. He mentions that doing Vrains is difficult because of its complexity. Arc V is quite complex as well with all of those action card. I also enjoy seeing Vrains analysis, but I understand why he prefer GX and DM

[@tomtomas2723]

@gunturadisurya8830 i understand that but most of anime decks are popular and most of thier cards are well-known Also Anime combos aren't that complicated exept for vrains maybe I still appreciate what Sam and his team doing "if he has a team to help him in the channel idk if he has tho"

[@DrMinaDeZoneAcerola]

@@tomtomas2723Multiple reasons why one they do better if you look through his anime duels of the older series compared to the newer ones the older ones do better and two the newer ones (Zexal onward) are significantly more complex

[@shefer2-2]

​@@tomtomas2723 because its get more views and it's understandable i would have done the same too because most people watching don't know morden yugioh or just love the original series more than the newer one

[@restionSerpentine]

"Haha jokes on you I'm already subscribed.... " Looks at the button. "How did I get unsubscribed?" Hits the button. "That was surprising!"

[@cherrylk4188]

Been waiting for another vrains file FOREVER!! Happy to see it

[@RadiantAeon]

0:33 hold up why is Soulburner so caked up wtf

[@raultorres2742]

I will love if you analyze the duel between Soulburner vs Revolver!!! In my opinion I think that duel is top 3 duels on Yu Gi Oh Vrains. Also, it’s my favorite duel in the series. I hope you can make it happen in the future!!!

[@multivewer]

I really like the dial up sound effects that played in the background while he was explaining everything 😆

[@dragonmaster3182]

I constantly hear people say that gate of fire is just a plot convenient card that was only because the writers wanted blue girl to lose. I just can’t understand this statement, this card is the perfect counter to blue girl’s strategy. Do you really think that Soulburner, someone who is a huge fan of blue girl, who studied her deck and strategy because he thought she was cool, who correctly pointed out a flaw in her deck earlier in the same duel wouldn’t have a counter to her deck! He found the card gate of fire, knew it was a good counter to her deck and specifically added into his deck knowing that he was going to go to link VRAINS and potentially run into or duel her. From what we know about Soulburner even up until now I would have been much more surprised if he wasn’t prepared for her strategies.

[@marcusclark1339]

then he would mention it which he didn't, its a Asspull card cause the writer is incapable of writing women and over praising soulburner the entire second arc of the series

[@prototipolq-84i46]

todos los que lloran asi son fanboys de la waifu serie, no hay mas

[@ppultra1]

It's so good when you know all the effects beforeyou say it, makes me more confident lol

[@WantDSauce]

Didn't know soulburner runs a bakery 😂😂

[@dajohnniesanders6997]

Those are some toasty Hot buns

[@misteral9045]

Y'all need to update your vocabulary. That isn't a bakery full of bun, that is a tight and sculpted piece of posterior poundage.

[@420mralucard]

I’m more angry about the random fusion card out of nowhere than I am gate of fire, there’s still only one fusion for it to summon years later.

[@prototipolq-84i46]

lo mismo para trickstar, fusion totalmente random...

[@Uli_Aupri]

0:34 DAMN BOI

[@redlox2]

5:27 I am used to old school (like pre synchro era) Yugioh where you get a few cards out then the turn moves on, good old modern era where one turn is like 10 cards interactions at least,

[@JanizMakudomaru]

Aoi Zaizen has to be the biggest sign that the writers of the female characters in the old studio does not care for their writing, man. She had one of the best anime decks and she kept on losing for some reason. For the so called record she had in the VRAINS world she was not able to live up to it.

[@LightningIgnis]

@@JanizMakudomaru Yeah I think we had two really good female characters in all of Yugioh that didn’t get screwed over at all and were significant

[@salebadalo1957]

I hate bad character treatments in duels. They make a duel less good because of how they treat certain characters in a certain duel in terms of how their loss affects their reputation or how they are handled going forward after that loss (sometimes it can be both of those things). In this case, Aoi losing to Soulburner caused her to not duel again as Blue Girl and also not duel again in general until she changed her avatar.

[@FoolsArcana]

0:38 oh my god soulburner got that cake

[@Lord_Nexus14]

0:36 Who is letting that cake slide bro 😭🙏

[@FarisO7]

0:36 sorry what was that?! I got distracted for a second

[@NightsOfKyte]

I'd be interested in a Cyrus/Sho vs Makoto from GX S4 and by extension Zane/Ryo vs Makoto to see how that first duel would have potentially ended.

[@Woodenfan]

ngl I think Ryo probably would've taken that duel were it not for the injuries catching up to him.

[@RioniXIV]

Damn he cheeked up 🍑

[@JasonMcLaughlin19]

The soulburner image with 🍰

[@christopherunderwood7048]

Next Duel Analysis Yugi and Joey Vs The Big 5

[@ponurygrzesiek2812]

Yes, I would love to see that analysis, especially because they showed their hands at some point, so it should be possible to completely recreate the duel

[@Meanlucario]

I'm starting to sense a theme with Blue Angel in Vrains. I feel like this extends to the rest of the female cast in other seasons as well.

[@Meanlucario]

@@Diamondr11Blue Care to explain?

[@Real21Gamer]

Still waiting for Ghost Gal vs. Revolver

[@KaiserVarius]

0:34 HOLY COW! Soul burner has got that GYATT! Like Dang boy he THICC!!!

[@camitas9743]

I wanna see the Playmaker vs. Revolver duels.

[@briansilva3344]

Happy to see Vrains get another analysis! It is a shame this series is the reason we haven’t gotten another Master Duel anime since.

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1873]

7:00 yeah soul burner 7:02 wait playmaker

[@samtrue3]

Remember when using your opponents board for fusion was a such an impressive thing that they made a full arc and series ?

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

Remember when characters just summon one monster per turn.

[@LightningIgnis]

Remember when games were slow as shit and their was no reason to play this game over magic

[@pawciao4476]

Wait soul burner is thicc hahahaha

[@NotNotKris]

Right?!?!

[@misteral9045]

TIGHT. PETITE. ROUND.

[@rivmations]

0:32 GYAAAA

[@dspace4514]

I kind of wish Trickstars got more support after this, like Synchro and Xyz. It was only recently that they got new support and it locked them to fusions.

[@bobsauce9052]

*When the Salamans are Great*

[@spicyluvsyou]

I wish blue girl won this duel. She lost because soulburner drew super poly at home.

[@grand_admiral_henrich4416]

V-rains may be a very controversial anime.... But it does feature such a cool easter egg off continuity. After Blue Angel has her first duel with Playmaker she is sent in a coma (Or whatever) due to using that Knight of Hanoi card. 1 of the doctors seen treating her is acctualy Kyoko Tak (Clarissa Turner), Who is a knight of Hanoi, who created the virus that sent her in the Coma.

[@dylanmagoiofthethalasso4032]

That soulburner cake!!!!!

[@masterripper5409]

A fire vs water fight, interesting.

[@ShadicRothZz1998]

Soulburner randomly having the one card to counter Trickstars despite having exactly zero idea he was going to be facing them, whilst also never having been shown editing his deck after realising he was going to duel Blue Girl is the biggest 'we want this character to win just cause' shenanigan pulled by the writers in the history of Yugioh, and that includes out of duel moments or powers like the Puzzle or Shining Draw. He has NO reason to run that card. Blue Girl or even Blue Angel was not a known player in the Ignis hunt until literally the second they met before this duel. A cheap plot device used because the second Soulburner was written into the series they decided to fuck over Aoi and Onizuka just to push him despite him being far less interesting than the pair of them. He's literally just a more cheerful Playmaker, they even wrote characters describing him as such in the show! Overpushing Soulburner over Aoi and Onizuka was the first major mistake Vrains made and it causes a ripple effect throughout the rest of the series.

[@revolverkyosuke7049]

Thank you. Truer statements have never been spoken.

[@megaspacewaffles]

Tbf that’s such a “yugioh” moment imo, protagonist constantly pulling out Uber specific cards

[@ShadicRothZz1998]

@megaspacewaffles There's uber specific cards and then there's cards the chatacter would never normally be running anyway. Yeah, Jaden had a bunch of cards that relied on specific HEROES being on the field, but at least he constantly ran those HEROES. When the fuck is Soulburner ever needing to negate Sparks damage with zero knowledge that he's facing the one deck that relies on it?

[@megaspacewaffles]

@@ShadicRothZz1998 :shrug: Same reason Yuma can just... create cards

[@ShadicRothZz1998]

@megaspacewaffles At least that's an established power that occurs multiple times and can be used by multiple characters, including antagonists. It makes sense in the context of Zexal. Soulburner running this random trap that would be a dead card in literally any other scenario makes zero sense whatsoever.

[@CruikshankSCP_VT]

Speaking of Revolver, I HOPE you are going to be doing analysis of his four duels against Playmaker soon Those are some of my favorite duels in Vrains

[@elemomnialpha]

The existence of Gate of Fire is absolutely bs This duel made me hate Soulburner as a Gary Stu

[@Amitlu]

Oh I just happen to have this trap that shuts down your entire deck and I will never use it again after this Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@crocky6996]

He's definitely a worse Crow in that regard

[@prototipolq-84i46]

@@Amitlu aparte de trickstar, quien hace una estrategia de burn? y si hablamos de eso, todos lo hacen vaya...

[@LightningIgnis]

Yeah and his winning streak ends with him losing to a dice roll deck :I a dice roll deck

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Haha

[@samuquinhaplay5708]

What I find weird is the fact she used holy angel for fusion summoning when her fusion only needs a link monster her link 1 would have been fine.

[@PedroHenrique-mk5zi]

Oh hey, it's that episode with complete garbage animation. Poor animators, they probably had to rush this one out.

[@TheKpa11]

Which is funny cause a good portion is just burn damage so there’s not a lot to animate in that regard and there’s an excuse for reusing animation

[@GreenDinoRanger]

Rushing out a rush duel?

[@christopherb501]

I wanted more regular anime; I'm fine with no more "weekly" anime. Have you _seen_ the majority of backgrounds in Go Rush? Not worth continuing at that pace.

[@natetheknight2809]

23:30 Aww, Sam just hallucinating again. You know my Subscribe button’s been gray for years, my guy. 😂

[@fernandorios474]

Should we continue on or are we going to talk about the suit? 0:33 I'll see myself out 🤣

[@LomasneyAaron]

18:45, also since her skill adds a card, she could have just added Lilybell to hand and it summons itself.