Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: Top 10 DISAPPOINTMENTS

[@YugiohEverything]

So again, this had to be (95%) recorded before 148 aired in order to get all these videos out on time! After the Arc-V finale, the ending is definitely a top 3, probably my number 1 disappointment of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V.. So the 5th ending visuals would be pushed off, or moved to the number 11 spot! Hope you all enjoy!

[@neostardustdragon1018]

Dude. I agree with everything you said. Honestly I wished the yu-boys dueled side by side agaisnt Z-arc.

[@neostardustdragon1018]

Also Yugo and Yuya never interact at all! I wish Yuya had at least dueled him.And Leo Akaba...I hate him! Lamest villain ever.

[@dragonknight1560]

Ending 5 was a good ending song though... it shouldn't even have made the list honestly Yugioh Everything. Plus they worked out doing the preview clips of Dark Side of Dimensions. Also you forget... the actual Number 1 was Opening 3 Unleash's tease of Yuya VS Yugo.

[@DarknessRealm]

Thank u for the Number 1 list.

[@kirboo9766]

Yugioh Everything I'm desapointed for ARCV in french dub, worst than GX

[@SasukeTurkey]

So which character got the worst treatment in the show? There are many candidates: - Yuzu, who started as a great main female lead with lots of potential and got turned into Princess Peach halfway through the series. - The other bracelet girls, who didn't even get to come back. - Yuri, who was a great villain with lots of potential, who was then turned into a good guy of screen just to complete the set. - Leo, who was that big bad guy for over 100 episode, and turned out to be a giant bitch. - Ray, who never appeared. - Yuto, who became Casper the friendly ghost. - Yugo, who never got to see or interract with the girl he was searching for over 100 episodes. - Yuya, who is the first main character who didn't even get to fight the main bad guy, and then spend the last 12 episodes ruining the small amount of charisma he had. - Asuka and Edo, who were brought all the way from GX era, just to look pitiful (which is a repeat in Asuka's case, considering GX was almost as bad to her). Especially considering how the other legacy characters were treated. - Gongenzaka, who didn't get to do shit in the last 100 episodes. - Sawatari who lost to almost every character who could hold a duel disk. - Badass characters we loved like Sora and Shun, who got completely sidelined in the last arc. - DM characters who didn't even get to appear in the show. (I honestly didn't know I had so much complaints until I started writing this.)

[@TheYamiJK]

Sawatari hurts, he had potential to be a great rival or best friend/rival to Yuya and all that lead up before just hits a wall and goes poof. I honestly thought, Sawatari was going to end up as Yuya's right hand guy at the start, the Joey,Jesse,Crow,Shark figure.The fact he was shown to be a competent duelist but has no wins is baffling.

[@HeraclesDoomsDay]

Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you... to rewrite this disaster. :P

[@glaciemdraco]

Well CG IS getting another season... cant say the same about Arc V :D

[@YellowKabob]

wow its actually hard af to decide, all were so bad lmao. I''d say Yuzu though just out of proportion to her character role- as in there's a greater expectation for someone who was basically the 2nd main character right after yuya as opposed to the rest of the cast.

[@rosalinaqueen4278]

THIS SHOW WAS A WASTE OF 3 YEARS OF MY LIFE. THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THIS SHOW IS THE PENDULUM SUMMON. EVERYTHING ELSE IS TRASH!!

[@nexusshark]

For me the biggest issue with Arc-V was dragging on the unimportant filler stuff, while rushing the important plot related stuff.

[@neetynayd2859]

nexusshark .... OMG!! I thought of that too..!!! One shot duels and fillers are way more than the exciting ones??? But I do think there are no very exciting duels In arc v....

[@claireaquos6532]

Actually, the reel problem with that if you ask me is they didn't even know how to explore their main concept wich is the main character being the reincarnation (Or rather part reincarnation) of someone evil. So they put more focuss on Yu gi oh arc V philosophy wich is to bring smile with duel and not use it as a tool of war and destruction. Yet, this philsophy didn't completly fit with the main story (By that, I mean it wasn't connected enough wich each other) wich is probably why everything about it was mostly filler. I think the revelation about Z-arc and Ray should have been made a lot sooner in order to give each of the Yu boys a proper arc where they really acknowledge this and see what it means for them

[@nexusshark]

@@claireaquos6532 I agree. Yuya's ideals clashed too much with the concept of dimensional counterparts.

[@claireaquos6532]

@@nexusshark Well, there is a way for this philosophy to work with the concept. For exemple, for Yuto's case, dealing with the fact he is "part devil" could have easely fit with his arc in the xyz dimension where he needs to not let his anger control him anymore and why it's so important to adopt the philosophy of "Dueling is made to make people smile"... Let's think about it, even thought it was under very different circonstances and made in very different ways, both Yuto and Z-arc has put there philosophy aside and let there heart be harden due to their arsh reality (As seen in Yuto's duel with Sawatari in episode 7). With him learning about Z-arc before the Xyz arc, Yuto could have realize this ressemblance and realize he has the potentiel to become like Z-arc again, way more then Yuya does, and give more reasons to follow Yuya ideology... This would have been a great way to explore even more Yuto as a character and his relashiopship with Yuya.

[@nexusshark]

@@claireaquos6532 This would've also worked better for Yuya I think, because Zarc used to be an entertainer himself and Yuya kinda inherited that from him. But knowing sooner about Zarc, he would've realized where his evil side came from and how and why it always reacted to brutal duels. Yuya's ideal wouldn't just clash with most ideals, but it would also be based on something he remembers about his past as Zarc. Basically you could explore the relationship between Yuya and Zarc and how Yuya represents Zarc's early life before he went mad. And Yuya's ideals are the only thing that keeps that madness at bay, yet it grows stronger every time his counterparts get closer.

[@13EqualsB]

It must have been hard cutting down all the disappointments to only 10.

[@zelmmoriya1504]

Savage

[@rbrtbrv]

Mimi yi ar

[@Arkx919]

Yeah, I’d just put down the entire show as a disappointment and be done with it.

[@dragonflight2468]

One thing disappointing to add to the bracelet girls? Yuzu never learned the other summoning techniques. She learned Fusion which got me thinking, "OH? Maybe she will be Yuya's equal and learn with him in summoning?" But nope. They do nothing else with her. In a perfect world, she would have learned the other summonings alongside Yuya, then have to duel him in the antagonist fight to get him back using everything she learned. But no. This series and female characters.

[@TehKaiser]

I suspect she was meant to be card game Aerith in part but got shafted because other characters were much too popular. And the other major inspiration was Ayanami Rei.... and Beethoven's 9th, hence her music cards.

[@richeetah5221]

I think the ceremonial duel should have been Yuya vs Yuzu, the two using all the tricks they had learned over the course of the season.

[@namelessanonymous2913]

Let me take my time addressing something I see a lot in the comment. People seem to be under misconception that the bad writing of Arc-V is because “The show is cut short” or “There isn’t enough episode”. Allow me to disprove that. 1. It is to be expected that Arc-V will last about 3 years from the very beginning. We even got a confirmation long ago. Meaning, the production team knows from the very start how much time they had and what they should do. 2. 148 is a good enough number to tell an entire story properly, if the writers know what they’re doing. If you’re doubting that, let’s count how much episodes the show wasted on pointless thing, and I'll be generous and not counting the Synchro arc. - 1 episode for the pirate ship. - 6 episodes for the battle beast. - 4 episodes for the brainwashed girls (You can cut it out and the plot won’t change) - 1 episode for the tower guardians. - Roughly 1 episode for Reiji vs Reira. (Really, what’s the point? That Reira can communicate with Ray? You can do that without the duel.) - 4 episodes for Zarc vs insert random person here. - 3 episodes for the memory lost after defeating Zarc - 3 episodes for Yuya vs Dennis / Shun / Jack (As much as I love their characters, the duel was unnecessary) That’s a total of 23 wasted episodes. TWENTY-THREE. That’s more than enough to stretch the Xyz arc, have some development on Zarc and Ray, get a proper Yugo vs Yuri, have an epic conclusion to the Zarc fight, explore Leo’s character, proper reunion of the boys and the girls, etc, etc. But no, the battle beast and the parasite are more important. Keep in mind, I’m not even counting the biggest elephant in the room that is Synchro arc. So, yes, Arc-V isn't bad because it didn’t have enough time. It's bad because the writers are incompetent.

[@HeraclesDoomsDay]

Too much 5D's bias. Although I really liked 5D's, it was overkill.

[@oboretaiwritingch.2077]

The filler duels basically just served to introduce newer cards for Konami to sell. Many supposedly "important" cards like Sky Magician, Dark Requiem, Greedy Venom, Odd Eyes Raging, Ultimate Falcon, Odd Eyes Saber, Nirvana High Paladin etc showed up only for a duel or two and was promptly never used again. What's funny was on the other hands, many characters like Kaito used the same strategy (Cipher Wing) over and over it became monotonous. I wouldn't call Arc-V's writing terrible, it simply had bad planning with too many times writers just thought "we should give this character a duel!", "what for?", "I dunno just do it". That they didn't have time to resolve any plots in the end.

[@Saibot_the_Noob]

I guess when you are writing a show that uses a massive cast of characters from 4 separate dimensions, and have bosses that need you to write in promotions for the new product they are trying to push, cracks start to form in the quality.

[@matts5164]

THANK YOU! I'm tired of people blaming the amount of episodes the show had when the writers proven again and again that they just liked to waste episodes cause they had no ideas what to do. I'm sure the writers will just waste more episodes if Arc-V is longer imo. Zexal has less episodes than Arc-V and it did so much better than Arc-V in term of pacing, so Arc-V has no good excuse.

[@nightshroud9671]

Anything about the 4 dragons.? Like about they could have explored their origins(like much more)

[@roboticdreamer]

I agree with your point about the bracelet girls. Serena's my favourite character, and I wish she had more of a role.

[@Moda-pf8wt]

Serena was my favorite bracelet girl. They completely butchered her character after such an awesome introduction.

[@Snowberries17]

I was excited when she got character development in the Synchro dimension where she learn to duel for fun but then plot device happened and she got teleported away.

[@chaizaeng9653]

#1 Biggest disappointment of Arc-V? How about everything after Zarc got revealed.

[@danross2144]

Yeah... At least the twist was good!

[@ashelygordon7827]

Story wise , the ending was a tad bit disappointing to me , but whatever.

[@claireaquos6532]

@@danross2144 Yeah... To good! Just the concept of the main protagonist (Or at least a major good character) being the reincarnation of a vilain is fantastic. Mostly because of the emotions and character devellopement we could get from it (Something we didn't get in arc v... Well, very little and only on Yuya part). It defenetly needs to be used more in fiction. Gx used it with Judaï and supreme king AND IT WAS A 100 TIMES BETTER.

[@TehKaiser]

@@claireaquos6532 It's not hard to figure out this anime was clearly influenced...if not outright trying to copy Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife in part. I suspect that every "triumph" of Yuya was also intended to further the contradiction between "having fun win or lose" and "needing to win", with his first loss to Zuzu being one of the reasons he fell. The show in general wasn't just a blending of former Yu-gi-oh, but other entertainment and real life things. Final Fantasy VII, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Beethoven's 9th, Pokemon(Fusion Dimension are like Pokemon trainers in "catching them all" and Sora even has a card that clearly tosses out "PokeBalls"). Digimon also got shoutout with Yuya's googles and a bit of Mitsuo Yamaki in Declan/Reiji. Also, I can't help but think Celina is somewhat inspired by Rika Nonaka.

[@claireaquos6532]

@@TehKaiser ... Every fictions in the world is like this! Our stories are influences by everything we are surrunded by. Even Star Wars is a bunch of things from stories that were popular at the time. There's nothing wrong with that as long as the story is good with a good execution. Also, never play Final fantasy so I can't tell if you're right! Personnaly, arc 5 reminds me of Kingdom hearts: A good fun loving protagonist that got up in a dark plan bigger then himself and has to go throught different worlds where pre existant characters lives to search for his friend that got capture by the enemi. Also, the main protagonist ends up having other people living inside of him. (But again, nothing wrong with that in particular).

[@45darkrai]

The relationship between Yuya and Yuzu becoming a running gag since the end of 99 was one my biggest disappointment besides Yuzu getting shafted in the most laziest route imaginable.

[@Amsel_616]

10) the duration of the xyz/fusion arcs compared to the synchro arc duration 9) they never use zarc original desing aside from flashbacks and we only see his face 3 times during the show 8) leo never got a punishment after all the chaos he created 7) no information about the powers of selena/ruri/rin bracalets 6) no melodious parasite fusion 5)#YuGiOhFemaleCharacters 4) no yuya vs parasite yuzu 3) zarc was defeated 2 times in a row by the SAME EXACT COMBO 2) those filler duels during the friendship cup and the academia invasion got to much screen time (duel chaser 227 vs yuya/captian solo and specialy B.B. duel was really long) 1) no yuya vs yusho

[@solmagnumxiii1734]

Aka Tsubasa no yuya vs yugo either and yes i'm still salty about that

[@MrAsianhappydude]

no yuya vs yusho is kinda like jaden vs yugi. it was never conclusive so it kinda fits.

[@CelestialReturner]

Tsubasa Is that Goddess Madoka wearing MLG Sunglasses?!

[@nightshroud9671]

My problem too is how the dragons never got closure. None of the humans realized they caused the dragons suffering, but instead the dragons were practically stripped of their right to be angry and just forced to smile

[@justinesun7270]

night shroud96 True.

[@jordanrandall3093]

For me the biggest disappointments was that Yuri never got his redemption moment and we were denied Yuya vs Yugo. This guy's only desire to become Zarc was to finally have any friends and at the final episode, he's automatically cool with the Yu-boys and had one only one relationship moment with Serena(even though they DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EACH OTHER AT ALL). I'd hoped that if all of them were separated, we would've gotten Yuri saying sorry for everything that he did to Rin, Ruri, and the Lancers and he and Serena finally have that moment we all wanted that was well written or get my dream duel Yuri VS Shun and has for Yuya vs Yugo, Yugo would've say "Hey Yuya, since I was dropped out of the Friendship Cup due to dueling Yuri, we'll settle things right now" that would've been awesome because we only saw dueling in the opening. But denied by rushed plot and bad writing, hopefully V-Rains could deliver dream duels.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Didn't deserve it

[@kirboo9766]

I'm disapointed Masumi and Yaiba didn't join Lancers ! And NO DUEL BETWEEN YUGO VS YUYA LIKE IN OP UNLEASH !!!!!

[@momoirorabbit5137]

Apparently it was planned

[@slayertakim1]

Sayuri Lapis Why did it get canned Dx

[@momoirorabbit5137]

Dunno. Probably because of the fact that Konami pressured them to finish the show quickly or the director and writer were careless.

[@lunerblade13]

i agree i liked that trio.

[@matteofontana_]

I wanted masumi instead of shingo

[@TheShapeH31]

Yeah I agree I would say Yuri vs. Yugo was *VERY* disappointing, literally *EVERY* time I saw Yuri and Yugo in the same scene I just kept thinking: *"Are we FINALLY going to get that much anticipated Yugo vs. Yuri duel?!?"* to be disappointed when it didn't happen, than we *FINALLY* get that duel I was *SOOOOO* excited, we waited *40+ EPISODES* for it and it started off fast paced and hot but then we skip to Yuya/Reiji vs. The Professor and then when we finally pay attention to the Yugo vs. Yuri they're interrupted by Kaito and Aster Phoenix *(and they played a part in Yugo losing, if they hadn't shown up than he probably would've had a better chance)* and after Kaito and Aster are out of the way the next episode mostly focuses on the ever so random Reiji vs. Reira duel...........all of the hype for Yugo vs. Yuri was just one huge waste of the time... the hype/build up was more exciting than the duel itself... my word *HOW?!?* Great video by the way mate!! Like I said a while ago, when Arc-V ends you'd have about 15K subs and I was right!! Congrats mate!!!

[@sanokal]

It was odd. I utterly loved the duel, every bit about it, even if it could be questionable at times, heck, even Yuri's winning move was excellent. And he's completely right, it felt a little anticlimactic.

[@nightshroud9671]

I didn't like that Yuri humiliated Clear Wing pretty badly there..

[@Blue-Code]

Yup Yugo is just a victim in Arc V's bad writing.

[@michaelsegal7443]

Its ironic that Zexal had a bad start but a great ending and Arc V had a great start but a bad ending. Honestly I think that the reason why they made Yuya have Zarc in him was just for a writer to top themselves from Zexal with Shark. I like Arc V as a whole but the once Arc came out the show started to feel like a bit of a let down. As for why no duel monsters characters showed up? I think it was because of Dark side of dimensions. More then likely they couldn't use them because they were being used for the film. Also Dark side of dimensions I believe hurt Arc V in general.Think about it, 5D'S got hurt when bonds beyond time was in the works, Wouldn't it work the same way for Arc V?

[@Moda-pf8wt]

@ULGROTHA Yeah. The same thing happened with BNHA (sorry, I'm going a bit off-subject). The animation dropped down in quality. That's why I don't want movies to be in the works when a series is airing.

[@TheUltimateCancerCell]

For me, Zexal started really nicely. We get to take a break from all the seriousness that took place in 5Ds and we actually see a main character who isn't OP at the beginning

[@ezkuzemoi8084]

The pendulum swinged out of Arc-V's way

[@lpfan4491]

Zexal beginning is just slow.

[@brtruev1710]

Nah, Zexal's ending is just as bad. The Barian Emperors doing very questionable shit in the story? Nah, it was Don Thousand's fault (one of the lamest villains due to having ZERO charisma, mind you). All of these deaths people tout as heartbreaking? Everyone gets revived at the end. How about a repeat of Yugi vs Atem but for stupider reasons? Yeah, we had it too. Also what's the point of watching a story about the game with a protagonist who can't play it for shit? And, as much as there's cheating in YGO anime, nothing comes even closer to change a card ON THE HAND.

[@Zoey587]

my issue is that they stayed too long in the syncro dimension and so everything felt like it was rushed after that.

[@earthbornparanian6252]

Carlos Cordova My thoughts exactly.

[@theshipper5797]

Yeah, hell in the xyz dimension, everything was rushed. From Edo and Kaito changing their ways and minds, which is something you don't do for characters people like, and you could have done great stuff with the sisters. But nope, it is the shortest out of the dimension arcs and it was annoying and boring.

[@jameshollister8294]

They spent more time in the syncro dimension because most watchers started on zexal and skipped 5ds.fusion is a easy summon s

[@jameshollister8294]

Another think no XYz syncro or none of the og monsters new Simmons play like alternative blue eyes or magicians of dark .they should of made a similar character to yugi ,seto, and joey

[@johnfoley8292]

My biggest issue for Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V is that there actually isn't a clear main antagonist.

[@earthbornparanian6252]

John Foley agreed.

[@Moda-pf8wt]

I mean, Leo should have been put into prison for what he did.

[@kaininjathundermmandopoke5167]

@@Moda-pf8wt also himeka, or reiji too in prison.

[@ryanbenedict2754]

@@kaininjathundermmandopoke5167 Bruh reiji did nothing wrong wth?

[@kaininjathundermmandopoke5167]

@@ryanbenedict2754 yes it did. dude, he did wrong. I don't like him.

[@okamistormva3097]

To be fair, Yuya and Yuzu's counterparts got really bad character treatment. That is my only disappointment

[@146躁]

Same...I really liked Ruri but they just threw her into the trash and put it on fire!

[@mikai4738]

True. Yuzu and Serena at least got some good treatment first but definitely not Ruri and especially not Rin. These two were basically just there to give Yuto, Shun and Yugo a reason to cross dimensions. While Ruri had at least several people who cared about her, Rin had only Yugo. While Ruri got some duels (even though mostly in flashbacks) with different people, Rin's duels were shorter in number and her only opponent was Yugo. And while Ruri and Yuto was proven canon thanks to that one flashback, we still don't know if Rin ever liked Yugo more than just a friend. (while his crush on her is obvious af) And speaking of Yuya's counterparts: Yuto "dying" so early was really not that cool and so his character development was rather small to non-existant, Yugo made at least some new friendships with Yuzu. (and I'd also kinda count Shingo and Serena) Yuri had it worst. The writers could've fleshed him out better but he was just evil who turned magically good in the end. (and I still wonder why he and Serena had like no connection at all when they actually met as kids)

[@lpfan4491]

I honestly liked Yutos death because it was a very surprising beautiful scene of Yuya unknowingly giving him a second chance by giving his soul to have a place to stay instead of the guy just perishing. And it plays into the theme of the diffrent dimensions interacting in interessting ways as it could be seen as yuya and yuto overlaying, like how yuya and yugo later syncronise. Obviously, none of that means jack later because they just kinda make it a "all of this is fake, zarc fabricated all of it"-type of deal and Yuto as a character means nothing for some bizzare reason. But eh, second half of arc v is the most popular ragememe for the entire community for a good reason.

[@lpfan4491]

@PinkChaos Yeah, I honestly wonder what the thought process there was. If there even was any, the team making Arcv was pretty done with their lives towards the end of the show. Kinda just "yeah, we know how much these characters worked for their happiness, so we only give them that they are close to each other kinda". It honestly somehow reminds me of what Kingdom Hearts2 did with certain characters

[@MrHyde-ku5qj]

My number one disappointment is the bad treatment of the counterparts (including Zarc and Ray). They just got killed off in the end. The main plot of the show was everything related to the counterparts. The end makes no sense.

[@earthbornparanian6252]

Yeah the ending was confusing.

[@justinesun7270]

Mr. Hyde Yeah, agreed. What the hell were Ono and Kamishiro thinking?

[@hedhehogsilver2996]

​@@justinesun7270then they ( konami ) gets each other for disappointmen also they won't continue TcG anime anymore and mix yugio into rush duel :(

[@latentradiance1650]

the main reason i got into arcv was because of yuuto, yuzu, and serena in season one. i fell in love with the idea of counterparts and they were always teasing us with yuuto and yuuya interactions, but after yuuto's 'death scene' and however many episodes it was between that episode and the one where yuuto actually talks with yuuya again, the excitement over it had washed down enough that i didn't care all that much. then with yuzu and serena, i loved them because they were badass and had good duels in the beginning. aaand then they BOTH became damsels in distress?? for more than half the show??? and that's something i've been bitter about ever since yuzu was first taken away :// so yea those characters are my number one disappointment, tho you're number one in the video as well as your revised number one also make the cuts

[@earthbornparanian6252]

Latent Radiance Same

[@justinesun7270]

Latent Radiance Yep. I couldn’t agree more.

[@momoirorabbit5137]

Two words. THE ENDING.

[@141625385537]

Sayuri Lapis YES!

[@iceluvndiva21]

Welcome to my feelings on gx. That ending was just..... *FRUSTRATED DRAGON SHREIKS*

[@justinesun7270]

CrystalOtaku93 GX’s ending wasn’t that bad, at least.

[@manuellara9644]

Justine Sun And didn’t get rid of the 6 dimensional Counterparts forever

[@oresti9271]

@@iceluvndiva21 are you talking about the duel between jaden and yugi?

[@Tonyten39]

R.I.P Yugo's precious D-Wheel

[@Cosmicabsolution]

My biggest complaint was the relationship between yuya and yusho. The whole series yuya went on and on about how great his dad was, and it’s already established that yuya was secretly depressed after yusho went missing, and they don’t even get reunited until almost the end of the series. And the reunion felt really underwhelming, I was expecting more emotion but all Yūshō had to say was something like, “you’ve grown”. Plus the whole “yuya isn’t really your son” thing could have been more impactful, especially when yusho realizes that he has no memory of yuya being born. Then when yuya goes berserk right in front of yusho, I thought yusho would be more horrified to see how brutal berserk yuya was but he kinda just stood there before he used that unauthorized card to pin yuya to a wall. I wish yusho hadn’t been carded because it would have been nice to see him go up against Zarc to try and bring yuya back. And then of course the series ended RIGHT when yusho and yuya started their duel, my god.

[@wyomingptt]

dude you nailed it with a lot of those points. I rewatched the first 30 episodes or so and it's so frustrating to see Serena and Yuzu get all this screen time knowing their fate lol. Ruri could have been awesome and Rin never had a chance.. But hey who needs good character development anyway, we got cards to sell!!!

[@iruama1405]

Then yuzu became a damsel in distress

[@ZarctheCelestialDuelist]

I missed the Dimensional Girls more then I do the Yu-Boys because they could've done more with them like having all 4 girls getting to know each other and learn about their own past as Ray. Plus both Ruri and Rin could've helped Yuzu learn all 4 extra deck Summoning and having all 4 girls be on their own team by helping not only their Yu-boys but to also save their friends and family. Imagine if Ruri was helping Shay by actually escaping her tower way early on to help Yuzu fight against Yuri or have Rin compete against Yuzu during the friendship cup Synchro arc so that all 4 girls can be lancers (heck Yugo can even join the lancers against Yuri and Leo once all 4 girls are finally working together again) 😊😊😊😊😊😢😢😢😢😢

[@Kerubu]

My number 1 issue was Edo's complete 180 after losing that duel.

[@YugiohEverything]

Yes.. The duel I thought was pretty enjoyable, but the aftermath was horribly executed. He turned WAY too quickly!

[@samanthahorne3850]

After Standard everything just went sour more or less I Mean: Reiji didn't get to duel much Legacy characters were honestly really cool but the show struggled to properly treat the characters right Yuto got completely one sided and wasted The Final boss duel and to be honest the whole ending flopped completely The Action Cards became a lazy way to just save Yuya The Bracelet girls And overall I just go really dissapointed in some of the choices they it had so much potential and it still has that true yugioh charm but still

[@NeoSwordsmanZ]

The treatment of the bracelet girls and the weak closure for all the counterparts was my biggest complaint. At least in Yuya's case, we got to see his counterparts communicate with Yuya a bit in the end. Nothing with Yuzu, and practically no acknowledgment of the other girls asides the visual at the end. Literally 1 more episode could change that and make it SO much better, but this is what happens when an arc with great potential gets rushed.

[@Stratuji]

My biggest disapoint was definitely the no Yuya vs Yugo duel like we saw in opening 3. I would have LOVED like in the opening if they dueled in the sky of the whole city with their monsters. Even a creative use actions cards could be implemented. This would have been an awesome synchro arc finale at like episode 75-78. But a few other things that were huge disappoints in addition to this list. -Sora's character got destroyed. -NO PLOT DEVELOPMENT FOR ALMOST 75 EPISODES Synchro - 124. -Leo doing something. I wish his plan was about more than just stopping Zarc. Like he really wanted to fuse the dimensions into one. He should have dueled WAY earlier. -Better competent writing...Why on Earth did Leo train Yuri? -What happened to the whole INVASION and the HUNTING Sora mentioned. Would have been Dark and AWESOME to watch - Better Villians from Synchro and XYZ dimensions. Like people in these dimensions actually agreed about being fused back into one. For interesting drama -Yuya ACTUALLY using all forms of his deck. I would have loved if he got his own XYZ monster other than DRXD. But also, what happened to Enlightenment and Nirvana high paladins!? As well as beast eyes, rune eyes and brave eyes should have all been used more frequently. -The other Yu boys and bracelet girls became less and less of characters and more like plot devices. UGH! So wasted potential with these awesome characters. Would have been sick if Zarc took from trait from each of them. All in all, loved Arc V. But goodness it got more and more disapointing as Synchro and Beyond. It just seemed to lose a lot of if's magic and cool mysterious atmosphere. On top of almost every aspect flopping :/

[@elhenry6006]

I wished the friendship cup finale would be yuya vs yugo smh

[@etheris4140]

so he knew the bracelet girls were incarnations of ray and that the yuboys were incarnations of zarc therefore he knew merging the dimensions would revive zarc

[@nightshroud9671]

I wished they did something for the dragons than forcing them to be all egao..

[@ZarctheCelestialDuelist]

​@@etheris4140If Leo knew that the Dimensional Girls are Ray and the Pendant boys are Zarc, then why kidnapped all 4 girls in the first place? If anything kidnapping all 4 Dimensional Girls would've sped up the process of Zarc's revival, something that he shouldn't have done in the 1st place.

[@Ramma.H]

Longest duel with no relevance was battle beast 😂

[@vendicius154]

As this Top 10 goes on, Dylan's berserk grows.

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

Vinicius Walker By #1 he goes into full on BERSERK MODE!!

[@vendicius154]

Next Top 10 will be presented by Supreme King Dragon Dylan.

[@playmakershow6777]

no, Dylan can easily overcome his darkness :D

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

Playmaker Show With the power of EGAO? XD

[@vendicius154]

Playmaker Show Only by kidnapping 4 girls and throwing them into a machine we can save the world from Dylan.

[@holaburger6075]

Top 1 Dissapointment in Arc V - Arc V for real though biggest dissapointment were legacy characters. Literally no reason for them to be introduced as they lost most (in some cases all) of their duels.

[@somethingsona5855]

Hola Burger reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@aozorahaou2643]

Except Jack, Crow, and Kite Aster was the ones who lost the most And Alexis lost once but gets killed

[@KingaMoor]

I don't know why do people keep calling older Yugioh characters legacy characters? Why not just call them by their name.

[@aozorahaou2643]

@@KingaMoor because their alternate counterparts have to live up to the legacy of the original?

[@KingaMoor]

@@aozorahaou2643 So would you consider Arc V characters legacy characters? It still feels unnecessary to me.

[@NoCryinRyan]

Here's some improvements Arc-V could've made: 1. Let's start with my biggest issue with Arc-V: Yuya. He was a shallow character with no major improvements over the course of the series; his primary goal was to make people smile. Now, on paper, that sounds like a good idea...but he literally shoved the idea down everyone's throat. There were a few ideas of what Dueling was in Arc-V's early episodes; instead of what they went with, they could've used Yuya as a punching bag about why they Duel (unlike some people I have no issues with main characters losing so long as it serves a purpose. He brings shame to Duelists with Action Cards; they become a crutch for other cards that would've worked just as well. You pretty much summed up my feelings on this stupid gimmick and may we never see it again. 2. The Lancers. I thought this was supposed to be an elite group of Duelists trying to stop the Fusion Dimension declaring war on the other dimensions. Then why is Yuya the only one who constantly and consistently Duels and wins? Seriously, since the other characters joined, all they've done is lose; that's extremely disappointing, especially if you've taken a shine to some of them (Shun, Dennis, Serena, etc.). 3. Changes to story: Shorten the Synchro Dimension by eliminating that tedious Tops-vs-Commons arc, combine with the Heartland arc and focus largely on story in the Fusion Dimension. Both Synchro and Xyz could provide some amazing character arcs. More Yu-Zu interactions, besides Yuya/Yuzu ;) I'm so upset Yugo and Ruri NEVER met; Yuto's reaction would've been priceless XD 4. Unless they help define our original cast, don't bother giving us legacy characters. They used the same strategy in every Duel and it got old fast. 5. Ray and Zarc. If they were planned from the beginning, give us more history between the two or more history of the original dimension in general. (I appreciate the time you took to read this and feel free to add anything that you think would've improved Arc-V)

[@neetynayd2859]

NoCryinRyan ... definitely agreed with you.... I wanna add someone, yuto and also clear closure especially in the part of shun

[@nightshroud9671]

What about with the 4 dragons?

[@cruzcruz377]

yeah, it needs more yu-boys & bracelet-girls interaction,

[@justinesun7270]

night shroud96 Oh yeah, them.

[@Jusilau]

The bracelet girls deserved so much more

[@kurosakishun8606]

Earliest I've been to your videos. #NotoficationSquad Oh... It's sad just how much I agree with all of this. The amount of disappointment everything gave me. I remember me and my boy were HYPED AF for Yugo vs Yuri ever since the opening. Me and him literally built decks based off the two and duked it out a few times on YGOPro to see who would win. Like, our hype was unbelievable because I'm a Yuto/Yugo fanboy, and he's a Yuri fanboy, so you can imagine how heated our discussions used to get. Lol. That duel disappointed us so bad... I had to rewatching it just to realize this was real. Ray was utter disappointment. I needn't say anything about her. You know what else was disappointing? Zarc's reasoning for being evil. My understanding is that he pleased the crowd by doing violent duels which in turn made him go bat shit crazy? What? What kind of reasoning is that? And I hated and was disappointed in how Roger went out. Despite all his plans failing, he was a smart and interesting character that I wished had a better end. Now I'm just wondering if he's alive. For a higher-up in Academia, he dueled like shit. You spoke to me in a spiritual level about Yuto. Maannnnn did I hate that all of Yuto's actions were through Yuya after episode 39... The best thing he did must have been when he got pissed at Edo and summoned Dark Requiem. OH YEAH! Where the heck IS Dark Requiem? I thought that was the evoled form of Dark Rebellion just like how Starve Venom has Greedy Venom and Clear Wing had Crystal Wing. We barely even say Greedy Venom and Dark Requiem.... I'll stop here. If I continue I'll never end, at least right now. xD

[@glaciemdraco]

Yeah, all the previous villians had somewhat better reasoning than Zarc did. They could have given Ray one amazing duel instead of pulling the Reira card - NOBODY gives a crap about Reira who is now a baby and damn if I don't hate that whole plot idea with him and making him 'smile' >.> Let's be real, Reira being male is probably the only reason that happened, no Yugioh girl got to shine this late into the season before Arc V so... it makes sense? Sadly >>>

[@joshobrien3467]

Arc-V's treatment of its female characters is probably the most depressing thing about it, bc yeah yugioh has always sidelined its female characters but the difference with Arc-V is that it LOOKED like it was gonna treat them well early on. Then, as you said, they all get kicked out of the plot until Ray duels Zarc (while in a boy's body which is especially insulting). It's just very disheartening

[@Diamondr11Blue]

So we ignoring sylvio and bastion ? Bad writing for everyone

[@richeetah5221]

I thought Reita was actually a girl?

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

Another point about #2... All four of the Bracelet Girls got killed off for HER!? That's SO lame. -.- We don't get to see more of Rin & Ruri because "Oh! Gotta revive RAY!" and it's sad that Yugo and Rin never got to reunite one last time and same for Yuto and Ruri before they all became a part of Yuya and Yuzu! In particular, Rin and Ruri barely got to DO anything. Damn, you went IN on the Number 1 point and you know what... you have every right to be upset about that! I remember the excitement everyone had for it. We've seen Yugo always trying to get at Yuri for taking Rin away from him and... yeaaaah.

[@Lennyohh]

THANK YOU!!!! All I ever saw was people hyped up for Ray, but no one ever considered that 4 perfectly good and loved characters died for this Mary Sue wannabe that did jack all. Honestly, Ray was the biggest mistake the show ever made. Hell, she wasn't even presented as anything special. What the hell did Ray ever actually do against Zarc to beat him? Oh yeah, used 4 Deus Ex Machina bullshit floodgates that came straight from Leo's ass to just split him apart instead of using actual skill against him like Reiji. She didn't even beat the bloody guy! She just made it so he couldn't continue. *FUDGE RAY!* Reiji honestly should have been the one to stop Zarc. At least Reiji was established to be damn good and has actual accomplishments to his name

[@glaciemdraco]

Pfft no. What's good and loveable about Rin and Ruri, who barely had any screentime and Ruri has no huge wins either? Or Serena, who fell as hard as Yuzu? I stopped caring about them after a while along with the writers tbh and that's sad >.>

[@Monty2289]

Seems apparent she did use actual skill. To use the card you have to summon and have in the grave yard 9 different extra deck cards

[@146躁]

I like Ray but...Ruri is my favorite character like ever! And we didn’t get to see her that much! ;-;.

[@justinesun7270]

ULGROTHA Exactly.

[@mozzarellagongonzola7095]

Biggest disappointment ? Everything after the Standard Dimension arc.

[@rosalinaqueen4278]

yep. but for me the synchro arc was a okey one i will give it a 4.99999/10

[@crystalbreaker947]

mozzarella gongonzola Did arc v writers just pulled out a katekyo hitman reborn?

[@mozzarellagongonzola7095]

Kevin Lin Who told you otherwise ? The person above you just stated that arc v writers pulled the same thing katekyo writers did. No one said it was a good series or smth.

[@loadedsnail1936]

mozzarella gongonzola my biggest disappointment the synchro arc when they went to the friendship cup liked the episodes before and after it

[@Arkx919]

Synchro was somewhat bearable mostly cos of Jack and Crow getting some cool wins. Starting with Xyz, it was down the shitter. Straight down.

[@xShadzHD]

I really didn't like action duels/cards.

[@lioncoco2044]

RIP Yuto, Yugo, Yuri and the Barclet Girls.

[@wolffsilverclaw2987]

My biggest disappointment was Yuya in general. I never really liked him as a character. He was like Yuma, always being too happy. But the biggest problem I had with him was that he was always pushing his beliefs on other people. The only good thing about Yuya was his berserk mode.

[@MidnightLucario1]

You kidding. Yuya by far was not always happy. In fact he was one of the most moody protags by far. Sure when he gets into entertainment mode he's happy, but most of the time he was either angry, sad, or worried about Yuzu.

[@mikai4738]

Wolff Nah, Yuya and Yuma aren't that similar. While Yuma always tried to do better even if others didn't believe in him, Yuya got way more emotional about it. Remember the first episodes of Arc-V when Yuya would always put his glasses on when he wanted to hide his tears? It did get better with time but Yuya had really more self-esteem issues than Yuma. And later, Yuya wasn't that often happy and more depressed.

[@wolffsilverclaw2987]

MidnightLucario1 You know, thinking about it, you're right. Yuya was quite moody. But when he was happy, he was overly happy for me. But I still hate him.

[@wolffsilverclaw2987]

Yozora Shiraishi I just made a previous comment about this but after thinking about it Yuya was quite moody. That one was my fault. But when he was happy, he was overly happy, like Yuma.

[@Ren-gt8ov]

Wolff Wow I completely disagree,Yuya is my 3rd favorite protagonist after Judai. I can see why you interpreted Yuya the way you did but to me I liked that he preached about smiles. Usually the ones who are hurt more smile the brightest. I guess to me I saw Yuya as a sad young man who tried to be Happy. I don't really like when characters get all depressed, except in Judais case he was awesome in season 4. Yuya just lived up to what his father had told him "whenever you want to cry smile, the more you push the more will come back. Take a step with courage if you want to win" I loved that philosophy and I thought Yuya lived up to it.

[@TsunaHibaMuku]

To be honest, Reiji save this show SO MANY TIMES..... Imagine if Reiji is someone that is not awesome like Kaiba 2.0(upgraded). This show will be such a let down for me.

[@Harvey1997-]

My biggest problem with the action cards was the fact that they essentially just became "Miracle" and "Evasion" after a while... I loved the idea, and especially how a character in the friendship cup was innovative to use them as discard fodder, but the amount of times Miracle and Evasion came up compared to other cards was just ridiculous.

[@King_of_Wishes]

The only reason nobody from DM appeared in Arc-V was because they were too busy dealing with Diva in DSoD

[@MH_Zard]

Wahome Mwai that doesnt really count, when the legacy cjars were never the same person to begin with. Arc V basically threw the whole timeline thing out the window in place of a dimension plotline so alt. joey, mai etc couldve been possible

[@King_of_Wishes]

Even if it wouldn't make much sense I would always like to think of the dimension duels that took place in the movie interfered with Arc-V's plot...just a small stupid theory to fill in missing the hole >.>

[@Deathmare235]

Wahome Mwai DSOD happened before all the spin offs so that wouldn’t matter

[@destinycybermic6930]

@@King_of_Wishes your words aare uselssss

[@TheFuzzyOfDoom]

My biggest disappointment: Sawatari never won any duels by himself. In fact, it surprised me to see that he had any wins on his track record. Nearing the end, I was kinda hoping he would get better? Also is Leyra a boy? It seemed like the reveal of the long hair was supposed to mean something, but then I think they just kept calling him a boy.

[@brtruev1710]

Reira is a boy. The long hair is to show Ray is (somehow) possessing him. But the dub screwed up and made him a girl from the beginning.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

​@@brtruev1710no Riley is a girl

[@ZarctheCelestialDuelist]

Boys can have long hair too you know. But yeah, if Reira was reveled to be a girl in both versions, would've been a huge plot twist (even netflix voltron did the hole Pidge is a girl plot twist)

[@Heavenlydrag]

I agree with your video entirely, save for number 1. That belongs to Zarc, his character was so one dimensional. his back story had potential, yet they didn't really give it to us, instead they gave a vague reason for his descent and no redemption. For such a potentially great character, they dropped the ball hard.

[@Monty2289]

He didn't really deserve redemption. He deserved to be cut down to the lowest point. And that didn't happen. He lost because a piece of himself forced a bad play. That's just lame

[@WarpChaos]

He did, though. he wasn't a villain. he was a victim as well.

[@matts5164]

^He isn't. Nothing excuses Zarc and the choices he made as an individual.

[@nightshroud9671]

I feel like that about Zarc being wasted and the dragons got wasted..

[@justinesun7270]

night shroud96 Zarc could have been a great character. Like say, explore his backstory before he became evil. And how he hates Ray. Like, he has a crush on her but something terrible happened between them.

[@nharviala]

My biggest disappointment was that the series didn't end with a "purified" Zarc returning with Ray, since they all re-fused, especially with how many references there were to Yuya accepting that he was Zarc.

[@gravityhero2227]

And if Leo had never tried to revive Rei Zarc never would've come back.

[@gravityhero2227]

@RewindBobo Exactly!

[@Gikkeoi]

I didn’t like that Edo and Kite were going just after Hugo. When they were finally beaten, Hugo was pretty much defenseless leading to Yuri winning

[@adriangiantamaghifari2402]

dark requiem xyz dragon "screentime" is the biggest dissapointment in this series

[@typicalasian3376]

Dylan I think you should've made this a Top 20 considering how much of the series was disappointing! XD

[@rosalinaqueen4278]

that's right the most disappointing show in yugioh history XD

[@user-tsukiko2023]

Typical Asian good idea

[@Arkx919]

You can easily go for a top 30 with Arc-V. Everything about it disappointed me somewhere down the line.

[@bosins1012]

Do top 10 disappoinments of the other shows

[@TheBUCfifty]

5Ds, one would be Aki. It was the first time that a main female lead was the enemy at first and she was *Badass*. Not just for the powers, but that she could hold her own. But once she learned to control her powers, she kinda drifted to the background of the action.

[@maxderp8952]

Another thing about 5D is Slayer (i forget his original name) and the organization with all the psychic people. After Aki resolved her power issues, she drifted away along with all the other psychic people.

[@ShoXwavee]

Also Carly after the first season of 5Ds

[@ChaoticTeen16]

1) His name in the Dub is "Sayer" as in Sooth-Sayer. His Original Japanese name is "Divine". 2) I agree with you on Aki drifting away being disappointing. As of the WRGP, she became this unimpressive side character.

[@Dannysapphire]

Wolfy Stigmata Number 1 for the original series would be how useless Tristan is. He was mind controlled once. That's all. I don't even think he dueled more than once. Téa did more.

[@Osindileyo]

The thing that annoyed me the most was the bracelet girls and the other yuya ‘clones’ not getting their bodies back. It’s so frustrating because it completely ruined the end for me. They could have done something but they filled the series with episodes that didn’t need it.

[@Mannyindahouse]

I've been reading an awesome 5-part rewrite of Arc-V. It's treating all the counterparts right.

[@Purpy03]

@@Mannyindahouse please pass the link pleaaase 🙏😭

[@katarina2114]

​@@MannyindahouseWhat's the name? Where can i read it?

[@christopherfu2169]

Probably one of the things that bothered me the most, is that there would have been a simple way to prevent the Zarc resurrection. Leo should have simply carded Yuri when he first met him. He knew Yuri was Zarcs reincarnation so why did he risk leaving him alive? you can't tell me that Yuri was the only one cappable of collecting the bracelet girls. Also while bringing this up, Yuri is my favorite character in the show. I just loved how powerful and unhinged he was. What I kinda hate was that he barely used any Predaplants, which are one of my favorite Arc-V archtypes, especially lacking any of the extra deck once, although granted he had the most powerful of the 4 summoning dragons so he didn't really need anything else. Which is the reason I hate his defeat so much. Yuya was, out of the four Yu-Boys, probably the worst duelist (my personal order would be Yuya, Yugo, with his one trick pony deck which relied way to much on luck, did Zarc actually help him with that maybe, Yuto, who was crimmanally underused (seriously he had only three duels. Sawatari, an idot could beat him so that doesn't count, Sora, ended without result, and Yugo, which he lost) and Yuri). I would have loved for Yuri to wipe the floor with him, fully embrassing Zarcs madness whith Yuya and Yuto trying to supress it which would cause their defeat. In the end the result of these duels didn't even matter in the first place since Zarc would have resurrected regardless of the results.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Card Leo too

[@gasjg1]

i'm surprised no one mentioned anything about Layra, literally the entire series he is shown to be the next Reiji and follow in his footsteps so much that his deck is similar to being C/C monsters and the whole series up until zarc was about Layra finding his self confidence and waking up to be his own person and all of that got thrown out of the window when he was forced back into a baby and be nothing more then the vessel for zarc's soul. The ending even made everything Layra had talked to jack about in the synchro dimension worth nothing.

[@brtruev1710]

Reira's predicament is just icing on the cake. But it's mostly Leo's fault for his stubborness to risk everything just because he didn't understand why his daughter sacrificed herself.

[@fatimasyed8276]

I'd label these in the list: 1. Yuya and Yuto not communicating until season 3. 2. The little to no interaction between Yuri and Celina even though they met as kids 3. The fact that the Bracelet Girls were brainwashed in Season 3.

[@xapath3tic]

The fact that there was nothing between Celina and Yuri is genuinely probably the biggest offender in my opinion. Yuri is the only one of the Yu-boys that went completely bad and it's because he never got to know his bracelet girl, that should've been a plot point. Especially cause they wanted to redeem Yuri by the end of the series, it should've been Celina to do it.

[@hightidekraken]

What’s funny is the Arc-V haters love videos like this but they wouldn’t stand for a similar treatment for ANY of the other YGO animes

[@BluePhoenix_]

Rey is like: "What if the one piece is just a gold coin?"

[@Ultimate23Dragon]

To me the most disappointing thing about ARC-V was that the original Zarc never got redemption or was restored as a different being (Much like Ray or any of the Fusion, Synchro, & Xyz counterparts). The original Zarc's backstory made me feel bad for him.

[@gkarak1996]

Zarc being an iredeemable character is a good thing cause he is supposed to be a monster created by the carving of humanity for violence. The original zarc is supposed to be lost forever and in his place a monster, a force of nature takes his place as a great evil that humanity themselves created. It is one of the few things that the show did right.

[@Mannyindahouse]

@@gkarak1996 I don't know, Zarc shouldn't be lost forever.

[@cosmiccat4706]

My biggest disappointments in Arc-V oh man where do I start I love and adore this series, but with the shit the studio pulled in the last 48 episodes I have a LIST of complaints, but let's see if I can pick 10 out from this list that take higher precedence in my opinion: #1. Arc-V's ending #2. Yugo's Treatment #3. Poor Character Treatment (For EVERY Character in Arc-V) #4. Yuzu, Serena, Rin, and Ruri's Treatment #5. The sad fact that the happy ending the final opening (opening 6) and the two final ending songs (both ending 5 and ending 6) show us a happy ending that the series DID NOT deliver. #6. The main villains poor executions/treatment and butchered cababilities (Yuri, The Doctor, Leo, and Zarc) #7. Yushou's involvment in the series in general #8. The fact that Yuyas Pendulum was for symbolism and didn't have any meaning otherwise #9. Unfortunately that Yuya and Reiji's final duel was much shorter than it could of been (but it was still amazing even as a short duel) #10. Yuya in the very end of the series only had one good synchro being Odd-Eyes Wing Dragon (not counting him having Yugo's two synchro dragons)

[@nightshroud9671]

Anything else? I say they squandered the 4 dragons' sentience..

[@soniasun2692]

Arc-V was the most disappointing Yu-Gi-Oh of all of them.

[@spiderverse7361]

The good thing about that show is that they have characters from previous series and that is the only thing I like.

[@DTran-je1sn]

Far too many characters to handle, disapointing legacy ones, horrible developpement, bullshit action duels. Personnaly, I just don't understand the plot: is anyone trying to bring the 4 dimensions as one like it used to be? Leo wants to revive his daughter by defeating Zarc, whom I can view as a fearsome boss? Does not make any sense! Most importantly, what is the main direction of the show: to defeat Zarc, to bring peace in the 4 dimensions, to see Yuya entertain anyone, to revive Ray, to kick Leo's, Roger's, the Professor's ass? Arc-V is ambitious but a complete mess in the end.

[@schutzgeist8302]

1. To little Ray 2. Rushed XYZ Arc 3. To little Yu`Girls 4. To little Reira 5. To little Yuri 6. Action Cards 7. Treatment of the Legacy Charakters 8. 2 Antagonists wher just crazy 9. Filler Episodes 10. Sakkayo, totally forget him.

[@xenobladerx1404]

Very good list. I'm just very surprised that it's disappointing for you that there weren't DM characters. I personally think the reason for this is DSOD, because it could've confused many fans. My list: 10. The treatment of the GX legacies. 9. The end of ARC V 8. The Zarc arc being a Battle Royal. 7. The negative development of Yuzu and Serena. 6. The treatment of Rin and Ruri. 5. Yuto's early death. 4. Action Cards/Duels 3. Plotholes (Barrets fate, Yusho's mysterious teleport, the Bracelets, the Pendulum) 2. The Yugo and Yuri duel+ Yugo's death 1. No Zarc vs Ray Duel and no explanation of a possible relationship between them.

[@xenobladerx1404]

Honorable/dishonorable mentions: The redemptions of Sora, Kaito and Yuri. Shun's treatment after the Synchro arc. No interactions between Yuya and Yugo (before they became one). Zarc being a corrupted Yuya after his revival.

[@SophiaSanders61]

The show itself was a disappoint in my opinion (I don't know why I have to state this is my opinion part as it should be obvious). I was expecting a fun ride of Yuya becoming the best dueltainer, but instead I got a watered down version of past seasons without the main characters or anything that made them interesting or there respective series. I really enjoyed this video and agreed with it despite this.

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

The show isn't really that similiar to the provious shows that to be a "watered-down version" tbh

[@GamerJosh2611]

Arc-V is my favorite season... but god did it have its potential wasted. I largely blame editorial bullshit and rushed plot for why it started crashing so hard in the second half, despite having excellent foreshadowing and buildup in the first half. It also certainly doesn’t help that they began developing DSoD *during* Arc-V’s runtime. Of course Arc-V would suffer when a goddamn *movie* ended up being developed at the same time, and we can clearly see that they gave more attention to DSoD. Not that DSoD wasn’t good, but it was badly timed and Arc-V took a kick in the nuts because of it.

[@mattvsmoney]

Last time I was this early, Arc V wasn't disappointing. Smh.

[@vidzanallthat]

Matt Money clearly you haven't been early to anything for a _while_, then.

[@michaelwilson-xw4hz]

to be honest, I was expecting a second duel inside Zarc where Yuya, Yugo, Yugo, and Yuri all fought against zarc in an internal duel while zarc deals with everyone else.

[@davidgraziano6235]

Interesting list, Arc-V works as an interesting counterpoint to zexal, the former squandered great potential, while the latter took a very weak set up and turned out great by the end. There are almost too many let down's in arc v to list, so i'm going to be generalizing a lot. 10. The Opening and Ending Themes. YGO has the best track record for great songs of any long running series, but after 5D's near perfect record and Zexal's mostly great record, Arc V's Op's and Ed's were a let down, especially the endings, of which only Vision is of great quality. If i were to make a top 57 yugioh Op/ED list, over half of Arc-v's songs would be in the bottom half. 9. Ray's lack of presence, i put this pretty low because it was established that she used the four cards to beat Zarc, not her own skills, but it still sucks that such an important character barely gets any screentime 8. Yuto, arguably the most interesting of the yu-boys gets the least screen time and development 7. The lack of great villains, Roget is really the only great villain we got, and his duel was underwhelming, for a series known for great villains, this was a let down 6. The lancers, after the Standard arc did a great job building all these duelists up, most of them spend the rest of the show getting jobbed by anyone with a name 5. Yuri vs Hugo, not only for the reasons listed in the video, but for the outcome. Imagine this. Hugo wins, plans to card Yuri to prevent any risk of Zarc, but than Yuri taunts him with Rin's fate and all the stress and crap he's endured causes him to awaken and rage absord Yuri, he then gets completely overwhelmed and violantly defeats Yusho, who was trying to get through to him, this causes Yuya to snap and we get the Yuya vs Hugo duel the third OP teased us with. Bare in mind that Yuri vs Yuya had no build up. 4. The ending arc entirely, rather than having Yuya conect to the Yu-boys by dueling their friends or someone who mattered to them, we get a long drawn out feel bad arc that ends with the biggest screw you to good pay off i've scene in a long time 3. The Action duels decline in quality. Action duels are what gave this series its identidy at first, and the variety of memorable settings for duels early on was great, then the synchro arc happened and the duels got very bland looking 2. Demoted to extra syndrome, the list of characters who start out great and than slip into the background is astounding, while Yuzu and Serena are the worst offenders, the list goes on and on 1. The lack of truly great duels. I maintain that ArcV has the lowest number of great memorable duels of any Yugioh Show, counting Season 0, and since dueling is the series's identify, this has to take number 1

[@emmasofia3622]

I agree with most that you say. However, ARC-V OST has great songs, like Trump Card, Unleash, Vision, Swing Pendulum of Souls, Steadfast Duel, etc. But I wonder a lot about the remaining Sound Duel Disks, who seems to be unreleased till now, there are a lot of good OST songs that we don't know right now, they're taking too late to release that songs. There are some things that really bothers me about this series: At difference from Zexal, in which almost each Number had their own cinematics and good attack animations, the Summons of important monsters in ARC-V were simply too fast, like if they were rushing the duels. The last arc was very weird, what the fuck was that "oh we need to make Reira smile to save the world" WTF, plus the fact Yuya never fought against Zarc directly, the other dimensional boys and girls never recovered their physical bodies and Ray was simply left around like if she were a very situational character. Well, we can blame director Ono for that.

[@davidgraziano6235]

I never mentioned the Ost, only the OP's and Ed's Vision was the only great ending, the rest were either decent to good like Speaking, or downright mad like Dazzling Pendulum. The Openings were better overall, Burn is top 5 YGO songs easy, and Believe X Believe and Trump Card are fun. But the rest are either just good like Pendulum Beat, or bad like Light of Hope. Again this is only in comparison to 5D's and Zexal's near perfect track record with OP's and Ed's

[@Monty2289]

Number 1 for sure I agree. It's weird. The duels I actually like are the ones with least impact or weight. TBH It's probably Kaito and Yugo's duel against those Sun/Moon Guardians. Even though it was a beat down the raw energy behind them with music playing and big ending attacks were great. And ironically the duel Yuya had with the Duel Chaser. It didn't require any grandiose pendulum stuff or Rebellion Dragon but a sweet and simple combination. Infact Yuya's final duel with Dennis were memorable because Action cards were actually used in a unique way and wasn't as convoluted or as boring as the other duels where Yuya was trying to avoid using the other dragons. The only big memorable to me was the end of the friendship cup. In terms of big amazing duels I'm not sure if anything else tops that.

[@nightshroud9671]

What about the problem with the 4 dragons? The show wasted the potential on their sentience..

[@ChaoticTeen16]

Being honest, my top 3 disappointments in Arc-V are: 3) The Yu-Boys not getting their bodies back after Zarc's defeat. That would have made for a more believable reason to have Yuya go Dimension Hopping than "Baby Reira can't smile anymore." Instead of a Yuya vs Dennis/Shun/Jack/Reiji, we could have had 3 awesome back to back duels between Yuya and his fellow counterparts, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri. 2) Leo Akaba. Seriously, for who is supposed to be one of the Main Antagonists of the series, he's such a let down. Sure, he's managed to make his subordinates incredibly dangerous opponents, but he himself SUCKS. The motivations behind his master plan are little more than a temper tantrum. And don't even get me started on the OBVIOUS consequences of his plan. By bringing the 4 Dimensions back together, you practically guarentee that Yuya, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri are gonna somehow meet-up and interact, leading to the revival of Zarc. Leo Akaba, ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID?! 1) How Zarc actually revived. When Yuya and Yuri finally combined via Astrograph Sorceror's power, I admit I was hyped. Supreme King Dragon Zarc had finally come back to life, and he was wrecking everyone and everything's shit. Then Edo and Sora challenge him to a Duel. I would have been fine with it.... if he had his Original Human Form as his dueling avatar. Instead, what we got is a Demonic Yuya. Why give Zarc an original design if you're not even gonna use it when he comes back in person?! The duel itself was actually pretty epic, with 11 characters just struggling to survive against his omnipotent deck, and if the ending of that duel didn't have Seto Kaiba levels of "Screw the Rules, I'm a Demon" involved, I'd have been ok with it.

[@justinesun7270]

The Amazing Anon I think they should give Zarc a demon form. I mean, hell, you could see a silhouette when Leo told the story.

[@ssjgotenks2009]

o turer i hate bbat riera as reira never should ben a baby and zarc should ben huamn

[@ma3mc3mu-X]

I'll tell you all my one main problem with Arc-V, but I'm not complaining about the animation while Action Duels is a unique feature with Solid Mass Vision bringing the Monsters to life that and the facial expressions are memorable: It's TOO *dark.* Yuya kept being mentally and emotionally tortured throughout, especially when he became chosen to be the core body to Zarc's resurrection. Ever since this stupid interdimensional war came into the picture, all the humour that we remembered from the first half of season 1 vanished, THE FIRST HALF, all the emotions were nothing but _negative._ The "Friendship" Cup was certainly wicked because of its ironic title as everything in about it was the opposite of "friendship". The only Monsters that held a "bond" (like the Spirit Partners from GX) with the Yu boys were the Ace Dragons. Where's the seasonal Kuriboh? I know Leo misses her daughter deeply after her sacrifice, but he had NO right to commit mass genocide on the innocent with an army of child soldiers! Also, they used up good names for future protagonists in other spin-offs. I'd rather be reading the more comical manga version than relive Arc-V's "realistic" tone, especially with the dub's half-assed attempt to dull down that bloody darkness.

[@bethanybryce5450]

Excluding Yuri and Serena, Yuya and Yuzu and their counterparts had the most pairing development for a YuGiOh protag since 5Ds. I thought Yuya would have been ecstatic to finally save Yuzu like he did when he held her at the end of the Synchro arc but it's like he didn't even care that much at the end lol. I know YuGiOh isn't a romance anime, but the whole plot of YuGiOh Arc V could have been summed up as "Boys travelling through dimensions to save their girlfriends" lol.

[@markdevontrocio1030]

Unfortunately Konami hates everything about putting love stories on their products so you can't expect some love here

[@rosalinaqueen4278]

i really wish the arc-v manga is way better than this "thing" ARC-V is a real joke guyz specially those legacy characters' jokes we were hyped for XD i wish they had more time to finish this show (maybe ARC-V was supposed to be a 4 -5 years show) MAYBE!!

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

No. It was supposed to be a 3 year Show just probably incompetence and they probably forgot about the time limit when they designed the Synchro Arc forced them to rush out Heartland AND Duel Academy Arcs.

[@227someguy]

Personally, I'm okay w/the lack of DM legacy characters. We already got DSOD, so having them again would be redundant

[@Deathmare235]

227someguy we could’ve seen joey duel

[@ludmilamanna612]

I'll recommend the Fanfic "Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Bonds of Pendulum". It improves all the disappointments of the show, it's frankly what canon should have been.

[@justinesun7270]

Ludmila Manna God I love that fanfic. It’s one of my favorites.

[@digidark2556]

Another good one is The Fifth Factor!

[@ssjgotenks2009]

at last yuzu dual in anime unliek manga yuzu who ahd no duels and become yuya mohter that was hobible bull shti

[@Sonadourge]

What I don't understand is why people call Ray a good duelist. Her dad made OP cards that he himself was going to use and then Ray just stole them and used them when Leo wanted to do it himself. She wasn't a hero, she wasn't a good duelist, she was a plot device for the bracelet girls

[@therebelliousaxel8535]

I kind of felt that both Zarc and Ray were plot devices instead of real characters. I was hope that both were revived in the end with Yuya and Yuzu 's personalities being theirs and we get to see their backstories.

[@earthbornparanian6252]

True, we only get a bit of backstory that Ray was Leo's first child and Reiji's half sister (apparently Reiji is now the same age Ray was when she died). Plus Zarc felt like an overly cliched antagonist who wants to destroy the world after going crazy (we never even got a clear backstory of him ).

[@nightshroud9671]

And the 4 dragons' origins too.. Like how they came into being or how did Zarc get them

[@spacejam4523]

Biggest disappointment: they ended it as if Yuya was gonna duel his dad, yet he never did. We never saw the two greatest entertainers duel eachother. The entire plot revolves around Yuya wanting to bring the world smiles through dueling, so you'd think we'd get to see the ultimate entertainment duel featuring Yuya vs his father

[@MrJuan_Vzla]

Arc-V was a disaster... 😐 But it has good duels.

[@HeraclesDoomsDay]

As a Cromulon would say: "BOOOO! NOT COOL!" Anyways, in my opinion, ARC-V was a disaster. It started off really great in the first 50 episodes, then it plateaued, then it took a nose dive straight into the abyss. Everything you said was spot on, though I would personally change some things. I really liked Asuka, Edo, Jack, Crow and Kaito in their own respective series, but this series ruined them for me. They lost too many times, and they took the spotlight from other characters who would have needed it *cough* Sawatari *cough*. They could have had people who are like their disciples, and they could have inherited similar decks to what they had. Instead, they had to recycle characters who are not even the same from the their respective series, and then proceeded to get their butts kicked. Strike one. Ray and Zarc (pre-Integration) not being in the flesh was another disappointment. All that effort from Akaba Leo (worst "villain" ever) to revive her was for nought, and instead, we got a demon Yuya clone. Just showing one way the show's creators were being lazy. To top that off, when the whole fiasco was over (worst villain followed by worst boss Duel because he got boss armor in the way that Sawatari should have destroyed Supreme King Zarc, but then bullshit), only Yuya and Yuzu return in the flesh. Someone could argue that Yuya was Zarc's main form, and Yuzu was Ray's main form, but come on. Just as Dylan says it, I'd rather be dead then to be trapped in someone else's body for the rest of their life time, and the fact that they can't change forms like with Yugi and Yami Yugi just makes it worse. And no proper interactions between them in the end also sucked. Strike two. And then, THE AMOUNT OF ACTION CARDS USED and Entertainment Duels in general. That picture of every main protagonist's ace was hilarious BTW. I understand that in the anime, the Duelists have to get their key cards turn one to make a play nowadays, even though in real life, a good chunk of those decks are unsearchable. But when you incorporate Spells and Traps, they would have needed at least a 10 cards hand first turn. They aren't able to protect their monsters; thus they have to resort to Action Magics, which made some Duels a cringefest. Then again, they would have made them too boring if they didn't, but to use free cards on the ground which could not only stop your opponent from doing something, but also make plays in the Graveyard is too breaky and cringy. The Entertainment Duels was just, "WHY?!" Adding effects to cards just to make a show out of it? Just no. And the fact that Yuya uses it to push his beliefs onto people just makes it worse. Strike Three. I know some people say that they still prefer this over ZEXAL, just because Yuma is too happy go-lucky and he's annoying. However, ZEXAL never ended this badly, and it had more memorable characters. The only characters I liked from this series was Shun, Reiji and Yuri before he became a good guy. I once actually forgot that Rin and Ruri existed. That's how little bearing they had on the plot. That's how bad the character development was for this series. That's why, I hate this series more than ZEXAL (which is third on my favourite YGO shows).

[@justinesun7270]

HeraclesDoomsDay Same. Even ZEXAL was better than this shit.

[@nightshroud9671]

And the fact Yuya pushes this egao belief onto the dragons, which was a problem.

[@Arko777777]

I'd still argue that the ZEXAL didn't end well. I mean, if we erased the 10 min after Yuma vs Astral when he revives everyone and make them good guys again. I hate that Kaito's or Shark's/Nash's death didn't mean anything and Vector was made a good guy after everything he had done.

[@TeleportlabsETH]

I was also disappointed by Yuri and Yugo's duel but I think the interference was because Yugo's Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon was too strong. I think the writers new the predicament a card like Crystal Wing would present to Yuri considering it's card used competitively. So, IMO the interference was the only way to make sure Yugo lost, otherwise he would have mopped the floor with Yuri.

[@googlyeyes4080]

It'd be great if you did this for all the Yu-Gi-Oh! shows, I'd love to see that! Fantastic work!

[@Ultimate23Dragon]

Let it be known that Yuma's ace card was actually the spell card Double or Nothing & not any version of Utopia since that was Astral's ace.

[@MihoFroggySMP]

🤓

[@perekorangiherewini-teawa3839]

How have I only just come across this video? This is hands down the best explanation of this series. I loved this series but this detailed explanation gives such a great balanced viewpoint! Nice one!

[@BrandonPettitt-bw1mj]

The only thing I liked about the duel between Yugo and Yuri was when Yuri evolved Starving Venom into Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon. I wish that Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom got a little more screen time.

[@KwstasMode]

Apart from all the dissapointments, to me legacy characters ended up being one of the dissapointments. Maybe the show would have been better if they werent there. Biggest dissapointment is the no development with the yu boys and yu girls, they had these awesome charactrs and designs and idea and did NOTHING. Still im tired of the hate for arc v because i definitely like d it more than zexal

[@ericknunez8069]

i doubt so, the only reason i bothered to watch that bs was the nostalgia

[@KwstasMode]

I found the plot interesting, and it was, it was just handled bad

[@neetynayd2859]

After binge watching, I kinda agree with what you are saying.... they should not be around for the priginal characters of arc v to develop....

[@chrissin.6662]

great video :) I really enjoyed it this is my top 10 1 the ending 2 yugo vs yuri duel 3 ray 4 zarc 5 the bracelet girls 6 yugo 7 asuka and edo 8 the zarc duel 9 leo akaba 10 action karts

[@yuyapotato]

Am I the only one that liked Vision's ending? It gave us that nostalgia when the show was dragging us through all that heartache. If anything, it was an emotional whiplash ending.

[@emmasofia3622]

No, that was a really good ending, I think is one of the best in the franchise.

[@jeremyanderson6789]

@@emmasofia3622 sad ending and worst ending bittersweet ending.

[@BlessAngels]

Bruh...what they did to Yuto... I'm still not over it

[@SandMan1998]

and this shows how lazy the writers were

[@mangodude100]

Honestly this show, overall feels like one of those assignments that you start on the night before the due date

[@sigs.8602]

Asuka never had any character development througout the series. She's there for the nostalgia rather being involved in a main plot. Other legacy characters did however have much reason to appear in this series and none of them didn't bring that nostalgia as they had bigger roles in this series.

[@MLondan]

Sigurbjörn S.- Asuka sucked she she was in gx, so when they knew they weren't going to use her for much, they shouldn't have brought her to begin with. And thank you Dylan for talking about Yuto. I think he was treated the worst out of all the boys.

[@soxirhtribal1414]

I finished Arc-V with my cousins some months ago and now that I have seen everything... I still think that the story started going down hill after Yuto died. I was not upset with the death itself, but he was built up to be that badass guy who would appear from time to time to help and they just... scrapped it and killed him after he had little to no interaction with anyone who isn't Shun or Yuzu. Him and Yuri had so little screen time I got really baffled when I noticed they appear even less than Sawatari (the two are meant to be protags and Sawatari is supposed to be a support/secondary character). It's just like someone else said in these comments, the problem wasn't that it was a 'short' series, it was not well organized with its time and pacing. A good story (usually) is on the making for at least a year before it is turned into a series (from what I heard) so they had time to polish some things before starting to air Arc-V. I dunno what they spent that time doing, nor what happened afterwards for the show to end up like it did, but it truly looks like they lacked organization and even an objective. The last arc felt more like "hey this neat idea might keep people watching the show, put it in somehow and make it fit as best as possible". (I hope that made sense lols)

[@Nerocrystal]

My biggest disappointment with arc v was that they never showed off that dragon yuya had in the last op like I was so hyped and excited thinking oh this must be a combination of the four dragons when is yuya gonna use it then the last episode roles around and he never uses it once not a single FREAKING time like what was the point in having it in the OP if you were never going to use it in any of the actual episodes

[@brox1195]

You mean supreme king dragon z-arc???

[@kirbstagoontheaxolotl]

@@brox1195 I'm pretty sure it was odd eyes raging, it rarely gets used

[@JyuVioleGrace001]

9:31 I DIED everything he said was so true!!! Honestly, I expected the main characters from each season to show up, but they never did which was really disappointing. But overall this show was nice.

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

Honestly actually expecting that is pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy. You expected way too much fan-service.

[@years-ti7xl]

Biggest disappointment for me is not seeing the legacy characters duel each other. I would love to see Kite vs Jack Atlas.

[@christopherb501]

Only chance they ever had for that, or heck, even have these characters from these past shows duel _others_ from their respective shows. Missed opportunities ad nauseam....

[@selka1661]

dude i just wanted to see kite on a D-wheel. or really any character not from 5D's react to the concept of "card game on motorcycles" such a wasted opportunity

[@akabaneaki]

i understand the theory as to why yuya and yuzu is the last person "alive" so to say in the end, or at least the last one to be able to have a body of their own, BUT IT STILL PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH that the other 3 boys and 3 girls just....disappeared?? into them?? I THINK??? i mean WHY?!?! they have their own story too and they have their wonderful plots as well, WHY SWEEP IT ALL UNDER THE RUG LIKE THAT AND KEPT YUYA AND YUZU ONLY JUST BECAUSE OF THAT?! i saw the ending of arc-v "arc of smile", and it showed a pic of them all with their own body in the same dimension.....I EXPECTED THAT KIND OF ENDING. i felt trolled throughout arc-v omg....

[@nightshroud9671]

Any thoughts on the 4 dragons? I felt like they were swept under the rug too...

[@cruzcruz377]

i agree with you, i wanted to see them all revive! poor shun never to see his bestfriend yuto or his sister ruri again. while yuto had no moment with a non brainwashed ruri! or poor rin! she didn't even get to see yugo before she dissapear! and selena! she was cool! and yuri didn't have time to change.

[@justinesun7270]

night shroud96 Now that I think about it, what were the writers thinking? They forgot about the dragons.

[@Omegadeemen]

What abouts Kurosaki Shun, i know you mentioned it before but just the fact he stopped giving a shit about his sister and brother because "plot" is still baffling to me

[@Omegadeemen]

lul i didnt check this out, i like derped i was thinkin best friend the whole time. Good point on the latter note, perhaps b/c characters were meant to be one dimensional in their desire to be around Yuya.

[@justinesun7270]

dee Oj Oh yeah.

[@djbaconbitzinc]

In future yugioh animes, I would like to see the Following Decks in the Anime. 1: Kaiju, 2: Steelswarm, 3: Zoodiac, 4: Ice Barrier, 5: Six Samurai, 6: Evilswarm, 7: Laval, 8: Gusto, 9: Majespecter and 10: Dinomist.

[@YugiohEverything]

I would LOVE Shaddoll, Shaddoll trains even

[@Keryion]

1. How about everything after synchro arc

[@Gyarretto7]

One issue I had was the lack of Rituals: It's established early in that, this time around, focus is going to be placed on ALL of the past summon types, not just the latest Pendulum Summoning. In fact, the duel with Mieru even indicates that Rituals, which have been mostly ignored since 5d's, would get some spotlight. And yet, there are exactly 2 instances where a Ritual Summon is even performed: Once with the aforementioned Mieru, and once with Asuka. Plus, with the whole theme of 5 with this series (Being the 5th ygo series, and even titled "Arc-V (5)"), you'd think there'd be a 5th Ritual Dimension, but... nope.

[@Diamondr11Blue]

Prediction princess

[@jux-boi5503]

Dragon with dichromatic eyes! Resurrect from the deep darkness and burn everything in the world with flames of anger! XYZ SUMMON! Come forth! Rank 7! The blazing dragon called by calamity! The Supreme King Violent Dragon, Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon!

[@justinesun7270]

Jon IsBetter Definitely love that dragon.

[@thegamerwhocould5800]

You know that yugis surrender was not a loss right even professor Hokins walks in and says hey Rebecca did you know that yugi is actually the winner of your dual