Should also point out that Aoi's final dialogue in the show was: "I feel like I did nothing".

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

To the writers: if you thought that would be a _funny_ little "tee-hee" in-joke for the fans, *_YOU THOUGHT WRONG!!!_*

@ianr.navahuber2195

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 that was a "the writers know what they are doing and they are enjoying it!"

@iuuuuutubi

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 It was pretty fucking funny.

@MiguelMartinon

3 жыл бұрын

I chuckled

@nexus5253

3 жыл бұрын

It was meant to be funny but it just hurts

I liked Aoi and I wish she dueled a bit more and got more big wins.

@DragonGamer-ml4mq

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@flarerice8801

3 жыл бұрын

How u get that sticker next to your name

@Yasuda9000

3 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@Vengeance880

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with Yu-Gi-Oh everything She deserves more than this and for her character as well 😔

@JCInfIncTVGAMING

3 жыл бұрын

@@flarerice8801 I support Dylan by paying a set amount each month so I get extra perks. The yusei figure next to my name is just a loyalty symbol

Imagine writing a character with so much development but never writing a payoff for said development

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah really sad... One win in the last 94 episodes against a character that was told "you are not near her skill and will lose" before the duel even started. Fantastic

@osblarg

3 жыл бұрын

@@YugiohEverything also wasn’t that duel just 1 episode long, I can’t even remember because I had zero interest in rewatching it.

@nexusshark

3 жыл бұрын

@@osblarg It was.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@YugiohEverything Why was that even _there?_ What was the _point_ of poisoning the suspense right from the outset??

@thevintagevaluesexperience4302

3 жыл бұрын

Just like Bastion from GX

Beloved Yu-Gi-Oh! Heroine with potential: **exists** Yu-Gi-Oh! writers: Allow me to introduce myself.

@musicchannel4453

3 жыл бұрын

Also Them: are you really sure about that?

I’m beginning to think Akiza being a “benchwarmer” for the remainder of 5Ds isn’t such a bad thing anymore, especially when blue angel gets nothing but an embarrassing amount of humiliations.

@Zetaforce-uv8el

Жыл бұрын

I’ve thought about why Aki is endearing and I realize it’s her character arc. She goes from child soldier to reclaiming her old family, and becoming a part of a new family of similar people that views her as a person rather than a weapon.

@coletrain583

Жыл бұрын

Even though her deck had some of the most deadliest decks in the game. Those Divas may not be powerhouses, but they leave a kiss of death, especially if there are more of them.

@sugomasugoma8935

Жыл бұрын

@@coletrain583 no, they are power houses Holly angel can gain 4K alone, and I’m not even including corobane or banquet

@vittoriomassaro8131

10 ай бұрын

Fun fact: S2 Akiza, Blue Angel and many otner "benchwarmers" female characters where written by the same guy: Shin Yoshida, a men who created alot of controvercy and letting fans ask if he is sexist or not because every single female character that he touches becomes flat, useless and hyper sexualized (even when the character is underage).

@Diamondr11Blue

9 ай бұрын

@@vittoriomassaro8131 that's not true since bastion sylvio and many other male characters that were done dirty exist. The mc in the end gets all the glory

Yugioh Treatment of female characters should be a rant video topic in and of itself.

@YuzuMelodious

3 жыл бұрын

Oh there already is one. Over a year old, so to speak. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4GqxdNyntPRlbA.html

@gionathancurry

3 жыл бұрын

@@YuzuMelodious I appreciate the video, but I was talking about this channel specifically.

@YuzuMelodious

3 жыл бұрын

@@gionathancurry Understandable.

@beachbomb

6 ай бұрын

Its so aggravating also knowing most of the fanbase don't care (Or enable it even(especially with Tea)), This is why i never watched any Yu-Gi-Oh media after the first season of MD, it was cute but I'm not sitting thru 600+ episodes of male characters getting glorified and female characters get treated as princesses

it's a shame Studio Gallop refuses to write a deuteragonist if they're a girl. Just like 5Ds, she gets shafted for a cool character in the second season that swarms the field with animals. I like Soulburner though, nothing against him, but what Vrains did to Aoi's character was awful, despite her having the most interesting story to tell. It was implied that she suffered from social anxiety and depression, yet used virtual reality to mask her identity and become someone more bubbly and appealing as a means of escapism. First watching Season 1, I thought this parallel was incredibly thought out, but they sabotage the character entirely.

Step 1: Have hopes for a YGO! girl Step 2: Be dissapointed when she inevitably gets Yoshida'd Step 3: Repeat step 1 for the next girl

@sarthakarora3212

3 жыл бұрын

I still don't get what yushida has to do with this.

@JoelBurger

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarthakarora3212 See: the handling of characters like Aoi and Aki, the complete irrelevancy of Kotori, and how he basically removed the bracelet girls from the equation in his Arc-V adaptation (among other weird things about that manga). There have been enough instances of lead women being completely botched in productions he composes that it becomes a clear pattern in his writing.

@benouzgane2672

3 жыл бұрын

That's a large card you're holding

@machina5

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarthakarora3212 Yoshida stated he writes the females out of the story because he doesn't have confidence in writing believable female characters.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoelBurger Also: first thing he writes for GX has Asuka getting kidnapped and unconscious, he oversees its fourth season and Asuka doesn't get any solo development beyond nurturing an unresolved crush for the unbeatable protag, he oversees DM season 4 and...well, Mai..., ALL of Vrains...

Agreed, her and Go Onizuka were treated terribly. Characters who struggle with realistic issues, try to change but fail in basically everything they do...

@lampad4549

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a good lesson, try your best inspite of failing.

This is so true it hurts. I fell for the hype in that character design just like Dylan did. She looked serious without any extraneous quirky designs and stuff so it felt like the plot would have taken her more serious or made her much better developed. Sadly, a lot of Vrains sometimes feels like unrealized potential because they really had things SET UP to be amazing. Who knew YGO Sevens would deliver awesome female characters lol

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

It hurt making this video, because I really liked her character as soon as she was shown off. Heck I still think she was a solid character for YGO girl standards, but maybe that speaks deeper to girl duelists as a whole in the animes

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

As you mentioned, SEVENS has done a fantastic job quantity and quality with there girl characters which has been incredible to see

@hattanalshutaifi4587

3 жыл бұрын

I agree aoi was one of my favorite female character in the vrains and she is what I call they wasted perfectly good character which doesn’t come as surprise considering the Yugioh franchise poor treatment for female characters and having Shin Yoshida as for Vrains doesn’t help it considering he is worst writer for female characters in franchise

@warrenbradford2597

2 жыл бұрын

@@hattanalshutaifi4587 Sounds the writers could use the tips from this video. "How To Write GOOD FEMALE CHARACTERS In SHONEN Comics & Manga (Ft. Krimanga)": kzread.info/dash/bejne/mp122dSglNHgfag.html

@tatarsauce6314

2 жыл бұрын

Sevens is getting the good shit? Man I’m jealous

Girls in Yugioh get floor'd more often than an old house changing ownership.

@ianr.navahuber2195

3 жыл бұрын

the only one who got worse treatment would be Bastion.

@Straswa

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianr.navahuber2195 Yeah Bastion didn't even get his own theme in Duel Links!

@b1acksteve

3 жыл бұрын

@@Straswa But he did get a buff amazon waifu

@Deathmare235

3 жыл бұрын

@@b1acksteve but it’s actually a tiger

@First-to-last

5 ай бұрын

​@@Deathmare235but still buff Amazon mommy

Honestly? Vrains was done dirty in general, and Aoi is just one of many, many, things that shows how dirty this show was done. Aoi is one of my favorite YGO girls and I'll never stop being mad about how bad she was treated. I have a lot of affection for the Vrains characters, Yusaku actually being my favorite protagonist, but I admit that it should have been handled way better. It's one of the reasons I wanted a manga so bad, to see if Aoi and the story could be done better, but I have low hopes.

@knowomniscience6292

3 жыл бұрын

Vrains also brought link summoning. One of my favorite mechanics for creating degenerate combos and FTK's within the TCG. Thank you Vrains.

@danielramsey6141

3 жыл бұрын

​@@knowomniscience6292 Sarcasm? But yeah, F*ck LINK monsters. They Feel like XYZs, but the Restrictions are just fluff that don't do anything. Especially for Cards that can't be Placed in Defence, Can't be flipped Face-down, can Combo Effects with their Arrows, could literally Lock Boards (Thanks Firewall & Nightmare Cards!), and don't give a Sh*t about maintaining the Standard of YGO.

@eminescueliade4206

2 жыл бұрын

Yusaku was one of the more interesting protagonists.

@karniaqueen60319

11 ай бұрын

All points I agree on. VRAINS season 1 dropped the ball on almost everything so when stuff was getting done in season 2 & 3, stuff they probably wanted to do just didn’t happen

She didn't even beat Prototype A, it was B. Poor Aoi

@danielvilasboas6365

3 жыл бұрын

You can say what you want from sevens but sevens is so nice with its characters.

@TheLuthorri

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielvilasboas6365 well for a spin-off at least..

@Deathmare235

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLuthorri the original is probably the worst with its characters or one of at least

This all reminds me of that thing PlagueofGripes said in his Tien rant "You know they say you can feel the love for a character coming off the paper sometimes.[...] You know that shit about love coming off the page? Same thing is true about contempt or total indifference." Aoi gets treated so poorly, granted a lot of the characters do, but Aoi gets some of the worst of it. She's mostly neglected, and whenever the writers are "forced" to work with her, it's like they hate that they have to deal with her and are taking that frustration out on the character. In her first duel, techno-poisoned, brainwashed, pretty much mentally tortured, then left comatose to be a damsel for her brother & Playmaker. When she loses to Specter getting face planted with her full bodyweight behind it you'd think that'd kill her, like the writers wanted an excuse to never have to use her character again. It's not just a character going unfavoured, it's actively demeaning and humiliating- it's undignified. It's mean-spirited writing.

That moment between 7:06 and 7:20, when Aoi lost against Spectre. To me, as a girl duelist, that is brutal and appalling. No duelist deserves to be humiliated in that way, irl AND in the virtual world/social media. Part of me would have rewritten the ending of that episode COMPLETELY. Many thanks for a great rant vid; Aoi definitely deserved better.

@user-iu2gm7os7d

Жыл бұрын

To think that Aoi's deck (talking about marincess, not sure about trickstar) is actually way stronger than spectre's. They truly did her dirty as hell....no one should be treated like that.

@nurhusninaalya300

Жыл бұрын

@@user-iu2gm7os7d trickstars ARE strong, it's just need some strategy planning and a good deck.

Another point on the Blue Maiden thing: she had a spirit partner. She is the first and only girl in the show to ever have a spirit partner of any kind, as is Aqua the first female spirit partner ever. And...it leads to exactly nothing. EDIT: I have since been reminded of Ruca and Kuribon. I'm an idiot. But my point still stands!

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh, we know that Aqua's real partner was Miyu but the writers (not just Yoshida I guess) thought it's necessary having her in a coma (thanks to Lightning, he really is to blame for every shit in Vrains) and so she needs Aoi as a replacement and giving her some kind of connection with the Ignis and keep her relevent.

@ianr.navahuber2195

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikai4738 Bya ll accounts I would ask "Why not just have her be Aoi the one who was kidnapped? Just say she had trauma-induced amnesia". that way you can have each kid with a different reaction to the lost incident, with the only one who grew technically speaking "fine" was the origin of windy before lightning brainwashed windy into killing him

@justthehari

3 жыл бұрын

Luna and Kuribon : what the?

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@justthehari Oh Obelisk dammit. Yeah...you're right; Aoi was _not_ the first on this point. Heck, Ruca was the only person IN the 5D's anime to have a proper spirit partner.

@sweetprince5020

3 жыл бұрын

Wasnt there a frog duelist in gx who had a frog spirtand was a girl?

Aoi deserve lot of love and have important wins.

@ltmad1284

3 жыл бұрын

Simp

@varkolak7779

3 жыл бұрын

Wise words from Slifer Slacker.

@annedrieck7316

3 жыл бұрын

You didnt lose to Alexis, your a monster Jaden ur really are!

@Eric-py8yy

3 жыл бұрын

Literaly Why the writers hate her much?

@rickbill06

3 жыл бұрын

I loved her deck and spectre deck on yugioh vrains.

Really hated how they treated her. To be honest the wrighting was all over the place in vrains.

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

Same, I agree with that. It seemed like there was barely any planning ahead

@Finnjah

3 жыл бұрын

if spectre and blue maiden had a rematch kzread.info/dash/bejne/douttrmIeJPZdrQ.html

@lampad4549

2 жыл бұрын

@@YugiohEverything yeah that's called a tv show people don't usually plan ahead for a tv show.

@krismarshall3803

Жыл бұрын

@@lampad4549 .....................*sips tea and takes a deep breath*.....wut the heck?

@nightshroud9671

Жыл бұрын

@@YugiohEverything Firewall Dragon shown this issue too

As a character I adore Aoi. She's one of the most complex and compelling characters in Vrains. It's such a shame that the writers treated her so badly. She should have beat Soulburner in their duel

@lampad4549

2 жыл бұрын

That would have been an asspull.

@user-iu2gm7os7d

Жыл бұрын

@@lampad4549 not quite? Marincess>>>>>>Salamangreat, currently Aoi's deck is probably the strongest cyberse deck out there. I know this is from nearly a year ago but I just wanted to point that out. (I'm aware that the anime doesn't quite reflect real life regarding certain decks's strenghts, but it is what it is)

@krismarshall3803

Жыл бұрын

@@lampad4549 More of an asspull of the random effect damage negation Soul Burner used only for that episode? XD

@reds6832

6 ай бұрын

That didn't age well​@@user-iu2gm7os7d

When it comes to Yugioh girls there are two words that describe what will happen to their character: *_SHIN YOSHIDA_*

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

Yoshida had nothing to do with the Arc-V girls treatment tho. (which may have started well for Yuzu and Serena but just look how that ended... Rin and Ruri's treatment even worse considering they were supposed to be important)

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

Now now, he's not alone in this. While he _was_ responsible for completely f***ing up quite a few characters in the long run and certainly every woman he ever wrote for if he didn't create them to be nothing but cheerleaders in the first place (i.e. Kotori(a/m) and Yuzu(m)), others have proven more than capable, as Arc-V(a) proves all too well.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikai4738 Which is why, when it comes to the (inadvertent? sure...) misogyny in this franchise, I'm as quick to blame Ono as Yoshida. Remember: _he_ was a major creative voice (director) on 5D's as assuredly as Yoshida was.

@jo-ri-oh8950

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 @Christopher B if you talk about Katsumi Ono, I recommend you to watch symphogear, a anime when all the main characters are women. He worked as a director since the season 2 and some of the main girls has great development and personality. for me it proves that he able to write good female characters

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@jo-ri-oh8950 1.) Is the show overall good? 2.) If what you're saying is true, it still doesn't dispel that he screwed up on Yugioh, and even _if_ he were guaranteed stable production, I never want to see him credited here ever again. ESPECIALLY if there's any room for you-know-who to wiggle his stupid feathers back in.

Aoi was my favorite character on Yugioh VRAINS! I wish she could have interacted with Yusaku more. They were implied to have become friends at the end, but it wasn't explicitly stated. Plus I love her Trickstar and Marincess decks. Her character development really became prominent after meeting Aqua and becoming Blue Maiden. That's when it became clear that Aoi had strong ties to the Lost Incident even though she wasn't a victim herself, unlike Go. She was ignorant in the beginning of what the Lost Incident victims went through, but she tried to change and understand people like Yusaku and Takeru.

@hattanalshutaifi4587

3 жыл бұрын

I agree aoi was one of my favorite female character in the vrains and she is what I call they wasted perfectly good character which doesn’t come as surprise considering the Yugioh franchise poor treatment for female characters and having Shin Yoshida as for Vrains doesn’t help it considering he is worst writer for female characters in franchise

@underdogchris1753

3 жыл бұрын

@@hattanalshutaifi4587 yeah honestly they dropped the ball with her.

@playmaker4700

3 жыл бұрын

She's so cute

@knowomniscience6292

3 жыл бұрын

Trickstar: topped a YCS (2018) Aoi: 0 ligament wins

@EthanKironus8067

3 жыл бұрын

This might sound pretentious of me, but I am fully aware that I'm a heterosexual male discussing a female character, and thus do not have the same perspective on it as women. I thought I should put that disclaimer out there. That's why I like Aoi's character so much--there's a lot of problems with what "they" did to her, but she's the strongest and most prominent female character in Yu-Gi-Oh! history (notwithstanding Yubel, but that's a whole other can of worms) either way. As for the losses bit, he makes a good point--APART from the male/female win ratio--that the losses themselves aren't so much an issue.

Me seeing the thumbnail while watching season 1: "What is he talking about? Blue Angel is great" Me after watching season 3: "Oh" Here's the thing, Vrains feels like it was just written with season 1 in mind. Season 1 is an excellently and tightly written story with great characters, a compelling story and some of the best duels in Yu-Gi-Oh! If they had just left it at that, it would have been a nice ending. Sure, it leaves a little bit of mystery surrounding the other ignis and all but that's fine since they play almost no part in season 1. It also means characters like Blue Angel and Go Onizuka don't feel completely shafted. They each fall into the classic Yu-Gi-Oh! roles of main girl and secondary rival/friend and it all feels very Yu-Gi-Oh! They both get their chances to shine, we learn a lot about them and their motives and their arcs feel complete by the end. Then season 2 came along and... well I think we know what that did to Aoi and Go.

Yes, Aoi wasn't treated properly unfortunately. Ai blame Lightning for this mistreatment.

@TheJaredPunch

3 жыл бұрын

Ai blame Lightning indeed

@cool-pu1gz

3 жыл бұрын

#blameLightning

@jcasella78

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, Bohman was his creation

Aoi Zaizen was one of my favorite VRAINS characters from the start. Her being reserved in the real world, but so giddy and popular as Blue Angel was what drew me into her initally. Then to see her play a burn deck with such adorable characters as the Trickstars just seemed to match with both sides of her character so well. She's bubbly and cute and outgoing in VRAINS, but in the real world feels so alone that it burns a cold fire inside her heart and mind. I feel like her duel against Spectre was extremely disappointing, but only because she completely stood a chance to win that duel. It wasn't one that had an underdog on either side, and both Spectre and Blue Angel played very well. The way she lost, though, is by far the worst part of that duel. With Blue Girl vs Soulburner, there was zero reason to lose. Aoi was a main protaganist that helped defeat Revolver. Soulburner had such a great respect for Playmaker and Onizuka, but that same respect was not shown towards Blue Angel/Blue Girl. Aoi 100% deserved to win that duel and get talked into joining Soulburner and Flame to aid them in their cause. She would have gotten her biggest win of the series, and still had a reason to fight alongside Playmaker again, even before Aqua came into the picture, and the change to Blue Maiden and playing a Cyberse deck alongside an Ignis would have felt more impactful and justified. But, as written, Aqua's connection with Aoi seemed extremely forced at the start, even if their relationship as a whole was great. Having her only win two Speed Duels in the entire series is incredibly cheap. We learned very early on that Speed Duels have less impact in the series than Master Duels, and are basically forced to correlate all of Aoi's duels with her being lesser than other (male) characters. The same thing can be said for Emma who lost (understandably) to Playmaker and Revolver, but then also loses to Blood Shepard and Roboppi, which are a low stake, plot irrelevant duel, and the opponent's literal first duel ever respectively? Emma's only win was against Brave Max, the joke character who was told in episode ONE that he wasn't a strong duelist. So, yeah, having one female failure take another female failure under her wing just for them to both continue being failures...great writing there, for sure! In conclusion, Aoi Zaizen and Emma Bessho both deserved better, ESPECIALLY knowing the real life (non-anime) potential that both of their decks had. Both Trickstar and Altergeist were top teir meta decks, yet neither Aoi nor Emma had a signifigant win with those decks, even with Ghost Girl using Infinite Impermanence, which was clearly established as a real life meta card that still sees consistent play today. I can't remember a character debuting a card that powerful in the anime when it's real world counterpart had already established itself in the meta game. VRAINS writers, do better.

What I think: I love her character and her character design, especially in VRAINS. What the writers should have do, is a revenge duel against specter (with Marincesses), where she wins and a graduation duel (as Blue Girl) against Ghost Girl, where you see how huch development she's gotten - Ghost Girl is another female character who had so much unused potential.

5:25 Tea: Brainwashed by Marik Alexis: Brainwashed By Sartorius. Akiza: put into a coma after Arcadia collapsed Tori: Brainwashed By the Barians Yuzu: Brainwashed by the Doctor Aoi: Brainwashed by the Hanoi and Falls into a coma after losing.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

Of all the trends to trace from a minor facet of the original, the fact that they seem to pathologically draw _this_ one out over even the protagonist's arc involving forging lifelong friendships is *_very_* telling.

Aoi is such a tragic character, but I think her core issues come from a lack of payoff. Honestly I think the writing for Aoi was incredibly good in the first season, where not only did she have interesting themes going on in regards to how we identify ourselves within virtual space and how that relates to our real selves, but she also had this incredibly fun sort of tit-for-tat relationship with Yusaku. Remember early on, they really made a point that for every time that Yusaku had saved her, she made a turn in kind. He pushed her out of the way of Cracking Dragon > She saves him from fall damage in the fight against it. He saves her from a coma > She helps fight off the security so he can infiltrate SOL tech. Early on, they made it pretty clear that Aoi was a strong-willed girl trying to find herself, and that she didn't want to be indebted to anyone, a character trait which makes sense given one of her core motivations is to be useful to the brother who gave everything to provide for her after their parents died. Her first "big" win was against Vyra, and was a moment of rebellion for her. It was ironically the moment when Aoi started realizing that she was dueling for herself *Instead* of others, that helped her blow off the steam she'd been building up. By the time we hit Spectre, it's about time for her to find a new goal, since by this point she's managed to rekindle her estranged relationship with her brother, who is now more respecting of her choices and agency. Spectre *should* have been that goal. He challenges her ideals, mocking her beliefs, and to a very dark degree, calling out her messiah complex. Aoi at this point has accepted herself a bit more, but in learning about Playmaker's past, is acting like it's her job to get through to the people who have been traumatized by the Lost Incident. In a more competently written show, the show of her being humiliated by faceplanting into the concrete would have been a lowest point for her, and would have compelled her to improve, and to try to understand *why* she lost in the first place, allowing her to grow and understand how to address people like Spectre, who wallow in their trauma, and lash out against the world without trying to seek help. This is why the most awful thing that didn't happen in Vrains was the rematch of Aoi vs Spectre. This should have been the turning point, the moment that Aoi gets back at him for all he put her through, and the moment she shows us what she learned from her defeat. Ideally, she would have interacted more with Yusaku to try and understand the pain of the Lost incident, helping to kindle a friendship, and learning how to do the one thing she never really got down; "How to listen". But instead Season 2 happened and both Aoi and Go were thrown in the trash, forced to spin their wheels and re-tread their already completed arcs. All of this was basically done in service of hyping up Soulburner, a character who kind of steamrolls through all of the setup of the first season, and refuses to be interesting until his ceremony battle against Revolver. As an overarching issue, Vrains had this cancerous problem of never having any downtime, and more importantly, not having characters interact with each other. When we go into the Battle against Bohman, we have (Playmaker, Revolver, Soulburner, Spectre, and Blue Maiden) as our team. None of these characters interact throughout almost the entirety of the final arc. Hilariously, moreso than either Soulburner or Playmaker, Aoi has reason to be at odds with Hanoi, who infected her, put her in a coma, humiliated her, and nearly killed her brother as well. While it's made perfectly clear that Soulburner has a grudge against Revolver, that really doesn't actually make sense, given that Revolver should be, just as with playmaker, the one who is responsible for making the incident end. The man responsible for the Lost Incident is dead, and after some light cyber-terrorism, Revolver has basically become AI Batman. AOI however, was hurt recently and thoroughly by Revolver and his group, and has no reason to be indebted to him in any way. Spectre, who is RIGHT THERE, manipulated her and "killed" her TWICE, yet she barely speaks up about it, and Revolver, who is responsible for Spectre, as leader of the group, barely gets acknowledged by her. Like, beyond the fact that Season 2 feels like a bunch of writers who hadn't even seen season 1 trying to go off in every direction possible (Why no, we *didn't* in fact think that Bohman was legitimately Yusaku, Writers, thanks for trying), and the dropped character dynamics for Aoi and Go, and how the lack of inter-character conflict prevents growth of the group dynamic as a whole, Aoi suffered the most from this lack of understanding of her character, and lack of idea on how to push her ahead. Now because I've been rather negative here, I would like to follow-up on the last point you made about the calibur of Aoi's duels. Honestly, if there's any reason why I love Aoi Zaizen so much, and why I wish they had done her justice, it's because unironically she has some of the most interesting and nail-biting duels in the show. Aoi is ALWAYS playing from behind, whether it's from her opponent matchup to the deck itself. Outside of her introductory duel, she has to go toe to toe in a Burn Mirror match, then Vyra and Spectre run life-gain and anti-burn strategies, which puts her at severe disadvantage. Then Even when she's not focused on burn, her opponents always have highly specific anti-burn techs, like Soulburner having a card that specifically negates burn below like 300, because why? Or Bohman negating the first like 5 instances of burn, only to have a way to instantly reset it when Aoi goes beyond the limit and manages to outpace that rediculous amount of burn-prevention from a deck where she burns exactly for one turn. Against BOTH Bohman and Haru she plays under complete Elemental negation the entire duel, and the writers legitimately just keep adding random bullshit for her to have to deal with. Aoi legitimately fights tooth and nail for even her scarcest victories, but even in defeat, it feels like she's fought harder and more effectively than any of her contemporaries. My heart sinks every time she loses, not just because it's the expected result, but because she tries so hard, and plays so well. Her duels are a blast to watch, it's just a shame they let her down in almost every other area.

@Marcusjnmc

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, really great summary of everything, right at the end she dueled alongside her brother & was emotionally crushed in their defeat, she really should have came back from that, showing that even after experiencing the worst she's still able to pick herself back up & fight on, & they should have after that redeeming moment given her a final emotionaly intense duel with Robopi, where she again is clearly losing, but in the end has to win by putting down the tortured AI after Playmaker asks her to, then only after that withdraws & leaves her hopes with the others, instead she just gets beat down & stays down & her story just ends like that, it was soo frustrating to have that be the end, especially when the perfect moment was Right There & would have turned all 3 of the final duels in the series into a truly spectacular & perfect final arc involving each of the remaining Ignis partners in turn all with emotionally meaningful duels.

@jerbear8884

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit you're right a lot of Aoi's duels definitely have the odds stacked against her and feel more interesting than just watching Playmaker and Soulburner steamroll most of their matches. And I get it makes it more tense but it's another thing entirely when you look at all of Aoi's duels and realize she didn't have a single "easy" victory. It definitely helps the few victories feel more earned but wow did they put this girl through the wringer. I also wanna mention Aoi had some of the better decks in VRAINS overall, only overshadowed by Salamangreats during their debut.

@Marcusjnmc

3 жыл бұрын

@@jerbear8884 Altergeists, Gouki, Rokkets all did better than Marincess, though aye Trickstar were pretty spectacular, from managing tops against tier zero Spyral & Electrum Pendulum in the TCG & even winning an event over Plant FTK in the OCG to winning the World Championship & then winning one of the first japanese YCS as well.

@jerbear8884

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marcusjnmc Oh yeah I remember! Also, Zoodiac is one of my favorite decks so I like your pfp

@danielramsey6141

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marcusjnmc Goes to show you the Inconsistencies Between Decks and Written Material for Yugioh! A DECK THIS OP in TRICKSTARS Losing to Spectre Doesn't make Any Sense! Not to mention the Bevy of Anime Only BS Cards that Show how there's no reall effort for the Male Leads! The only characters that I can think of that had alot of Nail-biting Duels were Yusei and Yuya! Yusei because he he's had the deck stacked against him in several duels before and had to struggle to find his way to a win. And Yuya, because he had expectations and promises thrown over his shoulders. He had lost his fair share of duels throughout Arc-V and it was always impressive to see him edge-out a win during a difficult spot if he could even manage it.

That point about Social Media really hit home. I can definitely relate to that. In terms of Aoi, I was so upset that she didn't get much screentime or wins, because I honestly love her design. She just kept getting beaten and humiliated. The poor girl deserved better. I feel she's better than Yuzu but not by much. I'm so tired of seeing female characters in yugioh just constantly getting shafted.

What annoys me the most is that they gave her one of the best decks in the TCG at the time, Trickstars, a deck that won Worlds twice , and yet they make her play it horribly. Now, I'm not asking for her to Reincarnation Droll or Firewall OTK, those combos have no place in the anime, but they could at least have tried to make the deck look competent.

@Rairiky

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly the reincarnation droll play would have fit very well with vrains lol just put her against a gy heavy deck for spice like when they handlooped yusaku

@gabsjr

2 жыл бұрын

I don't even think she played bad. She played very good, they just don't give her wins for no reason

@user-iu2gm7os7d

Жыл бұрын

The thing is, she also has marincess, which is EVEN CURRENTLY, likely to be strongest cyberse deck as of now. They truly did her soooo dirty.

@KaoruMzk

Жыл бұрын

@@user-iu2gm7os7d Strongest Cyberse deck in the meta has been Salamangreat.(probably still today, since they got most of their banned cards back) And while, Marinecess aren’t bad, they were never competitive unlike Trickstars who were tier 1 since day 1.

@mrbowserm5071

Жыл бұрын

I mean if all she did was lycoris and reincarnation spam I don’t think it would be very fun to watch

Mai, Alexis and Yuzu got similar treatment, seemingly. They all deserved better

@raikonzero

3 жыл бұрын

Mai wasn't the main girl of DM tho, that was Tea who actually went on to be undefeated in the rare times she actually dueled

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

@@raikonzero Even though she would've lost to Crump if Yugi hadn't been near her so she could use his Dark Magician.

@Rairiky

3 жыл бұрын

Alexis and yuzu are fair game but I feel mai was pretty solid,the creators always did a good job showing why she was considered such a badass even in loses,hell she tecnically beat the main bad guy if not for plot reasons,and for once she had some character development(personally I love her waking the dragons arc)

@runningoncylinders3829

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rairiky Marik had also practically lost to freaking Joey, and it's his Millennium Item, not his crappy deck, that kept him threatening. Anime Ra is fantastic, but it's his just desserts that TCG Ra is next to useless.

It’s not just Aoi that deserves more. Go, Knights of Hanoi, SOL higher-ups, Ignis (excluding Ai) felt they got the short end of the stick. It’s these shortcomings is why I hated Vrains as an anime. (& Link Monsters)

Aoi really deserved better. She's one of my favorite Vrains characters and so this bad treatment hurts even more. (but tbh, almost everyone in Vrains deserverd better and Go's treatment still pisses me more off than Aoi's)

@hattanalshutaifi4587

3 жыл бұрын

I agree aoi was one of my favorite female character in the vrains and she is what I call they wasted perfectly good character which doesn’t come as surprise considering the Yugioh franchise poor treatment for female characters and having Shin Yoshida as for Vrains doesn’t help it considering he is worst writer for female characters in franchise

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

@@hattanalshutaifi4587 Well, It's so-so for me with Yoshida. I think Aoi, despite the bad treatment (brainwashed, in coma, the facelanding) still had it better than Yuzu. I mean sure, Yuzu gets more duels and wins than Aoi but her getting kidnapped, the way she lost to Sergey, later being brainwashed and in the last arc, she only appears in the last episode... not that much better and Yoshida wasn't writting for Arc-V. (don't get me started on Ruri and especially Rin...)

@underdogchris1753

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikai4738 Yeah Ruri and Rin don't even appear until like the 2nd half of the show and even then it's only in flashbacks until season 3...

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@underdogchris1753 Tsutomu Kamishiro (the main series writer in 2 and 3) can fuck right off, even if he _did_ write the first two episodes.

@jovanisanchez3590

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 Yugioh Vrains needs a fourth season. Vrains needs to come back on air!

The Blue girl v soul burner duel was the most pointless duel in the show.

@elemomnialpha

3 жыл бұрын

And it didn't have to be

@flashtheshapeshafter

3 жыл бұрын

That dual irritates me to no end for so many reasons, one of the biggest being I really just can't stand how little the main cast interact with each other when they're not fighting

@ashelygordon669

3 жыл бұрын

To me, the way she lost felt unnecessary in the context, I honestly didn’t have a problem with the duel but it definitely hurts to any female YGO character especially Aoi Zaizen, she definitely deserved better, it really hurts a lot. 😥

@Finnjah

3 жыл бұрын

if spectere vs blue maiden had a rematch duel kzread.info/dash/bejne/douttrmIeJPZdrQ.html

@WyseWalker

3 жыл бұрын

It could have been the arguably the most important ones but they fucked up, literally if they had Aoi win Sul Burner's character would have benefited so much form it in the process.

I'm glad that you did a rant on Aoi because I felt Aoi could have been one of the MANY inspirational Yugioh Girl characters in the history but the writers decided to play the damsel in distress with her and it's disappointing

We all should have known that when Blue Maiden ate the floor, that was the most important thing she would do in the show My girl Aoi got no respect :(

@Spades20XX

3 жыл бұрын

It’s so sad that this is hilarious because it’s true 😭😭 Aoi has a good handful of duels she should have won for sure.

@GooseyQ

3 жыл бұрын

Just like Zuzu when she ate the building in ARC V. The girls of yugioh just got such a 😢 treatment.

@fanficdaddy

3 жыл бұрын

I always felt that scene was more towards her deck rather than her character which made me laugh since trickstars were an annoying deck at their time. Coincidence that she changed her deck later in the series, I THINK NOT

@ace-trainer-aj

3 жыл бұрын

What annoyed me to no end about the Tower of Hanoi arc wasn't the fact that Blue Angel lost, that's one of the issues, but Go lost his only duel in that arc as well, which meant that Playmaker had to do everything.

@jacobwilliams1223

2 жыл бұрын

@@fanficdaddy Considering Aoi's track record and respect remain shitty even after she changes decks, I really doubt it was a jab at Trickstars.

I also have problems with HOW they make her lose most of the time It's to cards that have no real reason to exist besides to counter Aoi in a way that's just unnatural, and these people never use those cards again And then there's Bowman who only beat Aoi because they made her change her deck as at that point Hydradrives had 0 methods of dealing with the Light attribute of her Trickstars so she couldn't have them She's supposed to be one of the top 2 registered Duelist in the Vrains but that's not what the show portraits which makes her different from other girl duelist who don't get this hyped up

I'm gonna be honest, A lot of Vrains as a whole had a lot of things that hooked me, but ended up going nowhere. The Chess Pieces and their involvment Aoi's, Go's, and most of the other ignis' character development outside of Ai and Lightning To a degree, the lost children incident and the knights of hanoi perspectives (I know it was explained and we did get the perspective from the main characters, but it still felt like the events didn't amount to much narrative wise or at least not in a satisfying manner.)

Poor Aoi, they made her the Ragdoll of the series. That’s doing her dirty.

I instantly clicked when I saw Aoi as she’s my favorite character and your right she did deserve so much more

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

I love Aoi! She's one of my favs as well, which is why I was motivated to make this lol

@Jonathanloh1992

3 жыл бұрын

1) Her different form like blue girl or blue maiden is kinda dull to me. I prefer she stays blue angel and make her grow her character that’s all. 2) Whatever writer wants us to like Soulburner. My apologies! We hate this character soooooo much. 3) I prefer Aoi use Trickstar deck instead of Marincess which a deck that I don’t give a shit about it. 4) Please make more rant video,don’t hesitate to make one because we feel the same way as you do.

They could have just not repeatedly humiliate her, for no real reason, like it would have been great if she actually beat Spectre, a very big win for her character, not like Playmaker needed yet another person to add to his list of people he beat, and if she still needed to lose maybe a quick duel against Revolver, maybe even set up a future rivalry between the two, I mean I guess Soulburner took that spot, maybe have her actually beat Soulburner then lose in a rematch to decide who then faces Revolver, in a, and this is the highlight, a normal duel where she doenst die or get humiliated

@Eric-py8yy

3 жыл бұрын

I think that Specter needed that win but...wasnt more easy to make her fly or being destroyed in data then Literaly her breaking the neck of a humilitiang defeat? I mean most of her duels were pointless

@koalafromtomorrow5656

2 жыл бұрын

It cause they wanted to promote salmagreatd

Aoi's loss to Spectre made me drop VRAINS up until like episode 55. Also which Blue did you like best? Angel, Girl, or Maiden? I'm going with Girl

@nexusshark

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I think her Blue Girl design looks the coolest. Not that big of a fan of Blue Maiden.

@lailafonseca4955

3 жыл бұрын

Same, she deserved better. And my favorite is Blue Girl, but i really like the design of Blue Maiden too.

@edwardmartin4169

2 жыл бұрын

Blue Maiden because i have Marincess deck

@mrbowserm5071

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping she would win so bad but it was specters debut duel so he had to win

@karniaqueen60319

11 ай бұрын

Blue Maiden

Here Here! Aoi was easily the most relatable character in VRAINS, probably in all of YGO. Her problems and insecurities were normal and her coping mechanisms even more so. When VRAINS premiered I was lonely and miserable and I took refuge in the online YGO community. As Aoi came into her own so did I.

it was pretty frustrating to see how clever and strategic she was at dueling just to face embarrassing losses. I don't think I'll ever forget that episode with the soulburner duel for all the wrong reasons from how forced the duel felt taking place at all to soulburners 11th hour out of nowhere unearned win, just to rub aoi's face in the dirt?

Honestly I feel like many of the issues for a lot of characters in Vrains could've been helped by not only having more time in the series in general, but more specifically having more characters to facilitate stuff to do in the plot. When the only opponents you can take on are too important to the plot for them to lose unless the possible ramifications of said loss don't occur (both for the heroes and villains), or they're basically fodder that are kind of just there, you don't really get much chance to shine. It's either win all the time or you're knocked out for most of the season afterwards.

@danielramsey6141

3 жыл бұрын

Having more characters usually doesn't equal great writing, but utilizing Characters to be more proactive in a Series like this can help to push Story-beats!

I dropped the show in the middle of the first arc after see how the show was going to treat its supporting cast. Gō jobbing it up against Revolver is one thing since that's the main antagonist for the arc, but Aoi doing the same against that other dude? Cmon show writers, can someone other than the MC get treated nicely?

It's a consistent problem in all the yugioh series. Starting with Mai Valentine, they introduce her as a competent duelist and a recurring ally of the protagonists but then NEVER gets an on-screen win (not counting that one filler duel). Next series I really hope the the rival or main character is a competent duelist who's story doesn't revolve around having a crush on a guy.

I agree. Not only was there the theme of duality between the online world and the real world personas of her but she also had a sort of theme where it looked like she was growing up, blue angel looked youthful and as if she was using the online world to live her dreams which she was doing, blue girl had matured a bit and was prepared to take on strong opponents, blue maiden is then her fully matured character, she's learned alot throughout the show and is putting it to good use. Or atleast, that's how well she could have been written

She really should've played a bigger role than she did....Why'd it take till Haru for her to get a major win??? And also the jammed-in plot relevance of her random childhood friend being the Water Ignis's partner was just UGH....

Aoi is still one of my favorite Vrains characters. It does hurt that she had so much potential to be one of the best written characters but she was pushed to the side and never got more wins.

Aoi's character is fascinating, the fact that she changes throughout the course of the series like water she manages to adapt Which is a clever symbolism of her character the blue color,the use of Water Attribute monsters and her three transformations which represents the coagulation, the liquidation and the gasification which are the three phases that represents water changes in real life First she was air🌪️, second Ice❄️ and finally Water💧🌊

It's even sadder cause in the fight against playmaker, with her hand and link monster, SHE COULD HAVE OTKed HIM. But nooo, we're supposed to believe that she doesn't know how her favorite deck works?! :

What tended to happen to Aoi was a trope called 'gettig gstuffed into the fridge' or 'women in fridges', it's when a likeable character is beaten/killed in a gruesome way (and often left somehwere like the fridge for the hero to find) to emphasize how evil the villain is. It upsests people intentionally because it's a cruel thing happening to a character we like and unintentionally because it often shows people (women especially) with no agency getting brutalised, often being taken as an indication that women have no personal agency and must find a manly man to protect them. The intentionality of why it is upsetting (and watching Aoi faceplant was upsetting) makes it hard to say 'stop doing this', because it does partly achieve hat it aims to, making women look weak is a side effect. In the case of Aoi, it could also be said that she suffers from the Wharf {from start trek} effect, where we are told Wharf is strong, and so to show how strong the enemy is they beat up Wharf, but then this makes Wharf look weak because he's always getting beaten up. Things really fell flat most against Soulburner, Soulburner wasn't a sadisitc person like Spectre, so even if he had to win, a simple 'fall to your knees' would have been more appropriate for the loss to Soulburner. Honestly though, every character except for Yusaku, Soulburner and AI deserved better, but Aoi deserved more most of all.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

...I rant about misogyny in media all the time; how the frack did "fridging" never occur to me as a term here???

Still waiting for the day we will get a female Yugioh Protag. Maybe that day we will also get a return to art style in the 8th gen of Yugioh

@ThatDudeThatReviews

3 жыл бұрын

We might not ever get a female protagonist for a yugioh series honestly because the franchise is manly marketed to guys but I think it would be lit to have that honestly. In this instance I want some more diversity in the series and a female duelist that isn't just there to lose so the main character can come in and save the day.

@ianr.navahuber2195

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatDudeThatReviews even if we don't get a female protagonist, i would be fine if they did a female co protagonist. like "she IS NOT the protagonist, but is the second or thrid most important character in the show (regardless on wheter there is romance or not)". just having a female Joey (female best friend), would be a step up. especially with a personality like SEVENS' Tiger or ZEXAL's Anna Basically do what Yuzu was supposed to do and done right

@ThatDudeThatReviews

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianr.navahuber2195 I'd like that as well honestly because there are some really good female duelist in real life I know and it'd be awesome of they had a character in a series that isn't villain of the week fodder.

@akabaneaki

3 жыл бұрын

I personally think its a best they stick with the male protag thing, BUT! they really have to change whoever is writing for the girls. The person obviously is not experianced with writing female charas its ridiculous. My expectations is not high, just don't make a annoying one or a useless one. There. Is it that hard writers?!

@ianr.navahuber2195

3 жыл бұрын

@@akabaneaki AGREED. Sure they can keep main protagonist and rival and even the joey best friend character males but at least the usual main female character should be written competently the worst aprt the franchise already had that with Akiza. BUT SADLY MANY MANY factors had to scrap those plans.

I think that Zuzu also should have deserved more in the anime

I mostly agree with your points, although I don't hear much in the sense of solutions that'd work. Personally I'd write Aoi as a character of duality, like she starts as, confronting her 'demons' on the way. Don't quote me on this, but I think the loss against Bohman, which I honestly didn't see coming when I first watched it, was not something that ever broke her spirit: she put up a good fight, despite a overwhelming disadvantage. This was the type of moment that would warrant her 'transforming' into a new persona. A fitting end for her character would be to beat Spectre after such a hard loss, but it would be difficult to writ ethat into the story of S3. It's unfortunate, but I feel like the writers dropped their own interest in Aoi after S1, in favor of Soulburner and Ai in subsequent seasons,

Aoi definitely deserved so much more than what she received because in the first season she was a star in Link Vrains and then afterwards she kinda was tossed to the side lines.

Tea: Pointless Cheerleader Alexis: Starts well and ..... She's gone Aki: Starts well and..... She's gone Tori: Pointless Cheerleader Zuzu: Starts well and..... She's gone Skya: Starts well and ..... She's gone Romin:Ok so far ..........When will she be gone?

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else read this in that CPA voice from South Park?

@runningoncylinders3829

3 жыл бұрын

Don't remind me we're due for cheerleader again. Give me at least like a solid five months with the lead gal's Archetype.

@fnafsummoners5679

2 жыл бұрын

is it wrong in my fanfictions/RPs, I make the main girl on the same level as the main boy? like, it's not that hard 😐

I would love to see a Vrains movie. Could potentially fix Aoi as a character. Imagine a rematch duel with Specter or soulburner and won the duel.

Loved the video. I really like Aoi's character. She felt so relatable like a younger Mai. Juggling her family stress, trauma and masking it online is something that lots of young people do in this day and age. Looking back and reqatching the show... I think that 2 things bothered me. Her losing to Spectre when she had so much development up to that point, and how few duels she had in part 2. Honestly, I do like Marincesses, but kinda really didnt like that she ditched them in the last stretch. What was the point of her incorporating fusion summons, new trickstars and battle support, if she wasnt going to get payoff afterwards? They probably could have just added water attribute trickstars to complement the battle weakness they had to make the deck more well-rounded Mai always lost to main characters and villains. Aki was underused in the 2nd half. Yuzu started off really well, but arc V ended on a lackluster note... Aoi felt like a mix of Aki and Mai's issues writing-wise.

@nightshroud9671

Жыл бұрын

I feel like if she can't use Trickstars anymore, Go shouldn't be allowed to use Goukis in Season 3

Female YuGiOh Character : *exists* YuGiOh Writers : *eheh character development go bye-bye* (edit: Asuka rant when, Dylan? Justice for my Queen 😭😡)

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

Shin Yoshidas a friend

All YGO main female leads deserve better. Reminder that even the final 5Ds ending credited Aki as "Bench Warmer".

Yu-Gi-Oh anime really drops the ball when writing strong female protagonist/characters on a consistent basics

@justinmadrid8712

2 жыл бұрын

I mean it's a Shonen so...

I love her deck of Trickstars with a duelist myself in still using it to this day. Was disappointed when they changed her to marincesses. Wish they would have given her more of a chance. Her anime cards made Trickstars equal to salamangreats. A lot of the same cards being used in some fashion which is maybe why they changed her archetype

Thank You Dylan for another Good Video! Also I agree with you, Aoi Zaizen deserved better! Aoi Zaizen is one of my favorite characters from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.

Literally never regretted quitting at Episode 9.

Aoi was one of the few reasons I watched this show from the beggining to the end. Certainly not for the boring MC and Crow 2.0! She deserved so much better! Aoi, Revolver and Espectre carried the show.

To show her progression, I would have her get a rematch with Specter as Blue Girl, get a draw and then another duel with him as Blue Maiden and win.

In a way, it’s kinda refreshing seeing you rant on something that isn’t Arc V related. I hope we see you look on the negative points of DM, GX, 5DS and Zexal for variety. I know what I’m saying sounds kinda horrible but I don’t like seeing so much hate. Even the best YGO shows have there downsides. Maybe to show your not biased against Arc V (I hope you aren’t), why don’t you do a list of the positive aspects of Arc V after it’s supposed decline in quality (some say after the Miami Championship or the Friendship Cup). Not just duels but like standalone moments and scenes for the characters and even the ideas they had. What do you say? Sounds like a interesting to tackle?

@IWriteTooMuchForBleachIGuess

3 жыл бұрын

And what's so horrible of disliking negativity and trying to show negative aspects only exist when they're chosen to be focused on? I think you have the right idea.

@bladersmosh

3 жыл бұрын

Curious, are you being sarcastic when you sat “I think you have the right idea.” As in am I right or am I making a fool of myself for sounding ridiculous. Cause I’m starting to think what I just said unintentionally pissed off you and maybe some people reading this comment because I went overboard. I think the point I was trying to say was I don’t want all the negativity to go to Arc V cause I know it has a bad ending and plot went down hill after a while but in that decline in quality, there was still dozens a great if not brilliant duels and standalone moments that I think should be shared in detail and how Arc V isn’t so full of negativity and disappointment (to a degree).

@IWriteTooMuchForBleachIGuess

3 жыл бұрын

@@bladersmosh I'm going to reach a little and say perhaps you're almost used to negative people which saddens me if so. No, I meant what I said 100%. I think people are just more inclined to focus on the negative side of things because of however it "offended" them and subconsciously them focusing on it (mostly to the point of redundancy) makes them feel better. That's not to say the flaws in something should be ignored, but it often reaches a point where it's just a stagnant observation. Often copied from somewhere else and at times with no unique thoughts of improvement offered that doesn't apply to whatever was wrong in the first place but more to what comes next. Or "x did better." Of course I'd rather focus on the right rather than the wrong because it's the right that often enhanced people's lives somehow and I'd rather improve upon that than beat a dead horse.

@bladersmosh

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see. Thanks for that detail. Maybe I did go overboard or at least misguided in what I said and for that, I apologise (If I needed to or not).

@IWriteTooMuchForBleachIGuess

3 жыл бұрын

@@bladersmosh Well if you're in need of a friend or wanted to discuss such things involving Yugioh...

Yo you gotta see the revealed summary for episode 40 of Sevens, seems like the Romin Empire is gonna go through some stuff

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

Saw it! Will be discussing it potentially on pre show tonight

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, I think this could be a good start for more focus on Romin.

@heavydonkeykong5190

3 жыл бұрын

In a good or bad way?

You can say that for all the girl protagonist besides sevens

I swear to God, majority of the female characters in every Yu-Gi-Oh series are cursed to either become Damsels in Distress, or worst, just extras in the show, even the most skilled and potential duelist are mistreated greatly, especially if they had any relationship with the protagonists.

This applies to any yugioh girl. More respect for my girls Asuka and Aki.

I think Aoi (the character) was written well. Its the Blue persona (the duelist) that has the problem.

It almost felt like the writers were deliberately trying to make Aoi their chew toy

That little bit at the end makes me wish I personally could voice chat since oh man, I genuinely think we'd be at it for hours on some of these topics. That out of the way, I will say this: I think the studio issues caused a lot of the abuse she faced in her writing direction, since it's no secret that Vrains had a very troubled development, thus I think if that was absent, then perhaps she'd have been handled much more delicately. I will give them props for the designs of Blue Angel and Blue Maiden, cause appearance-wise they look really good (Can't say the same for Blue Girl, always looked kinda off to me). Now that they're with a new studio though, things maybe are different, though I have yet to see Sevens.

Aoi Zaizen is a great waifu. She does deserved better yugioh everything I 100% agree with your opinion.

I still remember being so hyped they made a princess cup seeing female duelists being recognized and yet they do this to EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER.

I know it’s kind of a shonen standard but it still hurts when characters like yuzu and aoi could have been so much more and got such a harsh treatment throughout their show’s run.

The part you mentioned social media and how it affects our mental health was very relatable. Especially how you tied to Aoi. I completely agree with everything you said, Aoi Zaizen was done dirty..I honestly almost dropped Vrains after seeing Blue Angel/Aoi's horrible humiliating defeat against Specter. She didn't need to faceplant and be whipped up in the air like that..even to this day, I'm still kinda like "what the hell man, what the actual hell?" When it comes to that Overall, she had great potential like Vrains which I still mostly enjoyed but it was so rushed. I wished she would have had more time to shine. I still like her as a character. I still consider her a favorite much like Yuzu and the bracelet girls. But yeah she deserved better. A lot of the YGo girls in the first six series deserved better. I need to finish sebens at one point you pointed out they had good female characters. I'd like to check it out.

Aoi was always one of the most consistent characters in the show. For the entirety of season 1 to half of season 2, Aoi developed from a selfish, reserved girl dealing with negligence issues derived from her brother who'd use the Link VRAINS to become a version of herself that she wished could be in reality to a courageous and mature girl who's willing to stand up for herself and help others as well as gaining a more stable, healthy relationship with her brother. A favorite scene of mine is when Aoi chose to rescue a random research team who had no way of getting out, but uses her one time log out program to help. If this was Aoi from the start of the anime, she most likely would have left them and saved the log out program as her actions initially came from a place of selfishness like wanting to escape reality and getting the recognition of her brother, but she saw her faults and grew as a character. Imo, Aoi is one of the most well developed characters in VRAINS (although, I do agree that the Blue Maiden transformation was outta no where and unearned from a dueling perspective. Though I would argue from a character perspective it makes sense as it was building off Aoi's development of being more selfless and wanting to help a friend. Aoi also learned that the Ignis are living, breathing creatures who like any other species doesn't want to die at the time, so in a way, her transformation was also symbolizing her desire to help them too). The problem however is that none of those developments have any satisfying payoffs. Everytime Aoi gained any growth, it was a surefire sign that she'd be fodder in the upcoming duels: -We learn about Aoi's character; loses to Playmaker (although this loss was fine). -Has a new desire to help people after beating Baira and teams up with Playmaker; her very first duel afterwards she gets BODIED! -Realizes her faults in her character and wishes to get stronger so she can help more people; gets taken out by Soulburner to hype him up almost IMMEDIATELY! -Teams up with Aqua to not only help her but to save her childhood friend Miyu thus donning Blue Maiden; has a nearly insignificant victory against Haru and goes up against the MAIN ANTAGONIST of the arc! Obviously loses... -Has a great scene with Yusaku where we see how her entire journey has affected her up to this point and teams up with Akira in a Tag Duel against Ai; both loses him to but honestly, this was one of her LEAST offensive losses... What's bad about this is that Aoi becomes IRRELEVANT for the rest of the anime after this! Sure puts the "Didn't do anything" in the "No, I didn't do anything," well in her final dialogues. The problem is the anime constantly mistreated Aoi and used her as fodder in order to hype up other characters when there should have been moments where it feels like her development actually matters, but instead she falls into the same trap EVERY YU-GI-OH GIRL falls in! And for the cherry on top, like you said Dylan, they execute the aftermath of her losses in the most HUMILIATING ways, like jesus, you'd think someone on the writing team has it out for this girl from how BRUTAL some of these are! Aoi's one of my favorite characters in VRAINS. I related to her struggles a lot and overall thought she was a legitimately good character, but the anime continuously mistreats her character over, and over, and over, and over, and... OVER again! It's a shame because - like most elements in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - she could have been the best Yu-Gi-Oh! girl we ever had! She's certainly one of the best in my book, but misses the mark unfortunately...

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

It really is _astounding_ how much just like with Mai, just like with 5D's, just like with Arc-V, _any time_ a woman develops any sense of agency or purpose, she's inevitably shot in the foot down the road. All the women suffer at some point, but they suffer so much _worse_ if they dare do anything besides cheer. ...you can see why, assuming Bridge sticks the landing with Sevens, I will _not_ be cheering for the franchise to ever go back to Gallop, right...?

@gamerraito2153

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 Exactly. Gallop is really bad at writing female characters. The lead writer for VRAINS was Shin Yoshida who came in from time to time in the series. but was mostly responsible for 5D's and I believe ZEXAL as well. 5D's has who I consider the best Yu-Gi-Oh! girl: Akiza Izinski, but even she gets eventually shafted, just thankfully much later than Aoi and has better payoffs. Yoshida is practically KNOWN for consistently not being able to write female characters that's it meme now, lol! I'm honestly glad he's not working on SEVENS because so far Romin is looking pretty interesting (I'm not caught up with SEVENS - only 6 episodes in - but based on what you said, I'm glad to hear she's doing well!). Tbh, I'm enjoying SEVENS MORE than VRAINS and I'm not even far in. So yeah, if Bridge sticks the landing, I'd be thrilled to have em keep on working on the franchise!

I loved Aoi. She's my favorite female lead in all of YGO and my second favorite character in Vrains. Her writing outside of duels was pretty good and her changing her avatar a lot was cool and showed real growth. I wish she got 1 or 2 big wins in the show and that her losses weren't so brutal (face planting, crashing into walls, etc...)

good thing I dropped Vrains after the 4th recap episode. It was so boring that I couldn't get further. And its funny how she lost her debut duel. She is playing one of the most broken decks at the time... and she only wins against nobodies

I was waiting for this!

@YugiohEverything

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!!

Aoi Zaizen is one of my favourites in Vrains, and it really wouldve been nice to see them do more with her character

Yu-Gi-Oh and female characters done dirty, name a more iconic pair.

@whateveryouneed4858

Жыл бұрын

I still think Kotori had it worse tbh. Girl was pretty much a cheerleader. I watched Zexal twice and the only things I remember about Kotori are her throwing Yuma his key when he left it with her, her making him rice balls and her confessing in the last seconds of Zexal. At the very least the other girls had their arks and had amazing wins, Kotori didn't even get that.

@christopherb501

Жыл бұрын

@@whateveryouneed4858 She's worse in premise and set up, not in execution. The really sad thing of the Gallop era and women is that, for what she _is,_ she may well be the BEST executed female main character. I am completely serious; there is a strong argument to be made here. And even when she aspires even less than Anzu to be her own person, she still gets brainwashed. This is how awful Gallop was with women, and why I honestly hope we never go back. To quote many a women's rights activist today, "We Won't Go Back."

@whateveryouneed4858

Жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 I strongly agree with you, in this sense. What baffles me is that they at least tried to give a hint of personality to the other main girls, but Kotori's only personality was "Oh I'm soooo in love with Yuma!" from the very beginning. She's not shown to have an ambition of her own, a desire of her own that does not concern Yuma, which is ridiculous. And her confession in the end, it was just done so stupidly! There was not a hint of emotion in it, especially when we compare it to that beautiful kiss scene between Yusei and Aki. I don't know if you can tell, but as a woman Kotori kinda gets on my nerves 😂

@christopherb501

Жыл бұрын

@@whateveryouneed4858 No, go right ahead and hate on her. I know she has her fans, but it's only because she's so offensively inoffensive. Literally ANY other girl in Zexal would have been better as the lead. Go with Anna, the one Takahashi actually designed with the big trains that kids'll love (RIP); go with Rio, have another chance at the 'lead girl villain drama' that they dropped with Aki; go with Akari, can have a similar dynamic as was had with Anzu but still fresh given we're talking familial; even Cathy would have been better as she at least had the silly cat flavor. As is...BLAND.

She got treated so badly and I wish her character was better and not treated poorly, I loved her though and I still do. It sucks how the writers made her like this, it hurts me so much because she had potential, but that went away.

Aoi just needed that one big win at the end. It always felt like they were building her up for something big. Her loss against Spectre was humilliating, but at the time I thought she'd get her rematch against him... nope. Her as Blue Girl was a mess, but I actually really respected her against Bohman. Of course she was gonna lose, but it was awesome seeing her stand tall against one of the most powerful characters in the show, someone who tied with Playmaker! She never gave up, even when she knew she was going to lose, and even when she lost, she landed on her feet, it showed real progression, and felt like the next step was for her to take down a big villain... but.... that never happened. I honestly would have given her the fight against Roboppi, there can be a reason for it, because Roboppi beat Emma, so this could be Aoi fighting for her friend's honor, and she'd end the show off with a good win, but no... gotta give all the spotlight to Soulburner... and this is coming from a guy who LOVES Soulburner, but yeah... Aoi deserved better. Still one of my favourite yugioh girls though.

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

I will blow a gasket if it ever comes out that said "build-up" was intended for a Vrains 2 that the teasing at the end of the show was actually referring to.

I remember the Yuzu VS Yuri duel very differently from you so I want to see that video. Also I absolutely think you should make this into a series if wasted character potential. I know you have touched upon it a bit with your, "What happened to" series but I really like this format.

@brunosanto3488

3 жыл бұрын

A Rant video would be perfect for Yuzu and Selena. Instead, a video "What happened to" would be ideal for Ruri and Rin (Or everything related to Leo and Ray)

they should have given her the Robopi duel at the end, it would have been waay more emotional to have her there & it would have seriously gone a long way to redeeming her story with a meaningful finale

Yuzu and her runner gets thrown off the track and slammed right into a building making the characters think she could be dead.

I swear switching from trickstars ruined because there was no way she was gonna lose to hydradrive with them.

May I recommend doing a top 10 or even 20 summon chants? If you want to make it easier, do it for each series.

Back then, I was mad at the writers for how they treated Aoi... And I still am...

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

He may not have started as such, but by this point, Yoshida was a full-on hack.

@SuperMophie

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 This might have been because of the issue with Vrains. The more I watched the show the more i had the feeling that... how to put this.... the main characters were somehow NOT the main characters... Like Revolver for example, he became a main character in season 3 i mean from Villain to hero... I don't know anymore...

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperMophie I always wince amusingly at people who complain about Sevens not resembling Yugioh, and then praise _this_ show, despite its own character type-blurring and lack of franchise staples like, you know, _bonds._ Arc-V is the worst Yugioh show, bar none, but Vrains to me is even worse at simply _being_ a Yugioh show.

@snow-wing7965

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherb501 Can you please not hate the entirety of Vrains, and Arc-V. There has to be one good thing in both, even if it turned bad later on (please don't yell at me).

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@snow-wing7965 Oh, there are good things to be sure. Like the video brought up, Aoi's actual character development was solid, just wholly maligned by the show around her. And Arc-V(a) would not be _nearly_ so infuriating if it hadn't started off so well as it did. If the first season was prevaricated on stupid crap like the pirates and the parasites and the Battle Beast and demon-gargoyle-Yuya and making a baby smile (?!?!), people would still write the show off as nonsense, but it at least wouldn't be so disappointingly _painful._ There's more I could name, plenty more to be sure; it just doesn't change the fact that they are _not_ good shows, shucking potential left and right, and will happily ditch elements that were what actually drew viewers in beyond the core audience in favor of messianizing the protag. I'll give Vrains this: its ending was an overall decent one, and IMMENSELY better than Arc-V's. Had the middle of the show balanced its characters better (and again, not seem to taken perverse delight in making Aoi suffer and her efforts amount to nothing), the ending would really feel like a grand, if tragic pay-off to what had come before, and I'd sing a very different tune.

Aoi was the first female lead to take on a season final boss. In fact, she took on two! While I'm proud she got that chance, but I do agree she deserved better! 💙💖

@z-one5941

3 жыл бұрын

I'm really sad that lots of people completely ignore that. Other female leads barely did anything like Kotori and Téa and they barely get any form of criticism, just because they're "cute".

@mikai4738

3 жыл бұрын

@@z-one5941 I've seen enough people disliking Kotori and Tea (Anzu). And tbh, they were both not really duelists so people probably didn't expect much in the first place. But Aoi started not so bad and then ended like this...

@z-one5941

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikai4738 Still better than Yuzu... or Rin... or Ruri... or Serena. And good part was that Yoshida was NOT a part of the Arc-V writing team (for the anime)

@christopherb501

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikai4738 It says something that the girls that were treated 'the best' are the ones that aspired to something of their own initiative the least. ...something not right about that...

Great video, Dylan! I agree, I think they really could’ve explored the duality more so than they did. Giving her more big character moments. Thankfully, her loss vs Bohman was not humiliating. And the loss vs AI wasn’t really either.

maybe one day will get a sequel special of this series.

The fact that they named a character Aoi and had her constantly get hurt is perfect though

I get the feeling that they really held Aoi back in an attempt to not make her the girl who inevitably become Yusaku's love interest but as a result she really has nothing to do in the story other than be a jobber. I feel she should have at least been a part of the main group after she woke up from her coma where she would at least knew Playmaker's true identity rather than only finding out in the last 15-20 episodes of the show and nothing coming of it.

@anonymoustwst4623

2 жыл бұрын

I really don't want another female character to be another potential love interest. Do you remember the atrocity they made with Yuzu? Or Aki? They done them dirty the day they show us how they're in love with the protagonists.

Completely agree with all your points! This is why many of us are hoping Romin in Sevens doesn't get this kind of treatment. Yes I know there are people that have issues with her going berserk and her taking a backseat in the excavation arc but I can assure you that she has been more involved in important plot moments with her being a spy for Roa (Rush duel arc) and helping Yuga summon his Maximum monster after beating Otis along with Gakuto and Rook (Maximum arc). I also like how she's gotten more mature as the series goes on. So she is far and away better than Anzu, Kotori and maybe Asuka.

Love the thumbnail!