#Z-ARC

[shitpostingkats]

*SHAKES YOU AGGRESSIVELY*

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR “Zarc is an incarnation of The Supreme King” THEORY I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS YOU HAVE GOT ME HOOKED I AM OBSESSED WITH THESE FIRE TAKES YOU ARE SPITTING OP

Jaden and Yuya are now my favorite dynamic of all time, and now that I’m being shown the similarities I’m wondering if it’s really just a coincidence GX and Arc-V are my absolute favorites out of all the Yugioh series this is insane 👀

Hehe. Gladly <3

(Uh. This got long so it's going beneath the cut for the sake of people's dashboards)

Well, first off, there's just a lot of similarities between Zarc (the original Zarc, before he split into the Yu-bois) and Jaden. Both can talk to duel spirits, both start out chipper and are driven to the edge by grief, both split into various personas/people (Jaden with himself and the supreme king, Zarc obviously into the Yu-bois), both fuse with their ace monster(s), and both carry the title of "Supreme King". Most interesting, to me at least, is how both shape a lot of their identities around what they think people want from them.

Zarc was content to be an amazing duelist, but felt pressured to put on a good show, to be more brutal. Jaden, more subtly, constructs most of his personality off being easygoing, chill, and carefree, because he internalized that his emotions are dangerous, and people would rather deal with happy Jaden than the emotional disregulation mess that he actually is.

And both of them, when they get overwhelmed, adopt a mentality of "Well, the world might as well burn with me."

Jaden, rather than feel his grief, locks off his own trauma behind a brick wall and goes on smiling. Yuya, rather than deal with his dads disappearance, does the same.

I'd also like it noted that supreme king Jaden and supreme king Yuya have yellow eyes.

And some teal/orange eye asymmetry

Honestly, even dragon form Yuya and the Supreme Kings armor have similar silhouettes.

Mostly its in the spikes on the shoulders and elbows, and the fact that Zarc Yuya forms a weird chestplate (and that this is the same art team and visual style)

Another thing I get hung up on is that both Jaden and Yuri have super poly. In GX, Jaden had to go through an entire arc of misery to get that card, and Yuri just? Has it?

So my little headcanon, is that in the original timeline, before the dimensions were split, Zarc had the spirit of The Supreme King, able to command duel monsters and wield The Gentle Dark. Unfortunately for everyone, he got a teensy bit traumatized before he could enact his destiny of defeating The Light Of Destruction. Using his powers, he fused with his dragons, nearly destroyed the world, etc, etc. When he split, the Supreme King couldn't just split into four the same way the rest of his soul could, and so while the dimensions split, the past was rewritten to attach the power to a different soul, with a different guardian to boot. Similar to how the timeline got all borked to set everything back to a late nineties world of duel monsters.

Which would make Yuya 1/4 of an alternate universe version of Jaden. And I think there's a lot of fun to be had with that idea :)

[fluffalpenguin]

merry zarc-mas! (if you liked it, do consider reading the afterword i wrote for this comic as well)

[marisashinx]

SUPREME™️ King Zarc!

[yugioh-polls-because-yes]

villains, can you feel the power?

Time for the ARC-V Main Villain Poll. Vote for who you think is the best Main Villain in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime.

Let's see where the pendulum swings!

[kcuf-ad]

As the strongest duelist, Goatvio, fought the fraud, the Supreme King, he summoned his board. Zarc shrunk back in fear then Sylvio said, "Stand proud, Zarc. You are strong."

[blastthechaos]

I think one of the best Zarc moments is when he takes over Yuya to create Pendulum Summon.

He really did not need to do all that extra shit to look cool and even fucking finish the duel by using Engrish (which IIRC is considered cool in Japan) but he did so anyways.

It's like he knew he was gonna make history by creating a new summoning mechanic so he wanted to look as cool as possible while at it.

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Arc V was a lot messier than I remembered

No, this is not on the dub. The first time I watched Arc V was in sub and I could tell when they changed things in the dub. Actually, out of the Yugioh dubs I’ve seen, this one is the most faithful. There were no massive story changes and the voice acting is all pretty solid, at least from an acting perspective, I can definitely see reason to take issue with some of the voices themselves. There’s also definitely moments the sub did better but overall, the dub is quite solid.

So... that means I have to accept that I just genuinely didn’t enjoy Arc V as much as I did the first time I watched it. I still liked it but man it just really fell apart for me, especially in the final season. The first two arcs are honestly really solid. They introduce the characters really well and slowly drop hints to the overarching conflict before hitting us with it all it once with the gut punch that was Sora vs Shun. That duel up to the end of the Arc League Championship is consistently great and... honestly kind of where Arc V peaks (outside of maybe a duel or moment here and there in the later seasons.)

I’ve always considered the first half of the Synchro arc to be the lowest point of the show because of how little it accomplishes plot wise and how just overall uninteresting it is. There are hardly any meaningful character moments and it feels like the plot is at a complete standstill until, at earliest, Dennis is revealed to be from the fusion dimension. I do still think the prison break/riot/invasion and final few duels of the tournament are where this arc finally picks up but that takes up far less time than I remembered and the resolution to the City’s problems is still total bogus.

And then XYZ/Fusion dimension... I definitely only said I loved this arc because of my GX bias, holy shit. The utter disrespect and mishandling of Asuka and Edo is insulting (full rant here, as I don’t wanna repeat myself: https://at.tumblr.com/overobsessedfanboy13/i-have-to-confess-something-i-still-really-like/c9gbj4yv2ms6)

What I will talk about regarding this that I don’t think I explained very well last time was what has now became my most hated duel in all of Yugioh:

Well, as a duel at least. The second Yusei vs Akiza is certainly more insulting and harmful but that’s not for anything that happened in the duel itself.

But THIS duel. This fucking duel. Asuka is flat out not allowed to duel at her best here. She doesn’t summon her ace monster (the one she uses in her Arc V introduction) or any particularly powerful monster, she doesn’t get to show the extent of her skills, she gets screwed over by Yuri cheesing a target effect. It doesn’t feel like Yuri fully defeated a powerful duellist, it feels like the writers just wanted to get rid of Asuka so she lost BECAUSE OF BULLSHIT. Even Sora in his subsequent duel with Yuri was allowed to summon some of his iconic monsters, Asuka was only allowed to summon a fucking level five ritual monster that was introduced in this piece of shit duel and makes Asuka look far weaker than she is. GX is an older show and yet it treated Asuka with actual respect.

Also, the Battle Beast arc is a total waste of time and only accomplished getting Crow carded, something that gets undone with pretty much no explanation during the Z-Arc duel and could’ve easily been cut since it was ultimately pointless in the long run. Similarly, the bracelets girls being mind controlled was also completely pointless and all it did was steal any opportunity Rin or Ruri might’ve gotten at being actual characters before the climax turned them into mere means to an end to bring back Ray and Z-Arc.

Although to be fair, Ruri vs Shun was a pretty good duel, I think seeing Ruri fight against the mind control was a neat idea that really should’ve been expanded on.

Then... honestly I’ve never been that big of a fan of the final Z-Arc. I like the three duels leading up to it (Reiji vs Layra, Yuri vs Yusho, and Yuri vs Yuya) but the Z-Arc duel just... goes on way too long. It felt blatantly obvious to me that only Ray, in some form, was gonna be able to defeat Z-Arc so every duel beforehand felt like a waste of time and didn’t do much good for the characters. And then the way Ray does manifest is....

*long sigh* I... I think we can all agree this is stupid and completely undermines and even flat out destroys Layra’s character arc about being their own person rather than a vessel for others by making them become a vessel for Ray, right? I don’t have to explain it again? Cool. Moving on.

The final eight episodes are honestly a saving grace in some ways.

They’re a far cry from perfect, Yuya and Yuzu having all their counterparts inside them and Layra de-aging into a baby were both really questionable decisions but otherwise, I did enjoy these final episodes. I think seeing the characters get memory holes/flashbacks akin to what Leo Akaba experienced when the dimensions split was really interesting to see in real time, I like the return to the simple fun the series started with, the duels are really fun, and I LOVE this scene:

I’ve talked about it before but it deserves to be mentioned again. Yuya going from fearing that he’ll turn out like Z-Arc to understanding and even empathizing with Z-Arc, the villain who caused all his suffering, is a very powerful moment. That moment, and the duel overall, are such a great conclusion to Yuya’s character as well as Z-Arc’s. Z-Arc’s backstory and the tense buildup to him coming back are the highlights of the final arc, and the things that keep me from outright disliking it.

[magpiejay1234]

https://yu-gi-oh.jp/news_detail.php?page=details&&id=1597

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https://yugioh-starlight.com/archives/57538048.html

Cover archetype of Age of Overlord features new LIGHT Z-ARC support, including:

**A retrain of Astrograph Sorcerer, called Supreme King Gate Magician, or Magician of Supreme King Gate.

**A Tuner Darkwurm retrain called Supreme King (Servant) Dragon Lightwurm.

**A retrain of Z-ARC called Supreme King Heavenly Dragon - Odd-Eyes Arcray Dragon.

***Yes, this card’s name is literally a combination of Z-ARC, and Ray. Its “Heavenly” title comes from Odd-Eyes Revolution Dragon.

**A new Pendulum Continuous Spell, called Pendulum Evolution. Its artwork features the Pendulums of all the Yu-boys.

**One new Quick-Play Spell, called Dragon of Light Wing, or Light Wing Dragon.

**Two new Normal Traps.

***One of them is called Miracle of the Supreme King Dragon.

***The other is called the Supreme King Heavenly Dragon’s Soul.

****First card is a homage to Beyond the Pendulum’s Kanji name, which is read as Kiseki (Miracle), but means Trajectory.

****Second card is a homage to Soul of the Supreme King.

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Because Judai is confirmed to be in this set, we might get support for the other Supreme King as well, presumably also uncorrupted.

Since early sets of each series tend to have additional cards, there is likely going to be another card to match this.

Edit:

https://ygorganization.com/ihavewaited5yearsforthis/

The translations are here.

Edit 2: Corrected the tag.

[ludoka]

So, I don't know if the heat has already made me crazy but... is it possible that Seto Kaiba would have beaten Supreme King Z-ARC?

It is that I was seeing the attacks and effects of Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon and Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon. And well... They kind of have good effects and a great attack. Zarc had like 4000 attack (and an absurd amount of text that could be summarized as "cannot be targeted by opponent's card effects") While Ultimate Dragon has 4500 and MAX Dragon 4000 and both have the effect of not being destroyed or selected by cards from your opponent.

So that... Kaiba could see him put up a fight at least.

[hi-there-buddies]

“The cell saga is bad because the z fighters were idiots the entire time”

that’s the POINT

THE CELL SAGA IS ABOUT ARROGANCE

EVERYONE IS BEING STUPID BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN

THEY THINK THEYRE AHEAD OF THE CURVE

BUT THEY AREN’T

THIS IS LITERALLY SHOWCASED MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE SAGA

IT STARTS WITH TRUNKS AND BUILDS FROM THERE

GOHAN LITERALLY LETS CELL LIVE BECAUSE OF HIS ARROGANCE

THE ONLY REASON CELL IS DEFEATED IS BECAUSE GOKU, GOHAN, AND VEGETA ALL LET GO OF THEIR ARROGANCE AND PRIDE AND FIGHT TOGETHER

GOKU STEPS IN TO HELP GOHAN, WHICH HE DIDNT DO BEFORE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT GOHAN COULD DO IT HIMSELF

VEGETA HELPS GOHAN AND LANDS THE PENULTIMATE BLOW ON CELL, DESPITE WANTING TO BE THE ONE TO END CELL HIMSELF

GOHAN FINALLY FINISHES HIM LIKE HE REFUSED TO DO BEFORE

THEY ALL LET GO OF THEIR ARROGANCE AND FINISH THE JOB

THATS THE THEMATIC POINT OF THE SAGA

RAHHHHHHH🦅🦅

[danthepest]

I love this blink-and-you-miss-it shot in the We Gotta Power opening and what it implies.

Bulma didn't like or even trust Piccolo for a loooooong while until around the mid of the Cell arc. Krillin and him were practically buddies by then.

Meaning one of then invited him on a road trip or whatever and our grumpy former personification of evil agreed to it.

Piccolo is socializing and people enjoy his company and it makes me happy.

[shitpostingkats]

Okay, who had "spk becomes convinced that Zarc was an incarnation of Jaden in the original timeline" on their bingo cards?

[upgradewater]

Tried my hand at another round of Broono's #dbredraw on twt!

[marisashinx]

The Fallen Duelist.

[gatorgrumbles]

Finally drew my favorite sassy bitch

[zeb-z]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "cucurucho pills" 😳you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear Richarlyson is just sleeping

My buddy Pac pacing: the Federation is lying to us