I find it really sad that so many Yu-Gi-Oh fans flame Arc V. I watched it as a kid and Yuya made my childhood, 6 years later I rewatch it and still love it. Sure plotwise it’s not the best and maybe it’s not on par with other Yu-Gi-Oh series but please stop hating on people who like Arc V
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Which card game anime best treats female characters?
I'll list off ones I think do a pretty decent job:
Cardfight!! Vanguard Season 1
Misaki gets fairly decent focus, a character arc to a degree, and a decent rivalry with Asaka. Asaka however tends to be pretty flat in terms of personality, and most of the surrounding female characters are creepy, annoying, or kind of flat, outside of Emi (hopelessly oblivious) and Misaki and Kourin, I think.
Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin
The show's plot is awkward to bad, but the character writing surrounding Mai Sunshine (a.k.a. Suiren) and Fumiko, the show's two major female characters, tends to be well handled character growth, and they don't do too badly despite the main focus of the story being on Toppa and J, the main character and main rival.
Battle Spirits Shonen Gekiha Dan & Battle Spirits Brave
Both shows have small but decently concentrated on female cast. Kajitsu is a plot device to a degree but her problems are treated as important and worth resolving for the cast once the problem is explained to them, and they do their damnedest to do so.
Mai Viole is in a relative position of power in the team group for the first show (They're riding on her ship, and she tends to do pretty okay with games), and a decent amount of her arc in Brave is dealing with her romance with Dan, along with PTSD from the first show. And she ends up I think the second to last boss in the story to try and stop Dan, and ends up using a brutally devastating Black/Red Dragon Deck for that.
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Season 1
Yuzu was literally a major driver of the plot for most of the season, her story arc to get stronger on her own after getting asswhipped by Masumi was legitimate, and her rivalry was decent.
Masumi was good until she got hit by the amnesia bus, but for that early period people were super into her.
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
Romin was a valid main character with decent story arcs and beats, and generally was given as much time to do with the plot and bounce off her friends as the others.
Asana was a fairly solid arc villain with a legitimate backstory, a strong deck, and a reliable group of minions.
Mimi's ongoing arc was fairly legitimate, they did look at her position as the main adult with decent validity and her trials and tribulations as an older viewer felt familiar.
Cardfight!! Vanguard G
Rin and Tokoha were both pretty reasonably well handled, treated as competent players, with their own goals and ambitions, as well as characters like Verno who had their own goals. Ditto Luna and Am's story arcs being pretty okay for a toyetic kids' show. Like over all, the show was never particularly malicious to its women, and most of the female cast regularly did Stuff, even if they never quite were like front and center, they definitely were on the stage.
Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress
Megumi has a pretty decent focus, is a genuinely decent player, and is fairly well handled. Tomari is positioned as a strong woman (who beats down a corrupt former Buddhist monk), and one of the few "I'm a decent human being" cops that feels decently earned, with rough edges. Haruka has strong motivations to protect her charge. And Mirei has a well handled story arc, personality, and is one of the few times I've seen someone Blind treated with a fairly realistic depiction in anime.
Feel free to challenge me, etc.
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W o o o o~ My Yu-Gi-Oh! Ocs~
Yu-Gi-Oh! DM- Sakura Haigoku [] Yami: Sahii
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX- Rose-lynn Kinoko
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s- Willow Katsurii [] “Power”: Ember Garden
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V- Matauri Kikimoto [] Duel-Tainer in progress
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal- []-Undecided-[]
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So basically you have no actual proof that DSOD didn’t hurt Arc-V, even though Occam’s Razor suggests it did. But because you hate Arc-V/shill so hard for Vrains you present it as fact.
No, I made an observation that there's literally no staff overlap like there was with Bonds Beyond Time which has a better argument of why the second half of 5D's was such a bizarre show with rather flippant writing choices of the movie causing problems for 5D's, as the director and writer for that movie were Katsumi Ono and Yoshida Shin, the top people for 5D's, so much so that for 2 months worth of episodes, Mr. Ono had to step away (which led to Crashtown)
DSOD had no meaningful staff overlap, and basically the problems everyone criticizing the show on just merits and complaints derives from writing choices made in episodes written by Kamishiro Tsutomu, who can be observed as having written only for one show since ARC-V's airing, and apparently is now writing for manga under a psuedonym.
That speaks to the observation, with Occam's Razor, that Kamishiro Tsutomu sucked at his job, was essentially blacklisted from his profession as a result of the fall out of ARC-V being such a contentious entry to put it mildly that one can infer that the industry doesn't want to hire a person who nearly Hindenberg'd one of the major cash cow franchises in Japan.
"Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity", it's easier to explain the show falling apart because the Series Composition role was headed by a guy who did a bad job, rather than funding vampirism from DSOD. As DSOD was more than likely in development during the back end of ZEXAL too, and ZEXAL didn't fall apart.
Please explain to me how DSOD, which has a completely separate staff structure, made Mr. Kamishiro Tsutomu write such gems as "Sergey gets beaten to death with pipes after a tragic noble end vs Jack", "Yuya pisses his pants at his dragons", "Let's negate Ruri's agency at defying her own brainwashing" "Let's not have Yuya defeat his own personal demon controlling him and it gets resolved by a non-entity with barely any personality who basically negates all the work of the rest of the cast", "Yuzu teleports the plot away so I don't have to explain my one note mystery box" and other winners and gems like that.
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