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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS

ゆう ぎ おう ヴレインズ
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS 遊 ☆戯☆ 王 ＶＲＡＩＮＳ
Yū☆Gi☆Ō Vureinzu

Anime series

Directed by Masahiro Hosoda (episodes 1 - 13);

Asano Katsuya (episode 14 onwards)[1];
Satou Tatsuo (directing
supervision)(episode 14 onwards)

Studio Studio Gallop[2]

Network  TV Tokyo
 4K Media
 Teletoon, Cartoon
Network
 K2

Original run May 10, 2017 — present

No. of episodes 84

Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS[3] is the sixth Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series and the fifth main spin-off series,
which began airing in Japan on May 10, 2017. It airs in Japan every Wednesday at 6:25 pm
Japanese Standard Time instead of the usual Sundays like the previous Yu-Gi-Oh! series. This
series airs alongside reruns of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL as part of BS Japan's Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel
Hour block. It later airs alongside reruns of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's starting from November 2017.

As of June 1st, 2017, Crunchyroll began airing the show with legal subtitles. Future episodes will
be simulcast.

The series stars Yusaku Fujiki as the main protagonist, and takes place in a high-school setting,
featuring Virtual Reality Duels in a cyberspace constructed with LINK VRAINS, the latest in
virtual-reality technology. As with the previous three spin-off series (5D's, ZEXAL, and ARC-
V), VRAINSintroduces and focuses on a new type of Summoning: Link Summoning.
An English dub preview for Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS was shown alongside a remastered showing of
the movie Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light on March 11, 2018. Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
premiered in Canada on Teletoon on September 1st, 2018.
VRAINS is a combination of the acronyms VR, AI and NS, standing for Virtual Reality,
Artificial Intelligence and Network System, respectively.[4]

Contents

[show]

Story

Promo art of Yusaku Fujiki and "Decode Talker".

The Japanese VRAINSlogo.

The series is based in a world roughly 10 years from now where a massive Virtual Reality
Network called LINK VRAINS has been established. It’s a suspense thriller style story where
Yusaku fights in order to learn the truth of events in the past.

The sixth series focuses on Yusaku Fujiki, a high-schooler and a hacker who doesn't like
standing out. However, he gets drawn into encounters with people as he tries out Dueling for
once.
There is a city where network systems have evolved: Den City. In this city, with the advanced
network technology developed by the corporation SOL Technologies, a Virtual Reality space
called LINK VRAINS (Link Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network System) has been
developed. By using LINK VRAINS which was built inside the Network System, Duels unfold
where Duelists change their appearance separate from their real life identities, and in this VR
Space people became excited over the latest way to Duel.

Poster for Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS

However, in LINK VRAINS, a mysterious hacker group that hacks via Dueling has
appeared: The Knights of Hanoi. Their goal is to destroy the AI World known as Cyberse that
exists somewhere in the depths of the Network.

However, there is one Duelist who stands against the threat to LINK VRAINS. His name is
Playmaker. He has become famous in the Network World for crushing the Knights of Hanoi in
fierce Duels, without mentioning his name. But the true identity of Playmaker is ordinary high
school student Yusaku Fujiki, who pursues the Knights of Hanoi that appear in VRAINS in order
to find out the truth of an incident that happened in his past.
The show's theme is "Take a step forward, and try!", on the premise that kids should start to try
things out instead of just giving up at the first try due to being overwhelmed by information.[5]