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Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Cover of the first manga volume of the second manga adaptation,

showing Yuya Sakaki and Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon.

遊☆戯☆王ARC-V（アーク・ファイブ）
(Yūgiō Āku Faibu)

Genre Adventure, fantasy[1]

Anime television series

Directed by Katsumi Ono

Written by Tsutomu Kamishiro

Music by Kōtarō Nakagawa

Studio Gallop

Licensed by NA

4K Media Inc.

Original network TXN (TV Tokyo)

English network AU

9Go!

CA

Teletoon[2]

US

Nicktoons[3]

Original run April 6, 2014 –March 26, 2017

Episodes 148 (List of episodes)

Manga

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V: Saikyō Duelist Yuya

Written by Akihiro Tomonaga

Published by Shueisha

Demographic Shōnen

Magazine Saikyō Jump

Original run April 3, 2015 – August 3, 2017

 Volumes 2 (List of volumes)

Manga

Written by Shin Yoshida

Illustrated by Naohito Miyoshi

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Demographic Shōnen

Magazine V Jump

English magazine NA

Weekly Shonen Jump

Original run August 21, 2015 – April 19, 2019

Volumes 7 (List of volumes)

Anime and manga portal

ゆう ぎ おう アーク・ファイブ
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V ( 遊 ☆戯☆ 王 A R C - V Yūgiō Āku Faibu, "Arc Five") is a
Japanese anime series animated by Gallop. It is the fourth spin-off anime series in the Yu-Gi-
Oh! franchise following Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. The series aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 6,
2014 and March 26, 2017.[4][5] The series is licensed outside Japan by Konami's 4K Media Inc. and
launched internationally in 2015.[6] A manga adaptation by Naohito Miyoshi began serialization
in Shueisha's V Jump magazine in August 2015.
The series was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, which premiered on May 10, 2017.[7]

Contents
 1Plot
 2Setting
o 2.1Standard Dimension
o 2.2Synchro Dimension
o 2.3Xyz Dimension
o 2.4Fusion Dimension
o 2.5Original Dimension
 3Media
o 3.1Anime
o 3.2Manga
o 3.3Music
o 3.4Trading Card Game
o 3.5Video game
 4Reception
 5References
 6External links

Plot[edit]
See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V characters
In Paradise City's You Show Duel School, a second-year middle school student named Yuya Sakaki
aspires to become a professional Dueltainer. Yuya awakens a new power called Pendulum
Summoning, which attracted attention of the Leo Corporation's president, Declan Akaba. Yuya later
meets three Duelists who greatly resemble him: The collected Xyz duelist Yuto whom he
unknowingly absorbed, the overconfident Synchro duelist Yugo, and the sadistic Fusion duelist Yuri.
These look-alikes originate from other dimensions besides Yuya's Standard Dimension as he and
his friends find themselves in the middle of an interdimensional conflict against the Fusion
Dimension's Duel Academy, which Yuri attends. Duel Academy is led by Declan's estranged father,
Leo Akaba, who seeks to unite the four dimensions. Declan formed a group of elite duelists called
the Lancers to stop his father, while they build their numbers during their travels to the Synchro and
Xyz Dimensions.
Gradually recognizing a dark presence swelling inside him since absorbing Yuto, Yuya learns he has
a strong psychic connection to him, Yugo, and Yuri that occurs whenever their summoned dragons
are calling one another. Yuya and his friends also realized that Leo seeks to capture Yuya's
childhood friend, Zuzu Boyle, and the Lancers' Fusion Dimension member, Celina, as they are
identical to the Xyz Dimension's Lulu Obsidian and Rin of the Synchro Dimension who were already
captured. Arriving in Fusion Dimension to save Celina, Zuzu gets captured as well with Yuya and the
Lancers infiltrating Duel Academy to save the girls. When they confront Leo, he reveals the four
dimensions used to be one world until the day a mad duelist named Zarc attempted to destroy
everything. Leo intended to stop Zarc with the special En Cards he created. His daughter, Ray,
steals the cards and sacrifices herself in his stead to defeat Zarc while splintering the world into the
four dimensions.
Leo reveals that Zarc is the darkness within Yuya and his counterparts, who are themselves
remnants of Zarc's scattered essence, which has been compelling them to absorb each other so
Zarc can be reconstituted and exact his revenge. Only Ray, who has been reincarnated as Zuzu and
her counterparts, had been subconsciously preventing Zarc's attempts to reawaken prior to Leo
having the girls abducted. Leo intends to merge them back into his daughter and reunite the 4
dimensions into the Original Dimension using his Arc-V Reactor. However, the reactor is unable to
fully restore Ray's physical form as Leo planned due to lack of life energies. After Yuri absorbed
Yugo, Zarc capitalized on the turn of events by taking over Yuya's body and having him absorb the
willing Yuri to complete his resurrection. Yuya's friends all proceed to challenge Zarc in a series of
two-on-one duels to stop him while reaching out to Yuya. With Ray possessing Declan's adopted
sister, Riley, to fight Zarc, Yuya manages to regain himself to help Ray defeat Zarc with the En
Cards that splits the dimensions once more.
When Yuya awakens in the Standard Dimension that has been reborn as the Pendulum Dimension,
he had no memory of his experience across the dimensions or of Zuzu until Declan restored his
memories and everyone else's with a reenactment of the Arc League Championship. Declan reveals
that Riley used a moment in the dimensional divide to transfer Zarc's essence from Yuya into herself
to keep the evil spirit from being scattered across the dimensions again. Riley turned into a catatonic
infant girl as a consequence of her action. Declan fears that Zarc may eventually take over Riley's
body and resume his rampage again. Yuya is told that only he, as Zarc's essence, can stop Zarc for
good by using his Dueltaining skills to make Riley smile and pacify the possessing spirit. Yuya
proceeds to travel to other dimensions and defeat the other Lancers with Riley watching the footage.
On his way, Yuya finds Zuzu and her counterparts still inside the Arc-V Reactor in an inactive state.
Though his counterparts help him tame the Four Dragons, Yuya learns he made no progress with
Riley. He convinces Declan to let him take the professional duelist test right after he got promoted
into Senior class, and Declan became his opponent. Learning who Zarc was in his life, Yuya and his
counterparts manage to defeat Declan and pacify their past counterpart. This act awakened Ray,
who appears in the Pendulum Dimension and revives as Zuzu, with her counterparts now a part of
her, similar to Yuya's case. The two of them are reunited at last, and the four dimensions are once
again united into one.

Setting[edit]
Standard Dimension[edit]
The Standard Dimension, later reborn as the Pendulum Dimension, is the dimension where
Paradise City is located. It is the main setting of the first season. Originally only having users of
Tribute Summoning, the Standard Dimension now contains all three summoning methods of Fusion,
Synchro, and Xyz, introduced to it by Leo Akaba and his Leo Corporation. This dimension is known
for its unique Action Dueling, which uses the Real Solid Vision System to give mass to its holograms
and allow Duelists to interact with their monsters and the artificially created environment. The Real
Solid Vision System is an evolved form of the original Solid Vision System, which only had intangible
holograms. After the battle against Zarc, the Standard Dimension was reborn as the Pendulum
Dimension where everyone can now use Pendulum Summoning
Synchro Dimension[edit]
The Synchro Dimension is a dimension where residents all use Synchro Summoning. It pays
homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Its setting is New Domino City (also simply referred to as just "the City"),
which serves as the setting of the second season. New Domino City thrives on a free competition
society consisting of two classes. The elite class of 1%, the Tops, are the upper class society living
in wealth, while the poor Commons are the lower class 99% of society living in poverty under the
Tops' area. Discrimination against Commons is high, and they are treated as the tools for allowing
the Tops to live in wealth. In rebellion against their limited freedom, the Commons started to duel
while riding Duel Runners, which are motorcycles combined with Duel Disks. These duels later
became known as Turbo Duels. New Domino City is ruled by the Administrative Council, which
upholds the law and Security who act as police for the Tops. To maintain the peace of the city, the
Administrative Council holds the yearly Friendship Cup, where Duelists from both the Tops and
Commons can fairly duel each other on D-Wheels. However, those who lose are sent to an
underground garbage refinery with little to no chance of returning to the surface. After Yuya's duel
against Jack in the Friendship Cup final match, the Administrative Council retired and the social
class system was abolished. Some of the characters from the 5D's series reappear as different
dimension counterparts, who are primarily the main characters, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan, and Lazar,
who only appears for one episode when Yuya duels Jack a second time.
Xyz Dimension[edit]
The Xyz Dimension is a dimension where its residents all use Xyz Summoning. It pays homage
to Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. Its setting is Heartland City, which serves as the setting of the first half of the
third season. Heartland City was reduced to ruin from the invasion by the Fusion Dimension's Duel
Academia with the remaining survivors forming a Resistance group based in the ruined Heartland
City becoming their base. Before the invasion, there were two branches of the Heartland Duel
School called Spade Branch and Clover Branch, where both became the main forces for the
Resistance group. The Spade Branch was wiped out in a later assault. Kite Tenjo is one of the main
characters of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, who makes a reappearance as a different world counterpart from the
Zexal series.
Fusion Dimension[edit]
The Fusion Dimension is a dimension where its residents all use Fusion Summoning. It pays
homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. It serves as the setting of the second half of the third season. When Leo
comes to the Fusion Dimension upon regaining his memories, he establishes the militant-based
Duel Academy and gathers many strong Duelists from all over the dimension to achieve his goal of
hunting down Ray's incarnations. The students of Duel Academia are mostly children who were
taken from other families once of age. They are forced to remain on the campus to be trained as
child soldiers until the Arc-Area Project is completed. Those who escaped from Duel Academy are
branded as traitors and will be turned into cards as punishment. Alexis Rhodes and Aster Phoenix
are two of the main characters from GX, who make their reappearance as different counterparts in
this dimension.
Original Dimension[edit]
The Original Dimension, also known as the United World, was a futuristic utopia, the original form of
the Four Dimensions and where the Real Solid Vision System truly originated. When Zarc began his
rampage, Ray used the En Cards her father developed to splinter this reality, dividing Zarc's being
and rendering him harmless at the cost of getting herself splintered in the process. Leo's goal is to
restore the Original Dimension as a new dimension that he renamed ARC-V, by fusing the four
dimensions and merging Yuzu and her counterparts with the ARC-V machine he had created, which
is powered by the life energies of people who were turned into cards, so his daughter Ray can be
reborn. After Ray uses the En Cards to split the world back into the four dimensions, Reiji reveals
the dimensions are still linked by the still active remains of ARC-V serving as wormholes, with Ray's
essence still in the reactor core within the Fusion Dimension, until Yuya pacifies Zarc.

Media[edit]
Anime[edit]
See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V episodes
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V was first announced in December 2013 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen
Jump magazine.[4] The anime series aired on TV Tokyo between April 6, 2014 and March 26, 2017,
which replaced Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal in its initial time slot. 4K Media Inc. acquired the series outside of
Japan and planned to release the series internationally in 2015.[8][9] The 4K version had its debut on
March 12, 2015 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as part of the Yep! anime/cartoon block
on ProSieben Maxx.[10][11] In North America, the English Dub began airing on Canada's Teletoon on
July 24, 2015,[12] and on Nicktoons in the United States on February 21, 2016.[3][13]
Manga[edit]
See also: Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V (manga)
A manga one-shot illustrated by Naohito Miyoshi was published in the July 2014 issue
of Shueisha's V Jump magazine released on May 21, 2014.[14] An English version was released on
May 26, 2014 on Weekly Shonen Jump. A full adaptation by Miyoshi began serialization in V
Jump on August 21, 2015.[15] It began publication in English by Viz Media in its digital Shonen
Jump on August 24, 2015.[16] A spin-off manga by Akihiro Tomonaga titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V: Saikyō
Duelist Yuya!! (ゆう☆戯ぎ☆王おう ARC-V 最強デュエリスト遊矢!!, lit. "Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V: Yuya the
Greatest Duelist!!) was serialized in Saikyō Jump between April 3, 2015 and August 3, 2017 and
was collected in two volumes.
Music[edit]
There are four official soundtracks released by Marvelous Entertainment.

 The first, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 1 was released on August 20, 2014.
 The second, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 2 was released on January 20, 2015.
 The third, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 3 was released on June 24, 2015.
 The fourth and final, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 4 was released on March 28, 2018.
Opening themes

 "Believe × Believe" by Bullet Train (Eps. 1-30)

 "Burn!" by Bullet Train (Eps. 31-49, Ep. 148 ending)
 "UNLEASH" by Gekidan Niagara (Eps. 50-75)
 "Trump Card" by Cinema Staff (Eps. 76-98)
 "Light of Hope" by Unknown Number (Eps. 99-124)
 "Pendulum Beat!" by Super★Dragon (Eps. 125-147)
Ending themes

 "One Step" by P★Cute (Eps. 1-30)

 "Future Fighter!" by Kenshō Ono and Yoshimasa Hosoya (Eps. 31-49)
 "ARC of Smile!" by BOYS AND MEN (Eps. 50-75)
 "Speaking" by Mrs. GREEN APPLE (Eps. 76-98)
 "Vision" by Kusoiinkai (Eps. 100-124)
 "Dashing Pendulum" by M!lk (Eps. 125-147)
English opening theme

 "Can you Feel the Power" by Max Surla, Ali Theodore, Sarai Howard, Jordan Yaeger and Sergio
Cabral (Eps. 1-Present)
Trading Card Game[edit]
See also: Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V adds new game play elements to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. Following the
release of Starter Deck 2014, Pendulum Monsters were introduced to the trading card game. A
hybrid of Monster and Spell, they can either be summoned conventionally, or "activated" in the newly
added Pendulum Zones as Spell Cards, with their own separate effect. On the Pendulum Scale, the
cards have a "Scale" a number that if there are two Pendulum Cards on both zones, the player can
perform a new type of summon. Known as Pendulum Summoning, the player is allowed to
simultaneously Special Summon an unlimited amount of monsters from their hand (or face-up from
their Extra Deck) to the field provided their Levels are in between (and not equal to) the Scales of the
cards on the Pendulum Zone. Players can only perform one Pendulum Summon per turn. If a
Pendulum Monster is destroyed or tributed while on the field, they do not go to the graveyard and
instead go face-up into the Extra Deck, where the player can re-Pendulum Summon them at their
next opportunity. If Pendulum Monsters are used as XYZ Material for an XYZ monster and they are
removed via an XYZ Monster's effect, they go into the graveyard.
As for competitive rules, the player that goes first can no longer draw on their first Draw Phase. Both
player can now control a Field Spell simultaneously and apply both Field Spell rules to the game.
Video game[edit]
A video game based on the series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special was released in Japan on
January 22, 2015. The game was released for the PSP and PS Vita.

Reception[edit]
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The series ranked 64th in the Tokyo Anime Award Festival in Top 90 TV Anime 2016 category with
729 votes[17] and ranked 250 in NHK Best 400 Anime of All Times to air on its channel[18] However,
the series was poorly received in Japan, and currently occupies all spots in the Top 10 Worst Rated
Episodes on Japanese streaming site Niconico. [19]

References