What's wrong with the Arc V manga? I've never read it and I want the deets.
what’s wrong with the arc v manga? everything, tbh.
everything sprinkled with a big dose of gross. (spoilers) the entire plot of the manga runs on the mystery of yuya’s lost memory and the main villain’s (literal) lust to get her boyfriend back (her name’s eve, btw. take a guess at what her boyfriend’s name is). eve, for some reason that I DONT REMEMBER WAS EVER EXPLAINED (or if it was, it was very vague), claims that yuya has something called ‘the adam factor’ (she also claims reiji has this. why? i don’t know why.) so naturally she pursues yuya, sending her ‘assassins’ after him to defeat him in a duel and “claim” the adam factor back so she can revive her dead boyfriend (who, we later find out, wanted to be dead. with a girlfriend like eve, gee i wonder why). a lot of nothing happens throughout the story (note: yuya and reiji are from the future because reasons— basically the main thing you should know is travelling through time caused yuya’s amnesia, but not for reiji. reiji’s fine, he remembers things just fine.), the other three yuu boys are inexplicably stuck inside yuya’s body FROM THE START (and, surprise, they never separate at all lol, in fact it’s heavily implied they’re dead and just spirits possessing their, waaaaaaait for it, youngest brother: yuya). yuya meets yuzu at the beginning of the story, the yuu boys RECOGNIZE HER, but DECIDE NOT TO TELL HIM ANYTHING ABOUT WHO SHE IS (this is important for later). throughout the manga, there are numerous amounts of ship tease MAINLY between yuya and yuzu (including a grope scene. yup. yuya groped yuzu.), to the point that by the end of the manga, yuzu has a very noticeable crush on yuya. but by then, yuya’s regained his memories via deus ex machina bullshit: he remembers that what he’s been calling his “other personalities” were in fact actually his brothers: yuto, yugo, and yuri (and yes, that is their birth order). blah blah blah, final battle ensues that was a total let down and is just reduced to the usual tropes of “oh the big bad wasn’t really bad after all, just corrupted by some ‘human’ selfish desire, and then they are TOTALLY redeemed”. yuya vs reiji happens, it’s over the top but not in the good arc v way. and then we get to the ending.
so... remember that yuya’s from the future, right? welp, he now remembers that yuzu is his mom. might i point out now that the yuuboys KNEW who she was (their mom) and allowed yuzu (their mom) and yuya (yuzu’s son) to FLIRT with one another. constantly. tease each other. even yuri half flirts with her too.
yuzu’s about to confess to yuya but yuya stops her, tells her they’re fated to meet again (OH BOY WHAT FATE), and gives yuzu his ace card: Not Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon. you know, the card that symbolizes yuya himself.
bonus: we find out that SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, even though he’s DEAD, yugo has a DECENDANT (it’s not clear if it’s his son, grandson, great-grandson, whatever. but he looks like an older yugo so...). reiji blames yuya for his dad’s death even tho he knows yuya had nothing to do with it, like the logical man reiji is known to be. sora sucks. sora just fucking sucks in this manga. and he has a sister for his obligatory man pain. shun. shun is there. has one duel. and fucks off for the rest of the manga. he’s at first there being the token duelist masochist and then he completely fucks off. shingo’s there and to it’s shitty credit, the manga didn’t ruin him. he’s just there being shingo, which is fine.
oh yeah, ABOUT THEM YUU BOYS: you liked their personality in the anime?! they cool, right?! cuz they have meaningful relationships, ambitions, and motivations besides each other right! well. guess. what. they all have one personality and that is “Love Yuya” 24/7. they don’t have any other relationships or motivations or ambitions besides Protect Yuya. and that’s it. they suck.
Leo Akaba is a brown man. That is anime canon. what, you thought the manga couldn’t possible make him white?! lmao u thought.
yusho.... yusho.... yusho oh boy. i don’t like him in this. he’s an entertainer turned scientist for no logical reason except “science is fun” *explodes the entire world* “haha it’s fun cuz it’s an ILLUSION”. oh yeah. and he and yuzu fuck. it’s confirmed. disturbingly confirmed. disgustingly confirmed.
there are no other girls in this manga besides yuzu and eve.
there are a lot of other little things here and there that are just gawdawful. but.
yuya is just plain fucking insuffferable in this manga. if he wasn’t so cute and good looking (bless you miyoshi-san for your beautiful art, the manga is not worthy) then i definitely would hunt down every single copy of this manga on the earth’s surface and burn it personally. he looks good but that’s about it. actually, i would love it if he would have died in this manga. why didn’t he die. god, why do you forsake us so. yuya in the manga is -130% what the original from the anime is and i do not recognize him as yuya sakaki, rather he is an imposter. just some other character wearing yuya’s face. nothing alike. yuya’s real evil twin.
anyway, sorry. i wall-texted this one. and i’m sure i missed shit here or there but yeah. i hate this piece of shit manga with every fiber of my being.
oh and yeah gongenzaka’s not in it, which is instantly a let down. (but at the same time i thank Ray he wasn’t in here because fuck he dont deserve this nor does any of the arc v characters).