WHY WAS THIS EPISODE SO SHORT?! Well it felt short, I couldn’t believe it was already over. Darn it, now I have to wait a whole damn week again. Oh the bliss of being able to watch the episodes back-to-back at this stage of the show…
Now I’m all caught up… =3= Boo…
This episode was great to watch, but it was also left me incredibly nervous. I really, really don’t like how Yuushou is suddenly feeling as if he has been ‘tricked’ by Zarc into raising and training Yuuya to be a duelist. Please for Yuuya’s sake, DON’T DO THIS. Don’t do this to Yuuya. He needs you- writers don’t’ do this to them, my heart won’t be able to take it and I won’t be able to tolerate the sheer idiocy if he really thinks that way. I am baffled how Yuushou isn’t doing anything right now, sure he’s thinking a lot, definitely too much as he is looking back to when he first saw Shuuzou taking care of Yuzu, and then realized he has no memory of congratulating his wife for giving birth to Yuuya. It would be devastating if Yuushou all the sudden flips and says he needs to destroy Zarc. What I want to see is him help Yuuya protect his respective soul. Yuuya and Yuuto are trying so hard right now to suppress Zarc, but it’s only becoming increasingly difficult when Leo is irresponsibility pressing the buttons which draws Zarc out. Whenever Yuuya and Yuuto experience anger, frustration and despair, Zarc feeds on that and it’s how he is able to take over. He doesn’t even have all of his fragments, but he’s already seizing control of Yuuya’s body.
And seriously, at this point the Professor should have clued in already that if you harm any of the girls, it increases the chance of Zarc reviving. It’s almost as if he is deliberately trying to draw him out in order to persuade Reiji and Yuushou to side with him, but no, he is simply too dumb for that, he’s just being stupid as per usual. Leo however has proved while he is dumb, he is not one of those villains who puts their entire plan on hold after revealing it to everyone to fight. No, he is putting the plan to revive Ray right into action! It is a race against time, and now more than ever- YUUSHOU, GOD DAMN IT! MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL! I KNOW YOU ARE CRIPPLED BUT YOU GOT YOUR DUEL MONSTER AND SOLID VISION WITH MASS, USE IT DAMN IT. God at this rate it’s more likely Kaito and Edo are going to burst in and do the saving before he does. Though to be frank I am bracing myself for something stupid where he throws himself in between a final strike to prevent the Professor from being killed. God I hope that doesn’t get himself killed in the process…
So prayer circle that Yuushou won’t do anything reckless or stupid on the behalf of the Professor. Let be only for YUUYA’S SAKE. YOU”RE HIS DAD. It shouldn’t matter that he isn’t blood-related, he is your son that you loved and raised. You freaking instilled that belief of dueling should be fun, and with smiles!
Zarc definitely has a backstory and reason for how he went ended up on the cruel and destructive path. The clue I am latching onto is how he constantly comments on how he is trying to please the audience and those around him. They wanted him to be destructive, so he gave them exactly that because it’s what they asked for. He is also ticked off by how someone (Ray) broke him up into pieces. He doesn’t seem to remember that it was Ray, all he knows is that he is not whole. Needless to say, it was fun to see him whoop the Professor’s ass. Unfortunately for Reiji and the others though, it doesn’t look like Zarc is someone you can really communicate with. His state of mind is very much like Beserker, he is always in a frenzy, looking for a fight. The Preview implies one of two things (or even both): Yuushou will doing something crazy and/or Yuzu and the other girls will figure out a way to somehow reach Yuuya and Yuuto (it will without a doubt be the power couples trying to take control of the situation – did you guys see that lovebird moment between Ruri and Yuuto?).
Lastly, this episode seems to have confirmed to my theory (and hope) that Leo’s ambitions were deliberately made to be outrageous. The fact the writers are using Reiji to literally voice our exact train of thoughts speaks for itself. He said all the right things, how Leo is a god damn selfish idiot and is directly responsible for the risk of reviving the supreme Devil, how if he just left things the way they were they wouldn’t have this problem, and if they stop now, Zarc won’t revive. However it doesn’t matter whether or not Revival Zero takes place, Zarc will revive no matter what. It’s a lose lose situation because it’s simply too late. The consequences are already in effect, and Zarc is at the brink of a full revival.
NOW I CAN SLEEP~ GOTTA GET UP IN FOUR HOURS, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!!!
Something that came at my mind in this episode. The history of each dimension can be artificial.
Leo wakes up in a new world without memories, possibly so with every citizen of the original dimension (which forced to be violent Zarc were possibly Synchro City), Both Yusho as the Yuzu’s father don’t remember basic stuff.
Si my theory is,,,they don’t have a past era because the dimensions were created at that point with artificial memories. Everything is a lie. If you think that’s pretty depressing.
Still… Leo has NO RIGHT to ruin everyone’s daily lives! This mad father/scientist has to die. I especially hate his “holier than thou” attitude when he shamelessly declared how “righteous” he was to fuse back Yuzu and co. into Ray against their wills.
O___O
That is pretty depressing…
But alas, they do have a present, and they are still able to make new memories as they continue on with their new lives.
Here is a little theory i thought of. This episode we learned of the will of Zarc, a force that Yushou theorises may of brought Yuya to him so that he could raise him and speed Zarcs revival. Do you think it possible that there is a will of Ray as well? It is pretty serendipidous to think that in each of the dimensions, their respective Yuboy and Bracelot girl were brought up in close proximity to each other (even Yuri and Selena), as opposed to one being born in say Spain while the other grew up in Japan. You could write it off as plot controvance but i think it very likely that ray delibrately engineered here reincarnations to be born near the yu boys. Whether that is for the sake of monitoring them or some other deeper reason remains to be seen
That’s a really good question. I don’t know, I think if Ray did have a will we would have seen it by now or seen at least one of the girls connect the dots of a prior experience of such. But I think the main reason we have not seen it, is because none of the girls have fused together like Yuuya and Yuuto did. Yuuya only started being consumed by Zarc after he had absorbed Yuuto.
Also while I looked back, I noticed we were given a clue about Zarc’s existence very early on by none other than Meiru!!!!
I think Ray placed them near each other so they would not be swayed by violence and power. Poor Zarc didn’t have anyone to calm him down after his first injured victim. Except for Selena and Yuri that is.
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Eva how come you refer to Zarc and Ray as original hosts? Wouldn’t they be incarnations? Since Zarc and Ray were reborn….
And how did Mieru give us the hint for Zarc?
I call them the ‘original host’ because their souls’ been divided into 4 fragments.
Back EARLLLLYYY in the series, when we first met Mieru, she mentioned a grim fate for Yuuya. And then as we continued into the series, she spotted the darkness in Yuuya’s soul, which we now know is Zarc.
+ EG: Ep 22, She claims that he needs to stop what he is doing otherwise his life will be in danger.
+ EG: Ep 46. Mieru completed her role by, confirming that Yuuto’s soul is residing Yuuya’s body at the moment, but there is a third, a terrifying entity of darkness threatening to overwhelm both of them.
I am still waiting a more complete back story on what happend back then, so far we have only heard the pov of a man who is wracked by grief over the loss of his daugther and anger over the man who took everything away from him. I am hoping to see the pov of zarc and ray since if nothing else it will be interesting.
I am eagerly looking forward to Zarc’s POV, especially after seeing how warped the Professor’s perspective is. I hope Zarc’s backstory will be well done. * v *