Hello again everyone. I know it's been an eternity since I posted anything here, but I thought I should share some things I've learned about the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise today for those who might be interested. It's sort of a good news/bad news type of update.
The good news concerns some rule changes to the real world card game. I don't know all of the details yet or when these rule changes will go into effect, but pretty soon Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Monsters can once again be summoned from the Extra Deck to a Main Monster Zone without the hassle of first having to get a Link Monster into the Extra Monster Zone to set up the field. I was absolutely thrilled when I first heard this news. This means that all of the major archetypes from the GX, 5D's and ZEXAL eras will be as easy to use as they were in past, and that Link Monsters will simply be optional support for them. Of course any Link or Pendulum Monsters that are first summoned from the Extra Deck will still have to go to the Extra Monster Zone or to a Main Zone pointed at by a Link Monster.
Now for the bad news. The next Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series has been revealed, and unfortunately it looks like this series might be the ultimate low point for the franchise. The new anime is going to be called Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens, and it stars an elementary school protagonist.
To find out more, click this link. A little more information on the show's characters and story can be found here.
The style of the character designs and animation for Sevens makes it clear what kind of series it's going to be. This is going to be one of those Saturday Morning Cartoon Show anime titles like Bayblade or that Yokai Watch thing. And the fact is this was always inevitable. With a collectable card game being at the very heart of the franchise, it was only a matter of time before we ended up with a series like Sevens. Of course I had hoped near the end of VRAINS and even near the end of ARC-V, we'd get a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime staring a spunky teenage female protagonist aiming to be the "Queen of Games", but I always knew that cows would gain the ability to fly to the moon and back before something like that happened.
No, a series like Sevens was always going to be the natural progression of things. I'll admit that the oppressive futuristic setting of the series is interesting, and the idea of Yuga striving to create a less rigid set of rules for dueling sort of pokes fun at how complex the real world has become. Still, just seeing the preview has essentially caused me to think, "That's it. I'm outta here," and walk out of the theater. In other words, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens is not an anime that I'm likely to watch.
