Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS/Recap/S1/E01 Link into the VRAINS

"Den City" is where the latest and greatest online network has been developed. There, in the VR Space "LINK VRAINS", managed by "SOL Technology Inc.", people Duel day and night. The main character, "Fujiki, Yusaku", is a cool high school student with excellent skills of observation. In order to defeat the "Knights of Hanoi" who seek to destroy "LINK VRAINS", he transforms himself into his avatar, "Playmaker" to fight them in Duels while remaining anonymous in real life. But now, a hacker with the same purpose as Yusaku, a man named Kusanagi Shouichi, has information that "SOL Technology" is desperately searching for a mysterious life form. Yusaku realizes the "Knights of Hanoi" are also searching for this entity, spreading a trap across the network, for an operation to capture it...

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 * Big Damn Heroes: Playmaker saves Blue Angel from being erased by Cracking Dragon.
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus: A few Xyz Monsters, including Zoodiac Hammerkong and Digital Bug Corebage, make an appearance.
 * Protagonist Title Fallacy: Yusaku is the titular "Playmaker".