Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS/Awesome

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    • E01 Link into the VRAINS
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• Yusaku capturing Ignis shortly after learning of the AI's existence. SOL Technologies and the Knights of Hanoi, both powerful organizations, were trying to capture this AI for five years and Yusaku captured it in a few hours. He did so by giving Ignis a fake escape route right into his Duel Disk. He also made sure when Ignis was trapped in his Duel Disk, he would have no way of tampering with it, leaving it forced to become Yusaku's ally against his enemies. Our protagonist, ladies and gentlemen!
• Episode 2 showcases Yusaku's Duelist Skill, Storm Access. When Yusaku has less than 1000 LP left, he can add a powerful monster card to his deck. How does he use this skill? By riding into a huge tornado and turning the data storm into a card!
  • Aoi saving Yusaku from falling to his death, paying him back for when he saved her in the first episode.
  • Link Summoning makes its debut this episode as well.
• Link Summoning's debut: First, the user shoots a laser beam into the sky which opens the gate to another "world" inside of an already virtual world. Then the user flies through the gateway and floats above it, commanding their monsters to go into one of 8 directional arrows surrounding the portal. After that is done, the monster gets summoned with a little flair before the user shoots through the portal again to continue riding the datawind.
• Playmaker Link Summoning four times during the same turn during his first duel with Go Onizuka. There's been very few times where the Extra deck has been vomited out on the field like this. The monsters summoned Link Spider, Link Bumper, Honeybot, and finally, Decode Talker.
• Go Onizuka has the tendency to deliberately put himself in a disadvantage only to go on a Heroic Second Wind and absolutely destroy his opponent the next turn in order to maximize entertainment value. Playmaker actually copied his style and purposefully put himself in a very desperate situation at only 100 Life points and still managed to make a huge comeback, counting on the 100 Life Points left over to use Storm Access, a skill only usable if Playmaker has less than 1000 LP and gather the pieces for victory.
• The exchange between Gouki, The Great Ogre and Decode Talker was a highlight. Both monsters went at each other 3 times in epic clashes similar to a Wrestling match, as they were being protected from being destroyed by battle and standing up after every hit. In the end, though Great Ogre ran out of monsters to save himself from the continuous attacks which led to Go's defeat, making Great Ogre collapse on the mat. Decode Talker even does a little taunt to tell Great Ogre to come and get some more.
• Yusaku showing competence when he joined the Duel Club on campus by presenting Aoi with a fake deck when she wanted to see it, hiding the fact he's actually Playmaker in the process.
• Ema and Akira's plan in episode 8, which involves using the entire Link Vrains as a trap for Playmaker.