Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Season 1

  • Pigeon referring to Frog by his real name in Episode 3 while both were in Link VRAINS.
  • Ignis attempts to escape by corrupting Yusaku's cleaning robot, but finds it isn't smart enough to listen to him.
  • Ai convinced the cleaning robot to do... something that sounds suspiciously like the robot is getting Ai off.
  • Kusanagi and Ignis poking fun at Yusaku for being unable to talk to women.'
  • Revolver calling Ignis too conceited for an AI. What makes this funnier is that Revolver used the exact skill Ignis developed and despite Ignis' protest, Revolver is right about Ignis, he really is conceited.
  • After Ignis is restored from being nearly deleted, he tries to get up-to-date with the duel.
  • At the end of #12, Ai displays a new power in the real world, causing Yusaku's Duel Disk to crackle; its glass surface to melt and golden light to shine out, leaving Yusaku and Kusanagi horrified as his body starts to form...only to reveal his body is tiny and the two humans in the room could not care less and are more interested in learning about Hanoi. Upon being completely ignored the episode ends with the newly revived Ai screaming "Dude, Where's My Respect?!"
  • After being left with Roboppy for annoying Yusaku too much in #13, Ai decides to show off his body by flexing for her, even making himself look like a bodybuilder as spotlights shine from behind him.
  • Episode 15
    • Ai continues to be the Plucky Comic Relief, where he rather unconvincingly feigns fear at losing, at one point even replicating the Caramelldansen Vid! Ghost Girl isn't falling for it though, and even calls him an idiot.
    • After catching Playmaker beat Ghost Girl, Pigeon and Frog are overjoyed that they have data for their Playmaker expose, only to find Ghost Girl deleted their file, leaving behind a clip of herself in a seductive pose while apologising.
  • Episode 16
    • Aoi's Oh Crap reaction and shock when Ghost Girl casually addressed her after she had been eavesdropping on the meeting with Akira.
    • Playmaker never emoting while the opponent destroys his hand and backs him a corner, while Ignis overreacts, culminating in Ignis asking if Yusaku is actually an AI.
  • Episode 18
    • One of Kitamura's subordinates complains and asks another one how many times they are going to get fired.
    • When "Tindangle Hound" roared as its effect activated Ai then complains to Playmaker that he is feeling duel sick only for Playmaker to tell him be quiet
  • Episode 20
    • Despite being a very serious episode Ai still continues to be a Plucky Comic Relief providing nice sense of humpr
    • When "Security Gardna" prevented the damage, Ai then boasts that thanks to his good acting skills Akira got fooled easily only for Playmaker to remind him thanks to his bad acting Akira figures out what he is planning causing Ai to react in shock and claim he will never win The Best acting award for best Ai
  • Episode 21
    • Ai can't remember Ghost Girl's user name, and calls her Gokie Girl. The Image Spot of Ghost Girl doing a sexy pose gets mad.
    • Ai's predicament of being in the hands of the scary Playmaker◊, as seen from Ai's totally objective perspective.
    • Yusaku's cold personality, depicted in the most adorable way possible.
  • Kitamura's epic Jaw Drop moment when Baira and Faust swiftly wreck the majority of his AI Duelists.
  • When Doctor Genome remarks that Ai has been effectively domesticated by Playmaker, Ai doesn't really fair well in trying to debunk it.
  • Episode 27 gives Naoki A Day in the Limelight. It couldn't end up as anything but funny:
    • The fantasies Naoki has through the episode about Playmaker need to be seen to be believed
    • While dueling with a Knight of Hanoi both of them start with dead hands. The ensuing bluffs from both parties are what really sells it.
    • Naoki struggles to understand what his new card does. Eventually his Duel Disk's AI has to explain it for him.
    • Apparently, Roboppy has, on Ai's orders, modified Yusaku duel disk so that it can function as a drone.
  • Ai has a funny interaction with Ghost Girl while they are in Link Vrains' underground sewer area, complete with a cameo from the old "Fake Trap" card.
  • A boy masquerading as Playmaker confronts Frog and Pigeon, mistaking the pair for Knights of Hanoi, and attempts to engage them in a Duel. Flabbergasted, Frog arbitrarily speculates that the child is actually an old man in the real world, but at the same time, he and Pigeon are moved by the child's dedication to protect LINK VRAINS.
  • Spectre is indeed Nightmare Fuel for loving the same project that broke Yusaku; but there's still something humorous about a man who was essentially raised by a tree.
    • Albeit Harsher in Hindsight due to the implication (especially when Playmaker destroyed it later on), there's something funny in Ai going along with Spectre's absurd backstory and keeps calling Spectre's ace monster as his "mother".
  • The terrifying trap that Ghost Girl warned Yusaku about? It's MIRROR FORCE.
  • At the climax of Go vs Revolver Go summons Gouki The Giant Ogre. And when it power ups with effects, the animation is shown as pulling out a giant sword from the ground. Ai is so impressed by this that it imitates it by pulling out a knife from somewhere and cheering.
  • In episode 42, Ai went all out to protect Playmaker so he can do Storm Access. There's just something funny about Ai saying good-bye afterwards, only to reappear shrunk later on.
  • In episode 45 a flashback to the peaceful Cyberse World is shown. It's divided into 6 areas each created by the 6 Ignis representing each attribute. An ocean (WATER), mountains (EARTH), a gold city (LIGHT), a volcano (FIRE) and a forest (WIND). As for DARK... it's also mentioned that Ai was the only lazy one. There's just a giant dark hole.
  • In episode 45 a flashback to the peaceful Cyberse World is shown. It's divided into 6 areas each created by the 6 Ignis representing each attribute. An ocean (WATER), mountains (EARTH), a gold city (LIGHT), a volcano (FIRE) and a forest (WIND). As for DARK... it's also mentioned that Ai was the only lazy one. There's just a giant dark hole.
    • In the same episode, Frog and Pigeon made a Japanese pun joke regarding the word "hato"note and "kaeru"note .

Season 2

  • Episode 47
    • While Ai seeing the state of the Cyberse World and seeing that Linkuriboh is the Sole Survivor is mostly Tear Jerker, it's still funny that Ai says that he can't understand Linkuriboh, because all Linkuriboh can say is "Kurikurilink".
    • Before that he tries to call for other Survivors and says that it's him Ai, but he then realizes that they don't know his name, because Yusaku gave it to him.
    • While it's a serious and emotional talk between Shoichi and his brother Jin, it's still funny to know that Shoichi lives inside the hotdog truck he and Yusaku use as a base and that he tries to convince Jin to live with him inside of it.
    • Blood Shepherd hunts Playmaker to claim his bounty. Playmaker tells him that he doesn't have the Ignis anymore and that he doesn't need to hunt him, but...
      • Blood Shepherd: Then what's that?
      • Playmaker: Huh? (Looks at his duel disk)
      • Ai on Linkuriboh on Playmaker's Duel Disk: Sorry, Playmaker. I came back.
  • After that Playmaker asks Ai why he is here. Ai tries to give a brief explanation, but Playmaker then tells him to save it for later. Instead of feeling down as usual whenever he does that, Ai feels happy knowing that Playmaker hasn't changed a bit and that it feels like the good old times again also doubles as Heartwarming.
  • Episode 48
    • As Playmaker sets up the tools he needs to Ritual Summon, Ai wears a shaman head while stirring a pot of potions chanting Due-Due-Duel, sounding very similar to the english opening of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! season.
  • Episode 49
    • After Soulburner defeats BitBoot, Flame says that he knew that they were no match for them. Only for Soulburner to tell him that earlier he said that it was all over for him.
    • Bit and Boot's final words to each other are "You are fired!". Cue Haru dismissing the pair by setting them alight on fire.
  • Episode 50
    • Ai is locked up again in Yusaku's Duel Disk. Yusaku gives him three reasons why he did it.
  1. 1: Kusanagi is emotionally hurt because his brother's consciousness was stolen. It's good to have someone he can talk to who knows our situation.
  2. 2: The attack on your homeworld and on Kusanagi's brother troubles me. And their Teammates wanted an Ignis. You may be linked to this incident.
  3. 3: And this is the Most Important. Being a hostage suits you.
    • According to Flame, Brave Max is also known as Playmaker's best friend.

Apparently Flame named himself Flame, because in kanji it means "indomitable soul dream" and says that it's a cool name unlike someone's cutesy name.

    • Yusaku wants to go somewhere where there's information about their enemy, but it's probably a trap laid out for him. As usual Ai doesn't want to go. With more people added to their crew (Takeru Homura and Flame) he decides to hold a majority vote to make it fair. As expected only Ai himself votes not to go.
  • Episode 51
    • Soulburner asks Flame what GO's strategies are. Flame jokes and says that "he'll "go go" and attack.", because his name is Go Onizuka. Soulburner's reaction to this is priceless.◊
  • Episode 53
    • When Blood Shepherd restores Playmaker's lifepoints to avert Storm Access, Ai begs him to keep the life points the way one might react to an unwanted gift.
  • Episode 56
    • While Soulburner was in a disadvantage during his duel with Blue Girl, Flame encourages him by saying that he still has one huge advantage: himself as an excellent AI partner that will hlelp bloom his dormant abilities. Soulburner asks in detail what he can do for him. With a grin Flame says he'll be a compassionate observer from up close. Soulburner rejects it.
  • Episode 60
    • If you're looking for an action-packed duel between Ghost Girl and Brave Max...well...the title of the episode is "Brave Max, the Loser" after all. Brave Max makes several amateur mistakes during his duel, most notably sacrificing his 2 2600 ATK Green Baboons for a single 2600 ATK Metal Baboon, all because he didn't bother to check and see if Link Monsters were immune to bounce (return to the hand) effects, and simply assumed they were based on mechanics.
    • During the first half of the duel, Ghost Girl and Blue Girl were under the assumption that Brave Max was a duelist that Playmaker personally chose as an ally. So Ghost Girl tests his skills with a basic field and even explains to watch out for Altergeist Silquitous's Effect to see how he will counter it. Then for most of Brave Max's turn, they try to take his amateur moves super seriously and assume it was part of some strategy beyond their understanding.
    • After Ghost Girl wins, she and Blue Girl agree the duel was a waste of time. And Blue Girl still has to go to her own event she setup to lure Brave Max. Brave Max on the other hand cries about his loss and vows to become stronger for Playmaker's sake and promptly forgets about it all after he remembers the Blue Angel event.
    • While it may not be as funny as the "duel". The sheer amount of Dramatic Irony in the conversation about Playmaker's identity between Akira, Emma and Aoi makes it unintentionally funny despite it being a serious conversation between them.
    • Such as Akira saying that Playmaker's personality and speech may be different in real life than in LINK VRAINSnote .
    • Aoi replies that a person't true nature doesn't change and that they should know if he's nearbynote .
  • Episode 61
    • When Takeru first heard of "LINK VRAINS" and "Playmaker", he thought they were "Link Brains" and "Playmater".
    • Takeru had to ask his friend Kiku how to scroll down on her tablet, highlighting his Hopeless with Tech side.
    • While it was part of a trauma, there is something unintentionally funny about how Takeru's trauma involves a 2800 ATK monster whose sole effect is a ridiculously specific self Special Summon effect that is almost unlikely to ever happen, meaning it is vulnerable to every single form of removal in the game. In fact, the self Special Summon effect is so specific that Takeru's opponent prefer to Special Summon it using another card's effect instead.
    • Not to mention, while he might not have it as a child, he now has, and currently control, Phoenix Gearfried, an equally strong 2800 ATK monster, along with Valkyrian Knight, which would redirect attack to her, saving Phoenix Gearfried.
  • Episode 64
    • While Yusaku is in school Ai is flying in the Duel Disk enjoying the view. Then he’s called by Kusanagi for something nice. Next scene he’s unhappy that a menu got tied to the disk and was told to do 10 laps around the city.
    • Then he’s distracted by Takeru coming here alone and hits a pole then falls on to Takeru’s head.
    • Flame is curious that free Duel Disks can fall out of the sky in Den City until Ai explains that he can fly. (Ai-chan fly!) Flame suggests that his own Duel Disk could be given wheels, which actually is an entire car in his imagination.
    • A meta funny, in his flashback duel, Yusaku is beating the Knights of Hanoi with a starter deck.
  • Episode 65
  • In episode 64, Naoki made it seem like he knew Yusaku's secret, to the point Yusaku complied with Naoki's demands to go to a secret place to talk. In episode 65, Naoki revealed what the secret was...only that it was not the one Yusaku was concerned with—or even knew was supposed to be a secret.
    • Naoki: "I know your secret."

Yusaku frowns

    • Naoki: Smirks "Hey, Playmaker...is my soulmate, right? And since you're my best friend, you should feel proud too!"
    • Yusaku: Still frowning "What do you want to talk about?"
    • Naoki: Smirks again "I know you have a part-time job."
    • Yusaku looks confused and tilts his head to the side
    • Naoki: "I saw you working at the hot dog stand. The school forbids working part-time jobs, but I'm not so petty to snitch on you. However..." Postcards suddenly materialize "Help me fill out postcards to enter Blue Angel's handshake event—"
    • Yusaku walks away, disinterested
    • Naoki: "Hey! Fujiki!" Crashes through the door "I'll snitch you out to Playmaker!"
  • Naoki threatening to snitch Yusaku out to Playmaker, aka himself.
  • Episode 66
    • Ai talks about the other three Ignis after Playmaker asks about them. He talks about the Water Ignis and says that she relied on him a lot and was in love with him, while the flashback shows him hitting on her, causing her to hit him and Linkuriboh into the ground.
    • He talks about the Earth Ignis. He tries to remember what he was like, and suddenly, a record scratch in the background is heard as he drags an AI that looks just like the Earth Ignis, massive and orange, only to find out that the AI is the Earth Ignis.
    • Earth has No Social Skills Up to Eleven, emphasized by his Catchphrase.
    • Earth: I am socially awkward.
    • A meta example, but the idea that Earth, The Spock that's heavily socially awkward, is implied to be Spectre's Ignis. And Earth is heavily implied to be in love with Aqua, the Water Ignis, whose appearance, for some reason, resembles Blue Angel, the very same character that Spectre hates.
    • Ai's memory of the Earth Ignis isn't so great. Playmaker calls him out on it and Ai just replies that he's....socially awkward.
    1. 68:The characters try to figure out what happened to Ai when he mysteriously disappeared from the Duel Disk. They investigate the last website Ai was looking at: a crossword puzzle that had a hidden Ignis code. Turns out Ai was lured to an Obvious Trap that claimed he will be given a pin shaped like himself as a reward for solving the puzzle.
    • Windy managed to rebuild the Cyberse World...except that it was shoddily-made and more resembled a stage set than an acutal land. The walls even looked like they were made of cardboard!
    • "Linkuriboh" not only sounded strange, he had a perpetual frown on his face. In contrast to the actual Linkuriboh always beaming around Ai.
    1. 69:When Revolver No Sells Windy's attempts to trap him, he responds that he wouldn't just walk into the enemy base without a plan like some people. Ai asks if he means Playmaker and him, to which a chagrined Playmaker admits yes.
    • In hindsight, Yusaku did anticipate that he might be walking into a trap and benched Takeru from this excursion to prevent a repeat of the Blood Shepard incident. He was right, and as a result Takeru can follow Playmaker and potentially bail him out on his predicament. If he hadn’t, Soulburner and Flame would’ve been captured along with him.
    • Revolver uses another classic trap card known to Yu-Gi-Oh! fans, Magic Cylinder and just like with Mirror Force, the characters are very surprised to see him have and use it, but what is even more hilarious is what they say about it.
      • Ai: "Seriously? He already has Mirror Force! He uses incredible cards!"
      • Playmaker: "Revolver always surpasses our expectations.
    1. 71:This unintentionally funny exchange happened between Flame and Lightning after Windy's defeat at the hands of Revolver.
    • Flame: "Well, Lightning? Was it you?"note
    • Lightning: "Flame, during the time we haven't seen each other, you've begun having boring discussions." Looks at Yusaku "But Playmaker, I enjoy talking to you. You don't mince words. You get straight to the point."
      • And after Flame explained his reason for wanting to co-exist with humans:
    • Lightning: "I understand, Flame. That you're a unique error code."
    • Ai: Snickering and pointing "You're lame! He called you an error code!"
    • Lightning: Narrows eyes "Ai, you too."
    • Ai: Stops "What? Me too?"
    • Flame: Arms crossed "Ai, everyone knew that already."
      • After the Bounty Hunters came into the scene—the Knights of Hanoi having called them over—Lightning summoned a massive swarm of Bits and Boots to act as a distraction.
    • A Bit: "Our first appearance in a while!"
    • A Boot: Shoving that Bit out of the way "Can't wait to fight!"
    • All Bits and Boots: "Let's go! Combination sequence!"
    • Lightning: Arms crossed "Stop. Don't lessen your numbers."
    • A Bit: Glaring "Boot's the one who said it."
    • A Boot: Gets into that Bit's face "No, it was Bit."
    • Lightning: Narrows his eyes "I don't care who. Hurry up and defeat them."
    • That Bit and Boot: Wobbling "Right! Here we go!"
    • And after Bohman appeared before Playmaker and Ai:
    • Bohman: "We meet again, Playmaker. That makes me happy."
    • Ai: Sweat-drops "Eh? You again? You remember who you are today?"
    • Bohman: "Of course, Ai."
    • Ai: Pleasantly surprised "Oh! You do remember!" Grinning and giving two thumbs up "Yay!"
      • Apparently, Ai wants people to want to take him:
    • Bohman: "Let's duel. Winner gets me and Ai."
    • Ai: Beaming "You were after me all along?"
    1. 75:Ai was horrified after finding out GO had fused himself with an AI by having a chip implanted into his brain, but not for the reason most would think.
    • Ai: clasps head in hands, eyes squeezed shut If I'm placed inside Go Onizuka's head, I'll become Ai Onizuka!" double eyelid pull
  • 76: Aqua tries to challenge Blood Shepherd to a duel, but Blood Shepherd rejects the offer for his priority is terminating the Ignis and not capturing. For an anime that relies on card games to solve conflict, it is funny to see how a conflict is trying to be solved by not following that formula.
    • Aoi wakes up from her dream about Miyu, and Ema asks if the dream was about being on a date with a handsome guy, and if so she should go back to sleep in hope it resumes. Aoi is annoyed by that and tells her it wasn't.
  • 77: When Aoi transforms into Blue Maiden, Soulburner has the look of an excited fanboy.

Ai cuts Flame off before he tells Aqua the meaning of his name.

  • 78: Because they are being careful of Lightning, Ryoken and Spectre track down Kengo by being two friends hanging out and having coffee just outside of his apartment. They're basically stalking him by being normal civilians.
    • Yet again, Revolver uses another classic trap card: Imperial Order. Just where does he find these cards?
  • 81: When Playmaker and Soulburner go to the location where they sensed Earth's signal, Ai noticed something coming for them above. Believing it's Earth, he shouts for him to come to his arms, and then immediately retracts his statement after seeing it's GO.
  • Episode 83: "Irregular Meeting":
    • Frog and Pigeon making fun of Brave Max for not being entertaining. They also spent their upcoming bonuses on a rocket...that made them crash land on a random island.
    • Blue Maiden wonders what that explosion was and Ghost Girl guesses it was idiots with illegal modifications to their D-Boards.
    • While trying to find Playmaker they trusted Brave Max who once again claimed to be his ally. And was making a show about him exploring LINK VRAINS in the meantime. Which includes getting angry responses to interviews, losing duels to pre-schoolers, rummaging in trash cans etc. The only views they get now are from the trio themselves.
  • Episode 84: "Past That Cannot Be Quieted":
    • The first thing that Soulburner says when Revolver throws the duel is unintentionally hilarious, because instead of saying how unsatisfying it was, he says that such a victory would look uncool.
    • Windy's new look hides his scars with bandages, an eyepatch and for some reason a cape. This clothing looks just as ridiculous as it sounds, especially since Windy looks like a kid with Chuunibyou, an edgelord or both. Not helping the matter is the fact there is an "W" on his eyepatch.
    • Frog and Pigeon get caught by Revolver and he traps them inside a sphere. Later on he even takes them with him to their final battle against Lightning.
  • Episode 86: "Wisdom of the Deprived":
    • Due to LINK VRAINS and Mirror LINK VRAINS merging, The Alliance of the Ignis Holders and Knights of Hanoi get separated and sent to different locations in VRAINS, some of which rather hilarious.
    • Playmaker: A desolate street
    • Blue Maiden: Outside of a city due to her flying there
    • Spectre: A desert or wasteland
    • Soulburner: An airport that looks normal compared to the above locations.
    • Revolver: A field of flowers in a meadow Revolver's dub voice actor couldn't help but poke fun of it
      • In a random shot of Link Vrains there are two people who's avatars are people in vegetable suits.

Hanoi seems to have a thing for meta-humor. In a complete inversion of the series' 'but you still take damage' Running Gag, Lightning manages to defend his life points after an attack, while Spectre gleefully points out his monster still gets destroyed.

  • Episode 87: "Chain Destruction": This may be unintentional, but when Spectre talks about why he created an Extra Link, he states that he got inspired from Revolver's Extra Link in the final battle of season 1, but what makes this funny is that he states that he watched the duel many times over again or in other words he watched Revolver lose to Playmaker many times.
  • Episode 92: "Big Test": Seeing Playmaker's area, which is a recreation of Den City, Pigeon is glad that they finally managed to log out. Frog frustratingly points out that they are still in their avatars.
  • Episode 96: "Lightning's Crime":
    • When they are teleported to the the flower area, Frog and Pigeon note how beautiful the area is. Frog wonders if it is the afterlife, while Pigeon wonders if Lightning and Revolver are Buddha and God before he recognizes them.
    • While Revolver explains the free will of the Ignis and Lightning's motivations, Ai's lazy past is brought up and embarasses him.
    • Lightning angrily tries to make Revolver stop talking, but Bohman wants to keep hearing the story. Ai thought Bohman was interested about his past.
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