History Anime / YuGiOhArcV

** "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings [[CatchPhrase mostly by Yuya.]] It has also been used by some of the more [[IronicEcho morally ambiguous characters as well]].

* TheCameo: In Episode 97, [[spoiler:the Crimson Dragon makes an appearance during Red Dragon Archfiend Tyrant's summoning sequence. Later on, Jaeger appears in person to witness the finale of Yuya's climatic duel against Jack.]]

* CastingGag: In the English dub, Sawatari's father is voiced by Creator/MikePollock, very clearly channeling Jean-Louis Bonaparte from Anime/YuGiOhGX's English dub, ironic considering they're both short, fat, balding men with a HairTriggerTemper.

* DubInducedPlotHole: In the English version, due to being LostInTranslation, Yugo's name no longer ties into "Yūgō" (Fusion), but is instead relegated to some other joke. However, due to this, Yuto should have no reason to believe Yugo was with the Fusion dimension.

** At the opposite end, Kurosaki, Kaito, and Reiji are all correct that they're in a {{Darker and Edgier}} anime, but the former two think that it's a [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age of Comics]]-like series where you have to {{Pay Evil Unto Evil}} and the latter thinks that it's a {{Genius Thriller}} in the vein of ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''Anime/CodeGeass'' that pushes the boundaries between shonen and seinen, where you have to be as much of a {{Chessmaster}} outside of a duel as you are in it. In a series like this, even ''these'' approaches aren't safe from deconstruction.

After the conclusion of the series in March 26, 2017, the story of ''ARC-V'' has been continued in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhDuelLinks'' since September 28, 2021, the date when the ARC-V World has been added to the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover video game.

Then the {{Wham Episode}}s start coming. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore One right after the other]].

** Eventually divulges into this when the interdimensional war was revealed. Sorting by factions and individual characters, we have: White (the You Show Duel School, Yuya, Yuzu, and Gongenzaka) vs. Lighter Grey (Yuto [[spoiler:plus [[HeelFaceTurn Serena]]]]) vs. Darker Gray (the BigGood LDS and Kurosaki and Yuya's SuperPoweredEvilSide for kicking only [[KickTheSonOfABitch assholes]]) vs. Black ([[AcademyOfEvil Academia]]). [[spoiler:Sora]] seems to go from Dark Gray to Black with a few PetTheDog moments. The Synchro Dimension, while not directly involved in the interdimensional war, seems to be locked in a BlackAndGrayMorality conflict (see the entry above).

** While watching the duel between Gongenzaka and Synchro user Yaiba, the children comment on Yaiba's large amount of Special Summoning with something akin to distaste and mention it's like he's "playing solitaire". Synchro Summoning was seen by many casual players as a point where the game began losing a lot of player interaction as the game began focusing more on Special Summoning and began regarding it as boring.

** The Obelisk Force often times uses strategies similar to real life competitive players: lots of cards that remove monsters from the field and prevent their opponent from counter attacking. They are also SmugSuper whose methods are treated as dirty, underhanded and disgraceful.

* TakeThatAudience: [[spoiler:Zarc's backstory]] Yuya's Awakened state has plenty of fans who wanted to see him utterly annihilate places such as the Synchro Dimension and Academia due to his ability to cause real destruction. [[spoiler:Zarc became a bloodthirsty monster who fused himself with his dragons and gained power on par with a god because of a similar sort of fans who wanted to see more bloodshed and carnage from him after he accidentally injured someone in a Duel.]]

** Gongenzaka's height varies on occasion, mostly when it is funny for him to be towering over someone else. OffModel can also be to blame, however.
* NotJustATournament:

* OffModel:
** Episode 9 has characters with bad drawn faces.
** Episode 12's animation isn't fantastic when looking at the characters, though the monsters were well-done.
** Episode 29 has some animation errors, even though the duel is rather well animated. Most notably the crowd characters suffer from bad animations, blatantly with Hokuto and Yaiba's facial expressions.
** Episode 35 is rather badly animated. Maybe because of the [[AnimationBump previous episode]].
** Episode 46 suffers a similar case. The previous episode was an AnimationBump, but this episode was not so good in terms of animation, especially the first half. However, the animation of [[spoiler:Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon]] was the highlight of the episode, which might be another justification why the rest of the episode wasn't animated so well.
** Episode 61's animation and proportions are absolutely ''horrendous'', with several characters looking like they have slanted faces, Gongenzaka looking squashed in every group shot, a lot of background characters having "dead eyes" and having a DullSurprise expression on their face when their not over exaggerating their emotions to a ridiculous degree, and even the monsters themselves are draw rather "derp"ishly. Unlike the above examples, it doesn't have the excuse of the previous episode being an AnimationBump or all the budget going specifically to one monster summon. It turns out that the next episode would have an animation bump.
** Episode 71 had some very strange facial proportions for many shots of Yuya and Yuzu. One shot has [[spoiler:Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon]] look very round and cartoony. The following episode was an animation bump.
** Despite the AnimationBump in episode 72, there are a few shots with questionable quality, especially [[http://everydayduelist.tumblr.com/post/128531398264/darkxyzduelist-this-episode-had-some-stellar this one]].
** Episode 80 has a problem with hands. While the faces weren't as badly drawn as some of the other off-model episodes, Yuya's limb proportions in many shots leave much to be desired.
** Episode 81, despite having Ebina as the animation director, shows Roget with his nose drawn horribly.
** In episodes 87-88, the faces of Yuya and his counterparts and some other characters aren't drawn very well at some occassions. The non-CG appearances of Odd-Eyes Pendulum, Dark Rebellion and Odd-Eyes Rebellion are rather horrendous.
** Episode 89 had awesome art for facial expressions, but not when the faces are [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/1f693bb711313868cc1382ee48ea9fd6/tumblr_o143wxPYIs1tzy27bo1_1280.jpg zoomed out]].
** Episode 102 had lackluster art. The faces of many characters who aren't Kaito are often drawn badly. Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon's non-CG appearance is horrible. With the well-drawn stock footage in-between, it's really jarring. And then there is the big size issue with Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon.
** Yuzu and Asuka are drawn rather badly after the duel in episode 106. Like episode 46 though; this may have been due to the impressive debut of Starve Venom Fusion Dragon.
** Episode 114 had possibly the worst shot in franchise history with the shot where [[spoiler:Yusho catches Dennis's card]]. The proportions of the character are positively awful.
** Episode 118 has some emotionless faces in inappropriate situations, like Gongenzaka's during the TearJerker moment.
** Episode 119 had apparently not enough budget for most of episode's art and animation when they spent their money on Kurosaki's Falcons. The animation dump of the next episode doesn't help.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Yuzu, Yuto, Kurosaki and their whole sub-plot. Then averted as Yuya has returned from his qualifier and it is revealed to be the main plot.

* SlidingBikeStop: There's a scene in the first episodes where Yuya makes this bike slide ([[https://ravegrl.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/yugioh-arc-v-scale-19-their-whereabouts/ at least in the manga]]).

''ARC-V'' evolves into a DeconstructorFleet of tropes and plot elements that had become stables of the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise, then pulls a DeconReconSwitch as the story develops. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Realistic outcomes]] are invoked repeatedly: the hero having rare cards no one has seen before means people try to steal or duplicate them, the danger presented by HardLight holograms justifies the card game being treated as SeriousBusiness, and the villains utilize this technology to wage war through dueling. The result is a DarkerAndEdgier ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series that manages to be more realistic and serious while still staying lighthearted and idealistic enough that it keeps true to the core themes of the franchise. Being that it aired in time for the franchise's 20th anniversary, it also pays homage to what has come before it, but ''how'' it does so is a massive WalkingSpoiler.

** The [[MoralityKitchenSink complex morality]], [[AnyoneCanDie Anyone Can Be Carded]] and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters reflects realistically an interdimensional war, unlike many other series which only focus on a relatively small group of characters that aren't justified by being {{The Chosen One}}s.

* AdultFear: So much.
** In Episode 4, Yuzu and the kids of You Show Duel school are literally hanging on for dear life. How would their parents react to that!?
** In Episode 32, Yoko watched the building her son was in collapse on top of him. He got away, but for a second she thought she saw her son be seriously hurt or worse.
** Everything about what Kurosaki said in #33 and #34. [[spoiler:One day, you are minding your own business, and then invaders from another dimension come and attack you for no reason, as you watch as everyone you care about getting sealed in cards.]]
** Another one for Yoko. Imagine yourself going to drop off some kids home when you get the call that says your son is in a coma.
** The Battle Royale sub-arc is filled with this. [[spoiler:Your son or daughter is in a tournament and after a while any feed of your child is cut as they are forced to fight for survival against invaders from another dimension while you have no idea. The worst part has to be when the tournament is over and you find out your child was carded.]]
** [[spoiler:You are told your child is in another dimension and you have no way to get to them. That is a nightmare Shuzou is currently facing.]]
** [[spoiler:You look away for a second and a small child you are looking after disappears.]]
** You are arrested and forced to leave your three young children without any guidance, protection or support. You later spot your children sneaking into a high-profile event, being chased by the guards, and you can do nothing to help.
** Imagine being arrested for shoddy reasons and having brain surgery performed on you without your consent or knowledge.
** You find out that your kid, whom you believed to be receiving a prestigious education in an academy, has been turned into a brainwashed soldier, raided another city, killed huge amount of people and is possibly dead himself.
** There is also an inversion in Episode 133 where [[spoiler:you watch your father die in front of you.]]
** Your daughter sacrifices herself for the greater good, and you're the only one who knows what she did.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Once the Lancers get involved in the Friendship Cup, Action Duels and Riding Duels are subsequently combined into Action Riding Duels, which are Riding Duels [[RecycledInSpace WITH ACTION CARDS!]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: This ''is'' a ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' show, after all. Yuya follows in the footsteps of the last four heroes with bi-colored hair, red and green this time.

* MulticoloredHair: Very common in this series. Most characters have either different shades of the same color or completely different hair colors.