Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS Shares New Duel Details, Concept Art

Fans may not have been happy to hear that the new Yu-Gi-Oh! anime was being delayed, but the push has given them time to learn more about the series. Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V ended its run more than a week ago, and details about the franchise's next show have been trickling out slowly. A slew of character designs have been released, and a thorough synopsis was also rung out Toei Animation. And, now, new information about the duel system of VRAINS has been shared with some concept art.

Thanks to the YG Organization, fans know the upcoming anime will use a familiar sort of dueling. VRAINS will adopt the Speed Duel format which is used in the Duel Links game and the official trading card game. There's no word yet on whether the rules will be used in the game's VR arena or real-life tournaments. However, it does look like none of its tenants have been altered.

Characters will be able to draw from 20-card decks, and extra monster zones will be available for use. Players are also given 4000 life points.

Other information about the infrastructure of VRAINS was also shared. Concept art of settings such as Den City were shown in both real-life and VR. Reference art of the anime's lead Yusaku was also shown, depicting him in both his school attire and dueling persona, the Playmaker.

In the following slides, you can look at the new concept images.

You can read up on the anime's synopsis below:

"There is a city where network systems have evolved: Den City. In this city, with the advanced network technology developed by the corporation "SOL Technology," a Virtual Reality space called "LINK VRAINS" has been developed, and in this VR Space people became excited over the latest way to Duel.

However, in LINK VRAINS, a mysterious hacker group that hacks via Dueling has appeared:The Knights of Hanoi. Their goal is to destroy the "AI World" known as "Cyberse" that exists somewhere in the depths of the Network.

However, there is one Duelist who stands against the threat to LINK VRAINS. His name is "Playmaker". He has become famous in the Network World for crushing the "Knights of Hanoi" in fierce Duels without mentioning his name. But the true identity of "Playmaker" is ordinary high school student Fujiki Yusaku, who pursues the "Knights of Hanoi" that appear in VRAINS in order to find out the truth of an incident that happened in the past."

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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS will be headed up by a team of anime veterans. Takahashi Kazuki created the original idea along with Studio Dice. Masahiro Hosoda will director, and fans will know the man his work on Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.