Here’s What Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS Actually Stands For

With the release of the new Yu-Gi-Oh! series in the near future, fans have been asking about the […]

September 5, 2017, 6:06pm

With the release of the new Yu-Gi-Oh! series in the near future, fans have been asking about the meaning behind the strange title, Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. Yesterday, the official site finally gave fans some answers in one of their weekly updates. The team revealed the meaning behind the abbreviation VRAINS.

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This new information is shortly following the reveal of the official release date for the show, which is May 10th on TV Tokyo. There is still no word if the show will be simulcast for American audience on sites like Crunchyroll or Funimation. It was also reveled that the end theme will be done by Ryoga, and is titled “Believe in Magic”.

As for the reveal of the title, VRAINS is not just one abbreviation, but three. The title stands for three abbreviations combined into one, VR – AI – NS.

Virtual
Reality
Artificial
Intelligence
Network
System

The abbreviation reveals a couple of things about the show. It can now be assumed that there will be duels between players as they are linked in a vr system network. Hopefully there will be whole virtual world full of duel masters, battling for the number one spot. If you are not familiar with the upcoming series, you can read up on it 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.”