Going to post my overall impressions on the show at this point here so I'll expand a bit on my Pojo post
Vrains is getting closer and closer to be the worst ygo series for me
The designs of anyone other than Yusaku, Emma and maybe Blue Angel are either Generic McOneOffMan or nauseating ugly. I mean how can you even defend this shit!?
In any other show, that design would be a one-off character for a filler episode. At Best.
The plot is ultra generic and they somehow manage to make every event feel forced, like it was a last minute decision
Yusaku is plain unlikable. Nothing about him makes me want to root for him...I'd pay to have Aoi as the MC, I'm serious. But no, we have a dude smoldering with generic rage equipped with zexal-like plot armor thanks to Ignis
People compare Yusaku with Yusei, and I feel the comparison is unfair. By this point there had been a lot of little character traits that gave us a sense that Yusei is a feeling human being, like when he walks into a bar and asks for Milk, when he defends the old man in prison or when he spends time with Rally.
Yusaku has had zero
"But Fj! You will say, Yusaku is like so traumatized, you can't expect him to be socially functional!"
And to answer that, I raise you Batman.
Yusaku feels like all the worst aspects of Batman. Obsessed, PTSD, Revenge Driven, Works Alone super Hero...But with Batman other characters are there to call him out on that toxic behaviour and he's usually punished for this behavior during the events of the story.
While Yusaku is always rewarded for it. Making character growth impossible without making it feel forced as fuck
The duels are stale as fuck with few exceptions, Arc-V really spoiled me on variety. VRAINS is basically "My Links are better than yours" over and over
And the writers think their story is so good we need 2 freaking recaps in less than 25 episodes.
Unless they massively change course, I feel like Zexal looks better and better every time Vrains comes out.
Yuma was insufferable but at least, at least he had an ounce, hell a sliver of personality and humanity.