#zaizenaoi

The weather hadn’t said anything about it being so hot had it? He thought he heard them mention it was only around 75 degrees out, but why did it feel like 90 out? Yusaku pulled at his collar to try and somehow cool down a bit. He could have taken off his uniform jacket, but he got too cold when he tried that.

Maybe he was ill. It only made sense if he felt this hot on a cool day. He hadn’t exactly felt all that great during class and had slept through most of the school day. That hadn’t helped him too much.

‘If I can make it to Kusanagi-san, then maybe I can get a ride home from him. But he won’t answer his phone so he might be busy...’

“Oi! Head’s up!” Ai warned from his duel disk.

Yusaku looked up right as he smacked into someone, stumbling back and falling on the ground. He sat up, dizzy and slightly stunned by the sudden impact. Looking at the person he frowned.

@zaizen--aoi

There was always that feeling of disconnect between his mind and body as he left VRAINS. Depending on how much he fought and how much damage he took it could range from being a little tired to feeling exhausted to flat out collapsing. This time it was enough to bring him to his knees.

"ACK! Yusaku! Someone's here!" Ai shouted, nearly startling the teen.

"Huh?" Yusaku looked up, trying to move at the same time. That was a bad play on his part. He fell back getting hit by a wave of dizziness. "Ergh..."

Looking up again he saw Aoi Zaizen. How did she find him? He'd been up on the school roof. He hadn't expected anyone to come up.

Because the dog don't hunt and most of the time I get this argument it's from people claiming:

A) Aoi stole Miyu's spot as the Magic Child of Destiny (Miyu is a MacGuffin to retcon Aoi back into the Ignis plot)

B) Aoi is a rich whore who deserved being put in her place (no nevermind she suffered a traumatic childhood of theft of property and stints of homelessness)

C) The fact 'Aoi is hated' is argued on a willful misreading of the text when the shit she ends up going through happens to basically the entire rest of the cast to demonstrate Mr. Yoshida's theme, throughout the show, of the dangers of reckless heroism and vigilantism and revenge, and the tragedies of war.

Please try and give me actual arguments. But near as I can tell any misogyny is no worse than the general structural flaws of VRAINS being a quasi seinen in the "Boy's Own Adventure" genre of shonen, no never mind:

A) Konami lavished card after card on Aoi's Decks to make them work, as part of a general movement from ARC-V onwards to support female cast members with solid strategies.

B) Ms. Nakashima Yuki was given plenty of breathing room by the staff because her talent agency, a branch of a small time manga publisher, folded, and she needed to scramble to set up a new agency to represent her.

No never mind she was absolutely busy in the second half of VRAINS because she was a member of Bushiroad's idol band, Roselia.

C) Mr. Yoshida has basically said he's admittedly lousy at remembering to make female characters, and apologizes for it.

D) The show goes to enormous ends to give Aoi room to do things.

Yeah, I figured.

She isn't.

I think a lot of people are just massively media illiterate when it comes to VRAINS.

Yes, because there's no real foundation for it.

Everyone in VRAINS got shitty match-ups because the show was hyper anemic on its wrestling roster pool, that doesn't mean the writers hate her.

Duel Links basically gave her her Deck in full bar like a small handful of cards either for future boxes or because they're too strong for a 20-30 Deck game.

Her event feels fairly well written for Duel Links, and is honestly funny?

If anything the franchise feels like it adores her, and tried to give her more and more room than other stories might of.

@zaizen--aoi

A throbbing pain had started in his head that morning. Maybe it was an after effect from both his trip to VRAINS and the strange nightmares he started to have. Yusaku wasn’t exactly sure, but it kept worse as the day wore on.

During lunch he decided he’d take a small walk through the halls. He thought it might help the headache. However it only seemed to cause him more pain. A hand went to his head gripping the side of it as he winced. Something was definitely off about it. This wasn’t a normal headache for him.