From what people have told me the show is literally following the manga to the letter so Kai is going to get screwed over by his own Vanguard and there will be a healthy amount of Misaki appearances so Misaki fans can feel a little better about her taking the loss to Ren. It moved the plot along and is slowly building us up to Kai vs Ren and Aichi vs Ren. Ren leaves the shop (having gotten Team Asteroid unbanned in the proccess) while giving Misaki a creepy glare and that's the episode. This is further compounded by him riding to 3 first which turns out to be the Dark Dictator and he's able to critsack Misaki again for the win. He rides to Grade 2 first which is as we all expected Blaster Dark and through the power of PSYQualia he is able to critsack Misaki in addition to rushing her down in the early game.
Cardfight!! Vanguard V - Episode 23 Review.Cardfight!! Vanguard V - Episode 24 Review.Cardfight!! Vanguard V - Episode 25 Review.Aichi appears to have a similar or identical power, as he can tell when Ren is using his, and performs similar drawing feats. Before fighting Kourin he identifies two Blazer Idols as the trump cards for the upcoming fight, and he seemingly predetermines drawing Blaster Dark in his fight with Kenji. Cardfight!! Vanguard V - Episode 26 Review Ren is shown to have PSY Qualia which allows him to predetermine the outcome of Vanguard fights.Cardfight!! Vanguard - Major Tournament Results (O.Aichi then rides Exculpate the Blaster, smacks Ren's board and ends the episode by reriding Blaster Blade for the coup de grace. It is neat to see that it was Tetsu who finds Ren and tries to get him into Vanguard. We just see PBD smash and Aichi nearly faint while we are also given more clips of Ren's past while Aichi again says they're the same. Or at least I think that's what happens because they don't fucking show any of that. But then that doesn't happen because Aichi hit a 6th damage heal after No Guarding the 2 crit PBD swing so he lives.
Ren gets pissy again about Aichi changing him while also going huhuhuhuh even with magic plot powers I'm still able to fix this fight and win with PBD. It's also through this link that Aichi learns that Ren has lived a similar life to his and that Kai is the common factor they have. The short of it is that because Aichi and Ren are both using PSYQualia they're feeling the effects of the fight like they would with the VF gloves. So.did he just have this all along? We got a neat scene about how MLB came to be. It happened with EB02, it's going to happen with EB03 and meanwhile the anime despite being based on a supposedly good manga is rushing through its shit faster than Darling in the Franxx. However much like the game itself they know that whatever product is put out there it'll succeed regardless of how good/bad it is.
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I am bitching about this episode and this series because I have seen better than this. It also doesn't help that they're once again making the mistakes of the first half of G where they're skipping out on explaining what's going on in the fights aside from the bare minimum. Once again our climatic big fight between hero and villain took one episode to play out when in the past it took 2 and Playmaker vs Revolver in YGO Vrains takes 2-3 to play out while not being shit. I'm sorry to the people out there that are reading this and thinking I'm being too negative here especially given that to this point I haven't been as critical with Vanguard V as I was with GZ but this is something that's been nagging me for the last while and I was having difficulty putting it into words but seeing this episode and how the squandered two episodes worth of story and fighting just set me off.