Trickstar Holly Angel
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Trickstar Holly Angel
Generation 6: VRAINS
User: Aoi Saizen (a.k.a Blue Angel/Blue Girl/Blue Maiden/ [Coming Soon])
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Yo, listen up, here's a story about a little girl that lives in a blue world, and all day and all night and everything she does is just lose, inside and outside the VR World!
I have already ranted about how terrible Blue Angel is as a character, so might as well just crosspost my rant here, that's about as much effort as this character deserves. Spoilers ahead.
It's like the writers saw that they either had female characters that do nothing, or awesome female characters that eventually lose relevance and said "Well...why not make a character that simply just...Sucked?"
Blue Angel uses a Trickstar Deck, specialized on small but constant burn damage, your opponent takes a card, they take 200, they breathe, they take 200. It's a really annoying deck in a good way.
Holly Angel is a LINK-2, LIGHT, Fairy-Type Link Monster with a rather generic fairy looking design, the design of her dress is beautiful and but the pose feels generic, it's background is too dark to appreciate the design that all "Trickstar" cards have on their background and does nothing to make Holly Angel more visually appealing....and then we get to her second artwork...Yeah, uh...I...hum, I like this one...
It's the background! The more vibrant colors in the background make the card stand out more! That is it!, Ok jokes aside, the second artwork sexes up the design a bit, and I'm ok with it, her face now shows a bit more of a personality and she doesn't reach OCG Harpie Lady levels of raunchy, it's much better than her boring first artwork for sure.
Holly Angel is unfortunately not needed in a trickstar deck, it can give more options for damage as she will deal an aditional 200 for your trickstars being summoned and will also protect them, but when you have cards like these:
Holly Angel just looks tame in comparison. Because pf those great cards, in what's probably the most ironic turn of events, Trickstar were a Tier 1 deck for a good while, with some of their cards even getting banned in Japan, yet somehow, having a main female character with a tier 1 deck is not enough to make her win a freaking duel in the anime. Their ability to just destroy your hand and burn you for 200 for even look at them made them a great deck to play in early Link-era.
Holly Angel might not be great, but her deck sure is!
Trivia Time!
105 episodes later, Aoi still doesn't know her classmate Yusaku and the Playmaker she fights along with are one and the same.
The male heroes even treat her as a lesser character that doesn't need to know their plans, see this clip:
THIS WAS LAST EPISODE. IT'S BEEN 100+ EPISODES.
Generation 6: VRAINS
User: Aoi Saizen (a.k.a Blue Angel/Blue Girl/Blue Maiden/ [Coming Soon])
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Yo, listen up, here's a story about a little girl that lives in a blue world, and all day and all night and everything she does is just lose, inside and outside the VR World!
I have already ranted about how terrible Blue Angel is as a character, so might as well just crosspost my rant here, that's about as much effort as this character deserves. Spoilers ahead.
This is Aoi Zaizen
She´s a really shy girl that lives with her overprotective brother whose high profile job gives them a life of luxury. However, Aoi just acts like a shy girl, in reality she just loves thrills and of course, playing YGO. She secretly logs in to an AR world called VRAINS where she assumes the identity of "Blue Angel", a streamer like celebrity that livestreams her matches and makes a show out of it to let loose and be herself for a while.
She´s a good duelist with a deck specialized in doing small amounts of damage to the opponent. She beats enemies by slowly draining their life, 200 points at a time.
This is quite interesting so far, and her first encounter with the main character (A generic dude in a quest for revenge who has a super powerful AI that creates cards for him whenever he needs them) is her challenging him to a match, she of course loses but kida gains the main character's respect....So far it´s nothing too offensive and par for the course....Then it all goes to shit...
The bad guys decide to use a virus in the form an evil card to brainwash her digital avatar and make her fight the MC again with a stronger deck.
MC defeats her easily, but wait! turns out the virus actually put a strain in her body so hard that she goes into a coma! And the bad guys take her! and put her on top of a castle!
So MC decides to go after them, but not because of her, no, but because the bad guys might have some important info. He doesn´t give 2 shits about her, he just wants his revenge, her fate is just icing in the cake....
And ok. that´s bad but it´s nothing I haven't seen in other series before...I guess
And after MC saves the data and by extension her, she has an epiphany, she has to get better and stronger, leave the japanese idol streamer act and get her shit together. She starts getting close to another female character who happens to be a hacker, and she asks to be trained as a hacker duelist. She assumes a new idetity and is ready to kick ass...she is now Blue Girl!
Confident and ready to kick ass, she challenges the MC's new best friend to prove she is worthy of taking part on their new adventure!
and look at her face! she´s ready to win big! She starts completely beating the crap out of him! Her development paid off!!
.....aaaaaand MC´s friend also has a super powerful AI that lets him activates a trap card that specifically negates all damage below 300 points, a trap that would be absolutely useless to him in any other situation or against any other opponent. So this duel ends like this...
.....shit. Now she gets disconnected from the virtual world and does not take part in the adventure, instead she stays in the background beating some no name grunts while "investigating".
The MC and their friend discover that their AI's are crucial to the fate of the world! And that there's more of them! Some are evil and some are good! And you won´t believe this, during her investigations Blue Girl managed to befriend one of this uber powerful AI's!! This AI gives her new cards and powers...So she assumes yet another new identity, she is now Blue Maiden!!
And now that she has a fancy AI the other two dudes FINALLY accept her and agree with her offer of helping her in the final battle against the villains!! She is ready to face the final bosses, with a brand new deck and her own bullshit card generatng AI. It's finally time....She is going to...
So yeah....she gets destroyed along with her super plot important AI...in her first big battle against a major enemy. A major blow for the good guys.
HOOOOOOLY SHIT.
This is the worst treatment of a female character I have EVER seen
It's like the writers saw that they either had female characters that do nothing, or awesome female characters that eventually lose relevance and said "Well...why not make a character that simply just...Sucked?"
Blue Angel uses a Trickstar Deck, specialized on small but constant burn damage, your opponent takes a card, they take 200, they breathe, they take 200. It's a really annoying deck in a good way.
Holly Angel is a LINK-2, LIGHT, Fairy-Type Link Monster with a rather generic fairy looking design, the design of her dress is beautiful and but the pose feels generic, it's background is too dark to appreciate the design that all "Trickstar" cards have on their background and does nothing to make Holly Angel more visually appealing....and then we get to her second artwork...Yeah, uh...I...hum, I like this one...
It's the background! The more vibrant colors in the background make the card stand out more! That is it!, Ok jokes aside, the second artwork sexes up the design a bit, and I'm ok with it, her face now shows a bit more of a personality and she doesn't reach OCG Harpie Lady levels of raunchy, it's much better than her boring first artwork for sure.
Holly Angel is unfortunately not needed in a trickstar deck, it can give more options for damage as she will deal an aditional 200 for your trickstars being summoned and will also protect them, but when you have cards like these:
Holly Angel just looks tame in comparison. Because pf those great cards, in what's probably the most ironic turn of events, Trickstar were a Tier 1 deck for a good while, with some of their cards even getting banned in Japan, yet somehow, having a main female character with a tier 1 deck is not enough to make her win a freaking duel in the anime. Their ability to just destroy your hand and burn you for 200 for even look at them made them a great deck to play in early Link-era.
Holly Angel might not be great, but her deck sure is!
Trivia Time!
105 episodes later, Aoi still doesn't know her classmate Yusaku and the Playmaker she fights along with are one and the same.
The male heroes even treat her as a lesser character that doesn't need to know their plans, see this clip:
THIS WAS LAST EPISODE. IT'S BEEN 100+ EPISODES.
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