Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Standard Dimension

The Standard Dimension, later reborn as the Pendulum Dimension, is the dimension where Paradise City is located. It is the main setting of the first season. Originally only having users of Tribute Summoning, the Standard Dimension now contains all three summoning methods of Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz, introduced to it by Leo Akaba and his Leo Corporation. This dimension is known for its unique Action Dueling, which uses the Real Solid Vision System to give mass to its holograms and allow Duelists to interact with their monsters and the artificially created environment. The Real Solid Vision System is an evolved form of the original Solid Vision System, which only had intangible holograms. Leo Akaba founded the Leo Institute for Duels (LID), where he trained the best duelist in Paradise City in the three kinds of summoning methods. Among this group was Silvio Sawatari, friend and rival of Yuya.

After the battle against Zarc, the Standard Dimension was reborn as the Pendulum Dimension, where everyone can now use Pendulum Summoning, in addition to all the other types.

It is the only dimension to not have versions of past Yu-Gi-Oh! characters. However, Yusho, Yuya's father, possesses a deck that heavily references Yugi Muto's Dark Magician based deck.

Synchro Dimension

The Synchro Dimension is a dimension where residents all use Synchro Summoning. It pays homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Its setting is New Domino City, also referred to as "the City", which serves as the setting of the second season. New Domino City thrives on a free competition society consisting of two classes. The elite class of 1%, the Topsiders, are the upper class society living in wealth, while the poor Commons are the lower class 99% of society living in poverty under the Topsiders' area. Discrimination against Commons is high, and they are treated as tools for allowing the Tops to live in wealth. In rebellion against their limited freedom, the Commons started to duel while riding Duel Runners, which are motorcycles combined with Duel Disks. These duels later became known as Turbo Duels. New Domino City is ruled by the High Council, which upholds Martial Law, and Sector Security, who act as police for the Topsiders. To maintain the peace of the city, the High Council holds the yearly Friendship Cup, where Duelists from both the Topsiders and Commons can fairly duel each other on Duel Runners. However, those who lose are sent to an underground garbage refinery with little to no chance of returning to the surface. After Yuya's duel against Jack in the Friendship Cup final match, the High Council retired and the social class system was abolished. Dimensional counterparts of Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan, and Lazar, characters from the 5D's series, also appear.

Unlike Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, the series does not use the turbo duel system that included special speed spells and speed counters. Arc V still features duel runners, known as D-Wheel's in the original version. However, the system allows users to use all types of magic and trap cards, like in a regular duel.

Xyz Dimension

The Xyz Dimension is a dimension where residents all use Xyz Summoning. It pays homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. Its setting is Heartland City, which serves as the setting of the first half of the third season. Heartland City was reduced to ruins from the invasion by the Fusion Dimension's Duel Academy, with the remaining survivors forming a Resistance group based in the ruined Heartland City. Before the invasion, there were two sections of the Heartland Duel School: Spade School and Clover School, which became the main forces for the Resistance group. The Spade Branch was wiped out in a later assault. A dimensional counterpart of Kite Tenjo, one of the main characters of Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, also appears.

In Arc-V's plot, Heartland City was invaded by the Fusion Dimension and its inhabitants captured in cards, except for a small number of people, including the Resistance group led by Kite.

Fusion Dimension

The Fusion Dimension is a dimension where residents all use Fusion Summoning. It pays homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. It serves as the setting of the second half of the third season. When Leo comes to the Fusion Dimension upon regaining his memories, he establishes the militant-based Duel Academy and gathers many strong Duelists from across the dimension to achieve his goal of hunting down Ray's incarnations. The students of Duel Academy are mostly children who were taken from other families once of age. They are forced to remain on the campus to be trained as child soldiers until the Arc-Area Project is completed, with those who escape being branded as traitors and turned into cards as punishment. Dimensional counterparts of Alexis Rhodes and Aster Phoenix, two of the main characters from GX, also appear.

Original Dimension

The Original Dimension, also known as the United World, was a futuristic utopia which was the original form of the Four Dimensions and where the Real Solid Vision System truly originated. When Zarc began his rampage, Ray used the Four Nature Cards her father developed to splinter the reality, dividing Zarc's being and rendering him harmless at the cost of having herself splintered in the process. Leo's goal is to restore the Original Dimension as a new dimension, which he calls ARC-V, by fusing the four dimensions, as well as merging Zuzu and her counterparts with the ARC-V reactor he had created, which is powered by the life energies of the people who were turned into cards, so his daughter Ray can be reborn. After Ray uses the Nature Cards to split the world back into the four dimensions, Declan reveals that the dimensions are linked by the active remains of ARC-V serving as wormholes, with Ray's essence still in the reactor core within the Fusion Dimension, until Yuya pacifies Zarc.

Anime

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V was first announced in December 2013 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.^[4] The anime series aired on TV Tokyo between April 6, 2014, and March 26, 2017, which replaced Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal in its initial time slot. 4K Media Inc. acquired the series outside of Japan and planned to release the series internationally in 2015 with an edited English language dub that is strictly aimed at elementary school aged students between 6 and 10 years in all countries that air the show from 4K Media.^[9][10] The 4K version had its debut on March 12, 2015, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as part of the Yep! anime/cartoon block on ProSieben Maxx.^[11][12] In North America, a localized English adaptation began airing on Canada's Teletoon on July 24, 2015,^[13] and Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in the United States on September 19, 2015, and February 21, 2016, respectively.^[3][14]

Manga

A manga one-shot illustrated by Naohito Miyoshi was published in the July 2014 issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine released on May 21, 2014.^[15] An English version was released on May 26, 2014, on Weekly Shonen Jump. A full adaptation by Miyoshi began serialization in V Jump on August 21, 2015.^[16] It began publication in English by Viz Media in its digital Shonen Jump on August 24, 2015.^[17] A spin-off manga by Akihiro Tomonaga titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V: Saikyō Duelist Yuya!! (遊☆戯☆王ＡＲＣ－V 最強デュエリスト遊矢!!; lit. "Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V: Yuya the Greatest Duelist!!) was serialized in Saikyō Jump between April 3, 2015, and August 3, 2017, and was collected in two volumes.

Music

There are four official soundtracks released by Marvelous Entertainment.

• The first, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 1 was released on August 20, 2014.
• The second, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 2 was released on January 20, 2015.
• The third, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 3 was released on June 24, 2015.
• The fourth and final, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Sound Duel 4 was released on March 28, 2018.

Opening themes

• "Believe✕Believe" by Bullet Train (超特急) (Eps. 1-30)
• "Burn!" by Bullet Train (超特急) (Eps. 31–49)
• "UNLEASH" (ハナテ, HANATE) by Gekidan Niagara (劇団ナイアガラ) (Eps. 50–75)
• "Trump Card" (切り札, Kirifuda) by Cinema Staff (Eps. 76–98)
• "LIGHT OF HOPE" (キボウノヒカリ, KIBOU NO HIKARI) by Unknown Number!!! (Eps. 99–124)
• "Pendulum Beat!" by SUPER★DRAGON (Eps. 125–147)

Ending themes

• "One Step" by P★Cute (Eps. 1-30)
• "Future fighter!" by Yuya Sakaki (CV:Kenshō Ono) and Reiji Akaba (CV:Yoshimasa Hosoya) (Eps. 31–49)
• "ARC of Smile!" by BOYS AND MEN (Eps. 50–75)
• "Speaking" by Mrs. GREEN APPLE (Eps. 76–98)
• "Vision" (ビジョン, Bijon) by Kuso linkai (空想委員会) (Eps. 99–124)
• "Dashing Pendulum" (疾走ペンデュラム, Shissou Pendyuramu) by M!LK (Eps. 125–147)

English opening theme

• "Can you Feel the Power" by Max Surla, Ali Theodore, Sarai Howard, Jordan Yaeger and Sergio Cabral (Eps. 1–147)

Trading Card Game

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V added new game elements to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. Following the release of Starter Deck 2014, Master Rule 3 came into effect, and introduced Pendulum Monsters to the trading card game. A hybrid of Monster and Spell, they can either be summoned conventionally, or "activated" in the newly added Pendulum Zones as Spell Cards, with their own separate effect. On the Pendulum Scale, the cards have a "Scale" a number that if there are two Pendulum Cards on both zones, the player can perform a new type of summon. Known as Pendulum Summoning, one per turn, the player is allowed to simultaneously Special Summon an unlimited amount of monsters from their hand (or face-up from their Extra Deck) to the field provided their Levels are in between (and not equal to) the Scales of the cards on the Pendulum Zone. With the release of the New Master Rules that were rolled out with the premiere of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Pendulum Monsters from the Extra Deck can now only be summoned into either the Extra Monster Zone or under a Link Arrow. If a Pendulum Monster is destroyed or tributed while on the field, they do not go to the graveyard and instead go face-up into the Extra Deck, where the player can re-Pendulum Summon them at their next opportunity. If Pendulum Monsters are used as Xyz Material for an Xyz monster and they are removed via an Xyz Monster's effect, they go into the graveyard.

As for competitive rules, the player that goes first can no longer draw on their first Draw Phase. Both players can now control a Field Spell simultaneously and apply both Field Spell rules to the game.

Video game

A video game based on the series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special was released in Japan on January 22, 2015. The game was released for the PSP as a downloadable title only.