I think I finally realized why I've been having issues with the fights and honestly this season as a whole; Cardfight Vanguard V's pacing is terrible. Despite the fact that it's a new series with (supposedly) a different team handling parts of it we're still seeing the same problems that plagued the G Series in that they are literally blowing their load within the span of 25 episodes and this "gottagetmyshitoff" mentality of the show causes it to look and feel rushed. This episode is one of the biggest offenders of the problem as we have our big showdown between Aichi and Ren but the fight is only one episode long. The big bad antagonist of the series has the climatic battle with our protagonist and it gets blown through just like that!? This is literally what happened with almost all of the season bosses in the G series and what did we do? We shat on it each time!
He'd better after dropping 300 bucks on his deck.
If we look to the OG series or even Vanguard G Season 1 we see that it took nearly 40-50 episodes to get to this point and the hero vs villain fights took 2 or sometimes 3 episodes to conclude. This was due to the show taking its time to break down the situation, explain what was happening in the fight and have the secondary characters do more than scream the hero's name and offer one or two bits of exposition. Not surprisingly one of G's best fights was Chrono vs Kanzaki. I wonder why?
"BEGONE THOTDRAGON!"
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. 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. 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. I am bitching about this episode and this series because I have seen better than this. Vanguard did better than this. 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. 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.
So...did he just have this all along? We got a neat scene about how MLB came to be. This is just...there.
Now onto the episode itself. 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. 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. 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. But then that doesn't happen because Aichi hit a 6th damage heal after No Guarding the 2 crit PBD swing so he lives. Or at least I think that's what happens because they don't fucking show any of that. 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. It is neat to see that it was Tetsu who finds Ren and tries to get him into Vanguard. Aichi then rides Exculpate the Blaster, smacks Ren's board and ends the episode by reriding Blaster Blade for the coup de grace.
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