There is a lot of the talk about the new Z-ARC support, like, this is basically the actual ending of ARC-V, but for now, I’m focusing on the Katakana names.
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覇王龍ズァーク is the Japanese name of Z-ARC as we discussed before, Haouryuu Zuaaku. As we discussed before, zu sound here is weird.
However,
覇王天龍オッドアイズ・アークレイ・ドラゴン, Odd-Eyes Arcray Dragon uses the “zu” sound for Odd-Eyes (オッドアイズ, Oddoaizu, hey, ai zu!), and adds a break for aaku, then adds Ray’s name レイ (rei, meaning zero, or ley in ley lines, known in Japan, and China as “dragon pits”), which explains the true purpose of the “zu” sound.
or does it?
As you may know, 2 pf the Dimension Dragons have their Bracelet Girls’ names in them, and 1 of them alludes to it:
オッドアイズ・ペンデュラム・ドラゴン, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon has the ズ, zu, and yu, ュ, letters, representing Yuzu.
クリアウィング・シンクロ・ドラゴン, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon has リ, ri, and ン, n, representing Rin.
ダーク・リベリオン・エクシーズ・ドラゴン, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon has the リ, ri, alluding to Ruri, but doesn’t contain the ru sound.
These specific Dragons are somewhat important, since they spell Z-ARC’s name: ズ, zu from Odd-Eyes, ア, a, from Clear Wing, ーク, (elongation)+ku from Dark Rebellion.
スターヴ・ヴェノム・フュージョン・ドラゴン, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon doesn’t have a lot of interesting stuff going on for it, but it contains a lot of Pendulum’s characters. ム, mu, ラ, ra, ュ, yu, ン, n. (In Z-ARC’s name, the elongation sound might come from here, but they kinda dropped the ball here to be honest, to focus on Yuri’s status as an evil Yuya specifically rather than his status as one of the Yu-boys.)
Since 3/4′s of the dragons reference their respective Bracelet Girls, it makes sense Z-ARC to reference his, Ray.
For future reference:
Ship tags for Zarcray are ズァクレイ (Zuakurei), and ズァレイ (Zuarei), much like Yuyayuzu, this doesn’t have the elongation sound, unlike Odd-Eyes Arcray Dragon. Otherwise, Odd-Eyes Arcray Dragon literally contains their ship name. Hilarious. I don’t get how more canon than you can get. I would like Yusei x Aki to try.
(This card is especially amusing, because it was revealed shortly after Vision Resonator in the Jack Atlas SD. Zarcray somehow managed to beat Jack x Carly, damn.)
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覇王眷竜ライトヴルム, Supreme King Servant Dragon Lightwurm’s Katakana name, Raitovurumu, which is a combination of Ra in Reira, and i, in Ray (Rei).
Though Reira’s name is written in Kanji 零羅, zero lightweight fabric/silk gauze/thin silk.
This card is likely a homage to Lightray monsters, which are the LIGHT counterparts of various monsters, mostly DARK ones. Their names were written in Katakana, thus contain Ray’s name.
wurm part in Darkwurm, and Lightwurm is likely a reference to lindwurms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindworm
And Germanic dragons in general:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_dragon
Much like Eternatus’s inspiration, the intended meaning is likely how wurms, in their ouroboros-esque form, represent infinity.
(We will talk about this card more in detail, but apparently seeing a whitewurm in Swedish folklore means good luck.)
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Pendulum Evolution’s name is based off Structure Deck: Pendulum Evolution, which featured Astrograph Sorcerer, and Chronograph Sorcerer, alongside the Magician forms of Dimension Dragons.
The card’s effect is for Astrograph Sorcerer, and its retrain, but since the artwork features pendulum neclaces for each Yu-boy, transformed by their respective En cards, this might be a hint towards either 2500 ATK versions of the Dragon Magicians, and/or 2500 Pendulum Main Deck versions of Dimension Dragons.
We will also talk about this card in detail in a later post.
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I find it amusing that of all Yu-boy/Bracelet Girl couples, Zarcray ended up getting the sappiest, most 80s animé looking stuff. This stuff looks like it is straight out of a classic shoujo manga, or old mecha animé.
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