Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS (Japanese: 遊☆戯☆王VRAINS（ヴレインズ） Hepburn: Yū-Gi-Ō Vureinzu) is a Japanese anime series animated by Gallop. It is the fifth spin-off anime series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, succeeding Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, and the ninth anime series overall.
VRAINS began airing in Japan on May 10, 2017. It is being simulcast outside of Asia by Crunchyroll courtesy of Konami Cross Media NY (formerly 4K Media Inc.).
Synopsis[]
In a place known as Den City, thousands of duelists take part in a virtual reality space known as LINK VRAINS, created by SOL Technologies, where users can create unique avatars and participate in games of Duel Monsters with each other. As a mysterious hacker organization known as the Knights of Hanoi threatens this world, a high-school student and hacking genius named Yusaku Fujiki battles against them under the guise of Playmaker. Both the Knights and SOL Technologies are also after a peculiar self-aware artificial intelligence program, who holds the key to a secret area inside the network named the Cyberse World, which the Knights of Hanoi seek to destroy. As the series begins, Yusaku sees the chance to capture this AI, which he names Ai, who sets off a digital maelstrom in LINK VRAINS known as the Data Storm. As the appearance of this storm gives birth to Speed Duels, in which duelists surf the wind as they duel, Yusaku battles against Hanoi in order to uncover the truth concerning an incident that happened to him many years ago.