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| Other names | Z-Arc | ||||||
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| Anime Deck | Supreme King | ||||||
| Anime debut | Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 126: "An Evil Ascends" | ||||||
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| Japanese voice | Kensho Ono | ||||||
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Zarc is a character and the main antagonist appearing in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. He is the original incarnation of Yuya Sakaki (Standard Dimension), Yuto (Xyz Dimension), Yugo (Synchro Dimension), and Yuri (Fusion Dimension). Zarc's growing aggression led him to destroy the Original Dimension and take on a dragon form known as Supreme King Dragon Zarc. During a confrontation with Ray Akaba, Zarc's soul was split into four and reincarnated into four different lives. He is the original owner of the Four Dimension Dragons.
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Design
Appearance
Zarc shares mixed traits of his four dimensional soul fragments. Zarc has silver hair with light green highlights, having striking similarities in hair design to the dual-hair color of all of his dimensional soul fragments and Yuri's side-parted hair. He wears a blue and white jacket with orange borders, like Yugo's Duel Suit, and a black undershirt. He is shown to wear thick red-brownish gloves, black pants with a brown chaps, faded gold knee pads, dark-blue suspenders with faded gold buckles hanging from a red-brownish belt with two large holsters, like Yuto's belt, a large faded gold buckle, and brown shoes with dark-blue outlines and straps.
Zarc's revived body takes the form of Yuya - the final survivor of the battle between his reincarnations, a mixture between draconic, human, and demonic. His body turns gray and become bulkier with spikes protruding from his shoulders, arms, and ankles while his eyes turn bright yellow and glow faintly. His face is covered in veins and his ears are replaced by wing-like appendages. In this form, he no longer wears shoes as his feet have expanded and become spiked, his pants are tattered at the cuffs, and his shirt is almost entirely gone; the only part that remains is held on by his belt; the rest has been torn off due to his enlarged muscle mass and the large pair of black demonic wings that now sprout from his back.[1]
Personality
While Zarc's initial personality is largely unknown, it is shown that parts of his personality are similar to those of his reincarnations. He has a passion for entertaining Duels similar to Yuya's love for Action Duels, albeit different in that he shows little to no care for his opponents' well-being, willing to physically injure them ruthlessly like a gladiator, rather than make an amicable connection to both them and the audience. Like Yuri, he is shown to be extremely ruthless and violent towards his opponents, sparing no one and shown taking pleasure in harming his opponents and Dueling spectators in order to satisfy his hunger for power. Like Yuto, he displays extreme aggression and great anger. Like Yugo, he also desires to stand at the top of the Dueling world.
Zarc's most defining trait is his lust for power, having been fueled by the crowd's desire for more brutal Duels in the ARC System. His desire to become stronger was so great, he had been driven to insanity, while also fueled by the anger of his four dragons.
After reviving, he shows excessive pride and boastfulness, believing that he is the ultimate existence that should govern over everything. During his Duel with Aster Phoenix and Sora Perse, he calmly informs them that Yuya is gone and is unfazed and is not angered by their continued attempts to reach Yuya.[1]
Abilities
Zarc has the unique ability to hear the voices of Duel Monsters and entered an Awakened state when he fused with his dragons.[2] Following his split, he has the ability to possess his reincarnations by forcing them into an Awakened state to compel them to merge with each other and facilitate his rebirth.[3]
Biography
History
Zarc was a resident of the Original Dimension. He was a Duelist who claimed to be able to hear the voices of Duel Monsters and connect his heart with them. Due to this, he was very skilled in Dueling and quickly gained the advantage on the field, soon becoming an undefeated Duel champion and widely known as a superstar in then newly conceived ARC System. He started to change after he accidentally severely injured one of his opponents yet the audience kept cheering for him, leading Zarc to believe such aggressive Dueling was fine if the audience desired it. Since then, Zarc's Dueling became more violent. At first, he simply wanted to answer his fans' expectations, however as he continued to Duel more and more ruthlessly, Zarc himself became obsessed with becoming the strongest.[2]
Eventually in a tournament after becoming Duel champion, he Summoned his four dragons to destroy everything in his way. Feeling that his dragons were also not yet satisfied with their battles and seeking to attain the strongest power, Zarc Template:Anime himself with his four dragons, becoming a single dragon that people called the Supreme King Dragon Zarc. After Zarc's declaration of destruction, the armed military was unable to stop his continuous attacks on the world, and eventually he was only able to be opposed by other Duelists who collaborated with the military to stop him, but none were able to come close to matching his newly fused powers and were wiped away along with the opposing military forces.[2]
As Zarc destroyed the city, he was confronted by Ray Akaba, who used four cards to defeat him, which angered him and he vowed to become one before his dragons separated from him. However, the result of their battle led to the United World to be split into Four Dimensions while his soul split into four, reviving in each of the dimensions as Yuya Sakaki (Standard), Yuto (Xyz), Yugo (Synchro), and Yuri (Fusion).[4]
Duel Academy
After Yuya Sakaki, who had fused with Yuto, defeated Yuri, who had fused with Yugo, Zarc took control of him and told Declan, Riley, Sora, and Aster that their wish for him to only think about winning had worked. He declared that he would continue until he had destroyed the entire world. Yuya absorbed Yuri and Summoned "Template:Anime" to fuse with his dragons again into the Supreme King Dragon Zarc.[5]
Zarc began to attack the Fusion Dimension, who were the most vocal about denying him, rampaging through the space and ordering them to Duel him. As he was about to blast a group of civilians, Aster blocked his attack with "Destiny HERO - Decider" and declared that he and Sora were Zarc's opponents. Zarc transformed into a monstrous version of Yuya and commenced the Duel, setting up his "Supreme King Gate Zero" and "Supreme King Gate Infinity" combo to transform his damage into LP gain. Aster and Sora fought back and both attempted to reach Yuya, but Zarc told them that Yuya was gone and he didn't even react when Sora set up a similar situation to his first Duel with Yuya. Zarc's cards were destroyed by Sora and Aster's Trap Cards, but Zarc used the opportunity to mock Aster and Sora's stupidity and bring out "Astrograph Sorcerer" to restore his destroyed cards, before using the effect of "Astrograph Sorcerer" to banish the four dragons and Integration Summon "Supreme King Dragon Zarc", which he proceeded to transform into again. Kite Tenjo and Shay Obsidian arrived, and Shay's Duel Disk transformed the Duel into an Action Duel, but the effect of "Supreme King Dragon Zarc" destroyed Aster and Sora's monsters and inflicted their total ATK to them, wiping them out. Shay and Kite then proceeded to challenge Zarc.[1]
Deck
Zarc uses a "Supreme King" Deck, capable of Summoning the Four Dimension Dragons and their combined form, "Template:Anime". Before mastering the other three summoning methods, his ace monster appeared to be "Template:Anime".
Duels
| Opponent(s) | Episode(s) | Outcome |
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| Aster Phoenix, Sora Perse, Shay Obsidian, and Kite Tenjo | 136 - ??? | Win (Sora and Aster) TBD (Shay and Kite) |
| Lancers and Jack Atlas[6] | TBD | TBD |
References
- ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 136: "A Most Brutal Duel"
- ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 126: "An Evil Ascends"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 37: "A Dark Reflection"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 127: "Revival Zero"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V episode 135: "Time to Reunite"
- ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0QtH2_UQAA52fQ.jpg
