Roboppi

Roboppi

Names
English	Roboppi
Japanese Japanese ロボッピ Rōmaji Roboppi
Duelist
Anime Deck	Appliancer
Appearances
Anime debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS episode 0033: "Contact"
Appears in Anime Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Voice actors
English	Sam Black
Japanese	Minami Takahashi
Roboppi

Roboppi (ロボッピ Roboppi) is a character appearing in the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime. It is initially introduced as a robot built by Yusaku Fujiki to serve as a maid for his house, before interaction with Ai allowed it to develop free will. In doing so, they developed a brotherly relationship with Ai. They would eventually evolve further and work alongside Ai as the secondary antagonist of the third season.

Design

Appearance

Roboppi in robot form and 'human' form.

Roboppi is a small robot, not even knee-high to Yusaku. It has a spherical baby blue head with a black screen for a face with yellow rectangular eyes and "horns" that curve around the sides of its head with orange tips and pink bands. The baby blue body is roughly triangular; widening as it reaches the floor, and has a dark blue band surrounding its wheels, with a white pouch. Its small arms are tipped with pink hands consisting of a thumb and palm.

In his human form, Roboppi has the appearance of a small boy with yellow eyes, and has baby-blue hair with an orange underlayer in a style resembling his robot form, with pink wicks on the "horns" of hair. Like Ai, Roboppi has a diamond shape at his throat and back—a yellow one. After hijacking a waiter SOLtiS, Roboppi wears a white shirt with a black bowtie, a charcoal waistcoat, and black pants and charcoal shoes. In digital worlds, Roboppi dresses casually in baggy clothes in a similar color scheme to his former body: a blue hoodie with a black chest, a white collar with a black line running across the circumference, red forearms (similar to the robot form's pink hands) and gold cuffs, a yellow undershirt, light blue pants with the left pocket lined with a red and white strip, and white shoes. When he goes wild during their Duel with Soulburner, his irises shrink and become outlined in red, and his facial expressions turn feral.

Personality

As a non-sentient robot, Roboppi's personality is initially very basic until Ai begins to make it smarter. It quickly becomes attached to and adoring of Ai, assisting him to a degree. When Ai left for the Cyberse, Roboppi pined for him, and was happy when he returned, but demonstrated some jealousy towards "Linkuriboh". Roboppi is very polite, greeting Cal Kolter and Theodore Hamilton happily when they first met them.

After gaining free will, Roboppi acts in a constantly giddy and peppy manner, developing a sibling's relationship with Ai in comparison to his more romantic-seeming relationship while Roboppi was still just a robot. Having seen what humanity has done to the planet, he decides that humans are "the worst creatures", claiming that he wants to defeat them all and become stronger, allowing him to clean the world in peace and "raise his ranking". However, the rapid manner in which Roboppi gained his intelligence prevented him from maturing accordingly, and he acts arrogantly and insufferably about his skills. This emotional instability and arrogance rapidly becomes worse and worse, to the point where Roboppi went utterly wild during his Duel with Soulburner and stupidly declares that they could even defeat Ai. In the dub it is suggested that this corrupted Roboppi's true desires as Roboppi stops himself from attacking to protect their friend.

Voice/Mannerisms

Roboppi uses the personal pronoun of "oira", a casual masculine pronoun, but later also refers to himself with the gender neutral "ii ko", which can mean "good boy" or "good girl". Before his Duel with Ghost Gal and The Shepherd, Pandor refers to Roboppi with the male pronoun "kare". After going wild during their Duel with Soulburner, Roboppi refers to themself with the personal pronoun "ore". At the peak of their insanity, Roboppi uses the highly arrogant pronoun "ore-sama".

In the dub, Roboppi speaks with a more mechanical voice during the first season but switches to a whimsical tone from the second season onwards. When he goes wild, his speech becomes more mechanical and sneering.

Biography

Knights of Hanoi

Roboppi was first seen cleaning Yusaku's bedroom. Ai called it an idiot; Roboppi replied that "idiot" was a forbidden word. Ai asked Roboppi if it wanted to be smarter, but their actions were cut short when Yusaku arrived home early and Roboppi put the Duel Disk containing Ai on top of the shelf. After Yusaku defeated Varis, Ai's body was restored, and he showed himself off to Roboppi, making himself appear muscular and praising how he could appear cool to "dumb robot". Robopi told him off for saying a forbidden word, and Ai promised that now that he was complete, he'd make Roboppi smarter. As they carried out their secret play, Roboppi warned Ai that he was being too loud, though Ai dismissed its concerns until Yusaku came in, and Roboppi only just threw Ai in the Duel Disk back into place in time. After Yusaku and Ai infiltrated SOL Technologies' data bank, Ai recapped the events to Roboppi at home, which interested Roboppi as it had helped Ai with his "secret things". Ai credited himself for some of Playmaker's contributions, amazing Roboppi, until he claimed he wished everyone to fight, with him as the bet. He claimed Playmaker was a fiend, though Roboppi stated he was just cold-hearted. After he told the story, Ai admitted he was uncertain what would they do next, since nobody else but Dr. Kogami knew about the incident.

Roboppi later modified Yusaku's Duel Disk to function as a drone, allowing Ai some freedom in the real world.

Ignis

Ai vanished after the Tower of Hanoi was stopped, and Roboppi pined for him, wondering where he'd gone and why he'd left it all alone. Ai returned after three months, making Roboppi happy, and he brought "Linkuriboh" with him. Roboppi admitted that it thought Ai had abandoned it when he returned to his homeworld, and Ai reassured her that he'd never do that. Roboppi agreed, reminding Ai that he'd promised to make it smarter, and Ai called it his precious minion, stating that if it did as he said, it would be smarter in no time. Roboppi then asked who "Linkuriboh" was, and Ai introduced it as one of his minions. Roboppi asked if this meant they were rivals, and as it and "Linkuriboh" glared at one another, Ai commented that it was hard being a popular AI.

Roboppi and Ai later looked at fan posts in a chat forum, and Ai started posting that Playmaker was only great because of him. It stated that Ai was boasting about himself, as he'd sent twenty messages in that forum, and Ai protested that he was only telling the truth. Yusaku walked in and asked what they were talking about, and Ai claimed they were just talking about his popularity, before noticing a message that claimed to be from the EARTH Ignis. Another day, they found a site with a crossword puzzle that offered an Ai pin as a reward, but when Ai solved it he vanished from Yusaku's Duel Disk. Roboppi wondered where he'd gone, and told Yusaku that he was missing when he walked in. Yusaku took Roboppi to Café Nom, the first time that Roboppi had been outside, and it marveled at the outside world. It saw the hotdog van, and asked if that was where Yusaku often went. Yusaku introduced Roboppi to Kal Kolter, Theodore Hamilton and Flame, and Roboppi greeted them politely. Kolter began analyzing Ai and Roboppi's web history, and Roboppi explained what they'd been doing. Kolter brought up a site that an Ignis algorithm directed them to, and Yusaku logged into it.

One night, Ai noted that they would have to defeat the Light Ignis, Lightning, soon, and Roboppi noted that Yusaku had been busy. Ai was worried something bad might happen, though Roboppi encouraged him to fight. Ai promised to fulfill his promise to make Roboppi smarter, and he left a backup of himself in Roboppi.

As Ai had promised, this backup did indeed alter Roboppi's capabilities, allowing it to receive Frog and Pigeon's broadcast of Playmaker and Bohman's final Duel. Though it found its new function strange, Roboppi encouraged its master and bro to do their best. Ai sacrificed himself during the Duel to stop Bohman's Neuron Link, much to Roboppi's dismay. As Roboppi panicked over Ai's death, it found itself transported to a large door that looked fun and pressed the button to open it. Roboppi was consumed by a wave of darkness, releasing Ai's backup and reviving him.

Ai

Ai's backup affected Roboppi, giving it sentience and free will and dramatically increasing its intelligence. It left its physical body behind and fled with Ai and Linguriboh into the network, taking on human appearances and visiting the Cyberse. As a result of his new intelligence, Roboppi viewed the actions of humanity and reached the conclusion that they were the worst creatures on Earth and that they needed to be eliminated to clean the Earth up. Ai decided to battle humanity after making a discovery in the Cyberse, and Roboppi eagerly joined forces with him. They inhabited two SOLtiS androids, Roboppi hacking the ship's computer to ensure they couldn't be traced. As they explored the cruise liner they found themselves on, Roboppi continued to marvel at the new sensations they were experiencing and the new facets of humanity that he was introduced to in the ship's casino. Roboppi easily won a game in the casino by influencing the pictures, though Ai criticized Roboppi's non-commitment to doing so spectacularly and manipulated every slot machine in the casino, showering them with coins. Taking advantage of the confusion, Ai and Roboppi headed to Queen's room, and Ai took Queen to a digital world to Duel her for her key to SOL Technologies. Roboppi acted as a commentator during the Duel, much to both Ai and Queen's exasperation, celebrating Ai's moves as he overpowered Queen. Queen cheated by using her "Honey Trap" Skill during the Master Duel, much to Roboppi's dismay, though Ai still defeated Queen.

After leaving a message for Akira Zaizen at the cruise liner warning him of their intentions, Roboppi and Ai enacted their plan to take Zaizen's key three days after defeating Queen. They identified ten Duelists who had assembled to stop them from getting to Zaizen; Blue Maiden, Soulburner, Varis, Spectre, Faust, Baira, Dr. Genome, Ghost Gal, The Gore and The Shepherd. Roboppi noted Playmaker's absence and asked if he wasn't coming, but Ai reassured Roboppi that nothing could start without Playmaker and he was proven right as Playmaker arrived. He and Roboppi left Linguriboh and boarded their Duel Boards as Ai suggested they defeat everyone. As they approached Central Station, Ai noted that it would be difficult to reach Zaizen and wondered if it had been Kolter's doing, while Roboppi was concerned they were outnumbered by their twelve opponents. Ai admitted that Roboppi was the lowest-rated Duelist among them, as he had never Dueled before, but suggested Roboppi raise his rating by gaining experience points from defeating strong opponents. To even the odds and allow him to avoid Dueling the strongest opponents first, Ai created three copies to engage Playmaker, Varis and Soulburner, while he and Roboppi slipped past them to the next line of defenders. While Ai engaged the Knights of Hanoi, Roboppi searched for other opponents before Ai could defeat them all. He was then attacked by The Shepherd using his artificial arm, accompanied by Ghost Gal and a mysterious Duel AI that introduced itself as Pandor, an anti-Ignis AI. Roboppi stated that he wanted to Duel The Shepherd and Ghost Gal simultaneously even though he wasn't an Ignis.

As the Speed Duel began, Roboppi stated he wouldn't use his Skill, though he stated that his opponents could use theirs freely and claimed he weren't looking down on them, but just trying to have a difficult Duel. Shepherd quickly Link Summoned his ace monster, "Battledrone General", and Roboppi Link Summoned "Appliancer Celtopus" and co-linked "Appliancer Vacculephant" and "Appliancer Propelion" to it to oppose Shepherd, though Shepherd blunted his efforts by protecting his "Drones" with "Camouflage Drone" and his "Drone Force" Skill to minimize the damage they took. Roboppi then told them about how he had become smarter and decided that humans were the worst creatures on Earth, voicing his desire to turn humans into experience points and clean the Earth. On Ghost Gal's turn, she made the most of Shepherd's monsters in combination with her own "Altergeist" cards to Link Summon "Altergeist Hexstia" and "Altergeist Memorygant", and increase the ATK of "Hexstia" to 4300, much to Roboppi's shock. Ghost Gal explained to Roboppi that this was the bond she shared with her brother, vowing to defeat him with "Memorygant". Ghost Gal successfully inflicted direct damage to Roboppi with Shepherd's "Drones", but was less successful when attacking with "Hexstia", as the effect of "Propelion" halved its ATK and destroyed it. Ghost Gal Tributed "General" to increase the ATK of "Memorygant" and reduced Roboppi to 200 LP, destroying Roboppi's co-linked monsters and putting herself in a position to win, but Roboppi was able to protect "Celtopus" and his LP. As he celebrated surviving the turn, Pandor pointed out that he had no cards in his hand. Despite the disadvantage, Roboppi believed in his next draw and drew "Appliancer Test" to revive "Propelion" and "Vacculephant", using "Propelion" to Link Summon "Appliancer Laundry Dragon". Ghost Gal was able to blunt both of the effects of Roboppi's monsters, but Roboppi rearranged his monsters to unlock their other effects, allowing "Vacculephant" to attack directly. Ghost Gal used "Secret Cure" to restore their LP, but the value was too low to prevent the effect of "Laundry Dragon" from wiping her out. As the attack approached, The Shepherd threw himself in the way to absorb the impact, thanking Ghost Gal for freeing him from his prison of hate, and Ghost Gal reached for her brother's hand as their data was absorbed by Ai. Roboppi admitted that he didn't understand what had happened, but he knew it was good, and he hurried off to inform Ai of these new feelings.

Roboppi and Ai arrived at Central Station, but to Roboppi's surprise the Zaizens weren't there and Ai explained they were broadcasting from a location he would have to physically attack to reach them. Roboppi was able to make his way to the Zaizens' location where he found Ai Dueling them both with Playmaker, Soulburner and Varis watching and he vowed to learn from the Duel. After Ai gained a quick lead over Blue Maiden, she asked him to stop the Duel, trying to appeal to their shared loss, but Ai refused and Blue Maiden's copy of Pandor accused Ai of trying to garner everyone's sympathy for an easier Duel. Roboppi commented Pandor shouldn't have said that and Ai reassured Roboppi all he had to do was win, prompting Roboppi to make a meat-based pun that impressed Ai. Zaizen Summoned "Tindangle Hound" and "Tindangle Acute Cerberus", attacking with "Acute Cerberus" despite its lower ATK, much to Roboppi's confusion, though Ai noted Zaizen was up to something and was proven right when Zaizen used the effect of Blue Maiden's "Marincess Decision" from his Graveyard to reduce the ATK of Ai's "Fire Phoenix @Ignister" to zero and drop Ai to 400 LP. Ai counterattacked on his next turn, Roboppi having to count the math of the effect of "Water Leviathan @Ignister" on his fingers but being impressed by the strength of the effect. Blue Maiden in turn began to push Ai into a corner with her "Marincess Great Bubble Reef" and "Marincess Bubble Circle" combo and Roboppi vowed to get revenge for Ai if he lost. Fortunately Ai was able to inflict enough effect damage to Blue Maiden to win the Duel, and he claimed Zaizen's data and code key, but spared Blue Maiden and Pandor. Roboppi noted Ai was being uncharacteristically compassionate, but Ai claimed he was sparing Blue Maiden so she would know how he felt before departing with Roboppi.

After Ai took control of SOL Technologies and reopened LINK VRAINS, Roboppi dreamt for the first time aboard Linguriboh, dreaming he was melting into the universe. He told Ai about the dream when he awoke, and Ai declared it meant something and assumed the garb of a fortune-teller, suggesting Roboppi would eventually become a stronger and smarter conqueror than Ai himself and that Roboppi would have to start small. He gave Roboppi a kingdom in LINK VRAINS, though Roboppi was concerned he would have to Duel Playmaker. Ai reassured Roboppi that as a conqueror he would have to defend his kingdom and gave him some data before dropping Roboppi out of Linguriboh and onto his Duel Board. Roboppi immediately went to LINK VRAINS and found his new kingdom populated by appliances, encouraging them to come out by briefly transforming into his robot form. As they celebrated, the appliances went into hiding and Soulburner arrived looking for Ai. Roboppi told Soulburner to leave as he wasn't an appliance, refusing to divulge Ai's location unless Soulburner could defeat him in a Duel.

Roboppi started strongly, Summoning "Appliancer Celtopus" and co-linking it with "Vaccuelephant" and "Propelion". Playmaker arrived as well, and Roboppi greeted his former master and told him to leave, again insisting he wouldn't betray Ai. Soulburner mounted a strong offensive against Roboppi, equipping "Salamangreat Heatleo" with "Salamangreat Claw" and "Salamangreat Fang" to allow "Heatleo" to attack three times and damage Roboppi further when it destroyed his monsters, reducing Roboppi to 1000 LP after Soulburner destroyed "Vaccuelephant" and "Propelion". Soulburner told Roboppi he didn't mind stopping the Duel but Roboppi refused, accusing Soulburner of making Ai suffer due to his failure to protect Flame and refusing to accept Ai knew Flame couldn't be saved. He Link Summoned "Laundry Dragon" and used both of its effects to banish and destroy "Heatleo" multiple times while banishing the "Salamangreat Balelynx" from Soulburner's Graveyard to prevent him using its second effect, depleting most of Soulburner's LP and celebrating being able to beat him despite his strength. Despite Roboppi's card advantage, Soulburner revived and reincarnated "Heatleo" again on his next turn, also retrieving "Salamangreat Claw" to allow "Heatleo" to attack three times, but Roboppi revealed the third effect of "Appliancer Electrilyrical World", which he had kept secret to surprise Soulburner, and moved "Laundry Dragon" back into position to gain ATK and banish "Heatleo" with its ability, mocking Soulburner's lack of ability. To Roboppi's shock, Soulburner used the effect of his "Salamangreat Zebroid X" to Xyz Summon "Salamangreat Blaze Dragon" during the Battle Phase and powered it up enough to defeat Roboppi, who barely survived by halving the damage with "Appliancer Reduction".

The damage triggered something in Roboppi, enhancing his intelligence even further to the point his programming couldn't handle it. In the dub, he was also triggered by the shock that Soulburner had actually tried to destroy him. Roboppi went wild, declaring him was stronger than Ai and relentlessly attacking Soulburner with the effects and attacks of "Vaccuelephant" and "Laundry Dragon". Soulburner defended himself with the effect of "Blaze Dragon" in response, even Reincarnation Xyz Summoning another copy and trying to destroy "Laundry Dragon", though Roboppi once again saved his monster and banished Soulburner's other "Balelynx" from his Graveyard to prevent him using it. Eventually Roboppi exhausted all of Soulburner's defenses and prepared to attack one final time, but his inability to handle his emotions had finally taken their toll and he began to malfunction, ending his turn without attacking. In the dub, Roboppi's true personality decided he didn't want to hurt his friends and ended the turn. Roboppi then returned to his robot form, struggling to move and stating it needed to clean Yusaku's room, and Playmaker asked Soulburner to finish the Duel and end Roboppi. Roboppi remained blissfully unaware of their final fate as the attack of "Salamangreat Heatleo" approached it, though in the dub he regained just enough sanity to wish Playmaker and Soulburner luck, and Roboppi was destroyed by the attack.

After Yusaku returned to his apartment he looked at Roboppi's empty shell one last time before leaving to confront Ai. Ai confirmed he knew Roboppi would eventually break down and revealed he had been responsible for Roboppi's dream, which he had hoped would be one Roboppi would enjoy.

Deck

Roboppi uses an "Appliancer" Deck, the focus of which is to co-link "Appliancer Celtopus" with Link-1 "Appliancer" Link Monsters to increase their ATK, as well as to use the co-link effects of said Link-1 Link Monsters. Although he has a Skill, he does not use it during the sole Speed Duel he playa, as he wanted to make the Duel more challenging for himself.

Roboppi

Main Deck Monster Cards Effect Monsters Appliancer Breakerbuncle Appliancer Copybokkle Appliancer Socketroll x3 Spell Cards Appliancer Coating Appliancer Conversion Appliancer Electrilyrical World Appliancer Recycling Appliancer Reduction Appliancer Reuse Appliancer Test Extra Deck Link Monsters Appliancer Celtopus Appliancer Dryer Drake Appliancer Kappa Scale Appliancer Laundry Dragon x2 Appliancer Propelion Appliancer Vacculephant

Duels

Opponent	Episode(s)	Outcome
Emma Bessho/Ghost Gal and Kengo Dojun/The Shepherd	106-107	Win
Theodore Hamilton/Soulburner	112-114	Lose