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RANT: My Actual Opinion on Melami Goldmine (As well as a character study)

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This is not a Rain Code meme-post, but rather a small vent about Melami Goldmine. More details will be below the cut.

I’m not sure if it’s too soon for me to say this, but I assume to have built a reputation here based on how much I talk about Melami. I make sure to talk about and feature her in every Rain Code post of mine, as many of you have probably noticed. But is the affinity that I have for her actually genuine? I want to talk about that today.

First, I want to start off my speech by mentioning what we see from Melami when we first meet her. Back then, we saw Melami as a cheerful, outgoing girl who heavily liked clothing and reading people based on what they wear. Of course, she also had her Spiritism Forte, which would have most likely been one of the most effective Fortes in the game had it not been for its numerous restrictions. But we always saw that as nothing but an added quirk to her character, and nothing more.

However, this is where I want to begin my insight on her actual character. Now, this could just be my way of seeing things, but I wonder if I’m the only one here who sees her as a sort of cryptid.

Like think about it for a minute; A good portion of her actions don’t make sense at first, she doesn’t perceive life, death or clothing the same way that everyone else does, and she always knew more than she let on, beyond the outgoing girl that we initially perceived her as.

Of course, while Melami is not nearly as creepy or as foreboding as Vivia, she still had some degree of oddity to her that set her apart from the other Master Detectives, just enough for the player to think, “Yeah she’s definitely hiding something” in a doubtful manner. She had something off about her compared to everyone else in the game, and that’s saying something considering the colorful cast of characters we were given.

Like, not even the Gumshoe Gabs revealed much about her upbringing or how her Forte influenced her as a child; Much of it was left to the player to figure out for themselves. In retrospect, there was a delicate mixture to her between benevolence, glamour, extroversion, relevance, and mystery. It was a beautiful sight to see.

I don’t know, I just found it really cool how Kodaka explored on such a unique personality throughout the course of the game, especially in the more vital events that happen in the later chapters. Of course, I’m not gonna spoil anything, but damn; She was just, really really cool. That’s the only way I can summarize her, honestly.

Am I looking too deeply into this? Probably. But I suppose that’s what happens when you really like a fictional character. In any case, I’ll post another collection of Rain Code memes sometime in the future; I’m actually close to gathering 10 memes. So uhh yeah, look forward to that and thank you for listening to my little rant.

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'' I can't tell if this is your emotions or mine but now they're ours''

Bleach characters are just on another level!!!✨️🌌🫧🫶🏻💫💜💛

Melami Goldmine images from the untranslated Master Detective Archives: Rain Code manga. The images have been edited through the erasure of text and addition of border lines.

Credit goes to @venality-strykes for posting one of the images a few days ago. If it weren’t for you, I would have never found the manga where these came from, so thank you for that! 😄👍

Link to the untranslated manga:

週刊コロコロコミック

[第2話]超外伝事件簿レインコード - ぱげらった | 週刊コロコロコミック

【週刊コロコロオリジナル作品】 6/30(金)に発売されるダークファンタジー推理アクションゲーム「超探偵レインコード」のスピンオフ漫画が週刊コロコロコミックに登場！　キュートでプリティな死神の死に神ちゃんと、記憶喪失の超探偵であるユーマくんのコンビは、カナイ区で起きる謎に向き合う

Credit for the Reddit post which had the link to the untranslated manga goes to u/Comicostar for the original post and u/EnderHorizon for the link itself. Thanks a lot guys! 😁

2016~2021

(Edited because I have more info!)

To answer one of your points; The ZEXAL person investigating KaibaCorp’s existence was Trey, in his own event! He was even asking Quattro “Hey what the actual hell is this” 😆😆😆

Also, the VRAINS characters themselves seem to be the real deal, given that from their perspective Duel Links is a deeper extension/alternate part of VRAINS that according to Blue Angel in her own event “Was not created by Sol Technologies”.

In Spectre’s event they even investigate how Duel Links can recreate entire events based on how people memorize it (For example, the threat to VRAINS’ existence from the Hanoi Tower or even the Lost Incident, which is absolutely insane!!!), which also explains how A.) The ZEXAL World is repeating events from the anime (Probably Don Thousand and the scattered Numbers somehow interfering with everyone’s memories again) and B.) Revived characters returning to their original viewpoints from before dying/recovering their memories (Examples: Yuto and Aporia’s revivals in their own events).

EDIT 1: Most characters themselves being AI can be corroborated by the fact that some have lines for both anime/manga cards, implying they’re a composite of the original character! (Example: Duel Links’ Jack is a composite AI version of the original 5Ds Jack, given he has lines for both his anime/manga 5Ds and ARC-V counterpart cards).

EDIT 2: Point A can also be proven by Jim’s event, in which he explains to Syrus and Hassleberry that Duels within Duel Links leave behind digital data similar to fossils which when unearthed can reveal memories (forgotten or not) and repeat them in real time (Again, we see this happen in Spectre’s event) (This would also explain how the ZEXAL cast remember more and more memories the longer they stay in Duel Links and duel there).

Duel Links lore is ABSOLUTELY INSANE once you start paying attention to it, and it would be hard if not impossible to keep up with all of it if it weren’t for the community and YugiTubers sharing some screenshots (shoutout to Veiz and YuDL!!!).

This is why regardless of metas or gachas I will always advocate for Duel Links to have a long lifespan. We needed something like this!!!

I'm sorry but WHAT is happening in Duel Links??

*CRACKS KNUCKLES* ALRIGHT im certain other people could explain this better than I could (bark at me if any of this is wrong,) but, an attempt at a quick rough tl;dr of it:

so like. an important thing to note with DL is that like..... the in-universe explanation for Duel Links is that it's one of Seto Kaiba's new VR Next Evolution of Dueling Ego Projects, which like, ok sure, he Makes Those, but what's a little alarming with this one is that technically (almost) none of the characters In The Game are actually Those Characters Specifically, they're AI recreations of them with their original self's memories (that's already a lot, right out the gate.) (I say "almost" everyone because I think it's implied DSOD Kaiba and maybe Mokuba actually Are them because it's Their Game and they're always product testing it, there might be others though)

anyway another thing with this situation is that, uh, Most Characters in Duel Links Do Not Know They're AI. They just assume they're the original guy, that's just them! Hanging out in this cool new Duel VR! But then sometimes you DO get characters who actively are aware that they're just code in a video game (Yami Bakura and Bruno 5D's both comment on it), so you have this really interesting ecosystem of duelists who Are aware they don't really exist, and duelists who are None the Wiser. absolutely batshit.

and sure this is all well and fine with like, DM and maybe GX characters, ok sure it makes sense Kaiba would be recreating notable duelists of that era, but i cannot stress enough He Is Also Making AI Recreations of Dead People. DL very much takes place post-manga, post-DSOD. But Yami Yugi is There. Yami Bakura and Yami Marik are Very There. Manga Pegasus is there. Seto "I Will Never Learn to Come to Terms With Grief" Kaiba is actively raising the dead in his little VR card game simulator so they can live forever and there's a 50/50 chance they'll be FULLY AWARE that they died. JESUS.

There's also the hulking elephant in the room of Duel Links Has Been Including Characters From Series Kaiba Has Nothing to Do With For Quite Some Time Now--and a lot of those characters are like HEY. WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE. like I SWEAR someone from either Zexal or Arv-V was actively like "hi what the hell is KaibaCorp" so like...Kaiba's branding is ALL OVER THE VR WORLD EVEN IN THE WORLDS HE DIDNT EXIST IN. It's painting this absolute off the rails picture of Seto Kaiba trying to create this virtual multiverse of The Best Duelists From Every Timeline Living or Dead, and half the guys he's pulling in at this point are like *spawns into a perfect recreation of their hometown with no real idea of who did this* "what in the goddamn."

like guys from zexal/arc-v are actively IN GAME like trying to figure out why this VR world exists and who created it. It's absolutely wild and fascinating to watch. excited to see what happens when they add VRAINS world next month?!?!? idk anything about VRAINS really but it's probably going to make the DL lore even more bananas.

ANYWAY. ALL OF THAT SAID. NOW WE HAVE MAXIMILLION PEGASUS DROPPING IN-GAME OMINOUS SENTIMENTS it's kind of a culmination of all of the aforementioned shit. Duel Links Pegasus (an AI recreation of manga!Pegasus, who is fully aware A.) that's he's dead and B.) that there's multiple worlds and timelines crammed into this Virtual Reality) has a conversation with Paradox (an AI recreation of Paradox the Bonds Beyond Time Yugioh Movie Bad Guy, who, for all intents and purposes, fully believes he's the real dude and he wants to kill-die-explode-murder Pegasus SO BAD) breaking down that "hey, this place unites different histories, and if you kill me duel monsters won't cease to exist. Anyway, I'm not real! Ohoho! This world holds threads of tragedy, Paradox-boy!" <-- (not verbatim. but i wish it was.) Meanwhile Paradox is having a sputtering breakdown right next to him. This is a video game to play yugioh the trading card game.

like. it's just absolutely wild. konami could have just said "hey heres yugioh characters from every series. whatever" but no instead they threw in a bunch of mild psychological horror and inter-series friction and existentialism and it's a freemium video game that i have 600+ hours on on steam. yugioh duel links !

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