While the first few episodes of VRAINS weren't interesting to me, it's been starting to grow on me lately. I really liked the duel with Aoi. I love her character so far, and her deck is totally something I would use (heavy focus on effect damage + playing with your opponent). I used to play a Madolche deck back when I got back into the series for awhile and Aoi's deck was kinda reminiscent to how I liked to play.
While there's definitely a pattern of "get down to less than 1000 LP, grab new card, win" I'm hoping there will be some variation to that formula, even if they occasionally have a non-speed duel once in awhile to change it up (which would effectively alter strategies for decks). Another thing that someone else brought up was the frequent use of the full animation for Link Summoning, it's a bit long, and even more so when it's used 4-5 times in a single episode. I'm sure VRAINS doesn't exactly have the biggest budget appointed to it and this is probably a great way to reuse footage and save on production costs, but it'll probably get tiresome 50+ episodes into the series.
