Episode 27

Naoki Shima the Fighter
Japanese	闘(たたか)う男(おとこ)、島(しま)直(なお)樹(き)
Rōmaji	Tatakau Otoko, Shima Naoki
Alternative Titles
English Title	The Brave Battler
Information
Season	1
Episode number	27
Air date	November 15, 2017 TBA
Music
Opening	With the Wind
Ending	Writing Life
Staff
Screenplay	Mitsutaka Hirota
Director	Yusuke Onoda
Animation director	Yukio Okano Akiko Toyoda Yuji Kaneko
Episode guide
Episode listing	Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS episode listing (season 1)
Previous	Episode 26
Next	Episode 28
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The Brave Battler or Naoki Shima the Fighter known in the Japanese version is the twenty-seventh episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime. It will air in Japan on November 15, 2017. In Canada will air on December 1, 2018

Synopsis

As the Another phenomenon begins to affect the real world, everyone begins to panic, and LINK VRAINS is put on high alert. Due to something, Naoki Shima decides to fight against the Knights of Hanoi...

Featured Duel: Lonely Brave vs. The Knights of Hanoi

Lonely Brave vs. The Knights of Hanoi.

The Duel is conducted as a Master Duel.

Turn 1: Knight of Hanoi
KoH's hand contains three copies of "Inverz Madith", "Inverz Glez", and "Hand Severing". Brave's hand contains three copies of "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" and two copies of "Yellow Baboon, Hunter of the Forest".

"Inverz Glez" Advance Summoned.

KoH activates "Hand Severing", making both players send two cards from their hand to the GY and draw two cards. KoH sends two copies of "Inverz Madith" to his GY and draws "Feather of the Phoenix God" and "Soul Charge", while Brave sends two copies of "Green Baboon" to his GY and draws "Yellow Baboon" and "Wild Nature's Release". KoH activates "Feather of the Phoenix God", discarding a card to return a card in his GY to the top of his Deck. He discards the last copy of "Madith", then returns "Hand Severing" to the top of his Deck. KoH activates "Soul Charge", Special Summoning any number of monsters from his GY, then losing 1000 LP for each monster Special Summoned. He Special Summons three copies of "Madith" (2200/0) (KoH: 4000 → 1000 LP). KoH Releases the three copies of "Madith" to Advance Summon "Inverz Glez" (3200/0).

Turn 2: Lonely Brave
Brave draws "Cyberse Wizard" and subsequently Normal Summons it (1800/800). Brave activates the effect of "Wizard", letting him change a monster KoH controls to Defense Position, while letting Cyberse monsters inflict piercing battle damage this turn but only monsters Brave controls can only attack that monster this turn. He changes "Glez" to Defense Position. "Wizard" attacks and destroys "Glez" (KoH: 1000 → 0 LP).

List of Featured Cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

The Knights of Hanoi

Monsters	Magic
Effect Monsters Inverz Glez Inverz Madith x3	Feather of the Phoenix God Hand Severing Soul Charge

Lonely Brave

Monsters	Magic
Effect Monsters Cyberse Wizard Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest x3 Yellow Baboon, Hunter of the Forest x3	Wild Nature's Release

Flashback

Monsters

Effect Monsters Cyberse Wizard

Characters in Order of Appearance

1. Faust
2. Doctor Genome
3. "Baira" / Kyoko Taki
4. Roboppy
5. Ai
6. Shoichi Kusanagi
7. Yusaku Fujiki / "Playmarker"
8. The Knights of Hanoi
9. Naoki Shima / "Lonely Brave" / "Brave Max"
10. Hosoda (Flashback)
11. Sato (Flashback)
12. Tanaka (Flashback)
13. Suzuki (Flashback)

Cast

Japanese character name	Japanese voice actor
Yusaku Fujiki / "Playmaker"	Shouya Ishige
Ai	Takahiro Sakurai
Shoichi Kusanagi	Subaru Kimura
Naoki Shima	Chiharu Sawashiro
Faust	Satoshi Mikami
Knight of Hanoi	Taishi Murata
Roboppy	Minami Takahashi
Hosoda	Yuki Ishikari
Sato	Masaaki Yano
Tanaka	Sonosuke Takeshima
Suzuki	Akihisa Wakayama
Naoki Shima / Lonely Brave'Ai	Ryota Suzuki
Duelists	Hase Norihito

References

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/program/detail/201711/23144_201711151825.html