Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 088

"The Pulse of V: A Super Rebirth, Hope Ray V!!" is the eighty-eighth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. It first aired in Japan on January 27, 2013.

Featured Duel: Yuma Tsukumo & Rei Shingetsu vs. Gilag
Duel continues from the previous episode.

Turn 5: Rei

Rei Normal Summons "Shining Sly" (1200/800), while there is an Xyz Monster on the field, this card cannot be targeted for an attack. Rei Sets a card.

Turn 6: Yuma

Yuma Normal Summons "Gogogo Golem" (1800/1500). He then tries to declare an attack with "Number 39: Utopia", but Utopia is destroyed by "Number 106: Huge Rock Palm, Giant Hand's effect. "Giant Hand's" effect now activates which will inflict damage to Yuma equal to the ATK of "Utopia". Rei activates "Shining Sly"'s effect, Tributing "Gogogo Golem" to reduce the effect damage to 0. Gilag then activates "Giant Hand"'s effect, detaching an Overlay Unit to negate the effect of "Shining Sly". Since "Shining Sly's" effect is negated, Yuma takes the effect damage (Yuma 3400→900). Yuma then activates "Protective Sealing Swords of Flame", preventing all players from attacking.

Turn 7 : Gilag

Gilag draws and activates "Rank-Up Magic - Barian's Force" and Ranks Up "Giant Hand" to summon "Number C106: Molten Palm, Giant Hand Red" (2600/2000). He then declares a direct attack at Yuma, but Rei activates "Shining Stunt" which negates the attack and ends the Battle Phase, with Rei taking damage equal to half of "Giant Hand Red"'s ATK. (Rei 1400→100). Gilag then sets two cards and activates an unknown Field Spell Card.

Turn 8 : Rei

Rei summons "Shining Rabbit" (800/400). He then activates "Shining Bridge", which allows "Shining Rabbit" to attack Gilag directly for this turn. He then declares a direct attack but Gilag activates "Vice Hand", which negates the attack and inflicts damage to Rei equal to "Shining Rabbit"'s ATK. Yuma then activates "Desperate Guard" which negates the effect damage but halves his Life Points (Yuma 900→450).

Turn 9 : Yuma

Gilag activates Death Hand, which inflicts 300 damage for every card in Yuma's hand since he doesn't have a monster.

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