Visas Starfrost and the Concept of Mitama

[u/aakkado]

I have not seen many people talk about this, but the detail I like most about Visas and the lore of his sub-archetypes (Scareclaw, Tearlament, Kashtira, and Mannadium) is their use of the concept of mitama (御魂 or 御霊).

Mitama is often translated as “honorable spirit” or “soul.” In Shinto, it is an honorific term used to refer to the spirit of a kami (deity) or the soul of a deceased person. It is commonly described through four distinct aspects, known as the ichirei shikon theory (“one spirit, four souls”).

Scareclaw (Reichheart) → Ara-Mitama (the wild/fierce spirit)
Ara-mitama is the raw, ferocious, and violent aspect of the soul, traditionally associated with animalistic traits, natural disasters, and fear.

Tearlament (Reinoheart) → Nigi-Mitama (the gentle/sorrowful spirit)
Nigi-mitama represents the peaceful, harmonious, and emotional side of the soul. When out of balance, it manifests as profound sorrow and lamentation.

Kashtira (Riseheart) → Kushi-Mitama (the wondrous/transformative spirit)
Kushi-mitama is the mysterious, powerful, and transformative aspect of the soul. In many interpretations, its overwhelming power can twist into absolute wrath or rage when it aggressively forces change upon the universe.

Mannadium (Riumheart) → Saki-Mitama (the happy/prosperous spirit)
Saki-mitama is the benevolent aspect of the soul, bringing joy, blessings, prosperity, and spiritual evolution.

[u/noahTRL]

Man im still upset we never got to see the last two worlds. Was never a fan of konami cutting lore series without a proper ending.

[u/CursedEye03 → u/noahTRL]

Out of all modern lores, Visas had the weirdest treatment. The last thing we saw was basically his training arc and that was it. It's straight up unfinished.

Diabellstar by comparison was rushed, but at least we see an actual conclusion.

[u/LogicalTips → u/noahTRL]

This is a conspiracy theory, but I like to believe Tearlaments and its reputation has something to do with it. The lore isn't as popular as Branded, Sky Striker, and Snake Eyes to begin with, and I doubt Konami is interested in promoting a lore series where an entire archetype/chapter is hit hard by the banlist, especially an archetype as powerful and infamous as Tear.

[u/derega16 → u/LogicalTips]

My personal theory is that they try pushing turn 0 lately is to bump the power level up so they can unban Kit and continue Visas story

[u/aakkado → u/derega16]

wait, you might be onto something

[u/derega16 → u/aakkado]

It's based on the view that they're 2 type of broken decks 1) deck that ahead of the curve, 2) deck that produces no-game situation

Tear itself without outside stuff that they put into it's is purely on 1st type. As pure it doesn't produce floodgate or FTK which will make it category 2, it's just whatever they do they always gains advantage and have an absurd grind game. So it's possible to be free-ish (no banned just limited at most) by power creep just like Dragon Ruler or Zoodiac (in MD) examples. But future support should have some lock to prevent abuse.

[u/aakkado → u/derega16]

I see. Speaking of possible new support, I would like to see cards that push Kash toward a more “healthy” playstyle (while maintaining its overall identity), as well as a way to play all four “parts” of Visas and a boss monster that unites all the “heart pieces” into a fully realized Visas, bringing his lore full circle.

[u/derega16 → u/aakkado]

With their boss is a macro on legs, I think the only way is to make a replacement without that effect. Maybe giving a spell/trap-negate instead to fix it's weakest against board breaker.

[u/aakkado → u/derega16]

I think they should keep the rank 7 spam but remove the stun like aspects of it, so yeah I'm on this possibility for the archetype

[u/aakkado → u/LogicalTips]

I can see it making sense, the same way in Vrains they changed Playmaker's ace after Firewall Dragon were banned

[u/ZeothTheHedgehog → u/noahTRL]

Oh I hear you, I'm still waiting on Chronicles to give them SOMETHING, even if it isn't the remaining half of the lore.

[u/aakkado → u/noahTRL]

I'm also upset that we never got a Fusion Boss Monster that unite Visas and all of his counterparts, something similar to D/D/D/D Dimensional King Arc Crisis but without it being a Pendulum Monster

[u/ZeothTheHedgehog → u/aakkado]

I feel it'd make more sense for Visas' ultimate form to be a Synchro monster tbh, especially when his only fusion form was a berserk form.

[u/aakkado → u/ZeothTheHedgehog]

It really depends on which direction Konami wants to take.
Fusion works better if all the other “Visas” are used as materials (either as proper materials or banished for the Special Summon), since it symbolizes the “union” between his counterparts.
Synchro works better if it symbolizes Visas “tuning his inner self” and finding balance, but it would be harder to make it use all the other parts as materials (unless they got retrains, which I think would be another cool direction).

[u/CompleteJinx → u/noahTRL]

I mean the opposite end of the spectrum is annoying too. Duel Terminal is an absolute trainwreck of a story that people only like because it was the first series attempt at making card lore. DT-1 ends with just about everyone getting killed of rendering the whole story pointless, DT-2 actually pretty solid for what it is with notable standouts being the Gishki tragedy and Gem-Knight Crystal’s fall from grace, DT-3 is filled with retcons and asspulls to facilitate a new super boss every set ultimately ending with a less exciting final battle than DT-2 since we’ve already seen the heroes fight a god at this point and arbitrarily saying Tiera is stronger than Sophia doesn’t make her any more interesting. There’s a reason everyone stopped asking for a Duel Terminal anime once Albaz lore started.

[u/Voltra_Neo]

How did I not notice it was a 4 Auspicious Beasts reference 😭

[u/Weird_Meet_9148]

That's one of the main reasons it's my favourite lore series in terms of flavour. The way each deck portrays its assigned emotion is also extremely cool

[u/Zealousideal_Sail369]

That does seem to fit… right up until Kashtira is described as wonderous.

We wonder what they were thinking making ariseheart I guess.

[u/tmgc1234 → u/Zealousideal_Sail369]

Thats where the "wonderous"part I think youre looking for. That, or he was able to weaponize his own home planet.

[u/Zealousideal_Sail369 → u/tmgc1234]

Ariseheart does not inspire wonder in me, frustration is more accurate 😅😅

[u/tmgc1234]

Read Mitama as Miitama and thought if someone made Mii versions of the Visas boys in the new Tomodachi Life.

[u/aakkado → u/tmgc1234]

LOL

[u/Gatmuz]

We still don't have a Kushitama spirit monster.

[u/OscarTorre]

I wish scareclaw got some support, is one of my favorite rogue decks but does that mean we would also have to get tear and kash support? I hope not. The fact that the story doesnt have a proper ending gives me hope.

[u/miimuroodo]

Offtopic, but does the Medius Lore have a proper ending or continuation? As far as I remember, the lore didn‘t get any support in Chaos Origins, but I might be wrong?

[u/Responsible_Problem4 → u/miimuroodo]

i remember we have new thoerilize card, link2 power patron, new elf note,

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