The October issue of Gakken 's Animedia magazine confirmed on Tuesday that the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS television anime will end with its 120th episode on September 25. The Ahiru no Sora anime will take over the show's Wednesday 6:25 p.m. time slot on TV Tokyo beginning on October 2.

Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo and its affiliated networks in May 2016. Crunchyroll later began streaming the series as it airs. Crunchyroll describes the story:

In “Den City” where the latest network has developed, people were dueling day and night in the VR world called " LINK VRAINS" managed by SOL Technology Inc. The main character, Yusaku Fujiki is a quiet high school student with a great insight. He has been dueling, transforming himself into his avatar "Playmaker", to battle the "The Knights of Hanoi” that plots to destroy " LINK VRAINS".

Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS is the sixth television anime in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise . Masahiro Hosoda ( Heroes ~Legend of Battle Disks~ , Nangoku Shounen Papuwa-kun ) and Katsuya Asano have directed the anime at GALLOP. Shin Yoshida and Ken'ichi Hara returned from previous Yu-Gi-Oh! anime to supervise the series scripts and design the characters, respectively. Masahiro Hikokubo again handles the duel layout. Yūki Matsuoka ( Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal , Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V ) serves as sound director, and Shinkichi Mitsumune ( Yu-Gi-Oh! ) composes the music.