The Ritual dimension could also be in Ancient Egypt with the OG summoners

Took the "Link monster is a Ritual Monster with Arrow" into the whole new level

A little extra thing. This is something that gets lost in the dub, the way Aigami makes people disappear in the movie; your own existence in this dimension is defined by your links with other people, if someone doesn't know about anyone and no one knows about that someone then he would go into a lower plane of reality, Aigami has the power to break that links artificially. He is also trying to discover how to use the cube to canalize those links and ascend to a higher plane of existence (that's what Kaiba does at the end of the movie).
And at the end of Vrains they say Link Vrains may now be connected to other realities and dimensions.
I like to think that Vrains is a Ritual Dimenson, but not Arc V's ritual dimension, just another world with its own timeline (including the manga and DSOD). It conflicts less with the 4 shards of Zarc and all of that.

I feel like my world is complete after watching this masterpiece. Yu-gi-oh is a lifestyle for me and I have never seen something that makes more sense than this and after reading all of the mangas this makes so much sense on why there isn't a VRains one and why Yusaku is literally my favorite protag

I always liked the idea that Vrains is a disconnected "Ritual Dimension" or is on a timeline connected to the orginal Yugioh DM manga branched off from the anime timeline thanks to Darkseid of Dimensions.
I'm just not exactly sure if that includes the other Yugioh mangas.
I know most people don't like a large number of timeline branches but I prefer to think while the GX-Zexal manga's do take place in a timeline of the orginal Yugioh manga, the Darkside of Dimensions movie is another timeline split that eventually leads to the Vrains we see.
(ArcV Manga's final boss and her legacy monsters make its placement more difficult for me personally)
Mainly because if Kaiba already invented a much more advanced form of dueldisk shortly after the end of DM wouldn't it go to say by GX that technology would be more available.

I do find a lot of validity in this theory. In addition to the idea that the Ritual dimension is a continued story of DM with its own GX story, 5Ds story, and Zexal story, continuing on to a world where Zarc never came to power, this would also explain why there are no pendulum monsters in Vrains.

There was even that episode where Yusaku brought his old duel disk to school which resembles the duel disk in battle city. In addition if you look at the tcg, both Black Luster Soldier and Relinquished who were originally ritual monsters got link retrains.

This is the first "Vrains is in the manga timeline" theory I've actually been happy with, seeing as how it ties in the anime as well

The eye of horus that apears at the begining of the first vrains intro now makes a lot more sense, it was extremely odd when you look at wrains in isolation

I love poorly thought plot lines; they give room to this kind of interesting theories.

So all these different dimensions and timelines basically come down to whether or not Kaiba was present during Yugi Muto VS Atem's final duel.

Dang Kaiba, that man's ego is too big it influenced the space-time continuum.

I was watching your "Why no one uses ritual summoning" video, and your mentioning of the Numeron Code crash landing on earth got me thinking: When Playmaker summons Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, it shows a substance striking the surface of a barren planet and bringing forth life, and I believe the summoning chant says something to that effect.

Could there be a connection here, or at least similar origins of dueling-and life- in these universes?

EDIT: I realized that the VERY SET in which Darkfluid was released may allude to this theory by it's own name: Chaos Impact!

Honestly, at first when I click on the video I didn't believe that you could have an explanation that Vrains IS the "Ritual Dimension". But it's a really good theory that I now believe and makes sense because if you think about it, Vrains don't have "Pendulums". Because as you said, Zarc was never got there.

Glad to see a new video from you, especially now that RItual monsters have become my favorite since playing Drytron for months on end!

Interesting connection between Vrains and DSoD. I was thinking that the height of ritual summoning was around Pharaoh Atem’s rule over Ancient Egypt. Without Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz energy; those summoning methods would have been harder to achieve leading to what we know as Master Rules 4 becoming standard once those methods were discovered. It wasn’t until later that Link Summoning was discovered that they were able to circumvent this limitation.

I'm sold on the Ritual-Link connection, though I think it's more sensible for it to be an offshoot of the standard timeline as a result of Kaiba's traveling to the past at the end of DSOD to duel the Pharaoh.

Without Kaiba in the present, Kaiba Corp was bought out by what eventually became Sol Tech, who developed Synchro and XYZ summoning WITHOUT their connected energy purposes as Kaiba wasn't alive to be the madlad to come up with using children's card games as an energy source. This explains how Synchro and XYZ summoning can exist without the advanced technology that their energy enabled.

So I think the main problem in this theory is the lack of dimensional dragon. As the whole reason for the split is ZARC and his 4 dragons along with the en cards of which there are 4 and every time the total dimensions are brought up they are brought up as 4 dimensions. We also see Alexis use ritual summoning even though she never went to another dimension and we have seen that outside of the summoning dimensions main mechanic they don’t really know about it like when synchro didn’t know about xyz, fusion, or pendulum summoning

If only your conspiracy theories were the accepted canon 😔

Suddenly remembered this video existed came up with a headcanon/theory for it.

What if instead of a separate Ritual dimension it’s the original. Basically when Ray does her thing to stop and then split both Zarc and herself instead of dividing the dimension entirely she sliced off parts of it that then evolved into separate dimensions with the extra deck energies taking said energies with them leaving this original one to heal itself with what was available Ritual energy. Given time to prosper the people of this dimension would eventually innovate on its use and create Link summoning thus going from the Ritual dimension to the Link dimension. This dimension would also lack Zarc and Ray fragments as he didn’t posses a Ritual dragon and thus nothing to latch onto when the separation happened

Ritual summons was actually gonna be the main Summon mechanic for the og duelist kingdom arc but it was changed last minute, black luster soldier was gonna be Yugis main ace monster.