The reason why Jaden won most of the duels was because most people he dueled had awful decks that would take a miracle to win. Also. There should be more duels like the maze.
Obligatory hot take, duels in duelist kingdom were the most interesting in the series. The simple yet dnd style made each battle unique and allowed for many strategies. Traps and spells being rare yet powerful also added a made them feel like a big deal when used
Here's my hot take for Zexal fans specifically: I _don't_ want Zexal to get another season. The show ended perfectly in my opinion. The only way I would want it to return is if they delve deeper into- *MASSIVE ZEXAL SPOILERS AHEAD:* -how exactly Astral's chaos (Yuma) became separated during his duel against Don Thousand. And even that could be shown in a flashback during some kind of crossover movie.
Zexal had a lot of rewrites and unexplained lore due to being shortened from 300 episodes to 150. You can really tell in the final season when they use Astral's spaceship as a way to string all sorts of scenes together. Honestly, it's amazing that the show was as good as it was considering how much went wrong at the last minute. Here's what we know so far: 1. Dr. Faker's plans were originally planned to extend beyond the world duel carnival arc. He was quickly defeated to move the story along. 2. There was some sort of subplot about Yuma, Utopia, and Astral being connected. Astral's creator, Enna and Yuma's mother are the only characters in the entire series to share a hairstyle, meaning they might have been the same person. During the Eclipse duel, there are also some throwaway lines about Utopia being "familiar" that never gets followed up on. 3. Astral's memories never get explained to the audience. We see the first few, but after a while, he stops sharing them. 4. Two planned mechanics never appeared in the show, those being SXYZ and Double evolutions. To this day, we know nothing besides the names. A staff member also claimed that synchros were coming, but that might have been a lie. 5. There was going to be a storyline in which two aliens named Arco and Proto manipulated Yuma and Kite, culminating in their rematch. We know nothing about this arc except how it would've began. 6. There was also a cut storyline involving the Barians being stranded on Earth. The Alito duel seems to be recycled from one of those cut episodes. 7. In one episode of the show, Dumon challenges Yuma to a duel, then leaves for absolutely no reason. Clearly this duel was cut for time. 8. Don Thousand was originally going to become yet another evil counterpart to Astral. There's also evidence that the plotline of him absorbing the Barians was a last minute addition. It seems to have been a way to resolve the character's stories by killing them off.
5D’s hot take: The plot of season one of 5D’s was actually an amazing because it actually added more ancient past lore to before duel monsters was a card game, like there’s the oricalcos, the Egyptians, Alexander who was exploring a pyramid full of capsule monsters for more power and finally our big boi for 5Ds that adds more duel monsters history, Earthbound Immortals vs the Crimson Dragon and its dragon servants, which is by far my favorite of the ancient duel monsters history stuff (I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS IT SUCKS!!)
My literal experience watching Zexal Season 1(I didn't watch Season 2 right after due to pacing whiplash and after accidentially getting spoilers for most of the following plot, I know I don't exactly agree with a bunch of the reveals, so I'd rather stay clear tbh) was to go hypemode whenever Shark was on-screen.
@2:31 not merely disagreeing; this is untrue! 5ds specifically (not gonna spoil) has extremely intricate lore that makes sense and even ties in with earlier parts of the series, making these powerful cardboards as you say make much sense. They're more of a spiritual thing there but you'll see when u watch it
My hot take: Arc-V should've had protags and DM Characters(come on, Joey uses Thousand Dragon), and also, Yuya and Zuzu shouldn't be the only Yu-boy and Bracelet Girl to survive. And if the other protags exist, it would be neat to see Leo Akaba gets killed by a Yugi Mind Crush
One thing I don’t like is how people think that in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Monsters is a card game for children. The entirety of the universe of Yugioh is dependent on Duel Monsters, Darkness confirms this when he said that when he came to the Yugioh dimension he made a deck so he could take over the world
It was always a teens to adult game in all contexts *except* for the TCG. For some reason they aimed the TCG at a demographic so young that they can barely play the game. The OCG is also considered a teens to adult card game for reference.
The card game IN UNIVERSE was for children. Pegasus had an add featuring a kid to sell packs. This is a children card games. Stop pretending Yugioh was that mature just because it featured mild dark themes. It’s literally a shonen, meaning young boys. Its for kids.
Why did the IP seemingly have to be censored for the JP anime and then again for the west? It just plain does not make sense, either it is for little timmy or it's not.
@@terencebcShonen only means “boy” in a narrow sense when referring to manga and anime. It’s not referring to boys in a broader sense in that regard. The narrow sense refers to junior high and high school age males. So Shonen manga and anime are for early to late teen boys between 12 and 18. You are aware that this is now officially a fact and that numerous sources are now referencing this information. And Weekly Shonen Jump is confirmed by Nakano to be for boys 15 to 18. Yugioh was published in that magazine. Meaning it is for a teenage demographic. The in-universe argument isn’t a factor here. The real life OCG is for 12+. Meaning it is for young teen players at least. And given the games complex rules and very graphic images on their early release cards, it’s understandable why Konami advertised the game to be targeted towards that age group.
Zexal hot take: It was over hated for no reason. The duels were actually really good and Yuma became a very talented duelist towards the end. Yea he started off bad but not liking him for that is just crazy. Yuma had so much improvement over the course of Zexal. He didn’t lose not one duel in the second half of the show
I genuinely think Zexal wouldn’t have been so hated if it had come out in a different time. DM wasn’t that old and the Yugioh anime hadn’t stopped since it first aired at that time. Nobody needed a soft reboot then, but a reboot in the style of Zexal would be appreciated today.
I think a big part of the Zexal hate is the first half generally feels more geared towards younger people. Especially after 5ds. The second half is absolutely fantastic, and my favourite part of any Yugioh series.
I got a Zexal hot take- Yuma is honestly an over hated protagonist. Sure he’s not really likable in the earlier episodes but I do think he becomes better as the series progresses. Plus he’s way more relatable than we give him credit for. He starts off as a complete novice but over time he grows and learns from his experiences. Plus this kid has had to endure so much. From loosing his parents to having most of his friends betray him and die right in front of him. (Keep in mind this kid is 11 I think btw.) The fact that an eleven year old had to go through the wringer and still tried to see the best in everyone is incredible.
Yuma is 13. Yuga from Sevens is the 11yo ygo protagonist who probably received even more hate than Yuma just for being a child protag in a Rush Duel anime.
Not to mention the fact that the beginning in retrospect isn't even that bad considering it gets recontextualised a lot by the ending of the show. Makes Yuma's growth much more worth while
Z-ONE should’ve been a future Yusei pushed to the brink. Present Yusei was always going on about the bonds he shared with his friends and being able to accomplish anything because of it only to have his disheartened future self telling him he inevitably fails and ends up being the last human would’ve been mind blowing.
Personally, my take is that I want another BBT style movie where the protags representing the major summoning mechanics all get together, or perhaps an animated special or something where they meet and get to know each other.
I like Darkness at the end but I get confused sometimes between what is good and bad in universe between Light of Destruction and Darkness when Darkness is Bad and Light is also bad yet Yubel and I like the way the deck works just even as pure,Yubel is Gentle Darkness so idk also I'd like to have more of a close on what Kazuki Takahashi didn't get to in Season 5 original due to his illness at the time
I think the point is that both light and darkness has the capacity to be a force of good and evil. GX alone has two Darkness, the Gentle Darkness that represent the "good" side, and Darkness/Nightshroud, the one that repressent the "Evil" Darkness.
Arc V Hot Take: It would have been so much better if they show the tragic side of Yuri and Serena relationship. They felt the most underdeveloped in the show. But I believe it would’ve tie in to the Zarc storyline much better and show parallels between Zarc and Ray’s relationship.
My hot take is that the Yugioh Anime should have ended at 5d’s. Dark Side of Dimensions and Zexal would have been a lot more appreciated if it was a comeback and not just another entry.
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD it is. Zexal stays consistent in what it wants to do. 5ds was fundamentally broken mid way and even before. 5ds refers to the 5 dragons, and they randomly add Crow to the gang and completely sideline the other 3 Ds in Aki Leo & Luna to make it the Yusei Jack & Crow show, also having nothing to do with the 5 dragons and do random tournaments and have time travel shenanigans that were never ever foreshadowed. No matter how much one likes the show, it’s a mess.
@@terencebc I like both shows, and I would take all of season 1 of 5ds over Zexaul but they're both great, and the second season of 5ds is mostly filler unfortunately, but not bad filler
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD not talking about which you like more, but which is better, very different things. My favorite is DM but it’s one of the worst yugioh in terms of quality. Diffence between feelings and quality. Zexal has better consistency and writing, that’s all.
HOT TAKE (It's gonna make a lot of you angry but...) : Judai's/Jaden's character development is overrated. And I mean Seasons 3 and a some of 4. Every plot surrounding it is very random and short-lived: - Why did his friends all have these "Emotion Seals" on their faces? - Why where these seals needed to be extracted to creat Super Polymerization? - Why did they also have to "die" in the process? - Hao/Supreme King is realy cool but why did Judai have to turn into him? Jaden out of guilt became something worse than the monster that "killed" his friends. - Why is the Soothing Darkness brought now and not when the Light of Destruction showed up in the previous season? - What's up Jim's eye and why as that meteor related to it only brought out now? Everything about this just feels made for the moment wtihout any good context to it. - And just like it, Judai's and Yubel's story of their past lives just seems like randomdly-added background story. - Did they really have to fuse at the end of Season 3? xD - And if so, why didnt we see more of Yubel in Season 4? - They realy pulled out more half-assed plot points with the Truemans and Fujiwara who is just brought now into the series but they couldn't have Yubel show up in a season where most episodes feel like filler? - Something that I like about Atem is that he still feels like an actual person despite being an Ancient Pharaoh and a Master of Games and Dark Magic; Judai after being fused with Yubel feels like someone so powerful and super-natural that he doesn't belong in the current World of GX.
My hot take is 1. 5Ds should’ve been the last official series. 2. The best duels and decks were the best when the duels were mainly about skill and winning than saving the world. Ex: Duelist Kingdom, World Racing Grand Prix
Hot take hot take : every summoning mechanic had it's connection to the story and lore Synchro had connection with time travelling and the 5D explosion or whatever ( also the world apocalypse after it's overused) XYZ had connection with bonding and evolving ( zexal forms are not super saiyan btw) Pendulum had connection with the different dimensions and how it cand support other summoning mechanics by summoning so many monsters from different places, it also was connected to yuya's philosophy because summoning so many monsters is fun as hell And link is connected very well in vrains ( I think this one is self explanatory)
Since people drop takes, here, I'm gonna also do that. Not all of them are hot. - Yu-gi-oh season 0 style show (multiple games instead of only card game) in GX/5D's setting would be great. GX season one was close to it, with all random ghosts and spooky places on island, it always reminded me of urban legends we shared at school about abandoned houses or train sation we had nierby. Expand idea even more and instead of fighting those with card games, every paranormal activity has it's own convoluted set of rules to survive, maybe like playground games: tag it, hide and seek etc. About 5D's - gang fights, but they do them in overcomplicated motocycle races. Simple. I dunno if later shows would work with that. -People call 5D's "the darkest yugioh show", but after dark signers arc, show had no idea what it wants to do with itself and became silly until they figured out last arc. I can't see it as more mature than other shows. -Season 2 of VRAINS was weirdly disjointed comparing to rest of the show. It feels like new Star Wars trilogy, where part 8 was written by diffrent person than part 7 and 9. Most characters and all antagonists introduced in season 2 didn't do anything in season 3. Plot about chess figures in SOL Tech was abandoned and Ai being sus was ignored until both were mentioned in season 3. Only thing relevant from season 2 to season 3 was Ignises deletion and rest of lost incident victims. Ignises were gone anyway, so only difference is that viewer has more emotional attachment and Ai is more justified in his villany - there was a foreshadowing Ai was going to be antagonist since begining. Soulburner and Miu aren't very relevant to fight with Ai anyway. -Vanila monsters should be made more relevant and useful in in Yu-gi-oh card game. Now they can only be set-up pieces for old archetypes. Also, I would watch Sevens and Go-Rush if I could find it. Seriously, what streaming service has them?
He quite literally does (Well Atem does) remember the whole heart of the cards stuff? That's literally Atem at least subconsciously manipulating the odds in his favour in order to win. Like dude at the ceremonial duel starts to just playing cards without even looking at them and the whole cast notices it.
@diegomedina9637 Every duelist can do this though provided they have a strong enough bond with their deck. This is why the term "Trust in the Heart of the Cards" is said so much, they aren't just talking out their ass this is a technique every duelist can do, Atem is just better at it than most. Example. Kaiba does this in Duelist Kingdom during his duel with Pegasus, he willingly discards his entire hand and then top decks Blue Eyes by the power of his own will. Joey does this when he duels Esperoba, during the final turn he top decks Roulette Spider and immediately wins the duel. There's several more examples for both of them but the point is clear, EVERY duelist can do this, Atem is just better at it. And I'd rather there at least be an in lore explanation instead of other protagonists (Yusei) just winning all the time for no reason. He doesn't have an official loss the entire series except for a flashback, and the one time he would have lost against Kalin in season 2 it's interrupted when he crashes his bike and so no winner is declared, hence why he isn't swallowed by the shadows.
I am not sure if this is an Hot Take, but I think the 5d manga is terrible the plot of yusei trying to save his little friend was boring and the way it treated leo, luna and akiza was disrespectful and while Akiza was treated a bit better at the start of the manga the fact that it made her lose to Yusei little friend was just stupid and Leo and Luna were given this big tragic backstory in the manga, though the manga writer did nothing with them other then treating their role in the manga as a joke and the fact that yusei friend is given an upgrade to his Duel dragon over Leo , luna and Akiza was just stupid since they deserve an upgrade to their duel dragons a lot more
@@doctormayuri2582 i mean Aki was treated horribly in the anime as well. Like her only notable 1v1 win in the second half is against the biggest jobber of the anime. She always sucked, sadly.
@@terencebc well I guess that is more or less true, but at least in the anime she still was treated like an good powerful duellist and while she did not get much screen time in the second half of 5d, in the first half she was able to show how good she was and threating her psychic powers were so she is treated a bit better in the anime and it was more the writers incompetence that end up wasting akiza potential in the anime rather than akiza sucking, though as for the manga the reason its more insulting then anything that was done to her in the anime is the manga writer at least had a chance to do something good with akiza character to try and make up for how she was wasted in the anime, but they don't and the writer did less with her character in the manga and it make akiza lose to this nothing manga character Sect and the only thing his got going for him is his yusei best friend in the manga so Akiza not even losing to an good character since she losing to this empty shell of an character that is used more as a tool to set up the manga storyline and the only reason he was able to beat Akiza in that duel is because Goodwin rig the duel so Sect will win and the fact Sect was given an upgrade for his dragon, when it would of been better for akiza, leo and luna to get an upgrade for their duel dragons and it just feel really insulting that an nothing character like Sect was able to get treated better then akiza,leo and luna, so the point is even if akiza, leo and luna were not treat that good in the anime, the manga is not much better since it treated them a lot worse than the anime ever did and I don't think you can even compare the awful way the manga treated them to how the anime treated them
@@doctormayuri2582 i never understood the “writers did her dirty, not the characters fault”. Yeah so does the manga, everything is always the writer’s fault, which result in the character having horrible portrayal. Like, sorry but even in the first half, her only good win is against the Dark Signer girl, and even that storyline was flawed. Aki really isn’t anything impressive, she jobbered against Yusei twice and really doesn’t do anything. The only characters that had decent treatment in 5ds is Gary Stu Yusei, Jack & Crow. Yeah not saying manga Aki is better, she may as well be worse, but anime Aki was also trash.
Imagine a world without Link monsters. Like dude how many of those are you going to toss in other to link it up with another card you spent half the 30 minutes turn linking to it?
My fellings about gx is that it dosen't take it's world seriously Duel monsters atelast pretends that it is grounded in season 0 like setting or something losely resambling real world Cards are fasade for world threating stakes rather than solution followed by shadow games If yougioh gx would focus on it it would smack insteed of being silly goofy as it is Also yugi still cheats becouse this is what hearth of the cards of yami isXD I think there was canonical confirmation
2:25 this just seems like an arbitrary point. They're still using dark magic and lethal challenges. Why does it matter that the medium is card games? Take away the game aspects and put them in a fantasy world like Falsebound Kingdom, is it measurably different? No.
@@alphamarigi We're talking about the Anime here which means the Manga doesn't matter to the conversation at all, and we never got Season 0 outside of Japan so it doesn't really count either.
Diego, my person, this is "Yu-gi-oh hot takes", not "Yu-gi-oh anime hot takes" and saying only 4Kids anime counts is silly when GX Season 4 is literally in the video.
Video would've been way better without a cut or meme scene each second. I appreciate the work but there's too much going on visually, to the point I just stopped watching and listened instead. Not trying to be mean or anything just some critique here.
Fair enough, but it's mostly to ensure I don't get copyrighted for using the background footage, trust me it would be way easier for me if I didn't have to get all those memes 😅
@ Is it that strict? Thought its ok to show stuff for alme seconds. Anyway, hope I didn't came off as rude. Liked the video but my eyes are a bit sensitive to fast changing pictures so I noticed that.
I think with the first one I agree because Yubel and Sartorius could’ve absolutely still been in the show and kept the same general premise while sticking with the original theme and we can just kick darkness out. And my hot take is that Arc-V was the best series easily
You want a hot take? The Waking the Dragons arc sucks! I know they had to come out with different forms for Yugi and Atem to loose without actually loosing but that Duel with Rafael was just bad. Its like they literally flipped the characters and Rafael was the main character while Yugi and Atem were just the random duelist of the week the main character had to beat... Speaking of Rafael! Rafael: I'm back! The pharaoh saved me from my darkness! Dartz: No he didn't! Rafael: I guess he didn't. Understandable, have a good day everybody! *Gets taken by the seal out of nowhere*
Everyone's posting their hot takes, so here's some of mine. - I want the mythological elements back in the franchise. I honestly do not care for any series past 5Ds, because they lack them. Nor do I have any inkling to check them out. - One of the writing problems with at least the original three series is that they suffered from character bloat. Instead of writing useless characters out of the series or killing them off, they kept them around to be the cheer squad. I think that factor alone could explain why characters like Alexis didn't get enough moments to shine. The writers couldn't flesh them all out. GX was the worst for this. (Though, to be fair, a lot of shonen anime from the 90s and 2000s were like this as well.) - Connecting to the above point, but Tristan and Tea should've gotten the Miho treatment and should've not been added in the first place. They do next to nothing in the DM era and don't connect to the ancient Egypt shit, so why have them tag along all the time? Duke should've left after his mini arc was done as well. - I think there should've been modern versions of Mana, Mahad and Kisara in modern times. They would've contributed to the plot more and tie back into the bigger picture better.
Crow the forgettable replacement signer, izayoi aki has more character development then most yugioh characters this includes crow hes shows up out of nowhere and is very useless
@ Crow had better bacstory, development and was important throughout the whole show unlike Akiza, plus Blackwings are cool as fuck. Akiza is just too edgy for my taste
@tvojamama4888 edgy? I dont think u know the definition of edgy, aki was doing all that she did for a reason, was it a good reason no but to her it was. I will say that after the first part she becomes a cheerleader again and doesnt get anymore idk why did that to her cause she is the most interesting female yugioh character. ruclips.net/video/55WwiFSCMMk/видео.htmlsi=F5grNvFLnu8vffdh
Both are flawed. Crow should have been a natural inclusion(Rather than being nowhere until he is awkwardly retconned in and then being forced into the signer roles when his point in the show was showing that it does NOT require a chosen one to win against the darkness) and Aki should not have been dropped like a rock the first chance the series got.
1:35 *Slowly puts away gun and vanishes into the shadows* 1:45 It would be, but it's realistically never going to happen. I can basically see the outline of an extended Toei anime remake(Almost all of its mainplot was made up/majorly rewritten and never in the manga as-is, which is why I think it is a good basis for a what-if that majorly deviates from the source material even more than DM) form, especially the theoretical context of the ceremonial game. The concept argubly even has potential to go beyond the classic era because I see the hook in some of the originally Master Duel sequels. For example 5DS is basically made for it with the whole "motorbike illegal games" basis that some of the series tackles already, GX could have a diffrent take on the whole "Judai has hidden darkness to him" angle and Vrains has the whole undercover hacker idea to it. Can't get a pulse on what the basic entrypoint for a "diffrent and more conventially dark" rewrite for Zexal or ArcV could be tho, maybe someone can help me out there. 2:54 Yami is a rules lawyer, not a cheater. It is still amazing how people keep bringing up the dragon flute when that was Seto reading his own card wrong in the original japanese manga(Players messing up the rulings is canonical, yes) and both Studio Gallop aswell as the Viz manga localization messed it up by drawing the OCG/TCG effect onto the thing. If Yami's move was illegal and the dueling system let it pass accidentially, Seto could have just DQ'ed him for cheating on the spot, it was his tournament. 3:53 She really was wasted that much, huh? And it still stings that they decided to ruin the perfect ending to her brother's personal arc literally after they already showed us said perfect ending.(I still hate Season 4) 5:37 I gave it a chance and slid off its surface because it couldn't commit to stakes in any of the episodes I watched besides the first one(Which is a good episode). And no, "stakes" does not mean anything life threatening or world ending, it can also mean that if they are dueling for who gets the gum is actually the only one getting the gum(I for some reason really like the gum-example when explaining my issue with how Sevens' early episodes lacked conflict which leads to people not continuing). The way Sevens was written, either nobody got the gum or everyone got the gum with barely anything missed if one skipped the duel itself. I actually really like Rush dueling, but I know that the day I return to the anime(I just have that weird feeling that I eventually will, if only to have eventually watched all animated YGO content) will not be a fun one. 7:06 Season 4 did suck(It had good moments, but overall it's a miss), but I will never understand the second take personally, especially because it is generally not thrown against BBT when it essencially does the same thing, just in a coop duel rather than a 1v1. In-narrative, it does no damage because it takes place before said duel(Maybe, kinda. It is weird, there is a reason why dream theory is a thing. Judai even notes that his arrival stopped time for some reason, which is so incredibly random and never really explained). Out of narrative, idk why it is supposed to be damaging because the thematic of the story of letting go of the past never extended to the viewer in that way. Heck, I can see why people go against DSoD for this, but why GX Season 4? 8:00 I wouldn't say Yusei "lost his value as a character", but whoever wrote this is 110% spot on. They took the "king of games never loses!" from the original manga way too literally with him(The manga didn't even take it that literally with Yami. He still timed out against Pegasus and lost to Yugi). He was only allowed to "officially lose" in flashbacks, which is meh and the one time he did actually lose, it was seemingly not put on his record because his runner broke. (The runner breaking is an entirely fine out because otherwise he would have been dragged to literal heck, but it still should have been treated as a loss proper, possibly similar to how Yami's loss in DM Season 4 was handled. Heck, many people pointed out that ANY reasonable competitive sport *will* actually count such a thing against your record because it was your responsibility that your equipment is working) And unlike Yusaku, the plot doesn't even justify him because there are some duels where he not only would have been fine and dandy with a loss, but the plot actually would have worked better with one. 10:37 I still think Links do not fit into the design space of the other "new mechanics". Like, if you think about it, every added major mechanic after Fusion interacted with levels in some new way...but Links don't, they instead created a completely new "Link counter" and don't care about Levels besides being a possible secondary condition for the summon. And heck, they got me, I personally cannot think of any way to redesign Links without stealing stuff from the other post-fusion extra deck card types. The designspace is completed as far as I can tell, we just didn't need a new card type after Pendulum(We didn't even need Pendulum, but at least they fit into how the game had been evolved since the addition of Rituals and Tributes).
Hell ya my boy yusei dont need to lose no duels any other main protagonists that lost a duel is a lame honestly he my favorite protagonists because his personality but also because he didn't lose inhad enough of jaden losing that i didn't like my protagonists losing really in yugioh anyways i don't care what you say i dont like a protagonists that keep losing thats really why i didn't like gx he lost way to much
EVERYONE wanted the ceremonial duel
My hot take is that the Ceremonial Duel should've been longer.
The reason why Jaden won most of the duels was because most people he dueled had awful decks that would take a miracle to win. Also. There should be more duels like the maze.
Obligatory hot take, duels in duelist kingdom were the most interesting in the series. The simple yet dnd style made each battle unique and allowed for many strategies. Traps and spells being rare yet powerful also added a made them feel like a big deal when used
Yeah and battle city fot me as well
I made a whole deck based off Yugis duelist kingdom cards on MasterDuel. I’d have to say it’s the most fun to use and the strongest.
Here's my hot take for Zexal fans specifically:
I _don't_ want Zexal to get another season. The show ended perfectly in my opinion. The only way I would want it to return is if they delve deeper into-
*MASSIVE ZEXAL SPOILERS AHEAD:*
-how exactly Astral's chaos (Yuma) became separated during his duel against Don Thousand. And even that could be shown in a flashback during some kind of crossover movie.
I would like the lost movie to not be lost anymore
Zexal had a lot of rewrites and unexplained lore due to being shortened from 300 episodes to 150. You can really tell in the final season when they use Astral's spaceship as a way to string all sorts of scenes together. Honestly, it's amazing that the show was as good as it was considering how much went wrong at the last minute. Here's what we know so far:
1. Dr. Faker's plans were originally planned to extend beyond the world duel carnival arc. He was quickly defeated to move the story along.
2. There was some sort of subplot about Yuma, Utopia, and Astral being connected. Astral's creator, Enna and Yuma's mother are the only characters in the entire series to share a hairstyle, meaning they might have been the same person. During the Eclipse duel, there are also some throwaway lines about Utopia being "familiar" that never gets followed up on.
3. Astral's memories never get explained to the audience. We see the first few, but after a while, he stops sharing them.
4. Two planned mechanics never appeared in the show, those being SXYZ and Double evolutions. To this day, we know nothing besides the names. A staff member also claimed that synchros were coming, but that might have been a lie.
5. There was going to be a storyline in which two aliens named Arco and Proto manipulated Yuma and Kite, culminating in their rematch. We know nothing about this arc except how it would've began.
6. There was also a cut storyline involving the Barians being stranded on Earth. The Alito duel seems to be recycled from one of those cut episodes.
7. In one episode of the show, Dumon challenges Yuma to a duel, then leaves for absolutely no reason. Clearly this duel was cut for time.
8. Don Thousand was originally going to become yet another evil counterpart to Astral. There's also evidence that the plotline of him absorbing the Barians was a last minute addition. It seems to have been a way to resolve the character's stories by killing them off.
@@pokiexplosion It's not a lost movie. That sh is fan-made
@fxzzy__i just KNEW you'd show up once someone mentioned Zexal
5D’s hot take: The plot of season one of 5D’s was actually an amazing because it actually added more ancient past lore to before duel monsters was a card game, like there’s the oricalcos, the Egyptians, Alexander who was exploring a pyramid full of capsule monsters for more power and finally our big boi for 5Ds that adds more duel monsters history, Earthbound Immortals vs the Crimson Dragon and its dragon servants, which is by far my favorite of the ancient duel monsters history stuff (I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS IT SUCKS!!)
100% agree that GX should have been more of a slice of life series.
Yeah i enjoy season 2 mainly because of Asther & Zane's heel turn but season 1 is definitely my favorite
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODseason 3 does it for me in terms of best decks and best characters. Cyperdark Zane, evil HERO Jaden, destiny HERO Aster. B
Yugioh Zexal is one of the most underrated animes of all time. Yuma, Shark, Kite and Astral are the four horseman of great characters.
My literal experience watching Zexal Season 1(I didn't watch Season 2 right after due to pacing whiplash and after accidentially getting spoilers for most of the following plot, I know I don't exactly agree with a bunch of the reveals, so I'd rather stay clear tbh) was to go hypemode whenever Shark was on-screen.
@2:31 not merely disagreeing; this is untrue! 5ds specifically (not gonna spoil) has extremely intricate lore that makes sense and even ties in with earlier parts of the series, making these powerful cardboards as you say make much sense. They're more of a spiritual thing there but you'll see when u watch it
8:16 “Once your friend yes but now, YOUR ENEMY!!!!”
Omg someone got the joke
My hot take:
Arc-V should've had protags and DM Characters(come on, Joey uses Thousand Dragon), and also, Yuya and Zuzu shouldn't be the only Yu-boy and Bracelet Girl to survive. And if the other protags exist, it would be neat to see Leo Akaba gets killed by a Yugi Mind Crush
Jaden became batman
One thing I don’t like is how people think that in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Monsters is a card game for children. The entirety of the universe of Yugioh is dependent on Duel Monsters, Darkness confirms this when he said that when he came to the Yugioh dimension he made a deck so he could take over the world
It was always a teens to adult game in all contexts *except* for the TCG. For some reason they aimed the TCG at a demographic so young that they can barely play the game. The OCG is also considered a teens to adult card game for reference.
@@lpfan4491the OCG is 12 and up. But that’s a teen rating in Japan so you’re mostly right. Been that way since 1999.
The card game IN UNIVERSE was for children. Pegasus had an add featuring a kid to sell packs. This is a children card games. Stop pretending Yugioh was that mature just because it featured mild dark themes. It’s literally a shonen, meaning young boys. Its for kids.
Why did the IP seemingly have to be censored for the JP anime and then again for the west? It just plain does not make sense, either it is for little timmy or it's not.
@@terencebcShonen only means “boy” in a narrow sense when referring to manga and anime. It’s not referring to boys in a broader sense in that regard.
The narrow sense refers to junior high and high school age males. So Shonen manga and anime are for early to late teen boys between 12 and 18. You are aware that this is now officially a fact and that numerous sources are now referencing this information. And Weekly Shonen Jump is confirmed by Nakano to be for boys 15 to 18. Yugioh was published in that magazine. Meaning it is for a teenage demographic. The in-universe argument isn’t a factor here. The real life OCG is for 12+. Meaning it is for young teen players at least. And given the games complex rules and very graphic images on their early release cards, it’s understandable why Konami advertised the game to be targeted towards that age group.
Zexal hot take: It was over hated for no reason. The duels were actually really good and Yuma became a very talented duelist towards the end. Yea he started off bad but not liking him for that is just crazy. Yuma had so much improvement over the course of Zexal. He didn’t lose not one duel in the second half of the show
I genuinely think Zexal wouldn’t have been so hated if it had come out in a different time. DM wasn’t that old and the Yugioh anime hadn’t stopped since it first aired at that time. Nobody needed a soft reboot then, but a reboot in the style of Zexal would be appreciated today.
@@SSG_Gogeta thats not even a hot take anymore, most people love Zexal now. Praising Rush shows is where you get jumped on nowadays.
Real ones know ZEXAL is peak
I think a big part of the Zexal hate is the first half generally feels more geared towards younger people. Especially after 5ds.
The second half is absolutely fantastic, and my favourite part of any Yugioh series.
@@Sad-Lesbian i mean being geared toward younger audience doesn’t mean it was lower quality. The first half is just as good.
I got a Zexal hot take-
Yuma is honestly an over hated protagonist.
Sure he’s not really likable in the earlier episodes but I do think he becomes better as the series progresses.
Plus he’s way more relatable than we give him credit for.
He starts off as a complete novice but over time he grows and learns from his experiences.
Plus this kid has had to endure so much. From loosing his parents to having most of his friends betray him and die right in front of him.
(Keep in mind this kid is 11 I think btw.)
The fact that an eleven year old had to go through the wringer and still tried to see the best in everyone is incredible.
Yuma is 13. Yuga from Sevens is the 11yo ygo protagonist who probably received even more hate than Yuma just for being a child protag in a Rush Duel anime.
Not to mention the fact that the beginning in retrospect isn't even that bad considering it gets recontextualised a lot by the ending of the show. Makes Yuma's growth much more worth while
Z-ONE should’ve been a future Yusei pushed to the brink. Present Yusei was always going on about the bonds he shared with his friends and being able to accomplish anything because of it only to have his disheartened future self telling him he inevitably fails and ends up being the last human would’ve been mind blowing.
4:00 fair, either develop her and Judai as a couple, or let Asuka have a new goal, and get more good moments as a character because of it
Yeah she was wasted but not buried
Tristan or duke ...it would be funny if serenity and them had an oav or their own show
Personally, my take is that I want another BBT style movie where the protags representing the major summoning mechanics all get together, or perhaps an animated special or something where they meet and get to know each other.
My hot take the atem should of been called Yami the whole time
I like Darkness at the end but I get confused sometimes between what is good and bad in universe between Light of Destruction and Darkness when Darkness is Bad and Light is also bad yet Yubel and I like the way the deck works just even as pure,Yubel is Gentle Darkness so idk also I'd like to have more of a close on what Kazuki Takahashi didn't get to in Season 5 original due to his illness at the time
I think the point is that both light and darkness has the capacity to be a force of good and evil. GX alone has two Darkness, the Gentle Darkness that represent the "good" side, and Darkness/Nightshroud, the one that repressent the "Evil" Darkness.
It would have been better if she was not in love but scorned
Rituals are now in the extra deck in rush duel.
I definitely agree with archetypes being boring. It's like being a Pokemon trainer that only uses 1 type.
So, all Gym leaders not named Blue?
Arc V Hot Take:
It would have been so much better if they show the tragic side of Yuri and Serena relationship. They felt the most underdeveloped in the show. But I believe it would’ve tie in to the Zarc storyline much better and show parallels between Zarc and Ray’s relationship.
My hot take is that the Yugioh Anime should have ended at 5d’s.
Dark Side of Dimensions and Zexal would have been a lot more appreciated if it was a comeback and not just another entry.
Zexal is better than 5ds so i disagree.
@@terencebcnot really
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD it is. Zexal stays consistent in what it wants to do. 5ds was fundamentally broken mid way and even before. 5ds refers to the 5 dragons, and they randomly add Crow to the gang and completely sideline the other 3 Ds in Aki Leo & Luna to make it the Yusei Jack & Crow show, also having nothing to do with the 5 dragons and do random tournaments and have time travel shenanigans that were never ever foreshadowed.
No matter how much one likes the show, it’s a mess.
@@terencebc I like both shows, and I would take all of season 1 of 5ds over Zexaul but they're both great, and the second season of 5ds is mostly filler unfortunately, but not bad filler
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD not talking about which you like more, but which is better, very different things. My favorite is DM but it’s one of the worst yugioh in terms of quality. Diffence between feelings and quality.
Zexal has better consistency and writing, that’s all.
HOT TAKE (It's gonna make a lot of you angry but...) :
Judai's/Jaden's character development is overrated.
And I mean Seasons 3 and a some of 4. Every plot surrounding it is very random and short-lived:
- Why did his friends all have these "Emotion Seals" on their faces?
- Why where these seals needed to be extracted to creat Super Polymerization?
- Why did they also have to "die" in the process?
- Hao/Supreme King is realy cool but why did Judai have to turn into him? Jaden out of guilt became something worse than the monster that "killed" his friends.
- Why is the Soothing Darkness brought now and not when the Light of Destruction showed up in the previous season?
- What's up Jim's eye and why as that meteor related to it only brought out now? Everything about this just feels made for the moment wtihout any good context to it.
- And just like it, Judai's and Yubel's story of their past lives just seems like randomdly-added background story.
- Did they really have to fuse at the end of Season 3? xD
- And if so, why didnt we see more of Yubel in Season 4?
- They realy pulled out more half-assed plot points with the Truemans and Fujiwara who is just brought now into the series but they couldn't have Yubel show up in a season where most episodes feel like filler?
- Something that I like about Atem is that he still feels like an actual person despite being an Ancient Pharaoh and a Master of Games and Dark Magic; Judai after being fused with Yubel feels like someone so powerful and super-natural that he doesn't belong in the current World of GX.
Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains is top 2 imo, cool character backgrounds, no bs tournament that only ads to the plot at the end and overall a solid 8/10
8/10 seems very generous considering how the majority of the cast were treated.
My hot take is 1. 5Ds should’ve been the last official series. 2. The best duels and decks were the best when the duels were mainly about skill and winning than saving the world. Ex: Duelist Kingdom, World Racing Grand Prix
Hot take hot take : every summoning mechanic had it's connection to the story and lore
Synchro had connection with time travelling and the 5D explosion or whatever ( also the world apocalypse after it's overused)
XYZ had connection with bonding and evolving ( zexal forms are not super saiyan btw)
Pendulum had connection with the different dimensions and how it cand support other summoning mechanics by summoning so many monsters from different places, it also was connected to yuya's philosophy because summoning so many monsters is fun as hell
And link is connected very well in vrains ( I think this one is self explanatory)
I miss the anime mixing and matching cards that just so happens to work together. Or are just good enough to help out the rest of the deck.
Since people drop takes, here, I'm gonna also do that. Not all of them are hot.
- Yu-gi-oh season 0 style show (multiple games instead of only card game) in GX/5D's setting would be great. GX season one was close to it, with all random ghosts and spooky places on island, it always reminded me of urban legends we shared at school about abandoned houses or train sation we had nierby. Expand idea even more and instead of fighting those with card games, every paranormal activity has it's own convoluted set of rules to survive, maybe like playground games: tag it, hide and seek etc. About 5D's - gang fights, but they do them in overcomplicated motocycle races. Simple. I dunno if later shows would work with that.
-People call 5D's "the darkest yugioh show", but after dark signers arc, show had no idea what it wants to do with itself and became silly until they figured out last arc. I can't see it as more mature than other shows.
-Season 2 of VRAINS was weirdly disjointed comparing to rest of the show. It feels like new Star Wars trilogy, where part 8 was written by diffrent person than part 7 and 9. Most characters and all antagonists introduced in season 2 didn't do anything in season 3. Plot about chess figures in SOL Tech was abandoned and Ai being sus was ignored until both were mentioned in season 3. Only thing relevant from season 2 to season 3 was Ignises deletion and rest of lost incident victims. Ignises were gone anyway, so only difference is that viewer has more emotional attachment and Ai is more justified in his villany - there was a foreshadowing Ai was going to be antagonist since begining. Soulburner and Miu aren't very relevant to fight with Ai anyway.
-Vanila monsters should be made more relevant and useful in in Yu-gi-oh card game. Now they can only be set-up pieces for old archetypes.
Also, I would watch Sevens and Go-Rush if I could find it. Seriously, what streaming service has them?
Hot take:I miss the supernatural in yugioh after the Darksiders arc everything explain by technology or aliens
Still no new show announcement...
3:44 Thank you!!! I'm so sick of hearing this, I don't care if you like Kaiba or Joey more, Yugi does not cheat!
He quite literally does (Well Atem does) remember the whole heart of the cards stuff? That's literally Atem at least subconsciously manipulating the odds in his favour in order to win. Like dude at the ceremonial duel starts to just playing cards without even looking at them and the whole cast notices it.
@diegomedina9637 Every duelist can do this though provided they have a strong enough bond with their deck. This is why the term "Trust in the Heart of the Cards" is said so much, they aren't just talking out their ass this is a technique every duelist can do, Atem is just better at it than most.
Example. Kaiba does this in Duelist Kingdom during his duel with Pegasus, he willingly discards his entire hand and then top decks Blue Eyes by the power of his own will. Joey does this when he duels Esperoba, during the final turn he top decks Roulette Spider and immediately wins the duel. There's several more examples for both of them but the point is clear, EVERY duelist can do this, Atem is just better at it. And I'd rather there at least be an in lore explanation instead of other protagonists (Yusei) just winning all the time for no reason. He doesn't have an official loss the entire series except for a flashback, and the one time he would have lost against Kalin in season 2 it's interrupted when he crashes his bike and so no winner is declared, hence why he isn't swallowed by the shadows.
I mean joey did win his red eye back right from Yugi
@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD No he didn't. Joey has never beaten Atem by the end of the series. If he had he would be the King of Games.
@MrEffectfilms 1st off who knows if he battle atem or only Yugi, and I don't see Joey talking back his red eyes without winning it
I have one rush duel is actually good you're just stupid to realize it
I liked Sevens but go rush was just too absurd. Sevens was quirky too but go rush just took it to far.
I hated yubel since she reminded me of someones fanfiction oc couple
I am not sure if this is an Hot Take, but I think the 5d manga is terrible the plot of yusei trying to save his little friend was boring and the way it treated leo, luna and akiza was disrespectful and while Akiza was treated a bit better at the start of the manga the fact that it made her lose to Yusei little friend was just stupid and Leo and Luna were given this big tragic backstory in the manga, though the manga writer did nothing with them other then treating their role in the manga as a joke and the fact that yusei friend is given an upgrade to his Duel dragon over Leo , luna and Akiza was just stupid since they deserve an upgrade to their duel dragons a lot more
@@doctormayuri2582 i mean Aki was treated horribly in the anime as well. Like her only notable 1v1 win in the second half is against the biggest jobber of the anime. She always sucked, sadly.
@@terencebc well I guess that is more or less true, but at least in the anime she still was treated like an good powerful duellist and while she did not get much screen time in the second half of 5d, in the first half she was able to show how good she was and threating her psychic powers were so she is treated a bit better in the anime and it was more the writers incompetence that end up wasting akiza potential in the anime rather than akiza sucking, though as for the manga the reason its more insulting then anything that was done to her in the anime is the manga writer at least had a chance to do something good with akiza character to try and make up for how she was wasted in the anime, but they don't and the writer did less with her character in the manga and it make akiza lose to this nothing manga character Sect and the only thing his got going for him is his yusei best friend in the manga so Akiza not even losing to an good character since she losing to this empty shell of an character that is used more as a tool to set up the manga storyline and the only reason he was able to beat Akiza in that duel is because Goodwin rig the duel so Sect will win and the fact Sect was given an upgrade for his dragon, when it would of been better for akiza, leo and luna to get an upgrade for their duel dragons and it just feel really insulting that an nothing character like Sect was able to get treated better then akiza,leo and luna, so the point is even if akiza, leo and luna were not treat that good in the anime, the manga is not much better since it treated them a lot worse than the anime ever did and I don't think you can even compare the awful way the manga treated them to how the anime treated them
@@doctormayuri2582 i never understood the “writers did her dirty, not the characters fault”. Yeah so does the manga, everything is always the writer’s fault, which result in the character having horrible portrayal.
Like, sorry but even in the first half, her only good win is against the Dark Signer girl, and even that storyline was flawed. Aki really isn’t anything impressive, she jobbered against Yusei twice and really doesn’t do anything. The only characters that had decent treatment in 5ds is Gary Stu Yusei, Jack & Crow.
Yeah not saying manga Aki is better, she may as well be worse, but anime Aki was also trash.
Imo even if they agree non politely, you should let em comment, it helps you out it in the algorithm
Arc v action duels were innovative but they ruined zarc aka the final boss
Wow imagine a world without synchro monsters
Cool, can't wait to link summon appolousa, dagda and verte to cheat fusion dpe pop scythe to stop the opponent from playing
Imagine a world without Link monsters. Like dude how many of those are you going to toss in other to link it up with another card you spent half the 30 minutes turn linking to it?
yes its a card game and thats why its called an anime
Heart of the cards
10:41 link is synchro but simplified to not require a tuner
Links broke the game but not in a good way
... arc v ending was both rushed
Wym both?
@MysticFactorG-ODO i was going to say frustrating and didn't make sense but then I did something else and forgot
That's what happens when you take most of the crew off it to work on a movie. 😞
Here's mine.
Summoned Skull should have stayed Yugi's Ace.
Dark Magician Girl could be replaced by something like Archfiend Heiress instead.
At least he used it during the ceremonial duel.
Does anyone want to throw down in the master duel?
My fellings about gx is that it dosen't take it's world seriously
Duel monsters atelast pretends that it is grounded in season 0 like setting or something losely resambling real world
Cards are fasade for world threating stakes rather than solution followed by shadow games
If yougioh gx would focus on it it would smack insteed of being silly goofy as it is
Also yugi still cheats becouse this is what hearth of the cards of yami isXD
I think there was canonical confirmation
2:25 this just seems like an arbitrary point. They're still using dark magic and lethal challenges. Why does it matter that the medium is card games? Take away the game aspects and put them in a fantasy world like Falsebound Kingdom, is it measurably different? No.
3:03 most anime characters would be low tier duelist because these people SUCK at this game
10:36 rituals wouldn't have fit thematically in 5Ds
Banning OSS was dumb
Honda kinda mattered in Death T
Yeah but we didn't really get Deaths T.
@diegomedina9637 read the manga or watch the Toei series
@@alphamarigi We're talking about the Anime here which means the Manga doesn't matter to the conversation at all, and we never got Season 0 outside of Japan so it doesn't really count either.
Diego, my person, this is "Yu-gi-oh hot takes", not "Yu-gi-oh anime hot takes" and saying only 4Kids anime counts is silly when GX Season 4 is literally in the video.
thanks king
Video would've been way better without a cut or meme scene each second. I appreciate the work but there's too much going on visually, to the point I just stopped watching and listened instead. Not trying to be mean or anything just some critique here.
Fair enough, but it's mostly to ensure I don't get copyrighted for using the background footage, trust me it would be way easier for me if I didn't have to get all those memes 😅
@ Is it that strict? Thought its ok to show stuff for alme seconds. Anyway, hope I didn't came off as rude. Liked the video but my eyes are a bit sensitive to fast changing pictures so I noticed that.
@makenaiyomi1083 No hard feelings dude, and I'll try to be more considerate in the future 👍
Yall gonna hate me for this but i hate the hyperdrive intro its just pure cringe
You're right you deserve the hate
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD yeah I know that's the only thing I'm useful for
I think with the first one I agree because Yubel and Sartorius could’ve absolutely still been in the show and kept the same general premise while sticking with the original theme and we can just kick darkness out.
And my hot take is that Arc-V was the best series easily
You want a hot take? The Waking the Dragons arc sucks! I know they had to come out with different forms for Yugi and Atem to loose without actually loosing but that Duel with Rafael was just bad. Its like they literally flipped the characters and Rafael was the main character while Yugi and Atem were just the random duelist of the week the main character had to beat... Speaking of Rafael!
Rafael: I'm back! The pharaoh saved me from my darkness!
Dartz: No he didn't!
Rafael: I guess he didn't. Understandable, have a good day everybody! *Gets taken by the seal out of nowhere*
Everyone's posting their hot takes, so here's some of mine.
- I want the mythological elements back in the franchise. I honestly do not care for any series past 5Ds, because they lack them. Nor do I have any inkling to check them out.
- One of the writing problems with at least the original three series is that they suffered from character bloat. Instead of writing useless characters out of the series or killing them off, they kept them around to be the cheer squad. I think that factor alone could explain why characters like Alexis didn't get enough moments to shine. The writers couldn't flesh them all out. GX was the worst for this. (Though, to be fair, a lot of shonen anime from the 90s and 2000s were like this as well.)
- Connecting to the above point, but Tristan and Tea should've gotten the Miho treatment and should've not been added in the first place. They do next to nothing in the DM era and don't connect to the ancient Egypt shit, so why have them tag along all the time? Duke should've left after his mini arc was done as well.
- I think there should've been modern versions of Mana, Mahad and Kisara in modern times. They would've contributed to the plot more and tie back into the bigger picture better.
Crow is a way batter character than Akiza ever was
She's only popular because she's hot. 🤷♂️
Crow the forgettable replacement signer, izayoi aki has more character development then most yugioh characters this includes crow hes shows up out of nowhere and is very useless
@ Crow had better bacstory, development and was important throughout the whole show unlike Akiza, plus Blackwings are cool as fuck. Akiza is just too edgy for my taste
@tvojamama4888 edgy? I dont think u know the definition of edgy, aki was doing all that she did for a reason, was it a good reason no but to her it was. I will say that after the first part she becomes a cheerleader again and doesnt get anymore idk why did that to her cause she is the most interesting female yugioh character.
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Both are flawed. Crow should have been a natural inclusion(Rather than being nowhere until he is awkwardly retconned in and then being forced into the signer roles when his point in the show was showing that it does NOT require a chosen one to win against the darkness) and Aki should not have been dropped like a rock the first chance the series got.
1:35 *Slowly puts away gun and vanishes into the shadows*
1:45 It would be, but it's realistically never going to happen. I can basically see the outline of an extended Toei anime remake(Almost all of its mainplot was made up/majorly rewritten and never in the manga as-is, which is why I think it is a good basis for a what-if that majorly deviates from the source material even more than DM) form, especially the theoretical context of the ceremonial game.
The concept argubly even has potential to go beyond the classic era because I see the hook in some of the originally Master Duel sequels. For example 5DS is basically made for it with the whole "motorbike illegal games" basis that some of the series tackles already, GX could have a diffrent take on the whole "Judai has hidden darkness to him" angle and Vrains has the whole undercover hacker idea to it. Can't get a pulse on what the basic entrypoint for a "diffrent and more conventially dark" rewrite for Zexal or ArcV could be tho, maybe someone can help me out there.
2:54 Yami is a rules lawyer, not a cheater. It is still amazing how people keep bringing up the dragon flute when that was Seto reading his own card wrong in the original japanese manga(Players messing up the rulings is canonical, yes) and both Studio Gallop aswell as the Viz manga localization messed it up by drawing the OCG/TCG effect onto the thing. If Yami's move was illegal and the dueling system let it pass accidentially, Seto could have just DQ'ed him for cheating on the spot, it was his tournament.
3:53 She really was wasted that much, huh? And it still stings that they decided to ruin the perfect ending to her brother's personal arc literally after they already showed us said perfect ending.(I still hate Season 4)
5:37 I gave it a chance and slid off its surface because it couldn't commit to stakes in any of the episodes I watched besides the first one(Which is a good episode). And no, "stakes" does not mean anything life threatening or world ending, it can also mean that if they are dueling for who gets the gum is actually the only one getting the gum(I for some reason really like the gum-example when explaining my issue with how Sevens' early episodes lacked conflict which leads to people not continuing). The way Sevens was written, either nobody got the gum or everyone got the gum with barely anything missed if one skipped the duel itself. I actually really like Rush dueling, but I know that the day I return to the anime(I just have that weird feeling that I eventually will, if only to have eventually watched all animated YGO content) will not be a fun one.
7:06 Season 4 did suck(It had good moments, but overall it's a miss), but I will never understand the second take personally, especially because it is generally not thrown against BBT when it essencially does the same thing, just in a coop duel rather than a 1v1. In-narrative, it does no damage because it takes place before said duel(Maybe, kinda. It is weird, there is a reason why dream theory is a thing. Judai even notes that his arrival stopped time for some reason, which is so incredibly random and never really explained). Out of narrative, idk why it is supposed to be damaging because the thematic of the story of letting go of the past never extended to the viewer in that way. Heck, I can see why people go against DSoD for this, but why GX Season 4?
8:00 I wouldn't say Yusei "lost his value as a character", but whoever wrote this is 110% spot on. They took the "king of games never loses!" from the original manga way too literally with him(The manga didn't even take it that literally with Yami. He still timed out against Pegasus and lost to Yugi). He was only allowed to "officially lose" in flashbacks, which is meh and the one time he did actually lose, it was seemingly not put on his record because his runner broke. (The runner breaking is an entirely fine out because otherwise he would have been dragged to literal heck, but it still should have been treated as a loss proper, possibly similar to how Yami's loss in DM Season 4 was handled. Heck, many people pointed out that ANY reasonable competitive sport *will* actually count such a thing against your record because it was your responsibility that your equipment is working) And unlike Yusaku, the plot doesn't even justify him because there are some duels where he not only would have been fine and dandy with a loss, but the plot actually would have worked better with one.
10:37 I still think Links do not fit into the design space of the other "new mechanics". Like, if you think about it, every added major mechanic after Fusion interacted with levels in some new way...but Links don't, they instead created a completely new "Link counter" and don't care about Levels besides being a possible secondary condition for the summon. And heck, they got me, I personally cannot think of any way to redesign Links without stealing stuff from the other post-fusion extra deck card types. The designspace is completed as far as I can tell, we just didn't need a new card type after Pendulum(We didn't even need Pendulum, but at least they fit into how the game had been evolved since the addition of Rituals and Tributes).
I only care about the 1st 4 shows
Hell ya my boy yusei dont need to lose no duels any other main protagonists that lost a duel is a lame honestly he my favorite protagonists because his personality but also because he didn't lose inhad enough of jaden losing that i didn't like my protagonists losing really in yugioh anyways i don't care what you say i dont like a protagonists that keep losing thats really why i didn't like gx he lost way to much
hot take: zexal has 2nd best plot and arc v has THE BEST plot and jaiden is better as a fun loving teen than edgy adult
So glad you said this! I'm so tired of people saying yugi was cheating! Damn that crap burns me up!
Hmm…
Well it's not like everyone else wasn't doing it. 🤷♂️