Alexis was at her best in the first part of season 1 when she was the only Obelisk who was actually nice to Jaden and his friends. It made her unique and gave her a lot of screen time as a member of Jaden's core friend group. But as time went on and Jaden got more friends, Alexis quite literally just became another face on the sidelines. That shift happened by the second half of season 1 and she didn't recover since. I will also say however that I can see why there was an idea for pairing Jaden and Alexis as the dub makes is pretty clear she has feelings for him. She's always dropping hints she likes him or shows that she's jealous. A confession seemed the like the natural evolution of her feelings for him.
Yeah I loved her early on. Especially with her being kind to Jaden and his band of misfits. It made her feel more unique than other Obelisk Blues. I guess for me compared to other Yugioh ships, it feels super underdevloped.
Ah Alexis, a childhood crush. But in seriousness after Season 2 she got sidelined hard as nothing but “the girl of the group.” GX had a problem of a large cast with too little roles, it didn’t help that almost 80-90% of the episodes always featured Jaden dueling. I also felt the setting didn’t help, small island with a school focusing on a big ass cast, lot of potential back and forth its how they constantly introduced one-off characters just too make it feel like a populated school. I love GX (and still have a bit of crush on Alexis) but as i grew up it became one my heavily criticized series for potential not being handled well.
And the crazy thing is, I still love GX. Even if underutilized, the cast at least felt likable and it had some strong storytelling in moments. But good god, it could’ve been so much better.
Then the same is repeated in Arc-V, atleast the GX manga is interesting and has thickened plot despite its short chapters and last ch is kinda hanging yet fit to end the manga. For arc-V girls... yeah they eithwr dead/become ghost in the anime (spoiler), and the manga... goes alabama lolz
I know yugioh has a lot of underutilized characters (females especially) but her and Akiza from 5ds really got the shaft. Because they were hyped as strong duelists. I love Blackwings, but Crow as a character left a lot to be desired. And it doesn't help his case how he took Akiza's place and much needed screen time. And Alexis was supposed to be the one to save her brother from Nightshroud.
I really like how simple Crow felt, but even I thought it was weird how he took over for Akiza. At least she got some love in the tournament...sort of...
The frustrating thing is that after the first two series you could tell that the people who created the characters wanted to include girls and women with agency (except for Zexal). Aki, Luna, Yuzu, and Blue Angel all have the foundations to be interesting characters with strong character arcs. The people responsible for writing the stories that featured those female characters (Shin Yoshida and Katsuki Ono) just didn’t want to write about female characters who took part in the action. In the early going, 5D’s and Arc-V had series composers without weird hangups about women, and Aki and Yuzu both reflect that in their character arcs and dueling prowess (Luna still got screwed. There was a story there in Luna being a former prodigy who abandoned dueling by the time the Dark Signers roll into town, and who has to come to terms with both dueling and what must be a complicated relationship with her Signer Dragon.) Aki and Yuzu going from strong characters to nonentities is an active decision, not something that occurs through neglect. Later in the first season of 5D’s, after Ono and Yoshida are at the helm, there’s a two-part episode that speedruns Aki’s character arc. Plot elements that would have worked far better if they had been spread out over a season or two are crammed into a two-parter. The Arcadia Movement subplot and the existence of psychic duelists is dropped (and it had nothing to do with Carly’s voice actor being in a cult; the timing doesn’t match up). Yuzu goes from being a skilled duelist to running from Yuri in fear and then never dueling again. It really seems to me that the people who create the premises of these shows and create the characters for them aren’t the same people who actually tell the stories.
Alexis deserves more she should have been given the same arc in the Manga that would have made her an instant fan favourite Her arc should have been similar to Suki's from Avatar the last Airbender
@@animeegotists7527 Next time you do these kind of vids you should show the differences between the anime and Manga so that we can see what makes them tick
@@haileyharmon5298 Me too she's the perfect balance between warrior and femininity all the while being an awesome girlfriend to Sokka! Healing his heart from the break he had with Yue
Gx has a problem with character maintenance, like for real, in season 3 they added 6 new characters as if there wasn't enough and sadly those newly added characters got more spotlight than Jaden's crew just to some of then never being seen or doing anything too relevant
@@animeegotists7527 for real, I honestly feel they wanted to replace them with those characters but even then in season 4 Jesse was the only one who sticked truly
Alexis really suffers from the Yugioh lack of female character growth that has generally plagued the series with the exception of 5Ds. People like Tea or Rebecca that came before Alexis or Yuzu that came after really had little growth to their characters past like 1 story arc. Heck even Mai suffered a catastrophic character assassination post Battle City and I feel like its such a shame
And even in 5DS, Akiza suffered in season 2, though that’s due to how the turbo duels became 3v3 rather than just being completely forgotten, and even then, in her final duel, she helped Crow come to his senses
@@animeegotists7527They never showed her winning a duel in the manga outside of her beating Rex Raptor for his room on the ship, which we also didn't see. How is that great?
I like Alexis she’s not an especially complex character of the gx cast but she adds a lot to it. She’s like the responsible one so I get why people find her boring but I won’t accept people saying she has no distinguishable personality traits. Sure she was in a lot of plots about guys throwing themselves at her but she clearly was never interested in that stuff and at the very least she was never good duelist forced to be a damsel in distress by the plot. My only problem with Alexis is that she really just doesn’t duel enough in the show (a problem all yugioh girl characters share). She is shown to be competent and can beat even pro duelists in the show with a very analytical approach to dueling but none of her wins really have any plot relevance. Even chazz in s2 was given a bone by beating everyone in the gx tournament. I get that s3 was really focused on the transfer students and s4 is just short but I wish she had more prominent duels. For example an episode focusing around her and crower about being teacher would have done a lot for both characters. Nevertheless she’s still justifiably so one of the most beloved female yugioh protagonist just because she’s damn competent even if it’s just bc the bar is pretty low for yugioh
I still find a lot about her to be likable, I just wish she was written better. Something with Crowler giving her advice on teaching could’ve been excellent for her!
In all honesty, Alexis Rhodes aka Asuka Tenjoin just suffered from her character being underdeveloped. As a duelist, Alexis started off more on par with Jaden and Chazz, and was even given a decent amount of duels and wins, but after season 2, she didn't have that many duels. She didn't even have an on screen duel in season 3 and her last on screen duel was a tag duel with Jaden in season 4. I still think she was a decent duelist throughout GX. I like how Alexis was not an elitist despite being an Obelisk blue student. She was nice to her friends and brother, despite sometimes being annoyed by them. The only time she became elitist was when she was brainwashed, but when she was freed, she returned to her original self. I honestly like Alexis and don't think she was a bad character, just mishandled.
That last sentence is a good way of putting it. While I don't think she had the potential of Bastion or Chazz if they had been handled right, she was still someone who had some good upside.
I can't believe that it took until SEVENS before they came up with a female lead that was properly written and one that lasted till the end. All the other series had some girls that showed promise, only to end up falling from grace as the story went on. Alexis never amounted to anything. Akiza became a bench warmer in the later seasons, and don't even started on Yuzu.
Are we ever going to get a Cyrus version of this. I mean he got the most character development in GX From Slifer red to raw yellow and then finally Obelisk blue and then surpassing his legendary brother Zane and inheriting his cyberdark deck and combines it to make a mix hybrid deck between cyber / roids
What's even more infuriating is they brought back an alternate version of her (who was practically the same character) in Arc-V only for her to Duel once, then 20 episodes later, lose and disappear from the show. I'm not sure why they hate her so much as a character. She's one of the few that use Ritual Monsters and I hope that we can get a proper mix of Fusion and Ritual monsters for her Cyber Ladies.
Honestly I think GX tried to hard to be a High School drama with dueling. Every episode we get a Duel of the Week if you will. Eventually there was too many characters to keep track of. The only other girl we see is Blair and she gets half a few episodes in season 2 after her Season 1 appearance. Alexis had so many great and memorable duels but her only biggest Duel comes from A Reason to Win. Everything else was minor which sucks
If a GX sequel season or movie came out what would you like it to contain? Personally for me it would probably be a reunion of the main characters (Chazz, Syrus, Alexis, Jaden etc.) too see how they are now. Personally I would love too see Alexis and Jaden together if a sequel came, but its only so I feel happy lol. But I do understand your reasoning as to why you don't ship them.
Short answer: yes, she deserved more. I wanna start saying that she had to duel Aster before Jaden's arrival. I'm okay with she losing that duel, there's no shame on losing against Aster, and that could have served to make it clear her strong will and commitment with the group and the academy, and not just having the intention. And just having a duel with Aster would have been an epic duel. And now that you mention, yeah is cringey that her plots and duels are dirven by romantic intentions. She avoided the stereotype of the damsel in distress, but she didn't avoided the stereotype of "she is a woman, so she has to have suitors" 🙄 (see, a duel with Aster would have helped to break this stereotype). It would have been great that her friends had a better personality. Alexis is smart, why was she with those shallow girls? Just because they are girls? Even if they weren't part of the main cast, they could have showed some personality to contribute to her development. And I'm okay with Jaden breaking the brainwash instead of Chazz (Chazz it up!!!), losing two times straight against him would have been terrible for her image. And Jaden also had to go and free Bastion, but at that point nobody cared about him 😞
You know that's actually a good point! Her friends (Mindy and Jasmine) are so different from her, that I can't really see why they're friends with her. Some type of explanation could've been kind of interesting for her.
At least we can assume Alexis would have just shut Harrington down if he did actually try to say he was her fiancee because she did with Chazz... And she already showed interest in Jaden in either version, just outright called him an idiot for not knowing what it means in Japanese.
Watching this stated about Alexis/Asuka makes me only realize that the writers tried to do something with her but the pacing was so off (especially in season 4) that they hardly developed anything about her. I mean she is an Obelisk Blue Girl who are not just in there because of their parents but because of their dueling skills and it was mainly lack-luster for her specifically. I mean the only thing I found so weird in this school how (outside of TagForce) there are zero girls in Slifer, hardly a girl in Ra Yellow and the majority of girls in Obelisk Blue makes me just think that all of the girls are just in there because of their parents money (and possibly grades) As for Bastion, he was even more lack-luster but was side-lined fairly fast as Jaden/Judai defeated him in that one duel they had. (On a side not and this is irrelevant to the video but Jaden would totally get along with Deku, both are Super Hero Fan boys lmao)
Yeah, she never really felt like someone who had a reason to develop. She just sort of existed at points. (I can definitely see it, but I think Deku reacting to Jaden's slang could be hilarious.)
@@animeegotists7527 I mean I can understand that she is a supporting character but she wasn´t even supporting Judai all that much as Anzu supported Yugi. I mean sure she´s an Obelisk Blue but she was never bratty and when Judai was lured into the Obelisk Blue Dorm to save Sho, she wouldn´t have said anything regardless if she would have won against him. She simply wanted to duel him and see the skills for herself. After her brother got rescued she sort of got side-lined hard
Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds did have Akiza Izinski, but they dropped the ball with her in season 3. Alexis had the worst drop off in the Franchise, Tea only dueled three times, Tori only dueled once, Zuzu became a danzel after her duel with Surgay and Aoi only won against one-off duelists. Romin was the only great one thoughout her series.
Sham; Ever since Evil has begun attacking the academy, Alexis has been sitting on the sidelines, let Jaden do all for and not even bother to step up for anyone else in a duel except her brother and herself
@@animeegotists7527 And she doesn't belong with Jaden, Jaden belongs with Yubel. You've seen Alexis around Jaden; No courage to say how she feels about him, too ashamed to except the fact that she lost to him and has not saved Jaden's life in a duel unlike Jaden
Just like another amazing and super powerful female duelist akiza she was amazing during the first season but in the second she kinda started to fall down but atleast the whole yusei and akiza ship was amazing they had alot of scenes together alexis actually had alot of potential but well its yugioh but alexis is my second best female character in the show akiza being first
Don't worry guys whyle your Heroes, Cyber Dragons and Crystal Beast will only be meta for the duration of the show my Benten will be played in every ritual deck ever
Interesting video, was never really a yuh gi oh kid growing up only ever "watched" it when my cousin held the TV hostage. Interesting video nonetheless.
How Alexis should have been: Be the one who saved Atticus from Darkness, proving she indeed worthy of the Keys. There was no reason at all for Jaden to do it. Alex did start this B plot after all. It even tied into the A plot with the Shadow Riders, so why not?! No weird, repetitive crush stories. It almost ruined Chazz after all. Have her fend off some Shadow Riders instead, again it would prove her worth as a Key Bearer. Under Sartorius, why couldn't she have been an enforcer to Sartorius and subjugate people into the Society? So that with her. It would have made Jaden saving her a lot better. Problem solved
@@animeegotists7527 That always pissed me off whenever I think about Shadow Riders. Freaking Chumly does better than her and he even got a job as a card designer by Pegasus himself!
10:15 TBH I like Atticus but if we could get him banned from singing for life....my ears would be eternally grateful. Good video by the way, Anime Egotists because each point feels on the mark(Except for Atticus Singing).
Alexis is, like most of the female characters in Yu-gi-oh!, pretty mishandled. In one of my own works, Re-GX, when I got to adapting the Society of Light Arc, I actually gave Alexis a reason to be doubting herself at the time, had a character (adapted version of Reggie MacKenzie) poke at that insecurity for the earliest chapters of Part 2 ultimately leading to her brainwashing...and even then, she would be resisting or questioning the Light, even giving the guy that ultimately rescued her the card he needed to win with the last of her willpower before the Light took total control. ...and in my Part 3, she actually gets to duel. Automatic upgrade!
What was the point of even making her get brainwashed just like in the anime? I tried reading your story, but your OC Karyu kind of felt like a block of wood, no offense, and I never saw any chemistry between him and Alexis. It sort of came off more like subtle self-insert wish-fulfillment thing and not a genuine relationship. And then you just turned into another dime-a-dozen Aster hater author. Bringing him back for season three just for the purpose of your OC to hand his butt to him in a duel was what finally made me quit the fic.
To be fair, Aster is pretty hard to handle, from a writing perspective, and I wasn't originally going to bring him back for Part 3 at all. After Season 2, he doesn't really have a function in the GX Story as Chazz is Jaden's rival, Zane is still presented as the guy he's got to surpass and Jesse takes the "guy as good as Jaden" slot. Although, had he not challenged Sartorius early, he would've definitely faced Jaden again in the GENEX Semi-Finals (and given Jaden bricked that hand, would likely have won too).@@raina1848
@Consaibot1 He didn't do anything except his canon stuff in season two, and he just ended up as a damsel in distress again for another fic with being turned into a statue and having to wait for Jaden to save him... It would have been better if he at least got to defeat Sartorius since he didn't even really get a chance to shine in Genex. Also, I do not understand why the story was tagged AsterxOC. I never saw him with anyone.
14:16 I want to be his partner in a duel, I'm a dinosaur duelist too(Dinomist too) and I love Hasselberry! Dino DNA is a bit silly but he's my second favourite GX character(With Axel Brodie being number 1 because he has the duel disc I want and his Japanese name is Austin O'Brien, so like Elliot Craig from Trails of Cold steel....gotta give love to characters who are distant family members).
I can see they try to put Alexis as role model for feminism, Alexis loves dueling like Jaden and try to be the best girl duelists in the world and showed the "girls power" and yeah at the end of season it's look like nothing interesting about her anymore..
i Like Alexix but She was only really good in S1 and even then only after the Start of the first Arc really Started to Shine for one Episode with titan. She Also falls into the trope when every boy Especially Chazz falls for her Which make her a ibt Shallow in my eyes. She is a Decent Character but i wish She would be involved after the Second Season and in the third Season She didn't have the Same impact tho.
Yea...sadly, this isn't the first time a female Yugioh character gets screwed over. Akzia despite being the best female character in Yugioh...got shafted hard in Season 2, Carly is just like Akzia but even worse, Aoi is an interesting idea who never got explored and lost despite using Trickstars, Alexis as you said earlier, and let's not forgot the Bracelet Girls who despite being important to the plot and story got shafted so hard that they disappeared entirely...so yea Yugioh has a horrible track record of female characters as they love to screw them out their development or whatever.
I think sub alexis is a lot nicer and more compelling (and consistent), and i feel her character had a lot of potential that got completely shafted (like many other gx characters) by gx's obsession with judai being the only character that matters
@animeegotists7527 definitely Honestly i think the gap between a character's potential and their actual accomplishments in the story is bigger for alexis than any other yugioh character aside from bastion
Yeah. I hate to say it, but dub Alexis was kind of more like, shall we say, a B with an itch. The only difference is that compared other characters who got the same kind of dub "makeover" (eg. Aster and Zane), she's usually forgiven for it just because she's a pretty girl.
Honestly, I used to like Alexis in the first two seasons but in later seasons to me? Her character went down the drain and I did not vibe with how she treated Jaden in later seasons, especially during the tag-duel and when she invaded his space to take pictures. And the stuff she said in the Dark World, that's when I said, "No ma'am, no ma'am, I don't vibe with you much." Sure, Jaden's not perfect but leave him the Hell alone, Alexis, give him space. Also, I think her manga counterpart is a lot better as a character. Granted, she doesn't have the best track record, but her deck and character were cooler there.
She really suffered towards the end of the series. At least early on she was likable to some extent, but in season four in particular, she kind of lost that.
@@animeegotists7527 that's exactly my point man. Alexis was actually okay in the beginning well the English version of her cuz she was mostly kind compassionate especially towards jaden and even was fascinated by his slang talk and his love for dueling which what she loves about him especially her feelings for Jaden is strongly hinted in english. I even like their duel in English the first one cuz her and her friends well mainly jasmine were talking about jaden and assume he was mean but alexis was already taking a liking to him to jasmine surprise then mindy agrees along with jasmine and how alexis wanted to duel him to see how good jaden is and the two were constantly flirting with each other. Their second duel was okay but mainly the Japanese version but I just love how Jaden roasted alexis while she was in the society of light. She even worries about him like during the tag trial duel, and his duel against the shadow riders like grave keeper nightshroud who was her brother, camula, tiana even though her intentions didn't seem threating same with the pharaoh, kagemaru ect. She even acknowledges him how he's always there to save his friends in one of the episodes in season 3. The main reason why I love her and she's my favorite well that version of her but season 4, became her downfall she was a complete douchebag to jaden even when he was ignoring her and her set cards she set down for him but tbf she deserves it even if Jaden ignoring her did seemed rude and him working well with blair made alexis very jealous but eventually it worked out at the end but alexis in Japanese is completely tsundere like very rude to him and to everyone else which makes me hates her or strongly dislike her. She briefly only show her compassion for jaden and her friends in season 2 and that's it. Speaking of season 2 during the society of light alexis was so intend to lure or bring jaden to society of light either A for him to see the light or B for him to be with her idk but mainly because alexis mentioned to chazz an idea to lure jaden to society of light when bob wanted to duel Jaden to impress alexis but ultimately failed cuz it's jaden obviously. He never loses to characters who appears in one episode. So yeah mixed feelings while she was alright in English she was at her worst in Japanese. If only she as well as bastion deserves better character development like jaden and chazz did rather her being a target for simp men who simps for her
I really hate that her development i season 4 boils down to love intrest even though they have no chemistry. Jaden has more chemistry with chazz then he does with alexis 🗿
15:30 I think it's a BIT unfair to use the dub version of Alexis to pass remarks about how Alexis acts in Season 4, which is the sub version. Remember, the sub and dub versions are very different from how Alexis treats others as you yourself pointed out. So you can't use the dub to talk about sub Alexis.
Asuka/Alexis was their first time trying to make the female lead actually be a serious duelist (as opposed to Anzu/Tea before her, who really only dueled when she had to and wasn't into the game competively). And for that reason, I believe they didn’t really plan much else for her aside from the concept itself, and then even that went downhill when they didn’t know any ways to give her dueling more opportunity without taking away from the rapidly-becoming Judai/Jaden Show GX became. It’s like what happened to Edo/Aster Phoenix post-season two, but multiplied even more since they ran out of juice even earlier for Asuka. One of the biggest mistakes was season four with how they had to link her plot with Judai's, making it more about him and his own problems instead. It could've been so much better for her character if they made her realize she wanted to get into teaching on her own and start doing more by herself for it like taking an internship, along with her having her own duel. But instead, it all came back to the Judai Show and watering it down for a crappy main boy x main girl "romance".
@animeegotists7527 When you think about it, Judai is unnecessarily added into a lot of the season four arcs. He's in the Manjoume thing because heaven forbid we even have Edo be a capable enough character anymore to at least solve his own problem of Destiny End Dragoon getting stolen for him to get blackmailed. Nope, they had to make him have to rely on Judai again to save day. And Judai is there in the whole Sho and Ryo plot...just because? Also, we need Judai to duel and defeat Saio again...why? And then Yusuke is Fubuki and Ryo's best friend, but that apparently meant nothing with the latter being being completely disregarded in that equation, because we need to have Judai and Johan be the ones to defeat him (well, just Judai ultimately, because apparently, them winning together would take away too much of Judai's precious relevance) even though it would have been perfectly fine for Judai to just have his duel against the real final villain only. I do not understand why people think season four is so good for this very real flaw.
I always saw Alexis as a sham and never liked her character much. When I first watched the series as a kid, to me it seemed to me that Alexis barely did anything, not even resolve her own storyline with her brother. Jaden had resolved that for her. Even though she was supposed to be the ‘queen of Obelisk.’ and best of the girl duellist of the school. I thought that Alexis being the ‘Obelisk queen’ was a load of rubbish. As all girls are placed in Obelisk. No matter their skill level, including her two shallow friends, that were confirmed to be terrible duellists. Yet they got into the best dorm an didn't have to worry or struggle, just go gaga over boys. I kept hoping Alexis would be the good character. We were told she was but, the show never showed it. An my naïve mind didn’t know the trend of Yu-Gi-Oh! treating its female characters poorly at the time, so I just got let down by Alexis. When there was a potential storyline for Alexis. She for some reason wanted to be a teacher, and her shallow friends, weren’t taking their duelling seriously. Imagine a storyline with an episode. Where the school decides to stop being unfair to its students. Female students would no longer receive special treatment by automatically being placed in the blue dorm. Instead, they would have to go into Ra and Slifer, Struggle, deal with dorm colours bullying, and earn their way up, just like all the male students. Some girls might flunk out, struggle, or even be kicked out of school, even resenting the loss of their luxuries. In this scenario, Alexis’s two friends turn to her for help in improving their skills. As they start taking their studies and duelling seriously, Alexis discovers her love for teaching. This could have added a reason for her friends to even exist, add depth to Alexis's character. But we got what we got with Alexis, and other then a cool deck, she was a very bland character the writers didn't know what to do with.
@@animeegotists7527 According to the wiki. It's because theres only a 20% population of female students, and very few girls apply to the academy to begin with. So they didn't bother to build Female Slifer or Ra dorms to accommodate them and just stuck all the girls together in Obelisk. But that makes even less sense that they all should be automatically ranked be in obelisk blue; when they could have divided the floors of the girl's dorm to represent Ra, Slifer and Obelisk in skill level if it had to be in one building. But it probably goes with the whole trend of Yu gi oh not caring for female characters. Thanks for the analysis video of the Gx characters they've been really good. I was wondering if you were going to do a Syrus Truesdale video eventually? There's absolutely no analysis videos of him out there on RUclips compared to Zane, Aster, Jaden etc. An I'd love to see his character finally be given an analysis that isn't just about his deck.
@@animeegotists7527 Can't wait to watch! There's so many GX characters that get over looked compared to Zane, Jaden and Chazz. I'm really looking forward to a Syrus Truesdale video when you get to him. Despite his flaws. He's very underrated in my opinion and he really isn't talked about enough.
I’ll admit it I’m into blondes, but goddam she’s weak, very weak she’ll barely be a threat to my weakest TOON DECK. Akisa is the best one of them all since well she’s got it all, looks, personality and kinda decent skill.
Kinda sus that all the females automatically go to obelisk even if there bad. But for a guy you either need to go to a prep school before hand or wait a year
Well, my OC Yuka A is better-written unlike Alexis. And she has the same treatment as Nami and Rukia K. She was a coward damsel-in-distress at first, before becoming a girly bruiser.
Your OC is just another Mary Sue self-insert you project yourself on since you have pretty much shown you don't understand the characters at all in a lot of your comments on GX videos and are very socially immature.
Si tu gran nuevo personaje de yugioh parece una versión femenina de Johan y judai que es Yuka a igual que Jesse está ahí para el como Jesse me encantaría ver cómo Yuka usa las Crystal beats sería una gran versión femenina de Jaden y Jesse con algo de Romina kirishima
yeah that's the problem with large character cast, most of them don't get enough scree time
You’d think they’d learn from this mistake, but nope.
@@animeegotists7527cof cof Arc V
Alexis was at her best in the first part of season 1 when she was the only Obelisk who was actually nice to Jaden and his friends. It made her unique and gave her a lot of screen time as a member of Jaden's core friend group.
But as time went on and Jaden got more friends, Alexis quite literally just became another face on the sidelines. That shift happened by the second half of season 1 and she didn't recover since.
I will also say however that I can see why there was an idea for pairing Jaden and Alexis as the dub makes is pretty clear she has feelings for him. She's always dropping hints she likes him or shows that she's jealous. A confession seemed the like the natural evolution of her feelings for him.
Yeah I loved her early on. Especially with her being kind to Jaden and his band of misfits. It made her feel more unique than other Obelisk Blues.
I guess for me compared to other Yugioh ships, it feels super underdevloped.
That “crush” thing between them was only in the dub for some weird reason. In the original Japanese version, that is completely nonexistent.
It honestly feels weird, her arc of finding her brother concluded and they didn't knew what step to take next
Ah Alexis, a childhood crush. But in seriousness after Season 2 she got sidelined hard as nothing but “the girl of the group.” GX had a problem of a large cast with too little roles, it didn’t help that almost 80-90% of the episodes always featured Jaden dueling. I also felt the setting didn’t help, small island with a school focusing on a big ass cast, lot of potential back and forth its how they constantly introduced one-off characters just too make it feel like a populated school.
I love GX (and still have a bit of crush on Alexis) but as i grew up it became one my heavily criticized series for potential not being handled well.
And the crazy thing is, I still love GX. Even if underutilized, the cast at least felt likable and it had some strong storytelling in moments.
But good god, it could’ve been so much better.
She is a lot better in the manga at least. And you're not alone dude. I'm an Alexis stan for life. And will be until I die.
Then the same is repeated in Arc-V, atleast the GX manga is interesting and has thickened plot despite its short chapters and last ch is kinda hanging yet fit to end the manga.
For arc-V girls... yeah they eithwr dead/become ghost in the anime (spoiler), and the manga... goes alabama lolz
The fact it took them seven series to get give us a decent female character that they didn’t fumble her in middle of the series is wild 💀
I should be happy with it, but it's so frustrating that it took so long
As a character, I'd put Alexis as one of the best in GX. As a character in the story, she got shafted hard.
That's something I can vibe with.
I know yugioh has a lot of underutilized characters (females especially) but her and Akiza from 5ds really got the shaft. Because they were hyped as strong duelists.
I love Blackwings, but Crow as a character left a lot to be desired. And it doesn't help his case how he took Akiza's place and much needed screen time.
And Alexis was supposed to be the one to save her brother from Nightshroud.
I really like how simple Crow felt, but even I thought it was weird how he took over for Akiza.
At least she got some love in the tournament...sort of...
Yugioh mishandling a female character? What a shock...
I’m just as shocked as you are
They fixed it with Romin in Yu-Gi-Oh SEVENS. She actually amazing.
@brendenconner9686 shadow lugia x7 moonlight 5:21
The frustrating thing is that after the first two series you could tell that the people who created the characters wanted to include girls and women with agency (except for Zexal). Aki, Luna, Yuzu, and Blue Angel all have the foundations to be interesting characters with strong character arcs. The people responsible for writing the stories that featured those female characters (Shin Yoshida and Katsuki Ono) just didn’t want to write about female characters who took part in the action. In the early going, 5D’s and Arc-V had series composers without weird hangups about women, and Aki and Yuzu both reflect that in their character arcs and dueling prowess (Luna still got screwed. There was a story there in Luna being a former prodigy who abandoned dueling by the time the Dark Signers roll into town, and who has to come to terms with both dueling and what must be a complicated relationship with her Signer Dragon.)
Aki and Yuzu going from strong characters to nonentities is an active decision, not something that occurs through neglect. Later in the first season of 5D’s, after Ono and Yoshida are at the helm, there’s a two-part episode that speedruns Aki’s character arc. Plot elements that would have worked far better if they had been spread out over a season or two are crammed into a two-parter. The Arcadia Movement subplot and the existence of psychic duelists is dropped (and it had nothing to do with Carly’s voice actor being in a cult; the timing doesn’t match up).
Yuzu goes from being a skilled duelist to running from Yuri in fear and then never dueling again.
It really seems to me that the people who create the premises of these shows and create the characters for them aren’t the same people who actually tell the stories.
Thanks SO MUCH I WAIT FOR THIS A LONG TIME AND YOU MADE IT COME TRUE YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!
In the Manga and Tag Force she is THE QUEEN 👑
Aw shucks, thanks!
@@animeegotists7527 Anytime! I really love your vids and I am now A HUGE FAN OF YOUR YU-GI-OH VIDS AND OTHER ANIME CONTENTS THAT YOU PUBLISH!
Alexis deserves more she should have been given the same arc in the Manga that would have made her an instant fan favourite
Her arc should have been similar to Suki's from Avatar the last Airbender
Works for me; admittedly I need to give the manga more of a chance.
@@animeegotists7527 Next time you do these kind of vids you should show the differences between the anime and Manga so that we can see what makes them tick
@@animeegotists7527And speaking of Ice Queens you should do Rio as well with an Alyson intro!
Suki's awesome! I like her.
@@haileyharmon5298 Me too she's the perfect balance between warrior and femininity all the while being an awesome girlfriend to Sokka! Healing his heart from the break he had with Yue
GX, in general, just felt like Jaden Wins Simulator.
@@0riginzer036 wish I could disagree
As a kid I liked her because she was nice to Jaiden and also cause she was hot haha
I admire your transparency😂
Gx has a problem with character maintenance, like for real, in season 3 they added 6 new characters as if there wasn't enough and sadly those newly added characters got more spotlight than Jaden's crew just to some of then never being seen or doing anything too relevant
@@Eric6761 and the worst part is, I like a lot of the new characters in season 3. But it did nothing to help the old cast.
@@animeegotists7527 for real, I honestly feel they wanted to replace them with those characters but even then in season 4 Jesse was the only one who sticked truly
Alexis really suffers from the Yugioh lack of female character growth that has generally plagued the series with the exception of 5Ds. People like Tea or Rebecca that came before Alexis or Yuzu that came after really had little growth to their characters past like 1 story arc. Heck even Mai suffered a catastrophic character assassination post Battle City and I feel like its such a shame
And even in 5DS, Akiza suffered in season 2, though that’s due to how the turbo duels became 3v3 rather than just being completely forgotten, and even then, in her final duel, she helped Crow come to his senses
Mai was so great until that filler started; I don’t know what happened there.
@@animeegotists7527They never showed her winning a duel in the manga outside of her beating Rex Raptor for his room on the ship, which we also didn't see. How is that great?
@@genyakozlov1316 Her character was great, not her win/loss record
Yeah hate to say that Alexis has fallen off as the more female protagonists came up becoming more prominent with growth
From what I’ve heard that is true. Then again, some of them fall off in their own series sadly.
@@animeegotists7527 yeah that's fair to say
I like Alexis she’s not an especially complex character of the gx cast but she adds a lot to it. She’s like the responsible one so I get why people find her boring but I won’t accept people saying she has no distinguishable personality traits. Sure she was in a lot of plots about guys throwing themselves at her but she clearly was never interested in that stuff and at the very least she was never good duelist forced to be a damsel in distress by the plot. My only problem with Alexis is that she really just doesn’t duel enough in the show (a problem all yugioh girl characters share). She is shown to be competent and can beat even pro duelists in the show with a very analytical approach to dueling but none of her wins really have any plot relevance. Even chazz in s2 was given a bone by beating everyone in the gx tournament. I get that s3 was really focused on the transfer students and s4 is just short but I wish she had more prominent duels. For example an episode focusing around her and crower about being teacher would have done a lot for both characters. Nevertheless she’s still justifiably so one of the most beloved female yugioh protagonist just because she’s damn competent even if it’s just bc the bar is pretty low for yugioh
I still find a lot about her to be likable, I just wish she was written better. Something with Crowler giving her advice on teaching could’ve been excellent for her!
In all honesty, Alexis Rhodes aka Asuka Tenjoin just suffered from her character being underdeveloped. As a duelist, Alexis started off more on par with Jaden and Chazz, and was even given a decent amount of duels and wins, but after season 2, she didn't have that many duels. She didn't even have an on screen duel in season 3 and her last on screen duel was a tag duel with Jaden in season 4. I still think she was a decent duelist throughout GX. I like how Alexis was not an elitist despite being an Obelisk blue student. She was nice to her friends and brother, despite sometimes being annoyed by them. The only time she became elitist was when she was brainwashed, but when she was freed, she returned to her original self. I honestly like Alexis and don't think she was a bad character, just mishandled.
That last sentence is a good way of putting it.
While I don't think she had the potential of Bastion or Chazz if they had been handled right, she was still someone who had some good upside.
She actually dueled in season 3 against the duel gools
I can't believe that it took until SEVENS before they came up with a female lead that was properly written and one that lasted till the end.
All the other series had some girls that showed promise, only to end up falling from grace as the story went on.
Alexis never amounted to anything. Akiza became a bench warmer in the later seasons, and don't even started on Yuzu.
I’ve heard so many horror stories about Yuzu
@@animeegotists7527 Those writers from Arc-V are literally labelled as "war criminals" from the YGO community and I am not just talking about Academia
Pretty much EVERYONE who wasn't Juadi/Jaden Yuki either got shafted, and/or sidebared in the Yu-Gi-Oh GX anime.
From everything I remember, that is true.
Alexis. They did her so dirty. I loved her so much growing up because I just wanted any example of a cool girl in a series.
Hopefully one day you’ll get your wish!
Are we ever going to get a Cyrus version of this. I mean he got the most character development in GX
From Slifer red to raw yellow and then finally Obelisk blue and then surpassing his legendary brother Zane and inheriting his cyberdark deck and combines it to make a mix hybrid deck between cyber / roids
Yeah he gets his own video for sure!
@@animeegotists7527
Thx
What's even more infuriating is they brought back an alternate version of her (who was practically the same character) in Arc-V only for her to Duel once, then 20 episodes later, lose and disappear from the show. I'm not sure why they hate her so much as a character. She's one of the few that use Ritual Monsters and I hope that we can get a proper mix of Fusion and Ritual monsters for her Cyber Ladies.
Honestly I think GX tried to hard to be a High School drama with dueling. Every episode we get a Duel of the Week if you will. Eventually there was too many characters to keep track of. The only other girl we see is Blair and she gets half a few episodes in season 2 after her Season 1 appearance. Alexis had so many great and memorable duels but her only biggest Duel comes from A Reason to Win. Everything else was minor which sucks
And yet people think I have some vendetta against her. I wanted to like her, but she needed work.
She was my childhood crash
Mine was Alice from Bakugan, I know how you feel.
If a GX sequel season or movie came out what would you like it to contain? Personally for me it would probably be a reunion of the main characters (Chazz, Syrus, Alexis, Jaden etc.) too see how they are now. Personally I would love too see Alexis and Jaden together if a sequel came, but its only so I feel happy lol. But I do understand your reasoning as to why you don't ship them.
Honestly, a semblance of the characters being happy, and how they progressed. Like we see how everyone has progressed, not just Jaden
AAAH THE DUEL LINKS ASUKA MUSIC
I had to do it haha!
Short answer: yes, she deserved more.
I wanna start saying that she had to duel Aster before Jaden's arrival. I'm okay with she losing that duel, there's no shame on losing against Aster, and that could have served to make it clear her strong will and commitment with the group and the academy, and not just having the intention. And just having a duel with Aster would have been an epic duel.
And now that you mention, yeah is cringey that her plots and duels are dirven by romantic intentions. She avoided the stereotype of the damsel in distress, but she didn't avoided the stereotype of "she is a woman, so she has to have suitors" 🙄 (see, a duel with Aster would have helped to break this stereotype).
It would have been great that her friends had a better personality. Alexis is smart, why was she with those shallow girls? Just because they are girls? Even if they weren't part of the main cast, they could have showed some personality to contribute to her development.
And I'm okay with Jaden breaking the brainwash instead of Chazz (Chazz it up!!!), losing two times straight against him would have been terrible for her image. And Jaden also had to go and free Bastion, but at that point nobody cared about him 😞
You know that's actually a good point!
Her friends (Mindy and Jasmine) are so different from her, that I can't really see why they're friends with her. Some type of explanation could've been kind of interesting for her.
At least we can assume Alexis would have just shut Harrington down if he did actually try to say he was her fiancee because she did with Chazz... And she already showed interest in Jaden in either version, just outright called him an idiot for not knowing what it means in Japanese.
Watching this stated about Alexis/Asuka makes me only realize that the writers tried to do something with her but the pacing was so off (especially in season 4) that they hardly developed anything about her. I mean she is an Obelisk Blue Girl who are not just in there because of their parents but because of their dueling skills and it was mainly lack-luster for her specifically. I mean the only thing I found so weird in this school how (outside of TagForce) there are zero girls in Slifer, hardly a girl in Ra Yellow and the majority of girls in Obelisk Blue makes me just think that all of the girls are just in there because of their parents money (and possibly grades)
As for Bastion, he was even more lack-luster but was side-lined fairly fast as Jaden/Judai defeated him in that one duel they had.
(On a side not and this is irrelevant to the video but Jaden would totally get along with Deku, both are Super Hero Fan boys lmao)
Yeah, she never really felt like someone who had a reason to develop. She just sort of existed at points.
(I can definitely see it, but I think Deku reacting to Jaden's slang could be hilarious.)
@@animeegotists7527 I mean I can understand that she is a supporting character but she wasn´t even supporting Judai all that much as Anzu supported Yugi. I mean sure she´s an Obelisk Blue but she was never bratty and when Judai was lured into the Obelisk Blue Dorm to save Sho, she wouldn´t have said anything regardless if she would have won against him. She simply wanted to duel him and see the skills for herself. After her brother got rescued she sort of got side-lined hard
“Hijikata and Mitsuba?”
😢
“I don’t want to talk about it”
😭😭😭
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up!😭😭
Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds did have Akiza Izinski, but they dropped the ball with her in season 3. Alexis had the worst drop off in the Franchise, Tea only dueled three times, Tori only dueled once, Zuzu became a danzel after her duel with Surgay and Aoi only won against one-off duelists. Romin was the only great one thoughout her series.
So far for me, Romin seems really cool!
Here’s a question: What do you think of Alexis in Yugioh Arc V?
…I need to watch Arc-V someday. But from what I’ve seen of her, I’m not impressed.
Sham; Ever since Evil has begun attacking the academy, Alexis has been sitting on the sidelines, let Jaden do all for and not even bother to step up for anyone else in a duel except her brother and herself
It’s heartbreaking to see for her.
@@animeegotists7527 And she doesn't belong with Jaden, Jaden belongs with Yubel. You've seen Alexis around Jaden; No courage to say how she feels about him, too ashamed to except the fact that she lost to him and has not saved Jaden's life in a duel unlike Jaden
Her arc was trying to find her lost brother
Just like another amazing and super powerful female duelist akiza she was amazing during the first season but in the second she kinda started to fall down but atleast the whole yusei and akiza ship was amazing they had alot of scenes together alexis actually had alot of potential but well its yugioh but alexis is my second best female character in the show akiza being first
Yeah even with Akiza being my favorite, even I can admit she needed more.
I don't like her she starts destroying buldings and then gets upset everyone hates her
@thegreatscribbles960 well looks like you never watched the show did yiu even watch the backstory
It's yugioh gx, everyone flopped except for jaden
Pretty much yeah
Syrus got support. Man was the only one to go from Slifer Red to Obelisk Blue.
Sadly all the Obelisk girls are shams.
I could beat them using Joey's deck with non off his tribute and fusion monsters
So many of them...and yet they were so lame.
Don't worry guys whyle your Heroes, Cyber Dragons and Crystal Beast will only be meta for the duration of the show my Benten will be played in every ritual deck ever
They had some underrated effects honestly.
Destiny Heroes in order to make Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer were splashed into a lot of decks, though.
Interesting video, was never really a yuh gi oh kid growing up only ever "watched" it when my cousin held the TV hostage. Interesting video nonetheless.
Appreciate your side of things. Hope your cousin wasn’t too bad with the TV!
How Alexis should have been:
Be the one who saved Atticus from Darkness, proving she indeed worthy of the Keys. There was no reason at all for Jaden to do it. Alex did start this B plot after all. It even tied into the A plot with the Shadow Riders, so why not?!
No weird, repetitive crush stories. It almost ruined Chazz after all. Have her fend off some Shadow Riders instead, again it would prove her worth as a Key Bearer.
Under Sartorius, why couldn't she have been an enforcer to Sartorius and subjugate people into the Society? So that with her. It would have made Jaden saving her a lot better.
Problem solved
Definitely could've helped. Not a good sign if she isn't able to save her own brother.
@@animeegotists7527 That always pissed me off whenever I think about Shadow Riders. Freaking Chumly does better than her and he even got a job as a card designer by Pegasus himself!
WANT NEED DEMAND VIDEOS ON ASTER,ZANE,JESSE
Coming soon
Especially Aster. He gets shafted so hard by the community compared to a lot of other characters. ☹️
10:15 TBH I like Atticus but if we could get him banned from singing for life....my ears would be eternally grateful.
Good video by the way, Anime Egotists because each point feels on the mark(Except for Atticus Singing).
Alexis is, like most of the female characters in Yu-gi-oh!, pretty mishandled. In one of my own works, Re-GX, when I got to adapting the Society of Light Arc, I actually gave Alexis a reason to be doubting herself at the time, had a character (adapted version of Reggie MacKenzie) poke at that insecurity for the earliest chapters of Part 2 ultimately leading to her brainwashing...and even then, she would be resisting or questioning the Light, even giving the guy that ultimately rescued her the card he needed to win with the last of her willpower before the Light took total control.
...and in my Part 3, she actually gets to duel. Automatic upgrade!
I like it already!
What was the point of even making her get brainwashed just like in the anime? I tried reading your story, but your OC Karyu kind of felt like a block of wood, no offense, and I never saw any chemistry between him and Alexis. It sort of came off more like subtle self-insert wish-fulfillment thing and not a genuine relationship. And then you just turned into another dime-a-dozen Aster hater author. Bringing him back for season three just for the purpose of your OC to hand his butt to him in a duel was what finally made me quit the fic.
To be fair, Aster is pretty hard to handle, from a writing perspective, and I wasn't originally going to bring him back for Part 3 at all. After Season 2, he doesn't really have a function in the GX Story as Chazz is Jaden's rival, Zane is still presented as the guy he's got to surpass and Jesse takes the "guy as good as Jaden" slot. Although, had he not challenged Sartorius early, he would've definitely faced Jaden again in the GENEX Semi-Finals (and given Jaden bricked that hand, would likely have won too).@@raina1848
@Consaibot1 He didn't do anything except his canon stuff in season two, and he just ended up as a damsel in distress again for another fic with being turned into a statue and having to wait for Jaden to save him... It would have been better if he at least got to defeat Sartorius since he didn't even really get a chance to shine in Genex. Also, I do not understand why the story was tagged AsterxOC. I never saw him with anyone.
@@Consaibot1You're doing better with now. Keep up the good work.
14:16 I want to be his partner in a duel, I'm a dinosaur duelist too(Dinomist too) and I love Hasselberry! Dino DNA is a bit silly but he's my second favourite GX character(With Axel Brodie being number 1 because he has the duel disc I want and his Japanese name is Austin O'Brien, so like Elliot Craig from Trails of Cold steel....gotta give love to characters who are distant family members).
I can see they try to put Alexis as role model for feminism, Alexis loves dueling like Jaden and try to be the best girl duelists in the world and showed the "girls power" and yeah at the end of season it's look like nothing interesting about her anymore..
It could've been interesting if they pulled it off, but she does kind of lack something.
i Like Alexix but She was only really good in S1 and even then only after the Start of the first Arc really Started to Shine for one Episode with titan. She Also falls into the trope when every boy Especially Chazz falls for her Which make her a ibt Shallow in my eyes. She is a Decent Character but i wish She would be involved after the Second Season and in the third Season She didn't have the Same impact tho.
Yea...sadly, this isn't the first time a female Yugioh character gets screwed over. Akzia despite being the best female character in Yugioh...got shafted hard in Season 2, Carly is just like Akzia but even worse, Aoi is an interesting idea who never got explored and lost despite using Trickstars, Alexis as you said earlier, and let's not forgot the Bracelet Girls who despite being important to the plot and story got shafted so hard that they disappeared entirely...so yea Yugioh has a horrible track record of female characters as they love to screw them out their development or whatever.
I really wish these girls got better treatment in their series
Dub alexis and sub alexis are basically completely different characters, and the dub is the less canon one
I think sub alexis is a lot nicer and more compelling (and consistent), and i feel her character had a lot of potential that got completely shafted (like many other gx characters) by gx's obsession with judai being the only character that matters
That’s disappointing.
@animeegotists7527 definitely
Honestly i think the gap between a character's potential and their actual accomplishments in the story is bigger for alexis than any other yugioh character aside from bastion
@@patricklynch4074well that's disappointing and sucks😓
Yeah. I hate to say it, but dub Alexis was kind of more like, shall we say, a B with an itch. The only difference is that compared other characters who got the same kind of dub "makeover" (eg. Aster and Zane), she's usually forgiven for it just because she's a pretty girl.
Rio Kamishiro got it worse than her.
At least Bronk still likes her!
Honestly, I used to like Alexis in the first two seasons but in later seasons to me? Her character went down the drain and I did not vibe with how she treated Jaden in later seasons, especially during the tag-duel and when she invaded his space to take pictures. And the stuff she said in the Dark World, that's when I said, "No ma'am, no ma'am, I don't vibe with you much." Sure, Jaden's not perfect but leave him the Hell alone, Alexis, give him space. Also, I think her manga counterpart is a lot better as a character. Granted, she doesn't have the best track record, but her deck and character were cooler there.
Agreed
She really suffered towards the end of the series. At least early on she was likable to some extent, but in season four in particular, she kind of lost that.
@@winterice2022 Aprecciate it.
@@animeegotists7527 True. Season 3 and 4 is where I stopped vibing with her, honestly.
@@animeegotists7527 that's exactly my point man. Alexis was actually okay in the beginning well the English version of her cuz she was mostly kind compassionate especially towards jaden and even was fascinated by his slang talk and his love for dueling which what she loves about him especially her feelings for Jaden is strongly hinted in english. I even like their duel in English the first one cuz her and her friends well mainly jasmine were talking about jaden and assume he was mean but alexis was already taking a liking to him to jasmine surprise then mindy agrees along with jasmine and how alexis wanted to duel him to see how good jaden is and the two were constantly flirting with each other. Their second duel was okay but mainly the Japanese version but I just love how Jaden roasted alexis while she was in the society of light. She even worries about him like during the tag trial duel, and his duel against the shadow riders like grave keeper nightshroud who was her brother, camula, tiana even though her intentions didn't seem threating same with the pharaoh, kagemaru ect. She even acknowledges him how he's always there to save his friends in one of the episodes in season 3. The main reason why I love her and she's my favorite well that version of her but season 4, became her downfall she was a complete douchebag to jaden even when he was ignoring her and her set cards she set down for him but tbf she deserves it even if Jaden ignoring her did seemed rude and him working well with blair made alexis very jealous but eventually it worked out at the end but alexis in Japanese is completely tsundere like very rude to him and to everyone else which makes me hates her or strongly dislike her. She briefly only show her compassion for jaden and her friends in season 2 and that's it. Speaking of season 2 during the society of light alexis was so intend to lure or bring jaden to society of light either A for him to see the light or B for him to be with her idk but mainly because alexis mentioned to chazz an idea to lure jaden to society of light when bob wanted to duel Jaden to impress alexis but ultimately failed cuz it's jaden obviously. He never loses to characters who appears in one episode. So yeah mixed feelings while she was alright in English she was at her worst in Japanese. If only she as well as bastion deserves better character development like jaden and chazz did rather her being a target for simp men who simps for her
Where is her Arc-V story?
Only aki got some fame
Aki is great!
@@animeegotists7527Aki's amazing!
I really hate that her development i season 4 boils down to love intrest even though they have no chemistry. Jaden has more chemistry with chazz then he does with alexis 🗿
It’s sad how you’re not wrong
unfortunately yu gi oh has a habbit of doing these things to there leading lady akiza also got dropped preety hard in 5ds
Akiza got better treatment, but not by much
@@animeegotists7527most definitely agree with you on that.
It's funny the amount of ppl that confess they're love for her yet in tagforce 3 she's the one that want's the red cap duelist 😂😂😂
The rizz of Red Cap cannot be underestimated😂
The girls in Yugioh and Pokémon get less wins and less losses. While the boys get more wins and more losses. For the most part and for now
Yeah, in a way I do understand what you mean by that. Also, do I detect a Miz fan?
Romance girl 👩
15:30 I think it's a BIT unfair to use the dub version of Alexis to pass remarks about how Alexis acts in Season 4, which is the sub version. Remember, the sub and dub versions are very different from how Alexis treats others as you yourself pointed out. So you can't use the dub to talk about sub Alexis.
That was for one small part. Not to mention that was more of a joke than anything serious
Asuka/Alexis was their first time trying to make the female lead actually be a serious duelist (as opposed to Anzu/Tea before her, who really only dueled when she had to and wasn't into the game competively). And for that reason, I believe they didn’t really plan much else for her aside from the concept itself, and then even that went downhill when they didn’t know any ways to give her dueling more opportunity without taking away from the rapidly-becoming Judai/Jaden Show GX became. It’s like what happened to Edo/Aster Phoenix post-season two, but multiplied even more since they ran out of juice even earlier for Asuka. One of the biggest mistakes was season four with how they had to link her plot with Judai's, making it more about him and his own problems instead. It could've been so much better for her character if they made her realize she wanted to get into teaching on her own and start doing more by herself for it like taking an internship, along with her having her own duel. But instead, it all came back to the Judai Show and watering it down for a crappy main boy x main girl "romance".
Couldn’t have said it better. Season 4 had her feel way too connected to Jaden as opposed to her own character.
@animeegotists7527 When you think about it, Judai is unnecessarily added into a lot of the season four arcs. He's in the Manjoume thing because heaven forbid we even have Edo be a capable enough character anymore to at least solve his own problem of Destiny End Dragoon getting stolen for him to get blackmailed. Nope, they had to make him have to rely on Judai again to save day. And Judai is there in the whole Sho and Ryo plot...just because? Also, we need Judai to duel and defeat Saio again...why? And then Yusuke is Fubuki and Ryo's best friend, but that apparently meant nothing with the latter being being completely disregarded in that equation, because we need to have Judai and Johan be the ones to defeat him (well, just Judai ultimately, because apparently, them winning together would take away too much of Judai's precious relevance) even though it would have been perfectly fine for Judai to just have his duel against the real final villain only. I do not understand why people think season four is so good for this very real flaw.
Alexis was a cool character but the show never really did a good job with her. But mostly... BrING BACK MEGAMAN STARFORCE
Finally someone of quality!
I always saw Alexis as a sham and never liked her character much. When I first watched the series as a kid, to me it seemed to me that Alexis barely did anything, not even resolve her own storyline with her brother. Jaden had resolved that for her.
Even though she was supposed to be the ‘queen of Obelisk.’ and best of the girl duellist of the school. I thought that Alexis being the ‘Obelisk queen’ was a load of rubbish. As all girls are placed in Obelisk. No matter their skill level, including her two shallow friends, that were confirmed to be terrible duellists. Yet they got into the best dorm an didn't have to worry or struggle, just go gaga over boys.
I kept hoping Alexis would be the good character. We were told she was but, the show never showed it.
An my naïve mind didn’t know the trend of Yu-Gi-Oh! treating its female characters poorly at the time, so I just got let down by Alexis.
When there was a potential storyline for Alexis. She for some reason wanted to be a teacher, and her shallow friends, weren’t taking their duelling seriously.
Imagine a storyline with an episode. Where the school decides to stop being unfair to its students. Female students would no longer receive special treatment by automatically being placed in the blue dorm. Instead, they would have to go into Ra and Slifer, Struggle, deal with dorm colours bullying, and earn their way up, just like all the male students. Some girls might flunk out, struggle, or even be kicked out of school, even resenting the loss of their luxuries.
In this scenario, Alexis’s two friends turn to her for help in improving their skills. As they start taking their studies and duelling seriously, Alexis discovers her love for teaching. This could have added a reason for her friends to even exist, add depth to Alexis's character. But we got what we got with Alexis, and other then a cool deck, she was a very bland character the writers didn't know what to do with.
All of the girls being in Obelisk Blue never made any sense to me. The fact that no one ever mentioned it and tried to change that was really bizarre.
@@animeegotists7527 According to the wiki. It's because theres only a 20% population of female students, and very few girls apply to the academy to begin with. So they didn't bother to build Female Slifer or Ra dorms to accommodate them and just stuck all the girls together in Obelisk.
But that makes even less sense that they all should be automatically ranked be in obelisk blue; when they could have divided the floors of the girl's dorm to represent Ra, Slifer and Obelisk in skill level if it had to be in one building. But it probably goes with the whole trend of Yu gi oh not caring for female characters.
Thanks for the analysis video of the Gx characters they've been really good. I was wondering if you were going to do a Syrus Truesdale video eventually? There's absolutely no analysis videos of him out there on RUclips compared to Zane, Aster, Jaden etc. An I'd love to see his character finally be given an analysis that isn't just about his deck.
@@DragonflyRei3 really appreciate the kind words, I have been itching to do a few more of these lately. So they’ll be coming soon!
@@animeegotists7527 Can't wait to watch! There's so many GX characters that get over looked compared to Zane, Jaden and Chazz. I'm really looking forward to a Syrus Truesdale video when you get to him. Despite his flaws. He's very underrated in my opinion and he really isn't talked about enough.
Jaden was almost cannon shipped with johan tbh
That I did not know
*Asuka Tenjoin.
Okay hear me out…no
@@animeegotists7527 Yuh-huh.
I’ll admit it I’m into blondes, but goddam she’s weak, very weak she’ll barely be a threat to my weakest TOON DECK. Akisa is the best one of them all since well she’s got it all, looks, personality and kinda decent skill.
An Akiza fan.
Someone of culture, I see.
Kinda sus that all the females automatically go to obelisk even if there bad. But for a guy you either need to go to a prep school before hand or wait a year
Yeah, even I’ve never understood that.
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Well, my OC Yuka A is better-written unlike Alexis. And she has the same treatment as Nami and Rukia K. She was a coward damsel-in-distress at first, before becoming a girly bruiser.
Your OC is just another Mary Sue self-insert you project yourself on since you have pretty much shown you don't understand the characters at all in a lot of your comments on GX videos and are very socially immature.
Yuka es muchísimo mejor que asuka
Si tu gran nuevo personaje de yugioh parece una versión femenina de Johan y judai que es Yuka a igual que Jesse está ahí para el como Jesse me encantaría ver cómo Yuka usa las Crystal beats sería una gran versión femenina de Jaden y Jesse con algo de Romina kirishima
@Sonictv-u9s You can stop talking to yourself now. I can tell that's an alt account you made up, you know.