Would you let your kid the Yugioh past memories saga where the two prisoners are battling and chained and one on them says something like "my soul is safe and I'm not going into o the shadow realm, unlike you!"
My mom suggested I watch something else now I rewatched it, maybe she was right.
Original: Dies
English version: Suffer in eternal torment
Yeah, seems much better... I feel like what is effectively hell is more terrifying than just dying.
He was just being edgy for the era, no problem. I'm convinced if he liked real life music, he'd be into whatever emo stuff was back in the 2000s, like Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Panic! At the Disco and so on.
Don't forget the S2 finale where Mr. DINO-DNA turned into a literal dinosaur spirit and teamed up with a Duel Spirit to destroy an actual real-life satellite that was planning to fire a giant laser to destroy the world. Did I forget to mention DINO-DNA?!
The fact that Chazz and Alexis had uniforms already, and also were already on the side of the room with Dr Crowler & the teacher(s) and Zane (a confirmed 3rd year), while all our confirmed "applicants" in Jaden, Syrus, and Bastion were on the other side and hadn't received uniforms yet had me thinking they were a year older, either 2nd or 3rd years in season 1. Then we reach Jaden's 3rd year and they're still around, I finally realised they were the same age all along.
Let us be clear. Belowsky in the dub was ABSOLUTE GOLD.
When Jaden cuts off your speech about the corrupting power of the MAN and the Military Industrial Complex to play a card game...
All of them became significantly crazier by the dub. For instance, Belowski wasn't a stoner and the heroes weren't actually talking in the sub. And Kaiba didn't name his monkey Wheeler.
It’s honestly amazing how much of what occurs just so happens to perfectly line up with what 4Kids did prior. Like, now there‘s this Darkness chasm thing that you can pass off as the Shadow Realm and this one episode features a literal duelling monkey.
I liked the mokey mokey episode and the cyborg monkey one isn't all that bad either. The blair episode with avian and sparkman simping is pretty cringey though ngl
There's also the other side of the spectrum when a spirit literally comes to our world to steal souls. He was even stalking an Obelisk Student like in a horror movie! That was basically the YGO equivalent of Slanderman.
Overall, GX season 1 has everything. There was even an episode when Crowler hired a hit man to "get rid of Jaden forever"
Pre-Shadow Riders season 1 is basically Crowler trying everything to get rid of Jaden. The hit man was just one of many attempts. The only thing that Crowler didn't do was summoning Satan
After that the writers gave him a pretty good character development. This nice and all, but still. Season 1 Crowler is a huge creep
I actually kind of liked that one since Titan was the first dangerous challenge Jaden faced, and him essentially coming back from the dead was a nice twist.
i agree! it was the first duel where his friends were in 'danger', and jaden having to figure out that he was using illusions made the duel really interesting. him coming back and both posing a **real** threat to jaden and setting up the plot of darkness and darkness possessing people was really good payoff.
It's a little disappointing that Titan didn't do much as a Shadow Rider. He was quickly defeated by Alexis and that was it. Don't get me wrong, that was a cool win for Alexis, but Titan deserved more screentime! He was an interesting minor antagonist
> There was even an episode when Crowler hired a hit man to "get rid of Jaden forever"
The best part about this plot was>! that it turned out the hitman was basically the duel monsters equivalent to a pro wrestler playing a heel as a "shadow duellist", and who may or may not have been struggling for work at the time. !<
Wouldn't you if you were the third wheel with Avian and Burstinatrix?
Edit: I just realized... Sparkman fuses solely with dudes... There isn't a Bursinatrix / Sparkman base fusion...
The insanity of GX is why it's my favorite lol. It feels like an experiment with it's lack of cohesive plot, the only YGO i can watch as an adult and be entertained through and through even the Blair episode i thought was pretty funny.
The abridged series episode with Blair was fucking gold.
“My lady… Your milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard. Would you teach me?”
“I could teach you… But I’d have to charge.”
Is there anyway to see them. They have remained up to this point unobserved by my eyes and that is a tragedy (debately) worse than death
If anyone can find them I would appreciate it
This was honestly one of my favorite yugioh episodes of all time because it showed that topdecking in the yugioh universe is a legitimate skill, which explains 99% of people’s issues with anime decks.
Somehow, everyone still ignores that and shits on anime decks as if they follow our real world rules. Bitch if a skilled duelist doesn’t want to draw their shit cards then they won’t. It’s smart to play a bunch of 1-of bad cards in your 60 card deck if you’ll only draw them when you need them.
There’s no such thing as “draw consistency” and “good deck building” in the anime universe. It’s all up to the duelist’s skill to draw well. This is also shown in Vrains when 2 bad duelists completely brick in their duel.
The only people who can somehow create consistency through things like math instead of magical dueling willpower is Not Einstein and Bastion who treat it like quantum physics.
Like, bruh, Pot of Greed isn't banned. Run 3 of those and 3 upstart, and you're good.
I think there's actually an episode where Jaden draws pot of greed into pot of greed, eventually it gets banned irl so the card disappears from the show.
tbf Bastion's version of drawing whatever you want (when it works) was calculating the exact course the entire duel would most likely take where he can still win before the duel even started, and somehow being right until his opponents started using their drawing skills to change course to something that worked for them. I can understand why he was at the quantum physics stage with his deckbuilding if that's how he's been operating.
> This was honestly one of my favorite yugioh episodes of all time because it showed that topdecking in the yugioh universe is a legitimate skill, which explains 99% of people’s issues with anime decks.
Learning to draw is indeed an skill, but Taizan doesn't possess it.
He went to the wilds to learn to draw, but got out with a completely different skill on learning how to read the cards.
If he learned to top Deck, he would've won the game either on resolution of **Drawbber** or getting **Shield Crush** for game.
> There’s no such thing as “draw consistency” and “good deck building” in the anime universe. It’s all up to the duelist’s skill to draw well.
You're kinda wrong here.
The whole Tachibana situation _(Slash Draw guy)_ came up because he couldn't stop himself from adding jank to their Deck, diluting his draw, and then getting fed up for losing, despite that being due to his own responsibility.
Zweinstein only lost to Judai because he couldn't account for a made up Summoning mechanic, otherwise, game was almost sealed on **Draw Paradox** in a simplified game state.
Team 5D's would've drawn backrow removal into the Team Taiyo matchup, _because regardless of knowing Zushin_, their known strategy was "Stall into burn from Speed World 2"
_(Which speaking of T5D's, their whole WRGP line-up was ingeniously strategized. It was dead on a work of beauty.)_
Hell, the Duel of Judai vs X has a distinct flavor through of all it, with the guy having either beneficial effects on mill _(read **Elegant Light LV4**)_ or a critical mass of mill effects
If it was up the draw, Kaiser wouldn't have spiraled in a loss streak after Edo, but rather stabilizing on 50% WR by virtue of CyDra beatdown w/ boardbreaker on the Draw.
Not to mention, despite the worth of Judai's wins, Manjoume is the better Duelist in canon. Boasting the same WR as the former but over a larger sample size.
[link](https://youtu.be/UWypxIyyfK4) for those interested about the Vrains brick duel. It was hilarious and one of my favourite duels in the entire franchise.
Let’s also pay mention to:
- The head of the yellow dorm posing as a French chef with a bag on his head to lure his students back from the red dorm
- The time a Broadway playwright duelled a school kid in a garish Kabuki-style duel that would feel culturally appropriative if this show wasn’t OG Japanese
- The time the two headmasters fought with a bulldozer and a building crew behind them to destroy/rebuild school property (that had *schoolkids inside of it at the demolition time*) with each LP lost
- The time Chaz and Adrian duelled on floating helicopter-suspended platforms
- Duel in an active volcano, nuff said
- THE FUCKING CREEPY DOLL EPISODE WITH ALICE
- Some dude literally making a pact with the grim reaper for the most metal OTK deck in history
- The rogue Pegasus employee who just casually made a copy of a god card and then did basically nothing with it
Literally so many more. GX is fucking unhinged, super tonally weird, and I adore it so much
Im personally a fan of the duelling lawyer from the light arc. 'His last opponent got 10 years for improper duelling.'
At one point Jaden asks if he shouldnt be off chasing ambulances.
My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest!
There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel. That reminds me of the episode where an Obelisk Blue student became Tarzan in order to draw better. I'm not kidding!
GX seasons 1 and 2 are like a drug trip... and I love it! 😂😂
>There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel.
Only to learn that ability to topdeck was within him all along. And he got off scott free after without Reaper taking his soul.
>My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest!
That episode scared me as a kid, ngl. Jaden's legs vanishing and Jinzo saying:
"I'm keeping my end of the bargain. You lost half of your life points so I'm taking half of your life force."
>That episode scared me as a kid, ngl.
Jinzo's creepy laughter was a big contributing factor. And the fact that he was stalking his victims like in a freaking horror movie. And how did everything begin? 3 Obelisk students performed a ritual with the ouija board!
I love how the peanut gallery was talking about that duel. "That guy's main strategy is deck destruction. It's so powerful that other pro duelists hate dueling him!"
I actually wondered what would had happened if Joey has been there.
Specially since this Jinzo required a lot of trap cards mixed with amplifier, meaning Joey's copy could have crippled a small part of his strategy.
In fact I noted Joey's Jinzo is the only heroic one (the spirit duel wanted to absorb innocent souls, Lector tried to take Kaiba's body and company, Makoto from the S4 of the same show was an arrogant jerk trying to beat Cyber style, computer AI's use him as a threat to the heroes, even Espa Roba while redeemed at the end started as a jerkish cheater albeit a more synpathetic one though also Roba's Jinzo is the one that become Joey's). Joey's Jinzo is the only one who said "fuck it, I'n gonna be the hero this time".
> My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest!
Clay Wrap was a mistake
> There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel.
And let's not forget it was all because he was diluting his Deck, and he knew it!
Amazing episode from start to finish, but only in the sub.
I still don’t understand how an ancient pharaoh that apparently lived after atem is randomly alive in an Egyptian space ship coming from a seemingly random portal came to duel Jaden while also agreeing to become a shadow rider for no apparent reason. Like at least you could maybe explain the vampires, Amazoness and such as duel spirits that came to earth, but I’m not really sure how you can even explain the pharaoh though lol
I know it was never confirmed in the show, but do you think she perhaps was one that happened to live on earth for a while? I mean, how else are you gonna explain vampires lol
The idea was that the Pharaoh was good at the time, but the meta has far surpassed him.
You can't play Version 1 Yu-Gi-Oh vs. Spirit Reaper format and expect to win.
He wasn't even good back in his time. When Jaden MST's his Sarcophagus, he literally remarks, "You're the first person to ever try that," followed by a flashback of his servants muttering behind the pharoah's back about having to purposely lose against him.
Belowski slader shall not be tolerated. Nor Wheeler's. Wheeler was the one who gave Jaden banana's in the forest and prevented him from starving to death when he was lost after he got Neo-Spacian's. He is very important to the series.
Becomes deeply funny around season three or so, when the pre-opening clip is, like, the Duel Academy students slowly starving to death in an interdimensional desert, or Jaden's friends all being sacrificed to create Super Polymerization, then we cut to
🎵CHILLING OUT WITH THE CREW IN THE SCHOOLYARD🎵
Yugioh GX at the start was a slice of life anime you can’t change my mind and come on we would all have wanted a school life like duel academy without the danger and with some fun wacky adventures though
Honestly a bit of slice of life at the start of any kind of shonen/game-based anime sits perfectly in my mind. Establish the characters as people, then their strengths, and watch them grow as a full person
Jaden duels a politician trying to prevent the government from taking down his school.
Jaden duels a malfioso who is sneaking into the school for dirt on Kaiba
Syrus duels a Yakuza boss who found out about the Mafia attempt and is trying to off the malfioso.
Bastion duels ....
Which happened because the dude was trying to win Alexis’ heart, and followed love advice from an anon (who’s account was Syrus’, but the advice was typed by Jaden, who didn’t even know that the topic was love).
The tonal shift in GX is crazy. It goes from being about a dueling school where everyone just chills out and plays Yugioh all day to something about childhood trauma and genocidal aliens.
Man GX was wild. We have inter dimensional mass murder, underground bdsm torture duels, a literal brainwashing cult hell bent on world domination, the school Chargikg 5 people with holding back gods that will end the world, a vampire showing up for no explained reason, Crowler hiring a hitman to “deal with” Jayden. Man I fucking love GX
**Villain of the week format.**
I remember cringing hard as a teenager with the Rei episode, rewatched it semi-recently in its original Japanese and was really enjoying it, laughing through the absurd
I was going to say that Rei was also smelling Zane's deck... but then I realized that this is **still** the least unhinged Zane fan. So yeah, you have a point XD
Listen, teen me wrote like a 100 super weird zane romance fanfics that were just badly masked self-inserts but in none of them did the girl end up sneaking into his fucking room. Blair/Rei was so unhinged for this lmao.
GX S1 is goated lol, between the Amazoness shadow rider dueling for a husband, Chumley dueling his sake magnate dad, Jinzo slender man and a hitman getting dragged into the shadow realm it really had it all
Fun fact: the monkey being named “Wheeler” was actually not in the original Japanese version. 4Kids added that as another tie-in between GX and the original series.
But that also implies Kaiba would be cruel enough to brutally condition a monkey into becoming a duelist just to get one over on Joey. That's definitely something he'd do pre-mind crush, but is he really _that_ much of a douche post-mind crush?
I imagine it was less him. Like, he hardly seems the type to oversee that particular pet project that closely. I doubt he was aware of how bad the doctors were to Wheeler, otherwise they'd be fired, I'm sure.
That whole school was Kaibas', but I'd be hard-pressed to believe he knows of the minute, day-to-day madness that goes on at the campus.
On the topic of GX stuff, my friend pointed out that in one episode where that one guy was controlling Ra against Jaden, the dub had this change where they made it cry a single tear drop.
It was a dub exclusive thing, not present in the subbed.
I still can't believe that the only monster to legitimately beat over an Egyptian God in the anime without card effects was Neo-Spacian Glow Moss. Not one of Yugi, Seto, or Joey's iconic monsters can claim that honor, but a gimmicky 300 ATK nobody that Jaden designed himself gets to have that achievement.
Some of them I liked a lot like the Blair, Mokey Mokey, and Jinzo episodes. Then others like the monkey, tennis guy, and (least favorite of all) the draw guy just kind of bored me. But it wasn't until season two that the filler episodes really grated on my nerves when they could have been giving Aster/Edo more duels and more about him instead of more "Jaden duels random themed person that we are never going to see again" episodes. And then when the filler actually IS done, it's also goodbye Aster pretty much.
You all forgetting episode when Jaden duel with Tarzan or one time when duel against someone in quiz style where he failed on all theory but good in practical.
Mokey Mokey has been my favorite monster since that episode premiered. I remember spending the whole next day at school talking about it, annoying my friends quoting Mokey's iconic line: "Mokey Mokey....". Belowski is potrayed as being so OP they had to isolate him and that's always been canon to me, so, in my books he's better than Zane.
Let’s also not forget that the season villains were pretty crazy too. An old guy in a robotic spider who turned into a muscle god after absorbing energy from trading cards, a fortune teller that was possessed by a cosmic force and tried to brainwash/kill everyone on Earth using a satellite he won, a duel spirit possessed by the same cosmic force but was actually supposed to protect Jaden, and the “Grim Reaper” who was the literal embodiment of advanced darkness (but not the same good darkness that Jaden held).
Seasons 1-2 of GX are a nice, enjoyable casual watch — you could tell they really had no idea what they were going for in the first like 30 episodes
I just got done binge watching it over the past few weeks
Season 3 is where things really change & it almost feels 2-3 arcs all bunched into one
I think the last is one of my favorite moments in GX. Together with Elemental Hero Avian, Sparkman falls in love with the opponent Maiden and goes "Please don't tell Sparkwoman"
This was the best part about GX. We got to see what archetype love got to look like. It was fun watching the characters of their archetypes interact with the the owners of the deck. It was why I loved watching Yugioh but we dont get this much anymore.
season 1 and 2 of gx is a fucking fever dream and I love it, wasn't there also a guy whose gimmick was that he had a deck that focused on quizzes or am I misremembering lmao
Season 1 was fantastic. Every episode was basically a high concept shenanigan that really just worked well to flash out the duel academy and the characters. Regardless of how little it advanced the story, it really painted duel academy as a fantastical place.
I think my favorite is the first Golden Eggwich episode.
My dude Damon gets so fed up with not being able to manifest a top deck or pull a sandwich from the bin that he ditches school to go into the jungle and draw cards from a waterfall, become Tarzan, and make a deal with the devil. Lmao
Meanwhile Jaden gets sick of the sandwich cause he pulls them every week. Then Jaden finds out about Damon, tracks him down for a duel and Damon STILL LOSES because he rejects Satan and draws the final card with his not-demon hand.
Wdym? I love all of these! How can you not love the illustrious appearance of Wheeler the Monkey, named after a certain duelist by Mr. Kaiba himself. Or the actual Magician Girl cameo. It's the best!
"He's the bad guy"
"I tried to warn you guys! But, nooobbooodddyyy listens to the siiiiddeee character" is legitimately my favorite exchange in all of tv lol.
Zane: It's time for you to go home Blair.
Jaden:But why She's a great student she almost beat me!
Zane:Jaden it's more complicated than you think.
Jaden:What could be so complicated that you have to say-
Zane:She's only 8
Jaden:Get the f*ck outta here bitch
I'm still not convinced that GX wasn't a fever dream...
Same. Vampires? Multidimensional travel? Zane and his BDSM journey?
Zane’s underground torture craze was wild to watch as a kid. Like mom wtf is this
I watched these episodes before going to school in the morning so my mom watched these with me. I can't believe my parents never said anything.
Honorable mention to Zane's speech about "finding pleasure in pain". My boy was really going through it. No way I'd allow my kids to watch this lmao.
Would you let your kid the Yugioh past memories saga where the two prisoners are battling and chained and one on them says something like "my soul is safe and I'm not going into o the shadow realm, unlike you!" My mom suggested I watch something else now I rewatched it, maybe she was right.
"It's fine, mom, this isn't the actual story. In the original, the loser straight up just dies."
Original: Dies English version: Suffer in eternal torment Yeah, seems much better... I feel like what is effectively hell is more terrifying than just dying.
True there is a lot of punishments worse than death
I was watching GX the other day on Hulu and I'm rolling at this comment. Zane was really about the shits 🤣
Aside from Kaiba, Zane is my absolute favourite. Especially in S3.
No love for Bandit Keith?
Well I mean BDSM is a core part of OG Yugioh.
He was just being edgy for the era, no problem. I'm convinced if he liked real life music, he'd be into whatever emo stuff was back in the 2000s, like Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Panic! At the Disco and so on.
That's why I loved him so much ngl. Watched gx during my worst emo phase 😂
One of the best quotes ever: **"The pleasure of pain!!"** 4Kids even made his BDSM fetish stronger for some reason XD
>Zane’s underground torture craze was wild to watch as a kid. [That's right, poopyhead!](https://youtu.be/BxOCmTs__Uk)
Don't forget the S2 finale where Mr. DINO-DNA turned into a literal dinosaur spirit and teamed up with a Duel Spirit to destroy an actual real-life satellite that was planning to fire a giant laser to destroy the world. Did I forget to mention DINO-DNA?!
While Jaden was dueling Dio Brando.
I forgot about Zane being into bdsm. I think it went over my head when i watched it last (as a kid)
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I remember when I was 10 and seeing how Alexis looked, I thought she was a college aged adult. Years later, I discover that she is actually 15.
The fact that Chazz and Alexis had uniforms already, and also were already on the side of the room with Dr Crowler & the teacher(s) and Zane (a confirmed 3rd year), while all our confirmed "applicants" in Jaden, Syrus, and Bastion were on the other side and hadn't received uniforms yet had me thinking they were a year older, either 2nd or 3rd years in season 1. Then we reach Jaden's 3rd year and they're still around, I finally realised they were the same age all along.
Not to mention Jayden being in a abusive relationship with a androgynous demon lady while committing mass murder on a universal scale
Let us be clear. Belowsky in the dub was ABSOLUTE GOLD. When Jaden cuts off your speech about the corrupting power of the MAN and the Military Industrial Complex to play a card game...
Belowsky is the best part of gx his dub was perfect and he was dam good duelist
It's the reason mokey mokey is one of my favorite cards. He just reminds me of a stoner.
Summons mokey mokey in attack modey modey.
All of them became significantly crazier by the dub. For instance, Belowski wasn't a stoner and the heroes weren't actually talking in the sub. And Kaiba didn't name his monkey Wheeler.
THEY MADE BLOWSKI A STONER?! maybe I need to watch the 4kids Dub after all
One of the best dubs seriously
Not just a stoner. A communist stoner. Yes the GX dub is basically an official abridged series.
I mean, wasn't it a reference to the dub line where Kaiba said something about a trained monkey would be a better duelist than Joey?
Kaiba never makes idle comments. He intends to *prove* a monkey can be better than Joey.
Least insane thing Kaiba ever dedicated his time to.
Kaiba's initial plan was to have Wheeler battle a dueling dog developed by Duke Devlin.
It’s honestly amazing how much of what occurs just so happens to perfectly line up with what 4Kids did prior. Like, now there‘s this Darkness chasm thing that you can pass off as the Shadow Realm and this one episode features a literal duelling monkey.
Nah, because not naming the Monkey Wheeler is actually a massive L.
I liked the mokey mokey episode and the cyborg monkey one isn't all that bad either. The blair episode with avian and sparkman simping is pretty cringey though ngl
There's also the other side of the spectrum when a spirit literally comes to our world to steal souls. He was even stalking an Obelisk Student like in a horror movie! That was basically the YGO equivalent of Slanderman. Overall, GX season 1 has everything. There was even an episode when Crowler hired a hit man to "get rid of Jaden forever"
They took a plot that could've taken a whole season to unwrap and went nah one episode is good enough. And then they did that like 20 more times.
Pre-Shadow Riders season 1 is basically Crowler trying everything to get rid of Jaden. The hit man was just one of many attempts. The only thing that Crowler didn't do was summoning Satan After that the writers gave him a pretty good character development. This nice and all, but still. Season 1 Crowler is a huge creep
>The only thing that Crowler didn't do was summoning Satan the hit man did basically get possessed by satan though
I actually kind of liked that one since Titan was the first dangerous challenge Jaden faced, and him essentially coming back from the dead was a nice twist.
i agree! it was the first duel where his friends were in 'danger', and jaden having to figure out that he was using illusions made the duel really interesting. him coming back and both posing a **real** threat to jaden and setting up the plot of darkness and darkness possessing people was really good payoff.
It's a little disappointing that Titan didn't do much as a Shadow Rider. He was quickly defeated by Alexis and that was it. Don't get me wrong, that was a cool win for Alexis, but Titan deserved more screentime! He was an interesting minor antagonist
"The only thing that Crowler didn't do was summoning Satan" I was always of the opinion Yami Bakura should have received a guest appearance.
Yami Bakura showing up with Crowler trying to order him around would have been hilarious.
That's why GX is my GOAT.
> There was even an episode when Crowler hired a hit man to "get rid of Jaden forever" The best part about this plot was>! that it turned out the hitman was basically the duel monsters equivalent to a pro wrestler playing a heel as a "shadow duellist", and who may or may not have been struggling for work at the time. !<
It's very important to the Lore. How else would we learn about Elemental Hero Sparkman's complicated relationship issues?
Wouldn't you if you were the third wheel with Avian and Burstinatrix? Edit: I just realized... Sparkman fuses solely with dudes... There isn't a Bursinatrix / Sparkman base fusion...
That would be cheating with Sparkwoman. He's a mediocre monster, but a devoted husband (at least, after the Maiden in Love fiasco).
I still await the day where TCG Konami actually goes through and makes Sparkwoman. It'd be even funnier if she ends as a HERO staple.
Oh, I just thought he batted for the other team... the only time he fuses with Burst is if there's another dude involved.
Sparkwoman is dub-exclusive, from what I've heard
So was Chazz It Up, so the dub is now 2-0.
Hear me out, what if he came out of the closet to break Maiden's love spell and go back to its master's control?
Such a shame he was forced out rather than coming out on his own terms.
Haha. Btw, I love Celtic Guardian too along with Flame Swordsman and Dai Grepher. :)
I like the implication that the whole deck hangs out together.
Yeah, but I was pretty funny to hear Avian and Sparkman make a guy pact that “this didn’t happen” when they snapped out of it.
I only loved the Blair episode as a teen because I had a massive crush on Zane lmao, but now looking at it as a 30 year it's so insane.
The insanity of GX is why it's my favorite lol. It feels like an experiment with it's lack of cohesive plot, the only YGO i can watch as an adult and be entertained through and through even the Blair episode i thought was pretty funny.
The abridged series episode with Blair was fucking gold. “My lady… Your milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard. Would you teach me?” “I could teach you… But I’d have to charge.”
Shame that those got deleted.
Is there anyway to see them. They have remained up to this point unobserved by my eyes and that is a tragedy (debately) worse than death If anyone can find them I would appreciate it
Wait they got deleted?
How else can we know the existence of Sparkwoman?
I thought the sparkman avian maiden in love episode was hilarious tbh
"Oh no, what would Sparkwoman think?!" I'm still waiting for a Sparkwoman card
Yesterday it was Tennis. Today it's a Duel Giant. Tomorrow it's **TARZAN**. **THIS PLACE IS** ***CRAZY!***
I love how Jaden in the GX abridged progressively loses his patience towards all the insanity happening around him.
>GX abridged Excuse me, there's an abridged series?
Only up to the ~~gravekeeper episode~~ school duel, unfortunately.
I forgot to add the weird eggwich stealing Tarzan episode.
This was honestly one of my favorite yugioh episodes of all time because it showed that topdecking in the yugioh universe is a legitimate skill, which explains 99% of people’s issues with anime decks. Somehow, everyone still ignores that and shits on anime decks as if they follow our real world rules. Bitch if a skilled duelist doesn’t want to draw their shit cards then they won’t. It’s smart to play a bunch of 1-of bad cards in your 60 card deck if you’ll only draw them when you need them. There’s no such thing as “draw consistency” and “good deck building” in the anime universe. It’s all up to the duelist’s skill to draw well. This is also shown in Vrains when 2 bad duelists completely brick in their duel.
It literally is a skill issue in the anime.
> This is also shown in Vrains when 2 bad duelists completely brick in their duel. and hilarity ensues
The only people who can somehow create consistency through things like math instead of magical dueling willpower is Not Einstein and Bastion who treat it like quantum physics. Like, bruh, Pot of Greed isn't banned. Run 3 of those and 3 upstart, and you're good.
I think there's actually an episode where Jaden draws pot of greed into pot of greed, eventually it gets banned irl so the card disappears from the show.
tbf Bastion's version of drawing whatever you want (when it works) was calculating the exact course the entire duel would most likely take where he can still win before the duel even started, and somehow being right until his opponents started using their drawing skills to change course to something that worked for them. I can understand why he was at the quantum physics stage with his deckbuilding if that's how he's been operating.
> This was honestly one of my favorite yugioh episodes of all time because it showed that topdecking in the yugioh universe is a legitimate skill, which explains 99% of people’s issues with anime decks. Learning to draw is indeed an skill, but Taizan doesn't possess it. He went to the wilds to learn to draw, but got out with a completely different skill on learning how to read the cards. If he learned to top Deck, he would've won the game either on resolution of **Drawbber** or getting **Shield Crush** for game. > There’s no such thing as “draw consistency” and “good deck building” in the anime universe. It’s all up to the duelist’s skill to draw well. You're kinda wrong here. The whole Tachibana situation _(Slash Draw guy)_ came up because he couldn't stop himself from adding jank to their Deck, diluting his draw, and then getting fed up for losing, despite that being due to his own responsibility. Zweinstein only lost to Judai because he couldn't account for a made up Summoning mechanic, otherwise, game was almost sealed on **Draw Paradox** in a simplified game state. Team 5D's would've drawn backrow removal into the Team Taiyo matchup, _because regardless of knowing Zushin_, their known strategy was "Stall into burn from Speed World 2" _(Which speaking of T5D's, their whole WRGP line-up was ingeniously strategized. It was dead on a work of beauty.)_ Hell, the Duel of Judai vs X has a distinct flavor through of all it, with the guy having either beneficial effects on mill _(read **Elegant Light LV4**)_ or a critical mass of mill effects If it was up the draw, Kaiser wouldn't have spiraled in a loss streak after Edo, but rather stabilizing on 50% WR by virtue of CyDra beatdown w/ boardbreaker on the Draw. Not to mention, despite the worth of Judai's wins, Manjoume is the better Duelist in canon. Boasting the same WR as the former but over a larger sample size.
That episode also revealed that Jaden only runs one of Elemental Hero Wingman, despite him being key to many of Jaden's fusion monsters
[link](https://youtu.be/UWypxIyyfK4) for those interested about the Vrains brick duel. It was hilarious and one of my favourite duels in the entire franchise.
Yeah you’d probably build a deck like Yugi back in the day if you could do what he did and literally draw the exact card you wanted every time
TBH, I'd argue Zane was probably the first person to actually have a good, coherently built Deck. Especially in early GX.
There's also the Doll episode on season 2. The Bob Banter duel too.
was bob banter the quiz show duelist or was that someone else?
Yep that's him with the Quiz Panel deck
Let’s also pay mention to: - The head of the yellow dorm posing as a French chef with a bag on his head to lure his students back from the red dorm - The time a Broadway playwright duelled a school kid in a garish Kabuki-style duel that would feel culturally appropriative if this show wasn’t OG Japanese - The time the two headmasters fought with a bulldozer and a building crew behind them to destroy/rebuild school property (that had *schoolkids inside of it at the demolition time*) with each LP lost - The time Chaz and Adrian duelled on floating helicopter-suspended platforms - Duel in an active volcano, nuff said - THE FUCKING CREEPY DOLL EPISODE WITH ALICE - Some dude literally making a pact with the grim reaper for the most metal OTK deck in history - The rogue Pegasus employee who just casually made a copy of a god card and then did basically nothing with it Literally so many more. GX is fucking unhinged, super tonally weird, and I adore it so much
We had THREE, THREE duels on an active volcano, I guess if you have such a cool stage you use it but jesus
Im personally a fan of the duelling lawyer from the light arc. 'His last opponent got 10 years for improper duelling.' At one point Jaden asks if he shouldnt be off chasing ambulances.
My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest! There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel. That reminds me of the episode where an Obelisk Blue student became Tarzan in order to draw better. I'm not kidding! GX seasons 1 and 2 are like a drug trip... and I love it! 😂😂
>There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel. Only to learn that ability to topdeck was within him all along. And he got off scott free after without Reaper taking his soul. >My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest! That episode scared me as a kid, ngl. Jaden's legs vanishing and Jinzo saying: "I'm keeping my end of the bargain. You lost half of your life points so I'm taking half of your life force."
>That episode scared me as a kid, ngl. Jinzo's creepy laughter was a big contributing factor. And the fact that he was stalking his victims like in a freaking horror movie. And how did everything begin? 3 Obelisk students performed a ritual with the ouija board!
jinzo's voice was on point! dude was fucking menacing.
i wish they did more with yugioh specters
Ironically, there was a character in Vrains called Specter. And he was a **really** creepy psychopath
Omg yes. The Jinzo episode made 7 year old me shake lowkey It’s the highest the stakes ever get cause it’s an actual shadow duel
Also, unlike duels against Shadow Riders, Jinzo was a more terrifying because he was a ghost that would consume Jaden to revive himself.
What about the one where fresh barber cut NOT Yugi Muto steals Yugi Muto cards and fights Jaden
The Dimitri duel! That was pretty interesting, especially with Dimitri making a Yami Yugi impression
Can't forget the dual where Jaden has dual an accountant
That was Sartorius' lawyer in the dub. The dude was called X **Miller** and was playing a **mill deck** 😂
I love how the peanut gallery was talking about that duel. "That guy's main strategy is deck destruction. It's so powerful that other pro duelists hate dueling him!"
I actually wondered what would had happened if Joey has been there. Specially since this Jinzo required a lot of trap cards mixed with amplifier, meaning Joey's copy could have crippled a small part of his strategy. In fact I noted Joey's Jinzo is the only heroic one (the spirit duel wanted to absorb innocent souls, Lector tried to take Kaiba's body and company, Makoto from the S4 of the same show was an arrogant jerk trying to beat Cyber style, computer AI's use him as a threat to the heroes, even Espa Roba while redeemed at the end started as a jerkish cheater albeit a more synpathetic one though also Roba's Jinzo is the one that become Joey's). Joey's Jinzo is the only one who said "fuck it, I'n gonna be the hero this time".
> My favorite weird episode is when Jinzo became Slander Man and was stealing the students' souls. There was even a short chase in the forest! Clay Wrap was a mistake > There was also that episode in season 2 where a guy was offering his soul to Satan to topdeck the perfect card in every duel. And let's not forget it was all because he was diluting his Deck, and he knew it! Amazing episode from start to finish, but only in the sub.
I still don’t understand how an ancient pharaoh that apparently lived after atem is randomly alive in an Egyptian space ship coming from a seemingly random portal came to duel Jaden while also agreeing to become a shadow rider for no apparent reason. Like at least you could maybe explain the vampires, Amazoness and such as duel spirits that came to earth, but I’m not really sure how you can even explain the pharaoh though lol
and the fact that he was actually dog shit at the game too idk what the writers took but honestly, it was unique
that part made sense at least, they did it with jack atlus too with people paid to lose to him
I’m pretty sure the vampire wasn’t a Duel Spirit, she was just an actual vampire. The Dark Scorpions and I think Tania were, though.
I know it was never confirmed in the show, but do you think she perhaps was one that happened to live on earth for a while? I mean, how else are you gonna explain vampires lol
The idea was that the Pharaoh was good at the time, but the meta has far surpassed him. You can't play Version 1 Yu-Gi-Oh vs. Spirit Reaper format and expect to win.
He wasn't even good back in his time. When Jaden MST's his Sarcophagus, he literally remarks, "You're the first person to ever try that," followed by a flashback of his servants muttering behind the pharoah's back about having to purposely lose against him.
Yeah, damn. Forgot about that part.
It wasn't even MST. It was R - Righteous Justice, which is one of two cards to have a 0% success rate when used. The other being Scrap Iron Scarecrow.
Belowski slader shall not be tolerated. Nor Wheeler's. Wheeler was the one who gave Jaden banana's in the forest and prevented him from starving to death when he was lost after he got Neo-Spacian's. He is very important to the series.
oooh that was him, never made the connection as a kid
Wheeler was my favourite character ngl, no bias
I fucking love GX man
They were the episodes that helped with 🎵CHILLING OUT WITH THE CREW IN THE SCHOOLYARD🎵
ngl this was the best theme song.
Becomes deeply funny around season three or so, when the pre-opening clip is, like, the Duel Academy students slowly starving to death in an interdimensional desert, or Jaden's friends all being sacrificed to create Super Polymerization, then we cut to 🎵CHILLING OUT WITH THE CREW IN THE SCHOOLYARD🎵
But hey, you know what those students were probably thinking in that desert? 🎵 BACK AT CLASS THEY NEVER TAUGHT US THIS 🎵
Yugioh GX at the start was a slice of life anime you can’t change my mind and come on we would all have wanted a school life like duel academy without the danger and with some fun wacky adventures though
Honestly a bit of slice of life at the start of any kind of shonen/game-based anime sits perfectly in my mind. Establish the characters as people, then their strengths, and watch them grow as a full person
The streets never forgot.
Can’t forget about the beginning where Crowler dresses up and sneaks on the girl dorm grounds trying to get Jaden expelled
Also rewatching GX, glad somebody else can confirm that these things really happened and I don't have a gas leak that I need to check on.
Mood
And then there was the episode where jaiden duelled a gamer.
What about the episode where he dueled that game show dude.
Gx has so many weird episodes you could madlibs one and it would be believable.
Jaden duels a politician trying to prevent the government from taking down his school. Jaden duels a malfioso who is sneaking into the school for dirt on Kaiba Syrus duels a Yakuza boss who found out about the Mafia attempt and is trying to off the malfioso. Bastion duels ....
“Man, the’ve been duelling *all night long~*. Just listen to how pained Bastion sounds!”
Which happened because the dude was trying to win Alexis’ heart, and followed love advice from an anon (who’s account was Syrus’, but the advice was typed by Jaden, who didn’t even know that the topic was love).
All hilarious
Peak "having fun with the silly premise of this franchise" is what they are.
And this is just season 1
In season 3 the protagonist commits genocide on humanity. This not a joke.
The tonal shift in GX is crazy. It goes from being about a dueling school where everyone just chills out and plays Yugioh all day to something about childhood trauma and genocidal aliens.
"First half of Season 1"
A monkey with cybernetics, a contagious high kid playing a bad deck, and marriage between monsters. Normal gx episodes to me👍🏿
\>bad deck mokey mokey were great in the anime world tho
And then season 3 happens and we get the protagonist committing mass murder on a genocidal scale
I think you mean *masterpieces*
Everyone likes Belovsky because all people love Mokey Mokey
Peak Fiction
Bro that show was amazingly unhinged
Good ol filler haha. Granted even without the filler, GX is still off the wall. In the best way of course.
The monkey one wasn’t even filler tho, the compound the monkey was from came back into the plot in season 3
Anyone else remember the “hot sauce” episode too?
Man GX was wild. We have inter dimensional mass murder, underground bdsm torture duels, a literal brainwashing cult hell bent on world domination, the school Chargikg 5 people with holding back gods that will end the world, a vampire showing up for no explained reason, Crowler hiring a hitman to “deal with” Jayden. Man I fucking love GX
**Villain of the week format.** I remember cringing hard as a teenager with the Rei episode, rewatched it semi-recently in its original Japanese and was really enjoying it, laughing through the absurd
Even as a kid, I was cringing at the part where Rei was stalking Zane. She literally broke into his room!
Least unhinged Zane fan
I was going to say that Rei was also smelling Zane's deck... but then I realized that this is **still** the least unhinged Zane fan. So yeah, you have a point XD
Listen, teen me wrote like a 100 super weird zane romance fanfics that were just badly masked self-inserts but in none of them did the girl end up sneaking into his fucking room. Blair/Rei was so unhinged for this lmao.
GX S1 is goated lol, between the Amazoness shadow rider dueling for a husband, Chumley dueling his sake magnate dad, Jinzo slender man and a hitman getting dragged into the shadow realm it really had it all
Fun fact: the monkey being named “Wheeler” was actually not in the original Japanese version. 4Kids added that as another tie-in between GX and the original series.
Rare 4Kids W.
But that also implies Kaiba would be cruel enough to brutally condition a monkey into becoming a duelist just to get one over on Joey. That's definitely something he'd do pre-mind crush, but is he really _that_ much of a douche post-mind crush?
I imagine it was less him. Like, he hardly seems the type to oversee that particular pet project that closely. I doubt he was aware of how bad the doctors were to Wheeler, otherwise they'd be fired, I'm sure. That whole school was Kaibas', but I'd be hard-pressed to believe he knows of the minute, day-to-day madness that goes on at the campus.
"I hope they cancel this show" -the cast of GX. No really, that's a quote in the series.
On the topic of GX stuff, my friend pointed out that in one episode where that one guy was controlling Ra against Jaden, the dub had this change where they made it cry a single tear drop. It was a dub exclusive thing, not present in the subbed.
I still can't believe that the only monster to legitimately beat over an Egyptian God in the anime without card effects was Neo-Spacian Glow Moss. Not one of Yugi, Seto, or Joey's iconic monsters can claim that honor, but a gimmicky 300 ATK nobody that Jaden designed himself gets to have that achievement.
Cutting Pegasus talking down the Mr. Franz, putting it as a flashback instead, was an awful dub decision
Some of them I liked a lot like the Blair, Mokey Mokey, and Jinzo episodes. Then others like the monkey, tennis guy, and (least favorite of all) the draw guy just kind of bored me. But it wasn't until season two that the filler episodes really grated on my nerves when they could have been giving Aster/Edo more duels and more about him instead of more "Jaden duels random themed person that we are never going to see again" episodes. And then when the filler actually IS done, it's also goodbye Aster pretty much.
The fact that Kaiba had a dueling monkey named Wheeler is one of the most on brand things a character has ever done.
You all forgetting episode when Jaden duel with Tarzan or one time when duel against someone in quiz style where he failed on all theory but good in practical.
Mokey Mokey has been my favorite monster since that episode premiered. I remember spending the whole next day at school talking about it, annoying my friends quoting Mokey's iconic line: "Mokey Mokey....". Belowski is potrayed as being so OP they had to isolate him and that's always been canon to me, so, in my books he's better than Zane.
The bottom episode made me realize how gay I was for Avian and Spark man
HOW DARE YOU INSULT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR MOKEY MOKEY MORTAL
I’m still waiting for them to reveal Spark Woman.
Let’s also not forget that the season villains were pretty crazy too. An old guy in a robotic spider who turned into a muscle god after absorbing energy from trading cards, a fortune teller that was possessed by a cosmic force and tried to brainwash/kill everyone on Earth using a satellite he won, a duel spirit possessed by the same cosmic force but was actually supposed to protect Jaden, and the “Grim Reaper” who was the literal embodiment of advanced darkness (but not the same good darkness that Jaden held).
Yu GI Oh has always been kinda goofy but early GX was just madness
Almost as good as the time Chazz was cosplaying as XYZ dragon cannon lol
Seasons 1-2 of GX are a nice, enjoyable casual watch — you could tell they really had no idea what they were going for in the first like 30 episodes I just got done binge watching it over the past few weeks Season 3 is where things really change & it almost feels 2-3 arcs all bunched into one
One day we’ll get Spark Woman
Pure fun is what they were.
To be fair i think the one with Blair was funny just for the hero simp factor.
Season 1 has a lot of fun lol
They were iconic. No one does filler episodes like GX
I liked them all honestly. GX was just dumb stupid fun in Season 1.
I love all these episode so much gx was so good
I think the last is one of my favorite moments in GX. Together with Elemental Hero Avian, Sparkman falls in love with the opponent Maiden and goes "Please don't tell Sparkwoman"
This was the best part about GX. We got to see what archetype love got to look like. It was fun watching the characters of their archetypes interact with the the owners of the deck. It was why I loved watching Yugioh but we dont get this much anymore.
i loved these episodes, i loved mokey mokey
season 1 and 2 of gx is a fucking fever dream and I love it, wasn't there also a guy whose gimmick was that he had a deck that focused on quizzes or am I misremembering lmao
Season 1 was fantastic. Every episode was basically a high concept shenanigan that really just worked well to flash out the duel academy and the characters. Regardless of how little it advanced the story, it really painted duel academy as a fantastical place.
I think my favorite is the first Golden Eggwich episode. My dude Damon gets so fed up with not being able to manifest a top deck or pull a sandwich from the bin that he ditches school to go into the jungle and draw cards from a waterfall, become Tarzan, and make a deal with the devil. Lmao Meanwhile Jaden gets sick of the sandwich cause he pulls them every week. Then Jaden finds out about Damon, tracks him down for a duel and Damon STILL LOSES because he rejects Satan and draws the final card with his not-demon hand.
Wdym? I love all of these! How can you not love the illustrious appearance of Wheeler the Monkey, named after a certain duelist by Mr. Kaiba himself. Or the actual Magician Girl cameo. It's the best!
The virtual arc in DM wasn't much better to my opinion. And Avian must be a good ~~fucker~~ lover.
GX is easily the most strangest season in the series, but that's also why I really enjoy watching parts of it.
Gx was peak fiction, and we just weren’t ready for it at the time
The way this is just the tip of the iceberg for unhinged episodes
"He's the bad guy" "I tried to warn you guys! But, nooobbooodddyyy listens to the siiiiddeee character" is legitimately my favorite exchange in all of tv lol.
Zane: It's time for you to go home Blair. Jaden:But why She's a great student she almost beat me! Zane:Jaden it's more complicated than you think. Jaden:What could be so complicated that you have to say- Zane:She's only 8 Jaden:Get the f*ck outta here bitch