We won't ever have a Yu-Gi-Oh anime series nearly as good as 5d's again

dark signer is amazing, after that is your average yugioh show

Yeah, it's just a meme

This, it has a lot of great memorable parts. There is an awful lot of bad filler between the end of the Dark Signer arc and when Season 3 really its stride though.

Nah, Yuma was a retard 3/4 of zexal and Yuya was never presented as some kind of "badass" character like Yusei.
>Yugi, Judai and Yusaku
Ok, fair. Although to be fair, Yusaku is legit autistic.

>Thor's crotch

This is Fudo Yusei's ace monster, Stardust Dragon. Say something nice about it.

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The first time the ace monster of a protagonist was meta relevant in the irl game

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>Show Yusaku and Aoi sitting together on the park
>Expecting some development
>They just share a shitty scene of hardly 30 secs and probably will never talk each other till last chapter.
This is why you dont ship in this franchise.

No, this is why you don't ship in Yu-Gi-Oh.

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Which rival was the most autistic? (aside from Autism King Kaiba, of course)

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Sanda maybe or Keikakuman.

Literally a meme. Crash town Arc was good. Arc Cradle was pure kino. While the Riding Duel Tournament wasn't all that good, it had its moments. For example, Team Taiyou, Yusei soloing the Norse gods, and final battle of yliaster.

Jack Atlas literally couldn't function properly in society after he lost his title against Yusei. He also tried to kill a child over a card

Synchro Summon > XYZ summon > Link Summon > Fusion Summon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pendulum Summon

You can't prove me wrong.

And then firewall dragon took it too far

Fusion is superior.

>Yuma
>Yuya
Yuma could have been a retard but Astral always saved his ass in almost every duel.
Yuya's "rage mode" was basically an instant win, and his "EGAO mode" was the same.

>He also tried to kill a child over a card
Jack knew Yusei would save Rally than join him in leaving Satellite for the city.

>Pendulum that low
At least Pendulum didn't monopolize the game for three whole years like the rest of the summoning methods when those were introduced.
Besides Pendulums actually helped some of the old archetypes into becoming relevant once again since a long time, thanks to the ability of summoning multiple times per turn.

You can only pick one monster in pic related.

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Photon manlet

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>Jack Atlas literally couldn't function properly in society
Although it was filler, that chapter was actually funny.

Yusei.

Is Yusei trying to dab?

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something something sex cults something something

I find this dumb. Isnt nihon itself a big cult?

GOING FAST MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE

Superior OP right here:
youtube.com/watch?v=t6AJBKmnkWE

Still was no excuse to ruin a perfectly good relationship. Jack and Carly really brought out the best in one another..

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I remember when we had to vote on the opening. Everyone went with Hyper Drive because of how gay the lyrics sounded.

I love him

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Objectively correct opinion, user.

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Imagine being so gangsta that you unironically kill a cop in a series where dueling him would have been enough.
Imagine being so gangsta that you and 3 of your friends take over an entire town district using normal monsters and equip cards.

Now post Akis.

That's perfect. Although now I have to figure out if I save it to my Yugioh folder, or my Symphogear folder.

Why not both?

Oh, i-i never realized this.

>Isnt nihon itself a big cult?
Maybe a cult, but not a sex cult. If they were a giant sex cult, they wouldn't have those pitiful fertility rates.

How is it possible for one archetype to be this fucking based?

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Drill Warrior was criminally underused.

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I am sure they made Zane into an edgelord because they realized that his only character trait was being a good duelist while Jazz had everything else, while an above average duelist.

Kazunori Takahashi was the only one that really used to stick out for me

>Kaiba's big ears are consistent in almost all cases.

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>One of the cutest MCs.
>Literally the anti-christ.

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Did GX even have a rival? Judai was a huge rival slut. Chazz, Bastion, Zane, Aster, Jesse, Tyranno and even fucking Crowler all qualify

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But Zexal was DM 2.

5Ds was shit, Zexal and Vrains are both better than it.
That is the meme, but it's wrong; 5Ds isn't good for the first 64 episodes, it's okay for them.

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Takahashi is one of the veteran animation that stuck around since DM. Maybe one of the best.

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5Ds wasn't even as good as 5Ds

Yeah but not enough people got past the bad start

> Crash town Arc was good. Arc Cradle was pure kino
No
>Yusei soloing the Norse gods,
That was bad

It's Sanda officially.

>Zexal and Vrains
>better than 5D's

Zexal is fun but it ain't better than 5D's and neither is Vrains. Vrains is just boring. Besides neither Zexal or Vrains has a cute nerd waifu in them.

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Zexal's highs completely surpass 5Ds' highs.

DM manga > Zexal > 5Ds > GX > Arc-V > Vrains

I like how Joey and Crow are the only real friends on the "friends" side.

How big was Aki, again?

Zexal is leagues better than 5Ds.

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They're secondary rivals. Shark is right behind Crow.

Nigga you know 5D's was way better than Zexal.

Why does Kaiba always dislocate his shoulder to draw a card?

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My personal favorites are second half of Zexal, the first 64 episodes and ending (ZONE battle) of 5d's, and Battle City. Just pure, absolute, yugioh in all its high stakes, over the top, asspull/friendship, homolust yaoi, cardfu's and boss monster glory. They're just perfect anime kino. Supreme King/Yubel from GX is also really good it just takes forever to get there.

Honorable mentions include some awesome individual moments from 5d's (Accel synchro), everything that Kaiba is/does/says, and the beginning of Arc V (It had "that" magic, but blew it so hard). I really, really wanted to like Arc V and Vrains, but they're both irredeemable garbage. I tried so hard too, but I just couldn't.

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I love this autist so much.

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You love him in Defense Position ? That's kinda gay you know

He's taken, user. Unless you want to get BURSTO STREAMED, you'll back off.

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Manjoume lacked the autism to be a true rival. He never had a real interest in defeating Judai. He even let Judai win on purpose in the last season (he was a true rival in the manga tho)

youtube.com/watch?v=wPfG7tOd9_c
Zexal moon duel is peak Yu-gi-Oh and no once can convince me otherwise.
Tho, Kaiba making a portal to the afterlife to duel Atem is pretty close

>no problem bro, the space ambulance will be here soon

>lacked the autism
>runs ojamas
>dresses up as OjaManjoume
>tries to flex countless times to get Asuka´s cunny
Yeah nah. Manjoume was very autistic

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Manjoume (Manga) > Manjoume (Anime)
I just love autistic rivals

GX manga was so fucking good.

I'm sure we can share him.

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Jaden had it coming

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I still dream about Sora Shiunin sometimes

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Yo, dude, do you mind if I take one of your donuts?

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>stardust
>in defense position
Ayyy

Can you compete with every instance of Blue Eyes?

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>name my band

>>tries to flex countless times to get Asuka´s cunny
Nothing wrong with that, tho. Based Ojamanjoume isn't an asexual NPC like his friends and actually wants some pussy

we won't ever have ayugioh girl like kotori again

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Team Satisfaction

>wonder when Judai used a dragon
>wonder if he stole it and if I'd have to reread
>realize its Winged Kuriboh
>remember how the manga ends

so fucking based. what a great duel.

Thank God for that.

>proceeds to be defeated by the Kaiser like a bitch

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wrong green-haired girl

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>My personal favorites are second half of Zexal, the first 64 episodes and ending (ZONE battle) of 5d's, and Battle City. Just pure, absolute, yugioh in all its high stakes, over the top, asspull/friendship, homolust yaoi, cardfu's and boss monster glory. They're just perfect anime kino. Supreme King/Yubel from GX is also really good it just takes forever to get there.

What a based post.

>the beginning of Arc V (It had "that" magic, but blew it so hard).

Eh, looking back on things I dislike the beginning of Arc V too.

>VRAINS irredeemable garbage.

Nah, I like it too. Although looking back on it, you're right, it lacks the super electric highs of the first few series.

>literally in love with a fucking duel monster card
Kaiba is probably the most autistic anime character ever

Still the wrong green-haired girl.

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The stories of the manga are almost always better because it's only one story instead of every arc having it's own thing. Also Vrains manga never ever.

>ancient monsters are summoned as holographic card monsters that got so popular that society itself has been moulded around the game and caused intergalactic wars

It pisses me off how the YuGiOh writers don't realize they have one of the most fascinating worlds in fiction and massive storytelling possibilities.

>Yuya's "rage mode" was basically an instant win, and his "EGAO mode" was the same.
I'm pretty sure he used it against reji, and still lost.

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What cute Ruri you have there

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>spoiler
After what happened at the end of the Arc-V manga maybe that's for the best.

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>The stories of the manga are almost always better
Not really, i mean DM Manga aside the YGO Spin-off Manga always end too soon and have very little development for the cast. GX Manga was good but the ending was rushed. Ive heard the 5D's was terrible and the ARC-V Manga was a rushed mess. No clue about the Zexal one tho

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Was Manga!Judai one of the biggest jobbers on the series?

Why is Fairy Lily so under appreciated? She's so much cuter than BMG.

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>Builds a new deck (Masked HEROs)
>Proceeds to lose with said deck on it's debut on-panel duel

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Should have just given Decode Talker 200 more atk.

When will she get a figure?

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There is no YGO series that is good as a complete series. They either go to shit, start out shit or have increments of shit in between the good stuff.

The peak YGO is always going to be the original YGO manga by Takahashi.

But what does it do?

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So, we all agree that the best duel of all Yu-Gi-Oh series was Kaiba vs Yami Yugi in the Battle City finals, right?

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I hate how Odd-eyes Rebellion Dragon debut was against random mooks and then just jobbed every time it was played(regardless if Yuya won or not).

I like it a lot but no.

Oh great, this thread reminded me of the first 52 episodes of Arc-V and when we truly believed it would be the greatest series

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Pretty sure the best duel still remains as Yugi vs. Atem

>GX over DM
Now look here I am the biggest GX mark you'll find but over DM?
The fuck?

>still remains
It never was

>BTW you card lets me summon a dragon too.
LMAO no.

Pretty much. It's a nice change of pace tho. Judai plot armor isnt all that strong and he isnt a total special snowflake.

Literally gets OTK'd like a chump

Chazz autism was cute

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Don't remind me, i'm still upset. Fuck 5D's world which was just a rehash of the Fortune Cup but with less Jesus Fudo and Aki and more Crow plus BEES.

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well he did say over the anime

What is up with manga purists? I thought DOMA was pure boring ass but KC Grand Prix was fun and Virtual World was amazing.

Millennium World is almost entirely re-written and this is after it was heavily contradicted by Doma. Also, the Virtual World arc happens right in the middle of Battle City and makes Kaiba's angst in his duel with Yami Yugi redundant.

Fucking bees was a wasted potential. Not only the play style is similar to birdies but even the naming sense its the same.

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But Doma gave us "DORO MONSTA CARDO!"

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The only notable scene in that arc

I didn't think it made Kaiba's angst redundant, but they needed to explain his backstory in the anime to get why the fuck he is so angry and obsessed with winning. I love Virtual World, think Noa is a great antagonist, but I do think the filler was put in a very bad place. I also think though that exact placement before the very end of Battle City was nessicary because the anime needed to explain Kaiba and his reasons and what he is about.

So what was worse? Tea's friendship speeches or Shinji's anarchist rants?

Why was Yusei such a chad?

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A few short scenes littered throughout Battle City or placed in the beginning of it could have accomplished that just fine. Having an entire arc dedicated to it in the middle of an already ongoing arc is retarded. You asked what the deal with manga purists was, and I told you. Everything about the manga flows better.

Shinji's anarchist rants because Anzu actually has something of value to contribute.

Shinji is full of shit from start to finish.

Fuck off satellite scum.

I still ship them hard. They deserved better

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There was pro-action duels from Varin though.

But he was a virgin autist who had only one main focus.

*blocks his path*

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>Tea's friendship speeches
At least those inspired the protagonists, unlike Shinji's.

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It's wrong that I want to fuck the gnome girl?

discard fodder for phoenix wing wind blast

ARC-V shat the bed hard after months of saying it ould become the best YGO Anime ever. But at least it gave us the best love story ever told

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Remember when the protagonist pulling a random new summoning out of his ass was questioned?

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Arc-V part 1 was all promises and barely had anything of substance so it's still bad.

Grace > Serena >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yuzu

>Grace > Serena >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yuzu

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But they're all just useless props meant to stand there are be pretty. Yu-Gi-Oh is a boys game after all.

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>Grace
Good taste

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I dont know how the writter and the fruitshipping's fandom expect i care about that when Yuzu literally only cared about the XYZ's dick on the first season, and even worse being distrustful of Yuya for dumb reasons.

Is Yu-Gi-Oh manga(s) good? should I re-watch the anime(s) or read the manga(s)? (Including spin offs)

Yes, yes, and yes.

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This is just wishful thinking but i hope the in the next series the main girl is a villain/rival.

YGO (Duel Monsters) is a classic nigga, you should also read first the mango.

*blocks your argument*

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it had the biggest comedy scenes that is most used in MADs to this date, even more so than zexal and DM. filthy gaijins just don't understand the masterpiece after Yliaster appeared

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Mieru >>>>> all

Mieru is great but, i cant see lolis as shipping material.

5D's would've been better if Crow had been a Dark Signer like originally planned and Aki took his place as the third wheel of the main cast. And also if Ruka had fucked Rua

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Gosh he is dreamy.

Yeah, i agree. Fucking black wings ruined everything.
>spoiler
Nah, incest its only funny if involves the MC.

The last two seasons were really good. And as said, it's only because of the anime putting in random crap and cheapening what was otherwise a really good plot

Nah, my nigga Jonouchi almost beating that faggot Marik was the best duel

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Yuma did slowly improve though. The changes were surprisingly subtle for yugioh as well. By the end he didn't even need Astral, he was already a top tier duelist without him. He legit did improve

Marik was weak shit. Mai almost beat him as well before Jono.

Synchro=Xyz=Fusion>pendulum>link.

I have no problem with the first three, then they started changing the game board. Pendulums are garbage but at least you can still do the other summoning methods. After I found out link summons nerfed all the other methods so you would be forced to use it I was done

>I was done
Pendulums was the last straw for me

Read all the yugioh manga. Original manga is far superior to the anime. The spinoffs follow different stories from the anime and are more to the point, they're worth a read also. There's also Yugioh R which doesn't have an anime

>i thought the meme was that 5ds was only good for the first 64 episodes.
that was a meme that dubfags decided to embrace and help with the coping
We got a lot of the best duels in the franchise in 5Ds second half

Who can blame you

have you forgotten this season?

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Why is the YGO fanbase the only one of an ongoing nostalgia franchise with multiple seasons I've seen that actually seems to watch every season of their show? Like in Digimon's case, most people stopped after season 4 and I'm not going to get into Pokemon

Marik is overrated.

That series also has 3 really shitty filler arcs

Link is only garbage because they changed the Master Rules so you need Links to play the other extra deck cards freely. If they removed this stupid condition links would be just fine

Based
The real reason to like the anime version of Battle City is because they gave the best boi Bakura more screentime

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Pokemon and Digimon cant go into half a season without reminding you that the 1st season existed. Meanwhile yugi's spinoff besides some random cameos or namedrops usually go on their own.

Was this scene really necessary?

Nice to see Bakura enjoying some juicy steak.

I'll never understand why ppl prefer bland Manga chazz over Anime Chazz.

They stripped away all his charm and gave him a generic Dragon deck.

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Because Manga Manjoume grows more as a character, actually beats Judai and doesn't get a joke for a deck

DM is the worst season by far. rewatching it was fucking painful
Each season of YGO have characters that will make the whole fanbase like them because of their dueling skills and personalities. The fact ygo is an merchandise anime about an competitive game gives them the freedom to make the characters and be as serious as PG13 will allow

in digimon's case bandai adimited in one of the digimon story staff interview that they fucked pretty bad in handling the franchise. they kept thinking people wanted more adventure garbage while purposely neglecting the fanbase across the planet. they saw that people liked other shit besides adventures when Cyber Sleuth sold almost 1 million copies outside japan.

Fact: 5D's had the best duel osts ever and you can't prove this statement wrong

youtube.com/watch?v=lWxFwlCWxis
youtube.com/watch?v=xXf8je2rbro
youtube.com/watch?v=Hpk6A3kgdhc

If you're saying the anime, that means you're counting filler episodes. The filler episodes that plague the first two seasons of GX are way worse than the ones in DM. The only filler arcs in DM that are equally as bad are the Virtual World ones.

Anime Chazz is a charming character that went through a lot of growth, but he was never a proper rival to Judai like manga Chazz was. Also, manga Chazz was never an asshole like season 1 Chazz and was a little more nuanced character from the beggining.

Manga Manjoume has more character development and has an actual good deck and shows by beating Judai. Manga Manjoume also doesn't act like an spoiled brat

>The 3rd ost.
Why did they even bothered to introduce the dark synchro if shortly after they went into oblivion because of the earthbound gods?

Have we been reading/watching the same thing? Manga Chazz development is getting over his pride, which ends relatively quick.

Anime Chazz goes through more development

>a generic Dragon deck.
you dare
at least LaDD saw play. Armed Dragons are maybe the worst level monsters ever

dark synchro was the play testing for Xyz.

youtube.com/watch?v=ziqDQeFG6uA&t=8s
>that Carly duel
>that Aki duel
>that Kiryyu duel
I will never forgive Crow for stealing the spotlight over my wife Aki Izayoi!

>Yusei rejected this

Its funny how despite being a man (or a bird) Crow was such a drama queen.
>Oh no, the kids dissapeared!
>Oh no, i cant duel now i will dissapoint the children.
>Oh no, you killed my friend that i did knew about until it was introduced on the previous chapter.
>REEEEEEEE

>hating on DM

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I love the manga. But Duel Monsters didn't aged well. even if you exclude the fillers the animation later on goes beyond trash and there is some serious pacing issues

Kind of. Marik took advantage of her personality flaws to win, he also put her in a situation where summoning Ra was incredibly tempting.

Well Tea gave us this which is way cuter and more valuable.

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Every character in YGO gives friendship speeches. Friendship is like their religion

Yusaku gives autistic speeches

They even made it a card.

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The best duel was Yugi vs Strings/Marik. No I don't care the cards don't use their real life effects.

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Anime Chazz goes through the same development and then acts like a clown for 100+ episodes before getting one(1) episode of development in the final season before being thrown in the void. Getting brainwashed and then unbrainwashed over and over again does not count as development.

>sends Blue Eyes to destroy a Satellite monster in virtual space

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Let me fix that, Anime Chazz execution is far better. Being plot relevant is the only thing they fixed in the Manga.

There's not as many seasons of YGO and they always do something different every season so it stays fresh.

>Judai BTFO by Anime and Manga Edo
Based

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This is my wife Sherry LeBlanc, say nice things about her.

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Pokemon is formulaic as fuck, and they always repeat its tropes, so if you watched one season, there is no point in watching the others.

Digimon is the opposite, one season could be completely different to the former one, both in rules and in universe, and they always change the ways things work about those. If you watched one season, you don't necessarily will understand the others, and maybe you will hate them for this.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is somewhat between both concepts, if you understand the game, you will understand the anime, simple as that. Besides every new mechanic introduced to the game is explained in the anime, anyway, even if it is a different protagonist and a different world, with a completely different lore compared with the former ones. The game is still the same but with a different flavor, that's all.

why do they keep pandering to Adventure nostalgia with shit like tri?

Well, considering how the last 3 or 4 seasons have been failures, I don't blame them for pandering to nostalgfags.

>No I don't care the cards don't use their real life effects.
Isn't that due to Konami utterly nerfing cards from the anime and manga when they get printed?

French slut. Probably a hairy one, on top of that.

She´s french so she fucks niggers. Im sorry for you

Fuck off worthless dragon you asspull piece of shit. Junk Warrior was better.

Yes but people bring it up as a criticism all the time. And to be fair to Konami, some anime cards are way too broken to be allowed.

>Yes , my favorite season is GX why the question?

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This scene doesn't make sense even in context.

>there won't be another ceremonial duel as hype as 5D's was
Why live?

youtube.com/watch?v=VxaZqyv6wac

How the fuck is it legal to design the PERFECT character (Sora) and stick him in a shitty series?
Why isnt my candy bf real

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My wife is a pure maiden and she does in fact shave. Even if she didn't, she's got a great body.

That's GX in a nutshell.

Although mangas card are nerfed less hard than anime ones.

What doesn't make sense about a magic white hole shooting an evil laser beam at a trading card that corrupts a fortune teller and gives him the power to see and control destiny except when the main character shows up who has a sister who downloads herself onto the internet after dueling the fortune teller's sponsored professional athlete and the main character and then teams up with a boy with a dinosaur bone in his leg that lets him turn into a dinosaur and a duel spirit that can manifest in the real world because of space radiation to destroy a satellite that the fortune teller won by beating a prince in a trading card game?

>Gave us top 5 duel ever
He was too good to be true

DINODNA!

Ppl are actually getting back into watching Pokemon thanks to XY.

I hate how Kenzan disregards this a some delusion in season 3.

GX was divisive among the fandom for not being serious. S3 save it from being a shitshow.

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and the League sure as hell make sure no one will watch ever again

I think he was perfect for Arc-V. In any other season he would have been just a one-duel character.

>S3 was all about Judai's monster yandere thing/lover
Still a shitshow. Haou was good though.

>fortune teller won by beating a prince in a trading card game?
this is the part that lost me

I forgot, why the fuck did Kaiba send Judai's cards to outer space?

>Red Dragon Archfiend got BTFO so hard by Junk Warrior that his arm never fully recovered and he had to gain an effect just to counter monsters like him

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If you want to redo arc-v, how would you have done the synchro arc till the end? How would you guys resolve the 4 guys?

deepest fucking lore

so aliens can learn how to play ygo. Not even memeing

because he want to teach Alien how to play card game

>This was never exploited as a meme
Fandom failed.

Is there a character who was done dirtier than this guy? The only ones who come close are the 5Ds girls.

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literally the whole cast of Arc-V who isn't YUYA! YUZU!

youtube.com/watch?v=b9_KPuZPpeg

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>Is there a character who was done dirtier than this guy?
This little shit right here. They obviously had something for him, but it went nowhere

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I feel like people are too hard on Fubuki. His losses are
>2 to the main character
>1 to the main antagonist
>1 to Hell Kaiser
Also to Asuka but that doesn't count since he wasn't using his real deck and not really trying.

Literally every characters from Vrains not named Yusaku or Ai.

The fandom only really care about the anime characters, and when they care about the cards, they only care about the moe girls.

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>No Fire Dragon
>Cucked by Jaden
>Turns into comic relief and gets zero respect
>Doesn't appear in S4

The writers hated him. No question about it.

>That dub.

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I mostly dislike GX because in the season 2 they introduced a bunch of new characters that I couldn't give less of a shit about while the old characters became less and less relevant and, because instead of creating awesome new elemental hero cards, they created fucking Neo Spacians, that might just be the worst archetype that a main character ever played with

>Not because it tried to be the judge of the world
>Not because its the personification of evil.
>Everthing was out of pure seething
I really liked Lightning.

This clip almost makes me love 4kids

5D's was only good for the first ~60 episodes and then it got fucked hard by that sex scandal
GX>>>D's

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Adventure is the only really profitable series anymore

tbqh, teaching aliens how to duel makes more sense than "receiving waves of the universe's will to create new cards"

Seriously, people give 5Ds a lot of shit for Jesus Fudo but I feel like Vrains hates any character that isn't the main guys

Sometimes their effects get buffed when they get printed
>You can halve this card's ATK until the End Phase to allow this card to attack your opponent directly this turn.
Greentext here was Stratos' original manga effect

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literally who

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>the job squad

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I love how niggas understood the God cards as so powerful that they literally based entire strategies around taking them before their opponent could summon them. Mai did it. Bakura did it (in the anime only iirc) and Kaiba did it. So damn good.

To be fair, Takeru had a perfect score until being Bohman'd.

With the latest movie having kaiba using a space elevator to go back in time to duel the pharaoh, teaching aliens to duel suddenly isn’t the dumbest thing he’s ever done.

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Why Lightning made his perfect creation a nigga?

This. If anything he needed Astral emotionally. I've been saying it for years but the Tag Team arc in Zexal is really, really good.

>"I'm entrusting you with the Numbers."

>Yuma looks at the Numbers.
>"If it weren't these I wouldn't have to feel this pain."

>Cicada guy offers to take the Numbers and Yuma's memories.
>Yuma refuses anyway.

And it only gets better from there.

I just want another series with a regular, contemporary setting again. I'm tired of all the futuristic bullshit.

Mai didn't make Marik piss his pants in fear like Joey did tho

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Too bad Marik didn't have a big scorpion. Could have won without even trying like Odion did.

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that was because of Ra, marik wasnt threatening otherwise

>the bad guy wasn't threatening except for what made him threatening.

We all agree that Yu-Gi-Oh WC 2011 was the best YGO video game ever, right?

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Make it a slice of life about Sora

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The fearsome foursome of the dark dueling world or whatever were pretty sucky villains aside from Heartland, and Kaito's duel was complete insanity, but the arc itself was pretty great.

Well, it gave us the absolute best girl.

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Girl Bruno?

2010 > 2011

How often is Sora in the manga? Is it worth reading the manga anyway? I've seen the ending page and it seems pretty retarded

>A new monster that appears that's effect is to equip Synchro monsters to itself
>Yusei has plenty of cards that can counter it's effect (Junk Archer, Turret Warrior, Turbo Warrior, Scrap Iron Scarecrow, Panic Wave)
>Yusei starts having fucking ptsd that he can't use his favorite card
>Has to asspull a new card with Crimson Dragon ex Machina

Seriously, why did they ignore this nigga?
It's a freaking Gundam with a pompadour, what more do you want?

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>Cardgames
>On motorcycles
ZEXAL was way better.

>what is YWCS 2008
>What is Saikyo Card Battle

>Shooting Star is still the only monster with its own theme
Are insert songs too expensive to make?

youtube.com/watch?v=O1Sx7B5WnDo

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Because she wasnt used by a Main character. They need to put some respect on the OG broken Mon.

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>This wasnt used on Yuya's multi-attack against Tyrant.
Missed chance.

Is there any card Exodia couldn't beat?

Exodia jobbed to Yubel.

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pedro please

Things like Numeron Force debut makes me sometimes forget shit like this happened.

Malik vs Yami

The first time was a cool, when i rewatched the series well....

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>Armityle's owner switch and banish effects were included in the anime after it became a real card

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it's just a meme vrains and zexalfags always say this shit to compensate for the fact that the first 73 episodes of zexal are trash and vrains being boring

>Well...
It was even better. I agree.

>vrains and
that's how you know this is bait as this has been widely parroted since arc-v was airing.

not that one, the doll one

What he could have done with Stardust, anyway?

Umi

it was a thing since zexal

I really like the way the manga does it. Ragnarok is hype, but there's something about it just coming down to Dimension Magic, Black Magician and Black Magician Girl without anyone else needing to be banished that's cool. I'm not sure which I prefer but I think it's the manga.

I don't remember the left and middle

S1 was aimless at first, but was saved at the end because of the Dark Duels arc. S2 is just full pants-on-head retarded for the majority of it. Phoenix is a tool. Only Whites Allowed was pretty funny but still dumb. Fucking space cards, man. Almost made me drop the show entirely but thankfully S3 and S4 were good.

youtube.com/watch?v=ebU7DA4GVW8
>best track it's in the first episode

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5Ds had the best OP
youtube.com/watch?v=zliTLFfIq9M

>implying
youtube.com/watch?v=aSnMNV2d-ms

youtube.com/watch?v=_TXHj2V-HDk
KYUJUKYU PAASENTO

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfgAKPrfq8
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii9Q59GAOoI

youtube.com/watch?v=-zTQ5IpCQTo
Who sang it better?

Why can't he be real?

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Whatever happened to Card Ejector being Jadens prominent monster? It really seemed like it was going to play a bigger part in Jadens deck because of the opening, or at least be another Spirit partner.

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S3 and S4 are garbage.

S4 was them trying fix the series up with duct tape.

Why?

Forced edgyshit doesn't a good plot make.

What makes GX "edgyshit" forced but Marik's abusive dad carving ruins into his back and all the edgy stuff that happens in the manga okay?

It comes out of nowhere , literally forced by magic at one point.

oh nononon
Asuka bros?

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I don't like Ra isn't affected by anything until it is. That's true for both versions, but the manga is especially bad about it.

>Daichi x Judai
Weird ship, but okay.

I HATE that they made him lose to fucking Ojamas.

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I would be fine with it except that he fused his two previous final boss monsters into one big super monster and it just dies immediately in one turn.

Sanda was a joke at that point, so they threw him a bone having him win against Edo.

it was a fun rpg yugioh game but tag force 6 was the best yugioh game

Didn't he lose on purpose?

No. Manjoume lost on purpose to Judai.

They could have made Manjoume beat the LGBT dragon or any of the other 2
season 3 guys if they wanted that. Edo jobbing to Exodia was already bad enough.

Speaking of characters of losing on purpose...

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Edo's a jobber lol

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>arc-v
nigger

Becky a cute.
>the OG broken Mon.
Wouldn't that be Yata/Makyura/Magical Scientist?

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He jobs to Saitou and Amon.

I hate it.

Doesn't count. He was a victim of villain-wanking

>Literally d-d-doesn't count.
Come on. Everyone except Judai, Johan and Austin are big jobbers in GX. It's fine.

Actually Judai is kind of a jobber too
>Loses to Ryo to build up how awesome he is
>Loses to Edo for the same reason

>O'brien
>Not a jobber
He lost to his "father"

every single main character but Yusei is a jobber. Motherfucker went and became king of duelists without even wanting

I guess. But he's the least egregious example.

Yugi only jobbed a single time unless you want to count filler. And if you do that, Yusei also lost when he conveniently crashed his D-Wheel that one time. When Yugi jobs, he's in the exact same situation except it's his opponent who gets lucky with a lucky timeout right before the attack hits.

So now that Anzu went to fuck black men in usa, we can all agree that Rebecca won the yugibowl?

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Amon would be the less jobber. He only lost once.

Yeah
She likes regular Yugi for who he is and not what he looks like unlike Tea. Probably earned her a lot of points in his self conscious heart.

Yeah but he got jobbed out of existence which is worse. He also lost twice, Yubel just left early the first time.

Yugi only won against Marik because he surrendered. Marik. The guy who technically lost again Joey and Mai.
Also, he lost against Zombie Kaiba and only won because Kaiba literally help him with cheat codes.

Yugi lost games even when he literally had the power to topdeck any time he wanted.

Jobbing doesn't mean almost losing user. Jobbing is a very specific type of loss where one character loses to build up another character's threat level.
Example: Kaiba losing to Pegasus easily is an example of jobbing and shows how much Pegasus was holding back in the first duel with Yugi
Counterexample: Mai losing to Tea is not jobbing because she willingly threw the match to repay a debt because she's best girl.

I want to count filler. Raphael should have won both duels.

>Raphael should have remained a rage filled puppet of Dartz for the rest of his life
Not cool user.

I wish but Kaz is an Anzufag, no way he's letting a non canon loli win even in the universe she does exist.

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No idea. If I remember well, it only shows up once in... Yubel's duel? Then does nothing. It showed up in the opening after it's only appearance.

They either couldn't figure out how to use it in duels, or they decided to omit it in duels since they had to finish the final season earlier than expected.

At the end, Who won this duel?

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Well the duel never actually happened so it doesn't matter.

Yugi obviously, but that mostly cause they made Judai use trash card he never used before to let Yugi still use his signature cards
>equip card to edgeman that tosses first card to the graveyard so yugi can use gilfer demon
>that whole spiel of trying to keep gran mole in his hand when he could have just used him from the grave from the start

Dimension Magic counts as battle in the manga.

So is Obelisk's effect, didn't save it from the god hierarchy.

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How come even though everyone say that the first two seasons of 5D's are better, most of the memorable scenes from 5D's are from the latter half?
Stuff like Clear Mind, Quasar summon, One Turn Three Kill, End your damn turn Jean, team Taiyo, Z-One, and the Aki and Yusei scene.
Meanwhile the only thing that people usually mention from the first half is pretty much just the Jack and Carly stuff.

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>End your damn turn Jean
That's not a good thing.

>people usually mention from the first half is pretty much just the Jack and Carly stuff.
Because they had good chemistry and great interactions. It did not feel forced but very natural. Carly saw Jack for the man that he is not the public persona he had. Aki only saw Yusei as an idea and a replacement for Divine. She never got closure just Divine ejected from her life and the relationship with her parents suddenly mended without the work that needs to be put into repairing a broken relationship. But some people just don't know or understand what good writing is.

Only the Gods operate under hierarchy,. It's like how Xyz Monsters don't have levels, so level effects don't effect them; they're not level zero, they just don't have them. It's the same with basically every other monster.

I'm not saying the divine hierarchy is defensible writing mind you, I feel like it only exists so that Obelisk and Slifer cannot beat Ra, but that's how it works.

Yes, it shows character development.

We had Young & Pure & Smiling Manjoume in the manga, I will protect that smile desu

Our universe is too small to contain the size of his autism

Beautiful. Just beautiful. I want to be Seto's faithful wife

thats the one

*blocks your path.
youtu.be/Cp14pxwzKFo
youtu.be/67Er8GTDqN8
youtu.be/EQvXEVCc6B0

youtu.be/9RaztTuTKs8
youtu.be/2wp8msXlWe8
youtu.be/DlGcoV6rvJA

Better work on that dragon suit

Bump

Yeah but then again perhaps could this be the nearest pair in this series to be an actual thing? since the rest pretty much No Way Fag.jpg them out

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You're forgetting another person who won against Judai.

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You can't deny Vrains is just as based as any other ygo.

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You can tell that Vrains' hilariously unambitious plot was a direct reaction to fan reception of Arc V. They realized that it's worse to aim for the stars and deliver a shit product than it is to keep low expectations from the start.

Not really, or else they would've stacked to a School setting.

I think Yugi never lost in the manga

I hate that +10 years after Edo's debut D-Heroes are still fucking garbage

Lost against Pegasus because of the time limit, and they also lost against Kaiba because lolsuicidethreat. Also made himself lose against brainwashed Joey to save him.

What is happening there?

She's showing that she's wearing the key she's supposed to be guarding under her clothes.

The initial premise of Vrains looks safer than the one we end up with.
Also making 90% of character relationships be acquaintance at best is not exactly something a safe show would do.

S2 opening and endings really seemed like Soulburner was gonna be the Johan of this series.

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>Duels this time are with Virtual Reality in high speed duels on Hoverboard/Skateboard like devices
>The show's theme is "一歩を踏み出し、トライしよう！" (Take a step forward, and try!), on the premise of kids should try things out instead of giving up at the first try due to being overwhelmed by information.
>Yusaku is a boy who doesn't like standing out, and particularly doesn't stand out at school. However, he gets drawn into encounters with people as he tries out Dueling for once.

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none of those are real losses tbqhwymdf

The manga was edgy from chapter 1 while GX had a mostly lighthearted first half.

The first 73 episodes aren't even that bad though. The Tron family and Kaito were good

Someone in another thread mentioned that Vrains' initial premise was suspiciously similar to Arc-V and that's why they may have scrapped everything.
Especially that tagline, I think Arc-V had a similar sounding one.

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Reminder that Judai carried the team during the movie.

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>Neos
>Carrying ANYTHING

> “Have courage and take a step forward!!” The main character is a young boy named Yūya Sakaki who escapes harsh reality by smiling. Stemming from a duel, Yūya gains a hidden power of limitless possibilities by having the determination to face his troubles head on

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How can a matrix-esque YGO be so bland? You'd think with all of those years of experience of what work and what doesn't, coupled with a premise that's fucking nuts, YGO6 would be the very best YGO there is.

How they managed to fuck it up is beyond me.

Also, I'm sorry I'm probably going to sound like a retard but Zexal being good is just a meme, right?

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Yugi won, Judai had no cards in hand to stop Slifer's attack. inb4 Honest

Everyone here despised Zexal when aired and in the Arc-V era, but after the Arc-V fiasco suddenly a lot of people started saying Zexal was good and one of the best Yu-Gi-Oh! seasons.
Then, when Vrains started, a lot of people praised Yoshida as the new "saviour" of the franchise, but considering that Vrains is ending now, a lot of those people suddenly disappeared and now we are in the same limbo, like 3 years ago, wondering what the new season will be about and hoping it will be another director (not Yoshida neither Ono) this time.

Best duel is Strings vs Yugi, Judai vs Chronos 2 or Yusei vs Jack (Final)

I really enjoyed DM, GX and 5D's. Zexal was absolute trash and the only good thing that came out of it was the Tron family. Zexal II was also shit and people really exaggerate that Vector and even more so Shark as great characters. Arc-V was great except for the later half and V-rains is just plain boring.

Vrains is the Yusaku & Ai's show. At least Yusei had in mind his friends while dueling and at some point he used som of their cards as a sign of "kizuna".
Yusaku literally never gave a fuck about anyone else but himself. Even in S1 he admitted he dueled just for the sake of revenge.

MNga chazz had no character

It wasnt

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Can't believe it's been like nine years since that moment happened.

This fucking bullshit isn't Yu-Gi-Oh. The original was and is the only canon anime as everything preceding it felt like gutter trash trying to rest on the laurels of the original manga and anime.

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Sora vs Shinji is one of the best duels in the series, ever. Great character, stuck in a shitty series.

>Meanwhile the only thing that people usually mention from the first half is pretty much just the Jack and Carly stuff.
That's just the thing people like because it was good character interaction. People know that the first 64 episodes were good and why they were good. The reason the second half gets talked about more is because it's a giant waste of potential with some moments that are really good

Have you noticed nobody talks about Standard arc of Arc-V as much compared to everything after these days? Same thing.

Zexal is legitimately good. It just takes a while to get there. The antagonists really carry the show

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Spoken like a true retard. There are aspects of the later series that do things better than DM.

Not even DM itself is as good as it's original manga. There's a reason they called Dark Side of Dimensions a finale to the original manga and not the anime.

>Sora vs Shinji
Did you mean Sora vs. Shun?

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The duel Sora vs Shun is, hands down, one of my personal top 10 duels of all time.

It's actually legit good, but it takes a while to get going.
Considering that there weren't all that many yugioh threads before arc-V, people probably dropped Zexal really early in, because of the shitty start which is a legit flaw.
The people who did stuck with it, probably never had a chamce to discuss it, because so few actually stuck with it.
I can also imagine sitting through the begining on a weekly basis also hurt it a lot.
Arc-V gave the people who did watch a chance convince others to give it a watch since Arc-V at the time gave people a craving for some Yugioh.
Combine that with the fact that you can just blaze through the begining and skip some of the fillers with the zexal guide and you get that the begining feels a lot smoother to get through.
So way more people actually managed to get to the good part which is probably why the opinion on Zexal turned around that much.
I also followed zexal week to week at the begining, but I remember dropping it, because the fabsubs release time was kinda wonky at the time which didn't help the show either.
I only finished it after everything got subbed.
Don't get me wrong it isn't flawless, but none of the yugioh series are.
It has enough good shit going for it to hang with the best series.

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Only losing with a plot excuses is worse than not losing at all.

Too bad that the show peaked that early.
But it was legit good.
The fact that we learned their beef/deal with eachtother through their bantz that escelated more and more as the duel went out was a really cool detail.
Usually you would have some exposition about their history with eachother, but they subtly sprinkled in the lore of xyz and fusions through the ususl dueling bantz which was really cool.

The show did peak early but that episode wasn't the peak. Yuya vs. Reiji round 2 was the top of the show. They were never going to do better than that

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>but they subtly sprinkled in the lore of xyz and fusions through the ususl dueling bantz which was really cool.
All thanks to Reiji fucking with Shun by putting Heartland as the arena.

That play with Kali Yuga was bullshit but nothing will ever top the MC going full tardrage, pulling out his super special new power then getting utterly blown the fuck out while the rival's exceedingly evil theme song plays.

Nah
Sora vs Shun had everything.
>Subtle lore drops
>great characterization
>sick dueling back and forths
>good animation(shun riding on blaze falcon
>raised the stakes immensely
Don't get me wrong Reiji dick slapping Yuya into submission and asserting his dominance over the group was great.
But Sora vs shun is just peak yugioh dueling.
Shun summoning revolution falcon and carpet bombing Sora is still one of the most iconic scenes of the series.

Even got a signature attack retrain for Revolution Falcon.

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Oh shit I didn't even know that.
Absolutely based.
I will forever hate Arc-V, but I can never bring myself to hate that duel and based imoutoman

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>But Sora vs shun is just peak yugioh dueling
Wasn't that duel voted as the best Arc-V duel by the nips?

Yes that's why it got IIRC

Thanks for reminding me of Reiji negating lingering effects during that duel.

Oh, hey, I found the rest:
vjump.shueisha.co.jp/yugioh_20th_duel/keka.html

DM:
1. Yugi vs. Atem
2. Yugi vs. Kaiba BC
3. Atem vs. Strings
4. Jounouchi vs. Malik
5. Yugi vs. Haga (DOMA)

GX:
1. Judai vs. Kronos (Graduation)
2. Judai vs. Yugi/Atem
3. Hell Kaiser vs. Yubel/Johan
4. Judai vs. Kaibaman
5. Judai vs. Yubel

5Ds:
1. Yusei vs. Jack (Final)
2. Yusei vs. Aki (FC)
3. Yusei vs. Z-ONE
4. Yusei vs. Antimony
5. Yusei vs. Kiryu (Crashtown)

ZEXAL:
1. Yuma vs. Astral
2. Yuma vs. Vector
3. Kaito vs. Mizael
4. Nasch vs. IV
5. Yuma vs. Nasch

ARC-V:
1. Shun vs. Sora (MC)
2. Yuya vs. Sawatari (MC)
3. Yuya vs. Jack II
4. Yuya vs. Reiji II
5. Yuya vs. Edo II

>Judai vs Chronos (Graduation)
based taste
Most emotional duel ending in the series

Pendulums are actually really fun once you understand the intricacies of monsters as spells. Getting a bunch of resources then penduluming for 5 will always be satisfying.

they didn't even carry the first season if it weren't for kaito it would be unwatchable and zexal only becomes good when barians show up

Chronos is underrrated as fuck. His character development was amazing, He also looks great

Thw FANSERVICE was pretty good.
I can understand not giving a fuck about V, III and Tron himeself, but IV was always entertaining in my opinion.

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>nips think Yusei vs. Primo isn't Top 5
booooh
booooh nips

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>Yusei vs. Kiryu (Crashtown)
>over Jack vs Carly, over Ruka vs aporia, over CLEAR MIND, over Yusei vs Kiryu 2(final dark signer fight)
Remind me again why this duel made the list?

>Remind me again why this duel made the list?
it's because nips have shit taste and don't like 5ds and prefer zexal

>Meme duel beats all but 4 duels in DM

HANASE
youtube.com/watch?v=cncB4HPOc40

>The original was and is the only canon anime as everything preceding it felt like gutter trash trying to rest on the laurels of the original manga and anime.
>preceding
user, I think you should look up what that word actually means.

>matrix-esque YGO
You know, I still consider Vrains' technology to be very boring in comparison with Zexal and Arc-V.
And I know VR should be the new hotness and all, but AR and Solid Vision were technologies and concepts more interesting and fun to me.

Post jobbers.

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He was the Vegeta of 5ds

>When the main villain of the series is a jobber

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>literally the only duel he ever won was against Zombie-boy

In retrospect, Bakura was kind of a lame final villain

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In their defense Zexal is a very solid show.
It also has by far the best production value of any yugioh series so far, exveot for maybe the movies.

Well played.

>He also tried to kill a child over a card
first episode of DM kaiba tried to kill a oldman for a card

>almost
youtube.com/watch?v=GOjNzHDtHJM

Yugi

Just look at this hand when neos atacked

If judai used any efect to actualy make neos strong enough to take on slifer he could just use that Kuriboh effect and done

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We postin 4kids kino?
youtu.be/Dl5Rmu1S6yI

They gave us a lot of Chazzkino

youtube.com/watch?v=MpYZ4fR2m-s

I know Bakura was a jobber, but he was always fun to watch. He was a true madman and always knew he was going to come back even if he was defeated/killed/sealed/etc.
Also his speciality was RPGs, not card games, so he jobbing a lot is understable.

did it get past this kino moment in GX manga? it didn't

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they simply didnt gave a shit did they?

You didn't see the movie then. Judai got a backache for that much carrying.

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Bakura is how to do jobbers right. If they're gonna lose all the time, make them fun. This is also why people like IV

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>mangajoume AKA kaiba without the autism.
Ojamanjoume or bust

Are any of the other mangas as good as the GX manga?

oh hi, I'm the best duellist!

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i like it how after tag force 4 they made all the ladies fall in love with him
based konami making my waifufaggotry true. they gave the players what we wanted

Now that's something I can agree with. His story is convoluted as fuck, though.

>4. Nasch vs. IV
>5. Yuma vs. Nasch

I completely forgot about Nasch duels, gonna have to see them again.

Also overall good list, but I would put Yugi vs Bakura in DM, that Gandora was kino.

Tag Force 4-6 were great. Everyone fell in love with Red Hat.

Except Carly, you were always friendzoned with her.

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Gandora Dragon is based. I don't know why it doesn't get more love.

my brother showed this guy a lot of love back when we used to play. he's tight

I would consider the Pegasus one a loss. He let Pegasus get in his head and distract him long enough to run out of time which is a part of the game. Plus it was very apparent Pegasus was toying with him and had him on the ropes.

not true if judai were to use honest as an example yugi would use kuriboh to cancel the damage but slifer will still get destroyed and yugi won't take any damage this would pretty much any chances of yugi winning

>like Soulburner was gonna be the Johan of this series
He is not the Johan, but he is the Crow.

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I remember being so surprised reading this the first time. I dont think the manga or anime is better then other but they definitely had strengths in the different ways they handled Jaden and Chazz.

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Reiji. The guy always left his "team" to their own devices and headed for the top dogs directly while they fucked around.
>Could have beaten Reiji had he no misplayed and survived had he put his monsters in Defense
>Basically beat Yuya but got robbed of his W by Sergay
>All this with a Deck referencing fucking Fubuki's Stage Deck
>Only Fusion Dimension character who really interacted with Serena
Barrett.

I think they knew they couldnt really make a rival on par with kaiba so they just made a bunch of them.

Even though Arc-V has gone to shit in the end at least the threads were still enjoyable.
Meanwhile Vrains threads were nothing but autists flooding the thread with how much they hate a character and jobberposting. They don't even make OCs anymore aside for one drawfag.

>Barrett
Barrett was not even respected in his own dimension. He had been demoted from Academia and was basically the babysitter of Serena, at that point.

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Mediocre series produce mediocre threads and mediocre fanart.

IIRC he caught Serena just as she was about to leave to Standard and he offered to go with her.

Forgot to mention that, compared to Misawa, he dissapeared without any trace after kidnapping Serena, while the former at least appeared a few more times after his... mind exploded and we knew why we didn't see him anymore.

Did anyone ever draw Kaiba doing the Killer Queen pose?

>Red Hat is still in Duel Links kicking everyone's ass and stealing all the girls
He must be immortal by now

There's also that Yea Forums in general get shittier every year.

Zexal > 5D's > Arc-V in that order.

Based and sad at the same time.

>5D's > Arc-V
Yeah, no.
Sect alone easily make the 5D's manga the worst one by far.

How should we update the image?

Not really. The rest of the manga stories don't really add anything of value like in GX's case and some of them are way too short that it let you with an unsatisfactory feeling after reading them.

I can't believe vrains went this far without a single legit loli character. Truly a rushed spinoff it is.

Eh, things have not changed that much, to be honest. Probably a reference to Roboppy and that's it.

What about the whole "chadburner" posting?

Dunno. I remember the 5D's Manga more which I binged in a single day months ago than the Arc-V Manga which ended recently. Both were boring regardless.

So, user who originally asked the question, just read the Zexal Manga.

I guess it could pass but I think we should wait after his duel with Revolver.

This thread still here?

ye

>He must be immortal by now
user, i...

a meme but the truth. people that like 5ds past those episodes are just easily impressed retards