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Neat that we got a mini character arc wrapped up in one episode with Judai needing to overcome the trauma that the duels of darkness have inflicted on him and learning that dueling is something he just needs to have fun with!
Surely this episode has completely addressed this issue, and Judai will never have any problems with trauma and losing the joy in the thing he loves again... Right?
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Surprise plot twist. Despite all of the terrible incessant fat jokes made in the 4Kids dub, it turns out that Hayato actually has a ripped power lifter physique underneath his shirt.
Intro to the Seven Stars, and I recognize Fubuki, Camula, Tanya, Titan, and Daitokuji, but who's this other clown? It's clearly not Abidos or Don Zaloog.
I'm curious what plans the writer's had that changed along the way.
I would say it's funny that they apparently thought that building an isolated chamber to imprison a child in was a simpler solution than just taking away his trading card, but I suppose trying to take the trading card away is what ends up causing everything with Yubel later, so...
Really funny subplot thrown into these episodes. We have a guy who's framed as being a sort of sleazy journalist who is investigating the missing students at Duel Academia. The episode portrays him as being a shady bad guy for doing this, because the story would damage the school's reputation.
Except! This is all true! An entire dorm of children did go missing, and the school is covering it up and lying to the public and their families about it! And this guy is portrayed as being a dirty troublemaker and shady journalist for... printing the truth.
Don't worry, he watches Judai play such a sick card game that he decides not to tell the truth, because it's more important that the kids can keep playing Yu-Gi-Oh! than getting any sort of investigation going on the fact that many children have died at the school and the faculty is covering this up.
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The situation with Rei in her first appearance is a bit confusing to me. Why the need to disguise herself as a boy? Is Osiris a boys only dorm? I suppose we never see any girls in Osiris and Ra early on. Every girl in the 1st season is in Obelisk Blue. Does this mean that girls automatically get put into Obelisk regardless of their grades because it has the only dedicated girl's dorm? And because all transfer students have to begin in Osiris, this therefore means that the school can't have female transfer students??? Except we do see Rei come back to the school properly next season, and she is in the Red dorm, so it can't be that women simply can't exist in the Red dorms. Maybe she just assumed that Ryou is incredibly gay and that her only shot with him was by passing as a boy.
Some art done for Roll Over and Die by the creator of Demon Girl Next Door, Izumo Ito!
I think the premise of this episode is quite clever. Obviously with GX being the first of the spin-off series many people would still be directly comparing it in their heads to the original series, including the idea of who would win between Judai and Yugi/Atem. This is a cool way of giving the fans that without actually needing to put one protagonist over the other.
If you have Judai beating Yugi so early on you would risk alienating and angering the fans who are fond of the original and the showrunners may end up looking too desperate to put their new hip protagonist over by having him beat the previous one.
Conversely, you also don't want to portray the protagonist of your new series as being totally inferior to the protagonist of the original series and make your new characters seem lesser in the eyes of the fans.
Using the copycat duelist who stole Yugi's deck allows them to have this duel that everyone wanted to see and let Judai win without actually letting Judai defeat Yugi.
Of course, Judai does eventually duel Yugi/Atem for real, but that's at the very end of the series as opposed to this duel taking place in season 1. Judai has fully gone on his journey as a protagonist at that point and earned his place next to the legend as someone who could potentially defeat him. We don't get to see the outcome of that duel, but it doesn't really matter who wins at that point because we've already come to recognize Judai as a great character on his own without needing to compare him to anyone else, which may not have been the case if they had pushed the match up too early on in GX when a lot of people still would have been on the fence about the new show.
I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Back when I was just an awakening baby gay, I spent everyday trying to consume every bit of yuri I could get my hands on.
You didn't have nearly as many options back in those days, mostly just people recommending the same handful of animanga over and over again. This meant that I ended up spending a lot of time getting into some rather questionable series that I wouldn't necessarily recommend nowadays. One of those anime series that would pop up frequently and I inevitably ended up watching was Saki.
I can tell you, OP is 100% correct about everything said here. If you were to only watch the original 1st season you probably wouldn't think much of it. It's a fairly standard sports tournament manga with some ecchi and yuri elements thrown in. There are some girls with big boobs, there are some men around that react to them, some of the girls clearly have sapphic feelings for each other. Nothing too noteworthy for an ecchi. But if you read the manga to the point where after the anime ended things start to get odd... Men start to appear less frequently, only the male characters that are closest to the central narrative are sometimes begrudgingly shown. The ecchi elements start to ramp up, but so does the casualness of them as described by OP. Ladies just walking around with no pants on whatsoever, and everybody treating it like it's normal. Meanwhile, you're being introduced to the fact that in this universe they've developed technology where lesbian couples can have children together, and some of the main characters actually come from lesbian unions. It begins to sink in that males are on a decline in the world of Saki as more women are starting to marry and have children with each other. A world that is gradually becoming more casual with women's bodies and their queerness. The manga didn't start out like this, but by the time you've noticed its already become normalized. The frog is boiled.
15 years later, and this franchise still holds some bizarre fascination for me. It's not unusual for me to just suddenly remember this series and think about what that absolute madwoman Kobayashi Ritz is up to these days and how much crazier everything has gotten if I were to go and look.
In case anyone is wondering how it's going, I looked up some of Ritz' early artwork for the character Nodoka vs some of her more recent artwork.
Going into the dorm where Asuka's brother went missing, Judai spots a framed photo he had of himself that he also signed his name on.
At first it may seem weird and come off as clunky writing for Fubuki to just have a glamour picture of himself with his own autograph, but then you meet the guy later and are like, "Okay, yeah. It makes total sense that this guy carries around signed photos of himself. Totally in character."
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The entire school is taking written and practical exams, and Judai completely sleeps through the written exam and flunks it, but when we get to the practical duel exams that are supposed to be between all the students we just see everyone in the school sitting and watching Judai and when he wins the headmaster gives a big speech and confetti rains from the ceiling for him. Kind of funny to have such a fanfare for someone who completely failed half the exam.
I do love GX and Judai, but it can be pretty ridiculous how up his ass the show was in the early episodes.
So we Shou directly referencing stuff from the original series, but it's kind of crazy because it's in reference to some of the supernatural elements of the original that never became widespread public knowledge in that show.
We also see them reference Millennium Items and dark games, although we also see that most people don't actually believe in these things.
So the question is, which character from the original show do you think went blabbing about dark games and ancient pharaohs until they became widely known in public consciousness? Did Yugi himself reveal this? Did Pegasus write a biography or something?
Also, if everyone knows that the Duel Monsters world champion claims to have been a vessel for a 3'000 year old pharaoh and battled to save the world in soul stealing games but most people don't believe it, does that mean from the perspective of the average person that Yugi is just crazy? If other high profile duelists like Kaiba, Rebecca, or Pegasus corroborate this story, does that mean people think they're all crazy or that it's all some kind of inside joke?
I guess a lot of people would just attribute it to celebrities being eccentric, but do you think there are entire groups of people out there studying his psyche and history, trying to diagnose him various conditions for his strange beliefs?
So in this scene Judai runs into Yugi, but Yugi's voice, look, and demeanor are all those of Atem rather than Yugi. Which is weird because Atem is gone at this point.
Was this a mistake on the part of production, or are we supposed to believe that Yugi grew up to look and sound exactly like Atem, because I don't think I really believe that. Yugi was a very distinct character from Atem.
Also, no way freaking way is Yugi that tall.
Original Artist: N88Colpla
Original Artist: Ame(no hi no)Mori
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Original Artist: Mukaibi Aoi
To unveil his new duel disk technology Kaiba makes it look like a plane malfunctions and is about to crash into a stadium full of people, causing a mass panic and stampede of people running for their lives before saying "Psych!"
This man can simply not behave himself.
