5Ds > Duel Monsters > Zexal > GX

We need a Yu-gi-oh! Kai like edit, that cuts all the filler. I did a re-watch and straight up skipped virtual nightmare and waking dragons/doma saga and it works so much better. Smoother momentum on battle city and its finals and going right into memories.

this thread failed the moment you failed to get 5

I've only watched the first arc of Vrains but it was pretty kino

You don't want to be a bad guy ever.

Brother, GX is goated. Especially the original jap dub

GX is second to 5Ds, you got filtered my friend.

monkey duels

I think people get turned off by the low stakes schoolyard antics before all the genocide stuff starts

That's what I like about GX. Season 1 and 2 are mega comfy, while season 4 is really creepy. I like the evolution

I really need to finish all the yugioh series but my god it feels like this every time
whenever I finish an arc and the boring bit starts again I lose all interest and drop it for years

like this every time

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Vrains has the most boring duels of the franchise. Just look at this shit.

the OLink was peak

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watch Duel Monsters

30% of the episode is plot progression

70% of the episode is characters recapping the other 30%

You could cut this shit down to 3 seasons and it’d be pure unadulterated kino

yugioh sexal

characters arent as fuckable as they were in 5ds

huh

Sounds like someone didn't open hand traps. Tough luck pal lol!

Based kino enjoyer

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they got dope new cards coming too

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Alright Anon Babble, across all the shows, who's best girl?

Wait, did he just summon a bunch of monsters on one turn? Isn't that against the rules?

For me its Ishizu, Yuzu and Aki
shame only one of them has a playable modern deck

Aki, it's not close either

waking dragons arc is kino thoughbeit

nu-jewgioh

try playing master duel. yugioh sucks ass now. Every play someone on their first turn somehow has all 5 monster slots on the field summoned, bullshit

now

filtered

They've released tons of boomer-friendly decks lately, there's no excuse for not getting good anymore
Play new Blue Eyes or Exodia

You guys would not believe how much disdain I have for the abridged series.

Anon these people are the ones who have a mental breakdown when they see a synchro, they're not going to play.

Didn't even get a 5, fagface. Delete your garbage and try again.

Modern yugioh

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most powerful branded hand...

Branded in 2025

Lol lmao kek

uses billions of dollars to go back 2000 years in time to fight Atem in a children's card game

Was this Kaiba's peak moment?

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GX dub is actually superior to the original, and is like an entirely different show.

Also Arc V deserves to be in the top 3 probably second behind DM

4kids dub being superior at anything

Trans V

For me it's Ishizu and Alexis, but I respect anyone who claims Tea and/or Akiza

go back 2000 years

he doesn't go back in time anon, he goes to the Egyptian afterlife

What does Pot of Greed do though?

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GUYS THEY MADE THE ELEPHANT DO AN SCHWARZENEGGER IMPRESSION

THEY MADE A SELF AWARE JOKE

FUNNIEST SHIT I EVER SAW

I have zero respect for gx dubfags.

best girl

produces the most broken deck in Yugioh history and most of her cards will likely never leave the banlist

she won

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I always looked forward to the side character/rival duels more. Felt like it could go either way when both players don't have protagonist plot armor.

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Go back to plebbit

I'll give you my God card if you give me a child.

I'm a PendGOD too anon but cmon
Arc V shit the bed hard

and most of her cards will likely never leave the banlist

She did nothing wrong and those mermaid whores should have been killed instead

One of the most iconic duels in all Yugioh animes

Not canon

Damn shame

I SUMMON MAN-EATER BUG IN ATTACK MODE! I END MY TURN!

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average pend enjoyer

literal mudslime manlet homo

lmao

Aki

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simping for youtubers

when both players don't have protagonist plot armor.

Posts the guy who went 0-7 against the protagonist

yugioh sucks ass now

retard never got yata locked or magical scientist FTK'd lol

Clear Mind starts playing

Fuck me I love 5Ds

dubniggers

man, you need to grow up because those shows sucked donkey dick. they butchered them hard.

Best? Long list though haven't seen all of em.. Mana, Aki, Asana.. *drool* sorry, uh. Tigers OK, Emma Beshsho-sp, Yubel, Fonda. ^-^

yugioh sucks ass now.

now

Dubbed Yugioh is absolute shit tho.

A better question: across all the shows, who is the best villain? For me it's Vector.

I have no dog in this fight, I just like Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh. What are you guys doing outside of Anon Babble?

WAGA TAMASHII

based

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Going to have to say Kaiba, while there was actual stakes involved in other shows like the wild west duels or DAHHHKNESS, or AI, Kaiba stayed a threat constantly.

GX is peak

I agree, I did the same
Cringe
Cringe
Based

people endlessly praise 5ds

start watching it

starts off kino up until prison escape and then the entire first season turns into boring shounen tournament arc

I started season 2 and so far it's been much better

The tournament arc lags a bit, especially when the twins ar involved, but still has several good moments like Bomber straight up trying to kill Godwin

Tournament arcs in YGO are the best tho :(

Tournament arcs are bad in every single shounen they are in.

Yubel is fucking undefeated to this day

Judai is a chad.
Imagine choosing to fuse with your waifu.

Imagine choosing to fuse with a mentally ill tranny demon

No

Kaiba is literally me.

jealous he can't gain superpowers by fusing with his waifu

Go back to Anon Babble

GX > 5Ds > DM >>> ARC-V

GX is the only show that improves with every season
5Ds cult storyline was really good but hated how they pivoted the series into sci-fi because of Carly's VA
DM is honestly pretty boring outside of Duelist Kingdom/Battle City
ARC-V is simultaneously the best and worst YGO series, extremely entertaining but godawful narrative decisions

Haven't watched Zexal because there's no site reliable for subs
Dropped VRAINS early on because it was boring

Haven't watched Zexal because there's no site reliable for subs

streamfags

DM was boring

Arc V above anything

you're brown, kike and gay

>Arc V above anything

Arc-V is the lowest on his list

what did anon mean by this

I don't know shit about you go on but this game was pure kino.
No I don't care that they don't follow the game rules

ARC-V is simultaneously the best...

Arc V was never good

still basically the only major anime villain to have 0 presence in the card game all because they're scared of his mighty penis

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we want the Kaiba audience

You haven't actually experienced Yu-Gi-Oh until you've read the original manga, and even then, Viz's version is pretty shit. But as a full story, it was really shocking to read something that was far more narratively and thematically cohesive than the anime I watched as a kid. It's a shame how it's all downhill after Duelist Kingdom, even with good moments after. The early stuff, especially DEATH-T, is so good, and it has never been done justice in any animated medium.

Yugi and Jounouchi trade porn with each other

Duel Monsters is literally just MtG

Exodia represents the power of friendship

When Honda sacrifices himself in the Tetris room to save Yugi after everyone has their Breakfast Club moment where they talk about their insecurities and what they mean to each other

Yugi's emotional breakdown when he reveals his frequent blackouts and everyone starts to realize that there's another personality inside him

Yugi's feelings for Anzu, who ignores him for the alternate personality, and when she realizes how horrible she's been to him during Duelist Kingdom

The story reiterating that YUGI is the King of Games, he's the protagonist, the chosen one, not his alternate personality, and that the direction of the story is about his character growth to ultimately surpass that side

He's designed the way he is because he really likes goth fashion like Edward Scissorhands, and he has a different look each arc which I never noticed

I know "Television & Film", but in the manga Manjoume beat Judai cleanly with his Light and Darkness Dragon. The anime did him dirty.

Serena/Yuri

This triggers me

The final duel in this manga is fucking wild

this is the new kids show I was telling you about

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They should have let Sawatari defeat Zard. His play with Rise of the Abyss King was perfect but then they ruined it with that cheating asshole.

You have literally never done this, you are not known for doing this

I heart Arc V's manga was insane, so I'm glad GX's manga was nice.

I did something similar once. Everyone saw.

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GUESS I'M GONNA HAVE TO CONSNEED THIS MATCH

what a guy

Meanwhile...

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After all these years, was it fair?

The impartial judge called it. There's nothing to argue here.

Joey got that far because marik's buttslave got fucked by egyptian magic. Joey then losing to egyptian magic is only fair.

GX is better than all of them except DM, but Inalso think Jaden is a much better protagonist than Yugi ever was. Plus, it gave birth to my favorite 2 archetypes
5D’s takes a nosedive after Rex, and I never bothered with Zexal

Heronigger thinks GXslop is the best

Plus, it gave birth to my favorite 2 archetypes

If one of those is HERO I'm judging you

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It wasn't fair he got that far in the first place since Kaiba easily beat him afterward without any plot armor or god cards.

Tie OVER the collar

What the FUCK

Reminder that Jonouchi defeated Yugi/Atem in a duel cleanly.
Jonouchi vehemently refused to take back the Red Eyes Black Dragon from Yugi/Atem when they tried to give it to him and he only agreed to accept it if he beat Yugi/Atem in a duel for it. Both Yugi and Atem respected his decision and agreed to hand the card back only if and when Jonouchi defeats them. Jonouchi having the card later proves he beat Yugi/Atem offscreen as he wouldn't have the card back otherwise.

To this day in canonical lore Jonouchi is the only character in the entire franchise besides Yugi himself to have defeated Atem cleanly (Raphael did it in an anime only arc). Kaiba can seethe to the end of time if he wishes, as it's something he'll never achieve.

All his friends turned to stone

His board is completely wiped after managing to summon all 3 dark magicians in one turn

Only 100 LP left while Noah is at almost 11k

Top decks card of sanctity, summons Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and kills Noah’s boss monster

Defusion in the BP and kills Noah will all BEWD’s

This was the coolest moment in the original series and nothing comes close. Even MONSTA CARDO doesn’t compare. I don’t give a fuck about canon in YGO

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just believe in the heart of the cards!

Oh he must be talking about having confidence in your abilities and your competency to put together a good deck

no it's just yugi cheating by literally forcing a good top deck

Noah was such a noob thinking life gain matters

Did he just kill an employee to make a point

>no it's just yugi cheating by literally forcing a good top deck

kek that's childs play
check THIS out

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Yuma is annoying and I never bothered with Zexal because of him. You’re lying if you think 5D’s is worth watching after Rex
Dark Law is the coolest boss monster of all time

Yuma is annoying

Were you watching the dub? They gave him the worst fucking dub voice actor in human history, its like they wanted the show to die before it even began
In the sub he's fine

for me its duellists of the roses

literally just a floodgate

death to all heroniggers

Jaden is written like a deviantart OC what are you talking about?

naturally gifted at dueling to the point where he can effortlessly defeat prestigious instructors without any visible effort

can talk to ghosts

is never shown to be doing anything other than slacking off even when everyone else is busting their ass to get nowhere

FIRST HUMAN TO MAKE ALIEN CONTACT BECAUSE OF HIS GAY ASS DOODLES WHAT THE FUCK

is very rarely ever the one actually driving the story forward

goes into a depression because he loses literally one time

is also the descendant of a super dark edgy king that repossess his body

fuses with his great great great great great great great great grandpa's boyslave to save the universe from extinction and now has heterochromia

He still wins games on his own

imagine being pharaoh and not fucking tea, gayest protag in anime history

He actually grows into an adult by the end of the show. It’s a coming-of-age story and Jaden is allowed to grow as a character
Yugi is a fucking joke and hardly does anything the whole time, but we’re supposed to believe he was the main character all along and the true king of games in the end. Get the fuck out of here, he’s Atem’s fucking chauffeur

It’s a coming-of-age story and Jaden is allowed to grow as a character

You could say the same about Zexal yet you hate it.

Cuz Yuma is annoying and sucks

offscreen

ok jobouchie, go dream about being kaiba's dog again fag

Imagine how cool it would have been if he beat Marik and summoned Ra in the finals

Joey somehow gets out all 3 boss monsters he’s won in Battle City

Sacs them for Ra with 6450 attack

Reminder that it was offscreened because there's no way Jonouchi could believably defeat Atem

Jaden is annoying and sucks.

Yuma lost 30 times in a row to his Joey. He sucks, bro

jaden is the best because he grows

No that other growth doesn't count because I said so

God I hate gxbabs

Yes
He shouldn't have even been there to
begin with

I think vrains was too technical. Older show anime cards and real card effects didnt match.
The writers could make whatever the fuck they wanted and the people that make the real cards would change the effect later.

Shark could beat most GX characters without trying

Yugi is the main character, and Atem only takes over for Battle Shitty due to his popularity while getting his own arc after. Atem is a walking action figure, Yugi is an actual character. He goes from a meek, overlooked boy with a passion for games and a virtuous heart to the greatest duelist. Atem is not just the hypothetical idealized Yugi, he's someone for Yugi to surpass. The final movie Takahashi was involved in, Kaiba spends most of it trying to get one final Duel with Atem. Yugi is simply Atem's vessel, a means to an end. But during his duel with Yugi, he realizes that Yugi was far more skilled than he ever gave him credit for, that he was Atem's vessel for a reason. Even though the duel was interrupted, it was looking like Yugi had won. Kaiba may have had something to pull out of his sleeve to counter his seeming loss, but we don't see it, and by that point Kaiba realizes that Yugi is actually pushing him farther than he ever expected he could, he's having fun because he's being challenged in the same way Atem could challenge him. That's why at the end of it all, he does congratulate him as a fine duelist.

And in this image that Takahashi drew of them, it shows that Kaiba chose to fund Yugi's game idea and plays it with him.

Yeah they could have but nobody liked it when an anime card came out and they were nerfed to unplayability, if they even had a similar effect at all.
Pic rel probably has it the worst, but I also remember being hyped for the Aesir cards and those fuckers were trash.

I'm partialed to infinity+1 myself and kaiba laughing about killing yugi's friends

kaiba laughing about killing yugi's friends

when does that happen?

Dawg, I dropped Zexal after 2 episodes. I’m not gonna watch it

oh yeah
this was a kino duel, always great when yugi and kaiba teamed up

why does the ed treat kotori like she does fucking anything in this show other than say "Yuma..." every so often when the camera cuts to her?

Only time I can think of would be DEATH-T, but even then, it was only Honda who was thought to have been killed saving Yugi in one of Kaiba's death games. Then Yugi is forced to watch as Kaiba forces Yugi's grandpa to duel him using his Solid Vision hologram system where all the monsters attack him, being too much for him and giving him a heart attack. And this is all because dark Yugi put Kaiba through a penalty game in their original duel where he was attacked by hallucinations of the monsters he treated poorly. He liked the fear of the experience so much that he created holograms to exact revenge on Yugi and his family in the same way.

The entire thing about tributing monsters = bad really came out of nowhere there

Nothing beats or is even worth watching after Duel Monsters. The demographic shift from going from being marketed at 12-14 year olds to 7-10 year olds really killed what made it good.

dark magician girl

Nothing beats or is even worth watching after Duel Monsters

not even slightly true

that song starts playing in the final episode

CINEMA

nah that was just gx and sevens

That's honestly when better.

Pegasus. Kaiba kicks ass as a rival but Pegasus's over the top intrigue, malevolence, and cartoonishness was the perfect balance of tone. Add in that he was basically a final boss at the top of a castle forcing you to traverse a new map and defeat endless grunts and mini-bosses while dodging traps to get at him and had secret esoteric magic shit that was basically "the computer is cheating" mixed with "this isn't even my final form" and he's pure, unadulterated kino.

Shame they dropped Miho. I also appreciated how they overtly ship teased Tea and Yugi

True (though I do have a soft spot for the Chunin Exam, Dark Tournament, and a couple World Martial Arts Tournaments) but it's really hard to do Yu-Gi-Oh without a tournament arc. I mean the whole show is just a series of tournament arc. Duelist Kingdom? Battle City? I think the trick is just to mix things up so it's bot just episode after episode of battles and they have things to do in between.

Not to mention he custom created his own archetype that you couldn't attack or even interact with in most instances and constantly stole your cards to use against you

I liked the whole cheapskate angle, or rather how the Millennium Eye slowly corrupted him. He's shown in the past trying to save the one Egyptian guy, willing to pay anything, and years later, he cheaps out on everything once people arrive at Duelist Kingdom. No accommodations, sending people home by rowboat, and even the meal in the castle where they found the fake Millennium Eyes was basically water soup.

Now I'm remembering what a wasted character Bakura is. Not dark Bakura, but the regular one. Obviously dark Bakura needs to be the more important character, he's an aspect of the final boss and therefore the main antagonist, but they do it by making the original Bakura totally irrelevant and stripping him of all his agency, and nobody does anything about it. He stops feeling like a friend because nobody seems to care outside of lipservice. I just feel like they could have made him an actual character.

produces the most broken deck in Yugioh history and most of her cards will likely never leave the banlist

Which is?

Ishizu Tears
Any broken deck you can name ir remember, they can rape it

tier 0 ishizu tear

tear snake eyes horus

Holy slop

Ishizu Tear

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tear snake eyes horus yubel

HOLY SLOP

That’s all the game is now. Just mashing engines from the best deck together into 60 pile abominations. There’s no soul left in the game
That’s why I liked Tenpai. Just cuz it was something different from 60 slop pile that put up the same results.

Just mashing engines from the best deck together into 60 pile abominations. There’s no soul left in the game

Literally no top deck does this wtf are you talking about
Blue Eyes, Ryzeal, Malice all play basically pure

kek no doubt. that's after half the ishizu cards were axed too, along with some limits, so it's the shitty version of the deck. full power ishtear puts every deck to shame easily.

tenpaitard

You're just as bad.

Master Duel is still stuck in the Fiendsmith/Snake Eyes/Yubel slop phase though

complains about no soul

plays Tenpai

we're at the very end of snake eye being playable at all, and blue eyes is already better

BEWD is the best deck, sure, but FiendSnake is the second best and KingSnake is top 5 and still somewhat topping tourneys, so we're not out of the woods yet unless we get Ryzeal

I didn’t say I was better. I just wanted to make the 60 card niggers have the same unfun experience as me for ruining the game. I stopped playing after the first round of Tenpai hits cuz I strongly dislike how much YGO pushes you to play meta

I stopped playing after the first round of Tenpai hits cuz I strongly dislike how much YGO pushes you to play meta

Tenpai was the meta though, literally was the best deck in the game

I just wanted to make the 60 card niggers have the same unfun experience as me for ruining the game

Who are you even talking about? Branded? How tf is that your biggest concern?

I mean the SHPO’s (should have pulled out) playing shit like Horus/Tear/Yubel/Kash piles that made the game remarkably unfun. I haven’t played MD in since unlimited tenpai, so idk what’s meta anymore and don’t plan on getting back into it

Probably talking about the grass/tear/snake/horus/yubel link piles that were floating around for a while. Also, Braindead WAS meta for nearly 2 years.

Based 5D

those decks have literally never been meta
like "pure" yubel (or at least the standard yubel/unchained fiendlink deck) is already good why would you add a bunch of dogshit tear/horus cards to it that add nothing?

Saw the link 2 with right and left arrows and got S:P Little Knight flashbacks

shhhhhh no one tell him about the MD banlist

You’re just lying at this point. 60 card slop piles absolutely were meta when Tenpai came to Master Duel