Reaction to Every Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh anime Opening
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The way the first half of GX is is very light hearted and silly, and while it does have its serious moments, they're usually followed by a goofy filler episode or two to return to form.
Then, halfway through the show, the tone does a 180, established, core characters start dying off left and right, jaden goes full depression and permanently fuses with a demon. Only for the final season to be about the half-demon jaden having a duel to the death with a god of depression and apathy that has systematically killed everyone on earth because they're too happy and emotional lol.
Nice GX in a nutshell XD
Season 4 of GX still hasn't been dubbed because it's so dark as well hahaha
There is a reason his main admirers are named Asuka and Rei and the initial evil beings fought against are named after angels and he has a possible homosexual romantic relationship with someone who suddenly pops up... and they end up working against the protagonist using the angels. Jaden is just less depressed and browbeaten than Shinji
@@firepuppies4086 holy fucking shit that makes way more sense then it should
Yeha gx was literally had rhe craziest dark turns ever ...and the worst part I really didn't get better for Jaden
To explain why the Season 5 Opening for Yugioh was animated so well. There were a lot of production problems with Season 5, and most of the staff left including the main series animation director. But before leaving, he put his all into the final Opening and Ending.
He did come back to be the main animation director for the second and third movie.
Aaaah, so this is why everyone suddenly had a long chin...
Yugioh shows go one of two ways:
1. They start off serious and retain that same level of seriousness pretty much through til the end, aside from more light hearted filler episodes (5ds, Vrains, DM).
2. They start off light hearted and can be a bit silly at the start, but then get more serious and darker as the show goes on, ending off much darker than their more consistently dark counterparts (gx, zexal, arc v)
The 2nd are the best types for me
@@bergkatze3186 same
And then there's sevens
Arc v is much better when its about dueling while riding a hippo
Lol the Gundam formula!
The manga author did do the character designs for the first 4 anime, and even came up with story arc ideas.
About the Arc-V openings, don't know if you haven't noticed but there were some 5D's characters, hence the return of Riding Duels from 5D's in them for an arc.
But in general, Arc-V has a multi-dimensional gimmick of visiting worlds based on each type of special summoning.
Standard Dimension
Fusion Dimension (based on GX)
Synchro Dimension (based on 5D's)
Xyz Dimension (based on Zexal)
He definitely didn't notice - he kept wondering if there really were motorcycles when there were lol think he was losing his mind at this point
ARC-V is an interdimensional war with each word being based on the previous seasons & gimmicks, and duel being able to kill people and destroy cities if miss used as a weapon.
Vrains was dealing with virtually reality, artificial intelligence, Advanced Cyberspace.
And the morality left when you try to advance too fast and without questioning if you should do something or not and how it affects the survivors.
@@JanizMakudomaru Indeed! 🧐👍🏿
@@jamcalx Being genuine, I was just spouting some off-the-top of-the-head things I've heard joked about, but that is the overall point of Vrains.
Yugioh Zexal is pretty much the season that has had the best animation production out of all the seasons, especially for a weekly anime during it's time. With some hella talented people on board, which sadly most of them never coming back in the later seasons. And then Vrains being the last season Gallop would produce for Yu-gi-oh before it being sent to Studio Bridge.
Needed to animation nerd out for a sec but good video! Hoping to see more Toku Vids!!
zexal and digimon xross wars seem to have very similar art style and I think were released around the same time?
Wonder if that contributed to Arc-V's production issues, or if I should be sighing with relief that they got out at just the right time.
Fun fact, the protagonist of 5DS (Yusei) is 20 years old, which makes him the oldest protag of the entire Yugioh franchise and the only legal adult.
He's only 20 by the end of the series, at the start he's 18
That’s wrong, Judai is 18 or 19 at the end of the anime, same with Yugi I believe.
I swear he was 17
Famn soo I am gonna be like Yusei when I reach 20 in november
Fact: the end of the 5ds ends in 2021 (in the anime itself), Yusei is 20 years old. so, he was born in 2001 on July 7.
Arc V is prob the darkest in the series by premise alone, it tricks you in the beginning making you think it's going to be all light hearted but that takes a complete 180 by the time the first seeds get planted when we are introduced to a particular character. The mc even has a "evil side" where his hair goes more unkept and spikier with red eyes and his personality is completely sadistic and this ties heavily into the plot of the series and plays a major role going forward towards the ending, Protagonist in a twist actually kinda becomes the villain and reason is because he is actually a piece of him.
Honestly i was taken back when watching Arc V it really surprised me with how many twists and turns it took and kept keeping me guessing what was going to happen next.
Not that it's WORTH actually watching, outside of maybe "The Day the Devil Was Born" in a vacuum; did NOT work out.
@@christopherb501Nah you just hate it
The ending of Arc-V really ruined it. So i'd say that GX in the third season is actually darker.
The way Arc-V handled Zarc and Akaba Leo really damaged it. Arc-V is still my favorite even though it was mishandled so much.
26:45 Jaden fused with a Monster card named Yubel, the orange and green eyes are her eyes.
*their
MakoPako: Arc V is for kids
Multiversal genocide: Hello there👋
I honestly love the irony of how all the Zexal openings are fun and lighthearted while the story becomes progressively darker and darker. While Arc-V was way more honest about the progression of its story into the darker tone. Also, Trump Card is hands down my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh opening of them all, and Soul Burner would have been a better main character then Playmaker.
Also soul burner is literally Eren Yeager
44:40 there's actually a plot reason for why the mechanical looking dragon isn't CGI. The ones in CGI are basically spirits that helped saving the world in the past, while the mechanical one (at least in it's mechanical form) is just a regular card monster. In that scene they decided to make him different from the other ones to show that
Damn this illustrates the dangers of assumptions
@@yaboiken2951 also the mechanical dragon got shafted and pushed to the last ep basicly because of real world reasion because of a char and his cards being popular so they changed the story to make him more important and messed alot of things up. i like 5ds and gx op personaly but dif tast in music. sid not 5ds was around the time of cg being realy new and popular in japan so.
@@Aaroning That char and his cards being popular and changing the story due to that is only a rumor.
@@Scarfspark yeah someone on reddit did some heavy and deep digging using production notes and history and proved that this rumor is not true. I'm not gonna link it incase it spoils someone who's going to watch the anime but it's not hard to find it on Google.
@@thepronoob4039 Yeah, 5D's was supposed to mean 5 Dragons until that 6th character was added and shafted both the last dragon and it's owner.
Man doesn't know Jaden commited mass genocide 😔
Actually jaden at the start of GX is a happy go lucky guy but by the end he’s really changed due to the dark experiences he’s had. He became a very dark and moody person finding little joy in things (he suffered PTSD from his corruption to the dark side), jaden does reclaim himself somewhat but he becomes a very serious duelist and just wants the fight to finish quickly with minimal losses. His deck also changes to reflect his no nonsense approach to quickly overwhelm opponents while defending himself with shields. Although the deck contains sheer firepower cards that can be pulled in an instant if the need arises.
It’s so nice to see all the fans here trying to explain series’ plots to him, very helpful attitude. Meanwhile he doesn’t seem very interested in knowing those, just very uninformed opinions throughout the whole video.
5Ds is inspired by Akira, the famous japanese animated movie that inspired basically all other sci-fi anime. That's why everyone's on motorcycles, why there's psychic cults, etc.
the story of arc-V is that very far into the future when monsters become real due to the ARC(Augmented Reality Combat) system(apparantly they didn't learn from all the other times monsters became real) a duelist named Z-arc(the "supreme king" of arc-V era) kinda went insane after he started to be more and more brutal to satisfy his bloodthirsty fans who asked for "MORE ACTION MORE TAKEDOWNS MORE BRUTALITY" every time Z-arc dueled and after a while he decided to duel "the whole world"(as he was tearing apart the world he said "whats the matter guys didn't you want a more brutal duel?") he almost destroyed the world but a girl named Ray came in and used 4 special spell cards to split the universe into 4 dimensions each dimension being a different era those dimensions are Fusion(DM and GX) Syncro(5Ds) XYZ(Zexal) and Pendulum/Standard(the present day) and Z-arc was reincarnated as 4 kids they are Yuri(the british sociopath from the Fusion dimension) Yugo(the hotheaded dork from the Syncro dimension) Yuto(the edgelord from the apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the XYZ dimension) and Yuya(the main character)
did that clear anything up?
if you have any lore questions like "what is the supreme king?" feel free to ask
I guess the supreme kings "gentle darkness" isn't so gentle anymore
"Does jaiden get super powers?"
That is a very long and depressing story. Honestly, his story and development as very depressing. I'll just give you the names of his powers. They are gentle darkness and yubel.
And regarding his design, I'm pretty sure he's seen as the most normal of the main characters of yugioh. And I'm pretty sure that might have been intentional. He was just a normal kid who enjoyed the game in the beginning.
Only to realise that not everything can always be just fun and games. That someday you need to grow up and everything has to end at one point.
Personally I think that GX is a pretty good story about growing up/maturing/becoming an adult
GX is definitely absolutely insane and amazing and really, really sad. I love it so much :c
And everyone shitting on it is so unfair Dx
@@mercedeslpgx also has the saddest and most realistic ending out of the Yugioh shows. Jaden cuts himself off from his friends and they all drift apart and go on their own paths to adulthood after graduation. All the other shows ends with the main cast sticking together by the end. GX the only one where the main character ended by himself
Gonna throw some suggestions out there: gundam, saint seiya, inazuma eleven if you're down for a sports show, black clover, digivolutions, super and final form henshins for kamen rider (not sure if you're already planning these ones), the Brave series (which goes Exkaiser, Fightbird, Da-Garn, Might Gaine, J-Decker, Goldran, Dagwon and GaoGaiGar). Keep up the good work man
I m abroad for that
Yugioh Sevens is so unlike anything I've ever seen in Yugioh, but in a lot of ways, that allows it to stand out so much more. Like that theme song is different but it has so much energy and enthusiasm that it just motivates you to check it out! I think that was Japan's first pop intro for Yugioh and it works!
The three colored beasts in the 2nd GX opening are the three "Scared Beasts", not the Egyptian Gods but they do look similar to the Egyptian Gods.
the scared looking very bad and lame, they just the copy of the egyptian god, look at hamon, it look like ra but was smoking for 10 years
They’re demons. That are the rip-offs of the gods. Basically evil counterparts.
*Sacred
And to be technical, the series is "Phantasms".
Sevens did get 2 more ops with the most recent series Go Rush! having just started.
With Seven’s and Go Rush!’s new gimmick to the game franchise being a separate format called Rush Duels which is essentially early Yugioh with some changes to spice things up, such as the unlimited normal summons, draw until you have 5 cards each turn, a new summoning method exclusive to the format and a spin on fusion summoning.
Poor powertool dragon just gets a jpg XD
Thanks for using the playlist I recommended. My social anxiety kicked in when I saw this video, but thankfully you didn't mention me.
It seems you heavily prefer light-hearted Yu-Gi-Oh openings over the serious ones.
GX and 5Ds do in fact have the original author do designs and basic premise, so Jaden Yuki (or Judai Yuki) was made by him.
And yeah, all the series get really dark near the end.
Not to get too much into spoilers, but GX has Jaden think he killed all his friends for a season and turning into a cruel dictator until he is cleansed of darkness after which he falls into depression.
5Ds has a character explode with his motorcycle and the bad guys are time travellers trying to prevent the extinction of humanity from their future.
Zexal has multiple characters turn out to be spirits piloting corpses of dead children, and one character suffocates when the duel cracks his space suit on the moon.
Arc-V has dimensional genocide, and serious depiction of PTSD from survivors including a little girl who has a flashback of everyone she knew dying.
Vrains has all the main cast being kidnapped and experimented on when they were kids which the plot revolves around, and it ends on the main character having to kill his best friend.
Even Sevens has the preschool hero sacrifice himself at the end by leaving his friends behind and throwing himself and the villain into outer space at light speed.
Which will lead directly into series 8 Go Rush which currently has three episodes out and takes place thirty two years after Sevens.
God I love this franchise!
So yeah, murders of the original manga are pretty tame in comparison, the rest of the series just leave their true faces for the later arcs and all but 5Ds and Vrains start out for little kids.
Original series and Zexal have the most impressive in episode animation too, not in Duellist Kingdom though, that arc is not actually digipaint, all traditional, but it's really stiff except for the duels in the castle.
It's at its best in the awesome Virtual World duel of Kaiba vs Noah in episode 115, and yeah that whole arc is filler. So what? That episode is my and my sister's favourite in the show.
I am surprised you made it through the Battle City slog, but dropped out in the way better Doma filler arc. To each their own.
Zexal actually looks good more consistently than the original series, which had some barely animated and badly drawn episodes, and all series have some great animation even outside those two, but sadly for GX all the great animation is in season 1, with 2, 3, and 4 being some of the best in story but by far the worst in animation.
Anyway, here are Sevens opening 2: th-cam.com/video/7lNVUsUy9gE/w-d-xo.html
And Go Rush opening 1: th-cam.com/video/v2TuErv1B-Y/w-d-xo.html
Sorry I didn't share them sooner, no playlist has them in it.
There are also very different second versions of
GX openings 2: th-cam.com/video/f-FnXPN6T0E/w-d-xo.html (fandub) and 3: th-cam.com/video/tlJKVFXef4I/w-d-xo.html
3 of Arc-V: th-cam.com/video/N2RKRfBAAYA/w-d-xo.html and the anniversary version: th-cam.com/video/TMjBHD2o6NA/w-d-xo.html
And 2 of Sevens: th-cam.com/video/iRI_4Y6fpjg/w-d-xo.html
I am watching both the Japanese and the English versions of these shows, I just didn't really like Hyperdrive.
Here are all the English openings: th-cam.com/play/PLT9h8VkZFflUNsVOIvKdysdwxjifN9aE2.html Just skip the first video with the full version and anything which says fanmade.
I look forward to your original work!
Wow that is wild. Jaden becoming a dictator sounds like a joke lmao. Truly would never think stuff like that happens based on most of these ops. Thanks for the very informative writeup!
Cruel dictator, more like war criminal. He almost massacred a whole dimension as the Supreme King/Haou O_O
Still can't help but love Judai thou ^^'
@@mercedeslp That arc traumatized me as a kid. It isn't help that that dub didn't even show us English viewers that Jaden lived, they literally ended it the episode before he came back. I went like 10 years thinking the show ended with his death. It was not cool.
Other way around with Go Rush; it's set in a PAST timeframe from Sevens. And we don't even know by how far.
Your reaction through the ARC-V openings pretty much my reaction watching the whole ARC-V lol
"peaceful card game means" oh man... He don't know
1:29:26 Their VRAINS Avatar Form? I always liked their digital avatar forms. Yeah, VRAINS is basically a virtual/digital world so each character will have their own civilian form in the real world and their own custom-made avatar form in the VRAINS world.
Anyway, each gimmick for each series of Yu-GI-Oh!
- Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! - Mostly it's own thing. Does dark, twisted games. But you know that.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters - Egyptian dark magic.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - School dueling academy. Further emphasises on the use of Fusion Monsters but other than that, doesn't really have unique gimmick.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Riding Duels (or Turbo Duels in English) and introduces Synchro Monsters/Summoning.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal - Kind of space-themed, I would like to say. Introduces Xyz Monsters/Summoning.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Multi-dimensional / Multi-Worlds. Introduces Penulum Monsters/Summoning. The dueling system the Standard Dimension has is Action Duel which uses Holograms w/ Solid Mass technology to make holographic monsters feel solidically realistic. In the Synchro Dimension, they do Riding Duels but without the Speed World stuff from 5D's.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Virtual/Digital World gimmick where each character have their own avatar form that are different than their civilian form and the dueling system done in the VRAINS World is Speed Duel which is similar to what the video game Yu-GI-Oh! Duel Links does, makes duels quicker with each player having an activatable Skill. Introduces Link Monsters/Summoning.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS - Dueling system in it is Rush Duel which removes some dueling restrictions to make duels go by faster.
1:20:54 his deck has 3 different archetype: performapal, magician and odd-eyes(each eye has different color monster)
Gx op 4 is still to this day one of my favorites I love psychic lover. Gx season 3 and 4 got pretty deep
Arc V is pretty much split dimensions. The world is basically split between 4 dimensions, Fusion, Xyz, Synchro and Standard. That's why the character designs are so vastly different. And why you'll see returning characters like Edo, Kite and Alexes in the series.
Vrains is Virtual Reality. Heck the entire name of it stands for Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network Systems. All of the action is done in the virtual world so of course some of them would alter their appearance to protect annonymity, I guess unless you're Kirito lol. Not a bad video over all but I dunno, some of your takes seemed unfair due to nostalgia from where I was watching. The video was awesome no lie but your take on ZeXal vs GX was strange. You said you didn't like the first opening of GX because it seemed too happy, but when ZeXal did it you were infinitely more happy lol. I guess it's the colors? I dunno just seemed like you were nitpicky on one over the other which is humorous as most people prefer not to ever think about ZeXal.
Editing to add, I can definitely see what you mean about the motorcycles in 5D's sometimes the CGI didn't look the best but I never minded them. Remember that it was made in the late 2000's, the CGI for a lot of this stuff was still new but I could tolerate it more than the Stardust Dragon roar in the middle of the 3rd opening of 5D's
The Mc in ArcV wants to be an entertainment dueler who puts a smile to audience while dueling that's why he has circus themed monsters but he is also the most mentally unstable Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist
Yuma (Zexal) has the power to draw whichever card when super saiyan
And to create cards too.
It's nice you actually see the symbolism with 5Ds first OP, 5Ds touched so many unusual shit in anime like class, discrimination, city politic etc
Zexal was the peak of Yugioh animation, with the best staff at the studio working on it.
Arc-V soon fell apart after the first season, with the writer losing the plot, and the director obsessed with the glory days. And the animation suffered because of it.
Vrains' animation was just enough, but never the minimum highs that Arc-V reached, since it's starter budget got sacrificed for the final dozen episodes of Arc-V.
You forget that The Dark Side of Dimensions movie drained ARC-V’s budget.
Also the reason arc v suffered the last run of its writing is because the staff are rushing their production inorder for Vrains to start because Konami is eager to introduce a link summoning
I think the symbolism of the guy in the trashy background walking towards you as the setting changes to something more clean, I think is the sense that he is coming for you. This narratively relates to how he is chasing a friend who betrayed him and left the slumbs
The Arc V series involved alternate universes of GX, Zexal, and 5Ds, with the GX dimension attacking the others, which is why the OPs have cameos by characters from the other shows (which you clearly didn't notice lol)
1:16:57 "I'm really slow, have they been riding to duel this entire time?" lmao bro didn't even realize Jack and Crow from 5D's are in the two openings.
The reason why that dragon was animated differently in the 5Ds opening was because it was a placeholder image for the real image that would come later the season. They didnt want to spoil it.
Arc V is an anniversary series that's why you see the D wheels of 5ds, xyz summons of zexal, and fusions. So when they were on Bikes it was for the 5d's synchro arc
actuly 5ds went had motorcycles because the writer was a fand of fast n the furious
It's funny cuz Arc-V really was trying to do multiple shows at once in a way. It almost worked too.
Honestly if only the staff just prioritize arc V UpTo it's end sadly the staff needs to rush arcV for Vrains because of Konami wants to introduce link summoning to counter Pendulum summoning
Arc-V was a celebration show. If they were so pressed to introduce links they actually could do it in Arc-V. Links were introduced to suppress pendulums. They could easily introduce it as a new way to suppress Zarc.
And later they also cut off Vrains. Vrains was supposed to be much longer.
Fun fact, on of the villains of the orichalcum/atlantis arc (tbh I completely forget its proper name) I a GIANT saint seiya ref, with his entire gimmick being summoning an armor set that he puts on and poses with saint seiya style.
Zexal openings: Everything is happpyyyy :D
Zexal: demons, fucked up backstories, moon scene
I recommend reacting to every getter robo op, every anime entry ( getter robo, g, go, armageddon, shin vs neo, new, arc ), and getter robo daikessen, though that probably would've been too hard, considering that they're all over the place, and there is no definitive compilation. Thanks for the content, man.
its very nice that you say what you actually think in these. i am tired of watching reactions where people just blindly love everything they see to please the fans
The blue spirit with Zexal's protag doesn't take over the body. He merely gives the protag advice on what to do in a duel, and that Super Saiyan-looking form? It's them fused, but the protag is in full control.
Konami changed studio's after VRAINS why the style changed and direction and that studio had roots to working on mech anime.
Judai ( Jaden in the japanese version ) has merged with a duel monster spirt during the third season. So he had a spirit companion. Actually he had more than one. .
Jusai goes from happy go lucky in the beginnig to depressed and mature person. Judai is definitely the most developed main character in Yu-Gi-Oh. He maybe looks plain but he really had to go through a lot.
lol how tf you didn't notice crow and jack in the Arc V openings
Yugioh Sevens is a very interesting case in a long running anime. Yugioh isn't a stranger to hard reboots, it pretty much did one every season starting from Zexal. But from what we know from Twitter posts, Konami (company that owns the right to the Yugioh franchise) and Studio Gallop (the animation studio that did all yugioh anime from the OG to Vrains) has a bit of falling out which lead to them switching studios for the new series. Moreover, during this period Konami also introduced a completely new card game in Yugioh Rush Duels (basically a boiled down version of the original card game) so in a sense Yugioh Sevens and now Go Rush can be considered an entirely different series of anime from Yugioh (DM-Vrains).
Production wasn’t going so great during Vrains, it got to the point where episodes 13,21,29 and 38 ended up being recaps episodes
I'm surprised you commented on Shark's/Ryoga's (purple haired Zexal dude) hair but not Kaito's (onion hair Zexal dude). Shark's fringe is definitely funky, though I think that's part of the charm of Zexal that all 3 of the main guys have very outlandish hairstyles even by Yugioh standards that an outsider would probably really dislike. Regardless, cool reaction, it was interesting hearing your thoughts on all the openings!
So to explain the arc v stuff. The gimmick for that season was called action duels, where the hologram's basically had solid mass. Hence why they could ride around their monsters and also was a series that tried to do the whole dimension route. Where all the previous seasons we had had their own dimensions. Basically, so the 2 openings that were on motorcycles took place in a slightly alternate version of the 5 d's. Dimension
main guys in Yu-gi-oh:
*original Yu-gi-oh: Yugi Muto
*Yu-gi-oh GX: Jaden Yuki (in Japanese: Yuki Judai)
*Yu-gi-oh 5D's: Yusei Fudo (Synchro summon was introduced. and Turbo Duels, AKA cards on motorcycles)
*Yu-gi-oh Zexal: Yuma Tsukumo (Xyz summon was introduced)
*Yu-gi-oh Arc-V: Yuya Skaki (Pendulum summon was introduced. and Action Duels, AKA the monsters feel real. and special Action spell cards)
*Yu-gi-oh Vrains: Yusaku Fujiki (Link summon was introduced. and Speed Duels, only when logging in the virtual reality that is Vrains)
*Yu-gi-oh Sevens: Yuga Uhdo (this is where the way to play the game changed entirely. it's called "Rush Duels". also they are 11 years old)
*Yu-gi-oh Go Rush: Yudias, arguably the twins- Yuhi Ohdo (boy) and Yuamu Ohdo (girl), but i donno if they relate to Yuga (also it's a Sevens spin-off series that started this month)
Umm yeah, answering a few short inquiries:
5DS is when they started going with the early ugly CGI and show's animation has always been pretty budget. It is deemed the high point story-wise though... no masterpiece but like, compared to the other Yugioh stuff....
ZeXal had the most budget and it shows. Animation peaked here no doubt. 5DS was darker trying to grow with its audience but ZeXal was a response to competition, a show called "Cardfight Vanguard" was starting up and stealing the audience back then.
Arc V looks different because their dimension shenanigans are basically each alternate versions of the previous series. They even had Alexis and Aster from GX, Crow and Jack from 5DS, and Kaito from ZeXal in the openings. It was an attempt to celebrate the franchise as a whole but a lot of the budget it could have had was redirected to the "Dark Side of Dimensions" movie and it suffered a lot as a result, it pretty much has the worst and most hate indusing finale of the franchise easily hahaha.
VRAINS was the last show made by the original studio that had always worked on these, and it suffered the hangover of the budget issues the previous show left, along with some staff leaving to better projects... Opposite to Arc V, this one was more of a "nothing" show in terms of engagement. Wasn't really hated but wasn't really loved either, as you infered.
Sevens and Go Rush are like watching Bakugan or Dino King. It has some charisma but you can tell the demographic went waaaaaay down. From Shonen (old teens/young adults) to kodomo (kids), and the monster designs and CGI effects also are a step down from the Yugioh aesthetic, especially if you go back to ZeXal in comparison.
*Vrains* might have the least hype OPs compared to other series but that's due to it somber story in general. The MC is such a quiet & broken character who has a dark past that you feel sympathetic for him.
Vrains also has the cleanest overall story compared to other YGO shows. As you can see, it only has 3 OPs. That's due to production issues, the story's focus became real tight. Aside from recap episodes, Vrains has no filler arcs whatsoever. It doesn't even have the dreaded tournament arc. Since they can't afford to have fillers, the story move along quickly & on point, making it a "short & (bitter)sweet" show compared to other YGO series which tend to go all over the place. Ironic, isn't it?
Fillers make the characters more developed, so Vrains ended up with the most underdeveloped side cast. I love Vrains, but it really could use some fillers. Arc-V too, instead it stretched out the main plot paper thin, so you barely get anything episode after episode despite the main plot being very cool.
@@genyakozlov1316 At the end of the day, Vrains is Yusaku & Ai's story and the show achieved a lot with them. Side characters got enough development considering they get as much development as Jounouchi at most & Anzu at least (with way less episodes). So yeah, Vrains is still the most efficient & effective series that doesn't waste much of audiences' time but with the same result. Not to mention one of the best endings since the OG Duel Monsters.
Ahhh bro i know this is a 2 year video but let me tell you what happen in arc V
The MC here is a Clown ,entertainer gymnastic guy and a magician apprentice thats why he moves like that he plays to entertain...
In the first opening and 2nd they are in pendulum dimension and there a new summoning method known as pendulum summon....
Now in the 3rd and 4th opening they went to Synchro dimension because of things i wont spoil where the 3rd yugioh anime happen but MC is not there..
Then the fifth opening they went XYZ dimension and also the world of the 4th yugioh anime and of course MC not there as well......
And Final opening is for the fusion dimension in the world of the first and 2nd anime...and same both MC is not their
And a slight spoiler The MC is the split of the 4 guys with dragons and the 4 girls you see through out is the split of the original heroine..... i wont say their story but this pretty much the data of the anime......
Yaboiken should definitely react to the endings. I like the Zexal, and Vrains endings more than the openings, and the movie credits are straight fire!
the reason sevens (the last op) has such a different art style is because the studio who was doing yugioh anime before it basically left konami, so a new studio, studio bridge who did some stuff for cardfight vanguard before are now in charge of the yugioh anime.
So ehhhh
We gonna do the Endings?
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Thanks for the good reaction.
This is a request, but I want you to react to the OPs of Battle Spirits and Cardfight Vanguard, which are anime based on trading card games respectively.
There are many cool songs!
geez I want that Adventure 02 movie poster in my wall
23:08 Those are not the god cards they are the sacred beast( it's forgive able since they do look like the gods)
And than there are the Wicked God cards, which are also similar. They're in none of the animes thou.
But I think they would fit greatly with the Supreme King/Haou XD
46:00 Spoiler!!
The one opening you see is the "final version" the dragons who are CG were there for all the version but the 2D one was put there because the character it belongs officialy became part of the team... that's why there are 6 Dragons instead of just 5 (5 Ds)...
So you know 4KIDZ RUINED the shows with the dub, the Yu-Gi-Oh dub is infomuse for compltly censoring reediting and changing the story for every Yu-Gi-Oh season, heck they blatenly refused to dub the last 2 seasons for both GX and 5D.
I highly recomend that you watch the sub if you ever try to go back into the anime and DO NOT, watch the dub for any other reson then for Nostalgia.
Don't take me wrong I am okay with the dub but after finding out how much they changed and removed from the shows it got me sad and angry so to me I now only watch the dub of the original show and GX only if I'm to lazy to read the sub.
Edit: I have to point this out, because it always bugs me when people react to 5D and Vrains, and how always they start complaing about how they duel wile driving a bike, but in vrains they are surfing and no one bats an eye, it just bugs me how vrains surfing duels are seen as okay and not worth commenting but 5D's always gets laughed and made fun of.
Because in Vrains, they surf midair but virtually not physically. I don't really mind, I think Riding Duel and Rush Duel are both cool specially the Data Storm
@@foxxberry2752 oh I like the data storm ride duels too, same for the duels in 5D.
It just bugs me that people never react to them surfing wile dueling but driving a bike thats noticible.
I agree! Even I hated them! It’s like they always say,” The road to hell is paved with good intentions”! They shouldn’t treat anime like typical kid shows!
In GX only season 4 didn't get dubbed (and the last episode of season 3). The show ended with Judai/Jaden missing... What a happy ending to a kids show XD
Apparently it didn't get dubbed not because it was to dark but because at the time 5Ds came out and they wanted to get that dubbed as fast as possible and focused on that instead. The dates fit this statement as well. GX ep 155 (s 3 ep 50) came out on August 23 2008 in America and 5Ds ep 1 came out on September 13 2008 in America.
Honestly, it still sounds like an excuse to me thou...
I'm also not sure if I should be sad or glade about it. Who knows what 4Kids would have done to it ^^'
speed/ride duels in 5D actually makes sense as a sport with risks and the adrenaline where you're actually riding and dueling like your life depends on it.
The 2 last ops of 5Ds are the JAM Project. One of the best anime opening band ever. I love their songs. from One Punch Man to 5Ds, CardFight Vanguard. Oh they are just my favorite. Makes the best anime ops in my opinion. :)
Pretty cool reaction , the first one I ve seen doing a reaction to all yugioh openings , also there is still another yugioh opening , the go rush one
The transformation in zexal called, Zexal. In the japnese version the X is silent so its pronounced Ze-al.
The transformation"s is basically like fusion of yuma (mc) and astral ( the alien ).
Basically the power allows him to rewrite reality to draw the cards he needs 🤷♀️
No shooting lazers involved.
For the 5ds 5th opening the reason why power tool dragon was kind of choppilly 2d animated is because they had life stream dragon at first like in the second ending but took it out until Life stream dragon was in the anime.
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SAKAKI YUYA. PENDULUM SUMMON..
I don't know if anyone ever said it to you already, but basically while Duel Monsters, GX, and 5Ds are the Core trinity canon trilogy of the yugiverse, Zexal, Arc-V and Vrains acts as the trilogy's respective reboots. Basically using the core concept of the first 3 and putting modern twist to the formula. Yuma and Astral(Zexal) are basically Yugi and Atem retold in a modern era, even with how their dynamics work. Sakaki Yuya is basically Jaden rebooted, even with how their series progressed being upbeat at first, then depressing later. And Yusaku/Playmaker? If Yusei of 5Ds was an emo kid playing card games on motorcycles, Yusaku is an Emo Hacker kid playing cardgames ON HOVERBOARDS.
1:30 The English dub opening theme of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, "Hyper Drive", my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! opening theme (in general). I even made a guitar tab of it since I wanted to play it on guitar but yeah, too bad there isn't an official extended/full version of it as I too would love to have a full/extended version of it. 5D's is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series and it's usually a fan favorite among YGO fans.
I have seen most Yu-Gi-Oh! seasons and some of them in English and Japanese:
- Duel Monsters, GX, and 5D's in both English and Japanese.
- And I only watched Toei's Yu-GI-Oh! ("Season 0"), Zexal, Zexal II, ARC-V, and VRAINS in Japanese and a little of SEVENS (the change of artstyle and the comedy wasn't for me) but
- - I have briefly seen the English Dub of Zexal and I didn't like the English dub voices in Zexal so I stopped watching the dub of that and I also couldn't get into the English voices of ARC-V. I don't know what the English dub of VRAINS is like.
Among the Japanese opening themes, the 4th Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters opening theme "WARRIORS" is my favorite. I remember Dueling Network playing that opening theme.
I also still actively play the Yu-GI-Oh! trading card game and I've been playing Yu-GI-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution a lot on my Nintendo Switch (my favorite YGO video game so far).
My current IRL decks so far are:
- Armed Samurai - Ben Kei OTK deck - A deck with powerful equip cards to deal massive damage with the multi-attacker card Armed Samurai - Ben Kei.
- Thunder Dragon + Watt deck - Originally a custom Watt deck I bought, I later mixed Thunder Dragon cards in it and finally became a powerful deck.
- A deck of powerful old cards - Just something simple.
- Link Strike starter deck - Starter deck for Link monsters.
- Space-Time Showdown starter deck - Starter deck for Pendulum monsters.
And I would like to construct a Wight/Skull Servant deck someday.
Fun fact: 5Ds first season was very dark, focused on cults. And then one of the VAs was found to be involved in a sex cult, so the cult angle was changed. I always wonder what had happened if the cult angle had continued forward.
Starting with Zexal, there was some weird theming to some of the character designs. It may have been in prior seasons too, but starting with Zexal it's much more obvious. For example, Shark and Yuma's hair are based on sea animals; Shark a squid, and Yuma a shrimp. In Arc-V, Yuya and the other boys are all designed based on fruits it seems (Yuya is a tomato, for example).
If you watch Zexal you need to watch it subbed. There are *significant* story changes in the dub version, but they don't work around them perfectly.
In my humble opinion, Yugioh Zexal is one of the greatest anime of it's type and is absolutely worth all anime fan's time even if you aren't a massive fan of Yugioh. The story it tells and also the animation displayed is in it's own league within these "kids" anime. The one big complain about it is that it's first act is a slog to go through and a majority of the characters we're introduced to aren't really that interesting. It's not until the main rival of season 1 (Kaito/Kite) is introduced does the plot actually move forward.
Just an additional note: kite/kaito shows up in episode 13. So if someone is put off by the opening seeming like a slog, don't worry - it picks up fairly early on and it's one of the few shonens that the show gets better pretty much every arc.
The mc of Arc V, Yuya, and Giorno from part 5 have the same voice actor so you can say Yugioh is a Jojo reference
Yu-Gi-Oh itself was inspired by Jojo.
Also Dio's VA was in Yu-Gi-Oh! He was the guy using dark magician against Yugi in battle city. And he also was Seiyu the crazy guy of society of light. That was with Edo Phoenix
@@Nikolai2i You're also forgetting that Dio's VA voiced Sartorius, and his ace monster is quite literally called "The World".
Reason Yusei is sitting on a junk pile is 1 he lived most of his live in the slums and has been tinkering with stuff since early one and 2 his cards archtype has association with junk as in Junk Warrior being a card.
PS: if Arc-V's Tonal and Theme shift confuses you, it's because that series had been into production hell. So many animation industry malpractices were made, animators getting rushed, mismatched story boarding and all. It was a huge let down compared to the production management that Zexal experienced. It is still considered one of the worst Yugioh series ending wise as a result. The story ending was just absolutely disappointing.
Not to mention the japapnese voice actors weren't able to finish voice acting due to losing their voice.
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Power Tool Dragon isnt moving because hes a machine which, spoiler alert-
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Evolves into a real ragon in this season
Ngl, reacting/dissecting openings of a show without knowing much about the plot or how things in the visuals relate to or represent plot points is pointless. That, and praising the subpar English openings over the Japanese versions are such uninformed, bad takes.
GX for the winner
Nah. I don't mind the pausing. If I wanted to just watch the opening I can. I was here to hear a breakdown of your thoughts on the product and it's attributes. I honestly wish I had gotten more talking.😅
This was definitely enjoyable to watch. Thank you for posting.
I think it's funny that 5Ds seemed to have the most bland openings. It's definitely a fan favorite and has an actual adult protagonist. Someone has a video essay regarding 5ds and actually discusses the impact of card games on motorcycles. You're certainly right that the show does the motorcycles far more justice than the openings.
You might enjoy reacting to the openings from the "Tales of" JRPG series.
Keep up the solid content!
Yes! The "Tales of" series XD
Do you mean the game openings or the openings from the anime adaptations thou?
I love Tales of Symphonia~
@@mercedeslp The game openings. Not every game has an anime adaptation, unfortunately.
Restart reading the Yugioh manga then read Transcend Game and end it with The Dark Side of Dimensions movie. That's the Kazuki Takahashi canon timeline.
I like how you point out the artstyle & animation in those openings.
I normally don't care and just listen man.
But anw... Yeah they did invest a lot into ZeXal as compared to 5D's.
It's like... YGO was in decline back then, so they tryna bring in more children.
Hence why the better animation and a more vibrant tone.
Same goes for ARC-V as well, but the animation declined in later arcs cuz animators focus more on the Dark Side of Dimension movie.
Jaden does get super powers, and he's kind of busted.
He's basically Joey, but as the reincarnation of a tyrannical psychic warlord whose best friend was surgically modified to become a half-dragon half-succubus half-incubus demon and is now obsessed with Jaden's love. He later becomes possessed by the ghost of an immortal alchemist and fuses himself with said half-dragon demon.
Jaden's powers list:
1. The Gentle Darkness, which allows him to see and manipulate souls. Stated to be specifically Duel Spirits, but he also interacts with human ghosts from time to time.
2. Actual friggin magic. The Gentle Darkness lets him create and use spells, which range from spell cards to just straight up shooting ki blasts at people if he feels like it. He can also manifest cards physically so that he can cast spell cards on people and have monsters attack people.
3. Yubel having fused with him means he can read minds, read emotions, see through illusions, be immune to hypnotic effects, see the future, negate other supernatural abilities, make monsters stronger, increased athletic and physical ability to superhero levels, etc.
Why is he so weirdly powerful in a series where he never actually fights (ignoring when he was the Supreme King)? Who knows.
Obligatory, I'm late statement. But Yu-Gi-Oh! shows won't really tell you what they're about until the last 2 seasons. Like GX is about a kid that grew up alone finding out he is a dark entity from the past and proceeds to lose his friends and enslave an entire dimension, eventually coming to terms with himself and protecting his world and leaving his friends to take care of their own problems. Then 5D's is about an energy crisis that mutates humans and causes the end of the world as time travellers go back in time to stop the main character from existing while the main character looks for a way for his way of life to survive and for the world and humanity to continue to exist. Zexal is about a great interdimensional war with earth as it's battleground and finding the literal creator of the yugioh univers, Numeron Dragon, to end the war. Arc-V is basically the same except the war is about returning the dimenions to one but the main character is actually 1/4th of the supreme king (what Jaden is) and to reuinite them would end the universe so basically everyone dies in the end leaving the dimensions split apart. Vrains is about a program to torture children to fight an AI uprising while the AI's have to deal with the fact that if the exist humanity will die and that humans know this and will try to kill them even if the AI's don't want to end humanity, in the end the AI's have to die and it's really sad.
Actually 5D's is an exception since it was originally supposed to end after the Dark Signers arc, so the Neo Domino-Satellite divide and the Signers-Dark Signers war was initially what it was really about.
I was waiting for him to react about arc V's last 2 openings but he didn't react to crow and atlast appearance or even just recognize they are from 5 Ds and GX. Well ArcV is about dimensions so yeah
When he learns about z arc
I strongly disagree with you takes. The first Duel Monsters opening had practically no animation, it was just still shots whilst 5D’s had outstanding movements & facial expressions. It only got better with each series. I think you’re just on an absolute nostalgia high if you’re critiquing animation that poorly.
yea I dunno. If I said the animation in the first opening is better then you have a point, there is certainly less animation in the first opening compared to 5Ds. But I do think the 5Ds opening is just kinda ugly and the first opening looks better aesthetically.
But that's just like, my opinion maaaaaaan
45:40 once the video is paused you can move between frames with the period and comma keys
I will say if you're interested in watching a standalone Yugioh to get into it, Zexal is definitely the best for that. You really don't need to know much about the franchise/game to understand it compared to a more meta-Yugioh lore series like Arc-V or Vrains. It's also just very high quality the whole way through after it breaks out of its filleritis in episode... 30 or so??? Which sounds like a long way but trust me compared to some other series I'd much rather they frontload the filler than backload it...
The premise can basically be boiled down to "what if the original series, but instead of ancient egypt, it was *aliens*?" It then proceeds to go in a completely different direction. So y'know.
The design of the protagonist of 5d is very generic, Jayden's is memorable
1:08:50 It's not that, it's just pre-2010 and 2010 tools. .obviously cleaner than 2000s
duelingnetwork... sure bring back memories 😁
Go for All Gundam openings... Yaay
Arc v it's a multidimensional trip they go to the dimension that does motorcycle duels they weren't riding during all the show
This video proves that by simply watching the openings, you can parse which Yugioh shows are the best. Bro clearly understood how Zexal, Arc-V and Sevens are the better ones and 5d's and Vrains are boring and bad (jj but I am right)
I just realized that in the GX openings nothing about Aster Phoenix appears, he is only seen until the end of the last opening and Sartorius doesn't even appear, I think he wasn't that interesting.
3:20 attention all duelists!
I wish they would give the English translation of the lyrics on the bottom so you know what the songs are about.
Damn you're so critical over Yugioh hahaha. David pro def would do a better job with cg in openings ha.
Also here to rec Ace of diamond, Ashita no joe, Ping pong the animation, Vinland Saga, Monster, Kaiji, Major, Ao Ashi. Blue period and Golden Kamuy manga
You should react to Yugioh GoRush opening. It a fire opening! It so good!