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That card is yours now.
Looks like our no-good duelist did improve a bit.
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Beginning the thread with episode 13.
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>>288854017
>>288854161
SO fucking cool!
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>>288857747
Yuma looking under Kotori's skirt here
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The return of webm files for the end of episode 13.
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Starting episode 14.
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>>288859316
>he knew that the Numbers couldn't be destroyed!?
It isn't like he hunts Numbers and just used Numbers himself.
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>>288859375
Or reads the fucking cards
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>>288859650
Where were you when in the spic dub they called this card Correo Espejo because "mail" translates into multiple things in Spanish?
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Episode 14 done. What are your debut impressions on Tenjo Kaito?
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>>288859888
Following the Shark 3-parter by this is a solid string of episodes, but on the other hand Kaito is too perfect despite doing shit like dumping his entire hand in 2 Numbers then sacking them for Galaxy-Eyes without any consequences. Granted his next 3 Duels have worse shit altogether.
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>>288859815
LATAM bros... why does this keep happening?
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>>288859996
Being forced to comply with the official card translations, because Konami actually translated the card as Correo Espejo to begin with. Granted, this is nothing compared to stuff like using the 4Kids dub (SEÑOR AMNESIA) or the fact that after GX, none of the series had complete dubs until Vrains and Sevens.
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Posting episode 15.
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>>288860094
I am glad i stopped with the spic dub a long while ago, specially with it being filtered first by 4kids
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>>288861409
she is so happy seeing her husband doing his best
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>>288859815
>>288859996
Yuma sounds like a Chad in the LATAM dub. Pretty based imo
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>>288861512
Total Synchro Erasure
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>>288861850
GOOD
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>>288861811
Well Yuma is pretty cool, if i said so myself
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CATBOX DOESN'T WORK
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>>288862491
Works on my machine
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>>288862491
https://streamable.com/7ji7ea
Does Streamtable work for you?
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Episode 15 done.
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Next week's preview.
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With this the manga and anime now fully diverge into their own stories. Among the last differences there is
>the Number Kaito gets is Giga-Brilliant instead of Gold Rat + the Number holder's design is different
>Yuma uses Kagetokage and Kagemucha Knight instead of Monster Slots and Copy Knight
>Kaito's Trap Card changes the target of Yuma's direct attack instead of giving him a turn to believe he can comeback with Mirror Mail
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The voice of Tenjo Kaito, Koki Uchiyama.
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>>288863991
SOUL!!!
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Bump
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>>288853674
Fantastic episodes.
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Kaito from his first episode already is one of the coolest rivals
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>>288861933
Pretty cool seeing classic monsters, even if they are technically replicas.
Unlike in 5Ds, fusion monsters appear in Zexal. Well OK there was a fusion monster in 5Ds, but here there were multiple fusion users.
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>>288862481
>>288862159
Where's diffusion wave motion when you need it?
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>>288867144
I can only count 3 onscreen fusions in 5D's: Multi Piece Golem, Centaur Mina, and Draco Equiste.
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>>288858660
>>288858600
>>288858575
And there it is. Galaxy Photon Dragon's debut.
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>>288858575
Was it ever explained why Kaito needed the staff to summon Photon Dragon?
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>>288867392
Nope. New Orders at least can be headcanon'd to be Number prototypes because of their similar Summon sequences.
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>>288861850
Lol your're right. It wouldn't be as bad if they didn't also show GX monsters like Neos and cyber dragon.
It's also really funny that a show in 2011 or really any show past DM shows characters losing their shit over dark magician and BEWD even though middle of GX was probably the last time anyone had normal monsters other than geminis, especially when the protags have miles better ace monsters.
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>>288861512
>>288861595
Cards Yuma didn't name
>flame wingman
>Cyber Dragon
>super vehicroid
>flame swordsman
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>>288867632
>super vehicroid
Wow, a Sho monster made it into the gallery.
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>>288861512
>>288861595
>>288861662
Modern yugioh could never. It would be way too immersion breaking for some dude with a post covid deck like ghosttrick or fallen of albaz creaming himself over DM cards like they're still the most powerful yugioh monsters, when his own deck could probably OTK whatever GOAT deck he faced.
Inb4 Blue Eyes actually has a pretty good deck in master duel or inb4 everybody in the DM era knew the strongest monsters were the Chaos monsters.
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>>288861512
>No CED
Cheapskate old man! Although that card those tag team guys were stealing was technically a retrain of it.
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>>288867717
Blue-Eyes had a "modern SD" back in 2024.
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>>288861512
>>288867632
Why did they replace flame wingman anyway? He was better than Neos.
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>>288868247
They wanted to give Judai an Ace that fit into the DM mold I guess. That was the beginning of the 2500/2000 trend.
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Kaito's settei.
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What drives you making those mp4s? Two versions of each at that. This seems overly autistic and it cannot be a better watching experience than just linking to the episode.
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>>288870581
I have the full episodes from another anon sent to me on dropbox.com. I apologize for this posting method. I was just trying to emulate a anime variant of a manga storytime posting procedure.
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Kazuki's Kaito.
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>>288870581
you can comment on a specific piece of the episode easier this way.
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>>288854017
ENTER
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>>288863560
i been meaning to read the rest of YGO manga, i only read the DM one, it looks pretty cool specially 5Ds
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>>288872556
Definitely worth reading. The manga are a lot more concise and structured compared to their anime counterparts, even if they never reach the same heights. Zexal one especially is pretty good imo, it's like they took the bullshit from duelist kingdom and applied it to zexal but made it make sense within the actual game
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>>288870775
NTA but I appreciate the effort.
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42 years old this year,
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>>288853674
I always end up reading Yu-Gi-Oh ZEXUAL instead of the read title...
Am i the only one?
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>>288878322
What gets about me Zexal in that it's supposed to be "Zeal" and the "X" is silent.
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Amusing to me how in 5D's, it was the rival who would've lost if the duel continued, while in Zexal, it's the protagonist who would've lost if the duel didn't get cancelled.
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>>288853674
Sex with Shark.
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shark is the better rival and im very displeased with the following two seasons of kaitowank, thank god he gets put in his place for the final one
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>>288853674
we back
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>>288881813
Damn right.
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>>288878322
>Yu-Gi-Oh ZEXUAL
makes sense, have you seen Kotori? or Episode 9? that was something else...
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>>288878322
I will from now on.
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>>288884123
>have you seen Kotori? or Episode 9? that was something else...
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Galaxy Eyes' reference sheets.
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>>288866597
I agree.
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>>288880300
As a character I find him just serviceable, but he was given cool dueling scenes and presentation which makes up for it. He at least doesn't really veer way off the rails anywhere and is understandable
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>>288878867
This is why Kaito is the best rival. The previous three were all cool characters but all losers. Kaiba lost to Yugi in the first episode and was always in his shadow. Jack was the same. Manjoume was a great character but a massive jobber.

Kaito instantly shifted the tone of the story. Until his appearance, Astral was the best in the series and the only reason Yuma struggled was because he was an idiot who didn't listen. Here Astral got outclassed and now he needs to get better, while the fear of death made Yums grow up and actually look to improve alongside Astral.

On top of that, the story was mostly bad guy of the week with a number card. Kaito is now a looming threat and adds a new layer to the story. He instantly pulled out two numbers which already makes him far superior to any other number holder until now, then throws them away for an even more powerful monster. And on top of that, his monster is an xyz killer. He's also a more compelling character by virtue of Haruto, while the previous rivals were all just selfish jackasses
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>>288890433
And this is his impact in the first 15 episodes by the way. Meanwhile Kaiba jobbed in episode 1, Manjoume jobbed to Judai and Misawa, Jack robbed Yusei like a petty thief and lost to Yusei even while using his stolen ace monster.

Kaiser was another good one since he actually beat Judai but Kaito had more impact overall (at this point in the story)
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>>288890433
>>288890470
kaito would 100% be a jobber if he was facing off against yami, judai or yusei because yuma is meant to be an underdog while the previous three arent. im pretty sure the sympathetic backstory is also there so viewers wont be so harsh on him for the heinous shit hes about to do to shark because hes not charismatic enough like kaiba where they can just let him be straight up evil
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>>288856157
>>288855825
Kaito never redeems himself for all the people he soulmurdered btw
Never even bothers to learn to collect Numbers the normal way
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>>288890534
>ignores all the reasons why kaito is good and goes straight to powerscaling
subhuman behavior
>kaito has a backstory to make him sympathetic
What a retarded take. His character revolves around protecting Haruto, the number hunting was only ever a means to an end. There's nothing wrong with having a rival that isn't a cunt.
>hes not charismatic enough like kaiba where they can just let him be straight up evil
They shoehorned in that whole Gozaburo storyline to whitewash his bullshit. Then there was that whole Mokuba nonsense after he beat up an old man and threatened to kill himself if he didn't win, which was clearly a poor attempt at trying to engender sympathy for Kaiba

>>288890565
He can't. Only Astral can take them normally
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>>288890565
i still think its crazy that no one ever holds a grudge against him for this nor does it get brought up ever again, in the DM manga they never stop treating kaiba like an asshole for the shit hes done but in Zexal kaito just gets away with it
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>>288890930
The DM anime whitewashed him. In the manga his backstory is that he cheated against gozaburo in their chess match to win in order to establish that kaiba was always the kind of asshole that stops at nothing to win and gozaburos hellish education just twisted his personality further show how he became deranged enough to set up a death game show for yugi or drive 3 people into bankruptcy or suicide to get his blue eyes.

The DM anime spins this to make it more tragic for kaiba and also try to frame him as some child genius that won against a chess master honestly lol
>powerscaling
this isnt powerscaling i was explaining that kaito is allowed to win against yuma because yuma is a different type of character compared to yugi who naturally forces his rival to be a jobber instead. kaito isnt any better just because he gets to win against the protag
>There's nothing wrong with having a rival that isn't a cunt.
but kaito is a cunt with all the soulmurdering AND for soulmurdering shark who was standing up for yuma for no fucking reason and not even apologizing for it; its just the anime tries to convince that he isnt a cunt unlike the dm manga which is honest about kaiba being a cunt
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Card games!?
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>>288892097
on AR!
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>>288891000
>manga
Not relevant. We're talking about the anime, the manga is a different continuity.

>kaito isnt any better just because he gets to win against the protag
I never said he was stronger than the other rivals though. I said he's a better character because he actively impacts the main character and pushes him to be better. The others don't do that - they can't do that when they're constantly playing second fiddle

Firstly, posting about later events in a storytime makes you the biggest cunt of all. You didn't even spoiler anything. Secondly he took Shark's soul because he thought he was a number holder. He let him go afterwards. He never took anyone's soul for the sake of it, he did it to gather the numbers and protect his brother. By his own admission, he sold his soul to the devil. His actions were wrong but it was always motivated by his love for his brother, not by personal greed. And why would he apologise to Shark? He rarely talks to him and they don't like each other even on a good day - on the usual day they're enemies.
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>>288892560
>manga is a different continuity.
irrelevant when were discussing the quality of the story. the manga will always be the main measuring stick against all other ygo manga and anime.
>he actively impacts the main character and pushes him to be better. The others don't do that
Thats because Yuma is the kind of character with room to grow who needs that kind of thing, Yami doesnt because is already in an aspirational position. Just because kaito fulfills a narrative function that yuma needs doesnt really make him better than kaiba who doesnt have to do the same for yugi and can act more as a straightforward antagonist instead of doing the rival deuteragonist thing like GX and 5ds which i believe you meant with second fiddle. And even then yami gets some development in the Duelist kingdom arc when kaiba and mai challenge his fear of losing. All this doesnt make kaito good when instead of jobbing you get grating kaitowank instead.
>spoiler
i forgot. he took sharks soul and just kept it despite not getting any number from it and only returns it when yuma fucking tells him as if he couldnt have done that right away, which just seems to display his indifference to the people he soulmurdered. this is what i mean with kaito being a cunt but the show wanking him to convince you hes not
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>>288890433
Kaito is far from the best because the writers went the other extreme and made him too perfect. The Duel with Shark would be the worst in the franchise if a certain Duel in Arc-V didn't top it.
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>>288892918
im glad the zexal manga changed that and had the duel interrupted instead of making shark job for harder kaitowank
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>>288859993
>Granted his next 3 Duels have worse shit altogether.
I'm getting reminded of a moment where one of Kaito's opponents used like three cards just to summon one level 4 monster as material for an Xyz summon.
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>>288888904
Galaxy eyes is one of my favorite rival boss monter, i think i even like it more than blue eyes
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>>288884123
>>288886048
can you send me the link to the thread of those chapters please?
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>>288894526
Episode 9? sure
https://i.desu.si/dhAyAted.mp4
Desu deletes after 24 hourse to have that in mind
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>>288894526
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/288582147/#q288588406
The thread of that episode.
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>>288894587
thank you so very much anon
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File: 5D's ep 102 scene 23.mp4 (3.97 MB, 640x480)
3.97 MB
3.97 MB MP4
>>288892918
>>288893016
>spoiler
Wow, and I thought Team Unicorn was the low point in terms of pre Arc-V duels.
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>>288894686
Team Unicorn at least is some sort of climatic despite the bullshit at the end and Yusei solo'ing 3 guys in a row. Shark vs Kaito is completely fumbling a rival Duel.



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