No joke, he is probably one of the best examples of main characters in my book

In my opinion Jaden/Judai is the best written protagonist in Yugioh, I love the themes he deals with and how mature the message usually is at the end of these series

Yugioh 3D Bonds Beyond Time was the icing on the cake. In Bonds Beyond Time Jaden was different from GX last season and more like in the first season. Feels like he really got back what he lost in the duel against Yugi Muto!

It’s interesting that Judai becomes the darkness to destroy the light of destruction because of the reversal in the tropes between light and dark. Light can be seen as escaping your problems and letting someone handle them for you or erase your mind of them while Dark can be seen as taking on your negative emotions and issues then pushing ahead the lonely road that comes with confronting yourself

a character that grows from his adventures, his skills, his losses, his failures, true fans enjoy these more because it's beyond realistic to invest a character that isn't perfect.

As much as I Love original Yugioh... GX was the PEAK of Yugioh

he's the only hero who attempts genocide as Supreme King ☠

If this wasn't yugioh anime his development would be sooo much more popular, but sadly ppl just assume its silly anime

This is why Jaden is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Jaden is my favorite protagonist along with Elemental Heroes being my favorite archetype. We need a GX movie that takes place right after season 4. It won't interfere with what's already happend and it could reference what will happen later on or something.

GX definitely was my favorite story/plot of all Yugioh shows

Jaden is one of my favourite shonen characher because of his solid development. He starts naive and careless, but every single episode, even the Kaibaman one, develops his personality. He grows up from every single experience, just like a real person. He also has a Harry Potter-kinda like leadership, people choose him to be their leader but he doesn't want to be the leader, he just wants to be normal and enjoy his favourite game. In fact, he starts relaxing when he meets Johan, who is a born leader and shares with him the weight of saving the world. And when Jaden loses the only person he can rely on, his whole world cracks into pieces. Like it would happen to a real person. Let's take Atem in comparison. The Orichalcos arc is very intense and interesting, yes... But out of nowhere people start saying the Pharaon is evil, is dark, the source of everything bad in the world. Well, maybe they could be right in the manga, where the Pharaon was pretty sadistic at the beginning, but on the anime version he has always had a superhero attitude. Raphael pops out of nowhere, keeps blabbing how bad Atem is, that he will play the Seal because he is evil, that he sacrifices his monsters... It's ODD, especially because we are not on Digimon where you have a bond with your partner, who is a living being, it's a card game that requires you a tribute to summon your ace monster. And what happens after Orichalcos arc? Will Atem think back in guilt about how he lost Yugi, during the next Arc? Will someone scold him for being too proud? No. Atem will hard reset to the conditions of the pre Orichalcos arc, because it's filler. He did learn NOTHING from his whole experience. In the final duel he needs to learn AGAIN to loose, which was the plot point of Orichalcos arc, so WTF? Well, Jaden learns. He is taunted by Super Polymerization and his little Haou arc, he is so distressed to influence his friends and put them apart. Just have a look at the third opening: in the first version he is sad. On the second version he starts smiling because there is Johan. On the third version he is sad but also determined, Johan is taken off from the opening, and all the previous memories of Jaden and his friends are now Jaden/Johan memories. Why? Because Johan now is his most important person, and having to bear again all the weight of the world in his own shoulders (because his other friends can't do any without him), makes him feel lonely and desperate again.

Everything in this video and more is why Jaden is such an amazing character.

Can we get some of these delving into the RIVALS too maybe??? an in depth Kaiba seems like it would be primed to print views.

I love how even the intro changes along with him. There are small tweaks that make it intresting.

Jaden/Judai Yuki is one of my all time favorite Yu-Gi-Oh Protagonists (next would probably be Yusei). I like the journey he goes on and I can relate a lot of my experiences growing up with his. I find him and Yusei to be two of the most relatable Yu-Gi-Oh Main characters for me. I love Yugi too...but I find Jaden to be more down to earth, relatable and I can see myself in his character a lot. I too grew up with a happy go lucky attitude but lost my childhood early due to dark experiences...(not going into detail) and right up to adulthood, I became a depressed mess...I'm still a depressed mess (have been diagnosed with PTSD, Depression, on the aUTISM spectrum) and I have my days where I don't want to talk to anyone...But I've slowly been learning how to move forward too like Jaden did in season four and accept the darkness and bad things along with the light and good things. He sort of reminds me a bit of Sora from Kingdom Hearts but then his character journey ends up a bit more like RIku's character journey as he too learns to accept the darkness and use it for good as well. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Point is, Judai/Jaden is a character that means a lot to me. Johan is definitely a favorite of mine too up there with Joey and Seto.

Jaden is probably my all time favorite anime protagonist. Even above Goku and Midoriya.

I kinda really want a Jaden/Yubel sequel series

Awesome video! Thank you for your work!

Lovely video mate

They need to make Jaden playable in the next Jump-style game...........

He's my favorite YGO MC

Very emotional

there's a good reason he's stayed in everyone's memories for this long

Good video 👍

Putting in the watch later. One of my most prominent and favorite, few childhood anime I never got to finish. Rather rewatch the series first! You know what? After I catch up on Boku No Hero, I'll finally get back to Yu gi oh Gx! All that said, I've watched the entire Bakugan series. So a video on Dan Kuso (MC) would be great too. Secondly, im sure im not the only one who's made the comparison between him and Jayden. A goggle search alone would make even those who haven't seen either anime understand why. There is noone who could convince me Dan didn't take inspiration from Jayden, just no way. Creator musta been a YGX fan or something.

By far the best yugioh protagonist and one of the best shonen characters ever

I wished they aired season 4 because how they ended season 3 made it look like Jaden is "Sent to the Stars", meaning the bad guy wins in the end...

Well he s the one with the best growth

No way they cooked this and fed it to us so subtly

We were robbed of a season 4 Jaden Yuki Dubbed & his Graduation duel against Yugi to Regain what he had lost

Yay

I think the best written character protag is Jaden, but the best duelist of them is Yusei

Everyone wants to praise Jaden's character development, which in my opinion could have been handled better (I do like him in the later seasons but I didn't find him all that compelling in the first two). It also came at the cost of shafting every other main character and taking away their much needed screen time

definitely an agree with the title and cool thumbnail for the video

lol who got Dartz to voice these videos?

There's no doubt he's the best protagonist in the franchise . but i enjoyed as the cheerful guy

Gyaat dang jaden

And how the Dub chose to ignore most of it

Gx was too Judai-centered, many good side characters were ruined and wasted so that Judai can shine, not just Kaiser. This is normal in Yugioh animes, but in GX it was too much. Kaiser for example was ruined the most, in S3 he was nerfed and disrespected at the end so that Yubel can survive and fight Judai, and then in S4 he was completely ruined and abondoned. Most of Ygo rivals are done dirty by the end tho. S4 of gx was especially bad, gx could have been so much better if it wasn't for Judai's plot armor, there was many forced writing. Still solid overall, normal people who watch original Japanese know how good it is to just listen to the voices and soundtracks..

JADEN YUKI IS MY DAWG 😭

this video literally describes every yugioh protag aside from Yugi Moto, Yusei Fudo, Yusaku Fujiki, Yuga Ohdo, and Yudias (fuck the twins, they are not the protagonists of GO RUSH, BITE MEEEEEEEEE), who, have not had an emo phase unlike Atem, Jaden Yuki, Yuma Tsukumo, and Yuya Sakaki, and Yusaku was tortured as a childhood, Yudias fought in a literal war, you'd think those 2 would be the most prone to have rage moments, but naw, those are literally the chillest dudes around despite their traumatic past

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Puss In Boots The Last Wish perfected character development with Puss and his journey alongside his epic face off against Death.

Sir where can i watch yugioh?

Worst thing about Yugioh Gx is that it was too short...

Cross channel algorithm boost, go!

Jaden hes the best Yugioh Protagonist, and Crowler is the best Yugioh Gx Character.

Not exactly perfect but yeah hes a really good character

This is the englisch serienreviewer cause this is the same german video

This is a good video. However, I feel that it misunderstands Jaden as a character. Or at least, what would seem more appropriate for him. When I think of Jaden Yuki, I see the card game equivalent of Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise. Someone who appears to be foolish and without a care in the world, but actually has a surprising amount of wisdom and is willing to put himself in danger for the sake of others. From my perspective, Jaden was never in need of character development. Just like the iconic Saiyan warrior of Earth, I see him as someone who already had an ideal personality and inspired the personal growth of those around them. In fact, this would’ve allowed the show to focus a bit more on the other characters rather than making it mostly about Jaden. Because of that, I felt that the plot of Season 3 (and probably Season 4 since I haven’t watched the entire thing) was very out of place. Jaden was accused of being a selfish person who only dueled for fun, he blamed himself for things that weren’t (or at least not entirely) his fault, and became obsessive to the point of making some VERY bad decisions. Things that go against Jaden’s character from the earlier seasons. Honestly, I think it would’ve been a better backstory if Jaden’s character development occurred before the start of the series. He faced darkness and depression at a very young age until he experienced something that gave him the strength to overcome it. And now, he faces the world with a smile while giving that same gift to others. Those who wear a smile aren’t always the fools they appear to be. In fact, they’re likely to be aware of how dark the world can be, but act the way they do because they know that you don’t gain anything by wallowing in your own misery. Think of “King” by Lauren Aquilina.

One of my favorite main characters

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Bro just want play children card game for fun :(

I'm not usually a fan of overcoming trauma and/or ptsd being the end of someones character arc, it always feels a bit contrived, steven universe future and the legend of korra has the same issue, where the main protagonist has to overcome their ptsd/trauma to become whole again.

Top 10 strongest GX Duelists 1/2/3. - prime Hell Kaiser/Yubel/S4 Judai 4. Darkness 5. Fujiwara 6. Amon 7. O'Brian 8. Johan 9. Saiou 10. Trueman

Judai is much better.

PokitoTV were good times 🥲