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.

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.

Poor powertool dragon just gets a jpg XD

The manga author did do the character designs for the first 4 anime, and even came up with story arc ideas.

Man doesn't know Jaden commited mass genocide 😔

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.

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

"peaceful card game means" oh man... He don't know

actuly 5ds went had motorcycles because the writer was a fand of fast n the furious

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.

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.

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.

Yugioh shows go one of two ways:

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.

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.

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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.

MakoPako: Arc V is for kids

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.

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