Gotta love that Kaiba not only named the top students "Obelisk Blue" for his God Card, but even had the audacity to name the delinquents "Slifer Red" after Yugi's God Card. This is the equivalent of Gary Motherfucking Oak starting a Pokemon training academy and naming the lowest rank "The Pikachus".

To basically explain what happened since the original series ended : Card games at school Card games on motorcycles Card games with Scouters Card games in alternate dimensions

"Draw" *gets winged Kuriboh* "WHAT THE [BEEP] YOU WANT FROM ME?!"

"The legendary duelists never gave up!" You've got Mai Valentine on that list. Surrendering duels was basically her signature move.

The manga introduces the recurring cast over the first few chapters, but you're basically right in saying we were dropped right in the middle of the action. That being said, the GX anime and manga and actually very different from each other when it comes to plot and character arcs. - Jaden uses an Elemental Hero deck he inherited from a comatosed pro duelist, and instead of getting the Neo Spacians as his second deck after getting his ass kicked by anti-villain Aster, he gets the Masked Heroes. - Chazz is more of Jaden's rival and foil in this series and uses a dragon deck with Light and Darkness Dragon being his ace. No Ojamas. Basically, he's Kaiba. - Syrus and Zane are roughly the same as in Season 1, Alexis and Bastion are the same only with different decks, and Chumley does not exist. At all. - Axel, Jim and Jesse had vastly different decks, and were straight up villains from the American Duel Academy - The plot's reminiscent of Season 1 and revolved around the Legendary Planet cards (hence Jaden having Terra Firma, the Earth)

Also you totally missed a brilliant point with Kaiba: the guy who steals and destroys cards from the elderly when he can't throw money at the problem to go his way.

Yeah, if Ryuga wanted to beat Jaden specifically, he'd just have to stuff his deck with as many defusion magic cards as he can instead risking being thrown out on the grounds of cheating.

Seriously, I love how everything is solved in the Yu Gi Oh! world by dueling ... want to stop a criminal? dueling want to save your friends from death? dueling coming out to your parents? dueling

Me after seeing the title card - aww, no storyline? Me after watching the episode - oh shit! The storyline! Sewing machine!

Joey is actually the third best player in the world by the time of GX

I remember watching GX as a kid on Cartoon Network. I still remember the theme song to this day

It's funny that Jaden have the most normal hair among YGO protagonist while Yuuya is somewhat messy. But I do hope they make a female protagonist in the future.

"I've never actually played Legend of Zelda..." Well now someone's somehow going to make you. I almost feel you poked that bear on purpose. XD

Speaking of Alexis being one of the few female characters, anyone ever wonder if you're just guaranteed to be in Obelisk Blue if you're a girl? Cause we don't see a female member of Ra Yellow ever and Blair is the only Slifer Girl we see, and she basically chose to be in Slifer and graduated to Obelisk after 1 season.

Grown men dueling each other with a children's card game! I kid you not, that was just another Tuesday at my college. I went to an art college, and there where always at least 2 to 3 tables in the lounge filled with two people playing Yu-Gi-Yo cards, and like 12 other people surrounding them and watching. I didn't understand the game, but I did play once, blindly, and yet, went with my gut and some how won a round with a seemingly "weak" monster card. Yeah, the guys were trying to explain how I won, but I still didn't get it.

3:52 Yami's character kind of developed in season 4 after activating the Seal Of Orichalcos. But it is a very slim argument.

um gx has an entire season undubbed where jaden fights satan and mr. t

I love LittleKuriboh, and hope that he can get his personal issues sorted out. I worry sometimes that he'll hurt himself. That would be a tragedy :(

Still love the recurring jokes and memes like ANCIENT EGYPT!!

So let me see if I got this right. ancient Egyptians summon demonic creatures to do their bidding and battle for their amusement. And somewhere along the lines someone said this should be available for kids in the form of a fun card game because marketing. Probably the same Group of people who decided Ouija boards should be sold in the toy section. lol

Someone's not who they're supposed to be. Linkara begins the storyline segment by castling, a move commonly used to symbolize switching places. It's also worth noting that Linkara's acting as he did whenever there was Silent Hill stuff going on, paranoid and obsessed. This unstable mindset is also shown in that he doesn't realize there's something off about the chess game, that being that nobody is moving the black pieces. Current theory is that the Entity is in Linkara, and he's playing against himself, thus explaining both of the above points.

Ryuga: Even the cards themselves would be happier. Linkara: You make a convincing argument, here you go! Ryuga: ... This is a Pokemon card. Linkara: And it's clearly much happier with you I love that joke XD

I never knew that Kaiba was the founder of Duel Academy. But now that I do everything makes so much more sense. He really is a magnificent bastard.

I kind of stopped watching GX because...mainly I actually liked it when it was nice and silly and it bummed me out when it started getting darker. Particularly when I read about what happened to Jaden in season 4. (Also, as a kid, I was annoyed he and Alexis never hooked up, I think that was one of the first ships I shipped)

So Yugioh is The first abridged series in KZfaq, Wow

CARD GAME MERCENARIES!!

So has anyone noticed how Nimue is voiced by Lupa instead of the usual VA...Just like what happened when the Entity was in the apartment and she specifically said the Entity's presence was messing with her functions?

...Kuribo was a tribble subspecies the whole time? headcanon confirmed!

I'd love to see you do a history of Yu-Gi-Oh series, like you did for Power Rangers. Like covering the video games and the spin off shows, like Yugioh GX.

I think that the idea of the "Spell system" being broken makes sense. The disk probably checks that they're doing a legal move, with the spell system broken then it wouldn't check, and thus couldn't register if he was doing a legal move or not, so he couldn't use the spell cards

Guys, are we going to ignore the fact that, as of this review, Linkara currently has every single regular review caught up? This is a monumental occasion, and I want you to acknowledge it!

If Yu-gi-oh uses holograms and augmented reality for its duels, then why the hell does Zexal have the duellists being thrown through the air like a Power Ranger every time they take 500 points of damage?

I remember watching GX as a kid and I loved it and I wanted to be like Jaden so much that my deck was the elemental heroes. This review got me back into Yugioh, so much so that I've rewatched the first 2 seasons of GX and it's even better than I remember.

Oh my god, Linkara-senpai's favorite Yugioh! series is the same as mine 😍 i freaking love Jaden since he A) uses superheroes and B) actually enjoyed the game and life in general

So basically this Reyuga Guy had the same plan as Lord Voldemort when he applied for Defense against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts before starting the First Wizarding War; he wanted to train a new generation of soldiers while they were at school, in an attempt to spread his influence throughout the world...

Wait, what does Pot of Greed do?

...A *CYBERMAT*??? One little Cybermat took out Comicron-1???

*fist-bumps* Because the dub is hilarious. There is a time and place for preferring anime in its original Japanese (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura) but there are times when the dub actually ADDS to the experience. I would argue that YGO is one of those. For better or worse. XD

as always a great review :) i've been watching your videos for years and they bring me a weekly smile

Can't believe Comicron 1 is gone. That really sucks.

Linkara you do know that GX (and all the spin-off manga) follow a completely different continuity than their anime counterparts. They are all alternate universe with their own unique plots and character development. You should read all of the GX manga if you like GX that much. Also I really want to get you all of the manga for 5Ds and Zexal (my favorite Yugioh) as well!

19:09-" Just like the Legendary Duelist never gave up..." But Mai gave up at least twice in the first season.

Hooray! Littlekuriboh! I've been waiting all month to see if you'd actually get him to pop up for it. I had to stop the video right then and there to like the video. Great stuff.

linkara: so, evolution dictates that turtles become cyborg dinosaurs? well, if water bugs turn into talking Jewish dinosaurs and otters turn into x-men, I guess anything goes:)

Hell, Linkara needs to do a history of series on yugioh, digimon, etc. just more of those would be fun!

Jayden: Hey wait a minute did your Blue-Eyes-White-Dragon just eated my Winged Kuriboh? Linkara: Yeah.. So? Jayden: You can't Fucking do that that's against the rules. Linkara: Screw the Rules I have my awesome outfit! Then Dr Vellian Crowler gives out bird 'giving the finger' and laughs at Jayden with the Nelson Muntz laugh.

This is one of the many shows that define my childhood. Thanks Likara

this is an amazing review! i am totally subbing keep up the awesome content !

Congrats on being caught up on KZfaq!

tbf id watch gx just for alexis

WOW! It's amazing how we've caught up to the most recent episodes! Feels like yesterday when the gap of publish dates were YEARS apart! XD

I really look forward to seeing your thoughts on the later 2 yugioh series, 5Ds is easily the most loved where as Zexal is the most divisive. When you eventually get to the current series Arc-V, preferably after getting through the other yugiohs, I would love to see you go through it. The sheer number of fun (and occasionally scary) call backs to the previous series is making Arc-V an extremely fun series for me to watch, not to mention the scope of the series, making a very fitting series to celebrate the 20th anniversary on

Yu-Gi-Oh! rules of 2018: Play all your strongest cards on the first turn to end the duel by the fifth turn. This folks is why I quit the game when synchro monsters became widely used. It's a big middle finger to the strategy based gameplay of the past.

5Ds is pretty good, but gets dark alot, Zexal sucks and Arc-V is pretty good. Be warned, as a GX fan there is a certain aspect you might not like in that one. Also, when did Gendo Ikari join Duel Acadamy?

this is the first time I've watched this channel and I already fucking love it

best feeling in the world is when one of your favorite reviewers shares the exact same thoughts about an anime that you watch and love

Well actually Pegasus ranks Joey 3rd in his best duelists list and Joey has canonically beaten Yugi in a duel to get his Red-Eyes back after battle city

Can I just say I absolutely HATE the fact that the Legendary Card Osiris was renamed to Slifer after one of the dub producers and that name has stuck to this day? It's so stupid and nonsensical and the only good thing to come out of that is a few mocking ego jokes from LittleKuriboh. Osiris was the Egyptian God of Life and Afterlife, which was perfect as the representation of the protagonists not some knobhead producer. Sure he wasn't a giant dragon but at least it would keep the the franchise theme of (shakes fist) ANCIENT EGYPT!

Man, you're rocking that blue fedora. Your cosplay is finally, truly, complete.

Love the new lighting and I hope your internal struggle

I'm so with you, Linkara. Yugioh GX may have some goofy moments (Season 1 has a lot of them but really toned down on the next seasons) and some goofy dub voices with the accents as well, oh and even the fourth wall jokes that the dub has but the characters and story ain't bad after all. 😅 Oh and Jaden's character development is one of those great qualities in the series. I've seen both dubs (Japanese and English) and yes, there are some differences in the series like the English dub toning down the violence in it. :) And I just love how you say that GX is your fave Yugioh series of all time, which the same goes for me as well haha. xD

FINALLY! There are other people who loved Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and openly praises it.

Okay, that Imperial March BGM during the Pyramids image was hilarious!

Omg! KZfaq channel finally caught up! Super cool! Now I don't get a new episode every day... Damn.

Have you even seen the first Yu-Gi-Oh! anime a.k.a. the undubbed anime where Seto Kaiba had green hair for some reason?

I think it would be really cool if you did a video on the yugioh series' like you did with power rangers

The 4Kids un-deathing to the torture dimension, that is an arguably worse fate if you think about it for more than 5 seconds, is pretty funny to me.

Had no idea you were a Yugioh fan! Always cool to see big name Yugioh fans! Glad to know you have such diverse taste.

Theory : Linkara is still sleeping since the events of last october. It would explain the non-sensical chess game.

Well its alil different teamwise Obelisk Blue= Mystic Ra Yellow= Valor Slifer Red= Instinct

I'm knee deep in reorganizing my troublesome doubles and I see this on the channel awesome page, how apropos XD

Your duel monster cards will make a fine addition to my collection

a dule school, how do you think the government responded to that idea?

My theory is that Yugi's hair looks that way because it sorta resembles the headdresses worn by ancient Egyptian pharaohs, which fits seeing as how he's possessed/haunted by one of these pharaohs.

Yay! We're caught up now :3 Nice job dude.

I absolutely LOVE GX it is my favorite yugioh season of them all. Jaden is by far my favorite protagonist. This is a treat and a half to watch, thanks Linkara.

Was the "a new hero/sandwhich" a Kelly's Heroes refrence?

I LOVE YUGIOH CLASIC AND I JUST STARTED DULING LAST YEAR AND I HAVE BLU EYES WHITE DRAGON THREE OF THEM

Well, it was nice going down memory lane.

Wow, the actual review was only a third of the whole video!

I've always found Yu-Gi-Oh! kind of hilarious, since if you go back and read the first few chapters of the manga there is nothing about the card game, nothing about friendship, and Yami Yugi pretty clearly uses the games to basically torture and kill his opponents. For kids! The whole "heart of the cards" thing has always seemed more than a little camp and stupid to me.

I'm only about a minute and 43 seconds into the video, but I'm expecting a Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged or Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Abridged (the one that had ShadyVox as Jaden) reference/joke/scene in this review. I'll still enjoy the video, even if they aren't referenced.

Oh man dude I love. This review since this is one of the few yugioh manga I have read and I also have the yugi kun pillow it motivates me and how the heck did you get little kiriboh on this video?

Guys, I just realized... The chess game. Bring up the video in two different windows, then put the time code to 26:21 for the first one. Notice how there is a black knight in front of a bishop. Now go to the second window. Bring up the time 27:55 in that one. Notice something? THE KNIGHT MOVED. WITHOUT PHYSICAL CONTACT FROM LINKARA. IT TOOK PAWN B5.

Wait a minute. When Linkara moves pieces on the chessboard its always the white pieces. We never see the blacks move. What? WHO IS HE PLAYING AGAINST? Also, why isn't 90's kid being honest? At some point he's gonna have to confess he's been working with Vice. The moment you're being accused of being possessed by the one enemy Vice would never work with seems like a pretty darn good time to mention it. Or... is there more to that than I know at this point in the story? Ugh

So far, the only Yu-Gi-Oh thing that I actually liked was Season zero. that was awesome and I wish that the entire franchise was based off of the concept that a shadow duel could be almost any game/wager you can think of. It is much better in my opinion than it just being the card game.

I know this contradicts my mega theory but I have another theory... or at least part of it: What if when 90s Kid was in the future he found out that some great tragedy happened because of Linkara, he became paranoid and did something that maybe caused a shit ton of deaths or something like that, and maybe it had something to do with Comicron-1 so he got in contact with Lord Vyce to help him prevent it, and he sent the Cybermat to sabotage Comicron-1, he knew how to destroy the ship, so it makes sense.

Great storyline :) Linkara sinking even deeper into mistrust and paranoia is great. The fact, that Comicron 1 was brought down by something so small and (relativly) insignificant was an awsome twist. But it does carry the shadows of the big bad threats with it. 90s kid is beeing dodgy and shady, but he is himself. The confrontation was extremely tense.

I'd love to see you do a History of Yugioh, like your history of power rangers. Make it a joint thing with LittleKuriboh. I bet you would both have fun. :-)

I wonder why season four was never dubed

3:27 Considering his, Kirran's, and Grant's experience with the game, summed up by the thumbnail of that last playthru episode, one would be driven as nuts as Lani would be.

Congrats in finally getting caught up on KZfaq.

Nicktoons had its 25th anniversary in August.

If you ask me, the card game is getting way too complicated. Every series has to introduce an entirely new summoning mechanic.

I geeked out so hard at hungry burger. The card I had multiples of but never the summoning for.

I'm gonna take the random Master Hyperion in the background as Linkara being an Agent player. That's awesome!

ahh yugioh childhood memoirs. :)

I personally like the original series better then Yu-Gi-Oh GX, mostly because... Well, the original series always had a clear direction with all of its arcs, where GX first arc seemed to barely have any idea of what it was doing for the most part, had a villain who was only defeated because he was a idiot who couldnt use his OP as hell monsters properly( Seriously, re-watch the duel some day. The guy seems to barely use any monsters or cards other then the actual sacred beasts and Lost Paradise, and he only uses Uria card-destroiyng effect a couple of times, despite how usefull it is ), and the series would only actually start having proper story and character arcs on the secound season... And even then, the only villain, of the GX series, that I remember actually liking, was Yu Bel from the third series. ... Sure, she was admittedly awesome as a villain, but you have to go through over 100 episodes to actually SEE her. Meanwhile, in the first series, I like most of the villains: Pegasus with his flamboyant nature and manchild tendencies, regular Marik with his desire for freedon at all costs( And a understandable one ), Dark Marik for just how batshit crazy he was, even the ones from the fillers, like Dartz and Noah, I found to be better then every GX villain sans possibly Yu Bel. But hey, I still had lots of fun with GX, and believe that, if anything, it is kind of underrated, so I feel you there. May I recomend Yu-Gi-Oh 5D? Because, if it is worldbuilding and exploring the implications of the card game importance you want, 5D, especially the original Japanese version, will give you that... It will give you a LOT of that...

As soon as he said "ancient Egypt" that's when you know some stuff is about to get crazy.

I used to play back in High School, but I haven't played since then. All my old cards are gone, but I did start collecting the cards again a few mouths ago. I've forgotten how cool there are. I would love to start playing again, but I know nobody who plays.