I kinda liked the chaotic Nature of the first season of GX where every episodes is like a different mini short story cause to me, that’s what school was like every day was something kinda different and I feel season one of GX did that perfectly fine. Well that’s my opinion at least. Was fun

As someone who adores GX and has Judai as one of my favourite characters in media, GX’s depictions of growing up, mental illness and as you greatly said in this video, the philosophy of why we do what we do, to have fun or to win, all make it a show that is heavily underrated by so many people to this day.

So nice to see someone appreciating subbed Yu-Gi-Oh. Too many people only see 4kids and Yu-Gi-Oh abridged memes and aren't willing to check out the source material.

0:54 I disagree with the idea that Konami “realized it’s mistake and decided to change gears”. As early as episodes 5&6 we’re reintroduced to the shadow games, Asuka/Alexis’s missing brother, and the abandoned dorm. The latter two plot points are revisited during the reporter subplot during Judai/Jaden’s duel with Misawa. The narrative shift (at least as far as S1 is concerned) was planned from the beginning. EDIT: spelling

One of the best animes ever made. I don't care if it's YuGiOh, this show was so amazing and a beautiful part of many childhoods.

Judai was set up to be the unbeatable guy who everyone can rely on intentionally. This plays into the plot later on when he fails to save everyone and becomes depressed. It results in him going through a character arc where he realizes that he has to let others learn to protect themselves which then plays into Syrus' storyline of dealing with his brother on his own and learning to rely on his own strength. Judai does start out as a Mary Sue, but this is intentional to give him room to grow away from that persona.

I remember when GX first came out, everyone HATED it bc it didn’t share the same tone as DM. But as time went on, and Yugioh Abridged rose to popularity, it made everyone look back at GX and appreciate it more with its own “abridging” style of comedy (at least for TV)

Gx is absolutely the best down to splitting kaiba into two characters (Chazz and Zane) using the slice of life to introduce the characters and create a slow burn before the intensity cranks up. While definitely unintentional this served the plot pacing well

Super cool to see Zane analyzed from a competitive side rather than a good/evil side

My biggest complaint that I had with GX season 2 is that instead of serving as a bridge between Season 1 and Season 3, it was more similar to Season 1 (Like the MC didn’t develop much, the tone was the same, etc). What frustates me is that certain ideas in Season 3 (Like the Supreme King/Gentle Darkness and Yubel) kind of come out of nowhere in the show. If they were first explored in the 2nd season, then the worldbuilding woud have made more sense. As an example, lets take the duel between Jaden and Aster. In the end of the duel, Jaden loses. And we see a glimpse of the Light of Destruction, as Jaden’s mind is somewhat warped (since he couldn’t see his cards). What should have happened, in my opinion, is that the power inside Jaden (i.e Gentle Darkness) should have appeared in order to save Jaden from being affected by the Light of Destruction. This could be a great plotline, since it will change the way we see Jaden. Like he is not anymore a normal kid that is battling against supernatural forces. It would also make Jaden question itself, since he doesn’t know that he has this power. Then, in the final duel against Sartorius and Jaden, their individual powers (Light of Destruction and Gentle Darkness) would clash with each-other. Sartorius could also explain about the law of the universe, that is based on chaos and order, and stuff that’s realated to the lore of the series.

Pretty good, season 2 has it's on and off moments, I liked asters and Zane's arcs in particular but you are 100% that the filler duels like the princess frog duel were horribly placed. Although I did like the one with Lorenzo (dub only because the actor killed it there).

What sucks for me is that the episodic nature of YGX episodes (especially the first half of season 1) are my favorite. It was just duels in a school setting and that’s all I wanted. I didn’t care about the story arcs. I didn’t care about there being no “real stakes”. It was just fun to watch and I enjoyed the character growth within its episodic nature. I love the OG YGO, but YGX, at first, was a nice change of pace…until you know what. After that, it was only the duels themselves that kept me interested.

15:34 - Part of this is due to Takuma Saiou cursing Edo’s deck to cause Judai to lose his ability to physically perceive his cards even spiritually. His deck is full of duel spirits (aka specters of the monster cards in his deck), so being suddenly cut off from an entire deck’s worth of friendships on top of the devastating loss took their toll on Judai. Not helped by the fact that his inability to see his own cards seriously hampers his ability to duel in the first place. There’s no fun in a game where you’re blind and deaf to your own resources, especially when it’s a strategic affair like Duel Monsters.

Teardrop is Gx's best opening.

Part 3 is gonna be spicy, honestly I’ll watch gx and 5ds again again due to how the stories and characters grow over the series

That quote "Don't take good advice from people with good genetics" is also directly applied to Jun Manjoume/Chazz and Edo/Aster in the series. There is an episode in Season 4 where Manjoume becomes an assistant to Edo to learn about being a Pro Duelist. During the course of the episode, Manjoume sneaks into Edos apartment and witnesses a practice duel between Edo and a coach, with the coach having 10000 Life Points and Edo having 1000. On top of that, Edo's hands have actually started bleeding from the numerous handshake sessions he does as a Pro and from how hard he trains. The coach gets worried, but Edo threatens to fire him if the duel stops, stating that because he (Edo) does not posses special dueling talent (Like Manjoume and Judai/Jaden are implied to have) he has to train ten times harder in order maintain his own skill level.

To call Saio a copy of Marik is insulting to both Marik and Saio (For those asking, Sartorius is known in Japan as Takuma Saio) Marik developed his evil side because of the trauma, pain, abuse and the hell he received from his father, and the suffering he felt because of the fact his family was locked underground because of a dead guy who might get reincarnated into a kid and save the world via Duel Monsters Saio was corrupted via the Light of Destruction, an alien-like entity that corrupts things as it pleases, don't forget, that Light took over not only Saio, but also Yubel and Destiny Hero Bloo-D I implore you to not compare the two like that because Saio was being controlled and manipulated by something he had no chance of overcoming without help from someone else Marik literally had to face the trauma, face his past, and realize that what he was doing was wrong to help Atem and push past Yami Marik's control over him Saio had to seek help, Marik overcame his trauma, two entirely different things, so no, Saio is not a copy of Marik

I think the first episodes, or even the first season, should consist of filler episodes that build the different characters. Duel Monsters kind of did but there are some bits of Tea's characters scattered about season 2. Zexal did it best. The first arc already has plot threads but mainly consists of the search for the number cards while introducing characters that will show up later. There is a significant shift in tone when Kaito shows up, because up until then it's just Yuma trying to recover Astral's memories. When the numbers are gathered and the Heartland tournament concludes, the Barians need to be introduced. Once again the slice of life episodes return, with the looming sensation that something is about to happen because of how the tournament ended. Like breathing: you breathe in new characters then breathe out the story unfolding.

The final season of GX was nuts. The return of past characters and the way the story pushes forward before finally coming full circle was fantastic.

I wouldn’t necessarily call Judai a merry sue; but the writers did give him far more wins than was needed. More of the main cast definitely could’ve had some of the duels/wins.

For me, season two is the best simply because of everything with Edo and Ryo.

Please do more GX analysis, this was such an interesting piece to hear!

Im binge watching GX on Tubi and there are jokes every 5 mins in this series. This, I never noticed as a kid.

I see Hell Kaiser in the Thumbnail, and I'm sure I'm in for a good ride. AND HELL YEA WAS I RIGHT! Really enjoy your Talks about the GX Seasons. As someone who kinda likes GX but also has a lot of points to dislike it, I really love to hear other opinions about it. I never gave it a thought that Judai and Ryo were more like the polar opposites and Edo being right in between them. I like that idea a lot! Can't wait to hear what you have to say about Johan. Nice video!

GX is one of the finest works, and also the best and most multi-faceted YGO series ever

Chazz and Alexis are not upper classmen they are in the same grade, they just are in the better dorms. Remember Jaden graduated a slifer red suggesting dorm color and class year are not related.

gx has always been my favorite ever since I watched it. Thank you for making this video and giving it the time of day

I feel like season 1 and 2 of gx has to be the way that they are for season 3 and 4 to have a huge impact the way that they do. I feel like most people miss the main theme of Gx which is that teenagers growing up and being adults. Also I hate when people call Jaden a Mary Sue when he has more losses than Yusei and Yugi combined and that the other characters of Gx don’t get any shine. Gx cast do more than the original cast in terms of dueling and being somewhat relevant plus let’s not forget how 5ds shafted Aki for Crow and how Yusei mostly solves everything.

A very good write out on our childhood series, GX. thank you!!!

It is kinda sad. But it is kinda make actual sense why Judai behave the way he does in S3 ir S4. He is the one who carried the res tof the cast (which is usually K.O'd and then need to be rescued from other dimension/shadow realm) and etc. While the said friends is mostly useless on their own and need Judai to solve most of their own problem.....

GX gets overlooked thanks to 4Kids since they overly censored the series and unlike the original Yugioh it was a disaster since it changed the show far too much a lot of wrong translations and people ‘disappearing’ rather than dying watching GX in sub makes it a completely different show

Can't wait for the next video!

Really you saw Sartorias as a Merik clone. That seems weird to me when I see him I’m reminded of Dartz. Ah oh well I guess we are yu-go-oh fans who see things differently. Neat. You saw Merik I saw Dartz. The reason why I saw him as Dartz his plan seemed eerily similar to Dartz’s plan to bring the laviathan to destroy the world while Merik just wanted the power of the pharaoh to rule the world not end it.( though let’s be honest if Merik did end up ruling the world he’d lead it destruction regardless)

I enjoyed the anime a ton, but the manga's treatment of Atticus and Chazz will always be top for me🙌🏽

I can understand why you feel the way you feel towards sartoripus and the whole cult thing, but I just wanted to voice my opinion, and why I think it's good. First, I wanna say that I'm a sucker for plots where the protagonist group have found themselves in a situation where the villains outnumber them tremendously, and seing how most of the school became brain washed, that was very true for the cult part. So, when the protagonists are in the minority like that, it poses an interesting situation. One where they're overwhelmed, and pursued almost. It's always to have a dynamic shift like that in my opinion. While I can agree that Sartorious is a bit too much like marik, I'd say that he's distinguished enough. At first, when you see him and find out he is Aster's agent, you don't think much of him, you're still busy thinking of Aster as the bad guy. That's why sartorious is cloaked in his first appearances, he wishes to stay hidden. When he starts taking over the school by brainwashing the students, his manner is calm, and he can come off as playful. Even Chazz, when he was brainwashed, was treated as a joke. The show didn't want you to focus on Sartorious. He stayed hidden. And for the longest time, he remained his calm, charming self. Ironic comparison, but he is almostike Dio from jjba. Both at first as seen as charismatic, calm people, but when their respective final fights begin, both of them go full on insane mode. I like that sartorious, someone staying hidden, and looking calm, when he gets so close to his goal goes completely insane. It's something similar to villains getting cocky when they think they've won, but the man straight up goes insane. Again, it's okay if you don't like him, I just wanted to give a pov into why someone could enjoy him.

So excited for the next video

Your videos make me want to rewatch the show. ❤ Amazing video

Rip to Kazuki mans is a true legend and always tried to take care of people even when he passed he literally died trying to save someone from drowning

For a parallel to Zane, see Toshiki Kai in Cardfight!! Vanguard. He's not shown to be unbeatable by any means, but he literally says that he was sick of being left behind--he was the "Jagen" of the show, he couldn't evolve further...saying more would be huge spoilers for a severely-underrated character arc. AND KAI BECOMES S4's PROTAGONIST.

While I undersatnd what they were going for with Zane in seasons 2 and 3, I think they didn't really execute his full arc properly. For example, Zane it's just winning, he's being ruthless, he's not respecting his opponent, and he abandoned his Cyber End Dragon. Zane might not be evil and want to take over the world, but he's become selfish and has no qualms with hurting anyone to get the win. Zane makes so many morally compromising choices and I'm cool with that if that was part of an arc where he had to regain his morality and realize there is more to dueling than winning. The problem is, season 3 kind of forgot to develop that part of his arc. He ends the arc losing to Yubel and realizing that he cared so much about the winning that he forgot about the fun. The problem is they never show how his got to that point. For Jaden or Chazz, you see their character progression as they duel and change as people. Zane has such little screentime in season 3 that the didn't have time to show that progression. They really needed to show how he felt like something was missing, how he felt regret for the person he had become, how he felt guilt for hurting his duel monsters and his friends. Most importantly, they needed to show Zane remember who he used to be. They never fully executed this realization however, and I think this problem is represented by how his clothing never changes from the black outfit. That outfit represents the morality of his character but they never commit to it enough. He talks about how he changed in his duel with Yubel but it's rushed and feels cheap when he never makes amends to his friends for his mistakes. It's never symbolized that he changed with his clothes. I would have much preferred giving Zane more screentime to really flesh out his arc, he could have been a duel protagonist with Jaden and we should see their journeys parallel with each other, facing similar defeats, taking different paths as they rebuilt themselves, but ultimately realizing that dueling is for the fun of it and for other people. That would have been the prefect character arc.

The idea of bringing back shadow duels was bad because the shadow realm and shadow duels were ended with the end of the 1st show

very good video! yugioh gx is such a good series with such a slow start.

If GX had just maintained its carefree nature and was simply a semi-realistic college sports-comedy about students trying to become the next king of games or something, it would have been the best thing that ever happened to ygo. I wouldn't mind a liiiitle bit of supernatural elements or a few shadow game references or something, but frankly, by the point it got back to children playing card games in order to save the world it was just impossible to get over the silliness. It could also easily have maintained its darker elements while still being non-supernatural by the way, like it did with Zane which was a perfect way to show how a super competitive environment can ruin someone's character and eventually life... Boy it would have been so good...

I will wait part 3 bcuz gx is my first completed yugioh anime

chilling out with the crew in the school arc is the best arc

greatness

Awesome

1:20 to be fair the first episode of DM was really a TLDR of many season zero plot points, it's really just there to justify why Yugi is on Pegasus's radar.

I dropped GX early in its tonal shift. It wasn't what I wanted from the show personally.

Yo zane/kaiser is my absolute favorite. He’s so needlessly edgy 😂 and I started getting good at the game when I started using his cyber strategy in tag force 1 for the psp

Jaden should've lost that duel to Chazz. His plan was to use monster reform on Flame Wingman but he can't do that 😂😂

I think that the wildest thing about GX for me was just how many oiled up, incredibly muscular dudes there were: we had Hassleberry, Mad Dog, Axel, Viper, the dude that nobody cares about who played Cloudians, gimp Jesse...

That's kinda of a shame cause its more difficult to have the recognition that they have in the serie in real life ... plus that mean that we will probably never get duel disk with solid vision😢😭

Amazing

Another banger 🔥

"Konami must've realized their mistakes" Someone does heroin

What episode of Season 0 is that in 02:10? I don't remember this part at all when I watched the show last year

Absolutely loved this review. VERY excited for the next part because season 3 is the best!!!

Hayato is actually one of my favorite GX characters.

I mean the dark tone is obvious. The main stream Yugioh series (meaning ones that focus on the OCG and not spin off versions such as DM to Vrains), were dark due to the fact they mainly target a teen audience. Remember, Shonen manga and anime mainly target early to late teen boys (12-18). And the OCG packs in Japan all say on the back “対象年齢12才以上” (Translation: “Target age 12 years and older”). Which is an obvious indication that the game targets an early teen player base or older. (Mostly due to it’s complex ruling). And they all had since 1999 and still do today. I am aware of Rush Duels, but that’s a completely different game and made for a much younger audience than the OCG’s intended players. And not only that, Weekly Shonen Jump’s current chief editor Hiroyuki Nakano has stated in 4 interviews that Weekly Shonen Jump’s main demographic has always been young teenage boys and has always been the main focus since it’s first publishing. They always have to remind writers of manga who want their works published in that magazine, that this is a magazine for early to late teen boys. Why is this relevant, you ask? Because the original Yugioh was published in that magazine and all spin-off manga were published in the V-Jump magazine which is the brother magazine to WSJ. Yugioh’s dark tone was clearly due to the fact it was targeting a teen male demographic. And it works. Cuz they all have “teen drama” in them as well. Especially, in DM and GX. GX’s lighthearted and slice of life tone was something they wanted to do, but they saw a decline in viewers because of the lack of dark themes and tones. So they went back to it on season 2.

Anime Authority? You mean THE Authority on all things anime? THAT Authority?

The streets need part 3

Could an Analysis about Hell Kaiser a more in depth one Like you did with Joey and Kaiba

Hoooly shit your YGO videos are good. Here you are actually giving the first couple seasons of GX depth. Next thing, you'll tell me Zexal is deep (I'm a quarter serious, some characters do have cool arcs to be fair)! Anyway, I do appreciate the longer videos! The longer, the better! I loved the Waking the Dragons arc video, what a ride!

Manjoume even went pro

Yu Gi Oh GX I might be willing to watch the Japanese Sub for sure, I feel like the version I seen before wasn't the full tale.

Wake up babe, new Enigma GX video is out

Jaden and zane are two side of the same coin Jaden : dueling as a kid Zane : dueling ruthlessly as adult

If your looking for an editor, where can i apply for try out?

Jaden leaves goes to have a chat with random ass alien dolphins. I like how the part is laregely glossed over.

PART 3 ASAP. I LOVE RAINBOW DRAGON AND JESSE

4kid is a monster that spoils a product

Dude the way you explained season 2 for Jaden and Zane are they both got broken and both came back as total opposites🤯

Nice Sonic music.

gx is indeed dark in its latter half, but still overall it is not as dark as the previous show or the one after it

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Cool video. Some points and opinions tho. Jaden was not feeling like his usual self because he literally could not see his cards and could not play what he enjoyed anymore. Not because the defeat made him depressed. Also I think Satorius is one of the best villain in the show. It actually felt like he was unbeatable cuz he could predict accurately the future and when he said he would win, he won. He also beat Aster who was arguably the best duelist this season. Statorius was a real threat cuz of his bond with the Light of destruction. Plus seeing all Jaden's friends become corrupted by light looked quite threatening too. Sartorius being similar to Marik does not make him boring. Nice video tho. I agree how they gradually changed the tone of the series benefited Gx as a whole.

i love gx

Donkey kong music going ham

I absolutely agree with you on the slice of life aspect of GX I think thats one of the reasons I enjoyed sevens so much, despite its flaws I really love the lighthearted duels and fun moments the first season of GX had Not that the series after season 1 was bad, its just that season 1 had a unique charm to it imo

15:22 - That’s Kaibaman erasure

For jaden beating crowler my brain just sorta ties it to the manga because in the manga jaden got the E-Hero deck from a pro he was friends with so my brain just goes "well he's using a pro's deck and has probably been taught by him" so it makes sense that he's pretty good especially when he duels against people who are almost pro or actually pro duelists and loses (the pro that jaden was friends with was retired because he was sick) so i see it as compared to standard duelists jaden is good because he's like semi-pro but when faced with modern pro players he either straight loses or stuggles to win until he has more experience and makes his own neos deck

9:21 the leagendary hot sauce :D

it got perfected.

I gotta disgree with the side characters of gx. There are some greatly written characters like chazz and zane but characters like syrus,alexis and especially bastion are under used in my opinion. There's a reason why Jaden once had a 20 duel win streak, because gx similar to the other yugioh series is the Jaden show. Though since I love Jaden im find with his focus but I honestly wish character like bastion and syrus who had potential weren't really used to their best potential

Lesgo

I can't find the video you mentioned at 3:08 did it get deleted?

the best in the franchise

you forgot to mention that Sartorius is voiced by Dio

I don't think gx is THAT dark It definitely goes to dark places but never to the level beyond teenage dark (which makes sense because that's the target audience)

Enigma Balls

Yu-Gi-Oh GX was so dark that America didn't even do the last season of GX. We never got a English version of Jadian v.s. Yu-Gi

I think you still don’t quite understand some aspects of GX but I appreciate your analysis anyway

A funny note is that the voice actor for the main bad guy is voiced by DIO from jojos bizzare adventure (Takehito Koyasu) and he also deals with tarot cards so him saying the world in a calm and calculated voice is super weird

Can I know the source of about why yugioh doesn't have cash prizing? 11:53

Yugioh GX was a masterpiece. Slifer slackers 4L❤

People can say what they want about GX but I think it’s a great era of Yu-Gi-Oh! and it’s honestly my favorite series. Also I understand the major differences between Japanese and English versions but I’m fairly certain most of us here watched the 4Kids dub. It gets really annoying listening to a video on the series and hearing the Japanese names and not knowing what the hell character it is unless it’s a major primary character.

Which episode is 0:47 from?

That's right, not Joey

Did Enigma delete the "I was wrong" video? I cant find it on the channel? : (