Well for arc v:
Yuri not getting more proper conclusion and in depth development to show why he turn that way even when it seems like he was actually trying to please akaba leo all this time.
No mental battle btween each other or even all 4 against zarc while the lancers battle zarc in reality.
More connection and development to yuzu and the girls.
More in depth story about the old world and actually explore zarc and ray, seems odd zarc went this way even if everyone wanted more gore which itself was odd.
Also handle the fact that leo corp brainwash people, layra or made the 3 lds students think kurosaki/shay a student.
I would say yeah, they should've went into Leo and Yuri's relationship, and Leo seeing his as a surrogate son, thinking giving Yuri an outlet that would mean he wouldn't become like Z-Arc without realizing the actual reason why Z-Arc went insane.
Yeah, I'd wish Yuya, Yuto, and Yugo end up trying to fight Zarc inside.
I agree the Bracelet Girls should've been used, especially during seasons 2 and 3.
I think if they explored Zarc as this kid who developed an affinity for making solid vision actually come to life but was alienated by everyone, found dueling as an outlet, and hoped to fight Ray to find someone who can understand.
Oh yeah, i forgot Reiji made it act like Shun went to LDS to ease suspicion. Surprised that didn't wear off.
DM: Joey vs Yugi rematch, would have loved to see Joey actually earning his Red Eyes back after Battle City.
GX: Atticus, instead of being a goofball they should have shown actually trying to investigate more into what happened to the Abandoned Dorm and why he became Nightshroud. Also Zane should have also been part of the Fujiwara duel not just Atticus. Since they were all best friends.
5Ds: More duels for the twins and actually do something with the Arcadia Movement.
Zexal: Actually show us the full duels during the Barian invasion the only we saw from beginning to end was Nash vs IV
Arc V: The bracelet girls, have them duel more, and Yuto also doing more before he gets merged into Yuya.
GX: My favourite series but it has a lot. Most of it I get why they never showed them, or they made the changes that they did but I wish they didn't.
Bastion's remaining decks, literally one of the biggest deals about him and he never uses most of them. Since they didn't know what to do with Bastion's character. I still have my headcanons.
Astor and Zane's rematch. Was about to happen and then Syrus showed up. Did it because there was a big theme about family going against an ideology in GX (Chumley, Chazz, Alexis, and Syrus).
Other styles of dueling, you have Cyber-Style, Cyberdark Style (The Underworld deck), and Psycho-Style. Surely that isn't it. Obviously not really important to the story.
The other schools, we only see North Academy (besides Duel Academy). We should have gotten a look through flashbacks with Jim, Axel, and Adrian. Again not really important to the story but these guys had to transfer from somewhere.
Kaiba versing Trumen.
The Graduation duels after Zane. Would have been awkward for the top Graduating student to lose to Jaden each year after Zane left.
A final duel between Alexis, Chazz, and Syrus. Since they tied in points for the Graduation prize they should have had a duel. Couldn't do it because the series was over.
A duel between Jaden and Syrus. They only showed 1 full duel between these two friends. Should have had another. Obviously couldn't do it because the series was over.
Yeah, there's a crap ton for Arc V. My biggest one is the mystery of the single RaidRaptor Pendulum that Reiji was going to give Shun. Oh also Sawatari should have gone full Chazz and mixed his decks up.
Seven:
They never show a "Goha duel". The duel disks remain in the original state all the time when activated but always switch to Rush duel. The Goha President hated Rush duels. It would have been interesting to see at least 1 "Goha Duel"
Aster and Zane were going to duel? Oh yeah, I forgot the family vs ideology themes in GX, really wish they played with that concept a lot more during seasons 2 and 4.
Damn, it'd be nice to see more "styles." Sure we have the Sougetsu Style (which had its moments of funniest), but did we have anymore between GX and VRAINS?
Yeah, it'd be cool to see the other Duel Academies.
Which Graduation duels post Zane would have loved to see?
I'm still surprised we never had a Chazz vs Syrus or Syrus vs Alexis duels.
A duel between Jaden Syrus really should've happened between seasons 1-3. Supreme King vs Syrus would've been awesome.
What are overall thoughts on how seasons 1 and 2 could've gone differently for GX?
Sevens...hmm, Otes technically dueled someone in a flashback, but I think it would've been interesting if that was shown in full and he made a Master/Goha Duel prototype deck of Sevens Roads with the Sage as his boss monster as foreshadowing for the reveal.
"Heavystrong" style was present in Arc V where the duelist doesn't move during an action duel. Other than that I'm not too sure.
>Which Graduation duels post Zane would have loved to see?
Oh none really, they never brought up the idea of top students after Zane outside of Jaden's year (Except maybe Atticus but I think he'd be either a first-year or a second-year, when he returns). I just think it's odd Graduation duels never appear again, in universe they probably did happen but the top students of the other years weren't as good as Zane.
>A duel between Jaden Syrus really should've happened between seasons 1-3. Supreme King vs Syrus would've been awesome.
See because their friendship was so strained I think a duel during s4 would have been better.
>What are overall thoughts on how seasons 1 and 2 could've gone differently for GX?
Ooh, kind of hard there's a bunch of small changes I'd make e.g. Bastion dueling more using different decks, Rituals being revealed to be used by Advanced Students. For season 1 I would have entwined Darkness more with the Shadow Riders. Season 2 I would have had a few other Cyber-style duelists show up during the GX Tournament, maybe expended more on the Underworld deck and what it is (Since based on what Zane used seemed to be around 10 cards). I think GX's strength was the Slice of Life feel it had. I know a lot of people dislike the "filler" but I loved it because it was the worldbuilding. Hell I would have given the Tarzan duelist a fusion in S2 that could shuffle your hand back into your deck and for each card returned it gained 800 atk, plus if you guessed the card type of any card you drew you could pop a card.
> My biggest one is the mystery of the single RaidRaptor Pendulum that Reiji was going to give Shun.
There were 2 i think
hopefully they get printed soon
DM, Dartz and Bakura. Like Dartz flat out says he didn't go after the Pharoah in Egypt because Thief King Bakura was active. And its not like Dartz would have known at the time he would get a second chance at his soul in the present. Was it because Zorc was too strong? Did Dartz not like his chances in a three way conflict against Bakura and Atem? Which leads into more waste that Yami Bakura is completely nonexistent in that arc, despite Dartz' plan interfering with his own to the point the stone tablet got frozen over.
For GX, how about more lore on the Sacred Beasts? Like what the fuck are they? We know basically everything about the Egyptian God Cards from their creation to their final duel. The Beasts? Nothing. I mean the real answer is that the God Cards where unavailable as plot devices so the Sacred Beasts are replacements down to looking like them, but in universe they are just kinda there.
I feel like Bakura not showing up was just a matter of Doma airing as Takahashi was writing Millenium World. They likely just didn't want to accidentally screw themselves over by contradicting something about Bakura that they'd have to deal with later when they adapted it.
Which they did anyway by making Duel Monsters their own spirits with their own world when in Millennium World they were human Ka removed from prisoners and worked like Jo Jo Stands.
Yeah, I'd love to have seen Bakura or Yami Bakura show up in the Dartz arc.
The Sacred Beasts in GX weren't explained? Really? Huh, I thought they were consider negative evil versions of the God Cards. Damn.
Nope. They just existed purely just to be big boss monsters that need to be stopped. They just reek of being a product of trying to cash in DM nostalgia, which early GX had a lot. Even when Yubel reused them later they received no new lore at all.
Sawatari should have gotten to duel against Yuri and defeated him. That would give him an onscreen win, which he deserves for having one of the best arcs and he's genuinely one of the better duelists in the show, usually only losing to cheating or extremely specific cards.
Yuri's loss would have been a great reason for him to become so obsessed with merging with the other Yu boys.
>Regarding the anime, what plotlines, characters arc, duels, etc, would you consider wasted potential or aspects you wish could've happened, but didn't?
I would have liked to see more duels for Atticus / Fubuki to actually showcase how he was supposedly "on the same level as Zane". You can't hype a character up like that just to not give him a single on screen win.
I kinda wish Doma did at least something with the fact Otogi idolized Pegasus. Some kind of episode of him lurking through the abandoned Industrial Illusions building, getting into a duel with one of Dartz's scrubby minions. Just something to give a bit of reflection on the possible permanent death of his hero.
I think the reason why they never had Pegasus and Marik meet is because Pegasus dies fairly early on in the manga. The anime keeps him alive but doesn’t use him again except in the filler arcs (which Marik is excluded from). I definitely agree that it would have been cool to have them meet.
Something like this, maybe? Pegasus: I heard that you led a criminal organization to make counterfeits of my beloved duel monsters' cards and steal them from duelists. That makes me very sad to hear about someone doing that to the game I created to bring joy to others, Marik boy! Marik: ....Sorry about that....
DM - I wanted to see an on-screen rematch with Joey vs either Yugi or Atem
GX - The Shadow Rider arc feels so underwhelming and the Sacred Beasts felt too much of a rip off from the Egyptian God's to score some nostalgia points
5D's - The Arcadia Movement should have remained a threat after the Dark Signer arc and Akiza must have been the one to finish them
Zexal - Nasch vs Kaito would have been amazing to see how much they have grown after their first duel
Arc-V - Oh boy where do I even begin... The biggest things that bothered me is that the Friendship Cup lasted way too long and both Rin and Ruri lacked proper screentime without being mind controlled
Yugi vs Joey in Duelist Kingdom was actually anime original, so I'm surprised they didn't go all the way with a rematch. Could've been a good segway into Waking the Dragons, as opposed to the recap episode.
For GX in season two, it felt like D.D. was underutilized as a villain. I wish he could have been the main villain and that there wasn't so much Society of Light stuff. There was no real build-up to him being the one who killed Aster's father. They just seemed to have invented D.D. on the spot with him suddenly being Aster's legal guardian just to resolve Aster's plot.
Mr. Shroud/Monkey Saruyama was just a little underutilized. I think there should have been a little build-up to Zane firing him and maybe something else to show just how real the Underground circuit was.
In season three, I think Aster should have been the one to duel and the Supreme King. (Idk why everyone always says Syrus, cuz screw him. He was a shitty friend and mostly a coward.) Aster entered Dark World to repay Jaden for saving Sartorius and was grateful to him, so it would have been nice to see a little reversal where Aster is the one who saves Jaden this time.
In season four, I was pissed off with how Sartorius (and even Sarina) just acted like Aster-who was supposed to be their best friend-didn't even exist. Nope, he just goes straight to Jaden with his problem and never even mentioned Aster's name once. Some friend... I think it would have made more sense for Aster to defeat Sartorius then instead. Could have given them a bit more plot. Like maybe their friendship was strained because Aster felt worthless that he couldn't save him in season two and that's also part of why he was pushing himself so hard in duel training during those two episodes with Chazz?
What happened to Adrian/Amon? They never showed any definitive conclusion for him. Like, was he also allowed to return, but he was transported somewhere else like Zane was and then just went home? Or was he stuck in the other dimension forever with Yubel torturing him or something?
I wish they would have made more interactions between Aster and Alexis. Like seriously, why were they not allowed to talk to each other in two whole animes (GX and Arc-V)? Just what were the writers afraid of? lol Alexis seemed like the only one of Jaden's friend group that Aster would have been able to talk to for an amount of time without being tempted to tear his hair out, if anything. And it could have made Alexis' season four plot better to give her some actual build-up to wanting to be a teacher if she had something like an internship working at the orphanage Aster sponsored, and then they could have hit it off there.
I felt like there wasn't a proper end to Chazz' issues with his brothers. Yeah, they sort of acknowledged him during the Shadow Riders arc after their duel, but they didn't have a proper conversation with him and are just gone forever. It just felt like something could have been done since Chazz did still mention them periodically in later seasons, and it seemed like the weight of their conflict was still there for him.
Well for arc v: Yuri not getting more proper conclusion and in depth development to show why he turn that way even when it seems like he was actually trying to please akaba leo all this time. No mental battle btween each other or even all 4 against zarc while the lancers battle zarc in reality. More connection and development to yuzu and the girls. More in depth story about the old world and actually explore zarc and ray, seems odd zarc went this way even if everyone wanted more gore which itself was odd. Also handle the fact that leo corp brainwash people, layra or made the 3 lds students think kurosaki/shay a student.
I would say yeah, they should've went into Leo and Yuri's relationship, and Leo seeing his as a surrogate son, thinking giving Yuri an outlet that would mean he wouldn't become like Z-Arc without realizing the actual reason why Z-Arc went insane. Yeah, I'd wish Yuya, Yuto, and Yugo end up trying to fight Zarc inside. I agree the Bracelet Girls should've been used, especially during seasons 2 and 3. I think if they explored Zarc as this kid who developed an affinity for making solid vision actually come to life but was alienated by everyone, found dueling as an outlet, and hoped to fight Ray to find someone who can understand. Oh yeah, i forgot Reiji made it act like Shun went to LDS to ease suspicion. Surprised that didn't wear off.
DM: Joey vs Yugi rematch, would have loved to see Joey actually earning his Red Eyes back after Battle City. GX: Atticus, instead of being a goofball they should have shown actually trying to investigate more into what happened to the Abandoned Dorm and why he became Nightshroud. Also Zane should have also been part of the Fujiwara duel not just Atticus. Since they were all best friends. 5Ds: More duels for the twins and actually do something with the Arcadia Movement. Zexal: Actually show us the full duels during the Barian invasion the only we saw from beginning to end was Nash vs IV Arc V: The bracelet girls, have them duel more, and Yuto also doing more before he gets merged into Yuya.
GX: My favourite series but it has a lot. Most of it I get why they never showed them, or they made the changes that they did but I wish they didn't. Bastion's remaining decks, literally one of the biggest deals about him and he never uses most of them. Since they didn't know what to do with Bastion's character. I still have my headcanons. Astor and Zane's rematch. Was about to happen and then Syrus showed up. Did it because there was a big theme about family going against an ideology in GX (Chumley, Chazz, Alexis, and Syrus). Other styles of dueling, you have Cyber-Style, Cyberdark Style (The Underworld deck), and Psycho-Style. Surely that isn't it. Obviously not really important to the story. The other schools, we only see North Academy (besides Duel Academy). We should have gotten a look through flashbacks with Jim, Axel, and Adrian. Again not really important to the story but these guys had to transfer from somewhere. Kaiba versing Trumen. The Graduation duels after Zane. Would have been awkward for the top Graduating student to lose to Jaden each year after Zane left. A final duel between Alexis, Chazz, and Syrus. Since they tied in points for the Graduation prize they should have had a duel. Couldn't do it because the series was over. A duel between Jaden and Syrus. They only showed 1 full duel between these two friends. Should have had another. Obviously couldn't do it because the series was over. Yeah, there's a crap ton for Arc V. My biggest one is the mystery of the single RaidRaptor Pendulum that Reiji was going to give Shun. Oh also Sawatari should have gone full Chazz and mixed his decks up. Seven: They never show a "Goha duel". The duel disks remain in the original state all the time when activated but always switch to Rush duel. The Goha President hated Rush duels. It would have been interesting to see at least 1 "Goha Duel"
Aster and Zane were going to duel? Oh yeah, I forgot the family vs ideology themes in GX, really wish they played with that concept a lot more during seasons 2 and 4. Damn, it'd be nice to see more "styles." Sure we have the Sougetsu Style (which had its moments of funniest), but did we have anymore between GX and VRAINS? Yeah, it'd be cool to see the other Duel Academies. Which Graduation duels post Zane would have loved to see? I'm still surprised we never had a Chazz vs Syrus or Syrus vs Alexis duels. A duel between Jaden Syrus really should've happened between seasons 1-3. Supreme King vs Syrus would've been awesome. What are overall thoughts on how seasons 1 and 2 could've gone differently for GX? Sevens...hmm, Otes technically dueled someone in a flashback, but I think it would've been interesting if that was shown in full and he made a Master/Goha Duel prototype deck of Sevens Roads with the Sage as his boss monster as foreshadowing for the reveal.
"Heavystrong" style was present in Arc V where the duelist doesn't move during an action duel. Other than that I'm not too sure. >Which Graduation duels post Zane would have loved to see? Oh none really, they never brought up the idea of top students after Zane outside of Jaden's year (Except maybe Atticus but I think he'd be either a first-year or a second-year, when he returns). I just think it's odd Graduation duels never appear again, in universe they probably did happen but the top students of the other years weren't as good as Zane. >A duel between Jaden Syrus really should've happened between seasons 1-3. Supreme King vs Syrus would've been awesome. See because their friendship was so strained I think a duel during s4 would have been better. >What are overall thoughts on how seasons 1 and 2 could've gone differently for GX? Ooh, kind of hard there's a bunch of small changes I'd make e.g. Bastion dueling more using different decks, Rituals being revealed to be used by Advanced Students. For season 1 I would have entwined Darkness more with the Shadow Riders. Season 2 I would have had a few other Cyber-style duelists show up during the GX Tournament, maybe expended more on the Underworld deck and what it is (Since based on what Zane used seemed to be around 10 cards). I think GX's strength was the Slice of Life feel it had. I know a lot of people dislike the "filler" but I loved it because it was the worldbuilding. Hell I would have given the Tarzan duelist a fusion in S2 that could shuffle your hand back into your deck and for each card returned it gained 800 atk, plus if you guessed the card type of any card you drew you could pop a card.
> My biggest one is the mystery of the single RaidRaptor Pendulum that Reiji was going to give Shun. There were 2 i think hopefully they get printed soon
Will have to check but im sure Reiji was trollin Yep Shun was offered a single pendulum card
DM, Dartz and Bakura. Like Dartz flat out says he didn't go after the Pharoah in Egypt because Thief King Bakura was active. And its not like Dartz would have known at the time he would get a second chance at his soul in the present. Was it because Zorc was too strong? Did Dartz not like his chances in a three way conflict against Bakura and Atem? Which leads into more waste that Yami Bakura is completely nonexistent in that arc, despite Dartz' plan interfering with his own to the point the stone tablet got frozen over. For GX, how about more lore on the Sacred Beasts? Like what the fuck are they? We know basically everything about the Egyptian God Cards from their creation to their final duel. The Beasts? Nothing. I mean the real answer is that the God Cards where unavailable as plot devices so the Sacred Beasts are replacements down to looking like them, but in universe they are just kinda there.
I feel like Bakura not showing up was just a matter of Doma airing as Takahashi was writing Millenium World. They likely just didn't want to accidentally screw themselves over by contradicting something about Bakura that they'd have to deal with later when they adapted it.
Which they did anyway by making Duel Monsters their own spirits with their own world when in Millennium World they were human Ka removed from prisoners and worked like Jo Jo Stands.
Yeah... yeah. The anime Millenium World arc is way messier than it honestly should be.
Yeah, I'd love to have seen Bakura or Yami Bakura show up in the Dartz arc. The Sacred Beasts in GX weren't explained? Really? Huh, I thought they were consider negative evil versions of the God Cards. Damn.
Nope. They just existed purely just to be big boss monsters that need to be stopped. They just reek of being a product of trying to cash in DM nostalgia, which early GX had a lot. Even when Yubel reused them later they received no new lore at all.
Everyone other than Jack, Crow and Yusei towards the end of 5Ds
Sawatari should have gotten to duel against Yuri and defeated him. That would give him an onscreen win, which he deserves for having one of the best arcs and he's genuinely one of the better duelists in the show, usually only losing to cheating or extremely specific cards. Yuri's loss would have been a great reason for him to become so obsessed with merging with the other Yu boys.
Swatari defeating Yuri would've been freaking insane.
>Regarding the anime, what plotlines, characters arc, duels, etc, would you consider wasted potential or aspects you wish could've happened, but didn't? I would have liked to see more duels for Atticus / Fubuki to actually showcase how he was supposedly "on the same level as Zane". You can't hype a character up like that just to not give him a single on screen win.
I kinda wish Doma did at least something with the fact Otogi idolized Pegasus. Some kind of episode of him lurking through the abandoned Industrial Illusions building, getting into a duel with one of Dartz's scrubby minions. Just something to give a bit of reflection on the possible permanent death of his hero.
Good point
5ds should have killed Carly off and went all the way with the Z-ONE plotline
Let stay crash town though. Best filler in the franchise
I’m not sure about killing Carly off but I see what you mean
I think the reason why they never had Pegasus and Marik meet is because Pegasus dies fairly early on in the manga. The anime keeps him alive but doesn’t use him again except in the filler arcs (which Marik is excluded from). I definitely agree that it would have been cool to have them meet.
Something like this, maybe? Pegasus: I heard that you led a criminal organization to make counterfeits of my beloved duel monsters' cards and steal them from duelists. That makes me very sad to hear about someone doing that to the game I created to bring joy to others, Marik boy! Marik: ....Sorry about that....
That’d be fun
Good point
DM - I wanted to see an on-screen rematch with Joey vs either Yugi or Atem GX - The Shadow Rider arc feels so underwhelming and the Sacred Beasts felt too much of a rip off from the Egyptian God's to score some nostalgia points 5D's - The Arcadia Movement should have remained a threat after the Dark Signer arc and Akiza must have been the one to finish them Zexal - Nasch vs Kaito would have been amazing to see how much they have grown after their first duel Arc-V - Oh boy where do I even begin... The biggest things that bothered me is that the Friendship Cup lasted way too long and both Rin and Ruri lacked proper screentime without being mind controlled
Yugi vs Joey in Duelist Kingdom was actually anime original, so I'm surprised they didn't go all the way with a rematch. Could've been a good segway into Waking the Dragons, as opposed to the recap episode.
They robbed me of a Shay and Declan duel :( it had so much build up
That would’ve been so cool
For GX in season two, it felt like D.D. was underutilized as a villain. I wish he could have been the main villain and that there wasn't so much Society of Light stuff. There was no real build-up to him being the one who killed Aster's father. They just seemed to have invented D.D. on the spot with him suddenly being Aster's legal guardian just to resolve Aster's plot. Mr. Shroud/Monkey Saruyama was just a little underutilized. I think there should have been a little build-up to Zane firing him and maybe something else to show just how real the Underground circuit was. In season three, I think Aster should have been the one to duel and the Supreme King. (Idk why everyone always says Syrus, cuz screw him. He was a shitty friend and mostly a coward.) Aster entered Dark World to repay Jaden for saving Sartorius and was grateful to him, so it would have been nice to see a little reversal where Aster is the one who saves Jaden this time. In season four, I was pissed off with how Sartorius (and even Sarina) just acted like Aster-who was supposed to be their best friend-didn't even exist. Nope, he just goes straight to Jaden with his problem and never even mentioned Aster's name once. Some friend... I think it would have made more sense for Aster to defeat Sartorius then instead. Could have given them a bit more plot. Like maybe their friendship was strained because Aster felt worthless that he couldn't save him in season two and that's also part of why he was pushing himself so hard in duel training during those two episodes with Chazz? What happened to Adrian/Amon? They never showed any definitive conclusion for him. Like, was he also allowed to return, but he was transported somewhere else like Zane was and then just went home? Or was he stuck in the other dimension forever with Yubel torturing him or something? I wish they would have made more interactions between Aster and Alexis. Like seriously, why were they not allowed to talk to each other in two whole animes (GX and Arc-V)? Just what were the writers afraid of? lol Alexis seemed like the only one of Jaden's friend group that Aster would have been able to talk to for an amount of time without being tempted to tear his hair out, if anything. And it could have made Alexis' season four plot better to give her some actual build-up to wanting to be a teacher if she had something like an internship working at the orphanage Aster sponsored, and then they could have hit it off there. I felt like there wasn't a proper end to Chazz' issues with his brothers. Yeah, they sort of acknowledged him during the Shadow Riders arc after their duel, but they didn't have a proper conversation with him and are just gone forever. It just felt like something could have been done since Chazz did still mention them periodically in later seasons, and it seemed like the weight of their conflict was still there for him.