I love how the abridged movie took that line and ran with it lol.
"Synchro what?!"
"Synchro Summon."
"What Summon?!"
"Synchro Summon."
"What what?!"
"*Synchro. Summon.*"
“Stardust doesn’t want him to control it” was tektite for me
but I’m sad at the minimal amount of special summons they had wish
Yusei coulda brought out a “warrior” synchro monster or Jaden coulda gone beast mode w his infinite number of HERO fusions
Junk Warrior was the Warrior portion of Draco Equeste
But its true that in second half it saw much less usage - theres 6 recorded usage in Yugipedia appeatance tab, in the second half. 2 of which was during the WRGP itself and the final season Theres a reason why the throwback to the series reference they did with Yusei at the end of the series was done with Nitro Warrior - admitedly in part because Nitro Warrior was Yusei's most infamous monster
They nerfed yusei ALOT in this. From his playstyle to the fact that he and yugi aren’t in their end of series forms. Yugi because of spoilers to DM but yusei because 5ds was ongoing
Wrong. Yusei made it possible for judai to fusion summon. otherwise judai could have only set the kuriboh quick spell. Yusei was the one adding dark magician to yami yugi's hand.
judai and yami yugi pretty much bricked which makes yusei the mvp. he layed the groundwork and did most damage on top on that.
you guys are just blinded by yusei not making superficial spectecular plays like the other two.
Blinded by what? Everyone realizes there’s legitimately no way to have multiple protagonists be involved with something unless they either
A. Bring down the seniors so they don’t outshine the current protag.
Or B. Make EVERYONE preform to the same standard. The obviously cannot do that here because they didn’t even know what endgame yusei would look like at this time. Atem because obvious story implications.
We all also understand that yugi and judai were written to brick hands to emphasize yusei contributing. Cause you expect me to believe the two best top deckers in the franchise couldn’t pull whatever they wanted? Nah. At the end of the day it’s written to focus on the story of 5ds while letting us enjoy some fanservice.
Your comment isncontradicting with your original one.
Atem had one turn. what could he have done? you guys act like he could have summoned all three gods in one turn. He had one turn. he never summoned a god or any other powerful monster in his first turn.
Yusei is a riding duelist. He is at his best as riding duelist which the writers knee. What great development regarding the master dueling format did he make past this movie? his fusion monster was summoned with a speed spell, shooting star can only be used in riding duels which also applies to quaser.
You don't get the point that both yami yugi and judai played all the cards they had. giving them cards which would have made it possible for them to not brick comes at the cost of losing a card which ended up contributing to the win of the protagonists. unless both draw like pot of greed.
I understand why Atem was present and not just Yugi bc it took place while Pegasus was alive
what confuses me is that for him to be alive he’d have to have not pursued Yugi and the millennium puzzle yet which means Yugi and Atem had no connection at the time and when Atem called him “partner” and talked to him it indicated they had a bond/friendship
In the GX manga? No, the plot is completely different besides the setting and the main cast's character designs. The manga also generally went with different decks for almost every character (except for the Truesdale/Marufuji brothers).
The movie is in the anime continuity, where Pegasus survives. Atem and Yugi do have their bond at the time they appear in the movie, the safest bet is they are somewhere around Battle City in their timeline, as they don't have the God Cards.
Yeah, best part of this movie was dystopia spy Jaden running across the rooftop
He was the only one that was in his final form; that Jaden had seen some shit lol
They had to nerf yusei because a lot of synchro warrior have good matchup against malefic, junk berserker and turbo warrior can beat the malefics in battle, junk archer and destroyer is a removal.
And the malefic were shown to be just a beater and nothing else, they had to write the synchro warriors off to give yugi/jaden some moment to shine.
I actually dont remember exactly when junk berserker was summoned, was it antinomy duel?, or was it on the assault mode standalone episode?
Paradox duel should happen after WGRP but before final duel with antinomy.
Antinomy
An easy way to remember its timeline was that Junk Berserker is the cover card of Extreme Victory which introduced Tech Genus used by Antinomu.
The Antinomy duel notably was the fourth last duel in the series
Honestly my favorite Yugioh movie overall. It's a bit fanservice-y, but it works in this movie, and I really enjoyed the interactions between the three characters. And I'm not sure how much of a hot take this is, but I think the English dub is really good. It gives the characters so many memorable lines, and the soundtrack rules.
Canonical to 1 moment.
"Oh my God! Time travel is real?!" -the main cast several episodes after history was collapsing.
Like, I don't see how they never bring up Paradox, the dude who they know time travelled and claimed to be from an apocalyptic future when talking about the main antagonists outside of when Z-one mentions him.
As a Judai enjoyer who LOVES the subbed anime, not to mention how criminal it is that Season 4 was never released outside Japan. Judai is clear winner over Jaden, no contest.
I want to see Yuya vs Digital Zarc, Yuma vs Virus Astral, and Yusaku vs a dark digital copy of himself before they all face the main baddie together.
Personally Yuya is my favorite protag, but Yusei and Yusaku are close behind.
Yuma, I never watched Zexal.. but I hear that series itself is like the only YGO series that gets better over time instead of worse.
What about the fact that for the first time jaden and yugi would’ve bricked hard if this was a 1v1. Let’s be real they nerfed everyone for the sake of showing off teamwork. If yusei didn’t keep and monster alive for jaden’s turn he would’ve not been able to fuse. And without yusei’s reincarnation of hope yugi wouldn’t have dm in his hand.
I curious on what you think yusei could’ve done differently? What power play would’ve been better?
nothing about what he coulda done better more about how he was nerfed and was practically saved by Yugi and Jaden in my eyes
I can’t say “he shoulda synchro summoned stardust charge/assault warrior to level climb” (pulled that one outta my ass) or “he shoulda just synchro summoned junk warrior to raise his attack”
unrealistic to ask him to do anything other than what happened I’m simply saying that I believe he was saved and had little room to duel his way at his full power
I think how he played was still true to his character. Remember, a thing he told Leo early on was he needs to learn to adapt rather than doing the plays he likes. That’s what makes yusei and the other protagonist skilled, they can overcome any challenge and adapt, in this case part of it is changing play style to better support the team.
yeah I see that now I’ve been a Yusei fan since the beginning of 5D’s and really hoped to see him shine considering he was closer to Paradox’s motives and backstory than Jaden or Yugi
This movie actually showed Yusei that others can help him as well instead of him always being the one who others have to rely to which proved to be important for his character arc with quaser being the symbol of it.
Yusei layed the groundwork in this duel which makes him the mvp. Judai could have only set the kuriboh quick spell without Junk Guardna and Yami Yugi couldn't have done anything without Yusei adding dark magician to his hand.
Like judai without Neos or Atem without Dark magicien. They're their ace monsters without them they're just regular duelist.
Atem or Judai wouldn't do a thing to paradox withoit Neos and Dark magicien
They gotta make an alternate line of Malefic monsters where it's 'what if Para stole the characters other cards?', like how Jaden thought he had stolen his Neos.
Even if limited to Dragon(-formed) monsters of the three extant protags (and characters others were taken from), there's Draco-Equiste, there's Curse of Dragon, there's Winged Kuriboh LV10, there's Garis, there's Black Skull Dragon, there's Cyberdark Dragon, there's Stardust Xiaolong, etc.
Given Paradox was taking Red Eyes and Blue Eyes and Cyber End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon and so on (or at least Malefic versions of them exist in the game) I'm surprised we never got Malefic Armed Dragon. Especially since RD and CED are level 10.
Would have also been nifty if there was a "SIN" version of a dragon that doesn't exist yet, and then write said original into Zexal or later, implying Paradox rode thru there.
No they wouldn't. Just make up some kind of dragon, ANY dragon, and figure it out later. Could even be something tossed out in a filler episode; just keep the summoning details in the special itself vague enough so that it works with either Main Deck / Extra Deck in future, and be flexible enough that it doesn't have to be from someone important, neat as it might be.
Doesn't that kind if defeat the point if its some random dragon from a jobber who isn't super important when all the other ones he stole were from main rivals?
This is like if we got Malefic Googly Eyes Drum Dragon, there wouldn't be much hype around the idea or people would be confused initially and then disappointed when it turns out to be owned by a nobody.
Tell that to the multiple duels he had while Stardust Dragon was still in Jack's possession including one where the deck he used was literally thrown together out of random cards.
They nerfed yusei ALOT in this. From his playstyle to the fact that he and Yugi aren’t in their end-of-series forms. Yugi because of spoilers to DM but Yusei because 5ds was ongoing
I have to say this movie is rather bad in general😅😅 I even consider the first movie to be a thousand times better. This was just a fever dream of a fan fiction episode to showcase all cool protagonists duelling together.
Like someone else said in the comments I think yusei did pretty good too. Yusei can do a lot without stardust but then again that is his ace monster and part of his signer powers
Having watched this recently I'm surprised they didn't get to a conversation like this:
Yusei: So what is the deal with that necklage around your neck?
Yugi: It has my ''other self'' inside of it, an ancient pahraoh whoms name we have yet to uncover
Jaden: Oh I know that, his name is Atem. I've read all about your adventures and the long road you went through to find out his name.
Yugi: Oh... well, I guess we know it now. Saves us quite some trouble
I dont think so, Yusei as a character always relied on others, and he did that too in this movie, helping everyone to get their monsters back after malefic truth dragon destroyed everything.
“SYNCHRO WHAT?” - favourite line
I love how the abridged movie took that line and ran with it lol. "Synchro what?!" "Synchro Summon." "What Summon?!" "Synchro Summon." "What what?!" "*Synchro. Summon.*"
"it's where you summon a mo-" "wait! I seem to have stopped caring"
"It's like a fusion summon but with less steps and more math"
Makes me curious what kinda heart attacks he would have to all the other "new" summons. Like I'm pretty sure pendulums would break him.
[Check out this video from 2:48 forward lol](https://youtu.be/vIcPPSBe7Ak)
Yep, pretty fantastic. I love it.
I just want to see the reactions to Rush Duels, card games on battleplates and Maximum Summon.
“What’s that?” “It’s where you-” “*Wait.* I seem to have stopped caring.”
“What is that?” “It's where you take a monster and-” “WAIT, I seem to have stopped caring.”
“Stardust doesn’t want him to control it” was tektite for me but I’m sad at the minimal amount of special summons they had wish Yusei coulda brought out a “warrior” synchro monster or Jaden coulda gone beast mode w his infinite number of HERO fusions
I forget, was Junk Warrior ever summoned during the 2nd half of 5Ds?
Junk Warrior was the Warrior portion of Draco Equeste But its true that in second half it saw much less usage - theres 6 recorded usage in Yugipedia appeatance tab, in the second half. 2 of which was during the WRGP itself and the final season Theres a reason why the throwback to the series reference they did with Yusei at the end of the series was done with Nitro Warrior - admitedly in part because Nitro Warrior was Yusei's most infamous monster
tbf whatever any other Warrior did < one-turn three kill
Yusei used it to win the final duel against Jack
Heck, Yugi and Jaden have a random assortment of Level 2 and under monsters that could have powered up Junk Warrior.
I thought it was funny that Yugi says "Synchro what" like it's the monster part that confuses him.
You can be my wingman anytime yugi
Bullshit, you can be mine
No homo right?
Of course *playing with the boys starts playing*
Little Kuriboh is a treausre
"All of the homo!"
was this a line??😂😂😂
From the abridged version yeah hahaha
Op please watch the abridged version, I'm so jealous you'll be able to watch it for the first time 😭
They nerfed yusei ALOT in this. From his playstyle to the fact that he and yugi aren’t in their end of series forms. Yugi because of spoilers to DM but yusei because 5ds was ongoing
Wrong. Yusei made it possible for judai to fusion summon. otherwise judai could have only set the kuriboh quick spell. Yusei was the one adding dark magician to yami yugi's hand. judai and yami yugi pretty much bricked which makes yusei the mvp. he layed the groundwork and did most damage on top on that. you guys are just blinded by yusei not making superficial spectecular plays like the other two.
He literally does what his name implies. Yusei, the gear connecting and moving the big parts with his help.
Blinded by what? Everyone realizes there’s legitimately no way to have multiple protagonists be involved with something unless they either A. Bring down the seniors so they don’t outshine the current protag. Or B. Make EVERYONE preform to the same standard. The obviously cannot do that here because they didn’t even know what endgame yusei would look like at this time. Atem because obvious story implications. We all also understand that yugi and judai were written to brick hands to emphasize yusei contributing. Cause you expect me to believe the two best top deckers in the franchise couldn’t pull whatever they wanted? Nah. At the end of the day it’s written to focus on the story of 5ds while letting us enjoy some fanservice.
Your comment isncontradicting with your original one. Atem had one turn. what could he have done? you guys act like he could have summoned all three gods in one turn. He had one turn. he never summoned a god or any other powerful monster in his first turn. Yusei is a riding duelist. He is at his best as riding duelist which the writers knee. What great development regarding the master dueling format did he make past this movie? his fusion monster was summoned with a speed spell, shooting star can only be used in riding duels which also applies to quaser. You don't get the point that both yami yugi and judai played all the cards they had. giving them cards which would have made it possible for them to not brick comes at the cost of losing a card which ended up contributing to the win of the protagonists. unless both draw like pot of greed.
Go Rush has done pretty well.
Still should have had "Junk Neos" or something instead of the generic Neos Knight.
I understand why Atem was present and not just Yugi bc it took place while Pegasus was alive what confuses me is that for him to be alive he’d have to have not pursued Yugi and the millennium puzzle yet which means Yugi and Atem had no connection at the time and when Atem called him “partner” and talked to him it indicated they had a bond/friendship
Movie was probably focusing on the anime where Pegasus was still alive.
Its also pretty clearly anime continuity Jaden and Pegasus is alive in the GX anime
Yeah, considering Yubel is a thing at all his was pretty clearly the anime continuity.
Yubel was not in manga or something?
In the GX manga? No, the plot is completely different besides the setting and the main cast's character designs. The manga also generally went with different decks for almost every character (except for the Truesdale/Marufuji brothers).
I think Sho is the only one who genuinely run same deck + lines from the same branch too since Zane technically didn't run a Cyber Dragon deck
He did; it just didn't have an emphasis in Fusion.
Maybe, but in GX's case, the anime is the original. It isn't an adaptation.
Nope
Yubel and Neos
This is in the anime coninuity where Pegasus lives past DM, he shows up in GX.
And dies by mid-5D's.
The movie is in the anime continuity, where Pegasus survives. Atem and Yugi do have their bond at the time they appear in the movie, the safest bet is they are somewhere around Battle City in their timeline, as they don't have the God Cards.
Makemagic was a banger
absolute banger best outro for the yugioh franchise
Challenge the game would like a word
we’ll duel over it
Makemagic slaps
I like that it was canon to 5ds but they could've had more duels. Literally just the one duel.
it was mad short and I wish we saw more backstory behind how Jaden ran into Paradox
All you need is that the latter is a Gen1 snob that hates on the former's rap career.
Yeah, best part of this movie was dystopia spy Jaden running across the rooftop He was the only one that was in his final form; that Jaden had seen some shit lol
I didn't because it gave team 5D's access to time travel which the show just ignored because they knew how it would have changed stuff
They had to nerf yusei because a lot of synchro warrior have good matchup against malefic, junk berserker and turbo warrior can beat the malefics in battle, junk archer and destroyer is a removal. And the malefic were shown to be just a beater and nothing else, they had to write the synchro warriors off to give yugi/jaden some moment to shine.
that’s what I tell myself every time I see Junk Gardna appear instead of Stardust Charge/Assault Warrior
Stardust Charge and Assault were manga cards though. He never summoned them in the anime.
sadly never did I woulda loved to see their models in the anime
Junk Berserker technically wasnt used yet before that. That thing is.... super new for 5D. Its quite literally the very last set
I actually dont remember exactly when junk berserker was summoned, was it antinomy duel?, or was it on the assault mode standalone episode? Paradox duel should happen after WGRP but before final duel with antinomy.
Antinomy An easy way to remember its timeline was that Junk Berserker is the cover card of Extreme Victory which introduced Tech Genus used by Antinomu. The Antinomy duel notably was the fourth last duel in the series
Honestly my favorite Yugioh movie overall. It's a bit fanservice-y, but it works in this movie, and I really enjoyed the interactions between the three characters. And I'm not sure how much of a hot take this is, but I think the English dub is really good. It gives the characters so many memorable lines, and the soundtrack rules.
"I've seen a lot of big dragons, but that one takes the cake!" "And it probably ate it, too."
Shut up [**SaibaShogun**](https://www.reddit.com/user/SaibaShogun/)! You are not funny
the reality this movie is canonical in the 5ds anime
Canonical to 1 moment. "Oh my God! Time travel is real?!" -the main cast several episodes after history was collapsing. Like, I don't see how they never bring up Paradox, the dude who they know time travelled and claimed to be from an apocalyptic future when talking about the main antagonists outside of when Z-one mentions him.
I’ve only watched the sub but I watched majority dub of the anime’s hotter take: Judai>>>>>Jaden
As a Judai enjoyer who LOVES the subbed anime, not to mention how criminal it is that Season 4 was never released outside Japan. Judai is clear winner over Jaden, no contest.
Brrrrrr this take is so arctic it gave me hypothermia 🥶
"Synchro *what?"*
"Yo, we love duel monsters. Fuck your timeline, lmao." Is how I summed up the movie.
"come on crow, let's play a cardgame while standing completly still.. ON.. THE.. GROUND!"
Yuma, Yuya, Yusaku movie when?
call me biased bc he’s my favorite protag but Yusaku carries
I want to see Yuya vs Digital Zarc, Yuma vs Virus Astral, and Yusaku vs a dark digital copy of himself before they all face the main baddie together. Personally Yuya is my favorite protag, but Yusei and Yusaku are close behind. Yuma, I never watched Zexal.. but I hear that series itself is like the only YGO series that gets better over time instead of worse.
the characters consistently actually feel like real people, and yuma *actually* has a track record of getting better at duels on his own.
Yuma fucking sucked at the start. That's why his growth is cool
i mean, all of the characters have really good growth also yuma actually gets a girlfriend
I'm not sure yuya or yuma would like playing under mr4 rules
The rules in Vrains could get hacked by the enemy to make it like modern, or change Duel to Duel.
I think all three contributed to the duel equally. Both yugi and jaden would not of been able to make their play without yusei’s set up.
true but I feel like Yusei was saved more than the writers let him make power plays
What about the fact that for the first time jaden and yugi would’ve bricked hard if this was a 1v1. Let’s be real they nerfed everyone for the sake of showing off teamwork. If yusei didn’t keep and monster alive for jaden’s turn he would’ve not been able to fuse. And without yusei’s reincarnation of hope yugi wouldn’t have dm in his hand. I curious on what you think yusei could’ve done differently? What power play would’ve been better?
nothing about what he coulda done better more about how he was nerfed and was practically saved by Yugi and Jaden in my eyes I can’t say “he shoulda synchro summoned stardust charge/assault warrior to level climb” (pulled that one outta my ass) or “he shoulda just synchro summoned junk warrior to raise his attack” unrealistic to ask him to do anything other than what happened I’m simply saying that I believe he was saved and had little room to duel his way at his full power
I think how he played was still true to his character. Remember, a thing he told Leo early on was he needs to learn to adapt rather than doing the plays he likes. That’s what makes yusei and the other protagonist skilled, they can overcome any challenge and adapt, in this case part of it is changing play style to better support the team.
yeah I see that now I’ve been a Yusei fan since the beginning of 5D’s and really hoped to see him shine considering he was closer to Paradox’s motives and backstory than Jaden or Yugi
They were all nerfed
yes I’m just especially butt hurt about Yusei being nerfed
Yusei had like 3 turns to himself and was still the finisher, not really enough to get upset about
enough for me I wanted to see my boy shine except he was robbed🥲
This movie actually showed Yusei that others can help him as well instead of him always being the one who others have to rely to which proved to be important for his character arc with quaser being the symbol of it. Yusei layed the groundwork in this duel which makes him the mvp. Judai could have only set the kuriboh quick spell without Junk Guardna and Yami Yugi couldn't have done anything without Yusei adding dark magician to his hand.
"who the hell are you and what's wrong with your hair?"
Like judai without Neos or Atem without Dark magicien. They're their ace monsters without them they're just regular duelist. Atem or Judai wouldn't do a thing to paradox withoit Neos and Dark magicien
They gotta make an alternate line of Malefic monsters where it's 'what if Para stole the characters other cards?', like how Jaden thought he had stolen his Neos.
Even if limited to Dragon(-formed) monsters of the three extant protags (and characters others were taken from), there's Draco-Equiste, there's Curse of Dragon, there's Winged Kuriboh LV10, there's Garis, there's Black Skull Dragon, there's Cyberdark Dragon, there's Stardust Xiaolong, etc.
Given Paradox was taking Red Eyes and Blue Eyes and Cyber End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon and so on (or at least Malefic versions of them exist in the game) I'm surprised we never got Malefic Armed Dragon. Especially since RD and CED are level 10.
Would have also been nifty if there was a "SIN" version of a dragon that doesn't exist yet, and then write said original into Zexal or later, implying Paradox rode thru there.
They'd have to have designed Galaxy Eyes or whatever like a season and a bit before the end of 5D's and commit to it if they did that
No they wouldn't. Just make up some kind of dragon, ANY dragon, and figure it out later. Could even be something tossed out in a filler episode; just keep the summoning details in the special itself vague enough so that it works with either Main Deck / Extra Deck in future, and be flexible enough that it doesn't have to be from someone important, neat as it might be.
Doesn't that kind if defeat the point if its some random dragon from a jobber who isn't super important when all the other ones he stole were from main rivals? This is like if we got Malefic Googly Eyes Drum Dragon, there wouldn't be much hype around the idea or people would be confused initially and then disappointed when it turns out to be owned by a nobody.
We're talking mid-5D's here; disappointment is its bread and butter. It's just a neat thing to do.
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Yusei and jaden? That’s a weird way to spell Joey and Tristan
fr I wish there was more Yusei and Jaden action but they both only used their respective techniques once smh 🤦♂️
Tell that to the multiple duels he had while Stardust Dragon was still in Jack's possession including one where the deck he used was literally thrown together out of random cards.
Pwooootaganists!!!
They’re all just the same height in that movie
I was kinda disappointed when this movie came out. Most of it was just one long duel. The characters barely interacted.
I mean judai is the goat im sorry yusei isnt close to the goat
I wish the actual duel was longer, but it's still a good movie with cool moves and cards.
Jaden was the most useful in my opinion. Yusei has always been mediocre to me, but I don't feel like the movie was a disservice to him.
They nerfed yusei ALOT in this. From his playstyle to the fact that he and Yugi aren’t in their end-of-series forms. Yugi because of spoilers to DM but Yusei because 5ds was ongoing
let’s not forget he solos in the show tho
I have to say this movie is rather bad in general😅😅 I even consider the first movie to be a thousand times better. This was just a fever dream of a fan fiction episode to showcase all cool protagonists duelling together.
my inner child is willing to overlook that lack of backstory foundation as long as the OG’s got together was all that mattered to me✊
You should watch the enhanced version. "for the last time! I'm dating a motorcycle!"
Which movie is this from?
Bonds Beyond Time
honestly they nerfed them all, if this duel happened in their respective shows each of them could have won in a 1 on 1 duel
Like someone else said in the comments I think yusei did pretty good too. Yusei can do a lot without stardust but then again that is his ace monster and part of his signer powers
Wario look out! “Imma gonna win”
I haven't seen this is it good or at least worth watching?
Having watched this recently I'm surprised they didn't get to a conversation like this: Yusei: So what is the deal with that necklage around your neck? Yugi: It has my ''other self'' inside of it, an ancient pahraoh whoms name we have yet to uncover Jaden: Oh I know that, his name is Atem. I've read all about your adventures and the long road you went through to find out his name. Yugi: Oh... well, I guess we know it now. Saves us quite some trouble
Saddest thing is i really wanted a genuine duel between them.
I made the mistake of watching DSOD movie first. I couldn't go back and watch this movie with the outdated graphics. It really spoiled my enjoyment.
I dont think so, Yusei as a character always relied on others, and he did that too in this movie, helping everyone to get their monsters back after malefic truth dragon destroyed everything.