Reaction to Every Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh anime Opening 

The way the first half of GX is is very light hearted and silly, and while it does have its serious moments, they're usually followed by a goofy filler episode or two to return to form. Then, halfway through the show, the tone does a 180, established, core characters start dying off left and right, jaden goes full depression and permanently fuses with a demon. Only for the final season to be about the half-demon jaden having a duel to the death with a god of depression and apathy that has systematically killed everyone on earth because they're too happy and emotional lol.

To explain why the Season 5 Opening for Yugioh was animated so well. There were a lot of production problems with Season 5, and most of the staff left including the main series animation director. But before leaving, he put his all into the final Opening and Ending. He did come back to be the main animation director for the second and third movie.

Yugioh shows go one of two ways: 1. They start off serious and retain that same level of seriousness pretty much through til the end, aside from more light hearted filler episodes (5ds, Vrains, DM). 2. They start off light hearted and can be a bit silly at the start, but then get more serious and darker as the show goes on, ending off much darker than their more consistently dark counterparts (gx, zexal, arc v)

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

About the Arc-V openings, don't know if you haven't noticed but there were some 5D's characters, hence the return of Riding Duels from 5D's in them for an arc. But in general, Arc-V has a multi-dimensional gimmick of visiting worlds based on each type of special summoning. Standard Dimension Fusion Dimension (based on GX) Synchro Dimension (based on 5D's) Xyz Dimension (based on Zexal)

ARC-V is an interdimensional war with each word being based on the previous seasons & gimmicks, and duel being able to kill people and destroy cities if miss used as a weapon. Vrains was dealing with virtually reality, artificial intelligence, Advanced Cyberspace.

Yugioh Zexal is pretty much the season that has had the best animation production out of all the seasons, especially for a weekly anime during it's time. With some hella talented people on board, which sadly most of them never coming back in the later seasons. And then Vrains being the last season Gallop would produce for Yu-gi-oh before it being sent to Studio Bridge. Needed to animation nerd out for a sec but good video! Hoping to see more Toku Vids!!

26:45 Jaden fused with a Monster card named Yubel, the orange and green eyes are her eyes.

Fun fact, the protagonist of 5DS (Yusei) is 20 years old, which makes him the oldest protag of the entire Yugioh franchise and the only legal adult.

Arc V is prob the darkest in the series by premise alone, it tricks you in the beginning making you think it's going to be all light hearted but that takes a complete 180 by the time the first seeds get planted when we are introduced to a particular character. The mc even has a "evil side" where his hair goes more unkept and spikier with red eyes and his personality is completely sadistic and this ties heavily into the plot of the series and plays a major role going forward towards the ending, Protagonist in a twist actually kinda becomes the villain and reason is because he is actually a piece of him. Honestly i was taken back when watching Arc V it really surprised me with how many twists and turns it took and kept keeping me guessing what was going to happen next.

MakoPako: Arc V is for kids Multiversal genocide: Hello there👋

Man doesn't know Jaden commited mass genocide 😔

Poor powertool dragon just gets a jpg XD

I honestly love the irony of how all the Zexal openings are fun and lighthearted while the story becomes progressively darker and darker. While Arc-V was way more honest about the progression of its story into the darker tone. Also, Trump Card is hands down my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh opening of them all, and Soul Burner would have been a better main character then Playmaker.

"Does jaiden get super powers?" That is a very long and depressing story. Honestly, his story and development as very depressing. I'll just give you the names of his powers. They are gentle darkness and yubel. And regarding his design, I'm pretty sure he's seen as the most normal of the main characters of yugioh. And I'm pretty sure that might have been intentional. He was just a normal kid who enjoyed the game in the beginning.

44:40 there's actually a plot reason for why the mechanical looking dragon isn't CGI. The ones in CGI are basically spirits that helped saving the world in the past, while the mechanical one (at least in it's mechanical form) is just a regular card monster. In that scene they decided to make him different from the other ones to show that

Actually jaden at the start of GX is a happy go lucky guy but by the end he’s really changed due to the dark experiences he’s had. He became a very dark and moody person finding little joy in things (he suffered PTSD from his corruption to the dark side), jaden does reclaim himself somewhat but he becomes a very serious duelist and just wants the fight to finish quickly with minimal losses. His deck also changes to reflect his no nonsense approach to quickly overwhelm opponents while defending himself with shields. Although the deck contains sheer firepower cards that can be pulled in an instant if the need arises.

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

5Ds is inspired by Akira, the famous japanese animated movie that inspired basically all other sci-fi anime. That's why everyone's on motorcycles, why there's psychic cults, etc.

Your reaction through the ARC-V openings pretty much my reaction watching the whole ARC-V lol

Gx op 4 is still to this day one of my favorites I love psychic lover. Gx season 3 and 4 got pretty deep

Yugioh Sevens is so unlike anything I've ever seen in Yugioh, but in a lot of ways, that allows it to stand out so much more. Like that theme song is different but it has so much energy and enthusiasm that it just motivates you to check it out! I think that was Japan's first pop intro for Yugioh and it works!

the story of arc-V is that very far into the future when monsters become real due to the ARC(Augmented Reality Combat) system(apparantly they didn't learn from all the other times monsters became real) a duelist named Z-arc(the "supreme king" of arc-V era) kinda went insane after he started to be more and more brutal to satisfy his bloodthirsty fans who asked for "MORE ACTION MORE TAKEDOWNS MORE BRUTALITY" every time Z-arc dueled and after a while he decided to duel "the whole world"(as he was tearing apart the world he said "whats the matter guys didn't you want a more brutal duel?") he almost destroyed the world but a girl named Ray came in and used 4 special spell cards to split the universe into 4 dimensions each dimension being a different era those dimensions are Fusion(DM and GX) Syncro(5Ds) XYZ(Zexal) and Pendulum/Standard(the present day) and Z-arc was reincarnated as 4 kids they are Yuri(the british sociopath from the Fusion dimension) Yugo(the hotheaded dork from the Syncro dimension) Yuto(the edgelord from the apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the XYZ dimension) and Yuya(the main character) did that clear anything up? if you have any lore questions like "what is the supreme king?" feel free to ask

Gonna throw some suggestions out there: gundam, saint seiya, inazuma eleven if you're down for a sports show, black clover, digivolutions, super and final form henshins for kamen rider (not sure if you're already planning these ones), the Brave series (which goes Exkaiser, Fightbird, Da-Garn, Might Gaine, J-Decker, Goldran, Dagwon and GaoGaiGar). Keep up the good work man

The three colored beasts in the 2nd GX opening are the three "Scared Beasts", not the Egyptian Gods but they do look similar to the Egyptian Gods.

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

Sevens did get 2 more ops with the most recent series Go Rush! having just started. With Seven’s and Go Rush!’s new gimmick to the game franchise being a separate format called Rush Duels which is essentially early Yugioh with some changes to spice things up, such as the unlimited normal summons, draw until you have 5 cards each turn, a new summoning method exclusive to the format and a spin on fusion summoning.

1:29:26 Their VRAINS Avatar Form? I always liked their digital avatar forms. Yeah, VRAINS is basically a virtual/digital world so each character will have their own civilian form in the real world and their own custom-made avatar form in the VRAINS world. Anyway, each gimmick for each series of Yu-GI-Oh! - Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! - Mostly it's own thing. Does dark, twisted games. But you know that. - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters - Egyptian dark magic. - Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - School dueling academy. Further emphasises on the use of Fusion Monsters but other than that, doesn't really have unique gimmick. - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Riding Duels (or Turbo Duels in English) and introduces Synchro Monsters/Summoning. - Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal - Kind of space-themed, I would like to say. Introduces Xyz Monsters/Summoning. - Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - Multi-dimensional / Multi-Worlds. Introduces Penulum Monsters/Summoning. The dueling system the Standard Dimension has is Action Duel which uses Holograms w/ Solid Mass technology to make holographic monsters feel solidically realistic. In the Synchro Dimension, they do Riding Duels but without the Speed World stuff from 5D's. - Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Virtual/Digital World gimmick where each character have their own avatar form that are different than their civilian form and the dueling system done in the VRAINS World is Speed Duel which is similar to what the video game Yu-GI-Oh! Duel Links does, makes duels quicker with each player having an activatable Skill. Introduces Link Monsters/Summoning. - Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS - Dueling system in it is Rush Duel which removes some dueling restrictions to make duels go by faster.

1:20:54 his deck has 3 different archetype: performapal, magician and odd-eyes(each eye has different color monster)

Arc V is pretty much split dimensions. The world is basically split between 4 dimensions, Fusion, Xyz, Synchro and Standard. That's why the character designs are so vastly different. And why you'll see returning characters like Edo, Kite and Alexes in the series. Vrains is Virtual Reality. Heck the entire name of it stands for Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network Systems. All of the action is done in the virtual world so of course some of them would alter their appearance to protect annonymity, I guess unless you're Kirito lol. Not a bad video over all but I dunno, some of your takes seemed unfair due to nostalgia from where I was watching. The video was awesome no lie but your take on ZeXal vs GX was strange. You said you didn't like the first opening of GX because it seemed too happy, but when ZeXal did it you were infinitely more happy lol. I guess it's the colors? I dunno just seemed like you were nitpicky on one over the other which is humorous as most people prefer not to ever think about ZeXal. Editing to add, I can definitely see what you mean about the motorcycles in 5D's sometimes the CGI didn't look the best but I never minded them. Remember that it was made in the late 2000's, the CGI for a lot of this stuff was still new but I could tolerate it more than the Stardust Dragon roar in the middle of the 3rd opening of 5D's

Thanks for using the playlist I recommended. My social anxiety kicked in when I saw this video, but thankfully you didn't mention me. It seems you heavily prefer light-hearted Yu-Gi-Oh openings over the serious ones. GX and 5Ds do in fact have the original author do designs and basic premise, so Jaden Yuki (or Judai Yuki) was made by him. And yeah, all the series get really dark near the end. Not to get too much into spoilers, but GX has Jaden think he killed all his friends for a season and turning into a cruel dictator until he is cleansed of darkness after which he falls into depression. 5Ds has a character explode with his motorcycle and the bad guys are time travellers trying to prevent the extinction of humanity from their future. Zexal has multiple characters turn out to be spirits piloting corpses of dead children, and one character suffocates when the duel cracks his space suit on the moon. Arc-V has dimensional genocide, and serious depiction of PTSD from survivors including a little girl who has a flashback of everyone she knew dying. Vrains has all the main cast being kidnapped and experimented on when they were kids which the plot revolves around, and it ends on the main character having to kill his best friend. Even Sevens has the preschool hero sacrifice himself at the end by leaving his friends behind and throwing himself and the villain into outer space at light speed. Which will lead directly into series 8 Go Rush which currently has three episodes out and takes place thirty two years after Sevens. God I love this franchise! So yeah, murders of the original manga are pretty tame in comparison, the rest of the series just leave their true faces for the later arcs and all but 5Ds and Vrains start out for little kids. Original series and Zexal have the most impressive in episode animation too, not in Duellist Kingdom though, that arc is not actually digipaint, all traditional, but it's really stiff except for the duels in the castle. It's at its best in the awesome Virtual World duel of Kaiba vs Noah in episode 115, and yeah that whole arc is filler. So what? That episode is my and my sister's favourite in the show. I am surprised you made it through the Battle City slog, but dropped out in the way better Doma filler arc. To each their own. Zexal actually looks good more consistently than the original series, which had some barely animated and badly drawn episodes, and all series have some great animation even outside those two, but sadly for GX all the great animation is in season 1, with 2, 3, and 4 being some of the best in story but by far the worst in animation. Anyway, here are Sevens opening 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7lNVUsUy9gE.html And Go Rush opening 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v2TuErv1B-Y.html Sorry I didn't share them sooner, no playlist has them in it. There are also very different second versions of GX openings 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f-FnXPN6T0E.html (fandub) and 3: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tlJKVFXef4I.html 3 of Arc-V: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N2RKRfBAAYA.html and the anniversary version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TMjBHD2o6NA.html And 2 of Sevens: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iRI_4Y6fpjg.html I am watching both the Japanese and the English versions of these shows, I just didn't really like Hyperdrive. Here are all the English openings: ru-vid.com/group/PLT9h8VkZFflUNsVOIvKdysdwxjifN9aE2 Just skip the first video with the full version and anything which says fanmade. I look forward to your original work!

Yuma (Zexal) has the power to draw whichever card when super saiyan

Zexal was the peak of Yugioh animation, with the best staff at the studio working on it. Arc-V soon fell apart after the first season, with the writer losing the plot, and the director obsessed with the glory days. And the animation suffered because of it. Vrains' animation was just enough, but never the minimum highs that Arc-V reached, since it's starter budget got sacrificed for the final dozen episodes of Arc-V.

I recommend reacting to every getter robo op, every anime entry ( getter robo, g, go, armageddon, shin vs neo, new, arc ), and getter robo daikessen, though that probably would've been too hard, considering that they're all over the place, and there is no definitive compilation. Thanks for the content, man.

Arc V is an anniversary series that's why you see the D wheels of 5ds, xyz summons of zexal, and fusions. So when they were on Bikes it was for the 5d's synchro arc

It's nice you actually see the symbolism with 5Ds first OP, 5Ds touched so many unusual shit in anime like class, discrimination, city politic etc

The Mc in ArcV wants to be an entertainment dueler who puts a smile to audience while dueling that's why he has circus themed monsters but he is also the most mentally unstable Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist

Pretty cool reaction , the first one I ve seen doing a reaction to all yugioh openings , also there is still another yugioh opening , the go rush one

1:16:57 "I'm really slow, have they been riding to duel this entire time?" lmao bro didn't even realize Jack and Crow from 5D's are in the two openings.

The Arc V series involved alternate universes of GX, Zexal, and 5Ds, with the GX dimension attacking the others, which is why the OPs have cameos by characters from the other shows (which you clearly didn't notice lol)

lol how tf you didn't notice crow and jack in the Arc V openings

its very nice that you say what you actually think in these. i am tired of watching reactions where people just blindly love everything they see to please the fans

I'm surprised you commented on Shark's/Ryoga's (purple haired Zexal dude) hair but not Kaito's (onion hair Zexal dude). Shark's fringe is definitely funky, though I think that's part of the charm of Zexal that all 3 of the main guys have very outlandish hairstyles even by Yugioh standards that an outsider would probably really dislike. Regardless, cool reaction, it was interesting hearing your thoughts on all the openings!

Fun fact, on of the villains of the orichalcum/atlantis arc (tbh I completely forget its proper name) I a GIANT saint seiya ref, with his entire gimmick being summoning an armor set that he puts on and poses with saint seiya style.

The reason why that dragon was animated differently in the 5Ds opening was because it was a placeholder image for the real image that would come later the season. They didnt want to spoil it.

Zexal openings: Everything is happpyyyy :D Zexal: demons, fucked up backstories, moon scene

Very hyped for this one

Yaboiken should definitely react to the endings. I like the Zexal, and Vrains endings more than the openings, and the movie credits are straight fire!

So to explain the arc v stuff. The gimmick for that season was called action duels, where the hologram's basically had solid mass. Hence why they could ride around their monsters and also was a series that tried to do the whole dimension route. Where all the previous seasons we had had their own dimensions. Basically, so the 2 openings that were on motorcycles took place in a slightly alternate version of the 5 d's. Dimension

It's funny cuz Arc-V really was trying to do multiple shows at once in a way. It almost worked too.

geez I want that Adventure 02 movie poster in my wall

Yugioh Sevens is a very interesting case in a long running anime. Yugioh isn't a stranger to hard reboots, it pretty much did one every season starting from Zexal. But from what we know from Twitter posts, Konami (company that owns the right to the Yugioh franchise) and Studio Gallop (the animation studio that did all yugioh anime from the OG to Vrains) has a bit of falling out which lead to them switching studios for the new series. Moreover, during this period Konami also introduced a completely new card game in Yugioh Rush Duels (basically a boiled down version of the original card game) so in a sense Yugioh Sevens and now Go Rush can be considered an entirely different series of anime from Yugioh (DM-Vrains).

Konami changed studio's after VRAINS why the style changed and direction and that studio had roots to working on mech anime.

the reason sevens (the last op) has such a different art style is because the studio who was doing yugioh anime before it basically left konami, so a new studio, studio bridge who did some stuff for cardfight vanguard before are now in charge of the yugioh anime.

Judai ( Jaden in the japanese version ) has merged with a duel monster spirt during the third season. So he had a spirit companion. Actually he had more than one. . Jusai goes from happy go lucky in the beginnig to depressed and mature person. Judai is definitely the most developed main character in Yu-Gi-Oh. He maybe looks plain but he really had to go through a lot.

So ehhhh We gonna do the Endings? 👀

1:08:59 SAKAKI YUYA. PENDULUM SUMMON..

For the 5ds 5th opening the reason why power tool dragon was kind of choppilly 2d animated is because they had life stream dragon at first like in the second ending but took it out until Life stream dragon was in the anime.

Ahhh bro i know this is a 2 year video but let me tell you what happen in arc V The MC here is a Clown ,entertainer gymnastic guy and a magician apprentice thats why he moves like that he plays to entertain... In the first opening and 2nd they are in pendulum dimension and there a new summoning method known as pendulum summon.... Now in the 3rd and 4th opening they went to Synchro dimension because of things i wont spoil where the 3rd yugioh anime happen but MC is not there.. Then the fifth opening they went XYZ dimension and also the world of the 4th yugioh anime and of course MC not there as well...... And Final opening is for the fusion dimension in the world of the first and 2nd anime...and same both MC is not their And a slight spoiler The MC is the split of the 4 guys with dragons and the 4 girls you see through out is the split of the original heroine..... i wont say their story but this pretty much the data of the anime......

Have you done Yugioh closing themes?

The blue spirit with Zexal's protag doesn't take over the body. He merely gives the protag advice on what to do in a duel, and that Super Saiyan-looking form? It's them fused, but the protag is in full control.

Umm yeah, answering a few short inquiries: 5DS is when they started going with the early ugly CGI and show's animation has always been pretty budget. It is deemed the high point story-wise though... no masterpiece but like, compared to the other Yugioh stuff.... ZeXal had the most budget and it shows. Animation peaked here no doubt. 5DS was darker trying to grow with its audience but ZeXal was a response to competition, a show called "Cardfight Vanguard" was starting up and stealing the audience back then. Arc V looks different because their dimension shenanigans are basically each alternate versions of the previous series. They even had Alexis and Aster from GX, Crow and Jack from 5DS, and Kaito from ZeXal in the openings. It was an attempt to celebrate the franchise as a whole but a lot of the budget it could have had was redirected to the "Dark Side of Dimensions" movie and it suffered a lot as a result, it pretty much has the worst and most hate indusing finale of the franchise easily hahaha. VRAINS was the last show made by the original studio that had always worked on these, and it suffered the hangover of the budget issues the previous show left, along with some staff leaving to better projects... Opposite to Arc V, this one was more of a "nothing" show in terms of engagement. Wasn't really hated but wasn't really loved either, as you infered. Sevens and Go Rush are like watching Bakugan or Dino King. It has some charisma but you can tell the demographic went waaaaaay down. From Shonen (old teens/young adults) to kodomo (kids), and the monster designs and CGI effects also are a step down from the Yugioh aesthetic, especially if you go back to ZeXal in comparison.

Thanks for the good reaction. This is a request, but I want you to react to the OPs of Battle Spirits and Cardfight Vanguard, which are anime based on trading card games respectively. There are many cool songs!

GX for the winner

The 2 last ops of 5Ds are the JAM Project. One of the best anime opening band ever. I love their songs. from One Punch Man to 5Ds, CardFight Vanguard. Oh they are just my favorite. Makes the best anime ops in my opinion. :)

duelingnetwork... sure bring back memories 😁

The transformation in zexal called, Zexal. In the japnese version the X is silent so its pronounced Ze-al. The transformation"s is basically like fusion of yuma (mc) and astral ( the alien ). Basically the power allows him to rewrite reality to draw the cards he needs 🤷‍♀️ No shooting lazers involved.

So you know 4KIDZ RUINED the shows with the dub, the Yu-Gi-Oh dub is infomuse for compltly censoring reediting and changing the story for every Yu-Gi-Oh season, heck they blatenly refused to dub the last 2 seasons for both GX and 5D. I highly recomend that you watch the sub if you ever try to go back into the anime and DO NOT, watch the dub for any other reson then for Nostalgia. Don't take me wrong I am okay with the dub but after finding out how much they changed and removed from the shows it got me sad and angry so to me I now only watch the dub of the original show and GX only if I'm to lazy to read the sub. Edit: I have to point this out, because it always bugs me when people react to 5D and Vrains, and how always they start complaing about how they duel wile driving a bike, but in vrains they are surfing and no one bats an eye, it just bugs me how vrains surfing duels are seen as okay and not worth commenting but 5D's always gets laughed and made fun of.

Arc v it's a multidimensional trip they go to the dimension that does motorcycle duels they weren't riding during all the show

23:08 Those are not the god cards they are the sacred beast( it's forgive able since they do look like the gods)

When he learns about z arc

You should react to Yugioh GoRush opening. It a fire opening! It so good!

45:40 once the video is paused you can move between frames with the period and comma keys

I like how you point out the artstyle & animation in those openings. I normally don't care and just listen man. But anw... Yeah they did invest a lot into ZeXal as compared to 5D's. It's like... YGO was in decline back then, so they tryna bring in more children. Hence why the better animation and a more vibrant tone. Same goes for ARC-V as well, but the animation declined in later arcs cuz animators focus more on the Dark Side of Dimension movie.

me pregunto si algún día tendrá el plan de ver el top muertes de Yugioh, igual solo dura como 5 min.

Go for All Gundam openings... Yaay

main guys in Yu-gi-oh: *original Yu-gi-oh: Yugi Muto *Yu-gi-oh GX: Jaden Yuki (in Japanese: Yuki Judai) *Yu-gi-oh 5D's: Yusei Fudo (Synchro summon was introduced. and Turbo Duels, AKA cards on motorcycles) *Yu-gi-oh Zexal: Yuma Tsukumo (Xyz summon was introduced) *Yu-gi-oh Arc-V: Yuya Skaki (Pendulum summon was introduced. and Action Duels, AKA the monsters feel real. and special Action spell cards) *Yu-gi-oh Vrains: Yusaku Fujiki (Link summon was introduced. and Speed Duels, only when logging in the virtual reality that is Vrains) *Yu-gi-oh Sevens: Yuga Uhdo (this is where the way to play the game changed entirely. it's called "Rush Duels". also they are 11 years old) *Yu-gi-oh Go Rush: Yudias, arguably the twins- Yuhi Ohdo (boy) and Yuamu Ohdo (girl), but i donno if they relate to Yuga (also it's a Sevens spin-off series that started this month)

3:20 attention all duelists!

I wish they would give the English translation of the lyrics on the bottom so you know what the songs are about.

What does chuni mean😭

I was waiting for him to react about arc V's last 2 openings but he didn't react to crow and atlast appearance or even just recognize they are from 5 Ds and GX. Well ArcV is about dimensions so yeah

I don't know if anyone ever said it to you already, but basically while Duel Monsters, GX, and 5Ds are the Core trinity canon trilogy of the yugiverse, Zexal, Arc-V and Vrains acts as the trilogy's respective reboots. Basically using the core concept of the first 3 and putting modern twist to the formula. Yuma and Astral(Zexal) are basically Yugi and Atem retold in a modern era, even with how their dynamics work. Sakaki Yuya is basically Jaden rebooted, even with how their series progressed being upbeat at first, then depressing later. And Yusaku/Playmaker? If Yusei of 5Ds was an emo kid playing card games on motorcycles, Yusaku is an Emo Hacker kid playing cardgames ON HOVERBOARDS.

This was definitely enjoyable to watch. Thank you for posting. I think it's funny that 5Ds seemed to have the most bland openings. It's definitely a fan favorite and has an actual adult protagonist. Someone has a video essay regarding 5ds and actually discusses the impact of card games on motorcycles. You're certainly right that the show does the motorcycles far more justice than the openings. You might enjoy reacting to the openings from the "Tales of" JRPG series. Keep up the solid content!

46:00 Spoiler!! The one opening you see is the "final version" the dragons who are CG were there for all the version but the 2D one was put there because the character it belongs officialy became part of the team... that's why there are 6 Dragons instead of just 5 (5 Ds)...

Reason Yusei is sitting on a junk pile is 1 he lived most of his live in the slums and has been tinkering with stuff since early one and 2 his cards archtype has association with junk as in Junk Warrior being a card.

I will say if you're interested in watching a standalone Yugioh to get into it, Zexal is definitely the best for that. You really don't need to know much about the franchise/game to understand it compared to a more meta-Yugioh lore series like Arc-V or Vrains. It's also just very high quality the whole way through after it breaks out of its filleritis in episode... 30 or so??? Which sounds like a long way but trust me compared to some other series I'd much rather they frontload the filler than backload it... The premise can basically be boiled down to "what if the original series, but instead of ancient egypt, it was *aliens*?" It then proceeds to go in a completely different direction. So y'know.

Vrains is like VR

Nah. I don't mind the pausing. If I wanted to just watch the opening I can. I was here to hear a breakdown of your thoughts on the product and it's attributes. I honestly wish I had gotten more talking.😅

I completely forgot that vrains existed

S4 Jaden is half duel spirit

Restart reading the Yugioh manga then read Transcend Game and end it with The Dark Side of Dimensions movie. That's the Kazuki Takahashi canon timeline.

Damn you're so critical over Yugioh hahaha. David pro def would do a better job with cg in openings ha. Also here to rec Ace of diamond, Ashita no joe, Ping pong the animation, Vinland Saga, Monster, Kaiji, Major, Ao Ashi. Blue period and Golden Kamuy manga

Yuma from zexal has his dad’s hair

1:30 The English dub opening theme of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, "Hyper Drive", my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! opening theme (in general). I even made a guitar tab of it since I wanted to play it on guitar but yeah, too bad there isn't an official extended/full version of it as I too would love to have a full/extended version of it. 5D's is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series and it's usually a fan favorite among YGO fans. I have seen most Yu-Gi-Oh! seasons and some of them in English and Japanese: - Duel Monsters, GX, and 5D's in both English and Japanese. - And I only watched Toei's Yu-GI-Oh! ("Season 0"), Zexal, Zexal II, ARC-V, and VRAINS in Japanese and a little of SEVENS (the change of artstyle and the comedy wasn't for me) but - - I have briefly seen the English Dub of Zexal and I didn't like the English dub voices in Zexal so I stopped watching the dub of that and I also couldn't get into the English voices of ARC-V. I don't know what the English dub of VRAINS is like. Among the Japanese opening themes, the 4th Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters opening theme "WARRIORS" is my favorite. I remember Dueling Network playing that opening theme. I also still actively play the Yu-GI-Oh! trading card game and I've been playing Yu-GI-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution a lot on my Nintendo Switch (my favorite YGO video game so far). My current IRL decks so far are: - Armed Samurai - Ben Kei OTK deck - A deck with powerful equip cards to deal massive damage with the multi-attacker card Armed Samurai - Ben Kei. - Thunder Dragon + Watt deck - Originally a custom Watt deck I bought, I later mixed Thunder Dragon cards in it and finally became a powerful deck. - A deck of powerful old cards - Just something simple. - Link Strike starter deck - Starter deck for Link monsters. - Space-Time Showdown starter deck - Starter deck for Pendulum monsters. And I would like to construct a Wight/Skull Servant deck someday.

React to the 2 Saber Marionette J (and J to X) openings please no one on the internet reacted to these wonderful openings 😁

Should have reacted to the Anniversary version of Unleash(Hanate Monsta)

The mc of Arc V, Yuya, and Giorno from part 5 have the same voice actor so you can say Yugioh is a Jojo reference

The design of the protagonist of 5d is very generic, Jayden's is memorable 1:08:50 It's not that, it's just pre-2010 and 2010 tools. .obviously cleaner than 2000s

I personally loved the intros mostly. Though, I was always disappointed that it seemed like Zexal was ended a season too early, based on how it ended. But that's just my opinion.

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