Why Hell Kaiser & Edo Phoenix Are Fantastic 

Ohmygod I think I assumed Kaiser just dropped from a heart attack with his duel against Yubel before it ended I'm so sorry fuck

Can’t wait for the 5 hour Chazz documentary

It occurs to me that being electrocuted is probably a recurring thing in Yugioh not necessarily because it's the writer's kink, but because it's a way to visibly and even seriously hurt the characters physically without inflicting visible wounds or injuries, so they can show people suffering without having to worry about censoring for blood/ gore etc.

the ultimate d was the friends we made along the way

“Some characters (chazz) are done better than others (others)”

"Not sure why a 3rd year student would be at the entrance exams" If I had to wager a guess, he was probably watching Sho's entrance exam.

"Kaiser is Kaiba but if he won" *SAVAGE*

Kaiser is basically one of the most beloved characters in GX. A lot of people think he should have stayed dead though, which I can't blame them for thinking.

The only review where talking about BDSM and The D is both within context and not at all what you think.

Kaiser wasn't an asshole to his brother. Well, at least that wasn't his intention. He wanted Shou to understand what it means to respect his opponent, because Shou was the kind of player who talks shit about his opponent before pulling the win, and what's more, he did so in the name of his brother (by using his card). Shou never understood this, thinking the reasoning of his brother was a matter of dueling skills. In the early episodes, Shou even chooses not to wake up Judai so that he loses the chance to take his exam, only to have a better spot in the ranking for that test. Shou had the same mindset that Ryou would later develop as Hell Kaiser: seeing everything in terms of winning or losing. The only difference is that Shou was the one losing, and thus breaking all his self-steem.

Saio’s VA is DIO’s, and he also drops “the world” in the duel with judai. It was basically his jojo’s audition

We all knows who is the best character in GX - and his name is 1...10....100....1000

Also during Kaisers duel against Camula (which confirmed vampires) he sacrificed himself and his key to save Sho. So even though he's presented as this very withdrawn and emotionless sort of character, in truth he does care for his younger brother so much so that he put his protection above himself and even the potential fate of the world

I like them because they are the only recurring characters who actually beat Judai

Yugioh franchise in nutshell; Yugioh(1998): Psychopath pharaoh Yugioh(2000): Badass pharaoh Yugioh GX: Smaden Smuki Yugioh 5D’s: Riding Duel with disco musics Yugioh ZeXaL: Astral, the sado-mazo Yugioh Arc-V: *being confused with three another alterego* Yugioh Vrains: Main character with lot of pain Yugioh Sevens: Smaden Smuki in the future

Edo is one of the most goated Yugioh characters there is. He deserved his own light novel or spinoff manga. Same with Kaiser

Hell Kaiser is one of my favorite yugioh characters The word kaiser literally means *emperor* in German and that would mean that his name means hell's emperor which is super cool.

8:43 Kaiser lost that duel because of Power Bond's life cost effect. Not because his heart gave up. So that duel did in-fact came to an end.

Personally, I think Zane should not have outright lost his deal with Jesse/Yubel. They should have done something similar to how Joey lost against Marik, where Zane is about to win BUT his heart gave out before he could attack, allowing Yubel to win not because she was better but because Zane physically could not continue. It just works better symbolically. Zane has finally remembered the joy he used to hold for dueling. He has cast aside the hate, the desire to win, and the savagery that overtook him. As such, the story should reward him by showing him to be superior to Yubel. Zane deserves to go out on top because he finally remembered what dueling is all about. That's the metaphysical way of saying that Zane is right and has regained his morality, but have him die anyway because of his heart giving out symbolizes how he still has a price to pay for his past sin. It works better for the plot too because Zane has always been this aspirational figure for Jaden. So when Jaden sees that Zane could have beaten Yubel, it should give him the motivation to face Yubel himself and pick up where Zane left off. Zane's heart given out just before he can declare victory just seem like the better move as it is both unexpected but carries symbolic weight.

'There's a reason Edo is one letter away from...' Me: PEDO? :o 'Ego' Me: Thank god.

That schmaden schmuki line gets me every time

I'm so glad that people are finally doing video essays on the Yu-Gi-Oh animes. I feel like they're a form of media that often gets left out of analysis and it's great to finally have content geared around them

Zane (I like calling him by the English name) was such a badass and I enjoyed every minute of it. Aster was freaking bananas, I was shocked when he popped up and beat the shit out of Jaden then jumped out of a plane like a boss for no reason 😂 I know THE CHAZZ is next!

“Edo Phoenix is a cream faced business boy who thinks he’s a god amongst men” AND HE DON’T MISS

We will never have Bastion’s fire dragon as card

edo is so underrated finds his father murdered adopted by his dads murderer forced to kill his dad and a bunch of other shit

I'd imagine that this is how they decided on who is going to be the master and who the servant: Edo: I'm sick of sleeping in the woods, let's go take that guys mansion Kaiser: OK. Edo: One of us should probably play the servant to avoid suspicion. Kaiser: Fine, you do it. Edo: But... Kaiser: Do I need to get the shock corals out? Edo: .... What can this humble servant do for you my liege?

You know I always had the same impression, it's like Edo and Kaiser were super badass without intentionally being so and that made the show super appealing, the same with the exchange students from season 3

I'm a simple man, I see Japanese names I click. I SEE HELL KAISER I STOP DOING ANYTHING ELSE

I think Saio's Japanese VA being DIO's is way more funny when you remember that Saio's whole thing was tarot cards

(Possibly how Kaiser got Edo to be the Servant) Kaiser: Damnit, they're here. Alright, you know the plan. Edo: Yeah. You pretend to be my servant and I'll be ready with a sneak attack- Kaiser: Yeah, no. YOU'RE the servant. Edo: Screw you! YOU'RE the servant! Kaiser: You want ME to play YOUR servant? Edo: Yeah! Kaiser: With what I'm wearing right now? Edo: I don't follow. Kaiser: ... Edo: ... OH. Kaiser: Yeah. NOW GET TO IT!! Well what I think anyway. XD

3:53 So what? The Chazz ain't sexy? I think you'll find he is very semxy, because he is.... *The Chazz* Yes, I am the kind of person who uses the original names aside from The Chazz. Chazz it up, Chazz it up!

Hell Kaiser Ryo "don't kinkshame me" Marufuji

The first thing that popped into my head when I watched the scene where Edo and Hell Kaiser were role playing was that Kaiser went up to Phoenix like "Hey, wanna steal that mansion and pretend we're a master and servant living alone together in the middle of nowhere. I'll be your master." and Phoenix was just like "fuck yes."

I was so excited to see you made another GX video because I absolutely loved your previous one (thanks RU-vid algorithm) and it was what made me subscribe! Really love your writing and editing, you've convinced me to watch GX I just need to figure out if I want to watch the dub or sub first

We need a JadenxJessie romantic analysis video now :P

Screw Aster and zane. Wheres my boy Chazz?! CHAZZ IT UP CHAZZ IT UP!

It is unfortunate that Kaiser did not duel Ed again after getting the Cyber Dark cards. Or even Judai after he had the Neo Spacians.

Chazz is best duelist because he beat aster who beat Zane who beat jaden so chazz best duelist.

I’m going to gush a little about Season 2 Edo/Aster Phoenix, since he is my favorite boi of GX :^) I love how Edo is literally unbeatable until after he defeats Judai, it establishes an air of “really though shit” and it happens to make Saio seem threatening as well, with it all apparently being predetermined. It’s only later we see this “perfection” start to break down, as Judai interferes with destiny more and more, Saio becomes much more interested in him and started to put his plan into motion, setting up the Society of Light, rising the suspicions of Edo. While he spends with the gang, he softens a little, even offering most of his medals to Kenzan just because he doesn’t need it. But when the hunt for the Ultimate D (hmm) starts again, he is desperate, and he becomes heartbroken when finding out that DD, his guardian, was the one who had Bloo-D all along, murdered his father and took custody of Edo because he wanted to know how the murder investigation was going. After beating DD and getting back Bloo-D, the strongest D-HERO his father designed, he goes to his childhood friend, Saio, to understand whatever the hell he is doing and why he closed off Edo. It’s in the fight against Saio we see the invincibility veil truly cast off, as he compares his best friend helping him in the hour that he needed the most with the monster currently threatening to destroy the world with a satellite laser. He chooses to bet the satellite key, a desperate action just so that Saio accepts the Duel, something even Judai, the carefree one, tells Edo not to do. Throughout the duel, the true soul of Saio goes to Edo’s body, helping him stand up and fight after he did the same to inspire this “good” side of Saio. When he loses to Arcana Force EX - The Light Ruler, the only thing he cares for at this moment is Saio’s “good” soul, even as he is being bleached white with The Light of Destruction. Yeah, it’s Yu-Gi-Oh!, yeah it’s not even the best story of this spinoff, everything is alright at the end and it is badly paced at times, but it is the reason I love Edo, even when his invincible air was slowly teared apart, he remained cool af, he truly fought only for his goal and for his best friend, and he *embodies* Impossible Victory, the best song of the series and one of the best in all of Yu-Gi-Oh!. All of this atop on the fact that he is really fun to watch interacting with anyone, really, since he duels in professional duels, a completely different world from Duel Academia. *also D HEROes are the best HEROes don’t @ me*

Aster/Edo Phoenix is my favorite. They should have done more with him, but after season 2, they shafted him. And Zane/Ryou, my second favorite, got it almost just as bad after 2.

Edo is just my favourite character in this franchise. His story is great from someone who thinks he better than everyone which he then proves by beating the main character and the big rival (who Jaden never defeats) back to back. To by season 3 sacrificing himself for his friends something that he dismisses Jaden for having in season 2. Hes the perfect antihero and he achieves his goal of finding his fathers killer without the main character.

Kaiba was my favourite character in the original series. He was fucking hilarious and beautifully overtop. The blue eyes white dragon jet is sheer perfection.

I have to know how many takes it took to get through “Ultimate D” without laughing. XD

There are two types of people in this world: When it comes to rivals Beta : Chazz Princeston ALPHA :Kaiser and Edo

I know D stands for Destiny but it's hilarious shit when you have cards that are named: _D - Time_ _D - Tactics_ _D - Fusion_ And not to forget the original D. *The Lord of D.*

Considering Cyber Dragons and D-Heroes are still getting consistent support, I'd say those two are pretty popular characters

Pretty sure Aster was born with the ultimate D. Someone had to make this joke. (Someone probably did, but still)

U forgot an epic line from the dub: the zaniacs

Came to this video after the gx one. I never knew other people liked it totally worth the time. You’ve earned a sub

Next up, Chazz: How Hype Can Exceed and Enhance Character

I think Kaiser didn't want Sho to play Power Bond to give him a lesson on how power has a cost.

Zane Truesdale and Aster Phoenix are two of my favorite characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh GX series. I'm just waiting for you to do a video on their father figure a.k.a. Seto Kaiba. By the way, I loved the video.

I'm extremely glad I found your channel The RU-vid recommendations aren't always stupid

All these GX videos give me life. And a whole video from Edo and Ryo *chef’s kiss* Wall of text coming I think Ryo and Edo were such interesting characters, they probably got more development than most of the original cast. I adored Edo because he starts out as an antagonist, easily beating Judai and Ryo (who both went through existential crisis because of it) and he wasn’t even fazed. He was a rich boy, too busy in his pro duel agenda to even go to Duel Academy. But then as S2 progressed and his friendship with Judai developed, we get to know his tragic background regarding his dad and DD, and you can’t help but love him. The Dark Dimension arc just made him even more likeable, after him and Ryo find out Judai is the Supreme King, they get their hands dirty and start recruiting people and he is the only genius who questions if Brron wasn’t lying and Johan wasn’t really dead since no one saw him actually die (THANKS EDO). And we went from this arrogant lil shit who though he was too good for them all, to him lecturing Ryo on how he could not care about what happened to Judai and his friends in this dimension (since Ryo was just after the ultimate opponent) and sacrificing himself for Echo and his friends. With Ryo I just loved how they trolled us all into thinking he became evil when he didn’t. He just used ‘evil’ cards to win because he realized that’s what he wanted. But even in his victory obsessed mind, he cared about his friends. He kept Darkness at bay in the duel vs Fubuki, he dueled Johan in the first arc of S3 to bring everyone back. He saved Sho from that insect monster, recruited duelists from the concentration camps to stand against the Supreme King. He showed Judai he couldn’t possibly face Yubel without coming to terms with what he had done as the Supreme King and overcome his fear of Polymerization. And even when he had just said he didn’t care about what happened to anyone and just wanted to duel, he still tried to separate Yubel from Johan so he wouldn’t die (Yubel then said it wasn’t possible but we didn’t know that). In the end I think I am fond of these two not only because of their starting personalities being all high and mighty and badass and bitchy (looking at Edo), but because they also got developed in s3 and even sacrificed themselves to help others.

Honestly your GX analysis videos are really helping me in my re-write of the series. I'm only in Season 1 of the rewrite and I have made a few story altering changes while keeping some things the same. It's a little hard to keep track and make sure I actually honour these characters, but also making them believable for the roles I put them in.

Zane and Aster are some of the coolest characters in the SERIES!!

Yes, Kaiser is my favorite Yugioh character in general and is the reason where I always play using a cyber dragon deck

Omg I had a crush on Aster Phoenix and Zane. Cyber dragons were my favourite GX archetype. I'm glad to see that I wasn't alone :)

Those shock collars awoke something inside kaiser

I LOVED ZANE'S CHARACTER ARC!!! Also I wish their whole relationship had more depth!

8:57 Don't gloss over this scene. He told Judai a valuable lesson of never dueling for power, and never being obsessed with power. Hell Kaiser's demise came from that. It's a powerful message that few understand.

The episode where he becomes the hell kaiser is probably the best episode in the series. Unless you watch the English dub. If you havent seen it it's hilarious

I honestly loved this video covering both Kaiser and Edo (who is my favorite character next to Judai). You explained everything well here and I can't wait for you to cover my all-time favorite YGO series in 5Ds.

This is definitely the best video I've seen because I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR THE LONGEST TIME Edo is my all time most favourite Yugioh, GX and just character of all time (if you couldn't guess). I literally wrote an entire character essay on his character explaining his character development and how much he means to me. He is a little bitch, but he has a heart and in Season 3 he becomes Hell Kaisers emotional support boyfriend (don't @ me, they're dating, the servant/master rp proves it). This is such a great and entertaining video about my top 2 favourite GX characters. All Hail, Shmaden Shmuki.

O my God, you open my mind to the kink relationship of these two characters ahahahahahahahah

12:26 Funny you mention Devilman since Destiny Hero - Malicious’s design is inspired by it.

Zane is the first character in the anime who used graveyard effects and acutally wanted cards in the gy to use with overload fusion and his power bond cybernetic fusion support combo I love the gy who is with me I love anime power wall and its animation in the anime

I watched the entire GX series like 12 years ago... I'm starting to think that i should rewatch it. Aster(edo) was one of my favorites in the show. Maybe I should watch it in Japanese this time...

I literally just watched your gx video and now I see this! these two were indeed best boys

Can't really say anything about Edo, but the extent of Kaiser's love is MASSIVE. He is the Kaiba of GX, everyone loves him and looking at the vrains period, and how much support the cyber dragon deck gets, Konami loves him as well. EVERYONE LOVES HIM (well maybe not everyone, but it's very hard to find someone who outright hates him) definitely my favourite character. YUUGO SHOUKAN, CYBER END DRAGON!!!!

Thank you for another gx video. I have recently started watching the show after having not thought of it for 10 years and it's like remembering a fever dream

Im so glad I got this channel recommended. Finally Im around my people of GX lovers. I enjoyed it as kid on the dub and rewatched the sub a few years ago it blew me away how good it is

Top 5 GX Characters 1 Jaden Yuki 2 Zane Truesdale 3 Aster Phoenix 4 Jessie Anderson 5 Axel Broday

Move over Darkness, Hell Kaiser is the new masochist!

Actually in the end, Kaiser actually lost to Yubel because of the effect of power bound.

I have never in my life been more excited to see someone post a video

11:35 gx has some great animation

Cyber dragons are arguably the coolest looking gx archetype which make kasier fantastic even before the points you make

I’d like to say something about Kaiser, I always imagined his shock collar kink as a way of motivating himself. If he doesn’t want to get shocked over and over again, he needs to get better.

12:39 his Japanese va is the same guy who voiced dio in jjba and he says “the world” on multiple occasions

Next talk about Sonic... I mean Alexis's brother.

I looooooove your editing, you're so brilliant

Aster: CHASE YOU ILL ALWAYS CHASE YOU

Three years late to this, but I absolutely LOVED and still love Kaiser to this day. Man basically went through my entire life arc. Born a “gifted kid” in school and placed into the “gifted and talented” program in primary school. Constantly being told I should aspire to be the best and find a cure for cancer or some other crazy shit. Never actually learning how to tackle basic problems like, “how do I apply myself when something academically doesn’t come naturally to me?” that other kids are learning their whole lives. Like my wife who isn’t the smartest on the block and literally has dyslexia but has worked her ass off to overcome her shortcomings because that’s how she has always lived her life. She saw adversity and tackled it whereas I was told I was special and smart so if I ever ran into something that didn’t come naturally to me, I didn’t know what to do. I just thought i was a failure or not as smart or talented as these teachers had been telling me my whole life. I completely shattered and fell into a deep depression my senior year of high school because I wasn’t finding college level work to be free anymore. Kinda parallels the fall of Ryo into Hell Kaiser where he doesn’t handle losing well. He’s never faced adversity in the dueling academy, so he doesn’t know how to adapt and overcome this. Then he goes full emo for a bit and makes a massive return to form when he realizes his entire life is tenuous at best, and he wants to go out on his own terms with a blaze of glory instead of just resigning himself to a slow death. He finds the passion in something again and finds his way of winning AND I DUNNO MAN I HAVE ALWAYS PLAYED CYBER DRAGONS SINCE THEY CAME OUT. Every time a new card is released, I buy three copies of everything- good or bad. I love this man and his journey and his cards and he should have stayed dead :(

Bringing Ryo back felt almost cruel to me. It was done mainly to develop shou's character but ultimately leaving him with no real purpose afterwards. Dueling was everything to him but he couldn't do it anymore. I remember watching his duel with Yubel and getting so emotional because I thought he died but had the perfect ending but wouldn't you know they drag him back again. They should have just had his deck resurface and fall into shou's hands and then simply keep the plotline where he duels the weird cyber deck guy to honor his brother's legacy. Also, please do a video on Chazz because I feel like he got screwed by the anime towards in the later seasons especially compared to his manga counterpart.

It's nice to find a channel that acknowledges the greatness of gx and it's characters

Zane and aster are definitely the best gx characters and my favorites from gx Kaiser being 1st aster being 2nd and Jaden being 3rd fav

I like to think, with the Sho 'drowning' part, Ryo knew it was shallow enough for him to stand so was just wondering what the fuss was

From what I see in the fanbase, Ryo is loved by the fanbase and is probably the most popular character in the show. As for Edo, some people didn't like him. I think it's because the way he was portray in the dub which I can see why but still have fans. I always thought Ryo was cool and interesting as a character which I always have respect for him. Also, Edo is best boy and is one of my yugioh husbandos.

Kaiser and Edo and some of the most famous charcters in all of YGO! They are iconic and their archetypes are some of the most popular and beloved

if you keep trashin my boy sho I’m gonna... threaten you with funny looking vehicles.. but I understand why you wouldn’t like him and I like your GX vids, I hope you make more! :)

Please, I need so much more of this content. You're scratching a nostalgic itch in my brain that I never knew existed XD

Okay this is nice and all BUT WHERE'S THE VIDEO ON THE CHAZZ!??!!?!?

Okay real talk I love your voice so much, and keep up the good work! Loving these essay styled videos

7:05 that is a pretty sexy smile though.😍

5:06 :0 I laughed but, hey, that’s my favorite character xD

season 4 screwed both of them over so badly kaiser saying sho surpassed him and giving his deck away edo losing to manjoume I know edos duel was kinda weird with what happened and probably shouldn't count but still

Imagine Kaiser playing Uno and only stricted to his own rules

I never liked Zane. I have a narcissistic brother and Zane reminds me of him I a way. He was able to teach Jaden about knowing how to play a card just fine but he shamed Cyrus about him not getting it for years. Cyrus has a traumatic memory with Power Bond because of Zane all because the lesson he was trying to teach can’t be “taught.” He was able to teach Jaden just fine without being emotionally abusive. There’s a difference between tough love and every day abuse. And I respect your stance on him but I don’t like Zane. Poor Cyrus has no self confidence or faith in his abilities because of his brother. Yeah he may get better but that still doesn’t excuse how badly he treated his brother