Hey hey everyone, I know Kazuki Takahashi didn't write the GX manga, but he supervised the story and is apparently the one who made the decision for the manga to be different from the anime. Hence why I say "I do not live inside the head of Kazuki Takahashi", because it was his choice to make the manga less dark compared to its anime counterpart!
About the we don't get to see the final fight, there is a one shot that I don't think is in the tankoban(or volumes). Judai gave his deck back to the man who I forgot his name while he uses a masked hero deck and the fight is really good imo.
I really enjoyed the manga and how it tied with the Egyptian lore but it was too short and the characters didn't have time to any significant development
Elliot Bailes Yeah, from memory I think I watched that dilfosaur GX video around when it came out and then looked around for other GX videos and found MelonTeee’s “GX is Good Actually” video.
"I don't care for the duelling". That right there is probably why it would be hard to grasp the nature of the GX Manga Fandom. Never before or since has a manga series delivered so much in terms of card quality. The GX anime was mostly goofing around with card quality, but the manga delivered on concept that would be monstrous when they were released. If you ever played an elemental hero deck and you were being serious about it, then you were probably playing manga elemental heroes. Stratos originated from said manga for example as did most of the fusions that actually mattered, like the Shining. Masked Heroes and Vision heroes likewise. Sweet professor Hibiki introduced us to Darklords as we know them. The archetype that is still locked in banlist hell in duel links here in 2020. Bastion Misawa, Anime: "I am going to go minus 3 to summon a 2800 beatstick and call it calculated". Bastion Misawa, Manga: "I am going to be the source of every relevant Zombie card ever". I am being serious, Gozuki and Mezuki, Nine-tailed Fox? His cards. The latest card is haunted Shrine which was released in 2018. Pretty much every relevant zombie card that wasn't a tuner or a vampire comes from Manga Bastion. And of course Light and Darkness Dragon. Sweat lord. We are getting into the synchro era and here comes this 2-tribute non-special summon monster.... and tears the meta a new one. This was quasar before quasar. It is the only manga ace that has ever received an animation in a ygo game. Manga Chazz should be praised as much for his game impact as his accomplishments in the story. When people say that X character is better in the GX manga, they probably refer to their cards being better, which is true. And it is something that remains relevant even after all these years.
I do admit I like Bastion and Alexis' decks in the manga more than in the anime because I found them to be less...stereotypical. Anime Alexis is the girl so she gets the warrior girl cards with a ballet theme. Manga Alexis's monsters are all still girls but the theme is an ice lock-down deck, which is pretty cool (pun intended). Anime Bastion is the brain so he gets cards based around math and science. Manga Bastion has a Japanese zombie deck and it how he plays those cards that makes him the brain.
Technically speaking, Stratos' effect was drastically different in the Manga (instead of being Emergency Call and Righteous Justice stacked into one, it can halve its ATK to direct attack). Ocean had a completely different effect, as well as Woodsman/Shadow Mist not even having effects. But yes, I completely agree that I prefer pretty much every Manga iteration of the character's decks, except for Sho and Ryou. Masked Heroes especially are crazy strong for what they were at the time; there were times reading manga where I couldn't stomach seeing Masked Hero Bassols, a 1000 ATK monster, turn into the 2800 ATK Masked Hero Dian seemingly out of nowhere. The Manga cards are incredibly strong and it made the duels super fascinating.
@ULGROTHA lmao they kept alternating between both sets of names so much in the Viz translation it felt like whiplash on top of how disappointingly rushed the series became as the 5D's manga had started; those manga boys needed more 😔
One thing I just realized. Melon refers to Chazz as Chazz, not his Japanese name. Despite saying she would refer to only the sub when referring to the anime. This means The Chazz is the one exception to this rule, as he is the best character in GX
GX got hate? I always saw people loving GX and more hate towards Zexal which is my fav series. I rewatched it recently too and it might not be on the same level as 5DS but Zexal really got me emotional, yet many people thought Zexal is the worst Yugioh series, probably because of how shitty the dub is.
@@kamiru2993 GX sorta got the..."Not like the Original in design therefore bad" label. But looking through GX, it's got some good connections to DM. The Dub kinda...destroyed GX into this joke, Jaden got the "I'm So COOL! RADICAL DUUUUUUDE!", too many comic reliefs...honestly the 4kids dubs may as well been abridged series/ Zexal I will give mass credit for the XYZ Summoning being actually easy to understand and being shown well in the anime and even works well with story, Zexal Morph is literally an XYz Transformation. Yuma isn't basically a pro duelist like the previous three protagonists. I think people don't like Yuma being terrible which I see as a fresh change...but kinda shoulda been something in an earlier anime than the FOURTH one. Thing is...the show takes time to get to the good stuff and there's a little too much and it turns people off. Season 2 GX was guilty of this too, like Chazz/Majoume got brainwashed and then he hangs around for way too many episodes then FINALLY recruits people then Jaden and co just chill with it then FINALLY Alexis/Asuka gets saved only after Satorious gets the key to Jaden. It sorta went like "Here's Society of light...now chill with the crew in the schoolyard for 10 episodes...Oh no these guys got bored waiting" I think that both GX and Zexal got this weird over-hate status which I don't agree with. Yuma has to improve as a duelist and much like Yugi, has to beat their better at the end of the Anime (Atem and Astral) to prove they've grown. Jaden/Judai gets into situations where he MUST grow up. He turns from happy slightly way too happy to someone who grew up, took thing seriously but at the end, the duel with Yugi is to remind him that not everything is serious and duelling can be passionate fun/ The thing I feel, is that that stuff isn't shown quick enough or they love DM and 5Ds and don't really feel GX and Zexal feel like "their" Yugioh which is wrong cause each show imo expresses Yugioh in their own way.
@@thedawsonator1628 Honestly I like the fact that Yuma was a novice at the start of the series. The fact that the first and last duel in the series happened on the same place reminds us how much Yuma has grown and matured. And we did need some change in pace, like...I love Yusei but he was good from the start to the end, you didn't really see him growing that much. But yeah, 4kids shouldn't even have the rights to any yugioh series, they just butcher everything. Overall I loved every series of yugioh, even Arc V which had its ending butchered. GX was pretty amazing as well,and the fusion summon was always the most renowed summoning method since it appeared in every series. Judai does remind me of Yuma in a way, altho he was better at dueling than Yuma, at least during the start of the series, but it's the way they duel that make me see them alike, both of them love dueling with a passion. I wish those 2 series would get more attention tbh.
I always liked Zexal but to me it felt like it was just copying some of the best parts from the previous series. Examples: having a spirit partern to help in duels (Yugi and Atem), watching as all his friends die only to come back later (Gx), dark zexal, (Supream king Jaden), one last duel to remind you deuls are meant to be fun (Jaden vs Yugi), final duel against Astral before saying good bye and even winning (Yugi vs Atem), the importance of his father (Yusei's dad). Stuff like this just bugged me about Zexal but i still loved many parts about like Kite as a whole and Shark turning into tge bad guy plenty of parts that hit me in the feels, its just my opinion and i still prefer Zexal over Arc V anyday
@@kamiru2993 Judai and Yuma have similar attitudes to dueling. Again,I like Yuma being kinda crap at the game, often forgetting about effects of his own monsters and being stubborn when Astral points out his mistakes. I feel Yugi can't be bad because his story is that he's really good at games, especially Duel Monsters, Judai is going to a school of elite duelists and Yusei can't be bad because of his situation and his backstory has ton of experience. However one thing I find weird about Yuma's duelling is that well, Number Duels seem to just get Yuma to win even if he's made like 60 million mistakes and the opponent is playing like a pro. But Any other duel and Yuma can lose, like flat out lose easily. I don't hate Yuma but I do understand there's some bad ways about how he gets handled in duels.
I feel like the issue with the exchange students in the manga is less poor planning and more the series getting rushed? Jump only wanted one Yugioh series running at a time, and the 5D's manga started around the time Johan and co. got introduced in the manga. There's a noticeable difference in pacing and overall quality from that point onward, making me think the editors rushed it to a conclusion. A shame since the stuff before that is some of Yugioh's best.
@ULGROTHA Reggie and Midori are so much better than the usual females for Yugioh that I find it hard to complain. Sure I wish they hadn't been sidelined after that, but they still got to do more than most. (Especially Reggie) Would've been cool to have Midori duel Tragoedia alongside Judai though. I was always sad she didn't get an on-screen victory.
Yeah it was super rushed... the last volume is super thick, and there was a lost plot point of the principal going to "have a talk" with the evil possessed man who was the american principal.
One if the things I love about GX is that Jaden was not the badass duelist like Yami Yugi or Yusei are. Jaden becomes that badass duelist throughout the series. The comparisson you did of season 1 and season 4 was superb. You can kind of see Jaden's growth in the OPs
I like that you mentioned that the GX manga came second, because that holds true for every manga after the original as far as I know. I always thought that was really interesting.
The thing is the anime is a direct commerical for the cards and booster packs at the time, so it has to keep up with the time all the time. The manga can take its time (and is probably why the anime and manga go their separate ways after DM).
I think it's interesting that the anime has a villain whose name is borrowed from the german word for "cheer", while the manga has a villain whose name is borrowed from the german word for "tragedy"
I own all volumes of the GX manga. They are solid. There’s no filler and feels too short, tho. My favorite adaptation was Chazz, holy smokes his character is awesome. L&D Dragon became my favorite monster
@@deproissant I mean can we call Yu-gi-Oh R Filler as its was just a unrelated side story between battle City and Memory World that was written after the original manga concluded? Or lots of the early chapters that were just a random game of the week with only the Duels against Kaiba, Bakura and Shady mattering in the long rung (well and I guess the 2 that lead to Yugi's friend group originally forming)?
If the Manga decided to be longer and take it's time to do things, I think it would have had the potential to be as good as the Anime. But in the end, it didn't happen. What I think the Manga does defintively better than the Anime, are the Duels. The Duels are DAMN TOP NOTCH. Simply remembering how Kaiser trapped Manjoume into a Loop where his Light and Darkness Dragon would continously use his effect without control, weaken himself in the process, and Manjoume basically begging his dragon to stop, gives me shivers.
Unrelated to story elements, but I like how Light and Darkness Dragon handled omni-negates. It's all powerful, but in the process, it's also exploitative/destructive to it's user and even itself. Nowadays, there's no interesting catch or drawback to negating like that.
@@hamburg4034 Yep, nowadays you simply negate everything the opponent does because that's how Yugioh is played now. The one that goes first sets a full field of omni-negates, and if the opponent doesn't have enough Hand-Traps and/or Kaijus, then they lose. I miss the days of Light and Darkness...
@@reikolupus136 ladd frustrates me it's such a ridiculously perfect boss monster for a chaos dragon deck, even matching redmd in statline. but then it hits you with its inability to be special summoned, meaning you have to bend over backwards to bring it out, and by that point you've gone against the strengths of the deck so much that it's actively detrimental to run and is basically only worthwhile if you need to nerf the deck for a more casual format like for rp or something ... which probably isn't going to appreciate an omninegate on legs anyway i would be absolutely fine with it being special summon-locked while in the grave or banished ( although the latter would probably only be a problem if you're somehow allowed to run _chaos dragons_ in a format where return from the different dimension is legal ) because even though only being able to summon it from the hand with redmd would be a pretty major blow to it, it would still leave it _far_ more usable if nothing else, i guess this means that it gets to hang with mangajome's other signature dragons as being untouched by my dirty chaos dragon hands despite being perfect candidates for it, even if its reason for "wow i can barely summon this thing" is "this thing absolutely does not want me using it" instead of the end dragons' "this is neat, but where the hell am i finding a tuner for it?" ( in prism or raiden, prob, but ehhhhhhhhh )
Yeah!! So true!! That is why I love the manag too.. The duels are more interesting and better.. It is just a shame it is not continued... But, if a miracle happens and it will be continued!! Hell yeah!! I will try my best to buy the physical copy
20:50 you forgot one of the best part of the manga. When tragoedia loses he just goes "fuck dueling" and tries to just kill judai and manjoume directly. The duel was actually just Tragoedia playing around and was there actually to delay enough so that winged kuriboh and light and darkness dragon could do their thing.
Hey, I'm not going to watch this video yet because I'm just starting the manga but I just wanted to tell you that I loved gx as a child but then I grew and heard everyonr hating it so I did too, never really comfortable but too scared to say anything positive about gx. But now I grew some more and watch your first video and decided to give gx another shot and it's one of my favourite shows and I have a special connection to it. This is my messy way to say thank you. Without your video I probably would never reconnected to the show and I wanted to thank you for that. Also I love your videos. Keep the amazinh work!
I remember hearing that the GX manga got rushed to a conclusion. The 5D's manga was already out and the anime had already moved on to Zexal, which the producers wanted a manga for. So they wrapped up GX quickly, though it did later get a bonus chapter about the duel between Jaden and his mentor, and moved on to Zexal. It's a shame, but it is what it is.
21:58 - 22:07 Getting that immediate comparison between S1 Jaden to S4 Jaden was so cool because the switch made it clear the challenges Jaden went through in the series, showing not just how his personality matured but his appearance too. Longer bangs, looks older, and serious eyes.
We actually see Judai and Koyou's Duel in a spin-off chapter. It's a really fun Duel, I hope you'll find it online since I'm not sure it was printed in the end
One thing I would always love in the GX manga is how Judai described as the luckiest topdecker of all time become quick a gimmick and his opponents starting planning their turn by already playing around the amazing topdeck he could have and they are so often right about it lol
Judai is my favorite Yu-gi-oh protagonist in anime and manga (Anime because the character development, and manga because his HERO deck is even more fun).
Manga Atticus is one of my favourites from the manga. His line about never being able to drop his guard against Zane and Atticus sealed it for me. Really relatable for me against some of my opponents
Did.... Johan start dating alternate universe Yubel off-panel or something? I think that might be my favorite head-canon explanation for that. Or he fused with Yubel and Judai dates them later.
I actually like judai not inherently being able to see duel spirits off the bat it makes him more relatable to the audience as well the troupe of the main character being special has been done to death
gx manga is weird. but it did gave us a lot of really good cards that became real later onwards like stratos, madked heroes, light and darkness dragon, darklords etc also It started a trend that all future yugioh mangas follow that they are completely different from their anime counterpart....for better or for worse
@@dominijlife6765 his role go from judai's soulmate boyfrien- i mean bestie, who havea lot of importance to the stroy to a random transfer student that was controlled by the big bad and basicaly had the same importance as the rest of the transfer student charas I mean not a lot Oh ans he didnt use crystal beast He used insect deck
There’s actually an extra chapter for the final duel with Koyo! But thank you for doing this review! I read this almost 10 years ago and I’m happy someone actually did this. I love your channel and whatever new light you shed on this favorite series! I love both the anime and manga ♥️
My complaint is that his duel is too short. Granted, it's a duel against someone who's not Jaden and not plot relevant compared to Reggie, but it still goes by way too quick. We barely get to see his deck since he only gets to summon 3 and discards the rest to recycle Emergency Cyber.
Any Transformers fans here? The GX anime and manga function in much the same way as the G1 cartoon and Marvel comic. Taking the most basic ideas and expanding them into very different stories, characters, and universes. Comparing one medium over the other mostly comes down to curiosity rather than any actual critique. And that's why I love them. It's incredible how different sets of creators can tell vastly different stories based on the same basic blueprint.
Man watching this there were SO many surprises in the manga compared to what I know from the anime. I think what was most shocking (not just to me but to a lot) was how imposing and victorious Manjoume actually was against Judai. Overall fantastic video, superb editing, and congrats on finally having this finished!
My opinion will be Anime = Story Manga = Deck I mean seriously anime deck counterparts are a big joke and can only win cuz of plot armor meanwhile their manga deck are absolutely beast except to some of course (Yohan)
As always I loved your video. The way you handled both works without disparaging either was great. Well, the manga for me would be a kind of complement to the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh. Of course, it can't say it is, because, as you said yourself, they are different stories and media. So, even though there are moments that weren't shown because they must have happened in the same way as in the anime, like the way the characters must have met each other, or the way Judai entered the Academy defeating Professor Chronos. Anyway, they are different media, but I like to mix each one up a bit in my mind. I loved your analysis, by the way!
@ULGROTHA I was reffering to americans keeping dark spirits in their earrings and dueling random japanese students in an evil game that could end in death but yeah that too
I like your breakdown of Adaptation and Fidelity, however I would like to point out that the GX Manga actually released after the Anime and was Authored Kazuki Takahasi and Naoyuki Kageyama where as the Anime wasnt.So yeah comparing the anime to the manga here is unfair as they have completely different takes. Personally I prefer the manga, all the characters have way more depth and it gets explored more which i dont feel we got enough of in the Anime :D
First of all, I love your GX videos!! It's so cool to see someone actually talking about the subs and manga and I love it! ^^ Second of all, if you want to read the duel between Koyou and Judai, they did show it in a special one-shot that came out later as preparation for the Masked Heroes release in the card game, not sure where to find it right now, but I think google can help and it's a really good duel ^^
the manga is very good with how the duels. the decks do feels more playable at times and the story seem more linear. the manga defiantly should of had a part 2 since it still feels like their is so much more they can do. I do prefer the anime due to the fact i feel we go a lot more likable characters. didn't mind the filler since it is a school and it fits with the slice of life aspect they were doing in the first season. judai character really did shine in the anime and i'm glad he did after i felt most fans would try to compare him to yugi/atem as im sure a lot of fans missed watching them. I do hope that the gx anime gets a movie to see how judai progress in his dreams.
It's pretty rare for me to find someone talking about Yugioh GX. I love GX and the Original. I'm glad that there are still some people talking about GX.
I feel like the anime was pretty much used to sell cards. Afaik the manga was able to do it’s own thing and practically invent cards that help tell a better story. Plus there’s less filler in a manga chapter vs an episode, which has always told me what pot of greed does. I personally prefer the manga over the anime because there was more consistency for the characters.
@@Akuma07 What was anime Chazz like? I didn't see much of it since I started working at about the time the show was on, but he seemed to start off as a badass with a reputation but then seemed like he became a joke character if his "Spirit animal" was an Ojama monster.
@kyuubinaruto17 He started off as a serious rival to Jaden, but towards the middle of season 1, they went a different direction, where he was still a rival, but more of an underdog who switched from using overpowered expensive cards to weaker combo oriented cards (Ojama). I mean he still used xyz/vwxyz like Kaiba and had a 3000 atk dragon to draw comparisons, but he definitely became more of a comedy relief person, loving Alexis, pretty much falling victim to whatever the villain of the season did. He was definitely more consistent in the manga in terms of his deck and his personality, but i’d imagine that as far as the manga went, it would be equate to a full season. If I had to guess about chazz’s inconsistency in the anime, they probably didn’t want him to be another Kaiba and the anime didn’t truly give him any competitive cards, those were reserved for whoever was considered his rival for the season.
@@Akuma07 As a chazz fan, the anime pains me whn he and the others were replace by new characters n only function as a plot device at the later seasons. Lol.
FINALLY you're here again to bless us with quality yugioh contents ;_; I can't begin to describe how much I appreciate you're adaptation 101 lectures (just passive aggressively dissing on those manga fans who nitpick on every frame of the anime lol) personally I like how Manjoume is handled in the manga. He's cool, confident, and competent - which are qualities I adore in typical Yugioh rivals. But then theres the treatment of Johan in the manga (INSECTS WHY??? WHERE ARE MY BOI'S ICONIC CRYSTAL BEASTS???) so I got mixed feelings about the manga afestsdxgser
A perfect timeline would have been a combination anime of the manga's dueling and handling of certain characters and the anime's story and themes. It's criminal that some of the best duels in the franchise are sort of tucked away in a very off-brand place compared to where other parts of the Yugioh series left off when they ended. GX didn't have the best reputation with the fandom, but the anime still left an insane impression that is felt to this day. Yugioh's duels are amazing story telling and drama enabling tools that the GX anime sorely *sorely* needed more of in the vein of the manga. I get that the game taking more of a backseat to Judai's development might have been the point but when so many of the anime's duels are so boring and flat, even during dramatic duels, it's hard to keep invested. I wouldn't trade the anime's story for the world, but you can't tell me you don't feel dumbstruck in awe when Asuka and Sho in the manga bask in Jaden's win against (errr can't remember his official name, sorry) Bastion finally admitting to themselves that he might be one of the strongest duelists they know. It's a moment that is seriously more impactful because the dueling was actually impressive as opposed go the anime's insistence on terrible plays actually being genius. Turning into a ramble, I'll stop now, but the point is that there are amazing aspects to both sides of GX that are absolutely worth celebrating.
I've been listening to your One Piece content for like a year. I didn't know you covered my favorite era of yugioh too! Just saw your tag force video as well. 💛
‘There is a big difference between the sub and dub’ Yeah, the dub’s a lot better. The sub has 0 Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. Not even 1 Schwarzenegger. You cannot tell me that’s better
Well not always. The Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS manga has amazing looking deck choices but meh characters. Anime Jack Atlas really had amazing development and went from hated opponent to respectable rival. Manga Jack Atlas was just an Ass hole the entire story and was too much of a discount Kaiba, and keeps the friends are like shackles mentality.
I like this video, it’s neat to hear people’s thoughts on the GX manga. Sorry if this has been brought up in previous comments already, but regarding filler in the manga(or lack thereof), I think which manga anthology the Yu-Gi-Oh mangas were published in is also a factor. While the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga was a weekly manga in Weekly Shonen Jump, every spinoff manga afterwards (GX, 5Ds, etc) were published in V-Jump, a monthly anthology. This, together with the fact it was running alongside the anime, might explain some of the pacing issues and different directions they take the story in, and why some characters feel like they were dropped in at the last second.
Look melon there's a silver lining to everything. One adaptation is neither bad if you change the main story or if you keep everything 1 to 1 identical, i think an adaptation is only bad when it fails to translate the spirit of the story from one media to another. Gx is different but its bloody good.
I’ve never felt so validated for my love of Midori than I did watching this video LOL. I love both the anime and manga, but I also do agree about loving the anime more.
Luv ya, simply luv ya. I speak spanish, so i barely understand well 70% of the video, but... Good! You just expres your ideas very well and justifying them. Good video i will look more and more those days trying to get all the info and may learn some english. By the way, another YGO fan over here (love Lightsworn deck)
Pretty much. The manga's best strength in a nutshell is basically "Season 1 characters done right.". In the anime they're pretty much just goofy school friends of Judai who are irrelevant if he's not around. Proven by season 2 and 3 when they got brainwashed/yeeted and yet nothing of value was lost. The manga made them feel more equal to him, but just happened to rush the ending.
I rewatched yugioh for nostalgia purposes and also bc i never watched it all and thought i would leave it at that! Then i started watching yugioh gx and was less than impressed at the beginning thinking it could never hold a flame to the original but now it’s like one of my fave anime’s ever and i don’t know which one i like more 😫
So I literally just got done watching all of your GX videos and I think you’re a gem!!! I’d have to say the Yubel video is the best because I never looked at GX and Yubels intentions that way mainly because I only watched the dub for most of the Yu-Gi-Oh series until Arc V. I just want to say keep up the good content work!! I would love to see you make videos on the other Yu-Gi-Oh series and hear your opinion in them!!
