It's funny how each members dueling style represents a business/work tactic Gansley-Having an overbearing work force that you can easily remove members Crump-Radical ideas that shape the mantra of the company Johnson-Shady business practices that are often swept under the rug Nezbit-Losing your self identity and becoming full time both in body and spirit, aka becoming a 9-5 robot. Lector-The endless pursuit of money.
Gansley sees everyone as expendable in his quest of power, Crump desperately clings into a passion that makes him weak, Johnson tries to trick his opponent to cover up his weak standing (the boss monsters were pretty weak), Nesbitt is a terribly singleminded perfectionist who only foster a single idea while neglecting or discarding the rest of them, and Leichter the pragmatic simply does whatever he can to beat his opponent no matter the cost high as it might be to himself.
Let's not forget that when they ritual summoned Mystic Dragon, they failed to meet the requirements. In the dub, it is stated that they needed five monsters of different attributes and used their Deck Masters as tribute. However, Nightmare Penguin and Deepsea Warrior are both water attributes.
I know these esipides are very old. Still my favorite duel of this series. Being a machine duelist myself. I was expecting more from his deck. I want that clock work night card though.
Adrian Randolph Crump III Surprisingly the only one of the Big Five (as of this writing) to have a full name in the dub. Also, the only one of the Big Five (as far as my knowledge goes) to have a middle name in any version of the series. I'm surprised to know that his father and grandfather share his name. Rather fitting for a higher-up business man.
I personally loved the big 5 as villains. And the virtual reality arc in general, it was the first time where we saw monsters dueling and it was awesome to watch! Nezbitt and Lector were always my favorites, maybe because they were the best duelists and the coolest looking.
This virtual reality arc would have been perfect if it was placed after the Battle City tournament with the Ishtars going home directly to Egypt a different way while everyone else, including Mai, goes home by blimp and gets captured by Noah and his crew. Otherwise, we have the awkward scenario of the Ishtars waiting around and Mai unconscious with no one to care for her.
@@mechadoggy its best not to think about it. but i agree that it would have been better if it took place after seto's defeat and mariks, since they were on kaibas fathers island, it would make sense how they got trapped. but then it would ruin pharoh winning against marik.
@@AndreNitroX “but then it would ruin pharoh winning against marik” That’s like saying the arc where Yugi, Joey, and Mai had to rescue Seto Kaiba in the virtual world would ruin the pharaoh winning against Pegasus
the one thing that always intrigued me about the second arc is what would've happened if the big 5 had succeeded. does the whole thing turn into a slice of life show with a bunch middle aged to elderly japanese businessman in the bodies of teenagers? if yugi lost what would that mean for the pharoah? how would noah & the big 5 deal with marik?
well actually according to Noah in the original dub, there was no chance for them to return to the real world as it was virtual so even if they did win and get the bodies, they wouldn't keep them.
@@animeknight8958 Noah is an even bigger cheater than I thought. He was never gonna keep his word. His "Mokuba as a human brainwashed shield" tactic is proof of that. A complete sore loser.
@@mystery8820 well think about what happened to him; because his mind was still a little kid back in the virtual world, he never knew how to grow up. And his lost his family's company to a stranger.
@@animeknight8958 As stated by Atem, he never matured at all. Also, despite the most logical solution of building lifelike androids to live in the human world again (Mokuba mentioned that in the aftermath of the duel), Noa sorta implied that isn't enough. He needed to prove to Seto that a digital being like him is the ultimate genius. So there's that.
@@mystery8820 Well think about this.... let say you were the heir (or heiress) of a muilt-billion-dollar weapon company, but you lost it to someone not blood and your mind was also in a virtual world. How would you feel?
Their dub names actually come from real life 4Kids Entertainment employees. Jamie Leitcher, Melanie Crump, Sarah C. Nesbitt, and John Gansley. That’s why LittleKuriboh called them “Team 4Kids” in the Abridged Series.
One of the highlights for me that entire arc was Yugi's duel. In the sub, his opponent actually notes the differences in how Yugi himself approaches battle vs the spirit (tactical vs aggressive). It also doesn't hurt that little Kuriboh insists on nuzzling him affectionately :)
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LMAO, I was so mad when they cut from the Battle City Tournament to show this filler, but it end up being 1 of my favorite arc and pump up my favorite character in Kaiba as a True Threat to win the Battle City Tournament.
Imagine if these five came back as the villains in a 4th season of VRAINS. Not only would it be hilarious to see them try and update their deck and duel properly, it would also be a good way to start easing Yusaku into dueling for fun again!
They appeared in the virtual world in cyberspace by Noah planning to get to earth as a disadvantage lead by the madness by the sins of the kaiba clan came before the big 5 who adopted seto and his bro.
MrGameutopia1 considering how many times characters used magic powers during duels I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers were just waiting to justify it
Gansley was really interesting in the original Japanese version. Instead of being about business, he was all about ancient wars, constantly reciting proverbs from war generals about war tactics, and his dueling was based on those war tactics (particularly, about how defending is easier than attacking and that the best thing to do is to maintain the status quo, hence his whole strategy is just about playing weak monsters with nasty effects while he lets his opponent do the attacking until his opponent has nothing left anymore). Which makes sense, considering Kaiba Corporation used to be a producer of weapons of war.
Imagine a continuous card that lets young per turn for just 1000 lp nuke all your opponents monsters even during their turn, that’s cyber punk 2077 broken.
I loved all of these guys, most of my friends thought they were boring old farts, but they were actually some of the most realistic people in the entire anime.
They had every right to be made at Seto Kaiba as they did all the dirty work for him when he went against Gozaburo and then he simply betrayed them. This especially goes for Leichter, who practically helped raise Seto and Mokuba when they were children and was at one point the one of very few people actually close to them.
These are the Big 5 who I nickname them with and to easily identify them through appearance: Gansley: chubby one Crump: creepy one (mustache guy) Johnson: cheater with the glasses Nezbit: Hot headed one Leichter: respectful one and uncle-like figure to Kaiba and Mokuba (bearded guy)
Kaiba has challenged the big fives in the virtual world in rhe first season but in the third season, they have returned and they're not working with Pegasus so they're working with Noah and Gozabora.
Goat Control Players: Gansley's cards would help my deck so much. I can't wait for them to be released. They'll be released soon, right? Konami: ... Goat Control Players: They'll be released soon, right?
Sam I can't wait to see who you cover in the grand finale of Yu-Gi-Oh character profiles. I still think after that you should do character profiles for other card game anime. Because Yu-Gi-Oh is the tip of the iceberg for this genre and there's some other series I've heard that I would like to see you cover after the Yu-Gi-Oh character profiles series ends. For more information on what else you could cover I HIGHLY recommend you check out the What Happened To series by Negative Legend.
Here is my take... Chazz vs Ghansly Kromp vs Alexis Johnson vs Krowler Bastion, Cyrus and Hassleberry vs Nezbit Aster vs Lectier. Jaden and Jessie vs all of the big 5. Jaden vs Noha computer Adrian vs Gozaboru Kiba. Did I mention that the big 5 use the SEAL of orecalcoas?
