However, between Dark Signers and Pre-WRPG there is a huge shift, however I personally adore season 2 for there depiction of the main threat of the series, Yliaster. This show is a beautiful work of art, with some of the most real characters I have ever experienced. It doesn't matter if you didn't like yugioh in general, at least the first 8-9 episodes of this one are a must-watch.ĥD's, my favorite show of all time. The animation has a unique dark style to it that really makes the anime enjoyable and you asking for more. In fact when it came out, I quite honestly thought it had the best OST in anime after Bleach (Fairy Tail hadn't come out yet). When it comes to animation and OSTes 5ds was way above the antagonism. (As far as I can remember you almost never see the sun in the first Arcs). Most of the anime is delightfully dark, with purple and dark blue being the primarly used colors. While pretty light on twists there are a few that really make for interesting story (for example who the final opponents of the second and final Arcs were). The plot starts from post-apocalyptic future, goes to "suck my Aztec d$%^" and ends up Terminator (down to the last detail). (Come on, you can even recite the summoning chant) Lets be honest here, EVERYONE who has seen 5ds was hyped every time that "Red Demon's Dragon" was summoned. He makes for an amazing antagonist and surprisingly well-written character (and is in fact the only character in the anime to get more chicks than Yusei). After him comes Jack Atlas, the second male lead, who gets almost equal screentime, and is a fan-favourite due to his dueling style and unparalleled ego. The fact that he can outrun security (constantly), beat the crap out of everyone (no, I don't mean in a card game, I mean literally, beat the crap out of people), build 2 whole motorcycles from scrap and understand physics (without ever going to school mind you) makes him a total boss. The protagonist, Yusei, best of all, never jokes, almost never smiles and is in fact from start to finish dead serious about everything. Misguided maybe, yes, but he only had the best of intentions (you know, unlike the motherfu%$ing Vector and the others). In fact even the last main villain of the anime, the big bad behind it all, STILL isn't evil. On one hand that makes for a much more mature plot, on other it doesn't allow for the sheer evil badassness that Vector was (read my zexal II review). Obviously the protagonist is good, but there is no character you can clearly call an "one-sided villain", including her boss. And the main reason she can't choose is that in 5ds, there is no clearly evil character. Mostly because she just fancies him, on the other she wants to stay with her boss, who she also fancies (kinda, and also kinda sees him as a fatherly figure, honestly it's a pretty interesting subplot). On the one hand she wants to go with the protagonist. Aki, the show's female lead is quite clearly a girl with a LOT of problems and torn between her loyalties, from the start to the end.
Obviously the super-added levels of violence meant that 4kids butchered the anime even more than usual in the dub, making it utterly unwatchable, but that's hardly the original's fault.Īnd staying on the "violence makes good" theme, lets talk about emotional violence as well. Literally from the first minutes of the anime all you can say is "wow, is this really yugioh?!". Yusei was already 18 when the show started, had already trouble with cops and was basically living in a giant scrapyard/post-apocalyptic city. The duels suddenly became A LOT faster and more enjoyable and the game that was going downhill until then suddenly stepped up. Konami created new types of cards (synchros) and introduced them through an anime so good that people actually got over the fact that Konami was creating new rules again (The same tactic was repeated quite successfully with Arc V and completely failed with Zexal). Take the scenario from Terminator + tons of mindless violence + card games on motorcycles (that are surprisingly good) + a badass protagonist: Welcome to 5ds!ĥds revitalized the game when it needed it most.
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