Audience reviews
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LeoAvah
A Brief Overview of What to Expect from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's:
Starting with its strengths, it’s essential to highlight the more formal aspects (those of a symbolic and imaginative nature): the myth of the fall of man, endowed with free will and responsible for the outcomes of his destiny, serves as the foundation of the first arc; the heroes’ response to the degeneration arising from this fall, acting in harmony with divine will; the Crash Town arc as a clear parallel to Christ’s journey (the return from hell, crosses scattered throughout the town, the need for forgiveness, etc.); the entire symbolic construction of the Moment, the perpetual motion device, in both the first and second arcs; the tensions involved in humanity’s technological evolution; the confrontation with the demiurge wielding…
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BEHOLD, for this is the single GREATEST anime of all time! Every feature of it (music, animation, plot, and characters) is breath-taking at the least, and mind-blowing at the greatest! Yugioh 5D's
The soundtrack is the best, including Kizuna Bonds, Last Train, and Believe in Nexus. These where all bangers when they first aired, and they are still bangers today! The best one is definitely Clear Mind, where every part of it was beautifully executed. Even the dub's opening is pretty good!
The animation, despite it being rather old, is not bad at all, in fact it is very good for the time!
The plot is S+ tier at least! (re-visit the synopsis for more detail) The plots are always so captivating and interesting, and they never contradicted each other, or seemed bland. And they never suffered…
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Yugioh 5'ds has to be one the greatest anime series I have ever seen. It wasn't afraid to go after dark themes such as death and beytral ( to name a few). It wasn't as overly done as yugioh! or yugioh GX imo.
Story 1010/10
The stroy was amazing in the fact each character actually had a role to play in it. I also liked the idea of riding duels ( even if i didn't think it was that good at first) because it was differnt from the other series. I also play the actual card game and I have to say I loved the introduction of sycnhro monsters in the series. Why? Because this time around they themselves ( more spefically the dragon synchros used by the main characters) had a role to play in the story and weren't just used because they were used 1000x by the main characters (ie. neos and dark magic…
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5D’S should have only been one season. It had the most original story I had seen from a Yu-Gi-Oh series yet. It felt like the storytellers were passionate about what they were doing and had a real story to tell. Then the series had to continue…what follows is generic. Evil cults, tournaments, epic monsters—if you’ve seen any Yu-Gi-Oh series you’ve seen it before. It wasn’t bad, but it felt like the series was going through the motions, like having a tournament just for the sake of having a tournament. You probably already know if you're going to watch it, it's Yu-Gi-Oh after all, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone but the die-hards.
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Let's talk about Yugioh 5d's.
If you've ever heard about the monstrous discrepancy between the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh anime and the smoothed anime by 4kids (talking about Dual Monsters), well, it's even worse. 5d's is the moment when a real director tried to make something out of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise by putting it in a futuristic dystopian context.
Far away from the age of the Heart of the Cards, the fancy millennium items and championships for titles, the card game in 5D's has become the social norm for settling anything and everything. It's become a kind of ultra-popular, over-mediated sport. The rich own the rare cards and use them to crush the working class, it's almost Marxist on the edges. Fudo Yusei is one of those oppressed but who manages to get out of his unhappy fate by the sheer…
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CaRd GaMeS oN mOtOrCyClEs! While this idea sounded like an awful addition to the series back in 2008, the show has proven itself worthy throughout its 3-year run. It definitely is my favorite Yugioh spin and one of my top3 shows of all time.
Here's a spoiler-free review!
**Story - 10/10
Okay, our main character is some guy called Yusei Fudo. Cool guy. The story takes place in a harsh world, where there are two cities called Satellite and Neo Domino. Satellite is the aftermath of a big explosion where the peasants and workers live, while Neo Domino is a place of luxury where rich people thrive. Worst part is, there is no connection between two cities by land. No one gets out of Satellite. Also, people in Satellite can't duel nor possess motor cycles for dueling that we call "D-Wheels".…
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You know when you have that feeling that you just have to review an oldy but a goody thats is what happened when i thought to do this. 5D is that great anime that just keeps you on your toes and keeps you wanting and it does it better than alot of other yugioh series and i will say why.
The story in itself is great and original if you look at it in a yugioh perspective. It grasp you with a badass story which doesnt begin with a world all happy go lucky. No 5d gives a more real world perspective by dividing the different city parts in Satellite and Neo domino. Neo is the place thats got all the money basically while Satelilite is used for cheap labor basically. This beginning has never happened and prob will never happen in yugioh series later because it gives you a more serious feels to…
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I'd like to start off by saying that I've been a huge fan of Yu-Gi-Oh! since I was a grade schooler. However, I'm not talking about all the terrible 4Kids dubs. The Japanese versions have such great writing and storytelling, you'd be doing yourself a huge disservice by watching this in the censored and butchered English dub. 4Kids decided not to even dub and air the last 10 episodes.
I will be reviewing this series as a whole and not each individual arc. Now with that out of the way, here are my thoughts on what I believe to be the best Yu-Gi-Oh! has to offer: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Story: 10
What I hear a lot from people in both the avid and non-avid community is that the whole idea of card games on motorcycles sound incredibly silly. At first, I felt the same way. But hear me out, it's really…
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Ah yes, Yu-gi-oh, a show that perhaps most of the kids growing up in the 90s have at least heard of. I remember the agonizing wait for each new episode of the original Yu-gi-oh to air on Saturday mornings. It wasn't until I grew older that I realized how corny the whole premise of Yu-Gi-Oh when I decided to re-watch a childhood favorite. I still enjoyed the show, but I found it was lacking depth. It was a show about people taking children's card games way too seriously, and that was that.
The next iteration of Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh GX was a step back from the original. It took a long time to develop any meaningful momentum, and the whole show was seeping with high school angst. In the end, I never finished the series -- it felt like it was on a road to nowhere.
I was about to give up on th…
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5D's, my favorite show of all time. This show is a beautiful work of art, with some of the most real characters I have ever experienced. 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.
-Art-
The art is beautiful, and the monsters are some of the most beautiful we've gotten yet. The Signer Dragon's complexity could make them hard to look at if your use to the original, but once adjusted they are some of the best designed monsters in the franchise. The Earthbound Immortals could be considered simple, and they are simplified black versions of the Nazca Line the represent with a different color line vairty across them, but they somehow manage to still look amazingly badass. T…
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This is my personal favorite entry into the yugioh franchise of the 3 that I have watched (Duel Monsters, GX, and 5Ds). This brings us a fairly different take on some duels in the form of riding duels while still keeping the heart of the yugioh franchise alive.
Story (8/10):
As with any yugioh series, the story follows a series of adventures our heroes must take on against antagonists to save the world. How do they do it? In a series of card games, of course. However, I feel like the in-depth plot development of these arcs were very well-done. The audience was given a chance to understand the viewpoints of both the antagonists and our protagonists. The overall theme of the show is something along the lines of 'the importance of bonds between friends'. The show demonstrated this theme seve…
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When looking at a series, is it better to start strong but end weak or start weak but end strong? I believe a strong finish is better than a strong start because while it won't hook people immediately, it will allow for people to have something to look forward to while watching. The problem with 5D's is that it follows the latter, being a disappointment after the first season, which ends at the end of the dark signer arc. The unfortunate truth behind this is that the director for the fortune cup arc left to work on Symphogear, leaving behind notes for the dark signer arc. The new director followed these notes, but once the dark signer arc finished, he unfortunately screwed up a lot of things. If I could rate the seasons seperately, I'd give the first season a 9 and the second season a 5. S…
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take the scenario from Terminator + tons of mindless violence + card games on motorcycles (that are surprisingly good) + a badass protagonist: Welcome to 5ds!
5ds revitalized the game when it needed it most. 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). The duels suddenly became A LOT faster and more enjoyable and the game that was going downhill until then suddenly stepped up.
For starters FINALLY we're through with "school children protagonists". Yusei was already 18 when the show started, had already trouble with cops and was basically living in a giant scrapyard/post-a…
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I wouldn't recommend this to any people that aren't familiar with Yu Gi Oh because they would struggle to follow the duels that make up far more than who wins. Lots of character development is tied into the dueling and play styles reflect characters.
For people that can follow the dueling, the start of all these Yu Gi Oh animies tend to start slowly with bad duels but they duels themselves get much better later in.
The character development is superb and arcs well throughout.
My main complaint would be the dubbing US company cut out around 20 episodes at the end and literally changed the ending. The dubbed ending is basically just bad and cuts out crucial development and story features, so even if you prefer watching dubs, switch over to subs over Season 4 because the dub cuts out there…
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Ok, first of all, I'm just going to say it, when Yugioh 5D's first came out I had zero interest in it. I'm not to sure why either. Probably because when I first watched it, it was like the 20th episode or something and that's probably why I couldn't get into it. So, after I applied to Hulu and decided to watch it I really kicked myself in the foot, because I can't believe that I missed such a great anime because I think Yugioh 5D's is not only the best in the series thus far, I think it's one of the best anime's ever established. It had an unique story line that really kept viewers engaged with its well developed plot lines for both seasons, the first one especially. Plus, this was the first time that we actually had a story that actually centered around not just one character but five. Ye…
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When people bring up Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, what first comes to mind for many is "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" While it is true that this show does use motorcycles (called D-Wheels in the Anime) for duels, it does so in a believable manner. Coupled with enjoyable characters, an interesting story, and the best music of all the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, this could easily be the best anime adaptation for the beloved card game.
Story:
I'll try not to spoil any of the plot.
Prologue: About 17 year before the beginning of 5D's, a huge disaster occured that destroyed half of Neo Domino City, the setting of the show. The cataclysmic event left the city in ruins and tore off a huge chunk of land. After the city was repaired and everything returned to normal, that little island became to be known as Satellite, a…
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First, Yu-Gi-Oh is an anime based off of a card game and unless you're a big fan of the card game then this anime is going to be pretty boring for you because all the conflict in this anime is based around characters playing the game.
Of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-OH! GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's I'd have to say 5D's is my favorite. I love how Yusei is so much more serious of a character than Jaden from GX was. Also, synchro summoning and turbo duels really made this anime twice as good and kept old viewers like me watching. Plus, the series finale was much better this time than it was in GX.
The bad things I have to say about this anime is for one it can get a little boring watching some characters duel, some duels in this anime get so complicated and drawn out that I just completely lose track and i…
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is the third in the ongoing Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, which has captured the attention of many worldwide. It is a long-running series consisting of 154 episodes with various story arcs, much like previous instalments in the franchise.
The series consists of protagonist Yusei Fudo, a cool-headed but determined individual who seeks to free himself and others of oppression. He is a social outcast due to living in Satellite, the slums near Neo Domino City, and his eventual victory with friends he made along the way is highly predictable. Much of the story rides on Yusei and his predictable victories in duels, and the rest consists of usually well-intentioned villains who disagree with Yusei's idealistic view of saving everyone from future dangers who explain the wrongs of his ways o…
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When I first heard of the series, I thought it would be a lame attempt to try to get people to continue buying the merchandise. I got bored after watching the first few episodes and put the series on hold for many months. After a while, I decided to get the series off my list and decided to watch it.
Boy, was I glad I did.
Plot:
Personally, I found that this plot was a lot better than the plots of the previous two series. It wasn't just people wanting revenge for random reasons, it was people trying to change the world for the better, albeit using the wrong techniques. It also focused on a lot of real-life issues such as discrimination and how the under-classed people have hopes and dreams too.
I liked the second season storyline better than the first.
Art:
For a Yuugiou series, the a…
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CHILDREN’S CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!!!!
Ok, now that everyone has gotten that out of their system we can enter the world of high speed action that is Yugioh 5d’s
The third series of the Yugioh Franchise is marked by breaking away from many of the tropes that had plagued the other two, in particular the previous series Yugioh Gx. Rather than being built upon a tournament or school structure system, 5d’s manages to create its own almost post futuristic world. The setting of this world is the best developed in all of Yugioh history.
Our cast for this series is slightly different from the usual Yugioh cast. Yusei is not our average Yugioh protagonist. Not only is he older, but his maturity is shown to us time and time again. This is a shounen protagonist who is smart, cool and collected.…
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