Audience reviews
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Haannnnn
After watching DM and seeing how much hype this show was getting I decided to go along and watch it too, little did I knew that actually it was really hated on and the hype was only coming from the nostalgic fans.
I’ll be covering the og Japanese version on this review; some SPOILERS ahead.
GX suffers from being messy and its severe lack of direction, it’s all over the place as it tries to cram a bunch of plotlines all together. The first season is literally just a school life anime with a little kick to it, it was mediocre at best, the second season was okay-ish, some cult takes place at duel academia which was very random to the point of laughter, I mean honestly GX as a whole is very random and that’s its charm, the third season is where it gets interesting for once, but by then everyt…
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Taking a few years after the DM anime timeline wise, Yugioh GX is the sequel and its not adapted from a manga unlike DM, although it does have a manga but thats irrelevant as it came after it and its the same case for every other yugioh series from now on, just like DM i am reviewing the japanese version because the english one is horrible.
Its the first attempt at a Yugioh anime without any source material and it shows, from the story's lack of direction.
First 2 seasons, which take up like 104 episodes, are full of enemy of the week episodes, so much that at a lot of times when the story seems like its gonna advance, you are thrown into another enemy of the week episode, it gets more of a direction later(but its still quite a bit messy), but it goes into the opposite direction to the f…
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I grow up watching yugioh dm and yugioh gx , and I am a big yugioh fan , but when trying to watch the og dm yugioh anime , it was painful , I wanted to see fun duels and not a terrible story , which is what yugioh gx delivers me , it is a fun entertaining show , when it come to the duels , each character has their own theme when it comes to decks , and the best part about the series is the "filler" characters , such as belowski and bonapart , their deck as very fun , i wish there was more deck like those in real life , I might be bias because i was addicted to the yugioh gx tag force series which made me feel like i lived in the duel academy , but i enjoyed the duels very much , but the reason this show is not a masterpiece for me is because , in S3 they started to focuse more on the "stor…
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I am re-writing this review to appease the draconian sensibilities of the MAL review moderation team. (I'm kidding, the original review could definitely be fleshed out a bit)
An introduction:
Be a child circa the mid 2000's, in North America. Your favorite toy commercial *ahem* cartoon about a children's card game, has been running strong for several years, and suddenly is supplanted by a vicious pretender to its throne. A spin off, a filthy and vile thing, warping the majesty of the authors artistic integrity........ that's a little dramatic, it is just a commercial for konami's card game after all.
Most of my general dislike of this show is YTV's fault, particularly how they started to slot this in to regular Yu Gi Oh's timeslot before Yu Gi Oh was actually finished. But that's not a f…
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Like the first yugioh series I grew up watching this one. I enjoyed the slightly more complex plot and characters in this series and it was the last of the yugioh shows that I was really dedicated to as well. I enjoy rewatching sometimes but in the current world of anime there are some much better and much more recently produced shows out there for new and old anime fans. I think that if you like yugioh it is a fun watch though. It had some much more interesting story archs than the first one series. The characters also felt a bit more full and life-like. There are plot points that felt drawn on or unnecessary but it didn't keep the show from being interesting if you like watching the yugioh battles so the story wasn't too vital in that case. There were very memorable characters and archs,…
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There's a lot that can be said about Yu-Gi-Oh. Mostly in that it's about solving end of the world scenarios through the power of card games. Now, as a real person experiencing this narrative, one might come to the conclusion that this is ridiculous. And you'd be right. However, part of the appeal of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime franchise is how they take this premise and run a marathon with it. In universe, Duel Monsters is extremely serious business, and the game is treated with the gravitas necessary due to their world being run by the game. And due to the Duel Monsters game being as relevant to the universe as politics, it is no surprise that they would have a school dedicated to learning the intricacies of the game. GX starts with the protagonist, Judai Yuki, taking the exam required to gain ent…
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Ok so I watched this back when I was in middle school (sometime 2011-2012) so my memory is going to be somewhat hazy, but from what I remember without re-watching it was a pretty good sequel to the original series that fans of the series could vibe with.
Story (6-10) & Characters (8/10):
Starting things off with the premise; Duel academy itself feels right at home in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, the card game has been blowing up worldwide over the past decade since the events of the OG series & having duel academies turn up across the globe to accommodate this raving interest is a natural direction to take. In this Duel Academy we follow a defined cast of characters with plenty of personality to go around from: the MC Jaden Yuki, "The Chazz", Zane & Syrus Truesdale, Tyrano Hassleberry, Dr.Crow…
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Childhood Nostalgia, I started of as a minor fan of the YGO series when I was young, but I became a major fan around the GX era so as it shows, GX has a place in my heart as it's what me into YGO in general and gave a great sequel (5-Ds), Jaden is a great character regardless of being cliché, the Art at the time was amazing, minus not getting Season 4 in England the Story was great, and had a nice plot twist mid Season 3 but who am I to say them, if want to get into YGO but not sure on the OG series, then GX is a good starting point.
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Is GX good? No. Is it entertaining? Hell yes! And sometimes that’s all you need. It is one of the most fun anime series I have watched in a long time. I had conversations with my friends where we quote our favorite (terrible) lines. The dialogue is corny, plot points are forgotten about, and the Ojamas…the less said the better, but that’s part of the series’ charm. How else am I supposed to Chazz it up? The only real criticisms I have are that the duels can get boring after a while and the pacing of the season-long arcs are pretty bad. The second season as a whole felt poorly planned. The Society of Light arc dragged on for too long while the GX tournament felt like an afterthought. Also, Chumley is an abomination upon this Earth. The sub is fine, but I don’t like it as much as the dub. I…
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I enjoy this show for what it is and I had a lot of fun with it. The characters are easily the most enjoyable part of the show, but I feel they don't get fleshed out enough because we have to duel every episode in order to sell cardboard. Certain music tracks are actually very memorable with every opening is rocking in its own way and I did find myself getting into the comeback moves during duels with cards that are super questionable in terms of playability in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. Sometimes character motivations get gipped in the sense that they just never pay off sometimes i.e. being forgotten or just so the story can continue on artificially; take Fubuki's duel against Fugiwara and Saiou's pivot from being redeemed to becoming a minion of Darkness for example. However, the writers of the…
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Yugioh GX is the sequel to the Yugioh Duel Monsters anime(just the anime not the manga)so it takes place a few years after the original in the same universe with a few cameos and old characters appearing.Also i will be talking about the original version not the crappy 4kids dub.
First lets talk about the story which is honestly a mess.
The first 2 seasons which are the 104/105 episodes are horrible,there is very little plot going on and when you think the plot is starting the advance you sidetracked by pointless 1shot character episodes.
The 3rd and 4h season while they have a better idea of what they are doing they are still full of retcons and the messy storytelling despite the better foundation on top of the mood whipsplah.
Yugioh GX actively sabotages its serious/plot developments…
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Yugioh GX is a strange and confounding show. It has one of, if not the best casts in the Yugioh franchise, but it heavily underitilizes or derails most of them. It has perhaps the most likable, fleshed out, and developed protagonist in the franchise but at the cost of a lot of characters the show doesn’t know what to do with. It has some of the most conceptually interesting and narratively sound arcs in all of Yugioh, but one of them is rushed while the other has an ending that almost killed its season outright. GX has a lot of potential that finds itself capitalized on brilliantly at times, but the show is just an inconsistent mess.
That being said, this is easily the best Yugioh anime, at least in context of the original timeline. Unlike Duel Monsters, GX doesn’t treat you like a moron…
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I honestly don't care what people say to this even if you watched the Eng dub and full of censorship, this anime will still be my childhood. (Eng dub = bad)
I've come to realize that in the later seasons the show has more to offer rather than just dueling, and it grounded itself by inserting consequence and growth toward the main character which he struggled at first which caused psychological trauma and an unforeseen shift to narrative which I think separates itself from the first yugioh
The First half of the 1st season was a slice of life kind of yugioh but the 2nd half got to the main story
The 2nd season are mixed with filler episodes and the main story episodes
The 3rd season didn't fool around and gave filler episodes and went straight to the mature side of the story which is w…
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX had big shoes to fill, being the second series (and a sequel in-universe to) the iconic first season of duel monsters. It took a lot of risks to create its own identity as opposed to going the Pokemon route and recycling the characters and plot while changing the setting, which can be alienating to people who grew up on DM and likely led to its polarizing reception at the time.
On the surface, GX feels like somewhat of an affectionate parody of the original, especially in the dub. The first episodes of the first season take the premise of yugioh and largely play it for comedy, as it slowly edges into darker waters and deconstructs both the premise of the original show as while as the characters it built up over several seasons. While the shift in tone can feel very sudden, th…
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Like it's predecessor, 'GX' is an outstanding show. It is set after the events of duel monsters and follows a new protagonist who enters 'duel academy', a school dedicated to teaching people to duel.
Much like 'Duel Monsters' over the course of 'GX' you get invested in the characters and their stories, watching them grow as people and duellists. Watching the interactions and relationships built between characters while they undergo various challenges is a great experience.
I think to note is that the last season is not 'dubbed'. Personally after watching most of the show 'dubbed' I found it very hard to make the transition to 'subbed' as the new voices didn't fit the characters in my mind.
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Getting through GX has been quite the journey for me… Of the first three seasons—which are the ones I associate with my childhood—GX was the only one I never got into. And in the past I would have said it was because I didn’t like the Duel Academy premise or because Jaden was annoying… Or basically, I just latched onto all the most popular reasons to hate this season. Even when I decided to go back through Yu-Gi-Oh the way I had with Pokemon, I seriously considered just skipping this one… but at the end of it all, I’m really glad I didn’t.
From the beginning, GX had its ups and downs, but I was surprised by how much potential I saw right off the bat. The one that caught me most off-guard was Jaden himself. I was prepared to just… tolerate him all the way through, but you know what? Jaden…
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The tightrope between absurdity and existentialism. The setting is not what it appears to be.
The series has remained fascinating to me for many years, despite its status as a tie-in to a trading card game. The expectations going in are low, but the show dazzled me as a younger man for its surprising depth of character writing and the journey of the characters. GX is absurd, but also unafraid to go to dark places. It's about growing up, the meaning of games, the pain of adolescence, and the Jungian shadow.
Judai is at first an annoying main character. Blithe, casually arrogant, undisciplined. But there is also an innocence to him that is in equal measure endearing and disturbing. There is something "off" about him, and as we learn more of his past in the later seasons, it all starts to m…
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So since I already reviewed the manga counterpart and have been rewatching this for the past couple of months, I might as well put down my thoughts on it.
With the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime ending, but the card game and hype still going strong, it was no surprise, that the franchise would go into it's next round. This resulted in a series, that further expands on the crazy world of competitive card games by creating Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, where an entire academy, where kids learn how to play the game and educate themselves to be pros, got build. If you are reading this and think it sounds stupid, you might as well turn around, cause YGO! is past the point of making normies understand, why their concept is great.
The series follows Jaden Yuki a happy-go-lucky duelist, who just wants to have fun, never gives…
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I've been a big fan of anime for years, and even tried to get into the original Yu-gi-oh. This is the best one in a long time. A lot of adapts just change the words and don't' make sense. this is pretty cool though. The characters are like real people (some like my friends!) and are pretty funny. I was watching one and I forgot it was a cartoon b/c it was so cool. Cartoon network needs to air it more. Anyone hear about new episodes? For my all time favorite anime adapts, this is nubmer two, right below dragon ball z. my favorite eps are the one with the Sacred beast cards and the match between jaden and zane. They had attacks with like 20000 points! not even yugi could pull that off!
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Yu-Gi-Oh GX, how I love you so! I don't know why this is one of the most hated Yu-Gi-Oh series, because in my opinion, it's the best! I'm not quite sure why, but perhaps it's my nostalgia for it. Of course, the original Yu-Gi-Oh is a VERY close second to this for me, but for some reason this kind of just takes the cake. Let me give this a quick review.
Story: 6
It's Yu-Gi-Oh. Don't expect a deep plot obviously, because there won't be one. It's about people playing a children's card game for fun and to be the best, but there are also a lot of villains that appear that have the power to steal souls! It's not bad, but it's silly, don't you think? That's why I give the story a 6, which is fair. But surprisingly, there actually are some pretty damn deep moments within the anime, some of which…
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