"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

mugiwara-shuenobi:

wea-telefonica-1:

Happy Valentine’s day, im lazy xd

starfishdrawz:

I wanted to see more of jaden and Jesse’s duel spirits

mugiwara-shuenobi:

starlightshadowsworld:

Judai and Yuya both fall into darkness because they felt they had no other option.

Judai had just lost 4 friends, watched them scream as they were sacrificed to revive Super Polymerization. He was backed into a corner and all he felt was hatred, to Brron of course but also to himself for being unable to prevent it.

He’s lost in his rage, it consumes him. Judai even says himself that he won’t be satisfied no matter how many times he kills Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark world. Which let me remind you, even scares Brron.

And it only grows when he’s told Johan is dead. That in the end he failed everyone..and Sho can’t bare the sight of him anymore.

Originally posted by unstoppablelove

As for Yuya, everything he knows about himself is shattered. He’s trying to defeat what is essentially himself, and he can’t do it through his usual methods. And yet he’s still trying…still trying to hang onto his Father and his old self.

But once Smile World is sent to the graveyard… Once Reiji tells him all he should think about is winning… Well Yuya falls the same way Zarc does. Winning… It consumes him and awakens what was lieing their all along.

I mean being told to focus on winning, falling to your audience’s wishes and becoming twisted by them.. Is what happened to Zarc, history simply repeats itself.

Yuya beats Yuri just like everyone wanted. He only focused on winning, nothing else mattered even at the end he doesn’t seem to even care Yuri’s holding his carded father…

It’s not Yuya anymore, it’s Zarc.

Originally posted by christophermulero

Both of them lose themselves to power, what started as a noble goal becomes twisted much like themselves. They couldn’t go on the same way, backed into a corner where smiles and fun couldn’t save them anymore.

mugiwara-shuenobi:

zeravmeta:

Oh shit i havent talked about card game anime in forever uhhh -spins roulette wheel and it lands on gx- the reason why season 3 works so well isnt JUST the fact that the Protagonist fighting so hard is also what leads to things getting worse but also that it really forces judai to acknowledge that he really doesnt treat his friends like, well, his friends. All this time judai has been running around without a care for the consequences bc the duel academy was basically a sandbox for him to have fun without having to think about unfortunate things like “crippling depression” and “chronic lonely bitch-itis”. We even see early on how this carelessness affects other characters, with manjoumes issues coming to light and sho’s (temporarily) worsening relationship with his brother. so when it all slaps him in the face he isnt ready for it and it backfires into a dangerous downward spiral for him. its even made worse by the fact that johan (who he looks up to, so desperately almost) is there and adds even more pressure onto his decisions, made even WORSE when yubel possess’ him. for all his talk about playing duel monsters for fun it was a way to for him to basically cope, and its why the duel with kaiba man early on and the final duel with yugi is so important, its basically telling him that its ok, its ok to have fun, its ok to mess up and lose, its ok to be vulnerable, your friends will be there for you, so you should be there for them too.

mugiwara-shuenobi:

reonlyn:

mugiwara-shuenobi:

mugiwara-shuenobi: