"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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Yuma v. Flip
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Yooma
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Okay, I thought I might’ve been onto something earlier, but
THEY!
So, those three are in BBT, in the DM-5D’s verse, but also in ZeXal? ZeXal’s spot in the YGO timeline really is screwy, huh? 😭
(I mostly joke, weren’t these three confirmed to be more gag characters since real-life parodies? Maybe ZeXal could take place alongside 5D’s instead of in a parallel universe somewhere… [maybe containing it to its own timeline might be best haha])
I have been watching more of ZeXal in the past couple weeks, and I think I’ve gotten myself settled in well! The Kite episodes were A+, and coming from seeing him more in ARC-V than ZeXal, it was definitely interesting to see his original self, and immediately tower over Yuma and Astral after he nearly destroys them; it spurs the first time Yuma and Astral start to feel fear over losing with higher stakes, and leads well into the Duel Lodge episodes where they learn about Duel Spirits and how they can fear losing or being destroyed too, to set up that lore. Then the Jin episodes were great, the Chaos Xyz powerup was neat, and the scene with Kite coming in after the statue breaks and steals Jin’s number was really good. The backstory to Yuma and Akari’’s parents was well done, and it was cute how it was layered around the concept of the Saturday Parents at School Day. The Black Mist episode! It was good to see Tetsuo doing something by helping to free Yuya, and then his coordinating with him and Astral was a nice touch–though it was interesting that #96′s form changed like that…
Also
bless
21 episodes down, and yeah, safe to say I’m enjoying actually watching it through finally so far. The OST has also been stellar, and I should probably work on downloading the rest of the ZeXal Sound Duels (have only had SD1 for the longest lol).
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From Duel Monsters to Vrains🃏
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So, while I’m doing my 99% editing to gear up to finalize my GX Season 2 subs, I thought I’d finally work on watching through ZeXal properly (I only ever really saw up to like episode 17 or something like every other week when it first aired, and with all the politics content I watch I could use some variety in these times lol). So far I’m liking it better than I thought I would, though maybe because it’s years out from 5D’s airing right before it, and because I already had ARC-V to settle me into the idea of a younger cast if a show’s done well (last episode aside). Yuma’s not a bad main, has his moments but when contextualized as his being 13, it makes sense. Kotori and Tetsuo are okay so far, I actually felt something for Ura-boy’s backstory, Cathy’s was a fun episode, and the Yuma/Shark dynamic is getting good; just finished episode 12 and their tag duel. Yuma empathizing with Shark about being afraid to lose and fail was nice, and they both came out knowing more about the other and being more friendly with each other–as we know happens with dueling being a way to learn more about each other in anime world. Next up’s my proper Kite intro, so looking forward to the refresher there, but I’m eager to get to when the plot beats pick up later on (in due time).
That said… I was always a fan of the theory that ZeXal happened in a parallelverse to 5D’s, where 5D’s was GX’s sequel where Synchro led to the future Z-ONE sought to stop and ZeXal was the sequel where Xyz was the norm instead, to explain why, say, that episode with the legendary monster statues didn’t have a Stardust Dragon one featured. But then, this happened:
Mirror Force, Hero Barrier, and Scrap-Iron Scarecrow? Everything I’ve known is a lie 😭
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- #ZeXal
- #yugioh zeXal
- #Lance it up!
- #the yugioh timeline is one hell of a mess
- #but srsly i am enjoying ZeXal so far
- #and i know it gets better much later on like GX so that'll be fun
- #back in 2012 it really was like
- #i loved 5D's
- #and then ZeXal came and was basically resetting everything
- #also it was me fresh out of college and starting to work as I subbed GX so that might've made me fall out of it
- #now i'm kinda vibing with Yuma's learning more about dueling to not actually suck lol
- #and seeing Astral's development and building memories too
- #and as with any ygo the music is pretty on point so far
- #after the Kite episodes are done i might finally catch up on Sevens before it comes back
- #i wonder if there are more pre-ZX references later too
- #I know 5D's still referenced DM going into the WRGP and BBT
- #[also crunchyroll zexal subs when]
- #[i like GX_ST but i'm like retranslating in my head lol]
- #lance watches ZeXal
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Oh hi, Yusei. ^^;;
5Ds will indeed be coming to you sometime this month, even though it isn’t April anymore. Or 2008 either for that matter. XD
Looking forward to it! Btw prepare yourself for the dark atmosphere of GX season 3 and 4 but this time an entire series of it.
Lol, yeah, I’ve heard that it’s supposed to be a darker and grittier atmosphere overall which is why I’m not feeling particularly enthusiastic about starting it right now. I’m rather tired of darkness. ^^;;;
I just, skipped right to Zexal and came back to 5D’s later (uhh, during the Synchro arc of A5 b/c I wanted to catch those sweet 5D’s references lol). Zexal is it’s own continuity so you don’t need to worry about watching any of the previous things to understand it (and heck since you watched a5 already you’re already a step ahead in understanding XYZ summoning).
Zexal is, for the most part, considerably more light hearted in tone.
Though a fair warning, if you want subs for Zexal you’re going to need to find somewhere with fansubs cause, official ones do not exist for whatever reason. Not even on Crunchyroll, which has subs for everything else from DM to VRAINS (so it has 5D’s subs). It only has the dub of Zexal.
Weirdly enough, I actually do have Zexal subs on my computer up to episode 73 at least. I have no idea how many episodes are in the series total but I’ll have to look. Someone contacted me years ago back when I was still doing DM and told me where to get them. ^^;;;
And even though I’ve obviously broken the order for shows before, I at least want to try to stay in order when I can even if it doesn’t matter all that much. I’ll just watch some Sevens episodes and I’ll be alright. XD
I’m not sure about the quality of the Zexal fansubs mainly because I remember multiple different fansub groups working on it during the series’ run. Some fangroups do a really solid job, while others have more questionable translations. I imagine that Crunchyroll will eventually sub the series, but it is strange that it hasn’t happened yet. As far as I know, there shouldn’t be any legal problems with subbing the series like there was with DM. Maybe they’re saving it for after they finally wrap up the DM subs before doing it. They’re up to episode two hundred the last time I checked and they’re probably not going to do anything with Sevens until it comes back from its hiatus, so they might as well get legal subs for all of the completed series available on their site.
Crunchyroll does have all of 5D’s subbed, but I don’t know if you want to rely on that or check out what fansubs are available.
Yeah, iirc GX_ST was the main group fansubbing ZeXal, and those might be the best out there. I’m actually surprised Crunchyroll hasn’t worked on ZeXal yet since iirc the first 29 episodes subbed by 4K are still up on their Hulu page or the YGO site… Maybe they’ll get to it once DM’s wrapped up in the next while, since Sevens is on hiatus for a bit lol.
With 5D’s, well… that turned into a bit of a clusterbomb. Horoko/TNKP’s fansubs are the best for 1-78, then GX_ST mainly took it from there, but there’s a huge stretch of Shin-Paku subs in there too which were, uh, pretty iffy in quality, before GX_ST ran away with it from about the 120s through the end of the series. Crunchyroll’s subs are serviceable, but they feel pretty bland and stiff to me. I think KissAnime has TnKP available for that stretch, and they may have GX_ST’s for the rest, but I’m not totally sure.
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oh it looks like a screensaver for lofi hip hop music … great!
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day 2 of quarantine
