Yuya: ‘Dueling for bad reasons is bad. Only smiles allowed. Now please just stand there while I bore you with a clip show of what’s happened to us in the last 50 episodes.’
The fact that Judai doesn’t feel interested in dueling during the graduation duels until someone actively seeks him out is so telling
Duels are his favorite thing. This is the boy who got hyped up and excited for life-threatening duels with universal stakes. Not wanting to duel
He says he’s tired and wants to relax, which is… all just cover for his depression
He ends up dueling but even that he doesn’t do excitedly. He duels Sorano and is sure to keep up a smile but there’s something that isn’t there in a duel with a stranger that there is in say, his duel with Asuka
“It’s time to duel”? More like “it’s time for a public therapy session where I hold long and emotional monologues about my problems and occassionally play a card”.
Yusei, when someone attempts to murder his friends by crashing their bikes just to win a duel: the only way to solve this is by dueling like real, honorable duelists, in a fair match, for we are above them.
Yusei, when someone steps on a card, guards a door or steals a program: VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY ANSWER!!!!!