"I failed my own conference with myself". That made me laugh so hard
Love all of Yuuna's selves share the same mannerism as SEVENS' Goha siblings

Finally some character development for Yunna Goha only to be nerfed in the bigger plot for Manabu to play double agent to stop the next big boss.

Love the new Maximum Summon monster design and good on those effects, finally giving maximums some respects in this than being Sevens.

Giving Maximums some respect is probably one of the few good things this arc has currently does for me

Then what, have Manabu summon a variant of Fire Dragon? Sad that was GX scrapped GX content.

Yup

that's how it will always go, why are you even surprised. Maximums will be invincible until a main character (it's probably gonna be yuuhi) beat them, then it will still remain powerful but will lose to the next mechanic or when they need to hype a new character.

Sad for Yuna, She fell in love with our boy Yuga. But he has to go back to his Time!

awkward moment when the 5 goha siblings in sevens are yuga and luna descendants with "yuga" ending up becoming a family name...

Wouldnt that create a time paradox?

Great Scott! What now?

I dont think Yuga will end up with any of the girls from Go Rush's era.

Logic!

Yuamu once again is the only one holding the collective team brain cell. She's the only one that can tell Manabu is acting. They should've known something was up when Nyandestar, an alien, was still on MIK's side.

Also going wan (woof) too

oh damn glad the card thing is an actual stakes thing this season and wasnt just for getting Yuga out of the way
Yuna may have lost but she performed well and resolved herself
also Manabu's maximum was pretty good , really looking forward to the other guy's plant type

I actually think that the one of things that made SEVENS good was a different way of stakes:Yuga lost to Asana so him and his friends were transferred to Goha 6 school since we already had a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh series with stakes:Duel Monsters with being carded, GX with being used to create Super Polymerization, 5DS with being turned into a Dark Signer, ARC-V with being carded again and VRAINS with being turned into data.

The other series didn't rehash the same formula as duel monsters as you said
Duel Monsters: You had being carded, you had being sent to the shadow realm, you being digitized and being turned to stone (virtual world arc) being used as food for the great leviathan
GX - You had being turned into society of light members, you had being turned into duel ghouls if you lost a duel, you had being turned into materials for super polymerization, you had what ever darkness did with everyone on earth
5D's Dark Signers
Zexal no idea never watched
Arc-V Being carded which was alright
Vrains as you said being turned into data
Sevens? didn't watch
GO Rush Being carded it feels over used
imagine if every duel ended with someone being carded it be over used

pegasus made carding people look cool

I didnt say rehash, but the same way of stakes which means removing characters in a similar way, when a duelist is being carded or turned into data, they no longer appear until the main villain is beaten.

i mean if you like konami shoving the card thing down your throats then who am i to judge

but to me i feel like its being shoved down our throats
when pegasus did it was cool,

when arc-v did it it was meh

now its being forced down our throats

before anyone says if you dont like don't watch i stoppped watching after vrains, i refuse to watch Zexal that's a slap in the face to dark synchros and actual XYZ monsters X-Head cannon y-dragon head z-metal tank

woah Manabu is still at our side and has a new maximum friend now

Manabu is handled better than Gakuto.

Manabu maximum is really cool

As said from the ygorg tag: Misawa Eat Your Heart Out.

Yuna really should have won here...there is no excuse. I like Manabu, but he wasn't even trying to win. This is disrespectful to a person who was introduced as a proxy for the last series protagonist. If Yuna is to barely duel she should only lose at the most critical of times because of what she represents. If she is to lose the bar for that is Yuga or Yudias.

Maybe, but think about it this way. Manabu defeated Rovian, who is supposed to be stronger than Yuuna. Her winning would have messed up the power balance in this anime. She is unfavoured by the plot, unless she finally beats Rovian and then Manabu for a rematch.

The power balance is already messed up in a way:Rovian beat Yuamu and Yuhi in 2 VS 1 Rush Duel then she lost to Yudias in 1 VS 1 Rush Duel and then she lost to Manabu.

Well, its is and it is notnot that messed up at the same time. In a 2-on-1, Rovian had the help of Yuuna who beat Yuudias as well, so it was not impossible for her to win. Furthermore, Yuudias is a better duellist than both Yuhi and Yuamu - the 2 of them could only beat Yudias if it were 2 vs 1, otherwise no chance in a separate duel. Also, Manabu lost only to Yuudias and Nyandestar throughout this entire series, and the loss against Nyandestar was also because he didn't really tried his hardest to win as he didn't want her to end up frozen. And Yuudias is the MC, making Manabu's loss less meaningful. Through these records, Manabu's skills have not been properly measured at the beginning of the series. Imo, he might be the 3rd strongest out of the main characters after Yuudias and Zwijo.

This is a bit weird because Gakuto seemed weaker than Yuga, Luke and Romin and now his ancestor is seems to be stronger than 2 other main character(Yuhi and Yuamu).
lets see how things play out in season 2 because Roa was treated terribly in season 1 of SEVENS(he lost to Yuga and Romin) and then he got better treatment in season 2(he won against Asana and Yuga).

I assume they wanted to do more justice to Gakuto's follower, since the former lost against almost everyone despite how dignified he looked.

That's not true Yuna was introduced as stronger than Rovian. Yuna beat Yudias, Rovian did not.

But Yuuna always looks up to Rovian. Have you not seen her reactions to Rovian in the series?

Looking up to someone doesn't mean they're stronger.

Um, it actually does. You cannot look up to someone unless they are better than you at something. And judging on the premise of this anime, it is safe to assume Rovian is better at duelling than Yuuna. Hence, Yuuna looks up to her.

Yuna feels inspired by Rovian's poem/songs, doesn't make her a better duelist. But it does make her value Rovian.

Actually, her poems are absolutely rubbish. But Yuuna likes them because she likes Rovian as a whole, including her superior duelling.

That is your opinion, the quality of art like poem/songs is subjective. Rovian was introduced as a quality duelist, but Yuna was introduced as a proxy for the last MC level duelist. Yuna was obviously meant to be superior in that regard, even if she wasn't the main threat of that season. Yuna is inspired by the general greatness of Rovian including her dueling abilities. Rovian's awareness, kindness (even those who try to harm and inhibit her like London), her artistic prowess, her leadership skills (she organized a gang of Humans and Aliens of all different races for a proxy duel gambling business), even her dueling skills though they're inferior to Yuna's are all things to respect about Rovian. You are objectively wrong when you claim Yuna only has Rovian's dueling skills to look up to.

One of the worst things about Rush yugioh is that the DAMN FIRST TURN is so obvious. Whoever takes the first turn just loses. It is so obvious that it is painful. Though the problems I have with the episode itself is not limited to Rush Yugioh's general problems

As I expected Yuna is just utterly wasted. She did not duel at all for 34 episode only for then to lose and get carded. So this was supposed to be her ''development'' ? She finally took a step to become a better character, debuted her new deck after 30 episodes of no dueling, her story with and feelings for Yuga is explained only for her to just lose and turn into a card without accomplishing a single thing and she won't matter for the rest of the arc. So much for alll the ''I will change and become stronger'' talk when she literally ''died'' without being able to do shit. Just a huge waste nothing else, the ''Lose a duel to Maximum and turn into a card'' shit could be explained by Phaser last episode we didn't need to see Yuna get carded and wasted (Well I guess she is still at least better than the Goha siblings in sevens LOL though not that the hurdle was high)

Also it makes Phaser extra stupid because why in the hell would you give someone that will OBVIOUSLY betray you the greatest weapon you have that is the Maximums ? All that talk about ''Aliens bad'' only to use Nyandestar to work ? He could have jailed Nyandestar and blackmail Manabu with her that would be a way more convincing reason for Manabu to duel and WIN too and make Phaser way more evil and intimidating. But nope, just nonsense all aroung. Yuna really should have won because not only Manabu could have took a lose WAY more than Yuna but also because he had reasons to not want to win but as usual Bridge era yugioh is always ''comedy and plot twist first, logic second''

Well I hope though with little hope that If they are building up Manabu this much (at this point I would say He is easily the fourth best duelist in the show only behind Yudias, Zwijo and the Luge. Not counting Phaser and his brother because of lack of feats, and better than the clown that is Yuga) He should at least beat one of the two brothers because as a member of MIK he easily has the reasons to take them on and otherwise this whole thing will also be for nothing. With the fact that Yuuhi, Manabu and Yudias now all have reasons to battle one of them and the brother also teased a rivalry with Yuamu perhaps Yudias, Yuamu, Yuuhi and Manabu can 2v1 the brothers. That would be the current best course of action but I sadly do not think it will go that way

Since Sevens is the future of Go Rush and we haven't seen any aliens in Sevens apart from the Kako aliens, it might be safe to assume Phaser doesn't completely lose and his deportation plan is accepted to some extent by the end of Go Rush.

you say that like Luke and Tiger are not obviously The☆Lugh's descendants.
not to mention that ladybug ninja being part velgearian...

I think it is quite obvious they are home grown and not pure bloods.

I like how the flashback just very blatantly confirmed that Otes is Adult!Yuga. Like, not even hiding it anymore.

again Pegasus made turning people into cards cool first it was grandpa then it was mokuba then it was kaiba, then they brought it back for Arc-V, but now it feels shoved down our throats

the artist of those maximum monsters has wide imagination but srsly these new maximum are much broken

Yuuna did an amazing job in the end.😭

the carding continues

Surprisingly good episode

Ok so reviewing this in a greater context it seems to me that this arc doesn't work as of yet in Go Rush overall. They really set up some interesting lore last season only for it not be addressed very well so far. Concepts like Earthdammer, Velgerian Destiny, and the "Go Rush Yu" are not being explored and it's frustrating. I would also like to see more of the Zwijo gang especially Dinois, but at this rate I don't know how they will fit into this arc. This is unfortunate considering I like that bratty loli.

It does get followup later

Maybe it will be explained in the next series, like how a lot of Sevens was explained in this series.