Basically Zwijo pulled a magic cylinder move to win the duel.

a rush duel version but its good

Yep

Really sad for Manabu's character...

He'll bounce back somehow.

oh good Yuudias' and Zwijo's home is safe

So ryugu has problem with his stomach haha

Once again Zuwijo is reliant on Damamu's power but this time it's beneficial.

NOPE just nope. This episode has the thing that I really hate. Making someone out of character and making them look bad to make the other look good. Zwijo could prove himself to be trustworthy and beat Manabu WITHOUT it costing Manabu’s character. It really makes me annoyed that Yuna is wasted by losing to Manabu only for Manabu’s own character to be ruined like this. Not to mention he couldn’t even bring them any info. They made him be the “undercover” agent and it was all for nothing since he did nothing useful other than allowing Ranran escape which could have be done by other things but he costed Yuna thus making his worth in the arc NEGATIVE. What a joke, this arc continues to just waste all characters

But once again it is rush yugioh all right. They HAD to make Manabu a clown and make him so out of character and power hungry all of a sudden that he literally tortured Zwijo and his henchmen for literally no reason other than a lame attempt to comedy and to make Zwijo look good by giving a lesson to Manabu that Manabu would normally have no need for but now he does since the episode ruins his character just so that Zwijo could help fixing it to look better. So stupid.

Not to mention this also looks Phaser look so incompetent since Manabu and Nyandestar were able to be undercover and while yes they did not get that much things but they still took a Maximum and a beam and just betrayed Phaser without any problem.

To be fair, Zwijo the biggest villain in this series was given a better treatment at his return than Manabu by people who he thought were his understanding nakama. Fucking by-the-book Manabu as though his transgressions were anywhere near as bad Zwijo's. That type of double standard could cause a person to lash out and give in to their lesser nature no matter who they were. I like Zwijo and Dinois as much as the next guy, but Manabu really got the short end of the "understanding friends" deal.

Him challenging Zwijo to a duel is fine. Him literally lasering his underlings and then him is borderline CRAZY. His character was never shown or treated this way and there is no justification for what he did here. They just made him this way this episode

It's human nature my guy. He gave in to human nature when his feelings were hurt. Plus the Zwijo gang taunted him the entire time if there ever was a perfect time to act-out it would be at this time.

Human nature is not an excuse to TORTURE people. You are underselling the fact that he willingly tortured them CONSTANTLY without break and enjoyed the heck out of it. That is not human nature, you don’t shoot people with a laser because they taunted you, claim that in the court and see how many years you will get. Once again I fully agree with him challenging Zwijo to a duel, I do get him being frustrated. BUT none of that even comes close to serve as an excuse to his near murderous actions. It was completely out of character to what he was to this point and his frustration is not a valid reasoning for such a drastic shift.

You can’t just make a character so different and out of character in such a bad way out of nowhere and just say “he is frustrated, he is taunted” and “He always had in him (even though we never seen or got a reason to believe such a thing)” and claim that it makes sense. That is not how character writing works otherwise any character can do anything and a lame excuse can be given for it. That is bad writing

They made Manabu look so bad and downgraded his character so much just so Zwijo could look good in comparison and that is one of the lamest ways you can go about it

Yes it is, humans are very naturally cruel. That's why toddlers even after knowing that their actions will hurt you will continue doing the harmful thing, moreso even than before. Because it brings them joy. Only after developing to the point where you find out that you may enjoy being in a active in a social group (friends/family) do you begin to abandon your natural cruelty.
Manabu was excluded from the social group he wanted to be a part of anyways. So he abandoned his civility which is perfectly understandable from a human perspective.
Honestly you are being extremely nitpicky over something as basic as Manabu was crueler than usual... while ignoring that was played for comedy 1, and 2 It was because he was greatly mistreated with a giant variation of standards for behavior.

''nitpicky over something as basic'' that being Manabu literally TORTURING people with a laser for no reason despite that not being in his character to this point nor was ever foreshadowed. If a character being so out of character to make him look bad so that the previous villain look good is a nitpick I wonder what is a legit criticism. And your example doesn't work either. So according to you It is completely normal and not out of nowhere and bullshit If the shy girl in a romance that has never showd any violent tendency to just foes full yandere and stab the mc If she is rejected after all it is ''human nature to be cruel and If they are left alone'' this example is perfectly in line with your logic and yet If you claim this I am sorry but you are simply either lying or you have no sense of actual consistent character writing and whatever bullshit excuse a show comes up with just works for you.

NO there is literally no excuse to bring a fuckin laser and shoot people with it. It was completely out of Manabu's established character and ''He didn't get the treatment he wanted'' is not a valid excuse to 180 someone and made him torture people while laughing like a maniac over their screams of agony. You are basically claiming that a character change no matter how drastic, how different and how insulting to their character it is, it will make sense as long as they are stressed and are ignored because it is human nature. Such forced logic and such an insult to character writing and depth. You are just making nonsense excuses to justify bad writing

While its true that Manabu was out of character, you need to pay attention to the storyline:
Manabu was hurt when Zwijo was completely forgiven while he was treated as a traitor.
sometimes when you drive someone into extreme conditions, they might act in a way you never saw them act like that before.

It is too extreme and too over the top to make sense. Him challenging him to a duel makes sense. Him literally torturing them with a laser and ENJOYING IT does not. That is beyond just acting weird or anything like that, that is beyond psychotic and completely and utterly out of character and unfitting

I know, but 3 years people also acted "out of character" because of COVID.
the only problem i have with this episode is that Zwijo has a deck with dark attribute monsters that have dark names that dont sound too friendly and he is considered an ally while Manabu is considered a traitor, which makes no sense.

You are such a brainless single-minded lemming it's amazing. This is the best episode we've had in weeks and you've somehow managed to twist it in your mind into a negative because you had the preconceived notion you'd hate it before the episode even started.

Manabu rejoins the group, but doesn't get off easy for staying idle as they were whittled down over the last several episodes, we get a long-awaited fanservicey duel between him and Zwijo, and Zwijo proves to the group that it's possible to beat a Maximum without having one yourself. It's also a little rich to assume what he stole isn't worth anything yet, especially with that end-scene.

Stop commenting. Everyone would be happier if you stopped commenting. We all dislike your childish rants.

Hahaha

You are such a brainless single minded pissed off fan boy that has no sense of quality that you couldn’t even adress any of my points and yet you are here with your meaningless argument and insult. If you don’t want to see me you can always BLOCK ME. But you fan boys can’t even get yourselves to do something that simple and then lose your shits when someone dares to rightfully crticize this disgrace to yugioh. It is pitiful. NO I am not going to stop rightfully criticizing it after all I don’t need to care about a random nobody in the internet think about me so you can continue to cry since you can’t block me so you will always have to see LOL

“Twist it” you claim this yet you have nothing to back it up. Manabu’s character IS the only thing twisted in this episode since he was unjustfully and uncharacteristically lessened and made to look bad just so that Zwijo can look good in comparison without barely doing anything. Such a pitifully bad writing. Zwijo could still look good without Manabu being made into a clown but obviously your sense of quality does not require decent writing like that.

And you claim Manabu rejoins the group but doesn’t get off easy which is meaningless. Manabu has played the spy for so many episodes and so what ? Not only he has nothing to show for it but he literally carded Yuna so his contribution to the arc is literally NEGATIVE so why is it a good thing that he rejoined when him not being with them from the beginning meant nothing good ? It is shit writing that he was not with them to play spy but it resulted nothing important. It ruins the very fact that he was not with them from the start thus making his rejoin meaningless.

And you claim he didn't get off easy but the fact that he has nothing to show for and yet is seemingly freed after dueling Zwijo in which he acted like a MANIAC and a true MIK member is stupid. So much for “not getting off easy” when he pretty much did. He did the things you said and also caused Yuna to be carded and yet despite the fact that he currently has nothing of value to show and in the very duel he is supposed to prove himself he tortured Zwijo and his henchmen and he is forgiven for it. He sure got off easy. No need to be of value after his actions nor need to prove himself in the duel. Just act like a maniac and you are somehow forgiven. Such stupid logic only exists in Rush yugioh

If Manabu really betrayed them for a while but came to his senses and tried to atone or If He made something of worth while in there and had that to show to earn forgiveness before being trusted again then that would be him not getting easy as he would have to prove himself as an ally but nope. He did nothing and then just dueled Zwijo and literally TORTURED aliens during the duel instead of trying to earn UTS' trust back and he just lost and it is over. Such a stupid way to ruin a character that didn’t even get to actually matter at all in this arc like everyone else. Yuna and Yuuhi were wasted and now Manabu didn't even actually do anything of worth. As expected of Rush yugioh always stupidity, comedy and plot twist first actual logic and characters second but for someone like you clearly has no sense of quality and eat up everything this kid show tells you that little is enough.

Seeing Yuamu acting out Yuuhi in the post episode segment is actually really sad.

One of the worst duels of Go Rush. Absolutely hate what they did to Manabu's character. Just sacrificed the guy so Zwijo could have a hero moment.

CHEMI CHEMI CHEMI CHEMI!

magic cylinder ftw

Manabu became really stronger he almost beat Zwijo and before he wasn't much of a threat to anyone. Also what was that ending? What's happening with Phaser?

What do you mean Manabu wasnt a threat? he beat Rovian who beat Yuamu and Yuhi in 1 VS 2 Rush Duel and before that he only lost to Yudias.

Topdecking the whole Maximum, wow that's really cheap. No deckbuilding, no combos, basically just hard draw your Maximum in the first two turns or you lose.
Also a huge disservice to Manabu to make him kinda evil for this episode just to let Zwijo look more like a good guy.
The way Zwijo defeated his Maximum was also really boring, it was just a Magic Cylinder.