Oh great Yuamu is possessed AGAIN.

Here comes more Nightshroud references in the future.

Lets get the one praise out of the way because I have more criticisms ready. Yuamu was mainly using red eyes today and fused it with a dragon that had Darkness in its name, this HAS to be a Nightshroud reference which is cool

Now the bad parts. This is from the previous episode but Phaser and Tremolo's redemption is REALLY fuckin cheap. After 2 years of tormenting the main characters, nearly carding everyone and trying to kill aliens they are so easily forgiven with no consequences at all.

Now from this episode, why did we have to see Yuamu possessed TWICE ? Like when I learned Yuamu and Yudias will be the duel I thought ''ok cool I am fine with either winning, If Yuamu wins that is an IMMENSE win for her that her character needed and If Yudias wins that makes sense since he is the better duelist and it would still be a good win so they can't screw this up right?'' AND YET they screwed up. If Yuamu is gonna get possessed then the duel is meaningless and a duel that actually could go either way becomes extremely boring and predictable so all the hype of the duel just goes out of the window. Like just why ?

The one thing that Rush yugioh has it going over the Gallop Yugiohs is the female treatment so why do we have to see the female lead getting possessed twice already ? If they can't even do the females right anymore then they should not freakin exist since they are inferior in almost all other aspects to the Original Yugiohs. Go rush is really becoming a major step down from Sevens in terms of female treatment at this point since both Rovian and Yuna are utter wasted and Yuamu still lacks a big win despite being hyped up as this super talented duelist and this is her second time being used as a brainwashed plot device.

Also what even is wrong with Manabu ? First the Zwijo duel that completely ruined his character and now this that will seemingly be a Gakuting style thing ? Of course they had to ruin his perfectly solid character for lame comedy

Well, at least Phaser and Tremolo get some kind of redemption, unlike a certain blond Velgearian, *ahem*

has yuamu ever summon 3 card rush combiner?

Zwijo was also forgiven quite easily.
at least Manabu didnt get carded in the previous arc thanks to his loss to Zwijo.

My point was not just simply “they are forgiven”. I am not completely against their redemption but their redemption made NO SENSE at all. A minute ago Phaser sends aliens to space and cards people and then Phaser is now a good guy. At least with Zwijo it took 52 episodes and Yudias convinced him and Yudias was someone Zwijo respected. Phaser did not even get convinced he just lost and changed his mind in that instant

The same thing happened with Roa, Neil, Asana, the Goha siblings, Rovian and The☆Lugh.
so far, only Zwijo and Otes stayed villains for more than 13 episodes.
it seems that Studio Bridge deal with their villains even worse than Studio Gallop and the last time we got a proper villian during the Studio Gallop era was ZEXAL.

Yes and it is lame but at least Roa, Nail and Asana were nowhere as sinister or harming as Phaser. Phaser was A REAL villain that did horrible shit so his incredibly absurd and nonsense redemption that happened in an instant without proper build up feels so much worse

I hope the real mastermind behind the carding will be handled better, i hope its someone else and not Otes.
in Zwijo's flashback it seems to be someone else, but i still want some confirmation just to be sure.

You managed to let Zwijo get away with the forgiveness treatment, even though he nearly killed everyone and had plans to literally kill every Earthling for the rare possibility of getting their Earthdammer. Hell Zwijo's evil plot alone is reason enough to validate the behavior of Phaser. So much so that him being forgiven makes sense on every level.

Zwijo had

1: At least had good intentions for his entire home planet and understandable motivations

2: His redemption at least made sense and he was convinved by Yudias he was close to

3: It took 52 episodes for him to get redeemed

Meanwhile Phaser:

1: Only hated aliens because appearantely Tremolo feared them as a child, that is literally it

2: Yudias didn’t even talk him out of it, he lost and IMMEDIATELY apologized despite the fact that he was sending aliens to space 5 minutes ago. Made absolutely no sense

3: It took just 13 episode for him to get redeemed with no build up.

And yes Zwijo tried to kill them but that is the thing TRIED. That is it. Meanwhile Phaser made their live a living hell for the last 2 years and carded basically the ENTIRE cast. I consider that much more evil than Zwijo especially with their motivations considered. So In the end Zwijo’s redemption was understandable but Phaser’s was utterly rushed

Does Yudias even need to talk to him, Phaser didn't have the bigger picture like Zwijo did. Phaser just knew a lot of aliens were coming to Earth and that it was scary to his brother and apparently him too. Phaser didn't understand why all the aliens were coming to Earth. Zwijo had all the information he needed, he just disagreed on Yudias's beliefs as they seemed ideological and childish rather than substantive to Zwijo. The reason Phaser doesn't need as much philosophical banter as Zwijo, was the fact that Phaser literally had less knowledge over his situation than Zwijo.

And yet he changed his mind EVEN BEFORE learning about why Aliens come to Earth. Not to mention his extreme alien hatred just because his brother WAS scared of them (the same brother is literally capturing aliens now) is extremely lame. Like I don’t know what to say If you actually think Phaser’s redemption makes sense because it NEVER made any sense, was beyond rushed and had no weight. Both his reasoning to be who he is and how he stopped being that was nonsense and He was not even talked out of it, he apologized AS SOON as he lost as If losing alone redeemed him. And he got befriended in that instant like nothing happened on top of it to finish the bullshit

I wouldn't say makes perfect sense, but defiantly made more sense than Zwijo. It made sense, if you realize his motivations while odd were not why people forgave him. It's the fact that he literally didn't know better. Also, with what Zwijo tried to do... Phaser's motivations of fearing how dangerous the aliens are to his brother was somewhat justified.

'' but defiantly made more sense than Zwijo'' I disagree. I am NOT saying here that Zwijo getting forgiven makes absolute sense or is fine but from a story writing perspective AND character perspective Zwijo's redemption is acceptable meanwhile Phaser's rushed AF.

Like you go above and beyond to act like Phaser's actions make sense , THEY DON'T. He showed almost Hitler like racism against aliens and it was ONLY because Tremolo was afraid of them AS A CHILD (he literally hunts them down now) that is NOT a logical justification for ANY of his actions, it is nonsense. And then If you accept that hatred then you have the second bullshit that is the fact that despite all that hatred and literally trying to kill those aliens a second ago, he changes his mind AS SOON as he lost. Once again AS SOON AS, he didn't even see the dragon skeleton yet and he was already bowing his head apologizing to aliens he tried to kill a second ago and this happened despite the fact that NO ONE gave him any talk or convincing that can change his mind. He just changed his mind and turned good as soon as he lost for literally no reason. That is utter bullshit

At least with Zwijo his actions are for the benefit of his entire race and he got convinced by Yudias who he respects that they don't need to go down that route to achive Zwijo's goals. So Zwijo getting redeemed at least MAKES SENSE, the characters forgiving him too easily is bad sure but the redemption makes sense and it happened in 52 episode.

Meanwhile Phaser's redemption is rushed and idiotic. and makes absolutely no sense since he gets redeemed by NOTHING and the fact that everyone forgiving like he wasn't carding them or making their lives a living hell for the last 2 fuckin years is the icing at the top. He literally becomes a different character in the blink of an eye for no reason in an instant without any build up or proper reasoning to justify it

If you still disagree you are free to feel that way because at this point I don't know what more should I say to prove how utterly rushed and nonsense Phaser's character conclusion was, it is beyond obvious

*Yuudias needing a Field Spell to fuse monsters from hand
OG Polymerization: Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of my power!
Other Master Duel Fusion Spells: OUR power!

At least its harder to Fusion Summon in Rush Duels because every Fusion Monster has more than one effect so it makes sense to balance things by having to summon the Monsters to the field in order to use them as materials for Fusion Summon.

Babe, wake up he's doing it again. That Gakuting thing.

😂😂😂😂

I miss Gakuting.

i really like yuuamus decks and her boot dragons XD

ah yes, possessed again......if this happens a third time in the future, it would be funny XD

hmm, again ? I guess she is easy to be possessed.

i mean, the main yugioh females have a history of being possessed or brainwashed at least once or twice...
tea was possessed multiple times by marik, asuka was brainwashed by the society of light, aki was brainwashed about the same way jehovah's witnesses are by divine and both her and ruka where partly possessed by the crimson dragon, tori was brainwashed by kiraku, yuzu was possessed by the doktor's parasite card as well as by her counterparts by the end of arc-v, aoi was possessed/brainwashed by a virus made by the knights of hanoi, romin had a tendency to get possessed by her own hunger...

yeah you're right

I admit it's kind of annoying that Yuamu is again possessed by either Otis, Creator or the same person BUT he gave her a temporary new monster and a new red eyes that might be interesting in the rush duel cards which I would like to have soon.

Oh hey, Red-Eyes Darkness retrain.
And another Darkness card... ugh.

ohh we get our Red Eyes 2800atk advanced version now
and a field spell to allow the fusing from your hand

wait wait wait what was that at end Lol

I really wish instead of Yuamu getting possessed we got a duel with actual useful lore on the line. As always the character development/arc for Yuuhi is top tier, even as a side narrative.

Yudias: You must be worried that a novice like me is going to be a tutor

Also Yudias: Literally the strongest duelist of the show

Also LMAO to how he needs a different card as well as fusion just to get the NORMAL Polymerization effect

Also please FUCK NO to Otes. The guy was nothing but a pathetic excuse of a villain in Sevens, please just don't try to made his loser ass a main villain again he IS NOT gonna work. The only way I can see the creator being at least a decent villain is If he is NOT Otes. Otes is too much of a failure to be redeemed and there is literally NO EXCUSE they can make to justify how much of a nonsense they made him in sevens.

As for Epoch, she was VERY annoying last episode and their claim of ''she is shy'' just doesn't work when she steals Yudias' deck and tries to antagonize him and destroy his deck even via cheating but at least this episode portrayed her better. She seems to be like a Tsundere of sorts

Ehoko's behavior is actual toddler behavior, very good characterization.
While Epoch's toddler antics are amusing but we already had Yudias Damamu for that
like how many mentally 5 year old characters does the show need

''like how many mentally 5 year old characters does the show need'' YES.

Jokes aside it all boils down to what they do with them. Damamu has potential but it is another matter how well they will use it. Meanwhile Ehoko has rooms to grow as a character but dunno how much they will commit to make her grow as a character

We had a guess, that somehow, near the end of this arc, they will pull Swirly/Goha Yuga move on Ehoko, esp considering there is now possession happening...

Its actually nice to see how the Go Rush ancestors have a completely different personality than their SEVENS' descendants.
Epoch is so much different than Tiger that the only thing they have in common so far is their use of instrumentals.

hmm now that we know who the posesser was it makes sense they went right after Yuudias

naw she should won

Of course Yugioh girls gets brainwashed, possessed, controled etc.

Oh, Otes related card.