Yugioh: Duel Monsters GX
Synopsis
It has been 10 years since the conclusion of the Egyptian Memory Arc. The threat of Yami Bakura and Dark Master Zork was stopped by the hands of Yugi and his friends. Pharaoh Atemu’s soul has at last been laid to rest. But evil still lurks in the shadows…
Yuki Judai, age fifteen, the one who succeeds the will of Yugi, applies to an elite duel monsters school called Duel Academia, founded by none other than Seto Kaiba. There, new friendships are formed, and new challenges await as he strives to become the number one duelist.
Review
Yugioh GX is the sequel to Yugioh Duel Monsters. Some say that Yugioh GX is the second season to the Duel Monster series even though Duel Monsters can be broken up into its component parts: Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, Noa arc, Doma (American title: Waking the Dragons), KC Grand Prix, and Egyptian Memory arc. It first aired in Japan October 6, 2004 and I have been watching it ever since. The initials GX can stand for Generation-X or Generation Next (*cough* Dragon Ball GT). What distinguishes the GX series from its predecessors is that Yugi is not the protagonist, although he makes a brief cameo in the first episode. Yugi’s trademark is the Black Magician, while Yuki Judai uses an elemental hero deck where nearly all of his monster cards are fusible. He is by no means the invincible King of Duels because he does lose on occasion. However, he does manage to pull off the same miracle wins in similar fashion to Yugi just without the spiky hair.
TV-Toyko’s Japanese website is located at http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/yugioh/. The Official U.S. website is http://www.yugioh.com/gx.php. To my amazement, the producers were careful this time around to be faithful to the Japanese names of the characters (NOT TRUE ANYMORE SEE UPDATE). In the first Duel Monsters series, many of the character names were overhauled. Joey (Captain Planet) Wheeler’s original name was Jounouchi Kazuya. Tea Gardner was Anzu Mazaki. Tristin Taylor was Honda Hiroto. Duke Devlin was changed from Otogi Ryuji. Yami was used instead of Atemu (No, Yami is not the Pharaoh’s real name!! - Battle City dub reference and critical mistake). Rishid was replaced by Odion. Shizuka was transformed into Serenity. Inspector Kaga became Weevil Underwood and Ryusaki Rex Raptor. Finally, Alister as opposed to Amelda (Doma arc). I still doubt they will be addressing the main character as Judai like in the Japanese version. My prediction is that in the American version they will call him Yuki to be synonymous with Yugi, a difference of only one letter. We’ll have to wait and see if Cronos-sensei still has his accent (SeƱor Judai!). They did change the God Card names of the dormitories to the American versions notably Osiris Red to Slifer (the last name of the ever so prideful Roger Slifer, a comic book writer and producer).
**News Update 8/5/05** If you check the American website you’ll see that they changed the names of the entire GX cast. Cronos = Dr. Crowller! In what subject did he earn his Ph.D? Manjoume = Chazz Princeton! WTF??? What about his nickname Manjoume Thunda? Chazz Thunder? Thunder Chazz? As I predicted, they kept Yuki to correspond with Yugi.
The Breakdown
Yugioh GX is for those who haven’t had enough of Yugioh. I leave you boys with this final image of Asuka. Chao!~
