Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!! News and Discussion Thread

[zoombie]

So I was spoiled on a few things before I saw it. Though I assumed a lot of things before hand, so that is okay, like who the Great King of Terror is or what voice actor was going to play him.

So my theory about these characters that have Sevens voice actors might be reincarnation of the Sevens characters might be plausible, with the way Yudias is saying the Luge is familiar. Well I thought that is just a long shot theory throwing something at the wall, but are they actually going in that direction?

I blame the hat for all this, the King of Terror was being nice, and the hat was yelling rush duel rush duel, so it is on her. LOL Though seriously what was up with the hat, and was Rovian wearing her when she was frozen or not? And speaking of Rovian, I knew she was doomed when she ended her turn with the King only 100 life point, you have to finish him off, don't these people know the tropes.

Looks like we are going to be 0-2 with who is dueling next episode. Manya is winless in this series, if she wins next episode that would be the biggest upset in the show so far.

Anyway some changes to the OP and ED, and something from the ED, one of the early predictions was if she was going to duel we would have a human form Nyandester. We don't see her face though I am sure the ED will update when she does appear, but I am positive that is human Nyandester in the ED who's lap Natsuki is laying in.. And my guess by her clothes she is a princess from a planet that the King of Terror destroyed or conquered.

Anyway great episode, I am scared of more Luke, but this new character looks less annoying, and what is London trying to pull here, whatever is it worth it, does he have any remorse for what has happened here?

 

[Light Lucario]

So I was spoiled on a few things before I saw it. Though I assumed a lot of things before hand, so that is okay, like who the Great King of Terror is or what voice actor was going to play him.

So my theory about these characters that have Sevens voice actors might be reincarnation of the Sevens characters might be plausible, with the way Yudias is saying the Luge is familiar. Well I thought that is just a long shot theory throwing something at the wall, but are they actually going in that direction?

I don't really know how Yudias thinking that Luge is familiar means that these characters are reincarnations of the Sevens characters. That seems like a huge stretch. Given that Luge is an alien who has traveled through the galaxy, wouldn't it make more sense that Yudias met him or heard of Luge prior to getting his Great King of Terror title? He didn't think that Manabu or Rovian sounded familiar to him prior to meeting them, so there wouldn't be any setup for this reincarnation theory. Not to mention I still cannot believe that Sevens and Go Rush take place within the same universe at this point. Nothing really adds up if you try to put them in the same continuity.

I blame the hat for all this, the King of Terror was being nice, and the hat was yelling rush duel rush duel, so it is on her. LOL Though seriously what was up with the hat, and was Rovian wearing her when she was frozen or not? And speaking of Rovian, I knew she was doomed when she ended her turn with the King only 100 life point, you have to finish him off, don't these people know the tropes.

Looks like we are going to be 0-2 with who is dueling next episode. Manya is winless in this series, if she wins next episode that would be the biggest upset in the show so far.

Honestly, Rovian was doomed the moment the match began. They wouldn't have Luge lose his first duel and using a former antagonist to hype up the current one is not unusual in this franchise either. Luge getting down to one hundred life points while Rovian's regained her life points just made it even more obvious. Rovian was still wearing her hat when she was frozen, so her alien hat is frozen alongside her.

I'd be really surprised if they'd have Manya win in the next episode too. It might not be impossible, but given that she's filling in the Mimi role and her gag was that she never won a duel, I don't expect Manya to win. They also might want to establish that other characters besides Luge are strong so that it's more impressive when the main cast starts their comeback.

Anyway some changes to the OP and ED, and something from the ED, one of the early predictions was if she was going to duel we would have a human form Nyandester. We don't see her face though I am sure the ED will update when she does appear, but I am positive that is human Nyandester in the ED who's lap Natsuki is laying in.. And my guess by her clothes she is a princess from a planet that the King of Terror destroyed or conquered.

Nyandestar having a human form would make the most sense. They've been setting up something going on about Nyandestar since the end of the previous arc, she has looked more serious for the past few episodes and she seemed familiar with Luge enough to know that this deck wasn't given to him by London and that Rovian was about to be frozen. Plus, the aliens in this show tend to have humanoid forms/disguises. I assumed that Nyandestar's current form is her true form, but it could be her alien disguise instead. Having her be a princes would also fit given that a talking alien cat always gave me Sailor Moon vibes.

Anyway great episode, I am scared of more Luke, but this new character looks less annoying, and what is London trying to pull here, whatever is it worth it, does he have any remorse for what has happened here?

To be fair, the Go Rush stand in for Sevens characters don't tend to have the same personalities. They'll have similar kind of gimmicks. Manabu has similar kind of over the top reactions as Gakuto and Rovian has an anger mode like Romin, but their personalities are noticeably different. Manabu is less uptight than Gakuto was, especially at the start of Sevens, and Rovian is more of a hypocrite than Romin ever was. Luge and Luke would have similar kind of gimmicks. Their summoning chants were identical and Luge doesn't come off as the sharpest tool in the shed either, but I don't think he'll be as emotional or annoying as Luke could be. As for London, I'm not sure if he as any remorse since he didn't bother to explain anything to them. He may get a duel later on though.

 

[Light Lucario]

I don't know what the general reception among online fans regarding Go Rush, or even Sevens for that matter. There wasn't as much backlash to the Go Rush announcement as there was for Sevens. Based on what I've seen thus far, I have far more cons than pros for this series. At best, Go Rush is okay with some interesting setup, some good duels and a couple of likable characters At worst, it is incredibly bad, it has some really annoying characters, the tone is all over the place and the pacing is just terrible. I don't think that Go Rush is the worst series in the franchise, but I don't think it's particularly good either.

 

[Light Lucario]

I thought that this week's episode was okay. It's really hard to take the looming threat of Luge freezing all of humanity seriously when the episode starts with Yuna crying over Romin and trying to thaw her out with heaters and Yudias' Eye Beam. I feel like that's a really good example of the series' tone problem. It goes too hard with its wacky comedy that there isn't enough time to buildup to a more serious threat or moment in order to make it feel natural. As it is, it just feels like Go Rush is just bouncing back and forth between goofy comedy and more serious with higher stakes and it does not work at all.

They did show Yuna talking to someone wearing a red coat quite similar to Yuga's. We don't see his face though. It could be the Go Rush version of Yuga since virtually every other main and prominent supporting character from Sevens seems to have a Go Rush version. Personally, I think it actually is Yuga. Yuna was the only one who recognized Yudias' Duel Disk and she has Sevens Road Magician. My theory is that Yuga traveled to another universe during the two years he was in space and somehow ended up working for Goha Corporation under Yuna's command. If he was just another Go Rush version of a Sevens character, I don't know why they'd hide his face.

They were banking on these new cards to defeat Luge, but they never explained what those new cards were. It would be interesting if this is how they re-introduce Fusion into Rush Duels, but considering that they still haven't explained where Equip Spells come from, I don't know if they'd want to introduce a new mechanic already. Nyandestar did get the cards, but was stopped by London. That will obviously lead into the next episode.

I actually liked the space dinosaur. Just the idea of an alien referring to himself as a space dinosaur was so ridiculous that I kind of loved it. His excitement over his model collection was kind of sweet and genuine. Maybe I was just projecting myself a bit, but getting excited about sharing a hobby only for people to dismiss it like Manya did was also quite relatable.

The duel itself was okay. I wasn't into either of their decks, although a space dinosaur playing with a dinosaur plastic model deck is still kind of hilarious. I was kind of rooting for the space dinosaur since he seemed genuinely nice and Manya, while far from the worst female character in this series, was still pretty annoying. I just don't find her personality particularly appealing. It was a bit of a surprise that she actually managed to win. I guess that at least makes her distinct from Mimi. Mimi was more likable, but she felt like basically a gag character since she never was allowed to win a duel. It didn't really feel satisfying for Manya to win. The whole bit about how the space dinosaur was too old to play with toys bothered me too.

I guess that they didn't want the main characters to lose twice in a row and to show that Luge was willing to freeze even his own teammates. Yuhi actually wanting to hang out with the space dinosaur was admittedly pretty sweet. I'm sure that they will after the tournament wraps up since defeating Luge will probably undo everyone who was frozen. I was glad that Yudias finally remembered where he heard Luge's name before. I was getting a bit tired of them cutting back to Yudias wondering about that. I was not expecting the throwaway gag about a long running manga series to come back. If Luge has written Mr. Universe, then that could mean he's over eight thousand years old, assuming that he didn't just take over for the previous author or something like that.

 

[zoombie]

Wow what an upset, Manya won a duel, granted her opponent is a nothing character, still knowing her track record, I expected her to lose. So she won the duel, good for her.

I am a little worried about Nyandestar, bumping into London, who's side is he on, I don't trust him at all. At this rate I think Zwiijo is more trust worthy, I be more at ease if Nynandestar bumped into Zwiijo instead of London.

 

[Light Lucario]

Wow what an upset, Manya won a duel, granted her opponent is a nothing character, still knowing her track record, I expected her to lose. So she won the duel, good for her.

To be fair, Manya dueled a gimmicky character in the previous arc too and she still lost to him, so I don't think that gave her an edge. I think she won mainly because they didn't want the main cast to lose twice in a row and they wanted to show that Luge was willing to freeze even his own teammates. Manya also had only dueled twice before, so while her record wasn't good, she didn't have a lot of duels under her belt either. The real shocker was that she didn't keep up Mimi's gag from Sevens. Most of the other Go Rush versions of Sevens characters have similar kind of gags or character quirks. Romin and Rovian both have angry gags, Gakuto and Manabu have dramatic overreactions and Luke and Luge have similar summoning chants. One of Mimi's gags was that she never won a duel, so I was expecting Manya to always lose throughout Go Rush too.

Honestly, I still prefer the space dinosaur over Manya. She isn't as unlikable like Yuamu or Yuna or as annoying as Rovian, but I just don't like her. She's a less appealing version of Mimi and I wasn't even a huge fan of Mimi to begin with either. The space dinosaur is another gimmicky minor character, but at least he came off as genuinely sweet and likable, which is more than I can say for some of the main characters in this show.

I am a little worried about Nyandestar, bumping into London, who's side is he on, I don't trust him at all. At this rate I think Zwiijo is more trust worthy, I be more at ease if Nynandestar bumped into Zwiijo instead of London.

Yeah, that was a bit of a red flag. We still don't know what London's plan is or what he said/did to Nyandestar. He was hiding during the previous episode, but didn't come out to talk to the other characters, not even after Rovian lost, so it's hard to gauge his thoughts on the current situation. Zwijo is still mysterious, but he hasn't betrayed the main cast like London did and seems willing to help out from the shadows if giving Yudias an Equip Spell was any indication.

 

[Light Lucario]

I thought that this week's episode was okay. I still really hate how they're trying to hype up Luge as this huge threat. Yeah, he has frozen people, even more based on what little we saw of Nyandestar's backstory, but it feels like such a huge leap to say that he'll freeze the entire universe. It feels like a contrived way to give the arc more tension and it just really doesn't work with the series' tone. It's really hard to take this looming threat of the Great King of Terror seriously when just a few episodes ago Yuamu was dueling for a plate.

Yuna called the person who made the new card and I'm way more convinced that it's actually Yuga. I don't think that they'd go through the hassle of hiding his face and his voice if it wasn't supposed to be Yuga. Plus, his hair looked identical. All of the other Go Rush versions of Sevens characters have different hair styles with different colors. It's a minor detail, but I feel like it's pretty noteworthy.

The notion that they're frozen by negative energy instead of ice is interesting, but I was annoyed at how it led up to the Earthdamer again. I don't even know how Yuna would think that Yuhi had this Earthdamer when she immediately tried to get it out of him. If the Earthdamer could potentially destroy the universe when coming into contact with this negative energy, then it makes it even more annoying how vague they are about it. They have never explained anything about the Earthdamer and yet it continues to be a key plot point for every arc thus far. It feels more like they left it vague just so that the Earthdamer can do whatever they want.

I wasn't expecting Nyandestar's human form to look like that. I thought that she'd have black hair instead. Although, I guess it makes sense that she'd be an adult since her voice makes her sound older. The duel itself was okay. I kind of wish that Nyandestar played the Odd Eyes Cat Dragon since that was such a fun nod to Arc V, but I can see why that didn't happen. From the start, it was obvious that Nyandestar was pretending to side with Luge, but I can see why it would get the others upset. It was pretty satisfying to see them grab London though. We still don't know what his plan is or how his conversation with Nyandestar went, but it sounded like he joined in on her act.

I had a feeling that the new card was either Fusion or Maximum cards. I kind of wish that Maximum cards were re-introduced first since I thought it was a cool idea. It was a way to create a new summoning method without cramming in something else into the Extra Deck and gave a boost to Tribute monsters. But I can't really blame them for bringing back Fusion first. Fusion cards are more noteworthy and they didn't really have a lot of time to promote them in Sevens. The fact that they gave so many characters Fusion monsters in the second to last arc was a big reason why Sevens' ending felt rather sudden. I kind of figured that they'd eventually bring Fusion back in Go Rush to provide more support. Given on how everyone reacted, I assume that Fusion is brand new to Rush Duels. They did emphasize that these are new cards created specifically to defeat Luge. If that is the case, I think that would be more solid confirmation that Go Rush is not set in the same universe as Sevens. If this was the same universe, you'd think that there would be some record of them where at least the smart characters have heard about them. I was disappointed that Yudias' mind didn't just explode upon learning about a new summoning method though.

I actually liked some of the flashbacks for Manabu and Nyandestar. I think it was mainly because it showed why I find him to be likable. He actually brought a cat toy for Nyandestar when they first met and had awkward small talk trying to get to know her. He genuinely wants to bring peace for both aliens and humans so that everyone can be happy. That does show Manabu in a pretty nice light and makes him come off as pretty endearing. He can be melodramatic with his reactions and a bit of a stick in the mud, but he still cares about making people happy.

I was pretty surprised that Nyandestar won. I kind of thought that Manabu would still find a way to win, but I forgot that he didn't have any Trap cards. Plus, they probably still wanted to make Fusion look good and powerful, especially if that is going to tie into how Yudias inevitably defeats Luge. I actually was worried about Manabu being frozen, if only because he is still one of the few characters I like in this series. Nyandestar choosing to be frozen so that she didn't have to see Manabu's eyes frozen that way was a bit sad. Even just looking through the box was enough to freeze her. I'll admit that the ending was pretty sad, but it still felt way too jarring with the general tone of the series. Again, it's hard to take Nyandestar's tragic backstory where her planet was seemingly frozen by Luge seriously when this arc started with them making a magical girl anime for a humanoid sheep monster. It still feels like Go Rush wants to be both comedic and serious when it wants to be, but it goes too far in both directions to make it work.

I also felt that Manabu and Nyandestar's relationship involved more telling than showing. It's not that I don't believe that they're friends. I could believe that when they've been basically by each other's side since the start of the series and I remember Nyandestar complimenting Manabu quite a bit during his duel against the MIK Director. My issue that there hasn't been enough focus and development for their relationship to make this duel, and by extension this ending, as effective as it could have been. To be fair, Manabu is a supporting character instead of part of the main cast like Gakuto was in Sevens, so he would have more limited screentime, Much like Gakuto, Manabu only gets one token duel per arc, so that would be harder to give his relationship with Nyandestar more to work with too.

 

[zoombie]

Well we know this duel was going to end in heart break no matter who win. And this case the winner who got frozen, so it does against expectation I give the show credit for that.

And for the first time in a long time a Yu Gi Oh pulled at my heart strings, I know as previously mentioned these people are getting frozen not killed, so it not the same. Vrains had higher stakes but I have admit I was attach to those characters to really care, but we have gotten to know and form enough of a connection to Manabu and Nyandester to feel bad when this happens. Not on the level of Kiteo dying in Zexal because he actually died or everything that happened in 5Ds, because those were deaths, sure a lot of those deaths were reversed, by still just freezing the characters does make the show more kidified than the Yu Gi Oh of the past.

So how old is Nyandester, so she is too old to ship with Manabu?

And BTW, Manabu dueling someone that knows him so well, just me or this just like Gakuto duel with Ranze?

And that is Yuga, the real Yuga, my only question is, is he the twins father, and they are from the Sevens dimension living in this other dimension?

 

[Light Lucario]

Well we know this duel was going to end in heart break no matter who win. And this case the winner who got frozen, so it does against expectation I give the show credit for that.

And for the first time in a long time a Yu Gi Oh pulled at my heart strings, I know as previously mentioned these people are getting frozen not killed, so it not the same. Vrains had higher stakes but I have admit I was attach to those characters to really care, but we have gotten to know and form enough of a connection to Manabu and Nyandester to feel bad when this happens. Not on the level of Kiteo dying in Zexal because he actually died or everything that happened in 5Ds, because those were deaths, sure a lot of those deaths were reversed, by still just freezing the characters does make the show more kidified than the Yu Gi Oh of the past.

I still have my fair share of issues of how it was handled, but the ending did make me more sad than I was expecting, which is more than I can say for Vrains. Vrains had annoying high stakes and I didn't really care about any of the characters by the end. i think I like the rapping space dinosaur from last week's episode more than the entire Vrains cast.

To be fair, having a stand-in for actual death is not necessarily a bad thing. It can work to create good tension and emotional moments. Turning characters into cards was basically the stand-in for death in Arc V and it didn't feel kidified just because they didn't actually die. It was still treated seriously, was a looming threat for nearly the entire series and when characters were carded, they were gone until the end of the series. The only way it was undone was when the dimensions were merging together and that was a huge threat in itself. I don't think that Go Rush freezing characters in place of having them die is necessarily a problem or make it more kidified exactly. I don't think it's nearly effective as a form of tension and conflict due to both the tone problem I have with Go Rush and I fully expect for everything to be magically undone by the end of the arc. The latter isn't uncommon, but it's kind of hard to make this ending more emotional when I don't expect it will last beyond this arc.

So how old is Nyandester, so she is too old to ship with Manabu?

She looks and sounds like a grown woman to me. They didn't mention her age and knowing how this franchise is, I don't think she'd be older than eighteen or nineteen. That being said, I don't think an age gap is going to stop people from shipping them if they want to. I've seen fanart of sibling characters being paired together, especially Shark and Rio.

And BTW, Manabu dueling someone that knows him so well, just me or this just like Gakuto duel with Ranze?

I guess, but it seems like the context between those two duels were significantly different.

And that is Yuga, the real Yuga, my only question is, is he the twins father, and they are from the Sevens dimension living in this other dimension?

I highly doubt that. They've only mentioned the twins' parents in passing in the first arc. If they were planning on Yuga being their father, that would have been hinted at way earlier. Plus, I still suspect that Yuga came to this universe during the two years he was lost in space, so he wouldn't be any older than thirteen if that is the case. It is possible that Yuga is older than that if this is set after the Sevens finale and he just somehow traveled through space again, but I don't think that they'd make Yuga an adult when adults barely exist in both Sevens and Go Rush.

As for the twins, aside from their seemingly psychic connection to each other, there isn't anything about them that would make them different from other people living in the Go Rush universe. Much like with the notion of Yuga being their father, if they were going for a twist about them being from a different dimensions, I think that they would have hinted at that sooner or made a bigger deal about their parents being mysterious. Even their psychic connection is more similar to the idea of twins having a psychic link as opposed to being a sign that they were born in a different dimensions.

 

[J'onn J'onzz]

I wonder if there will be a dub of this anime now that Sevens is fully available dubbed on Hulu and Disney XD on demand. Sevens will still be airing new to tv episodes for a couple months on Disney XD. I heard XD is getting a new Bakugan so maybe anime like Beyblade and YuGiOh are working well for them and they will get the next season. I just hope it isn’t neglected in the US the way Vrains was.

 

[Light Lucario]

I wonder if there will be a dub of this anime now that Sevens is fully available dubbed on Hulu and Disney XD on demand. Sevens will still be airing new to tv episodes for a couple months on Disney XD. I heard XD is getting a new Bakugan so maybe anime like Beyblade and YuGiOh are working well for them and they will get the next season. I just hope it isn’t neglected in the US the way Vrains was.

I didn't know that Sevens was already fully dubbed. I knew that they were pretty close since they were near the end of the second to last arc, but I didn't know that they released the remainder of the series on Hulu and Disney XD On Demand. If Disney XD is willing to air all of Sevens, then I think that there's a decent chance at least that they'll pick up Go Rush. We probably won't hear about a Go Rush dub until shortly before or after they finish airing the rest of the Sevens dub though. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't start until next year after Go Rush wraps up in Japan. While it hasn't been confirmed yet, I suspect that Go Rush will only go for eight arcs and it is currently in its sixth one. The dub still has a massive issue with its gap between the Japanese version, which they seemingly aren't interested in fixing, so being a series behind again would not be surprising.

As long as they can get a TV deal, they probably won't neglect the series like they did with Vrains. As much as I don't care for Vrains, making it the only series in the franchise that never aired on TV was still pretty bad. Honestly, it's baffling to me that they dubbed all of Sevens and are most likely working on a Go Rush dub and Konami has still not released Rush Duel cards outside of Japan. We're even going to have a Sevens World in Duel Links with Rush Duels being available and we still don't have physical Rush Duel cards.

I do have a lot of opinions on the previous arcs and episodes that aired while the site was down. I might post them down the line, but for now, I'll at least focus on the newest episode. I thought that this week's episode was okay. I was somewhat surprised that Yuamu and Asaka won while being possessed by darkness. It does make sense when both of their opponents had nothing to protect them and both the kappa alien and Nyandestar were blatant canon fodder, but given that they didn't show the ends of those duels earlier, a part of me thought that it would lead to some kind of twist. I was still pretty happy to see the kappa alien defeated. He is such a nothing character who really only exist for exposition, so I was not into the idea that he could somehow defeat possessed Asaka. I also appreciated that we didn't get Yuhi vs. Zwijo. While they have been trying to show that Yuhi has become a stronger duelist since the previous arc and I'd argue that the execution was a bit weak, there was no way I could see Yuhi believably defeating Zwijo. I'm no sure if I could see anyone besides Yudias defeating him. It was also nice to show that Yuhi valued keeping his promise to Yuamu more so than the tournament. Zwijo also clearly knew what was happening with the Darkness cards.

Yuna vs. Rovian was okay. I can see why Yuna would want to duel Rovian. She has been relying on both her and Yuga for awhile and with her crush on Yuga, that would have made her more confused over her crush on Rovian. Wanting to go all out and figure out her future made sense. This would have been more effective if I cared about either character or their relationship. Their relationship always felt extremely one sided to me and Yuna just gushing over everything that comes out of Rovian's mouth didn't really make it more appealing. Not that Rovian didn't care about Yuna, but because of how she mainly talks through nonsensical poems, it felt like we didn't really get her insight into Yuna until this episode or at the earliest Yuna's duel against Manabu in the previous arc.

I'm not sure why Yuna being possessed by another Darkness card surprised me. The other two duels involved characters being possessed, so it makes sense that she would too. Her Fusion monster was pretty stupid. It looked too much like a rich celebrity, which I guess was the point, but it really didn't look imposing or intimidating in the slightest. There was still a decent back and forth between them, to the point where I wasn't sure who was going to win for a moment.

The whole scene at the relic was kind of weird. Yuamu and Asaka flying in possessed by darkness, saying darkness and shooting green energy was way too ridiculous. It's hard to take this situation with the Darkness cards seriously for a few reasons, but scenes like that doesn't help matters either. It just crosses into too silly and not the ridiculously cool kind of silly that I can get behind with this franchise. Admittedly, Yuhi using the sword alien to cut the relic in half while Zwijo was caught in that beam was pretty cool and it freed Yuna from the Darkness too.

Yuna confessing that this would be her last duel as one of Rovian's Bandits would have probably more meaning if that group was relevant after the second arc. I understand that it meant that she was trying to move forward past her crush on Rovian, but I think that the wording kind of threw me off a bit. It did surprise Rovian and she was upset, but she wanted to duel Yuna at full strength and basically gave her the setup for her victory. I feel like this would have been more effective if I cared about the characters or their relationship. It wasn't bad, but there just wasn't enough emotional investment for me to really care about the situation. I doubt that Yuna will never interact with Rovian for the rest of the series or that she wouldn't still consider Rovian her friend, so it's hard for that farewell at the end to really mean much, at least right now.

I think that Rovian is basically just a professional jobber at this point. She has not won any duels since her debut. On one hand, win records aren't necessarily the best indication of how strong a duelist is, her defeats were all pretty much necessary for the plot and in this case, there was more meaning behind Yuna defeating her. But at the same time, losing four duels in a row really makes it harder to see Rovian as a strong duelist or that defeating her means anything at least.

The mysterious alien coming out of the relic was a pretty cool note to end the episode on. I suspect that he was the one involved with the Darkness cards. He was in the relic, we saw shots of the relic whenever characters were possessed in the past couple of episodes and releasing him freed everyone from being possessed. He also looked at lot like Yudias, but just with paler skin and yellow hair, so there is most likely some kind of connection between the two.

 

[zoombie]

It has been a while good to be back.

Anyway it has been a while, so I do think that a some point that Epoch is going to be pocessed and that is when we will see her face just like with Swirly in Sevens. Speaking of Epoch, I think we will find out she is the only one that finds the Luge's manga interesting, which like Luke liking Roman's cooking a hint of them being a couple at some point.

 

[AngusTinMan16]

Welcome back, zoombie!

 

[Light Lucario]

It has been a while good to be back.

Anyway it has been a while, so I do think that a some point that Epoch is going to be pocessed and that is when we will see her face just like with Swirly in Sevens. Speaking of Epoch, I think we will find out she is the only one that finds the Luge's manga interesting, which like Luke liking Roman's cooking a hint of them being a couple at some point.

It's possible that we'll see Epoch's face in a dramatic way like that. She'll probably play some role in the arc's finale given that she left her home to go to Yudias. Epoch being the only one to like Luge's manga would also be an interesting way to hint at them becoming a couple. Depending on how far back Go Rush is supposed to be, it's possible that one of their descendants end up together instead of them, but it would make more sense for them to be Luke and Tiger's ancestors instead. Although, I still prefer the thought that Go Rush is basically set in an alternate version of the past. With all of these changes made to the past, and even just Yuga's whole presence here, I think Go Rush being a split timeline situation would make more sense. I can't really see Rush Duels disappearing entirely for them to be created again in the Sevens era when Rush Duel packs are sold in stores, a city wide tournament was held between humans and aliens and Rush Duels are used across the galaxy.

Anyway, I thought that last week's episode was pretty good. I actually like the idea of a proto Valgearian alien. Since they are basically living items, the idea that that Creator made a prototype made sense. Kuaidul sounded really familiar to me. I thought that his voice actor must have been on another series, but he was the narrator from the first few episodes of Go Rush, which is pretty interesting in a meta sense. I also kind of liked Kuaidul's personality. He came off as dramatic and hammy, but not being the typical over the top evil kind of hammy antagonistic.

Yuhi and Yuamu basically figuring out his motivation and plan felt a bit too easy. I don't know if it would have worked better with Kuaidul explaining it himself though. I think that the plan kind of makes sense. Finding out that he's just a prototype of an alien race could have made Kuaidul snap. The idea that he'd lash out to make everyone else an item to control after that reveal isn't a stretch. Zwijo became an antagonist after learning about his race being living objects, seemingly destined to keep being used as the Creator's pawns. I think that there are a couple of reasons wy it didn't work quite as well for me with Kuaidul as it did with Zwijo. There was a lot more buildup with Zwijo. He was a constant presence throughout the first season, even when he wasn't the main villain of an arc, and because of his history with Yudias, he felt a lot more mysterious. Learning his motivation at the end of season one was more satisfying than if it happened in the second arc of the series. It also retroactively explained a lot more than I expected. Because Yudias is an alien, it was so easy to write off stuff like being able to withstand extreme hot and cold temperatures, fly down to Earth or be in space without a helmet. Finding out that Yudias and his entire race are living objects explains a lot.

There isn't much satisfaction with learning about Kuaidul's motivation the same episode where he's properly introduced. You could argue that he's been a presence since the start of this season when he was the one behind carding people with the relic and now controlling people with the Darkness Cards, but it doesn't quite work. I also just have a hard time taking the whole use Yudias to turn everyone watching the tournament into his pawns seriously. I know that they established that the whole carding system was incomplete, but it was hard to take it as such a serious issue when everyone carded was turn into cats. They're currently playing the whole Darkness Cards more straight by comparison, but even that's hard to really take seriously when it's just going to be undone by the end of the arc. To be fair, I don't think that Go Rush has been able to create believable tension in general, but the arcs being relatively short and resolving this new mysterious conflict that they treat as such a huge deal doesn't help.

Yudias vs. Phaser was okay. I was not thrilled about getting to see them duel again, but there were some interesting moments. While I think that Phaser is the weakest antagonist thus far in the series, I like that he wanted to still atone for what he did through helping Yudias. His redemption was pretty bad, so wanting to still make up for what he did was a nice touch. It also makes sense that he'd want to help Yudias when he was influenced by Kuaidul without feeling like he was being controlled. I'm still not really into Kuaidul's plan, but I liked his demonstration of how much he could control Yudias. He doesn't have full control, but he does have enough to project his body onto Yudias. Since Yudias was so confident on how he was still himself, I wonder if the twist will be that he isn't really controlled or influenced by Kuaidul, or at least that he'll get to that point by the end of the arc. Having Yudias lose in a two part match would be a twist, but I don't know if they'll go down that direction.

Phaser's Trap card basically allowing for another duelist to change places with him was so weird. I know that the point was to get Zwijo to duel Yudias instead and there was really no reason to have another Yudais vs. Phaser match after getting one in just the previous arc, but it was just such a contrived way for it to happen. Yudias vs. Zwijo is a much more interesting matchup though. Yudias had a huge impact on Zwijo, so I could see their bond shining through during their match.

 

[zoombie]

Well just as I was talking about Epoch and The Luge, that opening scene more confirmation.

As for the episode itself, it shows how strong Yudias with a little help from Kuadul, that it would take 3 people to beat him. How OP is that?

I am not the biggest fan of one villain is responsible for everything trope, but I give it a chance to see if there is a good payoff.

Off topic, I am thinking could they have found a way to make Manabu is the main antagonist of the first arc, because Rovian and the Luge are the antagonists of the second and third, so it would be fitting if the ancestor of Yuga's three main friends has those roles, still though I guess we need that Yudias / Zwijo first duel.

 

[Light Lucario]

Well just as I was talking about Epoch and The Luge, that opening scene more confirmation.

I wouldn't say it was confirmation of their budding romance, but just that Luge was actually nice to Epoch. It was still nice and I'm sure it will be used to fuel their pairing, but I wouldn't really take it as anything more than that at the moment at least.

As for the episode itself, it shows how strong Yudias with a little help from Kuadul, that it would take 3 people to beat him. How OP is that?

There's nothing really OP about it when it's all due to a convoluted Trap Card. It isn't like Phaser and Zwijo were defeated by Yudias and that forced them to bring in other characters to defeat him. No one has lost any life point and Yudias hasn't even been able to destroy any monsters yet. It's more like a stalemate as opposed to making Yudias look OP. I think that they also wanted to get to Yudias vs. Yuhi as soon as possible without Yudias defeating Phaser and Zwijo back to back. It would have taken too long for both of those matches to happen.

I am not the biggest fan of one villain is responsible for everything trope, but I give it a chance to see if there is a good payoff.

I don't mind the trope myself, but I am surprised that Kuaidul is in that position when they normally save that kind of antagonist for the final arc. Go Rush has at least a couple of arcs left. I assume that The Creator/Otes is going to be the final big bad of the series instead, but it just felt surprising that Kuaidul was seemingly responsible for setting most of the series' events into motion when he isn't the final villain.

Off topic, I am thinking could they have found a way to make Manabu is the main antagonist of the first arc, because Rovian and the Luge are the antagonists of the second and third, so it would be fitting if the ancestor of Yuga's three main friends has those roles, still though I guess we need that Yudias / Zwijo first duel.

Considering how goofy the MIK always was, I don't think that making Manabu the main antagonist of the first arc would have been particularly good, especially if they already had plans for Phaser to be the antagonist in season two. Neither Rovian or Luge were especially good antagonists either. Rovian was just a hypocrite who quickly became a jobber after her debut match and Luge was too much of an oblivious idiot to realize he was freezing people for hundreds of years across countless planets. Manabu as an antagonist probably wouldn't have fared much better. Zwijo made much more sense as the first antagonist, not only because of his first duel with Yudias, but also because he was a lingering presence throughout the first season. It wouldn't make sense to wait until the fourth arc to introduce him when he was a consistent presence in the other arcs too.

Anyway, I thought that this episode was okay. I actually did like the opening with Epoch wanting to go save Yudias after he protected her. While it hasn't been amazing, their friendship has been pretty nice and I like how it has been clearly affecting Epoch throughout most of this arc. It's getting harder and harder for her to hide her true feelings. I still don't like the Trap card and making it the prize for winning the tournament makes it worse. I understand the symbolism behind it. A card that brings people from two different planets together sounds nice, but it just feels so ridiculous to have a card designed to change a duelist. Zwijo and Phaser planning out this situation so that Zwijo had his ace monster in Phaser's deck explains more as to why Zwijo used his lacky's monster back in his duel earlier in the arc.

There was a ton of exposition during this part of the match, but it was pretty interesting, so I was okay with it. I forget if they clarified how long ago Kuaidul, and by extension the Valegarian race was created. They already believe that Otes is the Creator. That seems extremely likely, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Since Yuga was sent into the past, the idea that Otes was sent further into the past to create Valgearian makes sense. It does make me question more about the theory on Otes being Yuga's future self though. I could believe that hearing so much about Rush Duels would make Kuaidul want to see them for himself. I just don't know how he could have hidden on Zwijo's ship multiple times. Zwijo and his crew obviously aren't flawless beings. I just find it suspicious that Kuaidul could sneak aboard his ship multiple times.

Kuaidul being responsible for turning Nyandestar into a cat also makes sense, especially with the notion that the whole carding system was incomplete like Yuga mentioned in the previous arc. Plus, Kuaidul recognized Nyandestar while he was possessing Yuamu a couple of episodes ago. I have no problem with Nyandestar not remembering him when it happened right after her planet was frozen. I just don't know how she could have aged into what clearly looks like an adult when Kuaidul turned her into a card while she was a small child. It looked like she aged at least ten years between her home planet and landing on Earth. While it wouldn't be impossible for Zwijo to travel through space that long, it seems unlikely, especially when it didn't really take the main cast that long to get back to Nyandestar's home planet in the fourth arc.

It might be a weird detail to focus on, but it just makes me wonder how long ago Nyandestar was carded and when Rush Duels were created again. They were well established by the time the series properly started. Nyandestar is an alien, so she wouldn't necessarily age like a human does, but I think that she's the only case of an alien character actually getting older. There are some children aliens in the background, but I don't think that we've seen much signs of aliens actually aging, especially when many of them can live for hundreds of years. I wouldn't be surprised in a way if all of the aliens in this series were living objects like with the Valgearian aliens.

I was a bit surprised that Kuaidul was the one who pushed Zwijo to go to Earth instead of The Creator. Being responsible for putting everything in motion through both Yudias and Zwijo just to turn people into his own pawns was a bit strange, if only because that's normally saved for the final villain. The fusion between Zwijo and Phaser's ace monsters was pretty cool though. I still don't like that Trap card, but we got to see them start Yudias vs. Yuhi earlier than they would have otherwise. I wonder if they'll have Yudias vs. Yuhi again just so Yuhi could use a deck that he's actually familiar with. I thought that Yudias was going to keep denying that Kuaidul had any influence over him, but he did seem to recognize that. I guess it would have been harder to explain why he kept blacking out during a duel whenever Kuaidul kept talking through his body, but that could lead into a different twist with their match.

 

[Light Lucario]

I thought that this episode was pretty good. The opening with Kuaidul showing his designs for Valgearian enemy aliens really caught my attention because we do see those aliens at the beginning of this season. Those were the last enemies Yudias dueled against to end the war across their cluster peacefully. While this doesn't necessarily confirm that the Creator created every alien race, it does make my theory about aliens being living objects, not just the Valgearians, sound much more plausible. It would explain a lot about what we've seen from aliens in this show. Aside from Nyandestar, we haven't really seen any signs of aging from the aliens. While they aren't necessarily immortal, they can live for hundreds of years and if the opening of this episode was any indication, Yudias has been around for a long time. The Creator's space ship was the same one that where Matusba Town was eventually built on, so I assume he'd be at least thousands of years old.

Yudias switching places with Kuaidul was pretty flashy. It made sense that Yudias was aware of the darkness possessing him. He seemed aware of it ever since his duel earlier in the arc where he first used a Darkness card. Changing places also made it so that Yudias could learn more about Kuaidul while also kind of helping to defeat him. I don't know where the whole notion that Yudias wouldn't be able to come back came from. That felt like a weak way to create a bit of tension over the switch.

The idea that Kuaidul was really sad over the Creator leaving them made sense. The Creator was basically their god and feeling like he preferred Rush Duels over his creations would hit him hard. Being the proto type Valgearian, Kuaidul might have also became more attached to the Creator than the other Valgearians. I was incredibly confused with Kuaidul absorbing the Creator. Seeing Yuga again was great. I was wondering if he'd show up in this arc. It makes sense why he wasn't in the tournament, but I was just curious if he'd still get an appearance. His explanation about Otes' Earthdamer somehow separating from him and being thrown across time did not really clear up my confusion. Granted, his point about a normal human couldn't have made the Valgearians made sense. We still don't know much about Otes, but I guess it would be strange for a regular human to just create an alien race. It just feels really weird to bring up the Earthdamer again, especially to claim that a Sevens character has one. The Earthdamer has always been such an annoyingly vague plot thread for me, so while it makes sense that it would come back up again, it also bothers me a bit at the same time.

The duel itself was okay. They really wanted to showcase Yuhi's growth by having him summon both Zwijo's and Phaser's ace monsters and then fusing all three of them with Polymerization. I don't think that Yuhi's growth is bad or unbelievable necessarily. I just think that the foundation they created for it in the previous arc is a bit too shaky and required a bit more telling than showing it at points too. Still, they kind of had to make Yuhi win or else Kuaidul's plan would have worked out even after switching with Yudias. His new Fusion monster was a bit too bulky for my tastes, but he did manage to defeat Kuaidul with it. To give Yuhi some credit, he still wanted to reach out to Kuaidul and understand him just like Yudias wanted to. Kuaidul claimed to have sealed his heart away, but that clearly wasn't the case. Not only because he was crying, but he's clearly an emotional person in general. He enjoys toying with others and he's a bit of a ham in that regard.

Epoch somehow being able to switch Yudias and Kuaidul back was nice. We even got to see her face for the first time. I saw a comment about how she could potentially have the same random ability that Luke has with how his bloodline can affect devices. I just assumed Luke had due to being a descendant of an alien, but it just being a random power always in his family would be nice too. Yudias believing that Yuhi would win the duel was pretty nice. They might save a proper Yudias vs. Yuhi match for later. They both wanted to duel each other in the finals of the tournament, but because of Kuaidul, they couldn't really do that. It isn't a huge issue when the buildup for their match only started a few episodes ago, but it does make me wonder if we'll get that in one of the remaining arcs.

The twist that Yuhi actually won with a Darkness card was pretty good. It's one of the few times where they didn't magically fix the whole problem by the end of the arc. Luge isn't a chair in the next episode preview and assuming that is accurate, I guess that would mean all of the people turned into furniture would have been restored off screen. I don't think that negates my issue with the lack of tension or stakes in this series, but I'll give them credit for making a pretty solid twist. It also makes me think that Kuaidul will be the villain for the rest of the series. Yuhi did defeat him, but I'm positive that we'll have Yudias vs. Kuaidul at some point. They clearly are going to have more of a connection with Yudias seeing through some f Kuaidul's memories and we also haven't seen Kuaidul's actual deck. He only used Yudias' deck during their match. Otes and/or Otes' Earthdamer might still be the final big bad of the series, but Kuaidul is probably going to be the main antagonist for at least another arc. Yuhi also clearly sounded different near the end of the episode, almost with a much higher pitched voice. That might be important or just be the lead in for a goofy comedic episode.

As for the arc as a whole, I thought that it was pretty good. I think that previous arc had more interesting setup by comparison, but I also thought it was messier her at points too. Yudias' bond with Epoch was surprisingly sweet, there were some good moments between Yudias and Yuhi and even Yuamu got to be more emotionally vulnerable. Granted, that wasn't enough to improve my opinion on Yuamu's character, but I still liked seeing some vulnerability from her character. Zaion was a fun minor antagonist, even if I couldn't remember his name for the life of me. To be fair, he was really only relevant for a couple of episodes in this arc, so it isn't a shock that his name didn't stick out to me.

While the Galaxy Cup isn't one of the best tournament arcs in the franchise, it did feel more like a tournament arc than the one in Sevens did at least. I liked the initial setup of the finals where everyone is stuck in a maze and you find your opponent randomly. I think that the tournament got a bit more convoluted once the organizers joined in. It made sense why they did that and it did make the finals less predictable than I thought that they would, but I wasn't really a fan of seeing Yudias vs. Phaser again or even Yuna vs. Rovian given how I felt about those two characters. I kind of like Kuaidul. He's a potentially interesting villain due to both his backstory and clearly having more plans in motion with the last shot of the episode. I kind of think that this is the weakest of the arc finales though. The duel wasn't bad and having Yuhi defeat the villain of the arc instead of Yudias was unique, but I think that going from Phaser to Zwijo to Yuhi through a convoluted Trap card kind of weakened the duel for me. A large bulk of the previous episode was devoted to just exposition. It was at least an interesting backstory, so it wasn't boring to watch, but I think that did affect the pacing of the duel for me.

There was also the typical nonsense that comes with Go Rush with stuff like turning people into furniture or Yuamu and Asaka flying into room just saying "Darkness". It was also hard for me really take the Darkness cards seriously. They were playing them more straight than the whole carding situation from the previous arc, but given the tonal problems in Go Rush, it was hard for me to believe that would stay or for me to fully buy into it. They've done the whole "This new mysterious threat is sealing us away" twice before only for it to be undone by the end of the arc. They didn't erase Darkness cards and Kuaidul is still a threat, but I don't think that negates the issue completely. Still, I'd say that this is possibly one of the best arcs of Go Rush and it did end in a way that made me curious of where they're going to go with the Darkness cards and Kuaidul, so I'll give them credit for that.

 

[zoombie]

So the Creator is not Otes after all, kind of. I know this show has a lot of redeemed characters, but this episode show case, Yudias, he so compassionate and empathetic, trying to understand his enemies, so it makes why so many antagonists become friend eventually. Not that it happened here with Kuaidul, but just showing why it can happen.

So what happens at the end, I don't know, is the Creator going to appear in this show or not, we will see. I can see the Creator being the final villain of this series, and saving Otes for the next series, that would conclude this trilogy.

Also glad we finally got to see Epoch's face, like I always thought when we she first appeared, she has a lot of hair. And when are going to find that gear and get these people turned back to normal?

 

[Light Lucario]

So the Creator is not Otes after all, kind of. I know this show has a lot of redeemed characters, but this episode show case, Yudias, he so compassionate and empathetic, trying to understand his enemies, so it makes why so many antagonists become friend eventually. Not that it happened here with Kuaidul, but just showing why it can happen.

I think that Yudias being so empathetic worked much better with Zwijo's redemption compared to Phaser's. Granted, Zwijo had a stronger connection to Yudias and the two years of off screen development helped to make it work too. After seeing and experiencing Kuaidul's memories, I'm sure that Yudias will eventually be able to reach out to Kuaidul.

So what happens at the end, I don't know, is the Creator going to appear in this show or not, we will see. I can see the Creator being the final villain of this series, and saving Otes for the next series, that would conclude this trilogy.

I still don't know where you got the idea that this is going to be a trilogy of series. It isn't necessarily unbelievable with Go Rush taking place in the past, but it feels pretty early to say that there will be a trilogy of series when the next series hasn't been announced yet. We'll probably get some announcement in December. I could see Go Rush having eight arcs in total and they just finished the sixth arc. While it wouldn't be impossible, I couldn't see the series lasting for another full year at the rate it is currently going at either.

I'm fairly confident that we'll see Otes in Go Rush. He could have been sent further into the past or into the future, but with Yuga landing in the Go Rush era, I feel like they'll run into each other again in this series. Otes' name made the relic react earlier in this arc. Even though it was his Earthdamer that created the Valgearians, that makes me think that Otes himself will appear again at some point down the road.

Also glad we finally got to see Epoch, like I always thought when we she first appeared, she has a lot of hair. And when are going to find that gear and get these people turned back to normal?

The sword alien ate the gear, so I don't know if they'll be able to find it. It's possible that Epoch can somehow make a new gear to turn people back to normal since that's what Zaion wanted even when Manabu was talking to him.