
The side characters in 5D’s were incredible as well, Jack Atlas was a stuck up rich kid at the start of the show but as it went on, he began to respect where he came from and wasn’t afraid to show compassion towards his friends. It was so satisfying to see Yusei escape satellite and mend the bridge between the two places. The Domino City that we all knew from the previous shows had been split into two halves, the satellite and New Domino City, i really enjoyed this aspect of the show, you got to see how both sides of the coin lived and how people in satellite really struggled to get by.

Yusei Fudo was the main protagonist and he was very different to the two who came before (Yu-Gi & Jaden) he was a lot more serious, he was fighting for his freedom. When 5D’s came out i was like a lot of people, “dueling on a motorbike, that’s stupid”, but i grew to love 5D’s, i really enjoyed the new style of dueling in the end, it was a combination of a race and a duel which was a brand new unique idea. What brings this show down for me is the final season, i’m sure everyone will agree the ending was slightly unsatisfying and didn’t really tie up loose ends but despite this there was some really high moments for this show and that’s why its 4th. He wanted to entertain people while dueling and all he cared about was putting a smile on his friends faces.
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I like Yuya, he spent most of the series trying to perform and be just like his dad, and it was a great pay off when we finally got to see his dad. Sora Perse ( Sora Shiunin) was one of my favourite characters, he played the role of the innocent kid very well, but i always knew there was something up with him, and then we finally got the reveal during an epic duel with Shay Obsidian ( Syun Kurosaki) that he was working for Duel Academy the whole time, and was at fault for shay’s home world’s demise, this was one the best duel in Arc-V in my opinion. We saw the return of one of 5D’s most beloved characters Jack Atlas, although he was a different version of our well known Jack, i could still admire what they did and how the character fit into the new series. The second season in the Synchro dimension is one of my all time favourite seasons of Yu-Gi-Oh! and the Friendship Cup was a great competition with so many great characters competing. It had quite a slow start and took me a while to get into but once it going got i knew exactly what it was trying to do. Some people might be surprised that Arc-V ended up being above Zexal, i really enjoyed that all aspects of previous shows came together for this one.

The show has some great side characters however and two of the best rivals in Yu-Gi-Oh! history being Reginald “Shark” Kastle and Kite Tenjo ( Kaito Tenjo), who were both ruthless and pushed Yuma to his limits and gave us some great duels. The main thing that puts Zexal so low is Yuma, he is my least favourite protagonist, and for me a great Yu-Gi-Oh! show needs a great main character, he had his qualities but wasn’t enough to drag the show up on the list. I really enjoyed some of the arc’s within Zexal such as the World Duel Carnival and the Barian Invasion arc in Zexal II. He grew as a duelist along with Astral and by the end of the series he had grown as a character.

The show began with a very light hearted comedic theme, we followed Yuma Tsukumo who is probably still the weakest duellist of all the main protagonists, who has lost the most duels and spent most of the first season losing duels. Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal added the XYZ summoning method, which was similar to synchros but had its own unique twist, i enjoyed this new summoning method it came at a time when it was still cool to have a new way to bring out monsters for each show. The series got better as it went along, and maybe with a few more watches it will be higher on the list but at the moment it remains the most underwhelming of the shows. Side characters seemed cool but none of them really stood out for me like characters in past Yu-Gi-Oh! shows, one character i really enjoyed was Akira Zaizen who had a very intersting arc throughout the series. I like some of the characters in Vrains, im a big fan of playmaker, he was very different to all the past protagonist, he was serious and straight down to business whereas the other protagonists have all been friendship driven and a lot less care free. I enjoyed watching this show but from the beginning i was left disappointed, every new show we got had to add a new dynamic, with Vrains we got the Link Summon, i wasn’t a big fan of this new type of summoning, i wanted a new show just to focus on the story line and characters rather than new gimics that we get with every new show. i hear a lot of mixed views on this show, a lot of people hate it and a lot of people love it. Starting us off is the latest addition to the series, Vrains.
