After a fierce battle against the literal embodiment of Death, with the life of everyone in the world riding on the outcome, the spirits of Jaden’s Duel Monsters tell him that he’s lost something valuable, and they want to help him get it back (this all happened in the fourth season that never got dubbed, so if you’re currently asking “when did this happen!?” go watch the rest of it!). These battles took their emotional toll on Jaden, so much so that Jaden in season four he barely spoke, didn’t enjoy duelling, and isolated himself from his friends, pretty much a polar opposite to season one Jaden.
Over the seasons we saw how Jaden slowly lost his happy-go-lucky attitude, as he was forced to face stronger, scarier opponents, who duelled to the death, and showed Jaden that duelling couldn’t always be about having fun.
Since Jaden declared that he would be the next King of Games, we have wanted to see this duel, and it didn’t disappoint. This was the duel that fans were hyped up for since episode one, when Jaden bumped into an older Yugi, who gave him his Winged Kuriboh. The final duel of the series, the new blood, Jaden Yuki, versus the old guard, the King of Games, the Spirit of the Nameless Pharaoh, Yugi Moto. Not only that, this change in heart actually sticks, as he keeps a lot of the “weak” monsters in his deck and uses them for the rest of the show, specifically his signature monsters, the Ojama Brothers. AND, just for the added flex, he only uses cards with ZERO ATK. He builds a deck entirely from cards that were thrown away and deemed “useless” by their previous owners, and with creative and smart tactics, he trounces his older brother. After being humbled by Jaden and leaving Duel Academy in shame earlier in the season, Manjoume is forced to swallow his pride yet again and accept that all cards have value, not just the ones with high ATK power. Winner keeps the Academy.”Ĭhosaku chooses his own younger brother, Jun, whose deck is characterised by insanely high-attack monsters that steamroll the enemy, and sets a condition Jun can only use monsters with less than 500 ATK, while Chosaku’s deck will be stacked with high-ATK beasts. Kaiba throws the gauntlet down: “Forget the money,” he says, “beat any student in a duel, set whatever rules you want… because no student of mine is going to lose a duel to you. Manjoume’s older brother Chosaku, a sleazy business mogul, tries to buy out Duel Academy from Seto Kaiba, but if you know the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, you know a simple thing like money won’t get you squat – you have to prove your worth with card games. It’s hard not to love him, or at least respect his grind, and this duel perfectly exemplifies why. Jun suffers through so many personal hardships and embarrassments, but always rises to the next challenge, learning and changing as a character, arguably more than the actual protagonist of the show. So it’s pretty clear in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX that Jun Manjoume, the supposed rival character (Chazz in the dub), is just a way better character than Jaden. In celebration of the anime’s enduring legacy, we’re counting down five of Yu-Gi-Oh!‘s greatest duels. Check your watches it is most definitely time to duel.
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