Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 37
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cypsiman2During the night, we hear Misawa whimper...are we really going...THERE?!?!?! Well, morning arrives and we find everyone's camped out in front of the coliseum, wondering if Misawa is still okay. Judai declares that he's going to go look one more time, and then we hear the gates come up, and out comes Misawa, who has a completely zoned out look on his face.
TITLE SCREEN! THE HEAD-TO-HEAD DUEL! THE AMAZONESS DEATH RING i hope that means death will come to judai soon...
Everyone asks if Misawa's okay, what happened to him, what did that woman do to him, and with a far-off look on his face Misawa says it was as though he was useless to her. Yes, apparently Tanya kicked him out after he lost one too many duels, saying that he could never satisfy her. Christ on a pogo-stick...yes, even though he used his "entire deck" against her, he couldn't win. Seriously, writers, you've already killed Misawa's character, stop kicking its corpse. Judai is shocked, and rather then run back into the coliseum so that someone else can duel Tanya, everyone decides to head back so that the episode can be padded out with some painful, obnoxious, unfunny 'love-sick' hijinks from Misawa.
Hijink number one; Misawa is in the Osiris Red cafeteria, puts strawberry jam onto his omelet rice, and then starts drinking the sauce. Yeah, because that's how heartbroken, lovelorn people act, right? Judai yells out to Misawa, and now he's drinking the Tobasco, isn't that hi-larious? No, no it isn't. Everyone's shocked at how badly Misawa's character has been derailed, and now we see Misawa in a hallway, looking longingly out the window as he remembers the good times with Tanya...all twelve minutes of them. Then we see Misawa entering the Duel Arena, where it looks like everyone's call together some manner of intervention; while I would go with trying to have Asuka cure Misawa of his derangement with the power of her boobies, Judai decides to instead challenge Misawa to a duel. But Misawa says he can't; it's not that he's scared, it's just that all he can think about is trying to "duel" Tanya again while making some rather suggestive gestures with his hands that suggests something other than a simple card game.
Kaiser Ryou says something about bonds forged in duels, Misawa laments that his skills won't let him satisfy Tanya (bullshit), and Judai says he's glad Misawa met a duelist like Tanya, and the sheer stupidity of that has caused my brain to explode out the back of my skull. Yes, Judai just really wants to duel Tanya and is totally jealous of Misawa, which is why he didn't do so back at the start of the episode when he had the opportunity. Fuck, these idiot writers can't even maintain character consistency and continuity within the same episode. Plus, again, Judai is just plain intolerably stupid, even for Shonen Idiot Hero standards.
I mean, Monkey D. Luffy is generally regarded as the poster child for the Idiot Hero trope, but Judai just blows him out of the water, no contest.
Now we see...Tanya thumping her chest as she howls for a strong man who boils with passionate emotion. Quite frankly, I would not thump my chest if I had Tanya's muscles and her bosom, but hey, that's just me being Ka-razy! She declares that she can't wait any longer, and heads out. Now it's night time at the Osiris Red dorm, Shou says Judai's got some fighting spirit going on, and he's just so pumped from what Misawa said about Tanya. Jesus, Duck-Fucking, Christ, what is wrong with this kid? Now Misawa's knocking on the door, and when Judai opens it, Misawa declares that he can feel it, Tanya's fighting spirit! So everyone goes back to the coliseum, about twelve hours of dicking around for no discernible reason, and then Tanya, riding on her pet tiger, comes out of a bush, because why not?
Judai challenges her, she accepts and calls him an idiot but is in fact the bigger idiot for spurning Misawa who used to be the best character on the show, and Judai thinks being called an idiot is too much; no, too much would be comparing his intellectual capacity to a shallow mud puddle. No, wait, that would be unfair to the mud puddle. HI-YO! Oh, and Judai tells Tanya that she can call him "Yukey"...does he even know what he's saying, or is he just parroting it because he thinks it sounds funny? And appropriately enough, everyone is disgusted by Judai's idiocy, but they are contractually bound to remain friends with him for no good reason.
So in the coliseum, Tanya presents her two decks, courage and knowledge, and Judai of course picks Courage. The duel begins, and Judai goes first, summoning Featherman in defense position...and that's it. So Tanya summons Amazoness Paladin and then plays the spell card Amazoness Charm; she switches all defense position monsters on the opponent's side of the field into attack position and raises their attack power by 200 points. What was wrong with the simple, actually-a-real-card Stop Defense, I've no idea. Chronos wonder's why she'd raise her opponent's attack power, somehow oblivious to the fact that Paladin is still far stronger than Featherman, and Tanya says her bit about not wanting to face a weak opponent. And now she activates the Field Spell Card, Amazoness Death Ring.
So a steel cage appears around the duelists, like a cage match. Both players now gain 600 life points, and she goes on about how now they will risk their souls to prove the bonds with their monsters, and then she declares her attack, MY BLOOD EXPLODES FROM MY VEINS IN RAGE AT THIS FUCKING MUSIC CUE, and Featherman is destroyed for 600 points of damage. This then activates Death Ring's effect; now each player may pay 100 life points to deal 100 points of damage to their opponent, which is represented as an incredibly cheap looking, lazy-ass rip-off of a Dragon Ball Z fight between Judai and Tanya's "souls".
Well, it's official; Amazoness Death Ring is the single most worthless, pointless, waste-of-spacetime card ever conceived of. Pointless banter from the Peanut Gallery, and Judai takes his turn. Wow, what do you know, he just drew Fusion, what are the odds? So he brings out Thunder Giant, nukes Paladin, declares his attack...
EYECATCH!
TWICE IN ONE EPISODE, MOTHERFUCKING EAR-RAPING MUSIC CUE, JUST DIE ALREADY! Oh, and Tanya is knocked on her back as she takes 2400 points of damage. Judai asks if she's okay, and in the close-up on Tanya I'm noticing that her gauntlet looks to be her Item of Darkness, not that she ever seems to use it or anything. She leaps back to her feet and takes her turn, drawing Amazoness Archers. She sets it, and summons Amazoness Swordswoman in attack position. Then she plays the spell card Amazoness Spiritualism, which is basically De-Fusion but it requires you to be controlling an Amazoness monster; what is with her cards suddenly being inferior versions of preexisting cards, or just plain terrible cards? So yeah, she has Swordswoman destroy Clayman for 700 points of damage, repeat the cheesy DBZ shenanigans, Judai says he's never had a duel like this before, and Tanya says she's having fun for the first time in a while, having completely forgotten what happened in last episode's duel. Charming.
A shot of Tanya's tiger growling, and Judai takes his turn. He summons Burst Lady, attacks with Sparkman, and Tanya activates Amazoness Archers, which we all saw coming. Judai says he'll give it his all, not that that makes any sort of difference at all, more bullshit from the Peanut Gallery and especially Misawa, Judai ends up with 1100 life points, he sets two cards, and plays Warrior's Return to get back Clayman into his hand. It's Tanya's turn now, and she summons Amazoness Pet Tiger, who's attack rises to 1900 attack points. She orders Amazoness Swordswoman to attack directly, but Judai activates A Hero Appears to special summon Clayman from his hand in defense position. Of course, since all the damage will still be done to Judai, Swordswoman continues her attack and deals 500 points of damage to Judai. More DBZ shenanigans, more bullshit from the Peanut Gallery, and then Tanya has Amazoness Pet Tiger attack, clearly intent on using Death Ring to wear down Judai's life points even further. So we get another round of DBZ shenanigans, and Judai has only 200 life points left.
Then Tanya activates the quick-spell card, Amazoness Trainer; if Amazoness Pet Tiger fails to destroy a monster by battle, it gains 400 attack points and may attack again. That's...a pretty shitty, situational card right there. But it does seem that Amazoness Pet Tiger for this episode will be allowed to penetrate defense, so it looks like Judai's about to lose...of course not! Judai activates his bullshit situational trap card, Clay Charge, which will never be played again after this episode; when Clayman is the target of an attack, both monsters are destroyed and 800 points of damage is dealt to the opponent. This leaves Tanya with only 100 life points left, which means she can't use Amazoness Death Ring's effect, which is just as well as Judai's trap meant the battle never resolved to begin with, so she couldn't activate it anyway.
Judai and Tanya are all 'this is the most exciting duel ever', which is bullshit, and since Tanya still has Amazoness Swordswoman on her side of the field, Judai has to draw a monster that has exactly the same attack power as it in order to win. Tanya says she won't let Judai throw the match, Judai takes his turn as night turns into day for some worthless symbolism, and what do you know, Judai drew Elemental Hero Wildman, which has 1500 attack points, the same as Amazoness Swordswoman! What are the odds? About 1 in 1 if your name is Judai. So both monsters are destroyed for no damage and Judai uses Amazoness Death Ring to finish Tanya off.
Amazoness Death Ring; the card so worthless, it'll make you lose the duel! Is it any wonder that it was never released into the real card game?
Misawa gives some stupid spiel about a real warrior living through their fists, and all the real warriors throughout the universe and in perpetuity descend down on Judai and slaughter him for being even tangentially associated with them. Everyone bullshits about what an incredible, passionate duel that was, Judai says he feels good even though he hurts all over, Tanya says she feels the same, and then she says that up until now she's been searching for a strong man to take back to her tribe, and now she's come across him at last.
...So after I slit my wrists from that line, I am confronted by what is the really stupid part of this episode; after her life points finally hit zero, Tanya...turns into a White Tiger, leaving behind her Item of Darkness. She thanks them for the great duel, and then leaves, her...'pet' tiger leaving with her. Misawa realizes that he's into bestiality, Manjoume says she really was a fine woman, and Judai says 'dueling sure is great', and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Shou is whining about Judai eating his fried Shrimp, and there's a submarine at the dock. Some rich old guy duels Judai, Shou won't shut up about his fried shrimp, and EPISODE TITLE, AN UNDERWATER DUEL! THE LEGENDARY CITY OF ATLANTIS
QUESTION!
yes?
THAT MADE NO FUCKING SENSE!
that's not a question.
WELL IT SHOULD BE!
Seriously, what the fuck was up with that episode? I mean, were the writers looking over their "work", and thinking to themselves "oh shit, this isn't nearly a big enough insult to the intelligence of our viewers", and so they throw in that last bit about Tanya really being a Tiger for no fucking reason? No, seriously, whatever semblance of sense was present earlier in the episode, with Tanya's character? Obliterated by that pointless as all hell twist. Fuck that was stupid, fuck fuck fuck.
TITLE SCREEN! THE HEAD-TO-HEAD DUEL! THE AMAZONESS DEATH RING i hope that means death will come to judai soon...
Everyone asks if Misawa's okay, what happened to him, what did that woman do to him, and with a far-off look on his face Misawa says it was as though he was useless to her. Yes, apparently Tanya kicked him out after he lost one too many duels, saying that he could never satisfy her. Christ on a pogo-stick...yes, even though he used his "entire deck" against her, he couldn't win. Seriously, writers, you've already killed Misawa's character, stop kicking its corpse. Judai is shocked, and rather then run back into the coliseum so that someone else can duel Tanya, everyone decides to head back so that the episode can be padded out with some painful, obnoxious, unfunny 'love-sick' hijinks from Misawa.
Hijink number one; Misawa is in the Osiris Red cafeteria, puts strawberry jam onto his omelet rice, and then starts drinking the sauce. Yeah, because that's how heartbroken, lovelorn people act, right? Judai yells out to Misawa, and now he's drinking the Tobasco, isn't that hi-larious? No, no it isn't. Everyone's shocked at how badly Misawa's character has been derailed, and now we see Misawa in a hallway, looking longingly out the window as he remembers the good times with Tanya...all twelve minutes of them. Then we see Misawa entering the Duel Arena, where it looks like everyone's call together some manner of intervention; while I would go with trying to have Asuka cure Misawa of his derangement with the power of her boobies, Judai decides to instead challenge Misawa to a duel. But Misawa says he can't; it's not that he's scared, it's just that all he can think about is trying to "duel" Tanya again while making some rather suggestive gestures with his hands that suggests something other than a simple card game.
Kaiser Ryou says something about bonds forged in duels, Misawa laments that his skills won't let him satisfy Tanya (bullshit), and Judai says he's glad Misawa met a duelist like Tanya, and the sheer stupidity of that has caused my brain to explode out the back of my skull. Yes, Judai just really wants to duel Tanya and is totally jealous of Misawa, which is why he didn't do so back at the start of the episode when he had the opportunity. Fuck, these idiot writers can't even maintain character consistency and continuity within the same episode. Plus, again, Judai is just plain intolerably stupid, even for Shonen Idiot Hero standards.
I mean, Monkey D. Luffy is generally regarded as the poster child for the Idiot Hero trope, but Judai just blows him out of the water, no contest.
Now we see...Tanya thumping her chest as she howls for a strong man who boils with passionate emotion. Quite frankly, I would not thump my chest if I had Tanya's muscles and her bosom, but hey, that's just me being Ka-razy! She declares that she can't wait any longer, and heads out. Now it's night time at the Osiris Red dorm, Shou says Judai's got some fighting spirit going on, and he's just so pumped from what Misawa said about Tanya. Jesus, Duck-Fucking, Christ, what is wrong with this kid? Now Misawa's knocking on the door, and when Judai opens it, Misawa declares that he can feel it, Tanya's fighting spirit! So everyone goes back to the coliseum, about twelve hours of dicking around for no discernible reason, and then Tanya, riding on her pet tiger, comes out of a bush, because why not?
Judai challenges her, she accepts and calls him an idiot but is in fact the bigger idiot for spurning Misawa who used to be the best character on the show, and Judai thinks being called an idiot is too much; no, too much would be comparing his intellectual capacity to a shallow mud puddle. No, wait, that would be unfair to the mud puddle. HI-YO! Oh, and Judai tells Tanya that she can call him "Yukey"...does he even know what he's saying, or is he just parroting it because he thinks it sounds funny? And appropriately enough, everyone is disgusted by Judai's idiocy, but they are contractually bound to remain friends with him for no good reason.
So in the coliseum, Tanya presents her two decks, courage and knowledge, and Judai of course picks Courage. The duel begins, and Judai goes first, summoning Featherman in defense position...and that's it. So Tanya summons Amazoness Paladin and then plays the spell card Amazoness Charm; she switches all defense position monsters on the opponent's side of the field into attack position and raises their attack power by 200 points. What was wrong with the simple, actually-a-real-card Stop Defense, I've no idea. Chronos wonder's why she'd raise her opponent's attack power, somehow oblivious to the fact that Paladin is still far stronger than Featherman, and Tanya says her bit about not wanting to face a weak opponent. And now she activates the Field Spell Card, Amazoness Death Ring.
So a steel cage appears around the duelists, like a cage match. Both players now gain 600 life points, and she goes on about how now they will risk their souls to prove the bonds with their monsters, and then she declares her attack, MY BLOOD EXPLODES FROM MY VEINS IN RAGE AT THIS FUCKING MUSIC CUE, and Featherman is destroyed for 600 points of damage. This then activates Death Ring's effect; now each player may pay 100 life points to deal 100 points of damage to their opponent, which is represented as an incredibly cheap looking, lazy-ass rip-off of a Dragon Ball Z fight between Judai and Tanya's "souls".
Well, it's official; Amazoness Death Ring is the single most worthless, pointless, waste-of-spacetime card ever conceived of. Pointless banter from the Peanut Gallery, and Judai takes his turn. Wow, what do you know, he just drew Fusion, what are the odds? So he brings out Thunder Giant, nukes Paladin, declares his attack...
EYECATCH!
TWICE IN ONE EPISODE, MOTHERFUCKING EAR-RAPING MUSIC CUE, JUST DIE ALREADY! Oh, and Tanya is knocked on her back as she takes 2400 points of damage. Judai asks if she's okay, and in the close-up on Tanya I'm noticing that her gauntlet looks to be her Item of Darkness, not that she ever seems to use it or anything. She leaps back to her feet and takes her turn, drawing Amazoness Archers. She sets it, and summons Amazoness Swordswoman in attack position. Then she plays the spell card Amazoness Spiritualism, which is basically De-Fusion but it requires you to be controlling an Amazoness monster; what is with her cards suddenly being inferior versions of preexisting cards, or just plain terrible cards? So yeah, she has Swordswoman destroy Clayman for 700 points of damage, repeat the cheesy DBZ shenanigans, Judai says he's never had a duel like this before, and Tanya says she's having fun for the first time in a while, having completely forgotten what happened in last episode's duel. Charming.
A shot of Tanya's tiger growling, and Judai takes his turn. He summons Burst Lady, attacks with Sparkman, and Tanya activates Amazoness Archers, which we all saw coming. Judai says he'll give it his all, not that that makes any sort of difference at all, more bullshit from the Peanut Gallery and especially Misawa, Judai ends up with 1100 life points, he sets two cards, and plays Warrior's Return to get back Clayman into his hand. It's Tanya's turn now, and she summons Amazoness Pet Tiger, who's attack rises to 1900 attack points. She orders Amazoness Swordswoman to attack directly, but Judai activates A Hero Appears to special summon Clayman from his hand in defense position. Of course, since all the damage will still be done to Judai, Swordswoman continues her attack and deals 500 points of damage to Judai. More DBZ shenanigans, more bullshit from the Peanut Gallery, and then Tanya has Amazoness Pet Tiger attack, clearly intent on using Death Ring to wear down Judai's life points even further. So we get another round of DBZ shenanigans, and Judai has only 200 life points left.
Then Tanya activates the quick-spell card, Amazoness Trainer; if Amazoness Pet Tiger fails to destroy a monster by battle, it gains 400 attack points and may attack again. That's...a pretty shitty, situational card right there. But it does seem that Amazoness Pet Tiger for this episode will be allowed to penetrate defense, so it looks like Judai's about to lose...of course not! Judai activates his bullshit situational trap card, Clay Charge, which will never be played again after this episode; when Clayman is the target of an attack, both monsters are destroyed and 800 points of damage is dealt to the opponent. This leaves Tanya with only 100 life points left, which means she can't use Amazoness Death Ring's effect, which is just as well as Judai's trap meant the battle never resolved to begin with, so she couldn't activate it anyway.
Judai and Tanya are all 'this is the most exciting duel ever', which is bullshit, and since Tanya still has Amazoness Swordswoman on her side of the field, Judai has to draw a monster that has exactly the same attack power as it in order to win. Tanya says she won't let Judai throw the match, Judai takes his turn as night turns into day for some worthless symbolism, and what do you know, Judai drew Elemental Hero Wildman, which has 1500 attack points, the same as Amazoness Swordswoman! What are the odds? About 1 in 1 if your name is Judai. So both monsters are destroyed for no damage and Judai uses Amazoness Death Ring to finish Tanya off.
Amazoness Death Ring; the card so worthless, it'll make you lose the duel! Is it any wonder that it was never released into the real card game?
Misawa gives some stupid spiel about a real warrior living through their fists, and all the real warriors throughout the universe and in perpetuity descend down on Judai and slaughter him for being even tangentially associated with them. Everyone bullshits about what an incredible, passionate duel that was, Judai says he feels good even though he hurts all over, Tanya says she feels the same, and then she says that up until now she's been searching for a strong man to take back to her tribe, and now she's come across him at last.
...So after I slit my wrists from that line, I am confronted by what is the really stupid part of this episode; after her life points finally hit zero, Tanya...turns into a White Tiger, leaving behind her Item of Darkness. She thanks them for the great duel, and then leaves, her...'pet' tiger leaving with her. Misawa realizes that he's into bestiality, Manjoume says she really was a fine woman, and Judai says 'dueling sure is great', and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Shou is whining about Judai eating his fried Shrimp, and there's a submarine at the dock. Some rich old guy duels Judai, Shou won't shut up about his fried shrimp, and EPISODE TITLE, AN UNDERWATER DUEL! THE LEGENDARY CITY OF ATLANTIS
QUESTION!
yes?
THAT MADE NO FUCKING SENSE!
that's not a question.
WELL IT SHOULD BE!
Seriously, what the fuck was up with that episode? I mean, were the writers looking over their "work", and thinking to themselves "oh shit, this isn't nearly a big enough insult to the intelligence of our viewers", and so they throw in that last bit about Tanya really being a Tiger for no fucking reason? No, seriously, whatever semblance of sense was present earlier in the episode, with Tanya's character? Obliterated by that pointless as all hell twist. Fuck that was stupid, fuck fuck fuck.
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Date: 2010-06-12 06:48 am (UTC)And again, poor Misawa.
Taken in by a shapeshifting woman? Now they're borrowing from mythology too? Though usually it's a fox or maybe a yukionna, not...a tiger. A tiger is different. Unfortunately now, following the mythology line of thinking, I'm wondering what Misawa and Tanya's children would have been like DX
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Date: 2010-06-12 06:53 am (UTC)Yeah, when you're repeatedly told that you're no match for a scrawny twerp with all the attention span of a gnat and the mental power of a sea sponge, that's really bad.
GX tends to grab up random entities and concepts from various mythologies, often times western mythology, without any sort of plan or context, so it all ends up as one big jumbled mess that makes no fucking sense. As for the babies...Math genius tigers? IDK.