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Where I rewatch yugioh GX, Episode 49
So we see storm clouds, Pharaoh meows which lets out Daitokuji's soul...still haven't figured out how the fuck that's supposed to work, is Pharaoh supposed to be some sort of Cat Homunculus or something? Anyway Daitokuji floats off, and now we're back at the duel, and we get a nice panning shot of Chairman Kagemaru, AKA Diaperman, and he is looking seriously stoned or something. Oh, and according to Principal Samejima, Kagemaru is well into his hundreds, which would explain why he's playing a children's card game. Fubuki wonders if that's not Kagemaru's son...even though, you know, everyone saw him become young and listened to his thorough and bullshit explanation about the Mythic Demons...god these people are stupid.
TITLE SCREEN! VS. KAGEMARU (PART 2) THE AWAKENING OF THE THREE MYTHIC DEMONS yuugi and atem trying to defeat the sun dragon ra, this ain't.
Kagemaru says he'd like to finish Judai off with Uria, but apparently on the turn that it is special summoned from the grave, it can't attack when there are other monsters on the field. Which is just plain transparent blatant bullshit that the writers are pulling in order to keep Judai from getting the well deserved ass-kicking that he deserves. So now it's Judai's turn, he needlessly goes over his situation, and summons Friendog in defense position, and sets one card to end his turn. Kagemaru mocks Judai and his monster, and is way, way, way overdramatic in his card drawing. Then he activates Lost Paradise to draw two more cards, and then he attacks with Hamon, destroying Friendog for 1000 points of damage, which sends Judai flying about twenty feet into the air and landing on his back, then bouncing onto his ass. Unfortunately, he's just fine, and then uses Friendog to get back Fusion and Bubbleman. Blah, blah, blah, Kagemaru attacks with Uria, reaction shots, Judai activates his face-down card, Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, and special summons Winged Kuriboh to the field.
Winged Kuriboh is destroyed, then its spirit appears next to Judai's shoulder, nudges him, and then a card comes out of Judai's deck. He takes it, and it is the card from the Emerald Tablet...for some reason. So Judai tells Kagemaru that Daitokuji was worried about him to the very end, and thanks camera guy, I wanted to see Kagemaru's ass. But, to be fair, the fangirls probably don't mind as much. Maybe. I still want to know why Kagemaru's in a diaper, and not a proper pair of pants. Where was I? Oh, right, Kagemaru dismisses Daitokuji as just another pawn, as is Judai, and if he has a problem with that, he'll just have to win the duel. So Judai takes his turn, summons Bubbleman, draws two cards with its bullshit effect, he plays Metamorphosis to sacrifice Bubbleman for Neo-Bubbleman, equips it with Bubbleshot, I think we all see where this is going, Neo-Bubbleman attacks Hamon, Hamon is destroyed and Judai takes no damage.
Seriously, remember the Egyptian God Cards? None of them were even remotely so close to being this easy to destroy! This is just pathetic.
Judai sets a card, and then ends his turn. Kagemaru draws three cards, and then attacks with Uria...seriously, he's got all this insane draw power going, but he can't do anything with it? Jesus, this guy's deck sucks. Anyway, Judai activates Bubble Illusion, allowing him to activate a trap card from his hand, making me wonder why he didn't just set the trap card in the first place. Anyway, the trap card is the brand new, never before seen, yet somehow completely appropriate for the situation, Hero's Rule 1 - Five Freedoms; this removes five cards of a designated type from both players grave, so Judai picks trap. This gets rid of the five traps in Kagemaru's grave, so Uria's attack power drops to zero, which means it gets destroyed by Neo-Bubbleman for 800 points of damage.
So yeah, Judai just destroyed two Mythic Demons like they were nothing. I'm. Not. Impressed.
Kagemaru is indignant and activates Sacrifice of Revival; on the turn that his monster is destroyed by battle, he can destroy one opposing monster, boom goes Neo-Bubbleman, and then he can special summon a monster in his grave in defense position, so here comes Hamon. And then he discards a trap card to bring back Uria, who will only have 1000 defense points. Then he plays another spell card, Martyr of the Mythic Demons; with Uria and Hamon on the field, he discards two cards to special summon three Mythic Demon Martyr Tokens, and one of the cards he discarded was a trap card, so Uria gains another 1000 defense points. And hey, guess what? Three demon-type monsters is exactly what Kagemaru needs to summon the final Mythic Demon, the mightiest of the Mythic Demons, the Lord of Phantasms - Raviel! Who, you guessed it, is a tired retread of the God-Soldier of the Obelisk.
And yes, it is total bullshit that the Obelisk-ripoff is supposed to be the strongest, when everyone knows that the Sun Dragon Ra was the strongest of the Egyptian God Cards. And yes, the writers have tapioca for brains.
So yeah, Raviel has 4000 attack points, and now all three are on the field, and so now they can start making all the card art in the world disappear...er, I mean "absorb the life-energy of all the duel monster spirits". Yes, because THAT'S so much more intimidating and scary. Oh, and this is just fucking precious; we see a couple of kids looking at some cards in a shop, and the card art starts to disappear, and so they start crying.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ZEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
GURAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
KUKAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I'm sorry, I just...THAT'S JUST FUCKING PATHETIC! I'D SAY THAT SOME SORT OF PARODY WAS GOING ON, EXCEPT THAT EVERYTHING IS BEING PLAYED SO STRAIGHT, DEAD-SERIOUS, AND UNIRONIC, THAT I'M FACED WITH THE HORRIFYING NOTION THAT THE WRITERS REALLY DID THINK THAT THIS WAS GOING TO COME ACROSS AS SCARY! I DON'T THINK EVEN A FIVE YEAR OLD WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THIS!
Oh, and judging by the old guy we see from the waist down, I think this is supposed to be Grandpa Mutou's card shop, not that it makes even the slightest difference. Oh, and now we're with Shouji and Chousaku, who for some reason still give a shit about the cards they bought over twenty episodes ago. Seriously, what do they care if the card art disappears? I mean, that's not going to keep the cards themselves from working, right?
Oh, and Ojama Yellow's card art is now a skeleton. Look, I have a single emo tear running down my cheek. Kagemaru tries to go Super Saiyan, Samejima finally figures out why Kagemaru looks young now, even though Kagemaru explained that at length last episode, and Kagemaru says that once he defeats Judai and gains his power over the Duel Spirits, he'll absorb the life of all Duel Spirits everywhere and gain eternal life. So, basically, he repeats himself for the umpteenth time. And then Judai says he feels sorry for Kagemaru, because if he wipes out all the Duel Monsters, no one will want to be his friend.
Umm, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure most people in the GX world regard Duel Monsters as just a bizarrely popular card game, nothing to lose sleep over if the fad finally comes to an end. Now, if Kagemaru were to kill all the PEOPLE who play the card game to gain his eternal youth, then I'm sure no one would want to be his friend. But I forget, Judai's talking, so he's always right, no matter how insanely stupid he's being, and if he says that Duel Monsters is the meaning of life, than Duel Monsters is the meaning of life.
Kagemaru says he doesn't need friends, he'll just get rid of anyone who defies him, and Judai says he won't let Kagemaru hurt Duel Monsters or his friends, and I don't like the way he put the damn Duel Monster spirits first, over his actual human friends. Kagemaru says it will be impossible for Judai to defeat his Three Mythic Demons now that they're all out on the field together.
EYECATCH!
So Judai takes his turn, plays Dark Factory of Mass Production to get back Burst Lady and Featherman, and then he plays Fusion to get Flame Wingman, which activates Raviel's effect, special summoning a Mythic Demon token in defense position to Kagemaru's side of the field. Judai knows he can defeat Uria, but Hamon and Raviel will destroy him next turn, and then we hear Pharaoh yowling. Then we hear Daitokuji, and his soul floats on over to Judai, telling him to play the card that he found in the Emerald Tablet, and I can't believe he needs Daitokuji to tell him to do this, but hey, Judai's never figured out how to do anything on his own before, why should this be any different? Daitokuji says that only the Ultimate Alchemist can use that card, which is just a huge load of shit, that Judai must call to mind a card in his deck, and the card will resonate, granting a miracle three times, and then Pharaoh cuts Daitokuji off by swallowing his soul. Again. This still bothers the fuck out of me.
Pharaoh runs off, and now that it's all been spelled out for him, some Ultimate Alchemist if he couldn't figure that shit out on his own, Judai transforms the Deus Ex Machina card into Fusion Recovery, which costs him half his life points. Judai plays it, smiling like the moron that he is, and gets back Fusion and Sparkman, so he plays fusion and gets Shining Flare Wingman. Another Mythic Demon Token appears on Kagemaru's side of the field, and since Judai has seven Elemental Heroes in his grave, Shining Flare Wingman's attack power becomes 4600. Shining Flare Wingman attacks Hamon and destroys it, but it turns out that when Hamon is destroyed in defense position, all damage to Kagemaru is reduced to zero, so Shining Flare Wingman's second effect doesn't finish Kagemaru off. Now Judai uses the Deus Ex Machina card again, paying half his life points, and then sets the new card to end his turn.
Kagemaru takes his turn, draws three cards, switches Uria to attack position, and then he activates Raviel's effect, sacrificing his two Mythic Demon Tokens to add their combined attack power to Raviel, or about 2000 points, for this turn only. The God Soldier of the Obelisk sneers at this, Raviel attacks Shining Flare Wingman, and Judai activates his face down De-Fusion, separating his monster back into Flame Wingman and Sparkman, in defense position obviously. This lets Kagemaru special summon two more Mythic Demon Tokens in defense position, says Judai's makeshift tactics won't work against him, and attacks with both Raviel and Uria, destroying Judai's monsters.
Judai takes his turn, summons Clayman, and then uses Deus Ex Machina Card one more time to get Miracle Fusion, his life points now at 75. He plays Miracle Fusion, removing Clayman, Featherman, Burst Lady, and Bubbleman to bring out Elixirir, who's effect is pretty much useless in this situation, but whatever, his effect is worthless most of the time anyway, he's an excessively expensive glorified beatstick, no one in their right mind uses him. Oh, and as it turns out, Deus Ex Machina card has yet one more effect, and so he plays it, finally saying its name, The Philosopher's Stone - Sabatiel.
I've been informed that Sabatiel is supposed to be the name of the hermetic angel of Jupiter, which is associated with the Alchemic process Nigredo. What significance does that have here? Absolutely none, it's a gratuitous, tortured alchemy reference that is out of place and doesn't mean anything, seeing as Sabatiel is only tangentially connected to the Philosopher's Stone, if that. Besides which, none of the horseshit of this entire arc has made any goddamn sense, so it's not like it would make any difference if this particular random reference was in any way meaningful to begin with. And mind you, that's only if you buy the notion that it is supposed to be a reference to an obscure alchemical term; it could just as easily be a bad transliteration of the Sabbath, or it could be a reference to the Sabatier reaction to produce Methane and Water. So, yeah.
Seriously, it's like the use of Christian imagery in Neon Genesis Evangelion; completely gratuitous and meaningless, used solely for its value as something exotic that the audience is not likely to be familiar with. And yet people still argue about the meaning of Evangelion to this day, and they keep doing remakes and movies to this day. Well, what are you going to do?
Anyway, after using its first effect three times, The Philosopher's Stone can be equipped to a monster that Judai controls, and that monster's attack power is multiplied by the number of monsters on the opponent's side of the field. Kagemaru has five monsters, so Elixirir's attack power becomes 14,500. Yeah, that's right. 14,500. Fucking insane, I know. So Judai attacks Raviel, destroys it, and defeats Kagemaru about three times over. Kagermaru cries out that this is impossible, and on cue all the "life energy of the duel monsters" leaves his body, so now all the card art is back to normal, and now the two whiny little brats can stop crying now. Seriously, what the fuck was with the crying? Going WTF would have been the reasonable reaction, but crying? I'm sorry, but that was just so stupid.
Oh, and then The Philosopher's Stone just...disappears, for no reason at all. Which just goes to show that it was a blatant Deus Ex Machina card, and nothing more. Kagemaru screams again, and now he's a decrepit old man again. He says he just wanted to feel young again, and when he saw all the youthful people like them, it made him want to be young no matter the cost. Now he can't even stand on his own. Wow I feel so...not sorry, what's the other word? Unmoved? Dismissive? Ah, that's it, dismissive! Yeah, dude, so you wanted to be young. So fucking what, that's supposed to excuse all this bullshit? Yeah, this was a pretty weak fucking effort, but you were going to kill anyone who got in your way, so fuck you.
Oh wait, Judai says that Kagemaru's still in good shape, he shouldn't say stuff like that, so I guess we're supposed to forgive Kagemaru. Well you can fucking forget that! Just for putting us through that bullshit storyline, Kagemaru deserves to rot for what remains of his life. So yeah, Judai, the fifteen year old sub-moron, is teaching the chairman who's well over a hundred years old, valuable life lessons. Excuse while I transport a colony of fire-ants inside Judai's skull. Yes, that should do for now. So yeah, all Kagemaru needed was a pep-talk, and he could stand on his own two feet. Yeah, I can imagine the reaction you'd get from any infirm, elderly person, if you were to tell them that all they needed was to trust in their own strength to get back up. It involves a vicious beating. Yes, dueling Judai, and it had to be Judai, restored Kagemaru's zeal for life, and then Judai hugs him, breaking multiple ribs in the process. And of course, Judai won't be sued. At all.
So Kagemaru is taken away in a helicopter, everyone feels all sorry for him, Manjoume points out that all the stuff Kagemaru did was horrible, so he's just getting what he deserves. But since Manjoume is the one saying it, we're meant to regard that as him just being grumpy and distant. Fuck you writers. Judai waves excitedly as he says goodbye to Kagemaru, or "Gramps" as he so puts it. Fuck you again writers. And then Samejima puts the Mythic Demons back into the same seal that it turns out can be broken just by having lots of people dueling on the island. Fuck you some more writers. Chronos says that all that's left are next week's promotion exams, and Judai flips out, as he'd forgotten all about them. Fuck the writers extra hard for their pathetic effort at comedy and trying and failing to give Judai a character flaw. And so we end the episode on Judai's ugly mug, so let me just say, fuck the writers, one more time.
NEXT TIME! Oh joy, a Hayato episode. Hayato wins a card drawing contest, a cameo from Pegasus, who is still alive because this is anime continuity, and now Hayato has to duel Chronos to get approval to become a Card Designer. So, two character's who've never won are going to duel, what's going to happen? EPISODE TITLE, HAYATO VS. CHRONOS! AYERS ROCK SUNRISE
So, yeah, the Seven Stars Arc is over, and we still have three episodes to go before the first season is finally over. God, fucking, dammit, this show is bullshit.
TITLE SCREEN! VS. KAGEMARU (PART 2) THE AWAKENING OF THE THREE MYTHIC DEMONS yuugi and atem trying to defeat the sun dragon ra, this ain't.
Kagemaru says he'd like to finish Judai off with Uria, but apparently on the turn that it is special summoned from the grave, it can't attack when there are other monsters on the field. Which is just plain transparent blatant bullshit that the writers are pulling in order to keep Judai from getting the well deserved ass-kicking that he deserves. So now it's Judai's turn, he needlessly goes over his situation, and summons Friendog in defense position, and sets one card to end his turn. Kagemaru mocks Judai and his monster, and is way, way, way overdramatic in his card drawing. Then he activates Lost Paradise to draw two more cards, and then he attacks with Hamon, destroying Friendog for 1000 points of damage, which sends Judai flying about twenty feet into the air and landing on his back, then bouncing onto his ass. Unfortunately, he's just fine, and then uses Friendog to get back Fusion and Bubbleman. Blah, blah, blah, Kagemaru attacks with Uria, reaction shots, Judai activates his face-down card, Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, and special summons Winged Kuriboh to the field.
Winged Kuriboh is destroyed, then its spirit appears next to Judai's shoulder, nudges him, and then a card comes out of Judai's deck. He takes it, and it is the card from the Emerald Tablet...for some reason. So Judai tells Kagemaru that Daitokuji was worried about him to the very end, and thanks camera guy, I wanted to see Kagemaru's ass. But, to be fair, the fangirls probably don't mind as much. Maybe. I still want to know why Kagemaru's in a diaper, and not a proper pair of pants. Where was I? Oh, right, Kagemaru dismisses Daitokuji as just another pawn, as is Judai, and if he has a problem with that, he'll just have to win the duel. So Judai takes his turn, summons Bubbleman, draws two cards with its bullshit effect, he plays Metamorphosis to sacrifice Bubbleman for Neo-Bubbleman, equips it with Bubbleshot, I think we all see where this is going, Neo-Bubbleman attacks Hamon, Hamon is destroyed and Judai takes no damage.
Seriously, remember the Egyptian God Cards? None of them were even remotely so close to being this easy to destroy! This is just pathetic.
Judai sets a card, and then ends his turn. Kagemaru draws three cards, and then attacks with Uria...seriously, he's got all this insane draw power going, but he can't do anything with it? Jesus, this guy's deck sucks. Anyway, Judai activates Bubble Illusion, allowing him to activate a trap card from his hand, making me wonder why he didn't just set the trap card in the first place. Anyway, the trap card is the brand new, never before seen, yet somehow completely appropriate for the situation, Hero's Rule 1 - Five Freedoms; this removes five cards of a designated type from both players grave, so Judai picks trap. This gets rid of the five traps in Kagemaru's grave, so Uria's attack power drops to zero, which means it gets destroyed by Neo-Bubbleman for 800 points of damage.
So yeah, Judai just destroyed two Mythic Demons like they were nothing. I'm. Not. Impressed.
Kagemaru is indignant and activates Sacrifice of Revival; on the turn that his monster is destroyed by battle, he can destroy one opposing monster, boom goes Neo-Bubbleman, and then he can special summon a monster in his grave in defense position, so here comes Hamon. And then he discards a trap card to bring back Uria, who will only have 1000 defense points. Then he plays another spell card, Martyr of the Mythic Demons; with Uria and Hamon on the field, he discards two cards to special summon three Mythic Demon Martyr Tokens, and one of the cards he discarded was a trap card, so Uria gains another 1000 defense points. And hey, guess what? Three demon-type monsters is exactly what Kagemaru needs to summon the final Mythic Demon, the mightiest of the Mythic Demons, the Lord of Phantasms - Raviel! Who, you guessed it, is a tired retread of the God-Soldier of the Obelisk.
And yes, it is total bullshit that the Obelisk-ripoff is supposed to be the strongest, when everyone knows that the Sun Dragon Ra was the strongest of the Egyptian God Cards. And yes, the writers have tapioca for brains.
So yeah, Raviel has 4000 attack points, and now all three are on the field, and so now they can start making all the card art in the world disappear...er, I mean "absorb the life-energy of all the duel monster spirits". Yes, because THAT'S so much more intimidating and scary. Oh, and this is just fucking precious; we see a couple of kids looking at some cards in a shop, and the card art starts to disappear, and so they start crying.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ZEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
GURAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
KUKAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I'm sorry, I just...THAT'S JUST FUCKING PATHETIC! I'D SAY THAT SOME SORT OF PARODY WAS GOING ON, EXCEPT THAT EVERYTHING IS BEING PLAYED SO STRAIGHT, DEAD-SERIOUS, AND UNIRONIC, THAT I'M FACED WITH THE HORRIFYING NOTION THAT THE WRITERS REALLY DID THINK THAT THIS WAS GOING TO COME ACROSS AS SCARY! I DON'T THINK EVEN A FIVE YEAR OLD WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THIS!
Oh, and judging by the old guy we see from the waist down, I think this is supposed to be Grandpa Mutou's card shop, not that it makes even the slightest difference. Oh, and now we're with Shouji and Chousaku, who for some reason still give a shit about the cards they bought over twenty episodes ago. Seriously, what do they care if the card art disappears? I mean, that's not going to keep the cards themselves from working, right?
Oh, and Ojama Yellow's card art is now a skeleton. Look, I have a single emo tear running down my cheek. Kagemaru tries to go Super Saiyan, Samejima finally figures out why Kagemaru looks young now, even though Kagemaru explained that at length last episode, and Kagemaru says that once he defeats Judai and gains his power over the Duel Spirits, he'll absorb the life of all Duel Spirits everywhere and gain eternal life. So, basically, he repeats himself for the umpteenth time. And then Judai says he feels sorry for Kagemaru, because if he wipes out all the Duel Monsters, no one will want to be his friend.
Umm, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure most people in the GX world regard Duel Monsters as just a bizarrely popular card game, nothing to lose sleep over if the fad finally comes to an end. Now, if Kagemaru were to kill all the PEOPLE who play the card game to gain his eternal youth, then I'm sure no one would want to be his friend. But I forget, Judai's talking, so he's always right, no matter how insanely stupid he's being, and if he says that Duel Monsters is the meaning of life, than Duel Monsters is the meaning of life.
Kagemaru says he doesn't need friends, he'll just get rid of anyone who defies him, and Judai says he won't let Kagemaru hurt Duel Monsters or his friends, and I don't like the way he put the damn Duel Monster spirits first, over his actual human friends. Kagemaru says it will be impossible for Judai to defeat his Three Mythic Demons now that they're all out on the field together.
EYECATCH!
So Judai takes his turn, plays Dark Factory of Mass Production to get back Burst Lady and Featherman, and then he plays Fusion to get Flame Wingman, which activates Raviel's effect, special summoning a Mythic Demon token in defense position to Kagemaru's side of the field. Judai knows he can defeat Uria, but Hamon and Raviel will destroy him next turn, and then we hear Pharaoh yowling. Then we hear Daitokuji, and his soul floats on over to Judai, telling him to play the card that he found in the Emerald Tablet, and I can't believe he needs Daitokuji to tell him to do this, but hey, Judai's never figured out how to do anything on his own before, why should this be any different? Daitokuji says that only the Ultimate Alchemist can use that card, which is just a huge load of shit, that Judai must call to mind a card in his deck, and the card will resonate, granting a miracle three times, and then Pharaoh cuts Daitokuji off by swallowing his soul. Again. This still bothers the fuck out of me.
Pharaoh runs off, and now that it's all been spelled out for him, some Ultimate Alchemist if he couldn't figure that shit out on his own, Judai transforms the Deus Ex Machina card into Fusion Recovery, which costs him half his life points. Judai plays it, smiling like the moron that he is, and gets back Fusion and Sparkman, so he plays fusion and gets Shining Flare Wingman. Another Mythic Demon Token appears on Kagemaru's side of the field, and since Judai has seven Elemental Heroes in his grave, Shining Flare Wingman's attack power becomes 4600. Shining Flare Wingman attacks Hamon and destroys it, but it turns out that when Hamon is destroyed in defense position, all damage to Kagemaru is reduced to zero, so Shining Flare Wingman's second effect doesn't finish Kagemaru off. Now Judai uses the Deus Ex Machina card again, paying half his life points, and then sets the new card to end his turn.
Kagemaru takes his turn, draws three cards, switches Uria to attack position, and then he activates Raviel's effect, sacrificing his two Mythic Demon Tokens to add their combined attack power to Raviel, or about 2000 points, for this turn only. The God Soldier of the Obelisk sneers at this, Raviel attacks Shining Flare Wingman, and Judai activates his face down De-Fusion, separating his monster back into Flame Wingman and Sparkman, in defense position obviously. This lets Kagemaru special summon two more Mythic Demon Tokens in defense position, says Judai's makeshift tactics won't work against him, and attacks with both Raviel and Uria, destroying Judai's monsters.
Judai takes his turn, summons Clayman, and then uses Deus Ex Machina Card one more time to get Miracle Fusion, his life points now at 75. He plays Miracle Fusion, removing Clayman, Featherman, Burst Lady, and Bubbleman to bring out Elixirir, who's effect is pretty much useless in this situation, but whatever, his effect is worthless most of the time anyway, he's an excessively expensive glorified beatstick, no one in their right mind uses him. Oh, and as it turns out, Deus Ex Machina card has yet one more effect, and so he plays it, finally saying its name, The Philosopher's Stone - Sabatiel.
I've been informed that Sabatiel is supposed to be the name of the hermetic angel of Jupiter, which is associated with the Alchemic process Nigredo. What significance does that have here? Absolutely none, it's a gratuitous, tortured alchemy reference that is out of place and doesn't mean anything, seeing as Sabatiel is only tangentially connected to the Philosopher's Stone, if that. Besides which, none of the horseshit of this entire arc has made any goddamn sense, so it's not like it would make any difference if this particular random reference was in any way meaningful to begin with. And mind you, that's only if you buy the notion that it is supposed to be a reference to an obscure alchemical term; it could just as easily be a bad transliteration of the Sabbath, or it could be a reference to the Sabatier reaction to produce Methane and Water. So, yeah.
Seriously, it's like the use of Christian imagery in Neon Genesis Evangelion; completely gratuitous and meaningless, used solely for its value as something exotic that the audience is not likely to be familiar with. And yet people still argue about the meaning of Evangelion to this day, and they keep doing remakes and movies to this day. Well, what are you going to do?
Anyway, after using its first effect three times, The Philosopher's Stone can be equipped to a monster that Judai controls, and that monster's attack power is multiplied by the number of monsters on the opponent's side of the field. Kagemaru has five monsters, so Elixirir's attack power becomes 14,500. Yeah, that's right. 14,500. Fucking insane, I know. So Judai attacks Raviel, destroys it, and defeats Kagemaru about three times over. Kagermaru cries out that this is impossible, and on cue all the "life energy of the duel monsters" leaves his body, so now all the card art is back to normal, and now the two whiny little brats can stop crying now. Seriously, what the fuck was with the crying? Going WTF would have been the reasonable reaction, but crying? I'm sorry, but that was just so stupid.
Oh, and then The Philosopher's Stone just...disappears, for no reason at all. Which just goes to show that it was a blatant Deus Ex Machina card, and nothing more. Kagemaru screams again, and now he's a decrepit old man again. He says he just wanted to feel young again, and when he saw all the youthful people like them, it made him want to be young no matter the cost. Now he can't even stand on his own. Wow I feel so...not sorry, what's the other word? Unmoved? Dismissive? Ah, that's it, dismissive! Yeah, dude, so you wanted to be young. So fucking what, that's supposed to excuse all this bullshit? Yeah, this was a pretty weak fucking effort, but you were going to kill anyone who got in your way, so fuck you.
Oh wait, Judai says that Kagemaru's still in good shape, he shouldn't say stuff like that, so I guess we're supposed to forgive Kagemaru. Well you can fucking forget that! Just for putting us through that bullshit storyline, Kagemaru deserves to rot for what remains of his life. So yeah, Judai, the fifteen year old sub-moron, is teaching the chairman who's well over a hundred years old, valuable life lessons. Excuse while I transport a colony of fire-ants inside Judai's skull. Yes, that should do for now. So yeah, all Kagemaru needed was a pep-talk, and he could stand on his own two feet. Yeah, I can imagine the reaction you'd get from any infirm, elderly person, if you were to tell them that all they needed was to trust in their own strength to get back up. It involves a vicious beating. Yes, dueling Judai, and it had to be Judai, restored Kagemaru's zeal for life, and then Judai hugs him, breaking multiple ribs in the process. And of course, Judai won't be sued. At all.
So Kagemaru is taken away in a helicopter, everyone feels all sorry for him, Manjoume points out that all the stuff Kagemaru did was horrible, so he's just getting what he deserves. But since Manjoume is the one saying it, we're meant to regard that as him just being grumpy and distant. Fuck you writers. Judai waves excitedly as he says goodbye to Kagemaru, or "Gramps" as he so puts it. Fuck you again writers. And then Samejima puts the Mythic Demons back into the same seal that it turns out can be broken just by having lots of people dueling on the island. Fuck you some more writers. Chronos says that all that's left are next week's promotion exams, and Judai flips out, as he'd forgotten all about them. Fuck the writers extra hard for their pathetic effort at comedy and trying and failing to give Judai a character flaw. And so we end the episode on Judai's ugly mug, so let me just say, fuck the writers, one more time.
NEXT TIME! Oh joy, a Hayato episode. Hayato wins a card drawing contest, a cameo from Pegasus, who is still alive because this is anime continuity, and now Hayato has to duel Chronos to get approval to become a Card Designer. So, two character's who've never won are going to duel, what's going to happen? EPISODE TITLE, HAYATO VS. CHRONOS! AYERS ROCK SUNRISE
So, yeah, the Seven Stars Arc is over, and we still have three episodes to go before the first season is finally over. God, fucking, dammit, this show is bullshit.
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