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Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 63
We open with Manjoume saying he won't complain about the food, and then complaining about it. Specifically, he whines about how it's always the same food every time. Shou and Kenzan miss Judai, and Manjoume says that's not it, blah blah blah, all this talk of food is really tediously dull, and apparently Manjoume now has a problem with Kenzan turning the white Tofu black with the Soy Sauce...You really get the feeling that the writers just took the course on how color can create theme, and are way too eager to apply it. Blah blah blah, really stupid bickering and arguing, and suddenly everyone smells something, something good. Now we see some dude cooking up a big pot of curry. Kenzan, being the rude little prick that he is, shoves ahead of everyone else and demands the first serving. However, the man cooking the curry, who has a cape and a bag over his head, tells them to hold on, for he is Curry Mask. This show dares to sully and mock the good name of curry. Someone must pay for this.
TITLE SCREEN! KENZAN VS. CURRY MANIAC! SPICY DUEL giving a duel to kenzan is like giving a duel to hayato. that is all.
Blah blah blah, everyone's wonders WTF, Curry Mask asks if the curry is so tempting that they can't even control themselves, and we get to see Kenzan being a presumptuous greedy little fuck, because it wasn't like he had enough negative character traits as it was. Curry Mask takes Kenzan's plate from him, Kenzan asks how he knows his name, and Curry Mask says that there's only one way he's getting at this curry, and what else, it's a duel; if Kenzan wins, he gets all the curry he wants, but if he wins, Kenzan, Misawa, and Shou must all get their asses back to Ra Yellow where they fucking belong. Shou is all WTF, Manjoume thinks this is great, and we see the little troll watching the whole thing from behind the bushes; he has no idea who the fuck Curry Mask is, but approves of his efforts to get the Ra Yellows out of the Osiris Red dorm. So, by the laws of designated villainy, it is bad and wrong, badwrong if you will, for the Ra Yellow students to actually be in Ra Yellow. Or something like that, comprehending the way the writers think is highly damaging to ones sanity.
Then Asuka shows up! She says there's no reason to accept such a duel, though the stupidest reason imaginable, since apparently without Shou, Kenzan, and Misawa, all the numerous faceless, nameless Osiris Red students could not possibly defend their own dorm. You know, because that would be stupid. Of course, Kenzan accepts, for his brain was cultivated from the dinosaur DNA cultivated from a mosquito trapped in Amber. No, wait, that was Jurassic Park, and even that is better than this shit. So yeah, our tedious, bullshit duel of the week is about to begin, and Curry Mask declares that he will win and send Kenzan back to Ra Yellow, Shou wonders why the fuck Curry Mask even cares, and when you find out, you will want to punt Shou's head right into the ocean. Blah blah blah, we're skipping Kenzan's dialogue, Curry Mask says he'll go first, and the duel officially starts. Curry Mask starts talking all fancy like, and summons Carrotman in defense position. Then, for his second act of tedious predictability, he plays the permanent spell card, Curry Pot. Yes, he plays a Curry Deck. Show? Your beating is well deserved, and will only get worse as the episode progresses.
Blah blah blah, Curry Pot will remove from play monsters that are headed to the grave, making this like Amnael's Alchemy deck. You know, just in case you were worried that the writers couldn't be any lazier. Curry Mask ends his turn, Kenzan declares that doesn't scare him, and he summons Black Stego, with 1200 attack points. He attacks Carrotman and destroys it, sets a card, and ends his turn. And now all the pieces of the chopped up Carrotman go into the Curry Pot. Of course. Kenzan asks why Curry Mask is so bent on them going back to Ra Yellow, Curry Mask asks him if he really has time to worry about stuff like that, for in hanging out with the loser Osiris Reds he can't hope to win. Everyone looks at Manjoume, cue stock laughter and unmoved studio audience. It is Curry Mask's turn, and he summons Potatoeman, blah blah blah, pointless banter, and then he declares he'll play a Spice Card. Hey, Ms. Tome is now there for no particular reason; then again, without a plot or characterization, it's not like anyone has any particular reason to do ANYTHING! Anyway, the spice card in question is Red Pepper, and now Kenzan's Black Stego is sneezing. Cue more canned laughter. Anyway, the point is that Curry Mask's monster's attack power rises by 300, while Kenzan's monster's attack power drops by 300.
So now Potatoeman attack Black Stego, but oh, Black Stego has an effect, switching it to defense position when it is attacked, and it has 2000 defense points, so Curry Mask takes 800 points of damage. Wow, this is embarrassing. But Curry Mask is not done yet, and plays the Spice Card Cinnamon; this switches his monsters to defense position, and his opponent's monsters to attack position. And now Curry Mask sets a card to end his turn. Kenzan calls Curry Mask weak but interesting, Curry Mask proclaims himself a Hero of Justice, which of course prompts Kenzan to sing the praises of the great Judai, who's such a great hero that he ran away and abandoned everyone the moment things became mildly inconvenient for him. Kenzan once more asks who the hell Curry Mask is, Curry Mask says a real hero would never give up his identity so freely, and Kenzan declares that he'll remove that mask, AKA the paper bag. It is Kenzan's turn now, and he sacrifices Black Stego to summon Dark Driceratops, which adds disgusting Dino meat to the Curry Pot, which is no one is going to want to touch now; thanks for ruining the Curry, Kenzan! Dark Driceratops attacks and destroys Potatoman and pentrates his defense, dealing 1600 points of damage.
Curry Mask is unfazed and activates his counter spice trap Cumin; when his monster is destroyed, he can special summon a level-4 or lower monster from his hand, so he brings out Onionman. However, this lets Kenzan activate his trap card, Hunting Instinct; when the opponent special summons a monster, he can special summon a Dinosaur monster from his hand, so he special summons Dark Tyranno. And since they're still in the battle phase, Kenzan gets to attack with Dark Tyranno, destroying Onionman for 1400 points of damage. And for no particular reason, Curry Mask's paper bag falls off of his head, revealing...some guy we've never met before. The various characters swear that they think they've seen him before, but they can't remember his name...and it turns out he's Kabayama, the Ra Yellow professor. Excuse me a moment...All right, that takes care of the Horse's head...
EYECATCH!
Kabayama goes on about how the Obelisk Blue professor Chronos is now the Temporary Principal, and Daitokuji has died, and we once more are reminded by the writers of their contempt for the original series by having Daitokuji's soul come out of Pharaoh for a moment, only to be swallowed again. And people wonder why I hate this series so much...Kabayama points out the various points in the series where he was hidden in the background, like a twisted and sadistic game of Where's Waldo, and of course no one else, especially not Kenzan, can remember having ever seen him. Fuck these fuckers so fucking hard, especially Kenzan. Kenzan asks what the point of the Curry Mask getup was, blah blah blah, rather then just telling Kenzan, Shou, and Misawa to get their asses back into Ra Yellow, which he has the authority to do, he instead came up with the insipid Curry Plot, and now just tells Kenzan to go back to Ra Yellow. Kenzan, having the brain the size of a walnut, is lost. Kabayama says he's doing all this for their sakes, and asks why they moved out of Ra Yellow in the first place, since Ra Yellow is superior to Osiris Red in both educational establishment and environment. But Kenzan, being an empty shill of a character, says that Osiris Red has Judai, the worthless coward who'd rather play pretend with his imaginary friends than spend time with his fellow humans. Seriously, I'm not motherfucking exaggerating on this point. Blah blah blah, way too much time spent talking about Judai, and Kabayama realizes that Kenzan is far too stupid to understand anything but pure force, and puts the paper bag back over his head.
Kenzan, assuming that we're as stupid as he is, points out that Kabayama's demeanor changes when he puts on the Paper Bag, and Kabayama declares that the preparation is over, and declares that when Potatoman, Onionman, and Carrotman have been removed from play, Curry Pot's effect can be activated, he can remove all the monsters on the field from play. Bye bye, evolutionary inferior dinosaurs! Blah blah blah, pointless banter, and Kabayama says the effect isn't over yet, now he gets to special summon Curry Majin Roux, one of the stupidest looking monsters ever conceived. But hey, it's not like the writers put ANY thought into Kabayama's deck, he's only here to be a one-episode joke. Kenzan notes that it's attack power is zero, but of course Curry Majin Roux has an effect to change that; every spice card in the grave gives Curry Majin Roux 200 attack points, and every monster that's been removed from play will give it 300 attack points. Three Spices means 600 attack points, and six monsters means 1800 attack points, for a total of 2400 attack points. Kenzan sets a card, and ends his turn. Kabayama says it would be best if Kenzan just surrendered, and plays Pot of Greed. Then he plays the Spice Card Caraway, dealing 200 damage to the opponent and recovering his life points by 200. This also raises Curry Majin Roux's attack power by another 200 points, and then he plays the Spice Card, Garam Masala, which lets him add three Spice cards from his deck to his hand. He chooses and plays two copies of Caraway and one copy of Red Pepper; this leaves Kenzan with 3400 hundred life points, while Curry Majin Roux's attack power rises to 3700. Blah blah blah, Kabayama says nothing tastes better then after a hard day's work, something Judai would know nothing about, and this is his approach to dueling, preparing over time and finishing it all in one blow.
Kenzan thinks to himself that he can't lose here, because it would just be so fucking horrible for him to have to stay in Ra Yellow, wouldn't it? And...now there's a gap in the video. That really does not speak of highly of this shitty episode, does it, that not even the person who uploaded it could focus. Well, according to the summary on Janime.info, Kabayama declares his direct attack, and Kenzan finally remembers his trap card and activates Survival Instinct, removing both dinosaurs in his hand from play to recover 500 life points for each one. Note that in the real game, Survival Instinct removes Dinosaurs in the GRAVE from play, and only recovers 400 life points per monster. Anyway, with the two new removed from play monsters, Curry Majin Roux's attack power rises to 4300, which leaves Kenzan with 100 life points left. Red Pepper's effect wears off, dropping Curry Majin Roux's attack power back to 4000. Wow, like that episode wasn't annoying enough to begin with, I had to go through that bullshit.
Kabayama declares that Kenzan has no hope of growth, hanging out in the Loser Osiris Red, but Kenzan swears that he's gotten stronger since he met Judai; after all, before he used to be the leader of his own gang, and now he's just a pathetic follower of a brainless loser! Wait...seriously, on what basis is Kenzan making this declaration? These writers have a serious problem with Showing instead of Telling. Blah blah blah, burning passion for victory, blah blah blah, Judai's a bullshit source for inspiration, seriously, shut the fuck up Kenzan, do not talk to your superiors that way. Seriously writers, if you really wanted Judai to be this great inspiration for everyone, you should have given him worthwhile characterization, instead of repeatedly showing him to be a lazy, shiftless, unambitious, unmotivated twit. Who the fuck could be inspired by that? Kenzan thinks about how it's all down to this one draw, die in a fire Judai, I imagine the writers are replaying the ridiculously suggestive shot to cover up the painful shortcomings of this episode, blah blah blah, Kenzan's eyes do that stupid thing again, and he summons the ultra conveniently timed Tyranno Infinity, which gains 1000 attack points for every Dinosaur that's been removed from play. Wow, good thing his opponent was running a Remove from play strategy, huh? Wait, that's not good at all, Kenzan's going to win!
Shut the fuck up Kenzan, stop doing that stupid thing with your eyes, just get this stupid waste of time duel over with, you worthless sack of shit. Blah blah blah, Kenzan once more ignores the part where all the dinosaurs died out, and Napoleon walks off, having contributed absolutely nothing to the episode at all. One must wonder what kind of a stink that trolls voice actor must have raised to get a cameo in today's episode. Blah blah blah, Kenzan gets Kabayama to admit that he was feeling lonely, because apparently there's nobody else in the entire Ra Yellow dorm, because that's the only way this makes any fucking sense, and even then it still makes no fucking sense. And so everyone gets to enjoy the curry, but will Kenzan and the others go back to Ra Yellow? Only occasionally, but Kenzan still expects to get curry from Kabayama every day, because he is desperate to be an even bigger prick than Judai was. Oh, and speaking of that motherfucking prick, he is lost somewhere in the woods, starving to death. Unfortunately for us all, he will not be dying any time soon. And boy, could he go for some curry. Cue one last bit of canned laughter, the studio audience has taken off long ago, and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Judai rock-climbs, but does not fall to his painful death like he should, and fuck me, Shou and Kenzan are going to duel. EPISODE TITLE, HOT EMOTION FOR BIG BROTHER, SHOU VS. KENZAN! Seriously, who the fuck fights over something like that, who? And the card of the Week is Dark Tyranno, which brings this episode to an even lower level of fail.
When the writers try to be serious, they get nothing but laughter. When the writers try to be comedic, they get blank stares. How can one writing staff fail this badly, I'll never know.
TITLE SCREEN! KENZAN VS. CURRY MANIAC! SPICY DUEL giving a duel to kenzan is like giving a duel to hayato. that is all.
Blah blah blah, everyone's wonders WTF, Curry Mask asks if the curry is so tempting that they can't even control themselves, and we get to see Kenzan being a presumptuous greedy little fuck, because it wasn't like he had enough negative character traits as it was. Curry Mask takes Kenzan's plate from him, Kenzan asks how he knows his name, and Curry Mask says that there's only one way he's getting at this curry, and what else, it's a duel; if Kenzan wins, he gets all the curry he wants, but if he wins, Kenzan, Misawa, and Shou must all get their asses back to Ra Yellow where they fucking belong. Shou is all WTF, Manjoume thinks this is great, and we see the little troll watching the whole thing from behind the bushes; he has no idea who the fuck Curry Mask is, but approves of his efforts to get the Ra Yellows out of the Osiris Red dorm. So, by the laws of designated villainy, it is bad and wrong, badwrong if you will, for the Ra Yellow students to actually be in Ra Yellow. Or something like that, comprehending the way the writers think is highly damaging to ones sanity.
Then Asuka shows up! She says there's no reason to accept such a duel, though the stupidest reason imaginable, since apparently without Shou, Kenzan, and Misawa, all the numerous faceless, nameless Osiris Red students could not possibly defend their own dorm. You know, because that would be stupid. Of course, Kenzan accepts, for his brain was cultivated from the dinosaur DNA cultivated from a mosquito trapped in Amber. No, wait, that was Jurassic Park, and even that is better than this shit. So yeah, our tedious, bullshit duel of the week is about to begin, and Curry Mask declares that he will win and send Kenzan back to Ra Yellow, Shou wonders why the fuck Curry Mask even cares, and when you find out, you will want to punt Shou's head right into the ocean. Blah blah blah, we're skipping Kenzan's dialogue, Curry Mask says he'll go first, and the duel officially starts. Curry Mask starts talking all fancy like, and summons Carrotman in defense position. Then, for his second act of tedious predictability, he plays the permanent spell card, Curry Pot. Yes, he plays a Curry Deck. Show? Your beating is well deserved, and will only get worse as the episode progresses.
Blah blah blah, Curry Pot will remove from play monsters that are headed to the grave, making this like Amnael's Alchemy deck. You know, just in case you were worried that the writers couldn't be any lazier. Curry Mask ends his turn, Kenzan declares that doesn't scare him, and he summons Black Stego, with 1200 attack points. He attacks Carrotman and destroys it, sets a card, and ends his turn. And now all the pieces of the chopped up Carrotman go into the Curry Pot. Of course. Kenzan asks why Curry Mask is so bent on them going back to Ra Yellow, Curry Mask asks him if he really has time to worry about stuff like that, for in hanging out with the loser Osiris Reds he can't hope to win. Everyone looks at Manjoume, cue stock laughter and unmoved studio audience. It is Curry Mask's turn, and he summons Potatoeman, blah blah blah, pointless banter, and then he declares he'll play a Spice Card. Hey, Ms. Tome is now there for no particular reason; then again, without a plot or characterization, it's not like anyone has any particular reason to do ANYTHING! Anyway, the spice card in question is Red Pepper, and now Kenzan's Black Stego is sneezing. Cue more canned laughter. Anyway, the point is that Curry Mask's monster's attack power rises by 300, while Kenzan's monster's attack power drops by 300.
So now Potatoeman attack Black Stego, but oh, Black Stego has an effect, switching it to defense position when it is attacked, and it has 2000 defense points, so Curry Mask takes 800 points of damage. Wow, this is embarrassing. But Curry Mask is not done yet, and plays the Spice Card Cinnamon; this switches his monsters to defense position, and his opponent's monsters to attack position. And now Curry Mask sets a card to end his turn. Kenzan calls Curry Mask weak but interesting, Curry Mask proclaims himself a Hero of Justice, which of course prompts Kenzan to sing the praises of the great Judai, who's such a great hero that he ran away and abandoned everyone the moment things became mildly inconvenient for him. Kenzan once more asks who the hell Curry Mask is, Curry Mask says a real hero would never give up his identity so freely, and Kenzan declares that he'll remove that mask, AKA the paper bag. It is Kenzan's turn now, and he sacrifices Black Stego to summon Dark Driceratops, which adds disgusting Dino meat to the Curry Pot, which is no one is going to want to touch now; thanks for ruining the Curry, Kenzan! Dark Driceratops attacks and destroys Potatoman and pentrates his defense, dealing 1600 points of damage.
Curry Mask is unfazed and activates his counter spice trap Cumin; when his monster is destroyed, he can special summon a level-4 or lower monster from his hand, so he brings out Onionman. However, this lets Kenzan activate his trap card, Hunting Instinct; when the opponent special summons a monster, he can special summon a Dinosaur monster from his hand, so he special summons Dark Tyranno. And since they're still in the battle phase, Kenzan gets to attack with Dark Tyranno, destroying Onionman for 1400 points of damage. And for no particular reason, Curry Mask's paper bag falls off of his head, revealing...some guy we've never met before. The various characters swear that they think they've seen him before, but they can't remember his name...and it turns out he's Kabayama, the Ra Yellow professor. Excuse me a moment...All right, that takes care of the Horse's head...
EYECATCH!
Kabayama goes on about how the Obelisk Blue professor Chronos is now the Temporary Principal, and Daitokuji has died, and we once more are reminded by the writers of their contempt for the original series by having Daitokuji's soul come out of Pharaoh for a moment, only to be swallowed again. And people wonder why I hate this series so much...Kabayama points out the various points in the series where he was hidden in the background, like a twisted and sadistic game of Where's Waldo, and of course no one else, especially not Kenzan, can remember having ever seen him. Fuck these fuckers so fucking hard, especially Kenzan. Kenzan asks what the point of the Curry Mask getup was, blah blah blah, rather then just telling Kenzan, Shou, and Misawa to get their asses back into Ra Yellow, which he has the authority to do, he instead came up with the insipid Curry Plot, and now just tells Kenzan to go back to Ra Yellow. Kenzan, having the brain the size of a walnut, is lost. Kabayama says he's doing all this for their sakes, and asks why they moved out of Ra Yellow in the first place, since Ra Yellow is superior to Osiris Red in both educational establishment and environment. But Kenzan, being an empty shill of a character, says that Osiris Red has Judai, the worthless coward who'd rather play pretend with his imaginary friends than spend time with his fellow humans. Seriously, I'm not motherfucking exaggerating on this point. Blah blah blah, way too much time spent talking about Judai, and Kabayama realizes that Kenzan is far too stupid to understand anything but pure force, and puts the paper bag back over his head.
Kenzan, assuming that we're as stupid as he is, points out that Kabayama's demeanor changes when he puts on the Paper Bag, and Kabayama declares that the preparation is over, and declares that when Potatoman, Onionman, and Carrotman have been removed from play, Curry Pot's effect can be activated, he can remove all the monsters on the field from play. Bye bye, evolutionary inferior dinosaurs! Blah blah blah, pointless banter, and Kabayama says the effect isn't over yet, now he gets to special summon Curry Majin Roux, one of the stupidest looking monsters ever conceived. But hey, it's not like the writers put ANY thought into Kabayama's deck, he's only here to be a one-episode joke. Kenzan notes that it's attack power is zero, but of course Curry Majin Roux has an effect to change that; every spice card in the grave gives Curry Majin Roux 200 attack points, and every monster that's been removed from play will give it 300 attack points. Three Spices means 600 attack points, and six monsters means 1800 attack points, for a total of 2400 attack points. Kenzan sets a card, and ends his turn. Kabayama says it would be best if Kenzan just surrendered, and plays Pot of Greed. Then he plays the Spice Card Caraway, dealing 200 damage to the opponent and recovering his life points by 200. This also raises Curry Majin Roux's attack power by another 200 points, and then he plays the Spice Card, Garam Masala, which lets him add three Spice cards from his deck to his hand. He chooses and plays two copies of Caraway and one copy of Red Pepper; this leaves Kenzan with 3400 hundred life points, while Curry Majin Roux's attack power rises to 3700. Blah blah blah, Kabayama says nothing tastes better then after a hard day's work, something Judai would know nothing about, and this is his approach to dueling, preparing over time and finishing it all in one blow.
Kenzan thinks to himself that he can't lose here, because it would just be so fucking horrible for him to have to stay in Ra Yellow, wouldn't it? And...now there's a gap in the video. That really does not speak of highly of this shitty episode, does it, that not even the person who uploaded it could focus. Well, according to the summary on Janime.info, Kabayama declares his direct attack, and Kenzan finally remembers his trap card and activates Survival Instinct, removing both dinosaurs in his hand from play to recover 500 life points for each one. Note that in the real game, Survival Instinct removes Dinosaurs in the GRAVE from play, and only recovers 400 life points per monster. Anyway, with the two new removed from play monsters, Curry Majin Roux's attack power rises to 4300, which leaves Kenzan with 100 life points left. Red Pepper's effect wears off, dropping Curry Majin Roux's attack power back to 4000. Wow, like that episode wasn't annoying enough to begin with, I had to go through that bullshit.
Kabayama declares that Kenzan has no hope of growth, hanging out in the Loser Osiris Red, but Kenzan swears that he's gotten stronger since he met Judai; after all, before he used to be the leader of his own gang, and now he's just a pathetic follower of a brainless loser! Wait...seriously, on what basis is Kenzan making this declaration? These writers have a serious problem with Showing instead of Telling. Blah blah blah, burning passion for victory, blah blah blah, Judai's a bullshit source for inspiration, seriously, shut the fuck up Kenzan, do not talk to your superiors that way. Seriously writers, if you really wanted Judai to be this great inspiration for everyone, you should have given him worthwhile characterization, instead of repeatedly showing him to be a lazy, shiftless, unambitious, unmotivated twit. Who the fuck could be inspired by that? Kenzan thinks about how it's all down to this one draw, die in a fire Judai, I imagine the writers are replaying the ridiculously suggestive shot to cover up the painful shortcomings of this episode, blah blah blah, Kenzan's eyes do that stupid thing again, and he summons the ultra conveniently timed Tyranno Infinity, which gains 1000 attack points for every Dinosaur that's been removed from play. Wow, good thing his opponent was running a Remove from play strategy, huh? Wait, that's not good at all, Kenzan's going to win!
Shut the fuck up Kenzan, stop doing that stupid thing with your eyes, just get this stupid waste of time duel over with, you worthless sack of shit. Blah blah blah, Kenzan once more ignores the part where all the dinosaurs died out, and Napoleon walks off, having contributed absolutely nothing to the episode at all. One must wonder what kind of a stink that trolls voice actor must have raised to get a cameo in today's episode. Blah blah blah, Kenzan gets Kabayama to admit that he was feeling lonely, because apparently there's nobody else in the entire Ra Yellow dorm, because that's the only way this makes any fucking sense, and even then it still makes no fucking sense. And so everyone gets to enjoy the curry, but will Kenzan and the others go back to Ra Yellow? Only occasionally, but Kenzan still expects to get curry from Kabayama every day, because he is desperate to be an even bigger prick than Judai was. Oh, and speaking of that motherfucking prick, he is lost somewhere in the woods, starving to death. Unfortunately for us all, he will not be dying any time soon. And boy, could he go for some curry. Cue one last bit of canned laughter, the studio audience has taken off long ago, and the episode ends.
NEXT TIME! Judai rock-climbs, but does not fall to his painful death like he should, and fuck me, Shou and Kenzan are going to duel. EPISODE TITLE, HOT EMOTION FOR BIG BROTHER, SHOU VS. KENZAN! Seriously, who the fuck fights over something like that, who? And the card of the Week is Dark Tyranno, which brings this episode to an even lower level of fail.
When the writers try to be serious, they get nothing but laughter. When the writers try to be comedic, they get blank stares. How can one writing staff fail this badly, I'll never know.
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Well, Asuka has a point in that there aren't any actual CHARACTERS who're members of Red. Unless you count Juudai, and he's not even there at the moment. I guess Manjoume counts, though he's kind of just stuck in Red because the writers won't let him get away from Juudai...
A curry deck? I just...um...um... Look, writers, it is not a good thing that Utena makes more sense than you. It shouldn't, it really shouldn't, but it does.
Oh, apparently Tome still exists. Hi, female character besides Asuka, this is certainly a surprise.
Kenzan, stop reminding me of your yet-to-be-revealed back-story. And try to remember what evolution entails, please.
I just...never understand this show. Was that supposed to be humor?
Hot Emotion for Aniki? Sounds like subtext for some reason.
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It really is weird, how if you have no name, you literally don't exist; most fiction has that tendency I suppose, but GX takes it to higher levels than most.
The monkey uses a monkey deck. The vampire uses a vampire deck. This is the level of creative thought we're talking about here.
Ms. Tome does exist. And that is all she does.
Kenzan needs to stop reminding us that he exists, period.
Like I've said before, the writers are in a completely different world from you or me, trying to comprehend their thinking is an exercise in futility.
That's because it is subtext. Only there's so little subtlety that it doesn't even qualify as Subtext. And again, who. In the fuck. Argues. About who gets to call someone. ANIKI?!?!?!?!?
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Unless you have no name for plot-important reasons like Atemu ;) But yes, the level to which none of the other Red or Yellow members matter is just ridiculous. It's like...are there any other students at this academy, or just random extras?
Gah, it really is awful.
How many characters are not really doing much but existing at the moment?
Like said, I'm understanding the Utena movie better than this, and that movie is...it was created to confuse people, I swear.
I think it's slightly disturbing subtext, given that they both call him Aniki. Or maybe I'm thinking the manga where Shou's calling Juudai Aniki actually meant something?
What I want to know is why they're fighting over JUUDAI. The 'arguing over who's the sidekick' thing is stupid, but even worse, to do so over JUUDAI?
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Duel Academia isn't a school; it's just a place for Judai to duel endlessly while avoiding any semblance of real life. So yeah, those without names are but living props, like something out of The Truman Show.
And this is why whenever I encounter someone who says that there's all this deep, philosophical/alchemical symbolism in GX, I just roll my eyes and move on.
Saiou's doing stuff, though he's being needlessly circuitous about it...that's about it, really. Oh, and Edo. Which is remarkable, considering the lack of any sort of plot at all. Compare to Duelist Kingdom, or Battle City, or the Memory World.
Isn't the Utena movie the one where one of the characters turns into a car or something? I've heard that much.
Thinking of the manga is definitely preferable, I don't blame you for that.
Seriously, if they were fighting over calling Misawa Aniki, or calling Asuka Nee-san, that would still be stupid, but at least it would make SOME sense?
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True. Very, very true, and sad.
Depth? In GX? ...Were they watching the same series?
Utena turns into a car near the end of the movie in order to free Anthy and bring her to the outside world. It's...that's where things stopped making even a tiny semblance of sense, I think. Before that, Utena and Anthy's scenes were the closest to coherent out of any of them. I mean, as coherent as suddenly dancing in a water garden of roses can be...
Again, it would be so wonderful if we were watching an anime based on the manga instead.
Yes, since at least Misawa and Asuka are worth fighting over.
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Other stories are able to expand on the world and setting, the more you look into it; GX just keeps shrinking and shrinking...
I've mentioned my Hazing theory before, right? Where all the suffering makes one desperate to believe that it was all worthwhile?
Well, any literal sense. I think I'll enjoy trying to make some symbolic sense of it. Besides which, I've seen the ending to Evangelion, I can take it!
Makes me wonder who'd do the voice for Kouyou and Midori Hibiki?
And of course, if it were Asuka, Fubuki would be able to provide all the advice needed to deal with it, from experience!