Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 112
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cypsiman2So we open with Manjoume blowing the shit out of Amon's cloud monsters, dealing massive damage in the process, but Amon's calm self assurance has him freaked out. Wow, short and to the point.
TITLE SCREEN! THUNDER VS. EYE OF THE TYPHOON wow, meteorology pretty much spoils how this duel is going to go.
Lots of noise from the peanut gallery going over previously established facts, and Amon points up to the sky. Clouds converge over the moon, and Amon asks if Manjoume's ever stopped to look up at the clouds as the float in the sky, changing from moment to moment. Manjoume has no idea what Amon's getting at, and so he blusters that he's not like Amon, he's not a lazy spoiled wealthy brat. Amon lets Manjoume's blustering speak for itself, and takes his turn. He sacrifices all four Sheep Cloud tokens to summon Cloudian Nimbusman; any number of Water Attribute monsters can be sacrificed for its summon, and for every monster sacrificed like this, it's attack goes up by 500, so it goes from 1000 attack points to 3000. Also, the attack power of all of Manjoume's non-Water monsters drops by the same amount, so the Voltron ripoff is down to 1000 attack points. Note that this is completely different from how Nimbusman works in the real game; in the real game, for every Water-Attribute monster sacrificed, you place one Fog Counter on it, and for every Fog Counter on the field, it gains 500 attack points. In any event, since we're going by the anime effect, Amon goes ahead and attacks, and Manjoume activates his permanent trap card Hyper Coat; it equips itself to the Voltron ripoff, raises its attack power by 500, and makes it immune to the effects of the opponent's spells, traps, and monster cards. Which means that Manjoume's monster now has 3500 attack points, and so Amon takes 500 points of damage. However, Nimbusman is not destroyed, and Amon says that if Manjoume were to have watched the clouds, he would have realized that would have happened. Yep, Nimbusman can't be destroyed by battle. In the real game, this effect only applies while it is in attack position, and if it gets switched to defense, it is destroyed. Amon sets three cards, and ends his turn.
Manjoume does some more blustering, still under the impression that Amon is of the idle rich, and he himself has risen through hell. Amon is amused by Manjoume's proclamation, blah blah blah, the peanut gallery makes a lot of noise, Judai and Johan are more interested in Amon's deck than Manjoume's, and Manjoume takes his turn. Amon then activates two of his face-down cards during Manjoume's standby phase, before he can do anything. His two cards are Rain Storm and Natural Disaster, and they work as follows; Rain Storm designates a Cloudian Monster on the field, and for every 1000 attack points he takes from it, he can destroy one card on Manjoume's side of the field. He uses it once to destroy Hyper Coat, and this trigger Natural Disaster's effect; so long as it is on the field, every time one of Manjoume's cards is sent to the grave, he'll take 400 damage. Thus, Amon reduces Nimbusman's attack by another 1000 to get rid of the Voltron ripoff, and he activates Rainstorm one last time, dropping Nimbusman to zero attack points to get rid of Different Dimension Hanger which is still on the field. Thus, he's done 1200 points of damage with Natural Disaster's effect. And now that he's done with his traps, he'll let Manjoume take his turn. Manjoume activates Dimensional Destruction Cannon - STU, allowing him to special summon V-Z back to the field, with V-Z losing its effects in the process. Manjoume attacks, and Amon activates his trap card Mirage Target, sacrificing Nimbusman to negate Manjoume's attack, and recovering life points equal to the Cloudian's original attack power, so now Amon has 1700 life points. Noise from the Peanut Gallery, and Judai offers the worst cheer support in the history of the franchise, Anzu should just bring her foot down on Judai's head and show them all how that shit is done.
Manjoume ends his turn with considerable consternation, and Amon takes his turn. He summons Cloudian Ghost Fog with zero attack points and has it attack; it is destroyed, but its effect prevents either player from taking damage, and now the monster that destroyed it gains Fog Counters equal to its level. V-Z is level 8, so it gains 8 fog counters. Now Amon plays the Quick-spell Diamond Dust Cyclone, allowing him to destroy a monster with Fog Counters on it and letting him draw one card for every four fog counters on that monster. V-Z goes boom, and Amon draws two more cards. Oh yeah, and Natural Disaster is still on the field, so Manjoume will be taking 800 damage, since he just had two cards destroyed and sent to the grave. And hey, we're still in the battle phase, so Amon's just going to go ahead and activate Quick Summon to summon Poison Cloud in defense with 1000 defense points. Amon kindly explains its effect, stating that any monster that battles Poison Cloud will be destroyed and the opponent will take 800 damage. Combined with Natural Disaster, if Manjoume attacks, he'll take 1200 damage and lose. Manjoume realizes the dire nature of his situation, and Amon says that there's nothing Manjoume can do at this point.
EYECATCH!
Amon ends his turn, and says that Manjoume really needs to just relax and look at the clouds. That's what he's doing, and he's kicking all kinds of ass in this duel. Manjoume refuses to believe that he's losing to a total milksop, has flashbacks to episode 24, and exposits on how he fell to the bottom and broke through it all to overcome his complex about never losing...which is why he is so staunch in his refusal to believe that he could lose to someone like Amon. Consistency? Amon just thinks that this is all very amusing, and Manjoume takes his turn. He plays Angel's Gift, drawing three and discarding two, and since one of the cards he discarded was Ojamagic, this lets him add the Ojama brothers from his deck to his hand. Next up, Desperado Manager; he draws two cards and then returns three cards from his hand to the top of his deck in any order. He puts the Ojamas on top of his deck so that when he activates Enchanting Fitting Room at a cost of 800 life points, he gets to special summon all three Ojamas to the field. Goddamn that was a lot of effort to get those pieces of trash onto the field. Blah blah blah, inept color imagery, and with all the subtlety of the coursing river, Manjoume activates Ojama Delta Thunder, dealing 500 damage for every card on Amon's side of the field and in his hand, leaving him with 700 life points, and then uses Ojama Delta Hurricane to blow up both of Amon's cards. Manjoume proclaims that someone like Amon could never understand someone like him who's hit rock bottom, and Amon wonders if that's what Manjoume really thinks. He then says he is not the person Manjoume believes him to be, and then adds that all of Manjoume's talk of complexes, discouragement, and hitting the bottom is nothing but the child's play of an annoyed rich kid. He then decides to go ahead and share a sliver of his backstory; as a child, his parents abandoned him in the middle of the desert, leaving him with nothing to do but to stare up at the clouds as he waited for his death.
Wow. I mean...wow. That, is a backstory worthy of the original series. Seriously...damn. And there's still plenty more to go. See, a jeep just HAPPENS to be driving its way through that desert, and the driver happens to spot him. Thus, if the head of the Garam Finance Group, Mr. Garam, hadn't found Amon, he would have died. But Amon digresses, wasting Manjoume's time with such unimportant dithering. Ooh, burn! Amon takes his turn, and plays what is easily one of the most absurd cards ever designed for the show, Wonder Cloud; he removes from play every card in his hand and on his field (he has none), and then draws one card for every card on the opponent's side of the field (three), and now he has to remove all the cards in his deck from play. Really, it's that last clause that's just too absurd for words. I mean...come on, giving up the entirety of the rest of your deck? That is just insane. Noise from the Peanut Gallery, and Amon draws his three cards, and he only really needed two of them, so he could have just...oh, right, Pot of Greed was finally banned, so the show doesn't use it anymore. In any event, Amon activates Big Summon Cloud; during his standby phase he'll lose all the cards in his hand, but by paying half his life points he can go ahead and special summon a Cloudian monster from his hand, so he'll summon Cloudian Eye of the Typhoon. He declares his attack, which activates its effect, switching the battle position of all other monsters on the field, and thus the zero-attack power Ojamas are now in attack position. Amon wins, Manjoume gets blown out into the lake, and Amon chides him, saying that there are countless people the world who are in far worse situations than this. I really like Amon, which means he will be really screwed over, it's only a matter of time. Blah blah blah, everyone who isn't Amon needs to shut the hell up, which goes double for Ojama Yellow, and now the Dis-Belts kick in.
Amon is drained, but nowhere near where it would have killed him, and now Manjoume's sinking into the lake. Everyone that Amon invited to his party has passed out, fulfilling their functions as sacrificial lambs. Sure, it wasn't nice of Amon to use them like that, but at least no one died. PROFESSOR COBRA wonders how much Amon has been spying on him, and his security warns him that O' Brian is approaching. So PROFESSOR COBRA goes ahead and opens the hidden door for him, rather then just leave him utterly stymied, and PROFESSOR COBRA goes to greet him. O' Brian demands to know what PROFESSOR COBRA'S true ambitions are, and PROFESSOR COBRA says that O' Brian should just be his loyal dog and do what he says. Bizarrely enough, O' Brian does not take this well, badly choreographed bit of fighting, and O' Brian is dropped down a trap door. PROFESSOR COBRA leaves him in there to cool his heels, and now it is the next morning. All the passed out students are being hauled out on stretchers, and Napoleon does not take seeing Martin among the injured very well. Chronos and Napoleon rush into Samejima's office, only to find that he's not in. Rather then directly informing his staff and keeping them apprised of his movements, he has instead left a note on his desk, saying that he's gone on a business trip. Samejima, you redefine incompetence. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Everyone works on hunting down Professor Cobra, run into poisonous spiders and tigers, and a big deal is made about the nature of Judai's opponent. EPISODE TITLE, JUDAI VS. THE TREACHEROUS ELEMENTAL HEROES card of the week is eye of the typhoon.
Damn, I have no idea how a character as good as Amon got into this show; I mean, he's in just the perfect zone between Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain that makes him far, far, far more intriguing than any other character on the show, and certainly far more so than our supposed lead, Judai. Let us enjoy his presence in the show, before he is inevitably screwed over like Misawa before him.
TITLE SCREEN! THUNDER VS. EYE OF THE TYPHOON wow, meteorology pretty much spoils how this duel is going to go.
Lots of noise from the peanut gallery going over previously established facts, and Amon points up to the sky. Clouds converge over the moon, and Amon asks if Manjoume's ever stopped to look up at the clouds as the float in the sky, changing from moment to moment. Manjoume has no idea what Amon's getting at, and so he blusters that he's not like Amon, he's not a lazy spoiled wealthy brat. Amon lets Manjoume's blustering speak for itself, and takes his turn. He sacrifices all four Sheep Cloud tokens to summon Cloudian Nimbusman; any number of Water Attribute monsters can be sacrificed for its summon, and for every monster sacrificed like this, it's attack goes up by 500, so it goes from 1000 attack points to 3000. Also, the attack power of all of Manjoume's non-Water monsters drops by the same amount, so the Voltron ripoff is down to 1000 attack points. Note that this is completely different from how Nimbusman works in the real game; in the real game, for every Water-Attribute monster sacrificed, you place one Fog Counter on it, and for every Fog Counter on the field, it gains 500 attack points. In any event, since we're going by the anime effect, Amon goes ahead and attacks, and Manjoume activates his permanent trap card Hyper Coat; it equips itself to the Voltron ripoff, raises its attack power by 500, and makes it immune to the effects of the opponent's spells, traps, and monster cards. Which means that Manjoume's monster now has 3500 attack points, and so Amon takes 500 points of damage. However, Nimbusman is not destroyed, and Amon says that if Manjoume were to have watched the clouds, he would have realized that would have happened. Yep, Nimbusman can't be destroyed by battle. In the real game, this effect only applies while it is in attack position, and if it gets switched to defense, it is destroyed. Amon sets three cards, and ends his turn.
Manjoume does some more blustering, still under the impression that Amon is of the idle rich, and he himself has risen through hell. Amon is amused by Manjoume's proclamation, blah blah blah, the peanut gallery makes a lot of noise, Judai and Johan are more interested in Amon's deck than Manjoume's, and Manjoume takes his turn. Amon then activates two of his face-down cards during Manjoume's standby phase, before he can do anything. His two cards are Rain Storm and Natural Disaster, and they work as follows; Rain Storm designates a Cloudian Monster on the field, and for every 1000 attack points he takes from it, he can destroy one card on Manjoume's side of the field. He uses it once to destroy Hyper Coat, and this trigger Natural Disaster's effect; so long as it is on the field, every time one of Manjoume's cards is sent to the grave, he'll take 400 damage. Thus, Amon reduces Nimbusman's attack by another 1000 to get rid of the Voltron ripoff, and he activates Rainstorm one last time, dropping Nimbusman to zero attack points to get rid of Different Dimension Hanger which is still on the field. Thus, he's done 1200 points of damage with Natural Disaster's effect. And now that he's done with his traps, he'll let Manjoume take his turn. Manjoume activates Dimensional Destruction Cannon - STU, allowing him to special summon V-Z back to the field, with V-Z losing its effects in the process. Manjoume attacks, and Amon activates his trap card Mirage Target, sacrificing Nimbusman to negate Manjoume's attack, and recovering life points equal to the Cloudian's original attack power, so now Amon has 1700 life points. Noise from the Peanut Gallery, and Judai offers the worst cheer support in the history of the franchise, Anzu should just bring her foot down on Judai's head and show them all how that shit is done.
Manjoume ends his turn with considerable consternation, and Amon takes his turn. He summons Cloudian Ghost Fog with zero attack points and has it attack; it is destroyed, but its effect prevents either player from taking damage, and now the monster that destroyed it gains Fog Counters equal to its level. V-Z is level 8, so it gains 8 fog counters. Now Amon plays the Quick-spell Diamond Dust Cyclone, allowing him to destroy a monster with Fog Counters on it and letting him draw one card for every four fog counters on that monster. V-Z goes boom, and Amon draws two more cards. Oh yeah, and Natural Disaster is still on the field, so Manjoume will be taking 800 damage, since he just had two cards destroyed and sent to the grave. And hey, we're still in the battle phase, so Amon's just going to go ahead and activate Quick Summon to summon Poison Cloud in defense with 1000 defense points. Amon kindly explains its effect, stating that any monster that battles Poison Cloud will be destroyed and the opponent will take 800 damage. Combined with Natural Disaster, if Manjoume attacks, he'll take 1200 damage and lose. Manjoume realizes the dire nature of his situation, and Amon says that there's nothing Manjoume can do at this point.
EYECATCH!
Amon ends his turn, and says that Manjoume really needs to just relax and look at the clouds. That's what he's doing, and he's kicking all kinds of ass in this duel. Manjoume refuses to believe that he's losing to a total milksop, has flashbacks to episode 24, and exposits on how he fell to the bottom and broke through it all to overcome his complex about never losing...which is why he is so staunch in his refusal to believe that he could lose to someone like Amon. Consistency? Amon just thinks that this is all very amusing, and Manjoume takes his turn. He plays Angel's Gift, drawing three and discarding two, and since one of the cards he discarded was Ojamagic, this lets him add the Ojama brothers from his deck to his hand. Next up, Desperado Manager; he draws two cards and then returns three cards from his hand to the top of his deck in any order. He puts the Ojamas on top of his deck so that when he activates Enchanting Fitting Room at a cost of 800 life points, he gets to special summon all three Ojamas to the field. Goddamn that was a lot of effort to get those pieces of trash onto the field. Blah blah blah, inept color imagery, and with all the subtlety of the coursing river, Manjoume activates Ojama Delta Thunder, dealing 500 damage for every card on Amon's side of the field and in his hand, leaving him with 700 life points, and then uses Ojama Delta Hurricane to blow up both of Amon's cards. Manjoume proclaims that someone like Amon could never understand someone like him who's hit rock bottom, and Amon wonders if that's what Manjoume really thinks. He then says he is not the person Manjoume believes him to be, and then adds that all of Manjoume's talk of complexes, discouragement, and hitting the bottom is nothing but the child's play of an annoyed rich kid. He then decides to go ahead and share a sliver of his backstory; as a child, his parents abandoned him in the middle of the desert, leaving him with nothing to do but to stare up at the clouds as he waited for his death.
Wow. I mean...wow. That, is a backstory worthy of the original series. Seriously...damn. And there's still plenty more to go. See, a jeep just HAPPENS to be driving its way through that desert, and the driver happens to spot him. Thus, if the head of the Garam Finance Group, Mr. Garam, hadn't found Amon, he would have died. But Amon digresses, wasting Manjoume's time with such unimportant dithering. Ooh, burn! Amon takes his turn, and plays what is easily one of the most absurd cards ever designed for the show, Wonder Cloud; he removes from play every card in his hand and on his field (he has none), and then draws one card for every card on the opponent's side of the field (three), and now he has to remove all the cards in his deck from play. Really, it's that last clause that's just too absurd for words. I mean...come on, giving up the entirety of the rest of your deck? That is just insane. Noise from the Peanut Gallery, and Amon draws his three cards, and he only really needed two of them, so he could have just...oh, right, Pot of Greed was finally banned, so the show doesn't use it anymore. In any event, Amon activates Big Summon Cloud; during his standby phase he'll lose all the cards in his hand, but by paying half his life points he can go ahead and special summon a Cloudian monster from his hand, so he'll summon Cloudian Eye of the Typhoon. He declares his attack, which activates its effect, switching the battle position of all other monsters on the field, and thus the zero-attack power Ojamas are now in attack position. Amon wins, Manjoume gets blown out into the lake, and Amon chides him, saying that there are countless people the world who are in far worse situations than this. I really like Amon, which means he will be really screwed over, it's only a matter of time. Blah blah blah, everyone who isn't Amon needs to shut the hell up, which goes double for Ojama Yellow, and now the Dis-Belts kick in.
Amon is drained, but nowhere near where it would have killed him, and now Manjoume's sinking into the lake. Everyone that Amon invited to his party has passed out, fulfilling their functions as sacrificial lambs. Sure, it wasn't nice of Amon to use them like that, but at least no one died. PROFESSOR COBRA wonders how much Amon has been spying on him, and his security warns him that O' Brian is approaching. So PROFESSOR COBRA goes ahead and opens the hidden door for him, rather then just leave him utterly stymied, and PROFESSOR COBRA goes to greet him. O' Brian demands to know what PROFESSOR COBRA'S true ambitions are, and PROFESSOR COBRA says that O' Brian should just be his loyal dog and do what he says. Bizarrely enough, O' Brian does not take this well, badly choreographed bit of fighting, and O' Brian is dropped down a trap door. PROFESSOR COBRA leaves him in there to cool his heels, and now it is the next morning. All the passed out students are being hauled out on stretchers, and Napoleon does not take seeing Martin among the injured very well. Chronos and Napoleon rush into Samejima's office, only to find that he's not in. Rather then directly informing his staff and keeping them apprised of his movements, he has instead left a note on his desk, saying that he's gone on a business trip. Samejima, you redefine incompetence. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Everyone works on hunting down Professor Cobra, run into poisonous spiders and tigers, and a big deal is made about the nature of Judai's opponent. EPISODE TITLE, JUDAI VS. THE TREACHEROUS ELEMENTAL HEROES card of the week is eye of the typhoon.
Damn, I have no idea how a character as good as Amon got into this show; I mean, he's in just the perfect zone between Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain that makes him far, far, far more intriguing than any other character on the show, and certainly far more so than our supposed lead, Judai. Let us enjoy his presence in the show, before he is inevitably screwed over like Misawa before him.
