Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 150
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cypsiman2Huh, Veoh has this episode subbed. That's nice, I don't have to keep referencing the summary on Janime.info. Anyway, Judai can just magically sense that Johan and Yubel are nearby, because otherwise the "plot" wouldn't be able to advance, and meanwhile, Yohan was able to summon Armityle on account of Amon being forced to misplay his own cards, and the writers bullshit an extremely contrived effect when they realize that they accidentally gave Amon far too much power.
TITLE SCREEN! SUMMON "YUBEL" oh goody, more duel monsters summoning themselves. yeah, because that wasn't stupid enough already.
Amon draws his card, his expression unreadable. Yohan does not like that Amon isn't afraid, since sie just destroyed Exodios and with it Amon's chance of gathering Exodia. Amon then activates a Field Spell card, Castle of Mist. Kind of reminiscent of the Cloudian cards that he used to use, before the writers abandoned them. Blah blah, and then Amon summons King Mist, with zero attack points, like Armityle and so many other monsters this season. He explains how when Castle of Mist is on the field, King Mist can be summoned without sacrifice, and then he equips King Mist with Sword of the Dynasty; when a monster equipped with this card attacks, at the end of the battle phase place one Crest Counter on this card. He then orders King Mist to destroy Armityle, and when King Mist attacks, Amon activates its effect to set the attack power of both monsters to 1. Yohan says this is useless, Armityle can't be destroyed by battle, King Mist will destroy itself to no effect, but as the battle is conducted, a burning sphere appears over one of the five towers of the Castle of Mist, and King Mist returns to a different tower. Amon explains that Castle of Mist can prevent his monster from being destroyed by switching it to a different monster zone, but the original monster zone can no longer be used. Yohan asks what the point of going through all that just to lose a monster zone was, but just as Amon says it wasn't a draw, Armityle vanishes. You see, so long as King Mist is on the field, no other monster on the field can activate their effects. Ouch. And now since the Battle Phase is over, a Crest Counter is added to Sword of the Dynasty, and for every Crest Counter on it, the equipped monster will gain 800 attack points. Yohan then expresses hir "amazement" at how quickly Amon recovered from the loss of Exodios and put his new strategy into motion. Truly, you are worthy of being the Supreme King...
Amon, not interested in Yohan's blathering, tells hir to take hir turn, and sie tries to be all sarcastic and shit in an obvious attempt to emulate Yami Bakura, and fails miserably. Here's a big reason why; while GX tries to tell us that Yubel was behind everything that happened in this season, the original series SHOWED us how Yami Bakura manipulated everything to his advantage. Anyway, sie draws and summons another Phantom Gunner, sie can't activate its effect, but sie is fine with that, sie will just go ahead and attack King Mist, Castle of Mist switches it to a different monster zone to keep it from being destroyed, but Amon still takes 300 points of damage. However, Sword of the Dynasty gains its second counter, raising King Mist's attack power to 1600. Furthermore, if Sword of the Dynasty should gain four Crest Counters, he can send it and King Mist to the grave to inflict 4000 points of damage to the opponent. Which, in the anime, would be an instant kill. Yohan ends hir turn and says that even without Exodia, Amon is quite strong, so why did you really have to kill Echo? Why did she really have to die? Sie claims that Echo's death was meaningless, Amon pulls the Gendo Ikari shining glasses defense, and cut to idiot boy Judai. He, along with Shou and Chronos, have reached the random shiny tower of randomness that exists solely for the sake of their being a final dungeon at the end of the videogame, the entrance opens up for them, making the fact that it was hidden completely pointless, and lots of blah blah blah that no one cares about. Oh noes, the entrance shut itself, there's no way back to the endless wastes that they came from, Judai yells out for Yubel show hirself, and now Judai is in a random cavern. I think its supposed to be an illusion, but I don't care enough to try and figure this shit out.
Suddenly, glowy bubbles fly up at Judai, and one goes right through him, bursting after exiting. More bubbles shoot into him and...apparently they're the people that he's met in this dimension. I really don't get what the hell this is all supposed to be. Now he has a vision of himself as a very stupid and very ugly child dueling that Edo-ripoff, we then skip to Yubel getting shot into space on account of its constant and unprovoked attacks on Judai's friends, therby turning him into a social pariah, and Yubel out in space. And now Judai snaps out of it. Well, that was a complete waste of time. And now magic glowy path appears arbitrarily for them to take. And now back to the duel which involves the last remaining decent character on the show. Yohan says that Amon never loved Echo...which would contradict the whole "you must sacrifice your one true love" bit earlier. Oh, Yohan concedes that Amon loved Echo enough to fulfill the condition of the sacrifice for Exodia, which as was established earlier, was that he loved her above all others. Yeah, one would be hard pressed to love someone more than that, so Yohan's drivel is just that, drivel. Yohan then tries to criticize Amon for having one-sidedly hurting Echo, blind to the raging hypocrisy that sie is exhibiting. Amon demands that Yohan just get to hir damn worthless, empty, and vapid point already, and so sie starts crying, going on about all the pain and suffering sie went through, so sie just had to put Judai through the exact same pain so that they would have both felt it. Yubel, as you may have noticed, is a raging moron. No, Yubel, that is not what loving each other means. Being sympathetic and empathetic to another person's pain does not entail inflicting that same pain onto that person. Or, to put it another way, if you have to do that to get the other person to feel your pain, they don't really love you. Yubel would throw a fit if sie could hear me.
So, Yohan, having just said one of the singularly stupidest things in the entire series, an epic feat for the ages I assure you, and cut to Judai and company taking the elevator to the top. Yeah, that was informative and totally necessary.
EYECATCH!
Amon's turn, he has King Mist attack Phantom Gunner, destroying it for 500 points of damage and adding a third counter to Sword of the Dynasty. Then he sets three cards to end his turn. Yohan then falls to hir knees in pain, Amon notes that sie seems to be out of breath, and Yohan is outraged, this duel was supposed to renew hir, not drain her further. Hey, you're losing strength, I'm watching one of the worst shows ever, we can't always get what we want. Yohan goes on about how sie is intent on consuming the darkness that Amon's hidden away deep within the shell of his strong will...wait, weren't they going on about how he'd "destroyed his strong will that was as a god" or whatever? CONSISTENCY! Blah blah, Yohan takes hir turn and plays Akashic Record; sie draws two cards, and if either card is one that sie has already played, that card is removed from play. They have not, a point sie demonstrates by playing the Permanent Spell card Nightmare Shuffle. This one is a bit complicated, but bear with me; sie takes one random card from hir grave, and sets it into hir spell/trap zone. During hir next standby phase, that card gets sent to the grave, and sie takes out another random card from hir grave in its place. Furthermore, if sie activates the random card that sie has not seen, and it turns out that the timing is wrong, like a normal spell card on the opponent's turn, or even a monster card in the wrong zone, all the cards in hir hand and on hir side of the field get sent to the grave. Even Jounouchi would call that a desperate gamble. Yohan says this is the only way sie can fight a perfect king like Amon, and then sie demands that Amon tell hir about the darkness of his heart that allowed him to kill the one he loved so easily. Yohan peers intently at Amon, who decides to just go ahead and let hir have hir way, Demon Eye peers into the Darkness, and...
Sie reels in shock, horrified. What nightmare vision could Amon possibly have for the world, one that he would kill his one true love to fulfill without a second thought? Why, it is an ideal world, a world without pain or suffering, no poverty as we are shown Amon abandoned in the middle of the desert as a child waiting for death. A world without jealousy or envy, as the child Amon stands barefoot in the slums as he looks upon the skyscrapers, a vision of himself almost killing his baby brother, a world without conflict or dispute, a world where everyone is free to become that which they want to be. This is the world he intends to create. This is the world that he will reign over as Supreme King. This is the vision that Echo believed in, and was willing to die for. A world in which none shall be made to suffer as he has. Yohan, unsurprisingly, is disappointed in Amon. Sie has interest in such a world, a world of peace and harmony for all. After all, Yubel is a selfish and myopic individual, sie wants to live in the world that you create with the one you love. Um, Yubel? Echo's spirit is still with Amon, blessing his actions every step of the way. So, kindly SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU STUPID TWIT! Yeah, as far as Yubel is concerned, everyone else can just fuck off and die, so long as sie is with her one true wuv, nothing else matters. Apparently the notion of forming emotional bonds with and caring for more than just one person is anathema to Yubel. And it isn't as though there aren't massive ethical problems with what Amon intends to do and how he intends to go about it, but Yubel is just missing all those by being even worse. Once again Yubel, SHUT THE FUCK UP, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR INANE DRIVEL ABOUT LOVE.
Yohan then says that this duel has been a waste of time, and it is, though not for the reasons that sie imagines, and summons Grave Squirmer in attack position, with of course zero attack points. Sie attacks, it is destroyed, Yohan is down to 100 life points, but now that Grave Squirmer is in the grave and off the field, sie can activate its effect to destroy one card on the field. Sie goes for the Sword of Dynasty, it goes boom, but Amon activates his trap card, Crest Burn; for each counter that was on Sword of the Dynasty when it was destroyed, he places a counter on Castle of Mist, blocking off another monster zone. Since all five of Amon's monster zones have been sealed off, King Mist goes away, Yohan demands to know what the hell that's all about, and now that it is Amon's turn, we're about to find out. Amon calls out to Echo, draws his next card, and activates the effect of Castle of Mist; when it has five counters on it, when all five monster zones are sealed, he can send it to the grave to discard his hand, and add any four cards from his grave to his hand. However, he can't conduct his battle phase on the turn that he activates this effect, a fair cost as it is a very powerful effect. Yes, Amon has never forgotten Echo for even a moment, Echo is with him always, and the world that Yohan childishly and inanely mocked is the world he will create with Echo. Thus, he adds the four pieces of Exodia that are in his grave to his hand, and then he activates Break the Seal, sending it along with his other face-down Break the Seal to the grave to add the remaining piece of Exodia to his hand. However, before Amon can complete this effect, Yohan sends Nightmare Shuffle to the grave to activate the randomly selected card in his spell/trap zone. And it is motherfucking Hand Severing.
BULL.
FUCKING.
SHIT!
Let's count how many cards were in Yohan's grave when sie activated Nightmare Shuffle, shall we? We've got three copies of Triangle Force, three copies of Delta Barrier, one copy of Hand Severing, one copy of Eternal Reverse, two copies of Phantom Gunner, one copy of Armitlye, and one Akashic Record. That would be 12 cards that Nightmare Shuffle would pick from. Only one of which would have done Yohan any good. One in Twelve. About eight and one-third of a percent chance of getting that exact card. God fucking damn it, Amon is dueling both skillfully and with all his heart, and the writers fucking rob him blind.
So anyway, Hand Severing forces Amon to discard his four Exodia cards once more, he draws four, and even though Yohan discarded no cards, sie still gets to draw a card anyway. That is a load of shit, as has been this entire duel. Break the Seal's effect kicks in, but getting the fifth Exodia piece does him no good. However, Amon hasn't given up yet; he activates Feather of the Phoenix, discarding one card to take one card from his grave and place it on top of his deck. Naturally, the chosen card is Exodia. And Yohan is getting freaked as all fuck as he realizes that Amon will not be stopped from gathering Exodia, no matter what. Finally, Amon sets Backup Soldiers, a trap card that lets you add three normal monsters with 1500 attack or less from your grave to your hand. Thus, on his next turn, he'll be able to gather Exodia. He ends his turn, Yohan sees great darkness beneath Amon's Back Up Soldiers, and that darkness becomes Echo, who's eyes are all freaky and red. Yeah, Echo wants little more than to tear Yubel's throat out. It's a good thing. However, this is the darkness that Yohan wants to feast on, and because the writers are full of hatred for all living things, sie will get hir way. How? Well, sie summons Torch Golem, which is the inverted version of Lava Golem; instead of sacrificing two of your opponent's monsters to special summon it to your opponent's side of the field, you instead special summon it to your opponent's side of the field, and then get to special summon two tokens to your side. Torch Golem, naturally, has 3000 attack points, and now Yohan sacrifices the two tokens to summon Yubel to the field. Yes, that's right, Yubel summons a copy of itself to the field. Yohan blathers about how sie will show Amon what true love is, Yubel has zero attack power, Echo's darkness suddenly floods over Torch Golem, encompassing it, and now naked Echo silhouette. Hello, random gratuitous fanservice that's desperately trying to distract me from how horrible this all is. It does not work.
"Yubel" then calls out to the Echo Shadow, which approaches hir, "Yubel" dares Echo to pierce hir heart, Torch Golem follows Echo's movements as Amon watches in horror as he is screwed over by the writers, big explosion, and "Yubel" explains that all damage that would be done to hir is instead done to the opponent. Thus, through tons of bullshit and contrivances, the last decent character on the show is killed off, he is dying, he has a vision of Echo dying, Yohan opens hir noisehole and goes on about how Amon's finally felt Echo's pain, I've never wanted to kill a character so much before in all my life, and Amon, bereaved, calls out to his beloved Echo, and dies. Good night sweet prince, may angels sing thee to thy rest. For even though you were a demon who killed his one true love to fulfill his ambitions, you were at least doing so with good ambitions, and your love believed in you, and chose to make that sacrifice for you, so that she could always be with you and help you. And now Yohan sits in that throne, and calls upon Judai to hurry up to hir. I am literally unable to give a fuck anymore, it is impossible for me to care anymore. Unfortunately, we still have six more episodes to go before this season is over and done with.
NEXT TIME! Judai gets to the top, he duels Yohan, Judai is surrounded by all his imaginary friends since he has no real ones and never did. EPISODE TITLE, NEOS VS. ADVANCED GEM BEASTS and it is that stupid card contest again.
In a just world, Amon would have won that duel. In a just duel, he would be the big bad at the end. Or hell, he's the closest thing to a Hero this show had, and he fucking killed his one true love! Seriously, when you're on par with Shishio from Rourouni Kenshin, who ran his sword through the woman he loved, just to get an edge in on his opponent, and you're the most genuinely heroic person around, something has gone horribly wrong.
TITLE SCREEN! SUMMON "YUBEL" oh goody, more duel monsters summoning themselves. yeah, because that wasn't stupid enough already.
Amon draws his card, his expression unreadable. Yohan does not like that Amon isn't afraid, since sie just destroyed Exodios and with it Amon's chance of gathering Exodia. Amon then activates a Field Spell card, Castle of Mist. Kind of reminiscent of the Cloudian cards that he used to use, before the writers abandoned them. Blah blah, and then Amon summons King Mist, with zero attack points, like Armityle and so many other monsters this season. He explains how when Castle of Mist is on the field, King Mist can be summoned without sacrifice, and then he equips King Mist with Sword of the Dynasty; when a monster equipped with this card attacks, at the end of the battle phase place one Crest Counter on this card. He then orders King Mist to destroy Armityle, and when King Mist attacks, Amon activates its effect to set the attack power of both monsters to 1. Yohan says this is useless, Armityle can't be destroyed by battle, King Mist will destroy itself to no effect, but as the battle is conducted, a burning sphere appears over one of the five towers of the Castle of Mist, and King Mist returns to a different tower. Amon explains that Castle of Mist can prevent his monster from being destroyed by switching it to a different monster zone, but the original monster zone can no longer be used. Yohan asks what the point of going through all that just to lose a monster zone was, but just as Amon says it wasn't a draw, Armityle vanishes. You see, so long as King Mist is on the field, no other monster on the field can activate their effects. Ouch. And now since the Battle Phase is over, a Crest Counter is added to Sword of the Dynasty, and for every Crest Counter on it, the equipped monster will gain 800 attack points. Yohan then expresses hir "amazement" at how quickly Amon recovered from the loss of Exodios and put his new strategy into motion. Truly, you are worthy of being the Supreme King...
Amon, not interested in Yohan's blathering, tells hir to take hir turn, and sie tries to be all sarcastic and shit in an obvious attempt to emulate Yami Bakura, and fails miserably. Here's a big reason why; while GX tries to tell us that Yubel was behind everything that happened in this season, the original series SHOWED us how Yami Bakura manipulated everything to his advantage. Anyway, sie draws and summons another Phantom Gunner, sie can't activate its effect, but sie is fine with that, sie will just go ahead and attack King Mist, Castle of Mist switches it to a different monster zone to keep it from being destroyed, but Amon still takes 300 points of damage. However, Sword of the Dynasty gains its second counter, raising King Mist's attack power to 1600. Furthermore, if Sword of the Dynasty should gain four Crest Counters, he can send it and King Mist to the grave to inflict 4000 points of damage to the opponent. Which, in the anime, would be an instant kill. Yohan ends hir turn and says that even without Exodia, Amon is quite strong, so why did you really have to kill Echo? Why did she really have to die? Sie claims that Echo's death was meaningless, Amon pulls the Gendo Ikari shining glasses defense, and cut to idiot boy Judai. He, along with Shou and Chronos, have reached the random shiny tower of randomness that exists solely for the sake of their being a final dungeon at the end of the videogame, the entrance opens up for them, making the fact that it was hidden completely pointless, and lots of blah blah blah that no one cares about. Oh noes, the entrance shut itself, there's no way back to the endless wastes that they came from, Judai yells out for Yubel show hirself, and now Judai is in a random cavern. I think its supposed to be an illusion, but I don't care enough to try and figure this shit out.
Suddenly, glowy bubbles fly up at Judai, and one goes right through him, bursting after exiting. More bubbles shoot into him and...apparently they're the people that he's met in this dimension. I really don't get what the hell this is all supposed to be. Now he has a vision of himself as a very stupid and very ugly child dueling that Edo-ripoff, we then skip to Yubel getting shot into space on account of its constant and unprovoked attacks on Judai's friends, therby turning him into a social pariah, and Yubel out in space. And now Judai snaps out of it. Well, that was a complete waste of time. And now magic glowy path appears arbitrarily for them to take. And now back to the duel which involves the last remaining decent character on the show. Yohan says that Amon never loved Echo...which would contradict the whole "you must sacrifice your one true love" bit earlier. Oh, Yohan concedes that Amon loved Echo enough to fulfill the condition of the sacrifice for Exodia, which as was established earlier, was that he loved her above all others. Yeah, one would be hard pressed to love someone more than that, so Yohan's drivel is just that, drivel. Yohan then tries to criticize Amon for having one-sidedly hurting Echo, blind to the raging hypocrisy that sie is exhibiting. Amon demands that Yohan just get to hir damn worthless, empty, and vapid point already, and so sie starts crying, going on about all the pain and suffering sie went through, so sie just had to put Judai through the exact same pain so that they would have both felt it. Yubel, as you may have noticed, is a raging moron. No, Yubel, that is not what loving each other means. Being sympathetic and empathetic to another person's pain does not entail inflicting that same pain onto that person. Or, to put it another way, if you have to do that to get the other person to feel your pain, they don't really love you. Yubel would throw a fit if sie could hear me.
So, Yohan, having just said one of the singularly stupidest things in the entire series, an epic feat for the ages I assure you, and cut to Judai and company taking the elevator to the top. Yeah, that was informative and totally necessary.
EYECATCH!
Amon's turn, he has King Mist attack Phantom Gunner, destroying it for 500 points of damage and adding a third counter to Sword of the Dynasty. Then he sets three cards to end his turn. Yohan then falls to hir knees in pain, Amon notes that sie seems to be out of breath, and Yohan is outraged, this duel was supposed to renew hir, not drain her further. Hey, you're losing strength, I'm watching one of the worst shows ever, we can't always get what we want. Yohan goes on about how sie is intent on consuming the darkness that Amon's hidden away deep within the shell of his strong will...wait, weren't they going on about how he'd "destroyed his strong will that was as a god" or whatever? CONSISTENCY! Blah blah, Yohan takes hir turn and plays Akashic Record; sie draws two cards, and if either card is one that sie has already played, that card is removed from play. They have not, a point sie demonstrates by playing the Permanent Spell card Nightmare Shuffle. This one is a bit complicated, but bear with me; sie takes one random card from hir grave, and sets it into hir spell/trap zone. During hir next standby phase, that card gets sent to the grave, and sie takes out another random card from hir grave in its place. Furthermore, if sie activates the random card that sie has not seen, and it turns out that the timing is wrong, like a normal spell card on the opponent's turn, or even a monster card in the wrong zone, all the cards in hir hand and on hir side of the field get sent to the grave. Even Jounouchi would call that a desperate gamble. Yohan says this is the only way sie can fight a perfect king like Amon, and then sie demands that Amon tell hir about the darkness of his heart that allowed him to kill the one he loved so easily. Yohan peers intently at Amon, who decides to just go ahead and let hir have hir way, Demon Eye peers into the Darkness, and...
Sie reels in shock, horrified. What nightmare vision could Amon possibly have for the world, one that he would kill his one true love to fulfill without a second thought? Why, it is an ideal world, a world without pain or suffering, no poverty as we are shown Amon abandoned in the middle of the desert as a child waiting for death. A world without jealousy or envy, as the child Amon stands barefoot in the slums as he looks upon the skyscrapers, a vision of himself almost killing his baby brother, a world without conflict or dispute, a world where everyone is free to become that which they want to be. This is the world he intends to create. This is the world that he will reign over as Supreme King. This is the vision that Echo believed in, and was willing to die for. A world in which none shall be made to suffer as he has. Yohan, unsurprisingly, is disappointed in Amon. Sie has interest in such a world, a world of peace and harmony for all. After all, Yubel is a selfish and myopic individual, sie wants to live in the world that you create with the one you love. Um, Yubel? Echo's spirit is still with Amon, blessing his actions every step of the way. So, kindly SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU STUPID TWIT! Yeah, as far as Yubel is concerned, everyone else can just fuck off and die, so long as sie is with her one true wuv, nothing else matters. Apparently the notion of forming emotional bonds with and caring for more than just one person is anathema to Yubel. And it isn't as though there aren't massive ethical problems with what Amon intends to do and how he intends to go about it, but Yubel is just missing all those by being even worse. Once again Yubel, SHUT THE FUCK UP, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR INANE DRIVEL ABOUT LOVE.
Yohan then says that this duel has been a waste of time, and it is, though not for the reasons that sie imagines, and summons Grave Squirmer in attack position, with of course zero attack points. Sie attacks, it is destroyed, Yohan is down to 100 life points, but now that Grave Squirmer is in the grave and off the field, sie can activate its effect to destroy one card on the field. Sie goes for the Sword of Dynasty, it goes boom, but Amon activates his trap card, Crest Burn; for each counter that was on Sword of the Dynasty when it was destroyed, he places a counter on Castle of Mist, blocking off another monster zone. Since all five of Amon's monster zones have been sealed off, King Mist goes away, Yohan demands to know what the hell that's all about, and now that it is Amon's turn, we're about to find out. Amon calls out to Echo, draws his next card, and activates the effect of Castle of Mist; when it has five counters on it, when all five monster zones are sealed, he can send it to the grave to discard his hand, and add any four cards from his grave to his hand. However, he can't conduct his battle phase on the turn that he activates this effect, a fair cost as it is a very powerful effect. Yes, Amon has never forgotten Echo for even a moment, Echo is with him always, and the world that Yohan childishly and inanely mocked is the world he will create with Echo. Thus, he adds the four pieces of Exodia that are in his grave to his hand, and then he activates Break the Seal, sending it along with his other face-down Break the Seal to the grave to add the remaining piece of Exodia to his hand. However, before Amon can complete this effect, Yohan sends Nightmare Shuffle to the grave to activate the randomly selected card in his spell/trap zone. And it is motherfucking Hand Severing.
BULL.
FUCKING.
SHIT!
Let's count how many cards were in Yohan's grave when sie activated Nightmare Shuffle, shall we? We've got three copies of Triangle Force, three copies of Delta Barrier, one copy of Hand Severing, one copy of Eternal Reverse, two copies of Phantom Gunner, one copy of Armitlye, and one Akashic Record. That would be 12 cards that Nightmare Shuffle would pick from. Only one of which would have done Yohan any good. One in Twelve. About eight and one-third of a percent chance of getting that exact card. God fucking damn it, Amon is dueling both skillfully and with all his heart, and the writers fucking rob him blind.
So anyway, Hand Severing forces Amon to discard his four Exodia cards once more, he draws four, and even though Yohan discarded no cards, sie still gets to draw a card anyway. That is a load of shit, as has been this entire duel. Break the Seal's effect kicks in, but getting the fifth Exodia piece does him no good. However, Amon hasn't given up yet; he activates Feather of the Phoenix, discarding one card to take one card from his grave and place it on top of his deck. Naturally, the chosen card is Exodia. And Yohan is getting freaked as all fuck as he realizes that Amon will not be stopped from gathering Exodia, no matter what. Finally, Amon sets Backup Soldiers, a trap card that lets you add three normal monsters with 1500 attack or less from your grave to your hand. Thus, on his next turn, he'll be able to gather Exodia. He ends his turn, Yohan sees great darkness beneath Amon's Back Up Soldiers, and that darkness becomes Echo, who's eyes are all freaky and red. Yeah, Echo wants little more than to tear Yubel's throat out. It's a good thing. However, this is the darkness that Yohan wants to feast on, and because the writers are full of hatred for all living things, sie will get hir way. How? Well, sie summons Torch Golem, which is the inverted version of Lava Golem; instead of sacrificing two of your opponent's monsters to special summon it to your opponent's side of the field, you instead special summon it to your opponent's side of the field, and then get to special summon two tokens to your side. Torch Golem, naturally, has 3000 attack points, and now Yohan sacrifices the two tokens to summon Yubel to the field. Yes, that's right, Yubel summons a copy of itself to the field. Yohan blathers about how sie will show Amon what true love is, Yubel has zero attack power, Echo's darkness suddenly floods over Torch Golem, encompassing it, and now naked Echo silhouette. Hello, random gratuitous fanservice that's desperately trying to distract me from how horrible this all is. It does not work.
"Yubel" then calls out to the Echo Shadow, which approaches hir, "Yubel" dares Echo to pierce hir heart, Torch Golem follows Echo's movements as Amon watches in horror as he is screwed over by the writers, big explosion, and "Yubel" explains that all damage that would be done to hir is instead done to the opponent. Thus, through tons of bullshit and contrivances, the last decent character on the show is killed off, he is dying, he has a vision of Echo dying, Yohan opens hir noisehole and goes on about how Amon's finally felt Echo's pain, I've never wanted to kill a character so much before in all my life, and Amon, bereaved, calls out to his beloved Echo, and dies. Good night sweet prince, may angels sing thee to thy rest. For even though you were a demon who killed his one true love to fulfill his ambitions, you were at least doing so with good ambitions, and your love believed in you, and chose to make that sacrifice for you, so that she could always be with you and help you. And now Yohan sits in that throne, and calls upon Judai to hurry up to hir. I am literally unable to give a fuck anymore, it is impossible for me to care anymore. Unfortunately, we still have six more episodes to go before this season is over and done with.
NEXT TIME! Judai gets to the top, he duels Yohan, Judai is surrounded by all his imaginary friends since he has no real ones and never did. EPISODE TITLE, NEOS VS. ADVANCED GEM BEASTS and it is that stupid card contest again.
In a just world, Amon would have won that duel. In a just duel, he would be the big bad at the end. Or hell, he's the closest thing to a Hero this show had, and he fucking killed his one true love! Seriously, when you're on par with Shishio from Rourouni Kenshin, who ran his sword through the woman he loved, just to get an edge in on his opponent, and you're the most genuinely heroic person around, something has gone horribly wrong.
