Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 24
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cypsiman2So we see Manjoume is on a boat, in the middle of a foggy ocean, but I'm afraid there will be no cause for hitting the deck any time soon. Manjoume dwells on all the people he blames for his current place in life, and is plagued by the mental images of Judai being a jackass. Sure that Judai is just living it up, Manjoume is convinced that if he had just one more chance to duel Judai, he'd win! Oh poor Manjoume; he doesn't realize that since he's the Rival, he's never allowed to ever win, no matter how farcical and one-sided and dull and uninteresting that makes the rivalry. Manjoume's psychotic episode continues as the mental apparition of Judai continues to pester him, his duel disc starts beeping for no apparent reason, and he ends up falling off the side of his boat, and something passes beneath him in the water. GOSH, I WONDER IF IT MIGHT BE A SUBMARINE THAT JUST HAPPENED TO FIND HIM AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME? Oh, and Manjoume can't swim, making extra double-plus brilliant for trying to take a boat out into the ocean all by himself.
TITLE SCREEN! REVIVAL! MANJOUME THUNDER! more like revival of my irritation, amirite?
Now Manjoume is unconscious inside a submarine, where it is quite damp, dank, and lacking in any real amenities. This annoying little high pitched voice starts calling out for its Big Bro, and it hovers above Manjoume in the form of a ball of light and starts telling Manjoume to get up. Oh, now we can see it more clearly; it is an ugly little yellow creature with with its eyes at the ends of antennas, big fat lips, and wearing tight Bermuda shorts.
Charming.
It then attempts to wake Manjoume by...rubbing its 'area' against his cheek, and then shoving its...'rear' against his nose. Manjoume, only dimly aware of how irritated he'll be for the rest of the series, reaches out and grabs the annoying little snot, which makes it disappear. Manjoume is awake now, and some new guy asks if he's awake. Manjoume briefly wonders if he's been swallowed by a whale, and then he sees the guy who just spoke; he is all bundled up in a clear effort to keep his true identity hidden, complete with mask. He is also holding a bunch of Duel Monsters cards, says that his name is of no concern, and asks if Manjoume is a duelist. Realizing quickly that those are his cards, Manjoume demands them back, but according to mystery man, they are soaked and useless; someone should have invested in protective sleeves for their cards.
Manjoume gets mad, but the old man tosses a card into Manjoume's hand, calling it a gift. It is the ugly little yellow thing from before, but even uglier if that's possible, and just in case you thought it might secretly be all kinds of powerful, it is Ojama Yellow, a normal level two monster. Manjoume immediately tries to get rid of it, but old man says that he'll regret it if he does; he says that Manjoume was having a nightmare about 'becoming stronger, becoming stronger', lists off the people Manjoume was muttering about, and it seems that Manjoume is really talkative in his sleep. Does anyone really do that, mutter in their sleep about plot and character significant information?
Manjoume gets into some self-pity, and Old Man asks if he really wants to be stronger, and also to beware the dark side of the force, because his entire line of conversation is just that trite. Manjoume, still suffering from his psychotic episode, growls to show him one person who doesn't want to be stronger, and so the Old Man asks if he's willing to work for it. Manjoume, outraged, demands to know who the hell the Old Man thinks he is, proclaiming himself "I'm The Manjoume", which is the closest proper translation to "Manjoume-San da!" that could be managed. Old Man laughs, saying Manjoume wants to be strong without effort, and that he senses an ability in him that others lack. So he sends him off to a good place, and by send him off, he floods the submarine full of water. Pleasant old man, isn't he?
And so Manjoume is shot out of the water and onto an iceberg, and since this isn't a cartoon, he does not instantly die of exposure. He complains about the old man, and in the distance he sees some sort of building. He walks down the path to the building, but it finds it barred to him. The old man from before, now sans his disguise, tells Manjoume that it's useless, that this is the Duel Academia North Campus, and the old man, who is obviously the principal of the place, has a tiny little fire going. Seriously, I think the writers for this episode were a little too enamored with the whole 'frozen north' thing to think clearly; there's no way this place could sustain one person, much less 100. Anyway, you need 40 cards if you want to get in. Manjoume says he's lost his deck, still yet to put two and two together regarding the identity of this old man, and the Old Man repeats himself about the 40 card deal.
Old Man tells Manjoume that there are cards hidden in caves and crevasses all over the place, and if he doesn't gather them, he'll suffer the same fate as him. Manjoume asks about the cards in his duel disc, and he says there are only 39, which makes sense since he gave Manjoume his useless card back at the submarine. Manjoume then takes out a debit card and says he'll buy the cards off of him, but the old man acts touched in the head, calling his cards the proof of his existence, so Manjoume relents. As he leaves, the old man yells out that the stronger cards are in the hard-to-reach places. That actually makes sense, given the premise of the set-up. Don't count on that happening too often. Or often. Or sometimes. Or a few times. Or at all.
So we get a montage of Manjoume crawling and climbing and swimming to gather up the cards, all without even showing the least bit of discomfort in the face of the sub-zero temperature that this place must be at. It takes him all day and all night, but with the thought of showing that smug prick Judai what-for, he gathers the cards he needs and returns back at the gate. The old man asks if he gained the cards he needed, and after a colorful description of his trials, Manjoume proclaims that he does, in fact, have 40 cards. The old man is elated, saying that he'd been feeling regret ever since Manjoume left, that he should have given Manjoume his cards back then so he wouldn't end up like him, and then says that the doors will surely open for Manjoume. But Manjoume says the old man is coming in with him, as he'll give him one of his cards so that they'll both have 40 cards. He of course offers up Ojama Yellow, but for some reason Manjoume's hand keeps jerking away from the old man, preventing him from giving up the useless annoyance that is Ojama Yellow.
Manjoume says his hand is moving against his will, and then Ojama Yellow's spirit appears with the intent to annoy us all into a murderous rage. Manjoume boggles at it, Old Man wonders what Manjoume is seeing, and Ojama Yellow says only Manjoume can see him. Lucky Manjoume. Ojama Yellow begs Manjoume not to give him away to a stranger, and also something about how they need to go look for his real brothers. Ojama Yellow is like Navi from Ocarina of Time, except completely useless and far, far, far more irritating.
So, unable to get rid of the well despised Ojama Yellow, gives some other random card from his deck to the Old Man, and then says to go on ahead, he's going to rest by the fire, and his name is Jun Manjoume. Manjoume bitterly thinks to himself that he's one card shot now, has another brief psychotic episode, and then sees a card left behind by the old man. GEE, I WONDER IF IT WILL BE A GAME WINNING CARD FOR MANJOUME IN THIS EPISODE???
One cheapass transition effect later, and Manjoume is ready to enter. The security system confirms 40 cards, and the gates open. The area inside seems to resemble an Old West town for no apparent reason, and then he sees the Old Man getting kicked out of a building. Manjoume asks what happened, and a gruff voice says they were welcoming the new freshman, and now we see a whole bunch of stereotypical gruff bullies, laughing smugly. Real daring show, real daring. Big muscle dude welcomes Manjoume to the North Campus, Manjoume asks who he is, and Muscle Man says he governs over the students here, he is 'The King', and that all new students must go through a gauntlet of dueling 50 opponents to determine his ranking, which is strictly observed. Furthermore, if he manages to defeat all 50, he must then face 'The King'. The Old Man lost his first match, making him the lowest ranked of all. Manjoume is looking forward to dueling again, one guy calls him a punk, and Manjoume yells out that his name is "Ich (1), Jyu (10), Hyak (100), Sen (1000), Manjoume Thunder!"
Yeah, I don't get it either, and not in a good way.
EYECATCH!
So we skip straight to Manjoume defeating the first dude using Death Scissors (A machine monster with 1000 attack points) and Limiter Removal (a spell that doubles the attack power of your machine monsters at the cost of them being destroyed at the end phase). Then we get a montage of Manjoume defeating a whole bunch of duelists, establishing that he's allowed to win against no-names. Four dudes calling themselves the Four Emperors of the North Campus declare that they won't let Manjoume near 'The King', so Manjoume says they should all come at him at the same time. The first emperor takes his turn and normal summons Troop Commander, AKA Marauding Captain; when normal summoned, it allows you to special summon another level four or lower monster from your hand, so he special summons another Troop Commander from his hand. Furthermore, so long as Troop Commander is on the field, you're not allowed to attack any other Warrior-type monster on the field, so with two of them on the field, Manjoume can't attack him. Then, in a stunning display of creativity, originality, and acknowledgment of the laws of probability, the next three Emperors do the exact same thing.
Wait did I say stunning? Because I meant stupid and tedious as all hell.
Manjoume comments on them all having two of the same monster, sets two cards, and summons Giant Rat in defense position, whose 1450 defense power is greater than the troop commanders 1200 attack power. The Emperors display their scorn, and Manjoume goes on this spiel about how he was thinking while searching for his cards, finding strategies to work around a weak hand and maximizing the worth of his cards. Ojama Yellow is annoying, Manjoume tries to smack him and says dueling is all about power, that weak cards can't overcome strong ones, and everyone is just staring at Manjoume all WTF as he says that smallfries are usable in their own, smallfry ways. And even Giant Rat thinks Manjoume is being mean, and its just a hologram.
The first emperor, tired of Manjoume's craziness, plays United Army, AKA The A. Forces; each warrior monster on the field will gain 200 attack points for every warrior and spellcaster on the field, so now all the Troop Commanders have 2800 attack points. He destroys Giant Rat, but this activates its effect; when destroyed by battle and sent to the grave, Giant Rat lets you special summon an Earth Attribute monster with 1500 or less attack points, so Manjoume special summons Misplaced-Anger Panda...okay. The Panda has 800 attack points, but gains 500 for every monster on the opponent's side of the field, and since there are eight, that raises it up to 4800. Immediately after that Manjoume activates Ring of Destruction, destroying the Panda to deal 4800 points of damage to everyone, and uses his other face-down card, Ring of Defense, to prevent the damage to himself. Thus, he defeats all four of them with just three cards.
Not bad. Would have been better if each opponent played different cards, but that would make sense, and we all know how this show feels about making sense.
Manjoume calls out 'The King' as his final opponent, and 'The King' points out that Manjoume's skills have been well exposed at this point, and now he'll learn his place. Oh, and Manjoume still hasn't quite shaken off his psychotic episodes as the specter of Judai continues to haunt him and be annoying. I swear, the only reason this is happening is so that Judai gets to have lines, even in an episode that's not about him for once. That, or for the Ho Yay, I'm okay with either explanation.
The duel begins and 'The King' plays two copies of Devil's Sanctuary, reducing the majesty of the card quite a bit. He sacrifices the two Metal Devil Tokens to summon Devil Zoa, who has 2600 attack points. Then he sets two cards to end his turn, addresses Manjoume sans honorific, and Manjoume insists, "Manjoume-san da!". Manjoume draws, and ends up with Ojama Yellow. Ojama Yellow comes out of the card to say that he's got a bad feeling about his opponent, and to piss off the audience with its unfunny antics. Manjoume summons the little shit in defense position, sets two cards, and ends his turn. 'The King' is not worried, he knows that Manjoume's deck is nothing but Smallfries, and follows his promise to show Manjoume a new hell by activating his trap card Metal Conversion - Magic Reflex Armor, AKA Metalmorph. He equips it to Devil Zoa and then sacrifices the newly equipped Devil Zoa to summon Metal Devil Zoa, which has 3000 attack points. Then he activates his other trap card, Call of the Living Dead, bringing back the original Devil Zoa.
'The King' proclaims his overwhelming advantage, knowing that there are no monsters in Manjoume's deck that can oppose his Devil Zoas, but Manjoume thinks to himself that there's one combo that 'The King' hasn't seen yet. He destroys Ojama Yellow with Devil Zoa, then attacks directly with Metal Devil Zoa for 3000 points of damage, which allows Manjoume to activate the instant-spell card Hell Tempest, AKA Inferno Tempest; when you take 3000 or more points of damage it removes from play all monsters in either players deck and grave. 'The King' points out that he still needs to get rid of the monsters on his field if he wants to win, and Manjoume takes his turn, proclaiming that 'The King' will regret challenging 'The Manjoume'. Then he plays the card that the old man left behind, Chaos End; with seven or more of his cards removed from play, it allows Manjoume to destroy every monster on the field, so there goes the mighty Devil Zoa monsters. Then he plays the trap card Return From The Different Dimension, the one that was so prominently used in the 4Kids Yugioh movie; with it, he pays half his life points and special summons five of his removed from play monsters, four of which have 1000 attack points, and the fifth is the useless Ojama Yellow with zero attack points.
Manjoume tells Ojama Yellow to beat it, making the worthless shit cry, and 'The King' cries out 'that's impossible' thus fully fulfilling his cliche role in this terrible excuse for a drama. AND FUCK THAT FUCKING MUSIC CUE, I WANT TO PUNCH IT IN THE COCCYX! Anyway, Manjoume wins, having beaten everyone at North Campus single-handed in less than a day. Which doesn't make Manjoume look awesome so much as it makes North Campus look incredibly weak and diminishes the presumed accomplishment of Kaiser Ryou winning the previous year's Good Will duel by quite a bit.
Old man then shows up in his disguise from the submarine, calling Manjoume the new king, and to the surprise of absolutely nobody throughout the entire universe in perpetuity, he reveals his identity as Principal Ichinose. Manjoume demands what shit is this, and Ichinose explains; he picked Manjoume up in the North Campus's submarine, Ojama Yellow sensed he was drowning and saved him...somehow, and that in defeating their 'King', Manjoume is now their Academy's representative.
WHAT A TWEEST!
He says he told the main campus that he was sending a first-year student, so they've chosen a first-year student too, and Manjoume realizes that Ichinose was going to make him King from the start...which is a great big Xanatos Roulette, considering all the myriad ways this little plan could have gone wrong and gotten Manjoume killed or at the very least, unable to defeat 'The King'. Ichinose bullshits about that 'power' that he said only Manjoume had, and Manjoume demands to know the name of his upcoming opponent. He finds out its Judai Yuki, and so he laughs evilly about how his chance has come to him, all while everyone bows to him.
NEXT TIME! Its the day of the big duel, Manjoume is wearing the Black Coat he'll be wearing for the rest of the series, and Manjoume's brothers show up for some reason. Oh, and of course, Judai is excited, because there is such a risk that we might forget that. EPISODE TITLE, VS. MANJOUME THUNDER (PART 1) THE THREAT OF ARMED DRAGON
Well, that wasn't actually the most terrible episode ever, but it is telling that Judai gets to have lines when he's not even in the episode, while everyone else is stuck out in the rain, out of luck. And of course, Ojama Yellow is an annoying little shit whose antics do not amuse, at all. Rather like Scrappy-Do.
TITLE SCREEN! REVIVAL! MANJOUME THUNDER! more like revival of my irritation, amirite?
Now Manjoume is unconscious inside a submarine, where it is quite damp, dank, and lacking in any real amenities. This annoying little high pitched voice starts calling out for its Big Bro, and it hovers above Manjoume in the form of a ball of light and starts telling Manjoume to get up. Oh, now we can see it more clearly; it is an ugly little yellow creature with with its eyes at the ends of antennas, big fat lips, and wearing tight Bermuda shorts.
Charming.
It then attempts to wake Manjoume by...rubbing its 'area' against his cheek, and then shoving its...'rear' against his nose. Manjoume, only dimly aware of how irritated he'll be for the rest of the series, reaches out and grabs the annoying little snot, which makes it disappear. Manjoume is awake now, and some new guy asks if he's awake. Manjoume briefly wonders if he's been swallowed by a whale, and then he sees the guy who just spoke; he is all bundled up in a clear effort to keep his true identity hidden, complete with mask. He is also holding a bunch of Duel Monsters cards, says that his name is of no concern, and asks if Manjoume is a duelist. Realizing quickly that those are his cards, Manjoume demands them back, but according to mystery man, they are soaked and useless; someone should have invested in protective sleeves for their cards.
Manjoume gets mad, but the old man tosses a card into Manjoume's hand, calling it a gift. It is the ugly little yellow thing from before, but even uglier if that's possible, and just in case you thought it might secretly be all kinds of powerful, it is Ojama Yellow, a normal level two monster. Manjoume immediately tries to get rid of it, but old man says that he'll regret it if he does; he says that Manjoume was having a nightmare about 'becoming stronger, becoming stronger', lists off the people Manjoume was muttering about, and it seems that Manjoume is really talkative in his sleep. Does anyone really do that, mutter in their sleep about plot and character significant information?
Manjoume gets into some self-pity, and Old Man asks if he really wants to be stronger, and also to beware the dark side of the force, because his entire line of conversation is just that trite. Manjoume, still suffering from his psychotic episode, growls to show him one person who doesn't want to be stronger, and so the Old Man asks if he's willing to work for it. Manjoume, outraged, demands to know who the hell the Old Man thinks he is, proclaiming himself "I'm The Manjoume", which is the closest proper translation to "Manjoume-San da!" that could be managed. Old Man laughs, saying Manjoume wants to be strong without effort, and that he senses an ability in him that others lack. So he sends him off to a good place, and by send him off, he floods the submarine full of water. Pleasant old man, isn't he?
And so Manjoume is shot out of the water and onto an iceberg, and since this isn't a cartoon, he does not instantly die of exposure. He complains about the old man, and in the distance he sees some sort of building. He walks down the path to the building, but it finds it barred to him. The old man from before, now sans his disguise, tells Manjoume that it's useless, that this is the Duel Academia North Campus, and the old man, who is obviously the principal of the place, has a tiny little fire going. Seriously, I think the writers for this episode were a little too enamored with the whole 'frozen north' thing to think clearly; there's no way this place could sustain one person, much less 100. Anyway, you need 40 cards if you want to get in. Manjoume says he's lost his deck, still yet to put two and two together regarding the identity of this old man, and the Old Man repeats himself about the 40 card deal.
Old Man tells Manjoume that there are cards hidden in caves and crevasses all over the place, and if he doesn't gather them, he'll suffer the same fate as him. Manjoume asks about the cards in his duel disc, and he says there are only 39, which makes sense since he gave Manjoume his useless card back at the submarine. Manjoume then takes out a debit card and says he'll buy the cards off of him, but the old man acts touched in the head, calling his cards the proof of his existence, so Manjoume relents. As he leaves, the old man yells out that the stronger cards are in the hard-to-reach places. That actually makes sense, given the premise of the set-up. Don't count on that happening too often. Or often. Or sometimes. Or a few times. Or at all.
So we get a montage of Manjoume crawling and climbing and swimming to gather up the cards, all without even showing the least bit of discomfort in the face of the sub-zero temperature that this place must be at. It takes him all day and all night, but with the thought of showing that smug prick Judai what-for, he gathers the cards he needs and returns back at the gate. The old man asks if he gained the cards he needed, and after a colorful description of his trials, Manjoume proclaims that he does, in fact, have 40 cards. The old man is elated, saying that he'd been feeling regret ever since Manjoume left, that he should have given Manjoume his cards back then so he wouldn't end up like him, and then says that the doors will surely open for Manjoume. But Manjoume says the old man is coming in with him, as he'll give him one of his cards so that they'll both have 40 cards. He of course offers up Ojama Yellow, but for some reason Manjoume's hand keeps jerking away from the old man, preventing him from giving up the useless annoyance that is Ojama Yellow.
Manjoume says his hand is moving against his will, and then Ojama Yellow's spirit appears with the intent to annoy us all into a murderous rage. Manjoume boggles at it, Old Man wonders what Manjoume is seeing, and Ojama Yellow says only Manjoume can see him. Lucky Manjoume. Ojama Yellow begs Manjoume not to give him away to a stranger, and also something about how they need to go look for his real brothers. Ojama Yellow is like Navi from Ocarina of Time, except completely useless and far, far, far more irritating.
So, unable to get rid of the well despised Ojama Yellow, gives some other random card from his deck to the Old Man, and then says to go on ahead, he's going to rest by the fire, and his name is Jun Manjoume. Manjoume bitterly thinks to himself that he's one card shot now, has another brief psychotic episode, and then sees a card left behind by the old man. GEE, I WONDER IF IT WILL BE A GAME WINNING CARD FOR MANJOUME IN THIS EPISODE???
One cheapass transition effect later, and Manjoume is ready to enter. The security system confirms 40 cards, and the gates open. The area inside seems to resemble an Old West town for no apparent reason, and then he sees the Old Man getting kicked out of a building. Manjoume asks what happened, and a gruff voice says they were welcoming the new freshman, and now we see a whole bunch of stereotypical gruff bullies, laughing smugly. Real daring show, real daring. Big muscle dude welcomes Manjoume to the North Campus, Manjoume asks who he is, and Muscle Man says he governs over the students here, he is 'The King', and that all new students must go through a gauntlet of dueling 50 opponents to determine his ranking, which is strictly observed. Furthermore, if he manages to defeat all 50, he must then face 'The King'. The Old Man lost his first match, making him the lowest ranked of all. Manjoume is looking forward to dueling again, one guy calls him a punk, and Manjoume yells out that his name is "Ich (1), Jyu (10), Hyak (100), Sen (1000), Manjoume Thunder!"
Yeah, I don't get it either, and not in a good way.
EYECATCH!
So we skip straight to Manjoume defeating the first dude using Death Scissors (A machine monster with 1000 attack points) and Limiter Removal (a spell that doubles the attack power of your machine monsters at the cost of them being destroyed at the end phase). Then we get a montage of Manjoume defeating a whole bunch of duelists, establishing that he's allowed to win against no-names. Four dudes calling themselves the Four Emperors of the North Campus declare that they won't let Manjoume near 'The King', so Manjoume says they should all come at him at the same time. The first emperor takes his turn and normal summons Troop Commander, AKA Marauding Captain; when normal summoned, it allows you to special summon another level four or lower monster from your hand, so he special summons another Troop Commander from his hand. Furthermore, so long as Troop Commander is on the field, you're not allowed to attack any other Warrior-type monster on the field, so with two of them on the field, Manjoume can't attack him. Then, in a stunning display of creativity, originality, and acknowledgment of the laws of probability, the next three Emperors do the exact same thing.
Wait did I say stunning? Because I meant stupid and tedious as all hell.
Manjoume comments on them all having two of the same monster, sets two cards, and summons Giant Rat in defense position, whose 1450 defense power is greater than the troop commanders 1200 attack power. The Emperors display their scorn, and Manjoume goes on this spiel about how he was thinking while searching for his cards, finding strategies to work around a weak hand and maximizing the worth of his cards. Ojama Yellow is annoying, Manjoume tries to smack him and says dueling is all about power, that weak cards can't overcome strong ones, and everyone is just staring at Manjoume all WTF as he says that smallfries are usable in their own, smallfry ways. And even Giant Rat thinks Manjoume is being mean, and its just a hologram.
The first emperor, tired of Manjoume's craziness, plays United Army, AKA The A. Forces; each warrior monster on the field will gain 200 attack points for every warrior and spellcaster on the field, so now all the Troop Commanders have 2800 attack points. He destroys Giant Rat, but this activates its effect; when destroyed by battle and sent to the grave, Giant Rat lets you special summon an Earth Attribute monster with 1500 or less attack points, so Manjoume special summons Misplaced-Anger Panda...okay. The Panda has 800 attack points, but gains 500 for every monster on the opponent's side of the field, and since there are eight, that raises it up to 4800. Immediately after that Manjoume activates Ring of Destruction, destroying the Panda to deal 4800 points of damage to everyone, and uses his other face-down card, Ring of Defense, to prevent the damage to himself. Thus, he defeats all four of them with just three cards.
Not bad. Would have been better if each opponent played different cards, but that would make sense, and we all know how this show feels about making sense.
Manjoume calls out 'The King' as his final opponent, and 'The King' points out that Manjoume's skills have been well exposed at this point, and now he'll learn his place. Oh, and Manjoume still hasn't quite shaken off his psychotic episodes as the specter of Judai continues to haunt him and be annoying. I swear, the only reason this is happening is so that Judai gets to have lines, even in an episode that's not about him for once. That, or for the Ho Yay, I'm okay with either explanation.
The duel begins and 'The King' plays two copies of Devil's Sanctuary, reducing the majesty of the card quite a bit. He sacrifices the two Metal Devil Tokens to summon Devil Zoa, who has 2600 attack points. Then he sets two cards to end his turn, addresses Manjoume sans honorific, and Manjoume insists, "Manjoume-san da!". Manjoume draws, and ends up with Ojama Yellow. Ojama Yellow comes out of the card to say that he's got a bad feeling about his opponent, and to piss off the audience with its unfunny antics. Manjoume summons the little shit in defense position, sets two cards, and ends his turn. 'The King' is not worried, he knows that Manjoume's deck is nothing but Smallfries, and follows his promise to show Manjoume a new hell by activating his trap card Metal Conversion - Magic Reflex Armor, AKA Metalmorph. He equips it to Devil Zoa and then sacrifices the newly equipped Devil Zoa to summon Metal Devil Zoa, which has 3000 attack points. Then he activates his other trap card, Call of the Living Dead, bringing back the original Devil Zoa.
'The King' proclaims his overwhelming advantage, knowing that there are no monsters in Manjoume's deck that can oppose his Devil Zoas, but Manjoume thinks to himself that there's one combo that 'The King' hasn't seen yet. He destroys Ojama Yellow with Devil Zoa, then attacks directly with Metal Devil Zoa for 3000 points of damage, which allows Manjoume to activate the instant-spell card Hell Tempest, AKA Inferno Tempest; when you take 3000 or more points of damage it removes from play all monsters in either players deck and grave. 'The King' points out that he still needs to get rid of the monsters on his field if he wants to win, and Manjoume takes his turn, proclaiming that 'The King' will regret challenging 'The Manjoume'. Then he plays the card that the old man left behind, Chaos End; with seven or more of his cards removed from play, it allows Manjoume to destroy every monster on the field, so there goes the mighty Devil Zoa monsters. Then he plays the trap card Return From The Different Dimension, the one that was so prominently used in the 4Kids Yugioh movie; with it, he pays half his life points and special summons five of his removed from play monsters, four of which have 1000 attack points, and the fifth is the useless Ojama Yellow with zero attack points.
Manjoume tells Ojama Yellow to beat it, making the worthless shit cry, and 'The King' cries out 'that's impossible' thus fully fulfilling his cliche role in this terrible excuse for a drama. AND FUCK THAT FUCKING MUSIC CUE, I WANT TO PUNCH IT IN THE COCCYX! Anyway, Manjoume wins, having beaten everyone at North Campus single-handed in less than a day. Which doesn't make Manjoume look awesome so much as it makes North Campus look incredibly weak and diminishes the presumed accomplishment of Kaiser Ryou winning the previous year's Good Will duel by quite a bit.
Old man then shows up in his disguise from the submarine, calling Manjoume the new king, and to the surprise of absolutely nobody throughout the entire universe in perpetuity, he reveals his identity as Principal Ichinose. Manjoume demands what shit is this, and Ichinose explains; he picked Manjoume up in the North Campus's submarine, Ojama Yellow sensed he was drowning and saved him...somehow, and that in defeating their 'King', Manjoume is now their Academy's representative.
WHAT A TWEEST!
He says he told the main campus that he was sending a first-year student, so they've chosen a first-year student too, and Manjoume realizes that Ichinose was going to make him King from the start...which is a great big Xanatos Roulette, considering all the myriad ways this little plan could have gone wrong and gotten Manjoume killed or at the very least, unable to defeat 'The King'. Ichinose bullshits about that 'power' that he said only Manjoume had, and Manjoume demands to know the name of his upcoming opponent. He finds out its Judai Yuki, and so he laughs evilly about how his chance has come to him, all while everyone bows to him.
NEXT TIME! Its the day of the big duel, Manjoume is wearing the Black Coat he'll be wearing for the rest of the series, and Manjoume's brothers show up for some reason. Oh, and of course, Judai is excited, because there is such a risk that we might forget that. EPISODE TITLE, VS. MANJOUME THUNDER (PART 1) THE THREAT OF ARMED DRAGON
Well, that wasn't actually the most terrible episode ever, but it is telling that Judai gets to have lines when he's not even in the episode, while everyone else is stuck out in the rain, out of luck. And of course, Ojama Yellow is an annoying little shit whose antics do not amuse, at all. Rather like Scrappy-Do.
