Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!
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 "Remember when the show was about Aliens? Me neither."
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! is the eighth entry to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and the second entry for the Bridge era of Yu-Gi-Oh! as well as the Rush Duel based anime series. It began airing in April 3, 2022 in Japan, and it's getting licensed for an English dub.
Plot
Yuhi Ohdo and Yuamu Ohdo are elementary schooler twins living in Mutsuba Town who are in charge of the alien extermination company UTS (Ultraterrestrial Trouble Solutions). They spend their days working really hard searching for aliens using a mysterious device created by Yuhi... that is, until one fateful day!!
Right after they created a mystery school club, they finally found a real spaceship and inside of it, they made contact with Yudias, an alien from the distant Velgear Star Cluster.
Yudias has come to Earth, after he and his comrades were chased from his native star cluster, seeking a way to a new future, which "Rush Duel" seems like it might offer a means to do so, but knows nothing about it. Yuhi challenges the newbie Yudias to a Rush Duel in order to give him a helping hand. This is first contact between elementary school students and aliens, via Rush Duel!
Now it's time to enter the new stage of Rush Duel introduced by this alien soldier from the far ends of the galaxy!
Let's go, Go Rush!!
Why This Show Needs to GO RUSH Away!!
- The first thing to note about this show is the title itself, while Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS wasn't a creative name, it still had a meaning, here, it just reminds you that this show is about Rush Duels, which is obvious, and extremely lazy.
- Much like SEVENS, some of the Duels that don't serve as the arc climax are monotonous and predictable with how formulaic it gets (3 to 4 turns, with the first player losing and second only winning with 200 or less LP), here, it's just worse since many of the Duels are not even trying.
- It also should be noted that it also uses the 13 episodes arc formula, while it did not necessarily harm SEVENS, here, it didn't help, especially with how many inconsequential filler this show has.
- The series having been brimmed with forgettable filler episodes undermined any importance each arc it had, granted that previous Yu-Gi-Oh! series (most notably GX) had filler episodes, here it doesn't help.
- The most notable thing about the show as aliens and space, while the first season 1 explored it (just barely) and the second season butchered to absurd degrees, the third season was nothing but food jokes that get tiresome very quickly.
- To add insult to injury, the Velgearian war the series had built up from the start, was not shown on-screen, and is completely forgotten about after the first season. Had it been in the final season, it would've been tolerable.
- Being a prequel to SEVENS, it should be worth noting that it needs to prioritize its own unique aspects before the fanservice, the later half of the first season, and the entirety of second season was nothing but SEVENS references all over the place. While it did explain the look-alike characters from SEVENS as the ancestors of SEVENS characters, it doesn't mean to pander SEVENS all over the show.
- It should be also worth noting that GX also did have Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters references (and to a lesser extent, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's), Duel Monsters did not consume either show entirely.
- While the second season did have something going for with Kuaidul after MIK arc, the third season becomes more juvenile and nonsensical, revolving about nothing than food, specifically curry bread.
- All of the characters baring few, had little to no personality at best, or being unlikeable at worst.
- Yudias Velgear went from culturally ignorant alien to dimwitted character.
- To make matters worse, he is a hypocrite since in the first episode he called Yuhi out of cheating (which he did not know much of Rush Dueling and Yuhi Ohdo did not cheat), later on, he defended Epoch cheating with the die roll as the "pay off of their training". Yes really.
- Neither Season 1 Yuamu Ohdo nor post-Season 1 Zwijo zir Velgear had any relevance to the story or character, while the latter did not have any conflict after the first season, he was shoehorned in every moment to remind you that he exists, and the former's only conflict was about her brother Yuhi, then later, Takeuchi really shoehorned the whole "I will become Otes" during the second season in attempt to appeal to Yuamu, which flopped, then she decides to become Dark Meister and create Darkmen out of food to reinforce the whole Otes subplot.
- Manabu went from a comrade in battle to a punching bag, thankfully it was toned down by the third season. (Though in the manga he was portrayed as a mindless pervert on top of the anime depiction as a punching bag.)
- The dynamic between Mitsuko and Zwijo being a homage to Carly and Jack from 5D's, has been sabotaged beyond salvation with Mitsuko having her one-sided love to Zwijo in the later half of the first season until the Kuaidul arc where Zwijo died, and Zwijo being indifferent to her.
- Myuda and Dinnois are pointless and only existed as bullies.
- Many interesting Alien characters such as George Jersey, Chupataro, Mitsuko, Skyfisher, Ganiko, Bochi, and Kawai Tell to name few are completely forgotten about in the second season.
- Kuaidul and Zwijo are the only competent antagonists, and The Luge to a lesser extent, with the rest were as uninteresting and less impactful.
- Yuna Goha is the worst character, going from being bully, to being a tolerable character, then regressing to bully because of the forced romance with Yuga Ohdo.
- Yuga's presence in the show was obnoxious, and the worst part about this is how bastardized he got in the season 2 climax, going from an innocent kid who invented Rush Duels for fun, to going as far as preventing the Velgearian from ever being revived so Rush Duels should be kept in the hands of children, which is very out of character for him.
- Epoch, while she's an improvement over Tiger, how her character handled was terrible, she was supposed to be concealed inside a box to show how shy she was, she did not have any arc to make her coming out of age moment natural and convincing, it felt unearned.
- Darkman Bruyea is a massive creep, going at any female he sees calling her "mama", which is creepy and annoying.
- Yudias Velgear went from culturally ignorant alien to dimwitted character.
- The writing became quickly worse as it went, and became barebones, just random jokes that aren't funny repeated constantly in hopes of getting the audience to laugh.
- As the show is currently continuing for the third season, things are not looking good, and it should end at some point with how too little substance it has now to finish the 150 episodes mark.
Redeeming Qualities
- The first season was tolerable before going downhill.
- Good animation even for the 2022 standards.
- Some characters are still likeable such as Yuhi Ohdo, Mitsuko Hiramori, Manabu Sougetsu, Kuaidul Velgear, Nyandestar, Kawai Tell, London Kirishima; Phaser and Tremolo Ryugu, Skyfisher and Velegarian CPT (although she is annoying at times).
- Although she did not have much going for Rovian Kirishima is still tolerable and likeable (without the cooking jokes), and thankfully her character didn't get butchered as she didn't have more screentime.
- The opening and ending themes are great and fun to listen to.
- Several interesting Rush Duel themes exploring more and more gameplay to add more interesting aspects to Rush Duel.
- The Manga counterpart while it's as controversial as the SEVENS manga, it's better than the anime, and some plot elements made more sense.
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