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YGO5Ds Week Prompts Dropped!

5D's FANS! It's here! https://ygo5dsmonth.carrd.co/#prompts Your 8th 5Ds month anniversary prompts have dropped! Excited to hear from you all again! We have a month before the week starts, so start prepping now!

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ygo5dsmonth/Week 2024 Day 6 - Awesomeness Across Infinite Earths

Rex: For your information, I won't fall over like a piece of cardboard if you push me.

Yuzu: (annoyed grumbling)

Wow, the two directors in the two cities sure are different, huh? Roget probably wouldn't last a week, scratch that, he wouldn't last eleven minutes in the crazy town that is Neo Domino. They attack you with real weapons there! Also he's scrawny as a broomstick and gets pushed arround by fouteen year olds.

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Day 5:

I think my favorite 5Ds merch aside from the DVDs is the game Over the Nexus. Unlike the other 5Ds games for DS, Stardust Accelerator and Reverse of Arcadia, Over the Nexus isn’t too short. It has a very complex plot, exploring Crash Town in more depth (albeit in a separate verse from the anime) and also going on into the WRGP. Curiously, like the English dub, it has the problem wrap up there instead of continuing into the Ark Cradle. Very interestingly, however, it has Primo and company decide they were wrong and they stay separate instead of combining into Aporia.

Radley in this game comes across as much more of a stereotypical, tough biker punk. However, he retains his philosophical side from the anime and the game still hints that he is a better person than Malcolm, who declares open war on Radley and clearly intends to kill him. In this version, it is never said that the miners are being tortured by either side. Also, Jordan/Sergio survives falling, which I firmly cling to as happening in the anime as well. It’s too depressing otherwise, after the kids struggled so hard to save him.

Also, mention must be made of Misaki, who is a female counterpart to Antinomy. Very curious indeed. And unlike Antinomy, her real purpose is never dealt with in this game. No one except the player learns of her secret identity as a mentor to the OC lead, and nothing is said about why she's there or where she comes from, or if she and Antinomy know each other.

After playing through the whole game, I mostly just hang around Radley in the post-game and repeatedly duel him. Sometimes I duel Scotch and Kalin as well.

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ygo5dsmonth/Week 2024 Day 4 - iDuel

Since the prompt is music, I thought we could talk about the visuals in the 5D's openings maybe? So here are my favorite parts, and some things I noticed in general

Opening 1 Kizuna

The beginning with the Signers, Godwin and the dragon marks looks super cool. Too bad I don't like the music that goes along with it, haha. A little Jack and Yusei heavy, but it's alright, at least the side characters get time to shine too

Opening 2 Last Train

It's soooo good, a like practically everything here. The new characters and monsters get presented well, and everyone has some solid screen presence. The coolest parts are the view of the Dark Signers in their lair, Kiryu appearing on his D-Wheel, and the Signers at the end (the Dark Signers look cooler though, sorry fellas)

Only thing that bothers me is how Godwin shows up so little in the opening, he's (barely) more in the ending ffs, and he's the final villain of this arc. I know that was a twisted plot twist and I'm the only one who cares, but still

Opening 3 Freedom

Phew, the opening wastes no time to tell you that this is the Yusei/Jack/Crow show now, Rua, Ruka and Aki get into the back right now! And if you're focusing so heavily on the boys at least let them do something other than standing/driving casually, you're not really hyping me up like this OP. Fun fact: this was the first japanese opeining the german dub decided to leave in, after they started dubbing the 4kids version and did their own synchro

Sherry's face looks fuckin weird in this

Why should I care about the stupid WRGP (You're a grand prick!) again? Sigh, tournaments for the sole sake of getting better at something work better before you save the world from certain doom (but that's a writing problem not an opening problem)

The Majestic/Savior dragons look cool at least, and I like that this sequence kinda mirrors the dragons from Last Train, just in their evolved forms

Opening 4 Believe in Nexus

The villains get to look cool for a hot minute, damn. Although Lucciano is the only one with rollerblades, so him sliding and everything makes sense. The other two...are robots and ignore how uncomfortable this should be

Sherry too? They must feel really sorry for having to remove her from the plot

Ally of Justice monsters, so scary! Isn't that the archetype that only ever had one good monster, a generic synchro? But of course everyone has to be dumbass in this arc and plays light monsters, which Ally of Justice is strong against

Opening 5 Road to Tomorrow-Going My Way!!

This is intense as you can see on the two exclamation marks in the title. At long last the other Signers get to be something other than background filler. Also it's so fuckin funny how Yusei and Crow roll out all their Synchros, even those they don't use anymore

and meanwhile Jack...

I refuse to play anything besides Red Demon's Dragon!!!

Jack: Man, I'm sure gonna miss to have someone to stand on rooftops with, once Arc V rolls arround

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ygo5dsmonth/Week 2024 Day 1 - Forever Fave

I lost myself hitting the ground, I tried to scream and made no sound. I should have known, It was no use to try and run from the cycle of abuse, the cycle of abuse

Again by Araki

This years 5D's month has come again! To exactly no one's surprise Godwin is still my fave. I'm still not over how he went from scientist, to the legendary man on the run from the police, to the fuckin head of the police.Also the whole brother thing

Yusei gets to be here too since he's the birthday boy

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