#yuki juudai

[kechiarts]

Rewatching GX and dragging out the Copics for funsies

[judai-senpai]

It's been years since I've drawn this guy haha It's also been ages since I've been on Tumblr so Idk what I'm doing here xD

I've started rewatching GX again because I need my comfort series in my life again. It's been a mad year and I just wanna pretend that I'm 10 years old again and there's no worries to be had.

[spacedoutsheepy]

My pet analysis of Judai/Jaden which may or may not hold up to scrutiny is that he is a deconstruction of what a yugioh protagonist is expected to be. Judai was never trying to be a hero, or save the world. He never asked for everyone to rely on him to save the day, and was never chosen by fate or anything. He was just a kid who loved to duel.

Over the course of the show, all he cares about is that he loves dueling. He's happy, chipper, and stays upbeat even when Real Shit is at stake. He was abandoned by all his friends and family when he was young because his imaginary friend (who he was tortured into forgetting) kept putting people in comas, and so when he finally got to duel academy, you can see him just be overcome with zeal at finally getting to duel like he loves to. He saves the world several times, but it's clear that he doesn't feel like it's his responsibility or duty.

And in season 3 it feels like we get a whole new cast who would be right at home as the main characters in a more conventional yugioh story, and are everything Judai and his friend group are not. An actual rich kid with an over-the-top tragic backstory, as opposed to the very human and grounded Chazz/manjoume, dealing with the more relatable problem of not wanting to live in your family's shadow. A boy who can talk to spirits like Judai, but also possesses an ancient and magical deck, and the blessing of Maximilian Pegasus. A guy with a fucking ancient artifact in his eye. A serious and hyper-competent action hero. Compared to the crew who chills out in the schoolyard, these guys seem like capital P Protagonists.

And everything starts collapsing on him all at once. He saves the academy, like, 3 times in a single season, and people started looking to him exclusively to pull them out of problem after problem. Even the english dub acknowledged this, albeit with a joke. His friends, new and old, and even his teachers, were putting all the responsibility he never asked for or wanted on his shoulders, and kept looking to him to fix things. It gives off a vibe of like, he's just a kid in completely over his head, and the universe was just forcing all this on him, and ultimately, it just broke him.

The pressure of, well, being a yugioh protagonist was too much for this kid and his school friends, and it breaks my heart every time I think about it.

I've been following @overobsessedfanboy13 for a bit now, and after seeing their protag ranking today, I wonder if they agree with my analysis. He's my fave protag too, and gx is by far my favorite yugioh series for how it handles trauma and recovery.

[ygobigbang-archive]

Weaponless

PREVIEW coming soon

Artist: @capriciousbuzzsawshark Full version coming soon

Writer:  @starlistic Status: Complete Rating: Teen and up Characters: Judai, Johan, Yubel Ship(s): N/A Content Warnings: Temporary Character Death, amnesia Summary: After the loss of his memories, most of his power, and his once-beloved partner, Judai re-enrolls at Duel Academia to restart his experience as a meister. He and his new weapon partner, Johan, are a perfect match—but the entity that tore his first partnership apart is still on the hunt.

Available on AO3

[kixidust]

I was feeling dramatic

[t4tieflings]

In honor of pride month I’m out here not only supporting YuGiOh characters’ gay rights but also their gay wrongs. 

[muzetrigger]

A Terrible Summary of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Season 3

Apparently, Friday nights are for me to ramble about the various fandoms I’ve fallen into, and since I’ve been in a Yu-Gi-Oh! Kick recently, let me talk about GX for a minute. (Don’t judge me, I’ve been clean for 3+ years and that was a brief relapse.)

Ahem

Anyway, this is Yubel:

They’re… insane.

They used to look like this:

And they became a monster to protect the GX protagonist’s past incarnation.

Still following me? Great.

So shortly before the events of GX, the person Yubel swore to protect is reborn as the series protagonist and Yubel is remade as a Duel Monsters card. The protag’s dad gives Yubel as a present to him, and then Yubel proceeds to hospitalize all of the protag’s friends through Sketchy Card Game Magic.

Understandably, this freaks the protag out, so he sends Yubel into space after winning a card drawing contest run by Kaiba, because of course Kaiba would host an entire contest just to send some trading cards into space.

Also understandably, Yubel feels kinda betrayed, and then their spaceship encounters Entities Beyond Comprehension, which drives them even more insane.

Eventually, they crash land back on Earth, trick a war vet into reviving them on the false promise of resurrecting the vet’s son, gaslight the vet so hard that he believes that his son never died and he walks off a suspended platform to his death.

They also transport the protag’s school to The Dark Dimension, possess the protag’s current best friend’s body (sorry, Syrus), and scheme to destroy the entire multiverse.

Predictably, this does not do wonders for the protag’s mental health, and he snaps, reverting to his past incarnation’s personality.

So, for like two or three episodes (I don’t know, it’s been like 10 years), the two of them had this aesthetic:

And yes, I was absolutely a Fujo for these guys, edgy teen that I was.

Anyway, the protagonist eventually snaps out of it (after sacrificing an entire country to make a single card) and beats Yubel out of his best bud’s body.

THEN HE PROCEEDS TO FUSE HIS SOUL WITH YUBEL’S SO THEY CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER.

And that’s how the last season of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX English dub ends. (Man, I wish Season 4 got dubbed.)

This was also just a really long winded way of introducing what I think is the first instance of gender envy I ever felt.

Which I think is really telling lmao

[thefigureresource]

Nendoroid Jaden Yuki [Yu-Gi-Oh! GX] from Good Smile Arts Shanghai coming August 2024.

[diaboundkernelz]

southview

[xxthefairywitchxx]

[pinkprimrose05]

FOLKS, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

They did it.

They finally did it.

JUUDAI AND YUUYA SIDE BY SIDE IN OFFICIAL ART LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[moonlit-orchid]

Yusei's reaction to being told there's a bug on him

[more-than-a-ghosti]

i love them and i will make you love them too

[coffeecece]

a dear friend of mine said something recently, and I had an idea; so I wrote something for it that I’m proud of!!

[olivethetreebitch]

ARE YE PROUD OF ME?!?

I MADE AN ANIMATION

[kitxkatrp]

Muse BIO: Juudai Yuki

BIO can be found here. Juudai Yuki is the main protagonist of Yugioh GX. A student at duel academy and post graduation a wanderer. Previously a cheerful boy, he has become rather solemn due to trauma and depression, but he still has a bright smile.