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Zwijo finally doing something that wasn't an order but he gets stopped by Yuhites.

Seriously, imagine if he hadn't been stopped. He was ready to hurt or even kill someone here... (unless he just wanted to destroy the machine in which Yudias was but still, threatening Yuna with a sword is still a lot)

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So we finally know (?) what this shot in the OP means or at least what the connection is:

We see it in the background when Kuaidul summons his Ritual monster. (even if we don't see it properly yet for whatever reason)

I guess that also means Yudias will get a Ritual update.

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Well, the episode did deliever a big reveal in the end...

Kuaidul apparently confirmed that we don't just deal with time travel shit in GR but with a whole multiverse??

Also he Ritual summoned? From the Extra Deck?? Might be the big thing in ygo 9 instead of Synchro... (and Kuaidul said "ritual" in English so another way to make a difference to regular Ritual Summon I guess)

Ngl, I did feel bad for Yudias in this episode because damn, experience those weird worlds... It felt like an acid trip...

And man, Kuaidul's Ritual monster was already foreshadowed by the opening? We saw the same crescent moon in the background when the monster was about to attack Oblivion...

In the end, they managed to separate Kuaidul from Yudias. I wonder if they will just let Yudias go now or someone frees him considering he has to duel for the arc final...

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I feel like we have to talk about Yuna especially after the episode 136 spoiler dropped.

But first of: Whatever I say here is NOT character hate. If anything, I'm criticizing the way Yuna's written. I feel like her character could've worked but the way it's executed is just meh. (also I don't think it's too early to judge her writing when we're like 4 months away of Go Rush's ending)

(post might get updated when we get the subs for the rest of the episodes of this arc)

Yuna started off as a girl Yudias and the Ohdo twins had to find in arc 2. Someone who was very into Rovian (the main antag of arc 2), basically her right-hand woman and getting angry (and sometimes violent) at anyone who didn't appreciate Rovian and her space poems.

But there were also signs that she cared about someone else a lot too considering how pissed she was about Yudias having a duel disk she somehow seemed to recognize that it didn't belong to him. After Yuga properly showed up at the end of arc 3 and Yudias explained that it was him helping him out with cards and a duel disk, it's clear that he's the one Yuna cares about.

In Season 2, we get to know that Yuna doesn't just care for Yuga but is in love with him. Up to the point she's also ready to leave Rovian behind, the one she used to be so crazy about. Ngl, I found her pretty annoying in that season since she randomly yelled at (and assaulted) Manabu for not letting her see Yuga despite Manabu told her she can do that after Yuga helped them. And there was also her accusing Asaka for not helping her because of her own crush on Yuga. It kinda sucks that this is how they went with Yuna considering at the start of arc 8, she was also worried about the Velgearians but one episode later, she was already thinking more about Yuga (while being aware that she should help her friends instead) and another episode later, she was just all about Yuga. Like why? From arc 8 on, she was really like "screw the Velgearians, Yuga is all that matters".

With season 3, Yuna takes a turn that's kinda hard to watch for me. So she sides with Dark Meister aka Yuamu, takes over Mutsuba Town and then it turns out she just pretended to be on Yuamu's side so she can reach her own goal - which is to see Yuga again. She even made Time Machine to make her dream come true. There's also her being heavily delusional about a married life with Yuga (?) in the episode where the writers tried to bait us with random af Zwijo/Yuamu which eventually was just Zeyet pushing Yuamu into this idea. I really thought after the stupid episode about Yuna being married to Yuga and having Yudias and co. as babies during Kuaidul Spacetime, we wouldn't have to deal with this kind of delulu again but here we are now and Yuna doesn't have an excuse like back in arc 7...

I've said at the beginning that a character like Yuna could've worked but Go Rush does a bad job with her. Why? Because we barely know Yuna. All we know from her is that she runs Goha Company (now Goha Corporation) and she probably didn't do an amazing job at it since it was about to get bankrupt if Yuga hadn't showed up and helped her out. (which was likely one of the reasons she fell for him) But that's it? We don't know anything about Yuna's family. Does she have parents? Grandparents? Anyone else who could be her guardian since she's a minor? Like sure, we already had kids in Sevens running business but Asana had her grandfather and the Goha Siblings had at least Proprietress? A drone grandma is better than nobody. (same with Sebastian being there for Neil) Meanwhile Yuna's never shown with someone who checks on her.

Us not knowing anything about Yuna's (family) background makes it hard for me to understand why exactly she's willing to throw everything away for Yuga. I'm sorry but a simple "she's 13 so just a teenager who can be selfish when in love" isn't a good enough reason for me for her actions and I've seen that excuse too many times. You can have a big crush without taking over your town and likely messing with time. Antagonists doing bad things for love do exist but they get explanations for their (wrong) doings. Yuna has nothing but her crush on Yuga - a guy with whom she wasn't seen spending time together outside of flashbacks or a delusion; a guy we don't even know about how he feels about Yuna. (probably nothing but friendship since I can't see Yuga actually admitting to love someone romantically rn)

And I have to mention that too but it's honestly weird to see some people saying that you must be a misogynist if you dislike/criticize Yuna? I've never seen anyone saying you must hate guys if you criticize male characters. (and the amount of shit Yuhi got for simply getting more focus than Yuamu in s2 was already insane like dude wasn't even an antag there but people shittalked him worse than actual GR antags)

So yeah, that's all I have to say for Yuna rn. I'm pretty sad about her "development" since starting off as annoying/mean can be fine if you get better later but she doesn't in my opinion. She goes from obsessed with Rovian to obsessed with Yuga. Rovian saying in ep 128 that Yuna is now following nobody and basically doing her own thing (which is treated as positive development) feels like a bad joke when her own actions lead to some big problems and that's all just for Yuga.

My wish for Yuna was to eventually grow out of revolving her life around a specific person but Idk if I will get that before GR ends. And no, her having a crush on Yuga isn't the problem - the real problem is what this crush causes her to do now. And I wished more people would understand that instead of just defending her with flimsy reasons. I don't hate Yuna or any other GR character but dang, I really wished she got better writing.

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8 years already huh? 🥳

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*sees episode 136 spoiler* Uh...

So Yuna really wants to sacrifice Kuaidul and Kuyamuya so she can get her wish to come true? (which is seeing Yuga again, what else would "a door to That Guy" mean)

And Yuamu duels her, which I expected to happen sooner or later, but Time Machine gets activated again anyway. (so even if Yuamu should win, it wouldn't mean anything... great /s)

Seriously, how is Yuhites the main antagonist in this arc when Yuna is a way bigger threat?

Also: Wasn't episode 137 called "Dark Otes"? I have the feeling if "that door" gets opened, either something worse happens to Yuhi or an actual evil (version of) Otes shows up. Heck, Yuna randomly being turned into Otes wouldn't surprise me either at this point...

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I guess the most relevant things of today's episode were Yuamu finally asking what the heck Yuna's doing, Yuna revealing she just pretended to be on Yuamu/Dark Meister's side so she can see Yuga in the future and Yudias meeting Kuaidul who is responsible for his freezing or at least Yudias believes that?

Also the preview was sort of interesting:

So we see Yudias crying and looking pretty upset. Then there's this weird grass/plants shot of Yudias? What's that supposed to mean? How he could potentially end? Is this one of the several different worlds Yudias will see? From an artistic point of view, that shot looks pretty and creative imo.

Considering we have the director of the Rush shows and the writer who usually just works on arc final episodes working on next week's episode, this episode has to give us some big reveals.

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Well, episode 133 happened I guess.

Yuhites wins which was more or less spoiled by the spoilers. Only surprise was Yuhites using Time Machine and that somehow sucking Epoch into it? Please tell me she won't suddenly land in the Sevens world...

Yuna seemed pretty upset about Yuhites using Time Machine. At least initially. In the end, she does a cliché villain laugh and saying there's no turning back or so? If we had more time, Yuna should've totally been a main antagonist because girl is insane at this point. Btw, how the hell could she recap Sevens stuff when only the Ohdo twins got to see Yuga's memories? I doubt Yuga told her about his life in his time and even if he did, I doubt he would've described his friends so accurately that Yuna could make perfect paper puppets of them...

Next week we get Damamu vs Damamu? Yeah, whatever. The talk between Yuna and Yuamu is probably gonna be more relevant. Maybe after it, Yuamu finally goes back to normal and helps her friends.

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New spoilers dropped and out of it, only one seems rather interesting.

So, ep 135 will have Yudias duel Kuaidul because he senses something evil from him? And then he witnesses "several different worlds"? PLEASE, this has to mean that GR and 7s don't have to be on the same timeline. I've talked about it before but Go Rush already has things from the start that clearly go against what Sevens established especially the whole Sogetsu (and Nanahoshi) story. Like how the hell did Gakugen "invent" gakuting (still hate that they retconned it to not being Gakuto's own thing) but now the "manaming" of Manabu is also somewhat tied to Gakugen/the Sogetsu's iirc? Yeah, nah. I really hope this episode will confirm we deal with different timelines/AU.

Also notice how the one writing the script for ep 135 is Takeuchi Toshimitsu who usually is just writing for the arc finals in Go Rush? The only non-arc final episodes he wrote were Yuna vs Yudias (where Yuna beat him with Yuga's deck) and the Ohdo's going to Goha City as cats where Luke meets Yuga again from what I know. Also Kondo Nobuhiro is working on the episode who is the director of Sevens and Go Rush so yeah, seems to be a pretty plot-relevant episode. Ep 135 talking about different worlds, I can't help but think that we will see the Sevens world again. Who knows, that episode might also confirm if Yuga really managed to reach his time or not. If not, he's so coming back. If yes, he's still coming back because I don't trust GR letting go of him especially with Yuna still being delulu about him. Ep 136 even is called "The Door to That Guy" and Yuga's the only one being called "That Guy". Unless ep 135 might also lead to us seeing the Creator again and he's "that guy"? Ep 137 is "Dark Otes" so uh, is Yuhi getting actually evil or the "real" Otes shows up? Will Creator have anything to do with it since he's supposed to be Otes' Earthdamar?

Btw: Ep 137 being also written by Takeuchi probably means it's the start of the arc final. Considering that Go Rush is supposed to end with 151 episodes (which would fit when considering the break during New Year so the show ends on March 30th), arc 11 is either just 11 episodes long so arc 12 can have the regular 13 episodes or it's another 12 episodes arc which would mean a 3-parter arc final. (unless Takeuchi isn't bothering with the arc final like he didn't with the arc 5 arc final)

I'm still confused about Yudias randomly freezing like why just him? This better have a good explanation and wasn't just done because his VA was sick or absent so they had to make Yudias unable to talk.

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I'm a little concerned about the shot of Yuna in the preview. Like we just see her silhouette but it looks like she's grinning? We know we get Yuhites vs Epoch as the duel next week but what's Yuna doing in the meantime?

Considering she was having marriage delulus about Yuga again in today's episode, what if she finally found a way to time travel to Yuga? I mean we know there was a Time Machine card shown with her before and no way that would be just placed next to her for no reason...

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Didn't watch the episode live this time but apparently...

- Yuna delulu af for Yuga (nothing new)

- Dinois got revived

- Dinois dueled Zeyet and beat her

- Tamako called out Zwijo for not caring about the Velgearians/hurting Mitsuko?! (best part of the ep?)

- Yuamu's "crush" was just a "misunderstanding" (why was that even treated as it would be the big part of the episode when it meant nothing at all?)

- Dinois and Mitsuko friendship? (because Zwijo's an ass towards both)

Next week we get Yuhites playing the Sevens Road deck? And random Sevens gang scenes? I pity Go Rush onlys because they get stuff shoved down their throats they didn't sign in for again...

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Ep 131 is over...

The good news: Manabu defeated Zwijo! I really thought they would give him just a draw but no, he won.

Other than that nothing really worth talking. Except Yudias randomly freezing (?) and Yuhites talking about "something" which made Zwijo wonder about what "something" means. I do worry tho that Yuhites just said this so Zwijo will actually think (and change) and so this was planned and maybe Yuhi is really just pretending to have lost his memories as some have assumed. Which I would hate.

Oh and they really had to introduce "manaming"? Wtf happened to gakuting? Wasn't THAT supposed to be the thing that Gakugen basically started and every generation of the Sogetsu's learned? So how the hell does manaming fit there? Gakuto never talked about this.

I've seen some saying that another Velgearian might have been revived? Curious who then...

Next episode is the stupid "Yuamu crushes on Zwijo" plot and damn, the preview already looks bad. So looks like Zeyet will go through all possible options for Yuamu but Yuamu eventually gets blushy and heart beating faster for Zwijo? Meh. How is THAT gonna develop her character or help the plot? Her eventually realizing that she doesn't need a husband or worry about the future?? Isn't that possible for her to learn without randomly seeing Zwijo as a potential husband?

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Time to make myself unpopular again with this statement but why isn't everyone about the whole Zwijo/Yuamu situation of ep 132 wondering "where the hell does that suddenly come from??" or "what did the writers smoke to come up with this" but some people's first thought being "Zwijo's gay so this is bad"? Like the situation wouldn't be better if Yuhi or any other dude was suddenly getting the doki dokis for Zwijo since it's random af.

Also: Zwijo hasn't done anything really worth talking about since he got revived. He dueled Yuamu, lost and then just stuck with her and decided to be her fighter and protector for whatever reason. His biggest issue isn't suddenly being the potential crush of Yuamu (yeah it's trash we all know that) but him doing nothing interesting. Yes, he's gonna duel Manabu next but only because Yuhites told him to. If that episode won't give us anything interesting about Zwijo then I don't see him getting anything at all in this season anymore. (or at least not this arc)

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*sees spoiler for episode 132*

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What the HELL???

Idk what's worse:

Yuna being said to "fantasize about a married life with Yuga as usual" (your crush isn't even there anymore girl, give it up! - or is that another implication that Yuna wants to go to the future to be with Yuga?!) or Yuamu suddenly catching feelings for ZWIJO of all people just because Zeyet tells her he's her fated one? Wtf??? Why is Yuamu even buying Zeyet's shit? Just because Zwijo has been her "fighter and protector" for a while? This is ridiculous. Zwijo might act like Yuamu's right-hand man but he's never gonna love her back. (also what about Mitsuko then?)

I guess that episode might be Yuamu vs Zeyet since Zwijo already duels Manabu in ep 131? Or would they really do another non duel episode already? Anyway, I hope that Yuamu stops having the doki dokis for Zwijo the same episode she started having them. No way that's gonna be a crush living longer than an episode. Also if Yuamu wants a hubby so badly, she should stick with Sky. Or heck, even Tremolo would be less weird. But it's most likely that her future spouse is just some random dude.

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Episode was boring.

The big thing I was wondering about in the new episode is who's that purple haired girl with little Zaion? Was she his childhood friend? The fact we even got tiny Zaion makes me really wonder how he freaking ages. Like we know he had been with Luge for thousands of years and yet still looks like 12.

The massage chair drawing... Yeah, another Sevens reference because that's gonna be the "ancestor" of Sebastian, won't it...

Next episode is the rematch between Manabu and Zwijo and after seeing the preview, I have the weird feeling that Manabu will experience something similar that Gakuto did in his duel against Neil (just without gakuting): facing a strong opponent who dominates the duel but after one memory about Gakugen, the duel will actually end in a draw. Like I sadly don't see Manabu defeating Zwijo but a draw? That's the second best result.

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Finally Satoru calls Iroha by her first name. (and even Iroha-chan aww) Would've been kinda awkward if they were dating and he would still stick with Inukai-san imo.

And proper handholding to end the episode on an even sweeter note. 😊

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We all knew that Satoru wouldn't stop spending time with Mey Mey so if Mey Mey had just asked him to still play with him then he could've avoided having any negative feelings about the date. But I guess if that had been the case, we would've been missing like half the episode's content haha.

She's (still) a little confused but got the spirit.