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Jul 6, 2014 1:59 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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I have to admit, Yuya put up a really good fight with his signature card and Pendulum summon. Yet, Reiji is able to fight back with his DD series. Sigh. I almost thought he had a strong chance there.

The highpoint imo of the match is when Reiji uses PENDULUM summoning. Not very original there...

Anyways, great episode although the ending was anticlimactic. Damn it. I bet they will have a rematch someday..
Jul 6, 2014 8:03 AM
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Pretty Awesome episode in general! Along side with some flashy tactics by both sides, I love how Reiji mentioned at the end how he believes PENDULUM summon is not the "ultimate form" of summon... Does this hint at a brand new summon later on in the series? Think about the potential in the future episodes!

One thing that I hate though: The cliché ending where they had to stop the duel. :/ All in all though, Probably the best episode so far?
Jul 8, 2014 9:21 AM
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Reiji can pendulum summon too. Sucked that the duel had to stop though.
Jul 8, 2014 12:11 PM
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this was awoesome dual shame they had to stop it in the middle
Jul 8, 2014 12:26 PM
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This is Yuma and Kiato's first duel all over again. The duel has no conclusion with the rival dominating the main character, and the main character knows he got beaten and had a moral defeat, so now you got to do some training.

I don't know who this professior Macro is, from the preview it appears to be a teacher at LDS, but he is important to Reiji enough to just quit. I guess it does show his humain side.
Jul 8, 2014 12:42 PM
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wow, i'm at edge of my seat watching this episodes...
Jul 8, 2014 2:48 PM
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That was an anticlimatic end DX
Jul 8, 2014 3:45 PM
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Ah they ended it but a nice duel all in all. So we get to see Yuzu's dad duel next episode on Yuuya's dad's favorite field area.
Jul 8, 2014 4:09 PM
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I wonder what Reiji meant by pendulum summoning was incomplete? Is there a way to make it even stronger. Inb4 Reiji makes pendulum summons meta.
Jul 8, 2014 4:46 PM

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The entire time he sent out his Pendulum Monsters, all I'm thinking is "are those fakes" and then he says prototypes. I guess they're not fakes, but still...

All these summoning methods in one show and it's WOW.

Jul 8, 2014 4:57 PM
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When they mean Reiji is a very skilled duelist, they literally mean it.
He already master all styles of summoning before pendulums came and even nearly made Pendulum Summoning his bitch if they weren't only prototypes.
Still would probably like to know what he would play his face-down card if it was not for the sudden interruption. He could have probably defeated Yuya in one shot.
Jul 8, 2014 5:49 PM

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Wow, I can't believe Reiji played 3 3000 monsters from pendulum summon. When the show actually tries to be realistic, dang... Can't wait to see the summon past pendulums!
Jul 8, 2014 6:09 PM

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When you explain your strategy in YGO 99% you are about to lose. Yuya saved by the plot this time but the duel is still awesome enough for me to forgive it. Also I think the one that save Yuya is The Dark Duelist who attack that teacher on LDS.

Anyway Pendulum Summon is the ultimate summon type that will wreck havoc meta duel in RL.
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Jul 8, 2014 8:59 PM

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Stark700 said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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I have to admit, Yuya put up a really good fight with his signature card and Pendulum summon. Yet, Reiji is able to fight back with his DD series. Sigh. I almost thought he had a strong chance there.

The highpoint imo of the match is when Reiji uses PENDULUM summoning. Not very original there...

Anyways, great episode although the ending was anticlimactic. Damn it. I bet they will have a rematch someday..
I was honestly scared as hell when I saw him summoning 3 copies of his 3k fatso.

It was a very tense moment overall that turn and the next one. Galileo and Keplers effects do modify their Pend Scales, though in the anime it seems 1 doubles and the other halves, and no matter the monster, even if DD if it is not within the scales they die. Interesting.

Also I was intrigued by Reiji's final card, it is as if he discovered some way to play with the Pendulum mechanic around.

I sorta expected a result like this, since with Reiji getting Pendulum, winning wasn't really needed. Still he proved a worthy opponent and Yuya did great. I liked this duel.
Jul 9, 2014 3:36 AM
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Stupid Deus Ex Machina at it again. And just when Yuya was about to have his first legit loss. Tche. Colour me disappointed.
Jul 9, 2014 3:42 AM

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Pooltastic said:
Stupid Deus Ex Machina at it again. And just when Yuya was about to have his first legit loss. Tche. Colour me disappointed.
This is staple in YGO. We have Yusei vs Kiryu on 5D's and Yuuma vs Kaito in Zexal.
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Jul 10, 2014 7:42 AM

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Reiji pulled Kaiba levels of bullshit with that deck stacking so I'm glad he didn't win.

NeoAnkara said:

Anyway Pendulum Summon is the ultimate summon type that will wreck havoc meta duel in RL.


Considering how much setup it requires I don't see Pndulum Summoning being that powerful compared to the stuff that Synchro can pull off
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Jul 10, 2014 3:31 PM

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DAT EPISODE!! was pretty awesome! Also was kinda broken Reiji's pendulum summon
allowing to summon level 9 monsters but after some malfunction on both card's scale
still looks that Reiji had advantage over Yuya but damn, inturremped at last moment.
Well now time to see how well is the teacher in duel.
Feb 13, 2015 8:49 AM
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I hate the shivering fat kid.
Feb 13, 2015 8:50 AM
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This was easily the best episode so far.
Mar 8, 2015 5:21 AM

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The kid shouting: "Shivers" all the time is really making me cringe :/
Aug 2, 2015 2:53 PM
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This was fucking lame
NeoAnkara said:
Pooltastic said:
Stupid Deus Ex Machina at it again. And just when Yuya was about to have his first legit loss. Tche. Colour me disappointed.
This is staple in YGO. We have Yusei vs Kiryu on 5D's and Yuuma vs Kaito in Zexal.

Bad writing is a staple of YGO?
welp
May 12, 2016 9:10 PM
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To think Yuya would have lost that duel to Declan (Reiji's English name) if it wasn't for the Boss Ex Machina and beta cards. Rematch will be back someday...
Aug 2, 2016 6:10 PM

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Ugh talk about convenient. Still a good duel.
Jan 26, 2017 6:14 PM

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Every singe enemy of the past few episodes have had fairly standard decks for what they are but Yuya just does whatever is convenient and relies entirely on plot armor. I'm sorry I just fucking hate these action cards. This entire fight has been nothing but convenient for him, even more so than his previous fights.
Dec 26, 2017 12:41 PM

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Pretty solid duels and ending was kinda foreshadowing
Dec 26, 2017 12:41 PM

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babymilo91 said:
Reiji can pendulum summon too. Sucked that the duel had to stop though.

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Oct 23, 2021 1:27 PM

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I don't know why so many people complained about the duel being interrupted. Yuya losing wouldn't have changed anything especially since his character arc would've been the same whether he lost or not. I wish that Reiji had simply postponed the duel instead of giving Yuya the win before he left, but whatever. Reiji might've won anyway since he still had a face down card he didn't play.

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