The Problems with Yugioh 5Ds Girls

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Honestly, Crow becoming a main wouldn't have been so bad if Aki hadn't been sidelined. Keep crow a supporting main who still has something to provide while making sure Aki's arc reaches beginning, middle, and end, and that can fix things.

also the ending to carlys duel was just so sad. in a sense she knew jack was going for a double knock out but did a move that she knew that only would take her out even when being controlled and it was just so sad. carly vs jack was a duel that will always be remembered as one of the best duels in 5ds history

I agree, that Aki should have, at least, taken some of non-important duels from Yusei and so on. Stuff like the academy professor. You could easily make a sideplot about her reforming the Arcadia movement into one to help & support Psychic Duelists, the way Aki herslef was helped. Ones in which offer guidence to those who awaken psychic powers & their families, on how to handle the situation. Maybe even bring back some old members who still follow Divine's/Sayer's way of doing things, as opponents for her. Hell bring back Divine and let Aki get revenge by curb-stomping him.

Man, Divine (Sayer) was probably one of the MOST evil antagonists in Yu-Gi-Oh... besides the cult brainwashing he did, he literally tortured a kid to dead, and murdered Carly without any remorse... probably even worse (but not by much) then Marik's dad...

Imagine this: A world where Aki during the second half of the series had a character arc where she had to reconnect with her powers, what brought her and others so much pain, to use them for good. But now that she doesn't have a heart full of hate and pain, they come become even stronger thanks to the friendship and love. And during the final fights, when they are basically fighting in the skies, she makes her bike fly through her own powers. Want to make the ship with Yusei even stronger? Have to final fight Yusei be pushed so hard that he falls from his bike, but Aki catches him and he finishes making the last move from the back of Aki's bike. How would that work when the bikes are also the duel disk? I have no idea, but they could probably think of something XD.

I loved how jack in his duel against carly was like "I rather die with you, then kill you" only to ignore her afterwards

24:42 I honestly like this idea better because it would have been way easier to show the professer being beaten that doesn’t require tons of ass pulls. Aki summons black rose dragon and uses it’s effect to nuke the field. She could then have used a card like monster reborn to return black rose and attack directly. The professer backed in a Corner could then attempt to place a face down to defend for another turn and back row. Next turn, aki can use a card like mst or other backrow removal, activate black rose effect to banish a plant to flip up the monster,reduce its atk to 0, and attack for game

It always sucks having to remember the lost potential of 5D’s, but I’m glad for videos like this, since I can still look back fondly at it. It’s still my fav show and synchros are my fav mechanic. I’m a little surprised there wasn’t any mention of Shin Yoshida (although that might just be my circle). He was the head writer from the DS saga onward, and had some involvement in previous YGO seasons. Main reason I bring him up is that he had some very…questionable habits and predictable writing tendencies that really show up in the latter half of 5D’s. Dude loves the number 3, s’why we get three man teams and three henchmen in his seasons. He’s also been on record saying he wouldn’t write women in his plot if he could help it, which will be very apparent once you get to Zexal, which he was the head writer as well, from start to finish. Looking back at his most prominent involvement before this, we have the Orichalchos arc, where we have a big bad and his three henchmen along with a female side character (Mai) getting turned to the bad side. Also counts as another three-peat since Rex and Weevil were also turned. GX has some smatterings of it in its final season, specifically with Alexis’ decision to enter a non-dueling related career. It’s also worth noting that he was in charge of the story for Vrains as well, which should come as no surprise given that series’…treatment of its female cast (what little there is of it). There’s a lot I could into, but I’ll leave that for when you do get around to Zexal. For that, I wish you all the luck in the world!

Carly vs JAck is still one of my favourite duels in 5Ds. Just the emotion there,and especially the end. We tried to crash so they'd end to duel in a draw but Carly forced his to activate Majestic Red Dragon's effect, forcing him to win and go on without her.

Zexal is actually really great But their female cast was..... Tori: here to simp for Yuma Cathy: here to simp for Yuma Anna: here to simp for Yuma Rio: here for Bronk to simp

I feel like would have been interesting was having Aki be a mentor for Ruka. Ruka can see duel spirits and Aki has psychic powers, so it would have been possible to see them learn their own individual powers along side each other since the writers made it very clear that neither of the 2 knows how to fully utilize it

The sad part about Luna is that there is stuff to work with, to the point where it feels like the writers actively neglected her. Luna could visit the Duel Spirit World since her earliest memories (and would go there to play with low-level fairies), but she abandoned that world when Ancient Fairy Dragon—Luna’s ace—called on Luna (a young child at the time) to protect it from upcoming threats. In the Fortune Cup and DS Arcs Luna resolves to protect the Duel Spirit World for the sake of her fairy friends and for Ancient Fairy Dragon. Along with that, Ancient Fairy Dragon is a prisoner of Dark Signer Devack, who challenges Luna to a duel. The story’s natural progression would have had Luna duel Devack while Leo got his rematch with Bommer. Instead, Crow dueled Bommer and Leo got shoved into Luna’s Dark Signer duel. And then the Duel Spirit World never got brought up again despite being fertile ground for further stories.

Carly was goated, I was in my first year of college when I truly began to see the greatness of her Season 1 character. We don't talk about her later, but yeah no one until now really gives her the love she deserves for truly having one of the most deepest developments ever from a side character in Yugioh.

Hell they could have had members of the Arcadia movement go after Aki after it collapsed blaming her for abandoning them. Its hard to believe that Divine and Aki were the only psychic duelist there. And it’s even the plot line for a Yugioh DS game.

Honestly, as someone who hasn't seen any Yugioh at all. Aki seems like a cool character who needs hugs.

Yeaaaaah I gotta agree. The sexualization of the Zexal characters is just…gross. Really creepy. 🤮 Don’t give me the excuse of “cultural differences”. Those are children who aren’t even in high school yet. I’m praying for MangaKamen. I’d hate to have to make a video covering it too. 🙃

So here's my rewrites for 5D's/ First off let's bench Crow until the final round but have this happen after he get's his dragon. Second let's have Aki's duel against the Duel academy teacher have her summon a new version of Black Rose dragon one that only destorys cards on the opponents field and protects the ones on her field to show how she's no longer a danger to others besides her enemies. Third let's have her duel against Sherry have the two best girls go at it and it ends in a tie. And lets have some duels of Sherry's team in the tournanment to show just how strong she is

A large chunk of the Yugioh fanbase will tell you that 5Ds is their favourite (or 2nd favourite behind DM) and that they want more mature versions of Yugioh. Despite this, 5Ds did really bad in terms of viewership. I'm also willing to bet that Zexel & Arc V being more child-focused was a result of 5Ds poor sales. You have a clear conflict between what fans say they want and what actually tends to sell. I can't imagine we'll ever get another "adult-oriented" Yugioh show because VRAINS was pretty lackluster and there were lots of production problems with Studio Gallop. The ship has long sailed. The thing is Yugioh Sevens was pretty good, by my standard, despite having the youngest cast of characters. There is nothing in that show which I would call out-right juvenile. You could easily rewrite the entire story with late teen-aged characters and it would still function the same. Go Rush has also been so far so good, as well.

Aki has gotten it way better compared to Téa and Alexis as the female protagonist, who haven't even gotten nearly as much development and remained the same character for the entire show. She should at least have gotten to duel Divine and take down the Arcadia Movement to round up her character. Also you haven't mentioned it in either video but what are your feelings about Yusei X Aki? Should they have ended up together or is it true that Yusei has the hots for his D Wheeler?