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
