#no. 96

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

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[skiel-infinity]

Either no.96 or Astral!

(whomever you like / are better familiar with! 🩵💜)

Both are fun~

Mist, however, I have VERY strong opinions of.

Konami, PLEEEEASE give him a second chance, I am BEGGING YOU he is the most CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED CHARACTER I'VE HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF FAVING WAUGH

i spit and cry to all of my friends about this and hose the down with my hcs of him and how much potential he has and they can do nothing about it. it's like i'm throwing a metaphorical bucket of ice water at them

[kaiowut99]

Went ahead and threw on ZeXal II episode 38 [111] thinking nothing big will go on, just Barian'd No. 96 overwhelming Yuma and Astral and the two going further to prove their bond together, no big dea--

*episode starts with a foreshadowing of Astral leaving the Numbers with Yuma and saying goodbye in some kind of vision Yuma's having [making me double-check to make sure I'm on the right episode lol]*

*No. 96 pushes Yuma and Astral to the edge and struggling Yuma joins Astral in a ZeXal Change, talking about how Hope embodies their bond and the concept of hope always leading them to win as they beat 96*

*sore loser/"God" 96 makes a last dash at retaking Astral to continue destroying all three worlds and Astral pushes Yuma out of ZeXal to keep him out of it*

*ultimately the vision comes true and Astral gives himself up to keep Yuma safe and gives him the Numbers as he and the Emperor's Key sink into a pit*

*Yuma's broken and Kotori and the others are looking somber*

*GO WAY GO WAY updates with a Yuma/Astral montage, including showing the cute moment with Astral's first time eating over the bridge to the chorus*

I--

ZeXal definitely has been doing a good job of getting you invested in Yuma and Astral's relationship, the differences they've had here/there with things like Yuma's trust in his opponents after the Vector trolling, and how Astral respects Yuma's always-keep-going attitude and Yuma's growth in respecting him, so with the way they went about seemingly killing Astral here as all 96 cares about is getting his way and continuing his destruction, it's reasonable to see how it'd affect Yuma the way it does. Really good episode.

(I say "seemingly" not so much because spoilers as because ofc I still have 40-odd episodes to go so that can't be it for Astral lol)

Also, really good shots here [feels like the closest Astral's looked to Kaz's sketch so far too]; I almost thought this was a Hara/Gil-bo episode (Gil-bo looks to be on the next one with Heartland talking with Yuma), but Akemi Yokota's team did a great job on this one (it has been cool seeing some of the Animation Directors I know from ARC-V on start to really get their style going in ZeXal or keep it going after 5D's like Gil-bo and Hara)

Also since it's been a while, I did enjoy the Seven Ruin Numbers arc too, was interesting to see that the Barians are reincarnations of these past figures (and also interesting how Yuma's dad had seen each one...), and of course the big revelation with Shark and Rio being reincarnations themselves... Was kinda neat how they did those visions Atem-in-Memory-World style by dropping Shark into Nasch's body and all, lol. Knowing few details here/there about how things go there, I'm curious to see how it shakes out, since Shark seems to be thinking about it in the next episode.

(Also, was really amused seeing how Mizael's legend was edited in the dub; I get you couldn't show Mizael giving himself up so the townspeople saw he was right about his horse yet the invading country killing him anyway, but it felt like dub!Crashtown's ending a bit with what they did lol)

[twistedimagery]

So what’s he normally called by fans? Number 96/No. 96 or Black/Dark Mist?

Hard to decide whether I like him better in sub or dub. With Miyu Iruno (who I still can’t believe voices Sora from Kingdom Hearts) he’s your typical creepy yet somewhat alluring serial killer. With Marc Thompson he sounds like someone who can make love to you while slowly torturing/killing you.

“Yuma will be dueling for me. Not his mind, but his body…”

“Give up now, and I will show you mercy…”

I still would prefer Astral over him of course.

[baddyzarc]

4kids on Astral and No. 96's Nudity:

4kids on the Barian's Nudity:

[city-doodles]

Yuma's probably dueling him but in those funky clothes Cathy used to dress him up in.

also can you believe Black Mist is 50% shitty undetailed hair

[shingan-soshite-sougan]