The Peak of Yu-gi-oh! 5D’s

[@Eric6761]

Kalin basically getting into depression is honestly realistic for me, imagine this: You hated once your best friend only to realize you only misunderstood them and killed innocents in madness for essentially nothing and then you were brought back racked with guilt of the pain you made others suffer and even by association helping almost enslave souls and for me, Kalin has one of the best developments in the show

[@pk_tuneworld]

Oh, I don't doubt for one second that it's realistic. Too many people would feel the same way Kalin did - you've mentioned the various reasons why. So, when he ends up slowly overcoming the depression, it feels cathartic. Definitely one of the better developments in the show amidst some of the other mistreated characters (RIP CARLY SMH)

[@siphemanana2551]

Am I the only one that thinks that this arc could literally have been a movie. Like a 2-hour long movie 😅

[@pk_tuneworld]

I mean, in a sense, it is if you binge it like I did :)

[@haroldnecmann7040]

Better than that trash waking the dragon arc

[@truegamerking]

​@haroldnecmann7040 oh...I really liked that one...

[@jackatlus666]

​@truegamerking some people's take on Yugioh as a so called "fan" is wild. Like are you trying to be edgy and want people to avoid talking to you? Or do you actually want to strike up a reasonable conversation about a fun show and game. I've had a few of these conversations on Twitter literally the other day, everyone will be vibing talking about what they liked and how Konami and whatever studio that handles the anime be messing it up. And then you got guys like that, who will be like "This shit was garbage, "X" was peak, get this weak ass stain out of here". Like bro you're not based, your cringe and anti social 😂☠️

[@superalphazx5769]

Crash Town arc is wonderfully written and Kalin’s resolve to protect the town’s people near the end was admirable

[@pk_tuneworld]

Agreed!

[@Ginko_Sakata]

My favorite part is when yusei says Jaden's catchphrase "Get Your Game On" during his 3vs 1 since this arc came after bonds beyond time

[@pk_tuneworld]

Yeah, I was beyond (pun intended) surprised when I found out that movie was acknowledged as canon to the series. The catchphrase is one example, but then, in the final arc, Z-ONE mentions Paradox being one of his accomplices. I need to watch the movie.

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

Crash Town is the ONLY filler arc of ANY show I absolutely loved 10/10 perfection. It was a beautiful story of learning to forgive yourself and move on from past mistakes and trauma.

[@MABfan11]

i recommend you to check out One Piece's G8 arc, it's another 10/10 filler arc

[@just_a_rebel8261]

Crash town is not filler the 5ds manga and anime are completely different the characters even use different cards

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

@@just_a_rebel8261 Its basically filler. They were killing time until the WRGP and then that got rushed when the WRGP should’ve been all of season 2

[@just_a_rebel8261]

@TheGreatSalsaMan I don't think you understand what filler is...Filler is anime original content that wasn't present in the source material 5Ds has a manga but that came after the anime so it isn't possible for 5ds to have any filler all of it is original with no source material

[@Nefaliss]

The whole 1st half of 5Ds (Fortune Cup, Dark Signers) , Crash Town, the later half of WRP against Taio and Ragnarok and the entirety of Arc Cradle are absolutely peak YGO for me!

[@MABfan11]

Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds is easily the peak of Yu-Gi-Oh

[@darkshadow-og2ss]

Facts

[@Mkrfw]

one of the ds games places you in the shoes as someone living in crash town, and it was pretty amazing!

[@pk_tuneworld]

Never played the DS games sadly, but that's really cool! It's amazing when they let you sort of experience places from the show beyond just dueling on boards that vaguely resemble them.

[@RogerVenn]

I’d never seen the arc in the anime, but in the 2011 NDS game the MC is from Crash Town and that location takes some of the main focus of the game. I always loved the duel disk guns, and the cowboy music. Made the player feel so badass. Especially if you shot all the cards to go first (there was a QuickDraw mechanic for crash style duels where you had to perform button prompts in quick succession).

[@dudono1744]

Tbh, Lotten being the FTK guy is interesting. Lotten isn't trying to duel fairly, he sees dueling as a means to an end. And I think that FTKs are the best way to show that, since you don't need to care about your opponent (unless they have handtraps). Closest we got to that is one of the security AI in Vrains running handrip turbo against Playmaker, which is a pseudo FTK.

[@pk_tuneworld]

I agree that having an FTK-playing character is interesting. Lotten is still a cool character, don't get me wrong. It's less of that and more of the wish for him to have better motivation to be thinking like "dueling is a means to an end". E.g. maybe he was raised to not associate dueling with being casual or having fun. Though I'm definitely sort of nick-picking.

[@dudono1744]

@@pk_tuneworld While we don't have his backstory, we see Lotten do pretty shameful things like taking children hostage.

[@Erick7Greenday]

Crash town is the GOAT just because of its existence, we are blessed with Wildernes of the Duelist.

[@314walker]

Little nitpick I had with this arc Is Yusei being sent down to the mines even though he didn't lose a duel.

[@Eric6761]

Lotten nor Barbara can't care for fairness

[@pk_tuneworld]

Some villains don't play fair :P

[@jackatlus666]

This Arc was absolutely wild and i think it indeed does encapsulates the ridiculousness but depth and darkness of 5D's. The series as a whole constantly dipped its toes in greatness but was always held back from diving in smh.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Agreed! Like, it's crazy how this show can treat some of the most absurd situations with a level a depth and seriousness that pushes at real themes. I do think that, perhaps, the fact it was a card game show held it back from that greater greatness, though I'm not completely disappointed with 5D's. Definitely still a lot of highs for a the lows it had.

[@Raithul]

Yeah... I think its whole class warfare haves vs have-nots setting had a lot of potential, and then... they build a bridge and solve inequality, suddenly the cops are good, hooray! Still the best Yugioh series I've watched, though.

[@jackatlus666]

@@pk_tuneworld It definitely is held back by the fact that, in the end, it's still a "Children's card game" much like the other Cartoons that were airing at the time who's 1st season was a hodgepodge of silliness before they were injected with straight GAS (Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball) . I hope that with the reboot of the game with Rush duels and the anime cinematic for Yugioh that Konami pushed out, that maybe they can learn to let the writers go absolutely ham on a more "grown up and serious" version of the show (I mean let's be honest we've all settled with the fact that the world is a card economy driven based one where your conflicts must be resolved with a duel) while letting the kids have fun with Go Rush. Speaking of straight gas btw your thumbnail work is crazy good, gonna be binging all of your videos the next shift at work :)

[@blt1096]

Yep! This arc truly is epic! But also... HOW THE HELL IS KALIN FIRING THREE SHOTS FROM A DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN???

[@xan7292]

He simply has the better ~~gamer chair~~ duel disk.

[@pk_tuneworld]

The same reason why guns can be guns and duel disks at the same time in this show. YUGIOOOOOHHH

[@BobFauci]

I honestly loved how, unlike other yugioh shows, Kiryu got the win on the final boss. They didn't find a way to make the MC take the win. The arc was about Kiryu, and they let him take the win.

[@steelthunder7782]

Crash Town is one of the reasons the 2011 World Championship game is my favorite. Also for the people curious on some of the movie references that Crash Town is based on (going off the ones i recognized.) For a Fistful of Dollars (Biggest Inspiration to the point it feels like rewatching some of the movie, the two gangs names, Yusei's poncho, him taking down three men to prove himself, etc.) Once Upon a Time in the West (Kalin's Harmonia mainly, along with as the video said, the fight for land.) Django 1966 (Some of Kalin's outfit, Lawton's main monster using a gatling gun, along with the grave yard scene where Kalin decides what he's gonna do.) Of course I recommend all of these movies. At locals when I run Infernity we do a intro walk for fun where I play a harmonica as I walk to the table. The annoying part is though that Kalin's theme in the Japanese version is actually a Accordion, not a harmonica. The dub actually uses a harmonica for it's tune. I usually just play Man with a harmonica as my intro since I'm not a big fan of the dubs and I still haven't found a way to replicate the Japanese's version.

[@Penbin123]

Crash Town was so good that it became the town of the last MC of the 5Ds WC games.

[@pk_tuneworld]

Last MC as in like a separate MC to Yusei? I heard the WC games had a lot of unique characters.

[@Penbin123]

@@pk_tuneworld Yeah, the WC series has a few game original characters, between them the MC

[@randomuser4486]

Shout out to the GOATs, who played 5ds World Championship 2011!

[@jahrichest]

CrashTown was Brilliant

[@pk_tuneworld]

It truly is.

[@uberwow13]

hands down my fav arc of ALL of yugioh.

[@nebbynetwork2089]

Not long watched that arc if the show and ye it was so good great to see kallin again I have a theory that infernity doom dragon is a purified version of one hundred eye dragon when the darkness left kallin it left his dragon two

[@pk_tuneworld]

Yeah, Kalin truly becomes such a cool character by the end of the arc. I like your theory, by the way! The two definitely have plenty of similar characteristics - bat wings, emphasis on multiple eyes, their demonic looks. Both 3k bodies. It would make a ton of sense given Shooting Star and Quasar are demonstrations of Yusei's growing mental fortitude and bond with his friends throughout the series. Or how Red Nova Dragon is sort of a mesh of Jack's innate drive for power combined with his later learned appreciation for more methodical, careful dueling.

[@_thebigsteve]

Glad to see this arc getting appreciated as it deserves. I absolutely love it as I do all of 5ds.

[@pk_tuneworld]

5D's was such an incredible show - was really blown away by when I watched it recently for the first time.

[@SmashBros2009]

Crash Town was awesome! This is why Kalin is my fave character from 5D's! Now if only they would print his remaining anime/game -only Infernity cards (E.g., Infernity Zero).😢

[@pk_tuneworld]

I'm praying one day they give us the rest of the Infernity cards.... even if some of them aren't amazing, it would be nice to have them for collection.

[@SmashBros2009]

@@pk_tuneworld I hope so too! I would love to pull a Infernity Doom Slinger in a character duel against Yusei or Jack.

[@tryhard5515]

Is this a project for english class?! This is the type of video i would do no cap

[@pk_tuneworld]

I can't tell if this is a comment or a burn - if its a compliment, thank you! If its a burn, apologies that the video was poorly written, I'm still working on doing in-depth analyses for arcs like these.

[@tryhard5515]

@@pk_tuneworld not a burn one of my friends did a video about this for the initial d games from the arcades

[@randomedgygamer2191]

Dark signers and this, is the peak of Yugioh.

[@Personarose]

Personally I don’t think it’s fair people refer to this arc as filler since we later see Jack in Crash Town against Kiryu in the final episodes so while not relevant to the main plot it’s still canon. But anyway this arc is an example of how to wrap up a character arc and make a side character feel like the main protagonist which is extremely rare for Yu-Gi-Oh. It’s great but not enough to make me play a Infernity deck.

[@mathech9848]

I remember playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Over the Nexus in ds (Crash Town is the starting place of the story)

[@residentgrey]

Thus can be a curious arc to portray in Duel Links. Any excuse to have a spaghetti Western environment is good to me! It can even be its own world like DSOD.

[@RealKanzo]

God I love 5D's probably my favorite Yugioh besides the original and end of GX

[@pk_tuneworld]

I admittedly haven't watched GX, but definitely need to set aside time to do so given how much praise it gets.

[@halation1703]

The thing i hated the most that is related to this arc is how TCG fucked up the card translation with Kiryu’s return artwork. Why can’t they keep the translation as “The Returned Shinigami” or “The Death’s Return”? I am so disgusted when that card is named “This Creepy Little Punk” when TCG released

[@pk_tuneworld]

YO SAME absolutely atrocious. Still gotta play the card in Infernity cuz its too good, but damn is it kinda lame...

[@Jacob_White]

“Wahhhh I’m Kalin, I’m depressed”

[@basty_gaming5750]

Time to watch 5Ds

[@dantegallardo1974]

wonderfull

[@themoonlitduelist7395]

>my girl Carly Let's goooo!!!

[@Bleexx]

5D's MY GOAT btw world racing grand prix underrated* and crow shouldnt be a signer* dont @me

[@pk_tuneworld]

I agree with both - seeing Zushin and the Nordic archetype on screen was really entertaining. On the other hand, Crow becoming a Signer felt really random, especially since we don't see his dragon until like the end of Season 2????

[@Eric6761]

​@@pk_tuneworldthey messed up, Leo's dragon was seen but not Crow

[@gustavosampaio5859]

Oh Damn! I saw a censored version and missed the execution😢

[@a_man_with_a_plan]

i think im like one of the three people who actually likes the second season of 5ds

[@pk_tuneworld]

It's not perfect, but it definitely has its merits! Some really cool self-contained arcs (this one + the one arc where Jack exposes a criminal organization were really entertaining) + fleshed out the world a little more so that we could appreciate saving it later.

[@yuseifudo6075]

4 people, i do believe season 5 was on the same level as the dark signers. I only wish that it was longer

[@veghesther3204]

But like GX at least 30 Episodes were cut OUT of the ENGLISH DUB including 1 whole season of it.

[@xnightshroud841]

At the time, 4kids were getting sued out of existence by TV Tokyo and Corporation NAS of Japan. Apparently 4 million USD worth of property damage was really taxing on the companies in Japan. To be fair the corporate people of 4kids were penny pinchers scumbags trying to rip off Japan's animation team and corporate. This led to their inevitable filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York.

[@xAznSkyxx]

Crash town was peak yet everyone hated it

[@pk_tuneworld]

Did everyone hate it? I'm only watched the show recently, so I don't have that older perspective. I imagine that the people that didn't like that it detracted from the main storyline. But I assume there were many others who did enjoy the arc amidst the WRPG.

[@xAznSkyxx]

@@pk_tuneworld A lot of people hated everything that came after the dark signer arc and they especially hated the Crash town arc for some reason.

[@pk_tuneworld]

@@xAznSkyxx I wonder if this is a case of "people hated it but then newer shows are bad so people went back and liked it" Definitely feel like a lot of ppl nowadays kinda admire it

[@xAznSkyxx]

@@pk_tuneworld One of the reasons that I remember was something like "Well that whole arc was pointless. Nothing that happened mattered."

[@gizga]

Funny enough in the German version they used the Japanese version as a base... but only for the first half of season 3

[@pharaohavalon8566]

I don’t have to watch the video I’ve been saying this for years! Unfortunately I’ve been speaking to the same people who said doma arch would’ve been better if they dueled on the motor cycles, only for those same people to say dueling on motorcycles was childish. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@pk_tuneworld]

I feel like, now that people have matured + the questionable quality of some of the newer series (not that they're bad, but they have their flaws) made people go back and watch the older shows, 5D's is looked upon with a lot more respect. Dueling on motorcycles may seem absurd, but its cool absurd :P

[@lp-kt1hu]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't count as filler .

[@pk_tuneworld]

Hence the "supposedly" in the intro (though I do forget that word in the conclusion). In a sense, it can be called "filler" by some people since its an arc that doesn't necessarily factor into the main storyline (of the Meklords at the time). Nonetheless, the importance of the arc to Kalin's/Kiryu's closure goes against that.

[@troytheboy1985]

whats crazy theres no real climer card

[@pk_tuneworld]

Not yet :)

[@Sleamo_Infernity]

Crash town best arc ever in anime history! Kiryu best character ever in anime history! Infernity best deck ever in ygo history! 🔥🔥🔥

[@pk_tuneworld]

Agreed, Infernity is genuinely such a cool deck! It has its problems, but the concept of trying to stay "handless" is really fun!

[@Sleamo_Infernity]

@@pk_tuneworld Atm i am trying to make Infernity as competitive as possible since i only play Infernity (see my channel) with my biggest succes being Fiendlink Infernity atm! Its such an good deck that can compete! I myself top locals so much! But if u are talking abt Pure Infernity then you are definetly right it has its problems and really needs support inorder to compete sadly how many versions ive tried it just loses to 1-2 hts and is shit going second. So we rlly need support purer wise. The Handless concept is indeed so much fun it sure is one of the reasons i fel in love with the deck! Infernity for life! ❤

[@pk_tuneworld]

@@Sleamo_Infernity I feel like the main issue with Infernity is the way is the whole "handless" gimmick. You can't always run hand traps reliably in a day and age where you kinda need some + your combo line is a little predictable. That said, I've been playing pure Infernity. I haven't meshed the archetype with the new Fiend stuff, so it's possible those cards give it a big push. But, between the price + you sort of deviating away from the fantasy of "handless", I do hope the deck gets more pure support down the line.

[@Sleamo_Infernity]

@@pk_tuneworld Yeah that idd is the problem with pure Infernity, like said ive tried so many things with pure, better purer builds can be played with Horus, i have had success with that too, Horus gives pure an insaner boost that it needs. With the Fiend stuff the Handless gimmick is not lost like the main combo is getting too Archfiend acces with Sprind while emptying your hand in the process and then you just go classic Infernity shenanigans its insane and you have protection for everything before you go to the Infernity part if you would like to try it out i have everything abt it on my channel. Yeah i hope we get support like i rlly want pure to be viable 🙏

[@dudono1744]

​@@Sleamo_InfernityThe big problem of pure Infernity is how lackluster the Extra Deck is. The deck has issues with handtraps (both against handtraps and running handtraps, you can only run Imperm and the incoming Dominus Impulse), even though Infernity Suppresion was honestly a good try at fixing it. Also the deck has starter issues. Honestly, the deck just needs a good boss monster, more starters and ways to play through handtraps. And maybe a in archetype handtrap (probably something like an omni negate that requires you to discard 3 or more cards to empty your hand real fast).

[@Cardlimits]

4kids on how to kill an arc

[@FirstBaka]

Lol the english dub killed this whole series of 5ds. 5ds aside from the prison episodes is the best yugioh series hands down. And the japanese dub/japanese songs are great. Not to mention Yusei and Jack sounds 100times better in japanese than in english

[@truegamerking]

​@FirstBaka ah man I thought jack was great in the dub. He was the master of faster, the sultan of speed, the man who rules the dules. I wish they didn't cut episodes and skip arcs but overall I enjoyed the dub, and without it I never would have watched yugioh so I'll take it. Edit: the music in the Japanese is great though, Jam Project is one of my favorites

[@Cardlimits]

@@truegamerking I love the dub line from jack "I only lay my hand on a woman if she lay hers on a child"

[@FirstBaka]

@@truegamerking nah if you ever heard jacks voice actor in japanese, then bakura in the dub has nothing on it, its not even close. Japanese dub is cool English is like a lame as clown in comparison

[@FirstBaka]

@@Cardlimits thats pretty lame :D especially with that voice