The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Jack Atlas | Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

[@voltingmaster5458]

He only lays his hands on a woman if she lays hers on an innocent child.

[@geminiguy6032]

"I'll support Women's Rights and punish Women's Wrongs." -Master of Faster

[@thegreatscribbles960]

That's why he's king

[@kaizouwar]

Immense respect on the Jack analysis, it is always nice to see folks still doing content on 5D's characters even to this doing 👍

[@elin111]

A detail about Jack that's easy to miss but very telling about his character arc is his role in Team 5D's during the Grand Prix: Jack is the first team member of the match, meaning he'll inveitably get eliminated sooner or later in every round and will have to pass the baton to the rest of the team after his role done. Season 1 Jack would demand to be the final player and be the one who gets the final victory and credit never technically take a Loss which is the role Yusei had, instead now Jack is willing to play the role of support player opening strong and setting up for the other team mates.

[@goddeamus]

Bro seemed to be on the verge of tears while reading the Everyone's King card... Mad respect for that. I too felt a pull on my heart when I first saw it. 5D's was my favorite of the first 3 shows (I stopped watching after that), and when I started Master Duel this year I was blessed with royal rares of the majority of the Archfiend Dragons in my first couple of packs opened. I have been a dark dragon specialist since. Besides that I could go on for several paragraphs on the parallels of myself and Jack in the things I've gone through in my life. Jack will always remain my favorite rival of the series, and I don't ever plan to drop the resonator deck. Can't wait for the new cards to come out and hopefully the wait to see them on Master Duel won't be long.

[@kiierbk2017]

Based

[@Simply_Melancholy]

You playing duel links?

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Yusei is my personal favorite character on the entire series and have tons of character development too. Him and Jack both were catalysts for each other's growth with their clashing ideologies and personalities.

[@bitkingdt]

Im working on the Yusei video as we speak!

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

@@bitkingdt LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

[@emperorfrost3183]

A fellow Jack enthusiast, a man of culture I see.

[@619ver1]

Jack is one of my favorite characters! He has arguably the most growth of the main characters and growth is sort of the theme of the show, with their endboss trying to stop them from advancing cause of the risks of failure and overcoming this fear eventually was the main lesson. Great video!

[@thegreatscribbles960]

jack using the devils own power against him is still the funniest thing

[@vanesslifeygo]

"What if Kaiba never had any money" Kaiba DIDN'T have any money. He wasn't even a Kaiba - his relatives stole the wealth of their parents. Yes I am writing this defense as someone admiring her Maiden with Eyes of Blue rn.

[@bitkingdt]

I mean he stole it back from Gozaburo so it evens out

[@dwainsimmons3447]

Ted Lewis voice was so awesome

[@NeroPiroman]

the writing team changed from season 1 onwards, as well as some reallife issues related to carlys voiceactress and iligal activities forced the rapid change in her caracther channel yugioh everything went more indepth as to why the story drasticaly changed post dark signers kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJzImYWLfKyfmZY

[@NeroPiroman]

when i first started watching 5ds i thought he was a kaiba clone, but as the show progressed he proved to be anything but

[@jayd.doubledubs]

5Ds greatness? Say less

[@CrowsCalling]

I'd love to see someone do a video like this on Kite or Shark from Yugioh Zexal, because there's a lot ot talk about with them in the same regard as Jack, moreso in the sub of course.

[@malach6i]

I'm a huge 5Ds fan, It's my favourite series out of all the YGO. Yusei obviously being my favourite main character of all but Jack Atlas is another character I deeply love, he's just amazing. I love his whole personality, his cards, relationship with friends. Everything. Same goes for other characters in 5Ds like Kalin Kessler, and Crow.

[@Bilther_ash]

There's only one king, and we're looking at him

[@Zerato]

Saying something is filler because it's not in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga is like calling anything in the Pokemon anime filler because that isn't what happens in the game

[@phiory_is_me]

Jack is definitly my favoirite of the cast. I think his character developement and his character as a whole is great. Also season 2 he had funny moments that i liked and him comfronting the fact that that he wasn't the best anymore was cool. Oh also great vid of a cool dude about a cool dude👍

[@tonirasic1728]

I watched 5ds only recently and i was planing to make a video on jack of my own because i had so many things to say about how he was written, but then i stumbled upon this vid and you honestly say so much already that i can't add much. Instead i'll just unload any stray thoughts in this comment: I am so angry that Carly was moved to the sidelines starting in the third season. Yugioh media are so sanitized in a lowest common denominator, mass appeal kind of way that romantic plots with main cast characters never get written, but this one came so close. I never thought i'd be shipping anyone in yugioh but Carly and Jack just work so well with each other. Even if there was no romance plot, which let's be real, they never would have written, seeing any sort of friendship between them like they had in s2 would have been so cool. Jack used to want to perish with Carly rather than live without her cause she helped him be who he is now, but then he never so much as talks to her and treats her the same way as the blue haired cop and the waitress. The later portion of 5d's has this problem where anyone who's not part of Mickey5D's and doesn't have a cool tribal tattoo on their forearm isn't really a friend of the main cast. We only see Jack and Yusei's old satellite chums in one brief scene near the end of the last season too. Whatever happened with Himuro and Yanagi? A lot of Jack's spotlight episodes felt samey. They're all like "I will power through! Oh no this problem cannot be solved in that particular way! I will punch harder!". However one thing i did appreciate is how in the duel against team unicorn Jack was too prideful to take a pit stop to check his god damn blinking engine light, but falling on his ass helped him learn the importance of team play which is seen in their duel against team taiyo. As soon as he catches on that they're onto something funky and that they must be dragging the duel on with some sort of end goal in mind, he pulls off that gambit that makes his lp 0 so that Crow can come on and wrap up the duel. He threw away his personal victory for the good of the team. Way to go, Jakku! Funny that you mentioned class traitors in the beginning of the vid and then near the end there is a shot of Crow is his police uniform.

[@stardustsynchro6102]

Jack Atlas is a more shonen rival than any of those mainstream characters. In fact, he is a based Chad, while others are virgins and that's a fact!

[@Zargex]

Love it when he COMPLETELY destroyed Yuya in arc-v

[@trollninja904]

he truly is everyone's king.

[@abstraction6212]

This is the best vid and I agree with everything. However if you take a look at the 5ds manga ((which arc is completely different, as there are Duel Dragons instead of signer dragons)) Jack Atlas in the manga is just written to be a kaiba archetype anti hero and doesn't really improve with any likability. a rare instances where the anime is better than the manga

[@lpfan4491]

I mean, the "manga is better than anime"-thing came into the public contiousness because anime are usually unfaithful adaptations and rarely for the better. For Yu gi oh after the original manga, they are vague adaptations of the anime instead. That is why the exchange students in GX are also worse in the manga than the anime, they were created for that Season 3 plot and are in the manga for obligation moreso than anything else.

[@alvarocampo8461]

1. Jack , 2. Bruno / Antinomy , 3. Yusei , 4. Akiza , 5. Crow .

[@KentaroMiyamoto21]

Guess it's only fitting that Konami's next Structure Deck is a full on tribute to Jack.

[@kurosan0079]

5Ds just has cool characters in general. Yusei, Jack, Crow, Leo, hell, even Aki and Luna were pretty good before they got written off. Even side characters like Trudge were great. All-around good show. Love me some card games on motorcycles!

[@shapesnatch1341]

Jack might be the Goat when it comes to Yugioh Rivals, but I would argue that Revolver is a very close second.

[@inesatt1313]

Thanks I love the dub and sub I love they are awesome

[@aliastheabnormal]

Carly got sidelined because her voice actress was in a cult. Apparently the cult committed a terrorist attack and it caused the scriptwriters to freak out and rewrite the entire second half of the show.

[@animeisaweapon4208]

That's a rumor

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

Like they could’ve always just replaced her VA…….

[@aliastheabnormal]

@@TheGreatSalsaMan They did. But by the time they found a replacement the show had nearly ended.

[@ArkaSaurusRex218]

Kind of ironic since she was in a cult in the anime.

[@BlazingRaptor]

Nope, the timelines don't match up. That's just misinfo that people like to spread around. She was in a cult, but it didn't affect her screentime, there's other unknown factors at play.

[@619ver1]

Great video, one small point though. The 5d Fillers being fillers has nothing to do with the Manga. The Yugioh manga ALWAYS has an entirely different plot then the anime with only characters overlapping and some of the boss monsters.

[@kurosan0079]

Oh, I didn't notice that. The colors of Yusei and Jack's D-wheel are the color of the opposite's signer dragon. That's a cool detail.

[@sonic23233]

The Dark Signers are just as evil as Zorc

[@elin111]

Bummer that Carly was recuded to cheerleader due to behind the scenes drama

[@joey1723]

Justice for Carly Nagisa!

[@CelestialReturner]

Just came to watch this video after the Crimson King Structure Deck in TCG came out!

[@bitkingdt]

Hell yeah, i just ordered it

[@Zargex]

Yusei and Jack are my favorite Yugioh characters and i main their decks

[@bitkingdt]

Stardust dragon was my phone case for the longest time

[@micdesir16]

Great character analysis! I wonder what kind of character would occur if you combined Jack and Yusei into one person...

[@Eric6761]

29:55 This has so much meme potential

[@Stasy809]

I think Carly might as well have died at the end of the dark sighner ark l mean she never did anything in the show for someone who was so important.

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

Well thats kinda some IRL/TV political business, since if I remember correctly more then 50% of the animation and storyboard staff were pulled to work on BBT after the Dark Signer arc, and 100% known was Carly's Jpn VA belongs to a S3+ cult and had been found out due to severe injuries. It's also why Arcadia died out as supposedly there was a plotline where Akiza confronted her past with a revived Divine/Sayer

[@Zampan0]

Please tell me the title and episode of this video so I can buy the DVD.

[@JohnAlcott238]

Nice

[@vanesslifeygo]

"The only way they can make money is by working in the recycling center..." you know, that's quite the option. Wash your hands thoroughly so you don't stain your Red Dragon Archfiend.

[@greatwhite3512]

"you swore allegiance to magic glue"

[@paradoxtheruler7596]

ngl the different color red dragon archfiends from the fake jack were kinda nice

[@bitkingdt]

The joke got cut but the colors of the copy archfiends are magenta, yellow and cyan. Which are the colors used for ink toner in printers/copiers… cause theyre copies get it?

[@Eric6761]

​@@bitkingdtThat's honestly such an cool and obscure detail

[@krsnamax6494]

Dude you got a sub. I really hope you do a video like this on Yusei.

[@bitkingdt]

Its in the works!

[@Dootteh318]

So The Satellite is basically Gaza

[@livinlikeallan]

best rival in all of yugioh tbh

[@yugi.boomer]

Red Nova Dragon very much is a real card lol. 36:28

[@bitkingdt]

I'm talking about in the context of the anime lol. Like Pegasus didn't print that card. It literally forms in his hand

[@satmtca]

I wish we got the final the final season in dub too

[@tristanalain9239]

The reason Carly got side lined so hard,and the plot went so rapidly into Sci-Fi and a couple of plot threads about Akiza and the Arcadia Movement were left on the cutting room floor are interesting. Carly's Japanese VA, was in a cult. Some kind of BDSM cult, it's odd, no clue how to explain it. So they basically to avoid a lot of controversy and other issues, she was recast, and her character sidelined. This situation is the reason why a subplot about Arcadia and Divine kinda never went anywhere. Because The Arcadia Movement was a cult, and Divine was it's leader. A little to close to recent things going on. The Akiza's Japanese VA had a baby, meaning her time she could provide voice over work was drastically reduced, leading her already reduced role because of Crow to be even more reduced to accommodate for needing to take care of her child. 5D's is an interesting beast production wise.

[@gastgadtje8753]

Jack becomes a literal clown in the second half of the show

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Idk the red Nova mini arc and the duel against Ragnarok and Aporia were pretty sick not to mention the last duel between him and Yusei after he beat every other character they've come across beforehand

[@andreware2039]

If the sub says Yusei's first duel runner is the same one that Jack is seen with later, then its true.

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

Jack said it broke down though through age in the sub as well.

[@urm0m69]

Bro what? Why did you have to mention the manga? Every gen other than DM has a completely different story in the manga and anime.