Madame Monster
A spin-off? Really? That was my first reaction to hearing about GX. I remember watching the first episode at my cousins house and we both shrugged it off simply saying 'eh." 1. The animation is okay but nothing really spectacular. The designs are kind of off. Some characters look like realistic anime people but others look fake which made the character designs too weird.2. The duels feel three times longer than they actually are. Some are short which makes the episodes easier to sit through However when I see that they're are two parts I cringe and pray it's not going to take too long.3. I'm going to honest and say that I didn't enjoy any characters in GX. Maybe it's because of the wrong voice acting or the one-shot roles these characters have but none of them go into really deep fleshed out roles. They talk about a few things like siblings or parents but that's about it. Plus these don't really affect the characters much. Also yes they're pretty insufferable to sit through. The dialog is garbage and full of terrible jokes or phrases that no one says anymore.Honestly this is the worst of the Yugioh spin-offs. I like Zexal more because at least the animation was pretty and had some likable characters. Sadly this show didn't.
Kieth11
When I first watched the original Yugioh, it was good, but got boring after awhile. It basically had the exact same storyline all the way through the whole story, and consisted mainly of just dueling.Yugioh GX, however, has some different story lines, though it has a lot of dueling as well, which gets kind of old after awhile. Watch a few duels that has Jaden in it (Which most of the duels do), and you basically know his favorite strategies, and you basically memorize his whole deck, so you aren't surprised if he summons Elemental Hero Flame Wingman onto the field; one of his classic moves for a lot (I think) of the first season. Later on he for some reason, uses more of a variety of monsters in his dueling, such as Elemental Hero Mudball Man (Or something like that). The only person that uses some variety of decks is Bastion Misawa, and it's amusing when you first learn he has so many decks that somehow fits under his yellow shirt.The series is about 8/10, until the end. I find the storyline that happens later on, (with Jaden losing himself; kind of similar with Yugi, in the original Yugioh, and the Seal of Oricalcus), if you didn't understand what I just said (well, actually I wrote this, but it's just an expression, so I won't change it), then you have to watch a lot of the episodes.It's a really good series, and I really enjoyed watching it. Even though it is really for young kids, I still enjoy watching it (for some reason). It's a great show. Check it out!
stumpmee77
I have somewhat an affinity to the 4kids Yugioh--Hey I didn't know it was a mess up of the Japanese version--When I found out about original version first time I came across the manga, nabbed it and loved it too. I think of 4kids as taking place in another dimension and the manga in another dimension. Back to 4kids Yugioh--it's better than messed up Pokemon which I swear I wonder why the latter show hung on so long. Having watched GX I figured why Pokemon is still going strong.Let me start with average episode--Oftenimes Left me scratching my head. What's going on here and why is it so boring? The reason for their dueling I had not the slightest idea. Worse, IMO too many characters looking like original Yugioh characters. The worse offender is Shō Marufuji (Syrus Truesdale)--Turn hair upside, ditch his glasses, dye it purple front yellow at the hairline and see who's there. And if a character doesn't look like an old character they act like one--Good God, Shō's (Syrus) brother. Seto cocky Kaiba. I'd love to see GX the Japanese version--And while I search for it watch the Yugioh's more superior better Capsule Monsters saga better I mean it had coherent plot than this. Still I'm giving it 2 as unappealing I find this show, it's better than mind numbingly repetitive Pokemon,
JuudaiYuuki
I can't fault them for lack of giving it a good shot. Yu-Gi-Oh GX is another butchering or an anime put out by 4kids, but honestly, this could have been much, much worse. The names weren't too radically changed and was pretty much the only option in some cases (ask anyone to pronounce 'Manjoume'(although I was disappointed to see a character named Cronos go)) and they actually didn't fiddle too much with the base script. Unfortunately, they still wrote out plenty, and the voice acting was, as usual, mostly absurd. But, like I said, it still could have been worse. There are a few places where they use the concept of death, and the writers had the good sport to reference the Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged series once or twice, to my surprise. The aforementioned voice acting wasn't all totally bad, and I was a little glad to see they wrote out Cronos' (Crowler's) Italian accent, which annoyed me a little in the original series. The bottom line for it all is, it's pretty bad, but not nearly as bad as it could have been. I hope 4Kids continues to improve. On a lighter note, if you're a fan of the game(and thus able to get into the show's plot), this is a good show to springboard yourself into anime with.
