Thread: Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Special

If memory serves, what happened with Zero Reverse, is Uru basically kept poking at Rudger to make the Old Momentum Reactor spin backwards, changing its flow of positive energy into negative energy. Rudger held off on it for as long as he could, apparently, giving Professor Fudou the chance to have Black Rose Dragon, Stardust Dragon, and Red Dragon Archfiend scatter about the city, and also so that Rex could escape to bring back the Signers and kill him.

Rudger finally couldn't hold it off, and reversed the polarity, causing the epic geography wrenching disaster, and it also had the bonus of creating a hole directly to the Underworld/Netherworld, where the Earthbound Immortals and the King of the Underworld were, if my memory isn't off.

But Paradox, on the movie side of things, amuses me. Especially with what I see as a Card based Hookshot. 8D;

Maybe Paradox was just a witness, ala Dartz's witnessing the events of Ancient Egypt? o.O

Originally Posted by YYugi

I don't think so, Im guessing that Paradox will duel the three of them for separate and steals his ace monsters, then after they are defeated they meet each other.

Yeah, I loved that scene too, and the one when Judai talk with them. ^^

Awe I was hoping they'd help each other. Maybe duel than help each other. I want them to interact. Yah that one scene of Judai talking with them was cool. LOL Him being all hyped up about traveling through time.

I bet they do go to the villains future last, have the finale battle there. It'd be wicked if they did that.

Originally Posted by Yugioh5Dfan

Awe I was hoping they'd help each other. Maybe duel than help each other. I want them to interact. Yah that one scene of Judai talking with them was cool. LOL Him being all hyped up about traveling through time.

Of course they're gonna have time to interact each other, I can't wait to hear Yusei calling Yugi or Judai
And Yugi and Judai calling Yusei
Im wondering what honorific they will use to call each other. We already know that Judai calls Yugi "Yugi-San" and Yugi calls Judai "Judai-Kun".

Pardon me if this speculation has already been made, but I keep thinking that Paradox is an older version of one of the 5D's cast. If not Yusei, I'd say Jack since it looks like he has blond hair.

Little Kuriboh's (CardGamesFTW) Abridged Preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo the abrigded trailer if anyone cares

This just popped into my head, but, what if Paradox was somehow releated to Pegasus? Son maybe? or maybe Pegasus was his great grandad or something.

to close to plot of Yugioh R perhaps.

Aww...here I was hoping he was gonna do it with Sephirex and azureda9.

Originally Posted by battlemaster13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo the abrigded trailer if anyone cares

xD LOL!!!!

Originally Posted by Isaac2

Aww...here I was hoping he was gonna do it with Sephirex and azureda9.

Yeah, me too. D:

Originally Posted by YYugi

Of course they're gonna have time to interact each other, I can't wait to hear Yusei calling Yugi or Judai
And Yugi and Judai calling Yusei
Im wondering what honorific they will use to call each other. We already know that Judai calls Yugi "Yugi-San" and Yugi calls Judai "Judai-Kun".

Yah this will be good
LOL I wonder if Yusei will like JudaiXD
Holy crap, if the future guy turned out to be some one Yusei knew that'd be crazy! Though it'd explaine how he knew about Yusei's card. I'd LOL IF it was Crow.

Judai's abridged voice in that abridged trailer fits soo damn well XD

Originally Posted by Tobi

Pardon me if this speculation has already been made, but I keep thinking that Paradox is an older version of one of the 5D's cast. If not Yusei, I'd say Jack since it looks like he has blond hair.

Paradox share no one ressemblance with a character of 5d's. Jack style's is very different, it resemble at nothing at Paradox's style.

Originally Posted by battlemaster13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo the abrigded trailer if anyone cares

It's not so funny, as I thought, but I wonder why Yugi's talking at 1:23, but isn't in the treiler. I guess this is just fanmade additional scene to fit the abridged dialog, but someone could thing that they missed something from the original treiler.

Oh dear! That abridged trailer rocked! We have to wait for the real movie though. I knew Paradox would cheat on his single duel just by stealing cards, then runs off to a different time. Let's just hope he does not cheat in the 3vs1 duel or he would be a real coward.

Originally Posted by LeArk

If memory serves, what happened with Zero Reverse, is Uru basically kept poking at Rudger to make the Old Momentum Reactor spin backwards, changing its flow of positive energy into negative energy. Rudger held off on it for as long as he could, apparently, giving Professor Fudou the chance to have Black Rose Dragon, Stardust Dragon, and Red Dragon Archfiend scatter about the city, and also so that Rex could escape to bring back the Signers and kill him.

Rudger finally couldn't hold it off, and reversed the polarity, causing the epic geography wrenching disaster, and it also had the bonus of creating a hole directly to the Underworld/Netherworld, where the Earthbound Immortals and the King of the Underworld were, if my memory isn't off.

But Paradox, on the movie side of things, amuses me. Especially with what I see as a Card based Hookshot. 8D;

FFFFFF, card based Hookshot. You're right! XD

Thanks for clearing it up. Thinking about it, Zero Reverse wasn't actually caused by Duel Monsters - it was an ancient cyclic battle between the Crimson Dragon, his servants, and the Earthbound Gods. It was stated the Dragons take up whatever form is needed, they just happened to pick Duel Monsters. But even if Duel Monsters theoretically didn't exist, they would just take another suitable form. Like a microchip.

Regarding the negative energy, I think this also ties into one of the patterns in YGO - opposites. You have Light and Darkness, the humans' world and Darkness' world, Synchros and Dark Synchros. The positive-negative energy are more ambiguous because we never got into detail about them.

Stardust is capable of destroying the world just like how the Old Momentum destroyed Neo Domino City. Stardust is a Synchro Monster which represents evolution and advancement. Light, positive energy. But when Paradox corrupted it, it turned black - Darkness, negative energy. For a monster which was supposed to represent such qualities, "reversing" its being is particularly devastating. It also represents Yusei's spirit, and is also the servant of the Crimson Dragon, which makes it powerful to begin with.

Also:

Spoiler: Comparison of Darkness' vision and the ruins Paradox is looking over - saving space

The ruins seem to bear a resemblance to the ruined future Darkness spoke of. In GX's episode 178, when Daitokuji asks "Is... this the future of humans?", a card falls in front of Pharaoh which then vanishes. It could refer to the fact that the last card which was responsible for the destruction of the world fell, the last ill-spirited human whose heart was tainted by the darkness...

I also thought about Paradox's name. It could be possible he actually had a proper name, but was twisted completely by the destruction that ruined his world (and continue to destroy it). When he was given the order to eliminate Pegasus (and thus the opportunity to save the world), he became identified with his cause so much that he now was known as Paradox. He would go to all lengths in order to save his future, to create a paradox.

Originally Posted by BWBlizzard

This just popped into my head, but, what if Paradox was somehow releated to Pegasus? Son maybe? or maybe Pegasus was his great grandad or something.

Heh. That would make it a literal grandfather paradox, in that case. (Speaking of grandfather paradoxes, I like this comic.)

We don't know much about Pegasus after the events of GX. Whether he indeed gave up on Cyndia or not is ambiguous, you could say either is true, but it's never outright stated. He never mentions her after Duelist Kingdom (save for the Pyramid of Light novel), but we know he needed Solid Vision in order to create a realistic image of her, which was available when Kaiba launched Battle City. In Doma, I2 is shown to have a room for his Toon monsters, as well as a Solid Vision image of Pegasus. Pegasus stated it was his personal room, and he could easily display the image to Cyndia there if he wished (he could've altered the code temporarily so it shows his message to Yugi's group instead). And if we look into card symbolism, Toon Kingdom is a fortress with barren trees, which could represent his inner sorrow (perhaps he just doesn't show it to the public).

Interestingly, Takahashi received this fan letter, which was published in the 2005 November issue of Shonen Jump:

Originally Posted by Shonen Jump, 2005 November Issue

Question: Concerning Pegasus, what kind of woman would be his ideal woman, to say so? Alex M.

Answer: Takahashi-sensei next so he can answer.
"Well, Alex. Pegasus' fianc�e is gone. And Pegasus didn't probably look after another ideal woman. That is to say, the answer to this question is clear. In short, she is a very calm and well-raised woman."

This implies that Pegasus, even if he accepted her death, didn't look for another partner. And in the manga, he pretty much died after Duelist Kingdom, allowing him to reunite with Cyndia again.

Now, in Yu-Gi-Oh! R, he has been shown to have adopted children. However, R was a side story based on the manga's canon, thus we don't know if Pegasus had adopted anyone in the anime. If he did and said children were ever to have offspring, he would not be related to them by blood.

And besides, it would make me wonder from who Paradox gained that AMAZING hair of his.

Originally Posted by Khukuri

Oh dear! That abridged trailer rocked! We have to wait for the real movie though. I knew Paradox would cheat on his single duel just by stealing cards, then runs off to a different time. Let's just hope he does not cheat in the 3vs1 duel or he would be a real coward.

It's not technically "cheating" per se (at least on in the way, say, Bandit Keith cheated by putting the cards in his wristband), although it's an illegal act. Not to mention that several YGO villains usually rob the protagonists from something. Be it a hostage (eg. Sugoroku), a special power (eg. Dragon Birthmarks), or their cards (during or outside the duel). If he is desperate to achieve his goal, he won't care whether it's a good or a bad thing, especially with his world's future at stake. He would use anything that would assist him, regardless of what others think.

Does anybody know when the movie to be released outside japan or the dvd release date

Originally Posted by heroduelist

does anybody know when the movie to be released outside japan or the dvd release date

Thre's no such info for this.

Originally Posted by HERODUELIST

Does anybody know when the movie to be released outside japan or the dvd release date

The former would depend on 4kid's willingness to license the movie, as they seem to be more reliant on the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and may possibly see 5D's as a non-worthwhile investment (The original NAS/Studio Gallop anime has been consistently scoring higher ratings on CW4kids, 4kid's mainstream kids block, then 5D's was doing at all.). It also depends if they have any money or capital from which to silence the movie. For people not realizing it, 4kids basically lost a huge amount of money in the last few years, and due to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a major financial firm, lost an insanely huge double-digit millions cushion of money they could of relied upon from their silences not succeeding. With that out of play, they have to be more careful and conservative of the franchises they deal with.

And the licensing thing for this could potentially be insane, and 4kids, due to getting kicked so hard, just might not have the money available to license this movie, especially if their Japanese partners demand a Theatrical Release in the international markets 4kids has stake in. Asatsi-DK, Konami, and Shueisha were probably able to foot the bill for the movie if they all had a hand in it, since they're relatively biggish firms/companies/conglomerates in their home turf for what they do, but... 4kids?

It really depends on them ultimately, and if they consider it a good investment and they have the money to shell out for it.

As for a release date, DVDs generally take 3~9 months to release, I believe, for Theatrical movies and Season Sets in the US, but I'm not sure about Japan (Though I'd expect it to be similiar there.)
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As to the movie.

Concerning Darkness's vision to the future and Paradox's future being the same, I expect either Juudai or Paradox will need to confirm it. >.>; And even then, I expect them to entirely skirt the issue. They'll imply it back and forth, most likely, and I wouldn't be surprised if Darkness was an inspiration for Paradox's time, but... it'll more likely be a silent head nod in my opinion.

Unless they release a "TOTAL FAX GUIDEZ" for the movie or YGO in general, like an Ultimania guide. (Ha ha, yeah, I wish. )

Originally Posted by LeArk

As to the movie.

Concerning Darkness's vision to the future and Paradox's future being the same, I expect either Juudai or Paradox will need to confirm it. >.>; And even then, I expect them to entirely skirt the issue. They'll imply it back and forth, most likely, and I wouldn't be surprised if Darkness was an inspiration for Paradox's time, but... it'll more likely be a silent head nod in my opinion.

Unless they release a "TOTAL FAX GUIDEZ" for the movie or YGO in general, like an Ultimania guide. (Ha ha, yeah, I wish. )

Yeah, true. We don't know exactly what ruined Paradox's future and how it is connected to the Duel Monster cards. But I say a silent head nod is better than nothing.

OH HELL YES. That would be sweet. The series also lacks a better edition/complete Gospel of Truth, since the only one out so far didn't cover the entire DM series as far as I know.

Originally Posted by Arynis

Yeah, true. We don't know exactly what ruined Paradox's future and how it is connected to the Duel Monster cards. But I say a silent head nod is better than nothing.

A funny picture entered my head when I read this like:

Paradox was a TCG player that works in a nuclear power plant. He then forgot to do his work because he was preparing for an upcoming SJC thus resulted in a nuclear meltdown hence a ruined city.

Damn I got to stop watching the Simpsons...

Originally Posted by BWBlizzard

Little Kuriboh's (CardGamesFTW) Abridged Preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo

That was hilarious. Somehow, the DMX suits 'Jaden' pretty well there. xD


Other than that, I got nothing to add.
Well, besides the fact that you guys do A LOT of speculating. xD

Originally Posted by BWBlizzard

Little Kuriboh's (CardGamesFTW) Abridged Preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMlGysqqjo

Oh! Yeah go LK! This is going to be as funny as hell!

the duel monsters/buildings will be in 3-D?

new movie card = new monster
maybe, like a new monster to defeat Paradox.


"makemagic" cd single info
http://jealkb.jp/discography/single/

Originally Posted by Yuzuki

3-D Movie? maybe the duel monsters/buildings will be in 3-D.

new movie card = new monster
like a new monster to defeat Pandora.

Everything will be 3D. People will be getting glasses. Unless you mean CGI, wich is a completely different thing.

Pandora? Do you mean Paradox?

Originally Posted by Xray950

Everything will be 3D. People will be getting glasses. Unless you mean CGI, wich is a completely different thing.

Actually, not everything. Only the duel elements.

Originally Posted by Lia

Actually, not everything. Only the duel elements.

Really? I thought it was going to be all 3D. Guess I was wrong, then.

Originally Posted by Xray950

Really? I thought it was going to be all 3D. Guess I was wrong, then.

Well, the treiler shows quite well what parts of the movie will be 3D.
Anyone who don't know or wonder, just to watch it.

Originally Posted by Lia

Well, the treiler shows quite well what parts of the movie will be 3D.
Anyone who don't know or wonder, just to watch it.

...Lia, CGI and 3D is two completely different things. Computer Generated Animation is animation done by a computer, thus giving items three dimensions. 3D, however, is when items looks like they are popping out of the screen.

Originally Posted by LeArk

The former would depend on 4kid's willingness to license the movie, as they seem to be more reliant on the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and may possibly see 5D's as a non-worthwhile investment (The original NAS/Studio Gallop anime has been consistently scoring higher ratings on CW4kids, 4kid's mainstream kids block, then 5D's was doing at all.). It also depends if they have any money or capital from which to silence the movie. For people not realizing it, 4kids basically lost a huge amount of money in the last few years, and due to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a major financial firm, lost an insanely huge double-digit millions cushion of money they could of relied upon from their silences not succeeding. With that out of play, they have to be more careful and conservative of the franchises they deal with.

And the licensing thing for this could potentially be insane, and 4kids, due to getting kicked so hard, just might not have the money available to license this movie, especially if their Japanese partners demand a Theatrical Release in the international markets 4kids has stake in. Asatsi-DK, Konami, and Shueisha were probably able to foot the bill for the movie if they all had a hand in it, since they're relatively biggish firms/companies/conglomerates in their home turf for what they do, but... 4kids?

It really depends on them ultimately, and if they consider it a good investment and they have the money to shell out for it.

As for a release date, DVDs generally take 3~9 months to release, I believe, for Theatrical movies and Season Sets in the US, but I'm not sure about Japan (Though I'd expect it to be similiar there.)
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As to the movie.

Concerning Darkness's vision to the future and Paradox's future being the same, I expect either Juudai or Paradox will need to confirm it. >.>; And even then, I expect them to entirely skirt the issue. They'll imply it back and forth, most likely, and I wouldn't be surprised if Darkness was an inspiration for Paradox's time, but... it'll more likely be a silent head nod in my opinion.

Unless they release a "TOTAL FAX GUIDEZ" for the movie or YGO in general, like an Ultimania guide. (Ha ha, yeah, I wish. )

Also, it would be difficult for them to even attempt to release this movie, since the dub didn't go to Season 4 of GX and the movie uses Season 4 Judai.

Some interesting theories up here.

I will just add my two cents: I doubt that is the abandoned dorm because this is after Judai left Duel Academia, at least I'm pretty sure.

Unfortunately I've been too busy to jump into the debate and discussion on this new trailer, but hopefully soon I'll be able to contribute a bit more.

I havent watched or played Yugioh in nearly 5 years or so (except the abridged series), but i guess a lil nostalgia couldnt hurt by watching this XD.

HAHA I saw the trailer, just noticed it. Freakin funny stuff. Yusei saying God this Jaden guy is annoying, lets kick the crap out of him and than Yugi agreeingXD
Poor, poor Jaden, every one hates him.

edit;

Is 5D's really doing that bad in the US? I really want to see this movie =/

Originally Posted by Yugioh5Dfan

HAHA I saw the trailer, just noticed it. Freakin funny stuff. Yusei saying God this Jaden guy is annoying, lets kick the crap out of him and than Yugi agreeingXD
Poor, poor Jaden, every one hates him.

edit;

Is 5D's really doing that bad in the US? I really want to see this movie
=/

Not everyone hates Jaden.I doubt that 4kids will dub this movie.They haven't dubbed the fourth season of gx yet.

Originally Posted by Prismamaster

Not everyone hates Jaden.I doubt that 4kids will dub this movie.They haven't dubbed the fourth season of gx yet.

Shoot that sucks. Guess I'll have to wait for English subtitles. And I know not all the fans hate Jaden, I was talking about the fake trailer, both Yusei and Yugi didn't like him.

Originally Posted by Prismamaster

I doubt that 4kids will dub this movie.They haven't dubbed the fourth season of gx yet.

If you ask me, everyone else is better to dub the movie, but not 4KID'S !
Although, if the english dub don't follow the japanese one, I won't even watch it. Good english subs are completely enough for me.

Originally Posted by Xray950

Everything will be 3D. People will be getting glasses. Unless you mean CGI, wich is a completely different thing.

Pandora? Do you mean Paradox?

sorry for the wrong name, i have edited the post

Hopefully you don't have to use glasses, then everyone can enjoy the movie in 3D

3-D glasses for japanese movie theater only.

Originally Posted by BWBlizzard

Hopefully you don't have to use glasses, then everyone can enjoy the movie in 3D

The movies are in 3D with glasses in the theaters, but if it ever comes out on DVD, it should be supplied with 3D glasses and the option to watch the 3D or non-3D version, from what I understand.

Originally Posted by Allana

Paradox share no one ressemblance with a character of 5d's. Jack style's is very different, it resemble at nothing at Paradox's style.

Jack's style? That's a bit ambiguous, for the sake of argument. Do you mean his persona, his dueling strategy, or something else entirely? Also, not to say that it is Jack or any other character of 5D's, but who is to say Paradox isn't an older version of said characters just because he doesn't act like them? Last I checked, an "older version" of a character implies some sort of change, especially when you tally in the end of the world.

For a speculation that is unfounded other than my personal gut feeling, you sure didn't argue against it very well. :/

Originally Posted by Tobi

Jack's style? That's a bit ambiguous, for the sake of argument. Do you mean his persona, his dueling strategy, or something else entirely? Also, not to say that it is Jack or any other character of 5D's, but who is to say Paradox isn't an older version of said characters just because he doesn't act like them? Last I checked, an "older version" of a character implies some sort of change, especially when you tally in the end of the world.

For a speculation that is unfounded other than my personal gut feeling, you sure didn't argue against it very well. :/

I think she may have meant his looks here.

It depends on how far Paradox's time is in the future, because he doesn't look really old. If his time is far in the future, then he's certainly not one of the 5D's cast, at least as far as looks are concerned.

As for his persona or dueling strategy, we know too little for that to determine. Although from what we have seen about Paradox, he doesn't strike me as Jack personality wise, although they do seem to share their "Screw Destiny" thinking, somewhat. (Jack doesn't believe in appointed fate, as he stated in his duel with Dark Signer Carly. Paradox wants to go against destiny, however.)

By the way, here's a comparison for Pegasus' shot in the trailer:

Spoiler: Saving space

It's from Episode 30, during the second part of Mai's and Dark Yugi's duel.

(...If anyone wants to see more Kagami!Pegasus from the anime, I posted some screencaps here. XD)

Originally Posted by Arynis

...Huh. On a closer inspection, he looks slightly different in the trailer shot. (Look at the sleeves.) Maybe that was an actual clip from the movie, and he just got redrawn from the same scene? Odd, either way.

Doesn't the camera move in that scene? There's a shot of Pegasus in that same angle as the on in the trailer.




As per the usual, Pegasus is looking FABULOUS in some of your screenshots. xD

Originally Posted by Geno

Doesn't the camera move in that scene? There's a shot of Pegasus in that same angle as the on in the trailer.




As per the usual, Pegasus is looking FABULOUS in some of your screenshots. xD

It only zoomed in. Unless I got the wrong part of the episode... Or the wrong episode altogether. Whoops. |:

EDIT: Yeah, wrong part of the episode. This is what I get for skimming through the episode, lawl. I'll correct my post, then.

Thanks Geno. Of course he does! XD

Originally Posted by Geno

That was hilarious. Somehow, the DMX suits 'Jaden' pretty well there. xD


Other than that, I got nothing to add.
Well, besides the fact that you guys do A LOT of speculating. xD

Yea ShadyVox rocks as Jaden =D! If you like it then you should watch HIS abridged series with Darksideincorporated Yugioh GX and now he's doing Sonic X

btw my fav part that no one mentioned yet was when Yugi said "This is all im good for in this movie" lol its funny cause its tru

Originally Posted by Arynis

I think she may have meant his looks here.

It depends on how far Paradox's time is in the future, because he doesn't look really old. If his time is far in the future, then he's certainly not one of the 5D's cast, at least as far as looks are concerned.

As for his persona or dueling strategy, we know too little for that to determine. Although from what we have seen about Paradox, he doesn't strike me as Jack personality wise, although they do seem to share their "Screw Destiny" thinking, somewhat. (Jack doesn't believe in appointed fate, as he stated in his duel with Dark Signer Carly. Paradox wants to go against destiny, however.)

By the way, here's a comparison for Pegasus' shot in the trailer:

Spoiler: Saving space

It's from Episode 30, during the second part of Mai's and Dark Yugi's duel.

(...If anyone wants to see more Kagami!Pegasus from the anime, I posted some screencaps here. XD)

The most likely scenario is that it was either redrawn or it's the same image but stretched out and put in negative so that no one would notice that it was stretched out. DM aired in full screen, and 5D's airs in widescreen, as so will this movie, so it's a problem to shove fullscreen footage in with widescreen footage without either altering it so it looks halfway decent in the widescreen (with a filter or something like above) or to just redo it altogether. Naruto, Bleach and One Piece deal with this issue all the time now.

Still, I wish they would have shown a shot of Pegasus from the actual movie.

And I like this abridged guy working with LK. I'm gonna check out his stuff at some point in time.