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I’m a old YGO DM fan, but never picked up the spin offs. Some of the post’s of GX and 5D’s on tumblr have got me curious tho. I feel I may be missing out. Should start watching ‘em? Dub or sub? 

You’re definitely missing out, let me assure you! I can’t make much of an impassioned plea for 5Ds, since the series never really clicked with me (and the ending made me want to throw something out the window), but you should definitely watch GX. The series starts off episodic, goofy and light-hearted, but grows darker and more focused as the plot unfolds. It’s largely a character-driven show and it’s the cast of, quirky, adorable misfits that makes the whole thing as enjoyable as it is — from the giant math nerd with an Amazon girlfriend who can turn into a tiger, to the guy with a dinosaur fossil leg, to the pint-sized, bespectacled kid who has to face the prospect of his own brother betraying all they both held dear, all while learning how to not let himself get crippled by fear or by over-bearing arrogance, when he swings in the other extreme.

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Wow! I didn’t expect to get such an in-depth reply. The fact that someone would take the time to write out such a thoughtful case for GX alone convinces me I have to watch it now. I adore genre deconstruction (fan of both Eva and Madoka), so GX looks like it’ll match my tastes. Your post just made me go from mildly curious to I need this in my life right NOW. I already feel like I’m gonna enjoy Judai’s character journey just from your eloquent description of it. “Amazon girlfriend” and “guy with a dinosaur fossil leg” also sound like winning features. It’s certainly enough to persuade me.

Enthusiasm is infectious.  

Haha, I hope I haven’t talked up the show too much! GX is my favorite in the YGO franchise, but sometimes I have to acknowledge that it isn’t necessarily a show for everyone. Still, the last person who asked a question similar to yours on Tumblr and got an answer from me became a massive GX stan by the third season.

The show’s fanbase is roughly divided into the people who liked the silly hijinks, episodic nature and more humorous nature of the first two seasons (the dueling monkey episode has to be seen to be believed) and disliked the darker tone and genre deconstruction that went on in S3 and S4 & those who like GX specifically for the fact that it took a leap into very strange, uncharted waters. I’m somewhere in the middle, in that I enjoy both parts and see their importance — the warm, carefree days are needed to make the viewer emotionally connect with these cute, hopeful nerds, before they’re all put through utter hell and all they believed in is crushed before their eyes. This is the reason why I advise not skipping episodes or even reasons (I know people who wanted to start directly in S3, which defeats the whole point). Even the stuff that can be considered filler has interesting or heartwarming moments and is pretty important in a show that’s driven by its characters, rather than its overall plot.

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