Since there isn't really a thread just for the Mangas, I thought it would be nice to have one so manga stuff doesn't get swallowed up in all those anime pages (it is really long by now and only getting longer).




First GX (even I like the manga, it's the anime I hated): Anyone else happy that Jim is dueling already? Sure, it's against "King" Fubuki Tenjoin and he is using "Alligator" monsters instead of Fossils (so far anyway), but it should be nice for people who still haven't forgiven NAS, Konami or Shueisha for the lack of Fossil Fusions in anything except Tag Force.

Also, Fubuki's stuff is strange, it seems so much more like what Amon would use. Maybe his Dragons (including REBD) come later in 45.




5D's: Lightning Warrior clearly needs to be made into a promo. And I hope they explain why Yusei has the marker already and if Satellite is still "the black and Irish people" of Yu-Gi-Oh.

My biggest surprise about the 5D's manga is that there are no Speed Spells or Speed World (at least in this chapter). Which is strange, because those are what made 5D's unique in the first place. (not counting the Synchros)

About GX, well, what can I say? Boss monster battles are always awesome :D. It seems Fubuki plays a way more strategy oriented deck here than in the anime, which was pretty much a pure Red-Eyes/Dragon beatdown with a little burn (Yepp, I'm talking about Red-Eyes Burn).

The tyrant NEPTUNE is just pure awesomeness. I hope they release it quickly with the same, or at least with a similar effect gaining ability. Those are always fun (and broken xD).

I've already mentioned my thoughts on Neptune's insanity in the Promos Thread - since it's almost certain we'll get it in some fashion.

I love the GX manga, but the start to the 5Ds one worries me slightly - it just didn't have the same impact as Ep. 1 of the anime - something I never thought I'd say about ANY of the animes. o_O

I agree with Ion though (and this is coming from the guy who is obsessed with Phantom of Chaos and OHED).


Neptune can copy powers, but only of those it uses as a sacrifice. So the problem becomes "how did you get that monster in order for it to be used as such?"


To avoid being off-topic, I'll explain in the Promos thread.

I would like Neptune, but most of the time, it would end up like Mist King or Great Maju with Chalice running around.


Incidentally this too is something I've made already.

And A-Hole should be happy, he gets his NEPTUNE to play with already.


The rest of us get... LIGHTNING WARRIOR!!!!!

So where the hell do you go to read 5D's Manga?

I usually go to OneManga for GX Manga, but is someone going to put 5D's up on there?

I just hope Fubuki is actually a king this time and doesn't lose every single duel in the series (Well, he won one already)

I know this thread has fallen to the wayside, but an extremely interesting development has occurred in the GX manga that I guarantee NO ONE would have ever seen coming.......

The possibility of Judai & Edo using TWO ENTIRELY NEW 'HERO' THEMES. Maybe these new ones are to work alongside their original Heroes, but we could very well be seeing a new era, here.

No, Neo-Spacians don't count; they just WORKED alongside the E-Heroes; it was ALWAYS still an E-Hero deck. This, as well as Edo's, is entirely new.



Judai = M-Heroes (Masked)
Edo = V-Heroes (Vision)



The good news is, these Masked Heroes might make a few people here quite happy - they appear to be tokusatsu-related, judging by the first one revealed (Raging Fire).



As you can all imagine, this is causing quite the stir at Janime...... >_<



EDIT: It appears that Edo's Vision Heroes are.......just Warrior-type Gem Beasts with a slightly altered mechanic..........wtf?

Time to errata HERO cards again. More reason why it was stupid to ever NOT use "Hero" and just exclude the ones that don't like (similar to Arsenal Summoner). It's easier than having to CONSTANTLY errata a card again and again when a new Hero type is added.


Vision Heroes' mechanic is interesting and all this is JUST in time for 701 (not release in), as this is the time new mechanics, card types and archetypes show up even in promos.


(Red Daemon was the first Synchro really and a promo before release in The Duelist Genesis or DT01).

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the chaos about possible erratas.......oh well, that's the TCG's fault for not just using 'Hero' in the effect text. KoJ doesn't have this problem, so they don't have to worry about shit.

It's official - those M-Heroes ARE tokusatsu Heroes, complete with "Henshin Summon" (Transformation Summon on YGO Wikia; same difference) into new M-Heroes in a similar vein to NEX for Neo-Spacians.

Kageyama's got to be a tokusatsu nerd. :P First Sho's card, now these guys. Nice to see he's making this particular Summoning method workable - if this does translate into how the actual released M-Heroes will work.

GO, GO, DUELING SE.... *gets shot*

Looks like the 5Ds Manga is completely rewriting Aki's character. Instead of being a Psychic Duelist, she's basically Asuka Version 5Ds.

She goes to an all-girl Duel Academy called Duel Academy Queens, and she has the title "Queen of Queens", being the top D-Wheeler. She also has an ability called "Foresee Draw", which lets her predict what she'll draw next.

She's still using Rose-themed cards, though. "Rose Witch" can count as 2-Tributes, "Queen of Rose" is a Level 7 monster w/ 2400 ATK and an unknown effect.

So basically what the manga has been doing since the GX one has started. Same character, different developments in their characters. At least her not being a Psychic Duelist stays off Divine from showing...for now.

There's nothing to suggest she isn't a Psychic Duelist though, just her powers aren't up yet. That was a BIG part of her character and it was something they were very pushy about with her, I can't see it suddenly being gone.


Interesting the writers decided to jump ahead and make Aki a D-Wheeler already. I wonder what Crow does now.

Maybe he doesn't exist, much like Kenzan and Hayato in GX Manga?

You're comparing Crow... Crow Hogan, who has a whole deck theme dedicated to him and several important points of the story and he's a Signer (not in the manga obviously) to Tyranno Kenzan... who was filler for Misawa at best (or wasn't it obvious they replaced the guy who got the complaints about losing by falling in LOVE with a girl with a guy who was all macho and would headbutt someone if he could).


Even without his duels, Crow has still had more screen time then Misawa and Kenzan COMBINED, he at least is on level with... oh I don't know... AMON or Edo. He's certainly had more screen time than either of them and both of them were dragged back in.

They rewrote Jack's character where he and Yusei have no history whatsoever. Add to the fact that he's already dueled Aki and beat her prior to the manga.

Let's not forget the fact that Yusei already has the marker on his face.

Finally, there's Sect, a manga-exclusive character the replaced Rally, Blitz, Nerve, and Taka.



Taking all of this into account, it wouldn't be that far fetched if they rewrote Aki's character.

Who the hell is Hayato?(yeah, I obviously forgot)

Crow works in the junk yard making super awesome D-Wheels and is working with Kiryuu in order to take over the world with their amazing robo-duelers using crazy ass version of their own decks, which exactly what the Ghost Knight was, it was KIRYUU IN DISGUISE!!

okay, I was obviously messing around there, though I do kinda hope that we see Kiryu making an appearance in the manga because y'know, it'd be pretty cool seeing either a jibakushin or one of his awesome Infernity decks(awesome new Infernity's from the manga =D)

Also hope that Carly is in this manga too because y'know, if she isn't then i'll kill Konami =3

Mr. Koala

....Oh yeah! he was pretty cool.

According to one scene in the latest 5D's chapter, a lot of the anime characters will return, including Kiryu, Bommer (woot!!!) and Ushio.

Apparently, the killer eels didn't do their job in the manga, either. I bet 100 e-dollars that Ushio finally makes some sort of reference to that in here at some point. (Hey, there weren't very many people from the first arc of the original manga that made it remotely unscathed except for Chloroform Boy, so he's lucky...... o_o )

Rua, Ruka, and Crow, however, are up in the air still.

Hell, there's more people in that large silhouette shot. You can clearly see Mukuro, Himuro, and Sherry in that image.

I knew there were others, but I forgot who they were. Didn't know about Mukuro, though.

Speaking of new experience, I read my first YGO-R today. Given no one has actually realized translated pages (just summaries) of it, this is my first time really reading any of it.

Vol 4 to be exact, Forbidden Planet had a copy the day I went for my Shonen Jumps.



Reading it though, reminds me of the big thing that bugs me about DM that even GX has over it, let alone 5D's.


Both GX and 5D's MAKE SENSE!



Is there other time when DM followed the rules even remotely without skirting them when convenient (or violently beating them over the head)?


I mean how Kaiba loses to Yako is just fucking insulting. And nothing about Gekko vs Richie made sense.


Is all of R this much off the wall? If anyone was to ever attempt Manga Abridged Series, YGO-R is a perfect candidate.

Look to joined the party!!!


http://www.janime.info/5DS/manga/ride09/title.jpg


Himuro, Sherry, Bommer, Ushio, Andore already and even Enjo Mukuro. I wonder how Andore got in there already. I think I'm more surprised to see Sherry though.

Crow and Kiryuu is in there too.
and Kiryuu is still in is western style clothes, with his signature : manzoku sasede kure yo (Satisfy me).
Crow is ......well.....Crow.

Only thing that is practically the same between the manga and anime for 5Ds is shown in this chapter. Both Akis had something for both Yuseis

Where do you see Crow and Kiryu in that image? Are you just talking about the manga chapter itself?

I was about to comment on this myself. Weird seeing two members of Team Unicorn already (why only two is beyond me). Also confirms that NONE of what would be Team Satisfaction knew each other previously.

Crow's still here, and according to his one comment, still uses Synchros. Didn't specify if he still has BF's, though.

Exploding Beast Vulcannon (upcoming promo) is Bommer's. Repeating what someone over at Janime said, it's as if the manga versions of him & O'Brien from GX switched their anime counterparts' styles (O'Brien using military-esque Machines, and Bommer using explosive-themed FIRE monsters, instead of the other way around in the anime).



I'm not liking manga Yusei as much as anime Yusei (something I never thought I'd say in regards to anime-vs.-manga in this franchise); I can't quite put my finger on why, though.

page 7 of the latest 5Ds chapter
Page 7

I'm thinking the manga didn't portray him as the wonder guy who would fix everything.
In the manga, feels like he kidda the underdog where even Aki could beat him easily

Aha! That's it - there's something to be said about anime Yusei's tough, quiet self, but now.........he's seemingly all about winning.......just not at all 'Yusei'.

This is one of those 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' cases. Judai's anime character was broke, so there was a point behind it. This just seems so unnecessary.

I think the manga is trying to portray Yusei as a character who's growing as the more duels/peoples that he's met.
cause he's quite sure of himself when he beat Sect and the mysterious Skull Rider who pop outta no where with practically no reason, but then lost the self-confidence (or narcissism) when he's beaten by Jack and Aki.

In other words, they're trying to build a Yusei who not so saintly (as in the anime where he could do only little wrong)

Well, as the writer of the GX manga said, the same character twice would be boring. Hence the change. Personally, I'd like to see Yusei grow into the confident duelist we've known in the anime for the past two years.

Boy, been a while since this thread was last used, but I figure, since the 5D's manga is still going, rather than using the anime thready for it when this is still here......

Soooo, if ya don't want to be spoiled, uh, YOU MIGHT WANT TO STOP AT THIS SENTENCE, AND GO BACK ELSEWHERE. Because shit is about to get crazy at levels you didn't think were possible. In a good way, though.










After a long time of everyone debating whether or not they'd be included, Rua & Ruka are in the manga - which makes me happy at the thought of better treatment.......and more Deformers........and the possibility of Ruka having a more consistent theme (Kuribon is still there, but appears to just be a doll)........ET CETERA.

Even more interesting, they have the "Dark Card Crazy Eyes" - or, in other words, they're currently DUELIST CHILDREN OF THE CORN (and appaerently the 5D's equivalent of Player Killers, only making it creepier). And they seem to not give a fuck about possibly killing bystanders in the way, either. O_O

But that's not even the biggest twist........AFD, PTD, and RDD are all in here - but with strange renames..... (Machine Dragon Power Tool (with MURDEROUS SCREWDRIVER MISSILES!), Fairy Dragon Ancient, and Burning Demon Dragon Red Daemon) .....which, between those names now being similar in structure to Beezle's, and the weird, almost SIN MONSTER-like re-styling, complete with Signer Markings, means they're DARK CARD VERSIONS.

AND RDD IS KIRYU'S! O_O Well, he's in possession of it......well, that is to say a copy of it, a la Ra, and it ain't working right. And Jack is pissed over it, as the real one is (or was) his. Still, seeing him even Summoning a copy of an even-more-demonic-than-Daemon-demonic version of RDD is AWESOME IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.

(Yeah, yeah, after complaining over a seemingly overabundance of homages in ZeXal, here I am drooling over a DM homage. Well, it all depends on how well it's done - and I'm possibly being too blindsided by the card copied & the recipient of said copy.)

And Godwin's apparently 5,000 YEARS OLD, and him & Evil Skeleton Dude have a hate-hate relationship.




Seriously, this guy's writing is making my head asplode - again, in a good way. Is he purposedly trying to top Kageyama in unpredictable plot twisting? Because this guy is being awesome at it.


And I repeat, O_O . Fuck if I can get to sleep now, after my mind being spectacularly blown (up) in this fashion. :penguin_20:

Is this from chapter 22??
or is it a preview or chapter summary??

It's indeed Ch. 22 - or as I now dub it, "The Chapter Where Your Head Asploded".

I should've done this earlier, but here's the images that'll ensure a sleepless night on all who gaze at them.

WHAT IS SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN:



The twins with the Crazy Eyes, on a 'PTD-Wheel'.

Paradox: "WHO DARES TO STEAL MY REDESIGNING STYLE!?"

Red Daemon, now with 50% EXTRA DAEMON!

In creepy Children of the Corn voices: "WHY WON'T YOU COME PLAY WITH US?"

And we all once thought that anime Yusei smiling was enough for nightmares...........

Seems like the manga is a darker version of the anime version.
in the anime where everything is happy and colorful, the manga splashes a color of black onto it.
But..........kids on bike....???

The 5D's anime was never "happy & colorful", except for the occasional lighter bit. I would say that this is more like how the anime started originally, but with an even darker tone akin to the DM manga.

And well, if the manga D-Wheelers don't even need HELMETS, it's not too far-fetched for a couple of kids to be riding a D-Wheel, either.

SCREW HELMETS & AGE LIMITS; I HAVE CARDS OF DARKNESS!

ZONE was happy and colorful?!


The whole "Human Centipede" scene with him alone is enough to trigger nightmares.

How about all those violent deaths in the future?


The anime is happier than the manga, but not much, it just started to have moments of levity in the second season once all the complaints about it being TOO violent and dark were piling up.




Haven't you noticed ZeXal is sort of the Gundam ZZ to 5D's being Gundam Z?

Very dark and tragic show has a ultra-sugary and comedic successor that people are joking is just within the broken mind of someone from previous dark show.

Yes, my mistake for not stating my case more clearly.

I don't know, but I can't seem to put 5Ds as being depressing and Dark-Knight-level-dark. Tragic, yes, with Z-one, Aporia etc but not too depress as Gundam Z. I mean, I can't even force myself to finish Gundam Z. Apparently my therapist bills are already too high for me to handle uptil the 20+ episodes

........It just seems so weird now looking at the left half of the site banner, knowing that NO ONE will ever look at the twins the same way again after this, lol.

Yeah, others have made that parallel, too. I'll take you guys' word for it.