"Yu-Gi-Oh! GX" (2004)TV series 2004-????

Director:

Hatsuki Tsuji

Writer:

Helen Truong (adaptations)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | unknown

Release Date:

6 October 2004 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation

Tagline:

Get your Game on!

Plot:

A semi-spinoff of the popular Yu-Gi-Oh anime series, focusing on a boy named Jaden and his misadventures as a student at an esteemed Duel Monsters academy.

Plot Keywords:

Anime

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 26

11:00 AM

CW

Cast

Wayne Grayson	...	Syrus Truesdale (111 episodes, 2004-2007)
Anthony Salerno	...	Jaden Yuki / ... (106 episodes, 2004-2007)
Pete Capella	...	Chazz Princeton (106 episodes, 2004-2007)
Jesse Hooker	...	Blaze (54 episodes, 2004-2006)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:12 (one episode) | Australia:G | UK:U | Australia:PG (some episodes)

Company:

TV Tokyo

Trivia:

The colors of the jackets are given by the God Cards: Red are from Sliffer, Yellow are from Ra's Winged Dragon, and Blue are from Obelisk.

Quotes:

Dimitri: [dressed up as and talking like Yugi Moto and using his stolen deck] With this deck, I'm not just copying the King of Games. I truly *am* the King of Games!
Jaden Yuki: You've really gone off the deep end.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Yûgiô" (1998)

Well....

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.