#zexal spoilers

[moldy-mold]

*hops on the Orbital bike and leaves*

inspired by this post

#yugioh #yugioh zexal #yuma tsukumo #kaito tenjo #ygo #zexal #my art #4koma #zexal spoilers #illegal joke i'm sorry

[mintaffy]

“What I’ll lose… Astral… or does it mean Shark…?”

reference image under cut

#zexal spoilers #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #yuma tsukumo #ryouga kamishiro #shark zexal #astral #astral zexal #keyshipping #sharkbaitshipping #I FEEL SICK #saoart #yugioh #zexal

[starmakesart]

When you ask your homie if he wants juice and he goes off about how he and his sister are actually reincarnated warlords

#yugioh zexal #zexal #zexal spoilers #yuma tsukumo #ryouga kamishiro #reginald kastle #yuma: “shark what the fuck are you talking about” #shark: “AND THATS HOW MY SISTER THREW HERSELF INTO A VORTEX—” #starmakesart #forhope

[cyberdragoninfinity]

going through my ygo memes folder and finding a bunch of zexal images i made and never posted here

#yugioh zexal #ygo posting #zexal spoilers #LIKE. LEGITIMATELY. HHGHFYDFF #i love you zexal i love you you are so good and so goofy and youre so special to me 🥺 #dana's little ygo funnies

[quattro-arclight-the-aroace-boy]

#yu gi oh #Yu Gi Oh ZeXaL #vector (zexal) #zexal spoilers #shit post #queued

[nettleshuttle]

i was today years old when i realized that quattro plays a gimmick puppet deck not only because it’s funstuff to beat the shit out of your opponents with a pile of creepy, uncanny garbage, but also because tron has been manipulating him around since day one without ever intending to really appreciate his son and quattro must feel a lot like these dejected, dysfunctional puppets that have been pulled by the strings until someone tossed them away when they were of no further use……. and then there’s destiny leo, his best ace with the implied power of controlling destiny, the very thing quattro lacks for himself — but he can’t attain it even in that way because shark proves more capable still, which overall really sucks.

also i just googled it and gimmick literally means “a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade”, which possibly refers to both quattro being a popular pro duelist with a lot of fans (probably attracted to his vicious playstyle/deck) and him serving as literal bait to influence shark the way tron saw fit with the whole tournament disqualification and then rio.

i’m usually far from emphatizing with him, but that’s all just plain sad.

#quattro #ygo #zexal #zexal spoilers #tron (ygo) #gimmick puppets #no really why didn’t i notice before #shark kastle

[invidiatechdemo]

reupload of this thing that i uploaded earlier and deleted.

i still think this is the funniest canon divergence point imaginable.

[please do not add comments outside out of the tags unless you are improving the image id for screenreaders/making such more accessible, and please don't tag as ship in any capacity, thank you.]

#yugioh zexal #zexal spoilers #zexal #zexal for tag filter #described #kaito tenjo #zexal ii spoilers #invidia card art #ryoga kamishiro #nasch zexal #not gonna talk in main text about how i was talking about this as a concept with crimson in main text b/c it makes comment add awkward #sorry if u saw this earlier in first posting! im... really antsy about zxl fans so will delete art at drop of hat at slightest inconvenienc #ygo zexal #ygo #invidiatech art

[yuma-tsukumo]

I'm convinced that if Yuma had died during the labyrinth duel between Astral and Black Mist, he would've turned into a barian bc he's got that chaos in him + that would be an incredibly tragic death which seems to be the prerequisite to becoming a barian

One day I'll write a fanfic exploring this idea but ADHD brain go brr, I rarely finish what I start!! I need to plan so much lmfao

#yugioh zexal #ygo zexal #yuma tsukumo #yugioh yuma #astral yugioh #astral zexal #astral #number 96 #number 96 black mist #number 96 dark mist #yuma would definitely be one of the barian emperors bc of his power but he'd be considered an anomaly #he doesn't belong in that world but WHEW imagine the tragedy of being forced to fight on behalf of barian world the way shark was #well shark wasnt FORCED but its understandable why he'd fight for them instead of astral world #just angsty all around tbh #zexal spoilers

[kaiowut99]

Went ahead and threw on ZeXal II episode 38 [111] thinking nothing big will go on, just Barian'd No. 96 overwhelming Yuma and Astral and the two going further to prove their bond together, no big dea--

*episode starts with a foreshadowing of Astral leaving the Numbers with Yuma and saying goodbye in some kind of vision Yuma's having [making me double-check to make sure I'm on the right episode lol]*

*No. 96 pushes Yuma and Astral to the edge and struggling Yuma joins Astral in a ZeXal Change, talking about how Hope embodies their bond and the concept of hope always leading them to win as they beat 96*

*sore loser/"God" 96 makes a last dash at retaking Astral to continue destroying all three worlds and Astral pushes Yuma out of ZeXal to keep him out of it*

*ultimately the vision comes true and Astral gives himself up to keep Yuma safe and gives him the Numbers as he and the Emperor's Key sink into a pit*

*Yuma's broken and Kotori and the others are looking somber*

*GO WAY GO WAY updates with a Yuma/Astral montage, including showing the cute moment with Astral's first time eating over the bridge to the chorus*

I--

ZeXal definitely has been doing a good job of getting you invested in Yuma and Astral's relationship, the differences they've had here/there with things like Yuma's trust in his opponents after the Vector trolling, and how Astral respects Yuma's always-keep-going attitude and Yuma's growth in respecting him, so with the way they went about seemingly killing Astral here as all 96 cares about is getting his way and continuing his destruction, it's reasonable to see how it'd affect Yuma the way it does. Really good episode.

(I say "seemingly" not so much because spoilers as because ofc I still have 40-odd episodes to go so that can't be it for Astral lol)

Also, really good shots here [feels like the closest Astral's looked to Kaz's sketch so far too]; I almost thought this was a Hara/Gil-bo episode (Gil-bo looks to be on the next one with Heartland talking with Yuma), but Akemi Yokota's team did a great job on this one (it has been cool seeing some of the Animation Directors I know from ARC-V on start to really get their style going in ZeXal or keep it going after 5D's like Gil-bo and Hara)

Also since it's been a while, I did enjoy the Seven Ruin Numbers arc too, was interesting to see that the Barians are reincarnations of these past figures (and also interesting how Yuma's dad had seen each one...), and of course the big revelation with Shark and Rio being reincarnations themselves... Was kinda neat how they did those visions Atem-in-Memory-World style by dropping Shark into Nasch's body and all, lol. Knowing few details here/there about how things go there, I'm curious to see how it shakes out, since Shark seems to be thinking about it in the next episode.

(Also, was really amused seeing how Mizael's legend was edited in the dub; I get you couldn't show Mizael giving himself up so the townspeople saw he was right about his horse yet the invading country killing him anyway, but it felt like dub!Crashtown's ending a bit with what they did lol)

#Lance watches ZeXal #yugioh #zeXal #yugioh zexal #zeXal spoilers #Yuma Tsukumo #Astral #No. 96 #and GO WAY GO WAY ends it on the first time they me--will someone get these onions out of here

[borreloadsavagedragon]

I’m doing fine, thanks for asking

#ted talks #yugioh zexal #zexal spoilers #???? #anyway gay rights

[howaboutalittlehelpneos]

Something that I think is interesting

This is Vector's mom, she is very dead, but you know what else is true about her? She has silver hair

This is Vector in Barian mode, and guess what he has? Silver hair

Sorry this is the only picture I have on hand for this dude because I'm not looking up more, but on the right is Vector's dad, who Vector seems to have inherited his hair style and some of the color from (orange instead of red)

I just think it's neat that when Vector ascended to being a Barian, his new alien form has his mother's hair color instead of his dad's

#yugioh zexal #ygo zexal #vector #lot you could do with something like that #mommas boy out here incorporating the hair color of his mother who was killed by his father into his new form #imagine an alternate setting where there is no alien nonsense and he dyes it for trauma reasons #or imagine him in canon hating his human form because visually it reminds him of his father #he only feels connected to his mom when hes a monster (alien) #zexal spoilers #spoilers

[moldy-mold]

nasch, smasch.

once sanyuushi, always sanyuushi.

#yugioh #yugioh zexal #yuma tsukumo #ryoga kamishiro #kaito tenjo #SANYUUSHI #zexal spoilers #my art #4koma #ygo #zexal #love how kaito just appears says what he wants and then leaves

[mintaffy]

it is getting dire.

#zexal spoilers #zexal #yugioh #yugioh zexal #vector zexal #nasch zexal #ryouga kamishiro #rei shingetsu #regicideshipping #saoart

[blackfeatherdragon]

The Barians as they kill a bunch of side characters:

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh zexal #zexal spoilers #absol watches zexal #so i'm at that part in zexal #f in the chat for the side cast of zexal #Youtube

[umbrastar]

end of zexal I, but with youtube's autogenerated captions

Faker's fear-filled urine (with a fitting background)

Kite's signature monster: neo galaxy-eyes photon turkey

more below the cut (cw: sex mention involving minor)

"power of sexual"

[Applause] while Cathy scratches Flip

Kite gets romantic during a duel

Yuma activates Utah

#this is what i get for watching yugioh in a noisy area #ygo #ygo zexal #zexal #yugioh #yugioh zexal #zexal spoilers #cw: sex mention #cw: sex mention involving minor

[nettleshuttle]

currently obsessing over: zexal morph telepathic communication and what zexal takes in regard to what it gives.

i don’t think it’s been actually explored in the canon, but zexal morph must be such a fantastic mode of communicating for yuma and astral? they are very different and both seem like they’d have issues with actually wording what they want to say to each other (bonus points if they’d also have issues with properly processing what is said to them), so talking things over the regular way must be quite hard for both. but then, in the zexal morph form, they share a body — they share a mind, meaning all thoughts flow directly from one to the other. i remember seeing them actually word thoughts in this form too (probably force of habit), but it would allow them to exchange so much more — talk impressions, talk feelings, emotions, sensations and such unwordable things, in all their depth, all complexity. what zexal morph would really mean is a total and complete understanding, effortlessly getting through the most difficult statements in a flash, literally thinking and acting together in perfect, unmatched sync.

it wouldn’t be beneficial to keep this up for too long, as the possible identity and autonomy issues that could follow easily come to mind. still, i can easily imagine the zexal morph communication to be simply addicting: how else could they ever hope to understand each other like that again? i can easily imagine regular talking seeming all the more difficult, clunky and inadequate. that’s why, when zexal warned that it would demand of yuma what was most precious to him, it meant itself — not astral. because what are they, what value can their relationship hold, if they are severed from the one, sure way of understanding each other? if they can no longer grasp what the other is thinking? that’s why, with time, zexal morph — something yuma had never even known existed — becomes the price he has to pay for the whole deal, as it starts to mean so much more to him than it used to at the beginning of his agreement with zexal.

i like this view as an alternate explanation to the banal “ooh astral is the most precious thing to yuma so they have to be separated in the end”; besides, it provides a difficulty, an obstacle, but is not terminal. after all, they had to learn to cooperate and understand each other before they could do zexal morph, as a prerequisite. if they had unlearned it due to relying on that form too much (like pegasus on his eye, forgive the digression — i love the trope), they could always relearn it — the communication would never be as full, as flowing, as easy again, but it would be there. they could handle it, somehow, without all the supernatural aid, solely relying on the mutual will to be with each other, and that’s an ending i’d like to see.

#yugioh #zexal #zexal spoilers #astral zexal #yuma tsukumo #keyshipping #zexal is so unexplained in the canon like??? #telepathy goes brr #i still can’t bear with the canon ending