Hey, everyone, thanks for checking out my video about the Yu-Gi-Oh GX episode, "Sibling Rivalry"! I actually meant to get this up yesterday, but unfortunately, there were a few editing snafus (and a couple of copyright claims) that I obviously couldn't ignore, so I had to take another day to sort all of that out before this went live. Hopefully you like it! The next video will hopefully be up somewhere in a couple weeks (on the regular Tuesday, with any luck), and probably won't be about Yu-Gi-Oh, so stay tuned to see what that is! In the meantime, though, DRINK WATER.
I mean, yeah, like I said towards the end, I don't think Kaiba had much to worry about when you consider that Slade had the same Deck-building philosophies as a kid with their first set of booster packs (i.e., "Just use really strong Monsters and you'll always win, LOL").
This episode was definitely great for Chazz's development as he not only proved his worth as a duelist to his brothers who disowned him by winning the duel, but he did it with monsters that were deemed weak and showcased that power alone isn't enough in dueling. Of course Seto Kaiba wasn't worried. He's a pro duelist that knows an amateur when he sees one. Slade Princeton wasn't going to win the duel against Chazz despite having powerful monsters and limiting Chazz to weak ones, since Slade doesn't know how to utilize those monsters properly.
Chazz is the best! 5:27 Also dang, Zane appearently pulled 4 of these things and decided to either be super disrespectful towards his cards or just wanted to give the scrubs more friends.
Like, I know the actual real answer is that this was just a goof by the editors for the English Dub because they needed some filler cards for the well and I guess just picked something random/recognizable thinking no one would really care, but I kinda like one of those explanations better, haha. On that same train of thought, apparently the original Japanese version of this episode had a Jinzo down in the well, too, which is weird because that ALSO wouldn't really qualify for the stipulations for Chazz's Deck, nor even for what would normally go down into the well, haha.
@DarkSoul 100 Yeah, no, I'd probably do the same, considering the poor guy was being stalked by Jinzo everywhere he went (though it was kinda his and his friends' fault for doing that whole ritual to bring about a Duel Spirit in the first damn place, haha).
Sibling Rivalry is one of my favorite episodes in GX. Not because of how good the plot is, (I’m partial to episodes of Season 3, actually) but because of the stipulations of the duel between Chazz and Slade giving my brothers and I the idea of doing this type of duel. I remember the first time my younger brother and I did this, the stipulation was that we chose the deck our opponent used, and funny enough, I had chosen for my younger brother to use an incomplete Cyber Dragon deck he was in the middle of building, and he had chosen an incomplete Dragon deck I was in the middle of building. That was the most fun duel I think I’ve ever had.
That sounds like such a fun time! Really glad this episode gave you and your brothers could make some fun memories together because of this episode, haha. Just out of curiosity, what makes you partial to Season 3, exactly?
@@SuperNerdDaniel I feel like it is just personal preference. I’ve always liked it when stories took a bit of a dark turn. And oh dear, was Season 3 rather dark. I’m personally amazed it was dubbed at all with how dark of a story it seemed to be.
I know, right? People getting killed ritualistically for the creation of a super-powerful card, a genderfluid demon who possesses and tortures people for the sake of their twisted sadomasochistic view of "love" for Jaden, Viper's Bio-Bands stealing people's life force for the sake of the reconstruction of the body of said demon...like, even with the edits and alterations that 4Kids made to the dub, shit was kinda fucked in Season 3, haha.
@@SuperNerdDaniel And we can’t forget Jaden turning evil and becoming a genocidal tyrant hellbent on conquest. I think that’s the first and only time the main character turned evil in Yu-Gi-Oh.
When it came to my favourite Chazz episodes (maybe even the entire GX series), it's this one and 'The New Chazz'. Me personally, it's just fun to see a duelist being forced out of his comfort zone and running an entire deck from scratch with a new overarching theme/strategy - and somehow making it work! To paraphrase Kaiba, it's revealing Chazz to be a First-Rate duelist by his winning with a fourth-rate deck. Couldn't also help but think that this episode served as a template/wellspring for future stories like it, like Team 5Ds' duel against Team Taiyo (who played the 400 ATK, 300 DEF Key Mace and built its entire strategy on keeping it alive for a hard-to-achieve summon), or Yusei's duels in the facility (one against Bolt Tanner, another against prison Chief Armstrong) using 'weaker' cards given to him by other inmates. Hell, Yusei's whole 'no card is worthless and I can find a use for any of them' schtick is a reflection of his upbringing in the deprived Satellite; and it reminded me of Chazz's incredible resourcefulness - a talent that just didn't show itself when he was coasting on cash at the start of the season. I also think that the makeshift deck wasn't just something thrown together out of whatever cards Chazz thought was best out of what was available; I actually think they were all working in concert with one another in a way. From the cards we see, Chazz was looking to stall for time until he can turn the tables against Slade (via Ojama Delta Hurricane and later Chaos Necromancer). It's not just Unhappy Girl, Dark Door or just the high-DEF Soul Tiger; Castle Gate (one of the monsters discarded via Painful Choice) can't be destroyed by battle. Copycat is a solid option to turning the dragons' strength against themselves by taking their ATK stat. And Relinquished seemed to share the characteristics of both by absorbing a monster's attack points (Copycat) and being partially indestructible (like Castle Gate). In soccer/association football terms, this is a 'sit-back-and-play-for-the-counter' plan. A more heartwarming observation in hindsight: When Chazz deduced who was behind stealing all the keys from the main characters in episode 39, he says that he knows of the culprits by revealing that the Duel Spirits (of the cards he used in that duel against Slade) spied on his behalf. It is quite possible that Chazz actually kept in touch with the haunted spirits, even when he is visibly annoyed with them; he kept their cards as keepsakes! That said, I kinda wished that Chazz's cards that he used to climb the North Academy ladder (in episode 24) outside of Ojama Yellow had a little more recognition or call-backs. I mean monsters like Skull Knight 2, KA-2 Des Scissors, Gyaku-Gire Panda, Disk Fighter and so on. They're the first cards that really forced Chazz to up his game, and like Ojama Yellow they had a front-row seat in his character development. Then again, none of those other monsters offer the comedic elements that the Ojama Brothers can.
You know, I can kind of relate to Chazz in this episode. Whenever I try to do a Little Cup battle in Pokemon GO, I realize that I barely have any Pokemon that qualify because I always power up and evolve my strongest Pokemon. That's why I don't usually bother with that format.
Heyo this is one my favorite episodes form season one. Legit was so cool to see that power didn't mean everything! And since then I was a fan of MANJOUME THUNDA. It even got to the point where his deck has been a staple of my dueling next to buster blader. If you ever want to duel someone with the rouge decks hit me up
Oh wow, that's so cool! I kinda had the same thing happen to me -- I was such a fan of Zane Truesdale that I was inspired to actually start running Cyber Dragons IRL (and thinking back on things, it might've at least had a SLIGHT influence, among other factors, in my desire to dye my hair blue, haha).
Throwing away Cyber Dragon is pretty bad, but is nobody gonna bring up RELINQUISHED!? That card nearly single handily beat the best dualist of ALL TIME!
Yeah, that's another pretty absurd one, if we're going by the actual application of the card. Also, I kind of have a soft spot for Relinquished since I once had 2 copies of the Pegasus Starter Deck (though only because my grandma accidentally bought me a second one for my birthday one year not knowing I already had it -- not that I was complaining, haha).
...You know, I'd completely forgotten about that guy until you mentioned that Duel just now, and considering his whole thing was that he was always in the background of major goings-on at the Academy but no one ever noticed or remembered he was there, I think that's weirdly appropriate, haha.
A fun fact that was lost on the dub: not only do all of Chazz’s monsters fit the 500 ATK point cap, but he reveals that everyone of his monster cards actually has 0 ATK.
Yeah, that's something I actually noticed even in the English Dub, that he just had 0 ATK Monsters (or at least he only used Monsters in the Duel with 0 ATK); that really only further solidifies how great it was to see them overcome Slade's power-packed dragons.
@@SuperNerdDaniel Well it also goes to show why Chazz is the better duelist: Slade’s entire strategy was to flood the field but had no protection or strategy beyond that, while Chazz had to use his card’s effects and strengths to win :3
From what I remembered from the subbed version, Chazz even told his brother that he was going to do that. Something like 'I'll do you better; all the monsters in this deck have ZERO attack points!'.
On the "take over the world" plan, one person on tv tropes pointed out how in the world of Yugioh, pro duelists are basically an equivalent to star athletes, so the plan was to have the brothers have success in politics, business, and the main form of entertainment.
Man this was one of my favorite episodes! And the beginning of Chazz being my favorite Yugioh franchise character (before then it was Joey Wheeler). Still is my favorite in fact.
I wish Chazz hadn't won with a beatstick since it goes against the point he was supposed to learn. Then again, using a card like Relinquished and taking Slade's monsters would've also gone against the lesson. But if he had won using Magic Cylinder, that would've fit the theme of the duel 🤔
I mean, I do kinda see where you're coming from with that, but it's not like Chaos Necromancer NATURALLY has 3300 ATK Points to swing around -- it has to gain that power from the power of other Monster Cards being in the Graveyard, and that power (at least in this instance) came from a bunch of Monsters who inherently had 0 ATK and were considered weak and useless as a result. Also, I feel like just popping a Magic Cylinder wouldn't have been quite as thematically fitting as being clever enough to utilize something like a Monster that relies on other Monsters in the GY, because Slade being so willing to trash and dispose of those "weak" Monsters because of how he viewed them at face value kinda plays into how Chazz had learned to see Monsters for their potential, or at least for more than what their basic stats were, quite unlike Slade and Jagger, who still clung tightly to their "power is success" way of thinking.
It really telling that slade is an newbie since he using the most "expensive" card thinking that's going to get him the win beside dragoon he only used normal monsters that were rare because there holographic (thats why there a rainbow effect on the hologram)
It really was! Great bit of development for Chazz, and just one of those Duels that shows you that it's not all about high ATK Points and stuff, and how even Monsters that are considered "weak" on the surface level can be quite powerful when used correctly with the right skill (which Chazz obviously has).
Slade: he can’t use monsters with more than 500 LIFE points! Kaiba: …oh my school has this in the bag. I hope that wasn’t a 4Kids slip up cause that’s hilarious.
@@ichigokage I have to imagine someone at 4Kids just didn't catch that script error, because I wouldn't put it past them -- there's another couple of egregious ones that happen back-to-back in Season 3 where Zane and Jaden have that farce of a Duel where Zane just wipes out his whole field and drags him over the coals for his misplays, meanwhile Zane is mistakenly calling E - Emergency Call a Trap Card and Hero Barrier a Spell Card
Fun fact: In the dub, instead of saying Chazz can only use monsters less than 500 attack points, Slade instead said 500 life points. Looks like Chazz needs to dig deeper in that one...
Typically, I base these videos on the English Dub, since that's what I'm most familiar with, for the plots/characterization/etc., but I do like to reference those things from the Sub when I can (like, a couple of times in this video, for example). That said, I haven't, like, EXTENSIVELY watched the Sub for GX outside of Season 4 (since, you know, that never got dubbed, haha).
To be fair the dub likes to use other card artwork for background cards because there lazy so it probably wasn't actually a cyber dragon I'm more concerned that someone threw away relinquished! Legit that creator of the whole game boss monster
Hey, everyone, thanks for checking out my video about the Yu-Gi-Oh GX episode, "Sibling Rivalry"! I actually meant to get this up yesterday, but unfortunately, there were a few editing snafus (and a couple of copyright claims) that I obviously couldn't ignore, so I had to take another day to sort all of that out before this went live. Hopefully you like it!
The next video will hopefully be up somewhere in a couple weeks (on the regular Tuesday, with any luck), and probably won't be about Yu-Gi-Oh, so stay tuned to see what that is!
In the meantime, though, DRINK WATER.
2:45 I love that Kaiba agreed to the deal on the back that he knew in the end it wouldn’t matter handicap or not Slade couldn’t win
I mean, yeah, like I said towards the end, I don't think Kaiba had much to worry about when you consider that Slade had the same Deck-building philosophies as a kid with their first set of booster packs (i.e., "Just use really strong Monsters and you'll always win, LOL").
I'd imagine Kaiba to be the kinda guy who'd burn down his whole school if one of his students lost to a third rate duelist.
everytime kaiba who sucks is getting respect by ignorant punks
@@rorrim0 with a fourth rate deck
This episode was definitely great for Chazz's development as he not only proved his worth as a duelist to his brothers who disowned him by winning the duel, but he did it with monsters that were deemed weak and showcased that power alone isn't enough in dueling. Of course Seto Kaiba wasn't worried. He's a pro duelist that knows an amateur when he sees one. Slade Princeton wasn't going to win the duel against Chazz despite having powerful monsters and limiting Chazz to weak ones, since Slade doesn't know how to utilize those monsters properly.
Chazz is the best!
5:27 Also dang, Zane appearently pulled 4 of these things and decided to either be super disrespectful towards his cards or just wanted to give the scrubs more friends.
Like, I know the actual real answer is that this was just a goof by the editors for the English Dub because they needed some filler cards for the well and I guess just picked something random/recognizable thinking no one would really care, but I kinda like one of those explanations better, haha.
On that same train of thought, apparently the original Japanese version of this episode had a Jinzo down in the well, too, which is weird because that ALSO wouldn't really qualify for the stipulations for Chazz's Deck, nor even for what would normally go down into the well, haha.
@@SuperNerdDaniel WAIT WHAT? JINZO OF ALL CARDS? I bet Torrey drew it from a Pack, and threw it down because Trauma!
@DarkSoul 100 Yeah, no, I'd probably do the same, considering the poor guy was being stalked by Jinzo everywhere he went (though it was kinda his and his friends' fault for doing that whole ritual to bring about a Duel Spirit in the first damn place, haha).
Sibling Rivalry is one of my favorite episodes in GX. Not because of how good the plot is, (I’m partial to episodes of Season 3, actually) but because of the stipulations of the duel between Chazz and Slade giving my brothers and I the idea of doing this type of duel. I remember the first time my younger brother and I did this, the stipulation was that we chose the deck our opponent used, and funny enough, I had chosen for my younger brother to use an incomplete Cyber Dragon deck he was in the middle of building, and he had chosen an incomplete Dragon deck I was in the middle of building. That was the most fun duel I think I’ve ever had.
That sounds like such a fun time! Really glad this episode gave you and your brothers could make some fun memories together because of this episode, haha. Just out of curiosity, what makes you partial to Season 3, exactly?
@@SuperNerdDaniel I feel like it is just personal preference. I’ve always liked it when stories took a bit of a dark turn. And oh dear, was Season 3 rather dark. I’m personally amazed it was dubbed at all with how dark of a story it seemed to be.
I know, right? People getting killed ritualistically for the creation of a super-powerful card, a genderfluid demon who possesses and tortures people for the sake of their twisted sadomasochistic view of "love" for Jaden, Viper's Bio-Bands stealing people's life force for the sake of the reconstruction of the body of said demon...like, even with the edits and alterations that 4Kids made to the dub, shit was kinda fucked in Season 3, haha.
@@SuperNerdDaniel And we can’t forget Jaden turning evil and becoming a genocidal tyrant hellbent on conquest. I think that’s the first and only time the main character turned evil in Yu-Gi-Oh.
When it came to my favourite Chazz episodes (maybe even the entire GX series), it's this one and 'The New Chazz'. Me personally, it's just fun to see a duelist being forced out of his comfort zone and running an entire deck from scratch with a new overarching theme/strategy - and somehow making it work! To paraphrase Kaiba, it's revealing Chazz to be a First-Rate duelist by his winning with a fourth-rate deck.
Couldn't also help but think that this episode served as a template/wellspring for future stories like it, like Team 5Ds' duel against Team Taiyo (who played the 400 ATK, 300 DEF Key Mace and built its entire strategy on keeping it alive for a hard-to-achieve summon), or Yusei's duels in the facility (one against Bolt Tanner, another against prison Chief Armstrong) using 'weaker' cards given to him by other inmates. Hell, Yusei's whole 'no card is worthless and I can find a use for any of them' schtick is a reflection of his upbringing in the deprived Satellite; and it reminded me of Chazz's incredible resourcefulness - a talent that just didn't show itself when he was coasting on cash at the start of the season.
I also think that the makeshift deck wasn't just something thrown together out of whatever cards Chazz thought was best out of what was available; I actually think they were all working in concert with one another in a way. From the cards we see, Chazz was looking to stall for time until he can turn the tables against Slade (via Ojama Delta Hurricane and later Chaos Necromancer). It's not just Unhappy Girl, Dark Door or just the high-DEF Soul Tiger; Castle Gate (one of the monsters discarded via Painful Choice) can't be destroyed by battle. Copycat is a solid option to turning the dragons' strength against themselves by taking their ATK stat. And Relinquished seemed to share the characteristics of both by absorbing a monster's attack points (Copycat) and being partially indestructible (like Castle Gate). In soccer/association football terms, this is a 'sit-back-and-play-for-the-counter' plan.
A more heartwarming observation in hindsight: When Chazz deduced who was behind stealing all the keys from the main characters in episode 39, he says that he knows of the culprits by revealing that the Duel Spirits (of the cards he used in that duel against Slade) spied on his behalf. It is quite possible that Chazz actually kept in touch with the haunted spirits, even when he is visibly annoyed with them; he kept their cards as keepsakes!
That said, I kinda wished that Chazz's cards that he used to climb the North Academy ladder (in episode 24) outside of Ojama Yellow had a little more recognition or call-backs. I mean monsters like Skull Knight 2, KA-2 Des Scissors, Gyaku-Gire Panda, Disk Fighter and so on. They're the first cards that really forced Chazz to up his game, and like Ojama Yellow they had a front-row seat in his character development. Then again, none of those other monsters offer the comedic elements that the Ojama Brothers can.
You know, I can kind of relate to Chazz in this episode. Whenever I try to do a Little Cup battle in Pokemon GO, I realize that I barely have any Pokemon that qualify because I always power up and evolve my strongest Pokemon. That's why I don't usually bother with that format.
Welp, time to start building a team of baby 'Mons, haha
Heyo this is one my favorite episodes form season one. Legit was so cool to see that power didn't mean everything! And since then I was a fan of MANJOUME THUNDA. It even got to the point where his deck has been a staple of my dueling next to buster blader. If you ever want to duel someone with the rouge decks hit me up
Oh wow, that's so cool! I kinda had the same thing happen to me -- I was such a fan of Zane Truesdale that I was inspired to actually start running Cyber Dragons IRL (and thinking back on things, it might've at least had a SLIGHT influence, among other factors, in my desire to dye my hair blue, haha).
Throwing away Cyber Dragon is pretty bad, but is nobody gonna bring up RELINQUISHED!? That card nearly single handily beat the best dualist of ALL TIME!
Yeah, that's another pretty absurd one, if we're going by the actual application of the card. Also, I kind of have a soft spot for Relinquished since I once had 2 copies of the Pegasus Starter Deck (though only because my grandma accidentally bought me a second one for my birthday one year not knowing I already had it -- not that I was complaining, haha).
Maybe its ritual spell was extremely rare and thus Relinquished was useless? They didnt have generic ritual spells at that time
The franchise is at its best when the stakes are around the level of getting the last cookie
Remember that time Syrus and Hassleberry had a Duel over who was actually Jaden's best friend? Fun times
@@SuperNerdDaniel or the duel with Don Simon
...You know, I'd completely forgotten about that guy until you mentioned that Duel just now, and considering his whole thing was that he was always in the background of major goings-on at the Academy but no one ever noticed or remembered he was there, I think that's weirdly appropriate, haha.
A fun fact that was lost on the dub: not only do all of Chazz’s monsters fit the 500 ATK point cap, but he reveals that everyone of his monster cards actually has 0 ATK.
Yeah, that's something I actually noticed even in the English Dub, that he just had 0 ATK Monsters (or at least he only used Monsters in the Duel with 0 ATK); that really only further solidifies how great it was to see them overcome Slade's power-packed dragons.
@@SuperNerdDaniel Well it also goes to show why Chazz is the better duelist: Slade’s entire strategy was to flood the field but had no protection or strategy beyond that, while Chazz had to use his card’s effects and strengths to win :3
From what I remembered from the subbed version, Chazz even told his brother that he was going to do that. Something like 'I'll do you better; all the monsters in this deck have ZERO attack points!'.
On the "take over the world" plan, one person on tv tropes pointed out how in the world of Yugioh, pro duelists are basically an equivalent to star athletes, so the plan was to have the brothers have success in politics, business, and the main form of entertainment.
Man this was one of my favorite episodes! And the beginning of Chazz being my favorite Yugioh franchise character (before then it was Joey Wheeler). Still is my favorite in fact.
It's definitely one of my faves, too 😁
I wish Chazz hadn't won with a beatstick since it goes against the point he was supposed to learn. Then again, using a card like Relinquished and taking Slade's monsters would've also gone against the lesson.
But if he had won using Magic Cylinder, that would've fit the theme of the duel 🤔
I mean, I do kinda see where you're coming from with that, but it's not like Chaos Necromancer NATURALLY has 3300 ATK Points to swing around -- it has to gain that power from the power of other Monster Cards being in the Graveyard, and that power (at least in this instance) came from a bunch of Monsters who inherently had 0 ATK and were considered weak and useless as a result.
Also, I feel like just popping a Magic Cylinder wouldn't have been quite as thematically fitting as being clever enough to utilize something like a Monster that relies on other Monsters in the GY, because Slade being so willing to trash and dispose of those "weak" Monsters because of how he viewed them at face value kinda plays into how Chazz had learned to see Monsters for their potential, or at least for more than what their basic stats were, quite unlike Slade and Jagger, who still clung tightly to their "power is success" way of thinking.
It really telling that slade is an newbie since he using the most "expensive" card thinking that's going to get him the win beside dragoon he only used normal monsters that were rare because there holographic (thats why there a rainbow effect on the hologram)
Fun episode 😁
It really was! Great bit of development for Chazz, and just one of those Duels that shows you that it's not all about high ATK Points and stuff, and how even Monsters that are considered "weak" on the surface level can be quite powerful when used correctly with the right skill (which Chazz obviously has).
@@SuperNerdDaniel that's just Yu-Gi-Oh for ya 😉
Indeed, haha
wait I just noticed that there a blue eyes toon dragon there
Slade: he can’t use monsters with more than 500 LIFE points!
Kaiba: …oh my school has this in the bag.
I hope that wasn’t a 4Kids slip up cause that’s hilarious.
@@ichigokage I have to imagine someone at 4Kids just didn't catch that script error, because I wouldn't put it past them -- there's another couple of egregious ones that happen back-to-back in Season 3 where Zane and Jaden have that farce of a Duel where Zane just wipes out his whole field and drags him over the coals for his misplays, meanwhile Zane is mistakenly calling E - Emergency Call a Trap Card and Hero Barrier a Spell Card
5:17
how dare you lump skull servant with the other trash, HAVEN'T YOU WITNESSED IT'S HORROR
Probably the best duel in my opinion
Somehow 3 emoji creeps are better than cyber dragon
Guys
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe
Just maybe
Ojama Yellow is actually
Number Four
I just feel bad for the chazz because of his two brothers pressure him
Yeah, Chazz needed a more supportive family, to be sure, instead of two dickhead older brothers who only saw him as a means to their ends.
At least in Season 4, he resolved to be a pro on his own without relying on his brothers.
Fun fact: In the dub, instead of saying Chazz can only use monsters less than 500 attack points, Slade instead said 500 life points.
Looks like Chazz needs to dig deeper in that one...
Yeah, I did know that -- in fact, I mentioned it towards the end of the video
@@SuperNerdDaniel So you did.
Hm, interesting video.
Did you also watch the Sub?
Typically, I base these videos on the English Dub, since that's what I'm most familiar with, for the plots/characterization/etc., but I do like to reference those things from the Sub when I can (like, a couple of times in this video, for example). That said, I haven't, like, EXTENSIVELY watched the Sub for GX outside of Season 4 (since, you know, that never got dubbed, haha).
@@SuperNerdDaniel hm, i see, maybe you should, just for comparisons sake and see how different it might be.
To be fair the dub likes to use other card artwork for background cards because there lazy so it probably wasn't actually a cyber dragon I'm more concerned that someone threw away relinquished! Legit that creator of the whole game boss monster
Nani
Indeed
Your into yuh go oh now okie
Dude, I've BEEN into Yu-Gi-Oh. Like, for YEARS, haha.