Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.20-26 Part 3 (Battle City Break part 3)

Another break, there is a lots of events, there is 1 duel but is too quick, it will be hard to write a summary because it has so many events.

Plot Summary:

We left off in Dark Yugi's victory, after the duel ended and the doll stopped moving for some time, and Mokuba as chairman committee, pick up Slifer The Sky Dragon god card for Dark Yugi, now he has a god card as well, the egyptian god which represents Osiris.
Kaiba being the impatient person he is, he is about to challenge Dark Yugi and they're interrupted by "Silent Doll" Marik, who informs Dark Yugi that he has three types of views, one of them is that he sees through the doll, the other is in the road and last through a rare hunter who is watching his friends and Jounouchi, and hints indirectly at the chance of brainwashing them, with this Dark Yugi starts to panic, and Marik leaves the "Silent Doll"'s mind.
Dark Yugi is about to leave and Kaiba asks him if he is running away from the duel with him and Dark Yugi replies he can't let his friends die and leaves, as he searches for his friends and Jounouchi with no success, finds himself blocked by two rare hunters, they challenge him and the two men tries to decide who comes first with scissor-paper-rock, but it's always a tie, irritating Dark Yugi and Kaiba shows up again and challenges the two rare hunters to a tag team pairing up with Dark Yugi, but Kaiba makes it quick, the chances he gets to summons Obelisk (to show off -.-") is right off the bat.

As Marik watching through the rare hunter and arrives Domino City, getting closer and driving like crazy without caring for people's safety, while Ryou Bakura is sensing something as Anzu calls him out and Sugoroku is commenting how well Jounouchi is doing in the tournament and having 4 puzzle cards, so he is close to the finals, and looking forward to duel against Dark Yugi and continue their conversation about the current state of the tournament.
Jounouchi uses a device in the Duel Disk to detect others duel disks by 50 meters called Duelist Search Sensor (could come up with a better name, non?), quickly detected a duelist close by, so Jounouchi follows running as the others catch up except for Ryou Bakura meaning Yami Bakura is taking over with the Millenium Ring detecting a new millenium item and sensing someone is coming and steal  someone's duel disk to illegally participate in the tournament (so many illegal participants...).
Jounouchi and gang finding themselves in a Aquarium, meeting there with Ryota Kajiki, previous Dark Yugi's opponent in Duelist Kingdom and Jounouchi challenges him to a duel and Ryota accepts it.

Key Points:

Kaiba's standards are always high even towards his rival, it has to be at his level (-.-"), he is really obsessive and extremely competitive when comes to his favourite TCG.

 

I really like Dark Yugi's awkward expression in the panel when Mokuba is giving Slifer The Sky Dragon and puzzle card, it's so cute seeing him feeling awkward, but why was he feeling awkward?

He knows Mokuba well enough to not feel awkward, it might be because a little kid being one of the judges to be sure no one is breaking rules and knows well, etc and behaving quite friendly with him as well.

Dark Yugi contemplating for having a god card, he must feel surprised and impressed by the card...

The funny thing he isn't much about getting powerful cards, but favor to the more useful and make it up for good strategies, since he has more of a tactician mindset but...

from this line, he seems pretty happy about it to have such a powerful and a god card.

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Kaiba is a very impatient fellow, he easily feels pump up, if I was in his positition, I think I would want to duel him in the finals to make it more exciting D:, it looks like they're about to duel but they're interrupted by Marik...

In this scene Dark Yugi understands very well what Marik is insinuating, remember I mentioned 2 posts ago in this post , Yugi suspecting Marik might be plotting something horrible as they speak, I would say this was why Yugi was in a hurry to find the "doll".

I find Dark Yugi's starting to panic reaction to this situation of Jounouchi and friends, specially Jounouchi a little intriguing, his thoughts tends to emphasise a lot Jounouchi (no, I'm not a shipper of them either), I would say like Yugi, they consider Jounouchi as their best friend and both admire him a lot, also Dark Yugi have been wanting to duel against him, you know for fun, for a change, he usually doesn't have this sort of opportunity, and this threatening chance to brainwash Jounouchi  and duel him in this state, Dark Yugi is starting to expect the worst case scenario, now he starts acting in a hurry...

 

I do quite agree with Dark Yugi here, the point is Kaiba needing to sort his priorities, but at the same time he understands bit more as we see him when he is commenting to himself "hmph. choosing friends over pride..." and then looks into the distance in the last panel, he understands more than he let's on, because for what himself went through to go save Mokuba, at least a little he understands...

 

Kaiba, Kaiba...he is doing for the reasons he stated but also because he understands a little being willing to fight to save and protect for those you care about (Kaiba's case being Mokuba) but doesn't say it (such a tsundere). additionally he sees as something beneficial to both sides and also for chance to ...

Show off...

Not only the duel was quick, Kaiba didn't miss the chance to show off his god card, Obelisk, it's very funny, such huge ego, even the typo of Kaiba's laugh is funny displaying his excess of confidence.

 

Ryou Bakura has sharp senses besides he is a wielder of a millenium item, as we know, millenium items are drawn to each other, it's related with these for Bakura for sensing something watching them or coming.

I find interesting their conversation about Jounouchi's prize cards from his recent duels, foreshadowing a future duel from "Bakura" (*cough*) when Ryou Bakura reveals he has an occult deck, question is, who will be duelling, Ryou Bakura or Yami Bakura? the answer is obvious...

I find this revelation interesting, about how it works, it's probably through the GPS in Kaiba Corporation and it's own satellite and connection to programmed to detect active duel disks, a bit like street pass of the Nintendo 3DS, its a cool gimmick, it would be nice to have a mini microphone where you could control it's volume (so you wouldn't talk in a loud voice with your opponent, I remember Fudou Yusei made something similar revealed Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episode 61, Multi-Duel Voice Network he built himself).

 

This page is pretty much building up the enconter between Marik and Yami Bakura as the next duel between Ryota Kajiki and Jounnouchi is happening...It will be the focus on the next post.

See Ya in the next post!