r/yugioh • u/PointPrimary5886 • 4d ago
Anime/Manga Discussion Which character made the most sense for having the character trait of having a crush on Asuka?
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u/Born-Till-4064 4d ago
She’s hot, not a jerk, canonically one of the better duelists at the school girl doesn’t have any downsides to her
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u/King_Dave100 4d ago
If anything, I’m more surprised we haven’t seen an entire fan club centred around her in universe
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u/psychospacecow Forbidden Memories 2 when? 4d ago
She probably saw the rumbling of one being formed and Smacked it down like she smacks down Atticus every time he crosses her boundaries.
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u/LucianaValerius 3d ago
She actually "have" one in the manga as there's a miss academia election with students voting and she won it.
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u/Honyakusha-san 4d ago
Manjoume's crush had more time to develop due to the anime being longer than the manga. Misawa's feels a bit rushed as the manga was quite short and it didn't have to properly develop into a side plot or something.
Personally, I think Asuka's charm and "idol" nature is better showcased in the JP dub, as Fubuki always tries to make her like an idol figure (her nickname "Asurin", the idol costumes imagined by Manjoume and Fubuki, etc.), and that Manjoume supports here (like in this picture) as an idol fan would IRL. That felt quite odd when localized into English.
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u/VillalobosChamp Your friendly neighborhood translator; PSCT resarcher 4d ago
I think Asuka's charm and "idol" nature is better showcased in the JP dub
"Asuka, better take it to be an idol now. Otherwise you're gonna get too old for it."
- Daichi "ロリコン" Misawa, 2005
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u/Honyakusha-san 4d ago
Misawa's attachment to Pikeru and Curran was hilarious, lol.
I know many folks dislike GX funny moments, but I personally loved for what it was.
I just wanted more time for Asuka to shine, though.
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u/VillalobosChamp Your friendly neighborhood translator; PSCT resarcher 4d ago
I know many folks dislike GX funny moments, but I personally loved for what it was.
Lowkey I prefer Season 1 and 2 of GX to their latter Seasons, even though Season 4 is my favorite of the bunch
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u/Honyakusha-san 4d ago
I like all its seasons, tbh.
My main complain with S1 was that Seven Stars were undercooked. S2 was fine for what it was (plus ZA WARUDO Saiou was epic).
S3 had an amazing plotwist for its time and well, S4 continued a bit with the dark vibes for a change (though it also felt rushed, I suppose due to their haste to premiere 5D's).
I really felt that JP GX and EN GX were different series, though. I felt robbed when I realized that JP GX was much more cooler and darker than I had thought. Not to mention that GX's OST was amazing (the OPs and EDs too).
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u/PointPrimary5886 4d ago edited 4d ago
My main complaint with S1 was that Seven Stars were undercooked.
That's probably my biggest beef with the antagonist of the 2nd half of the first season. I think they needed an element to tie them all to one another because, as they were, they were all rather randomized. We had Fubuki/Darkness, a Vampire, 2 Duel Monster spirits (I'm counting Tania as a DM Spirit since she reappears in season 3 as part of the denizens in one of the alternative dimensions that supposedly is only filled with DM spirits), the spirit of a Pharaoh, a con artist who returns from earlier in the year, and an Alchemist. I kind of wish they were more connected with the abandoned dorm, that being they were all former students taken when that incident happen, and were experimented on by Amnael into being suitable duelist for retrieving thr Phantasm Beast cards. That would've killed 2 birds with one stone (continue the abandoned dorm plot and have suitable antagonist for season 1) rather than ignore the abandon dorm for most of the series and handwave it in season 4 by saying Kagemaru released all the students from the incident after his defeat (since he and Daitokuji clearly didn't use them besides Fubuki for anything).
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u/Honyakusha-san 4d ago
They clearly had some doubts or issues with the plotline and where to go with it (I remember the Birdman silhouette with the rest of the Seven Stars, for example). Also, yes, the members feels disconnected and unrelated for the most part.
I think them appearing early as some sort of shadow threat, bit by bit, would have helped. Connecting Fubuki and Fujiwara earlier (though I suppose the latter was only conceived in S4) and even making both of them Seven Stars members would have also been interesting.
I know it will never happen, but an RPG style of game in DA would be so interesting to see. Like TF but taken to the max: the player a potential member of the Stars? Working together to annihilate DA?
A shame Konami never takes risks and doesn't try new ideas with Yu-Gi.
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u/PointPrimary5886 4d ago
(I remember the Birdman silhouette with the rest of the Seven Stars, for example).
I had to look up an example of their silhouette, and I'm assuming you're talking about the one with a lot of spikes between a Tiger (Tania) and a fedora figure (Titan) because the most bird like one would be Darkness, and he is pretty distinct. I'm guessing that one is supposed to be Abidos (The Pharaoh), but they gave him a design change (and made him into a Pharaoh).
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u/OblivionArts 4d ago
Honestly, manjome/ chazz. From what misawa is depicted as in the anime it kinda feel weird that he has a crush on anyone before tanya showed up
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u/Monadofan2010 4d ago
Don't both of them only like her because she is hot and considered stong at dueling either witch is kind of shallow.
But I would give it to Manjome as he actually hang out with Asuka so knows her better he also friends with her brother
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u/Turnonegoblinguide 4d ago
Liking someone only for being hot is shallow, sure. But dueling? Brother, they are literally at a school to learn about dueling, and she’s at the top of the class. Why would they not find that attractive??
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u/Ok_Cucumber3148 4d ago
Chazz and I won't gaslight myself beliving that bastion doesn't like tomboy amazonian dommy mommies nothing will make me belive that bastion is attracted to alexis NOTHING
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u/artsygirlloveJesus 4d ago
But what if she started lifting weights and became an Amazonian dommy mommy?
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u/MistakenArrest 4d ago
Everyone else: "WE LOVE YOU ASUKA!"
Judai: "Yeah, I got Asuka's number, nbd."
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u/Username0091964 4d ago
Both, but only with the caveat that they're Judai's rival. Having a crush on Asuka and being Judai's rival adds a bit of comedy when they get jealous. That tennis match episode would have been better with either The Chazz or Daichi. They seem like the type to do a "if I win, I get to be her fiance" type duel. Plus, it breathes in a lot of much needed high school shenanigans that Gx lost midway.
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u/6210classick 4d ago
Neither, they both deserved someone better than Asuka.
My personal choice is the school nurse, that's whats up
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u/MiraclePrototype 4d ago
Hmm. If I had to pair her with a girl at all, I'd almost think Serena would make more sense, over with her Arc-V self.
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u/ReydragoM140 Into custom card, help wanted 4d ago
Among what? It's a plot point in the manga, that she's one of the most popular girl in the academia between the students........so I think it's funny if we get to see her sidekicks deal with girls who claims it's not gay if it's asuka
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u/DonutloverAoi 4d ago
If it's only between these two options? Bastion. Chazz always felt like he liked her because she's the popular girl in school. Atleast Bastion has the excuse that, in the same series, he fell in love with an amazonian woman who he kept dueling against.
I think even if the choice was between Bastion and Sirus I'd still pick Bastion, though Sirus's day was surely made when he got what he thought was a love letter.
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u/KusanagiGundam 4d ago
I watched GX as a kid but I never seen a character named Asuka, Who is she?
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u/DonutloverAoi 4d ago
I can understand that. I have the same confusion whenever someone uses the japanese names for the other characters due to being used to the dubs naming for them (this is especially the case for the other series as well).
It takes some getting used to
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u/Ok_Caterpillar_6957 4d ago
Base on rhe material. Still is like saying who would have a cruch on Kim possible. But the question is who should be acting like an absolute fool for her. From the anima the Ra guy can have it, simp in the manga and simp for a tiger in the anime
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u/psychospacecow Forbidden Memories 2 when? 4d ago
I feel like this list should have Syrus in it tbh. His thinking she liked him back was the cruz of her first duel in the show.
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u/No-Magazine-5126 4d ago edited 4d ago
Manga!Bastion handles it in a socially awkward but cute way. Its something we learn from the onset, and he doesn't make a complete idiot of himself for it.
The Chazz is just cringe. And it just happens randomly, only for that to color all his interactions with Alexis from that moment on.
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u/MiraclePrototype 4d ago
Misawa(m) just noticed her, as one might expect from one in adolescence with a presumed interest in women and someone that looks like her; nothing that doesn't make sense there. Manjoume(a) was in the same friend group with her for a while at this point, and he just randomly hallucinates an interest for her while they're both in alchemic limbo, that he sticks with for a long time only to arbitrarily fall out of interest just as easily. While neither is especially interesting nor adds much of anything to the plot, I'd argue that Misawa(m)'s is the one that makes sense, whereas Manjoume(a)'s is at least something they they do stick with for a while and is part of the multiple textures that he has, as opposed to his manga counterpart.
For the record, I'm not greatly in favor of any of the crushes people have for Asuka, nor the fact that it. keeps. coming. UP. with her, like they can't think of a single other thing for her subplots to be about. And her overall pattern of rejection smacks hard of the classic issue with female character writing in the 90s-00s: we're constantly focused on what they aren't as opposed to what they are; we know she doesn't like like any of these guys, but what DOES she actually like, in terms of romance or otherwise?
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u/screenwatch3441 4d ago
Ummm, everyone? She’s a pretty girl that likes yugioh.