YGO vs Pokemon Topic 1

YGO vs Pokemon was a project created by Icehawk in the Fall of 2008 to settle the debate about which is the better anime series once and for all. His goal was to watch one episode of each show per day and then write up his thoughts on which was better. This article is a chronicle of his attempt.

EPISODE 1
THE HEART OF THE CARDS

I tried to think of a way that this episode title could not be the fruitest thing ever, but I couldn't.

Before I begin, I have indeed played the YGO card game a decent amount when I was younger, so this should be fun >_>.

Right away this random chick EFFORTLY describes YGO rules... Thanks for nothing *****!

"See, each card has an attack number and a defense number. First player to eliminate the other player's life points wins".

So, Joey plays a monster with 800 attack points, brags, Yugi plays a monster with 1500 attack points, and wins the game inexplicably... AWESOME! The show at least doesn't make out Yugi to be some sort of card game god for this move, he explains that he just has better cards, phew. Maybe this will be a logical depiction of the YGO card game after all!

Yugi mentions to Joey that his Grandpa's shop has a really rare card. Some random ass dude that thinks to himself "OMG HE PROBABLY HAS THE CARD I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR"... I'm at a loss for words.

Meanwhile at Grandpa's shop... SETO KAIBA (thats his name) shows up right after they see the rare card, the Blue Eyes White Dragon! That really annoying kid is looking straight at Seto Kaiba and says "Doesn't he have a fancy corporation to run, WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!?!?" I wish real life conversations could be like Anime conversations sometimes...

Kaiba is an ass, and he says he would have a harder time playing Solitaire than playing Joey because Kaiba is the #1 Duel Monster player in the world... That was a really bad analogy though... Solitaire is tough!

OMG NO WAI, IT'S THE CARD KAIBA'S BEEN LOOKING FOR (ps whats up with Yugi's hat... I DONT GET IT).

Cheesy Quote #34: "This precious card has bonded with my heart!"- Grandpa on Blue Eyes

So Kaiba with all his bodyguards sends his guys to Gramps place to beat him up and take his card... WAIT... WHAT. HE SENT THEM TO CHALLENGE HIM TO A DUEL?

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It also leads to this GREAT cheesy exchange

My master has sent me to challenge you to a duel!"

"And... if I were to decline"

"I'm afraid... I must insist!"

>_>.

So Kaiba beats Gramps... and now Gramps is passed out on the floor... wtf... wtf... wtf. Then Kaiba and Yugi are about to duel...

"But Grandpa! I HAVE TO GET YOU TO A HOSPITAL"

Kaiba: Sounds like an excuse!

XD

Out of nowhere Joey mentions that Yugi has a Millenium Puzzle, and it will somehow help him win... I'm confused.

The girl draws some weird symbol on everyone's hands, and Grandpa is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance that just pulled off. Instead of being stretchered off, they seem like they are about to just throw him in the backseat. This may be the stupidest show I've ever seen >_>.

WHAT

Out of NOWHERE, Yugi yells YUGIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH and turns Super Saiyan... ARE YOU SERIOUS.

So they are battling in something that "brings the monsters to life", it's kinda cool till Yugi says "SO THATS HOW YOU BEAT MY GRANDFATHER". Doesn't make sense logically how it would affect anything >_>.

LMAO, Joey runs in and sees the big monsters and essentially says "AHHH... REAL MONSTERS".

The duel is going on, it's about what you would expect, back and forth, with Yugi being forced to come from behind a bit to build "drama". They completely ignore rules about sacrificing monsters to play better ones! BOOOO.

OH SNAP, Kaiba has another Blue Eyes! AND THEN HE PLAYS ANOTHER ONE.

Grandpa's Ghost talks to Yugi... so apparently he's dead? LOLOL

Yugi remembers that if he gets all 5 pieces of Exodia he automatically wins... BUT IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!! Dear god this show can't be serious.

Kaiba: Quit your stalling Yugi or you'll forfeit

'''Yugi: I NEVER FORFEIT! *draws a card'''

epicz

Kaiba manages to attack around a Swords of Revealing Light, which I don't think is legal, and Yugi manages to damage Kaiba's life points even though 2 Dragons are on the board... "cool".

KAIBA PLAYS ANOTHER BLUE EYES OH NO.

Kaiba: This games over no matter what card you draw!

Well, guess I should stop watching!

'''Yugi: The deck! IT SENSES MY DOUBT'''

Wow... just wow.

So, Yugi draws Exodia (FIRST PERSON EVER IN HISTORY), and wins. Then his Sauper Saiyan self mind ****s Kaiba... lol.

Grandpa awakes from his coma and his main concern is that Yugi won.

And a creepy villain with stereotypical wine glass is revealed at the end!

'''Overall: Holy **** that was bad. This show takes itself so seriously... it's bad. It has some funny unintentional humor, but that was a horrible experience. I think the first episode of Pokemon would have a hard time losing to this ep.'''

POKEMON I CHOOSE YOU!

I forgot how awesome the opening video/song is. EPIX.

Really? 10 year olds can go on Pokemon journeys? If Johto was real, every pedophile in the world would be there. I wonder if Part of Oak's Pokemon classes involves the use of mace.

Gary has his own squad of busty 10 year old cheerleaders.... YESSSSS.

Wait, Gary somehow knows who Ash is, despite the fact that they've never met, and then he trash talks him? What a tool >_>.

What if you could drive around in a Convertible in pokemon the game... with cheerleaders... 10 year old cheerleaders.

Oak makes fun of Ash for being late to get a Pokemon.

Ash: No Professor, I got messed up this morning and ran a little late!

Crystal Meth? Coke?

Oak is such an ass, making Ash open all the Pokemon even though they are all gone >_>.

Pikachu is the worst character in the history of television.

I've long wondered what goes on inside of a Pokeball that Pikachu hates so much. From what I hear there's plasma TVs... sports on 24/7... doesn't sound that bad to me!

Oak has had a total of 2 conversations so far with Ash while he's being electrocuted >_>.

Seriously, DO PEOPLE REALLY LIKE PIKACHU? REALLY?

And the Who's that Pokemon is the only one ever where this guy would be right...



Pikachu and Ash part ways... imagine if all of season 1 was Ash fighting Pokemon with his bare hands.

Pikachu continues to annoy the living hell out of me. If I was Pikachu's voice actor, I don't think I could live with myself being such a lameass.

Ash turns his hat before he does anything physical apparently. Imagine if he was about to bang Misty and then did his hat turning thing lolz.

ASH STEALS A BIKE. He'll give it back someday! Thats what I say to girls after I take their virginity.

Ash talks a bunch of Spearows before they are about to attack him, and they listen to him for a minute before attacking.

I'm not gonna lie, Ash facing down the Spearows and Pikachu saving the day was KINDA BADASS >_>.

So now Ash and Pikachu are friends now... cool. And Ash sees some rare Pokemon.

'''Overall: This show is kind of a cool adapation of how Pokemon would be IRL. It doesn't take itself too seriously which is nice. It was alright.'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 1

This is tough, YGO was horrible, yet, I was never bored the entire episode because it's so unintentionally hilarious and awesome. Pokemon is a pretty well crafted kids show, but I was bored at times. I'm actually gonna have to give the edge to YGO.

Yugioh: 1

Pokemon: 0

EPISODE 2
THE GAUNTLET IS THROWN

Joey vs. girl. Rules are raped and pillaged one again, and the girl wins. Why does every childs show have that amazingly stupid character that you are supposed to like? Why?

Gramps is apparently up from his Duel Monsters inflicted coma, and is working again! Good for him!

Gramps: I can craft you (Joey) into a great tournament duelist, BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE WILLING TO SPEND ENDLESS DAYS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS FILLED WITH RIGOROUS TRAINING.

Generally this line is reserved for the most epic of Ninja or Boxing flicks... but Gramps decides to bust it out for A CHILDRENS CARD GAME. : (

Yugi: Look Joey, teaching you Duel Monsters is too big of a challenge, even for my Grandpa!.

Could Yugi be anymore blunt about calling Joey the stupidest person he's ever met >_>.

Yugi says that Kaiba dropped out of the tournament because he beat him... No Yugi... Kaiba dropped out because your alter ego MIND****ED HIM!

Weevil and Rex are facing each other, a bug and dinosaur duelist, and the puns are off the charts. "Dinosaur Breath", "Bug Boy" "Dinosaur Chow" "Bug Brawler" "Dinosaur Duelist". GOOD GOD.

So this is like a major tournament, and the best card is Rex's 1600 attack power monster, when we've already seen cards like a million times better >_>.

Can they be anymore obvious when they have a trap planned?

Weevil (after seeing Rex's monster): Oh and all I have is this little insect card!

The sarcasm is the most obvious thing ever, yet Rex is still shocked at the trap card that Weevil has. Really guys.

Weevil annoys me... A LOT.

When Pegasus is talking to Weevil, Weevil gets that weird red face that anime characters get when they are attracted to someone. Pegasus IS a very effeminate man I guess...

For the second time in as many episodes, Yugi shows no concern for his friends and family when the prospect of a duel comes up! Aaaand Yugi just got sucked into some weird dimension thanks to a video tape... cool.

So I find out about the Shadow Realm and the history of Duel Monsters... both are stupid beyond belief!

Now I find out about the millenium items... also stupid beyond belief! >_>.

Yugi's strategy against Pegasus being able to see his hand is to PLAY CARDS BLIND. REALLY SMART.

The duel gets incredibly idiotic and boring. Oh but with 9 seconds left on the clock Yugi decides to talk about the card he's going to play for like 6 seconds, hence cutting himself short on time. AND HE LOSES. Then his Grandpa's soul gets taken... YUUUUUUGIII!

God damn Gramps is such a *****!

'''Overall: Still stupid but not quite as stupid as episode 1, but like Pokemon ep 1, I got kinda bored in spots. Could the undefeated Yugi fall to Pokemon in episode 2?!?!?'''

POKEMON EMERGENCY!

Ash and Jenny have a casual conversation about the purpose of a Pokedex while Pikachu inches closer to death! And Misty's bike gets owned. WE'RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO THEM HAVING SEX!

It's amazing how intimidating Team Rocket looks in their first segment. Their credibility will quickly be diminished in about 2 episodes I imagine.

OFFICER JENNY WEARS HIGH HEELS. Damn that's hawt.

Nurse Joy lectures Ash on how irresponsible his. Ash then sits down and contemplates the rising costs of Pokemon Health care.

Ash's mom is smoking! And what? Ash has a dad?

Oak and Ash actually have a pretty funny conversation, especially when Oak makes a million dollar bet with Gary about whether Ash would catch a Pokemon, LOL. ALthough I forget that the Yen isn't very strong. So it's probably not THAT big of a bet >_>.

OMG this is the episode where THIS happens 

Pikachu is better. DAMN there goes my hope for Bare hands Ash kicking ass all season!

The Team Rocket song is pretty deep. What is it doing in a kids show >_>.

Jesse shows a lot of skin. In fact, every female character in the series seems to show a lot of skin >_>.

It's funny to watch Team Rocket doing alright for themselves, considering I know they become completely worthless eventually >_>.

Misty and Jesse took about the potential in them having lesbian sex in the future before battling.

WHAT IS UP with what Misty is wearing by the way >_>. Is that not the weirdest outfit you've ever seen?

Team Rocket decides they need to steal Pikachu... and Misty is traveling with Ash now? LOLOL

Oh and Ash didn't learn his lesson and tries to catch a Caterpie without weaking him, but we can't see till tomorrow if he catches him! AWW MAN

'''Overall: Eh, nothing exceptional, but it wasn't too bad. It wasn't stupid at least! Team Rocket was an OK inclusion for now, but obviously they'll probably get annoying in the end.'''

Yugioh vs. Pokemon EPISODE 2

Neither episode was too special, so I'll give pokemon the edge as it doesn't have any mind-numbingly ridiculous stuff in it. The problem was it wasn't that funny in YGO when it was ridiculous this time.

Pokemon: 1

YGO: 1

EPISODE 3
JOURNEY TO THE DUELIST KINGDOM

Before you guys even told me this episode was boring, I already knew it based on the episode title!

Yugi gets all emo and watches a sunrise. What if emo kids started dressing like young Yugi?

We are introduced to Joey's sister, Serenity. NEWS FLASH: Joey had a brooklyn accent when he was a kid too! Just in case you were curious...

Serenity is going blind... Joey wants to do her.

Yugi apparently figures out that there's a tournament in Duelist Kingdom and a boat is leaving in 2 days based on cards that have pictures on them... way to go pal!

Yugi is NOT PLEASED at the fact that Joey cares more about winning 3 mill than recovering his Grandpa's soul!

Yugi: I'm glad we're friends!

Joey: Remember the first time we met?


 * cuts to scene of Tristan and Joey picking on Yugi* >_>

'''Joey: Oh... we were only uhh teasing'''

Why are they friends again? <_<

After being picked on endlessly, Yugi defends Joey from a huge bully and says "These are my friends!" You know the people who get taken hostage and then start to defend the people who take them hostage? "Stockholm Syndrome"? That's Yugi.

Tristin and Tea somehow effortly sneak on board while joey gets caught. Umm... was there ANY collaboration between them? Seriously.

Yugi gives Joey one of his two starchips to get him on board. Thats actually kind of an interesting dynamic, as both the two heroes are already underdogs. Thats smart storytelling.

This girl comes to Yugi... she has boobs... and then tells YUGI that JOEY is fashion challenged. DID THAT JUST HAPPEN!?!?! Oh, her name is Mai.

Weevil apparently has underground information about the tournament...

Yugi: *GASP* Isn't that cheating?!?!?

Note to self: This is a children's show. Must remind self. Constantly.

Rex makes a desperate attempt for Mai's genitalia, AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT WORK *cough*.

Tea: It's freezing out here!

Tristan: In another few hours the sun will rise!

Tea: THATS NOT FUNNY TRISTAN

wut.

Mai and Rex are about to play a card game... if Rex wins she'll give Rex a kiss... I'm guessing in the Japanese version she offers him something different >_>.

Rex gets that "I want to ****" look when Mai reveals she can draw any card she wants at any time, or something. Basically, she's Pegasus in disguise!

Yugi naively hands Weevil all his Exodia cards.

Weevil: For a long time I've been tyring to come up with some kind of strategy to beat these cards, but I couldn't come up with anything!

Wait... wasn't Yugi the first person to ever summon Exodia? >_>. This doesn't make sense! Anyway, Weevil throws them in the sea, Joey jumps in for them because, as previously established, he is "stupid".

I question why Exodia is so important to Yugi's deck, I'm pretty sure outside of something like Swords of Revealing Light his deck isn't really built to use them. Oh yeah he has the "Heart of the Cards" lolz.

Yugi jumps in too, Tea has a rope ladder on hand for some reason... What is this Boondock Saints?

And they make it there.

'''Overall: Yeahhh super boring episode. I'm sure a game without any important card games could potentially be fun, but YuGiOh takes itself too seriously for everyone to just have a good time on the filler episodes. Oh well'''

ASH CATCHES A POKEMON!

I hate titles that spoil the episode! Grrrr.

Ash catches a Caterpie!

Current Lineup

-Pikachu

-Caterpie

EPIX

Similar to how white people thought that slaves benefitted from being slaves because it made them more cultured and gave them a purpose, Ash says "We're gonna go catch a whole bunch of new friends!" Oh, how horribly naive you are, you maniacal slave driver you, Ash!

Caterpie has a total hard on for Misty... or maybe its just her suspenders.

Caterpie cries because Misty hates him. Ash doesn't like the way Misty treats Caterpie and decides to go on without her. Misty then takes off all her clothes in an attempt to get Ash to take her back... I mean... she follows him sneakily.

Caterpie and Pikachu literally talk in Pokemon language for like a minute. It's kinda messed up, but finally we begin to understand that it is Caterpie's dream to become a Butterfree. Caterpie is so much more likable than that tool Pikachu its ridiculous.

Misty hates on Caterpie more, and Caterpie goes into his Pokeball. MORE LIKE EMOPIE.

Ash tries to catch a Pidgeotto without weaking it! GAWD what a noob.

But it's OK, Ash has learned his lesson now and is fighting the Pidgeotto with his CATERPIE. lolol. In the first episode Ash made it seem like there was a school he had to go to before he could be a trainer. I don't know how he passed >_>.

Ash sends in Pikachu... AND CATCHES PIDGEOTTO!!! NO WAY. NO WAY. Ash now had a powerhouse Pokemon!

Current Lineup!

-Pikachu

-Caterpie

-Pidgeotto

EPIX.

Oh boy, Team Rocket time. I really feel like their theme song will get annoying >_>.

Team Rocket sends out Ekans and Koffing to face Ash

Ash: HEY TWO AGAINST ONE THATS CHEATING!!!

Good god. IT'S A CHILDRENS SHOW ICEHAWK, REMEMBER!

Awww yeah we already get to see Pidgeotto in action! I'm pumped.

Pidgeotto is taking them on 2 on 1, and it's badass as hell, BUT WHY ISN'T MISTY HELPING?!?!?

WTF, Pidgeotto is flying, and Koffing is flying with him, which is understandable, but EKANS is also flying! WTF.

Pidgeotto loses. Ash tells his weakened Caterpie to just give it his best shot. He's like that dad at the basketball game who tells his son to just go out there and give it your all, winning doesn't matter. But in reality, he will be PISSED and hand out BELT SPANKINGS if the kid doesn't do well!

CATERPIE WINS WITH STRING SHOT. The show almost makes String Shot out to be like some invincible move >_>.

Caterpie evolves into Metapod! Caterpie evolved faster than any Caterpie ever. God first Yugi was the first to ever play Exodia now Ash's Caterpie is the fastest to ever evolve!

Current Lineup!

-Pikachu

-Metapod

-Pidgeotto

'''Overall: Awesome episode! So much developement with Ash becoming a better trainer and getting a bunch of new Pokemon. Even the Team Rocket battle was fun, big thumps up!'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 3

Well, this is about the easiest decision ever. Pokemon takes this one by a landslide.

Pokemon: 2

YGO: 1

EPISODE 4
INTO THE HORNET'S NEST

Ummm

Joey: Duelist Kingdom is pretty big Yugi, it's going to be tough to find your Grandpa

So, is their objective to search all the bushes on the island for his soul or something? Now theres compelling television!

Joey sneezes once they get down to the island.

Yugi: You never would have caught that cold if it wasn't for Weevil!

THAT BASTARD, handing out common colds! Actually Yugi, Joey wouldn't have caught that cold if he wasn't ****ing stupid!

So... isn't Pegasus's plan totally screwed if Yugi loses >_>.

Weevil and Yugi are about to duel.... SUPER SAIYAN GOOOO.

How are Yugi's friends so nonchalant about Yugi's transformations? The dude grows like a foot, and so does his hair! And his voice goes through puberty too!

Imagine if YGO was made with no giant arenas. And at Duelist Kingdom everyone just dueled at random picnic tables across the island... that'd be so badass!

OK, this is weird. So Weevil plays a 1200 AP monster, Yugi does the same... then Yugi decides to attack for some reason. But Weevil wins because the new rules are that theres terrain that affects AP and such. But the field didn't show that Weevil's monster was stronger till after he attacked... which doesn't make sense... but I suppose makes the show more dramatic or something.

OK, apparently Yugi knew the whole time about the field power bonus because he also got the power bonus, and both monsters end up being defeated. It's a little weird that Yugi's monster died like a minute before Weevil's though, I guess thats dramatic tension!

Apparently any monster with a field power bonus also is resistant to any magical attack? I have a strong feeling that a lot of these weird rules will be thrown out by the end of the tournament by the writers >_>.

Weevil has 2 monsters on the field, I'm pretty sure he could have won the game right there if he attacked with both instead of just one! I guess it could be construed as Weevil toying with him, but thats all I got.

Weevil knows that this is Yugi's Grandpa deck and that the Dark Magician is his favorite card... hmmm... I can only conclude that Weevil is an internet pedophile.

Yugi plays a trap card that Weevil doesn't notice, and kills all his monsters and sends his LP down to 555. Which I'm sure is a BS number, but oh well.

Aaand Weevil says he still has his strongest monster to play and we end with a TBC.

'''Overall: Hmm, it's nice that the tournament started, but all the rules seem so stupid it was tough for me to get real into the duel. Some of the moves, like Yugi figuring out the field power thing, would be a lot cooler if they didn't do stupid things to try and build drama, like having Yugi's monster die like a minute before Weevil's, I'd like the episode a lot more. So overall, I'm actually a little annoyed by the ep. The ball is in your court Pokemon!'''

CHALLENGE OF THE SAMURAI

So while Ash is trying to catch a Weedle, some dude with a sword sticks his sword at Misty and asks if shes from Pallet. It looks like Ash is going to have a match this episode!

And Ash blows catching the Weedle thanks to weird Samurai guy. Samurai guy never explains how he knows who Ash is, he just really wants to battle him... this episode is a little weird.

IT'S BATTLE TIME!!!

This is actually exciting, this is Ash's first "by the rules" Pokemon battle. And Pidgeotto who is supposedly tired from his GRUESOME battle with a WEEDLE gets owned by a Pincer. COME ON!!!

Caterpie/Metapod continues his streak of DOMINATION by taking out a Pincer with harden! Damn that was badass!

So Samurai calls out... A METAPOD. Oh god. And uhh they keep hardening... this is really cool... coincidentally, the Metapods continue to Harden, while Misty is shown in a bikini! GAW HAW HAW.

Aww crap, Team Rocket sighting HOW DARE THEY RUIN THE EPIX.

Beedrill swarm sighting! The match is called off (thank god), but Ash still finds time to Pokedex the Beedrills! What a guy.

Metapod gets stolen by a Beedrill! NOOOOOO. But then Ash finds him! YESSSSS.

But now because of the Beedrills he's forced to leave Metapod behind! NOOOOO.

They take safe haven in a cabin, where Samurai bashes the hell out of Ash and says all the other trainers from Pallet were way better (they show shots of Charmander, Bulba and Squirtle, adding more intrigue to who exactly Gary picked!)

Ugh, the episode actually had a decent plotline, with Ash trying to prove himself to the Samurai, but TR interferes.

TR's annoying theme awakens MORE BEEDRILLS.

Ash avoids the beedrills and they own TR. Eh, at least they weren't on screen for more than a minute, I can live with that.

Metapod is pissed at Ash for abaondoning him earlier, so Ash opens up his heart and says he isn't making anymore excuses. Metapod then evolves into Butterfree! Awesome!

Current Lineup!

-Butterfree

-Pidgeotto

-Pikachu

Not bad at all!

Butterfree then owns like a hundred Beedrills with sleep powder... ha.

The Samurai gains respect for Ash, and Ash is headed for Pewter City!

'''Overall: Kinda boring at times, but it's tough to call this a filler episode with Butterfree and Ash's character growing more. In the end I actually liked the episode a bit.'''

Pokemon vs. YGO EPISODE 4

I have to give the edge once again to Pokemon. YGO just really annoyed me with the stupid rules and way they craft the story. Pokemon was actually a decent episode, so it was an easy decision.

Pokemon: 3

YGO: 1

EPISODE 5
THE ULTIMATE GREAT MOTH

Weevil is unbelievably obvious when he has a trick planned. LusterSoldier would be able to figure out when Weevil is lying! (The user not the card lol).

So Yugi pulls his monsters from the field using a magic card to try and activate a Weevil trap without putting his own guys in the way. Somehow Weevil knew this would happen though, IT'S ALL PART OF HIS PLAN. >_>

In 5 turns Weevil will have his super monster evolved or something. It would be funny if this was like DBZ and when they say 5 turns they actually mean 50 turns, and the duel literally goes on for that long.

Weevil's bug thats evolving has 2600 defense points. Yugi plays Gaia the Fierce Knight, which has 2300 AP, and decides to attack. Everyone is STUNNED when it doesn't work. Really? Things like that kind of annoy me. AND Yugi loses like 300 LP because he can't do simple math. LOL.

So, Yugi plays a card that destroyed the field that they were playing on and eliminates Weevil's field power bonus. SO even though the concept of a field power bonus is totally new, Yugi ALREADY has a card ready to deal with it! *sigh*

So Yugi does an attack that based on AP and DP should have destroyed Weevil's evolving monster, but apparently "it evolved enough" before Yugi attacked that it doesn't matter. This duel gets more stupid by the second honestly.

Also, they try and play up Weevil's monster as some unbeatable foe when it only has 2600 AP. Yugi has the Dark Magician plus lots of magic, it's really not THAT scary as they try and build it up.

Yugi: I'll still find a way to beat your monster!

Weevil: You'll pay for that stinging jab with your life points!!!

Yugi: DUEL!!!

Yeah... he did just randomly say duel.

Things get a little confusing. Weevil says he's going to attack Yugi's strongest monster, but then he attacks a weaker monster, THEN he tries attacking Gaia, but Yugi uses Polymerization mid turn, which is probably illegal, to fuse two of his monsters.

So Yugi has a monster with the same AP as Weevil's... BUT IT TURNS OUT YUGIS MONSTER IS POISONED!!! Can you picture YGO's writers just thinking of any way possible to try and add drama to each match? "And uhhh... it turns out the Dark Magician has a common cold! -500 AP!"

So even though Yugi and Weevil's monsters have the same AP, Weevil's monster has an "ultimate attack", which sends Yugi down to 50 LP and killed his monster. Jesus.

Tea and Mai are fighting verbally a lot, they will probably have lesbian sex AT ANY SECOND.

And Yugi wins because he played some rain card earlier, which made Weevil's monster wet, and gave Yugi's electric monster like a 1000 AP bonus. It's kind of bogus, but at least there's SOME logic in there so I don't mind it too much. And Weevil is eliminated. Joey takes Weevil's dueling glove, nice.

STARCHIP COUNT

Yugi: 3

Mai: (we assume) 2

Joey: 1

Weevil: ELIMINATED!!

'''Overall: It's not so much that I want to nitpick the hell out of these duels. I want to enjoy them, but it's tough when there is no real semblance of rules. There's no cleverness in how they write because they just make up rules as they go along to write themselves out of situations. I believe most of you guys say the first 7 eps or so suck, so hopefully future duels are a bit better about this.'''

SHOWDOWN IN PEWTER CITY

Gym episode baby! WOOO.

TR traps themselves in a hole at the start of the ep. I assume this is their way of writing them out early on since its a gym episode. Fine by me! Sometimes I wonder how those 3 make any money and eat. I mean, their job right now involves stalking a 10 year old kid and they aren't getting anything out of it! And what do they do when they catch a Pokemon anyway? Ebay auction?

Ash is getting overconfident about his upcoming match with Brock. Ash has to be the WEIRDEST underdog character ever. Everyone doubts him, but he is cocky, arrogant, and overconfident. It's actually pretty funny >_>. Misty gets pissed at him for his overconfidence.

Just an interesting tidbit, 2 weeks have apparently passed since Ash left Pallet.

It's Ash vs. Brock! Epic rock field. I have seen something like 4-5 eps of Pokemon in the past, Brock is SO much different that his pervert self that I saw of him.

Opening match up is Pikachu vs. Onyx... lol.

Onyx squishes Pikachu and Ash can't get Pikachu into a pokeball... he surrenders after a minute. LOL. Awesome.

This guy named Flint helps Pikachu back to health and shows Ash that Brock is just a gym leader and doesn't go for regional championships because he's too busy caring for his 10 illegitmate children... err I mean his 10 brothers and sisters!

It's quite obvious that Flint is Brock's father that abandoned Brock years ago, Ash is too stupid to figure this out however. They start a plan to strengthen Pikachu... so I guess if this strategy is happening, electricity can harm rock Pokemon in the anime? I would prefer they stay loyal to the game chart, he could always just use Pidgeotto and Butterfree, but if thats the route they want to go then whatever. I can deal with it.

So Misty's offer of help was to let Ash use some of her Pokemon, but Ash refuses. Keeping consistent with the stubborn nature of his character.

Ash vs. Brock... THE REMATCH!!

Pidgeotto gets owned in seconds by Geodude. Flying is weak against Rock. But electricity isn't apparently! In comes Pikachu. Pikachu owns Geodude in a second.

Now it's down to Pikachu vs. Onyx, SHOULD BE EPIX.

So Pikachu does better, but is still about to lose, Brock makes Onyx stop so he doesn't hurt Pikachu too much. Meanwhile, the sprinklers go off thanks to a stray thunderbolt, weakening Onyx. But Ash decides to take the loss instead of win, because he feels like it isn't fair.

But Brock gives him a badge anyway, Flint offers to take care of Brock's brothers and sisters. Brock now joins Ash! Sweet. 1/8 badges!

'''Overall: The Pokemon battles weren't that great because they were both so short, but it was still a fun episode. I like the way they gave Ash his first badge, he probably wasn't ready to actual beat a gym leader.'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 5

Again, I have to give the win to Pokemon. It was a reasonably enjoyable episode, while YGO just annoyed me with stupid stuff. I expect most gym episodes to top YGO honestly.

Pokemon: 4

YGO: 1

EPISODE 6
FIRST DUEL

Tristan asks Joey if he really wants to duel because if he loses he will lose his only starchip... So I guess he should just watch every duel! Thanks Tristan!

Mai is up to 4 starchips!

Joey vs. Mai!

'''Joey: Not for nothing, but I gotta ask you one question before we duel Mai... are your boobs real?'''

Ok he doesn't actually say that >_>.

Joey lectures Mai on how he duels "for the people he loves" and not "things". ELITIST!

Mai is a "psychic", aka whore. She can play her cards without looking.

Joey is getting crushed thanks to stupid moves. Sometimes I feel like when they take away LP from someone, it's just a random ass number, there's never any real logic behind it.

Mai: The only person a duelist can trust is himself

That seems like a sexist remark coming from a female >_>. Shouldn't she say him OR HER self?

YU GI OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SUPER SAIYAN BABY. Yugi's badass self gives advice.

Joey figures out Mai's trick, she sprayed them all with diff perfumes. DAMN that has to be such an annoying process! Not to mention the price of like 60 different perfumes. Thats kinda unrealistic but sorta clever in a way, I like the direction the duel is taking.

Mai plays a card that multiplies her Harpy into 3, and she can supposedly keep playing it and keep multiplying her cards. I'm gonna guess that is a falsification of the rules >_>.

Joey wins the duel thanks to Time Wizard! It makes his Baby dragon stronger and Mai's harpys weaker.

STARCHIP COUNT

Mai: 3

Yugi: 3

Joey: 2

'''Overall: It wasn't an EPIX duel, but it was actually OK. The rule infringements weren't that bad, and it was nice and short at least. Not a bad ep at all honestly.'''

CLEFAIRY AND THE MOONSTONE

I don't know what it is, but something about the title of the ep makes me think it's going to be a lackluster episode.

LOL, Ash's Pokedex is used in such awkward times. This is the best by far though. As Ash witnesses a scientist getting attacked by Zubats he decides to Pokedex it before doing anything about it.

The scientist may be the most gay man alive... and I'm not joking.

LMAO! His name is "Seymour the Scientist", these children anime shows just love their alliterations.

Seymour suspiciously touches Ash on a few occasions... hmmmm.

I realize that I hate almost all the obnoxiously cute Pokemon.

Meowth: We want a moonstone so we can power up our Pokemon with it!

I love how Meowth always talks like he's not a Pokemon... you know... now that I think about it, why can Meowth talk anyway? >_>.

Brock caught a Zubat in their encounter earlier. Thats pretty cool, it did always annoy me that Misty has like no interest in catching Pokemon, although maybe thats because she only wants water types.  Brock's assumed lineup

Geodude

Onyx

Zubat

Team Rocket loses again, SURPRISE SURPRISE!

Misty actually fights Meowth with a Staryu. I think this might be the first time I've seen her battle with her Pokemon.

This episode is really dragging along, nothing interesting has happened yet or seems to be happening in the future.

Team Rocket shows up, Seymour gets mad at them and RUNS AT THEM like a pansy, Meowth defeats him by tripping him.

Ash: THAT WASN'T FAIR!

LOL!

I kind of hope TR starts stealing some Pokemon once in a while so we don't have to see Ash fight the same Pokemon team over and over :\

Team Rocket looks like they are going to get away with stealing a giant Moonstone, but they lose. In case you care.

Apparently Gary scribbled "Gary was here, Ash is a loser" on a sign to Cerulean City. Why they are rivals when they've had one 2 minute encounter is beyond me!

Misty looks depressed when they reach Cerulean City... Hmmm obviously in the game Misty is the Gym Leader here, but I wonder whats been going on if she hasn't been there. This is obviously her hometown though, and next episode should be a Gym ep. Excitement level rising!!!

'''Overall: Honestly, really boring episode, wasn't entertained at all. Obviously they need some episodes inbetween the gym episodes for the "traveling' portion, but they could at least have fun characters/interesting stuff happen like they did in Veridian Forest... oh well. Another gym episode so soon surprises me, but I'm pumped!'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 6

Easy decision here. YGO wasn't that bad IMO, meanwhile Pokemon bored me to death. YGO picks up a much needed win! The Joey duel wasn't that contrived like the Weevil duel which really helped things out, being short also helped me enjoy it more. And there wasn't nearly as much fake drama. Hopefully YGO can keep it up!

Pokemon: 4

YGO: 2

EPISODE 7
ATTACK FROM THE DEEP

Lol! They actually talk about their food situation. They all realize they forgot to bring any food. Nice. Maybe if they actually had parents that cared about them they'd be OK!

So they find someones fish, and start eating it, even though it's clearly someone elses, I blame bad parenting. Then the guy comes back to his fish and sees them being eaten. He's ripped AND HAS A SPEAR. ****! No way he's a duelist with how often he obviously works out! Oh he is one... weird. He's apparently the number one ocean duelist in the world.

Joey: Hey you're that freaky fish guy!

Mako: I am not a freaky fish guy!

That line doesn't seem that funny in text, but in the delivery it's hilarious.

Mako: I know when the sea is happy by when it sparkles, and when it is angry...

WHAT.

Isn't Yugi HIMSELF weirded out by how he turns Super Saiyan, he must know it happens!

2 stars are being wagered on this match. That means its possible Yugi could lose, which potentially could make the duel more exciting.

Yugi is getting dominated. His first 3 monsters are defeated, and circumstances have made it so the field has gone from half sea half land to almost entirely sea.

I'm actually kinda enjoying the duel thus far. There's a lot of weird stuff going on with how the field power bonus is used but I don't mind it thus far.

lol! Mid duel Mako tells a sob tale about his dad dying at sea. Aww yeah YuGiOh meets General Hospital. You realize how ridiculous some of this stuff would be in real life? What if you were just dueling some random guy at school at lunch and he just dropped his cards and started telling you about his parents death?

I realize why I like this duel so much better than the Weevil duel so far. In the Weevil duel, someone made a move, it was countered, then countered again, it was just all too predictable. With Mako winning almost every move, and without Weevil's obvious sarcasm, you never know when Yugi will come back.

Yugi destroys a moon card he played earlier, which makes the whole sea go away. Which doesn't really make sense because there was sea there when there was no moon when the duel first started. Also, the whole field power bonus thing is pretty cheap for sea monsters, Yugi could never attack them till he eliminated the sea. The more I think about it, the more stupid I realize it is.

So Yugi wins in like one turn, I liked the original direction of the duel, but the ending was way too abrupt imo. And the rules did annoy me in the end.

Starchip Count

Joey: 2

Yugi: 5

Mako: 1

'''Overall: Not a horrible episode. I liked it more than the Weevil episode, and maybe even a bit more than the Joey vs. Mai episode, but the rule breaking and abrupt ending annoyed me in the end. I guess I'd call it average to slightly below average in the end.'''

THE WATER FLOWERS OF CERULEAN CITY

Another gym episode already I think! Wooo!

Misty REALLY doesn't want Ash in Cerulean City, I wonder why...

TR has a NEFARIOUS plan, OHHH NOO.

Ash makes it to the Cerulean gym... and there's synchronized swimming going on >_>.

Apparently the 3 synchronized swimmers are the gym leaders, but they don't feel like battling because they just got beat 3 straight times by 3 trainers from Pallet. We obviously know about Gary, but it'd be really cool if they revealed who these other 2 trainers on, more rivals the better imo.

The synchronized swimmers are so hawt by the way. Ash needs to give up on constantly trying to do Misty and try and do them.

They tell Ash they can't battle, but they offer to just give him the badge for the town. Ash contemplates it like a kid thinking about trying pot for the first time.

Oh snap, Misty is a gym leader, and is going to battle Ash for the badge. I think this is why they've msotly hidden Misty's Pokemon so far. And it explains why they went out of their way to make her look real good in her battle last episode.

lol, first Ash tries to throw Pikachu into battle like he's a Pokeball, but Pikachu refuses. He doesn't want to battle Misty. GOD DAMN *****.

Misty and Ash have a relationship fight in the middle of their battle.

Misty: Oh no Staryu looks like it's in real pain!

'''Ash: How can you tell? It doesn't have a face!'''

Misty: I can tell because I'm sensitive to others feelings!

Ash: Ohhh like I'm not?

This Staryu vs. Butterfree fight may be the most exciting encounter in the series so far. A lot of these 1 on 1 fights are kind of like the game and end pretty quickly, but this is back and forth and going on for a lot longer than normal.

Staryu scores the early win. Butterfree didn't look that hurt! Damn. But now it's Pidgeotto time!

Misty calls out Starmie... what a repetitive Pokemon lineup >_>.

Ugh TR interference during a gym battle? UNFORGIVABLE!!!

They suck up all the water. And in like 30 seconds Ash beats them.

Ash gets the badge for saving the gym, and because if Pikachu had fought Ash would have for sure won.

'''Overall: Hmm, Ash flukes into another gym badge. I feel like they don't want to give him any decisive victories yet to keep him as an underdog/pretty incompetent. I was disappointed with the TR intereference, and the first half was sorta boring, but the 2nd half had a pretty exciting fight that I thought could go eitherway, so it wasnt that abd of an ep.'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 7

I have to give the edge to Pokemon, it was a gym episode, and it had a good fight. YGO's match wasn't bad, but I preferred Pokemon.

Pokemon: 5

YGO: 2

EPISODE 8
EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE

We start the episode off with a dumb kid surviving like a 5 story fall... "cool". Apparently he was a prisoner in Pegasus's castle.

XD, Pegasus has a sinister laugh when it cuts to him, but it's because he is readying some comic book. Nice. He is SO pissed when he gets interrupted from reading.

Pegasus gets a summary of the tournament so far. 6 hours have passed so far. I'm always fascinated by how much time has passed in these shows. I remember 2 weeks had passed in Pokemon by about the first gym.

I cannot tell you enough how little sense it makes for Pegasus to force Yugi to gain 10 starchips before coming to his castle. WHAT IF HE LOSES.

Is there like a time limit on how long people have to get 10 starchips? Or is it like the first 8 to earn them move on? Because technically someone could just walk around and not duel anyone and not be eliminated >_>.

The prisoner stole someones chips and cards. Yugi starts a PATHETIC journey to find the guy within a half hour.

And they find him, I think it's kaiba's brother.

LOL, they talk about how Yugi makes strange decisions sometimes.

Joey: Do you think it has something to do with his Millenium Puzzle?

Meanwhile, Yugi screams YUGIOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. But no one notices a thing. So Yugi will duel Kaiba's bro for 5 starchips. Does that mean he's stolen from more than one person? Because the one guy said he never got a chance to duel. He also looks like a pansy so I really doubt he actually won those chips. Only manly men can win children's card games!

Kaiba apparently "lost a piece of himself" and "doesn't know who he is anymore", since he lost to Yugi... Uhh all I have to say to that is

Yugi wins the first clash of monsters in the duel. Yugi tells Mokuba he won ebcause Mokuba was a bad boy and stole those cards. Yugi's like one of those parents that supposedly calls Santa to tell Santa not to bring gifts this year because their boy has been bad.

Mokuba manages to make it ALL THE WAY around the duel arena thing, to Yugi's platform, and steal his chips, with everyone onyl barely noticing. Nice >_>.

So Mokuba is convinced to not live a life of crime anymore and to help Yugi. Alright. Now we flash to Kaiba. But Pegasus's men are here to capture him! Instead of guns though, they point their fingers at him. I'm not kidding <_<.

Kaiba jumps off a cliff.

Bodyguards: No one could survive a fall like that!

Which ensures that he's alive. But it looks like the bodyguards got his deck. Anyway, Mokuba returns the starchips but the bodyguard swipes them away, and 2 of them were Yugis, ouch. I thought the bodyguards were working for Pegasus. HE WANTS YUGI TO WIN DUH. Yugi challenges the bodyguard to a duel to get Mokuba back, since he's captured again. Bodyguard accepts, Yugi goes to duel and "the ghost of Kaiba" is there to duel him... wow.

'''Kaiba: And this time Yugi... you don't stand A GHOST OF A CHANCE!!!!'''

HAHAHAHA

'''Overall: The background on whats been happening with Kaiba was pretty lame in the context of real life, but it was still pretty interesting. Yugi facing dead kaiba will probably be dumb. Overall, I'm not a fan of the episode, it looks like it was mostly here to set up future events.'''

THE PATH TO THE POKEMON LEAGUE

Ash has apparently won 10 straight Pokemon fights on his way to Vermillion City, we see him own a Rattata. Damn, they are really building up Ash.

Ash finds a gym built by this guy named AJ, it's unsanctioned, but he's 98-0. Could it be time for Ash to receive a lesson in humility?

AJ looks like a slightly fatter Gohan, with a southern accent and GREEN hair.

AJ whips a whip at Ash, barely missing, before the match begins. WTF is wrong with people in Johto? Striking people with swords before battling them, whipping them, WTF. Oh and Ash apparently just has 10 wins in general, not in a row.

Misty: Remember, Sandshrew is a ground type, so Pikachu's electricity wont work against it!

OK, I guess that makes sense, this goes back to what MWC was talking about earlier in the topic. Ash gets all pissed at Misty for trying to help him. Ash is such a strange character. In a lot of ways, he's not that likeable, he's stupid, arrogant, often over-confident, but then sometimes he's a good guy, and in a lot of ways he's still often the perennial underdog, even though he doesn't usually think so.

First fight= Sandshrew vs. Pidgeotto

Pidgeotto gets owned, Sandshrew can kind of fly apparently >_>. Butterfree is owned as well. Pikachu refuses to go out there, Pikachu is even less likeable than Ash!

Apparently AJ abuses his Pokemon, which makes him so strong. Ash is NOT PLEASED. AJ says he's no tougher on Sandshrew than he is on himself. Uhhh yeah, I love when Pokemon trainers act like they do some semblance of work.

Even after witnessing that Sandshrew, TR still has their eyes on Pikachu, LOLol.

TR accidentally snatches Sandshrew. Man the TR stuff is consistently stupid.

AJ orders all his Pokemon to find Sandshrew, kind of like a Slave Owner would hire bounty hunters to find their runaway slaves! Sandshrew finds his way back however.

Sandshrew= hax, owns all of TR easily. He's so strong he can cause FISSURES IN THE EARTH. >_>.

And AJ earns his 100th win over TR. I wonder if we'll see AJ again in the future at the Pokemon League.

'''Overall: It's tough to call the episode filler, because I feel that they needed to kind of put Ash back in his place as a VERY green upstart who lucked his way into 2 badges. Also, I get a different vibe from AJ over a few of the other random people Ash has met. I doubt we'll ever see the Samurai again, but AJ seems like a good guy to bring back in the future, especially to showcase how far Ash has come if they have a competitive fight. The episode quality wise was reasonably entertaining, TR was boring, but AJ is an interesting character, overall I'll give the ep a slight thumbs up.'''

Pokemon vs. YGO EPISODE 8

Another win to Pokemon, YGO was really boring, Pokemon wasn't bad. Thats about as simple as it gets. I think the key for Pokemon to continue to have interesting non gym fights is to either introduce intriguing new characters or have Ash catch Pokemon, they accomplished that today. The key for YGO to be good is they need to deliver some good duels, and they really aren't doing that.

Pokemon: 6

YGO: 2

EPISODE 9
DUEL WITH A GHOST

lol they use the "Ghost of a chance" line again! I'm so happy!

GHOST Kaiba: When you beat me Yugi, you took my life and destroyed my soul!

Repeat: IT'S A GOD DAMN CARD GAME.

Ghost Kaiba places 3 stars on the duel. Once again, "Ghost" Kaiba is obviously the work of Pegasus, why would he set it up so Yugi could potentially lose? He doesn't want Yugi to lose! His plan is for Yugi to make it to the castle!

Kaiba uses the same opening move he used in Yugi's last match with him. And yugi owns him, Kaiba is down to 700 LP. I wish you could take away more than half of someones LP in the first turn in the real YGO.

Kaiba is alive zomg! As they show him, they play a really crappy song. It's like the worst AMV ever. It looks like Kaiba is becoming a good guy?

Kaiba sneaks into his underground lair, and his computer gets him up to date, the computer is pretty badass.

Oh SNAP Ghost Kaiba has the Blue Eyes! IT MUST BE HIM!!! In all seriousness, I do wonder how they created "Ghost Kaiba", my guess is the millenium items.

Kaiba: Not having a real body isn't so bad, you wouldn't believe what I save in food bills alone!

Yeah, I can see Kaiba at Walmart looking for the best deals on Cheerios, but deciding to buy "Toasted Oats" instead to save money on those damn food bills!!!

'''Kaiba: Almost breaks my heart... if I had one!'''

XD all the dead lines are priceless.

Uh oh, the show is starting to have HAX... like real HAX. Kaiba is trying to hack into Pegasus's computer to watch the Yugi duel.

Kaiba doesn't attack with Blue Eyes right away because "why rush to victory when I can draw it out as long as possible instead?" AKA, uhh if Blue Eyes attacks, we write ourselves into a big hole!

Blue Eyes attacks next turn, 1000 LP to 700 LP now.

LOL at the clips of Kaiba trying to hack into Industrial Illusions. Theres a virus placed on the duel Yugi is in, so Kaiba attempts to break it, then you see "TNT" appear on the screen and it blows up. >_> EXPERT HAX

Yugi plays magical hats which conceals the Dark Magician under 1 of 4 hats. Kaiba attacks one, and we end on a cliffhanger. ''' Overall: I actually enjoyed this episode. The Kaiba return was kinda cool. The hacking got a little repetitive but whatever. The secret behind Ghost Kaiba is somewhat intriguing, even if it's all a little silly. But most importantly, this duel isn't ridiculous. All the moves made were by the rules, I think they may have messed with Magical Hats a little bit, but thats forgiveable. These duels are so much more enjoyable when they aren't ridiculous, simple logical moves is actually entertaining! Why cant they realize that! Overall, I give the episode a thumbs up. Usually Pokemon basically has to just not insult my intelligence to win, but this time it's going to need a solid episode to win.'''

THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Ash and Misty argue a lot to open the show. AKA they want to ****.

Hmm interesting. Theres a bunch of kids hazing another kid, making him answer Pokemon questions (WHILE ON A TREADMILL). He actually references "levels" saying Pidgey leans Sand attack at "level 5", very intriguing. I guess the concept exists in the Pokemon TV universe, which is unexpected.

So the kids are from some school called Pokemon Tech. And what do you know, Misty has a flyer from the school! Lucky!

Whoa, if you graduate from Pokemon Tech you get to enter Pokemon League. Thats pretty crazy.

I feel like they randomly throw in one "Pikachu cute moment" every episode. Last episode Pikachu tried to put on that strength Jacket and couldn't move. This time Pikachu gets caught on a treadmill and gets owned. I'm not really sure the purpose, I guess some LAME-Os who like Pikachu find it adorable.

Apparently the classes are so hard some guy is still taking classes here, and he now has gray hair! Wow. On a side note, I'm actually really intrigued with this school. Pokemon could steal a win from an episode of YGO I actually found good!

So apparently, the leader of the hazing is an attractive girl. The kid carries her picture around because "he likes the way she looks". Creepy! Misty is UPSET about Ash and Brock gagaing over her!

Oh wow, TR failed out of Pokemon Tech!

Who's that Pokemon is Cubone, the first time they did a Whos That pokemon without first introducing them.

The student that was getting hazed is an elitist too. Bragging about how his qualifications make him better than someone with 2 badges. Misty butts in, and the kid says that Cerulean City is "easy" to beat in the simulators. This whole episode seems to be based around the real life experience vs. computers/schooling theme. Usually it turns out that the people with real life experience win over people who have just prepared a lot.

Misty vs. Hazed Kid, Starmie vs. Bellsprout (It's called Weeping Bell, so I guess he custom named it). Hazed kid gets owned in a second!

So that really hot girl thats the leader of the hazers, she's a *****, I've had lots of experience in the past with hot girls who were total *****es >_<. I really should start looking more into personality <_<.

Ash thinks about getting involved in the encounter between Misty and the hot chick, but Brock offers Ash these VERY WISE words.

Brock: Wise pokemon trainers know to never get involved in a catfight

Thank god for you Brock!

Misty vs. Gisella... Starmie vs. Graveler. Everyone's surprised that she picked graveler and says its a dumb move. If anyone outside of Ash makes a "dumb" move, you know they are going to win! Gisella is so gonna take this. And she does in a second. I hate the episodes where fights only last a few moves. Give me some action!

Gisella bashes Ash a bunch for pikachu not being "tamed", and for him only having 3 Pokemon. Oh, and since you know I'm obsessed with how much time has passed, Ash says he's been a trainer for "about 2 months."

They are really building this battle well. Gisella is totally humiliating Ash and I'm so pumped for them to fight. Pikachu vs. Cubone, LETS GO!

Cubone dominates early, but Pikachu keeps getting up from all the bone strikes! Pikachu beats the crap out of Cubone, distracting it, as it soon gets hit by its own boomerang bone. Pikachu wins! Wooo!

TR pops in, gets owned, leaves.

The hazed kid says he's going to drop out of school and try and start from scratch like Ash. He then asks Gisella if he can keep her picture >___________________>.

Man, why does Ash have to make friends with everyone he meets! Ash needs to make enemies!

'''Overall: Well hot damn. It was a pure filler episode, but really fascinating filler. Pokemon Tech is extremely interesting. I enjoyed pretty much the whole episode, even though all the battles were lacking'''

Pokemon vs. YGO EPISODE 9

Sorry YGO, I managed to slightly enjoy your episode just because it wasn't ridiculous, but Pokemon actually had me pretty into it the whole time. Pokemon wins again! I do think YGO is starting to get on the right track though!

Pokemon: 7

YGO: 2

EPISODE 10
GIVE UP THE GHOST

And Kaiba's first shot at the magical hats misses! Wooo!

Apparently one of the hats is now "hiding a trap card". I'm pretty sure that is major hax, but I don't think it matters as it's probably the same thing as just unveiling a trap card when he attacks anyway.

And Yugi defeats a blue eyes! But Kaiba plays another right away and defeats the Dark Magician, 500-500.

LOL, Kaiba inserts a virus that causes the 2nd Blue Eyes to get weaker right before Yugi is about to lose. HAX again!

Pegasus COUNTERHACKS Kaiba, and makes it so a bunch of weird pink rabbits dance on his screen. Dude, if someone got a virus like that into my computer I'd freak the **** out and probably never touch a computer again. Anyway, Blue Eyes randomly explodes, Kaiba says it's "because of the heart of the cards." >______________________>.

I love how the writers get out of these holes! WTF It turns out Ghost Kaiba is the evil part of Kaiba that Yugi EXPLODED into the Shadow Realm. Weird!

Evil Kaiba likes to obnoxiously laugh after every move!

3RD BLUE EYES IS ON THE FIELD, CRAP!

Awesome! Yugi counters the Blue Eyes attack with Mirror Force, but ugly Kaiba has a magic card ready to stop the Mirror Force from destroying his Blue Eyes. See! Simple and logical stuff is so much more enjoyable than Yugi destroying moons and stuff.

Oh snap! Yugi uses a revive card to get his own Blue Eyes. Then he raises its attack power with that elf by transfering its attack power to Blue Eyes. I don't know if it's hax, but it doesn't seem like a ridiculous move so I'm OK with it.

And Yugi wins! He also enjoys saying Obliterate before winning duels. And Yugi banishes Evil Kaiba back to the Shadow Realm!

Joey: That ghost is toast eh!

Oh Yugi and his friends just love their rhyming and alliterations.

The bodyguard ran away with Mokuba when no one was looking! Oh no!

'''Overall: OK, let me first say that the hacking thing was THE WORST THING EVER. But, the second half of the duel rebounded quite nicely and was pretty enjoyable. So I'll give it thumbs in the middle. The duels seem to be getting less silly for the most part, which is a good sign.'''

BULBASAUR AND THE HIDDEN VILLAGE

Ash stumbles across a Bulbasaur! YES, it's been my favorite Pokemon for a long time! Bulbasaur OWNS Ash and runs away. Rats!

And a bridge collapses on them, Brock falls into rapids, which would generally mean certain death but it's a Children's anime so its all good! Yep, soon they are reunited with him. Brock is unhurt, OF COURSE <_<.

They find a Pokemon "spa" where this lady helps hurt/abandoned Pokemon back to health.

Ummm, the bridge that ALMOST KILLED THEM ALL is apparently a trap to keep trainers away. But Ash and crew are cool with that.

That Bulbasaur they found earlier is like the village bodyguard for the town. Ash will probably have wet dreams about him tonight.

Enter TR as they try and steal a bunch of pokemon. The Giant Vaccuum makes its return as they try and suck up all the Pokemon!!!

TR gets owned by Pidgeotto and Bulbasaur. Damn I thought maybe they had a chance this time!

The spa owner thinks Ash should take Bulbasaur because they'd be good together. But Ash has to battle Bulbasaur first! Pikachu vs. Bulba!

And Ash catches Bulba after a somewhat disappointingly short fight.

Ash's Lineup

-Pikachu

-Pidgeotto

-Butterfree

-Bulbasaur

'''Overall: Honestly, kind of a lame episode. The episode isn't filler technically because Ash got Bulbasaur, but really, the first 16-17 minutes are basically filler, nothing that interesting or great happens, I was honestly pretty bored throughout. Most of the episode focuses on the crew getting caught in traps and the spa, none of which are particularly interesting. It is awesome that Ash got Bulba though!'''

Pokemon vs. YGO EPISODE 10

And in what could be considered an upset, I'm giving YGO the win! Sure the hacking thing was ridiculous, but I did manage to enjoy the 2nd half of the show, while Pokemon was pretty bland throughout. YGO needed this win badly, let's see if it can keep it somewhat close with Pokemon!

Pokemon: 7

YGO: 3

EPISODE 11
THE DUELING MONKEY

The Dueling Monkey? I guess we get a Joey duel this ep!

Mai has 8 starchips. Rex (Who always introduces himself as the DINO DUELIST), has 5. Mai is doing quite well, I think we are headed for a rematch between Mai and Joey in the future.

With all the stuff going on it's tough to remember that Joey only has 2 starchips! I'm guessing it'll be an all or nothing duel coming up.

Mai is enlisting Rex to battle Joey, with the incentive that she'll duel Rex if he does it. I don't understand Mai's logic on how this is "the perfect revenge". But I think this could be a fun duel. If Yugi helps Joey, Joey is DQed.

LOL, Joey gets mad at Tristan for telling Joey he cant duel Rex, Joey then "shoves" Tristan but they don't show it. Far too violent to show the kiddies!

LOL again. Joey devises a BRILLIANT plan to redo his success from his last duel and play Time WIzard/Baby Dragon. He draws both and gets all excited, and plays Baby Dragon in defense mode. Rex destroys it next turn. Joey is shocked. I have a feeling I might really enjoy this duel!

Joey gets owned again because he doesn't look at the field power bonus, He's down to 1670 LP. Joey then accidentally gets a field power bonus and takes off about 130 from Rex's LP. But then his monster gets owned and Joey is at 1605.

Joey lucks into another win, fire is strogn against Dinos. The duel is simple but reasonably enjoyable so far. Rather than relying on stupid tricks to keep you offguard, they are relying on Joey's stupidity!

And now Rex plays a rare monster that gives him the upperhand. I like that the duel hasn't erupted into stupidity, but some trap/magic cards would make things a bit more exciting! Things are starting to get slightly stale.

To end the ep, Joey plays a card Tristan gave him earlier in the episode, which is brothers with another card he has. Rex attacks but gets owned because the brothers help each other in battle. Insert like 50 statements about how Tristan and Joey are such great friends. God damn I want to vomit >_>.

'''Overall: A simple episode. The Joey-Tristan subplot was lame, but the duel was fun thanks to no shenanigans and Joey's stupidity. I guess I wish it was spiced up a bit more, but I can't complain too much. Solid episode.'''

CHARMANDER- THE STRAY POKEMON

Oh snap is Ash going to get a Charmander now?!?!?

Apparently the crew is lost. You know what that means!!! FILLER EPISODES BABY YEAH!

They stumble across a Charmander! It looks weak so they want to "catch it so they can take it to a Pokemon Center" RIIIIIGHT. The Charmander is supposedly weak but resists being captured by Ash. Apparently it's waiting on the rock for its trainer. They leave it.

Awww... Ash and crew make it to a Pokemon Center, meanwhile Charmander is shown looking like he's struggling to survive in the rain. Ash and Brock wonder about him.

Some dude with an AUSTRALIAN ACCENT apparently owns it, and abandoned it because he's a d-bag.

Ash finds the Charmander and saves it from some Spearows. They then rush it to the Pokemon Center to try and save it from death.

Nurse Joys are such *****es! One Nurse Joy yelled at ash for the shape his Pikachu was in in Viridian, now this Nurse Joy yells at them for Charmander. NEITHER TIME WAS THEIR FAULT GEEEEZ.

So Charmander is saved from death, but then leaves the next day. I WONDER WHERE HE COULD HAVE WENT TO... HMMM. I gotta say though, this whole plot is intriguing me. I'm actually beginning to think Brock may be the one who gets him, he clearly cares the most about him. And I'm curious how they get him to stop caring about Damien.

Well, the crew decides to let Charmander go, and head back towards Vermillion City!

TR sighting, DAMN! Their song quickly ruins the momentum of a strong episode. They actually catch Ash and crew in a hole, and get Pikachu in some anti-electric ball.

But Charmander shows up to save the day! Looks like TR's interference wont be too useless after all! Oh and d-bag Damien was watching the whole time? WTF lol what a creeper. Damien is impressed now and wants Charmy back, but Charmander says no... in not so many words. Charmander and Pikachu OWN Damien. He says "Mummy" in his australian accent, which is the highlight of the episode by far!

And Ash gets Charmander wooo.

Ash's lineup

Charmander

Bulbasaur

Pikachu

Pidgeotto

Butterfree

'''Overall: I was pretty into the episode early, but it slowly died for me, especially with TR interference. So overall I'd say I was in the middle on this one, obviously it's nice that it cant be considered filler, but the second half just didnt really do it for me. It was very emotional in parts though'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 11

Pokemon had a strong start but the episode kinda died in the second half. YGO still isn't completely captivating me, but it had a solid episode. Tough decision. Pokemon kind of got an emotional reaction out of me with poor Charmy though, so I give it the win!

Pokemon: 8

YGO: 3

EPISODE 12
TRAIL BY RED EYES

Rex says the duel is not over because he has a better card... AND THEN HE DRAWS IT! That also seems to conveniently happen.

Rex plays RED eyes BLACK Dragon... lol. Everyone is in AWE of it, but it only has 2400 AP, it's really not that special, and it doesn't "rival the power of the Blue Eyes" like Yugi said.

Ok now Rex plays a magic card that puts its AP up to 3000. NOW you can be in awe of it! Rex destroys Joey's brothers in one attack... HAX alert! (I think). Joey is down to 235 LP, HOW WILL HE SURVIVE?!? This duel is actually fun because there is a chance Joey loses, he doesn't NEED to make it to the finals like Yugi does.

Whoa, Rex offers to give Joey his Red Eyes if he wins, meanwhile, Rex wants Time Wizard if Joey wins, to humiliate Mai. Joey didn't even realize his Time Wizard was still on the field. According to Yugi, it's his only chance to win, but he cant say that out loud.

Mai: Rex you lousy snake!

'''Rex: I'm not a snake, I'm a dinosaur! You know that!'''

LOL.

Joey plays Time Wizard and does Time Warp. If it hits Time Warp he'll win, if it hits the skull, Joey will lose LP and lose the duel. I'm not sure why the Time Wizard didn't have to spin to do Time Warp in Joey's first duel, oh well.

And Time Wizard succeeds! Red Eyes is destroyed... and for some reason all of Rex's LP dies without Joey attacking again, ahh well. Joey gets 2 more starchips AND Red Eyes! Awesome.

Tristan "shoves" Joey after the duel since Joey "shoved" him early. It's so damn obvious they punched each other, I'm not sure why 4kids deems that inappropriate!

Hmmm, Mai shows up, and lets the crew have some food, and even shows Tea to a makeshift shower. TEA IN A BRA ALERT OMG OMG. No actually I'm not particularly interested >_>.

NOW SHE'S NAKED. Erm anyway, Mai goes off by herself, and gets captured by some big dude. Most notably, his starchip holder seemed to have enough for 20... weird.

Oh and Bakura randomly shows up for like the 3rd time in show history. And they start on a random conversation about which card they would like to be... LOSERS.

This Bakura thing is freaking me out honestly >_>. He's so weird.

Ummm... Bakura takes them all to the Shadow Realm and saps away their souls with his Millenium Ring. He's about to take the puzzle when "COOL YUGI" takes control.

I like how the ep went from pretty normal to totally ****ed up in a matter of 2 minutes <_<.

'''Overall: Eh, I don't know. Probably a slight thumbs down for this one. The end to the Joey duel wasn't that great, and the 2nd half had some character developement but was mostly pretty boring.'''

HERE COMES THE SQUIRTLE SQUAD

Oh god, does Ash REALLY get all 3 starter Pokemon in 3 straight episodes?!?! Damn thats awesome.

TO start the ep, THEY FALL IN ANOTHER HOLE WTF IT'S GETTING OLD. Turns out like 5 squirtles did it... well thats a change of pace at least. Ash decides to try and catch one, Pikachu blasts one. Then the "leader" and Pikachu have a WILD WEST STAREDOWN. But police sirens send the Squirtles running.

Jenny says they "call themselves" the Squirtle Squad... uhh right. They are all abandoned Squirtles

So TR runs into the Squirtle Squad, and I guess convinces them to help them capture Pikachu, by making it seem like Meowth is the trainer of Jesse and James, LOL.

While captured, the crew is worried about Pikachu's health from the beating he just took. Brock mentions superpotion, the first mention of a non Pokemon Center way to heal a Pokemon (outside of regular rest too of course).

Ash convinces the Squirtles to let him go and get a superpotion and come back. And of course he is forced to cross a rickety bridge on the way! He finally makes it to town, and we see Gary for the 2nd time! They dont see each other though. TR shows up in town and holds up the place for flash powder, then Ash comes in and gets a superpotion. Luckily Jenny is there to drive Ash back!

When Ash gets back TR arrives and starts bombing the place and they take Pikachu into their Meowth Balloon (which I think is the first appearance of it). They try and run back into the cave but the squirtle leader falls. Ash protects him from the bombs. More bombs are about to come down (wtf they are about to kill a 10 year old kid), Ash tells Squirtle to save himself, but Squirtle, in one of the most badass moments in the series so far, gets all pumped up and carries Ash to safety all badass style. Squirtle owns TR and Ash saves Pikachu!

The Squirtles then put out a fire caused by the bomb. The town makes them firefighters, and Squirtle does an extremely badass pose. But in the end he decides to join Ash! While I love Bulbasaurs, I think Squirtle is my new favorite Pokemon of Ash.

Ash's Lineup

-Pikachu

-Bulbasaur

-Charmander

-Squirtle

-Butterfree

-Pidgeotto

'''Overall: Kinda boring at points, but not a bad episode, and Ash has an awesome new Pokemon! I'd rank the 3 eps Squirtle Ep= Charmander ep > Bulba ep.'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 12

Not a huge fan of YGO today, and Pokemon wasn't bad, and once again wasn't filler, which is nice. I gotta give the edge to Pokemon today.

Pokemon: 9

YGO: 3

EPISODE 13
EVIL SPIRIT OF THE RING

So EVIL Bakura and BADASS Yugi start their duel. Apparently the catch of the duel is that everyone's soul is stuck inside their favorite monster, and if that monster dies, so does the person. Yugi plays Tristan's card without realizing this and now Tristan is DEAD. Well thats one way to get rid of filler characters!

Yugi only has one card that can beat Bakura's monster, which only has 1000 AP... and thats Joey's card (which has 1800 AP). Like Yugi REALLY only had one monster than could beat that thing, and it just happened to be Joey. I know the real truth, Yugi wants revenge for all the past torment!!

Joey does his job and Bakura is down to 1200 LP.

Bakura plays a monster in defense mode face down, and a trap card face down. Thats when Yugioh is at its best, when you have to wonder about these things.

Badass Yugi revives Tristan and plays Yugi's soul card, the Dark Magician! Now Yugi is on the field, and it's only badass Yugi playing the game. At this point everyone kind of realizes whats been going on with Yugi (took long enough?), apparently even Yugi doesn't realize the hair growing on his sack when he's in the middle of a duel, except for that he hears a strong voice guiding him.

Bakura plays a trap card that takes of 1500 from Yugi's life points. Also, he's drawn Tea (who is a WEAK ass card with like 300 AP), so he doesn't know what to do. Apparently the trap card takes off 500 LP for every monster you have in play. If Bakura was smarter he would have baited Yugi into putting Tea on the field before playing that card, but then that would kinda ruin the show!

Now Joey dies! But then tea sheds a tear which apparently makes it so Yugi can play Reborn the Monster again, so Joey is back!

A whole bunch of freaky hax happen and in the end Evil Bakura is dead and regular Bakura has his body back. Everyone except Yugi and Bakura thinks it was a dream... and now the crew hears the screams of Mai! I wonder if thats what she sounds like in bed... mmmm.

'''Overall: I actually really like the original concept of the duel, having characters souls attached to the cards makes it so you care about each and every monster in play, which was really cool to start. Then the duel evolved into lots of stupidity, mostly because the characters could control themselves, which is stupid. And the ending was absolutely ridiculous beyond belief and left a bad taste in my mouth. Good concept, bad execution, thumbs slightly down.'''

MYSTERY AT THE LIGHTHOUSE

Well, I guess Ash's streak of Pokemon catching ends this ep! The title sounds pretty fillery, lets hope it's good.

I wonder if the after 6 Pokemon you send them to the Pokemon Center rule applies in the TV show? I guess I'll find out eventually, a few trainers had way mroe than 6 though (namely Damien, who had like a whole mountain of Pokemon).

They do a little flashback on the badges Ash has earned and the Pokemon he has. Thats probably smart to do once in a while for people who aren't watching the show the way I am.

On a side note, Misty keeps telling Ash he hasn't caught any of his Pokemon, which is totally untrue. He has caught 3 of them! Give the kid a break!

And my question is instantly answered! Ash catches a Krabby (wow, 4 episode streak!), and the Pokeball gets teleported away to Oak's lab. Cool.

Ash's Lineup

-Pikachu

-Bulbasaur

-Charmander

-Squirtle

-Butterfree

-Pidgeotto


 * Krabby

Ash calls Professor Oak. Apparently Gary caught a Krabby too... but it's way bigger. Also, Gary has 45 Pokemon. Nice. This lighthouse belongs to the great Pokemon researcher Bill. Bill looks like a young Joker.

Bill has been searching for a rare Pokemon to try and study it... and tonight is the night that it seems to be headed Bill's way! It looks like a Dragonair. As he heads towards the lighthouse, TR attacks it. : (. The Pokemon owns TR then goes away.

hahaha, awesome. As Bill and Ash and crew are talking there's a cloud that looks like a Dragonair in the background.

'''Overall: Hmmm, the first half was pretty interesting, and it's cool that Ash caught another Pokemon. But the second half was just pointless and boring and screamed filler. Thumbs down a bit.'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 13

Real tough day to decide. But while YGO was pretty stupid, at least it entertained me the whole way. I'm gonna give another one to YGO!

Pokemon: 9

YGO: 4

EPISODE 14
THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

We pick up where we left off with Mai getting kidnapped... oh she actually just lost a duel and screamed like she was being attacked by a predator... well this is YGO so it's basically the same thing.

Hmm interesting, apparently Pegasus has "Eliminators" to destroy crappy duelists, thats why the guy had so many starchip holders two eps ago. This guy just beat Mai and took all her Starchips. He's considered a "bully".

'''Yugi: I've dealt with lots of bullies in my life and there's only one way to deal with them.... IT'S TIME TO D-D-D-D-DUEL!!!'''

OK, he doesn't say that, he says you "have to stand up to them" which means "IT'S TIME TO D-D-D-DUEL."

Somehow the only reason Panic wins duels is because he sneaks up on them and "doesn't Challenge them face to face". OH THAT LOUSY CHEATER.

Yugi is battling to get Mai's chips back. Oh and Panic blasts fire at him... yeaahhhh.

Panic plays a card that makes his side of the field dark so Yugi can't see what he plays.

Yugi: I'm not afraid of the dark Panic!

So... corny...

Yugi is getting owned, he's at 1606 LP. I think it's another one of those pull the LP damage out of their ass situations, since we can't see Panic's monsters.

Haha this is getting good, Yugi starts playing mind games with Panic, saying he has a card to stop this startegy. Panic keeps talking tough but looks a little scared.

Yugi's card to beat the darkness is Swords of Revealing light, he shows it then plays it face down, but I have a feeling he played something different face down.

Mai thinks the strategy is stupid and Panic is getting to Yugi. GET IT... PANIC IS GETTING TO YUGI!?!? GET IT?!?!

Mai: Yugi is gonna need guts to win this duel, not skill

If only I had a dollar for everytime they made the card game seem like it was a real life fight...

Of course, Panic draws a card that can destroy the magic card Yugi put on the field... Ahhh but as predicted, it's not a magic card, it's a trap card, so the attack doesn't work. If this wasn't Yugioh I might take pride is so deftly predicting the outcome of an episode!

Now Yugi plays Swords of Revealing Light and another magic card face down. The crew wonders why Yugi isn't playing the card yet once again. And the ep ends.

'''Overall: The darkness HAS to be major hax, but I really don't mind. It's adding an interesting element to the duel, and I'm enjoying the mind games between Panic and Yugi, as well as the dueling strategies. Thumbs up,'''

ELECTRIC SHOCK SHOWDOWN

GYM EP WOOOO.

They made it to Vermillion City!!! WOOO. They were apparently lost for 2 weeks, so that puts the journey time counter at around 2 and a half months.

They are going to eat and stuff and then hit the gym. The problem with the gym eps is that they get to town, screw around for a while, AND THEN fight the gym leader, all in the same episode! I think I'd like it better if once they got to a town, they screwed around, maybe did some filler stuff, and developed the gym leader a bit, then in the 2nd ep they could devote time to a long Pokemon battle. Do that and take away 1 traveling episode to each town, thatd be sweet.

Oh ****! The gym leader's name is LIEUTENANT Surge. That sounds intense! He's put 15 Pokemon in the hospital this month. I guess if Ash finally wins here, he'll have picked up his first true win over a talented trainer.

Ash and Misty argue...

Nurse Joy: They say if two people fight they really care about each other!

Oh snap! It's very true though.

Man I'm pretty nervous for this battle! I don't want Ash to get humiliated (once again!)

Surge is RIPPED. He looks kind of like Guile though, with a goofier face, so he's not that intimidating really. Not that anyone should be intimidated by a big guy if they are only going to be POKEMON fighting him.

OH SNAP, Surge has a Raichu! It's like Pikachu except it doesn't quite look like a *****.

Surge calls Ash "baby" which is really disturbing and pedophileish.

I don't know why Ash feels the need to use Pikachu in every gym battle, even when it's horrible outmatches. You know you have a Charmander right Ash?

This is only a 1 Pokemon fight. USE CHARMANDER ASH GOD. But I gotta admit, Pikachu vs. Raichu could be all sorts of epic.

Ummm fight ends in like 5 seconds literally... not epix at all! Oh wait... PIKACHU IS GETTING BACK UP. And now it gets owned again.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket has just about the funniest conversation ever

Jesse: Pikachu is really getting pounded!

'''James: Wait... if Pikachu loses to Raichu, that means all the time we've spent chasing after it was all for nothing!'''

Meowth: Couldn't we just steal Raichu instead?

*TR pounds Meowth*

Jesse: CMON PIKACHU!!!

Blah, Ash is now in the hospital with all those other noobs : (.

Nurse Joy offers Ash a Thunderstone to evolve Pika. They literally villify this, acting like to do this would be like taking steroids in the ass or something. Ash offers Pikachu the choice on whether to evolve or not, Pikachu says no.

XD Meanwhile, TR is watching on the sidelines, and Meowth CRIES because of how brave Pikachu is to want to take on the Raichu as it is. Meowth says that Pikachu wants to fight in the name of ALL Pikachus.

'''James: Really? THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL! *starts crying too*'''

XFD TR is killing me, this is awesome.

Meowth: *crying* Pikachu says it will defend its honor and Ash's!

'''James: OH DEAR! THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!'''

DEAR GOD I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING. I LOVE TR!!! Also, they really should use Meowth as a Pokemon translator more often!

Brock has a way to beat the Raichu apparently since he evolved his Raichu right away.

The Rematch! Pikachu vs. Raichu, GO. Early on Pikachu is getting owned by Raichu's tail, he then gets body slammed. Pikachu uses its agility to avoid all of Raichu's attacks now. Ahhh I get it! Raichu evolved right away so it's strong but slow!

And Brock explains that Raichu never learned its speed moves. Pikachu continues to dodge and eventually OWNS Raichu with a electrical tail attack.

Ummm at the end of the ep Pikachu is shocking Ash and they are all laughing... including Ash... while he's being shocked.... wut.

The end of this episode.

'''James: Drat! We wasted this episode rooting for the good guys!'''

'''Announcer: Right James! Better luck next time!'''

4th wall= BROKEN.

'''Overall: God this episode was awesome, TR was freaking hilarious constantly, the Pikachu not evolving moment was emotional, and the ending fight was equally awesome. If we are gonna go the MWC route and discredit all of Ash's accomplishments, we'll have to discredit this one too since he couldn't have done it without Brock's help. It's still a big win for Ash on his way to being taken seriously, and this was prob my fav Pokemon ep so far!'''

YGO vs. Pokemon EPISODE 14

Poor YGO, a good ep but it ran across an awesome Gym ep from Pokemon, I gotta give the win to Pokemon. I have a feeling YGO stands little chance in most of the gym eps, but now they should have some traveling eps to try and win a few eps, so lets see if it can pull off some wins in the future!

Pokemon: 10

YGO: 4

EPISODE 15
WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION

Oh manz, I'm pretty interested in what the HAX are in this ep.

Yugi promises to beat Panik in 4 turns. HMMM. What could the hax be? Im so damn excited!

Panik shoots some fire at Yugi to try and scare him but it doesn't work.

'''Tea: Yugi is playing with fire! I sure hope he knows what he's doing!'''

GOD DAMN DON'T THEY GET TIRED OF USING PUNS?!?! I'M GETTING FIRED UP ABOUT THIS!! >_>

Wait... what... Panik attacks but it hits his own monster and sends Panik down to 404 LP... something about light and dark... what.

Yugi FINALLY plays Swords of Revealing light, which reveals the field.

In an EXTREMELY rare situation, Panik thinks about the duel and they show all the cards on the field with all their AP and DP. They should really do this way more often, but they don't because they want to try and hide the hax they are performing >_>.

Ummm I assume hax happen, and now Yugi can't attack Panik.

Yugi questions Panik's manhood because of his defensive strategy, LOLZ.

Yugi draws Gaia and is really happy. Does Yugioh ever have situations where duelists draw a card then look really disappointed at how bad the card is? No I'm pretty sure that never happens.

Now it's time for Yugi's turn that is supposed to win the game for him! Yugi is so excited he groans really loud >_>.

YUGI PLAYS... Catapult turtle? What? <_<

Yugi: Slow and steady wins the duel panik!!!

So Yugi's attack only destroys the floatation ring on Panik's castle. Wait... THE CASTLE WILL FALL ONTO PANIK'S MONSTERS I'M CALLING IT NOW.

XFD I'm right. But I thought it would just happen randomly because thats how YGO is a lot of the time. But apparently, the swords of revealing light are holding the castle up. Once Panik's turn comes, Yugi will win. I rule. Although how Yugi can attack the castle and only destroy its floatation ring is beyond me. Those hax are pretty epic I must admit.

Yugi wins, lol. Now it's time for REAL LIFE HAX. Panik shoots fire at Yugi, Yugi blocks it with the puzzle then sends Panik to the Shadow Realm. Wooo.

'''Overall: The hax were funny, the duel was OK, and the end scene with Mai was kinda cool character developement wise. I was wondering what Yugi would do all ep with his taunts so that was cool, not a bad ep, I enjoyed it.'''