What do your eyes see?
Episode 135: ここに似た場所 – Koko ni Nita Basho
(Somewhere Similar to Here)
Yudias has awakened in the world inside his mind. He is guided to a science lab by a mysterious light. He is then greeted by Kuaidul. Sensing malice from Kuaidul, Yudias challenges him to a Duel. During the Duel, Yudias witnesses several different worlds…
Script: 竹内利光 || Takeuchi Toshimitsu
Storyboard: 近藤信宏 || Kondo Nobuhiro
Direction: 山田直 || Yamada Nao
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Different worlds? *GASP* LIKE THE NON-RUSH DUEL WORLDS!?
Probably not.
It’s stuff like worlds where civilization has been consumed by trees based on the previews.
The OCG will likely never be directly referenced in a Rush Duel show for brand clarity reasons.
Probably the worlds referenced or depicted in the Field Spells in Episode 61.
If I remember correctly, the whole point of SEVENS was that Yuga hacked the system and “invented” Rush duels, so implication was that before that Advanced Format or whatever you call them were main style…
…but with GO Rush we are introduced to time loop shenanigans and Yuga going back to the past to introduce Rush Duels so it does not matter. Either way Advanced format will never return to anime, it was explained hundred of times why it failed and why RD exist now.
with the “return”/introduction of Ritual into Rush, it sounds like they’re slowly and over time re-introducing all of the summoning mechanics into Rush, in such a way that it appears as if to form the basis for Rush turning into the Goha (Master Rule) dueling, with Rush somehow being lost to history, only to be re-invented by Yuga. Meaning Duelling is at least one large bootstrap paradox in universe.
It’s implied Goha Duels got fiddled with due to Yuga’s appearance, and that he accidentally overwrote the past of his own timeline, as Asaka explains Goha Company and Mutsuba Heavy Industry worked together to develop Dueling.
But yes, in the SEVENS / Go Rush!! worldline it seems Rush Duel has become a bootstrap paradox.
@NeoArkadia I’m pretty sure Yuna and Asaka were already working together long before Yuga’s appearance, being friends and all. Yuga showing up just caused the massive revolution in their printing press that let Goha Company sell Rush duels as a product.
We’ve already seen the split between the two that was mentioned by Asana back in Sevens and it’s entirely possible Yuga not going to the past would’ve caused a different timeline from Sevens anyway, since his development was what led to Duels being created and popularised. His arc near the end of S2 that led Yuamu and Yuna to try and ensure his future by causing a massive Goha takeover and turning a certain someone into Otes is also likely necessary for Sevens to come to past as we know it.
It’s the world’s least complicated bootstrap paradox and I’m honestly surprised I can say that seriously
Ritual Summoning!
I love how like new mechanics get dropped out of nowhere.
I think Maximum was the only one hinted at before its reveal and it was the only Rush original one so far. Meanwhile Fusion, Equip Spells, Contact Fusion, and now Ritual were left field surprises.
I like how the anime led me to believe Yudias was going to be corrupted and summon Ark here but instead we have Ritual.
Kuaidul also used 2 new Praime monsters based on monsters that he shouldn’t have access to – Kamaleon and Stock the Noodle Ninja. Both were used by SEVENS anime characters – Yuga Goha and Menzaburo.