History Anime / YugiohZEXAL

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: During a short joke segment at the end of an episode, Astral and Yuma talk about how some names of objects have redundancy. Then Yuma realizes his own ace monster can be translated to "Hope Warrior Hope". Astral wishes he doesn't mention that again.

The dub was originally produced by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment (later by Creator/{{Konami}} after [=4Kids=] went bankrupt) and aired on Creator/{{Vortexx}} in the U.S. Both the dub and subtitled versions are available on [[http://www.hulu.com/search?q=Yu-Gi-Oh!+Zexal Hulu]].

->[[DeadpanSnarker '''Astral''']]: (sarcastic) You have thwarted Orbital-7's heroic aspirations, Yuma.\\
[[IdiotHero '''Yuma''']]: I know. And I stopped him from getting what he wanted, too!

->[[DeadpanSnarker'''Astral''']]: (sarcastic) You have thwarted Orbital-7's heroic aspirations, Yuma.\\
[[IdiotHero'''Yuma''']]: I know. And I stopped him from getting what he wanted, too!

->'''Astral''': (sarcastic) You have thwarted Orbital-7's heroic aspirations, Yuma.\\
'''Yuma:''' I know. And I stopped him from getting what he wanted, too!

* EndOfAnAge: Due to Creator/FourKidsEntertainment's litigation with TV Tokyo and NAS and its subsequent bankruptcy, this would be the last ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' season in which 4Kids would be involved in, as Konami took over for ''ZEXAL II''.

* DeathIsCheap: Like any Yu-Gi-Oh! show any deaths of the heroes are temporary [[spoiler:with pretty much the entire cast but Yuma and Kotori dying at least once and then coming back. Rio holds the record for dying three times in her life and be revived three times. Astral also died twice and came back twice.]]

* EndOfAnAge: Due to litigation between 4Kids, TV Tokyo and NAS, this would be the last ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' season in which 4Kids would be involved in as its North American licensor.

[[caption-width-right:350:Astra and Yuma Tsukumo]]

->'''Astral''': (sarcastically) You have thwarted Orbital-7's heroic aspirations, Yuma.\\

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands

* SheathYourSword: [[spoiler: Near the end of the duel between Yuma and Nasch, Nasch activates a card that stops an attack and forces each player to draw a card. The drawn card has to be played or the player loses. Nasch uses his Chaos Draw and Yuma uses his Shining Draw and Yuma's card is revealed to be "Double or Nothing!". Yuma seems poised to win the duel; however, he ends up stopping his attack using Utopia's effect, realizing that if he won this way, then it would be admitting that he's abandoned his ideals by dooming both his friend and the Barian World. However, it turns out to be exactly the move he needed to make to win the duel. It turns out Nasch knew that Yuma would draw Double or Nothing! and drew a card that would have reflected the damage he would have taken back at Yuma, causing him to lose. Since Yuma stopped his attack however, a side effect of the card reduces his life points to zero, and since he had to play the card or lose anyway, Yuma wins.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealsmVsCynicism: Much like the first three series it is relying heavily on the idealistic end of the scale, despite a dark and intense battle between two sides.

The dub was originally produced by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment (later by Creator/{{Konami}} after [=4Kids=] went bankrupt) and airs on Creator/{{Vortexx}} in the U.S. Both the dub and subtitled versions are available on [[http://www.hulu.com/search?q=Yu-Gi-Oh!+Zexal Hulu]].

** [[spoiler: You'd expect PlotArmor to protect the protagonists from death, but nope. Astral has technically died twice, and Shark was revealed to have been killed in a past life. And now, as of Episode 135, Kaito bites it after defeating Mizael and unlocking the Numeron code.]]

* ClimacticBattleResurrection: [[spoiler:Every single character killed off during the final arc is brought back to life with the Numeron Code]]

** Scorch and Chills spent most of their tag-duel boasting how good their tag-teaming is, Shark and Yuma won by combining the strength of their ace monsters.

** DealWithTheDevil: To open the Door, Yuma was forced to give up "his most important thing". He speculates what this might be, eventually concluding its the bond he gained with Astral, but later determining its Shark. Finally, he realizes its the loss of who he was as a person. Constant life-or-death dueling has changed him and he doesn't like that.

** Flip Turner draws a lot of similarities from Weevil Underwood. They both look similar, they're both viewed as creepy by the female cast and they both have a sneaky nature, such as tricking their opponent's into taking their cards and taking advantage of it during their duels.

* LoveConfession: In the final chapter of the manga, Astral delivers one to Yuma.

* [[spoiler: ReallyDeadMontage : The regular ending animation after Astral's death was replaced by a montage of Astral and Yuma together.]]

** [[spoiler: Kaito get one in the credits of episode 135.]]
** [[spoiler: And now Mizael and Vector at the end of episode 138.]]

** Yuma and Astral as well, especially in such instances as [[ThePowerOfLove ZEXAL form]] and [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster the Eliphas duel]]. The manga confirms it.

* LoveConfession: In the final chapter of the manga, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Astral delivers one to Yuma]]. (AndTheFandomRejoiced.)