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Among the Numbers Club members, Cathy's dueling skills are second only to Yuma. She sure picked a lousy time to sit out.

* Aside from it being a series about the duels, why do they need to? Is it to prove to the Numbers that they're worth of obtaining it? Or is it to weaken the holder so they can take it from them?

* What's the point of having the Gazers? No, I get it. You need them to see them duels, but why include them in the anime? Aside from the animation department getting paid to do the "suit up" montage, there just seems to be no point and it just makes it more confusing for the audience. What was wrong with just using holograms? I mean unless they had an episode where Yuma loses his gazer and just imagines it all happening in his head in order to focus, or to reveal that the Numbers can be seen without them, I don't see a point to them.

* Also, I don't remember if this actually happened, but according to the wiki, apparently the anime lore of 104 says that after milling the card, you have to shuffle the opponent's Deck - so it's possible the effect can't be activated if the opponent only has one card left, because after the mill there would be nothing to shuffle? I don't know if that's how it would work but if not, yeah, check the above answer

* Too busy being a troll. Team Unicorn got shamed into dueling normally by Yusuke with a WorthyOpponent speech, he was screwing with their heads. Basically the same thing here but in reverse. Vector was too busy fucking with Yuma's head to consider the easiest path to victory, and too confident that Yuma would have no possible way of winning (winning a duel with the last card in your deck after the rest has been milled is Yami / Yugi level PlotArmor)

In Episode 98, Vector has Yuma on the ropes, as he's left with only 100 life points and 1 card in his whole deck. Now, Number 104: Masquerade Magician - Shining's effect allows Vector to send that one card in Yuma's deck to the graveyard, making it so that when Yuma's turn comes, he will immediately lose due to nto being able to draw any cards. So, why the hell does he choose to Rank-up his Number instead, allowing Yuma to use the next turn to win? I could kinda sorta accept it when it happened in 5D's with Team Unicorn because of the whole "having a face-to-face, direct duel" BS, but... Vector? Is he simply victim of a bad case of PlotInducedStupidity?

* [[spoiler: Nothing really. Don 1000 is the personification of the chaos Astral World rejected, so being pure chaos, his only goal should be eliminating order.]]

* [[spoiler: Nothing really. Don 1000 is the personification of the chaos Astral World rejected, so being pure chaos, his only goal should be eliminating order.]]

* [[spoiler: Nothing really. Don 1000 is the personification of the chaos Astral World rejected, so being pure chaos, his only goal should be eliminating order.]]

In Episode 98, Vector has Yuma on the ropes, as he's left with only 100 life points and 1 card in his whole deck. Now, Number 107: Masquerade Magician - Shining's effect allows Vector to send that one card in Yuma's deck to the graveyard, making it so that when Yuma's turn comes, he will immediately lose due to nto being able to draw any cards. So, why the hell does he choose to Rank-up his Number instead, allowing Yuma to use the next turn to win? I could kinda sorta accept it when it happened in 5D's with Team Unicorn because of the whole "having a face-to-face, direct duel" BS, but... Vector? Is he simply victim of a bad case of PlotInducedStupidity?

[[WMG: Vector is an idiot]]

[[spoiler:So Don Thousand has fused the Barian World with Earth and has the ability to rewrite reality at will...So why doesn't he just erase Yuma, destroy Astral, and make Nasch become one with him? Why duel these two when he can make what he wants happen. Furthermore, once he destroys the Astral World, what are his plans afterwards?]]

* This is speculation on my part, but Kiraku was more well-known in human history than the other Emperor. It might have been insurance on Thousand's part to prevent Girag from figuring it out too quickly.

Ok so it seems all the Barian emperors had the same names as humans as they do as Barians... except Girag who was named Kiraku Souhachi, what the hell is up with that?! One would assume they would all have completely different names from their human ones because you know they are now alternate dimensional beings! It wouldn't be that bad if all of them kept their human names, but having one who was given a new name by Don Thousand is strange to say the least.

Ok so it seems all the barian emperors had the same names as humans as they do as barians... except Girag who was named Kiraku Souichi, what the hell is up with that?!

* So..... forcibly coverting the people of the Earth into energy beings and having them live in a world ruled by the ones who caused this to happen is a good thing? I mean the Barians don't seem like terrible rulers.(Not that we've seen them rule over any subjects) But still they were never given a choice. I understand this is happening due to Don Thousand, but instead of finding the problem and the solution they're hunting down Number holders.
** [[spoiler: Nasch's people still revere him even as part of Barian World and we haven't seen any sign that people are unsatisfied with their life in Barian's World, unlike Astral World. The problem was always that Astral and Barian World's goals have always been each others destruction ever since Astral World expelled Barian World. To them the only solution is the annihilation of the other and there was no other solution to the problem. Plus one of the people have ever had a choice when it come to becoming one with Barian World. They simply died and went there. The big difference now is that Barian World itself is doing it.]]

* So..... forcibly coverting the people of the Earth into energy beings and having them live in a world ruled by the ones who caused this to happen is a good thing? I mean the Barians don't seem like terrible rulers.(Not that we've seen them rule over any subjects) But still they were never given a choice. I understand this is happening due to Don Thousand, but instead of finding the problem and the solution they're hunting down Number holders.

* They aren't disappearing. They become red/pink sparkles of light and head into the sky, which is the same thing that happened to [[spoiler:Nasch's people. So they are going to live on as part of Barian's World, just as Nasch's people do]]. Also, even with these actions they aren't going to lose their AntiVillain status because most of them are sympathetic and some people are rooting for them even now. Except Vector for [[CardCarryingVillain obvious]] [[TokenEvilTeammate reasons]].

* They aren't disappearing. They become red/pink sparkles of light and head into the sky, which is the same thing that happened to Nasch's people. So they are going to live on as part of Barian's World, just as Nasch's people do. Also, even with these actions they aren't going to lose their AntiVillain status because most of them are sympathetic and some people are rooting for them even now. Except Vector for [[CardCarryingVillain obvious]] [[TokenEvilTeammate reasons]].

Okay so with the return of [[spoiler:Nasch (aka Barian Shark).]] I understand that the Barians are now going to take an active role in protecting their world from being destroyed. But a few things strike me as odd. First how does Earth factor into this? I mean Don Thousand wanted to merge the Barian world and Earth so that he could gain the energy to destroy the Astral world but the Emperors don't exactly know of his involvement yet. (Save for Vector of course) So what is their aim in all this? Do they have some way to utilize that same energy? Second, I know that they wish to save their world but they pretty much lose any sort of AntiVillain status they had when they begin their assault on Earth. It's pretty much implied that everyone that disappears as this goes on is dead. So what? Are they sacrificing Earth to finally win the war?

** It's possible this is due to the method used, since every time someone lost their soul in DM, it was via magical means like the Orichalcos, whereas Kaito's Photon Hand is some kind of advanced technology (probably from the Barian World). So the discrepancy could be down to the difference in methods.

In the original Yu-Gi-Oh, when a person's soul get taken (Either by Pegasus or the Seal of Orichalcos), they enter a persistent vegetative state. However, when their soul gets taken in this series (By the Photon Hand), they instead rapidly age. (And I don't recall anyone losing their soul in either GX or 5D's; there they just died).

*** I guess so. I was hoping that Astral's MismatchedEyes would play into it but I think that's hoping for a little too much.

* During 102, why didn't Black Mist activate the other effect of Black Storm, allowing it to essentially steal Utopia Ray's attack power when it was forced to attack?