Chazz finds another academy and tries to enroll.
Tropes:
- A Day in the Limelight: The first episode to focus on Chazz. Jaden's only appearance is through Chazz's imagination.
- Boss Rush: Non-video game example. Chazz has to duel against 50 North Academy students, and when he loses determines his rank. He defeats all of them.
- The Bus Came Back: First appearance of Chazz since episode 13.
- Cool Teacher: Foster successfully teaches Chazz genuinely valuable lessons about hard work, humility, duel strategy, resourcefulness, perseverance, compassion, and not relying on money to solve your problems.
- Dub Induced Plothole: Zigzagged. In the dub, the disguised North Academy principal drops Chazz's original cards into a puddle to motivate Chazz to get some new cards and adjust to using cards that aren't so rare. In the Japanese, he points out the cards were ruined when Chazz fell into the water and then drops them into the puddle. However, he fire Chazz out of a submarine's torpedo launchers which drenched him while he was holding Ojama Yellow's card and later has to swim in the Arctic water.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The wordplay revolving around Manjoume's name and Thunder nickname got Lost in Translation in the dub. This episode is the only one that tries making English puns based on Chazz's dub last name, i.e. Chazz saying, "The Princeton will rise!," the Czar telling him, "A prince's place is at the heel of the czar!" No other episodes go this route.
- Foreshadowing: Ojama Yellow mentions he has two brothers.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A positive example. When he reaches North Academy's entrance, he finds a hobo who tells him that he needs to find 40 cards to even enter the building and he only managed to find 39 cards but doesn't have the energy to look for the 40th card. Chazz comes back and tells him he found 41 cards so he wouldn't be stuck outside. Chazz tells him to enter first. Turns out Chazz didn't find 41 cards. He found 40 meaning he can't enter, until he notices a card on the ground with imaginary Jaden calling him a nice guy.
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: After his rescuer asks him if he always runs away from lucky opponents, Chazz insists, "No one calls Chazz Princeton a coward!"
- Red Herring: Foster promises Chazz that he can help him defeat his rival. Every time someone makes this offer in the franchise, which happens over and over and over again in every installment, it's a villain trying to use the duelist in whatever they're planning. Foster might be the only character who sincerely means it and genuinely helps the duelist in question — he not only does help Chazz become a stronger duelist but gives him a fair chance to fight his rival again, exactly as he promised.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Discussed.Foster: Talk is cheap, young duelist.Chazz: That may be... but I'm rich! And I'll spend whatever it takes to be the best out there!Foster: That's just your problem — no amount of money can buy you that. You must earn it... if you can...
- Secret Test of Character: From the moment he wakes up in the sub, everything Chazz goes through is a test by Foster to see how strong a duelist he is. Chazz passes with flying colors.
- Unwinnable by Design: Duelists 2 through 5 duel Chazz at the same time and they all summon 2 Marauding Captains. With Marauding Captain's special ability protecting other warrior type monsters, none of them can be attacked. Chazz finds a way around this by going directly for their life points with Ring of Destruction while protecting his life points with Ring of Defense.
- Weak, but Skilled: The lesson Chazz learns in this episode is that every card is useful in its own way and uses random cards he found in the arctic wilderness.
