History Manga / YuGiOhGX

* AdaptationalMundanity: Slightly downplayed since this is still ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', but the manga is nowhere near as [[DensierAndWackier wacky and goofy]] as the anime could be; the more out-there and gimmicky moments in many episodes and overall SpaceOpera feel of the second and third seasons are completely excised, instead remaining firmly within the world established by the [[Manga/YuGiOh original series]]. About the only overtly supernatural element remaining are Duel Spirits and the ''ka'' from the original manga, whilst the setting is much more grounded, with even Professor Chronos' enormous revenge efforts over Judai being relegated to a single chapter thanks to [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Midori Hibiki]] shutting them down.

* DenserAndWackier: The manga continuity is ultimately an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. The story is far more down-to-earth and the characters are treated with much more dignity instead of being parodied or having their quirks PlayedForLaughs. Situations such as Chronos' attempts to expel students on a whim are immediately dealt with, and the characters' motivations are more grounded and realistic, with many of the SpaceOpera traits of the anime being absent.

'''This page covers the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga]]. For the anime, see Anime/YuGiOhGX.'''

On June 21, 2014, a one-shot of the manga was released. Continuing where the original manga left off, the one-shot depicts the duel between Koyou Hibiki and Judai Yuki.

* AdaptedOut: Neither Hayato nor Kenzan appear in the manga.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Professor Chronos doesn't evolve into becoming a JerkWithAHeartOfGold like he does in the anime.

* CallBack: The Battle City finals get a mention, when the school nurse studies David Rabb.

** Ryo [[OneHitKill OTKs]] [[AdaptationalBadass Manjoume]] with no damage to his Life Points, [[spoiler:''right after Manjoume defeats Judai'']].
* DarkIsEvil[=/=]LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Supremacy Sun manages to be both of these at the same time, a DARK Fiend-type monster that represents the sun. This was intentional by Tragoedia, who wanted to mock the sun-worshiping priests who sealed him away.]]
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Judai inflicts this on Manjoume early on. [[spoiler: Manjoume paid him back and did the same to him.]]

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Manjoume. This even caused him to be much more competent in dueling than his anime counterpart.
* DistantFinale: Some time in the future, after Judai's graduation.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Judai places [[spoiler:second]] in a school wide Duel Academy tournament (in which only the top eight even advance to the finals), but Chronos treats him with the same disdain as always, due to a combination of resentment over losing to him earlier, and him being in Osiris Red.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: During the final turn of the [[spoiler:Duel with Tragoedia, Judai summons Ma'at herself to end it by fusing Winged Kuriboh with Light and Darkness Dragon.]]

* FakeUltimateHero: Judai's Masked HERO deck has a pretty bad track record. Despite wanting to make a deck that was all his own, he loses two out of the three duels he uses them in. Compared to ''one'' loss out of eight important on-screen duels (nine counting his offscreen victory over Chronos, even more counting his briefly shown duels versus nameless students) he has with his modified version of Koyo's deck. Although one of them was to [[TheAce Edo Phoenix]] and his Vision HERO deck (which had a card that turned his LP from 0 to 100); and the other to a possessed Fubuki (who, like Manjoume, [[AdaptationalBadass fares a lot better in this adaption]]. He doesn't even use his Masked HERO cards in the final duel with [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]. He does use them in the special chapter against [[spoiler: an awakened Koyo]] (but we don't know how that ended up).
* {{Foil}}: Judai's Terra Firma for [[spoiler: Edo's The Grand Jupiter]]. Both have 2500/2000 attack and defense, and are level 8 warrior-type monsters. However Terra Firma absorbs his own allies to power himself up with no other, while [[spoiler: The Grand Jupiter]] steals the enemy monsters to do the same by discarding two cards. [[spoiler: Oddly, the two cards are never used against each other. The two dueled once, and it was a Masked HERO vs. Vision HERO affair with neither planet card in their owners deck (Judai no longer using Koyo's cards, and Edo only being given Jupiter the next day)]].

* AnIcePerson: Asuka's deck is full of monsters themed around hail, snow and ice.

* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler: Reggie threw her fight against Misawa, being impressed with his tenacity and not wanting Tragoedia to enter her body just yet.]]
* InvincibleHero: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], where Juudai actually ''loses'' the first major tournament he enters.
* {{Irony}}: The role of [[spoiler:The Grand Jupiter]] card. Edo Phoenix gets it from Principal [=MacKenzie=]. It looks like and has a similar effect to Destiny Hero - Plasma, which in the anime was one of his aces. Both cards were made by his father before he died, and were stolen by the villain; but here the villain gives it to Edo to further his plans. It also looks and functions like the Sphere cards that Fubuki uses, who Edo beats (with some unwanted cheating/help from [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]) the night before getting it. Fubuki himself, who gets possessed, is given a completely different Planet card.
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Judai does this when suggesting that Asuka and Misawa should exchange numbers, saving Misawa the embarassment of asking her himself.
* MythologyGag: The final chapter of the manga contains many references to the anime continuity. [[spoiler:Johan appears in his possessed outfit, Kaiser in his Hell Kaiser garb, Manjoume in his "Black Thunder" coat, Fubuki in his Hawaiian shirt, and Judai in his Season 4 look.]] None of these had previously been shown in the manga.
** Judai, once again, loses to Edo Phoenix, who uses another HERO sub-archtype (here it's Judai's Masked HERO cards vs. Edo's Vision HERO cards). Edo also has the unfortunate fate of having his father die and growing up with said murderer being his father figure (in this case the [[spoiler:Tragoedia-possessed Principal [=MacKenzie=]). And in this version, he doesn't get to be the one to bring him to justice]].

* [[OneHitKill One Turn Kill]]:

* SelfImposedChallenge: Manjoume, as a result of the above motivation, buries his Light and Darkness Dragon card to prove he can win alone, and vows to leave the academy if he loses even once. However, his loss against Judai brings on CharacterDevelopment, and he resolves to fight alongside Light and Darkness Dragon again.
* SexyMentor: Midori Hibiki.

** Sho's Solidroid monsters are Manga/GetterRobo.

* TheWorfEffect: Terra Firma, one of Judai's strongest cards, frequently gets disabled with Trap or Spell Cards, or destroyed. Relatively few of his duels are won with the help of that card. [[spoiler: He does destroy The Supremacy Sun with it though, after absorbing Gaia who in turn absorbed half of The Supremacy Sun's power.]]
** Asuka has the unfortunate fate of losing to [[spoiler:''four'']] duelists who own planet cards. Judai's Terra Firma, [[spoiler: Reggie's Splendid Venus, David's The Big Saturn, and Edo's The Grand Jupiter]]. Of the four, only Judai won without Terra Firma dealing the finishing blow.
* WorfHadTheFlu: The two times Judai defeats world champion Koyo (out of around 70 matches), Koyo was not using his standard deck. Additionally, [[spoiler:Midori would have defeated Reggie if Reggie had not manipulated her into holding back for the sake of finding out information to help her brother]].
** [[spoiler: Fubuki lost because Tragoedia stopped him from playing his trap card.]]

* YouMonster: [[spoiler: Manjoume]] calls Tragoedia this after the latter refers to humans as insects. He states he'd rather be an insect than a monster.

* FakeUltimateHero: [[JustForPun Pun not intended]], Judai's Masked HERO deck has a pretty bad track record. Despite wanting to make a deck that was all his own, he loses two out of the three duels he uses them in. Compared to ''one'' loss out of eight important on-screen duels (nine counting his offscreen victory over Chronos, even more counting his briefly shown duels versus nameless students) he has with his modified version of Koyo's deck. Although one of them was to [[TheAce Edo Phoenix]] and his Vision HERO deck (which had a card that turned his LP from 0 to 100); and the other to a possessed Fubuki (who, like Manjoume, [[AdaptationalBadass fares a lot better in this adaption]]. He doesn't even use his Masked HERO cards in the final duel with [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]. He does use them in the special chapter against [[spoiler: an awakened Koyo]] (but we don't know how that ended up).

* DenserAndWackier: The manga continuity is ultimately an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. The story is far more down-to-earth and the characters are treated with much more dignity instead of being parodied or having their quirks PlayedForLaughs. Situations such as Chronos' attempts to expel students on a whim [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome are immediately dealt with]], and the characters' motivations are more grounded and realistic, with many of the SpaceOpera traits of the anime being absent.

* DenserAndWackier: The manga continuity is ultimately an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. The story is far more down-to-earth and the characters are treated with much more dignity instead of being parodied or having their quirks PlayedForLaughs. Situations such as Chronos' attempts to expel students on a whim [[RealityEnsues are immediately dealt with]], and the characters' motivations are more grounded and realistic, with many of the SpaceOpera traits of the anime being absent.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Manjoume's whole Deck. Special mention goes to Light and Darkness Dragon, the only spirit card in the manga besides Kuriboh and dangerous enough to scare the BigBad.

* DarkIsEvil[=/=]LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Supremacy Sun manages to be both of these at the same time. a DARK Fiend-type monster that represents the sun. This was intentional by Tragoedia, who wanted to mock the sun-worshiping priests who sealed him away.]]

** Fubuki get's possessed by a shadowy figure in this version too. To be fair, [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]did this to a lot more people than Nightshroud/Darkness did in the anime.

** Also Ryo on [[spoiler:Manjoume]]
* OutOfFocus: Half of the Legendary Planet cards, believe it or not. Judai and Koyo use Terra Firma multiple times throughout the manga, David and Reggie both summoned theirs three times, Jim summons Neptune twice, but the remaining five Planets only get one duel each in the last ten chapters. Worse yet, the duels in which the non-Sun cards are mostly offscreen.

** Midori is given the choice between [[spoiler:defeating Reggie in a duel, and trying to find out what she knows about Shadow Games (her brother is the victim of one)]]. She goes for the latter after noticing that [[spoiler:Reggie will duel Judai next]], but [[spoiler:is defeated and finds out that Reggie knew nothing]].

'''This page covers the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga.]] For the anime, see [[Anime/YuGiOhGX Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]].'''

On June 21, 2014, A one-shot of the manga was released. Continuing where the original manga left off, the one-shot depicts the duel between Koyou Hibiki and Judai Yuki.

** Asuka's duel with David lasts a total of two turns, spans less than a chapter in length, and the only damage David took in the duel was a part of his strategy in winning.

* {{Foil}}: Judai's Terra Firma for [[spoiler: Edo's The Grand Jupiter]]. Both have 2500/2000 attack and defense, and are level 8 warrior-type monsters. However Terra Firma absorbs his own allies to power himself up with no other, while [[spoiler: The Grand Jupiter]] steals the enemy monsters to do the same by discarding two cards. [[spoiler: Oddly, the two cards are never used against each other. The two dueled once, and it was a Masked HERO vs. Vision HERO affair with neither planet card in their owners deck (Judai no longer using Koyo's cards, and Edo only being given Jupiter the next day]].

* DarkIsEvil/LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Supremacy Sun manages to be both of these at the same time. a DARK Fiend-type monster that represents the sun]]

** The Masked HERO cards are inspired by KamenRider.

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Judai inflicts this on Manjoume early on. [[Manjoume paid him back and did the same to him.]]

* FakeUltimateHero: [[JustForPun Pun not intended]], Judai's Masked HERO deck has a pretty bad track record. Despite wanting to make a deck that was all his own, he loses two out of the three duels he uses them in. Compared to ''one'' loss out of eight important on-screen duels (nine counting his offscreen victory over Chronos, even more counting his briefly shown duels versus nameless students) he has with his modified version of Koyo's deck. Although one of them was to [[TheAce Edo Phoenix]] and his Vision HERO deck (which had a card that turned his LP from 0 to 100); and the other to a possessed Fubuki (who, like Jun,[[AdaptationalBadass fares a lot better in this adaption]]. He doesn't even use his Masked HERO cards in the final duel with [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]. He does use them in the special chapter against [[spoiler: an awakened Koyo]] (but we don't know how that ended up).
* {{Foil}}: Judai's Terra Firma for [[spoiler: Edo's The Grand Jupiter]]. Both have 2500/2000 attack and defense, and are level 8 warrior-type monsters. However Terra Firma absorbs his own allies to power himself up with no other, while [[spoiler: The Grand Jupiter]] steals the enemy monsters to do the same by discarding two cards. [[spoiler: Oddly, the two cards are never used against each other. The two dueled once, and it was a Masked HERO vs. Vision HERO affair]].

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Judai inflicts this on Manjoume early on.

* FakeUltimateHero: [[JustForPun Pun not intended]], Judai's Masked HERO deck has a pretty bad track record. Despite wanting to make a deck that was all his own, he loses two out of the three duels he uses them in. Compared to ''one'' loss out of eight important on-screen duels (nine counting his offscreen victory over Chronos, even more counting his briefly shown duels versus nameless students) he has with his modified version of Koyo's deck. Although one of them was to [[TheAce Edo Phoenix]] and his Vision HERO deck (and a card that turned his LP from 0 to 100); and the other to a possessed Fubuki (who, like Jun, [[AdaptationalBadass fares a lot better in this adaption]]. He doesn't even use his Masked HERO cards in the final duel with [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]. He does use them in the special chapter against [[spoiler: an awakened Koyo]] (but we don't know how that ended up).
* {{Foil}}: Judai's Terra Firma for Edo's The Grand Jupiter. Both have 2500/2000 attack and defense, and are level 8 warrior-type monsters. However Terra Firma absorbs his own allies to power himself up with no other, while The Grand Jupiter steals the enemy monsters to do the same by discarding two cards. Oddly, the two cards are never used against each other. The two dueled once, and it was a Masked HERO vs. Vision HERO affair.

* ILetYouWin: [[Reggie threw her fight against Misawa, being impressed with his tenacity and not wanting Tragoedia to enter her body just yet.]]

* {{Irony}}: The role of [[spoiler:The Grand Jupiter]] card. Edo Phoenix gets it from Principal McKenzie. It looks like and has a similar effect to Destiny Hero - Plasma, which in the anime was one of his aces. Both cards were made by his father before he died, and were stolen by the villain; but here the villain gives it to Edo to further his plans. It also looks and functions like the Sphere cards that Fubuki uses, who Edo beats (with some unwanted cheating/help from [[spoiler:Tragoedia]]) the night before getting it. Fubuki himself, who gets possessed, gets a completely different Planet card.

* MythologyGag: The final chapter of the manga contains many references to the anime continuity. [[spoiler:Johan appears in his possessed outfit, Kaiser in his Hell Kaiser garb, Manjoume in his "Black Thunder" coat, and Judai in his Season 4 look.]] None of these had previously been shown in the manga.
** Judai, once again, loses to Edo Phoenix, who uses another HERO sub-archtype (here it's Judai's Masked HERO cards vs. Edo's Vision HERO cards). Edo also has the unfortunate fate of having his father die and growing up with said murderer being his father figure (in this case the [[spoiler:Tragoedia-possessed Principal MacKenzie)]].

* ShoutOut

* TheWorfEffect: Terra Firma, one of Judai's strongest cards, frequently gets disabled with Trap or Spell Cards, or destroyed. Relatively few of his duels are won with the help of that card.
** Asuka has the unfortunate fate of losing to [[Spoiler:''four'']] duelists who own planet cards. Judai's Terra Firma, [[spoiler: Reggie's Splendid Venus, David's Big Saturn, and Edo's Grand Jupiter]]. Off the four, only Judai won without Terra Firma dealing the finishing blow.

The manga is written by Naoyuki Kageyama and supervised by Kazuki Takahashi.

** Two characters who are usually just referred to as [[{{JAG}} "Rabb" and "MacKenzie" (or just "Mac")]]. The fact that they're both pretty good at what they do just makes the reference even more obvious! Albeit their first names are different, and they don't have quite the same personalities either.

** Ryo [[OneHitKill OTKs]] Manjoume with no damage to his Life Points, ''right after Manjoume defeats Judai''.

** Ryo [[OneHitKill OTKs]] Manjoume, ''right after Manjoume defeats Judai''.

* WorfHadTheFlu: The one time Judai defeats world champion Koyo (out of around 70 matches), Koyo was not using his standard deck. Additionally, [[spoiler:Midori would have defeated Reggie if Reggie had not manipulated her into holding back for the sake of finding out information to help her brother]].