YMMV / Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!

• Accidental Innuendo: One of Yudias's monsters is named Giant Bulge^note this is ostensibly in reference to the central bulge of the Milky Way and other such spiral galaxies, but it sounds rather like... something else. Many giggles were to be had.
• Adorkable: Yudias' excitement over the advent of Rush Duels is absolutely infectious. Episode 7 is a prominent example, where he decides to announce all 24 types of Duel Monster cards with a rap.
• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Did Kuaidul really disappear because he was too late and Yudias' body was unable to sustain his ego like he said or did he consciously decide to give up after seeing how far Yudias was willing to go to help him?
  • How much of an abusive precursor was The Creator actually? Kuaidul's performance as The Creator when revealing the truth to Zwijo paints a pretty negative image but in the end this is just Kuaidul giving Zwijo the motivation to do his part of Kuaidul's plan and Kuaidul himself obviously doesn't actually view The Creator negatively. The Creator clearly showed a degree of care for Kuaidul and when preparing to depart for Earth there was a huge crowd of Velgearians, so he and Kuaidul do not seem to have been just isolated or completely unknown at that time unlike how things appear to be during the events of Go Rush. Given the lack of prior lifeforms to provide company on a cosmic scale around him The Creator's response of creating the Velgearians is understandable and the game part could be chalked up to an Earthdamar's nature of being an embodiment of enjoyment and fun. Kuaidul's narration even says that the Kartumata perfected their game, so it's ambiguous how much Kartumata other than Kuaidul were actively involved in the process. The Creator didn't plan to get absorbed by Kuaidul, so it's unknown if he would have let things go on for so long without the Kartumata being aware of the true nature of their war and how much he would have let things escalate before stepping in.
• Designated Hero: Yuna in episode 96. After capturing Yuga, Manabu made a perfectly reasonable offer to Yuna: let MIK interrogate Yuga to learn how to prevent the disappearance of the Velgearians, and Manabu would let Yuna talk to Yuga afterwards. And how did Yuna react? By selfishly demanding to see Yuga immediately and not even caring that all the Velgearians were dying AND FAST. Despite that, of all those present, Manabu was really the only one to put up any sort of protest and was brought down to her level when he taunted her that Yuga was running away from Yuna due to her single-minded obsession over him and wanted MIK to help him, all to make her not look as bad.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mitsuko Hiramori wasn't initially too popular until her true form was revealed to be a more human-like girl that still happened to be three meters tall, at which point her popularity skyrocketed.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • The nature of how the series is connected to Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS; is it a genuine sequel, or does the series just reference SEVENS?^note Yuhi and Yuamu both have the Ohdo surname, but it's unknown if they're actually related to Yuga; their town is named "Mutsuba Town" after the Mutsuba family from SEVENS; and the Duel Disks are a very clear progression from the SEVENS ones - Yudias even uses a SEVENS Duel Disk. In addition, there appear to be elderly versions of Galian Tazaki, Nick Yagi, Sushiko Maki, Gibumi Purisaki, Ushiro Omaeno, Getta Taira, Jango Arisugawa, and Caterpillio Zoomyoji (although they are later revealed to be different people entirely: Galixon Tazaki, Torey Yagi, Makiko Maki, Gurumi Purisaki, Mondai Omaeno, Gale Taira, Dabingo Arisugawa, and Manupilio Zoomyoji) Some have also tried to connect the series to previous shows, particularly Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL; aside from the obvious connection of both heavily featuring aliens, there's also the fact that Yudias's flashback to the destruction of his home star system depicts a collision between two galaxies, one red and one blue, bringing to mind the Astral-Barian conflict from that show.
    • While this is partially answered by the appearance of Yuga himself, who also confirmed it being far in the past, at a time where Rush Duels shouldn't have existed, confirming it's a genuine sequel, this only made room for more questions and theories since the stone tablet appears in the series, confirming that it's behind not just Rush Duels but the creation of the entire Velgearean race, plus the reference to the book of Sevens.
  • While Yudias is advertised as the main protagonist, his name being written entirely in katakana and thus lacking the usual kanji "Yu" (遊) had fans speculating over whether his role would end up being similar to Astral or Yami Yugi, and that Yuhi (the only one of the three main characters to both have 遊 and the long sound associated with it) would become the true protagonist.
  • A theory that has started to gain traction in the fandom is that Otes is a future version of Yuga, who traveled to the past in this series, and as such is trapped into a time loop of his own making where Yuga grows up to be disillusioned, somehow loses his memories, ends up making his alternate Yuga self into the future create Rush Duels, then confronts his younger/future self, leading to that self being thrown onto the past, and this repeats an indeterminate number of times.
• Ho Yay:
  • Yuna is very attached to Rovian, fawning over everything she says or does and being very torn up every time they're separated.
  • While first criticizing Yudias' attempt at cosplaying as his beloved Meeeg-chan, Chupataro then takes a closer looks and finds himself attracted to Yudias. Even after the competition is over he still looks rather enamored at him.
  • Yudias practically confesses to Zuwijo during their second duel - for bonus points, the moment shifts to a flower field. It was enough to stun a rampaging Zuwijo into silence. Cue the flower petals flying out as Yudias smiles warmly at a shocked Zuwijo.
• I Knew It!: Yuamu's absence on the poster for Season 3 led the fandom to speculate they were either being Demoted to Extra or something would happen to them. Sure enough, she disappears at the end of Season 2, and Yudias and Yuhi head off to search for her.
• Shocking Moments: The first arc of season two starts strong, with characters being turned to cards right off the bat. And not minor characters either, the first one is none other than Yuga himself, and if that wasn't enough just three episodes later Yuhi suffers the same fate.
• Tainted by the Preview: Given that Rush Duels were already a Broken Base subject among the fandom, especially overseas, the fact that the next series would also focus on them (rather than returning to Master Duels as many had expected) left a bad taste in some fans' mouths.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Nyandestar's background of having her entire planet and all of her people frozen and being the only one to escape. This gets even sadder with her eventually being frozen too.
  • While he is unintentionally responsible for a massive amount of trouble through an insane amount of obliviousness with his manga draft being boring to supernatural levels seeming like a really silly idea you can still feel the sheer grief The☆Luge feels about his Mr. Universe which he had always thought to be good for 80053 years.
  • MIK driving all aliens and everyone who supported them into the underground with the sheer utter powerlessness Yuhi felt changing him. The situation gets even more somber once everyone finds out about Yuga having been turned into a card during the time skip.
  • Zaion and Yuna having to break out of the hold Kuaidul's Space-Time has over them gets rather sad with how it essentially presented them with a fake reality where their dreams and wishes came true.
  • The lifespan of the 8.88 million Velgearians inside Valvelgear running out in Episode 95. Even worse is the fact that only Taizaki knows this since they want to keep their deaths a secret so that Yudias and co. can continue focusing on restoring the relic rather than waste their time on grieving them. By the end of his duel against Asaka, all of them are dead with the latter only silently commanding her monster to finish the duel. The situation with the people of Dudi Ducasse isn't any better in this episode despite their desperate attempts to preserve their commander with Asaka's help.
  • Zuwijo himself begins to run out of lifespan, and resolves to go out on his own terms in one final Rush Duel with Yudias. By the end of the duel he can barely stand and his legs give out, requiring Mitsuko to help hold him up. Declaring that this is not a "Mass for the dead," Zuwijo manages to finally beat Yudias in a Rush Duel, dying as Yudias's Life Points hit zero. Yudias is left in a state of shock for a few moments before breaking down and screaming Zuwijo's name at the sky, a cloud forming Zuwijo's silhouette.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Sevens Road Magician, Yuga Ohdo's ace monster from the previous series, being used by Yuna Goha as her ace.
  • And as of Episode 38, the return of Yuga himself made the fandom lose its collective marbles. It's the first time a previous protagonist has appeared in another entry since Yugi in the final three episodes of GX, and the series makes it known for all it's worth.
  • Of all characters, Schrodinger Nekoyama being the main character to interact with the Ohdos when they temporarily return to Goha City.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • As most fans would have expected, Phaser and Tremolo Ryugu pull a Heel–Face Turn at the end of their arc following the revelation of their heritage to Phaser and his defeat. However, the series had depicted them both in an incredibly unsavory light up until that point, with Phaser being an authoritarian racist and Tremolo being depicted as incredibly creepy towards women, including the three girls later confirmed to have been transformed into his Maximum Monster. As a result, many fans cried foul over their redemption, even though they genuinely do clean up their acts.
  • Yuga and Yuamu in the final arc of Season 2. He opposes the efforts to revive the Velgearians with Monster Reborn due to his knowledge of what it will do in the future but doesn't explain his reasoning until the end of the arc. To make matters more frustrating it turns out it wouldn't have worked anyway but Yuga, and Yuamu after she sides with him had no way of knowing this.

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