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Yeah, I liked Meiru more when she was more serious. I think she has the best summoning chants and having Ritual monsters is a big plus, I wonder if she will use a new archtype. Her opponent would probably be Yuzu, and jealously over Yuya would probably be the main conflict over the duel. Still if it turns out to be a good duel I would have no complaints, and it would be a bigger plus if she used her skills in telling what things may happen to Yuzu.
Meiru using Ritual monsters and possibly using her fortune telling skills to foreshadow further plot developments for the cast are the only reasons why I'd look forward to her dueling. While it was obvious that she'd develop a crush on Yuya after their duel, it still seems rather unnecessary, if the other one-sided crushes on main leads in previous series were any indication, and it makes her more annoying. She'd probably be annoying if she dueled Yuzu since it would be about Yuya, but foreshadowing something that will happen to Yuzu would make it interesting.
HumanDawn said:Yeah, and Reiji was the one who gave him the cards too, although with them being new cards made to counter Pendulum monsters made by LDS there wouldn't be any other way for Shingo to get those cards or use the strategy if Reiji didn't make them that way. Still, he utilized their powers well with how he could. There are more Yosenju cards that haven't been revealed, so maybe.
With Shingo being out of the tournament I doubt there would be much of anything to with him, although the new opening showed that Yugo's hair was a bit similar to Shingo's, from the little what we saw, which makes me wonder if Yugo is some alternate Shingo like how Yuto is an alternate Yuya and Ruri is an alternate Yuzu.
Getting the cards from Reiji isn't much of an issue since that would be the only way he'd be able to get Pendulum monsters. Being taught a strategy on top of being handed a deck of rare cards. As for Yugo, I'm not sure if he'll be the alternate Sawatari, but it's hard to say for sure either way given that we haven't seen much of his face. I'm also not sure if the writers are going to make him that important. While he isn't an unnecessary character by any means and I don't think that he'll disappear completely, it also doesn't come off like he's particularly important beyond being a way for Reiji to test Yuya. That could easily change later on, but that's the impression I've gotten from him.
HumanDawn said:Next week's duel sounds interesting, the Heartland field looks fun and makes me hope they talk about the actual place more. Sora looks like he'll be really condescending, which would probably make Shun be really harsh in his dueling. Considering that Reiji is the host of the tournament, I wonder if he purposefully picked Heartland because of Shun. I'm also pretty sure the match ups are at least handpicked by Reiji instead of randomized, since I find it really hard to believe that Yuya, Yuzu and Gogenzaka got opponents that share conflicts with them randomly, especially Yuya and Shingo in the first round. Shun facing a Fusion user who Reiji had an eye on is probably his doing as well. I doubt Ayu and Reira's duel had anything to do with Reiji, unless he wanted Reira to duel somebody from You Show Duel School to make Yuya aware of Reira, but I don't know why Reiji would want that.
I doubt that Reiji is aware of Gongenzaka's history with Gen, but he might have been aware of Yuzu wanting to duel Masumi given that he was there for his first duel. I'm not sure if Reiji would set up Reira's match like that. I think he most likely set up Yuya's first duel given that he had already used Sawatari as a means to test him before and figured that he could use him to test out their new Pendulum cards as well.
Anyway, I thought that last week's episode was pretty good. Yuya's Trap card to change the names of Sawatari's monsters seemed a bit situational, but I could kind of see why he might have it due to a lot of decks running with a specific archetype. I did like how Yuya was able to avoid the attack by figuring out where the Action Card was beforehand and was able to get it before the direct attack landed on him.
Sawatari wanting the crowd to cheer for him louder just gave the impression that he wanted the spotlight on him more than anything else. Although, I did like how Yuya handled people cheering for someone else to Pendulum summon. It was already clear that he had dealt with that issue, but he was still able to keep focus when the crowd was cheering for someone else to use Pendulum monsters, which I thought was kind of a big deal for Yuya. I did enjoy seeing how both Yuya and Sawatari were able to enjoy providing an entertaining duel and by the end, Sawatari seemed like he wanted to put on a good show instead of seeing more attention for him. I liked how Yuya got the crowd's attention for his last draw. In other duels where he's pushed to a corner, he's more nervous and serious during his last draw, but he was able to have more fun and then try to get the crowd more excited with his draw.
His last card was even more situational, but I could go with it too. Seeing Beast-Eyes again was awesome and it caught Reiji's attention too. It was obvious that Yuya was going to win, but it was a pretty fun match. Yuya and Sawatari were at least on more neutral grounds by the end given that Sawatari wanted to duel him again. I don't know if I'd consider them friends or if they are going for that for down the line like what happened with Judai and Manjoume, but at least Sawatari handled the loss better than I though he would. He's still the least interesting character in the series for me, as well as my least favorite. He can be entertaining to watch given how much of a doofus he can be, but he comes off as too much of a brat to like and not particularly interesting in spite of that. I dislike Sora for similar reasons, but at least being mysterious makes him interesting to watch in spite of being completely selfish and arrogant.
It sounds like Reiji is going to try to mass produce the Pendulum cards now. I still hope that we only see a few characters using Pendulum cards. One of my favorite aspects of this series is how the Pendulum cards, while clearly important, aren't taking up the main focus from all of the other type of cards like Xyz and to a lesser extent Synchro monsters did in the last couple of series. It helps to make the duels refreshing and showcases a more variety of cards, so I hope that they don't get rid of that by having everyone in the cast use Pendulum cards in the future.