Was Noah About To Defeat Yugi/Kaiba? [Virtual World Arc Finale]

Noah Vs Kaiba/Yugi Intro: (0:00)
Deck Master Choices: (0:50)
Kaiba Vs Noah: (2:10)
Yugi Vs Noah: (21:33)

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[bradleyharris]

So Noah's Deck Master ability was actually giving us a preview of what Yu-Gi-Oh card effects would look like in 20 years. Neat.

[Sindragozer]

11:23 Kaiba didn't finish him off right away because he was trying to finish his Master Duel daily tasks. He's got quotas to fill for how many monsters he needs to destroy and the amount of damage he needs to do lol

[finaldarkfire]

Funny enough, there is actually a LOT of interesting symbolism to this duel regarding Noah and his two decks. You already mentioned his fixation on gaining life-points, but just the way Shinato's Ark collects the 'spirits' of destroyed monsters has a lot of death-and-rebirth symbolism. Not to mention the way his deck seems focused on repeatedly wiping the field with floods, storms, ice, etc. has a rather biblical vibe, complete with his deck master being an 'ark'. Kid definitely has a god complex.

And his second deck has more interesting symbolism. Obviously a 'spirit' deck parallels Noah being an digitally-preserved consciousness (a spirit, basically), but there's also the fact that the spirit monsters are all based in Hindu mythology, which has a central concept of a cycle of reincarnation.

Oh, and there's also the irony of just WHO Noah is dueling here in Yami-Yugi and Kaiba: A disembodied SPIRIT trapped in an artificial vessel and a REINCARNATED spirit, respectively :D

[Lonelysarchives]

The dedication to analyze this long-ass Duel is really admirable. Major props

[Erebi]

The fact that Noah's Deck Master abilities were so broken and the panic look on his face when he looked at the cards in his hands hoping that there was something he can do so he won't lose made this victory all the more satisfying.

[jinxtheunluckypony]

I know it’s cheesy but Yugi coming into a duel with 400 life points and no hand is one of the coolest moments in the entire show.

[EdgyBobby]

Amazing. He went the entire video without calling the deck master "Noah's Ark."

[patussus]

I think the reason that Kaiba didn't set his ring of destruction and ring of defense earlier is because he was being cautious. Noah had a monster that could destroy spells and traps for free, not to mention he had so many field wiping cards (granted the field wiping cars were for monsters), so maybe Kaiba wanted to make sure that he didn't have any more spell/ trap removal. Great video btw.

[nyctophobia]

When you said Noah's deck master ability was "You can banish all monsters in both graveyards from play", I was like "Yeah, that's pretty broken because Kaiba won't be able to special summon anything from the graveyard most likely".

But then you kept listing abilities until Noah had a whole paragraph and I bust out laughing. Noah wasn't even pretending to make things fair.

[john-vlmm]

>Now I don't know if this is a translation error, but "winning" is a strong word
Here's my translation of Yugi's dialogue here: "Perfect victory? What this duel revealed was ultimately your own failure! This turn, Kaiba still had Twilight Zone Dragon on the field: a monster that cannot be destroyed in battle. Had he not summoned Blue-Eyes, Last Battle's effect would have resulted in a guaranteed tie. Kaiba deliberately chose to summon Blue-Eyes rather than take this option – in order to restore Mokuba's soul! Noah! Your soul is selfish to its core; could *you* have ever made such a choice? You can't so much as connect to one person, and you intend to run Kaiba Corporation? Don't make me laugh!"

Looking at the subtitles in your video footage, yes, it was a translation error. He didn't say "would've prevailed"; he said, well, what I wrote Though Kaiba obviously intended to win, and would have had Noah not pulled yet another hax Deck Master ability out of his arse at the last second. I think Yugi missed this point, to be honest. He didn't choose the safe option, but he didn't throw either.

Crunchyroll didn't mistranslate this scene, though I'd argue their phrasing "You're the one who actually lost this duel!" borders on it, since Yugi clearly means a philosophical, worthiness-of-character sense, not that Kaiba literally didn't lose according to the effect of Last Turn (which he did), and this doesn't come across the way it does in the original dialogue. A more literal, albeit clunky, translation of this line: "The one who lost in this duel's true meaning was you!"

[ronmillionare]

Another mistake Noah made was using Otohime to switch Kuriboh to Attack Position instead of Big Shield Gardna. In the Japanese version, he said he wanted revenge on Kuriboh for attacking him. If he wasn't so petty and attacked Big Shield Gardna instead, Yami would have had 1600 Life Points after his Nutrient Z play. Inaba White Rabbit would reduce him to 900. The Chaos Barrier Field trick would reduce him to 100, then Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi would have wiped him out.

[adaurysantos]

Yugi summoning all 3 of his Black Magicians is probably my favorite moment from this arc

[sebarsht]

This duel has my favourite form of foreshadowing: The card "Last Turn" that Kaiba used in his half of the duel, its artwork features two of the Spirit monsters that Noah used in his Yugi half of the duel.

[dnpkkdd]

The whole intrigue of the Yugi portion of this duel, was seeing Yugi use a crazy combo deck of his and Kaiba's cards. But for most of the duel, Yugi just used his own cards until the last turn. I wish the anime had let Yugi utilize more of Kaiba's cards in diffrent ways.

[procity]

The "I'm sorry, I'm not done yet" had me wheezing

[SamiTheAnxiousBean]

this entire duel has a lot of symbolic meaning, the lifepoint point you made obviously

but also
A lot of stuff about Noah, including his name is referencing the noah's ark backstory to the world used in all ibrahamic relegions, which itself represents a new world because the previous one got so bad it needed a reset
He has a shit ton of field wipe cards
and then there's obviously Shinato's ark and Shinato
I don't need to explain that xD

The entire battleground goes through the "Stages of life" our world had

Ocean and stone, Dino age, Ice age etc. in order

I like the theme-ing

[lucasthelegolas]

19:10 The Japanese's version of last turn is more clear on this. The monsters summoned does not need to be the original monsters it's just whoever still has a monster on the field wins the duel. So, if you have a cyber jar set for example. It would play out like this: The two monster battle, and cyber jar is flipped destroying both monsters, both players then reveal their top 5 cards of their deck, and then one of 4 things will happen.
Option A: Only player 1 revealed a monster(s), so they win the duel
Option B: Only player 2 revealed a monster(s), so they win the duel
Option C: Both players revealed a monster(s), but because the two original monsters already have performed a battle this turn which means that no further battling will take place and the effect of last turn moves the game to the end phase where the duel will end in a draw.
Option D: Neither player reveals a monster(s), which then results in a draw as neither player has a monster on the field.

[AlexTheOilersFan]

24:25

I think I can explain the whole "this is one of Kaiba's cards" line. Remember, they're in a virtual world and have to build their decks from scratch. Yugi, more than likely, didn't put Cyber Jar in his virtual deck. And since he combined his deck with Seto's, that probably explains the line from Yugi.

[spoofy]

For April fools you should do a “Was X about to beat Y” video but for Duelist Kingdom and say a bunch of DND-like stuff that the characters could’ve done to stay in the duel

[abdan]

As a kid I loved this arc. I found it unique in terms of how it played with the deck master and that everyone got to duel so it was fun seeing that.