Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (Anime)

'''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's''' is a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, that began airing in Japan on April 2, 2008, as the successor to the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime. It was then followed by the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. It also had a spinoff manga series. This series was acquired by 4Kids Entertainment for broadcasting in the United States on September 13, 2008. On June 1, 2009, Cartoon Network began airing Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episodes weekly.

Background
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is set in New Domino City some time after the events concerning Yugi Muto and Jaden Yuki. A new form of dueling, "Turbo Duels", now take place on motorcycles called "Duel Runners". While regular dueling still exists, Turbo Duels have become a popular form of entertainment for spectators, who watch them in specially-designed stadiums. This series also takes place in an altered time-line (due to Yliaster intervening with the past).

Sagas

 * Fortune Cup
 * Dark Signers
 * Pre-World Racing Grand Prix
 * Crash Town
 * World Racing Grand Prix
 * Ark Cradle
 * Team 5D's future

Difference from Anime to Manga

 * In the Japanese version, the class system between the upper class residents New Domino City and the often rejected residents of Satellite is a recurring theme throughout the series. While the class system exists in the English version, it is not as severe and much less emphasized. Some dialogue referring to the class system such as "Satellite scum" is replaced. Nerve and Blitz also had their names switched, so now they are Blitz and Nervin respectively.
 * The English dub adds a card explanation when a certain card is played during a duel, usually once an episode and mostly only about what is obvious to the viewer (ATK, DEF, Level and Attribute). It displays the card's ATK and DEF, type, attribute and effect (if it's a monster). With Spells, Speed Spells, and Traps, it just explains their effect.
 * In the English version changes have been made to character names and personalities. Certain scenes and images have been altered and removed as well. The show's darker content also has been changed in order to give the show a more Western younger feel and make the show more marketable across non-English countries.
 * The original music and sound effects are completely replaced in the English version. Much of the 4Kids dub sound effects are made from the original Japanese sound effects or are made sounding like the sound effects from the original Japanese version, though much quieter. But this is the first of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime dubs to have some of the sound effects from the original Japanese version used along with the music completely replaced.
 * Things such as nudity, religions, blood, weapons, killing, and death are censored in the English version.
 * Life Points, ATK, DEF, and Level meters are redesigned in the English version.
 * Due to FCC regulations as well as to make the show more marketable to non-English speaking countries and even for the purposes of cultural streamlining, intended to make the show more understandable or palatable to Western audiences, instances of Japanese and English text are airbrushed out, blurred or replaced with horizontal lines, odd-shapes, and other meaningless symbols in the English version. Not only that but this is the first of 4Kids anime adaptations to ever show Japanese and English changed to languages similar to Latin. The text on the Duel Runners are edited out or replaced with some kinds of symbols. When the players' Life Points reach 0, the screens on the Duel Runners have the word "DEFEAT" replaced with a big X.
 * The show is one of 4Kids' anime dubs to still be close captioned by the National Captioning Institute.
 * The English version excluded episodes 36-41 from their original television run; however, 4Kids has since put the missing episodes on the 4Kids website. The television broadcast continued from episode 42 onwards.
 * According to the 4Kids' website, the second season (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Road to Destiny) is set to air on September 18, 2010 on Toonzai. It will air two new episodes every Saturday after that. The first season of the dub returned to the CW4Kids on May 29, 2010 at the 11:00 AM block. On August 7, 2010, the CW4Kids aired the first season finale. On Saturday, August 14, 2010, 4Kids showed reruns of the first season beginning with Yusei's second duel with Dark Signer Kalin and ending with the first-season finale once more on the same date as the premiere of "Road to Destiny". However, the 11:00 AM slot was replaced by the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, and now only one new episode airs at 11:30.
 * In the current fall line-up, Toonzai!, a name given by 4Kids to emphasize the fact the majority of its current running shows are anime series, began airing the new season of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Road to Destiny on September 18, 2010.
 * 4Kids has decided to skip Episode 85 and has confirmed that on November 27, it will go straight towards the Crashtown arc after episode 84 airs in English. However, Episode 85 aired later on February 5, 2011, after being put up on Hulu, Toonzaki, and the 4Kids website.
 * On June 18th, 2011, 4Kids has decided to skip Episodes 111 to 122. It will go straight to the episode where Team 5D's and Team Ragnarok meet each other for the first time. However, Subtitled versions of the skipped episodes are being posted on the Toonzai website.
 * On September 10th, 2011, episodes 135-136 were merged into a one hour episode, which aired on Toonzai. However, the ending was edited so that after Aporia lost, the Divine Temple disappeared from existence. As a result, the special one hour episode ended with the celebration of Team 5D's victory as the series finale. The last season was not dubbed, leaving the series incomplete just like how  the previous series was also left incomplete. According to the Toonzaki webmaster, they ended the series like this due to "low ratings".

Manga
The Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's manga is published in V Jump. It maintains the characters and settings from the anime, but uses a different storyline and characters are given different cards.

Movies & OVAs

 * Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time
 * Evolving Duel! Stardust VS Red Demons (OVA)

Voice Cast

 * Japanese


 * English
 * English



Theme Songs

 * English opening theme:
 * Hyper Drive


 * Performer : Cass Dillon (All episodes)
 * Opening Theme
 * Kizuna (Bonds)


 * Performer: Kra (Ep 01 - 26)
 * Last Train - The New Morning


 * Performer: Knotlamp (Ep 27 - 64)
 * FREEDOM


 * Performer: La-Vie (Ep 65 - 103)
 * BELIEVE IN NEXUS


 * Performer: Masaaki Endoh (Ep 104 - 129)
 * Road to Tomorrow ~Going My Way!!~


 * Performer: Masaaki Endoh (Ep 130 - 153)
 * Ending Theme


 * START
 * Performer: Nakagauchi Masataka (Ep 01 - 26)
 * CROSS GAME
 * Performer: Alice Nine (Ep 27 - 64)
 * -OZONE-
 * Performer: Vistlip (Ep 65 - 103)
 * Close to you


 * Performer: ALvino～Alchemy vision normal～ (Ep 104 - 129)
 * Future Colors


 * Performer: Plastic Tree (Ep 130 - 154)
 * Japanese Insert songs
 * You Say ~Ashita e~ ("You say... to tomorrow")


 * Performer: La-Vie (Ep 72, 90, 92)
 * Clear Mind


 * Performer: Masaaki Endoh (Ep 109, 110, 122, 129, 134, 154)
 * YAKUSOKU NO MELODY (The Melody of Promises)

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 * Performer: Masaaki Endoh (Ep 154)