Yusei Go

Yusei Go is Yusei Fudo's Duel Runner.

History

Yusei Fudo uses this Duel Runner to replace his old one. It is red in color. It is a hybrid built mainly from refurbished scrap metal of older runners, which was recollected by Rally and the others. It includes a Duel Disk in the design of a Battle City Duel Disk, also apparently scavenged from the endless junkyard wastes of the ruined Satellite region. The Disk along with most of the runner's parts, including the latest top of the line marketed KaibaCorp acceleration chip: the Skyline 30; were either scavenged or stolen from Sector Security.

Features

The Duel Runner contains an extra compartment which Yusei uses to keep the helmet.

Yusei Go was modified by Yusei and Bruno with their new engine program in order to compete in the World Riding Duel Grand Prix. Yusei believes this upgrade will also help him achieve Accel Synchro.

For the WRGP, the runner contains Team Five D's logo.

Name

"Yusei Go" (while a rather uncharacteristically vague and simple name coming from Yusei, especially in comparisons to the names of other D-Wheels) said phonetically is also definitively the English phrase "You say go!" as in "going forward" or "Let's Go!" Effectively, this means the name is possibly intended as (yet another) wordplay joke within a name as is very prevalent and common in Japanese vernacular as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! game itself.

In the same vein, "Go" can have two meanings (as has been done before with the word in other works). "Go" in English in relation to motion and going forward in accordance to the speed theme of the show as well as "go" in Japanese meaning "five"; a direct relation to the show's invested and important "character" number (5D's, Five Dragons, 5 Signers, etc).

"Go" can also mean it was Yusei's fifth model in his attempts to build a D-Wheel, means there were 4 others before he came to a working model (there was at least 1 prior). This is also a common literature trope, especially in fantasy and science fiction.

To add on a third meaning, the name literally means "Yusei Model" as in "Yusei Model D-Wheel" (in the same way you refer to the original Ford Model-T as "Ford Model-T").

Real life

Real life version of Yusei Go.

In Japan, Yusei Go was used in the commercials for The Duelist Genesis and Starstrike Blast.

The Japanese toy.

A real life model of the Duel Runner was on display at the San Diego Comic Con on July 24th, 2008, at the premiere of the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. The model was also on display at the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships 2010 in Long Beach, CA.

Toys have been made of Yusei Go. The Japanese version includes a Yusei figure in a sitting position and a clip-on Duel Disk. The English version of the toy can fire a projectile and comes with a more posable Yusei figure.