Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 015
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| Series | Yu-Gi-Oh! |
| Number | 15 |
| Season | 1 |
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Winning Through Intimidation (Panik Attack - Part 2), known as Cut through the Dark! Sealing Swords of Light or Rend the Darkness! Sealing Swords of Light in the Japanese version is the fifteenth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime.
Contents
Summary
Back at the Duel, Yami Yugi and PaniK continue to exchange words. PaniK, trembling in fear, summons King of Yamimakai and attacks, but the attack is redirected to Reaper of the Cards and takes a huge chunk of PaniK's own Life Points.
Yami Yugi activates Swords of Revealing Light, revealing all of PaniK's monsters and preventing them from attacking for 3 turns. PaniK counters with Chaos Shield, switching all of his monsters to Defense Position and raising their DEF.
Knowing that most of Yami Yugi's monsters are too weak to destroy his shield, PaniK demands he gives up, but Yami Yugi is not intimidated, claiming he knew PaniK's strategies the second he met him and that he walked right into his trap.
Yami Yugi summons Catapult Turtle, launching Gaia the Dragon Champion at Castle of Dark Illusions, destroying the flotation ring. However, the castle is still standing.
Still unintimidated, Yami Yugi says the only reason why his castle is still standing is because Swords of Revealing Light are holding it up. Once they disappear, the castle comes crashing down.
Since PaniK has trapped his monsters inside the Chaos Shield, all of them are destroyed and PaniK loses the duel. PaniK tries to kill Yami Yugi by firing flames towards him, but his Millennium Puzzle protects him.
PaniK is then destroyed by Yugi's magical powers. After the duel, Yugi offers Mai her Star Chips back, but Mai refuses to take them.
She believes she does not deserve them. After Joey plays around and tries to steal the chips, Mai demands that he give them back and he does. As Yugi and the group leave, Mai thanks Yugi for his effort. When they meet again, she will repay him and face him in an honorable duel.
Featured Duel: Yami Yugi vs. PaniK
Duel continued from previous episode.
Turn 11: PaniK
- PaniK draws "King of Yamimakai" and subsequently Normal Summons it in Attack Position) (2000 ATK / 1530 DEF). Since it is night, "King of Yamimakai: gains a Field Power Bonus ("King of Yamimakai": 2000 > 2600 ATK / 1530 > 1989 DEF).
- "King of Yamimakai" attacks "Curse of Dragon", but "Spellbinding Circle's" light redirects the attack to "Reaper of the Cards"; destroying it (PaniK 2000 > 494 Life Points).
Turn 12: Yami Yugi
- Activates "Swords of Revealing Light", revealing all of PaniK's monsters and forbidding PaniK from attacking for 3 turns.
Turn 13: PaniK
- Draws "Chaos Shield" and subsequently activates it to increase the Defense Points of all his monsters ("Castle of Dark Illusions": 2509 > 3200 DEF / "Barox": 1998 > 2600 DEF / "Dark Chimera": 1898 > 2600 DEF / "King of Yamimakai": 1989 > 2600 DEF) and switch them to Defense Position.
Turn 14: Yami Yugi
- Draws "Gaia the Fierce Knight" and subsequently Normal Summons it in Attack Position (2300 ATK / 2100 DEF).
- Activates "Polymerization". He sends "Curse of Dragon" and "Gaia the Fierce Knight from his field to his Graveyard to Fusion Summon "Gaia the Dragon Champion" in Attack Position (2600 ATK / 2100 DEF).
Turn 15: PaniK
- Draws "Metal Guardian" and subsequently Normal Summons it in Defense Position (1150 ATK / 2150 DEF). Since it is night, "Metal Guardian" gains a Field Power Bonus ("Metal Guardian": 1150 > 1495 ATK / 2150 > 2795 DEF).
- Since "Metal Guardian" is in Defense Position, it will now guard all of PaniK's monsters.
Turn 16: Yami Yugi
- Yami Yugi draws.
- Normal Summons "Catapult Turtle" in Defense Position" (1000 ATK / 2000 DEF).
- Activates the effect of "Catapult Turtle" to increase the ATK of "Gaia the Dragon Champion" by 600("Gaia the Dragon Champion":2600 > 3200 ATK / 2000 DEF) and Tribute it to destroy "Castle of Dark Illusions'" flotation ring. Shortly after doing this, Yami Yugi takes damage (Yami Yugi 1606 > 300 Life Points).
- However, "Castle of Dark Illusions" remains floating. Yami Yugi explains that the only reason "Castle of Dark Illusions" is still floating is because of "Swords of Revealing Light's" effect.
- Yami Yugi ends his turn. Because he did so, the effect of "Swords of Revealing Light" vanishes, causing "Castle of Dark Illusions" to crash down on PaniK's monsters, who are unable to leave because of "Chaos Shield".
- This wipes out the rest of PaniK's Life Points (PaniK 494 > 0 Life Points).
Yami Yugi wins. PaniK, angry that he lost, attempts to kill Yami Yugi with fire, he gets killed instead (or sent to the Shadow Realm in the English Version of the Anime).
Differences in adaptations
- The countdown is cut out from the Dub.
- "Yellow Luster Shield" is given a slight redesign in the US Version.
- The Japanese Player Killer has the kanji for "yami" or "darkness" on his cap, which is removed in the US Version.
- Before Yami Yugi sends PaniK to the Shadow Realm, the letters P and K can be seen on either side of PaniK's jacket, presumably a reference to his Japanese nickname, Player Killer.
- As before, Barox has the purple background of a fusion monster in the US version, but it's a normal monster in the Japanese version.
- After Yami Yugi sacrifices Gaia, The Dragon Champion he has a concerned look in his face in the English version, but in the Japanese version he doesn't have one.
Errors
- When PaniK is becoming nervous after playing Yellow Luster Shield, we see that Metal Guardian is on the field, while PaniK hasn't played it yet.
- Yugi's Life Point total is briefly shown as 1606 on the side of his podium before it is actually reduced to that number.
Trivia
- Yami Yugi wins through what some fans have come to call the "Catapult Turtle Flying Castle Gambit", which is impossible in a duel mainly because it disregards Catapult Turtle's actual effect and relies on a mechanic probability that would be incalculable in the real card game.
- However, if Catapult Turtle's anime effect applies then Yami Yugi's victory can be considered legitimate, as PaniK actually lost because of that particular anime-only effect of Catapult Turtle which states that a player could increase the ATK of a monster by 600, then Tribute it, to inflict Damage equal to half of its ATK to their opponent. Since Gaia the Dragon Champion had 3200 ATK then PaniK would have lost 1600 LP going down to 0.
Featured cards
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.
