ZEXAL Ep. 1 - Kattobingu daze, Ore!

Hey, YuJaYu here, with info about Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 1! First, the summary: "Set in the near future, Yuma Tsukumo aims to become a future Duel Champion. He's a 13-year-old with an energetic spirit, and with 'Kattobingu!' as his catchphrase, he challenges everything and believes in himself. But his Dueling skills are horrible and amateurish. In this future, Exceed Summons and Exceed Monsters are the favorite way to play. D-Gazers and D-Pads are used in Duels. One day, Yuma's friend Tetsuo Takeda has his Deck stolen from him, by Ryoga Kamishiro. To get Tetsuo's Deck back, Yuma challenges him to a Duel. Ryoga then shatters Yuma's most prized possession, his pendant given to him by his mother that he wears around his neck. This angers Yuma, so he shouts 'Kattobingu!' and gets the Duel on! Ryoga fiercely beats Yuma down with his Shark monsters, and Yuma has no way to counter. Then when Yuma is down to his last 1000 Life Points, a creepy door shows up and repairs his broken pendant. Then Yuma opens the door with the pendant, returning himself to the real world. Ryoga then Exceed Summons his No. 17 Revise Dragon! But then, when Yuma looks up, he sees a mysterious spirit hovering above him. Yuma asks, "Who are you?". That's it for the summary, now time for the review: First off, I thought the opening and ending songs were awesome. The episode, not so much. The character designs=UGH. They look horrible and there are too many colors. The D-Gazers and D-Pads=what's the point? They are just stupid accessories and act the same as a Duel Disk. The characters=just plain idiotic. Yuma's a clumsy moron, Ryoga's a deep-voiced bully, Tetsuo's just plain fat, Kotori is ineffectual, and they are all just plain STUPID! The catchphrase, Kattobingu, is repeated way too many times in a single episode for it to really have any meaning. The Duel Monsters are okay, I guess; except for the Exceed Monster. That was just weird. I mean, why couldn't they have stuck with Synchros? Those are what changed the game, and Exceeds will never, ever have the same impact as Synchros did. Also, all the characters have a tendency to over-act, Yuma and Ryoga especially. My overall review of the episode: 2/10, and it only got anything because of the theme songs. Hopefully it gets better next episode, because I really think this is a shoddy attempt at trying to make Yu-Gi-Oh more for little kids again, which it never was(except in America). Yuma's voice is too deep for such a grubby little child. Ugh, every other protagonist was amazing: Yugi/Yami, Judai, Yusei... and then Yuma comes along with his boringness and ruins everything. I guess that's it for now... YuJaYu out!!!