ZEXAL Ep. 3 - A Sudden Incident During the Aftermath

Here is the summary and review for Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Episode 3: "A Sudden Incident During the Aftermath!!" A mysterious person is seen on a large computer, installing a virus named "Bugman X". When the Bugman X starts chanting it's name, a bunch of Bugmen X appear and travel throught the computer network. Doing this causes technology around the city to malfunction. On the street, Yuma and Astral are walking and talking about regaining Astral's memories and Yuma is annoyed that he will have to find all the Numbers to help him. Tetsuo and Kotori see that Yuma is still talking to the invisible "Dueling spirit". Astral makes an observation: "Yuma is weird." As Yuma starts to protest, they hear a scream coming from Yuma's house. They rush up to find Yuma's sister Akari mumbling about a virus that corrupted her manuscript, and she only has an hour until her deadline. She tells Yuma to get out and find an explanation for this, pronto! While outside, a juice machine malfunctions and spits out cans of juice. Yuma, of course, gets as many as his arms can hold. A cleaning robot comes and sticks Yuma inside the trash bin, exclaiming "Cleaning! Cleaning!", as it is malfunctioning as well. During dinner, Akari, Grandma Haru and Yuma are all at the table, eating fish and rice. Akari cries about how she missed the deadline, as Yuma and Grandma Haru talk casually about the recent day's events. Akari is snapped out of her mood, and states that something fishy is going on. Hurriedly, she takes Yuma's fish, eats it to the bone (much to Yuma's dismay), and runs off to investigate. After Yuma eats, he goes to the bathroom, while Astral observes the human energy replenishment process. He wonders why he cannot join Yuma in the bathroom. Yuma says if anyone saw him doing this, he'd die! Astral is surprised and makes an observation: "Humans must eat and release in an endless combination. They would die if they were seen doing this." Astral then makes a comment about Yuma's horrible Dueling, and Yuma gets mad at him and storms off. While Yuma sleeps, Astral gets sucked into the pendant Yuma wears around his neck. The next day, at Yuma's school, all the computer textbooks are offline because of the virus. Yuma suggests having a Duel Tournament since they can't do any work. Professor Ukyo, the teacher, agrees, and Yuma's first opponent is Todoroki, the analytical Commitee Chairman. Todoroki beats Yuma easily, and states that a fool cannot win a Duel. Professor Ukyo comes and explains to Yuma that losing is fine and that you just have to learn from it. He asks if that is the challenge spirit of Yuma's "Kattobingu", to which Yuma (who is in tears at this point) agrees. Later, Yuma and Kotori walk home, and Yuma admires Professor Ukyo's kindness. Akari shows up and drives Yuma and Kotori to the school library to stake-out the culprit. There, they find Todoroki, who has just found out about the virus himself. The three of them hunt down Professor Ukyo, who they find out released the virus. They find out he has a Numbers: Number 34. Astral appears when he sees the Numbers. Yuma challenges Ukyo to a Duel so he will stop the virus. The Duel begins! Ukyo uses the same "Bugman" cards that Todoroki was using. He then Exceed Summons Computer Beast Terabyte. With it, he starts to chip away at Yuma's Life Points. REVIEW TIME!!! I thought the episode was good, but why did it have to be another two-parter Duel? The show should stick to one shot episodes for a little bit. I absolutely love Astral; he is my favorite character in ZEXAL. Yuma's okay, but Astral rules! The new Numbers (No.34) isn't very cool-looking, but neither is anything else in this show. Anyway, good episode, but it needed more Duel and less "To be continued" episodes. Click the post title to watch the episode in its full, HD, subbed quality! Next episode: "The Countdown to Reversal! The Ace-in-the-Hole is Astral!?". That stuff should be up by next Sunday. YuJaYu out!!!