Episodes

After his victory over Jack in the Fortune Cup, Yusei is named the new Duel King. While Yanagi informs the gang about the Signers and the Dragon Birthmarks, Yusei is challenged by a mysterious man with a Spider shaped birthmark on his arm who is able to make the duel into a Shadow Duel. Yusei is surprised to find his opponent has a fearsome new type of monster, a Dark Synchro Monster. Meanwhile, a reporter named Carly tries to get the scoop on the new Duel King.

Despite the difficulties caused by the Dark Synchro Monster, Yusei manages to win his duel against the Dark Signer. However, after the duel, his opponent has no recollection of what happened and no longer has the birthmark or any Dark Synchro Monsters in his deck. It is revealed that spiders are being used to control people, one of which are heading to the hospital where Jack is recovering. Trudge arrives to take Yusei back to the Satellite, and Yusei decides to go, with intention of getting the truth out of Goodwin.

Following her release from security, Carly attends a premiere event and encounters a model named Misty, who predicts her death. When Angela, a rival reporter, reveals Jack was actually born in the Satellite, Carly decides to infiltrate the hospital to interview Jack. At that time, a Dark Signer spider possesses Trudge and challenges Jack, who is trying to leave the hospital, to a duel. Unable to use his fractured right arm, Jack decides to use Carly as his arm. They win the duel, but Jack is weakened and asks Carly to get him out of there without anyone noticing. Meanwhile, Goodwin shows Yusei the truth.

A Satellite rebel named Crow steals several decks for his friends. He is forced into a duel by Security, but manages to beat them with a one-turn kill. As Goodwin tells Yusei the truth about Signers and Dark Signers, Luna has nightmares involving the dragons. Mina and Trudge show up at Carly’s place where they find Jack, but he refuses to go with them. Yusei is then sent back to the Satellite where Crow awaits him.

After catching up with each other and reuniting with Rally and co, Yusei and Crow are forced into a Turbo Duel with security using Tag Duel rules. Meanwhile, Carly accompanies Jack around the city whilst Mina and Trudge follow. Jack reminisces about his life in the Satellite, and the friends he betrayed. Following some advice from Carly, he decides to follow his own path.

Rally and friends meet up with Yusei and Crow at his hideout, where Crow tells a story about the man who made the Daedalus Bridge. Later that night, whilst Yusei and Crow search for the Dark Signer’s whereabouts, Kalin, a former friend of theirs, sends out a Dark birthmark signal, alerting Yusei and the other Signers. Jack and Carly are escorted by Mina to Yusei’s whereabouts, where Carly learns that Yusei was born in Tops, and his parents were involved in the Zero Reverse incident. Kalin makes his appearance, trapping Yusei in a geoglyph shaped like the Giant Nazca Line and forcing him into a Dark Turbo Duel.

While preparing for his duel against Kalin, Yusei, Crow and Jack remember when they were all part of a duel gang, the Enforcers, who duelled rival gangs at night. The duel starts and Yusei takes a harsh attack due to the effects of the Shadow duel, which appears to be more dangerous in Turbo Duel.

Kalin summons his One-Hundred Eye Dragon, a Level -8 Dark Synchro monster, causing a real threat to Yusei. Yusei once again recalls his days in the Enforcers, and remembers how Kalin once saved his life. When he is almost burned in the fires of the dark barrier, Yusei also remembers when Kalin killed a member of Security and how the proceeding fight between them sparked Kalin’s hatred towards Yusei.

Yusei defeats One-Hundred Eye Dragon using Stardust Dragon, but Kalin summons a powerful monster, an Earthbound Immortal, called ‘Ccapac Apu’ using the souls of all the captured Satellite inhabitants, unphased by attacks from Monsters, Spells or Traps. Before it can attack, Yusei’s Duel Runner gives out and crashes, ending the duel. However, Yusei is impaled by a shard in his abdomen and is taken to a local doctor in Satellite by Crow. Meanwhile, Yusei’s friends try to retrieve his broken Duel Runner while staving off Satellite thieves. However, in the english adaptation, Yusei suffers internal bruising to his abdomen after his duel with Kalin.

As Yusei recovers from his operation, Leo assumes he is the Fifth Signer since his monster, Power Tool Dragon, apparently appeared in Luna’s dream. He comes up with the idea of recruiting Akiza to fight the Dark Signers and goes with Luna, Tanner and Yanagi to visit Sayer in order to see her. However Sayer gasses them, and has his own plans of recruiting Luna into the Arcadia Movement, locking up Tanner and Yanagi and forcing Leo into a duel with his sister on the line, for if he loses Luna will stay and become a member of the Arcadia Movement, while Luna watches with Akiza. Leo temporarily gains the upper hand by summoning Power Tool Dragon, but is then defeated by Sayer’s Synchro Monster and is left unconscious.

Jack decides to return with Mina to the city to retrieve his Duel Runner. He thinks it is too dangerous for Carly to get involved but promises to tell her everything when it’s all over. Carly, wanting to maintain her contact with Jack, decides to look into Akiza and the Arcadia Movement, and finds out Misty is somehow linked to them and goes to meet her. She reveals that Akiza was apparently responsible for the death of her younger brother.

New Domino City is shaken by an earthquake as a new geoglyph is set ablaze. To Sayer’s surprise, somebody shows in his office: Carly, alive… and as a Dark Signer. She challenges Sayer to a Shadow Duel for revenge, and Sayer is shocked by her new monsters’ abilities. Noticing the geoglyphs, Jack heads towards the action, almost being engulfed by the flames in the process. Meanwhile, Akiza is approached by Misty, who challenges her to a duel, as a dark signer as well.

During their duel, Misty informs Akiza that she is responsible for the death of her brother, which Akiza denies. Tanner and Yanagi rescue Luna and Leo from their imprisonment, and discover the two duelists along the way. A barrier coming from Luna’s birthmark protects the others as countless souls are sacrificed when Misty summons her Earthbound Immortal, Ccarayhua.

Akiza is taken to hospital where her parents, Hideo and Setsuka, meet up with Jack, Leo and Luna. Jack tells them that the only one who can save Akiza is Yusei, so Hideo travels to Satellite to talk with him. He tells him that when Akiza was young, he was unable to spend time with her due to work. When they finally were able to spend some free time together, a call from work interrupted, which frustrated Akiza and awoke her Signer powers and birthmark, hurting her father in the process.

Enduring the pain of Akiza’s attacks, Yusei summons Stardust Dragon to face against Black Rose Dragon and reach her heart. Still hurt by the loss of Sayer, Akiza unleashes her full power and constantly weakens Stardust Dragon. As Yusei gets hit by more attacks, Hideo steps in to protect him and try and reach Akiza, taking some damage in the process.

Before visiting Goodwin, Mina shows Akiza the true nature of the Arcadia Movement, showing how they performed experiments on young children in order to raise Psychic Duelists. Yusei, Jack, Akiza, Luna and Leo go to Goodwin in order to get the truth. Goodwin almost denies Leo entry, since he is not a Signer, but Luna insists that he stay with them.

The Signers contemplate about what Goodwin had told them. Yusei blames himself for Kalin becoming a Dark Signer, but Jack punches him in the stomach and face to knock some sense into him Yusei then punches back. Leo is reluctant to join Luna in going to the Satellite, since his battle with Sayer proved he wasn’t a worthy hero.

Crow manages to regain some ground in his duel against Lazar with his monster, Black Feather Arms Wing, but just then, a purple light shines from the Original Enerdy Reactor within a crater Lazar was investigating, and a black fog starts to envelope Satellite. Whilst Lazar manages to escape, Crow gets caught up in the fog and disappears, along with several Satellite citizens.

While flying to the Satellite Akiza asks about Yusei’s father and Mina explains to everyone what his father did. She also explains what happened 17 years ago and that Yusei is city born. Yusei, Jack, Akiza, Leo, Luna, Mina and Trudge arrive Martha’s house where she and Blister are waiting. Martha informs everyone that Crow, Rally and the others have gone missing, and offers everyone a meal. Then Yusei answer Martha’s question if the girl that’s sitting there at the table is Akiza and then Martha states he saved her.

As Roman prepares for his Earthbound Immortal summoning, Yusei tries his best to postpone it and Martha and Trudge hurry to save the children. However, Roman then speeds up the process and is able to summon his Earthbound Immortal, Uru. Thankfully, Jack arrives on time and forms a barrier around the children to stop their souls being sacrificed. Roman then reveals that not only was he an assistant to Yusei’s father, but is also Goodwin’s brother and the one responsible for the Zero Reverse incident. Yusei manages to deflect an attack from Uru’s attack, but it hits a building Taka, Martha and Trudge were hiding in.

The Dark Signers show up to taunt the Signers following Yusei’s duel with Roman. Devack introduces himself and reveals he is in possession of Ancient Fairy Dragon and challenges Luna to come get it. Roman announces that their duels will take place at the four stars of destiny. Whilst chasing after them, Jack discovers that one of the Dark Signers is Carly, who tells him to find her if he wants to know what happened.

As Luna reaches a town in the Spirit Realm, she notices that its inhabitants are running frightened, and gravity is behaving oddly. She is discovered by a group of monkey soldiers, who imprison her card spirits in stone tablets with minus levels. She is rescued by a young mage named Torunka, who decides to help Luna find Regulus, the servant Ancient Fairy Dragon spoke of.

As Luna and Torunka manage to find Regulus, Luna notices he has a Minus Staff stuck in his leg, causing him to hear the opposite of what Luna says and become distrustful of her. Luna manages to steal one of the foot soldier’s Minus Staffs to negate the one on Regulus, and when he notices she is a Signer, he decides to help them.

Luna’s plan to free Ancient Fairy Dragon is hampered when the Minus Staff she was carrying gets revealed, causing Torunka to accidentally blurt out their plans. Regulus manages to destroy Zeman, who is simultaneously destroyed by Leo in the real world, but not before Zeman transfers the power of the minus curse to Devack. This returns Torunka to his normal age, but doesn’t free Ancient Fairy or the minused spirits.

Leo and Luna defeat Devack, and he disappears, freeing all the trapped spirits. Ancient Fairy Dragon and Regulus give their thanks to Luna, and becomes cards in her deck. Luna places the Ancient Fairy Dragon card in the control unit, deactivating it. Making sure everyone is safe, Yusei decides to head towards Kalin. Hearing about Devack’s defeat, Roman sways Greiger over to his side, and executes him in order to transform him into a Dark Signer.

Crow uses his Duel Runner’s modifications to survive Greiger’s attack. Yusei decides to jump into the geoglyph in order to discover who was dueling, and is shocked to find Greiger is a Dark Signer. Yusei tries to calm both of them down, but neither refuse to let up. Crow recalls that he had no friends when his father died, but thanks to finding some Duel Monster cards, he was able to learn how to read and make friends with other duelists, including Yusei and Jack, and soon grew to take care of others in the same way…

Greiger summons his Dark Synchro, which is Dark Flat Top, which allows him to special summon another Flying Fortress SKY FIRE, and then attacks Crow with it, which reduces Crow's life points to down 100. Crow crashes, but remains determined to win, and gets back into the game. Using a pot luck with his trap, he manages to defeat both monsters, but this in turn, allows Greiger to summon his Earthbound Immortal, Chacu Challhua. Crow manages to Synchro Summon Blackwing - Silverwind the Ascendant, and prepares to destroy Chacu Challua with its special ability, but then, he, Yusei, and Greiger notice that the souls used for its Chacu Challhua's summoning were the people of his village, and Greiger's siblings. Realizing it was the Dark Signer's fault, and not Goodwin's, Greiger wants to stop the duel, but the Earthbound Immortal refuses to give up, and takes over his body. As he struggles to regain control, Greiger asks Crow to finish the battle.

Yusei finally catches up with Kalin and start what Kalin calls 'The Last Duel of the Enforcers'. Yusei hopes that this duel will rekindle their friendship. After the Enforcers took over the Satellite, Kalin kept looking for enemies. When those enemies started including young kids, Crow and Jack left the team, leaving just Kalin and Yusei. When Security shows up in Satellite with Duel Runners and Kalin plans on destroying them, Yusei also quits the team. Kalin decides to attack Security, getting their attention by blowing up some confiscated Duel Disks. When Yusei, Jack and Crow catch wind of Kalin's actions, they go to look for him and find him cornered in a building ready to stand off against Security. Back in the present, Kalin summons his One-Hundred Eye Dragon and begins to utilize his Handless combo.

Yusei defeats One-Hundred Eye Dragon, but is fully aware that it allows Kalin to draw his Earthbound Immortal to his hand. Back in the last days of the Enforcers, in a flash-back of Yusei's memories, Yusei, Jack and Crow try to talk sense into Kalin, and they all end up running away from Sector Security. One Sector Security officer pins down Kalin, but he manages to jump on his Duel Runner, causing him to crash with a bad head injury. He tries to finish him off but Yusei stops him. Yusei tries to pose as the leader of the Enforcers in order to protect Kalin, but the chief of Sector Security at that time had already figured it out that Kalin was the real leader of the enforcers, and Kalin becomes furious when he sees his hand on Yusei's shoulder, thinking Yusei had ratted him out. Kalin then gets harsh treatment in prison, losing his deck, and he was eventually convinced by the voice of Roman to become a Dark Signer.

With Kalin and Ccapac Apu defeated, all the Satellite residents are returned. Just then, Roman uses one of his dark spiders to possess Trudge and talk to Yusei, coaxing him to find him at the Original Ener-D Reactor, challenging him to a duel. Lazar is seen talking to a mysterious figure. Goodwin goes to meet with Roman. Roman is shown with a shadow duel disk, and challenges Goodwin to a duel, as part of a promise they made. Yusei, Luna, Leo, and Trudge traverse down the crater, whilst Crow, who notices the army helicopters, takes a different route. Yusei encounters Roman on a bridge, who activates an explosion, causing a flux of Ener-D to appear underneath them. They start to duel and manages to attack Roman with Junk Warrior, although this in turn allows Roman to summon Earthbound Immortal Uru. Roman continues to put pressure on Yusei and manages to bring his life points down to 100.

After bringing Yusei's life points down to 50, Roman begins to tell him of what happened 17 years ago between him, Rex and Yusei's father. They were working on the Original Energy Reactor, but Professor Fudo wanted to stop the project when it started to look unstable. Roman had decided to travel to the Nazca lines, where he encountered a mysterious person, claiming to be from Yliaster, who knows about Roman's birthmark. The mysterious man convinces Roman to look into the light coming from the reactor, where he is struck by dark energy and is shown the history of the Earthbound Immortals and the mighty powerful Crimson Dragon. Meanwhile, Crow finds Rex, who explains that Professor Fudo was betrayed by Roman. He shows off four Dragon cards, but Professor Fudo manages to escape with three of them, but got severely injured in the process and entrusts the cards to Rex.

With Roman's defeat, all the Satellite citizens, including Martha and Rally, are returned. Jack finally meets up with Carly, but she is reluctant to be helped and challenges Jack to a Turbo Duel. Initially, Jack is reluctant to fight and takes a lot of damage, but he starts to fight back, as he does not believe Carly is a person who would hurt people. Carly traps Jack in a vision where he is transformed into a Dark Signer by Carly and becomes destined to destroy the Crimson Dragon by her side. However, noticing Carly's glasses, Jack breaks free of this vision, and decides to fight for what Carly truly desires. Meanwhile, Yusei finds himself in a strange place surrounded by the spirits of those who died in the Zero Reverse incident. Due to Yusei's connection to the incident, they start to attack him, but he is rescued by a strong white light and the voice of a familiar figure.

Jack activates a Trap that lets Carly choose the outcome. He manages to break through to Carly and she makes the right choice. However, the Earthbound Immortal takes over her body, forcing her to continue the duel. Jack brings out his Red Dragon Archfiend in the hopes of freeing her. Meanwhile, the mysterious spirit reveals himself to be Yusei's father, who returns him to the real world. Carly summons out her Earthbound Immortal - Aslla Piscu, but Jack manages to stop its attack. Jack expresses his feeling for Carly, and then he takes the marks of the other Signers, gives him the Seal of the Crimson Dragon. Hearing the real Carly's pleas to end the duel, despite his objections, Jack synchro summons Majestic Red Dragon. Jack hopes to end the duel in a tie, taking him down with her, so that he can still be with her, but Carly activates a trap card so that only she would lose. Jack is able to do nothing but hold Carly tight, as she disappears into the Netherworld.

Akiza and Mina arrive at an abandoned amusement park where Ccarayhua's control unit is, shortly followed by Yusei's group, and a man claiming to be sent by Goodwin. Misty traps Akiza in a Hall of Mirrors, actually dueling her through the mirrors. She uses cards that block off drawing cards from the deck, and also shows Akiza the events involving Misty and her brother, Toby, who apparently met her at Arcadia Movement. Yusei is led to a room where Mina is found unconscious and is attacked by the man who turns out to be Sayer, who had survived his duel with Carly, and is determined to reclaim Akiza. He uses his psychic abilities to knock Yusei in a cage with Mina as it slowly fills with water. Trudge eventually finds them and tries to free them. Akiza is shown the moment where Toby was killed, which led Misty to become depressed and crash her car, transforming her into a Dark Signer.

With Akiza's dormant physic abilities fully awakened, Misty activates her geoglyph. Trudge manages to free Yusei and Mina and Yusei goes to join Luna and Leo. Learning about Akiza's current state, Yusei goes to face Sayer, who reveals he is controlling her mind and was responsible for Toby's death. Misty summons out her Earthbound Immortal Ccarayhua. Sayer talks about the experiments he performed on Toby seeing that he did not have ultimate psychic powers sent him to an unknown location that not even he knows about. However, Yusei revealed he had activated an intercom on his duel disk, letting Misty know what Sayer had told him. Angered, Misty gets Ccarayhua to eat him, freeing Akiza from her trance. Misty apologizes to Akiza, but the Earthbound Immortal forces her to continue dueling. Akiza defeats her, setting her free, which results in her being sent to the netherworld. The New Domino City residents return, but a Dark Signer mark, the mark of the Condor appears in the sky.

As the Condor geoglyph shines in the sky, a massive monster emerges from the Original Ener-D Reactor and heads towards the Condor geoglyph over New Domino City, which was the King of the Netherworld. The Crimson Dragon appears and sends everyone to the front of a temple (the Altar of the Dragon Star), where they find Goodwin, who reveals himself to be a Dark Signer. Then, he transfers Roman's mark of the Dragon Head from a canister to his left arm, destroying the metallic arm that was covering it at the same time. He challenges Yusei, Jack and Crow to a Turbo Duel in the air. Goodwin reveals that he lost the duel with Roman prior to his battle with Yusei on purpose, and became a Dark Signer in order to end the pointless cycle. He summons out both a Synchro monster; Sun Dragon Inti, and its Dark Synchro counterpart; Moon Dragon Quilla. He also reveals he was the Legendary turbo duelist who constructed and flew across the Daedalus Bridge.

After being dealt some direct damage due to the cooperative efforts of Yusei, Jack and Crow, Goodwin is able to summon his Earthbound Immortal - Wiraqocha Rasca, absorbing the souls of New Domino City. Then, the King of the Netherworld spouts forth several beasts that attempt to attack the players. However, they are saved by Black Rose Dragon and Ancient Fairy Dragon. Crow sacrifices himself by playing a trap card in order to protect Yusei from Wiraqocha Rasca's special ability, and falls unconscious. Goodwin coaxes Jack into attacking him, but after he gives in and loses some life points, Goodwin's statement of becoming a dark signer causes Jack to remember what Carly taught him and decides not to do things his old fashioned way anymore. Goodwin laughs at the idea of the bonds of true friendship and love, saying that destiny is all that there is.

Goodwin reduces Jack's life points to 1, and gets the King of the Netherworld to attack him, causing him to crash. Yusei's life points get reduced to 1 too, before he summons his Stardust Dragon and takes advantage of the traps Crow and Jack placed beforehand. As Yusei tries to reach Goodwin, which he successfully does, he regains the Signers' marks from him. Furthermore, Yusei gains Roman's mark of the Dragon Head, and the mark of the Tail that Yusei used to have transfers over to Crow. Yusei then takes the marks of the other 4 Signers, and gains the Seal of the Crimson Dragon. Then, he summons the Majestic Star Dragon and destroys Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca, which defeats Goodwin. Then, the Crimson Dragon envelops the Majestic Star Dragon, infusing it with the power of the Crimson Dragon, and dives into the King of the Netherworld.