By now, Yuma is the only one able to see Astral so other characters think he is speaking alone. So he is now able to see a duel spirit named 'Astral', and they are bounded by that 'contract'. He made a pact with the Emperor's Key, the necklace he uses along the series, to obtain a new power. Plot: The MC is Tsukumo Yuma, a 13 teenager boy whose motto is 'Katobing' that means 'I'm going to rock' or something along that line (I watched it in my native language so I don't know how I should translate this). But many years after this lame attempt, I tried to watch this until the end and accomplished that mission. I dropped this anime at first sigh, I only watched 3 episodes and I knew it wouldn't have a good premise. In general, this series was awful, and I hope the next one is better. The story was a copy, and the characters were so annoying that I wanted to just throw something at them. While I felt obligated to see it through as a fan of all the previous series, I was extremely dissapointed with this one.

Overall, this series is not worth watching. Overall, the characters are just so annoying and flawed, that it's hard to watch sometimes. However, they do a good job with character developement, but all the other flaws just overpower it completely. In addition to this, they also have awful catch phrases, possibly the worst I've ever heard. They talk way too much and many have a very annoying voice. Some of the characters are just so annoying, I don't know why I even continued to watch it sometimes. Overall, I have nothing to complain about in this part. I don't see anything wrong with the sound. Overall, it looks nice, but could be better.

The character design could use some work, as the hairstyles of people in this show is just plain weird. The animation of this series is fine, the characters don't look fake.

Overall, it's really a tragedy how bad this story is. The ideas of this story are horrible, as they are simply a copy of the plot of both the original series and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. They are not bad themes, they just aren't presented in the right way.

This series also can become extremely annoying with its use of themes, as the hints of friendship just don't sound like something anyone would ever say. The once great story of the original has yet to be followed up wth each of the sequel seasons becoming worse and worse. The story for Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal is sadly lacking.

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