Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 015
Kanji	死闘、決闘(デュエル)庵 伝説のモンスター復活！！
Rōmaji	Shitō, Dyueruan Densetsu no Monsutā Fukkatsu!!
Japanese translation	A Fight to the Death, The Duel Lodge - Resurrection of Legendary Monsters!!
English	Training Days, Part 1
Episode number	15
Japanese air date	July 18, 2011
English air date	March 17, 2012
Cards
Gallery	Japanese
Music
Japanese opening	Masterpiece
English opening	Take a Chance
Japanese ending	My Quest
English ending	Take a Chance
Staff
Animation director	Gill Bo No
Chronology
Episode listing	Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episode listing (season 1)
Previous	The Number Hunter, Part 2
Next	Training Days, Part 2

"Training Days, Part 1", known as "A Fight to the Death, The Duel Lodge - Resurrection of Legendary Monsters!!" in the Japanese version, is the fifteenth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. It first aired in Japan on July 18, 2011 and in the United States on March 17, 2012.

Having clearly seen Kite's power, and how utterly hopeless they are, Yuma and Astral are keenly aware that they cannot easily recover. At that time, Yuma talks to his grandmother. She mentions a mysterious old man named Roku at a Duel Sanctuary who owns a wooden statue of the Legendary Monster "Dark Magician", who is waiting for Yuma and his crew. Yuma makes a strong wish based on his desire to train and get better!

Contents 1 Summary 2 Featured Duels 2.1 Yuma Tsukumo vs. Roku 2.2 Yuma Tsukumo vs. Kaze 3 Featured cards 4 Trivia 5 Differences in adaptations 6 Errors

SummaryEdit

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It is at least a day after the duel Yuma and Astral had with Kite, and both are thinking about how close each of them were to losing their souls and number cards. Yuma tries to cheer Astral up telling him that Kite will come back for them and they need to be ready for him when Bronk and Tori come in. They show him an advertisement of the World Duel Carnival and how many duelist will be coming from around the world for the tournament. Yuma speculates that Kite will be there and looks worried. Bronk and Tori start to notice this and don't know whats wrong. Haru comes in and ask Yuma to take a delivery of food to a friend who lives outside of town. Yuma complains that it is the weekend and doesn't want to do it, but after Haru shows her temper Yuma agrees.

A few hours later shows Yuma in the evening trying to get the foods up a huge sets of stairs, and complains how tired he is and it seems to go on forever. Bronk tries to reassure him that if stops now he would have to take all the food back down, and with that new determination Yuma becomes the first person to make it up the hill. At the top of the hill there is a dojo. Yuma walks inside and finds there is no one around. From above a shadow is seen and jumps on the bag. Outside Bronk and Tori here Yuma yell and run in to see what is the problem. Yuma claims that there is a monkey on his back, but they see that it is an old man eating the food. Astral can be seen above floating not taking any notice to the situation.

After the old man eats all the food, he reveals that he is Roku, but they are to call him Master Roku, which leaves them all confused. It then changes back to Yuma house when Kari learns that Haru sent Yuma to Duel Sanctuary, which she thought was a bad idea as it was apparent against whatever their parents had told them. Haru tells her that they both know that Yuma's love for duel is unbreakable and that it was better that they prepare him for what lies ahead, leaving Kari confused.

Back at the dojo Yuma, Bronk, and Tori are surprised that they are not able to get home. Roku explains that they missed the last bus, while at the same time they needed to clean up the room due to the note haru gave Roku saying they would do everything for him. They started cleaning when Yuma sees a door and wonders where it leads. When he opens the door, he find a room full of duel monsters statues of legendary monsters, Bronk and Tori soon follow him and are amazed of all the statues, and even Astrals starts to take interest. Roku appears and explains that the statues were built in the name of all people who mastered the art of dueling under his wing. Tori is amazed by statues stating that they look like they are about to moved. Roku then explains that they do move in the duel and challenges Yuma to show them.

To start the duel, they have two monsters each brought out for each of them. Roku had Blue-Eyes Statue Dragon and Red-Eyes Statue Dragon while Yuma Statue Dark Magician and Statue Dark Magician Girl, with all monsters having 0 attack and cannot attack. Yuma then looks confused thinking that Roku was just kidding that the statue were able to move, with Roku saying that their ability to move is for Yuma to make. Astrals understands this and tells Yuma he has the ability to unlock their potential in his deck. Yuma understands this and draws and activates the field spell card "Statue World" which restores the attack of all statue monsters and allows them to attack. Bronk in the backgroundsaids that this was the greatest thing he saw, with Tori shaking her head in embarassement. Yuma then has Statue Dark Magician attack Red-Eyes Statue Dragon. Roku compliments Yuma but ask him "You may have made a monster move, but can you truly "move" a monsters. Yuma ask him what he meant as he had his monster destroy Roku's monster. Roku then that Yuma needs a new perspective, and somehow became Dark Magican himself. Astral comments that this was an intresting scenario.

Roku then begins his turn, by drawing his card. He then plays Polymerization which fuses his three Blue-Eyes into the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Statue Dragon which destroys Statue Dark Magician Girl. Roku then uses De-Fusion which returns his Ultimate Dragon to his extra deck and special summons his three Blue-Eyes Statue Dragons again. Realizing what is going to happen Yuma starts to get scared, begging Roku not to attack. Roku explains that the fear he is experiencing is natural when staring in the eyes of a powerful foe, and this fear is something that even Duel monsters experience when they are brought out to duel. He then procedes with attacking Yuma and winning the duel.

After the duel, Roku remarks that despite pushing him too far, Yuma had felt the fear all monsters feel whenever they are summoned to battle, and when Yuma makes that fear his own and learns how to tame it, he wil truly be able to "move a monsters".

The next morning Yuma is seen cleaning the statues. Bronk reminds Yuma that they were to catch a movie today. Yuma tells if they wanted to go, they could go, but he was going to stay behind to clean the statues. Tori, liking the kind of person Yuma was turning into, decided to stay behind to make breakfast for Yuma. Bronk frustrated that both of his friends bailed on him decided to stay. Roku comes in and appreciating what Yuma is doing, starts to leave but halts when Yuma remarks towards one of the statues being bronkens and leaves with a frown.

Roku then goes outside the Dojo thinking about the kind person Yuma and compares Yuma as the opposite of "him". A flashback is seen with a man who had apparently did something bad at the dojo in the past. Back in the present Roku sees a man walking up the path and realizes that it is "him". The man guesses that Roku wasn't expecting to see him here, Roku say's that he is right, as Roku said he wasn't suppossed to come back here.

Featured DuelsEdit

Yuma Tsukumo vs. RokuEdit

Set Handicaps
Roku controls "Blue-Eyes Statue Dragon" (3000/2500) and "Red-Eyes Statue Dragon" (2400/2000); Yuma controls "Statue Dark Magician" (2500/2100) and "Statue Dark Magician Girl" (2000/1700). All of those monsters have their ATK and DEF reduced to 0 via their effects.

Turn 1: Yuma

Yuma draws and activates "Statue Zone" which negates the effects of all "Statue" monsters on the field, returning their stats to their original values. Yuma attacks and destroys "Red-Eyes Statue Dragon" with "Statue Dark Magician" (Roku 4000 → 3900)

Turn 2: Roku
Roku activates "Polymerization", fusing the "Blue-Eyes Statue Dragon" on his field with the two in his hand to Fusion Summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Statue Dragon" (4500/3800) in Attack Position. It attacks and destroys "Statue Dark Magician Girl" (Yuma 4000 → 1500). Then, Roku activates "De-Fusion", returning "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Statue Dragon" to his Extra Deck and Special Summoning 3 "Blue-Eyes Statue Dragons" (3000/2500 each) from his Graveyard, all in Attack Position. Roku attacks Yuma's "Statue Dark Magician" with all three "Blue-Eyes Statue Dragons", with the second attack hitting directly (Yuma 1500 → 0).

Yuma Tsukumo vs. KazeEdit

Turn 1: Yuma
Yuma Normal Summons "Gagaga Magician" (1500/1000) and Sets a card.

Turn 2: Kaze

Normal Summons "Flame Armor Ninja" (1700/1000). He then activates "Armor Ninjitsu Art of Teleportation", Special Summoning a monster from his hand with equal or less ATK than "Flame". He Special Summons "Air Armor Ninja" (1400/1400) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Armor Ninjitsu Art of Teleportation", the two monsters cannot attack during this turn. He overlays his two monsters to Xyz Summon "Blade Armor Ninja" (2200/1000) in Attack Position. Next, he attacks "Gagaga Magician" with "Blade". Yuma activates his face-down "Gagagashield", preventing his "Gagaga Magician" from being destroyed by battle twice, though Battle Damage is still applied (Yuma 4000 → 3300). Kaze activates the effect of his "Blade", detaching an Overlay Unit to attack once again (Yuma 3300 → 2600). "Gagagashield" is destroyed as its effect was used twice.

Duel continues in the next episode.

Featured cardsEdit

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Statue cards

Monsters Effect Monsters Blue-Eyes Statue Dragon x3 Red-Eyes Statue Dragon Statue Dark Magician Statue Dark Magician Girl Fusion Monsters Blue-Eyes Ultimate Statue Dragon

Spells De-Fusion Monster Recovery Monster Reincarnation Polymerization Pot of Avarice Reload Statue Zone

Traps Shift

Yuma Tsukumo

Monsters Effect Monsters Gagaga Magician

Traps Gagagashield

Kaze

Monsters Effect Monsters Air Armor Ninja Flame Armor Ninja Xyz Monsters Blade Armor Ninja

Spells Armor Ninjitsu Art of Teleportation

Flashback

Monsters Effect Monsters Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon

Spells Photon Lead

TriviaEdit

• Using "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" and then "De-Fusion" to Summon 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" to defeat the main character and teach them a lesson was first used in the episode 34 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, with Kaibaman and Jaden Yuki.

Differences in adaptationsEdit

• In the Japanese version, Roku tells them they'll have to sleep over for the night and Yuma commenting they couldn't sleep in "such a filthy place" while in the dub Roku tells them they have to stay and clean.

ErrorsEdit

• In the English dub, Roku mistakenly states that he is using "Polymerization" to fuse three "Blue-Eyes Statue Dragons" from his Graveyard and hand, when he should have said field and hand.
• When Yuma's Grandma Pops in at the beginning, Tori is shown without socks even though she was seen wearing them in a prior scene.

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