Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 023
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| Kanji |
宿命の決闘！アストラルvsカイト |
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Shukumei no Dyueru! Asutoraru Bāsasu Kaito |
| Japanese translation |
Destined Duel! Astral vs. Kaito |
| English |
Hunting Down the Hunter, Part 1 |
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23 |
| Japanese air date |
September 12, 2011 |
| English air date |
May 12, 2012 |
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| Episode listing | Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episode listing (season 1) |
| Previous | The Shark Hunter |
| Next | Hunting Down the Hunter, Part 2 |
"Hunting Down the Hunter, Part 1", known as "Destined Duel! Astral vs. Kaito" in the Japanese version, is the twenty-third episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. It first aired in Japan on September 12, 2011 and in the United States on May 12, 2012.
While Yuma, seeks for Emperor's Key, Astral duels against Kite to defend the "Numbers" cards he possesses.
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Meanwhile at the hospital, Yuma finally tells everyone the truth about who Kite is and that Astral lives inside the key. Caswell thinks they might be researching the key using a computer and has an idea.
Next scene Orbital 7 tells Kite that he can't get the key to respond using equipment from earth, so Kite wants him to give away a material which isn't found in this planet but in the Barian World, however Orbital tells him that it's very rare, which leads Kite to tell him to give up his own one but it's precious to him because he cannot function without one. So Kite says it won't hurt if he gives up a little bit of it much to Orbital 7's dismay and does it anyway. The key is responding to the material.
Yuma and friends ask for Mr. Kay to help track down the key's location by using a Crashbug Virus, but he thinks it's a bad idea so Caswell talks with him privately and reminds him about the Crashbug incident when Number 34: Terror-Byte takes over him so he threatens that if he doesn't help, he will tell everyone he cause the Crashbug incident but Mr. Kay tells him to quiet down and then accepts.
The key makes a portal to Astral World and Kite plans to go through the portal but Orbital 7 doesn't want to enter the portal and decides to stay on earth to check the computers to make sure Kite safely leaves Astral World, so Kite jumps to the portal to the realm and looks for Astral.
At the lab, Mr. Kay activates the Crashbug virus hoping to locate the key, but when Cathy says that the virus looks a lot like it caused the incident, Bronk agrees, which frightens Mr. Kay, but Caswell defends him saying that he would never so such a thing since they know about the incident. Crashbug X then the virus is sent, the virus can't find where the key is but one of the Crashbug found it and it's revealed that the key is inside a warehouse owned by Mr. Heartland so Yuma and the others head there.
Kite finds Astral, who asks why he came here. Kite asks why Astral knows his name and he reveals he is alongside with Yuma and that he dueled him once. Kite then asks why Astral collects "Number" cards, and he replies that he needs them for his lost memories. Astral asks why Kite needs "Numbers", and Kite replies that he wants to know the secrets of those cards and decides to duel Astral for the "Number" cards. Astral tells him he will face a bad end if he loses but Kite still wants to duel him.
Yuma's deck lights up and he thinks Astral is dueling Kite.
Astral draws a card and sets Gogogo Golem in Defense Mode and sets the Trap Card Battle Break. Kite draws and summons Reverse Buster in Attack Mode and during battle, Astral can't activate any Traps, can destroy Gogogo Golem without applying damage, and gain 500 ATK.Then he sets a card. Astral is scared that if he has another monster with 2000 ATK or more, Kite will summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and win. So he draws a card and summons Gogogo Giant and brings back Gogogo Golem in Defense Mode and also changes Gogogo Giant to Defense Mode, activates Double Defender and sets a card. Kite thought he was going to summon Number 39: Utopia but didn't trust his cards, so he activates Photon Hurricane so his Spells and Traps return to his hand, then sacrifices Reverse Buster to summon Photon Leo so Astral has to redraw his cards. Kite asks if he's afraid of Galaxy Eyes, Astral says so and tells him he's a smart Duelist and tells him he reminds him as Yuma but Kite objects, saying he only cares about Hart.
Yuma and his friends arrives at the hideout, then his deck glows again. Yuma tells everyone else that Astral is still dueling Kite but Bronk asks Yuma who Kite is and Caswell reminds him that he's a "Number Hunter". Yuma tries to open the door but can't.
Kite equips Photon Spear to Photon Leo making it able to reduce Astral's Life Points by piercing damage and attacks Gogogo Giant, destroying it and reduces his Life Points by 2100, making his Life Points go to 1900.
Added by F.E.A.R.Yuma keeps trying to open the door but it refuses to open and because of that, he gives up hope, but Tori walks up to him and slaps and yells at him for that (Tori slapping Yuma is cut in the dub; instead, she actually helps Yuma open the door and then the others do so), they managed to open the door thinking they're very strong but Yuma's Duel Gazer rings and it's Mr. Kay saying he used the virus to open the door.
The computer systems have been hacked so then Orbital 7 looks at the security camera and sees Yuma breaking into Kite's hideout thanks to Mr. Kay.
Astral decides to face his fear and stand up to Kite saying he's kattobingo.
Featured Duel: Astral vs. Kite TenjoEdit
Turn 1: Astral
Astral Sets "Gogogo Golem" (1800/1500) and "Battle Break".
Turn 2: Kite
Kite Normal Summons "Reverse Buster" (1500/0). It attacks the face-down "Gogogo Golem", which is destroyed via the effect of "Reverse Buster", without applying damage calculation. The other effect of "Reverse Buster" increase its ATK by 500, to 2000. Kite Sets a card.
Turn 3: Astral
Astral Normal Summons "Gogogo Giant" (2000/0). Its effect activates, Special Summoning the "Gogogo Golem" (1800/1500) from his Graveyard in Defense Position and switching itself to Defense Position. Next, he activates the Continuous Spell Card, "Double Defender", allowing him to, once per turn, negate one attack if he controls two monsters in face-up Defense Position. Then, he Sets a card.
Turn 4: Kite
Kite activates his face-down "Photon Hurricane", returning all of Astral's Spell and Trap Cards to his hand as Kite's hand contains more cards than the number of Set cards Astral had. After that, he Tributes "Reverse Buster" to Tribute Summon "Photon Leo" (2100/1100). Its effect activates, forcing Astral to shuffle all the cards in his hand back into his Deck and then draw the same amount of cards. Kite equips "Photon Leo" with "Photon Spear", giving it the piercing effect. It attacks and destroys "Gogogo Giant" (Astral 4000 → 1900).
Duel continues in the next episode.
Featured cardsEdit
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.
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ErrorsEdit
- Before leaving Mr. Kay's computer room Yuma was in his school uniform, while running toward the warehouse he wore his signature clothing.
NotesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 This card can be seen in his hand after "Photon Leo" attacks Astral directly.
