Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!

Aliens land in the Rush Duel era. The wandering warrior Yudias Velgear searches for hope for his people and finds it in a card game, in the franchise's longest-running Rush series.

Japanese title

遊☆戯☆王ゴーラッシュ!!

Aired

April 2022 – March 2025

Episodes

151

Studio

Bridge

Protagonist

Yudias Velgear (with Yuhi & Yuamu Ohdo)

Ace card

Transamu Rainac

New mechanic

Rush Duels (second Rush-era series)

The Story

Go Rush!! doubles down on SEVENS' comedy while pointing it at the stars. In Mutsuba Town, twins Yuhi and Yuamu Ohdo run UTS (a tiny "UFOs and Tricky Specters" agency that handles alien problems) until a real one arrives: Yudias Velgear, an earnest warrior from the Velgear Star Cluster whose people wander space without a home. Told that "Rush Duels" may hold the answer his people seek, Yudias resolves to master them, despite beginning the series unable to so much as draw a card properly.

What starts as alien-of-the-week comedy gradually reveals a sprawling sci-fi plot spanning galaxies and timelines, including the surprise that Go Rush!! shares a universe with SEVENS in a way the show takes its time to unveil. It ran three full years and 151 episodes, ending in March 2025 as the longest Rush-era series.

Characters

The Ohdo twins split the human lead duties: hot-blooded Yuhi, who hides UTS's earnings from his business-minded sister, and the sharp, mercilessly practical Yuamu. Yudias himself (noble, literal-minded, and prone to treating mundane Earth customs as profound revelations) is the show's comic and emotional engine, with his ace monster Transamu Rainac evolving alongside him. A deep bench of alien duelists, classmates, and Mutsuba company figures rounds out the town.

Legacy & What Came After

Go Rush!! closed out a continuous 25-year run of Yu-Gi-Oh! TV anime: when it ended on March 30, 2025, no successor TV series was announced for the first time since 2000. The franchise's animation has since shifted to web formats, notably Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game: The Chronicles, short-form anime adapting the lore printed on the cards themselves (stories like Albaz's, which this site's combo guides feature heavily on the card side).

For Rush Duel players, Go Rush!! era cards continued to expand the format's card pool in Japan. For TCG players, the series is best enjoyed as a comedy, and as the (current) final chapter of the longest-running card-game anime there has ever been.

Want to play like they do on screen? Learn the real rules in our beginner's guide or browse step-by-step combo guides reconstructed from actual duel replays.