Crossing Eden
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Is there anything more hilarious in retrospect than Yugioh? (Besides Yamcha)
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What's the deal with Kaiba riffling through half of his deck to draw two cards?
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
IIRC there was some gimmick earlier in the match where he got rid of all the non-monster cards in his deck, so he was guaranteed to always get one
Crossing Eden
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Oh ofc.
RomanticHeroX
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As someone who's spent quite a bit of time working with children, Christ I hate Beyblades. Card games are nice and calm and productive, but Beyblades are loud and destructive and always, always someone ends up getting hurt. I could totally see life-changing injuries coming from a match of Beyblades.
I just hate that he's still a child after all these fucking years. Jesus.
Edit: I fucking loved Beyblades. But i think i was the only kid in school that had the toy.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Why didn't Yugi just call the police when Kaiba stole the Blue Eyes White Dragon and injured his Grandpa?
You know shit got real when Marik showed up. Him and his cult followers were doing some Jigsaw type death traps while dueling.
This dude is literally so mad with power that his hair is perpetually spiked up, more so than usual, and he constantly has veins popping out on his neck and face, his plan is to spread pain and suffering, with a card game.
Lol holy shit.
You know shit got real when Marik showed up. Him and his cult followers were doing some Jigsaw type death traps while dueling.
Mr. Smiley
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In that scene Yami went full murderous intent cuz Weevil somehow got Yugi's soul in a card and ripped it up. But it was actually some random card and he did that because good lord i use to follow this shit religiously.
That anime was awesome. It was so ridiculously funny at some parts (and it was intentional).
I just looked the episode up on the wiki. Apparently he's so mad because the bad guys have stolen Yugi's soul at this point and Weevil's been taunting him about it.
Couldn't find anything to say that he only had monsters in his deck though. Doesn't his magical necklace give him the ability to stack his deck anyway?
Wow that was many seasons ago.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
This is especially funny considering how overpowered Pot of Greed is
I can't even begin to count the number of bad battle traps the anime has spawned.
Only after serious, serious power adjustments do anime cards have a chance at play in the modern game, and in many cases get game originals to go with them. That said, Konami has gone overboard recently with Performapal just being absolutely cancerous (and I mean that quite literally: it has spread to every deck like infected cells and is severely dominating the game in japan).
Card design in the early game was so shit that you could just have 50 more attack than everything else and be considered a God.
Rhomega Beta
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"Please, someone save me from the deadly dark energy disk that won't kill me!"
I used to like the really ridiculous arcs like the time they went into a virtual simulation where they talked to the monsters from the cards or that other time they went into a virtual simulation where the bad guys turned into the monsters from the cards or when that one guy decided that they had to play a game with dice instead that never showed up again and then he randomly became a supporting character or that time that they got those dragon cards that could fuse with any other card including trap cards or when there was an entire series based around a kid who went to school to play cards and hallucinated kuriboh talking to him. They lost me when they brought in motorcycles though
Pinko Marx
Banned
Sibersk Esto
Banned
mystical space typhoon stacking would have ruined soooo many strategies in the show.
Multiplication has no business not being in every deck considering how it works in the anime.
Some are. Hell, some of those tend to be worse.
I loved Yugioh abridged so much that I went back and watched all of the regular Yu-Gi-Oh in Japanese with english subs, the plot actually makes sense there. Also season 0 is brilliant.
I am trying to think about series more batshit insane and I remember this show about Food based monster that liked to fight.
I am trying to think about series more batshit insane and I remember this show about Food based monster that liked to fight.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I did too man. I was super fucking into the entire anime up until the last OG Yugi season where they went to ancient egypt and I was just like "okay this is dumb"
Fighting Foodons.
I'd actually like some season 0 continuation somehow, maybe in manga form.
I barely remember the last season but Yugi v Atem was great and I'm there for the next movie with old!Yugi.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I ate up GX when I was little. I thought a dueling academy was the coolest thing ever.
Cyber Dragons for life.
Cyber Dragons for life.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I never watched anything past the OG. I think I was way more into Pokemon at that age.
Messofanego
Banned
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Lose in Street Fighter, solve it by having an actual street fight TO THE DEATH.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
A recent habit I have is watching the old 4kids voice actors fuck about and narrate real life duels in character
Yugi vs Yusei
Kaiba vs Pegasus
Kaiba vs Joey
Yugi vs Yusei
Kaiba vs Pegasus
Kaiba vs Joey
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Just know that at some point they had a school dedicated to nothing but dueling. As well as a dueling show involving motorcycles.
That reaction to Pot of Greed.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
How has nobody posted the best YuGiOh song ever. I have this bookmarked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUW_pip1J5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUW_pip1J5g
CloudyTuba
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Only reason it became about the card game was just because so many people reading the manga became instantly enamored with it. It was just supposed to be the plot of the week, but the creator decided to go with the flow and give the people what they liked. Solid decision but it caused the manga to totally change course.
They had previously made a tv show that was more varied and in some ways more accurate to the early manga, but it wasnt super popular. Then when they "rebooted" it and did a new series focused entirely on the card game, it took off.
It's still an out-there idea but at least I felt like the original run had a solid enough excuse to tie in the card game so that I could suspend disbelief. Cards were created by crazy guy with ancient magic artifact, each card ties back to an ancient egyptian monster, with your own magical item and one of those cards you could summon it for real. Gather all the magical items and you rule the earth with Dick-Satan.
Once they introduced entire dueling colleges in the next series, I was out. Then apparently dueling motorcycle, which just makes me laugh. Too far. Not at all interested in the post-Atem time period, except for that movie coming out next year that takes place 6 months after the original manga.
I loved that time period. I always liked the manga way better than the show.
Atem as a crazy murder-ghost hellbent on punishing any asshole he runs across through insane, derisive games? Yes please. He became way too chill as the manga went on.
I never watched that. Holy shit. So the plot of the dub is really that the bad guys win and the world is doomed?
They had previously made a tv show that was more varied and in some ways more accurate to the early manga, but it wasnt super popular. Then when they "rebooted" it and did a new series focused entirely on the card game, it took off.
It's still an out-there idea but at least I felt like the original run had a solid enough excuse to tie in the card game so that I could suspend disbelief. Cards were created by crazy guy with ancient magic artifact, each card ties back to an ancient egyptian monster, with your own magical item and one of those cards you could summon it for real. Gather all the magical items and you rule the earth with Dick-Satan.
Once they introduced entire dueling colleges in the next series, I was out. Then apparently dueling motorcycle, which just makes me laugh. Too far. Not at all interested in the post-Atem time period, except for that movie coming out next year that takes place 6 months after the original manga.
I loved that time period. I always liked the manga way better than the show.
Atem as a crazy murder-ghost hellbent on punishing any asshole he runs across through insane, derisive games? Yes please. He became way too chill as the manga went on.
I never watched that. Holy shit. So the plot of the dub is really that the bad guys win and the world is doomed?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What was Pegasus' actual motivation again? Like, why did he want to capture the souls of the best duelists in his eye?
It had something to do with his dead wife.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That's actually the sadder part. The only reason he did that was because he wanted to lure YuGi into his island-He wanted his Millennium Puzzle. The reason he wanted the puzzle, is that he wanted to collect all the Millennium pieces in order to resurrect the love of his life(Which wouldn't have worked IIRC, he was fooled into it.)
That was his end goal.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Bring his dead wife back to life
Crash Station
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There's stuff in anime and manga that's taken more seriously than children's card games, yet has even less right to.
Stuff like Legend of Koizumi has the fate of the world decided by Mahjongg with Hitler, George W Bush and any number of famous politicians.
You clearly don't remember what you were like when you were 5. This shit would be boss for 5 year old me even though I'd have no clue what's going on.
Stuff like Legend of Koizumi has the fate of the world decided by Mahjongg with Hitler, George W Bush and any number of famous politicians.
You clearly don't remember what you were like when you were 5. This shit would be boss for 5 year old me even though I'd have no clue what's going on.
Hipster Cthulhu
Banned
Man, Yugioh is the shit, the defining anime of my childhood. I'd say in retrospect that most 80s action movies seem like parodies, especially Commando and Predator.
Crash Station
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Some recent manga chapters actually reveal there's a reason why a murder always happens when they show up.
SchrodingerC
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IIRC, the game was based off of an ancient Egyptian magical dueling thing that uses actual creatures, so the craziness kinda makes sense.
Why people are trying to murder each other because of the cards.... well were you around for the pokemon card madness in the 90's? Shit was insane.
Although how Kaiba was still alive after everything that happened since the beginning of the series is a complete mystery.
Also, I think Yami was a murderous dickbag early in the manga, but it's been so long since I read it.
Why people are trying to murder each other because of the cards.... well were you around for the pokemon card madness in the 90's? Shit was insane.
Although how Kaiba was still alive after everything that happened since the beginning of the series is a complete mystery.
Also, I think Yami was a murderous dickbag early in the manga, but it's been so long since I read it.
Massive_Edge
Banned
wasn't there one where they played the card game on motorcycles or something
Crash Station
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This dude is literally so mad with power that his hair is perpetually spiked up, more so than usual, and he constantly has veins popping out on his neck and face, his plan is to spread pain and suffering, with a card game.
Lol holy shit.
FYI, Marik's hair is absolutely mild compared to some of the later series.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Is he blocking a sword? ._.
It didn't actually have swearing. It was for kids, albeit very fucked up kids.
And while Animorphs was violent, it was above all just weird. Like really, really, really fucking weird. There's at least one entire book that's intentionally vague as to whether it's a dream or not.
Not just blocking.
Destroying.
Why.
But that seal of orichalcos
For some reason, this is the arc of Yugioh I recall most vividly.
I watched this show for the first time earlier this year. It was... something.
The quality of the various seasons differs greatly. And the pacing is generally awful. But it's not bad. Has its moments. I didn't really do the kid-oriented TV thing as a kid and I have a friend who's nuts for this nostalgic stuff so he's taken me on a tour of YuGiOh and DBZ.
The quality of the various seasons differs greatly. And the pacing is generally awful. But it's not bad. Has its moments. I didn't really do the kid-oriented TV thing as a kid and I have a friend who's nuts for this nostalgic stuff so he's taken me on a tour of YuGiOh and DBZ.
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