Thinking on it, the Yu-Gi-Oh anime is on some straight up bullshit.

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Gorillaz said:
I remember when egyptian god cards were the hot shit tho, dudes were going to war over those 3

Ra was probably the most broken god of all he had like 4 special effects
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That was the best part for me. Shit got real.

As for the manga, all I remember is Yami using cigarettes to light a trail of oil or something to take out a few bullies for a kid.
 
Thorakai said:
Do you mind sharing some details about the early chapters? The anime seemrd pretty fucked up at times with the forceful removal of Pegasus' eye and the duel where the loser lost their legs. Not to mention banishing people to some unknown realm. All for a card game.
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He basically passed ghost rider style judgment on common criminals (rapists/thrives) by challenging them to simple games for their souls. One of the games was basically just playing knifey stabby.
 
RoadDogg said:
Oh yeah, did anyone else get ripped off by dungeon dice monsters too? That game looked so fucking amazing on the show but then they put out basically 1 set that recreated that one match (with broken rules of course) and that was it. What a fucking waste.
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The game was extremely poorly supported, but I actually quite liked it. The rules weren't perfect, but it still played fairly well. It was a missed opportunity, for sure.

PaulExcellent said:
Fuck you cause I activate Trap Jammer!
dont even know if that's what it was for. lol

I remember liking this game enough to have a Dark Magician/Elemental Hero based deck. Shining Wingman was OP as fuck.
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IIRC, Trap Jammer was a continuous trap, and thus too slow to play in response to another trap.

You'd want 7 Tools of the Bandit or Solemn Judgement to negate a trap. Both are counter-traps so they're fast enough, though they both have fairly high life point costs.
 
I remember buying the manga and it was about Yugi torturing and killing people, plus they had to play all sorts of crazy games such as fighting some chainsaw murderer or escaping the electric chair.
There was like one chapter about the cards and it ended with Kaiba literally having his soul destroyed.
 
That's why the Duel Masters dub was so much better. It didn't take itself seriously at all. They did an entire episode where the new editor for the show kept messing up the CGI monster shots.
 
If anything, the anime duels have to rely on contrived bullshit just to maintain any sort of drama or tension.

Most actual TCG duels end in like two or three turns at most won by whoever draws their overpowered combo starter first.
 
Welcome all my honored guests!
To the utimate duel of the best of the best.
At my invitation you come to compete!
For the honor of suffering the final defeat.

Isn't it grand what I've managed to do?
By kidnapping those closest to you
I've taken their souls to lay on the line
In a winner take all duel for all time.

Let's play the game.
I'm sure you all know how!
But watch yourselves my foolish friends
You're all in my world now.

Face up, Face down. Attack or Defend!
Face up, Face down. This battle's to the end!
Face up, Face down. Stay on guard!
Face up, Face down. Play your strongest card!
 
I had one of these. They weren't very useful in a real duel.

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If you have vague memories of Yu-Gi-Oh, watch the abridged series. Or watch it even if you don't have those memories. It's hilarious - great writing.
 
Slavik81 said:
IIRC, Trap Jammer was a continuous trap, and thus too slow to play in response to another trap.
You'd want 7 Tools of the Bandit or Solemn Judgement to negate a trap. Both are counter-traps so they're fast enough, though they both have fairly high life point costs.
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Shiet.
Well, heart of the cards, summon Ra, win game because reasons.

I liked the show.
 
PaulExcellent said:
"IMMA STAND AT THE BORDER OF A CASTLE WHERE I COULD FALL OFF FOR SOME REASON BECAUSE CHILDREN'S CARD GAME"

Like, what the fuck.
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Uhm
Kaiba played against Yugi for the cards to enter Pegasus' castle so he could save his brother. When he realized that he'd lose against Yugi, he threatened him into letting him win, otherwise he'd jump off the tower.

I mean, it's still bullshit but at least get it right!
 
AdmiralSnackbar said:
Was it ever ever explained how this worked? Pokemon /
Medabots
is a pretty clear concept and yugioh at least pretends to have rules.

But beyblade just seems completely incomprehensible.
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Especially how every conflict was resolved through a beyblade battle, and these beyblades possibly had the power to destroy the world.
 
Leunam said:
I vaguely remember an episode where Kaiba and Yugi were fighting and after Yugi claws back from certain defeat Kaiba steps up on a ledge and says that the resulting shockwave from his creature being destroyed will send him plummeting to his death.

I really hope I just dreamt that up.
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This actually happened, but in the Japanese version it wasn't the shockwave that would kill him. Kaiba said that for every 100 life points he lost he would take another step backwards, to the point that if he reached 0 he would step off the edge himself and commit suicide. So, ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH YUGI TO WIN NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. Yami Yugi was going to go through with it but Tea/Anzu stopped him, basically.
 
jman2050 said:
If anything, the anime duels have to rely on contrived bullshit just to maintain any sort of drama or tension.

Most actual TCG duels end in like two or three turns at most won by whoever draws their overpowered combo starter first.
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I enjoyed playing a Devil Franken one turn kill deck while it was legal, but it was only a thing for a short while.

The cards were so powerful that games typically went back and forth quite a bit. Players started with enough life points that games rarely ended too quickly, though. I don't think many were only 2 or 3 turns.
 
Card game is fun. Played it a lot in high school along with MtG and have looked into it some recently. So much new crap, but it looks like it made the game quite a bit deeper (at the cost of making some older cards way overpowered).

The show was ridiculously stupid, kinda like Pokemon games vs Pokemon anime. I only remember seeing a little of the first series but it was terrible and they didn't even follow the rules.

Slavik81 said:
The game was extremely poorly supported, but I actually quite liked it. The rules weren't perfect, but it still played fairly well. It was a missed opportunity, for sure.


IIRC, Trap Jammer was a continuous trap, and thus too slow to play in response to another trap.

You'd want 7 Tools of the Bandit or Solemn Judgement to negate a trap. Both are counter-traps so they're fast enough, though they both have fairly high life point costs.
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Actually Trap Jammer was also a counter, but it could only be used during the battle phase.
 
Glass Rebel said:
Uhm
Kaiba played against Yugi for the cards to enter Pegasus' castle so he could save his brother. When he realized that he'd lose against Yugi, he threatened him into letting him win, otherwise he'd jump off the tower.
I mean, it's still bullshit but at least get it right!
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The Spanish one was all about shockwaves and shit.
Amazing stuff. Still an amazing decision.

Squalor said:
"IMMA KIDNAP THIS GIRL AND THIS LITTLE BOY BECAUSE CHILDREN'S CARD GAME!"
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I always wondered what the cops were doing when junk like this went down.
 
I only ever watched the first series or w/e it was, man Kaiba had some of the sassiest lines in the dub. That was probably my favorite part.
 
Beyblade was the shit. All my friends had cheap ass fakes. My dranzer fucked shit up. My blade knew no bounds. As for Yu Gi Oh? My deck was impenetrable. Fucking lost all my cards and blades.
 
Sounds like you might be taking the show too seriously. Tons of dumb stuff happening and everyone taking it seriously is a part of the fun.
 
Thorakai said:
Do you mind sharing some details about the early chapters? The anime seemrd pretty fucked up at times with the forceful removal of Pegasus' eye and the duel where the loser lost their legs. Not to mention banishing people to some unknown realm. All for a card game.
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Yami literally goes around getting revenge on bullies in ironic and dangerous games. He drives one guy insane, causes another to constantly see through a mosaic "censored" filter, another guy ends up with deafening pounding sounds blasting in his ears for the rest of his life or something, he literally plays a game with vodka and a lighter where the loser catches on fire and dies, and plays air hockey with a hot pancake grill ending in the victim suffering massive chemical burns.
 
Leunam said:
Is that what happened?
I thought Yugi stopped because he was a chump.
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That's what I though too.
I thought he went through with it initially then normal-Yugi stopped Yami-Yugi and lost the duel and then everybody else gave him the stars so that he was able to enter Pegasus's caslte (?)
(I'm not sure why I'm spolier tagging spoilers for an anime designed card game for children but oh well).

Anyway, more on topic, I loved it as a child, and it was one of the go-to programmes in my school (others including, "Spongebob" and "The Jackie Chan Adventures") but I only have very vague memories of it (the only specific memories I have relate to "the Heart of the Cards", Kaiba on the ledge, Slifer's wielder being beaten by some card drawing loop, the dice episodes, the absurd Winged Dragon of Ra with twenty different special effects each more powerful than the preceding one, something to do with a blimp, and a trap-only deck person). I did very much like video games (Forbidden Memories and Duelists of the Roses, I don't know if there were more) but never really cared for the card game itself (primarily because the rules were completely different). I was always amused by the "Heart of the Cards", the constant twists relating to previously unknown effects being conjured at the precise moment they needed to be, and the absurdity of a card game that could result in your soul being stolen being utilised in all aspects of life though.

EDIT: I'm quite sure if I were to rewatch I wouldn't make it through an episode, but no way I'm shattering my vague recollection.

EDIT 2: Oh my god, the entire time it was a simley.
 
The Technomancer said:
Yami literally goes around getting revenge on bullies in ironic and dangerous games. He drives one guy insane, causes another to constantly see through a mosaic "censored" filter, another guy ends up with deafening pounding sounds blasting in his ears for the rest of his life or something, he literally plays a game with vodka and a lighter where the loser catches on fire and dies, and plays air hockey with a hot pancake grill ending in the victim suffering massive chemical burns.
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So that's why he's called the "King of Games".
 
I tried rewatching it about 5 years or so to see how it ended out of curiosity. I stopped watching when mai valentine beat up some biker thugs by throwing cards at them.
 
still made no sense how they didn't bother following anything remotely similar to the actual card game rules until battle city.

Has there been a yugioh series where you can flip summon shit?


Been watching cardfight vanguard recently and at least they seem to be honest with them trying to market you cards (heck one eps's moral of the day was you will keep losing unless you buy the newest booster packs!).
 
Avixph said:
So that's why he's called the "King of Games".
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Seriously. Even when it wasn't just one-shots it was a large variety of interesting games, like the first time he played against Bakura I'm pretty sure was like a D&D or tile based game with dice rolls and stuff. I really wish the series had kept up that variety.

Although the trick Bakura was using to win was nudging the table with his leg to keep the dice spinning, which Yami didn't notice for like...an eternity. That was pretty dumb
 
The Technomancer said:
Yami literally goes around getting revenge on bullies in ironic and dangerous games. He drives one guy insane, causes another to constantly see through a mosaic "censored" filter, another guy ends up with deafening pounding sounds blasting in his ears for the rest of his life or something, he literally plays a game with vodka and a lighter where the loser catches on fire and dies, and plays air hockey with a hot pancake grill ending in the victim suffering massive chemical burns.
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what the fuck
 
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