I want a thread about Yu-Gi-Oh! if that's okay
>>281842885remember when Yu-Gi-Oh was about the occult? Why did they start censoring the game and removed the themes after GX ended? The futuristic crap sucks and makes it all look super lame.
>>281843073GX was too based and redpilled and dare I say REAL; had to go super blue pill on them after to compensate from 5D's they just remade DOMA but...>oh b-but the illuminaty / secret society are actually the good guys bro
>>281843073the first two seasons of 5d's are pretty occulty with the crimson dragon/nazca line stuff
>>281843221that was cool indeedif only you know what didn't happen the Arcadia movement arc that never happened had so much potential, but to be fair it does happen, in Vrains
>>281843265>arcadia movement arcyeah, 5d's could have benefitted from one more season to bridge the gap between the tourney and the dark signers, maybe lean into the mystery and intrigue of what Divine and his cronies are up to and slowly introduce the dark signers so it builds up to the next season
>>281843324Aki could have had her PTSD arc explored but nah anyway, they already did that in the original series with DOMA.
>>281843348she sort of does, very very quickly though
>>281843482>Yusei goes through hell to save and fix her>succeeds then ditches herda fuck is wrong with the homos writing these shows I swear
I started watching the show a couple of weeks ago and finally reached the "he won" episode, and, yeah, Jonouchi won. The only reason Marik moved to the finals is because he basically cheated with his shadow games, and Kaiba genuinely doesn't give a single fuck about rules because he just wants the God Cards. The dude may be the most negligent tournament organizer ever.
>>281843774there is a valuable lesson in hereeffort doesn't mean shit next to Egyptian magic and money
>>281843774Ah, also, the Noah Arc was better than I remembered, and shorter, too. I'm sad, though, that the 'let's pretend that didn't happen' line from Kaiba was a dub-only thing.
>>281843774>the most negligent tournament organizeralso the principal from GX is that, that dude really did not give a fuck
>>281843774Mai should have won and Jonouchi should have won, yes. Marik only skirts by on torturing his opponents with his magical powers until they pass out or die.
>>281843774Marik wincon was literally to knock him out irl though.
>>281843840didn't Kaiba specifically recruit him?
>>281843840>hires a psychopat to torture his students all so to push his favorite disciple (Judai) to his limitsda fuck
>slifer red is the lowest of the low>obelisk blue is the elite of the elitekaiba is such a petty bitch
>>281843073Carly's seiyuu involved in a cult and all that. Or they simply wanted to maked the franchise more marketable for children, so they leaned harder on sci-fi while abandoning the dark ritual aspect.
Did we ever learn what Kaiba was doing in the monster realm cosplaying as Kaibaman?
>>281844312I dislike how they just drop the Duel Monster world after Dark Signers. DM and GX did so much to build it up yet they just abandoned it.
>>281844312too powerful for female anime characters
>>281844437Zexal, Arc-V, and VRAINS were all about other worlds, so introducing another dimension on top of all that would be unnecessarily confusing.
>>281844379That was the Friend of Justice, Kaibaman (no relation).
>>281844626But the Kaibaman in the anime has Kaiba’s photo pendant. Kaibaman’s card art shows he doesn’t have that.
>>281844626the anime heavily implies that was Kaiba
>>281845229Why can’t we have Mokubaman
>>281846613we have Princess Mokuba
>>281843217I am so fuckimg tired of this lie about how incredible GX was, i watched in japanese and it was mediocre at its best and awful at average.Season 1 feels like filler, season 2 was meh, season 3 was a mess with how goofy the story got when judai ditched everyone for the sake of his crystal boyfriend, and then his other tranny boyfriend appears, and then judai goes emo and wears a silly costume, and then it turns out judai is a fucking prince from another dimmension and then judai fuses with his tranny boyfriend, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then FUCK THE RIGHT OFF WITH THIS BULLSHIT! I have never seen such an insulting script in all of my life, how the fuck does people defend let alone praise this garbage goes beyond me.And then judai eat shit against atem, he never graduated from being in the red dorm and died in the desert a virgin, konami-kun fucked rei and asuka, the end.B-b-b-b-b-b-but it finally gets good in the final season though!! The girls, DM nostalgia epusodes and hellkaiser were the only good things about itThe only faggots praising GX are the children who grew up with it.5ds is far from perfect but it was a great pallet cleanser from the embarassment of GX
>>281842885I love Yu-Gi-Oh! so much. Kaiba is hands down one of my favorite characters in anime. He may not have a strong character arc in terms of his growth and change, but he's not just entertaining to watch, but he's so capable due to his intellect and resources that he can warp the plot around him (and does) whenever he wants to. He sees no such thing as a limitation, and has the audacity to do anything because he can.
>>281847330Rent free
>>281847330>no mention of Amon or s4You dub faggots are an embarrassment GX duel writing alone wins it over 5D
>>281847330GX isn't great, but it does show us a lot of stuff that's fun, especially at the beginning. And yeah, that does include the school life stuff that especially appealed to people who were the right age, but going into it with a mindset of just being down for some weird stuff and hijinks ends with it being pretty decent too.It does get SUPER fucking weird though. Weirder than anything I can remember happening in the whole franchise up until the Arc-V conclusion.Also:>Yubel is not gendered in the Japanese version.>Judai doesn't die in the desert, that's just the start of his wandering the world looking for new challenges>Rei was too young anyway, but at least Asuka ends up having a life goal to move on to (even if it wasn't developed well)
>>281847330I know what the D in 5D's stands for>D'ont watch that shit
>>281847330GX is great and so is Zexal and SevensGrow up
>>281847330you're just mad that you don't have a girlfriend (?) as cool as Yubel
>>281847330It is close to how the original Yu-Gi-Oh was like. People think of it as this dark and serious show but it was also syzophrenic with it's comic relief and weirdness. 5Ds s1 if anything was quite atypical for this franchise with it's somber tone but it mellowed out over time.
>>281847330Kazuki Takahashi wanted Yubel and n there after the team was overwhelmed in what to do with GX so they brought him in and he gave them Yubel and S3. This is his legacy and it is amazing. Can you imagine a shonen where the evil girl not only wins the MC but gets away with everything? Yeah.
>>281847995kino
>>281842885You now realize Kaiba was literally only in the same school for this one episode just to hear Grandpa had Blue Eyes and is never seen there again.
>>281844437Duel Monsters world was a shitty addition introduced in DM filler arcs, I dont miss it that much.
>>281848509season 0 he was transferring from school to school to find the last blue eyes, for whatever reason they don't talk about that in the second series
>>281848509Kaiba attends school until he loses to Yami which causes him to become the Kaiba corp CEO to plot his revenge, the implication is he dropped out of school in the process. Thats how it is in the manga at least.
>>281848698He was already a CEO back then, although of course this was a retcon, originally he was just a spoiled rich kid.
>>281842885when my son was 8 we took him to gen con in homemade Maximillian Pegasus cosplay. He didn't have any friends but we were walking around and ran into a group of the other main characters and they asked if he would join them and he had the best day of his life. I miss him a lot. I used to watch the show with him on a saturday in our shitty rv that we lived in after i lost my job.
Any concepts from any of the series you guys wish you could see more of? Not necessarily in another Yugioh anime, but in general. For instance, semi-possession by an ancient spirit (which isn’t really that unique, at least nowadays)
>>281849421>miss him a lotDid he move out?
>>281849543duels but in cars, basically twisted metal but with card games
>>281846896Why the fuck did Kaiba reimagine his younger brother as a princess?
421not ur blog retard
>>281849865What’s this idiots problem
>>281843774>>281843937>muh Jounochi should've wonHe shouldn't even be in the tournament. He cheated to get in and then he would've lost to Odion if not for Marik's retardation.>Marik sucks at duelingDid you forget the Osiris duel with the Jam combo? The Finals where he would've won if not for Fiend Sanctuary or Ragnarok somehow being able to affect Ra? He had a perfect strategy for Yugi twice and lost to plot armor.>>281847330GX is only good post S3. Judai going full competitive and ending duels fast was hilarious.
>>281842885I get what’s wrong with Arc-V and the decline afterwards but what was wrong with GX?
>>281843774It’s interesting that Kaiba actually takes back everything he said and praises Joey for making it that far. It took him literally dying in the last turn to incapacitate him.Which ironically made him a better duelist than Yugi and Kaiba then since he went in full blind without any preparation that Kaiba did (and gave to Yugi) and could have won
>>281851394Marik was literally holding back...
>>281843774In the context of a shadow game Marik's plan was a valid strategy and his cards synergized with that. He just didn't expect Joey's incredible willpower and barely won. IIRC in the manga he gets so freaked out he throws up, and this is YAMI Marik mind you but Joey's sheer force of will mindbroke him even in a technical victory.>>281851206Bitch can't wait for the ice cream to soften before scooping it.
now if you want to talk about terrible duelists....
>>281849543you know how bancho stories based on school rivalries? well how about that but instead of fist fight it's dueling, and not necessarily bancho but maybe a watered down version of it
>>281849279"Originally" he was an orphan with mokuba and cheat his way to have one of the richest man in the world to adopt them and in return he was tortured through hard studying and the reason he was so cold-hearted was all thanks to that
>>281851865None of that was in The Cards With Teeth, it was established at the end of Death-T.
>>281842885RIPthe author died at 60he dived into a river trying to save a drowning girl, some other guy managed to save her, but he couldn't come out alive
>>281851984Sad but honestly I’d prefer to die doing something heroic like that
>>281852009hell yeah, the guy died a fucking hero, i never even cared about yu gi oh but i can't even feel sad for his grieving familyit feels like there's this weird mix of hope for humanity and respect bubling up from meeveryone who knew him must be feeling proudi wish i could get a chance to go out a hero like thatand i hope i got the balls to go through with it if the chance ever presents itselfjust wanted to talk about the guygod speed
>>281851984truly heroic, man he died too soon
>>281851984Literal shonen protagonist behavior
>>281851348Arc-V had a super strong beginning. And then we went to the Synchro dimension, where the director was like "time to remind everyone I also made 5Ds" and proceeded to obliterate the pacing of the story by throwing a tournament arc immediately on the heels of the previous tournament arc. The time spent in Synchro heavily overshadows the time spent looking at the other dimensions, or even fighting the overarching antagonists. Then it rushes into what's actually kind of a cool boss fight, but then follows that with what may be the most baffling thing I've personally seen in an anime.It could've been great. Until it wasn't.
>>281843774Jonouchi is the rightful owner of Ra
>>281851984He died the way he lived: believing in humans helping each other.
>>281851571He's actually not a bad duelist at all. He loses against everyone that matters, but he actually wins all of the needed locator cards in record time in the manga.
>>281847330You're just a retard anon.
For me, it's the STRONGEST.
>>281852245it was truly a shame, the show offered an interesting premise but City arc really killed all that interest and rushed through the ending only for a final duel that left with a bittersweet finale. What a mess of a show but goddamn the threads were almost dragon ball super levels of activity
>>281852424Arc-V was a bittersweet experience. It wasted of all its potential, but many people (including me) got back into Yugioh thanks to it after sitting back during Zexal.
>>281852424Hell, that was a time. You remember how batshit everyone went when Kurosaki and Sora dueled?
>>281842885>Kaiba reading Nietzsche thats so fitting
>>281847330me, i agree.
>>281847330>>281847552>>281847995Gx season 3 is a tribute to devilman and violence jack. Yubel and supreme king are based off Lucifer and the Slum King. Basically Satan. After reading those manga it's hard to see it as anything positive like yugioh fans might have you believe. The whole story is basically death symbolism.>>281847508It's given away clearly by the names and designs of characters.
>>281852849The whole story of yubel fusing with judai is death symbolism, to be precise.
>>281852245i'm going to watch arc-v because i finished zexal
>>281852884>Hmmm, what should we take inspiration from for our kids show>Oh I know
>>281850231idk maybe to make fun of him? I'd be pissed if my older brother makes me a princess in his VR game. Also a bit worried ngl
>>281849680he was killed by a kid wearing a Marik cosplay, sad.
Im glad i watched the three first yugiohs as a kid.Probabyl wont ever rewatch anything except for the first series, but it was a fun ride.Is Zexal and above any good?Ive heard the Pendulum series gets SKITZO as shit.
>>281852660>sora vs shun>Imoutoman>EGAO.wav>BUY BLACKWINGSit's so sad that it only lasted 1 series to make threads so vivid. Vrains was too stale to discuss about due to having a lot of recap episodes and I lost the track on SEVENS
kill crow
>>281853383to be fair yugioh wasn't for kids, kids being attracted to the show is a completely different story. Zexal was the attempt to aim for a younger audience as 5D was too teenage oriented
I had a chinese bootleg card of him that literally said "Sea Horse" in my language because those are the two kanji that make up "Kaiba".
>>281853983ZEXAL had the misfortune to had a bad first impression on many for having a younger protagonist and also someone not familiar with the gameplay, it was like reimagining Duel Monsters sort of. i remember how hard was it to find fansubs because (apparently) fansubbers weren't too keen to work on it after 5D. It's a great series, it starts slow but gets you hooked up.Arc-V, the pendulum, starts good but due to staff switching in and out because of DSoD movie (based on rumours) you felt the struggle in the writing as nothing happens for many episodes and 5D gets glorified nonstop, imagine the horse meme where one half is fire and the other half is doddles, that's Arc-V
>>281851571He murdered the zombie kid and his friends, and Pegasus in the manga
ah, so that's why this card is in the structure deck of kaiba
>>281854534my only complain about ZEXAL was the eye visor felt like a step back in terms of technology because the duel disk by itself can render holograms but i guess the visors were made to create more immersion for making the surroundings tangible to monsters' attacks
>>281852849>>281852884I get that and as a devilman fan I love it, Yubel is like Devilman lady tho, or that Go Nagai succubus, and Neos Wiseman is straight up just Devilman.
>>281854534zexal did feel like they were trying to recreate duel monsters but with a protagonist who'd be on the same learning curve as the expected audience (children) also first series to ever have the honorific title of Season 2
Not everyone enjoyed 5Ds, like me. Back when it was airing it fot me to drop out of the show and game, but Zexal and XYZ reignited my interest, as it gave off more of a GX/ DM vibe and they dueled normally again. We do exist.
>>281854768*got me
>>281852660>duel that actually works as warfare propaganda to show to the in-universe audience and the real life watchers an actual war was happening using Duel Monsters>they started breaking things up ro fuck each other during the duel with Shun carpet bombing the city, the tower knocking out Sora before he could ise the last action card to save himself>also poetically showing there are no winners in war as Shun caused the final destruction of Heartland himself by fighting back without care>basically confirmed GX-like world and Zexal-like worlds were at war and the Fusion were invading all dimensionsThat was the duel that estabilished Arc-V’s potential as the highest one of all series but also the one that made it the biggest waste of potential afterwards. Synchro Arc wouldn’t be as ridiculously bad if it actually mattered, but turns out not only it did not, Xyz arc and the conclusion of the war was goddamn rushed.… and I miss the Tyler Sisters in particular! THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LEFT TO ROT IN THAT SERIES
>>281854768ZEXAL wasn't the most hated but majority didn't like it at first because they were used to see the teen protagonist get gradually older and more serious so they were holding that standard so i understand why they felt slapped with Yuma, kinda like how many felt when SEVENS was announced but, unlike SEVENS, ZEXAL had a better story
>>281853983Zexal is like the slowest start and therefore a chore early on but when it gets things running you really start to value how they panned the first seasons out to develop the cast and their bonds because they all seriously matter later.Everyone says the 2nd part is the best but when I rewatched it I realized how much the first one mattered.
>>281854881i was waiting for City to be under attack but it left unscathed. It was great to see Fusions making a comeback and become an aggro card type after being left out thanks to xyz and synchro. they could've even use it as a narrative of how they were the first or how no one saw the true potential in fusing monsters
>>281854884>>281854907You realize once you have read the original manga that Zexal was just them kinda remaking from there, like Otogi/ Duke's father arc which never got adapted in the original anime was used for Tron combined with Duelist Kingdom, and Barian world was just Millennium world again. I don't know how to feel about that.
>>281854884I’m basically one of those people. From 5Ds to the happy go lucky Zexal with a protagonist thay doesn’t even know how to play the game and goes around reacting “look I finally did an Xyz!” was a horrible experience.But due to that I got blindsided to WHY. You learn Yuma’s parents were gone. You learn his sister forbids him from dueling. You learn his parents warned her one day he’d have to fight and she was actively forbidding him to save him from a mess not unlike whatever made her parents disappear.You learn everyone he is fighting has a life at least as fucked up but while they went all bitter wallowing in their suffering trying to fix that, he was spreading the kindness he had instead.I didn’t even understand why he got so angry at Tron at first but then you realize it was because he and III went through the same exact shit losing their fathers but their fathers actually became friends and III’s came back, but Tron went on to ruin his family to the point III was the one envious of Yuma instead of the other way around.It has a ton of wacky fillers but you get surprised at how so much fucking mattered in the storytelling.
>>281843774And the only reason Jonouchi was even in the semi finals was because of Ra bullshit too. So what?
>>281855028I mean, I kinda get the parallels but I’m fine with that?I don’t know I register Zexal more like as a YGO version of Megaman Star Force 1 than a remake of Duel Monsters.
>>281855088His opponent was literally using a fake copy of a card in an official tournament so…
>*eats your memories*
>>281852298He technically OTKed Jonouchi in the manga too, Jonouchi would be dead if the plot didn't step in to save his ass.
>>281855183If you want to pull that technicality, Jonouchi was cheating in DK by getting Red Eyes, you weren't supposed to have more than 40 cards on you during the tournament.
>>281855034im not dissing on ZEXAL, sure it started weird and had a slow start but it's still worth a watch because once they move on from yuma learning how to duel, the ride never stops
most of season 1 zexal is rough due to the monster of the week formula run by usually one off duelists that i couldn't care less about, i do still like zexal though
>>281855105To me Zexal felt like Astro Boy, maybe cuz of Astral
>>281843774that episode is one of their kino moments. an underdog climb his way to the top after his first beatdown taking his ace card and still manage to hold his chin up gathering cards to compensate the lack of his REBD. His luck saved his ass from a fake god card and and his will made him stand still from one of its attacks, no millennial item, no god card, no past life connection, his sheer will stood against a god that even shocked malik to the point of puking out. This shit was like seiya facing apollo in that movie
>>281855390GX had Jim and Axel do the same against the Supreme King which was such a kino moment. I miss when YuGIOh had the balls to even attempt that.
>>281855390it was basically this. Except that instead of being able to lay a finger on a god, he TANKED it
>>281850231If I remember correctly, the ones who designed the RPG were the Big Five, with the plan of getting him stuck in VR once they baited him to test the game.
>>281853383To be fair, Go Nagai is very influential in anime/manga.
>>281850231beta testinghe was a placeholder but he forgot to switch it
>>281852884>>281852849Violence Jack being revealed to be yet another Devilman masturbation session was a shit ending
>>281842885>>281843073I'm glad we can finally all agree that everything after GX is shit
how does Yuma have three women lusting after him
>wins the world duel carnival >saves the world >his reward is getting humiliated in front of all his friends always left a bad taste in my mouth
>>281855627wasn't this because he didn't want astral to leave?
>>281852240Real.
>>281855657nah Yuma used his one wish from winning the carnival to challenge Kite and lost decisively
>>281847995xhe wasn't evil, xhe just had xiser priorities straight(gay)
>>281855546It felt like the penultimate chapter was his original plan and the final chapter was the insane idea he came up with as he was doing it. He did mention in an interview that the part where the human dog guy gives Jack an opening was planned long before the final chapter. I know the whole series is a string of alternate versions of his previous manga, even the comedy ones, but they weren't literally those characters. We do at least get a real ending for everyone else, unlike when this exact thing happens in Devilman Lady
>>281855713Yubel and Judai fusing was just that. They became one being, which by hindsight is broken as fuck and Judai ended up the most overpowered character in the setting which was never again elaborated on. Judai defeated to world destroying forces of nature. Anyway, Asuka is still his lover by the end down the line when they meet again.
>>281855779>Anyway, [COPE]kek, there is always one
>>281855803But in hindsight I think Zarc would rival Judai by his feats and powers.
>>281855801Judai is gay and eat shit against slifer, asuka is fucking the vagabond guy from the kmtag force games, get over it.
>281855836>scat fantasies
>>281855836No Asuka was clearly hopping on Yusho's cock same for Yuzu. My hero.
There's a lot of anime that use the basic Doraemon friend group but Zexal has my favorite version of the Shizuka role. Close second is Meiru from Mega Man Battle Network which has a better fat kid friend. I like that fat kid.
>not a dragon>not twin-headed>not wingedwas it bad communication?
>this is someone's hero
>>281855920for comparison. this is supposed to be the one in this card
>>281855937The key to beat forbidden memories.
>>281855937I see a twin head
>>281855937Have you watched Malignant? It do be like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1SpxQWwTo
>>281855551Yea, but I think Vrains was decent
>>281855977that's a second mouth but not a twin-head
>>281855937Its 3D model looks so goofy in Forbidden Memories.
DM and GX are perfect5Ds ending ruins the showZexal ending ruins the showArc-V ending ruins the showVrains ending could have been perfectSevens and Go Rush unironically land and have a perfect endingI'm glad we got Rush era to salvage this franchise
>>281856193>Sevens and Go Rushsell me on these, everything after 5Ds looks like plastic kiddo slop to me but i am prejudice
>>281856227They're irredeemable shit Only good thing to come out of them was the lolibaba and the other loli(s)
>>281856245>pedo babbleDiscarded.
Did you rike them? Did rike the short?
>>281856227They're irredeemable shit Nothing good's come out of them
>>281856227They return to the fun atmosphere of GX and go full out with the ridiculousness of the 1st season, with a summoning mechanic similar to early Duelist Kingdom. Pure fun, Go Rush is a bit more mature and a wild ride as good as GX. Also I think their artstyle is better and feels less like plastic as the show's past GX tended to look.
>>281856257get filtered
>>281856227The most lovable cast after GX and OG
>>281853383Kaz would balance out all the dark nagai references with references to everything else. Johan's psychic talking to crystal beasts probably came from uran >>281854672Yubel is like ryou asuka/lucifer mixed with baron ashura.
I remember watching a few episodes of Zexal as a kid, then dropping off. I dunno if I actively stopped watching, or if it was on at a bad time. I was surprised years later to learn that Shark was something of a major character. I think I just assumed he was a villain of the week.
>>281855801>when they meet againSo, never?
I'm gonna be real, as someone who began Yu-Gi-Oh from day one, DM, GX, and 5Ds are incredibly overrated. Zexal, VRAINS, Sevens and Go Rush are the best written shows we got. Arc-V got ruined by catering to 5D and GX nostalgiafags, never do that again.
>>281855801Asuka has the worst writing for a character, being the only competent girl duelist she couldn't ahine in any duel iirc, everyone was jobbing left ans right for judai to save the day which i don't mind happening once a while but not in every single duel against a bad guy. GX suffered from having too many characters and not knowing how to get rid of them
>>281856609>Arc-V got ruined by catering to 5D and GX nostalgiafagsYou were only right on the first half of that. It barely offers anything to GX at all because 5Ds eats way too much of the show.
>>281856625The whole subplot of Yuya becoming Zarc is lifted from GX and it was done in such a rush and lazy way it should never had happened.
>>281856622Yu-Gi-Oh! is not particularly kind to its lady duelists. Asuka kind of gets to sit in this spot where she's de facto one of the best duelists at the school, but can't win when there are real stakes so it all ends up falling on Judai in the end.>>281856641Yuya becoming Zarc has a huge, original plotline behind it, and it's really not enough like the Yubel situation to say it's "lifted from GX."
>>281856647I mean the part where everyone started jobbing to him specifically only for Zarc to loose to you know what.
>>281856609>>281856625I always wonder if Yusei didn't exist in that world, what if he somehow gets isekaied to the synchro dimension and came across Jack? Would that somehow awaken something inside of Arc-V Jack?
>>281843774It’s interesting that Battle City is as good as it is when Marik is kind of a shitty villain.
>>281856676Arc-V Jack is implied to have lived through their clash together with his Archfiend being handicapped and stuff. They had the Earthbound immortals and akkakiryu present even Arc-V is a total mess and makes zero sense with it's legacy characters.
>>281856609if anything the idea of arc-v was an interdimensional war between extra decks while standard created pendulums as their way to participate in it as it reflected how the meta was heavily focused on extra decks than the main deck was simply fodder, the concept was neat but the heavy focus on 5D ruined it
>>281856710Jonouchi wins bc he would be Kaiji in this situation
>>281848509I love when he sees the stone tablet at the start of the Battle City arc and he says “That’s Yugi, he goes to my school!”
>>281856691what made battle city great was that it became the wetdream of many players something that wasn't being able to recreate in other series. like they raise the bar higher when all was needed was a somerhing casual
>>281851571>Beats Joey in one page
Did you rike it?
>>281856779that doesnt mean much to be fair, joey is a horrid duelist
>>281856676I feel like it's supposed to be alternate realities, rather than in the same continuity as the other shows.
Who was Otes anyway? I think it was Yusaku.
>>281856789It's really stupid that Joey is strictly one of the best duelists, actually. He relies so much on luck that he really should be considered much worse than he ranks at tournaments. Not totally without skill, mind you, but barely claws his way through a lot by doing dice and coin flip mechanics.
>>281856821wow no, Revolver is Otes
>>281856676each world is an alternate universe where the protagonist of each don't exist
>>281842885
>>281856832it's funny how jonouchi's deck went from unga bunga to pseudo warrior deck to being luck based
>>281856832mean while his self-inserters uhh i mean fans claim he deserves more respect because he doesnt use magic (an actual skill) to win
>>281856866There's actually a thematic irony too it. In the original pre-DM stuff, Joey does some different things to try to make money, because his family is poor. His dad is an alcoholic with a gambling problem.
>>281856832In the Yugioh universe one of the main gaming skills is having enough hotblooded willpower to warp the laws of probability
Why did they treat her like shit in the second half?
>>281856894he doesnt do that though, he just has normal luck
I'm addicted to anime Yu-Gi-Oh so I warmed up to the Rush shows but now I have nothing. I've been following the show since 2003, where am I gonna get my weekly duel fix from now? All the other card game anime suck and never show full duels the way Yu-Gi-Oh always did. Please Konami, give me more Yu-Gi-Oh anime!
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>>281856921>All the other card game anime suck and never show full duels the way Yu-Gi-Oh always didehem, duel masters was kino.
>>281856884runs in the family. perhaps ending up with Mai would've been a tragedy>>281856902>has psychic powers>psychic duelist was a concept about to introduced in 5D>"lol no, we need to avoid any mention of a cult">well we can still use her for fanservice
They were the greatest team in the anime
>>281856921including Vaanguard?
>>281856848>>281856814I know that. But what if Yusei gets taken to the synchro dimension where he didn't exist but his friend do? I feel that there would be something cathartic or something that would resonate in Arc-V Jack if he dueled Yusei.
>>281856967Vanguard G onwards they start to skip duels
Kotori, Aoi, Romin, and Yuamu are the best written females in Yu-Gi-Oh. Chestlets keep on winning.
>>281856975Sure. But the point is sort of that not having Yusei there leaves Jack wanting. It gives the protagonists an opportunity to prove something in that absence.
>You just have to suffer through Zexal until Yuma learns how to duel>First episode of S2>He still fucks up simple mechanicsI honestly think the people defending Zexal ignore literally everything other than the final arc
I haven't tried watching any of the anime series since Arc-V. VRAINS doesn't even have a card game in the first episode, and then there was this "digital wind surfing" thing that I just couldn't get behind, so I dropped it.Have any of the other series been good?
>>281857054I can't watch a show where the main character can cheat. The suspension of disbelief for regular card game anime luck is one thing, but this is trash.
>>281857064Vrains was good. It was just plot heavy. Yu-Gi-Oh at its most dramatic.Sevens was the most fun Yu-Gi-Oh in stark contrast to VrainsGo Rush combines the twoI'm happy with the trilogy overall. You will love them if you enjoyed Zexal.
>>281857077He can only do that in his Zexal form. Meanwhile Yuya does exactly this from episode one with zero justification other than plot.
>>281857105He changes other cards too though, just to invent ones that he doesn't have as needed. I would rather take GX's "I just happened to draw this card I needed that you'll never see again" stuff over that.
>>281857077To me the bigger issue with Zexal is the overreliance on OTKs and absurdly specific trap cards.Like you can just use negate attack you dont need>If your opponent steals your monster and has 5000 more life points than you negate an attackIt just ends up distracting
>>281857077Hey now, Yusei is the only main character that cheated. Team Unicorn anyone?
Zexal was boring and predictable. Idk why you guys give Arc-V so much shit when it is one of the craziest rides ever made.
>>281857165Arc-V is crazy, but fucking bad. It's absolutely fantastic until it turns into a far too long 5Ds wankfest. And then the ease with which people get EGAO'd is ridiculous, and the post-ZARC duel section is way too nonsensical.
>>281857141He just used talk no jutsu to convince Jean that decking out is a dishonorabu tactic. O my malfunctioning D-wheel is really the bigger cheat.
>>281856821It was Luke and Romin's father.
>>281847330Keep your shitty opinions to yourself
>>281857251That is worse than willing cards into existence imo
>>281856781Cursed siblings.
>>281855183Marik was the one who sneaked the card into Rishid's deck without his knowledgeJonouchi won because of him
my wives
>>281857037Only Aoi is a true flattie thoughThe other 3 are just lolis, they could still grow for all you know.
I really wish the franchise did better with writing its female characters. I don't even mind if they develop crushes on the main character that never quite go anywhere or whatever, but the tendency to sideline them or make them constantly job is kinda sad.
>>281858000Yuamu ain't gonna grow ever. Romin is fully developed already.
>>281857810>No trading card wivesShit taste. Them evil witches and hot looking spellcasters are where its at
>>281857810What the fuck am I looking at a screenshot of?
>>281858110AniDB, I'm an oldfag
>>281858127Super bizarre that there are harem and trash stats. How does that even work?
>>281858148you can set up your waifus you rate the characters on their pages
I wish there was more Kisara
>>281858181she showed up at the start of Sevens and in Zexal
>>281856691A villain being unfair and hatable is a good quality actually.
>>281858038Romin has weird proportions in general. She looks more like an adult that was shrunk than a loli.
>>281858211He's just not very interesting. He's threatening because he has the most bullshit card in the game, not because of anything to do with his character. He's evil but he just wants to torture and kill people, it's boring compared to the crazy shit Kaiba did. And he doesn't really have anything to do with the main characters, he just had a bad childhood and broadly hates the pharaoh. He's just the bare minimum of a villain.
>>281858335He's kind of a greater scale villain for the whole Battle City arc. Remember, this is the sequence of events:>Marik, having abandoned his family's legacy and wanting revenge, has established a criminal organization that hunts for rare cards as a means of finding the Egyptian God Cards. He gets his hands on The Winged Dragon of Ra and Slifer the Sky Dragon.>Ishizu hands Obelisk the Tormentor to Kaiba (intending to loan it to him and win it back later) as collateral to get him to hold a tournament that will draw Marik out and then lead to his defeat at the hands of Yugi and Kaiba. This would result in, she intends, the reincarnation of the Pharaoh having all three Egyptian God Cards.We wouldn't be having this whole situation in the first place if Ishizu wasn't worried about him possibly having his hands on all three of the Egyptian God Cards. He had to be lured into a situation where the people present were expected to defeat him as a matter of the forces of fate.Getting taken over by his "more evil" personality makes him more straightforwardly sadistic, but he did a lot of sneaky shit before that, which set up the whole plotline.
I feel bad for the kids now adults that got Kotori as their waifu.
I wonder how great would Zexal had been if Kotori was a duelist and took the role of Astral... one can dream.
>>281858594This but replace Shark with Rio
>>281851984>be born jap>live in the best country in the world (outside of America)>create YGO>rich af and living the life>be a living legend already>still try to save a drowning kid>dies doing do>legendary status only goes up>gets isekai'dIt really should have been me, not him!But I'm happy for him in isekai land.>That time i died a hero mangaka and reincarnated as the most powerful monster summoner in another world
>>281853383I do prefer the cyborg 009 references, to be fair.
I miss them, but I'm fine with this being the finale.
>tfw had the kaiba starter pack>Tfw kids in my school stole all my shiny cardsfeels bad bros
There are a lot of great mixes in the YGO franchise like passionate duelist or god's anger, but the best SONG is Clear Mind.It had the best moments, coolest dragon summons, and hype moments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSAKIT9MXw
>>281847330I liked the first two seasons of GX, but I agree with you on Season 3. The only redeeming feature of Season 3 were some oof the characters introduced and the only good thing about Season 4 was last duel
>>281856921Patience, there will be another Yu-Gi-Oh series eventually.
>>281847330dude, it's just the people who watched it as kids wearing nostalgia goggles. no need to get that upset.
It is cool that Yu-Gi-Oh ended on a highlight
>>281856710Pendulums being nearly exclusive to Yuya as well as restricted to just Reiji’s allies was also a bad idea looking back. This made it so the vast majority of the pendulum cards of Arc-V were Performapals.One thing I really liked back then was when they started introducing pendulums of old archetypes IRL like the Crystal Beasts. Made me think we were gonna see more of them
>>281856227I tried to give Sevens a chance but I ended up dropping it.It's a random kodomo anime that has very little to do with yugioh.It's not worth watching in my opinion.
>>281859783how do you know that if you dropped it?
>>281859805I dropped it after watching 40 or so episodes.
>>281856691Yugioh often manages to work despite those things. Aigami from DSOD was basically the worst of Marik condensed into one massive jobber but the movie got carried by dumb Yugioh fun anyway.
I still don't get why people praised Jounouchi/Joey that much. He'll be the most hated duelist IRL. Imagine losing to a guy who got lucky and drew the out every game. Or him having Maxx C every game. He's lucky after all.
>>281859843it is harsh to say it has very little to do with Yu-Gi-Oh
>>281859936He's lucky with his dice cards, but he's one of the few duelists that get brick hands sometimesAnd in any case, he has a far weaker deck than most duelists because he's a poorfag.
Go Rush was Kazuki Takahashi's last approved show.
Sevens and Go Rush are the silliest in tone but they are still very much Yu-Gi-Oh in essence, and Go Rush did become dark.
>>281844437The one good thing they kept up is NOT using duel monsters world and piling onto the problem of cast bloating and how characters would make each other redundant, or blend a bunch of introduced characters of a different dimension into a nothing soup because there wasn't any real time for them
little bro would be a coomer if he saw today's gameplay
>>281860434would he play Rush duels?
>>281856921I only started watching a little while ago but the latest Vanguard anime that started in 2024 has kept my attention to a point, but there's something about how it feels more like an inoffensive background noise anime compared to the Yugioh anime style of big moments feeling like bigger events
>>281843774>Jounochifags conveniently forgetting about the Odion duel whenever they talk about how he should have won the Marik duelEvery. Single. Time.
>>281859936The really stupid thing is that he has some legitimate skill by the time the series is over. It's just that he relied on luck mechanics to miraculously bail him out every time it mattered along the way, instead of building his deck for better consistency.
>>281860582>legit skill by the end of the seriesNot canon. That's anime filler.
>>281857165Fusion arc ended up being fairly entertaining to me. It was directly insulting and has the gracefulness of crumbling concrete pavement even for Yugioh anime standards, but sometimes it was funny and actually high energy. Synchro could drag its feet for so fucking long in places and meander around for nothing. Arc-V Jack was not a worthy goal to suddenly make up for the rest of it, he's objectively just a mildly bad person 99% of the time. Arc-V sorely lacked on the antagonist department at times, and the worst stretch of this issue was during Synchro (not counting the terrible but at least pretty skippable Xyz arc)Also it's still really weird how isolated and cut off Yugo and Rin were to everything (including their own home world) and the rest of the cast. Yuri was a sort of latecomer but still felt a lot more tied into things. If those 2 had played some direct part in Roget's schemes that would've immediately made Yugo feel integrated into his own home city. And it would've backed up Roget's confidence that he could play the game and stand up to Leo if he had his own strong dragon boy duelist
>>281859414Nostalgia and people who really wish they were in Duel Academy chillin out with the crew in the schoolyard
>>281859051I never understood the praise the later parts of GX got. The only parts of it I really liked were the graduation themed episodes.
My own problem with GX ends up largely being how cheap the visuals are because of the circumstances. I don't only mean the animation either, but in like basic storyboarding and directing. Most of the time it doesn't even get the variety of set pieces and backdrops other series did, even compared to Vrains as the show that struggled the most to keep production going
i love GX because of how it gives you whiplash between it being universe ending seriousness to being completely unserious like discovering the mystery of who's stealing the eggwiches
>>281843073satanic panic
>>281860780The side characters at the start except for Zane/Kaiser, Alexis/Asuka and Bastion/Misawa was horrible.The new characters in S3 was better.
kill chumley
>>281861583what was the point of that character
>>281861592>"Grilled cheese sandwiches dude!"Him and Syrus are so terrible.
>>281861715you jest but at least they got a personality in the dub, they have nothing in the sub
>>281861735The GX dub is basically an abridged series by itself.
>>281861735Sho has the whole inferiority complex with his brother, but they don't do that much with it, especially with his diminishing role, so he's mostly a Judai cheerleader.
>>281861882The Dino DNA guy was more memorable than him for being part dinosaur.
>>281861882his deck was terrible too, idk why they gave the main cast such shit decks in the first place
>>281847995>>281848367>Wins>Gets away with EVERYTHING>Not only gets exactly what she wanted (being with Judai) but she literally becomes one with him in both mind and body>Because he can interact with spirits she can manifest as his Tulpa whenever she wants>Becomes not only his life partner AND confidant but ALSO his new boss monster>Because he is the Supreme King and she is bound to him, when he eventually dies they will reincarnate and be together again and again until the heat death of the universeLiterally how the fuck could any other girl in the show compete?
>>281862114Asuka has bigger tits and she's blonde.
>>281862114Kotori and Yuma, Yuya and Yuzu are the same way
>>281862114That's a lot of assumptions about how fusion and reincarnation works.>>281858181MikageRio SerenaQueenHaruka Epoch
>>281862351Jaden is the reincarnation of the Supreme King and Yubel is seemingly deathless, they'll meet again as long as he comes back>>281862201Asuka still got friendzoned into the dirt. But you're right, she is sex incarnate and it's unfortunate how dirty she was done by the writers
>>281862400Judai and Yubel? More like Atem and Bakura
Honest thoughts on Romin and Yuamu?
>>281842885My headcannon is Battle City had 4000 Life Points instead of the previous 2000 and introduced the tribute rule because Kaiba dueled someone starting with Hitotsu-Me Giant with no backup, only for his opponent to summon Summoned Skull and add Horn of the Unicorn, wipe him out in one shot and say "They told me you were good at this game, that wasn't even worth the elevator ride."
>>281862351Mikage fucking sucks and gets cuckolded very early, she should be happy with Ushio
>>281862613Asukacore
Kotori is my waifu, and I' m not a pedo, I was 12 when I watched her show on release in 2010, and ever since I wish I had a supportive friend like her
You age but your waifu stays the same, what a curse.
>>281862938very true
>>281862613Never saw the show, but Yuamu reminds of Rebecca, which is nice.
>>281863301I never thought a non-canon girl would be better than the canon girl.
>episode 68 of ZEXAL>Kaito, Shark, Kotori and Orbital all have things to do without card games>bashing the shit out of the trashbots
>>281858594Zexal wasting its amazing all star cast with ugly ass creatures and shit writing will never not be a travesty
>>281863667but I liked the ugly creatures
>>281863234Have Rua as a waifu then
>>281861592Still more useful than 99% of the cast in DM
>>281863882didn't he draw that one card that helped Judai or smt
>>281863804That depends on which group of ugly creatures you’re referring to
>>281863901Yeah he helped him beat the most dangerous version of Ra and became a multimillionaire. You can’t hate on him in anyway
>>281847576I just realized what the G in Yugioh GX stands for.Don't watch it.
>>281864034too late, everyone has seen GX already
>>281861592To give us cringekino
>>281856622Asuka had the highest female win rate in Yugioh and who the fuck wants to watch only 3 dudes dueling the entire series? GX is the best series with the largest cast for a reason
>>281864034It's funny to see LK go back on 5Ds after being the first guy to shit on it so much.He still doesn't seem to like GX though.
I forget, why did Zane losing to Phoenix mindbreak him so hard?
>>281864362I still hate 5D's but will forever love Zexal and GX.
Zexal > DM > rest
>>281864521>>281864650>ZexalIt suffers from the issues that plagued GX.Boring beginnings. It only gets better at the end.
>>281864380zane built his deck to be invincible so when aster was able to just humiliate him suddenly that cyberdragon combo seemed worthless
>>281864746>Boring beginning Number Hunting was awesome, and Kaito and Shark are some of the most charismatic characters ever.
>>281864746I feel like that issue plagues every gen of YGOeven DM arguably wasn't that interesting until they added rules
>>281854397>shounen series>not for kids
>>281861735"lol fat and food jokes" is not a personality.
These are my favorite shows.
>>281864746The only good arcs in DM was DOMA and the second half of Battle City
>>281856856A lot of headcanon and plain bullshit in this one.
>>281865176>DOMA>fillershit>the worst of them all in fact
>Atem and Kaiba>Yuma and Ryogamost iconic characters from this franchise for me
>>281865111I would say these two were written like soft seinenGX and 5Ds were pure shonen
>>281864825DM was fine since it was the first.GX was bad at the start.5Ds was good at the start. It fell off in S3. The WRGP is really boring. Also BLACKWINGS. I fucking love Ark Cradle arc with Zone.Zexal's the same as GX.Arc V fell off after a good start.Never watched anything else afterwards.>>281865176>DOMAWhat happened? I remember everyone shitting on it a few years back and now people are praising it?DM's fillers are really shitty. Virtual World, DOMA and the zesty guy.At least we get to see Kaiba destroy him.
>>281865570people are watching the subs nowDOMA is kino in the original version
>>281865570Doma was always good. As usual, it's retards thinking that filler is inherently bad.
Doma is flawed, sure, but I always liked it.
>>281865604>>281866005>Egyptian Gods doesn't strike the thieves and let themselves be used as energy>the guy that hates Kaiba's motivation>sacrificing monsters is evil>deus ex machina everywhere
>>281858858Eh, I prefer the Terry Board type of American.
>>281866286but Mai ptsd
>>281844437The concept of the Spirit World confuses me.If every monster exists in some other world, what does that imply about card designers? Do card designers bring these spirits to life by imagining them, or is their imagination inspired or possessed by preexisting spirits? Does every monster card has its own spirit, even among multiple copies? How come some spirits live in cards while others live in their own world with little knowledge of the human world? How can they have their own cards and duel disks in those worlds? How can Torunka be Dark Sage when Dark Sage is an older Dark Magician, a.k.a Mahad?
>>281866338Only the West cares about Mai lmaoHer being evil makes no sense.
>>281865243If I asked you what was bad about it you wouldn’t be able to answer
>>281842885Which version of yugioh should i watch?
>>281866393Sub
>>281866338The single most retarded part of the arc.
>>281866286>Egyptian Gods doesn't strike the thieves and let themselves be used as energyGee, it's almost like those guys had their own god on their side or something>the guy that hates Kaiba's motivationYes? He hates the company that (he thinks) ruined his life>sacrificing monsters is evilLiterally a plot point in the manga. Multiple times even. The problem is that it's OOC for Atem, not this nonsense.>deus ex machina everywhereSo, just like normal Yugioh?
>>281866286>The god cards were stolen with no hassle in the arc right before it >Sacrificing monsters like a deranged asshole is evil yes >You now remember Ragnarok, Ra’s 10 effects, and Kaiba defeating fate And let’s not forget DOMA having the most memorable duels in a single season for DM
>>281866447Ptsd is retarded now? I guess you hate Kaiba too
Best series :DM>5DS>Zexal>GX>Arc V.Best MC: Atem>Yusei>Judai>Astral>yuzuBest girl: aki>rebecca>kotori>ishizu>sherry>rei>asuka>carlyBest villain: Marik>pegasus>bakura>Zone>Vector>yubel>tarot dio>sora.Best games: tag 5>tag3>tag4>forbidden memories> duelists of the roses> GBA games> master duel> duel links.
>>281866393abridged
>>281866501Leviathan was pretty weak before getting the Egyptian God's energy, anon.Kaiba literally killed Gozaburo, the guy that ruined his life.Good point but there's also no real reason for Atem to use the Seal.>just like normal yugiohNo? It's even more worse.>>281866552Marik at least is Egyptian and has a Milennium Item. The 3 DOMA guys are just bikers. It's also after Battle City where the God Cards are in the hands of their rightful owners.Ragnarok was bullshit, yes. The other 2 are fine compared to the DOMA stuff.
GX was so bad I literally unwatched it. 5D and beyond I never watched, because I am not a manchild.
>>281860968The satanic panic was over by the time Yugioh got to America.
>>281866787>Leviathan was pretty weak before getting the Egyptian God's energy, anon.Where do you think Dartz gets all of his powers from?>Kaiba literally killed Gozaburo, the guy that ruined his life.And as far as Amelda is concerned, Seto still benefits from his wealth.>Good point but there's also no real reason for Atem to use the Seal.I mean, he's still stuck there with Raphael. And if he can't beat him when Raphael doesn't use the seal, what chance does he have if he does?>No? It's even more worse.How is it worse than "your millennium eye doesn't work now because friendship"? or "I know Ra can negate even Obelisk but Magical Dimension works because fuck you it just does"? or "my monster randomly crits yours(in a game that didn't even mention critical hits and has nothing that could cause them) so I win"? or "Anzu randomly got a job here so we can have a functional laser tag gun"? or many, many other such examples?
>>281862201>>281855801I do think Asuka generally fits into the Osiris and Dark Magician Girl scheme well. Especially since yubel is supposed to represent judai's connection to death and is what makes him the dying god Osiris.
>>281867438What powers? Before getting the God Cards, Dartz barely did anything major. Unless you count the massive wave and disguising himself as someone else.Did Amelda not check what Kaiba is doing with his money? He turned Gozaburo's war business into a children's card game business, makes theme parks for kids. Literally a 180.There is no stakes in the Rafael duel. Rafael can't steal anyone's soul since Atem has the seal.>millenium eye doesn't work because of friendshipThis is bullshit, yes. It's shounen so it's expected.Ra is known to be the strongest egyptian god card with a bunch of bullshit effects so it's established.DOMA literally has them get a card mid-duel, fuse it with spells and traps and wins instantly. It's one thing if it's once or twice, but it happened multiple times for each character.
>>281866680Arc V was the first to truly filter me. Right around the duel with Yūri I accepted this is the new norm: normal summon to XZ summon to synchro summon to fusion summon to pendulum summon to ritual summon to sacrifice and play a magic card. All in one turn. Just way too much to follow.
>>281847330S1 had a good amount of plot relevancy with the Seven Stars duels, Judai’s rivalries, and duel spirit foreshadowing and S2 had Hell Kaiser, Edo, and the Society of Light. Just admit that you only watched the dub and don’t know what filler is especially when you can’t tell that the subversion from peaceful into chaotic tone was clearly intentional
>>281866392>muh civilization that is even more ancient and more powerful than egypt>muh ceo villain that is even richer and more powerful than seto and pegasus combined>boring-ass prophecy about yugi, seto, and joey being the chosen ones>continuity issues with the villains' backstories>duel monster backstory that contradicts what would be later be established in the millennium world>final boss is a monster with infinite atk because fuck you>timaeus gets infinite atk from a loop because fuck you>some alien shit that clashes with the theme of the seriesDoma is everything wrong with old-school anime filler in a nutshell.
>>281860832>Most of the time it doesn't even get the variety of set pieces and backdrops other series didWhat are you talking about? GX has tons of set pieces, especially where duels take place>In the school arena>Outside the Slifer dorms>In the lake next to the Obelisk Dorms>By the docks>In the woods>By a waterfall>Over an active volcano>Weird spirit world cave where Kaibaman is>Vampire-ass castle>Amazon Colosseum>Gravekeepers' territory>Outside the game shop in Domino City>In space>In a wild-west-ass town of a schoolAnd that's not even all of them.
>>281867655>What powers? Before getting the God Cards, Dartz barely did anything major. Unless you count [obvious magic powers]Yes? Causing undersea volcanos to erupt and cause tidal waves isn't exactly a minor power.>Did Amelda not check what Kaiba is doing with his money? He turned Gozaburo's war business into a children's card game business, makes theme parks for kids. Literally a 180.Would you forgive a company that ruined your life if it contributed to a random charity? Seto still lives in luxury thanks to Gozaburo's war profiteering, he even still keeps some of the equipment. It's not any less logical than Marik hating Atem because of his family traditions he had nothing to do with directly.>Ra is known to be the strongest egyptian god card with a bunch of bullshit effects so it's established.Yes, and yet a normal magic card still beats him after all of the bullshit he shrugged off.>DOMA literally has them get a card mid-duelSo does DSoD. And how is fusing with spells and traps to get monsters/equips with arbitrary stats and effects somewhat relating to the original card different than fusing random monsters and getting some other monster with arbitrary stats and effects that may or may not be related to the original monsters? How is it different than some new card out of nowhere saving the day?
>>281867694That's just the more varied version of what Yusei was already doing. The dude used to mentally map out a several-step play to make the end-game Synchro monsters happen.>>281867204NTA, but as someone who grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and who enjoyed a lot of media and games that were disapproved of at churches and by some religious folks, that's not correct. If your game features demon-esque creatures, and you play it in front of the closed-minded types, they will want to throw a fit about it.
>>281862676I mean, to me, it makes more sense that he formatted the rules this way for these reasons:>Tributes are required so the power scaling sets up the gods, who need three by their own rules>4000 is exactly enough life points for Obelisk to wipe anyone out, and that's the god card he hasWhich is to say, I think he was still doing it for self-centered reasons, just more logical reasons.
>>281867859>I don’t think you know how filler arcs work >muh god card that is even stronger than two god cards used simultaneously >boring-ass prophecy about yugi and seto, being ancient Egyptian duelists is fine I guess >I don’t remember any>almost as if it’s a filler arc or something >final villain can use shadow games because fuck you>obelisk gets infinite atk from an effect because fuck you >what theme? It went from death games to card games at the drop of a hat
>>281868236>what theme? It went from death games to card games at the drop of a hatNTA, but I draw the line here. Card games existed during the death games era, and were even featured at the climax of a death game theme park arc. It's a damn shame that the card game ate the rest of the series after the seventh volume, but they had been present in the story already. The most prominent overarching antagonist's thing became the primary mode by which the story would revolve around going forward.
>>281868058The school arena, 'random location outside that's nothing special', random spot next to one of the cliffs, or a bland cave were repeated a lot for an anime that goes for 180 episodes
>>281868404Sure, but what kind of comparison is that? A lot of those locales are similar to the kinds of locales we had in Duel Monsters. And then it also offers a ton of really wild and sometimes mystical locations on top of that.
>>281868501S3 had better planned pacing but the actual world was pretty low budget a lot of the time for a fantasy world. Random undecorated cave or standing next to trees or a plain and sparse jrpg village are some of the easiest ways to get backgrounds made fast. DM after Duelist Kingdom had a large city at least to move around in and could get more specific backdrops using that, and whatever was original to the anime had the excuse of being the first tests without any manga material to follow
>>281869005I feel like you're still not being fair to GX. What does Duel Monsters have that's particularly unique? Stuff that GX doesn't have at some point?>On top of a blimp>Ancient EgyptAnd that's basically it. GX is a wilder, goofier show though, and it does plenty of stuff that Duel Monsters never did for locations.
>>281866363>>281844437It was simple enough. It's imagination land but it also actively rewrites reality. Which is why characters and locations in gx and 5d's can actively conflict with what was established in duel monsters. They didn't exist yet. They were created from the conflicts of the previous series.
>>281869082I just don't find any of that particularly wild or novel except for rare things like the volcano or the secret underground room Daitokuji was hiding his stuff. Domino City was better to look at than most of the academy island, Blimp had the novelty of being a blimp hosting duels in mid flight (plus DM's effort for lingering effects on field were usually better) and at the time ancient Egypt was a specific setting that other shounen manga weren't using
>>281867859Doma tried too hard to make Dartz look like a serious threat with how it builds a pile to list what he's connected to, and the scale gets silly compared to when they kept it fairly contained for virtual world. But the main reasons someone liked it was never the set up itself, I think it boiled down to people wanting to see more duels given to Jounouchi and seeing Atem & Kaiba team up for something like that
>>281843774joey should have lost to Odion though
>>281856609And I think anime fans tend to underrate the simple value of decent pacing and how easy it can make almost anything, no matter what the actual content is, to watch for a viewer and let them have more fun with the best moments. 5D's dark signers and ark cradle are some of the best paced sections of yugioh anime with some of the most memorable duels imo.With Vrains I have some thoughts on it that I probably can't word that clearly yet. There's something about it that keeps making me think back to it occasionally, even though while watching I wouldn't say I liked it as much as my favorite duels before it. I think season 2 suffered a lot from Bohman being a brick wall of an antagonist, it would be fair if he was a dealbreaker for a lot. He's on the tier of Dr. Faker in being a snoozer antagonist, but the difference is that Faker only got 3 episodes for his duel and the show thankfully never tries to use him again
>>281869923Yes, Rishid thrashed him
I think overall GX s1, 3, and 4 were alright for what they were. But season 2 felt like just a bad watch
>>281868377But it started with death games which is the whole point I’m making yet they weren’t the main focus ever again
>>281869082Yeah S3 had a shit ton of different backgrounds and settings compared to DM
Why did Judai ignore all his friends and make everything worse in season 3 of GX? Why did he have to obsess over some random new guy we barely know? I much prefer the dumb fun filler like when he duels a monkey.
>>281848622You gotta be a faggot to believe this. Because of this shitty cult bullshit and faggot directors the franchise missed out on giving cute duel spirits like >>281843217>>281869211 DMG and GMG more screentime and marketability
>>281870732But besides a few of the buildings in duel monsters world, a lot of it wasn't much better or mildly worse in being grey, brown and boring than the locations DM cast wandered around during virtual world
>>281870705Well, no. Because the marketing shifted. Which is understandable, though a bit unfortunate. At least we had a Dungeon Dice Monsters bit in the middle, where we found out that Duke/Ryuji's dad lost a crazy death game to Solomon/Sugoroku and lost several years of his life in the process.
>>281870974>Why did Judai ignore all his friends and make everything worse in season 3 of GX?His entire arc after fusing with Yubel is that he has tons of unresolved angst from that season. It makes sense, though the writing still could've been better.
>>281855390>lack of his REBDI don't know what the fuck that's supposed to mean but it definitely sounds like some cringe tvtropes shit
>>281870974Several of the side characters before the foreign students arrived ended up coming off as friends of convenience that Judai wasn't going to shoo away. And all the newcomer foreign students were more passionate and stronger willed as better people. That kind of thing does happen in real life, whether or not the writers actually ever did this intentionally at all
>>281871203Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Joey's signature card that got him through the later part of the first season. Remember? It's one of the cards we most associate with the character. He doesn't have it for the whole Battle City arc, because he loses it to the Rare Hunter with the Exodia deck.
>>281871203Imagine wanting to bogeyman a website so hard you forget one of the most famous monster cards in the whole Duel Monsters anime.
>>281871386>most famous monster cards in the whole Duel Monsters animeJinzo-ningen Psycho Shocker?
Can't believe i just learned the full story of Kazuki Takahashi, for years i thought he died because he went snorkeling alone and got caught in an incident, when he actually was trying to save 3 people, and they all lived. he's an actual hero.
>>281871386>is an absolute trooper and saves Jonouchi and Yugi by attacking Jonouchi during their forced duel at the pierHe’s kino
>>281844479The KING saw this and knew that she was meant to be his QUEEN
>>281850231Punishment for not being a Blue Eyes White Dragon
>>281874523they're jobbers anyway
What the fuck was his problem?
>>281874755Like an overtweaked magical defense system that got wonky after its purpose was finished and too big for its shoes
>>281873236Not intentionally trying to disrespect him but while his intentions were good I think he genuinely didn't know that a strong riptide was present in front of him due to the tension of the moment, that caught him and was the cause of death
>>281874669Except when they're not?
>>281874755He doesn't believe in the power of friendship.
>>281842885There's an account on twitch that streams every series from this franchise 24/7 but only dubbed version. And it's surprisingly active despite going on for months. I just wish we could get that but for the subs.
>>281874755He hated women and the jewish people
>>281863506>Anzu
>>281874755shadi is the most wasted potential, he started as being someone who holds secret but he's only a reminder that yes, the plot is about ancient egypt guys. also his involvement in the movie reflects how waste of space he is by how little his presence is. I don't want to diss on Kaz but the fuck happened in that movie? did it need more time, too many cooks in the kitchen? WHAT is Shadi?
>>281863506Rebecca is a win/win/win for yugi>can cosplay as a loli>can cosplay as an office lady>can cosplay as dark magician girlall depending on Yugi's mood
>>281874247And then everyone pretended nothing happened.
>>281874755Shadi was the coolest guy
>>281876296secret torrid love affair
>>281876169I think Kaz must have had some sort of insane plot for Shadi in his head, because he doesn't make any sense but he's still inserted into all of the most important moments of the story.
>>281862938>>281863286mikage is the only one who understood jack.
>>281876987
Fuck westcucks This is a series for malesI don't want strong females I don't want girls to be good at dueling go watch card fight flop trash if you want thatI want girls to be cute weak and want them to lose duels so the male mcs look cool and im not jokingI want them to get mind controlled as per ygo tradition and anyone who says otherwise is going against the creators' wishesTldr girls women should always lose
>>281877559
>>281854534None of the most important staff who were deciding and writing the story got swapped out because of DSOD. Animators being bad or good at drawing doesn't really matter in terms of what's most important when they're at the lowest part of the hierarchy in deciding what happens, and there weren't signs of the animators having to use the most desperate animation tactics to save time. The biggest events that happened with the director, head writer, and episode writers were that>Ono decided to take the Symphogear director job again and was simultaneously focused on directing that during Synchro arc>Zappa Go who was an episode writer since the start of Zexal 2 and had some of the better episodes under his name decided to leave Yugioh anime entirely in the last section of Standard arc, for unknown reasons
The mysterious VR line dimension Akhenaten was in for a few pages of the manga.
>>281876499this, it feels like kaz didn't know how to insert shadi despite wanting him so bad to make him an important part of the plot
>>281880082Other authors have fell into similar traps of wanting to extract something more with that type of cool mysterious aura character, but not really getting anywhere or it's all too foggy
>>281880082It doesn't help that Shadi was introduced before Duel Monsters. His purpose was no doubt affected by the reworks.
>>281843221Rewatching 5Ds subbed (I only watched it dubbed). A lot cooler obviously with the music. I finished the episode where Carly loses to Jack. Shame that the actress was part of a sex cult, which allegedly fucked the story ideas up
>>281862938>>281863286>>281876987This bitch was only in love with her idea of the Jack she knew. Not the real Jack. Referring to him as King and Master clearly meant she only liked him because of his status in a sense and who she thinks he is and not who he truly is on the inside. That's why this dumb broad lost
>>281882002By the time the sex cult scandal broke, 5D's was already around like episode 110-115 iirc. By that point a lot would've already been set in stone for the major plot points of wrgp and ark cradle. The main thing that sent the writers spinning was trying to figure out what to do after the ending of dark signers since that was the previously planned ending before an extension. They had very little time to figure out a full plan before having to write up and send in the pre-wrgp episodes
>>281875339I almost wish I could send a thank you letter to the people who worked on the soundtracks of yugioh anime. The best moments throughout the years of the anime wouldn't have been the same without their effort. Anime music staff putting in their best try a good amount of the time and respecting how music can boost key moments is one part of why anime gained popularity over time
>>281882236no, he definitely was that guy.
cut to Jack going Absolute Powerforce in Carly at her apartment later that night
I am watching Sevens and having a blast, plus the art style is super cute. This is what GX should have been, why do you fags hate it again?
Yu-Gi-Oh 9 never
>>281860096Go Rush's ending might be the bleakest one if you think about what the events after it leads intoWe only just got the good ending because Yudias temporarily accessed the Numeron Code
>>281860582Bro canonically beat Atem at the end of Battle City OFFSCREEN
Why aren't they making a new show? I thought Rush was a huge hit in Japan?
>>281876169Watch Go Rush for Yuamu.
>>281883451They decided to take a break because the Rush anime studio got overloaded with work for 5straight years
>>281846896Reminder that Fire Emblem Sacred Stones ripped a lot from YGO and Tana was not-Mokuba.
>>281883352I didn't watch any of Go Rush yet but when talking about only the small gags and comedy part, Sevens was helped out by just making those things faster paced and snappier. Going to be difficult for some older anime like GX to not feel slow and drawn out today
Sevens was really good, but Go Rush is kinda shit. Arc-V all over again.
>>281883779Sevens has no Mind Control. It's not real Yugioh.Go Rush has it so it's good.
>>281883947
>>281884623Mind Control peak was Arc V. Imagine making your 4 main girls get brainwashed by an old man.
>>281883947but Romin was mind controled
>>281884699When?Wasn't that her hunger?
>>281885030I still count it
>>281885042It's self inflicted. Doesn't count. We need a villain for it to count.
So Yu-Gi-Oh is over... rank them! Here are mine:>The goodZexal > DM > 5D's > Sevens>The badArc-V > Vrains > GX > Go Rush
here me out, female villain mind controlling a male protagonist
>>281885692Yubel did it
>>281885701i meant the main one
>>281885818Yubel indirectly mind-controlled Judai into becoming the supreme king
kazuki takahashi was such a looney tune
>>281886120This rock in the sea scene doesn't feel the same without the army of angels.
>>281886314
>>281885531Zexal, Arc-V, Vrains, and Sevens are my favorite. Go Rush killed my interest in the franchise.
>>281842885just making sure you're all discussing the dub because the sub is shit
>>281876204>Dark Magician Girl this and that>not the superior Silent Magician that Yugi groomed from loli to dynamite arcane wizard
>>281886667who groomed who exactly
>>281878623>>Zappa Go who was an episode writer since the start of Zexal 2 and had some of the better episodes under his name decided to leave Yugioh anime entirely in the last section of Standard arcWait what? Is that why Arc-V went to shit? I actually have no issues with Zexal Part 1 after Kaito is introduced and it gets the plot going and I think the Arclights were one of the best addition to the plot as well as their family conflict but if the guy that made Zexal 2 and Standard is gone I can understand the drop in quality for Synchro arc onwards
>>281885531DM>Zexal>=5D’s (I consider the differences here really close though and depending on the peak of a season this changes too) >>> Arc-V = GX (Arc-V has THE best start of any series outright which only polarizes it with how BAD it gets afterwards. GX is something I had a lot of fun early on but always felt something was missing. Arc-V wins more because of Standard peak)Haven’t watched Vrains onwards though since Arc-V left me soured and the damn Link rules killed my Extra Deck and interest even after they got patched. How was it?
Thoughts on the next YGO? I feel like they'll finally have a female protagonist
>>281886690SEEEEXGod I wish her doujins were translated
>>281886837remake of the original/gx/5d's or alternate timeline short series
I actually like Sevens and its humor and love Romin too. But I’ve heard that Go Rush sucks and the girls aren’t as memorable or cute. Is this true?
>>281876204I just think Rebecca would be more likely to enjoy a random game with him. But Anzu isn't too bad either.
>>281886870The one where she levels down from 8 to 4 during sex is translated, and that's good enough for me.
>>281881638this, pre DM it was a different premise of a dark hero who loves games and punish wrongdoers while Shadi was probably the one checking out he doesn't cross any line but with the focus on DM Shadi felt out of place like he was just supervising who was going to carry the millennium item. there was an opportunity for him to join the battle city but that would've blur ishizu, malik and odin's importance in the story
>>281887968me after trying to play modern yugioh
>>281887736the thing with anzu is that often many people believe she was more in love with atem than yugi and the show help by forcing that belief in anyone when in the manga it's implied that anzu's friendship with yugi evolve to a teenage romance once she sees that yugi can break from his innocent shell to a more confident self which he was lacking. I think she didn't see atem as someone else but as how yugi could become.Meanwhile with rebecca, she was infatuated by yugi's gentle side after finding out that yugi lost on purpose not to hurt her feelings or pride as a duelist. that's why she later appears acting more mature in hopes yugi would see her no longer as a child and could finally accept defeat next time they duel
I didn't think that Zoodiac Drident, of all girls, would get a doujin. Wonder if anyone's uploaded this to sadpanda yet.
>>281843073>remember when Yu-Gi-Oh was about the occult?What's more interesting to me is that the protag, Yugi, had a deck full of "dark" monsters instead of more heroic stuff you'd expect and that it was his Grandpa's deck.
>>281892524grandpa gets usually associated with exodia and maybe it had to do with his past being indiana jones finding treasures which often lead to weird shit. even in kaibaland arc his deck was oriented to egypt
>>281892808Don't forget that the deck that first featured Exodia was his, and that this is a reflection of him as an aged gamer who owns a card shop and has many rare cards. Not only did he have multiple cards with 2500 ATK, but he had the five pieces of the legendary "I win the game" button that no one was able to gather and use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LhvAKf2twWhy does Japan like charmers so much?
>>281891719When you put it like that Rebecca feels like a better pairing. Anzu needed Yugi to change, while Rebecca loved for who he already as and kept being regardless of that change.Depending on how you see it, Yugi always was the better duelist he just lacked the courage and the will to win when there were stakes, either by fear of loss or the danger posed on his opponents. His core is that kindness.
>>281893399that's the tricky part and maybe why romance is not kaz's best suit and the anime making more of a mess because anzu was already a teenager while rebecca was still pre-teen so rebecca was swooned by yugi's kindness as it's something pure and childish which any girl her age would fall for meanwhile anzu while caring for yugi she saw him as that one friend until her hormones sort of triggered when yugi shown his other self which was one of the subplots at the beginning when anzu was wondering who was that mysterious man who sounded like yugi but more confident. I think anzu was in a tough spot as she had to stop seeing yugi with the same eyes as he was having a slow growth, it's a complicated romance but i feel like kaz was aiming for something there
>>281843073Nah 5d's is good Zexal in the other hand.. what a shit protagonist.
>>281891719This is the thing though: in both cases, the characters aren't in love with him, they're just sort of crushing on him (or, different aspects of him).It's true that Rebecca starts to like Yugi himself based on their first interactions. Anzu though, doesn't even know that Atem is not Yugi, or what Atem even looks like before she starts to have her crush on him. It's got "Lois Lane loves Superman" vibes to it for most of the time. The opportunity to have them interact in something that looks romantic, or explores this further, is sort of eaten by the change of focus to Duel Monsters plotlines.Ultimately though, both characters like traits that Yugi is capable of showing. There's no either/or going on, just that the things that Anzu was initially attracted to in Atem are things that Yugi hadn't fully come into yet.
>>281856902The writer hated strong female heroines lol
>>281855487So the big five were into Mokuba?
>>281894310that writer was a repressed homosexual
Spooky ghost lady
>>281893369cute girls doing magic with implied tragic consequences, what's not to like?
Barrel dragon
>>281887189I Sevens I really liked the episodes that they didn't duel. Just four idiots being friends and all
>>281896890>Blowback dragon is better
>>281896134isn’t that the boy pretending to be a girl from vrains
>>281897101You’re wrong. Blowback Dragon is the only answer
>>281897105That was in duel monsters, and 5d's, and zexal.
>>281897459And gx.
I SUMMON MAN EATER BUG IN ATTACK MODE
I tried to start watching VRAINS but the cyber-surfing and catching cards on windstorms bit hit me as being just too stupid. Is it prominent in the series after its introduction?
>>281897916yes. all the way to episode 82.
>>281894089>>281894264Kaz copied Anzu and Yugi's basic dynamic from Tezuka manga. Just nowhere near as over the top or ridiculous.
>>281842885more dynamic zexal anime
>>281847330>tranny boyfriendtranny girlfriend* Don't be a chud
>>281897916I get what you mean. It's the same thing that turns me off from Zexal, and some of the stuff in Arc-V. The idea that you can just acquire cards that you didn't have in the middle of the duel just feels different than arbitrarily drawing the right one from your actual deck.
>>281857077Wasn't the guy he was up against also cheating?
>>281897916what i hated about VRAINS is that they played it too safe with the plot, when something was teased to happen it only backpedaled into something boring. I would've loved to see all the kidnapped children to be obstacles instead of giving us half of them while the others were killed, missing or in coma. Anyone remembered the chess pieces? Also Blue Angel's development meant shit when she jobbed through all her transformation phases
>>281899183Vrains limited it to the extra deck compared to previous examples though, and when Yusaku doesn't get a new ED monster from a skill it doesn't stop him from debuting a new one anyway like any other character would because they have to shill their cards. It makes his skill actually look useless compared to other characters' skills, but there was some small logic in it in wanting to add on something visual to duels.I don't necessarily think this is an inherent good thing, but the longer the anime series went on the more it treated every single duelist in the world from small side characters to the main cast like they're low level magicians, except everything about their shounen power level is contained and also changed in cards. Kinda like how it looked like GX fusions weren't actually stored in a 40 card fusion deck, they're created once necessary. Everyone spawns their most important unique cards according to what their power level and experience is supposed to be, there's a few special cases like Reiji using unspecified tech to brute force his way to stronger powers in cards. Arc-V was wildly inconsistent in story, but Arc-V's world especially was strangely very consistent in treating cards this way. The general public was never wildly impressed by Yuya leveling up his cards seemingly with magic, they only cared that pendulums were totally new. This further simplified everything to make it easier for the writers to get on with the story and characters in limited screentime, and anime writers more than anyone else need some simplification to help them out so their brains don't start spewing smoke. But it can start to be yet another anime example of abstracting out something to the point it stops caring about certain lines that aren't that hard to keep
>>281899183It's kind of dumb but it's not really worse than Joey suddenly drawing Gilford the Lightning with no explanation
>>281862201Asuka got cucked by Yubel.The amount of porn Asuka gets to this day is incredible for a character of 15+ years ago with no running show or mainstream pull
>>281900141I don't think it's an inherent problem that Vrains killed or coma'd a few of the original victims, it never promised to be a full on corny Captain Planet gathering of all 6 heroic elemental youths. Its biggest problems end up being how a the starting ideas of some of the key characters that were there being too lame to justify the screentime, especially in season 2. Bohman strangely was really bad in a way other big bosses of yugioh anime weren't, because he had so many duels when other bad examples would have 1 duel and be done with right away. Also strangely, hydradrives weren't even at the top priority of shilling since they weren't even printed. If Soulburner was originally conceptualized to be an antagonist of the first half of season 2 kinda similar to Edo Phoenix looking for revenge when he first appeared (also japs like phoenix vs dragon images), everything about the start of season 2 would've started off much flashier and more attention grabbing. What could've been a better start to shilling some Salamangreats than a debut duel against Playmaker, even if it gets interrupted? It would've also addressed the weirdness of Bohman's 2nd and 3rd duel where for a main antagonist that kept dueling Yusaku, he doesn't have even the faintest compelling idea connecting him to Yusaku compared to the connection and angrier and seething lost incident victim would've had
>>281900501Asuka belongs to Konami-kun and vice versa
she looks close enough to dark magician girl, that's good enough for judai.
>>281900509it would've been great to see yuusaku playing the double life of using a shitty deck in real life to make others doubt about him being playmaker. perhaps have PM, Blue Angel and Go play a turf war competing for views and make a truce when a bigger threats appears. Make Boman appear and imply he was the real playmaker but in like a more convincing way and have a deck similar to playmaker, i don't know, there were so many things they could've done this right
>>281855546>>281855778It's all about the epic rivalry and round 2. And it definitely was planned when he reused designs in such obnoxious ways>>281853383
>>281886737Disclaimer that I'm only going off of things I've read from western animation writer teams (for past action cartoons), since westerners care less about saying these kinds of things publicly. It's possible that an episode writer can be an important influence, but it also depends on how he was as an individual person and what the rest of the writer team thought about him. The head writer (Kamishiro) stayed the same the entire time without any side distractions, and he was the most important writer in talking with the director (Ono) and the producer.A lot about Arc-V was semi-doomed from how its premise was created in the first place. If they had created a premise that was somewhat simpler, it might've been a lot easier for everyone. How many anime or manga writers total successfully pulled off a war story with a large main cast? Even in fiction novels with a higher bar, how many managed to do that across a whole series? The ones who did were some of the most clever writers around during their time
>>281843073because they targeted the show to kids. I makes sense to censor the questionable stuff on there for that reason. There was a scene with guns for crying out loud
>>281901678Arc-V doesn't suck because a war story is too convoluted, Arc-V sucks because once the plot really starts moving, it suddenly screeches to a halt so the showrunner can wank about his prior work for way too many episodes.
>>281901925Problems aren't mutually exclusive, it was logical that the main characters needed synchro recruits even though the actual way it plays out was bad and also the lowest energy part of the show
Go Rush also did stuff with war, but a lot was simplified down to the bare basics by comparison to make it easier on them I guess
>>281902140It didn't have to be bad though. The show had a ton of momentum that it could have rolled with, and they chose to write it in a way where they effectively made the characters sit still and make no progress for tens of episodes. That's not the fault of the previously established shape of the plot, that's a failing on the part of the writers to pace the story. It's not unusual to wind down right after a peak, but you can't promise a new adventure through dimensions and then make that adventure start with "we have to win cards games in a stadium we don't really get to leave in order to win the politics." Synchro could have been a whole other kind of adventure to win the favor of its characters, and it isn't.
>>281902261I didn't say there was anything inherently wrong with war on its own on paper, but if the writers as people and staff members weren't going to handle it they needed something lighter from the beginning. The ones with some authority like a producer could've helped by recognizing the human element more since they had a year or so of preproduction to form the ideas. Arc-V is accused all the time of being good on set up but having so much hesitation and stalling at the actual hardest parts to do, this is similar to a lot of stories from writers who take on something above their grade or had little time
>>281902490It's super obvious though that it's just that Ono screwed the whole thing by forcing a lot of attention on the 5Ds homage arc. The incompetency has nothing to do with the type of story, but in the ego of the person in charge.
>>281902707There wasn't anything about 5D's Crow and Jack wanking that made the hotels and main cast isolations necessary as a concept. In fact, that got in the way of the cast bowing and deferring to those 2 even more than they did. That one felt like a stall tactic that would've been there in some form because they were genuinely struggling with all the logical factors that could bounce around in Synchro like bracelets, Yuya/Yugo/Yuri, scraping to find a way to let Roget have some impact and be a player in the conflict. Incompetency and human abilities have a lot to do with the complexity they're asked to handle
>>281900996>>281900501she is one of the best handled female characters in Yu-Gi-Oh, sure her role in s3 was minimal but her role in s1, 2, 4 compensate, plus she got a glow up with Arc-V mini appearance, and was many kids sexual awakening, including mine. She sounds and looks like an AV actress in the Japanese, plus many virgins can relate with her mentality.
>>281875339https://youtu.be/nKGO_2l7bzU?si=KNu2s0kgn4foUAem
To be fair, Zexal, Arc-V, Vrains handle their girls much worse than 5Ds, GX, DM ever did. Time for the meme that the later shows are somehow superior with their women to die.
>>281903182I disagree with Zexal but Arc-V and Vrains were truly the worst
>>281903182"later shows" in this topic would end up pointing to the Rush shows, for being more normal and polite about how it handled some female characters
>>281903285Rush shows are written by a new team and handled by a different studio with a different policy. Go Rush sucked for their main chicks too.Sevens was good tho.
>>281901074Vrains was struggling all around because of its bad circumstances, but some of the "failed to even start" lame things about it are such a drag. If a Yugioh 9 anime ever happens it really needs writers who have still have some life force in them. It's okay if they're flawed if they bring direly needed energy and some passion with them
>>281903182>>281903285Every hero in yugioh loves a ghost woman.
>>281903540Jonouchi loves a whore
>>281903636*stripper like Yugi
>>281903636she's been through some shadow games. it still counts.
>>281903540Yuma love Kotori, a human girl
>>281843073fpbp /endthread
>>281903540So many times.
>>2818430735Ds was very much still occult, it only got removed after it, or the cult scandal midway 5Ds
Great thread, thank you for indulging me everybody
>>281843073this still isn't true.
>>281904156see >>281882307, the basic ideas for Yliaster were already set in stone by the time 5D's was in its third year. It's not far fetched that the 'Terminator gotta save the future' time travelers idea was something they simply liked, because the contrast of the far future hitting against some ancient past force is something japs have always liked a lot
>>281904801I honestly kinda like seeing other people's Yugioh OCs. Reminds me of when I was younger.
>>281842885Sex with Tea before the archive!
>>281889316>>281889578>>281889854>>281890610>>281890732>spastic autistic retard has to constantly samefag and necro bump his own threadMust suck knowing how badly you ruined your life for nothing, !-Akemi.
>>281891054>>281891476>>281891946>>281891968>>2818933474chan posts will never validate your life.No one will ever like you because you spam and shitpost on 4chan, !-Akemi.
>>281893909>>281893934>>281894013>>281894221>>281894876Why do you care so much about trying to attack people over the internet? Why are you so obsessed with shitposting?>schizo hasn't slept in 20 hoursWhat a life.!-Akemi.
>>281890841How is it called‽
>>281895130>>281895217>>281895251>>281895358>>281895370You will never make anyone think your mental illness is normal or popular. Everyone knows you're the only person who acts this way, !-Akemi.
>>281895636>>281896692>>281896763>>281897273>>281897531Your easily faked screen shots will never be proof of anything. No one thinks you aren't samefagging.Everyone knows you're just pathetically necro bumping your thread over and over to try and harass your boogieman, !-Akemi.
>>281897823>>281897825>>281897865>>281897925>>281898007Saying "blud" does not "change your posting style.You will never be "everyone". You're just an autistic obsessed retard who refuses to get over deranged personal grudges on 4chan, !-Akemi.
>>281898057>>281898084>>281898104>>281898273>>281898372>a single shitposting image from proves what was common place on /a/ years agoWhat in the fuck is wrong with you, and why are you so inhumanly stupid?
>>281898421>>281898453>>281898460>>281898512>>281898556>spastic retard is literally just spamming posts replying to himself pretending that anyone actually wants to use his shit threadGet help, !-Akemi.
>>281898576>>281898615>>281898699>>281898833>>281898839Spastic spamming and samefagging does not mean anyone has to think you are more than one person, !-Akemi.
>>281900501Too much of devilman is amon trying to save miki or being caught up with sirene. Yubel doesn't have to be some kind of exclusive.
>>281898869>>281898909>>281899051>>281899103>>281899125Don't you ever get bored of this deranged shitposting?You trying to pretend that any crack shipping thread you make magically becomes the fast thread on the board is laughably pathetic.Everyone knows you have multiple 4chan passes you use to spam, !-Akemi.
>>281899137>>281899305>>281899313>>281899321>>281899363You are the only poster in the history of this site who has tries to say that people are "lolcows" for telling off a shitposter. Literally literally can't link to a single other poster who agrees with you or acts like you, !-Akemi.
>>281899357>>281899374>>281899426>>281899429>>281899433Your "memes" will never be a thing. No one thinks you're funny. No one likes you.No one thinks you're more than one person.You are personally obsessed with other posters.No one sees you as anything but garbage, !-Akemi.
>>281899495>>281899496>>281899497>>281899529>>281899534Correct. No one is obsessed with you. You are obsessed with who you think is making a post and trying to attack that person.All anyone cares about with you is that you are making bad posts, ruining threads, and lower the quality of the board. People want to discuss their hobbies without dealing with low quality threads.This is common sense, and you trying to pretend how you act is normal is laughable, !-Akemi.
>ending with these posts
>>281899556>>281899558>>281899591>>281899610>>281899659Your mentally ill shitposting thread will never be popular. You are just spamming it yourself.Crack shipping mental illness will never be normal or accepted, !-Akemi.
>>281899823You are the only person in the world who makes "anti yuri" posts. You are the only person who tries to fake "yuri vs het flame wars". And like you were told every single time you tried start shit in those threads, it's all about you trying to "troll". How is something so simple so hard for you to understand?>>281899997>>281900042>>281900005Because you intention when you made your posts was to try and fake flame wars. And would constantly screech about "yurifags" unprovoked.You're not smart. People can see through you. You will bever be subtle and fool anyone.Even the mods banned you for trolling because it's obvious who you are.And you can stop trying to fake discussion with yourself just as an excuse to bump the thread.>>281900105Why do you think anyone will just mindlessly believe the words in your post?Not even the mods were fooled by it, and you constantly got banned for "trolling". Everyone knows what you are doing.You not admitting that's what you're doing doesn't mean anyone has to believe you're attempts to gas light, !-Akemi.
>>281905348I have no idea what's going on but before the bump limit hit this thread was a nice trip down Yugioh memory lane
>>281893689>>281893745>>281893837No one will ever think you are funny.Being consumed with the fact you're called a samefag and going ape shit over it is not normal.Seeing a normal phrase like "seed" or "chicken sexer" and then going spastic and spamming that over and over for 10 years does not make you a "meme". It means you are autistic and stand out.>>281900084>>281900133Stop talking to yourself. No one wants to "discuss shipping" with you, !-Akemi.
>>281900265>>281900320>>281900393>>281900419>>281900531>100% ignores how the mods would constantly ban him for trolling and shitposting>just starts spamming his same shitpost over and over againIt's just so funny how you know that you lost and have no actual argument.And it's so obvious Troid is the only mod in the world who protects you. It took him so long to find this thread, !-Akemi.
>>281903870>>281904000>>281904130>>281904268>>281904429Everyone in the world hates you, !-Akemi.
>>281905384There's a mentally ill mod sitting in the other thread spam deleting any posts that tell off the shitposter. It's funny because if the mod isn't in the thread, no posts get deleted. As evident by this thread.
Can we get your opinion on what the best jack atlas ship is, ack?
>>281905458>weYou're a single person, !-Akemi. Everyone in the world hates you.
