Regarding comics and cartoons, I think the only franchise to ever come close to the scale of Yu-Gi-Oh! in the West is Transformers. They have even survived all this time, but I wonder why it is so hard for Western companies to make high-quality toys and merchandise based on their shows. Is there another Western equivalent to Yu-Gi-Oh! or even Beyblade?"
>>154162711The greatest the West can produce is something from the East?
>>154162748Transformers is an East thing?
Westerns are generally more intelligent and care more about the narrative than toys. They also grow out of cartoons much faster.
>>154162774>Westerns are generally more intelligent and care more about the narrative than toys.Lmao. The most popular western cartoons have braindead narratives.
>>154162774>They also grow out of cartoons much faster.Damn, I have a race traitor somewhere in the family ancestry it appears But still, a huge market for these toys are located in the west, hell every TCG company will go bankrupt without western fans, anon, are you making stuff up again?
>>154162760That's a bacon you digital circus freak
>>154162711Something tells me you made all that up for the sake of some hamfisted east vs west argument.
>>154162764Yes. Hasbro took Japanese toys like Tomy and marketed them to Americans as Transformers.
>>154162764Yes and no. Depends on whether you go by the original toyline or the original show, and even then depending on writing vs animating, but then things also became a huge mess of things going back and forth from that point, with East and West having their own shows and continuities even within those shows and their own toylines and all this other shit.At this point it's honestly fair to just not call Transformers as a show belonging or stemming from either. It's much bigger than that. That's what made the anniversary short by Trigger even better, since they paid tribute to so much of everything
>>154162874I'm rewatching zexal and I sincerely just thought about toys sale mid episode Please forgive me if my thread seemed malevolent
>>154162906>>154162927I see, I really didn't know all of this, thank you anons for the info dump I appreciate it.
>>154162941I think Kaito ROCKS
>>154163043We all do >PHOTON CHANGEEE
>Western equivalent to Yu-Gi-Oh!Uhhh... Magic?
>>154163073Or that Chaotic thing 4kids tried.
>>154163073I thought of it more like, >Cartoon with toys gimmick >Toys outshine the cartoon >They become a world sensation
>>154162760Kys, projecting troon.
>>154163065Childhood is idolizing Kaiba. Adulthood is realizing Chazz makes more sense
>>154163254It goes like this for me Kaito>Jack>chazz>kaiba>Reiji>revolver
Who got the better ending?
>>154163073Wasn't YuGiOh inspired by MtG?
>>154164048In terms of actual life fulfilment, the master of faster got the best deal out of all of them
>>154164228But Jack became a forever virgin obsessed with playing cards games. Kaito got the best ending.
