So how did Yu-gi-oh manage to survive, and thrive, where other card manga/anime fail?
So how did Yu-gi-oh manage to survive, and thrive, where other card manga/anime fail?
Adam Watson
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Adrian Scott
Battle City arc, especially the Egyptian Gods.
I still remember there being a parents meeting at the time in my school because the teachers were scared about how much the word God was being said in school and thought some sort of cult was involved.
Ethan Hall
Duel Masters is still getting new seasons, isn't it?
Hudson Reed
because yugioh is actually fun game
Nathan Scott
Dark Side of Dimensions is totally the last DM season. We will totally never going to see Yugi and Seto face off in another movies many years from now for cash grabs.
Joshua Thompson
Takahashi is really fucking good at making memorable designs, and despite all the shit it gets, Yugioh at it's core it's a really fun game
Nicholas Price
what a retarded teachers
Jacob Brown
damn i really hated school.
Xavier Bennett
Both of those are not true anymore, the game has devolved into a steaming pile of shit and the oneshot he did some years ago had the shitty Zexal designs.
Wyatt Wood
Kaiba is the heart and soul of this franchise.
Andrew Edwards
By being the original one.
Luis Brown
When did they stop being holograms?
Andrew Fisher
The franchise has hit a downward slope ever since Zexal though. Even the card game is literally fucking itself because Konami has no clue on how to balance its own mess.
Colton Garcia
apparently when these things started to get used.
Elijah Robinson
What made the Egyptian Gods so iconic?
Isaac Evans
Bentley Collins
That they were anime. They weren't presented as some typical childish bullshit. It is the one thing Konami couldn't censor. They were portrayed as truly powerful and fearstrucking beings.
Xavier Reyes
They were overpowered as fuck and had memorable names and designs.
Cooper Phillips
They are presented as the ultimate boss monsters with a great design
Ian Green
This is the only real answer.
David Peterson
It was the first one
Angel Cook
Their initial meta was pretty hardcore. Thriving on the merchandise, the anime went from storytelling to a sideways promotion.
Nathan Turner
This kind of shit it's why yugioh it's so good, over the top action about a children card game
Samuel Wright
it basically created the card game craze in japan. It existed always with bromide collecting and other card games, but it was fucking stylish as all hell, plus it had SETO KAIBA
Ian Roberts
Exclusively because of Seto Kaiba
Evan Russell
are you me
Gabriel Sullivan
Duel MASTERS.
Charles Wilson
Idk man, spending a few minutes making a board of negations with protection and stopping my opponent from playing is pretty fun to me. Winning in a card game no matter how degenerate the game is is always fun.
Benjamin Myers
Nathan Ramirez
Because it has best cardfu
Jace Allen
god damn what a bad ass entry
Camden Sanders
Eric Stuart Kaiba was GOAT, an uncensored version of the series would have been awesome with him
Camden Baker
The anime is memorable. Blue eyes, Dark Magician, Exodia, the Egyptian Gods. It helps that the card game caters to the anime fans too, they printed the Legendary Dragons as cards for example.
I am a fan of +1 formats, where you don't instantly lose if you could not spam your board or did not have a hand trap going 2nd. Aka the format Pot of Duality and Solemn Warning came in Duelist Revolution. Gemini Heroes, Black Wings, XSaber, Plant Synchro. Game went full retard with The Legendary Six Samurai x3 Gateway and Windups hand loop/Izektors field nuking.
Adrian Davis
>He destroyed a fighter jet, murdered an employee and his own dragon only to make an entrance.
Kaiba's anime when
Jaxson Reyes
Watch the movie. It Kaiba being the main character
Jack Mitchell
Unpopular opinion:
I think Ra looks kinda lame
Jordan Jenkins
That's around the time I started playing and I can see what you mean seeing as how the game seemed a little more interactive back then. I just might be a little biased since my first real deck was Dino Rabbit which was just make Laggia, set 4 negates/floodgates. I personally think the flood of hand traps is what made the game a lot less fun, they stop petdecks from competing with anything even remotely meta.
Benjamin Martin
I summon Pikeru in attack position!
Blake Ramirez
I grew with 4kids anime. Then watched original anime and it was way better
>Yugi entering for regain his memories, not saving the world
>Jounichi entering for facing Yugi in the finals for his Red-Eyes, not for helping him save the world
>Marik didn't want the Millenium Puzzle and the Pharaoh Power, he only wanted God cards and revenges
>Kaiba wasn't all the time ''I DON'T BELIEVE IN MAGIC'', he said that sometimes but he believed in what was happening easily and he even called Yami ''the other Yugi''
>In 4Kids version Yami Yugi and Kaiba were all the time complete opposites (muh destiny vs magic doesn't exist). In original version they had so similar mindsets it surprised me
Matthew Howard
Why not make a troll deck for the main purpose of pissing off other players?
Dylan Thompson
By the way, manga is way different than anime in some ways. It also got awesome quotes like pic related
Almost all Battle City duels have same base as anime but then they are completely different (for example Yugi vs Kaiba semifinals he summoned Kuriboh in turn 2 and did nothing but get destroyed, not the discard effect to save him from Obelisk effect in anime).
Samuel Sanders
I think the problem lies in giving people way too easy access to +1s without any real drawback.
The thing I loved about (most) of the Synchro era is how everything was go big or go home, you want to make a powerful board? You had to risk everything, but it would be worth it if you succeeded. So you had to play around with the cards in your deck, figure what the best course of action woul be, all that good shit.
Doing that just loses meaning if you can just net a search off of summoning Six sams when they were already designed with easy swarming in mind, or if you can wipe your opponent's board or hand with 1~2 cards. When you can pull shit that powerful with so little resources, your deck becomes less of a 40-card arsenal meant to enable cool plays, but a bunch of superfluous cards meant to enable a single overpowered play, which makes all matches look the same
Angel Myers
Mexico and other south american countries. You can't play poker or any card game without someone making a yugioh reference at one point.
>get a lucky hand/ card
>muh heart of the cards
every single fucking time.
Jackson Jackson
Wasn't it during Battle City? Didn't they become Solid Light Constructions or something.
Henry Davis
Kaiba
Michael Nguyen
Color coded with the 3 primary colors. Autists are drawn to color coded characters like flies to shit.
Grayson Campbell
doro
Dominic Lewis
thing was though legendary six sams with 3 gateway wasn't the strongest deck at the time. It was a fucking ftk
Nolan Morris
The manga does it better, everything except Kaiba. Dub Kaiba, I think, is the absolute best version of the character.
Austin Walker
Amazing characters, cute girls, cool monster designs, god tier soundtrack and an over the top game with cards.
Julian Foster
card spam
Leo Scott
So anti-meta? Where would you start?
Carter Jones
their users
William Hernandez
Mason Peterson
The manga is fantastic honestly. Can't believe most people probably don't know the kino that is the Death T arc.
Aaron Stewart
nah
Evan Jones
no
Lucas Harris
4 kids
Christian Torres
Duel Masters is still ongoing
Battle Spirits will return
Vanguard is still going, getting a remake of the original season and a Love Live style spinoff
Buddyfight is still going and looks great
Hudson Green
>what is hunter x hunter
Oliver Torres
yugioh is just a kid-friendly stardust crusaders
Jason Brown
>card anime
>HiatusxHiatus
You dun goofed.
Bentley Hernandez
>Obelisk
>generic blue demon
>good design
At least the redesign makes it look like something actually associated with egypt but that didn't come out till around 5Ds era
Nathan White
The entire original series is pure Colombian kino
>Nitroglycerin air hockey
>Beating up a gang in an abandoned warehouse with yo-yos
>Dark Bakura's D&D campaign
Someone should try to reach Dan Green and get him to dub the one-finger game from the restaurant.
Eli Fisher
>what is greedisland
Wyatt Collins
What if I already watch season 0?
Henry Wright
The Season 0 anime is alright but the manga is better overall. Season 0 was stretched out with a lot of filler (like that stuff with Kaiba's "enforcers") and a few of the details were altered slightly, like the details of the first shadow game being toned down a bit.
Also for some reason they took the kuudere student librarian that Honda had a crush on for a single chapter before she rejected him and was never mentioned again, and turned her into an airhead cheerleader who was part of the main cast.
Nolan Ward
I'm pretty sure the Greed Island arc came after Yu-gi-oh.
Jacob Jackson
>Kaiba
Brayden Reed
>Gyakutenno Megami
>Valuable
nigga
Jeremiah King
Nathan Price
I feel like I could have enjoyed Season 0 a lot more if Miho hadn't had been shoehorned in. What a waste of time.
Benjamin Taylor
Back in gen 1 with little to no low level powerful effect monsters? Yes. Fucking Summoned Skull was considered a big deal back then too. Also, that was Duelist Kingdom, right? So that card probably had some other bullshit anime only effects.
Tyler Butler
She literally never appeared again.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the only reason that card exists is to make that particular joke, as "Gyakuten no Megami" literally translates to "Godess of Payback".
Lincoln Lopez
I didn't have a problem with her per se, I was more just confused by the decision.
Colton White
How is a man allow to have 3 waifus?
Kayden Richardson
Noah Hall
Survive is a bet of a stretch as least in my area. Plenty on pokemon and magic stuff though.
I want one of those.
Lincoln Roberts
I wish the scanlations weren't 90% shit. There's some really cool moments that are ruined by low quality scans.
Austin Collins
Summoned Skull was still pretty good for a while though, 2500 ATK was the most you could get off a single-tribute monster with no downsides for YEARS.
Jason Hall
>Fucking Summoned Skull was considered a big deal back then too.
2500 attack points and single sacrifice summon aint too shabby.
Jack Morris
They're all one dead Egyptian girl.
Jackson Thomas
Just get the official releases.
Nathan Wilson
>actual cards that could technically be obtained
>strong as fuck
>have insane effects seen nowhere else
>massive
>every time one's summoned it's a critical plot event
Jeremiah Morales
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Currently airing, new season this year.
Eli Gray
monsuta kado
Adam Foster
With the card that makes you shake their hand or something.
Landon Jenkins
>There will never be another Character in anime like Kaiba
Elijah Sanchez
Kayden Thompson
>Cluck like a chicken!
Adrian Baker
yugioh abridged saved anime
Leo Russell
anime series kept the spirit of the game despite each one
the players make the game alive and if you're one the card combos are legit fun to pull off
konami throw nostalgia bones
Hudson Richardson
Yu-Jo Friendship? You need to have a specific LP difference to activate that, as I recall.
Nicholas Thomas
Brody Davis
That seems like it'll be pretty good for a Fallen Angel deck.
Ethan Cook
>Yu-Jo Friendship
>Friendship Friendship
I can never comprehend how their translators' minds work.
Ryder Green
No one does.
Juan Mitchell
They are still holograms
Aaron Johnson
Yugi-Joey Friendship
Juan Smith
You joking?