History Headscratchers / YuGiOh

** It's also about the UsefulNotes/SegregatedCommercial trope; it's even mentioned on the text for that page that they can't show the characters using real cards from the game, because that's advertising, whereas Japan doesn't have the laws forbidding it. The movie, of course, didn't have that problem, since it's not regulated by TV laws. Seemingly, the players in the dub are playing with the English-language version of the cards -- though some of them with different effects than in the TCG/OCG -- since they clearly know each of their own cards and how they work.

* Seto's big test to prove his worthiness to lead KaibaCorp. His mission was to turn $10 million into $100 million in one year. He did so by buying a majority stake in a company, then demanding to be bought out at ten times his purchase price, or else he would fire all the company's employees, whom the now minority owner cared deeply enough about to give in. How in the world did that scheme succeed? The idea that said super-protective owner, who apparently had so much surplus cash lying around that paying off Seto's outlandish demand was even possible, would even allow outside investors in his company at all, much less allow someone else to take over majority control, is hard enough to swallow. But why couldn't he have simply used a fraction of that buyout money to start a brand-new company and re-hire everyone Seto fired? It all makes Creator/LittleKuriboh's alternative narrative, wherein Seto simply pulled a gun on the company owner, much more plausible by comparison.

** As individuals, nothing that we know of, but as a group, they're unhappy with Seto for convincing them that Gozaburo doesn't respect them and promising them they power they deserve (however, this may also because of them being power hungry) if they help him overthrow Gozaburo as the KaibaCorp president only for Seto to not only back out of his end of the bargain, converting the company from war weapons to games but for also supposedly taking whatever power they had. At best, helping Seto was pointless and got nothing from their deal, at worst, they basically lost everything (taken literally in the end).

** It might also have to do with how the rules worked for the game at the time. Remember, this is Season 1's weird Duelist Kingdom/Standard rules, and at least in the manga it's implied there's an element of roleplaying involved in them. Playing them on a regular mat this way may require a third person to act as a referee who judges how certain card interactions might work in certain situations (which frames Yugi's early exposition during Joey's game with Tea in the early episodes when she beats him in a different light; he's not merely describing what the cards can do, but actively deciding they can do that), while the arenas used in Duelist Kingdom and at KaibaCorp presumably eliminate the need for this by using some sort of artificial intelligence or similar system. Playing it the former way is all fine and good if both players trust the one who's acting as referee, but it doesn't work here because the only people who could fill that role would be obviously biased for Grandpa and Rebecca doesn't trust any of them.

** It might also have to do with how the rules worked for the game at the time. Remember, this is Season 1's weird Duelist Kingdom/Standard rules, and at least in the manga it's implied there's an element of roleplaying involved in them. Playing them on a regular mat this way may require a third person to act as a referee who judges how certain card interactions might work in certain situations (which frames Yugi's early exposition during Joey's game with Tea in the early episodes when she beats him in a different light; he's not merely describing what the cards can do, but actively deciding they can do that), while Duelist Kingdom's arena's presumably eliminate the need for this using some sort of artificial intelligence or similar system. Playing it the former way is all fine and good if both players trust the one who's acting as referee, but it doesn't work here because the only people who could fill that role would be obviously biased for Grandpa and Rebecca doesn't trust any of them.

** The OP is talking about the original Japanese version of the second anime adaptation, not any of the dubs, 4Kids or otherwise. As they say, all of the dubs of the second anime adaptation have him voiced by a male, and in the [[Anime/YuGiOh1998 first anime]] he's also voiced by a male[[note]]although, rather ironically, Yugi himself was voiced by a female there, you could argue that Yugi's height at least makes it ''look'' like he would have a voice more like a child's, whereas Bakura doesn't really have that reason[[/note]]. And Bakura's not a little kid; he's at least the same age as the rest of the gang and there doesn't seem to be any reason to think his voice should be much higher than the average male's. So the question is: Why would they choose to have him be voiced by a female when there's no obvious reason to do so, and there's no other version of him that had done that before? It's not a bad thing, but the OP is right when they say it's a bit odd.

*** Wait, what? You're on 700 lipe points, and you're going to use a card that costs 800 life points to pay? Secondly, it's the rule of drama. If things played out in the anime like in tournaments, we'd be seeing tons of the same god damn plays over and over again, which as both an anime and a glorified advertisement of the product, would sell the game short completely. Not for nothing, I get the tournament scene and that in tournaments, there's the play to win practical mentality, but (and using today's meta as a reference point) if I'm watching an anime, I'd fall asleep seeing the same damn Zoodiac-True King plays over and over again.