Yu-Gi-Oh In General

I was watching videos from the recent game adaptation. Where Tea asked Kaiba when he's going for graduation. Only to realize that yeah he is the same age as them. It's something you forgot with how many insane things he does.

Tea is also older than Seto (by two months), she was born in August while he was born in October.

And Tristan was born in April. Of the whole group: Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea, Kaiba, and Bakura, Kaiba is the youngest of all of them. The order goes Joey, Tristan, Yugi, Tea, Bakura, Seto.

That feels so wrong to me.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 10th 2024 at 1:51:10 AM

Huh.
All this time I thought Kaiba was at least two years older than the rest of the cast—

I have a faint memory of Mai claiming to be psychic because she always guessed each card that she drew correctly, though Joey later learns that she put perfume on all her cards and figured out the fragrance for each card. That...raises a lot of questions from me:

• A: How are the cards not getting ruined from the perfume? Isn't perfume those liquid particles that you spray?
• B: Shouldn't the fragrances be mixed up in that pile of cards?
• C: Considering how many cards there are in the series, is there also a HUGE different number of scents to memorize as well?
• D: Isn't this technically cheating? Like that biker dude or whatever his name is, he had a mechanism hidden in his sleeve that swapped out cards, and I vaguely remember he got booted from the tournament after Pegasus found out.

But this is all decades ago so of course I could be wrong on any of this.

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Apr 10th 2024 at 10:52:37 AM

for D. It not technically cheating it is outright cheating and I think was called out as such.

For the cardpool. I'm certain there were a few hundred card at the time compared to today's 10000+ amount and she is only running 40 cards in her deck.

As fir whether the cards would be ruined that is a big question. YGO cards seem a lot more durable in the anime (kaiba ripping a BEWD aside)

Cards in the anime and manga are so strong they can be used as improvised weapons without damaging them.

Best part about that scene was that he was desperately hoping the card he was about to throw was just a common card that he can easily replace if it got too soaked in blood. But nope, he had to draw a Blue Eyes White Dragon; to his credit, he still threw it anyways to save his brother.

I really liked how the manga basically showed him going through all five stages of grief in one panel after he saw what he had drawn.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Apr 10th 2024 at 9:14:31 AM

There was also a scene in the anime where Kaiba jammed a gun with a card.

Edited by GAP on Apr 10th 2024 at 9:10:40 AM

I believe he only found out it was Blue Eyes after he threw it, though I agree that he probably still would have done it.

If there's anyone in the world Kaiba would do something like that for, it's Mokuba.

He definitely saw what card it was as he was throwing it. There's a couple panels while he's doing it showing him reacting to what it is and thinking "Forgive me!" Also funny as he collects the card and we see ourselves what it is he comments that "Unfortunately, my draws are just too good."

That happened in the manga too, but it was inside a helicopter and Kaiba proceeded to break the guy's finger, steal his gun, and force him and the pilot to jump out into the open ocean. And he later uses that gun when he beats Pegasus's assistant's face in with a briefcase and holds him hostage to force Pegasus into releasing Mokuba. Manga Seto didn't fuck around.

apparently wind resistance is just a silly myth

@ And even with the card on gun trick, he got PISSED at the villain for making him damage his rare card!

Dennis (the Performage guy) is in Duel Links. Most characters are willing to forgive him for the whole Academia Spy thing since he's making amends. Not Serena and Shun though. They want him to drop dead. Good to see some people still holding a grudge.

If "Professor" Leo comes to DL he better be told by everyone but Yuya to eat shit and die.

Keeping people from pointing missile equipped monsters at him will be a challenge.

Esp since his own children (and four aspects of his [oldest] daughter on top) are likely among said people.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on May 2nd 2024 at 7:27:57 AM

Credit to the writers to create Leo. He might go down as worst main villain the anime has ever had. And because he's the shows over arching vilain. He drags the shows quality down with him. Which sucks as his right hand Yuri's really up their in terms of top ten best vilains.

Speaking off villains. I do find it funny that a poll ranked on reddit put Sartorius and Vetrix in the top ten. While the characters their based on Dartz and Noah were at the bottom ten. Ouch.

Leo was the guy that invented tech that turned Duel Spirits into slave gladiators, the spirits borked the universe because they were rightly pissed at this, then he waged a war of conquest on the other universes but we're still meant to feel bad for him because he did it all for family, yes?

Edited by HamburgerTime on May 3rd 2024 at 1:08:03 PM

Correct, though when put that way it does make Battle Beast a bit ironic.

Context: Gladiator Beasts had as part of their flavor, ... gladiators and it's implied that they were forced to fight at the behest of long gone masters.

His motivation is super dumb. Like so dumb.

His daughter sacrificed herself to stop Zarc and he decides to wage a war and nuke large chunks of a dimension to get her back. What that has to do with that is poorly explained.

He also wants to stop Zarc's revival.....and weirdly rather I dunno avoiding Yuri from coming into contact with the other pieces of Zarc. He instead sends him on missions to get him closer to them and makes one angrier knowing excess emotion could revive him (???)

I think Leo could have been fixed if he had been Zarc's father rather than Rey's, turning his motivation to revenge on the girl who sort of killed his son. Father and son together in villainy.

Or just play up his insanity as he sees the world as fake and him attempting to crash reality to bring back the previous universe, a doomed effort as he goes down in flames and brings back the guy who destroyed it by accident.