Yu-Gi-Oh In General

This, even if the plot wouldn't let him.

But if we're being serious, Pharaoh, since he beat the latter two.

We don't know if Manga Pegasus is even good at the game because he only duels under the weird duelist kingdom rules and with magic and then dies.

Anime Pegasus duels multiple times after his eye gets taken, so he does have some skill, and beating Crowler and his sidekick at the same time is impressive in-universe even if it isn't out of universe.

He got lucky toon cards became viable thanks to Toon kingdom and Toon Magician girl.

If he had Toon luster Soldier, Crowler and Bonaparte would have lost worse.

Edited by Tomodachi on Jan 27th 2024 at 8:44:10 AM

I haven't seen the show in forever and I can still remember the joke Pegasus made about his duel with those two. ^_^;;

"Well, well, it looks like Laurel & Hardy don't like each other."

I found a neat thread about persistent Yu-Gi-Oh fandom myths, like... a lot of the production of 5Ds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/1aequ3a/carlys_original_va_being_in_a_cult_had_nothing_to/

Eyyo, straight from the Tokyo Dome 25th anniversary event, next anime is card game lore!

EDIT: Whoops, apparently it's a collection of shorts, or maybe just one montage short, not a full series. I ARE CAN READ.

Edited by HamburgerTime on Feb 3rd 2024 at 8:56:20 AM

First we get a manga about it, now they make shorts? They really want to show off the monster lore they made, huh?

It's apparently a teaser for the fact that Konami's founding their own anime studio. From what I've been able to ascertain, this might be a teaser for a future series, or just showing off what they're capable of.

It's a promotional anniversary PV just like all those ones that Fate gets.

Surely this is a teaser for the full length Albaz anime right?

A bunch of early GBC and GBA Yu-Gi-Oh video games are being bundled in a collection in Japan. I hope Monster Capsule GB and Reshef of Destruction will be there! So far Battle of Great Duelist and Stairway to the Destined Duel are confirmed.

Battle of Great Duelist originally came in 3 versions, one for Yugi, one for Kaiba, and one for Joey. I wonder which one(s) will be added!

https://twitter.com/YuGiOh_OCG_INFO/status/1754079855183057227

https://www.famitsu.com/news/202402/04333497.html

Localization confirmed, will also include previously Japan only games.

Plz plz plz plz plz have Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB!

If it's not there I will cry!

TIL Joey and Mai went on a date to a gaming expo and Iron Man was there.

Yes, Takahashi himself drew this.

Yugioh being canon to Marvel is a fucking bombshell of a twist I would never have predicted in a million years. Apparently, while the rest of the world is dealing with Mutant hate, alien invasions, and Thanos, one specific area of Japan got so into one specific card game that it took over the economy and broke dimensional barriers.

It was part of a special crossover between Marvel and Shonen Jump.

So awesome.

A Mc Donalds promotion in Belgium is combining Yu-Gi-Oh with Hello Kitty. I'm so jealous!

https://twitter.com/YuGiOhNewsTCG/status/1766515407270162888

Anyway with the GX anniversary coming up. Something I've always wondered is why nightshroud was used as the Final Boss. He's only been a motw like twice before this and was never considered super important over say the light of destruction. The main villain of season 2 and greater scope villain of 3. It's weird that he's apparently implied to be beaten offscreen.

I think the reasons there are

• Thematic counterbalance. Darkness and light and all
• Rushing: Like I'm pretty sure 5D's were at least set to air by the time S3 wrapped up so it is likely that GX had to cut corners to reach some kind of conclusion. (it would also explain why the last pack was named Light of Destruction)
• alternate take. I could be possible that the Trueman Show here was a Postscript Season and that the series was meant to end with the Jaden/Yubel fusion. These need not be mutually exclusive depending how Gallop handed to transition. Though that lends it would likely set up on Jaden going off on a multi-long journey to confront the Light instead of his current status as Walking the Earth
• alternate take 2. The Light was intended to be defeated or at least neutralized between 2 and 3, through defeating its main agent Sartorius. But the whole sacred darkness stuff was unable to be fitted in for some reason (despite having several episdoes of filler after Jaden got the Neos deck) so that had to be put in with the Yubel plot. The implication being that rather than being defeated offscreen after Se, it was instead defeated on screen at the end of S2 and rendered unable to make any big plans for millennia at least.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Mar 17th 2024 at 4:58:09 AM

I think that Zexal may have been the only series that had the least amount of production issues that didn’t affect the plot. DM’s final arc had to be rewritten because of the deadline Takahashi’s editors gave him. GX had to cut its final season in half because KENN wanted to leave. 5D’s was…I’m still not sure what happened after season 1. Arc-V had a lot of creative differences that dragged out season 2 and rushed past season 3. VRAINS had to pick up the pieces from the fallout that eventually ended with season 3 being rushed and cut in half. Even SEVENS and GO RUSH had problems because of Covid.

I'm of the idea that there was a planned second half where defeating Darkness would segue into a final confrontation with the Light of Destruction.

The issue is Yubel stated them and Jaden were destined to beat it together. Which would imply its still around.

One guess I've commonly heard for "so why Nightshroud?" was that they were trying to replicate the original's success with Bakura, the recurring nuisance villain who ends up being the biggest baddie of all.

Bakura was done much better IMO; heck, from his very first appearance in the manga Atem can sense something about him that's different from all his prior opponents, clearly indicating he's A Big Deal right from the word go.

Dark Bakura was set up as an Evil Counterpart from his very first appearance and was clearly planning something for most of the story, which led to him being the final Big Bad. Darkness was just a Superpowered Evil Side for a minor character who served as a henchman for another Big Bad, and yet was somehow the final villain.

Come to think of it, I don't think Judai ever really did have a true evil counterpart, as in an evil duelist who can see duel spirits. Johan was the closest, but he was only evil from being possessed by Yubel.