Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

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I'm placing my bets on the normal Bakura. At least Dark Bakura had that epic duel with normal Yugi. Ryo got nothing to conclude his arc in either the manga or anime (though DSOD does give something of a follow up that I personally like, though I know that some people don't care for it).

GX reviews are back with Episode 22.

The best news.

Given how much LK focuses on Yami Bakura I think he means him and Thief King Bakura, though Ryou is definitely a contender. (Maybe he means all three Bakuras?)

I'm placing my bets that the opening of the Memory World arc will be a discussion of Ryou's screentime or lack thereof, and Bakura's duel with Kaiba will be a Shadow Game that degrades the animation quality (cause that's kind of what actually happened).

Edited by lalalei2001 on Mar 20th 2019 at 5:50:39 AM

I love how LK tears into the whole missing kids thing.

I didn't realize how much I missed these until they were back.

LK discovered some totally real English audio of Yami and Kabia that was definitely cut from Jump Force and not fake at all.

Isn't Dark Bakura more or less synonymous with Zorc, as revealed by Atem's apparent realization just before they left the Dark RPG world and entered the Memory World to personally fight in the final battle instead of just moving the tabletop pieces? Thief King Bakura did apparently merge with Zorc in order to summon him.

Its hard to even figure out which Bakura is which at the end of the show/manga. Dark Bakura has some of Thief Kings Bakura's memories, but claims he is Zorc.

And Thief King Bakura just dissolved into sand in the manga, instead of fusing with Zorc.

It's confusing. I saw a big post that tried to explain it once but can't find it now, but from what I remember the TL;DR version is anything with Zorc's soul in it is Zorc, so Zorc was himself, Yami Bakura, Thief King Bakura, and Aknadin all at the same time in different time periods and controlled an NPC version of himself as the final boss monster (Aknadin's mummy also played a huge role in the manga's version of events and TKB was never possessed, though after he's resurrected in the anime he's aware of his game piece role and is fine with it). Yami Bakura answers to both Bakura and Zorc and claims to be both at different points in time and going by DSOD the Ring still had some latent evil inside it.

There was a whole cut subplot originally planned for the manga's Memory World arc, which had Seto fighting the Pharaoh on his own as Zorc was destroying everything and making the conflict a three-way war, as he wanted to avenge Kisara's death.

Incidentally, the Yu-Gi-Oh GX manga had another Kul Elna survivor who wasn’t in the village at the time it was attacked. He became a court astronomer, flipped out at learning what happened to his village, became a monster named Tragoedia from the malice in his heart, and was sealed away by Winged Kuriboh with the Feather of Ma’at and had his tablet destroyed.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Mar 24th 2019 at 8:28:27 AM

Patreon update for new incentives.

Also some cameos. Kaiji Tang is there for some reason.

He was mentioning on Twitter how the check they got from Youtube was 1/7 the expected amount. I assume this is related to that.

New Bloodlines announced. You knew it was coming.

Little Kuriboh watches Yugioh GX episode 24 ( while also calling out Kaiji Tang for thinking Burstinatrix has the best bottom of all the Elemental Heroes).

So another one of these, though it doesn't seem like this thread has been updated for the last couple he's done.

...so did they bone?

Also, lol at the unintentional Arc V foreshadowing.

So, ummm, really bad necro time: according to Marianne, Martin is in the hospital because of some sort of mental break, and he can't answer simple questions, follow instructions or remember his name.

Oh God.

Does...anyone know how long these sorts of things last?

Dunno. Thing is, the mental breakdown might be the end result because he had to go back to the hospital for like the third time this year because of some unknown ailment and it hasn't been that long since the second.

I think that combined with his personal issues, still not knowing what's wrong with him right now, and his complete and utter frustration and disappointment at missing Masako X's wedding because of said third hospital visit probably reached his breaking point.

Edited by terumokou on Oct 23rd 2019 at 10:09:24 AM

I already knew about his depression issues, but this is terrifying. Never mind the show, I wish Martin a speedy recovery and a return of all faculties.

He's home and resting now.

Glad to hear he's doing better.

I was about to say "hope he'll be fine", but I was beaten to that. I'm glad he's doing better.

After getting copyright struck by Konami so many times, having his sexual orientation be doxxed online and his parents being completely unaccepting of it, and having clinical depression all at once, It didn't surprise me that he would break eventually.

I'm just glad he's getting the help he needs and is resting at home now. He needs it. He may as well just quite abridging altogether at this rate, its definitely taking a toll on him.

I'd be fine with it if it means him getting better.