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Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022


Yu- Gi-Oh is a series about a lot of things. Wanton murder, death games, big hair, massive egos, enormous collars, and most importantly, trading cards. Over almost 20 years it has changed a lot from its beginnings as a manga series about some kid who has a magic puzzle with psychopathic spirit inside that plays Death Games with bad people to a card game about the bonds of friendship and all that yucky kids stuff. The thread is going to be structured by series with notes on the story, characters, the game and the dub due to how egregious the changes in the dub can get sometimes.


Yu-Gi-Oh

The first series, usually dubbed by fans as Season 0. The story follows Yugi Muto, a vertically challenged high-school kid who loves games. One day he puts together a puzzle his grandfather gave him and the puzzle summons a spirit that possesses Yugi and punishes people who mistreat others. This series is notable for not only being the start, but being insanely different from what the series would become. Dark Yugi is crazy as poo poo and gets into all sorts of game where he either kills people, tortures them, or makes their lives miserable. These are always terrible people who hurt others, but for a fuckin kids series it's pretty brutal. It's not until Yugi's rival, Seto Kaiba, shows up that the duel monsters trading cards are introduced and those are brought about as a way of teaching Kaiba a lesson for stepping all over people and having lovely green hair. The anime looks loving terrible and the art style has not aged well, but it's still a good read/watch. The duel monsters game was such a favorite part of the series that it's what the series revolved around after a point and Kazuki Takahashi (The creator) was pleasantly surprised.

Notable Characters

Yugi Muto - Main character. A shrimpy kid who values his friends, but doesn't have a lot of them. Also is very good at any type of game, especially those of the card variety. It's not until he completes the puzzle that he gains the ability to punish people he sees as wrong.

Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi) - Juvenile delinquent, stupid hair, and bully of Yugi. After Yugi sticks up for him when he's getting his rear end kicked by the hall monitor, he and Yugi become friends and he gets roped into all of the shenanigans that follow. Said shenanigans include Yoyos, Laser Tag, and a fun ride through a haunted mansion.

Tristan Taylor (Hiroto Honda) - Friend of Joey's, stupid, and a big dumb goof. He doesn't take to Yugi as easily as Joey, but after Yugi helps him with a puzzle, they become friends. Tristan gets roped into the same shenanigans, but he's a lot quicker to react to something without thinking than Joey.

Tea Gardner (Anzu Mazaki) - Friend of Yugi's, easy to anger, and not a very big fan of basketball. She's Yugi's only friend at the start of the series and falls for Dark Yugi. She's not a fighter, but she's a mean shot with ketchup.

Seto Kaiba - The only consistent antagonist of the first series. He's got dumb green hair, a lot of money, and too much free time. He wants a rare card a lot to the point where he beats up an old man for said card, he's kind of petty.

Mokuba Kaiba - Kaiba's little poo poo kid brother. He comes up with an infinitely dumber game to try and beat Yugi known as Capsule Monsters. He's not really very good at anything.

Ryo Bakura - A meek classmate of Yugi's. He too has an evil spirit inside of his dumb gold object. This one also likes to murder people, but for fun. There's not much to say about regular Bakura because he's kinda dull.

Unfortunately the anime was never licensed to the west, so the only way to get a hold of it is through really bad fansubs. The manga however is still very obtainable through Viz Media either physically or digitally.


Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters

The second series and what is essentially the start of Yu-Gi-Oh as you know it today. This series is notable for a multitude of things. First of all, it's centered around the card game that the first series introduced, Duel Monsters. Since the card game was still not fully established in real life yet, the first season is just full of the most insanely stupid rules that break any sort of structure a competitive game would have. As of Season 2, the show/manga would more closely follow what was the standard ruleset minus a few things. Next, the series and characters are written to be a lot more... well, kid friendly. Dark Yugi is now an actual character and no longer wantonly murders people, Yugi's friends are all toned down to be a lot more standard character archetypes, and the show follows the monster of the week format until like Season 3. The main antagonist from the first series, Seto Kaiba, is now attuned to be a rival of Yugi's and have his own character and backstory and no longer have dumb green hair and part of his story factors a lot into some of the characters in the series.

Finally, there is an overarching plot centered around the card games, Yugi's puzzle, Dark Yugi, Dark Bakura, and Egypt. This does not actually get resolve until the last part of the series, but it's strung along enough to be important to the main characters.

Characters

Yugi Muto
Voice Actors: Shunsuke Kazama/Dan Green
Deck Theme: Dark Magic/Egyptian Gods

The main character of the series. Yugi's a nice kid who put together a puzzle his grandfather gave him one day and now an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's spirit follows him around and is his buddy. Yugi's really good at card games to the point where he gets crowned the King of Games and becomes a renowned duelist for the entirety of the series and other series to follow. Yugi's only desire is to enjoy his life with his friends and also to find out why the hell Dark Yugi is in his puzzle. The Pharaoh himself comes from Egypt and having taken occupancy in Yugi's brain can only communicate with him most of the time. It's not until Yugi calls upon the power of the puzzle that The Pharaoh manifests in his body and becomes noticed to the world, but most people don't seem to notice Yugi is actually a different person for a while. The Pharaoh is very knowing, but also pretty naive and gullible. He is the wiser of himself and Yugi, but he's not exactly what you'd call smart. That being said he is just as good as Yugi at games and they work together to defeat any opponents in their way. Yugi's opponents are usually the big bad guys or actual notable characters.


Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi)
Voice Actors: Hiroshi Takahashi/Wayne Grayson
Deck Theme: Warrior/Red-Eyes

The second main character. Yugi's best friend and a former delinquent. Joey's a headstrong dude who doesn't think things through a lot and it lands him in a ton of big messes. However, Joey wants to get better at Duel Monsters to both help his friends and better himself as a person. The second series is very heavily involved with Joey as a character and his growth from a dumb moron idiot to a cool dude. His stories don't involve ancient spirits or mystical crap, instead he's mostly concerned with trying to help his sister with her eye operation. As a duelist, Joey goes under a lot of changes from not understand how the cards work and barely etching out victories to holding steady leads and even outplaying Yugi at points too. Joey never really gets the big guys of the story, but his opponents more often than not are outright scumbags or fight monkeys.


Seto Kaiba
Voice Actors: Kenjiro Tsuda/Eric Stuart
Deck Theme: Blue-Eyes

The third main character and Yugi's rival. Seto Kaiba is the CEO of Kaiba Corp., a game company that runs most of its money off of holograms, amusement parks, and Kaiba's huge ego. Kaiba is not a man of modesty, he will tell you how great he is and how much you sick and he'll do it staring you dead in the face as he is about to plummet to his death. Kaiba's a strange character in that he does develop, but not like Joey does. His development is more realization that he does not only care about winning and wants to take care of his only family, Mokuba. As a duelist, Kaiba is always self-assured he will win and this more often than not leads him to bad times, because he's a giant rear end in a top hat who cannot cope with people being better than him. He'll always eke out a win though and more than likely using his favorite monster, the Blue-Eyes. Also he has like some sort of connection to his Blue-Eyes from Egypt, it's really weird. Most of Kaiba's opponents are people who have a grudge with Kaiba Corp., people as cocky as him, or magic people.


Yugi and Joey's dumb friends no one cares about

Tea has regressed from being a spunky girl into being a friendship obsessed loon. Tristan is an idiot who gets caught in really silly situations. Serenity is Joey's sister who just sort of becomes a background character after her operation. Duke Devlin owns and unfortunately becomes relegated to a background character after his mini-arc in the first season. He also made a dumb board game that no one bought and died soon after his arc. The tone of his arc is different in the manga though where he has daddy issues, he's still a background character after that though.


Mokuba Kaiba
Voice Actors: Junko Takeuchi/Tara Sands

Kaiba's little brother who essentially acts as his one chain to humanity. Mokuba doesn't really have much of a character, he kind of just gets kidnapped a lot and cheers on Kaiba whenever he's watching him duel. In the first season, his soul getting stolen is what spurs Kaiba into action. From the second season on he's the commissioner of any of the tournaments Kaiba Corp. hosts because I guess Kaiba cannot trust anyone else with this job.


Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku)
Voice Actors: Haruhi Terada/Megan Hollingshead
Deck Theme: Harpy

Joey's love interest and the biggest jobber in the series. Mai is a very talented duelist who used to work as a casino dealer and con people out of loads of money. Unfortunately, she felt alienated from people due to this and as a result has a hard time making friends and has feelings of loneliness. She also doesn't ever win duels despite having some really good ones. Mai's a weird character in general because she's on the cusp of being like a cool character and member of the group, but for whatever reason she gets shoved off at random times she can have character development.


Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford)
Voice Actors: Jiro Jay Takasugi/Darren Dunstan
Deck Theme: Toon/Eyes

The central antagonist of the first season/arc of Duel Monsters. Pegasus is the owner of Industrial Illusions, the company that birthed Duel Monsters and Duel Monsters related products. Pegasus created the game after journeying to Egypt to find a cure for his dead wife and ended up with a golden eye embedded in his skull and Hieroglyphs that looked like monsters which he naturally turned into cards. Pegasus is a very stoic man and you will very rarely ever see him lose his composure. He doesn't take anyone seriously and beats everyone in duels. As a duelist, Pegasus is the most cheating motherfucker ever. His Millennium Eye lets him read his opponent's mind and see what they're about to play so he can adjust accordingly and his monsters allow for restriction on chances for attacking that it's very hard to hurt him. Yugi had to employ personality switching tactics to actually beat him and even that barely worked. After Season 1, Pegasus is reduced to cameo appearances and sometimes character motivation, but he barely shows up again. However, there is a spin-off manga that deals with him, his company, and his adopted son as the central story. His favorite foods are gorgonzola cheese and the world's finest wine.


Bandit Keith (Keith Howard)
Voice Actors: Hajime Komada/Ted Lewis
Deck Theme: Machine

The secondary antagonist of the first season/arc of Duel Monsters. Bandit Keith is a high profile player who one day lost to a child that Pegasus had given instructions to on how to beat him. Keith never really got over that so he went to Duelist Kingdom to murder Pegasus. He has a very low opinion of just about everyone who isn't him and he even bullies his own group of cronies into giving him their stuff when he gets bored with being outside of the castle. Keith is all around not a very pleasant person and his dueling style reflects this too. Keith cheats like nuts; he hides cards up his wrist bands, steals verification cards for the right to play, and even has a gun. Keith comes back for a minute in the second season, but it's only to set up the season and then he's gone after that. He gets killed in the manga after the first arc.


Marik Ishtar/Dark Marik
Voice Actors: Tetsuya Iwanaga/Jonathan Todd Ross
Deck Theme: Immortality

The central antagonist of the second season and the other half of the third season. Marik comes from a long line of tombkeepers and one day his dad was a huge shithead and scarred him for life. This caused Marik to developed a second personality known as Dark Marik who killed Marik's dad. Marik then sought to spend the rest of his life riding motorcycles and blaming the Pharaoh for his personal issues because he thinks he is responsible for his father's death. He also wants to use all three god cards and unlock their power so he can be Pharaoh and remove his family from the tombkeeper line. Dark Marik has a much more simple agenda: Kill everyone and everything. Dark Marik at some point becomes the dominant personality and is essentially the true antagonist of the Battle City tournament. After Season 3, Marik doesn't really return until the final season/storyline of the series where he kind of just shows up to direct the group to the Pharaoh's tomb.


Odion (Rishid) and Ishizu Ishtar

Marik's sister and adopted brother. Odion was adopted into the Ishtar family by their mother, who died of living in the desert. Their father was left to raise them and he did not treat Odion well, constantly beating him and telling him he needs to protect Marik. Odion is loyal to Marik to the end and his coma is what sends Marik over the edge having Dark Marik possess him. Ishizu is the one who approaches the Pharaoh and Kaiba about their possible links of the past and gives Kaiba the Egyptian God, Obelisk. She cares for Marik dearly, but is very bad at actually doing anything about his predicament. They're both kinda just there for a while and then they get relegated to the same status Marik does.


Marik's gang of mooks, The Rare Hunters
Deck Theme: Exodia/Magician/Slime/Slifer/Mask

Marik's group of forgettable characters. First is Seeker, who runs an Exodia deck and beat Joey when Battle City started. He then loses to Yugi the next day. After that is Arkana, who was a former magician that burned his face and accidentally got his wife killed. He duels Yugi with a Magician deck and has them both fight strapped to the ground with Dark Energy Disks slowly approaching them as they lose life points (They were straight up sawblades in the Japanese version). Strings who was a mime possessed by Marik and controlled Slifer with a Slime deck, you can imagine how well that went. Finally, there are Lumis and Umbra who had the privilege of being owned by Kaiba's obelisk.


Noah Kaiba
Voice Actors: Chisa Yokoyama/Andrew Ranells
Deck Theme: Turn/Spirit

The central antagonist of the filler half of Season 3. Noah is Kaiba and Mokuba's adoptive brother and was run over by a car prior to being adopted. After dying, Gozaburo hooked up Noah's brain to a virtual world to keep him alive and adopted Seto as a replacement body for Noah. However Gozaburo kind of forgot about Noah and he just sort of stayed there until the Virtual World stuff happened. He doesn't like Seto very much and sort of kidnaps Mokuba in case he needs a back up body, but feels guilt over it because Mokuba actually tried to get along with him. He would've lost to Kaiba had he not used Mokuba as a shield. He's a filler villain, so naturally he never shows up again after his arc.


Gozaburo Kaiba
Voice Actors: Tetsuo Komura/David Wills
Deck Theme: Exodia Necross

The true antagonist of the filler half of Season 3. After he lost his company to Seto due to a hostile takeover, he committed suicide. However he had uploaded his brain into the virtual world before doing so and remained there. Once Seto entered, he dueled him and intended to steal his body. That didn't work out too well because Gozaburo is really bad at card games and then he tried to take over Seto's body anyways and then got stopped by Noah.


The Big Five

The schmucks of the Season 3 filler. These losers worked with Gozaburo and also helped in Seto's hostile takeover. They too took to downloading themselves into the Virtual World, because that's where everyone goes when they're hosed by Kaiba. They want to take the casts bodies and leave the virtual world, but they are all horribly incompetent and at most get Tristan's body. They don't even manage to hold on to that for too long.


Dartz
Voice Actors: Yu Emao/Wayne Grayson
Deck Theme: Orichalcos

The central antagonist of Season 4, which was entirely a filler season. Dartz is the former king of Atlantis who was corrupted by the stone of Orichalcos and wishes to summon the Great Leviathan so he can blow up the world and create a new one with no evil. To this end he uses the Seal of Orichalcos, a card that sucks the soul from loser of a duel the card is played in and feeds it to the Great Leviathan. He is soundly defeated by Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey and dies in the company of his dead family, because yeah.


Dartz's gaggle of chucklefucks

The shmucks of Season 4. Dartz employed these losers to help him in his cause and they all listened to him because they're dumb. Alister (Amelda) hates Kaiba Corp. and wants to destroy it because when it was a weapons company they killed his brother in the crossfire. He runs Gorlag/Machine deck and gets owned by Kaiba. Valon was a delinquent who lived in a church with a nun until one day it was set on fire. Valon proceeded to beat the poo poo out of the people he thought was responsible for it and was locked in Juvie until Dartz got him. He runs an Armor deck and has a loving awesome duel with Joey where they beat the poo poo out of each other. Rafael was part of a wealthy family until he was shipwrecked and had to live on his own with only his cards there to guide him. He basically sees his cards as his parents (Yes) and thinks sending them to the graveyard is an affront on his person. He runs a guardian deck and got beat by Yugi in a close duel. Oh yeah, Dartz caused all of the terrible things in their lives to happen too, if you're into irony. Also, Mai got recruited into the gang too and Valon was in love with her, so yeah.


Siegfried von Schroeder
Voice Actors:Eisuke Tsuda/Pete Zarustica
Deck Theme: Valkyrie

The central antagonist of the filler half of Season 5. Siegfried is the CEO of Schroeder Corp. who has a very similar legacy to one Seto Kaiba. Schroeder Corp. was once a weapons company like Kaiba Corp. then it turned into a gaming company. Siegfried made up the idea for holograms for Duel Monsters, but Kaiba got to Pegasus five minutes earlier and got the contract with him while Siegfried ate poo poo. He hates Kaiba with a burning passion to the point that he enters the KC Grand Championship for the sole purpose of destroying Kaiba Corp's data. He's a giant poof with no friends and had to employ his younger brother for his petty grudge and gets ejected from the tournament by Kaiba in a duel where Kaiba verbally destroys him.


Leonhart von Schroeder
Voice Actors: Seiko Noguchi/Andrew Ranells
Deck Theme: Fairy Tales

The secondary antagonist of the Season 5 filler. Leon is Siegfried's younger brother who he perpetually neglected and treated like poo poo for the sake of a grudge. Leon for the most part is an okay kid who loves fairy tales and idolizes Yugi. During his duel with Yugi he comes to his senses and stops helping his brother and then promptly loses the duel for his troubles.


Weevil Underwood (Insector Haga) and Rex Raptor (Dinosaur Ryuzaki)

Two losers that keep showing up throughout the series to be beaten by everybody.


Dark Bakura/Ryo Bakura/Thief King Bakura/Zorc Necrophades
Voice Actors: Rica Matsumoto/Ted Lewis
Deck Theme: Disruption/Occult/Diabound/Fiend

The recurring antagonist of the series and central antagonist of Season 5. Ryo Bakura is largely irrelevant, but Dark Bakura is the big motherfucker. Throughout the whole series he steals pretty much every single Millennium Item all with the intention of killing the Pharaoh and Egyptian Gods. His intentions predate to Ancient Egypt where his entire village was killed and melted into the Millennium Items. Back then he kicked everyone's rear end, which is a far cry from his present time incarnation where he got his rear end kicked by everyone. His final hurray ends with a game of Millennium World against and one final duel against Yugi.

Captain Baal fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 13, 2015

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Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Yu-Gi-Oh GX

The third Yu-Gi-Oh series and with an all new cast! GX is a show that follows Jaden Yuki and his friends on Duel Academy. Duel Academy is an island where those who wish to become the best duelists learn how to be the best and it was created by Kaiba Corp. The students are split into three houses: Obelisk Blue for the elites and people with too much money, Ra Yellow for mid-level players and irrelevant losers, and Slifer Red for the outcasts and garbage duelists. GX marks another change in the series in that not only does it introduce a more basic high school setting, but it also promotes the poo poo out of fusion cards. Yes, while YGO Duel Monsters already promoted the card game, it had not yet been finished and the show had a lot of just flat out non-existent cards. As of GX, the card game was fully established and this show pimped fusion monsters like they were going out of style. GX also has the honor of being the first series where the anime and manga adaptations are vastly different, so due to that there will be characters from both the anime and the manga spread through the characters. There is no real overarching story to GX, but there a lot of callbacks in later seasons to see if you've been paying attention and one is insanely stupid.


Jaden Yuki (Judai Yuki)
Voice Actors: KENN/Matthew Charles
Deck Theme: Elemental Hero/Neos

The main character of GX in Slifer Red. Jaden is uh... special. He joins Duel Academy just to find more people to duel, because he is at his heart a fight monkey. He never turns down a challenge and will more than throw himself into the face of some horrible abomination with his usual dumb smile. It is very hard to knock him off his game, that being said he doesn't take losing very well. More on that will be explained later, but let's just say that Jaden is a few cards short of a full deck. In the manga, Jaden is very much the same, but he is far more graceful about losing and is nowhere near as stupid.


Syrus Truesdale (Sho Marafuji)
Voice Actors: Masami Suzuki/Wayne Grayson
Deck Theme: Vehicroid/Cyber Style

Jaden's best friend and another Slifer Red. Syrus is shy, passive, and all around a wimp. His older brother looks down on him, his monster cards are lame, and he has low self-esteem. He gets the Joey treatment for GX where part of the series is about his development as a person. Through the series Syrus gets braver, smarter, and starts seeing his brother eye to eye. He even progresses through the Duel Academy classes until he is standing with the elites.


Chazz Princeton (Jun Manjoume)
Voice Actors: Taiki Matsuno/Tony Salerno
Deck Theme: Hell/Armed Dragon/Ojama/Union/White Knight/Dragon (Manga)

Jaden's first rival and Obelisk Blue member later turned Slifer Red. Chazz is the Kaiba parallel from this season, but unlike Kaiba who was always cocky and sure of himself, Chazz is cocky, but gets beaten a lot for his cockiness. He comes from a family of entrepreneurs and his older brothers who run their own businesses expect him to be able to do the same. After being humiliated enough, Chazz leaves Duel Academy to attend North Academy and destroys everyone at that school and becomes their king. Upon returning to Duel Academy he has another duel with Jaden, but this time he is seen with more respect in the eyes of his peers for dueling nobly and not like a lovely rear end in a top hat. Chazz has spirit partners in the form of the Ojama Brothers who are all insanely annoying and terrible. Chazz becomes relegated to a joke character after his character arc runs dry and his character arc from then on is a long string of punchlines and the Ojama's being obnoxious as hell. In the manga, Chazz is still arrogant, but he's nowhere near as much of a dick. You get his backstory and he wants to be the King of Games and his companion monster in that is the Light and Darkness Dragon. This version is most notable in that he's very competent as a duelist and beats Jaden a few times and even acknowledges Syrus' worth as a duelist after they team together.


Alexis Rhodes (Asuka Tenjoin)
Voice Actors: Sanae Kobayashi/Anna Morrow
Deck Theme: Cyber Angel/Cyber Girl/White Night

The idol of Duel Academy and an Obelisk Blue. Alexis is unlike her Obelisk Blue peers, she does not look down on the lower dorms and generally regards anyone she deems worthy of her respect with high praise. Of course, being the school idol she has a crowd of fanboys, suitors, and friends. Some way through the series Alexis falls in love with Jaden, but I hate to say there ain't much to her. She's kind of a one-note character who has more relevance than it feels like she should. Her personality's just kind of respectful all of the time and she'll react to nonsense, but it's not very interesting. She's usually there to be a big secondary player for villains to either manipulate or help her brother. Her role in the manga is pretty much the same, but she has less relevance overall.


Bastion Misawa (Daichi Misawa)
Voice Actors: Yuki Masuda/Eric Stuart
Deck Theme: Attributes/Magnet Warrior/Yokai (Manga)

General Know-it-all and Ra Yellow. Bastion's a really weird guy due to both having a lot of smarts and not a lot of common sense. He shows great dueling prowess, but like... man. To list off a number of weird things he has crushes on monster card girls, dated an Amazon, died his hair white, keeps decks buckled to his shirt, challenges the villain of Season 2 solely because he was not considered for an invitation into his cult, and stays behind in another dimension to live with his Amazon girlfriend. Bastion sort of gets the same treatment as Chazz where at first he seems like a cool character and then character decay sets in and he's sort of mad a punchline for a lot of bad jokes. The manga treats him a lot better, but instead of Chazz having a crush on Alexis, Bastion now has it instead.


Zane Truesdale (Ryo Marafuji)/Kaiser/Hell Kaiser
Voice Actors: Takeshi Maeda/Scottie Ray
Deck Theme: Cyber Style/Underworld

The former King of Duel Academy, Syrus' older brother, formerly an Obelisk Blue, and a Pro Duelist. Zane is uh... okay this is sort of the part where GX got really strangely dark and stupid, because Zane's a loving silly character. So in Season 1, Zane was just kind of a jerk who looked down on everyone that wasn't Alexis, Atticus, and Jaden. He cared about Syrus and it was shown, then in Season 2 he goes loving nuts and it just gets sillier from there. He's a super crazy good duelist and the first one to defeat Jaden and later tie with him on his graduation duel. In the manga, he's always kind of in his Season 1 personality and has less relevance.


Atticus Rhodes (Fubuki Tenjoin)
Voice Actors: Kouji Yusa/Jason Anthony Griffith
Deck Theme: Idol/Beast-Warrior/Sphere (Manga)

Alexis' brother, Zane's childhood friend, and an Obelisk Blue. Atticus is one of the best duelists in the school a huge dork. He dotes on his sister, tries to matchup any guy with her (Especially Chazz), and has all of the girls chasing after him as he sings and plays instruments horribly. Atticus is an exceptional case because he does not join the cast until the end of Season 1 and he's been built as this unshakeable badass and it turns out he's the biggest goof ever. That being said he's considered one of the best duelists although he loses every duel and just sort of acts as a chain to Zane half of the time. In the manga, he's slightly toned down and is a mega badass in duels.


Jaden's dumb loser friends who are not pictured here except for one

First is Jaden's friend who left after Season 1, Chumley Huffington (Hayato Maeda). He did nothing ever and left a the end of Season 1 with his dumb koala deck. Next is Blair Flannigan (Rei Saotome), who originally had a huge crush on Zane then came back to the academy and had a huge one on Jaden only this time she didn't leave. She was like 8 years old too making it weirder she was allowed back into the academy. Tyranno Hassleberry (Tyranno Kenzan) is the only one that mattered, because on top of having the best name, he had a dinosaur deck, spoke like a Drill Sergeant, and had Dino DNA which made him impossible to mind control. Jasmine (Junko Makurada) and Mindy (Momoe Hamaguchi) barely showed up and were Alexis' dumb friends who never dueled.


Duel Academy's Faculty

First is the Chancellor Sheppard (Principle Samejima). Sheppard is a weird dude who felt like he knew more than he should've half of the time, but he turned out to be not a horrible person. He trained Zane to duel when he was a kid and left for a while in Season 2 to help him out of his funk, although that did not work out very well. He returned as of Season 3 and uh... well, he's kinda stupid. Next is Dr. Vellian Crowler (Cronos de Medici) who is the bomb. Crowler is the smuggest rear end in a top hat who also has insane bias for the Obelisk dorm and against the Slifer dorm. That being said, he cares about his students and lays his life on the line for them multiple times and has shown he deserves his job even though he tried to market the hell out of Duel Academy when he was the Principle for all of Season 2. Finally, there's Jean-Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon). This tricky little bastard was the cause for many attempts to destroy the Slifer Red dorm, monetizing Duel Academy schemes, and being a general jackass overall. He has a son that sort of factors into Season 3, but we'll get to that later.


The Shadow Riders (Seven Stars)

A group of 7 duelists with varying origins and skills. They serve as the antagonists for Season 1 where they are hired to try and revive the Sacred Beasts. The first is Nightshroud (Darkness) who will be given more detail later. The second is Camula, a vampiress who puts the souls of her victims into dolls. She managed to defeat Crowler, make Zane surrender after threatening Syrus, and has her soul eaten after finally being defeated by Jaden. Third is Tania, an Amazon who falls in love with Bastion and locks him up in a cage for a night and later becomes his girlfriend. She is defeated by Jaden and then leaves with her pet tiget. Fourth is Don Zaloog, who is actually a monster spirit given physical form. Don Zaloog employs his group of mercenaries, the Dark Scorpions as his deck and duels Chazz. After he is defeated by Chazz, the Dark Scorpions and the Ojamas have a bitchin' after party. Fifth is Abidos the Third, an ancient pharaoh who was undefeated in games because everyone let him win. He dueled Jaden on his nice Celestial Yacht and then died afterwards. Sixth is Titan, who was a minor villain earlier in the season and was turned into a Shadow Rider. He ran a Demon deck and used fake Shadow Games to try and intimidate his opponents. He was beaten by Jaden after kidnapping Alexis at first and then later Alexis defeated him. The seventh one is Amnael, who is actually...


Lyman Banner (Daitokuji)/Amnael
Voice Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi/Wayne Grayson
Deck Theme: Alchemy

Professor Lyman Banner, the Headmaster of the Slifer Red dorm. In actuality, the goofy professor is an alchemist who has lived for many years. His goal was to make a Philosopher's stone and to that end he made a homunculus to transfer his spirit into so he could live long enough to find a cure for his anime cancer. Jaden defeats him in a duel and then his body crumbles and his soul is swallowed by his pet cat, Pharaoh. He is a ghost for the rest of the series.


Kagemaru
Voice Actors: Mugihito (Old) & Nobutoshi Canna (Young)/David Wills (Old) & Marc Thompson (Young)
Deck Theme: Sacred Beasts

The true antagonist of Season 1 and the employer of the Shadow Riders. He created Duel Academy so the monster spirits that inhabited the land would be able to be eaten by the Sacred Beasts so he could regain his youth. ...That's pretty much it. The dude just kinda showed up, expsoited, lost, and was forgiven. He's not seen again until the last season where he makes a minute-long appearance.


Aster Phoenix (Edo Phoenix)
Voice Actors: Akira Ishida/Pete Zarustica
Deck Theme: Destiny Heroes/Elemental Heroes

Jaden's second rival and a Professional duelist. Aster is the one who handed Zane his first defeat on the pro level and is friends with the antagonist of Season 2. He's an overall good guy and is on a revenge path to find the missing D card. The change in Sartorious and his father's death haunts him and he wishes to find out the truth behind both. In his spare time he dispenses justice to criminals by beating the poo poo out of them as the Phoenix Enforcer and takes his pro dueling career very seriously.


Sartorius (Saiou Takuma)/The Light of Destruction
Voice Actors: Takehito Koyasu/Maddie Blaustein
Deck Theme: Arcana Force

The central antagonist of Season 2 and Aster's manager. Sartorius has been friends with Aster since they were children and was once a kind boy. His sister Sarina (Mizuchi Saiou) recounts that even though they were both shunned for their fortune telling abilities when they were younger, he was very kind to others. Until the day came when he touched the D Card carrying the Light of Destreuction inside of it and that all changed. The Light of Distruction is a celestial force from space that possesses whoever it deems worthy and uses them as a catalyst to further its plans of world destruction. It's not until Jaden defeats Sartorius that the Light of Destruction fades, that would not be the last person it had an effect on though.


Overseas Champions

Four separate duelists from four different branches of Duel Academy. Jesse Anderson (Johan Anderson) is the champion of the North Academy and he is basically just a blue Jaden with jewel monsters. Jim Crocodile Cook is the only good member of the group because he is a paleontologist and has a crocodile strapped to his back named Shirley. Axel Brody (Austin O'Brien) runs a volcanic deck and is dumb and boring, but he is a black guy with a duel disk gun that shoots cards so he is better than Jesse at least. Adrian Gecko (Amon Garam) is the only of these four chucklefucks who has plot relevance since he wants to use the power of Exodia to become the King of the World, but he has an inferiority complex to his little brother and is dumb. In the manga the are all pretty much irrelevant except for Jim who is kind of an antagonist so the manga is dumb because it makes Jim Crocodile Cook an antagonist.


Thelonious Viper (Professor Cobra)
Voice Actors: Masaya Takatsuka/Sean Schemmel
Deck Theme: Venom

The antagonist for the first half of Season 3 and a mean dude. He was called in by Chancellor Sheppard so he could train the students. Viper does this by strapping death bracelets to the students that sucks out their life as they lose life points. Viper was once a soldier in the military until he came across a young boy that he adopted. He give his son, Rick, some duel monster cards as a gift and the cards got swept up in the wind so Rick got hit by a car and died like the opening of Heavy Rain. So Viper struck with a deal with an evil hermaphrodite devil lady to reunite him with his son, which she did so by horribly murdering him.


The Supreme King (Supreme King Judai)
Voice Actors: Same as Jaden
Deck Theme: Evil Hero

So this is where Jaden as a character comes into play. In a past life, Jaden was the Supreme King, a chosen boy who would protect life itself and fight the Light of Destruction and save the 12 dimensions. The Supreme King would later reincarnate into Jaden, but it was corrupted with his feelings of anger and loneliness at having lost his friends and trust for others. The Supreme King finally manifests once Jaden thinks his friends have been killed in the Dimension World and he's a mega rear end in a top hat. He "kills" people constantly, strikes fear into the hearts of the main cast, and puts duelists in Duel Camps (Yes, this happens) where he defeats them in duels so he can create Super Polymerization faster. However, this all started with one character and uhhhhhhhh...


Yubel
Voice Actors: Hisao Egawa (Male) & Hiromi Tsuru (Female)/Cassandra Morris
Deck Theme: Exodia/Sacred Beast/Advanced Crystal Beast/Fiend/Plant

Sigh, okay. Yubel is the central antagonist of Season 3 and there is a loving lot to talk about here. First of all, when Yubel was alive with the Supreme King he was turned into a duel monster so he could protect the Young King and ended being turned into what you see there. Once the King reincarnated into Jaden, Yubel followed as his protector since she loved the king as he loved her. Yubel sought to protect Jaden from any threats including ones she perceived to be destroying their friendship. Any duels Jaden had with other kids ending with those kids going into a coma and made kids too scared to fight Jaden. Jaden hoped she would gain the power of justice so he launched her card into space with his Neo-Spacian designs that he won the right to put in a shuttle from a Kaiba Corp. contest. This naturally did not work, because the Light of Destruction happened to be taking a stroll in that exact spot of the galaxy and decided to gently caress up Jaden's life on the way to gently caress up Sartorius'. She was driven insane by the Light of Destruction and left in space.

She remained in that shuttle for quite a while until it landed back on the earth and all that remained of her was her arm. Viper came across the arm, she whispered sweet nothings into his ear and the rest is history. Throughout her time being the main villain, she possessed Bonaparte's son, Marcel Bonaparte (Martin Kanou), and Jesse too. She killed Adrian Gecko after he attempted to remove her from his new world. She has a twisted love for Jaden that manifests in her desire to murder everything that isn't him. After he defeats her, Jaden forgives Yubel for what she's done, uses the Super Polymerization card and fuses them together so her spirit is always with him. Jaden not only has his snarky waifu with at all times, but also gains her powers and heterocrhomia... yeah, Season 3's pretty loving stupid.


Trueman
Voice Actor: Hozumi Goda
Deck Theme: Archetype/Volcanic Burn/Horus Lockdown

The Envoy of Darkness, Trueman's existence is entirely made of the negative emotions of duelists. He doesn't have much of a personality at all, he just defeats multiple duelists and makes them feel despair to fuel himself and his boss even more.


Nightshroud (Darkness)/Yusuke Fujiwara
Voice Actor: Makoto Naruse
Deck Theme: Red-Eyes/Clear/Darkness

The central antagonist of Season 4 and the overarching antagonist of the series. That being said, he is as much an overarching antagonist as Jaden is of sound mind. He showed up in Season 1 having already possessed Atticus and again in season 2 when Atticus tried to use Darkness to defeat Zane and slightly possessed him. That's it though, his relevance to the plot is never really hinted and he's sort of just a dude. His plan is to remove all human individuality so their suffering can end. Darkness is notable in that he's not really super evil, he handles everything promptly and politely like a businessman, but he is also a big son of a bitch. It's not until Jaden defeats him with Rainbow Neos that he is finally brought down.


Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds

The fourth series in Yugioh and with an entirely new cast. 5Ds is the story of Yusei Fudo and Jack Atlas. Two residents of the Satellite in Neo Domino City, a ruined section of the city for the garbage and scum of society where they are forced to run the plant. Yugioh 5Ds brings a lot of unique things to Yugioh. First are Synchro monsters; an entirely new type of monster card. Secondly, it's the first highly thematic Yugioh anime in the series. The cards and characters both tie heavily into the themes of the show and how they relate to everything. Finally, is the application of certain characters and storylines to not only diversify the cast more, but make everything more emotional. Yugioh 5Ds is not just a show about card games, its a show about people playing card games and their FEELINGS. Oh yeah and there's motorcycles they play card games on, it's fuckin rad.


Yusei Fudo
Voice Actors: Yuya Miyashita/Greg Abbey
Deck Theme: Warrior/Synchron/Stardust

The main character of 5Ds, a resident of Satellite and a signer. Yusei is calm, collected, and compassionate. Yusei is a unique protagonist in that he doesn't have some sort of ancient baggage tying him down unlike Yugi and Jaden. He's just a dude, barring some daddy issues and a dragon sign. Yusei connects with people very easily whether it be his enemies, Jack, or his friends. Yusei is an expert riding duelist and is only rivaled by Jack Atlas. Even when put into a dangerous situation or about to lose a duel, Yusei never loses his cool. There's surprisingly not much to say about him. Yusei is a really simple character, which makes him a breath of fresh air after the mess that was the last two seasons of GX. That being said as of the second half of the series he becomes tiresome and loving never loses and oh my god, is it bad.


Jack Atlas
Voice Actors: Takanori Hoshino/Ted Lewis
Deck Theme: Entertainment Power/Burning Soul/Red Demon's Dragon

King, the Master of Faster, the Sultan of Speed, and our second main character. Jack is everything Yusei is not. He's loud, arrogant, emotional, and ambitious to the point of abandoning his friends for his dreams. Jack abandoned Yusei and the other Satellite residents to pursue his desire to be a great duelist because all Jack knows is fighting and dueling. He's not like Yusei who is multi-talented, Jack has grown as a person thats talents can't help anyone but himself. Due to this Jack doesn't connect with people as easily as Yusei does. The people he does connect with though he is fiercely loyal to and would die for. Jack's personality also leaks into his dueling where he is a very offense-based duelist and never stops attacking unless he has no other option.


Akiza Izinski (Aki Izayoi)
Voice Actors: Ayumi Kinoshita/Bella Hudson
Deck Theme: Black Rose/Plant

Psychic, Signer, the third main protagonist for like half of a season and Yusei's Girlfriend (Sort of). Akiza has a lot of emotional baggage thanks to being a psychic since a little kid and parental abandonment. She ended up with what essentially amounted to a cult that exploited psychics and her mentor was a lying sociopath. It wasn't until Yusei came along and broke her facade of being a sadistic witch down that she began to open up as a person and yeah, she falls in love with him at that point. Akiza goes under a rather strange sense of character development in that it's a natural progression of the character, but it's done in certain ways and makes what was a cool character somewhat irrelevant and eye candy. She goes from a feared Black Witch, to one of Yusei's trusted friends who fought against the Dark Signers with him, to an awkward high school student, to a peppy cheerleader, and to a biker chick who raced in a duel and then nothing until the finale where she regains some relevance and her relationship with Yusei is made clear.


Leo and Luna (Rua and Ruka)
Voice Actors: Ai Horanai and Yuka Terasaki/Cassandra Lee
Deck Theme: Morphtronic/Spirit

The twins and also signers. Leo's pretty much your standard spunky young guy character, there's not much to really say about him. He's just kind of obnoxious, but not really and just skirts the line of being inoffensive. Luna has a bit more personality to her being the more sarcastic of the two, but she still sort of lacks character at points too beyond being defined by her dumb brother. They lose relevance very quickly after the Dark Signer stuff (And even during, really) and are there with Akiza as a cheerleader and school students. In the finale Leo becomes an upcoming riding duelist and he picks her up at school.


Crow Hogan
Voice Actors: Shintaro Asanuma/Christopher C. Adams
Deck Theme: Blackwing

The last signer and third main character for the rest of the series, kind of, not really. Crow's a weird character due to where he's slotted in the show and what his position is supposed to be. He's supposed to follow the tertiary character law this series has where a tertiary character must be continuously developing over the series as the other two characters chump everyone and be awesome. Unlike Joey and Syrus though, Crow doesn't develop that much and isn't amazing. He's an alright dude with some fun duels here and there, but unfortunately he's not interesting enough for the significance he has over other characters like Akiza or the twins. In the finale he becomes an officer of the law not unlike the next rad character...


Tetsuo Trudge (Tetsuo Ushio)
Voice Actors: Koi Ochiai/Dan Green
Deck Theme: Pursuit/Stygian Worm

Public Security Officer and former bully. Trudge is the hall monitor from the original series that beat the poo poo out of Yugi, Joey, and Tristan and then got mind-hosed by Dark Yugi. It seems like he not only got better, but became an officer of the law. Trudge starts off as the general rear end in a top hat authority figure, but he quickly shows he cares a lot for the residents of the city and children. This later extends to Satellite residents as he makes his full turn to a cool guy. Trudge drove down an elevator in a duel with Yusei once and it was rad. He's a competent enough duelist, but he doesn't win ever and mostly has to act as a mentor for certain characters. He has a huge crush on Mina Simington.


Satellite Residents

People of the Satellite who were introduced to us at the start of the series and quickly lost relevance once the Fortune Cup was over. Rally Dawson is the only friend of Yusei and Jack's to have relevance that is not the main group and that he is just kinda there more than the others are. The other three are irrelevant jokers all character by the glasses, being big, and having facial hair. There's two jerks who try to steal Yusei's D-Wheel. Blister (Saiga) is the man who leads Yusei into Neo Domino City and informs him on the city with the most disdain you can imagine. Martha is Yusei, Jack, and Crow's foster mother who runs the Orphanage that they all came from and that Crow protects with his life.


Neo Domino City Resident

People of Neo Domino City who we got familiar with more than the Satellite ones, but they ultimately became irrelevant too. Bolt Tanner (Jin Himuro) was a former pro-duelist who took to heavy drinking after Jack kicked his rear end, he then gets relegated to a commentator for riding duels at the start of season 3. Tenzen Yanagi is a dumb old man with dumb old man habits. There's also a maid who wants to gently caress Jack, she will not be the last one.


Sector Security (Public Security Maintenance Bureau)

The law and order in Neo Domino City and the place Trudge works for. It's ran by Rex Godwin, more on him later. Foolowing him is Lazar (Jaeger), the lovely head of Investigations who consistently antagonizes the team, but never really helps anyone. He ate Jack's cup ramen one time and he's a jerk for it. Mina Simington (Mikage Sagiri)is Godwin's secretary whose only notable personality trait is liking Jack. There's also a Prison Warden who picks his nose hairs a lot, pretty nasty.


Sayer (Divine)
Voice Actors: Masaya Matsukaze/Marc Thompson

A sort of secondary antagonist for Season 1 and the leader of the Arcadia Movement. The Arcadia Movement is a group that takes psychic duelists under their roof and helps them channel their abilities. In reality, Sayer experimented on psychic people for the sake of attaining power and he had his hooks deep into Akiza too for a good while until Yusei showed up. After he kills an investigating Carly Carmine, she is brought back as a Dark Signer and promptly deals away with him. However, Sayer manages to survive only to be eaten by an Immortal because he was talking poo poo about a psychic kid in front of his grieving sister who was a Dark Signer, he's incredibly stupid. He was revived only to be arrested like five minutes later, also his hair is dumb.


Carly Carmine (Carly Nagisa)
Voice Actors: Li-Mei Chiang/Veronica Taylor
Deck Theme: Fortune Fairy/Fortune Lady

Intrepid reporter, unpaid intern, Jack's girlfriend, and a Dark Signer. Carly is an intern who is in order: clusmy, forgetful, unlucky, passive, and a whole bunch of other adjectives that basically mean "She sucks at her job." She first meets Jack when she tries to sneak into his hospital room and get an interview with him and then goes out on the town with him. She comes to fall in love with Jack and he in turn feels the same for her, but doesn't really show his feelings. Carly goes to investigate the Arcadia Movement one day and this leads to her untimely death. However, she is made into a Dark Signer and revived. She is Jack's opponent and during their duel Jack admits his feelings for her and ends the duel in a tie so he can die with Carly. Unfortunately, Carly is the only one of the two who dies and it's not until the last Dark Signer is defeated that she is brought back. After this her relevance drops and she's just Jack's girlfriend who hangs around town doing odd jobs and tries to stowaway in his luggage.


Kalin Kessler (Kyosuke Kiryu)
Voice Actors: Yuki Ono/Marc Diraison
Deck Theme: Hundred Eyes Infernity/Western Infernity

Leader of Team Satisfaction, the best name for a team ever. Back in the day, Kalin formed Team Satisfaction with Yusei, Crow, and Jack. They would go around wearing leather vests, beating people in duels, and using the word "Satisfy" way too much. Eventually they beat all of the people in Satellite, but Kalin was not satisfied. It got to the point where Kalin became sadistic and insane and murdered a man over card games. Said man was a part of Sector Security and he was thrown in jail and left to die there. He came back as a Dark Signer with the biggest hate boner for Yusei and it wasn't until he was defeated that he realized he was a mega douche. he came back after the last Dark Signer was defeated and became the sheriff of Crash City. After becoming the sheriff of Crash City, he renamed it to Satisfaction Town and made me laugh for five million years. In the finale, he is defeated by Jack as he seeks to regain King of Riding Duels title.


The Dark Signers

The evil counterparts of the Signers, obviously. They come about when a person clinging to vengeance (or with a deeper connection, really) for a Signer in their last moments and they are transformed into one through the Earthbound Immortals. The Earthbound Immortals are essentially hellbeasts that have existed on the earth forever and were not brought out of their seal until a certain event. First is Greiger (Bommer), who was a duelist from the fortune cup that intended to kill Rex Godwin for murdering his whole village. He was detained and later freed by Devack who recruited him. He was later killed by Roman so he could be turned into a Dark Signer after Roman convinced him to help him by defeating Yusei since it would spite Godwin. Misty Tredwell (Misty Lola) was the sister of one of Sayer's psychic children who died in his experiments. She died from drowning after losing focus on the road due to having learned of her brother's death only minutes prior. Her grudge was held against the entire Arcadia Movement, Akiza especially for being the pet of Sayer and inspiration for the other psychic children. Next is Devack (Demak) and well... he existed.

Finally, there's Roman (Rudgar) Godwin, Rex's older brother. Roman died in the Zero Reverse, a catastrophic effect caused by Roman himself when he overloaded the reactors of Neo Domino City. The Zero Reverse is what caused the split between Neo Domino City and Satellite and released the seal on the Earthbound Immortals. Roman triggered the Zero Reverse because he was possessed by the Earthbound Immortals after finding their seal. Roman is the leader of the Dark Signers and serves as the central antagonist for the Dark Signers arc. After Yusei defeats him, he warns the team that it's not over yet and there is one Dark Signer left.


Rex Godwin
Voice Actors: Shinya Kote/Pete Zarustica
Deck Theme: Inca

The true antagonist of Season 1, Roman's younger brother and the defacto creator of present Neo Domino City. Rex and Roman were originally assistants to Dr. Fudo, Yusei's father. After being ejected from the project that would lead to the Zero Reverse, Roman was made the leader. Roman was a signer at the time and his possession by the Earthbound Immortals made it so the Signer and Dark Signer marks battled with one another and corrupted his mind. Roman lopped off his own left arm with the Signer mark and gave it to Rex to preserve. Rex loved his brother dearly and ended up worshipping his left arm. Rex would become the catalyst for a million things that would change Neo Domino. The Daedalus Bridge, the class system separating Neo Domino and Satellite, Jack's dissent, and attempting to bring back the King of the Underworld.

Rex's ultimate goal was to break the cycle of Signer and Dark Signer's fighting each other that has gone on for 5000 years. He let Roman kill him in a Shadow Duel so he could become a Dark Signer, attached Roman's arm to where he lost his own as the Legendary Rider to have the Signer mark, and attempted to summon the King of the Underworld so he could destroy the earth and recreate it. It's thanks to Yusei that he is defeated and the Dark Signers return alive.


Sherry LeBlanc
Voice Actors: Erika Nakagawa/Tara Sands
Deck Theme: Noble Knight/Fleur

Resident new badass of Season 2. Sherry is a French duelist whose parents were killed by Yliaster when she was a kid. Ever since then she don't take no poo poo from no one. Sherry's a mega haradass who wants Yusei for her team in the WRPG. Not only because she wants to win, but because she wants to track down who killed her parents. Following her in this is her butler, Elsworth (Mizoguchi). He has taken care of her since her parents died and protects her with his life. Later, Sherry is convinced by Z-one to join him in saving the future after he promises to change the past so her parents never died. It is at this point that Sherry is kinda crazy, because she is shouting about creating a world where everyone gets to be with their families and trying to convince Crow to join her by using visions of the future. It's not until Akiza tells him millions of people will die that they beat Sherry and save her from her crumbling Soul Gate.


Bruno/Antinomy/Dark Glass (Vizor)
Voice Actors: Hiroki Tanaka/Jason Griffith
Deck Theme: Tech Genus

Team 5Ds' mechanic, amnesiac, Z-One's only friend, one of the last four surviving humans in the future, and a whole lotta other things. Bruno's life kind of loving sucks. Before losing his memories as his original self, Antinomy, he was one of the only surviving humans in the future and was tracked down by the Machine Emperors until Z-One saved him. They became friends, but Antinomy died and so Z-one recreated him and sent him into the past as an android to aid in Yusei's growth. That lasted for quite a while until Primo decided to wreck him and leave him for death in the ocean. Antinomy would wash up on shore with amnesia, found by Trudge and Mina. His skill as a mechanic earned him a spot on Team 5Ds and he became friends with Yusei and co. Bruno's amnesia causes him to develop a split personality though, Dark Glass.

Dark Glass is like Yusei's Racer X right down to the flamboyant clothing and eyewear. He duels Yusei as his rival, but only to teach him and prepare him for the Noble Kings. Bruno dies giving his life for his friend, Yusei, after a black hole is created during their last duel.


Yliaster/Three Pure Nobles/Aporia

Let's just get this out of the way, Yliaster is basically Neo Domino City's Illuminati. They ran poo poo behind the scenes, wore cloaks, and were generally shady people. Rex Godwin led them recently until his death, so the new guys in charge are the Three Pure Nobles. They are also the directors of Sector Security, so you can imagine how much Trudge loves that. Now let's bring it around to these dorks, they're the Three Noble Kings. Jakob (Jose), Lester (Lucciano), and Primo (Placido) all use the WRPG and Yliaster as part of their grand scheme to use the Grand Design to bring back Z-One and the Divine Temple to change the future. Here's all you need to know about them: Jakob is old and big, Lester gets all the young schoolgirls and is there for all sorts of transfer student shenanigans because the second half of 5Ds loving sucks, and Primo never wins because he is dumb and stupid.

This is all a cover for one insanely stupid thing. They are all the same person and combine together to make his real identity, Aporia. All three of them represent a different point of despair in Aporia's life which I will not go into because it's dumb. Aporia wants to change the future by loving Neo Domino too because he is filled with despair over his life being the shittiest life and the future sucking. Also I lied, here's the skinny of the despair representation. Lester is the despair from his parent's deaths, Primo is the despair from his lover dying, and Jakob is the despair from realizing he's one of the last humans left. None of his three aspects show the sorrow the original form does, so yeah. Aporia has to get his rear end kicked like three times before he understands that the future is not going to explode with the cast around and then he goes to duel Z-One to fight for Team 5Ds and loses because he is not actually the central antagonist.


Z-One
Voice Actors: Hideo Ishikawa/Marc Thompson
Deck Theme: Timelord

The last known human survivor in the future. Z-One came to the past to change everything and unfuck the future. Z-One is like the most wasted potential in the second half of the series and that is saying a lot given how much poo poo happens. He's built up as this big motherfucker, Grandpa Yusei, and some timelord, but like... he's nothing. He's like Darkness in that there is some interesting concept behind it, but it ends up being a wet fart. What was an obvious plot twist for Yusei being the bad guy, turned out to be some dude who idolized Yusei and even changed his face to be Yusei's because this series is indefatigable about Yusei being the perfect person who everyone loves forever and can do no wrong. Z-One rallied the people and gave them hope in the future, but people were still too evil and the world was doomed. The Zero Reverse happened again, a million people died and all that was left was him, Aporia, Antimony, and Paradox. After Yusei delivers the generic hope speech and beats him leaving him with hope for the future, because yeah.

Watch the finale, it's better than all of that.


Paradox
Voice Actors: Atsushi Tamura/Sean Schemmel
Deck Theme: Malefic

I guess I should include this chucklefuck. The fourth of the last humans. This guy is from the Bonds Beyond Time movie, he would later be canonized as one of the last humans in the 5Ds story. Paradox is told to go back into the past and kill the creator of Duel Monsters to save the future because Duel Monsters kills the future. There's nothing to say about him other than he is a dumb goon who wears a mask for no reason and fights Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei in a 3-on-1 duel with the silliest loving rules.

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Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Reserved for ZEXAL


Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

The sixth (Yes) Yu-Gi-Oh series, it introduces a wealth of different things while falling back on some old conventions. Arc-V has the strange place of being after ZEXAL which kind of outdoes any Yu-Gi-Oh show in blatant stupidity and bullshit, so it has to live up to that. Arc-V does this by... being rather logical in a lot of things actually. In the world of Arc-V, Action Duels have become a new form of duels done to both entertain audience members and spice up duels. Taking a bit from 5Ds, duels have some focus on the characters going through complex areas to get specific cards to these duels, but not as dedicated to it as 5Ds since these duels are still grounded. It also introduces a new form of summoning, Pendulum summoning, which is its own can of worms. Unlike previous Yu-Gi-Oh series though (Mainly 5Ds and Zexal), it does not abandon previous forms of summoning for the most part. In fact, these other forms of summoning come back into play in a MASSIVE way.

Arc-V does a lot with expectations and trying to both subvert and meet them. It's an interesting show which does a lot with what's been set for it and manages to actually hit more than miss. The story follows Yuya Sakaki, the son of the world's most famous Entertainment Duelist, Yusho Sakaki. After his father disappears, Yuya dedicates himself to Entertainment Dueling and to step out of his father's shadow.

:siren:SPOILERS FOR ALL OF ARC-V PAST THIS POINT, DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED:siren:


Yuya Sakaki
Voice Actors: Kensho Ono/Michael Liscio Jr.
Deck Theme: Performapal/Pendulum

The main character of Arc-V. Yuya is the son of beloved Entertainment Duelist, Yusho Sakaki. Yuya is a person genuinely loves seeing other people smile and wishes to entertain them in any way he can. Beneath that though lies a sort of fog of doubt. Yuya believes in himself, but sometimes an obstacle will appear that he is not sure of how to handle and it is with help from his friends that he finds the courage to succeed. Yuya is a bit similar to Jaden and Yuma in that he is a happy-go-lucky doof, but instead of having like unnecessarily dark complexity for a silly character or being unbelievably insufferable, Yuya has enouigh good will and depth to be enjoyable and not be obnoxious. Yuya is a performer by nature and as such his aim during duels is to entertain his audience by making moves suspenseful using action cards or even just doing acrobatic tricks. Yuya is basically circus performer made into a duelist and it makes for a nice breath of fresh air in a series like Yu-Gi-Oh.


Yuzu Hiragi
Voice Actors: Yuna Inamura
Deck Theme: Melodius

Yuya's childhood friend and the daughter of You Show Dueling School's principal. Yuzu is Shuzo's pride and joy being a very talented Entertainment Duelist and tactical thinker. Yuzu is a first many things, one of them being a female character who is central to the plot (Or at least is heavily hinted to be). She discovers the plot long before Yuya does and this gets her a surprising amount of character building and makes her a more enjoyable character. She cares very dearly for Yuya and her friends, but much like Yuya she gets caught up in her thoughts and her doubts can really bring her down. She always comes through when it counts though and she has multiple paper fans handy for Yuya and her dad. Yuzu's father runs an Entertainment Duel School which she has been a part of since she was a little kid, due to this she is as well versed in Action Duels as Yuya. Although, her dueling style is far more conservative than his, but even she will make dangerous dives when she feels she must. Later in the series Yuzu employs fusion into her duels as a way to keep up with other duelists.


Noboru Gongenzaka
Voice Actors: Yohei Obayashi/Billy Bob Thompson
Deck Theme: Superheavy Samurai

Yuya's best friend and successor to the Gongenzaka Dojo. Gongenzaka is a very noble man who speaks eloquently and with respect to everyone despite his somewhat rough appearance. He has been friends with Yuya for many years and although his Dojo is a rival school to You Show Duel school, Gongenzaka supports You Show with all of his strength because of his respect for everyone there. He not only wishes to improve himself, but help his friends improve and to do so he will go through whatever troublesome trials to do so. Gongenzaka is the loving bomb and his duels are also really great. On top of using the Superheavy Samurai deck which makes employ of nothing but monster cards, he also is a practitioner of Steadfast Dueling. This requires that Gongenzaka not only never move from the spot he is standing, but that he never reaches for action cards. Gongenzaka also later adapts Synchro summoning in his deck to not only improve his Steadfast dueling, but to improve the Gongenzaka Dojo.


You Show Duel School

Named after Yusho Sakaki, You Show specializes in the teaching of Entertainment Dueling. Its Principal is Shuzo Hirago who is incredibly hot-blooded and inspires his students to take advantage of their youth and live their lives to the fullest. Despite his silly antics, Shuzo is actually an excellent teacher. He both coaches and helps them with their problems and his lessons in Entertainment Dueling have made both Yuya and Yuzu incredible Entertainment Duelists. He would do anything for his students as they would for him. The school only has about five students though, Yuya and Yuzu being the senior students. The younger students are: Tatsuya, a boy who quickly became one of Yuya's biggest supporters after his duel with Strong Ishijima and knows the most about the game out of the three kids. Futoshi Harada, a boy who is both incredibly excitable and a huge cheerleader. He has an annoying catchphrase that he will never stop spouting and has a Sketch deck. Ayu Ayukawa (Ally), a nice little girl who greatly respects Yuzu, but makes absent-minded mistakes. Her parents dote on her like crazy and she runs a Aqua Actress Deck. Yuya's mom, Yoko, is here too because I don't have place I want to put her nor is worth her own entry. She's a cool mom who makes a lot of pancakes for Yuya and fawns over hot young anime chefs.


Shingo Sawatari Neo Sawatari Neo New Sawatari
Voice Actor: Shogo Yano
Deck Themes: Darts Shooter/WATER/Yosenju

Yuya's rival and a student of LDS. Sawatari is one of the most interesting characters in the show because of his progression as not only a character, but as a threat. He is quite clearly made of elements from past rivals from Kaiba's cockiness, to Chazz's showmanship, to Jack's flair, he is made of past Yugioh rivals. That being said this all mixes to ether to make a narcissistic, elite-wannabe, jobber goof. He is introduced as a threat and is the first person to use Yuya's pendulum monsters against him, but after that duel he quickly becomes a joke character existing only for gags and to lose to Yuto. He finally makes his return at the Junior Youth championship and is not only once again a legitimate threat, but is the first person to successfully Pendulum summon with his own Pendulum Monsters aside from Yuya. Over the course of their duel not only does Sawatari show that he has adapted some of Yuya's habits, but also wants to please the crowd no matter what and turns the duel into one for the crowd to enjoy rather than one he wants to win.

Sawatari is a really great character and I hope the show does not just dump him off after this duel because he's super cool.


Sora Shiun'in
Voice Actor: Mie Sonozaki
Deck Theme: Fluffal

Student of You Show Duel School and an agent of the Academia. Sora came across Yuya after his first duel with Sawatari and tried to make him his teacher. After his duel, he realized that Yuya didn't want to be his teacher, but they could still be friends. Sora is a bit of a smartass on top of being an arrogant kid. He only goes with people that interest him and if they don't he quickly begins to ignore them. Sora is a mysterious character who knows more about fusion and is better at the game than someone like him should be. This is because he is actually a soldier of the Academia who I will talk about more later...


Reiji Akaba (Declan)
Voice Actors: Yoshimasa Hosoya/Billy Bob Thompson
Deck Theme: DD

The 16-Year Old President of Leo Corporation. Reiji constantly watches on high from the top of his skyscraper. He takes an interest in Yuya's pendulum summons and begins producing new ones for mass consumption once he fully understands them. Reiji is a master of all three types of summoning and wishes to use Pendulum Summoning to help protect Maiami City. He wishes to oppose his father and to do so holds the Dueling Tournament to find who would be best suited to act as a lance for his goals. Reiji's a weird character in that he's pretty entertaining, but due to very rare appearances in being involved in the plot it's easy to get annoyed with his constant watching of Yuya and co. He's also kind of stupid for letting a crazy rage-induced duelist run free in the city, but hey. Reiji's dueling style utilizes four different summoning types: Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, and Pendulum. Although he's not as well-versed in Pendulum Summoning he still manages to use it for a while to summon his ace monsters, D/D/D Hell Armageddon the Cruel End Overlord. He's very methodical and calm, getting action cards when he deems necessary and letting his dueling skill handle the rest.


Leo Duel School

The school helmed by the Leo Corporation. Leo Duel School is home to many elite duelists and teaches different courses on different types of summonings. The Chairwoman is Reiji's mother, Himika Akaba. She is very arrogant and obnoxious, but she dearly loves her son, Reiji. Notable students of LDS are as follows: Hokuto Shijima (Dipper), a representative for LDS' Xyz Summoning course. He is a very callous and cruel person, seeking to mock his opponents at any given opportunity and does not care at all about their safety in an action duel. He softens up a bit as time goes on to the point where he is just kind of a jerk at worst as he becomes better friends with the other two duelists. His deck is a Constellar themed deck. Next is Masumi Kotsu, the representative for the Fusion Summoning course. She's straightforward and says what she think, regardless of who she's talking to. She develops something of a rivalry with Yuzu which evolves into a friendship of sorts as Yuzu learns fusion herself. Her deck is a Gem-Kight themed deck. Finally, Yaiba Todo of the Synchro Summoning course. Yaiba is incredibly confident in his skill and Synchro monsters, at first being very dismissive of his teammates. He grows to see them as friends and even mentors Gongenzaka in Synchro summoning. His deck theme is an X-Saber deck.


Reira Akaba
Voice Actor: Yui Ishikawa
Deck Theme: CC

Reiji's little brother. Not much is really known about Reira other than he's scared shitless of his mom and he knows how to do multiple forms of summoning despite only being junior-class.


Nico Smiley
Voice Actor: Hajime Ijima

Former manager of Strong Ishijima and MC of the Junior Youth Championship. Nico is a very eccentric man who looks like a clown Hitler. At first he seems like any other guy trying to get their hands on talent to make a quick buck, but he turns out to be more. He offers YSDS a new Solid Vision for an exhibition duel, gets Yuya four more opponents to get him into the tournament, and then sets up all of the opponents so he can help Yuya advance his dueling style and become an even better action duelist. He's also got problems with following the basic rules of public transportation.


Random Duelists from Maiami City

First is Michio "Mitchie" Mokota, a chef duelist Yuya duels to qualify for the Tournament. He's an rear end in a top hat who belittled Yuya and would not shut the gently caress up about his perfect recipe. He's a part of the Junior Youth Tournament and is still in the Top 16, so maybe he'll be a side character. Next is Eita Kyuando, a quiz duelist Yuya duels to qualify for the Tournament. He's an obnoxious little poo poo who dueled Yuya for two episodes answering Trivia constantly and ugh. Then, there's Strong Ishijima, the man Yusho Sakaki abandoned a duel with. That duel got Yuya bullied and it wasn't until that he beat Ishijima in an exhibition match that he finally felt clear. Ishijima moved to America to train after his loss and runs a Battleguard deck. Finally, there's Gen Ankokuji, a fan of Strong Ishijima and also a Battleguard duelist. He's Gongenzaka's first opponent in the Junior Youth Tournament and was a student of the Gongenzaka Dojo until he used Steadfast Dueling for his own purposes. Gongenzaka hates him and beat him in the duel.


Mieru Hochun
Voice Actor: Aoi Yuki
Deck Theme: Sibyl

Yuya's third opponent for his qualifying duels and a fortune teller. Mieru uses her fortune telling for everything and even used it find a boyfriend. It landed on Yuya and she wasn't too pleased about that until he beat her and she fell head over heels for him. That's pretty much it. She seems to have become a side character as of late, so yeah. She's notable in being the only duelist in the show so far to use Ritual Summoning.


Isao Kachidoki
Voice Actor: Kenji Nojima
Deck Theme: Star

Yuya's second round opponent for the Junior Youth tournament and a student of Ryozanpaku Dueling School. Kachidoki follows the philosophy of beating the poo poo out of opponent duelists until he wins basically, because they can't get action cards if you beat them up. He gets really pissy after Yuya beats him, gently caress this guy.


Yuto
Voice Actor: Manpei Takagi
Deck Theme: The Phantom Knights

A member of the Resistance and Yuto's Xyz Dimension counterpart. Yuto is introduced as a mysterious boy who shows up at random points to protect Yuzu and fight LDS. He interacts a lot with Yuzu and even mentions that she looks like a girl he knows named Ruri. Yuto shares the same face as Yuya, this is due to the fact that they are counterparts of one another, but no one really knows how any of this poo poo works yet. Despite being a part of the Resistance and fighting Fusion users, Yuto does not want to hurt anyone or kill anybody. This ultimately turns against him as his kindness ends up getting him vaporized/fused into Yuya. As a duelist, Yuto tries to end matches quickly so the possibility of hurting his opponents through a prolonged fight does not occur.


Shun Kurosaki
Voice Actor: Yamato Kinjo
Deck Theme: Raidraptor

A member of the Resistance and Yuto's best friend. Shun hates Fusion users with an undying passion. This is due to many things such as the destruction of his home, them kidnapping his sister, and his comrades being killed by them. It's enough to say that Shun's life kind of sucks so he is rage driven teenager bent on beating the poo poo out of every LDS duelist he finds. He does this to draw out Reiji so he can use him as bait to draw out the Fusion Dimension's leader, Reio Akaba. Reiji offers him a deal saying they are after the same thing and Shun accepts being entered into the Junior Youth Tournament where he drops a building on Sora after learning he is part of Academia. Shun's dueling style is a very aggressive one where once he gets his ace monster out, you are dead. Even if he should lose his ace monster he still has two more forms he can use if he ranks it up and his monsters all fly so he can cover distance easily to get action cards.


The Academia

The Headquarters of the Dueling Soldiers of the Fusion Dimension. It is here that duelists are trained to be mindless warriors for the Academia and to take over other dimensions. Leading the whole thing is Reio Akaba, Reiji and Reira's father. He performs experiments on students and holds secrets which we do not know of yet. Under his command are both Yuya and Yuzu's fusion world counterparts, Yuri and Serena. Not much is known about them, but they are very important to Reio. The Academia and Reio seem to be behind many of Arc-V's mysteries and the destruction of the Resistance's dimension. They specialize in the use of Fusion monsters, of course.


Yugo
Voice Actor: Shinpei Takagi
Deck Theme: Speed Roid

Synchro Dimension counterpart of Yuya and a D-Wheeler. Yugo is a mysterious character in that he just sort of showed up, a million things happened, and no one knows what any of it meant. What is known is that Resistance members feel he responsible for the destruction of their Dimension, he's trying to find someone important to him, and no one can get his name right. He rides a D-Wheel, but doesn't seem to play riding duels like duelists in 5Ds do. His dueling style is based in getting as many monsters out for Synchro summoning as possible and he rides his D-Wheel while doing all of it.

Captain Baal fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Feb 16, 2015

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Reserved for other misc bullshit

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

In America

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Children Card Games
Children Card Games in motorcycles
Bakuras british accent
Binky Boy
Steve
Ancient Egyptian Laserbeams

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

There you absolute fucks I made all the abridged series jokes so you don't have to;.

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

du du, du, du, d-d-d-d-d-d-d-DUEL

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
The show is on Netflix, it is still good.

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

Yugiowns

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

I really liked Yugioh as a kid and was mega loving pissed when Dungeon Dice Monsters didn't catch on. I even bought the starter set and played the GBA game. :(

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
I liked the Dungeon Dice Monsters GBA game even though I probably shouldn't have.

DrPaper
Aug 29, 2011

Dungeon Dice GBA was good.

Also even in my youth I thought having an entire school academy dedicated to a trading card game was dumb, and that's when I left the series.

Matoi Ryuko
Jan 6, 2004




Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Ibram Gaunt posted:

I really liked Yugioh as a kid and was mega loving pissed when Dungeon Dice Monsters didn't catch on. I even bought the starter set and played the GBA game. :(

That being said I hardly remember anything about it anymore. RIP.

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022

Beef Waifu posted:

Alister (Amelda) hates Kaiba Corp. and wants to destroy it because when it was a weapons company they killed his brother in the crossfire.

The best thing about the dub version of this is that they cut his backstory flashback short, so there was a jump cut to his brother getting suddenly kidnapped by tanks in the split second he wasn't looking.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Dungeon Dice Monsters was like if you made a puzzle game with your Yugioh game and it was weird, but interesting at the same time. It's kind of a shame it died so soon, but that might be for the best.

Outer Science
Dec 21, 2008

Daisangen
my roommates had this thing for like a straight year where they were obsessed with gx. i will never forget the name tyranno hasselbury because of them.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

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Outer Science posted:

my roommates had this thing for like a straight year where they were obsessed with gx. i will never forget the name tyranno hasselbury because of them.

I've got Dino DNA.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Beef Waifu posted:

I liked the Dungeon Dice Monsters GBA game even though I probably shouldn't have.

That game was pretty sweet and was better than every other Yugioh video on the GBA. :colbert:

Also, every yugioh series owns except maybe Zexal since I didn't watch it because everyone said it was terrible. I bet if i did watch it i'd like it though because card games are cool as hell. And if they are too long you should just watch Arc V because it is only 40 episodes thus far and kicks rear end.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Yugi set a dude on fire and had another almost stab his own hand on the first chapters

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

In the single issue of shonen jump I bought, Yugi made a maze of spraypaint and lit it on fire, forcing the dudes in it to navigate through it while on fire to end up falling into the ocean

Don't gently caress with Yugi's friends

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

SyntheticPolygon posted:

That game was pretty sweet and was better than every other Yugioh video on the GBA. :colbert:

Also, every yugioh series owns except maybe Zexal since I didn't watch it because everyone said it was terrible. I bet if i did watch it i'd like it though because card games are cool as hell. And if they are too long you should just watch Arc V because it is only 40 episodes thus far and kicks rear end.

I'll probably watch the dub of Zexal or something since like I don't care enough that show to watch it subbed like I did 5Ds. Unfortunately I sort of trailed off on 5Ds once Season three started and I saw that Yusei and Jack were gonna be the only important characters. I watched the series finale out of nowhere though and holy poo poo, I have never seen a show have entire season be redeemed by a finale like 5Ds'.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Beef Waifu posted:

I'll probably watch the dub of Zexal or something since like I don't care enough that show to watch it subbed like I did 5Ds. Unfortunately I sort of trailed off on 5Ds once Season three started and I saw that Yusei and Jack were gonna be the only important characters. I watched the series finale out of nowhere though and holy poo poo, I have never seen a show have entire season be redeemed by a finale like 5Ds'.

The later half of 5D's was kind of poo poo but there was enough novelties in there to keep me entertained like motorcycle duels in space, and in the final arc (even before the sweet finale) Aki and the kids both got one more good duel each so that was nice and left me with good memories of the show.

Dark_Tzitzimine
Oct 9, 2012

by R. Guyovich
I've always been amused for how batshit insane the manga versions are compared to the anime (Lua and Rua being Psychos, GX being a more proper sequel to Duel Monsters, Yuma being an idiot--oh wait.)

Still, the original manga was way more enjoyable when the card games were secondary. Once that they became the focus the only thing the manga got over the anime was the lack of filler arcs.

So, what's gonna happen with the Card Battle anime thread now? I mean, it was pretty much the YGO thread.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Was it? I'm sorry, I assumed that like Japan had an abundance of this stuff still like Cardfight Vanguard and Bakugan to talk about.

everythingWasBees
Jan 9, 2013




So wait, subs or dubs, for each series and season, before I begin marathoning them all.

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

everythingWasBees posted:

So wait, subs or dubs, for each series and season, before I begin marathoning them all.

YGO - Dub
GX - Dub
5Ds - Sub

I think someone can give you the skinny on Zexal and Arc-V

Dark_Tzitzimine
Oct 9, 2012

by R. Guyovich

Beef Waifu posted:

Was it? I'm sorry, I assumed that like Japan had an abundance of this stuff still like Cardfight Vanguard and Bakugan to talk about.

Well, only like two thread regulars talked about Vanguard. The rest of us were in for YGO (both the anime and the card game). Although this thread has been way more active.


everythingWasBees posted:

So wait, subs or dubs, for each series and season, before I begin marathoning them all.

Skip Zexal, is terrible.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

For Zexal i'd say give with the subs since apparently the dub ended abruptly and there is no dub of Arc V yet, so it's subs or bust.

Dark_Tzitzimine
Oct 9, 2012

by R. Guyovich
So I don't know how many of you guys are familiar with the card game but there are some cards inspired by the Isthar family









There's also this guy, inspired by the Thief King Bakura




Pretty neat homage to the anime.

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Didn't they end up making like an entire set based around that really lovely skull servant card

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Because if true, that owns.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Didn't they end up making like an entire set based around that really lovely skull servant card
yeah

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Wight

between wightprince and wightmare it's actually a viable deck for casuals now

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I remember watching much of the first season or two of this as a kid, and I recall that nearly every character was a gigantic rear end in a top hat, and I can appreciate that. Maybe I should check out the motorcycle card duels series if it's as endearingly stupid as it sounds.

chumbler fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jan 13, 2015

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
I hope that remaster isn't a complete disaster (Though to be fair, after what we've gotten from Toei re: sailor moon, they could show a still image of Yugi for 200 episdoes and still be better) and someone subs it if only for completion (and that awesome ost)'s sake.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Pegasus was the best villain and it was a drat shame when he was finally defeated. Also his toon cards were overpowered as gently caress.

XboxPants
Jan 30, 2006

Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.
I also want to say that as everyone else has mentioned, Dungeon Dice was hella rad and it's a shame it didn't catch on. Way better game than the card game, at least. (not to say that fun can't be had with the card game, but really the foundations are pretty busted)

Also excellent choice on Joey's profile picture.

XboxPants fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Jan 13, 2015

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
I saw the yugioh movie after ragequitting around the finale of season 2 and just not caring anymore and oh my god the movie was terrible. At least we got some cool cards out of it from the theater I guess.

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Momomo
Dec 26, 2009

Dont judge me, I design your manhole
Arc-V is amazing and I really hope it doesn't fall flat on its face.

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