>20 years later
>Still unsurpassed by its sequels
Man, Takahashi writing really did make a difference. It's like he had a story to tell while later series are just throwing stuff into the wall to see what sticks.
Also sure it had card games but the premise was that you could kill someone if they lost on a game by using the Millenium Item powers so it made more sense that everything revolved around them, and by the last arc there aren't even cards while later series make even the police arrest you by dueling.
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Ayden Carter
I try to keep it short but there really is a world of difference between duel monsters and the sequels. The importance of card games was kept at its minimum and it felt more like the real world, but stuff like Gozaburo owning a weapons corporation and Kaiba trying to atone for it by creating theme parks and investing into game development is stuff that won't be seen again, or Otogi & Yugi's goal outright being creating a new game with Anzu wanting to become a dancer and Honda not even dueling. Also whatever Jonouchi's deal was, he just tagged alone for the fun of it.
Jacob Wood
I wish kishi would get a new monthly series
What does he even do now? He doesn't seem super active on the net, last time I checked.
Eli Evans
Mana needs my mana all over her face
Nicholas Ramirez
>Tfw you cum on Mana's face
AKAKU MINAGIRU EEEEEYEEEEEEES
Benjamin Watson
>from nigg africans to whites
Lmao
Carson Nelson
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Jacob Butler
Pegasus was racist
Jonathan Nguyen
5Ds had the best Yugioh story and people that didn't watch it for the cringe "CARDGAMES ON MOTORCYCLES" meme seriously missed out
Caleb Williams
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Lincoln Johnson
GX’s 3rd and 4th seasons surpass anything in the original by a mile
Nicholas Williams
You gotta admit its a pretty dumb premise, earlier series were already pushing it with the fate of the world being linked to card games and shit
Cooper Gutierrez
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Kevin Morris
Yeah sure it sounds dumb, but it makes so much sense from a narrative point of view because Yugioh always had the problem of separating action from story because they strictly can't move during Duels so whenever they had to move the story along they would always not have Duels while doing so. In OG Yugioh you had to confine the action to an island or a city and STILL needed to play card games on a vehicle to get the characters moving (granted playing games on a blimp is more realistic than on motorcycles but still)
GX also confined the entire story to a single Island.
5Ds as a result had the smoothest combination of story and action. Also if everyone in the world plays a magic card game that literally the fate of the world depends on you might as well accept that a futuristic society would harness that magic power as energy source and create systems where people can play at any time anywhere
Cooper Torres
>like he had a story to tell while later series are just throwing stuff into the wall to see what sticks
>meanwhile in the original, the entire plot was changed to revolve around what was originally one-off element because it was more popular
Jayden Baker
GX was the best
Lucas Edwards
The 3rd season of the dub was so ridiculous. They just cracked self aware jokes every other minute.
Owen Nguyen
I read an interview once where he said he was prone to procrastination, so I've always suspected since he's basically set for life now that he just doesn't have the motivation to seriously approach an ongoing project.
Aaron Gonzalez
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Jayden Ramirez
Why the fuck did they skip Yugi vs Joey after Battle City?
Alexander Hall
Because who cares?
DM has a mix of some of the best and worst characters in the franchise. I think Bakura and all the antagonists are generally awful, but Kaiba is just incredible. Kaz does grey morality better than black and white.
Nathan Smith
I will never watch 5Ds because I think the motorcycle shit is dumb as fuck and the class struggle plot is tone deaf. I read Marx in college and got a little too into him. Don't you fucking dare tell me that 5Ds does class struggle tastefully. Like of all the fucking things to talk about in your CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES anime you want to get into class struggle? Go fuck yourself.
Josiah Ross
That's based though
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Owen Hill
The GX dub is a masterpiece.
Parker Campbell
>Because who cares?
They were hyping it up at the beginning of the arc so I expected at least something.
Aiden Bennett
it's a theme that's in the background while they push a mythological type of conflict. It's like becoming king of games or entertainment or hacking. It's important for minor theming but not really the main point.
Wyatt James
I miss yami Yugi mindcrushing people in the early manga.
Dominic Scott
He did do this miniseries back in 2018. Maybe he should do another one. I like his artstyle in that one.
William Hall
I'm honestly delighted that the final battle was D&D, but to the death. I actually picked up the manga in the first place because of the volume where they played a TTRPG, it was nice to see it make a callback at the end.
Grayson Collins
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Dominic Hernandez
>silly premise can't discuss serious topics
Why are you watching anime if 90% of it is just inherently bad to you? Also card games on motorcycles was unironically the best idea the franchise ever had.