Yu-Gi-Oh! (2000-2006) - A (Not Even Remotely) Brief Retrospective
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Since people keep mentioning it, yes, I am aware that Kazuki Takahashi died while trying to save people from drowning. I recorded this script back in September and didn’t think to put in a correction after the news broke.
Excellent video, this anime is always a fun watch and gets me hyped like no other anime. Thank you for taking the time to explain each season, which are all special in their own way.
Does GX get a video like this? 👀
@@honkeykong4049 maybe!
@@WoodstockProd
Looking forward to DSoD in that triple review specifically. It has one of my favorite moments of the franchise outside the original series.
@@honkeykong4049 hopefully I won’t let you down!
The funny thing is Dungeon Dice Monsters is actually really fun and engaging to play. Konami just fumbled the execution in getting people to pick it up that it failed spectacularly
I was so into DDM at the time but it never picked up.
It always made me feel like it was a cross between yugioh and d&d so it could’ve been cool to see it presented like that. Except instead of creating characters you use duel monsters and yugioh characters
I have loved the Dungeon Dice Monster episodes since I was a kid. I thought Duke was cool, and that the game was interesting with movement instead of static duels. Come to think of it I also really enjoy the Paradox Brothers episodes
"Yugi... A Champion does not belong on his knees."
Easily, 1 of the best Quotes in the Original Yugioh!
Agreed
I'll never get over the fact that Joey got cheated out of the Battle City finals due to his duel turning into a Last Man Standing match.
To be fair, he was being outplayed by Odion, and probably should’ve lost there, and only won by being the “last man standing”, so in a weird way, it feels rather fitting, an undeserved loss, in the same way as his undeserved win.
With that in mind though - yes, Jody’s character arc suffers for it, and our man was robbed of his W.
just a reminder that Joey's last victory is against Grandpa in a filler arc
LMAO pure facts. Joey should've just went 1v1 against the Undertaker
Joey to me always struck me as the quintessential example of a great best friend. He always struck me as that kind of guy who will try his damness to help you back up to your feet regardless if whether or not he has the best understanding on what you are going through let alone what troubles you.
Joey is best friend goals
The issue is the same. He’s only a best friend material if you both are assholes. That’s why they never see a problem with it both are jerks.
He hides behind his buddies after he throws his ego at Kaiba who is there for Mokuba and Kaiba stomps him. He’s the friend that wants his buddies to fight the battles he loses. And then gets pissy when he treats him like an asshole and is denied a trip to Florida. There’s a reason Kaiba respects Serenity and not her brother.
Also, Rebecca is an underrated character.
She is one of the few people who are actually good at this game, especially by real life standards. All of her decks involve an actual strategy, gameplan, wincon, and backup plan.
Even when using Janky Duelist Kingdom Rules, her gameplan was effective, use Canon Solider to burn, and when/if that fails, summon Shadow Ghoul and ungabooga what is left of her opponent's life points.
But the bear example is her using Nurse Burn, bloody Nurse Burn (which if memory serves was one of the best decks in the real game at the time) and plays it pretty much flawlessly.
Whereas by comparison, Kaiba aside, almost all the other main characters threw a bunch of shit at the board that they liked and see what stuck. Which made for fun duels, but doesn't change the point I am trying to make I feel.
Also, Kaiba flexing on German Pegasus is one of the greatest things in Yu-Gi-Oh.
She’s a very good duelist, she’s just annoying as hell in season one. And you’re right, Kaiba beating what’s his name was epic!
Who is German pegasus?
@@Mrkevi123 Zigfried
As a person who falls in the intersection wrestling fan and anime fan. This video genuinely made laugh and smile because wow all your wrestling references spot on. And then the "I put a spell on you" was great for all the shenanigans portions. Gained a subscriber
Glad you enjoyed it friend!
The reason why things are the way they are in the last arc is because the OG writer didn't complete his writing of it. There was meant to be more context between Atem and Seto but he never got around to finishing it. So the show had to go off of what was there.
I can’t say I noticed, the final duel was pretty much perfect
Doesn't change the fact that the original 1998 anime and 2000 anime had an agenda to alter his story (characters and events) from the manga so from the very beginning, his vision was not respected and a remake is required. Because his story was butchered, it caused a chain effect that led non-Japanese/Asia fans to make ignorant statements. For example, because the anime staff altered Takahashi's version of Yugi vs Atem, Atem is forever known as a cheater since he was drawing cards at will against Yugi when that never happened in the original manga duel. Which is why a faithful remake needs to happen to correct the past mistakes and educate people on what really happened. Yugioh is one of those series where people refuse to read the manga outside of Japan/Asia so it is another reason why a remake should happen.
The Duelist Kingdom arc for Kaiba was about him being able to put his pride aside. Prior to Duelist Kingdom, out of pride he sought out, and destroyed the only other Blue Eyes card in existance, so that ONLY he could use it, making blue eyes almost a symbol of his pride incarnate. He then lost, perhaps because of his pride, to Yugi. In duelist kingdom, he's there to rescue Mokuba for the most part. When he threatens "victory or death" to Yugi, he's throwing his pride away so that he actually has a real chance to save his brother. That's character growth.
Duelist Kingdom was also his first step towards accepting the idea that having a social group to fall back on was maybe better than relying solely on his own power. In Battle City, this expands into him being willing to take part in a tag shadow duel with Yugi, and work together. In the Orichalcos arc, filler or not, he basically sacrifices himself at the end, making it possible for Atem to get his head back in the game to win. Then, before the final duel between Yugi and Atem, Kaiba truly accepts the idea of teamwork, and offers to help Yugi get any cards he needs for his duel. I couldn't see the Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom, or early Battle City doing that.
Also, forgot to say that when Kaiba challenged Pegasus, he originally planned on making Pegasus use the prototype duel disks to throw him off for an advantage, but gave that advantage up as well to ensure his brothers safety, further stamping his own pride for the sake of his brother.
Last year CZcams recommended me a clip from YGOTAS. It was during a temporary lockdown at school so we had to do finals from home. It was a nightmare. I binged YGOTAS that week and got emotionally invested. That’s the story of how a 19 year old got into a 22 year old childrens cartoon about card games.
Welcome to the family!
Being a 13 year old fangirl at the time of running in TV, it is almost funny to me, how short you cut Marik and Bakura in the Battle City Tournament arc. These guys made the show for me so much I started to dislike the heros and watched season 2 nearly a dozend times. Just shows how much there is to love in the series, if everyone finds their special place and characters for themselves.
I love Yu-gi-oh's shenanigens. The show wouldn't be the same without them. I remember buying a big set of cards and trying to play the game the way I saw it in the anime. Didn't work out so well, couldn't send my friend to the shadow realm, 0/10, would not play again
To each his own my good man!
This is such a great video, in my downtime & when I'm unwinding I like listening to people talk about nostalgic video games/shows, and there isn't that much good yugioh content out there that takes me back, the best I get is the 'everything wrong with yugioh' series from cvit and Little Kuriboh's yugioh the abridged series, this is fantastic, I'll be rewatching this like crazy over the years
Dilfosaur did a few good videos a couple of years ago you should check out
Joey is the best non Special Duelist ever. He isn't the Chosen One,like Yugi or Yusei. He isn't the OP Rival, like Kaiba or Kait. He and crow are the best Normal duelists,with Rebecca coming third (for now,in the future she'll definitely be World Champion like Aster).
ah... the one thing in my childhood that was genuinly a thing I enjoyed because I liked it. No peer pressure or anything. My childhood was literally defined by rushing home from school, doing my homework as fast as I could to be done by 3:30pm to watch yugioh and then going to my friend's place to do other stuff we both liked, be it outside or later gaming related. I even liked capsule monsters enough to build my own out of frickin toiletpaper rolls and such. I got into yugioh again somewhere between GX and 5DS when it was popular at school and went undefeated with a zombies deck I build out of two structure decks and a bit of trading. Good ol' Wall of Illusions, Fissure and Traphole carried me hard :)
Sounds like a grand old time!
so yeah in the manga duke devlin's father was cursed a long time ago after playing a shadow game with grandpa and he raised duke to take revenge on _little_ yugi and win his millennium puzzle and that's why they play dungeon dice monsters (also because it's about being the king of all games and doesn't really have anything to do with duelist kingdom at all), also it doubles as the pre-battle city episode although it doesn't introduce marik yet because it does feature the scenes where evil bakura appears and helps yugi while sealing a piece of his soul in the puzzle and a scene where duke's dad knocks over a candle and yugi has to be rescued from the burning building while piecing his puzzle back together etc
that being said there is still some logic to the anime version because i think the logic goes > pegasus managed to win without being told much (because he could secretly read his mind but shh) > yugi beat pegasus > therefore in theory yugi should be able to do the former, else how could he be better than pegasus
@@Envy_May thank you for comments, I read the description on Wikipedia for that portion of the manga because I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just an anime original concept (I was sure it was but I didn’t want to be wrong). Your theory makes a bit more sense so thank you for your comment!
@@WoodstockProd yeah it wasn't unprecedented for takahashi to just like create a whole new game concept for a one-off lol (that's what duel monsters originally was after all)
@@Envy_May I read that as well, people just really liked the card game aspect and so he leaned into it
btw i don't know if you read this too but iirc the reason the virtual world arc is so weirdly paced is because i think the manga went on hiatus or something towards the end of battle city so they had to stall until there was more to adapt ?
The mia scene is haunting because it’s what depression actually feels like
“Nobody likes you. Everyone left you. They’re all out without you, having fun.”
@@WoodstockProd No matter what anyone say's, the fact is that Atem, Kaiba, Dartz are all weak duelists inferior to Malik, Kaiser, Edo, Hayato, Rishid and Mai Kujaku. These 3 duelists are overrated.
@@redspirit5885 Dartz had broken cards
@@JJJJ-he8bz thats a MISCONCEPTION
Kyutora isn't that OP at all, it can be destroyed with card effects and it cannot protect you from effect damage only battle damage is guarded by it
@Laken Anderson u make no sense
1:44:13 😢 tears for Kazuki Takahashi. He created the anime that my sister taught me the meaning of and created the gateway to other anime series and role playing. I might base a character of him in my own upcoming novel series
It’s embarrassing that I was beaten by a kid playing Yugioh cards. However, this series definitely kickstart my childhood in the early 2000s. The only problem is that the cards belong to my friend (who is a science teacher, right now). *Other than that, it’s a 9/10*
The quick attack and defusion Yugi used to beat Noah was classic.
Cue the John Cena theme
Noah could have beaten Kaiba fairly.
If he boosted his lifepoints before mokuba was involved.
Still one of the most badass combo movies in the anime
@@AndreNitroX Noah was better than Seto
@@redspirit5885 Noah definitely had vast knowledge thanks to his virtual mind, but he didn't have the skills that seto has. If his ego hadn't gotten in the way, noah may have still won fair and square against kaiba, but well never know.
LOL. The picture of Brett and Bulldog while saying Yugi let Atem take control of his body was tremendous. Even if only 1% of viewers will get the reference.
I truly appreciate your viewership kind stranger!
I get it!
"YaMi I'm FooKed..."
I love this video so much! Yugioh is one of the best things ever and I feel like it never gets the proper recognition it deserves.
Agreed, while the premise and dialogue can be cheesy. There is a lot of depth here, not to mention it is quite dark with the souls stealing
This video was full of so much enjoyment for this anime, I was just happy throughout. Like you my love for this anime goes far beyond its cheesiness. Yes the cheesy lines and moments make it enjoyable, but this anime has depth. The whole plot of the pharaohs destiny just builds up with every season ending on a satisfying ending that always chokes me up everytime I see it. Personally my favorite seasons are battle city, the virtual world and the final Egyptian themed season.
I’m glad you enjoyed it friend!
@@WoodstockProd keep up the great work
yu gi oh is genuinely great. I take it seriously. it is fiction unfortunately but not corny. Friendship is underrated and excellent.
Pegasus's story is even more tragic in the manga. Although, his motivation and the story beats are pretty much the same, Pegasus does not have the luxury of living his life to reflect on his past sins and pain like in the anime. In both the anime and manga, Yami Bakura offers Pegasus another chance to get a millennium item if he beats him in a duel. However, in the manga, Yami Bakura straight up kills Pegasus to claim his prize. it's sort of fitting for Pegasus though. The man who was so focused and stuck in the past has no future when his plans fall apart. Having lost his only chance of possibly getting his back, he no longer has a reason to live because his wife was his life even in death.
Sweet fancy Moses, Takahashi went to some dark places
@@WoodstockProd The anime writers appeared to believe so as well lol, because they choose not to kill off Pegasus. Takahashi's original manga is something else. I don't think you have to read it because it doesn't have too many differences when you leave out the filler. However, it's still an interesting read.
Every Yugioh manga and anime after this are radically different though to the point where they're an entirely different story
@@rich355 while I was writing this script I was convinced Dungeon Dice Monsters was an anime original story but I went looking just in case so I didn’t look like a complete fucking moron and not only was it in the manga but it was way different from the manga!
@@WoodstockProd yeah that's one of the few outliers in Takahashi's story that you would expect to be anime filler but it's actually canonically apart of the franchise. Although to be fair, Takahashi actually makes the story more deep rather than make it feel like filler lol. Actually, now that I think of it, a lot of characters die in Takahashi's manga that we don't see in the anime specifically in duelist kingdom like Bandit Keith's disturbing death. Although tbf what happens to Bandit Keith in the anime is almost as disturbing.
@@rich355 Now I wonder what happened to Keith, did he break free? Did Marick keep him under control? Did he die in the fire? Did Marick just destroy his mind and turn him into a vegetable?
1:05:44 the reason Mai and even the other three bikers and Dartz reason for their actions is deeper explained in the Japanese version
12:90:30. Golden Strombergs upkeep was meant to be paid by Leon as its controller. Siegfried edited this when he added the virus to the card, along with giving it immunity from destruction.
That’s right! Now it makes more sense
Kaiba getting the 4th BEWD made sense because he didn't want anyone else using his iconic card against him. They were also no other easy to summon 3k monsters, with all of them being Gate Gaurdian, Black Skull Dragon, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth or BLS. It was completely unrivaled in Season 1, and even in Battle City basically unrivaled in it's class except against something like Buster Blader but still had great support with Flute of Summoning Dragon.
When Pegasus and Joey took Kaiba's Blue-Eyes, it was huge, even Yugi using Dark Magician with Spellbinding Circle was a hyped moment, and Yugi also had to use Blue-Eyes to win against Ghost Kaiba. If Kaiba let someone run around with a card of equal strength, Kaiba would have died from a lack of sleep. His ego in season 2 was obtaining the other God cards because he just couldn't allow other characters to have equally strong cards.
I understand what Kaiba’s mentality is, what I didn’t understand was why he had that mentality, especially when Solomon was pretty unlikely to ever actually use the card in a live setting
Kaiba's entire ego is on full display in the movie. He can't stand that someone was better than him in another time period, as much as he can't stand the idea a fourth Blue-Eyes is in someone else's deck. His ego is not rational, no matter how much you want it to be. You cannot control the Kaiba!
@@WoodstockProdhave you not seen how Gozaburo raised him?
@@DarkEclipse23 like I said, I understand why he wants it, I just don’t understand why he went to such desperate lengths to take it when practical reality says the old man wouldn’t even think to use in a live setting
I love this video. You got a like and a sub from me. This is the best summary of the Yu-Gi-Oh DM series I've ever heard. Also love the constant wrestling references
Happy to hear it! Thank you!
This show is just full of fun and ridiculousness. It's nothing without it!
Fun fact: lionhart actually took weevil to a hospital, but for unknown reasons he was changed to have said that he didn’t know where weevil was
Well that’s strange
I have to give a correction here. It was later confirmed that he didn't just drown while scuba diving, but he had died in a rip current while attempting to rescue a woman and her child.
I recorded this in September before that news broke, I’m aware of the circumstances of Kazuki’s death and have had this pointed out by other commenters
@@WoodstockProd Understandable. I just didn't want such an important detail of his passing to be left out.
@@NecromancyForKids of course, I understand
A fucking hero to the end. Kazuki is a legend in life and media
You know what's funny, Rex is like one of the only duelist how never cheated or evil, he's just a punk who plays fair but life screws him over.
He never played an unfair duel, he’s just kind of a jerk
In fact, 3/5 of his opponents (Mai, Weevil, and Espa) were/are known cheaters
@@WoodstockProd in some yugioh games and even to joey, he complements you on your win. Speaking of weevil, in the tournament when we first see them, do you think he cheated in that or he actually played fair in that?
@@neo84401 well he tampered with at least one opponent’s deck and specifically stole the secret rule book in advance so he’d know things his opponents didn’t and give himself an unfair advantage
Which makes Joey’s character worse. He talks shit to him but is nice to Mai for the same things he trashed Rex about.
I just find it funny though that Yami Bakura, which is more or less Zorc's soul lost to Yami Marik, which isn't an ancient powerful soul like Zorc or Atem are. Instead just a manifestation of Mariks pain and suffering at the hands of his father. Imagine being the embodiment of darkness and evil and basically the creator of the millennium items losing to someone with daddy issues. Something like that is why I just can't take Zorc seriously as an antagonist. He was playing a long game but honestly that is just pathetic.
Honestly… yeah. Pretty much.
Honestly, Yami Bakura being just a random ass evil spirit was a lot cooler than him being an aspect of some ancient dark abomination with a dragon for a wiener
Much love to Yu-Gi-Oh! Great video!
Thank you so much!
@@WoodstockProd Of course! Just a head's up though, Rumiko Takahashi and Kazuki Takahashi being married has never been confirmed outside of a few sketchy articles. I believe it was a rumor since they have the same last name.
@@TheOreoOtaku I was going off of Wikipedia, if they aren't married then I fully own that mistake
1:10:03 Yugi and his friends only got to San Francisco because of Pegasus’s private plane. Then Pegasus’s soul was taken. So chances are Professor Hawkins could only afford train tickets for the gang to get to Florida. Not necessarily the writers fault
Except a train is more expensive than a basic ass plane trip. Just looking right now (July 10th, 2023) a flight from SanFran to Miami is $170, a train is $413. I’m not saying they’re dumb for making their mistake, I can understand why they would assume a train is the ideal way to travel it’s everywhere in their part of the world, I wouldn’t expect any American writer to know the ins and outs of transportation in Japan, so why would I assume a Japanese writer would know that about the states? I made the joke in good faith, I’m teasing the writers not mocking them
@@WoodstockProdthey wanted a duel on the train tho. So.
A yugioh video, WITH WWE and yuigoh abriged references..... ♾️/10
All these years and I just realized the friendship mark is a smiley face
1:20:11 Seriously Grandpa in disguise is that odd to you. Grandpa’s like a kid at heart just wanting to have fun 😅
I just thought it was strange that the old man wanted to wear a disguise, although thinking of it now, it would’ve been ratings gold in universe of Apdnarg made it all the way to the end only to reveal at the start of the duel with Yugi that he was actually Solomon Muto. Fucking hell would that have been good tv!
Okay, this video is the first time I've ever seen a picture of Takahashi's wife (I didn't actually even know he was married until this video), but surprisingly...she looks exactly like she did in the dream I had like, fifteen years ago when I dreamt that...Takahashi had died and his wife asked me to complete the series for him?? lol A weird coincidence to be sure.
I love this series, and always have. Takahashi created something wonderful that has brought so many people together. Everything I've heard about him paints him as a kindhearted, compassionate and amazing person. He will be missed, but his legacy will live on forever in this series.
Yeah that’s actually a mistake on my part, Miss Rumiko and Mr. Kazuki were never husband and wife, they just had the same last name. I was trying to see if Kazuki had any family because Wikipedia didn’t say, so I accidentally took info from a gossip site it seems
I had to pause it and lol at the “it’s about drive it’s about power” Rocky clip while talking about Kaiba
My man, my brother, my fellow Yugioh Enjoyer, please get a pop filter for your microphone lmao. Also please mix/balance the audio a little better next time, I'm all in favor of some parts being a little louder for comedic value, but some of these were more like jump scares haha.
Good video though and a fun analysis. No clue who you are or why this ended up in my recommendations, nor why you have so few subscribers for the amount of effort you've put into this video (and I'm sure many others) but I'm glad I got to see it.
I really need to just buy a fucking mic, I just record everything with my phone in voice memos and then edit it all together in moviemaker. I’ve changed laptops a couple times and tried more complex software but I just feel more comfortable with moviemaker
Nice video. If you keep up the quality like this your channel could really blow up some day. New subscriber 👍
I’ve been grinding away at this CZcams game for 6 years now friend
Huh. Been enjoying this video immensely, but your take on the DDM episodes genuinely surprised me. Personally it's been one of my favorite parts of the original Yugioh, filler or not, ever since I was a kid. From the game's mechanics, to its visuals, to Yugi's awesome winter outfit, and above all, the idea of showing how well and how quickly Yugi can adapt to any game (even if it's done in a suspension-of-disbelief kind of way that doesn't make sense. whatever. The same can be said for the vast majority of his Duelist Kingdom matches as well).
I’m not sure if I conveyed it well enough but I did really enjoy DDM despite my issues
I always skip the Rebecca filler in favor of Duke and the DDM saga
@@richborn6700 oh yeah, I’ll gladly take DDM over the Rebecca saga
I must be the only one who thinks that The Orichalcos arc is one of the best and hypest from the original Yugioh
CApsule Monsters was a love letter to the first chapters of the manga, EVEN THOSE THAT WHERE MOKUA USED TO BE THE BEST CAPUMON PLAYER DURING THE DEATH-T ARC!
And I still like that even those early chapters, the Yugi friends made something instead of only him, so its very nice to see them have to help by fighting along.
Also, as you even mentioned something that I didnt about Alexander successor, this arc was about:
THE CLASH OF A KING WHO DOESNT RESPECT THEIR SQUIRES AGAINST THE ONE WHO FIGHTS WITH THEM! Showing that Atem wasnt the really selfish king that sealed himself into the puzzle to defeat Zorc y being a bad ruler but by being able to protect those he loves, even doh he gone a little.. insane I guess...
This video was pretty solid. I'm glad someone is finally publicly acknowledging Season 4 was actually good. A bit sad that you skipped over the entirety (minus the last fight) of Capsule Monsters because that was actually really good. My one thing about this whole video was the incessant and random comparisons to irrelevant wrestling events. Like, why? I was increasingly annoyed by it and a lot of fumbling from your narration that would've been better if you re-recorded the lines. Other than that, thanks for a solid rundown of the original YGO DM anime!
The fumblings on narration I probably should’ve corrected those. I do all the recordings in one take unless I REALLY fuck up, so I tend to not notice the little mistakes until I’m playing back things back during editing and at that point I figure it’s easier to just say oops instead of going back and fixing things. As for the wrestling references, that was just a thing I did for fun but people seemed to really like it so I’m probably going to keep doing it honestly
All of the wrestling references were truly amusing
For what it’s worth, Alexander the Great did take over Egypt, but in a lot of ways, he was liberating it from the Persian Empire that had conquered it, and ushered in a cultural renaissance of Greco-Egyptian culture. The concept of what subsequent rulers of Egypt did with the Millennium items is actually pretty interesting. Shame they didn’t do more with it.
I knew Alexander did take over Egypt, I didn’t realize Persia had already conquered it before he did
20:40 there was a point in gx where pegasus comes back and alot of characters are fawning over him
That’s true
I stan'd Pegasus as a kid 😳
Well damn, guess I was wrong
@@WoodstockProd i loved ancient egyptian shit like he did, I loved cards and games and I love how he turned something ancient he discovered into an awesome modern card game... also I'd lotally steal some old geezer's soul to get my wife back
what's not to stan?
@@spiritbond8 these are all valid points
I watched the anime and love it cuz im a teen. But in the whole duration of this video, i always think about the abridged series.
I mean Little Kurriboh is iconic
fun fact: Pegasus told about the ancient ruins of Kul Elna in the manga, but never revealed to anyone. Shadi should may told about it to Yugi...
OR EVEN THEY COULD HAVE TO LEARN ABOYUT EGIPTIAN HISTORY IN THEYRE CLASSES BUT THE SCHOOL WAS JUST A BACKGROUND OFR NONE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO ABOUT STUDYING!
THE ONLY TIME THIS IS SOMEWHAT MENTIONED IS OBVIOUSLY IN SEASON 0(Shadi episodes) AND TEA SHOWING THE MUSEUM EXIBITHION THAT WAS ANIME ONLY THING!
1:42:33 nothing wrong with being emotional about the series. My sister and I were emotional with parts like Kaiba’s soul taken by Pegasus or Yugi’s soul taken by the orichalcos and lots of other scenes.
Heck sharing the series with my wife because she was curious about it even got her emotional especially when she sees the characters cry
That’s incredibly lovely to hear
"Whoa, Weevil, this cult is all about doing people."
the kick in the door beat for mariks crazy side is so funny
You mean I Put A Spell On You?
@@WoodstockProd I didn't even realize haha what a classic
At least the capsule monster video game on PS2 was freaking amazing unlike the anime equivalent
I’m glad to hear there was something good from this thing
I just bought the series on Vudu for $25, popped in here for shits and gigs & found out Kazuki died. A piece of my childhood feels even more sacred now
I didn’t finish the video at all but Kaibas arc is more realized once you read the pre duelist section of the manga and then reading duelist kingdom since compared to what Kaiba was like in the manga compared to how he acts in duelist kingdom, he’s VASTLY improved as a person
Well that’s interesting! Hey do you mind finishing the video at some point?
@@WoodstockProd don’t worry man I finished it once I made that comment 😅
@@jalencunningham2012 thank you!
Wow, Noah's arc getting the respect it deserves! Never thought I'd see the day. It's actually my favourite arc of the original series. I can't stand the Battle City finals for many reasons, so to have a break from the worst arc by placing the best arc in the middle of it is brilliant.
Kaiba's past was covered in the manga before Duellist Kingdom, so it wasn't adapted in the anime until the virtual world. A very creative idea: to deliver canon information through filler.
To each their own! I love Battle City but I don’t mind the interruption at all! Thank you for commenting!
I love Noah’s part as well, but asides from the story and cool videogame aspects, I love it for the card pool they use. That Invasion of Chaos era is my favorite format.
@@genyakozlov1316 Actually the OG series never explained if Modern Seto, was/is Priest Seto of Egypt. If he’s the same, how does Atem’s afterlife experience have Priest Seto in it? It’s a plot hole not even Darkside of Dimensions answers.
Imagine if Yami Marik and Atem together dueled against the big five INSTEAD OF joey... It would have been better that way.
1:04:33 yes the dragons had new abilities. In critias’s case he can merge with trap cards.
"I was bored to tears. Just skip this part. 5.5 out of 10"
Wtf is your ranking system?
That’s a fair question, I gave it a 5.5 just because even though it was like watching paint dry it wasn’t something worthless or insulting, it was just dull. There are worse crimes than being dull
I heard Kazuki Takahashi was helping others while scuba diving
he died a hero, rip
Capsule Monsters is actually great. Not the anime part, that sucked ass, but the original capsule monsters first showed up in the original manga when Yugi faces Mokuba some time after Yugi beats Kaiba for the first time in the series. It then lead to a PS1 game and a VERY short lived board game, the 2nd of which was the reason behind the anime adaptation of Capsule Monsters.
Try out Capsule Monsters Coliseum. Its such a fun game and really is a hidden gem. Lots of great animations, gameplay, and voice lines.
I had no idea! I’m not much of a gamer but I might look into that!
I'm so glad this showed up in my recommended, I love everything about yugioh so this is a perfect watch
Please enjoy!
@@WoodstockProd Thirty minutes in, and it's me. Other than Duke, I'm the other pegasus stan
@@trevkingston more to you then good sir!
Finely got around to finishing this. Really great commentary on the series, I hope you'll do more yugioh stuff in the future ^^
@@trevkingston I am going to do videos about the three YuGiOh movies at some point, from there who knows?
Y'know that the Memory World WAS HEAVILY EDITED right? And due to that, it is A MIRACLE THAT THE SEASON EXISTED! So many changes and to me, they were for the better... at least since Takahashi got sick and got his manga viewers lower and lower in buying points... MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL SEE A GOOD DIRECTOR CUT VERSION BY AN APPRENTICE OF HIM!
I’m not sure what your point is, I literally said that I assume the Japanese version was much different from what 4Kids did
The cut into "i put a spell on you" tickled me every time
It’s a delightfully creepy track
the “influencer” bit sent me fr 😹
This was a great retrospective! Got a sub from me ☺
Thank you so much!
@@WoodstockProd anytime! I look forward to watching your channel blow up lol
Joey: whew what’s that smell?
Yugi: it’s the fart of the cards. Get reckt
Only one Pegasus fan in all of fiction? Someone hasn't seen GX, where every single character worships Pegasus any time he's on screen.
You know what, you’re right. That’s my bad
1:20:00 This might be a deep cut reference to Jackie Chung from OG Dragonball, who was master Roshi entering the tournament under a false identity to continue to teach his students.
Didn’t know that! That could work
1:30:01 okay I will admit capsule monsters (kinda cool) isn’t canon and if it was wouldn’t make sense story wise.
The other arcs at least felt continuous and flowed but capsule monsters felt like another yugioh universe
I mean I don’t think canonicity matters in the context of this discussion, is it worth watching or not? I’d say no, but you might disagree and that’s awesome!
OMG that 40 cc's of friendship had me dying
1:01:37 this is probably what led to the duel spirit logic in gx
53:23 nah it’s just Kaiba who said forget the Noa arc
1:20:00 Because master Roshi did it. Its a trope common in anime. Dont forget this is not a standard saturday morning cartoon
@@mrjuderaw87 I mean I never watched that much Dragon Ball, so I don’t have that frame of reference
5:09 well in Kaiba’s perspective it’s not silly because remember he was raised to win and succeed and if he ever lost he would die.
Gozaburo demonstrated this by killing himself after losing Kaiba Corp.
Friend I’m only talking about the 4Kids dub, Gozaburo just went MIA he didn’t KHS
@@WoodstockProd I know I just wanted to share that information with you is all 😅
@@miraclecomics fair enough! Haha
1:43:56 Yugi’s kinda like Jaden having fun
I love Yugi (and Yami of course) but Jaden is my favorite main character
Just got back into playing old Yu-Gi-Oh formats, grew up on the first season of the anime, also a big wrestling mark. So I couldn't subscribe fast enough! Great vid!
Thank you so much!
43:49 well it was in combination with a dark magician girl as a deck master so it had different effects than real life. Sorta like Pokémon logics between the games and anime.
I still don’t like it I’m afraid
God i remember hating those virtual world filler arcs lol. Do you have any plans to do a retrospective of Gx?
That’s a solid maybe
My big sister Casey introduced me to yugioh while also helping me get through summer school
I did summer school a couple times, not fun, not awful but not fun
@@WoodstockProdwell I was in summer school because I flunked math and English in the eighth grade and I lost my confidence and self esteem thinking I wouldn’t make it but my sister who was also in summer school motivated me not to give up while watching yugioh with her. And we got through in order to make it to high school
Hell yeah!
In kaibas defense id want to kill myself too if my opponent fuses the living arrow spell card with mammoth graveyard and shoots it at my blue eyes ultimate dragon to weaken each of its head by 500 pts each turn
I’m pretty sure it was 1200, the same as Manmoth Graveyard’s attack points, but yes I fully understand his position
Draw monster cardo
DRAW! MONSTAH CARDO!
Just a little something to share when I watched the yugioh series back in high school, I always myself dating Tea Gardener aka Anzu Mazaki. She was a very beautiful to me. 🥰
only yugi kinda lost to rafael again, he was down to 10 LP and yugi only had big sheild gardna , Rafeal just revived grarl using yugis underworld circle and then used soul charge to revive 4 more monsters, IF RAFAEL HAD ONE MORE monster in his hand yugi would've been sent to hell. Grarl can still attack (3000 ATK) Big sheild gardna (2600 DEF) Smashing yugis hope and to his horror he is defenceless and at his opponents mercy, probably begging rafael to spare him, maybe rafael keeps the pharohs soul card to himself as a trophy and never hands it to dartz also to yugis horror
I wonder how old you are and if you remember Battle Dome? You seem to have grown up watching the things I did 😂 literally my favorite things growing up and really still to this day, Wrestling - Yugioh - Baseball - Mortal Kombat
I’m 29 but I have no idea what Battle Dome is I’m afraid, did I use an image from it?
@@WoodstockProd nah, you just seem to have grown up watching what I was watching and maybe you caught Battle Dome. It was like American Gladiators and Wrestling had a baby. A very early career Terry Crews was on it and WCW did cross promotion with it. I was just curious
@@bigfloridapimp oh dude I didn’t get into wrestling until I was almost 26, I’m just autistic so every time I find something I like I have to learn everything about it
You weren't lame, nor alone for tearing up at Yugi v Atem, that shit made me cry back then as a "too old & cool for Yu-Gi-Oh!" 15yr old, and even today as a "there's no such thing as being too old & cool for something you love" 32yr old.
Nice. 357th sub I think. Best of luck with your future vids!
Thank you for your support!
I'm gonna make a character stan Pegasus in a show one day lol
Have at it!
3:31 Hold up playa! Rumiko Takahashi of Urusei Yatsura, Ranma, Inuyasha fame is NOT Kazuki Takahashi's wife. She was born as Takahashi just like Kazuki. Takahashi (高橋) is a common name in Japan. By your logic, Hiroki Takahashi (voice of Jonouchi in Duel Monsters) is related to Kazuki. That's not the case. When Kazuki passed away, Hiroki did not mention in his tweet that he lost a family member and his tweet was very short. Rumiko's twitter did not acknowledge Kazuki's passing. Granted, she stated it was run by her editor since she's not internet savvy, but a personal statement was not made regarding protecting her privacy during this difficult time. It just kept promoting her manga. Also, official sources (his passing was reported on Japanese TV and Newspapers) would have mentioned that he was in fact married to Rumiko. They did not.
Yep, someone else already corrected me on that. That’s my bad!
@@WoodstockProd Glad you know. Iol Good video, btw.
Still pretty early in the vid at this exact moment. But Im lovin the video and will certainly listen to all of it. Subscribed for sure.
Thank you kind sir!
you should have mentioned how he drowned. He risked his own life in the attempt to rescue a drowning US Arny Vet and a 12-year-old little girl. He died doing some courage, please acknowledge that! If you didn't know this, it is because the Japanese police didn't wanna release that info right when he died because they didn't want the little girl to feel guilty that he died trying to help her. He didn't simply go swimming and die, he sacrificed himself in an attempt to save a child's life. What I take from this is this, Kazuki Takahashi was an amazing man who loved to see children happy and full of joy making a fun card game and a few entertaining shows and mangas, he died trying to rescue a child in an act to prevent him from not having a joyless future.
My friend, the pinned comment on this video is me explaining that I recorded this video before that news broke. I am aware of the circumstances of Kazuki’s death, The man was a hero
I will never understand the logic behind tributeing Ishizus monsters implanted a bomb within Obelisk but said bomb doesn't transfer to Blue Eyes once it was also tribute summoned lol
Taking a shot in the dark, I think the trap only works when the original monster is sacrificed. If you sacrifice the monster you originally tributed for, then the trap is null and void
@@WoodstockProd still makes zero sense to me because if you have to have your monster tributed in the first place for the bomb to transfer youd think it would dontinue to transfer if the monster with the bomb is tributed like if Obelisk was sacraficed to special summon Blue Eyes that would make sense to me lol
The only reason why I wont dock any pointd to Ishizu is because she literally has the best power and knew that the card would've worked without literal divine intervention lol
Still love the show but stuff like this will forever perplex my brain lol
Hope you have/had a great day
@@JesseNightingale I agree I was just trying to come up with SOME kind of explanation. Hope you have or had a great day as well friend!
This was awesome. Love the wrestling references
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
1:31:00 the capsule monsters was introduced in the manga by Mokuba but it wasn’t like what 4kids did
I didn’t realize that
@@WoodstockProd yep and also in the manga Mokuba had a dark side to him like Seto
to e true here... I guess since this is a pumped up version of the old version Virtual Reality game.. I guess The Big Five made the Effect of Dark Magician Girl, but forgot to errata that and since they dont revise very well their cards, the "nerby Dark Magician" moment WAS AMAZING!!!!
1:34:14 the prince of Egypt music. Amazing choice!!!!!!
Thank you!
59:46 and waking the dragons and grand kc tournament is canon