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gx!!

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Little guys in love

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Floating forever

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Nosferatu by Giancarlo Montalbano

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“Haha isn’t it funny that Neil Gaiman is the only celebrity we haven’t run off this site?” Actually no, it isn’t funny that tumblr has repeatedly launched harassment campaigns against every vaguely popular person who dared to be accessible and no, we didn’t “decide to let Neil stay”, he’s received a metric shitton of harassment he just refuses to be bullied off of social media by a bunch of teenagers with nothing better to do than to be shitty to people online just because they’re there

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groovin

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Look who’s reunited for their figure releases

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Redrawing my old art :-)

I cant believe i drew it almost 2 years ago whew!

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One of the themes in YGO that always strikes me the hardest is the death of innocence. Of starting out as a pure soul going through life expecting nothing but joy and exhilaration, only for the darkness of the human heart to come crashing down on you, dismantling that bright, beautiful world all at once. And somehow you have to carry on, not only saving the world but learning to live with the darkness that became intrinsic to who you are.

It's common for people to dismiss YGO protagonists as "idealistic Shonen Jump" archetypes, but after many things that happened in my own life and going through some paradigm shifts that are very similar to their internal struggles, I have come to realize that it takes great courage to carry that darkness and still go on to love and fight for the world and all the people who live in it - including yourself, somehow. It's simply intellectual and moral cowardice that compels one to believe that a hero is more "realistic" when they lose all faith in goodness and chooses the path of neglecting humanity after experiencing the death of their own innocence.

I love YGO heroes because they are a defiance to the idea that goodness is a zero-sum game, that only callous dismissal of our souls will bring about a just, prosperous world. That growing up means throwing away the inclination to cultivate joy and to hope for the future. Their innocence may be incinerated, but that part of their souls keep on shining through, and if people in the real world were more like that, maybe humanity, too, will have a little bit more hope for themselves.

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The dub of yugioh gx is so funny like jaden, sweet fun loving nice guy façade jaden, has to fight tooth and nail for a smeckledorf of respect and kindness from the student body that inexplicably doesn't really like him at all

meanstwhile this oil slick of a man that regularly calls himself "the chazz" is well loved by just about everyone and regularly gets the entire student body to chant chazz it up

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another old gx drawing.......

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HAPPY BAKURA DAY !!!! may this day bring you many creampuffs

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Crack Theory: Jaden Yuki is (at least partially) Atlantian

As usual, this is 100% my own connection making brain going crazy, I doubt this is what the writers intended, if they thought about it at all. Also, this essay is not free of infodumping or absurdity. 

So, Atlantis has always been… kinda weird, in yugioh. Other than just the absolute wildness of it just. Canonically existing. The Waking the Dragons arc has some of the most far reaching lore implications for the franchise as a whole, introducing ideas like the spirit world, duel monsters appearing in history (outside of egypt lol), and some major afterlife magic. Things that yugioh will expand on in following series, and things that were, I reiterate, introduced in a throwaway filler arc of the anime because they had run out of manga to adapt. 

But one character in particular not just builds on the concepts introduced in DM’s Atlantis season, but shares some interesting similarities with the main villain of that season, Dartz.

Jaden Yuki.

The first thing that caught my attention was the eyes. While yugioh has an almost ridiculous number of characters with magical eyeballs, heterochromia with one turquoise, one orange/yellow? Incredibly specific. I can’t think of a single yugioh character whose weird eye horror even passingly resembles anothers, yet here Jaden and Dartz are. Even further, both of them spend time serving as a “king” with pure gold eyes, before coming into contact with a foreign entity and developing the bilateral asymmetry. 

But Jaden’s eyes are based on Yubels, and more thematically, the colors of the polymerization card art. And Dartz’s seem to be just a random anime villain power up. 

Let’s put a pin in this for now.

The next weird link between the two is in the strange flashback we see at the very end of GX season 3. Jaden sees one of his past lives, when Yubel pledged themselves to be his guardian. In this era, Jaden is the young prince of a vague and never named kingdom. When was this? Where? We don’t know.

But the few characters we see share some interesting design elements with the people of Atlantis.

The primary front skirt panel being this narrow rectangle ending in a point at the end. The gold crown featuring a solid band with a diamond shaped piece right over the forehead embedded with a bright red gem. These capes and the big round brooch thingies. Jaden’s father’s belt has this segmented gold design that looks quite a bit like the necklace of the Atlantian king. (His granddaughter, Kris, has a similar one, I was just running out of space for references.) In fact, both Jaden’s father and the Atlantian king use red gems as their primary design element.

And finally, the biggest detail I want to point out is this little gemstone on human!Yubel’s forehead. Crowns are a pretty universal thing, but a delicate little jewel right on the forehead? That’s an iconic piece of jewelry worn by one Dartz Yugioh. It’s also worth noting, Jaden supreme king armor has the same blue diamond on its forehead. 

Now, before I tie this all together, let me take a quick aside to reassure that yes, I am aware, this sounds like the furthest reach I could possibly make. Sure, the two kingdoms might share some design elements, if you squint. Yeah, Jaden and Yubel might each have one weird feature that Dartz also flaunts. But really, is that enough to posit a connection between the two?

I mean, absolutely, I’ve built fan theories on far less and I WILL DO IT AGAIN

But no. Here’s the plot twist of this post: 

I’m not trying to prove that past!Jaden was the prince of Atlantis.  

Past!Jaden was the prince of New Atlantis.

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people who act like yugioh would be better off without the card game aspect make my head spin….like, bro! that IS the yugioh!!!! the card game and the way the characters play it says so much about their personality, their values, the way they go about their lives!!!! i love seeing the way characters’ decks evolve over time and the way their play styles shift as things happen to them or they go through personal experiences. i love what a character’s deck archetype and the monsters they keep by their side says about them.

i love joey’s luck based deck full of warriors and dragons and cards he got from his friends and people who’ve left an impact on him, cards he endlessly believes in. i love yusei’s “weak” little low-rank silly monsters that he keeps with him literally the entire show’s run because he loves them so much. i love zane’s cyber legacy, the way he uses his cyber dragons showing so much about where his mental state is at in the moment. i love boss monsters that kind of look like their owners. i love duel spirits. i love kuriboh.

yugioh is a sports anime and the sport is a trading card game and it’s GREAT!!!!!

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southern boy speaks japanese

(based on my favourite video of all time)

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Galaxy Express 999