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Context: This grown ass police inspector is asking a teenager to resolve a hostage situation for him

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Can’t properly explain it, but “I like this character”, “I like how this character is written” and “I care about this character” are 3 very different things which may or may not overlap.

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I will always love Yu-Gi-Oh!

(Bonus screenshot of Yugi and Yami Yugi tiled on the X-axis in Aseprite, so they’re standing side by side. I thought it looked cool.)

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“Rare Games.”

Between all this this (Dragon Jar is from the manga, the rest is exclusive to toei 1998) and the “Devil’s Board Game” mentioned in Otogi’s arc in the manga, there’s an implication of a whole underworld of shady, often-occult gaming rituals, with multiple cultures creating an umbrella concept of “clandestine high-stakes gambling + occult curses executed via games” independent of each other. and of some of the people invested in the former going out of their way to collect the latter via any means necessary.

The way this is executed outside of Japanese and western examples is often... exoticizing, focusing on how ~weird and spooky and foreign~ Egypt/China/India/etc are, and this is sucks.

(Skipping Egypt b/c the baggage of the millennium items being framed early on as “because Egypt is inherently weird and spooky” and how Yugioh treats modern Egyptians would require its own post, which I am not prepared to write.)

The Dragon Jar is clearly Gu magic combined with a mahjong variant, but Gu is just as much an “evil taboo sorcery“ concept as the Japanese form, kodoku, is in Japan; it is most certainly not associated with "training Feng Shui masters.”

And Aileen’s game being a Chaturanga variant is, conceptually, fine. And honestly, I kinda like her as a character. What’s... not good is how her having statues of Hindu deities in her apartment is written into the episode to be practically framed as a red flag, suddenly emphasing her Indian-ness in contrast to her more “familiar” Canadian-ness. And her having a pet attack tiger is just... do I have to say anything?

But I feel it’s got to be possible to execute the “different cultures keep fucking inventing this” concept while making it clear “this isn’t any more Normalized and non-taboo for Egypt/China/India/etc than it is for Japan or Europe.”

...On a different, lighter note, early Yugioh’s games often also suffer from Duel Monster’s Calvinball Syndrome and “Everyone plays like a Timmy even when it doesn’t make sense” syndrome. This would probably have continued to be an issue even if Yugioh hadn’t become a card game commerical. But can you imagine if the series’s middle stretch had gone into exploring this, instead of focusing on a singular TCG? At the very least, there would be less monotony.

#season 0 #manga #yugioh #aileen rao #im not calling ygo irredeemable media but there are things it could be better about #mod miho

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Whenever Miho’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, 'Where's Miho?'

#mod miho #season 0 #Miho Nosaka

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girlposting

#Miho Nosaka #season 0 #yugioh #mod miho

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thinking about it

#Katsuya Jounouchi #yugi motou #manga #yugioh #mod miho

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Every time a Yugioh teen turns 40+ an angel gets its wings, actually. I like to imagine they’re living their best lives, the Absolute Horseshit they went through in high school far behind them.

#mod miho #yugioh

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For everyone here that wants to feel old, Ryou Bakura was born on September 2, 1979.

#Ryou Bakura #good for him!

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i come off as a #hater most of the time but the truth is i rlly do like being in communities for things i like the problem is that a lot of the time fan discussion centers entirely on shipping and shipping discourse and not like, talking about interesting or fun facets of that thing. and it sucks bc i love to examine details i like about my interests and figure out why they work and themes etc and it’s fun but it’s hard to talk about that stuff when a majority of conversation on that given property is interpreting everything as a romantic gesture . am i making sense.

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It’s not “comfort media” it’s the things that plague me at night.

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This video is not about Yugioh, but this is part of why it stresses me out so much to think about the long-term survival of Season Zero.

The currently-available-online footage is so bad. Severe generation loss, seizure-inducing color flickering in some episodes, hardcoded subs. 

I’m genuinely curious about the 1998 team’s plans for how they would’ve adapted the series. I look at changes other anime from the same decade made to their source material - and I like a lot of them! Even the changes I hate are interesting to analyze, in a way that makes me glad I can observe them.

And Season Zero is a genuinely fascinating artifact in the history of the Yugioh franchise. You can see how it tries its best to make the series’ sudden change in genre smoother, in the context of it being released while the manga was already in Duelist Kingdom. I’m curious how they would have handled Duelist Kingdom.

I don’t think Toei will ever legally re-release Yugioh 1998. I think they don’t see it as useful to their brand identity as a company.

I don’t think Konami or Shounen Jump are interested in re-releasing it, either. It’s not useful to the Yugioh franchise’s current brand identity.

So that’s why... I wish anyone who has the source material on hand would do something about it.

I’m just begging that someone who has VHSes scans them. I’m begging that *someone* has the original for-television film reels. I’m begging that someone gets them uploaded in as high of a digital quality as possible before the physical media they’re trapped on rot into nothing.

#yugioh #season 0 #mod miho

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So I guess we should say something about it, huh? I wasn’t really sure what to say because ultimately, I don’t like Yugioh for what it is. I like Yugioh for its wasted potential.

But... the concepts from Yugioh that I do love and find compelling... could have only came from KT and his specific combination of interests, and (despite Konami and Shueisha‘s meddling) I’m glad he got to put some of those ideas out into the world at all; even if they weren’t well executed, and he didn’t get to create the story he originally envisioned. I’ve gotten immense joy out of discussing what I do like about Yugioh with my closest friends, and creating self indulgent fanfiction based on KT’s concepts.

But, Yugioh aside... I just feel terrible that he died the way that he did. He was a person, a person who was more than one manga he wrote 25 years ago. A person who died prematurely, and most likely died alone, afraid, and in pain. (That’s the thing that pains me the most, when thinking about this.) I didn’t know this person. None of us really knew this person; just his work. His death ultimately will have little impact on my life, or on the trajectory of the Yugioh franchise as a whole. So I hope that, more than anything else, his loved ones, the people who actually knew him, are able to find peace.

#death tw #mod hanasaki #mod miho

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Yugi Mutou was 16 years old in 1996

happy birthday king

#mod miho #mod's art #yugioh #yugi motou

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“I love small characters!”

That’s great! But do you show small characters, specifically small people, respect? (Please read what’s below with a gentle tone, that’s what was intended.)

Do find yourself calling small characters cute, but never beautiful or handsome?

Do you laugh when they are depicted being squatted next to, leaned on, picked up, or held in demeaning ways? Where they look sad or angry about what is being done to them?

Do you find yourself comparing them to children or small animals without a second thought? Pushing that it would be strange or even wrong for someone taller than them to fall in love with them? Do you recognize the adulthood and personhood of an adult person who looks and acts like an adult while also being short?

Are you able to find them imposing, or does the idea of a small person being intimidating amuse you?

Do you catch yourself unconsciously relegating them to comedic roles? To being the butt of the joke?

Do you take them seriously when they’re being serious, or do you find them silly no matter what?

This post isn’t meant to be a guilt trip or a callout! It’s supposed to be a kindly mirror, an opportunity to take a moment and assess the subconscious lines of thinking one applies to small people. To make sure we’re all treating them not just with affection, but also with dignity.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, if you did!

#because its relevant to how the fandom the 4kids voice actors and even the JP animes and manga treat him #yugi motou

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#season 0 #Katsuya Jounouchi #yugioh #mod miho

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class tension between childhood friends in the group chat

#yugioh #Hiroto Honda #Katsuya Jounouchi #season 0 #mod miho