Something about being stuffed into a role you're not supposed to be in.
Something about Ryou Bakura being Yuugi's friend and not his enemy, even if the Ring demands that role.
Something about Jounouchi being obsessed with proving himself to be an adult and a man when he's just a kid who wants to play card games with his friends. Even if his mom saw too much of his dad in him.
Something about Priest Seto being in the afterlife, so Kaiba was never his reincarnation to begin with.
Something about Kaiba taking on that legacy of blood and destruction when it was never his, he just wanted to be safe and protected and secure. Something about Malik Ishtar being associated with the sun when his history demanded he be underground. Something about Palladium Oracle's magic being piercing against Darkness when he took on the role of Dark Magician for three millennia.
Something about Yuugi Mutou being deemed a vessel when he's the King of Games. Something about Yuugi's ultimate dragon being the perfect counterpart to Blue Eyes. A dragon of destruction made of darkness to the ultimate engine of destruction of light. Something about Yuugi's story being about believing he wished for friends when Jounouchi told him that the only time he ever loved himself was when he was with Yuugi. Something about Yuugi being forced to a role he never wanted just because he was kind enough to believe in the good in people when faced with every reason not to.
Something about Pharaoh Atem being put in a face and body and life that was never his. Something about taking on being a literal shadow. Something about believing himself to be darkness. Something about everyone else believing he's darkness. When he was described by Shada and Dark Bakura both as light. When to this day people still call him darkness.
Something about Duelist beginning and ending with a TTRPG.
Something about the two souls of light and darkness being switched from the beginning.
Yuugi's ultimate monster is the dragon of destruction.
HOLY SHIT I love love love LOVE the way you draw Bakura. What r ur secrets, please tell... And what brushes do you use?? It's always so clean.....
Thank you very much! I love drawing Yami Bakura. The guy is GORGEOUS ❤️
I don't think I have secrets. My style carries the influence of the YGO character style, mixed with other anime I liked as a kid, as well as my personal touch. It developed into what you see now.
I use SAI to draw and [these] are some of the brushes that I like to use. Thank you for the ask :3
bakura (inoue you) and atem (17 yr old kazama shunsuke)
VS (a year and four months later)
bakura (matsumoto rica) and atem (18 yr old kazama shunsuke)
may god rest inoue-san's soul, but I really do adore matsumoto rica as bakura/ryou. she slayed that role. and you can tell kazama shunsuke gained more control over his voice acting when the scene was re-recorded. its less stilted and he's finally grasped his atem voice after playing him for a while.