#iirc in the manga it's like a two-time thing that happens with mai and ryuzaki but it's so brief and gets dropped for the rest of the story

[traitimdoithay]

me: damn why does the yugioh anime suck with how it handles all the female characters

shounen genre:

me: ah, of course

#tag: yugioh #it sucks so bad that a defining nature of the shounen genre is that female characters are often presented as #something for the male characters to desire #and that even if the female characters are written with a decent amount of depth to their character they are still at the whims of #heterosexual (cisgender) male desire #even though the original manga includes this i'd argue that it's the most tame compared to its adaptations #which really isn’t saying much considering how early yugioh was lol… #also not to mention whyyyy is there recurring exploration of romance between adults and minors #iirc in the manga it's like a two-time thing that happens with mai and ryuzaki but it's so brief and gets dropped for the rest of the story #we can also segway into a conversation about how traditionally cisgendered the women in yugioh (and shounen in general) are presented #but that's a whole other can of worms #btw can you tell i just finished ep 80 LMAO