*4Kids probably unknowingly made Keith finger gun canon.*

Ok, now that I know about the manga version of Gozuboro’s death, it adds a lot more weight to Kaiba’s suicide threat in Duelist Kingdom

You should've included Pegasus' death. Bakura straight up ripped the Millennium Eye off him and left him to die out of blood loss.

I find it funny how even the sub version of the anime is tame. When compared to the darkness in the manga. Hell 4kids didn't have to censor as much as they did. The anime already censored a lot from the manga.

Dc universe is dark. Yugioh manga: hold my beer

Bonus fact in the Yu-Gi-Oh movie Dark Side of Dimensions Duke's dad the clown is shown in it since the movie is supposed to be a direct continuation of the manga:)

Children’s card games are surprisingly hardcore

I remember watching the Dub as a kid and I have to say, the Shadow Realm along with Yami Bakura and Yami Marik were the things that scared the shit out of me.

Kazuki Takashi originally envisioned Yu-Gi-Oh as a straight up horror manga and it really, really shows.

2:45 SEE! THERE ARE FINGER GUNS IN YGO! The goons pointing at our protagonists in Season 1 is VERY dangerous.

Kids : "yugioh is fun !" Yugioh manga : "I'll end this man whole career"

Goodness gracious, Yugioh was dark as hell!

"Yu-Gi-Oh! is just a children's cards game" "Yu-Gi-Oh! is a show targeted at kids"

You forgot how brutal Mai’s Shadow Game was in the manga

Remember when Marik killed his dad and ripped off his back skin? Yeah... Good times...

I could only imagine if Yugioh was animated by Whitefox cause they don't hold back on dark stuff..

So dark. Are you sure you're not from DC universe?

What about Yami Bakura’s full backstory? When they melted the people of his village into gold to create the Millennium Items?

Another moment is during Yugi's first duel vs Weevil, in the manga, Yugi doesn't bet his deck, but instead bets is own life for weevil to accept the duel.

Yeah buuuuuut... what is more scary? A normal gun or an invincible gun? Normal blades or blades of pure darkness and nightmares? Death or the shadow realm where you will experience intense fear, anxiety, pain and torture for basically eternity if the bad guy isn't beaten? Idk lol sounds to me that the anime world it's wayyyyyyy worse but 4kids were too dumb to notice what things they were putting in as replacements.

I love when YuGiOh gets a little dark - always shocks more casual (especially western) fans when you explain these sort of things happen in Original/manga versions of the show (Also because it validates me liking a 'childrens card game' as an adult a little bit more xD)

Seeing what happened with Kaiba’s father gives so much context to the scene where he threatens to jump to win his duel with Yugi…

6:58 Yami-Marik: I am sending her to the beach haha Yugi: NOOOOOOO!!!!

I love how dark Yugioh actually is. Also, I feel like Bones death in the anime is worse. At least he immediately dies in the manga but in the anime hands come from the ground and slowly drag you to hell

2 of these are given happy endings in duel links, which loosely follows the manga continuity, mainly to give characters who died in the manga a reason to be there. After you unlock Pandora/Arkana, he wakes up bombarded by painful memories (thanks to Marik), but is able to talk himself out of doing anything drastic and decides to bottle up his negative emotions. It's not healthy, but it's better than suicide. It's also revealed that Bonz was not killed in his duel with Bakura, although the incident left him very frightened. If Bonz manages to beat Bakura, you'll get some dialogue of Bonz getting over his fear and Bakura showing him some respect. If Bonz loses, Bonz begs for mercy.

Still salty that they changed Kaiba saving Joey to his sister. Really bothers me.

I really wanna say something appropriate and educated, so..... DANK ENERGY DISCS! xD Great video, as a guy who got into the series from the manga side I can agree with these picks.

That skinning one is pretty insane, never thought that yugioh was that insane xD No wonder they censored it, showing that in TV parents would have gone crazy.

4kids: "Damn, we really lucked out all things considering..."

It'd be awesome to see a remake that is more faithful to the manga. I like the anime but I definitely like the manga a lot more.

7:41 thank god yugi save Mai

I always felt the anime was a terrible adaptation of the original manga. I would love a more manga-accurate version of the anime, like DBZ Kai or Sailor Moon Crystal did.

10:52 mai vs Merrick was way worse because she felt death via being stabbed, and having her head getting crushed while being electrified

Awesome video! Finally I can send a well made video to my friends to prove them, that the YGO Manga was pretty brutal. And for more parts where the Manga is different than the Anime, there is this scene where Marik pretends to rescue Bakura, in Battle City, after Bakura got hurt. But you never see Bakura actually get hurt. In the Manga, you can see Yami Bakura stabbing himself with a knife, before he lets his host take over, so Marik can pretend to be the good guy.

Its nice to see the classic death and destruction in the original shows how close to Halloween it is XD

What about Yami Marik's final attack on Jonouchi's Gilford the Lightning during Battle City Semifinals? In the Manga; we see Gilford visibly being turnt aflame then seared from bottom to top into ash amidst the inferno However In the Anime, that was completely cut for being...I imagine far too gruesome even for Sub, so all we see is Gilford exploding after a while similar to how other monsters regularly explode after being destroyed. EDIT: For some reason though, while they censored that; the manga switched Mokuba's "Hey...Jonouchi's..Not Breathing!!!" to Honda's, and the "You Bastard!!!" while trying to punch him 'awake' to "I'm gonna kick your butt!!!" ...I dont know either.

I love the Bandit Keith one. It's my favorite of all of the penalty games. Combining the fantasy of body horror with the real horror of gun violence is a truly inspired move...one of Kazuki Takahashi's finest.

I so wish these dark scenes were in the anime. The tension would have made the series awesome beyond belief.

7:00 I think it's worth pointing out the difference of the nature of the Mai vs Marik duel in the manga from its anime counterpart. In the anime the dark duel's rules supposedly just had Mai lose memories of her friends, while in the manga both Marik and Mai was feeling the effects of monster attacks, which is the same dark duel rules that Joey would undergo later in the series against Marik in the semi-finals. I can't say which is worse as I barely recall the episode from the anime, but the manga version definitely felt dark, with Marik's constant emphasis that Mai was to be a sacrifice and the implication that losing all life points or taking too much damage would result in death.

Wow I hade no idea Ryuji’s back story was so different. Time to read through the duelist manga

Holy shit Marik was an actually intimidating and terrible (in a evil way) villain Also Melvin is a psychopath

2 Moments I'd add: 1. Pegasus death in the Manga. (Bleeding to death after having the Eye ripped out of him) 2. Kaiba's 'first' arc in the manga is split up. Mokuba and Kaiba both lose to Yugi while trying to cheat and later try to get revenge, going as far as murder. After Mokuba failed to kill Yugi, Kaiba even tried to torture Mokuba to death as punishment.

The parts of yugioh that scared me were: 1. Panic trying to kill Yugi by fire (Like how FROLLO tried to kill ESMERALDA by fire) 2. Mai Valentine flashback of Marik trapping her in a glass 3. Yami Yugi losing to Raphael and Yugi losing his soul.

No 1: Sending people to the shadow realm, oh wait.....

What about Joey/Jonouchi being burned by the Winged Dragon of Ra, especially in the Japanese manga?

Good video, as always, Dylan! I still remember Mr. Otogi’s backstory (Duke Devlin’s father) and the “Devil's Board Game”! This whole “each player bets a number of years and the game's loser ages by the amount of years they bet” thing just scared me when I was younger!

Marik makes a man kill himself, sets up a bunch of death traps that would make John Kramer blush, and even kickstarts a card-themed terrorist organization which presumably is still around after Battle City. And yet somehow everyone STILL forgives him and he gets away with everything. Even Joey, and he was still on Kaiba's ass about Death-T several arcs later!

7:00 I feel the sand makes more sense since after she is freed she is physically unharmed. Flesh eating insects do cause injuries.

Now I see from which panel they took the image for Duel Links when Bonz is defeated... damn Konami don't mess around with the references on Duel Links but at least they could uncesor some cards and characters design there

I would say the fact that Pegasus DIES in the manga and never once recurs is among the biggest differences. Also there should be a “top 10 times Bakura was written out of the anime” list

I think it's funny that Malik was such a good villain, but he wasn't really a standout duelist compared to the other characters. He was inferior to Ishizu (and probably Rishid) in the flashbacks and possibly never caught up. He cost Rishid a win against Jounouchi, and he had fluky wins against Mai and Bakura. Then, he should've straight up lost to Jounouchi. The Sun Dragon Ra was the only thing that made him win at all.

The manga is so twisted compared to modern Yugioh. I love it. Though to be fair, a lot of anime are pretty heavily censored compared to the manga. Artists seem to be able to get away with a lot more in manga format. Like in the Dragon Ball anime Toei weren't even allowed to let Piccolo have 4 fingers like he does in the manga.

Until this day..seriously i want them to make a separate shows of yugioh for children and adult fans😔 like gundam. Seeing DSOD make me believe more that.. yugioh with dark and complex, occult, strong science fict, and matured things are what make yugioh a yugioh! Not solving problem with chlidren card game😴. But i understand about the budget things..just hoping one day..

Real surprised that you didn’t include Marik’s duel against Mai having the same “rules” as Marik’s buel against Jonouchi. Also Marik’s use of “Viser Des” in both those duels.

They need to make a remake with EVERYTHING from the manga in the anime. One of the biggest differences is Bakura's entire appearance and I think I'm not the only one who was mad asf learning that the anime rarely gave him screentime and changed his character. (Ryou and Yami Bakura to an extent)

The Mai vs Marik fight was censored in the anime

Wow, now I'm going to get the manga. Great video bro!

You should have included the part where Yami Marik gets beheaded or where Mai gets cut open through the torso.

defently the yugioh manga has the most dark moments for sure. hands down. great vid & i agree with those picks

Joey: that yugi is a good guy Yugi: hey pharaoh remember when you set that guy on fire Atem: what about it?

The Manga was Dark! I read all of it. Yami Yugi Torments, Marik Tortures, Yami Bakura is a Straight Savage! What Bakura did to Pegasus and Bonez is just the beginning of what he does to others.

I always thought Marik destroyed Pandora's mind after delivering his message in the anime.

Bandit Keith's own hand turning into a gun really got to me, it would've looked scary if it was Animated

@3:38 the manga having this flashback also makes Kaiba's staking his life in a duel to enter the Pegasus castle even more poetic if you never read the manga, it would have been totally out of the blue

It's more of it would be seinen if they fully adapted the manga to the anime. Or it wouldn't be shounen. Dark side of dimensions, Ryuji Otogi (Duke)'s father did appear he was the clown and he fired jounouchi.

you forgot to mention that bandit keith lived because of marik but was revived by the antagonist of yugioh r inthe manga

I seriously want a remake of the anime that sticks closer to the manga that also adapts season 0 but once again closer to the manga and also adapts yugioh r

1:47 That´s because in Japan, the death penalty is always perfromed by hunging. Thus, maybe it´s forbidden to broadcast animation with that content during the timeslot, maybe not, who knows.

Gozaburo got heart attack in Toei anime after Seto's "betray"

Just as a suggestion for a future top ten, which Yugioh characters frighten you the most? IDK about anyone else, but I would put the three Yamis in there to varying degrees; can’t decide for sure whether Bakura or Marik would be highest among those three alone, but they are the first who came to mind for me. Any other characters that you think should be there?

I wish they could remake yugioh but then with an 18+ version. Would love to watch the entire back story of yugioh and how atem was before he meet yugi.!we only saw bits of it. But there is so much to tell yere

I knew the manga was darker... but dang, that is just f**ked up. Like Season 0 level messed up. When yugio thinks its Beserk.

how deep did the saw cut through Pandora’s leg? the world may never know!

you know something i realized with every anime that the manga is ALWAYS hella darker than the anime it self

So that explains the Duke event in Duel Links.

Other than the penalty, I remmember that the duel between Mai and MArik was different in the mangá, where she was mostly tortured. Imagine if that duel was fully adapted these days?

#8 Plus side for the anime change, it gave us one of Kaiba's best badass moments.

this might not qualify as a change, but in the manga when priest mahad dies, we get very explicit, very bloody confirmation that, yes, that pendulum blade sliced him in half saw-style; the anime shows no blood whatsoever and avoids any reference to the gory reality of his demise. but, again, it still shows the blade swinging toward him before his soul enters magus of illusion, so it might not count as being changed, just majorly toned down.

I remember Mr. Clown and the fire. I loved that manga.

In the number 1, it sounds pretty dark with burning someone to death too

My favourite moment is the one with mariks father. Fucking dark, fucking sinister... . Also the one with Pandora is waaayyy too much if you ask me. Like wtf make people hang themselves??

I’m glad Pegasus is still alive in the anime.

a another thing about mindcontrolled Joey vs yugi: If kaiba try to stop their duel i think the rarehunter try to kill Mokuba

I always assumed Bones just got Shadow Realm'd, which of course would mean that him and his friends came back once Zorc got destroyed. If they didn't fall to the Reaper of the Cards, that is.

4:08 Puuuuh! I wanted to binge your channel right now, and that was such a tease. Please make that video for Halloween. 🎃😍

Fun fact, Bandit Keith was resurrected in the Yu-Gi-Oh R manga

This was made in to a children’s card game WTF

I think the most darkest moment in the manga was bandit Keith's death.

I with someone remake the anime & make it true to the manga.

Interestingly, Season 0 did have the scene where Kaiba's father dies, but even then it's toned down. If I remember right, Kaiba implies that his father should jump out the window since he's the "loser," and when the dad realizes what he means, he has a heart attack and dies. Funny what you can show in print but not on TV

So that's how you stopped showing your face you went bald. Dammit I wasn't even close

There was also the time Odion lost to Joey and Yami Marik was going to stab Odion in the heart.

O wow this just made me want to get the manga

Another note from the Mai/Marik duel in the manga: Marik’s use of Viser Des and Viser Shock in the manga was really damn dark as Mai had two torture devices used on her. They changed it in the anime to holding arms and holding legs, but seeing what was in the manga for the first time was very disturbing.

Im surprised this video was not made sooner.

Wow this list was pretty gruesome. You should do a list on Yu-Gi-Oh! 'S top 10 best or worst Fathers as there are quite a lot. XD

Hey number 3 is shown at season 0! Great video btw

Holy shit I never knew that about number 2 god damn! Oh my god number 4! Damn even before yami marik he was fucked up. Please for the love of god do more of these!

I was about to sleep Then I saw Dylan just uploaded a video

What’s funny the 4kids version isn’t manga accurate, however season 0 is manga accurate