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Would have been hilarious if Pegasus screwed with Kaiba by just printing a ton of new copies of Blue Eyes.

The dub VAs are iconic. They're pretty much the only part of 4Kids that have stood the test of time while all the VAs from their other anime were recast.

I laughed uncontrollably at the line, "Once again, Mokuba is taken captive." I blame Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and LittleKuriboh. Man, I read the manga on my lunch breaks and it was wild how dark the early stuff was. I actually worried I could get in trouble for things like dudes being burned alive and Anzu's bikini (or at least get weird looks.)

Even more than Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh was my childhood. And rewatching the 4kids dub version to this day is still a treat. Knowing about all the nonsensical rules, censorship, Yugi plot armor and everything else in-between. I think it's makes the dub version even more special and hilarious.

Dan Green as Yami Yugi is iconic.

When your anime has demon lords, isekai vr mmo revenge plots, eldritch gods, duel school, duel school space energy cults, yandere sadomasochist demons, the late stage capitalist hell of 5Ds, South American earthen deities, and the subsequent interdimensional split to avoid the cyber apocolaypse(with a bit if time travel), as a fraction of your story, you've cooked something insane.

Joey and Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho are my reason for loving underdog characters so much. That feeling of having a heart of gold just means so much to me.

I used to not be a fan of Duelist Kingdom till recently when I learned that the official rules of the card game itself wasn't even thought of yet during that time, it wasn't till Battle City started where some sense of the card game was made. When YGO came to America, the official rules were already established and set in stone, which is why so much kids were confuse as to wtf was going on in that season

Man Yu-Gi-Oh was my first anime. I still keep up with it having seen everything episode from Duel Monsters to Sevens. Still waiting on Go Rush to be available in English to binge through though 😅

I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on one of your videos as fast as I did this one. I absolutely loved Yu Gi Oh as a kid

Honestly though, I actually really enjoyed the original season 0 concept. The horror game manga was really interesting to me. I also think the manga does a much better job of setting up Bakura as the main villain. I kinda feel like the anime didn’t realize he was a super important character for a while into it. But I really loved the idea of there being this spirit who wasn’t exactly a nice guy but was, at least, a just guy. He really felt like a pharaoh. He deals with liars, cheaters, and thieves harshly, but he gives them an opportunity to redeem themselves in the process despite how dark the punishments might be. Like that’s the kind of guy I’d want as a king for sure. He seems to have an intuitive idea of who is good and who is evil. Like how he could have easily let Millennium Key dude fall to his death, but realized he wasn’t there for malicious reasons and saved him while warning him not to enter his mind again. Very interesting character.

LET'S GOOOOO Season 0 supremacy! Always so nice seeing people talk about it so lovingly

I watched your entire Pokémon series from start to finish. I remember coming home from school in the early 2000s and watching Static Shock, Pokémon, Jackie Chan, and Yugioh. My brothers and I would play yugioh and Pokémon, but lost interest in yugioh after maybe 5 years. As per usual, this was very nostalgic and entertaining and made my brain happy thank you ❤

Ah yeah its time to duel

The bit about it being a gateway unto manga resonated with me hard, on my 9th birthday I saw issue 9 of Shonen Jump at a store in 2003 and begged my grandpa to get it for me because I saw Yugi on the cover, and was greeted with a story about Yugi's friend dressing up as a superhero, getting beat up and his life threatened by thugs to extort his father, and Yugi playing tag with them and a can of spray paint which resulted in a lit cigarette torching all of them and I was hooked for life

I remember the days back in the early and mid 2000s of Yu-Gi-Oh being the craze nostalgic memories.

Blue-Eyes White Dragon is the Charizard of Yu-Gi-Oh and the most iconic card in the franchise. You can't refute this

My favorite part about season zero is that Trudge actually comes back in 5D's as an antagonist at first, but he comes around and sticks around as a side character on the side of the protagonists. While I've never seen season zero, I do have the manga and it is really a trip compared to the main manga and anime most will know and love. My first exposure to this series was when it started airing in the US and it instantly hooked me and I started buying cards, mainly just to collect as I had no idea about where/how to join any tournaments and that I had no real interest in competitive Yu-gi-oh!. I still actually have old 1st edition Legend of Blue Eyes cards (nothing rare) and the original Kaiba and Yugi starter decks in their original boxes. I've been a big fan of this series ever since it came over to the U.S., still got some of the old PS1, PS2, Gameboy and DS games. And can we talk about Pegasus's amazing drip in the episode in which he duels Yugi through the television? I don't know why, but that outfit just looks good on him.

RIP kazuki takahashi

Fun fact for me: Back when i was reading a manga called Samurai Deeper Kyo, for some reason whenever the character Benitora was speaking, I heard Joey's 4kids dub voice in my head. Then when i watched the Samurai Deeper Kyo anime like a year later...Benitora's dub voice was Joey's 4kids voice. Wild.

Pokémon,Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh were my starter pack shows introducing me to anime.I didn't grow up having cable all the time so catching those shows on antenna tv was everything.I definitely liked Yu-Gi-Oh the most from the cards,the characters,the arcs,the action,the different ways every situation connected to the pharoah's past plus it being the firstvanime I seen where the power of friendship was a emphasized trope nonstop in a series.Even with me watching way more anime now then I did as a kid I still hold Yu-Gi-Oh in high regard as one of my all time favorites and every blue moon on random I watch some classic battles from the series

I think it's funny that even though I found out about Yu-Gi-Oh through the card game first, I also got into horror anime later. So, knowing that Yu-Gi-Oh originated as a horror manga is interesting. My first episode of the series was Joey's duel against Mai. It got me completely hooked. Since that day, I've kept up with all series since childhood. Though, in terms of my actual childhood, only DM and GX count.

One thing worth noting about that first season (and season zero as well), is that the author loved table RPGs and took a lot of inspiration for them to make those first duels. Which is why there so much silly stuff and lack of rules. Is simply both players trying to outsmart each other with classic RPG excuses to proceed with the adventure like blowing up the moon or aging the monsters.

Dan Green as both Yugi and Atem is so iconic; the contrast between the wimpy, soft-spoken Yugi and the cool, confident, heroic Atem is so pronounced you can hardly believe its the same guy. And he's really able to pull out some strong emotional beats too, great voice actor who never got as much work as he deserved (I know he had some extremely unfortunate personal life stuff that stifled his career, which is tragic for multiple reasons). I honestly think it's insane that, to my knowledge, he was never called in once to voice any incarnation of He-Man; he would have destroyed that role so hard

I don't think I ever got engrossed with a series than Yu-Gi-Oh! during it's battle city arc. I would religiously watch it after school (thankfully they'd air two episodes back to back). Unfortunately, I never properly learned how to play the actual TCG until I started emulating Stairway To The Destined Duel for GBA and got immediately sucked in. I also love the original seven volumes of the Manga, they felt comfy as high school stories wrapped up in weird and deadly games of chance (almost kind of Twilight Zone feeling)

I grew up watching anime, Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Dragon Ball, Doraemon, Dr. Slump, and a few more. But Yu-Gi-Oh! ...Oh, indeed, I was invested in that anime and in the game, I used to beg my parents to buy my the cards, and they did, but then years later I found out that the cards were fake, they weren't bootleg cards, they were just copies of the originals. My heart broke, but it is what is is, I still have them and they're very dear to me.

3 things I remembered and had questions about with Duelist kingdom. 1) thr name of that other card game that helped inspire some of the rules and ideas. I think it was a card game with a diamond shaped field that didn't last. 2nd) how did Mai tell each scented card from one another... Much less always draw the only monster card in her deck? 3) cards games with table talk to DnD explain BS for how they get away with certain moves... Sounds like a lot of fun to play.

I was definitely in the “read the Season 0 manga after getting into the anime” crowd. Read the first three volumes in 2005 and they was such a shock to me. I found and read the other four volumes years later.

never watched any Yu-gi-oh before this and now I gotta watch all of it c: 10/10

Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! made most of my childhood so I'm glad to see you covering both of them!

Yugi’s outfit in Dungeons and Dices arc was my favorite look of his

My Yu-Gi-Oh! senses are tingling! Wasn't expecting you to cover YuGiOh, but I know I'm gonna enjoy watching it!

yu-gi-oh was such a huge part of my childhood and I cannot wait for the next part of this video!!! the battle city arc is about when I really got into things and I'm so hype for this series

Such perfect timing I'm currently rewatching all of the Yu-Gi-Oh series and trying to collect all the video games so this video just fuels my hyper fixation even more

Dungeon Dice Monsters was a great game and the episodes did a great job of explaining it. The manga version of DDM was even better and had higher stakes. The GBA game was on me of my favorites too

I'm so glad you're talking about this series. You end off here basically where I did as a kid. Or.. around the finale of the Battle City stuff on the blimp. I just can't wait to see the rest of your work!

Out of all your videos this one hit me the hardest for nostalgia. I completely forgot about the dice monsters HOLY CRAP.!! Memory unlocked. :0

Ohh I was looking forward to this series. Hoping we see the sequel series as well. Or at least GX and 5Ds

I can't wait for episode 2. I just went to look for it after finishing this one and was bummed out that this video only went up 8h ago. Great stuff, man.

You’re running through all my childhood favorites. Those Saturday mornings were the best!

I love the live-action segments you filmed! As always, fantastic work!

When I was a kid my brothers and I put our monthly allowance together to get a subscription to the English version of Shonen Jump, which included the first arc of Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. It was amazing and dark and it was such a huge shock to see the anime shortly after that was very different and heavily censored. Still loved it, played the card game all the time at school, and we even had a copy of the real dungeon dice monsters at my house for a little bit. Thanks for covering this super influential series Jordan, we appreciate all your hard work!

More of this please. This show is a ginormous part of my childhood and you recap it so well

Need more of this! Yu-Gi-Oh is a franchise I’ve been waiting for your channel to talk about

Love your add read... love all of the personality in this video... you've been absolutely killing it recently, Jordan

I guess I never really questioned why SO many answers were given to us relatively early on in this show, in comparison to many other anime in the same vein. Though it makes sense when you realize that the start of the show we all know is actually over seven volumes into the story, so for people who’ve been reading since the start, the explanation of the pharaoh’s origins has come years after where they started the series.

Yugioh is more than just a puzzle...it made a name for iself that still thrives to this day! Celebrating 25 years, its valuse of friendship, duels and amazing monsters still holds dear to this day!

Jordan Fringe gave me a small loan of 1 million dollars to keep me and my family fed and safe. This man makes life changing content and is an amazing human being

I am so happy that you are doing this series! I just finished your Pokemon series too, so this is perfect timing!

I, no joke, was thinking about you making a video on each yu-gi-oh incarnation earlier. I feel almost psychic.. Love the content!

Yu-Gi-Oh is a big part of my life! I would watch the show when I was a kid and collect the cards just for fun. And now being an adult....I still love the show, I still collect the cards and I'm a big TCG player. I will never stop loving Yu-Gi-Oh 💙 Was traumatised when Kazuki Takahashi passed away 😢 R.I.P 🙏🏻

I love these longer videos about these old shows from my childhood I spend about 8 hours delivering food around town most days a week and when you posy these types of videos it really gives me a dose of uniqueness away from the same songs fron my playlist i hear day to day. I'm turning 25 on Tuesday and I just overall love every video that you do cause it sends me back to a time where I would get up at 7am got to the living room turn on the newest episodes of beyblade pokemon bakugan and yugioh, I really do miss those days so much

Awesome video Jordan, can't wait for part 2! And congrats on the Gamer Supps partnership!

Yugioh is what got me into archeology as a child. I still love it as an adult. I always wanted to be an egyptologist just like grandpa motou

YuGiOh is actually something I’d be totally down to watch as a live action series

Ah, perfect timing. Right when i get back into yugioh to relive my childhood, and this pops up. Jordan you never miss 😂 everytime i get back into something your stuff pops up in my feed

Thanks Jordan! I’ve been waiting so long for someone to properly dive into this amazing anime!🎉

I love Yu-Gi-Oh so much. It came into my life when I needed it most. It helped me cope with the loss of my mother. Been collecting the cards since 2002 and still open them today on my channel.

Season 0 is unironically someone I loved watching when I was younger. It was so interesting seeing the differences between Season 0 and the rest of the original series

This year, I rewatched a few shows from my childhood and this is the 2nd time you uploaded a video right after I finished watching it

Dude I absolutely loved your ad read, such heavy Tim & Eric vibes

Great retrospective, one of the best presenters for retro pop culture media I've seen, you've earned my subscription and I look forward to your continued retrospectives.

Wow, I didn’t know I needed this until I did. Thank you for doing both Yugi-oh and Pokemon

Pokemon was middleschool, I played yu-gi-oh all through high school, taking up space on the subway with my friends playing across the seats afterschool on our way to Neutral Ground near 23rd St. Thinking about how much fun that was brings me to tears. Thank you so much for this!!!

Aahh, sweet childhood! I remember watching Yu-Gi-Oh! here in Sweden, which aired directly after Pokémon on either Saturdays or Sundays (they shifted every now and again.) Funnily enough, it had the same censorship as in the US, except for the names. For some reason, they kept their original japanese names in the Swedish dub. Later on I remember buying the first 2 volumes of the Manga. Which surprised me a lot, seeing how different and darker it was. I loved it though! I'd absolutely recommend everyone to experience the first 7 volumes of the manga, if possible. Sure, there is the "Season 0" of the anime, but I still think the Manga is the way to go. I also just remembered being subscribed to Shonen Jump here in Sweden, and one of the later issues towards the end of the short run it had, you actually got a Red Eyes Black Dragon card. Good times!

Make fun of season 1 all you want, but as a whole the duel monsters show is a great series, I know it’s super cheesy but you can’t deny this anime is badass, so many epic moments to count, and to this day I get hyped with some of the duels.

Can't wait for part 2. You did a great job

Rip to the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh who died saving someones life

I'm 35 and I've been a big Yu-Gi-Oh and pokémon fan since they both came out. I love seeing other people talk about it.

So, I remember when I was younger, I had a shonin jump where yugi and his friends get trapped in a game of basically D&D. That confused me until I was told he plays a lot more games in the manga, including playing with yo-yo's at one point? Stuff is wild ahaha

Jordan you were already pretty awesome in my book, but to hear your favorite card was Red Eyes Black Dragon as well! Let's just say you are on a whole other level of favorite KZfaqr now for me!

My childhood could be summed up in just a handful of words: Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Go-Oh, and Pokemon. I remember reading the original YGO in Shonen Jump and was confused as to why it wasn't about the card game. I still loved it though.

hype. first time seeing one of your videos on release day and i started watching you a year ago! :D and one of my fave childhood shows at that

2 of my favorite things in one, Jordan Fringe videos and Yu-Gi-Oh

I never watched Yu-Gi-Oh, so this was a really great way to understand the show. it looks really good, cant wait for the other parts

Need a digimon video now too lmao. Pokemon, Yugioh and Digimon really were my childhood. Still play the three card games to this day too.

I have been long awaiting this as I have just gotten back into the game a few years back so let's freaking go

Yes a long video on yugioh sweet I’m hyped to watch this! Thank you for making this

Glad you’re doing more than just the first season!

Hm, this was very interesting, this Franchise were one of my Favorites in my Childhood and still are to some extent, I will look forward to see how you cover the rest of Series. Also, nice touch with covering Season Zero, I wasn’t sure you were going to do it, i really appreciate that.

Yu-Gi-Oh was my life from age 9-12. Can't wait for part 2!

I appreciate how Atem started out as pretty darn evil ("Season 0" especially) and did some twisted stuff, but stood out from the other evil spirits by not having any ill-intent towards his host and in fact taking his malice out on those who sought to harm his host or his host's friends. All the other spirits wind up being quite antagonistic to their hosts and actively working against them, which frequently leads to their undoing and prevents them from redeeming themselves over time. (I guess you could say he's risking Yugi's physical well-being whenever he takes part in a dangerous game, but, his ability is essentially just "I win" or "RNG manipulation" so he knows there's no risk really. The games are just an excuse to draw out the suffering and to rub the other person's hubris in their face.)

I grew up on Yugioh and Yugioh GX and was a massive fan. Thank you for this recap! As an adult, I will say that visiting Season 0 was a worthwhile adventure and highly recommend it to anyone who has time.

I saw part 1 and thought This one definitely needs multiple parts.

Yu-Gi-Oh was the first card game I got into. And then I started to watch the anime on I think WB Kids and maybe Toonami? I grew up on the 4Kids dumb and I loved it! Looking back, it is silly. But Dan Green?? Hell yeah. Excited for the next sets of these videos!

Yooo what timing! I just started watching the sub for the first time and just finished duelist kingdom. It’s such a different vibe

Unexpected but very much looking forward to this. I’ve loved Yu-Gi-Oh! Since I was old enough to form sentences.

Your ad break in this video was amazing haha

I already know im gonna love this entire series

So glad you decided to do this! The god card arc was mad busted. Can’t wait for the next video

Yugi in the anime: It's time to D-D-D-D-DDDD-DUEL! Yugi in the manga: *I WANNA PLAY A GAME.*

My favorite game, and my favorite KZfaqr. Feels like Christmas.

Awesome video. I loved Yu-Gi-Oh when I was a kid. Me and so e friends still duel each other to this day.

Got so excited when I seen you posted a video about yu gi oh

Don't forget Duke Devlin's sweet Theme Music

The dub is the best thing to put on to fall asleep to. I just have such nostalgia for it

This is crazy im actually in the process of archiving this show i love the 1998 yu-gi-yo nostalgia at its finest

Now I need a video done on Digimon. The breakdown is needed

This video is pretty enjoyable, you're hitting a lot of good points for me, reminding me of when I was younger I like how you brought up the US version of the WSJ manga. I was relatively young when those monthly SJ manga came out, and they ended up discontinuing them relatively soon after I got into them. I didn't have internet or anything, so I thought it was just bad luck for a long time that stores never seemed to have them. They were definitely a big push into getting me into manga as a whole, and it was cool when years later I would finally be able to read many of the series included to completion, and see more context of those mostly standalone chapters I was able to read. I got relatively few of them overall, but I seem to remember them having cards like Malefic Stardust Dragon, and probably others. Similarly, the book fair at my school had some Yu-Gi-Oh manga. I've been out of the physical card game for ages, so the Kachi Kochi Dragon that came with Zexal volume 1 is still the only XYZ monster card I have.