Thanks so much for watching! Were you ever a fan of Duel Masters? Did you give the Kaijudo 2012 series a chance when it came out? Let me know all of that along with your thoughts on the series!

Bro, this game was AWESOME. I’m 28 and I swear I was the only person to ever watch and obsess over this game/ show. Tried to find tournaments but it just never took off like Yugioh. I’ve literally met ONE other human in my life who has seen and actively remembers this. Much love bro

I still maintain that Duel Masters had the best mana system of any card game - even better than MtG. Rather than wasting space in your deck with lands that are ONLY lands, you have to decide which nonlands you want to use as mana sources and which you want to play - never getting flooded, never getting mana screwed, and presenting with interesting strategic decisions. Absolutely love it.

Duel Masters is one of the biggest card games in Japan. One theory why WoTC pulled the plug from Duel Masters in the West was that it became a direct competitor of Magic the Gathering and started to cannibalize sales. It was relatively popular in Europe, and that is still one of the reasons why there are still Duel Master collectors and players in Europe.

The art for Duel Masters cards is second to none, i think it still beats most contemporary card games and beat everything out at the time easily. Amazing stuff.

I really liked the card game. It did fix a few issues that I always had with other TCGs. It's kinda like Magic, except you don't have to waste half your deck on land cards, and the shield breaking giving you a card is a neat rubberbanding mechanic where attacking the enemy gave them card advantage to allow them to get back into the game if they are behind. It was pretty good!

I could never find the game as a kid, but when I played Yu-Gi-Oh with friends, and we didn't have a way to track LP, we would instead take 5 cards off the top of our decks and use them as shields. I lovingly referred to this as "Duel Masters style"

This game is the first tcg I ever got into. I was obsessed with it as a child and the game itself actually led me to find my best friend, as we both knew the game. One day we played it at recess and to this day were inseperable. I still find it hilarious that this game still lives strong in Japan with even a mobile game out over there. Its a shame it wont be popular enough to launch the app internationally.

Crazy how much duel masters has changed since it's first release, I have been slowly getting my hands on the current cards from Japan and they are sick

Dual masters is so far the only property until literally just now i had completely forgotten about but had such fond memories of it as a kid. The minute i saw the cards i instantly remembered everything but i know that had you asked me about the anime, described the plot or even showed me the back of the cards id have had zero memory of it. Thank you for a real dose of nostalgia for something long gone.

I'm so happy to know that this game actually existed and i didn't simply imagine my older cousin gifting me the box with all his Duel Masters cards, i remember that even if as a kid i played Yugioh, this game's Artworks for the cards were something so fascinating to me, almost felt alien in a certain way

Looking at those old Duel Masters cards brought about so many good memories. Bolshack dragon was awesome

I'm a Magic player, and I'm tangentially aware of Duel Masters. I know there are some MTG crossover cards in the game, namely Jace and Nicol Bolas. They even recently released a promo for Magic of the original Nicol Bolas with the Duel Masters art. It's sweet as hell.

I collected Pokémon, Yugioh, and Duel Masters cards but DM was easily my favorite card game to actually play. I was hooked on the anime in middle school but it got relegated to a 5:30am timeslot

I loved both the tcg and the anime as a teenager, I was deeply saddened when it died out. I never got into Kaidjudo other than catching the occasional episode while channel surfing or waiting for something else to come on. It wasn't until I saw Rothus the Traveler that I learned the two series were connected.

I love Dual Masters! I knew it was Magic the Gathering for kids. I had a game on the gba too and some physical cards. I miss this series. I enjoyed it, playing and watching. I still remember some of the card monster names.

Duel masters is part that weird catagory of shows I vaguely recalled watching as a kid, but kind of fell off by the wayside. Beyond that from a combination of watching other peoples' videos on the show and card game, and rediscovering the show on Tubi did it spark some core memories. It's a shame it did fall off the way it did in the United States. I'm even more suprised that it didn't develop more of a cult following here stateside. I would love to see the card game make a comeback in America, because it seems like a very beginner friendly TCG.

It's interesting that despite it's failure in the west, Modern card games that took inspiration from it are quite well received, They're all mechanically different, But they do share elements that were exclusive to Duel Masters at the time.

The way you just dive into my deepest memories and childhood obsessions is everything i need. I audibly gasped when i saw Duel Masters

With double the fringemas I hope that means we'll get an episode about Zoids

Shameless plug but my channel is mostly Kaijudo content. I grew up in a farm town so card games were not popular in my area. I had nobody who would play with me so never got into Duel Masters but loved the show. Shortly after i graduated and moved out, i had joined a local card game community where i made most of my best friends. Shortly after meeting them, the Kaijudo card game came out and we were all hooked. I still play Kaijudo to this day and have even taught my step daughter how to play. I owe both Duel Masters and Kaijudo a huge thanks for being such a huge part of my life despite their short runs.

I’m proud to say that I’m still a massive fan of “Duel Masters” and “Kaijudo” - and the fact that I have a few binders worth of sleeved, mint condition cards for both! 🤓

I feel like the 2020 and still on-going Digimon TCG has its roots in Duel Masters, and that's one of the many reasons I love it, especially as a big fan of Duel Masters as a kid. Feels nice to see even some fans call Security Attack + 'Double/triple breaker'.

Fun fact: I’m from Hong Kong and when I was young, there used to be official Chinese version of Duel Masters manga until its sequel “Fighting Edge” and the English season “Sacred Lands” was aired. Sadly I didn’t understand English at that time so I had no idea about the anime plot.

I played Duel Masters a bit when it was out. I remember looking into the OCG a few years back, and really liking a lot of the unique mechanics the game had, like folding cards, multiple types of Extra Deck with different rules, dual cards, multiple art card sets, all stuff TCGs we have over here would adopt over time.

As someone who's kind of digitally introducing my friends to this in the TCG side, really fun & i wish we could somehow get the packs goin worldwide again outside of Japan.

Kaijudo was a wild ride, but didn't really have anything to do with the card game (Which they did try and re-launch *as* "Kaijudo" here in the west). Duel Masters the card game in Japan though... Damn that thing has gotten WILD. Multi-faction creatures, faction-less creatures, double- and even triple-sided cards, cards that combine with others into bigger cards. All while keeping the game true to its core gameplay.

Thanks for the big nostalgia flash! Seeing those card illustrations opened up some childhood memories that I didn't know still existed. I fondly remember collecting and playing the game, though mostly versus myself as a child, since I don't think any of my friends actually played Duel Masters in addition to the usual Yugioh or Pokémon. I also barely watched any of the anime and had completely forgotten that it existed at all.

I love all your hard work Jordan keep it going man and happy holidays!

Played and enjoyed the ps2 game, when i went to try it years and years later with my getting back into tcgs I found out it was only in Japan. The new Digimon tcg has a similar defense with security so I also thought about it as I started to play that.

I had a book from this series when I was younger. Recently tried remembering what it was and felt crazy when I couldn’t find it online. Thanks for covering it

Fun fact: I was an administrator for the Kaijudo wiki before it was discontinued and I moved on to becoming admin for the Digimon wiki. While I didn't follow DM after it ended in the US and so had to catch up with the Japanese DM card game, I still have a soft spot for both DM and Kaijudo.

Fun fact: This series is the sole reason why the Yugioh Rush Duels format, along with Sevens and Go Rush Anime series exist in the first place after Yugioh Vrains.

I do still remember this series from my childhood and it was honestly my gateway into Magic the Gathering

In Finland where I'm from we didn't get Yu-gi-oh when I was young, and the Pokemon tcg was way too complicated for kids my age we found the perfect game in Duel Masters. So many great memories from dueling and trading cards with my friends and opening Ballom, Master of Death from a pack. Thanks for the nostalgic video!

I LOVED Yugioh as a kid and my Dad always tried to learn it to play with me, however he just was unable to grasp it as a game (mostly due to me being unable to differentiate between the show rules and the official rules). Instead we used to play the PS2 game of Duel Masters together and even today we often chat about how much fun it was. That PS2 game, along with Star Wars Racer Revenge and the Ratchet and Clank series, created so many foundational memories for me. I never knew that it had a series though! Mind blown ahaha

This was my childhood as a kid, and it got me into Magic as an adult.

Duel Masters has been among the big 3 in card games in Japan along side Pokemon and Yugioh. I think it's only recently that the One Piece TCG has made its way in and is vying for a slot in that said big 3. Anytime I visit my folks out there, it's always a surprise to see hobby shops still lined with Duel Masters singles. Many stores even specialize in just Duel Masters, which would've been unheard of outside of the country. I appreciate this little trip down memory lane!

As Duel Masters media archivist in a way, it is nice seeing people talking about it and putting some research into topic (hearing people genuinely going "ygo rip-off" can get tad tiring) It really managed to become my favorite TCG franchise in span of just few years just from everything it has to offer, shame it never was able to stick in the west despite some other TCGs, that did end up having localization, or were made in the west, borrowing some mechanics/taking inspiration from it even. The way they handled the dub of Shobu era still baffles me to this day, that to say, my friend got to ask Kevin Rubio once about it and his response was: "When Magic hired me their specific direction was "we want you to do what you do"-"Oh! You wan me to make shit up!?"-"Yes"", so ig that explains some of that, alongside with the budget reasons

Not only have I've seen duel masters. This a few others are some videos I hoped you would go over this year. I remember the 25 days if frindgemas that you were trying to find your Christmas spirit again. That's how I've found you and just kept watching.

I remember getting both the ps2 game and the Gameboy game and ima tell ya those were some of my first rage quits

I never got to watch this show as a kid but always wanted to. The card game seemed really cool.

Wow, nostalgia unlocked. I'd forgotten about Duel Masters. Although listening to you describe characters and plot points, it really drives home how similar Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters and Cardfight Vanguard animes are to each other in regards to the main character speaking to his cards, the monsters actually being from another realm/world, and believing in your deck to achieve victory.

duel masters looks like one of those anime parodies you'd see the main character watching for like one episode

I remember this series I loved it so much especially all the fourth wall breaking

i blame the dub for the duel masters lack of popularity.

I used to watch it in Nicaragua and sometimes late at night on Toonami when I was really young. Ended up thinking it was some fever dream for years before realising it was real.

Hey Jordan , love your work it hits the nostalgia factor just right and I just have some suggestions like you can do a reminder ratman or eion kid and p.s that one cartoon where a emo kid can lockup demons in a jar

Loved this when it came out with the card game and the show 😁 wondered where it had gone 🤔

I didn't mind Duel Master; but I think the reasons why it struggles is due to the cards being near impossible to find; and that it was too comedic. And where the heck is Shobu getting all these brothers from when his dad is constantly missing.

I still play Duel Masters! There is a game for everyone to play - Duel Masters Play's. It's originally in japanese, but there is a way to play in english :) I love the machanics of the game, artwork and flavor.

I remember watching to show and I loved it!! If you continue to do card/game related shows could you do Vanguard and Bakugan Battle Brawlers? I absolutely adore both these shows so much!! Loved collecting the cards & figures.

People still play it on their phones.

GET IN THE BATTLE ZONE!!!!

I watched a lot of your videos and every time I see "remember" in the title, I'm reminded that the golden age of growing up (in my case, as a teen) in the 2000s was over 20 years ago Stop that. But keep going, I like your content

Found my old deck a couple of months ago when i was cleaning out some old stuff. It brought back memories

“I am an evil genuis. I know everything.” That line got me in so much trouble quoting

Me and my buddy actually got really into Duel Masters when we were kids. We worked part time jobs at 15 just to buy cards. Dope times. Still got my cards

I've had the soundbite for the guy saying 'bloody squito' (one of the black monsters) stuck in my head since I was a kid

So it's based on MTG, no wonder the card art was so amazing. They really left an impression on me. I still have dreams about that awesome dragon that was the ace of the main characters deck.

This reminds me of the series Chaotic. I saw it as a kid and it was underrated...then again it was on 4 Kids TV, so there were a lot of underrated series like Mucha Lucha and especially Xiaolin Showdown

i remember duel masters fondly from when i was a kid. the artworks are really amazing and i sometimes go back at look at them

Huge props for making english Duel Masters content man. We love that! Myself and a few other members of the community have translated the CCG, Duel Master's Plays. Stop by the Discord server and give it a shot!

DUDE hell yeah I remember, I loved this shows, it had good story and jokes (it was probrably the american translated to local but still funny) I loved the monsters art and how cool they were. There was one store in town that sold basic decks and I had the fire and darkness decks combined. I managed to introduce it into school and played alot with class mates, I was shit at it but, good times...

I never played the game but I do vaguely remember sometimes catching episodes here and there since it was on Toonami and I would only sometimes get a chance to either catch it or have cable access to actually see it. I think I chalk it up to the same vaugeness I remember Prince of Tennis, Mar and Zatch bell growing up since I could never fully catch the shows but did enjoy watching them when I got the chance to.

The toys were such HIGH quality, I loved them. Still have the Bolshack Dragon.

That’s too weird I just started rewatching this show yesterday! I love the over the top “this is a show that knows is a show” gags and jokes

So funny (to me) story, about a year ago my buddy asked me to play mtg for the first time. As I never played an actual card game before they sat there and explained the rules and while they were explaining it all sounded kinda vaguely familiar to me. Maybe halfway into the game my brain goes “oh this is like that one game we used to play on that old gameboy we used to have”. So anyway time passed and I didn’t think much of it. This was randomly in my recommended and you just answered so many questions, thank you sir.

How can't i remember Duel Masters ? Some of their cards was awesome and i'm looking for those one: - Billion-degree Dragon - Alcadeias lord of spirits - Giriel the ghastly warrior - Astrocomet dragon - Crystal Paladin - Earthstomp Giant - Stratosphere Giant In Japan duel masters become Kaijudo and they have a lot of strong cards too

We went crazy for Duel Master here in Italy around 2005. Still have my collection and my deck, the official magazines and a flaming grudge for those who never published my Urth The Purifying Elemental drawing on those magazines

I remember getting some of the cards in a few happy meals as a kid. Never knew anything about what they were connected to until this day.

"Remember Duel Masters?" How can I not? I'm literally playing it right now on my mobile phone.

I used to watch this all the time as a kid, I even had the Duel Masters Codex will all of the creature information. No wonder I like MTG so much as an adult.

DUDE!!! You opened up a whole missing memory!!! I’m 30yrs old and now I actually remember collecting the cards THINKING they were yugioh cards 😅 I remember watching the show alil bit too.!

Duel Masters is still a thing but you have to live in Japan/Asia. It's not available outside of it. They still have the anime as well but it hasn't even been subtitled. You have to learn/Know japanese to watch it. Actually they have several animes after the original but none have been Subbed or dubbed. It's a real shame because it is really really cool.

There was three people that played Dual Masters in my home town and I was one of them. My friend and myself would buy a booster pack each weekend and trade the pack before opening, we stopped after he gave me a pack with Alcadeias in it.

any sites that i can go into to watch the anime especially those that continued to air in japan..?

Can anyone tell me im a big fan since a kid and im planning to make an english sub for duel master anime after the first one,after the first anime no english translation available,can some tell me an app that convert audio to text then japanese text to english srt?

The only thing I vaguely remember about this franchise is that a short story was featured in a comic I once owned.

I have only one memory of this. There was an ad for this on a hand-me-down pokemon VHS I owned at age 3-4 in 2004. I remembered understanding nothing of it. Also, for those curious... The pokemon VHS had the episode of Pikachu I think fighting a cloyster on a bridge I think?

Finding this video is insane because just yesterday I was with the only one other person I know in my whole life that plays this game and we had a nostalgic duel with basic red and blue decks lmao

Im 30 and I still have my duel master cards. Their in a tin packed away but i still got them. My little brother and some friends played when we were kids. I have fond memories of this card game.

5th grade days wow! KZfaq indeed is the closest thing we've got to time machine. I remember trading almost my whole deck for a single card Bolshack Dragon or whatever the name of that card is lol.

Yes! I remember the commercial being on a DVD for Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever. It was my first experience with Duel Masters and I was HYPED to learn more about it!😊😂🎉❤

I was thinking about this a few months ago for the first time in 20 years.. i remember being in 4th grade playing this on game boy advance and watching the show. I was thinking about it on gameboy advanced but i couldnt remember the name at all till i seen this video just now. They definitely had us hooked with these games and series in 2003. I remember picking it off the shelf in eb games

In Finland we just didn't get Yugioh on TV until GX, yet we did have Duel Masters and maaany at my school collected the cards, we used to play with em on the ground during breaks. I only knew a single guy who had Yugioh cards, and when I got some as a present I just went all "these are lame" lol. The new Digimon TCG has almost the same game system, me and buds I've taught the game to even lay out the game's "security" cards like "shields" in Duel Masters.

One of my favorite games. I used to play an Aqua/Light control deck with Aqua Hulcus (MVP) and the evolve card, Lancer. When I first got the game I bought like 3 of the same precon and built the fastest RDW I could build.

I distinctly remember one Summer when everyone seemed to have Duel Masters cards, and I really got into it then. I never watched the anime (although, I'm tempted to go back and do so for a few laughs), but I built several decks and played the game quite a bit with my friends. The game itself has a solid set of rules and I like it a lot, it's a shame it didn't stick around for long after that. Of course, I still have all my old cards!

Had a very short but very intense period of fun with Duel Masters TCG. Last about 3 years of my high school but then it quickly faded into obscurity

So I really enjoyed duel masters. A big part that drew me in was the art work of the cards. I kept up with it all the way to threw Duel Masters Victory. I was able to keep up with it because I was able to find a lot of the episodes on Vimeo (albeit most of the time not subbed). Like I said before the biggest fascination for me with this series was the art work of the cards. It was just so different from Yugioh and Pokemon cards and honestly at times seemed better because it seemed like the creators put a big more work into it with the details.

Okay but does anybody know where I can watch all of the dub of this show? I’ve always wanted to I could never find all the episodes

I have a very strong memory of daycare playing this game with a friend of mine for a few hours. Once I got older, I found the PS2 game and played it relentlessly. i wish i knew where those cards went.

Is this the show where as show of disrespect the opponent released a guys cards to wind and passed gas at the same time?? I distinctly remember that happening in a show.

where can you watch this show now? i need to watch this again

I actually loved this game!!! I went to one tcg tournament when I was a kid, but I knew it was a small market for it. The only people that I could find that wanted to actually play was my brother and a couple of friends at the library. The gba game was actually fun too. Still have my mono fire deck with the tournament deck case

Not only DM is still alive and well in Japan but also one of big 3 TCGs there. Oh and it's also very influencial with many TCGs taking some things from it. Mainly some variation of it's life decking system but some times it's resource system. Current Digimon card game pretty much uses same life decking system.

I was so nostalgic for this card game, I bought an Abzo Dolba off eBay during quarantine. I used to play the PlayStation card game all the time in middle school.

Here where I live the show was INCREDIBLY popular -you could find cards and of course - bootleg versions of cards in like every corner store. The game itself...did not take off, since no one knew how to play it from the show. We did play it tho - not in an intended way I guess. We would each bet a card, then rock-paper-scissors together. The winner takes the cards, bets on the side it will land on (or which will be face-up, it was all up to negotation beforehand), place the pile on their fist and then flick into the air using the thumb. Whichever card landed on the side he bet on - he would take these cards as his own. Then you repeat the rock-paper-scissors with the remaining cards as stakes - until no cards were left, then you bet cards yet again. Until you get bored of it and/or someone eventually went to cry cause he lost his property in this childhood gambling session.

This game was played in Romania so much but people in my town didn't understand the rules until i had to tell everyone how to do it. It was amazing, some friend and thousand of cards, some had less, but it's a fun memory i have from my childhood.

where can i watch all eposieds