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This video is just negative flexing his holos

At the end if it all, Yu-Gi-Oh! is about games and the friendships forged from them. To those who were fortunate enough to grow up with the original, we know this all too well.

Rest in peace Kazuki Takahashi. Thanks for the memories.

Thanks for inviting me to be a part of this! It came out great!

The ending made me very emotional. Yu-Gi-Oh was my only escape from reality in a seemingly hopeless childhood. Even as an adult this game and these characters will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart.

I don't agree with censorship of card art or the anime. Censorship of art is wrong.

The best thing we got from the 4Kids Localized version is the theme song, which became a pretty emblematic piece of the Yu-Gi-Oh! world on its own.

Fun fact companies who have had their show dubed by 4kids would rather have you pirate their show instead giving 4kids money

Every time I hear Dan Green's voice as the pharoh, I can't help but think of "Cluck like a chicken! DO IT NOW!"

This is almost like a Netflix documentary. Thank you, my favorite archetype is Cyber Dragon.

Correction: Dark Side of Dimensions was a sequel to the Manga

The ULTIMATE documentary on Yugioh's past and present. I feel sad where the game ended up as I remember the first time I held Yugioh cards,the Yugi Starter deck as well....

Rest in peace Takahashi you touched so many lives you'll be greatly missed.

Joey: Do you need your insulin??? I'M CRYING! AHHHHHH! 4kids may censor the shit out of everything, but they were some funny people.

So glad I stumbled upon these two videos. Yu-Gi-Oh released in the US when I was 10, and now 16 years later, I still collect them and it reminds me of my childhood and the magic that I felt when I saw these things on my tv screen come to real life in my hands. YGO4LIFE.

That final quote is probably one of the most true things I've ever heard. Hats off to you three for creating this video, well done.

The "Duelist" and "Millennium World" subtitles for the manga are U.S.-only. The original Japanese manga series was 38 volumes all just simply titled "Yu-Gi-Oh!"

this should be on Netflix lol very well made documentary.

Remember when this game was about summoning monsters, using spells and reducing your oppenent's life points to 0? Yeah, those were the days.

Yu-Gi-Oh GX anime will always be a part of me as a person and I'll be waiting even 10 years from now for the official season 4 dub and for Bastion to finally play that fire dragon from the damn intro. GET YOUR GAME ON!!!

Card games on motorcycles!

I wish I could come back to this game. But being a broke kid/ teen spending all his extra money on cards and making smart trades only to lose everything twice because of theft, it just hurt too much. I made a lot of friends and had some great times, and I still think about playing now and then but the community is not all that inviting, and spending hundreds of dollars just to barely have a working deck isn’t worth it.

Dark side of dimensions is the best Yu-Gi-Oh! movie.

You forgot the mention that fact that the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh is now handled by 4K Media which correct me if I'm wrong was originally the dubbing studio behind the 4Kids animes before it went under, the studio is now operated under Konami while the rest of 4Kids is dead. That's why actors from the 4Kids era like Dan Green and Eric Stuart are able to reprise their roles in the recent movies and mobile games.

Heads up Takahashi actually just came out with a short manga series called The Comiq in weekly shonene jump

i simply cant believe the amount of research and time that mustve gone in this video. apart from being very informative and insightful it was also just truly beautiful. thank you negative legend!

Excellent Job

I stopped playing when Pendulums then Links came out. Xyz and Synchro were still in the same game mechanic as the normal game and still used monsters like tributed monsters and fusions. And then, Pendulums came out, addind Pendulum Zones and adding a spell effect to a monster and then those crystals, nah that was too much. Later, I wanted to come back to the came, and then there is Link monsters everywhere that stop you from playing the game normally with like Synchros, Xyz and Fusions. Now everyone just plays Links, and maybe some fusions etc... but not really for the monster itslef, but for another card that just uses it. I miss the old days man...

Hate to say it but I really dislike the KZfaq premiere feature. And while I enjoy knowing when a video is released, Google should instead focus on making sure notifications go through in the first place. It's a patch that doesn't quite cover the hole. Change my mind.

7:52 Teledad was also likely the most expensive yugioh Tier 0 Deck ever created. This is because dark armed was easily 150-200$ if not more at launch and it ran the infamous crush card virus which was a 1500-2000$ Plus there were plenty of other supers and ultras that added up like if it ran malicious x3 those would be like 40-60$ each

I listened to this while I was working at my desk, it made my day and has re-sparked my passion for the game. Thank you :) keep up the great work!

It fascinates me that Japanese manga writers can have that kind of privacy. Well "More" privacy anyway. As a result they'll be remembered for whatever they leave behind or create. Who they were is their's alone........ It's like the picture of a writer hunched over a typewriter blocking everything else out

That's why my opinion Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 is the best cartoon. Made me forget all about the Western 4kids adaptation. Oh an in honor of MGS screw Konami!

Yugioh Japanese dub is great and without the censorship feels like a different show. Worth the watch but the English is definitely nostalgic

i really enjoyed this project and it really walked me through my childhood. the music sampled from The Sacred Cards was amazing and hit me really hard as i imagined when i was in elementary school playing that on my GBA. Definitely hit me hard in the feels and i am so happy to still be a part of this game.

First ever yugioh volume was so dark, great read. I loved it, can't way to rediscover it in about 10 years

the idea behind link monsters was great... but than they said "screw it let's use tokens and link up monsters as well as extra link" which was for me the reason (before link summoning) to quit this game as player and only watch it from a distance. It's not a game for me anymore as a more control player. It was a great time, i met nice people and made a lot of friends Regarding the ygo manga: interesting, over here in Germany we do not have this "seperation" it's only "yugioh Manga" from start to finish :) and we have over 40 issues together (starting from the "a different game each chapter, over to DM and than the Millenium world) also Carlsen Manga (the German Distributor) didn't make any cuts

Yugioh 5Ds and XYS was the peak of the series and the game

2008 was also the dark year for the entire series. The Yu-Gi-Oh GX series was wrapping up, and not only did the anime begin to take some dark turns (characters permanently dying, the main character turns evil, etc.), but the actual TCG was saturated with the dark versions of cards (Dark Armed Dragon, Dark Grepher, Dark Horus, Dark General Freed, Darklord Zerato, the Evil HEROs, I could go on), all of which influenced the competitive game for years to come, even to this day. Also, shame on you if you played an Elemental HERO deck (like me), because they lost practically all viability in their original form following the implementation of Link Summoning, forcing you to play Masked HEROs if you want to have a _chance_ of winning.

yugioh made me feel less alone growing up thank you

I have never really played the game, but I followed it out of curiosity, but this video is absolutely brilliant! Please, make more videos like this!

Thank you so so much for making a documentary on possibly one of my most favorite childhood memories of all time Yu-Gi-Oh with such an amazing card game back in the day and I still love to watch the shows from time to time and I find it so fascinating to see the story and how it started keep up the great work dude

You did a great job the ending made me tear up you have shown me just how special the yugioh community is and how happy I am to be part of it

Censorship kills the fun!

XYZ was when things started going downhill and went into scrub territory. At this point in time, people started to build less complex decks because the skill ceiling of the game was lowered. Synchros brought the game to new heights because it rewarded _skillful_ gameplay and creative deck building due to the complexity of the summoning mechanic whereas Xyz rewarded uncreative deck building and *skilless* spamming due to its simplicity. The game went from who can play better to who can spam more when it transitioned from Synchros to XYZ. Pendulums was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was the most *unfair and toxic* game mechanic by design. Cards like Dimension Fusion, Return from the Different Dimension, and Soul Charge that were *banned or limited* just for the very ability of summoning multiple monsters at once to overwhelm the opponent; Pendulums had that in Spades. Not only did the mechanic offer the user the ability to do what these cards were banned and limited for at *no cost,* it also allowed the user to do so *EVERY TURN.* People made the argument that it was somehow fair because you could MST one of the scales, but they fail to point out that if the entire deck was made up of Pendulum monsters + Spells/Traps, then it was the equivalent of playing a 40 card Spell/Trap deck. It was not practical to disrupt these decks with Spell/Trap destruction cards because the optimal number of Spell/Trap destruction cards to play in a deck is 5 - 8 at most. 8 Spell/Trap destruction cards VS 40 card Spell/Trap (Pendulum) decks would lead to the non-Pendulum Deck losing 95+% of the time because not only do you have to hard draw into them, you also have to have 3+ Spell/Trap destruction cards in your starting hand if you happen to go first; or else your opponent will overwhelm you by summoning 3+ recyclable monsters every single turn. Not only that, but even if you do manage to destroy their scales, they can always rebuild them because every single monster in a Pendulum deck can be used to rebuild their scales and do their shenanigans all over again. Adding to the fact that if you play more Spell/Trap destruction cards in your deck, it would ruin the sensitive balance of your deck and make it extremely inconsistent. This leads to using floodgates as the only practical means to counter these unfair things, which leads to another set of problems: floodgates in themselves are toxic, which led the game to a period of toxic gameplay for a long time in which it wasn't really fun anymore to play. Links was Konami's poor excuse of an answer to fixing Pendulums. By design, we all knew that it was to balance the state of the game and patch the unfair design flaws of Pendulums and make them more balanced. On top of that, they also revamped how Pendulums worked by getting rid of the scales and moving them to the outermost zones of the Spell/Trap Zones. Idiots no longer had anything backing their arguments that Pendulums weren't unfair. If Konami went through such lengths to revamp Pendulums, then there was a problem with Pendulums in their fairness in interacting with the rest of the game. The writing was on the wall and they chose to ignore it. Links also have their own set of problems. For one, instead of revamping Pendulums and adding something new to the game, they made all summoning mechanics other than Pendulums have the same Extra Deck restrictions as Pendulums when Links were introduced when Pendulums were the Prime offender of causing the state of the game to go out of control. It's the equivalent of a teacher giving both the bully and the victim equal amounts of detention time when the bully was the one causing the problems. Utterly absurd. Because of this, beloved mechanics like Accel Synchro were thrown under the bus. On top of that, Links can be made by practically using *any* monster to make them. Whereas Synchros and Xyz have a limit to how much you can use the newly summoned Synchro/Xyz monster to summon new ones, Links can literally keep going without ever stopping. This in itself is a design flaw of the Link mechanic because it leads to extreme amounts of spamming to the point where you can literally win the game by winning the die roll and going first. Synchros were the pinnacle of skillful gameplay and creative deck building. It's a shame that Konami got greedy and decided to throw game balance to the wind when introducing new mechanics to keep the game fresh. Edit: Oh yeah I forgot one thing: Extra Linking. Konami for some reason decided to allow Links to have a built-in _Domain of the True Monarchs_ function. Seriously, no one likes not being able to play the game even when that Field Spell was popular. Why did Konami decide to have a mechanic with a built-in function designed to make the other person not be able to play the game? This is something that the playerbase has always hated.

Dude I freaking cried when the Pharoah showed up in Darkside of dimensions! That's pretty rare for me!

Ep 1 was in my watch later all week but I was busy at work, this is the pretty neat to watch it back to back as its coming out. Good stuff!!

I fell away from playing the game that much sometime between when Lightsworn monsters were released and Synchro monsters dominated. I played some of the Nintendo DS games for a bit of time later up to the 5Ds era, but since then it seemed like the game jumped the shark. Although there was one time not too long ago when I decided to get out some of my old cards and join in with some people playing at a university game room. I managed to give them a hard time with my fiend-control deck. :)

7:03 ON MOTORCYCLES!!!! "...while riding motorcycles for high speed..." Goddammit, you had ONE JOB! ONE!!!

This 2-part series is wonderful with so much care placed into it. Thank you very much for this. I love Yu-Gi-Oh! and have grown up with it as a kid, though stopped caring at some point. I have been reinvigorated multiple times to return to the series, be it the card game or anime, I keep coming back to this series. I love XYZ cards and the GX era of anime. That era gets some dislike from the community, but I am very happy to hear the manga is one of the best. I've never actually read any Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, but you've encouraged me to start. Thank you again so much for this!!!! :)

These videos have been such a fun and nostalgic ride, all I can say is thank you and well done!

what ruined the game? huge card text and 2 turn duels.

i wonder when yugi's hair became soo sharp and pointy, since in the early manga chapters it was alot more floppy paper lookin. great video, i enjoyed watching it ^^

Just as great as the first one. I had never seen ur vids before but this popped up on my recomended and I decided to give it a chance and it sure was worth it

woaw i would love this kind of research , visual editing , love and focus on the important points and turns of a certain topic , for everything, like graphics card history or something like that. GREAT VIDEO.

WOW, What a ending, what a Video. Thank you for this content. Really enjoyed it.

Man, counterfeit cards & 4Kids execs doing shady business practices. I guess YGO isn't just a card game that leads to dark stuff in the anime, too. Great video!

Awesome documentary...kudos! Great information, great recap, colaboration with other fantastic Yu-Gi-Oh! KZfaq content creators, a lot of feeling, sentimental and nostalgic emotions. I love it...I don't know why are some dislikes. This video was superb! Love it

I just went to Dalez Cardz last week for the first time to buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards for the first time since 2005. I'm not from Colorado either, born and raised in Omaha, NE and moved here 8 months ago. So randomly watching this days after going there is insane. Get out of my head government lol. Amazing Doc man! Keep it up! May see you around Dalez as im practicing to play in the tournaments there.

Yugioh gx aired on Cartoon Network 5ds was on cw

Great mini documentary!

This documentary of yours is amazing. I'm still impressed by the details you put on everything. Thanks for that, you updated me in years of yu gi oh stuff with finesse.

Love your videos and this two-part video was awesome! I seriously love Yugioh. Despite the fact that I don't play the card game (after tuner monsters were introduced) and stopped watching the anime at 5Ds, I continue to watch YT videos about Yugioh... Your channel is informative and balanced. Thanks for this NL!

Thanks for featuring my song

Am I the only one who once got into Yugioh was never confused by the pendulums or links and understood them easily?

great videos man, feels like those mystery documentaries from the 90s

Yugioh was my outlet to being alone as a growing only son to being a big brother, I was rather late to the Original series but I got to experience the GX Era and even play the card game with people, it's been 15 years since I asked a kid in my school "What's that thing in your hand?", now I taught my little brother and we duel regularly, and now he and his friends play during the weekends. This game is a life changer!!

Shout out if this sounds like you: Got an Akibento box last month with dice in it; Thought about an early chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh!; Wanted to ask my brother if he wanted to play a shadow game.

I can't quit Yu-Gi-Oh it too late for me.

I'm actually so excited for this, especially since it'll have Cimoooooooo and Cap, i'm hyped as. After watching that I am very happy with how it turned out. Brilliant video with a very high production quality! Only thing a little off is Link monsters Link Arrows let you special summon monsters from the Extra deck to only those zones. Special summoning in general is allowed wherever, also Extra deck monsters from the Graveyard can be summoned to any zone you wish. Otherwise very accurate video on pretty much every point made in the video.

This is a really well done documentary. From the visuals to the monotone voice, which I think is perfect for a documentary. Reminds me of a crime documentary.

Really awesome video dude 😁, I must say that I would love a remake of the original series, imagine all the characters fleshed out better like Tea, Tristan even Yugi who was unfortunately put a little bit on the side burner for the Pharaoh to shine. "If you have the courage press the button to continue" Here's a pich of how it would go down on a really basic level Lets say this happens after the duelist kingdom arc cause I really like it ( Cause just make the games represent the real game and we ok fam) Like seeing them figuring out the use of the other summoning mechanics as well, like imagine Kaiba being tired of Yugi owning him updates his deck with one of like the "NEW MECHANICS" lets say (Synchro, Xyz) that were just made available, so kaiba just demands of Maximilious to make him the Synchro versions of blue-eyes and affiliated new cards(Battle ensues Kaiba wins). Yugi loses to Kaibas new cards, but then Pegasus gives him the Xyz versions of dark magician and the rest of the stuff like Kaiba's. (Cause Pegasus is salty 😛). Joey seeing all this and wanting to became stronger goes to tournaments through out the city and stumbles upon a tour that Pegasus sponsored (since he is in the town, for the funnies 😁), Pegasus sees Joey and through dueling with him and proving him self (with rest of character development) Pegasus offers Joey the "Once in a life Chance" like he would put it 😉for Joey to have cards of his own design made as long as they are approved by him as such him getting all the new Red-eyes cards. Battle city starts Kaiba now full of him self of being number one player in Japan wants to make him self number one in the world and holds battle cities around the globe in true Kaiba fashion and he comes to call it instead "Battle World!" Also Tristan enters the tournament with a warrior Synchro deck 😉 and maybe even Tea is like "Lets Go Girl" and gets Mai's help and enters with a Ritual deck. The God cards would also exist and the such but they would be like a Special new type of card (Leave that to your imagination 😛). The rest of the Arcs of the OG series I leave it up to you, but I must say I would like for the last season to have a bit more Duels 😛. For the pendulum and link mechanics I don't really want them showcased 'cause they are just to weird to grasp or put in the story in my opinion. Thank you if you read all this really happy that you did, leave comments and opinions as well 😁

Let’s just ignore all the not pendulum decks that did well between 2013 and 2017. Zoo, BA, ABC, Paleo, HERO like 4 different times, Brick Eyes, Shaddoll, Dino, etc. etc.

Thank you sir, very wonderful video. Brought a lot of nostalgia, and I actually just found all of my old cards while watching too. Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day man.

THAT ENDING THO 😭 thank u again neg leg as always, for making the documentaries I’d wished for years someone would make. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

4kids eventually became 4k media inc. which dubbed the arc-v series. konami/4k licensing is dubbing the vrains series.also funimation was almost able to redub the duel monsters series. Id also like to point out that 4k media inc actually allowed a gun to be in dark side of dimensions

I just prefer the battle city rules and game. Never took to the new stuff

was waiting patiently for this episode and its finally here! great documentary ! absolutely loved it. well done!

I really dig your style. I'm currently in the process of doing a doc myself chronicling my journey to rebooting Dungeon dice Monsters as a stand alone board game

R.I.P. Kazuki Takahashi

I cant wait for this, I'm literally skipping track practice tommorow to watch this, I watched the first part and loved it so much, it was really informative, I found this channel at the right time since I got into the game after a 2 year break. You got a sub!

I just want to give major props on the creators of this video. I havent played Yugiuoh since HS (2006ish) but watching this brings back major nostalgia. It's good to know there is a community out there. As a kid, it was a great place and environment go be a part of and to have a sense of belonging. Thanks for this video guys 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Very nice little documentary you put together here. Nicely done.

I remember when I was playing yugioh duel generations multiplayer, i was playing against someone who was using deskbots. Turn 2 i get brutally defeated by 5 15,000 atk point monsters. What was konami thinking in creating pendulum summoning?

All that, and no mention of LittleKuriboh? That's disrespectful, man..

Damn, very impressive job on the playmat featured at the end and a well done job on both of the videos Negative. Liked your documentary styled series and wish to see more phenomenal content from you in the future!

I was one of those kids who was literally raised with Yugioh. It was the first anime I saw as a very small toddler and it's been the one anime I literally could never stop loving no matter how badly the dub aged or how difficult the card game is to follow. This documentary was really awesome and warmed my heart as a long time fan of the original Yugioh and GX. Thanks for making such an amazing video

I think YGO has less player than ever and much less engagement. Old players leaves and new player can't start because super high learning curve. Tournaments offer no real money so there is no such thing as professional player/team. Look at Hearthstone tournament. Konami is MUCH larger company than Blizzard. Konami's greediness and cluelessness slowly killing the game.

Now firewall is banned it the OCG!

I remember before & after i saw the 3 movies in theaters,there were many duelists who played & traded cards while talking bout their personal history w/the game & anime.i've heard many people's stories & will always cherish the memories of meeting,playing,& trading w/those friendly duelists

Yo, I enjoyed this documentary really much, you did a great job dude. Thank you so much for doing this.

I'm so confused on gameplay after 5D.

So basically konami and Yu-Gi-Oh bring the culture of pay to win and EA spreading it 😂😂

Gerar job man! Really. Best documentary on Yu-Gi-Oh I have ever seem in my entire life. Great work from Cimoooooooo and Mega Cap G too. Please make more of these

An amazing video production! You’re really good at directing your documentaries and I highly enjoyed this. Looking foreword to more work from yoh

I must to meet him the original creator, there is still another story to be told

Always loved the series but stopped playing/watching since I grew out of it. Then duel links came out and here I am again. An immature adult. Thanks Konami!!

Good job on the video man you really out did yourself here. I remember when I first saw this channel due to my Interest in force of will and slowly the quality of your videos have been getting better and better keep up the good work man.

very good video,the way it was edited and how it highlight the good and bad of the game and things out side of it.Loved the work and i think you have a talent.Keep up the great work.