Since people keep mentioning it, yes, I am aware that Kazuki Takahashi died while trying to save people from drowning. I recorded this script back in September and didn’t think to put in a correction after the news broke.

The funny thing is Dungeon Dice Monsters is actually really fun and engaging to play. Konami just fumbled the execution in getting people to pick it up that it failed spectacularly

"Yugi... A Champion does not belong on his knees." Easily, 1 of the best Quotes in the Original Yugioh!

I'll never get over the fact that Joey got cheated out of the Battle City finals due to his duel turning into a Last Man Standing match.

Joey to me always struck me as the quintessential example of a great best friend. He always struck me as that kind of guy who will try his damness to help you back up to your feet regardless if whether or not he has the best understanding on what you are going through let alone what troubles you.

Also, Rebecca is an underrated character. She is one of the few people who are actually good at this game, especially by real life standards. All of her decks involve an actual strategy, gameplan, wincon, and backup plan. Even when using Janky Duelist Kingdom Rules, her gameplan was effective, use Canon Solider to burn, and when/if that fails, summon Shadow Ghoul and ungabooga what is left of her opponent's life points. But the bear example is her using Nurse Burn, bloody Nurse Burn (which if memory serves was one of the best decks in the real game at the time) and plays it pretty much flawlessly. Whereas by comparison, Kaiba aside, almost all the other main characters threw a bunch of shit at the board that they liked and see what stuck. Which made for fun duels, but doesn't change the point I am trying to make I feel. Also, Kaiba flexing on German Pegasus is one of the greatest things in Yu-Gi-Oh.

As a person who falls in the intersection wrestling fan and anime fan. This video genuinely made laugh and smile because wow all your wrestling references spot on. And then the "I put a spell on you" was great for all the shenanigans portions. Gained a subscriber

The Duelist Kingdom arc for Kaiba was about him being able to put his pride aside. Prior to Duelist Kingdom, out of pride he sought out, and destroyed the only other Blue Eyes card in existance, so that ONLY he could use it, making blue eyes almost a symbol of his pride incarnate. He then lost, perhaps because of his pride, to Yugi. In duelist kingdom, he's there to rescue Mokuba for the most part. When he threatens "victory or death" to Yugi, he's throwing his pride away so that he actually has a real chance to save his brother. That's character growth. Duelist Kingdom was also his first step towards accepting the idea that having a social group to fall back on was maybe better than relying solely on his own power. In Battle City, this expands into him being willing to take part in a tag shadow duel with Yugi, and work together. In the Orichalcos arc, filler or not, he basically sacrifices himself at the end, making it possible for Atem to get his head back in the game to win. Then, before the final duel between Yugi and Atem, Kaiba truly accepts the idea of teamwork, and offers to help Yugi get any cards he needs for his duel. I couldn't see the Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom, or early Battle City doing that.

The reason why things are the way they are in the last arc is because the OG writer didn't complete his writing of it. There was meant to be more context between Atem and Seto but he never got around to finishing it. So the show had to go off of what was there.

I love Yu-gi-oh's shenanigens. The show wouldn't be the same without them. I remember buying a big set of cards and trying to play the game the way I saw it in the anime. Didn't work out so well, couldn't send my friend to the shadow realm, 0/10, would not play again

Last year KZfaq recommended me a clip from YGOTAS. It was during a temporary lockdown at school so we had to do finals from home. It was a nightmare. I binged YGOTAS that week and got emotionally invested. That’s the story of how a 19 year old got into a 22 year old childrens cartoon about card games.

Being a 13 year old fangirl at the time of running in TV, it is almost funny to me, how short you cut Marik and Bakura in the Battle City Tournament arc. These guys made the show for me so much I started to dislike the heros and watched season 2 nearly a dozend times. Just shows how much there is to love in the series, if everyone finds their special place and characters for themselves.

Joey is the best non Special Duelist ever. He isn't the Chosen One,like Yugi or Yusei. He isn't the OP Rival, like Kaiba or Kait. He and crow are the best Normal duelists,with Rebecca coming third (for now,in the future she'll definitely be World Champion like Aster).

This is such a great video, in my downtime & when I'm unwinding I like listening to people talk about nostalgic video games/shows, and there isn't that much good yugioh content out there that takes me back, the best I get is the 'everything wrong with yugioh' series from cvit and Little Kuriboh's yugioh the abridged series, this is fantastic, I'll be rewatching this like crazy over the years

so yeah in the manga duke devlin's father was cursed a long time ago after playing a shadow game with grandpa and he raised duke to take revenge on _little_ yugi and win his millennium puzzle and that's why they play dungeon dice monsters (also because it's about being the king of all games and doesn't really have anything to do with duelist kingdom at all), also it doubles as the pre-battle city episode although it doesn't introduce marik yet because it does feature the scenes where evil bakura appears and helps yugi while sealing a piece of his soul in the puzzle and a scene where duke's dad knocks over a candle and yugi has to be rescued from the burning building while piecing his puzzle back together etc

ah... the one thing in my childhood that was genuinly a thing I enjoyed because I liked it. No peer pressure or anything. My childhood was literally defined by rushing home from school, doing my homework as fast as I could to be done by 3:30pm to watch yugioh and then going to my friend's place to do other stuff we both liked, be it outside or later gaming related. I even liked capsule monsters enough to build my own out of frickin toiletpaper rolls and such. I got into yugioh again somewhere between GX and 5DS when it was popular at school and went undefeated with a zombies deck I build out of two structure decks and a bit of trading. Good ol' Wall of Illusions, Fissure and Traphole carried me hard :)

The mia scene is haunting because it’s what depression actually feels like

It’s embarrassing that I was beaten by a kid playing Yugioh cards. However, this series definitely kickstart my childhood in the early 2000s. The only problem is that the cards belong to my friend (who is a science teacher, right now). *Other than that, it’s a 9/10*

yu gi oh is genuinely great. I take it seriously. it is fiction unfortunately but not corny. Friendship is underrated and excellent.

1:44:13 😢 tears for Kazuki Takahashi. He created the anime that my sister taught me the meaning of and created the gateway to other anime series and role playing. I might base a character of him in my own upcoming novel series

The quick attack and defusion Yugi used to beat Noah was classic.

LOL. The picture of Brett and Bulldog while saying Yugi let Atem take control of his body was tremendous. Even if only 1% of viewers will get the reference.

1:05:44 the reason Mai and even the other three bikers and Dartz reason for their actions is deeper explained in the Japanese version

Pegasus's story is even more tragic in the manga. Although, his motivation and the story beats are pretty much the same, Pegasus does not have the luxury of living his life to reflect on his past sins and pain like in the anime. In both the anime and manga, Yami Bakura offers Pegasus another chance to get a millennium item if he beats him in a duel. However, in the manga, Yami Bakura straight up kills Pegasus to claim his prize. it's sort of fitting for Pegasus though. The man who was so focused and stuck in the past has no future when his plans fall apart. Having lost his only chance of possibly getting his back, he no longer has a reason to live because his wife was his life even in death.

This video was full of so much enjoyment for this anime, I was just happy throughout. Like you my love for this anime goes far beyond its cheesiness. Yes the cheesy lines and moments make it enjoyable, but this anime has depth. The whole plot of the pharaohs destiny just builds up with every season ending on a satisfying ending that always chokes me up everytime I see it. Personally my favorite seasons are battle city, the virtual world and the final Egyptian themed season.

This show is just full of fun and ridiculousness. It's nothing without it!

I love this video. You got a like and a sub from me. This is the best summary of the Yu-Gi-Oh DM series I've ever heard. Also love the constant wrestling references

12:90:30. Golden Strombergs upkeep was meant to be paid by Leon as its controller. Siegfried edited this when he added the virus to the card, along with giving it immunity from destruction.

I love this video so much! Yugioh is one of the best things ever and I feel like it never gets the proper recognition it deserves.

Kaiba getting the 4th BEWD made sense because he didn't want anyone else using his iconic card against him. They were also no other easy to summon 3k monsters, with all of them being Gate Gaurdian, Black Skull Dragon, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth or BLS. It was completely unrivaled in Season 1, and even in Battle City basically unrivaled in it's class except against something like Buster Blader but still had great support with Flute of Summoning Dragon. When Pegasus and Joey took Kaiba's Blue-Eyes, it was huge, even Yugi using Dark Magician with Spellbinding Circle was a hyped moment, and Yugi also had to use Blue-Eyes to win against Ghost Kaiba. If Kaiba let someone run around with a card of equal strength, Kaiba would have died from a lack of sleep. His ego in season 2 was obtaining the other God cards because he just couldn't allow other characters to have equally strong cards.

I had to pause it and lol at the “it’s about drive it’s about power” Rocky clip while talking about Kaiba

I just find it funny though that Yami Bakura, which is more or less Zorc's soul lost to Yami Marik, which isn't an ancient powerful soul like Zorc or Atem are. Instead just a manifestation of Mariks pain and suffering at the hands of his father. Imagine being the embodiment of darkness and evil and basically the creator of the millennium items losing to someone with daddy issues. Something like that is why I just can't take Zorc seriously as an antagonist. He was playing a long game but honestly that is just pathetic.

You know what's funny, Rex is like one of the only duelist how never cheated or evil, he's just a punk who plays fair but life screws him over.

CApsule Monsters was a love letter to the first chapters of the manga, EVEN THOSE THAT WHERE MOKUA USED TO BE THE BEST CAPUMON PLAYER DURING THE DEATH-T ARC! And I still like that even those early chapters, the Yugi friends made something instead of only him, so its very nice to see them have to help by fighting along. Also, as you even mentioned something that I didnt about Alexander successor, this arc was about: THE CLASH OF A KING WHO DOESNT RESPECT THEIR SQUIRES AGAINST THE ONE WHO FIGHTS WITH THEM! Showing that Atem wasnt the really selfish king that sealed himself into the puzzle to defeat Zorc y being a bad ruler but by being able to protect those he loves, even doh he gone a little.. insane I guess...

Much love to Yu-Gi-Oh! Great video!

Fun fact: lionhart actually took weevil to a hospital, but for unknown reasons he was changed to have said that he didn’t know where weevil was

I have to give a correction here. It was later confirmed that he didn't just drown while scuba diving, but he had died in a rip current while attempting to rescue a woman and her child.

All these years and I just realized the friendship mark is a smiley face

Okay, this video is the first time I've ever seen a picture of Takahashi's wife (I didn't actually even know he was married until this video), but surprisingly...she looks exactly like she did in the dream I had like, fifteen years ago when I dreamt that...Takahashi had died and his wife asked me to complete the series for him?? lol A weird coincidence to be sure. I love this series, and always have. Takahashi created something wonderful that has brought so many people together. Everything I've heard about him paints him as a kindhearted, compassionate and amazing person. He will be missed, but his legacy will live on forever in this series.

A yugioh video, WITH WWE and yuigoh abriged references..... ♾️/10

I must be the only one who thinks that The Orichalcos arc is one of the best and hypest from the original Yugioh

Just got back into playing old Yu-Gi-Oh formats, grew up on the first season of the anime, also a big wrestling mark. So I couldn't subscribe fast enough! Great vid!

the kick in the door beat for mariks crazy side is so funny

1:04:33 yes the dragons had new abilities. In critias’s case he can merge with trap cards.

20:40 there was a point in gx where pegasus comes back and alot of characters are fawning over him

fun fact: Pegasus told about the ancient ruins of Kul Elna in the manga, but never revealed to anyone. Shadi should may told about it to Yugi... OR EVEN THEY COULD HAVE TO LEARN ABOYUT EGIPTIAN HISTORY IN THEYRE CLASSES BUT THE SCHOOL WAS JUST A BACKGROUND OFR NONE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO ABOUT STUDYING! THE ONLY TIME THIS IS SOMEWHAT MENTIONED IS OBVIOUSLY IN SEASON 0(Shadi episodes) AND TEA SHOWING THE MUSEUM EXIBITHION THAT WAS ANIME ONLY THING!

I'm so glad this showed up in my recommended, I love everything about yugioh so this is a perfect watch

For what it’s worth, Alexander the Great did take over Egypt, but in a lot of ways, he was liberating it from the Persian Empire that had conquered it, and ushered in a cultural renaissance of Greco-Egyptian culture. The concept of what subsequent rulers of Egypt did with the Millennium items is actually pretty interesting. Shame they didn’t do more with it.

Amazing Review!

Still pretty early in the vid at this exact moment. But Im lovin the video and will certainly listen to all of it. Subscribed for sure.

Nice video. If you keep up the quality like this your channel could really blow up some day. New subscriber 👍

Excellent video!!

1:10:03 Yugi and his friends only got to San Francisco because of Pegasus’s private plane. Then Pegasus’s soul was taken. So chances are Professor Hawkins could only afford train tickets for the gang to get to Florida. Not necessarily the writers fault

I didn’t finish the video at all but Kaibas arc is more realized once you read the pre duelist section of the manga and then reading duelist kingdom since compared to what Kaiba was like in the manga compared to how he acts in duelist kingdom, he’s VASTLY improved as a person

I watched the anime and love it cuz im a teen. But in the whole duration of this video, i always think about the abridged series.

Y'know that the Memory World WAS HEAVILY EDITED right? And due to that, it is A MIRACLE THAT THE SEASON EXISTED! So many changes and to me, they were for the better... at least since Takahashi got sick and got his manga viewers lower and lower in buying points... MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL SEE A GOOD DIRECTOR CUT VERSION BY AN APPRENTICE OF HIM!

Only one Pegasus fan in all of fiction? Someone hasn't seen GX, where every single character worships Pegasus any time he's on screen.

Awesome review man! Ied love it if you did GX next!

I heard Kazuki Takahashi was helping others while scuba diving he died a hero, rip

The cut into "i put a spell on you" tickled me every time

1:20:00 This might be a deep cut reference to Jackie Chung from OG Dragonball, who was master Roshi entering the tournament under a false identity to continue to teach his students.

All of the wrestling references were truly amusing

Huh. Been enjoying this video immensely, but your take on the DDM episodes genuinely surprised me. Personally it's been one of my favorite parts of the original Yugioh, filler or not, ever since I was a kid. From the game's mechanics, to its visuals, to Yugi's awesome winter outfit, and above all, the idea of showing how well and how quickly Yugi can adapt to any game (even if it's done in a suspension-of-disbelief kind of way that doesn't make sense. whatever. The same can be said for the vast majority of his Duelist Kingdom matches as well).

1:42:33 nothing wrong with being emotional about the series. My sister and I were emotional with parts like Kaiba’s soul taken by Pegasus or Yugi’s soul taken by the orichalcos and lots of other scenes. Heck sharing the series with my wife because she was curious about it even got her emotional especially when she sees the characters cry

OMG that 40 cc's of friendship had me dying

1:20:11 Seriously Grandpa in disguise is that odd to you. Grandpa’s like a kid at heart just wanting to have fun 😅

Enjoyed the video would like to see you do the other yugioh series

to e true here... I guess since this is a pumped up version of the old version Virtual Reality game.. I guess The Big Five made the Effect of Dark Magician Girl, but forgot to errata that and since they dont revise very well their cards, the "nerby Dark Magician" moment WAS AMAZING!!!!

This was awesome. Love the wrestling references

God i remember hating those virtual world filler arcs lol. Do you have any plans to do a retrospective of Gx?

Capsule Monsters is actually great. Not the anime part, that sucked ass, but the original capsule monsters first showed up in the original manga when Yugi faces Mokuba some time after Yugi beats Kaiba for the first time in the series. It then lead to a PS1 game and a VERY short lived board game, the 2nd of which was the reason behind the anime adaptation of Capsule Monsters. Try out Capsule Monsters Coliseum. Its such a fun game and really is a hidden gem. Lots of great animations, gameplay, and voice lines.

Nice. 357th sub I think. Best of luck with your future vids!

"Whoa, Weevil, this cult is all about doing people."

At least the capsule monster video game on PS2 was freaking amazing unlike the anime equivalent

I stan'd Pegasus as a kid 😳

Joey: whew what’s that smell? Yugi: it’s the fart of the cards. Get reckt

1:01:37 this is probably what led to the duel spirit logic in gx

This video was pretty solid. I'm glad someone is finally publicly acknowledging Season 4 was actually good. A bit sad that you skipped over the entirety (minus the last fight) of Capsule Monsters because that was actually really good. My one thing about this whole video was the incessant and random comparisons to irrelevant wrestling events. Like, why? I was increasingly annoyed by it and a lot of fumbling from your narration that would've been better if you re-recorded the lines. Other than that, thanks for a solid rundown of the original YGO DM anime!

Wow, Noah's arc getting the respect it deserves! Never thought I'd see the day. It's actually my favourite arc of the original series. I can't stand the Battle City finals for many reasons, so to have a break from the worst arc by placing the best arc in the middle of it is brilliant.

This was a great retrospective! Got a sub from me ☺

53:23 nah it’s just Kaiba who said forget the Noa arc

You weren't lame, nor alone for tearing up at Yugi v Atem, that shit made me cry back then as a "too old & cool for Yu-Gi-Oh!" 15yr old, and even today as a "there's no such thing as being too old & cool for something you love" 32yr old.

I wonder how old you are and if you remember Battle Dome? You seem to have grown up watching the things I did 😂 literally my favorite things growing up and really still to this day, Wrestling - Yugioh - Baseball - Mortal Kombat

43:49 well it was in combination with a dark magician girl as a deck master so it had different effects than real life. Sorta like Pokémon logics between the games and anime.

Just a little something to share when I watched the yugioh series back in high school, I always myself dating Tea Gardener aka Anzu Mazaki. She was a very beautiful to me. 🥰

1:34:14 the prince of Egypt music. Amazing choice!!!!!!

"I was bored to tears. Just skip this part. 5.5 out of 10" Wtf is your ranking system?

1:43:56 Yugi’s kinda like Jaden having fun

1:30:01 okay I will admit capsule monsters (kinda cool) isn’t canon and if it was wouldn’t make sense story wise. The other arcs at least felt continuous and flowed but capsule monsters felt like another yugioh universe

My big sister Casey introduced me to yugioh while also helping me get through summer school

5:09 well in Kaiba’s perspective it’s not silly because remember he was raised to win and succeed and if he ever lost he would die. Gozaburo demonstrated this by killing himself after losing Kaiba Corp.

Loved it

For those looking for a deeper Analysis of each episode. Look for DeShinta Reviews! Or just Shinta Reviews. The Dude has a great amount of Informed videos focused around the Japanese series and 4Kids entertainment!

1:31:00 the capsule monsters was introduced in the manga by Mokuba but it wasn’t like what 4kids did

That’s great that you love Jonouchi, but he does like the same 3 strats each duel.

My man, my brother, my fellow Yugioh Enjoyer, please get a pop filter for your microphone lmao. Also please mix/balance the audio a little better next time, I'm all in favor of some parts being a little louder for comedic value, but some of these were more like jump scares haha. Good video though and a fun analysis. No clue who you are or why this ended up in my recommendations, nor why you have so few subscribers for the amount of effort you've put into this video (and I'm sure many others) but I'm glad I got to see it.

1:33:01 there was a video game of capsule monsters released it was likely that which inspired the series

hell yeah

You're underrated!

the “influencer” bit sent me fr 😹