#battle city arc

[kaibasupremacy]

episode 97 was great because we got to see Seto without his coat and this adorable moment where Mokuba is sleeping in it

#seto kaiba #mokuba kaiba #cute #kaibabros #yu gi oh #kaiba #battle city arc

[edgelord-of-the-day]

Edgelord of the Day #52:

Malik Ishtar/Marik Ishtar

Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Battle City arc

#malik ishtar #marik ishtar #edgelord #edgy #edgelord of the day #yu gi oh #yu gi oh! #yu gi oh duel monsters #yu gi oh! duel monsters #duel monsters #battle city #battle city arc #rare hunters #ghouls #jackals #gravekeepers #millennium rod #winged dragon of ra #i planned to count yami marik in this entry but didn’t because it’s a separate personality #yami marik is also edgy tho #marik #malik

[uniasus]

Fic rec! 1k wishshipping

SUMMARY: that was, by far, the stupidest thing you’ve ever done

COMMENTS: the pier duel, now with shivering blanket recovery time and a confession. A sweet read with a touch of hurt comfort (they're already out of the water)

#fic rec #yugioh #wishshipping #duelistkingdom #battle city arc #hurt comfort #h/c

[nerdstify]

when you draw a yugi but he's too damn cute

#yugi moto #yuugi mutou #yugi muto #yugi motou #yugi mutou #yugioh #Yu-Gi-Oh! #ygo #my comics #ygo dm #yugioh duel monsters #ygo duel monsters #ygo fanart #ygo comic #yugioh fanart #yugioh comic #battle city #ygo battle city #battle city arc #yugioh anime #yugioh memes #yugioh meme #yami Yugi #atem #comics #art #my art #my doodles #Luke

[fowlaroundtown]

May I request a doodle of these two homoromamtic meat heads?

OF FREAKING COURSE YOU CAN

I hope you don’t mind!!! Took some creative liberties with the designs UwU

Bonus:

#I love Bebop and Rocksteady so freaking much guys #they were LITTERALLY the best part of City Fall and you can fight me on that #and that’s saying a lot because I really loved City Fall #Second favorite arc in all IDW #just behind the Battle of the Technodrome #ANYWAY THANOBYOU IVE BEEN WAITING FOR AN EXCUSE TO DRAW THESE DORKS #I love them so much #I love 2012 too but IDW Bebop and Focksteady are LITTERALLY the best ever #bebop tmnt #rocksteady tmnt #bopsteady #inbox #requests #my art

[hourly-yugi]

#BATTLE CITY ARC!!!! #yugi mutou #yugioh #yu gi oh #volume 11 chapter 93

[itstimetodrew]

Thinking about how the abuse Marik suffered leads him to inflict similar feelings of isolation and helplessness on Mai. Which in turn traumatizes her and pushes Mai to also find power through punishment and revenge. They never meet again after their duel. Marik never knows the extent of how he affected her, never reaches out to apologize. Would Mai even want or care for an apology? Would it matter to explain how he’s different now? Would acknowledging that they’ve both made it through hell and came out “better” be any sort of closure? They’re have so much impact on each other but likely never speak for the rest of their lives.

#it’s Yugioh so with The Power of Friendship they could talk eventually but boy…the emotions that are under there. #tbh a lot of issues go down to the poor writing of female characters but! that’s how it is! #like ohhh so maybe using Mai as manpain for Joey would have unforeseen consequences that wouldn’t just go away magically 🤔 so #I like how s4 gave Mai that arc of how she was really affected in battle city. but it makes it that much harder for her to just be Gone #when we get back to manga story time :(

[2nagi]

i could write an entire 3-paragraph essay (with sources) on why yugi muto has adhd and how it affects him throughout his story but when it comes to sora it’s just. i dunno he just has it. he has adhd

#i have too many thoughts about characters #i found yugi relatable actually but only in the manga because he was allowed to Do Things in the manga #i love the anime and yami yugi don't get me wrong but like #minimal yugi screentime :( they skipped his character development #he is there at the beginning and the end but shows up very little in battle city which is like. THE yugioh arc #but uhh anyway yugi being prone to tears like an abnormal amount for his age can 100% be interpreted as emotional dysregulation #maybe i just read it that way because i'm like that :/ crybaby alert over here #also he has hyperfixations!! #and not just strong interests like he is interested in games EXCLUSIVELY to the detriment of obligations like. school #but with sora it's just... he has a vibe to him i guess #i diagnose him with silly brain #anyway toonagi overly long tags time woohoo #it's like a special treat you get a whole novel as a bonus :D #sora kingdom hearts #yugi muto #i also headcanon like a lot of characters as having adhd so i think also i'm projecting a little

[kujakumai]

I love final arc Marik. Hanging out in his little vest. Giving out calm, measured exposition. Not an evil laugh in sight. Just being a totally cool chill normal guy in front of all his new friends. Internally I think he’s probably a hyperventilating ball of social anxiety but right now he’s pulling off normal so well. Proud of you, kid.

#i don't get it when people say he's mean all the time he spends this entire arc and the latter half of battle city #pretty successfully impersonating a normal teen #he doesn't say even one nasty thing the whole arc #he's more than capable of successfully pretending to be a chill dude for like at least a couple days #he's right there in canon doing it #down memory lane

[underthetree845]

What I wouldn’t give to be in Connie’s position

#He got to carry Armin through the city #Flying on ODM gear #I know they were in a life-or-death situation #But still #Armin 😭❤️ #Armin arlert #connie sprinter #Battle for Trost arc #Attack on Titan #aot season one (I think) #No one talks about this #Snk #shingeki no kyoujin #friendship goals

[kaibasupremacy]

Happy birthday Ishizu! One of my fav YGO girls

Thinking about that time Seto Sacrificed God in his duel against her in Battle City:

#ishizu ishtar #seto kaiba #battle city arc

[wyllsravengard]

like nyx as a character is so driven by this monumental heartbreak and this deeply despairing relationship with his mother. he loved roxanna his whole life and his mom used to get high enough to come onto him.

he has such. a complex relationship with women its like one of his character flaws that he's very weak to soft / motherly women.

but he loves lae'zel. she's nothing like that. she's so mean to him and not gentle at all but she has no capacity to lie and even less to hurt him seriously. and he comes to love her so wholly because she's a warrior and fierce and. different.

she doesn't need nyx. but she chooses his companionship and forgoes all previous notions of love because of him and he just. comes to adore her so absolutely. he waits for her to liberate her people and writes songs about her journey as warrior. and just. ouughhjh

#z.gen #nyxs story character arc ends up being about roxana who ends up in the city with gortash #his bad ending is going back to her and dying as he joins the battle of the absolute #but his good ending is saving roxana but not forgiving her #unromanced he meets his mother and spends time with her in the epilogue #romanced he opens a bard school in bg3 but i ship him w lae'zel.. of course... theyre so in love...... they make me so sick #he also has rlly interesting dialogue in the house of hope because he has blood from the Prince of Lust. he has no idea who his actual dad #but.. yes... i love you nyx... #oc: nyx

[gloriousmonsters]

do you think amelda hate watched battle city

#do you think he considered entering like in the anime verse did we nearly get the doma arc triggered a season early #due to seto's obnoxious broadcasts about duel disks and TURNING THE CITY INTO A BATTLEFIELD... #then he like walked into town and saw marik puppeteering people and yami bakura beating people up for their duel disks and was like #'ok no this is too much going on' #and just sat on the couch at doma headquarters for the next two weeks glaring at the broadcasts #actually no doesn't amelda say he analyzed seto's fighting style? he 100% hate watched battle city it's settled #amelda #what can be shown but not seen

[kuxi-n]

i forgot how much monologue happens in this series

#▽ heart of the cards ↠ ᴋᴀɪʀɪ'ꜱ ʀᴀᴍʙʟɪɴɢꜱ (ᴏᴏᴄ) #((i love battle city arc but oh lord #((the monologuing #((send me to the shadow realm already i can't

[orcelito]

OKAY i fixed the most glaring canon inconsistency for ITNL that i discovered last night

which is. the fact that i fully thought the final battle happened in December. but turns out it happened in Octovern!

idr if they mentioned it outright that they were heading there, but they mentioned "humanity's last stand" in December so. i just. fully thought that's where everything happened. but then Meryl mentions Octovern at the end & i double checked and. yea it sure says Octovern on the wiki lmfao.

i'll have to read thru it more carefully (i wasn't exactly reading too closely for details yesterday) to figure out Exactly what the fuck is going on with the locations here. but for now, every reference to the final battle in ITNL has been changed to Octovern

sigh.

#speculation nation #itnl shit #the Sigh is bc it is so very exhausting to be writing for a thing that is so flippant about details #so you misread One Thing and suddenly you have a glaring inconsistency in ur writing that's evident in the very first paragraph #like i know vash traveled from the orphanage to the final battle. but i THOUGHT that was bc the orphanage was very outside of december #like in the 98 anime it mentions the orphanage being 300 iles from december. so i thought that was true for the manga as well #but wolfwood does enter some city gates in order to access the orphanage... i guess it'd make sense for it to be closer to december #and they had to travel a while between the orphanage and the final battle site. which was. apparently! octovern. #Oh Well........... at least it's fixed now............... #and it's marginally less embarrassing of a mistake as accidentally putting 'arc' instead of 'ark' for the Full Fic #bc the december vs octovern thing was me missing a small detail in a whole big Thing #but the 'arc' was just me being bad at spelling sldkjfsldkjf #Oh Well this is why it's good to revisit old chapters every so often #lets me review things and keep things as consistent as possible. #both between canon and within my work itself. #my biggest goal in ITNL edits is going to be internal consistency. #as well as double checking to make sure there arent any OTHER glaring mistakes #once i finally finish. ITNL will be born anew. and i will be more than ready to tackle what comes next. #hope u guys dont mind being patient. & i hope my effort will make ITNL 15 worth the wait.

[runimanio]

The Logistics of The Battle City & Duelist Kingdom DVD

AKA how I thought way to hard about a minor plot point in the GX Manga 

So here’s the gist 

Early on in the GX manga Judai is attempting to borrow a DVD of Battle City from Asuka, according to Judai, Asuka has a ton of cool dueling materials that he likes to borrow so they exchange numbers (much to Misawa’s dismay as he has a crush on her in the manga.)   

Misawa however has a copy of the apparently rare Duelist Kingdom DVD which sets up the duel these two have, If Misawa wins Judai has to give him Asuka number (which is kinda pathetic lol) & if Judai wins Misawa will let him borrow his copy of Duelist Kingdom.

As a kid this was a fun nod to the past series but now I’m always like:

“Okay,but what the hell is actually on that disc because wouldn’t a regular viewer be just so confused with stuff like Jonouchi dying Marik & Yugi having another version of themselves floating in the air off to the side?”

It makes me ask, what exactly does the average joe of Yu-Gi-Oh! know about the larger plot? Like people seems to recognize Yugi as Duelist Kingdom & Battle City’s champion, but does that mean knowledge of the Millennium items is common knowledge? It doesn’t seem so... & it didn’t seem like either of the tournament was being broadcasted live...    

Battle City being a massive event with hundreds of duelist participating, I doubt the DVD covers every single duel, maybe some best-of preliminary duels? How they would be getting useable footage from these games (hell being able to get any footage from the Top 8 portion on the blimp seems very suspect) I’m not sure, The Duel Disk are transmitting duel data, but (unless I'm forgetting a scene from either the anime or the manga) It doesn’t seem to be recording any watchable footage, just the hard data. (i’ll get back to this)    

The only thing we really see of the dvd that gives us a clue of the content is the cover which has the Alcatraz Duel Tower, so we can assume that at least one of the games from the finals is on the DVD, plus I can believe somewhere on the duel tower arena there is a camera. Yugi Vs Kaiba is probably on there no question but, the other games? well... in one game, one of the duelist collapses & is presume dead...

and the other one has the two finalist spilt into two copies of themselves that are being held hostage by floating bondage

That seems like it would raise some questions wouldn’t it? It would probably be hard to edit around too. For the longest time I thought way too much about how the logistics of the DVD could work, never really finding a good answer for it... Until I started writing this. I think I found my No-Prize!

So remember when I mentioned that the Duel Disk were transmitting hard duel data? I was thinking that the duel disk had to be the key to it somehow, maybe the duel disk had the ability to record in third person somehow, that’s crazy but the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! is full of crazy technology maybe I should just accept that as the answer & let it go. Then it hit me, yes Yu-Gi-Oh! has a lot of crazy tech like Kaiba’s duel simulator... the duel simulator that can do life-like holograms of people...

What if... by using the play-by data KC would have on hand (and is probably loaded in the simulator anyway) if Kaiba had a “no destiny hocus pocus nonsense” cut of Battle City prepared using his simulator! Allowing there to be watchable version of the tournament that doesn’t tell the entire world that magic is real & the soul of this ancient pharaoh is in this random kid, this is now my head canon for it!

Duelist Kingdom, I don’t think is as hard as a reach except for the final duel, I can buy the idea of cameras being set up everyone on the island (if I recall correctly in the anime Pegasus is watching live footage of the games & Kaiba also hacks into Industrial Illusions to watch Yugi’s duel against the Kaiba imitator)  So I think we can assume it’s probably has some duels from preliminary rounds, Stuff like Yugi Vs Haga, Jonouchi Vs Ryuzaki & some games we didn’t even get to see, maybe even Yugi & Jonouchi vs the Labyrinth Brothers if their feeling spicy & the finals are probably what on the disc.

Unofficial duels like everything Kaiba does is probably aren’t included, though duels from the Player Killers are probably fair game since they aren’t really threating lethal violence if I recall correctly, though either version (depending on the continuity you go with) of ghost Kaiba probably won’t fly.

Now the Duelist Kingdom finale Mai Vs Yugi, Keith Vs Jonouchi & if we go of the Anime timeline Yugi Vs Jono are all probably safe to air, Pegasus Vs Yugi though well.... if you go of the anime this happens in the middle of it 

In the manga, only our two current player can see the shadow miasma around the field but in the anime it blocks the gang from spectating, not great filming conditions, even if we go with the manga verison they make heavy use of the millennium items in this game which complicate things.

We could use the same logic that I outlined for the Battle City DVD, perhaps it possible that Kaibacorp assisted Industrial Illusions in the making of their DVD or they possess similar techology... however, I think it more likely Yugi Vs Pegasus is just not on the DVD, technically Yugi Vs Jonouchi is the actual final duel of the tournament (though in the manga Jonouchi surenders immediately) Pegasus isn’t a participant & the right to duel him is a reward for winning, if Yugi lost to Pegasus he would still technically be the winner of Duelist Kingdom (though it would be a bummer for several reasons) 

also if we decide the GX manga is in the DM manga continuity, two people died over the course of the tournament, maybe that’s part of the reason why the DVD is so rare, two people mysteriously died under strange circumstances, I’d imagine that might make the tournament a little controversial. Or Perhaps Yako Tenma (from the R manga) simply had the DVD be discontinued when he took over Industrial Illusions out of respect for Pegasus.

#I've thought about this topic way too much #.and im glad to finally have my answer and be done with it #really though this was fun to think about #I admittedly did not have the time to re-read & re-watch these two arc for this one post so very possible there a hole somewhere #I know pyramid of light has them showing footage from battle city finale on a big screen but yknow that movie only canon to the english dub #yugioh #Yu-Gi-Oh! #yu-gi-oh! gx #Gx Manga #Yugioh Dm #duelist kingdom #Battle City