#duelist kingdom

[kohrokke]

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#yugioh #my art #yami yugi #yugioh fanart #duel monsters #duelist kingdom

[clannfearrunt]

apparently this is the only thing i drew in november 2022 anyways hes here to make an announcement

#i love 2 endlessly quote sonic fandub #Pegasus J Crawford #Maximillion Pegasus #Yugi Muto #Yugioh #Duelist Kingdom #ok yeah idc anymore #Conarts #Con goes to the shadow realm

[littlediscoveredstars]

Alright I’m on my Yugioh shit, but I think what Pegasus did to Seto Kaiba was waaaay more personal than any other Yugioh villain.

None of my thoughts are organized, but I’ll try to get it out in some kind of way that makes sense.

Let me first start by saying that Seto Kaiba is a minor through the whole series. This is important to his character, almost more than the others, because it is exactly what he’s trying to erase about himself.

Kaiba dresses himself up in outfits that accent his masculine features similar to how an adult will. His shoulder pads make his shoulders seem broader. His coat goes inward to give a very triangular shape to his torso. He’s got belts everywhere (and while yes, this is just the style of Yugioh, I believe it cannot be completely written off as just that).

At the base of it, Kaiba wants to be seen as an adult. He NEEDS to be. He runs a company and is in near constant threat of being taken advantage of by others. We see this many times throughout the show, especially by Pegasus.

Now, to connect things once again. Kaiba is a minor who was thrust into adulthood far too early, yet, he engages in child-like activities. Duel Monsters, while used for their ancient shadow games, is still just a game. A game Kaiba is OBSESSED with, to the point he becomes the face of the Blue Eyes White Dragon.

(Which is his symbol of power and autonomy over others, which further proves why he so badly hates the ancient talk, but that’s another essay)

Pegasus is the created (re-created, technically) of Duel Monsters. He made the paintings, the cards, the rules. He shows in many tournaments (assumed based off episode 2) and given how much Kaiba has won? I’m guessing they met before becoming business partners.

In short, it makes sense that Pegasus would be an important figure to Kaiba. Maybe an idol, an inspiration, or whatever it might be. Kaiba saw Pegasus and saw a man who’s game kept him alive through his years with Gozaburo, who gave him a connection to his own brother.

Pegasus is powerful. Pegasus has full control of his own actions. He is everything Kaiba wants and changed KaibaCorp. to be.

A little ways down the line, Pegasus becomes his business partner. Kaiba gets to work a littler closer with him. We never see what exactly that entailed besides letting Kaiba use the Blue Eyes (and other cards) without copyright issues and Pegasus using the holographic stages, but even that is a significant exchange.

(Makes me wonder if things hadn’t turned out the way they did, would Kaiba and Duke Devlin view him the same way?)

Then, Pegasus starts Duelist Kingdom. He uses Kaibams vulnerability to his advantage and steps in to take over. He kidnaps Mokuba, then takes his soul and shows it off like a trophy.

Pegasus has not just betrayed Kaiba’s trust, but he turned into a real person for Kaiba. It shows him that, just like everyone else, Pegasus is greedy and selfish. He takes what Kaiba worked so hard for, what he loves, just because he can. And he does so with the same smiles and teasing as before.

It’s beyond disappointment. This is heating your favorite person side with your abusers. This is a childhood hero watching you get kicked and laughing as he kicks you alongside them.

So, naturally, Kaiba won’t forgive him. We see in Battle City how bruised Kaiba’s ego is. He’s mad at Yugi, he’s mad at Izushi, no one is saved from his ire. Even Mokuba gets the short stick every so often. He is compensating BIG TIME and it’s directly connected to how things went over last season.

Might I add that Duelist Kingdom takes place less than a year after Kaiba took over KaibaCorp? This is a still pretty fresh CEO with some very big trauma that he simply has not dig into yet.

I think in a world where Pegasus was not so disillusioned by his own desperation to revive Cecelia, he would’ve been a good mentor to Kaiba. They both have a love for games, for the visual experience (painting and holograms) and they’re both very particular. Honestly, their traits would work relatively well, all things considered.

But it didn’t and we see Kaiba go through cycle after cycle of trying to get better and stumbling every step of the way.

Anyway, that’s my TedTalk. As a Pegasus enjoyed and Kaiba analysis, I found this topic very fascinating.

#yugioh #seto kaiba #maximillion pegasus #pegasus j crawford #character analysis #duelist kingdom #not toonshipping! #essay #cycles of abuse

[thewittyphantom]

If Yami Bakura had won this duel it'd have totally derailed Pegasus's Duelist Kingdom plans. I can see an AU where that happens and Pegasus has to find a way to get everyone's souls/the Puzzle back so his plans can continue, and meanwhile Bakura is planning to get off the island ASAP and disappear. (And depending on when Kaiba landed on the island he might appear too...)

#yu gi oh #duelist kingdom #yami yugi #yami bakura #yugi mutou #joey wheeler #tea gardner #ryou bakura #tristan taylor #seto kaiba

[darkmagicians]

“That can’t be. How did this happen?” “Reason unknown.” “...is this the heart of the cards?”

#yugioh #ygo #seto kaiba #duelist kingdom #my edits #still love the kaiba cave

[evin-nf]

Yugi Mutou

#yugioh #yugi mutou #yami yugi #pharaoh atem #duel monsters #duel links #duelist kingdom

[humunanunga]

text post memes are a love language for shows

#yugioh #yugioh duel monsters #duelist kingdom #battle city #orichalcos #bakura ryou #ishizu ishtar #jonouchi katsuya #kujaku mai #mutou yugi #atemu #text post meme #meme #media #humor #i'm funny #etc

[millenni-em-tauk]

Yuugi said you would have done it. Is that true?

#seto kaiba #kaiba seto #duelist kingdom #the duel atop Pegasus’s castle #yugioh fanart #Yugioh #ygo #fanart #emdart

[yuujoh]

Imagine being Honda the day after the Pegasus vhs tape duel. You come in all excited to talk with your friends about the tournament since you had to babysit last night and they’re like “yeah grandpa’s soul is in the vhs because other Yuugi lost a duel :-/“ like the fomo must have been unmatched… so much context missing… layers of lore incomprehensible… also grandpa is talking to you in the camcorder screen.

#duelist kingdom

[riddlester]

You're about to enter a world of pain—a world of chaos! A world of absolute mayhem! That's right, a world of toons!

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#maximillion pegasus #pegasus j crawford #darren dunstan #duelist kingdom #ygo #ygo art #yugioh #yugioh community #anime #Toon world

[kaibasupremacy]

Seto hallucinating in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga

#seto kaiba #kaiba #duelist kingdom #experience of death #yu gi oh r #yu gi oh manga

[edgelord-of-the-day]

Edgelord of the Day #43:

Seto Kaiba

Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

#seto kaiba #kaiba #edgelord #edgy #edgelord of the day #yu gi oh! duel monsters #battle city #duelist kingdom #bro invents time travel bc he wants to beat atem #a billionaire who gets really invested in something silly and dedicates his entire existence to it obsessively #doesn’t remind me of anyone at all #/s he’s nothing like melon husk #yu gi oh! dsod #dark side of dimensions #yugioh dsod #yugioh duel monsters

[thewittyphantom]

With the Millennium Items being divided between affinity for shadows (Eye, Rod, Ring) and light (Necklace, Key, Scales) and the Puzzle acting as a balance between them by wielding both, it made me wonder where the Pyramid of Light and Quantum Cube fall on the spectrum. Given the Pyramid explicitly uses shadows and light, and the Cube started light but became corrupt, they’re probably in the ‘both’ category too.

#yu gi oh #duelist kingdom #battle city #dawn of the duel #pyramid of light #the darkside of dimensions #maximillion pegasus #marik ishtar #yami bakura #ishizu ishtar #shadi #karim #yami yugi #anubis #aigami #background characters

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

Yugi is such a good sport. His enemies are always either dragging him into, or high jacking already existing tournaments. If I found out that I needed to get through a long ass tournament just to play a world saving card game, I'd snap. I'd be all:

Hell no! If you want take my cool necklace so bad, you get off your ass and come to me!

#yugi moto #yugioh #duelist kingdom #just wouldn't happen if it was me #i don't like my grandpas enough #to deal with eccentric rich white men

[smashtoons]

Friends til the end

#Yu-Gi-Oh #Yami Yugi #yugioh atem #Yugi #Joey Wheeler #Tristan Taylor #Tea Gardner #Duelist Kingdom

[humunanunga]

So now that I’m in a perpetual state of introducing friends to Yu-Gi-Oh, I’m gonna make another post to send all y’all. A lot of this will be a cleaned-up copypaste from a Discord dm, but to start with, if you’re reading this, chances are you grew up with the dub. But forget everything you know about Yu-Gi-Oh from the dub, it was cut and redacted and retconned to be Less Japanese, Less Dangerous, Less Emotional, More Comical/Theatrical and More “Family-Friendly.” They also replaced the entire perfectly-good-very-moving soundtrack to sound More Egyptian, and they cut out a lot of Yugi’s relationship with “Other Me” to be... not as... affectionate.

But if I’m sending you this, I probably already sent you the other post. It’s still pinned when I’m posting this one, so here I’ll just move on to continuity.

Chronologically, the early manga pre-dated the TCG, following more of a featured-game-or-sport-or-toy-of-the-day format, with The Card Game being just another one of them. Back then, it was a lot more feral, being more exclusively a horror series about getting supernatural retribution on bullies, abusers and criminal assailants. This manga got an anime adaptation by Toei widely called season zero, in which Magic & Wizards was renamed Duel Monsters and picked up enough popularity that the author (Takahashi Kazuki) was encouraged to polish the rest of the series to revolve more around it, securing the franchise’s success.

Which finally brings us to the subsequent TCG-era anime adaptation Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters produced by Konami. This one follows a separate timeline from season zero and would redact characters/events (save for homages here and there), give all the main cast some subtle redesigns (minus Nosaka Miho, who was cut out completely), make the Dark Yugi more ghostly than demonic, and tone down some of the violence but not censor it completely. This is the one that would then get heavily “adapted” by 4kidz for younger-than-intended audiences to watch.

...And then, presumably fitting between seasons three and four, 4kidz commissioned the Pyramid of Light movie and the short spin-off Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters, the latter of which may or may not have written a continuity error into the backstory of another major character who was known for operating mostly behind the scenes, and whom was already getting more reveals in the very next canon season. This may be why it didn’t get localized back in Japan while the Pyramid of Light did, making it a 4kidz-exclusive canon.

“I didn’t realize how many canon-branches there were in YGO!”

Oh, but there’s more!

The fourth season is a filler arc (but it’s unironically my favorite, idc) and widely considered contradictory to earlier and later Duel Monsters lore, but I’d argue that there are ways for both to be true. This arc is also exclusively canon to the anime because in manga-canon, Pegasus J. Crawford was actually Killed Off at the end of the first season. In the anime’s fourth season, he’s involved in the plot again. He also makes a few cameos in GX, but only the first series is actually by the original author, just as with the dothack franchise.

And while that arc corresponds with the anime-exclusive continuity in which Pegasus wasn’t killed off, the manga also got a spin-off dubcanon arc by Ito Akira, called YuGiOh! R, and that one corresponds with the manga-exclusive canon in which Pegasus was killed off.

The fifth and final arc, meanwhile, never got the chance it needed to tie everything together in the way the author would have wanted to. At the time, he was recovering from Almost Dying of Blood Loss, from a Stress Ulcer, which production wouldn’t stop pressuring him to work through, so he wasn’t at mental or physical capacity to continue when he did and was in a rush to conclude the series just to take the break he needed. He’d been stated as having a poor recollection of what he was writing or drawing at the time, and also having a lot of regret over how it turned out. So anyone invested in YGO understands that the final arc needs to be treated as dubcanon too.

Bonds Beyond Time is a movie crossover with the later two series, GX and 5D’s, and that one’s also dubcanon cuz it’s unclear when in Yugi’s or Judai’s timelines they were plucked for this. It’s mostly just there as a nice feel-good movie with the level of art quality fans all envisioned to be uniform for the series.

The epilogue movie, the Dark Side of Dimensions, also follows the anime timeline; but that’s only confirmed by virtue of also acting as a teaser for the game. Duel Links involves multiverse shenanigans (as you do) to cross over all the YGOs, including later series set in AUs and a timeline representing manga canon.

YGO!GX technically follows anime-canon as well, since Pegasus is still alive, and none of the other subsequent series canonically descend from the season zero timeline either.

Yu-Gi-Oh! as a whole is perpetually suspended in a quantum state of dubcanon, but season zero (the Toei series) and Duel Monsters (the Konami series) are as canon as YGO gets, and all other subsequent series effectively teeter further into dubcanon.

YGO exists as a concept.

#yugioh #yugioh season zero #yugioh duel monsters #duelist kingdom #orichalcos #yugioh capsule monsters #memory world #yugioh r #yugioh gx #yugioh bonds beyond time #yugioh dark side of dimensions #yugioh duel links #tldr #etc