These drawings (and their process vids) are featured in my Off the Cuff series over on YouTube!! I had a blast revisiting this absolutely fantastic arc, and cannot wait to continue on rereading the series from start to finish.
honestly the best thing about yu-gi-oh is how healing fucking hurts. nobody has an easy time becoming a better person. it sucks. kaiba has to be in a months-long nightmare coma to become 3% less evil. jounouchi still has the same dangerous enemies and shitty family life he always had but now those enemies think he's easy pickings. bakura's boldest attempt to stand up for himself and his friends gives him a permanant scar through his hand. these kids are killing themselves to be better people in a world that has given them nothing
Always imagined on the situation where Marik would actually apologize to Yugi and Jonouchi for forcing them to duel each other. Cos honestly I find it pretty weird how everybody manage to be super friendly in the end.
But back at the Irateshipping, this happens as a continuation of the first comic I made. This one is bit too subtle in comparison with that comic, but well I'm a sucker for subtlety, so is open to interpretation what you think what's happening in Marik's mind.
This story will continue on that one trip the Yugi gang do to Egypt for the Rite of the Duel, there things get pretty intense and that only mean bad news for Jonouchi.