Anime What are your thoughts about yu-gi-oh?

[Guest InuyashasLover]

:o I..uh....I quite like Yu-Gi-Oh!. It's interesting...I've come to love it to tell the truth:love: :o :love: :o

[Ratix]

I like Yu-Gi-Oh! pretty much, but its just that the Dutch dubs are awful! Its a pain to listen to it, really... But the series itself is quite good. Plus i like the bataille genre.

They only recently decided to publish the manga here too, and i was really surprised to find out that its way darker and less censored than the anime. I think i like the manga better.

[Nathan AKA YTB]

eventually it will die because they will be running out of ideas but for now it will be good

[CharmedImmortal]

Yugioh became popular. And i think Pokemon became less popular? o.O That's what i've heard.
I think Yugioh is okay. I like watching the episodes in TV, but i don't play the card games. ^_^;;
They said it was fun playing the card game and would want to joiin the YUGIOH tournament, but I'm too busy to do that. Ya know, school work and stuffs. I also like the characters, but theres one problem about the show. I don't want yugioh fans to complain about what im going to ask, but i just want to ask this question, even though i know the answer of this... Why do they just talk and battle with their cards instead of fighting it like a man? o.O;
I mean, in real life, card fighting wouldn't work.
Ehh...but since its just a cartoon anime, i guess that's okay.
I guess it doesn't matter.
But i still like yugioh. ^_^

[HetepKa]

I think that Yu-gi-oh! will eventually die out, but not right now, I mean like in 2 to 5 years...Just like Pokemon:ball:

At first, I thought Yu-gi-oh! was just plain stupid..but then I started to watch it with my cousins and found out that it was quite interesting, I think its cool because of the ancient Egyptian themes, the characters, the plot,etc. I like the show, but the manga is 100 better!!!!:D I used to play the card game with my cousins because I had nothing else to do, and I suck badly at playing that game.. but then I stopped playing because I was bussy or didn't have the time and then I found it a little boring...:sleep:

And I would like to ask the same question as CharmedImmortal if anyone doesn't mind(PLease, I don't want fans to complain!!!!!)... Why do they just talk and battle with their cards instead of fighting it like a man?:therock: I mean, that would never work in this world...But it's just an anime so I think it's ok:D
I guess that there's no problem with that...It's still one of the best anime/manga I've ever seen!! :toothy::D:D:D:D:D:D:toothy:
I'm a BIG fan of Yugioh!:toothy::D:D:D:D:D:D:toothy:
(...:love2:specially Bakura and Ryou:love:... )

[DeathBug]

Here's my opinion, dealing exclusivly with the card game. The show will go on for years, (Pokemon: Advanced, anyone?), but the card game is in trouble.

After Upperdeck releases Dark Crisis, (The set planned after Magician's Force), they [b][i][u]must[/b][/i][/u] release Duelist's Legacy.

What is Duelist's Legacy? In Japan, it's like the "Best of Yu-Gi-Oh", a series of re-releases of the most useul and popuar cards.

The English Duelist's Legacy must contain the following cards as commons and rares:

Mirror Force
Call of the Haunted
Jinzo
Magic Cylinder
Exodia pieces
Ax of Despair
Megamorph
Yata-Garatsu
Regeki
Heavy Storm
Harpie's Feather Duster
Gemeni Elf
Injection Angel Lily
Pot of Greed
Toerriential Tribute
Goblin Attack Force
Limiter Removal
Snatch Steal
Swords of Revealing Light

And more.

Why? Many of these cards are the "staple" cards, that all competative decks run. They are *very* hard to find, and usually quite expensive. In addition, the sets they come from are no longer being produced.

Some fans might say, "Wait! I payed a lot for my Mirror Force/Regeki/Yata! Why should some new punks get them as commons?"

To which I reply: "Yes, you did a lot to get the cards you have, and what you got for your efforts was time. For a long time, the only way to get those cards was by trading/spending a lot. You had them when no one else did. Now, however, the game has progressed and the playing field must be equalized."

(It's similar to buying a car; if you buy a 2004 right now, you'll pay a lot more than if you wait until next summer to buy it.)

However, that is only half of what the English Duelist's Legacy must provide. They must also provide promos.

That's right, the holos for this set should be the most useful and popular Japanese promos, cards like:

Black Luster Soldier/Chaos Mage/BEUD
Dimensioinal Warrior Twins
Blade Knight
Des Guardius
Multiply
Meteor Dragon
Time Machine
Gilford the Lightning
The ever-popular Vampire Lord

And it's early, so I can't think of anymore, but you get the idea.

However, for this move to work, English Duelist's Legacy [b]must[/b] be released as the set directly following Dark Crisis. Why?

One word: Messengers.

If you are not aware of the awesome powers of the Chaos soldier: Messenger of Creation, and Chaos Emporor Dragon: Messenger of Destruction, check out Altrn Gundam's review of CED, at [url]http://theotaku.com/yugioh/cardreviews/set07.shtml[/url] .

CED is the most powerful, but the Chaos Soldier is also a beast; it can either skip its attack phase to remove one monster from the game, or attack twice. It has a BEWD's stats.

Imagine what happens when these guys come out: everyone plays a Messenger deck. However, because these cards will be secret rares, (one would think), the only people who can readily get and utilize them would be the same people who can get the Mirror Force, the Jinzo, the Yata, and the Cylinders.

What follows next is a perfect example of the worest scenario for capitalism: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Green players can't stand up in tournamemnts, and will now have no chance of winning against a duelist who, in addition to having all the most powerful traps and magic, has two seemingly unstoppble monsters.

New players are discouraged in the face of such odds and quit. Several old players get tired of the lack of originality, and quit. The game stagnates, then dies.

How can I predict this? The same stagnation almost happened in Japan. In Japan, you would expect to see the most divirsity among decks, but when the Messengers came out, every deck was a Messenger deck. I have several friends abroad who play the Japanese game, and they kept remarking how deck creativity was drying up, because everyone played Messengers.

A messenger deck is a perfect fusion, IMO, between beatdown and hand control, the two most prominant arcgtypes in the game. You can't tell me that most people wouldn't use it here.

I, mself, casual player of this game, have dropped out; I simply can't afford to make a tournament worthy deck. I can't get Regeki, Mirror Force, etc, and, like it our not, you need those in tournaments.

So, basically, if Upperdeck wants the game to survive, they need to release an English version of Duelist's Legacy. If they did, I would forgive them of all previous misgrievences, and even stop saying that Wizards of the Coast should have gotten the game.


(Because they should have, you know?)