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This post is about YGO, and I will make two more posts about Granblue Fantasy and a certain 18+ game in the coming days.
The first of my current obsessions is the original series of Yu-Gi-Oh!, abbreviated in the fandom to "ygo dm", where "dm" stands for "duel monsters". I got into it via Duel Links, which one of my fellow guild members from a KHUX guild introduced me to. While I no longer play Duel Links very much, I have gotten much deeper into YGO itself.
From the very beginning, YGO had everything I like in a series: weird autonomy issues (body-sharing), horror, a kind yet intelligent protagonist, multiple large hams, little-to-no focus on romance, sad backstories, potential for selfcest, and fantasy elements in a modern setting. It's a shounen series I actually liked reading the tournament arcs of; most of the time, I skip the tournament arcs because they get boring after the first few pages. Even if the card games in YGO are a stand-in for the normal shounen fights to the death, they're more interesting than the characters dashing about calling the names of their attacks. Within the context of a card game, there are reasons for pausing during a battle to reveal information.
Season 5/Millennium World was a mess (also, if you watch the anime, be aware that season 4 is not good), but it was a fun mess.
The more fandom-oriented reason I like YGO is that its canon is extremely malleable and receptive to being shoved into an AU or crossover. There are so many things that could have gone a different way; characters that weren't given enough time and storylines that were truncated due to the mangaka's poor health (he was in the hospital when he wrote the Ancient Egypt part). The idea of monsters that are linked to a person's soul and, depending on if you consider GX canon, reside in a different world appeals to me (yes, I love Digimon for much the same reason).
I'm one of the minority who likes the Ceremonial Duel arc and thinks that it works with the themes that the previous parts of the series built. Yami/Atem went through character development in order to be able to accept that loss at the end. In fact, I might write a meta(?) on the Ceremonial Duel.
If you're curious about YGO, I'd read the manga, then watch the subtitled anime, not the dubbed anime. The dub was done by 4Kids and is very...Not Good.
This post is about YGO, and I will make two more posts about Granblue Fantasy and a certain 18+ game in the coming days.
The first of my current obsessions is the original series of Yu-Gi-Oh!, abbreviated in the fandom to "ygo dm", where "dm" stands for "duel monsters". I got into it via Duel Links, which one of my fellow guild members from a KHUX guild introduced me to. While I no longer play Duel Links very much, I have gotten much deeper into YGO itself.
From the very beginning, YGO had everything I like in a series: weird autonomy issues (body-sharing), horror, a kind yet intelligent protagonist, multiple large hams, little-to-no focus on romance, sad backstories, potential for selfcest, and fantasy elements in a modern setting. It's a shounen series I actually liked reading the tournament arcs of; most of the time, I skip the tournament arcs because they get boring after the first few pages. Even if the card games in YGO are a stand-in for the normal shounen fights to the death, they're more interesting than the characters dashing about calling the names of their attacks. Within the context of a card game, there are reasons for pausing during a battle to reveal information.
Season 5/Millennium World was a mess (also, if you watch the anime, be aware that season 4 is not good), but it was a fun mess.
The more fandom-oriented reason I like YGO is that its canon is extremely malleable and receptive to being shoved into an AU or crossover. There are so many things that could have gone a different way; characters that weren't given enough time and storylines that were truncated due to the mangaka's poor health (he was in the hospital when he wrote the Ancient Egypt part). The idea of monsters that are linked to a person's soul and, depending on if you consider GX canon, reside in a different world appeals to me (yes, I love Digimon for much the same reason).
I'm one of the minority who likes the Ceremonial Duel arc and thinks that it works with the themes that the previous parts of the series built. Yami/Atem went through character development in order to be able to accept that loss at the end. In fact, I might write a meta(?) on the Ceremonial Duel.
If you're curious about YGO, I'd read the manga, then watch the subtitled anime, not the dubbed anime. The dub was done by 4Kids and is very...Not Good.
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Date: July 11th, 2019 02:29 am (UTC)My favorite characters are probably Malik and Yami Malik, though I dislike the fics that use the YGOTAS personalities.