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2025 is off to a great start :D great video once again! Really interesting watch even as someone who's super unfamiliar with manhwas and action stuff in general Also, looking forward to the next video where you definitely do NOT mention yugioh

Excellent work! I can't wait for the eventual breaker new waves video!

The Breaker is fking insane i love that manhwa series

u should make the new waves video just 2 talk about shi-woon fighting off the murim CIA fresh out the hospital

Breaker was the ish when i read it back in the day. I fell off between Breaker 2 and Breaker 3 because of the break between them. I'll have to reread the series. It was definitely a solid piece of work. Veritas was a similar series that consumed me while reading. Unfortunately, it was cancelled at such a pivotal cliffhanger. It followed a similar formula of; kid meets mentor, mentor teaches student, but the master is killed off screen, and the student goes to the school affiliated with those who killed his master. Great story.

It's basically Ken fist of the north star mixed with DragonBall

The original Yu-gi-oh manga is honestly underrated. You only really see people talking about the anime which made a lot of unnecessary changes

Oh, Scryed. You had such potential. It's just a shame you couldn't get a grasp on your power scaling, lost motivation half-way through, causing you to falter on a satisfying conclusion. I honestly thought the direction they were going for was that Kazuma's power had evolved to steal the power of other Alter Users he's defeated. Kind of like a less murder-y High Lander. Which was why anyone he beat went into a coma (Until they weren't) or couldn't use their power. The evolved form of his arm even has a syphon in his hand to sell this plunder ability. I thought the physical breakdown of his body was caused by using himself as a medium or having acquired more power than his moral form could handle. Implying sacrifice for power. I truly expected the Crystal in the Alter Forest to be a sign of warning to Kazuma as the natural conclusion of his journey. Being a man made of pure Alter energy living on instinct as he no longer had a mind. Sadly, none of these theories panned out. We got a random villain at the end rather than playing into Martin as the true cold-calculating villain. Martin was very close to becoming a Magneto-like figure who was just waiting for the right Alter power to show so they could assure independences from the Main Land. Then the series pretty much went off the rails to try and wrap up. It's clear they were just going by an episodic writing practice and didn't truly plan a conclusion from the start. At least, not one that was cleared by whoever was putting money into this.

I've just finished reading the Yu-Gi-Oh manga, and I LOVED It!!!

Brilliant retrospective. Yu-Gi-Oh is one of my favorite manga along with Dragonball and Full Metal Alchemist. I went from watching the dub to finding poorly subbed originals to reading the manga all while playing the card game. I recently got back into building an OCG deck for nostalgia and to play the game with some of my friends again. It's a Blue-Eyes deck that includes in the extra deck a Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon: a card that Takahashi-sama drew art for. It means something different for me since his passing. As an introvert myself back in my youth, the manga's vision of strength through unity always filled me with hope that I would also make friends like Yugi did. The ones I did find are like my family now. It wasn't always through games, but the example of having each others back like Yugi and Jonouchi did helped inspire me to not just help my friends but to use that friendship to help us grow and stand on our own when needed. I could probably best summarize it in a quote I've seen attributed to a few people but rings true with me: "Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it." A great complement to "Something you can show but can't see."

Out of curiosity, are you planning to do a little analysis on Yugi's (not the Pharaoh's) duel in "R"?

The Japanese version of the film introduced an interesting plot point that I wished they had explored a little more: Yugi being one of the Plana. It would have been interesting to see Yugi go on an adventure with power from him and not something he inherited from the Puzzle.

The 4Kids anime series should've never existed. Yū☆Gi☆Ō would instead be much more successful as a T-rated card-scanning arcade/console/mobile JRPG franchise by Konami that is heavily based on the manga series.

I love that it never gets rick and Morty. No portals to the demon world, no fakeouts making the show about something else. It's all out battle royale. It captures the Japanese fighting spirit and sportsmanship like no other

1:20 greatest anime ever made

Seto was badass with 4kids. But the OG? Goddamn. Respect.

I think it was in either an author's note or an interview with Takahashi, but he said that Yami Yugi basically has the super power of "good luck", which is why he's king of games and what heart of the cards is.

Aye Scryed fans. This show is so great.

My sister and I love the show and the book.

Yeah the sequel series ruin it GX in the manga

the manga deserves more attention than it deserves it's gorgeous read

I loved this video essay. The passion with which you talk about the manga and its contents is amazing.

I have all five volumes of the manga

Banger vid

I don't really like how Roy character (& well the series as a whole) handles the topics of genocide & politics in general but this was a really nice video to watch

Thanks a lot for recognizing this under-appreciated series.

This is one of my favorite anime and I still watch it from time to time. I remember watching this on Adult Swim back in the day. Of course, back then I had a vague understanding of what anime was since my only exposure was CartoonNetwork/Adult Swim. I did love their powers evolving and seeing the toll it takes on their bodies. And I do agree, wish we could have explored why and what the real damage and side affects would be for them. Side note, I did not know there was a manga, actually never found one for it. But seeing the pages that you managed to find, I think I'm ok not looking for it. If that manga was my introduction to this series, I probably wouldn't have given the anime a chance.

It's literally just one long tournament arc, as the story. I just re-read the series, since I stopped at the Faudo arc, as a kid, and got to experience the ending for the first time. It was so beautiful, terrifying, and glorious. I have never cried for a manga before, and this made me cry so hard. I'm glad we got the sequel coming out now!

17:28 the motherfucker painted a harrier jump jet with the blue eyes white dragon

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One of my all time favorite anime! Watching this makes me want to watch thru S-Cry-Ed again!

Kaiba needs to get laid

I liked Gundam Seed.

now you have to make YuGiOh! playlist

I read this as a kid

The anime's awesome. I have read the full manga (one of the few series I actually own), and ya, it's not great. - Kazuma's alter doesn't work the same - Wanton nudity and death stuff that just doesn't feel right - Story's more generic "MC fights his way thru enemy base" at most points that I can remember - etc... The anime got a lot of art books and pamphlets and stuff which are pretty cool too look thru if you can find em as well.

I love that Kaiba is so extra, that even the original Japanese version of the movie points out that his ego is so strong it straight-up negates Diva's ancient Egyptian magic. Also, let's just keep in mind that Kaiba built a space-elevator and private space station, and invented portable hologram-projectors and VR systems that directly tap into the user's brain. IN THE YEAR 1997! They still use freaking VHS cassette tapes for movies and shit like that, yet here we have Kaiba just building a private space-station in the shape of his company logo, because fuck his haters, I guess. A lot can be said about Kaiba, but he sure doesn't half-ass things.

Reckless fire!!!!!!

Kaiba absolutely outclasses every other Shonen Manga Rival when it comes to being obsessed with beating his rival. The guy literally advanced society several decades, possibly even a century or two, overnight, creating portable hologram-projectors and building a space-elevator with an orbital station, where a super-advanced AI worked for two years on studying a puzzle, the space elevator also serving as a gateway to the afterlife. Keep in mind that Yu-Gi-Oh! takes place in 1997, and DSoD in 1999! They still use freaking VHS-tapes for movies, yet Kaiba's out there advancing society's tech-level just because he wants to play a children's card game.

It's too bad we never got to see the mud-wrestling brawl between Mimori and Scheris. Would've been as epic as anything else in the show. I also would've settled for a proper beach episode revolving around the two, but as was said, it's not that sort of series... meaning no mud-wrestling either. Still, a wilderness bath scene with Mimori would've been swell.

Scheris is best girl!

I barely remember the series itself but I remember thinking this anime was hypercool when I watched it.

Bro fr described jonouchi like kaiji

The bleach music for kaiba's section. Excellent touch.

16:03 the manga scene where Kyomaru keeps using Zakeru on that one particularly cruel demon and Kyoto keeps turning more and more like a demon and when he’s out of energy, you see him reloading to unload again. 😂😂😂😂😂 it’s such overkill and it still makes me laugh every time I think about it!

Appreciate the cover of such a goated anime. More people need to know that it exists (outside of Japan, which it remains very popular there).

The phrase "Penalty game" is forever etched in my mind.

Can we please get a yugioh series reboot

Who here is hyped over Zatch Bell 2!

HAAAAMMMMMARRRRR!!!!!