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Make fun of season 1, but as a whole the duel monsters show is a great series, I know it’s super cheesy but you can’t deny this anime is badass, so many epic moments to count, and to this day I get hyped with some of the duels.
My hope, is for one day the yugioh company to produce an anime based entirely on the original manga, about the games, not just the card game, you know as a way to honor takahashi sensei
The dub VAs are iconic. They're pretty much the only part of 4Kids that have stood the test of time while all the VAs from their other anime were recast.
dan green as yami yugi/atem was amazing. eric stuart as seto kaiba was even more amazing. On a side note, i still find it crazy that brock and seto have the same voice actor
To be honest...i am rather sure that Pegasus would've made sure that Joey got the price money,and maybe even make a new blue eyes as a replacement for the one Kaibe destroyed,even if he won his duel against Atem/Yugi...He valued friendship and loyalty,after all
Joey and Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho are my reason for loving underdog characters so much. That feeling of having a heart of gold just means so much to me.
Even more than Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh was my childhood. And rewatching the 4kids dub version to this day is still a treat. Knowing about all the nonsensical rules, censorship, Yugi plot armor and everything else in-between. I think it's makes the dub version even more special and hilarious.
Dubs during that era weren't always the best overall, (and are a big part of why there's still so much hate for dubs to this day despite any competent stuff being well done these days), but they had a special magic to them that created a unique experience and memories for those of us who grew up with them. They were objectively bad in some regards, but I wouldn't trade them at all.
A lot of that was actually at the request of the Japanese publisher in order to make it more easily accessible for a western audience and was no worse than most of what was allowed and not allowed in children's shows of the time. It's still pretty funny though.
@@mrbubbles6468Especially in the Duelist Kingdom Arc, which has it play more like a card based Tabletop RPG with how much it rewards creative lateral thinking.
I laughed uncontrollably at the line, "Once again, Mokuba is taken captive." I blame Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and LittleKuriboh. Man, I read the manga on my lunch breaks and it was wild how dark the early stuff was. I actually worried I could get in trouble for things like dudes being burned alive and Anzu's bikini (or at least get weird looks.)
I'm sure I remember Mokuba in the manga doing some Russian roulette stuff with poisoned food and would only give yugi the antidote if he won - definitely a character shift there😅
When your anime has demon lords, isekai vr mmo revenge plots, eldritch gods, duel school, duel school space energy cults, yandere sadomasochist demons, the late stage capitalist hell of 5Ds, South American earthen deities, and the subsequent interdimensional split to avoid the cyber apocolaypse(with a bit if time travel), as a fraction of your story, you've cooked something insane.
also the multiverse was made by a dead dragon god. Cause the god being dead at cost of creating existence every being that raised to power tried to claim what remained of the god's power or control the multiverse leading to many gods battling for eternity in a power struggle of re-birth and cycles.
I watched your entire Pokémon series from start to finish. I remember coming home from school in the early 2000s and watching Static Shock, Pokémon, Jackie Chan, and Yugioh. My brothers and I would play yugioh and Pokémon, but lost interest in yugioh after maybe 5 years. As per usual, this was very nostalgic and entertaining and made my brain happy thank you ❤
Honestly though, I actually really enjoyed the original season 0 concept. The horror game manga was really interesting to me. I also think the manga does a much better job of setting up Bakura as the main villain. I kinda feel like the anime didn’t realize he was a super important character for a while into it. But I really loved the idea of there being this spirit who wasn’t exactly a nice guy but was, at least, a just guy. He really felt like a pharaoh. He deals with liars, cheaters, and thieves harshly, but he gives them an opportunity to redeem themselves in the process despite how dark the punishments might be. Like that’s the kind of guy I’d want as a king for sure. He seems to have an intuitive idea of who is good and who is evil. Like how he could have easily let Millennium Key dude fall to his death, but realized he wasn’t there for malicious reasons and saved him while warning him not to enter his mind again. Very interesting character.
I used to not be a fan of Duelist Kingdom till recently when I learned that the official rules of the card game itself wasn't even thought of yet during that time, it wasn't till Battle City started where some sense of the card game was made. When YGO came to America, the official rules were already established and set in stone, which is why so much kids were confuse as to wtf was going on in that season
I recently watched it after years of not knowing it's existence it was a huge clash of what I was used to with duel monsters but I enjoyed it's more horror and mature elements the scene of the guy with the watches after he lost his game was gnarly
Man Yu-Gi-Oh was my first anime. I still keep up with it having seen everything episode from Duel Monsters to Sevens. Still waiting on Go Rush to be available in English to binge through though 😅
@@HustlerHorstRuedigerFYI, the Pop Arena's Nickelodeon retrospective did cover Maya. Do check out Nick Knacks; each episode is a documentary unto itself.
Fun fact for me: Back when i was reading a manga called Samurai Deeper Kyo, for some reason whenever the character Benitora was speaking, I heard Joey's 4kids dub voice in my head. Then when i watched the Samurai Deeper Kyo anime like a year later...Benitora's dub voice was Joey's 4kids voice. Wild.
Dan Green as both Yugi and Atem is so iconic; the contrast between the wimpy, soft-spoken Yugi and the cool, confident, heroic Atem is so pronounced you can hardly believe its the same guy. And he's really able to pull out some strong emotional beats too, great voice actor who never got as much work as he deserved (I know he had some extremely unfortunate personal life stuff that stifled his career, which is tragic for multiple reasons). I honestly think it's insane that, to my knowledge, he was never called in once to voice any incarnation of He-Man; he would have destroyed that role so hard
The bit about it being a gateway unto manga resonated with me hard, on my 9th birthday I saw issue 9 of Shonen Jump at a store in 2003 and begged my grandpa to get it for me because I saw Yugi on the cover, and was greeted with a story about Yugi's friend dressing up as a superhero, getting beat up and his life threatened by thugs to extort his father, and Yugi playing tag with them and a can of spray paint which resulted in a lit cigarette torching all of them and I was hooked for life
My favorite part about season zero is that Trudge actually comes back in 5D's as an antagonist at first, but he comes around and sticks around as a side character on the side of the protagonists. While I've never seen season zero, I do have the manga and it is really a trip compared to the main manga and anime most will know and love. My first exposure to this series was when it started airing in the US and it instantly hooked me and I started buying cards, mainly just to collect as I had no idea about where/how to join any tournaments and that I had no real interest in competitive Yu-gi-oh!. I still actually have old 1st edition Legend of Blue Eyes cards (nothing rare) and the original Kaiba and Yugi starter decks in their original boxes. I've been a big fan of this series ever since it came over to the U.S., still got some of the old PS1, PS2, Gameboy and DS games. And can we talk about Pegasus's amazing drip in the episode in which he duels Yugi through the television? I don't know why, but that outfit just looks good on him.
Pokémon,Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh were my starter pack shows introducing me to anime.I didn't grow up having cable all the time so catching those shows on antenna tv was everything.I definitely liked Yu-Gi-Oh the most from the cards,the characters,the arcs,the action,the different ways every situation connected to the pharoah's past plus it being the firstvanime I seen where the power of friendship was a emphasized trope nonstop in a series.Even with me watching way more anime now then I did as a kid I still hold Yu-Gi-Oh in high regard as one of my all time favorites and every blue moon on random I watch some classic battles from the series
Such perfect timing I'm currently rewatching all of the Yu-Gi-Oh series and trying to collect all the video games so this video just fuels my hyper fixation even more
yu-gi-oh was such a huge part of my childhood and I cannot wait for the next part of this video!!! the battle city arc is about when I really got into things and I'm so hype for this series
Just wait until you're reminded there was a duel with stakes of being a "love-slave". Or a demon with a dragon-head pen!s. Or government-ordered mass murder initiated to male golden necklaces. And that's just the first show; I didn't even get into the motorbikes or the not-Matrix or the duel that takes 77 years to finish.
The GBA game was incredible, no joke going to try and hunt down a copy of it just to replay (I bought a gameboy SP at the start of Covid and have been working back through OG Pokémon’s I can find for cheap off eBay)
I think it's funny that even though I found out about Yu-Gi-Oh through the card game first, I also got into horror anime later. So, knowing that Yu-Gi-Oh originated as a horror manga is interesting. My first episode of the series was Joey's duel against Mai. It got me completely hooked. Since that day, I've kept up with all series since childhood. Though, in terms of my actual childhood, only DM and GX count.
I grew up watching anime, Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Dragon Ball, Doraemon, Dr. Slump, and a few more. But Yu-Gi-Oh! ...Oh, indeed, I was invested in that anime and in the game, I used to beg my parents to buy my the cards, and they did, but then years later I found out that the cards were fake, they weren't bootleg cards, they were just copies of the originals. My heart broke, but it is what is is, I still have them and they're very dear to me.
Thanks! this show was my life when I was in elementary school! I never played the game, because I am absolutely terrible at strategy, but I loved the show! And I didn’t even know there was a season zero! Now I have to go find it!
3 things I remembered and had questions about with Duelist kingdom. 1) thr name of that other card game that helped inspire some of the rules and ideas. I think it was a card game with a diamond shaped field that didn't last. 2nd) how did Mai tell each scented card from one another... Much less always draw the only monster card in her deck? 3) cards games with table talk to DnD explain BS for how they get away with certain moves... Sounds like a lot of fun to play.
@@Pancakes4everyone42 Also Mon Colle was slightly known for some of the more 'risky' art work for some of the later cards in an attempt to stand out. Also the Monster Collection Manga... not bad, but not good enough to survive against the big swingers of the era.
When I was a kid my brothers and I put our monthly allowance together to get a subscription to the English version of Shonen Jump, which included the first arc of Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. It was amazing and dark and it was such a huge shock to see the anime shortly after that was very different and heavily censored. Still loved it, played the card game all the time at school, and we even had a copy of the real dungeon dice monsters at my house for a little bit. Thanks for covering this super influential series Jordan, we appreciate all your hard work!
I can't wait for episode 2. I just went to look for it after finishing this one and was bummed out that this video only went up 8h ago. Great stuff, man.
One thing worth noting about that first season (and season zero as well), is that the author loved table RPGs and took a lot of inspiration for them to make those first duels. Which is why there so much silly stuff and lack of rules. Is simply both players trying to outsmart each other with classic RPG excuses to proceed with the adventure like blowing up the moon or aging the monsters.
Jordan you were already pretty awesome in my book, but to hear your favorite card was Red Eyes Black Dragon as well! Let's just say you are on a whole other level of favorite TH-camr now for me!
I guess I never really questioned why SO many answers were given to us relatively early on in this show, in comparison to many other anime in the same vein. Though it makes sense when you realize that the start of the show we all know is actually over seven volumes into the story, so for people who’ve been reading since the start, the explanation of the pharaoh’s origins has come years after where they started the series.
I was definitely in the “read the Season 0 manga after getting into the anime” crowd. Read the first three volumes in 2005 and they was such a shock to me. I found and read the other four volumes years later.
Dungeon Dice Monsters was a great game and the episodes did a great job of explaining it. The manga version of DDM was even better and had higher stakes. The GBA game was on me of my favorites too
I don't think I ever got engrossed with a series than Yu-Gi-Oh! during it's battle city arc. I would religiously watch it after school (thankfully they'd air two episodes back to back). Unfortunately, I never properly learned how to play the actual TCG until I started emulating Stairway To The Destined Duel for GBA and got immediately sucked in. I also love the original seven volumes of the Manga, they felt comfy as high school stories wrapped up in weird and deadly games of chance (almost kind of Twilight Zone feeling)
Yu-Gi-Oh is a big part of my life! I would watch the show when I was a kid and collect the cards just for fun. And now being an adult....I still love the show, I still collect the cards and I'm a big TCG player. I will never stop loving Yu-Gi-Oh 💙 Was traumatised when Kazuki Takahashi passed away 😢 R.I.P 🙏🏻
This video is pretty enjoyable, you're hitting a lot of good points for me, reminding me of when I was younger I like how you brought up the US version of the WSJ manga. I was relatively young when those monthly SJ manga came out, and they ended up discontinuing them relatively soon after I got into them. I didn't have internet or anything, so I thought it was just bad luck for a long time that stores never seemed to have them. They were definitely a big push into getting me into manga as a whole, and it was cool when years later I would finally be able to read many of the series included to completion, and see more context of those mostly standalone chapters I was able to read. I got relatively few of them overall, but I seem to remember them having cards like Malefic Stardust Dragon, and probably others. Similarly, the book fair at my school had some Yu-Gi-Oh manga. I've been out of the physical card game for ages, so the Kachi Kochi Dragon that came with Zexal volume 1 is still the only XYZ monster card I have.
Aahh, sweet childhood! I remember watching Yu-Gi-Oh! here in Sweden, which aired directly after Pokémon on either Saturdays or Sundays (they shifted every now and again.) Funnily enough, it had the same censorship as in the US, except for the names. For some reason, they kept their original japanese names in the Swedish dub. Later on I remember buying the first 2 volumes of the Manga. Which surprised me a lot, seeing how different and darker it was. I loved it though! I'd absolutely recommend everyone to experience the first 7 volumes of the manga, if possible. Sure, there is the "Season 0" of the anime, but I still think the Manga is the way to go. I also just remembered being subscribed to Shonen Jump here in Sweden, and one of the later issues towards the end of the short run it had, you actually got a Red Eyes Black Dragon card. Good times!
Pokemon was middleschool, I played yu-gi-oh all through high school, taking up space on the subway with my friends playing across the seats afterschool on our way to Neutral Ground near 23rd St. Thinking about how much fun that was brings me to tears. Thank you so much for this!!!
Ah, perfect timing. Right when i get back into yugioh to relive my childhood, and this pops up. Jordan you never miss 😂 everytime i get back into something your stuff pops up in my feed
I appreciate how Atem started out as pretty darn evil ("Season 0" especially) and did some twisted stuff, but stood out from the other evil spirits by not having any ill-intent towards his host and in fact taking his malice out on those who sought to harm his host or his host's friends. All the other spirits wind up being quite antagonistic to their hosts and actively working against them, which frequently leads to their undoing and prevents them from redeeming themselves over time. (I guess you could say he's risking Yugi's physical well-being whenever he takes part in a dangerous game, but, his ability is essentially just "I win" or "RNG manipulation" so he knows there's no risk really. The games are just an excuse to draw out the suffering and to rub the other person's hubris in their face.)
I'm so glad you're talking about this series. You end off here basically where I did as a kid. Or.. around the finale of the Battle City stuff on the blimp. I just can't wait to see the rest of your work!
That is pretty neat how they still try to do the "game of the week" thing from season 0 with the VR arc and by trying to make dungeon dice monsters a thing. I totally forget that came after duelist kingdom and I assumed it was all duel monsters.
Yu-Gi-Oh was the first card game I got into. And then I started to watch the anime on I think WB Kids and maybe Toonami? I grew up on the 4Kids dumb and I loved it! Looking back, it is silly. But Dan Green?? Hell yeah. Excited for the next sets of these videos!
I grew up on Yugioh and Yugioh GX and was a massive fan. Thank you for this recap! As an adult, I will say that visiting Season 0 was a worthwhile adventure and highly recommend it to anyone who has time.
Hm, this was very interesting, this Franchise were one of my Favorites in my Childhood and still are to some extent, I will look forward to see how you cover the rest of Series. Also, nice touch with covering Season Zero, I wasn’t sure you were going to do it, i really appreciate that.
I love these longer videos about these old shows from my childhood I spend about 8 hours delivering food around town most days a week and when you posy these types of videos it really gives me a dose of uniqueness away from the same songs fron my playlist i hear day to day. I'm turning 25 on Tuesday and I just overall love every video that you do cause it sends me back to a time where I would get up at 7am got to the living room turn on the newest episodes of beyblade pokemon bakugan and yugioh, I really do miss those days so much
I remember the playability and Egyptian aspects of the show. By the time I got to this show at age 19 in 2009 there was the game though. (My parents didn't care if I had TV or not as a child.) I had been an Ancient Egypt freak as a child for the fact they worshiped cats like I do. So when this TV show employed aspects of their culture I was hooked. This was one of two animes that I ever got invested in, the other being DBZA. Edit: I think this was one of your best videos, Mr. Fringe. Your insights were just extra beautiful.
@@benwasserman8223pretty sure you're misremembering cause Zexal was WAAAAAY past 4Kids' TV. GX was the last Yu-Gi-Oh on 4Kids. After that with 5Ds it went to Cartoon Network and then Nickelodeon has the show now. I'm pretty sure.
Make fun of season 1 all you want, but as a whole the duel monsters show is a great series, I know it’s super cheesy but you can’t deny this anime is badass, so many epic moments to count, and to this day I get hyped with some of the duels.
MY BROTHA! As a dude who collects Blue-Eyes variants, I am stoked to know you are a Red-Eyes fan. The Red-Eyes has always been an underdawg, just like Joey. 😅The Red-Eyes is always exciting to see. It's always interesting to see how it's used to get out of a tough situation. They set it up as an opposite to the Blue-Eyes, as Joey is to Kaiba given their rivalry. But the Red-Eyes is weaker. It's such a joy to see Joey and the Red-Eyes persevere, and when the Red-Eyes made into Yugi's hands I was stoked. The Red-Eyes is the card of the UnderDawg, and I'm here for it!!
So, I remember when I was younger, I had a shonin jump where yugi and his friends get trapped in a game of basically D&D. That confused me until I was told he plays a lot more games in the manga, including playing with yo-yo's at one point? Stuff is wild ahaha
Not just playing more games but also Yami Yugi straight up killed people through the games because the Shadow Realm was more of a censoring thing. Then he decided to chill a bit once the duelest kingdom stuff started.
Great retrospective, one of the best presenters for retro pop culture media I've seen, you've earned my subscription and I look forward to your continued retrospectives.
HELL YEAH! I still dont fully understand my interest with Yu-Gi but im 32 now. I stopped watching and collecting a long time ago but damnit if I dont still hold it close to my heart! Thanks for making the vid, keep em comin!
Damnit. You done did it again. I love it though, because I stopped watching both series around the time we(I assume we’re about the same age) hit mid-late teens. But I still have a love of the franchises. Pokémon, I still buy every game. But it’s so nice to get these summarizations of the later stories. Definitely makes me wanna restart both franchises.
My childhood could be summed up in just a handful of words: Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Go-Oh, and Pokemon. I remember reading the original YGO in Shonen Jump and was confused as to why it wasn't about the card game. I still loved it though.
I love Yu-Gi-Oh so much. It came into my life when I needed it most. It helped me cope with the loss of my mother. Been collecting the cards since 2002 and still open them today on my channel.
The first manga I owned and read were the first 2 volumes of the manga when I was 7. To me I was like oh this is the origin story of the puzzle and all these extra characters are from my dungeon dice monsters game. I hope Jordan covers the Dark Side of Dimension movie at the end of this series because it’s the epilogue and it’s canon to the original story.
I am so happy you're covering Yu-Gi-Oh! Like me, I always preferred it over pokemon as a kid. Had all the YGO games for GBA and collected the cards and was only in the DS era that I really started playing pokemon and fell out with YGO. Duel links and master duel definitely rekindled interest for a bit but it's way too complicated for me now 😂
We just not gonna talk about how in the virtual reality world there was an NPC modeled to look EXACTLY like Mokuba, known as Princess Mokuba? Alright that's fine... probably is better to not talk about it rather than wonder what it might mean that in a world designed by Kaiba, he made his little brother a Princess.. yeaa.. the more I think about It the more I think it was a good call not to mention it..
Thanks so much for the support, you don't have to drop 10x the amount and I did cover it in this video after I spoke about the manga, just not as in much detail as season 1 as covering the manga and Season 0 back to back together took a big chunk of the front half of the video lol
@@JordanFringe94 if you cover season 0/the manga in its own video I’ll drop 10x this amount lol. That or at least cover the manga of the rest of the series their stories are pretty different compared to the anime
You sir not only made a fantastic video. But you honestly made me feel so happy while watching this. I remember watching Yugioh so much as a kid. I fell off it sadly as other shows got my interest. I still watched and tried to play the game but I didn't learn fast^^; I am trying but the game is SOOOOOOOOOOOO different now. It has evolved so much. I look forward to the rest of this series bud. ❤ thank you.
Not the best match. Even if written well, the series would be super dull or too awkward. A Yugioh inspired show/movie that take similar concept, but does it's own thing would've been better.
Listen bro I've seen you pump out videoes every few days for months now but unfortunately I keep waiting for videos like these that I actually care about. That said though you kill it every time, keep it up!
25:51 yami bakura was mad persistent in the original series lol he kept coming back even wheh tristan tossed the millieum ring into the deepest part of dueliest kingdom , it still returns !!
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Yugioh dungeon Dice episode was hype
Make fun of season 1, but as a whole the duel monsters show is a great series, I know it’s super cheesy but you can’t deny this anime is badass, so many epic moments to count, and to this day I get hyped with some of the duels.
me over here looking for part 2 haha nice video
Yes, finally
My hope, is for one day the yugioh company to produce an anime based entirely on the original manga, about the games, not just the card game, you know as a way to honor takahashi sensei
The dub VAs are iconic. They're pretty much the only part of 4Kids that have stood the test of time while all the VAs from their other anime were recast.
Dan Green
And the OPs/EDs
@@claymathewselevator8121 real name, no gimmicks.
@@ZZCAR1LK's yugioh rap is so good.
dan green as yami yugi/atem was amazing. eric stuart as seto kaiba was even more amazing. On a side note, i still find it crazy that brock and seto have the same voice actor
Would have been hilarious if Pegasus screwed with Kaiba by just printing a ton of new copies of Blue Eyes.
Especially if he didn't even make any alt art for the new copies. They're just exact replicas of the old ones.
To be honest...i am rather sure that Pegasus would've made sure that Joey got the price money,and maybe even make a new blue eyes as a replacement for the one Kaibe destroyed,even if he won his duel against Atem/Yugi...He valued friendship and loyalty,after all
Joey and Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho are my reason for loving underdog characters so much. That feeling of having a heart of gold just means so much to me.
Even more than Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh was my childhood. And rewatching the 4kids dub version to this day is still a treat. Knowing about all the nonsensical rules, censorship, Yugi plot armor and everything else in-between. I think it's makes the dub version even more special and hilarious.
Same
Dubs during that era weren't always the best overall, (and are a big part of why there's still so much hate for dubs to this day despite any competent stuff being well done these days), but they had a special magic to them that created a unique experience and memories for those of us who grew up with them. They were objectively bad in some regards, but I wouldn't trade them at all.
The 4kids dubs were all wild 😂😂😂
A lot of that was actually at the request of the Japanese publisher in order to make it more easily accessible for a western audience and was no worse than most of what was allowed and not allowed in children's shows of the time. It's still pretty funny though.
@@mrbubbles6468Especially in the Duelist Kingdom Arc, which has it play more like a card based Tabletop RPG with how much it rewards creative lateral thinking.
I laughed uncontrollably at the line, "Once again, Mokuba is taken captive." I blame Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and LittleKuriboh.
Man, I read the manga on my lunch breaks and it was wild how dark the early stuff was. I actually worried I could get in trouble for things like dudes being burned alive and Anzu's bikini (or at least get weird looks.)
I'm sure I remember Mokuba in the manga doing some Russian roulette stuff with poisoned food and would only give yugi the antidote if he won - definitely a character shift there😅
I'm going to do something for once
Dan Green as Yami Yugi is iconic.
He's also Little Yugi.
When your anime has demon lords, isekai vr mmo revenge plots, eldritch gods, duel school, duel school space energy cults, yandere sadomasochist demons, the late stage capitalist hell of 5Ds, South American earthen deities, and the subsequent interdimensional split to avoid the cyber apocolaypse(with a bit if time travel), as a fraction of your story, you've cooked something insane.
also the multiverse was made by a dead dragon god. Cause the god being dead at cost of creating existence every being that raised to power tried to claim what remained of the god's power or control the multiverse leading to many gods battling for eternity in a power struggle of re-birth and cycles.
Don't forget card games with giant robots in lunar orbit. Or children's card games on battleplates.
@@christopherb501Playinh childrens Cardgames to get stuff that can potentially destroy humanity is hillarious on it's own :D
I watched your entire Pokémon series from start to finish. I remember coming home from school in the early 2000s and watching Static Shock, Pokémon, Jackie Chan, and Yugioh.
My brothers and I would play yugioh and Pokémon, but lost interest in yugioh after maybe 5 years.
As per usual, this was very nostalgic and entertaining and made my brain happy thank you ❤
Honestly though, I actually really enjoyed the original season 0 concept.
The horror game manga was really interesting to me. I also think the manga does a much better job of setting up Bakura as the main villain. I kinda feel like the anime didn’t realize he was a super important character for a while into it.
But I really loved the idea of there being this spirit who wasn’t exactly a nice guy but was, at least, a just guy. He really felt like a pharaoh. He deals with liars, cheaters, and thieves harshly, but he gives them an opportunity to redeem themselves in the process despite how dark the punishments might be.
Like that’s the kind of guy I’d want as a king for sure. He seems to have an intuitive idea of who is good and who is evil. Like how he could have easily let Millennium Key dude fall to his death, but realized he wasn’t there for malicious reasons and saved him while warning him not to enter his mind again.
Very interesting character.
I used to not be a fan of Duelist Kingdom till recently when I learned that the official rules of the card game itself wasn't even thought of yet during that time, it wasn't till Battle City started where some sense of the card game was made. When YGO came to America, the official rules were already established and set in stone, which is why so much kids were confuse as to wtf was going on in that season
There were rules before DK. It’s just that they were limited to video games.
Damn, because of LittleKuriboh, I hear Duke Devlin’s “theme song” immediately as from his name is mentioned…
LET'S GOOOOO Season 0 supremacy! Always so nice seeing people talk about it so lovingly
I recently watched it after years of not knowing it's existence it was a huge clash of what I was used to with duel monsters but I enjoyed it's more horror and mature elements the scene of the guy with the watches after he lost his game was gnarly
Rip to the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh who died saving someones life
Not quite
I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on one of your videos as fast as I did this one. I absolutely loved Yu Gi Oh as a kid
This is exactly how I felt lol.
Man Yu-Gi-Oh was my first anime. I still keep up with it having seen everything episode from Duel Monsters to Sevens. Still waiting on Go Rush to be available in English to binge through though 😅
Man. I think my first anime was Captain Future or Maya the bee. Now I feel old.
Same 👍
@@HustlerHorstRuedigerFYI, the Pop Arena's Nickelodeon retrospective did cover Maya. Do check out Nick Knacks; each episode is a documentary unto itself.
@@HustlerHorstRuediger Biene Maya zählt als Anime? 😱 Na dann muss ich mich wohl anschliessen 😅
Fun fact for me: Back when i was reading a manga called Samurai Deeper Kyo, for some reason whenever the character Benitora was speaking, I heard Joey's 4kids dub voice in my head. Then when i watched the Samurai Deeper Kyo anime like a year later...Benitora's dub voice was Joey's 4kids voice. Wild.
Dan Green as both Yugi and Atem is so iconic; the contrast between the wimpy, soft-spoken Yugi and the cool, confident, heroic Atem is so pronounced you can hardly believe its the same guy. And he's really able to pull out some strong emotional beats too, great voice actor who never got as much work as he deserved (I know he had some extremely unfortunate personal life stuff that stifled his career, which is tragic for multiple reasons).
I honestly think it's insane that, to my knowledge, he was never called in once to voice any incarnation of He-Man; he would have destroyed that role so hard
The bit about it being a gateway unto manga resonated with me hard, on my 9th birthday I saw issue 9 of Shonen Jump at a store in 2003 and begged my grandpa to get it for me because I saw Yugi on the cover, and was greeted with a story about Yugi's friend dressing up as a superhero, getting beat up and his life threatened by thugs to extort his father, and Yugi playing tag with them and a can of spray paint which resulted in a lit cigarette torching all of them and I was hooked for life
My favorite part about season zero is that Trudge actually comes back in 5D's as an antagonist at first, but he comes around and sticks around as a side character on the side of the protagonists. While I've never seen season zero, I do have the manga and it is really a trip compared to the main manga and anime most will know and love. My first exposure to this series was when it started airing in the US and it instantly hooked me and I started buying cards, mainly just to collect as I had no idea about where/how to join any tournaments and that I had no real interest in competitive Yu-gi-oh!. I still actually have old 1st edition Legend of Blue Eyes cards (nothing rare) and the original Kaiba and Yugi starter decks in their original boxes. I've been a big fan of this series ever since it came over to the U.S., still got some of the old PS1, PS2, Gameboy and DS games.
And can we talk about Pegasus's amazing drip in the episode in which he duels Yugi through the television? I don't know why, but that outfit just looks good on him.
Pokémon,Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh were my starter pack shows introducing me to anime.I didn't grow up having cable all the time so catching those shows on antenna tv was everything.I definitely liked Yu-Gi-Oh the most from the cards,the characters,the arcs,the action,the different ways every situation connected to the pharoah's past plus it being the firstvanime I seen where the power of friendship was a emphasized trope nonstop in a series.Even with me watching way more anime now then I did as a kid I still hold Yu-Gi-Oh in high regard as one of my all time favorites and every blue moon on random I watch some classic battles from the series
Such perfect timing I'm currently rewatching all of the Yu-Gi-Oh series and trying to collect all the video games so this video just fuels my hyper fixation even more
yu-gi-oh was such a huge part of my childhood and I cannot wait for the next part of this video!!! the battle city arc is about when I really got into things and I'm so hype for this series
My Yu-Gi-Oh! senses are tingling!
Wasn't expecting you to cover YuGiOh, but I know I'm gonna enjoy watching it!
Out of all your videos this one hit me the hardest for nostalgia. I completely forgot about the dice monsters HOLY CRAP.!! Memory unlocked. :0
Just wait until you're reminded there was a duel with stakes of being a "love-slave". Or a demon with a dragon-head pen!s. Or government-ordered mass murder initiated to male golden necklaces. And that's just the first show; I didn't even get into the motorbikes or the not-Matrix or the duel that takes 77 years to finish.
The GBA game was incredible, no joke going to try and hunt down a copy of it just to replay (I bought a gameboy SP at the start of Covid and have been working back through OG Pokémon’s I can find for cheap off eBay)
I think it's funny that even though I found out about Yu-Gi-Oh through the card game first, I also got into horror anime later. So, knowing that Yu-Gi-Oh originated as a horror manga is interesting.
My first episode of the series was Joey's duel against Mai. It got me completely hooked. Since that day, I've kept up with all series since childhood. Though, in terms of my actual childhood, only DM and GX count.
I grew up watching anime, Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Dragon Ball, Doraemon, Dr. Slump, and a few more. But Yu-Gi-Oh! ...Oh, indeed, I was invested in that anime and in the game, I used to beg my parents to buy my the cards, and they did, but then years later I found out that the cards were fake, they weren't bootleg cards, they were just copies of the originals. My heart broke, but it is what is is, I still have them and they're very dear to me.
Ah yeah its time to duel
I guess you could say, The Millenium puzzling world
With JoJo levels of BS
I think you meant to say "It's time to d d d d d d d d duel."
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Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! made most of my childhood so I'm glad to see you covering both of them!
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Thanks! this show was my life when I was in elementary school! I never played the game, because I am absolutely terrible at strategy, but I loved the show! And I didn’t even know there was a season zero! Now I have to go find it!
Thanks so much for the extra bit of support! You should be able to find season 0 on youtube, worth the watch!
3 things I remembered and had questions about with Duelist kingdom.
1) thr name of that other card game that helped inspire some of the rules and ideas. I think it was a card game with a diamond shaped field that didn't last.
2nd) how did Mai tell each scented card from one another... Much less always draw the only monster card in her deck?
3) cards games with table talk to DnD explain BS for how they get away with certain moves... Sounds like a lot of fun to play.
I'd like to know more about that first point
@@Pancakes4everyone42 Also Mon Colle was slightly known for some of the more 'risky' art work for some of the later cards in an attempt to stand out.
Also the Monster Collection Manga... not bad, but not good enough to survive against the big swingers of the era.
You’re running through all my childhood favorites. Those Saturday mornings were the best!
When I was a kid my brothers and I put our monthly allowance together to get a subscription to the English version of Shonen Jump, which included the first arc of Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. It was amazing and dark and it was such a huge shock to see the anime shortly after that was very different and heavily censored. Still loved it, played the card game all the time at school, and we even had a copy of the real dungeon dice monsters at my house for a little bit. Thanks for covering this super influential series Jordan, we appreciate all your hard work!
I remember the days back in the early and mid 2000s of Yu-Gi-Oh being the craze nostalgic memories.
" attention duelist, My hair gives me super strength"
RIP kazuki takahashi
I can't wait for episode 2. I just went to look for it after finishing this one and was bummed out that this video only went up 8h ago. Great stuff, man.
One thing worth noting about that first season (and season zero as well), is that the author loved table RPGs and took a lot of inspiration for them to make those first duels. Which is why there so much silly stuff and lack of rules. Is simply both players trying to outsmart each other with classic RPG excuses to proceed with the adventure like blowing up the moon or aging the monsters.
The dub is the best thing to put on to fall asleep to. I just have such nostalgia for it
Yugi in the anime: It's time to D-D-D-D-DDDD-DUEL!
Yugi in the manga: *I WANNA PLAY A GAME.*
Jordan you were already pretty awesome in my book, but to hear your favorite card was Red Eyes Black Dragon as well! Let's just say you are on a whole other level of favorite TH-camr now for me!
Awesome video Jordan, can't wait for part 2! And congrats on the Gamer Supps partnership!
I guess I never really questioned why SO many answers were given to us relatively early on in this show, in comparison to many other anime in the same vein. Though it makes sense when you realize that the start of the show we all know is actually over seven volumes into the story, so for people who’ve been reading since the start, the explanation of the pharaoh’s origins has come years after where they started the series.
I'm 35 and I've been a big Yu-Gi-Oh and pokémon fan since they both came out. I love seeing other people talk about it.
I was definitely in the “read the Season 0 manga after getting into the anime” crowd. Read the first three volumes in 2005 and they was such a shock to me. I found and read the other four volumes years later.
never watched any Yu-gi-oh before this and now I gotta watch all of it c: 10/10
aww thats so cute
Dungeon Dice Monsters was a great game and the episodes did a great job of explaining it. The manga version of DDM was even better and had higher stakes. The GBA game was on me of my favorites too
I don't think I ever got engrossed with a series than Yu-Gi-Oh! during it's battle city arc. I would religiously watch it after school (thankfully they'd air two episodes back to back). Unfortunately, I never properly learned how to play the actual TCG until I started emulating Stairway To The Destined Duel for GBA and got immediately sucked in. I also love the original seven volumes of the Manga, they felt comfy as high school stories wrapped up in weird and deadly games of chance (almost kind of Twilight Zone feeling)
I'm pretty sure I've watched this two or three times.
It's so dense I'm going for a third.
Yu-Gi-Oh is a big part of my life! I would watch the show when I was a kid and collect the cards just for fun. And now being an adult....I still love the show, I still collect the cards and I'm a big TCG player. I will never stop loving Yu-Gi-Oh 💙 Was traumatised when Kazuki Takahashi passed away 😢 R.I.P 🙏🏻
I, no joke, was thinking about you making a video on each yu-gi-oh incarnation earlier. I feel almost psychic.. Love the content!
This video is pretty enjoyable, you're hitting a lot of good points for me, reminding me of when I was younger I like how you brought up the US version of the WSJ manga. I was relatively young when those monthly SJ manga came out, and they ended up discontinuing them relatively soon after I got into them. I didn't have internet or anything, so I thought it was just bad luck for a long time that stores never seemed to have them. They were definitely a big push into getting me into manga as a whole, and it was cool when years later I would finally be able to read many of the series included to completion, and see more context of those mostly standalone chapters I was able to read. I got relatively few of them overall, but I seem to remember them having cards like Malefic Stardust Dragon, and probably others. Similarly, the book fair at my school had some Yu-Gi-Oh manga. I've been out of the physical card game for ages, so the Kachi Kochi Dragon that came with Zexal volume 1 is still the only XYZ monster card I have.
Ugh...too many acronyms...I read that as "Wall Street Journal"...
Aahh, sweet childhood!
I remember watching Yu-Gi-Oh! here in Sweden, which aired directly after Pokémon on either Saturdays or Sundays (they shifted every now and again.) Funnily enough, it had the same censorship as in the US, except for the names. For some reason, they kept their original japanese names in the Swedish dub.
Later on I remember buying the first 2 volumes of the Manga. Which surprised me a lot, seeing how different and darker it was. I loved it though!
I'd absolutely recommend everyone to experience the first 7 volumes of the manga, if possible. Sure, there is the "Season 0" of the anime, but I still think the Manga is the way to go.
I also just remembered being subscribed to Shonen Jump here in Sweden, and one of the later issues towards the end of the short run it had, you actually got a Red Eyes Black Dragon card. Good times!
Pokemon was middleschool, I played yu-gi-oh all through high school, taking up space on the subway with my friends playing across the seats afterschool on our way to Neutral Ground near 23rd St. Thinking about how much fun that was brings me to tears. Thank you so much for this!!!
Ah, perfect timing. Right when i get back into yugioh to relive my childhood, and this pops up. Jordan you never miss 😂 everytime i get back into something your stuff pops up in my feed
I appreciate how Atem started out as pretty darn evil ("Season 0" especially) and did some twisted stuff, but stood out from the other evil spirits by not having any ill-intent towards his host and in fact taking his malice out on those who sought to harm his host or his host's friends. All the other spirits wind up being quite antagonistic to their hosts and actively working against them, which frequently leads to their undoing and prevents them from redeeming themselves over time.
(I guess you could say he's risking Yugi's physical well-being whenever he takes part in a dangerous game, but, his ability is essentially just "I win" or "RNG manipulation" so he knows there's no risk really. The games are just an excuse to draw out the suffering and to rub the other person's hubris in their face.)
I'm so glad you're talking about this series. You end off here basically where I did as a kid. Or.. around the finale of the Battle City stuff on the blimp. I just can't wait to see the rest of your work!
That is pretty neat how they still try to do the "game of the week" thing from season 0 with the VR arc and by trying to make dungeon dice monsters a thing.
I totally forget that came after duelist kingdom and I assumed it was all duel monsters.
Yu-Gi-Oh was the first card game I got into. And then I started to watch the anime on I think WB Kids and maybe Toonami? I grew up on the 4Kids dumb and I loved it! Looking back, it is silly. But Dan Green?? Hell yeah. Excited for the next sets of these videos!
Need a digimon video now too lmao. Pokemon, Yugioh and Digimon really were my childhood. Still play the three card games to this day too.
I grew up on Yugioh and Yugioh GX and was a massive fan. Thank you for this recap! As an adult, I will say that visiting Season 0 was a worthwhile adventure and highly recommend it to anyone who has time.
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Ah, yes. That one yugi-oh episode I had on DVD. the only one I've ever watched.
Hm, this was very interesting, this Franchise were one of my Favorites in my Childhood and still are to some extent, I will look forward to see how you cover the rest of Series.
Also, nice touch with covering Season Zero, I wasn’t sure you were going to do it, i really appreciate that.
I love these longer videos about these old shows from my childhood I spend about 8 hours delivering food around town most days a week and when you posy these types of videos it really gives me a dose of uniqueness away from the same songs fron my playlist i hear day to day. I'm turning 25 on Tuesday and I just overall love every video that you do cause it sends me back to a time where I would get up at 7am got to the living room turn on the newest episodes of beyblade pokemon bakugan and yugioh, I really do miss those days so much
Yugi’s outfit in Dungeons and Dices arc was my favorite look of his
I remember the playability and Egyptian aspects of the show. By the time I got to this show at age 19 in 2009 there was the game though. (My parents didn't care if I had TV or not as a child.) I had been an Ancient Egypt freak as a child for the fact they worshiped cats like I do. So when this TV show employed aspects of their culture I was hooked. This was one of two animes that I ever got invested in, the other being DBZA.
Edit: I think this was one of your best videos, Mr. Fringe. Your insights were just extra beautiful.
I love the live-action segments you filmed! As always, fantastic work!
Ohh I was looking forward to this series. Hoping we see the sequel series as well. Or at least GX and 5Ds
Where did all the other seasons end up airing? Zexel was at the tail end of 4Kids' run but I never figured out where the next shows aired.
@@benwasserman8223they went to Nickelodeon, at least the later seasons of Zexal did.
@@benwasserman8223pretty sure you're misremembering cause Zexal was WAAAAAY past 4Kids' TV. GX was the last Yu-Gi-Oh on 4Kids. After that with 5Ds it went to Cartoon Network and then Nickelodeon has the show now. I'm pretty sure.
@@benwasserman8223They aired on Pluto TV I'm pretty sure, except for Sevens which aired on Disney XD
@@wil2560Yu-Gi-Oh sevens is currently airing on Disney xd
Yugioh is what got me into archeology as a child. I still love it as an adult. I always wanted to be an egyptologist just like grandpa motou
I never watched Yu-Gi-Oh, so this was a really great way to understand the show. it looks really good, cant wait for the other parts
Make fun of season 1 all you want, but as a whole the duel monsters show is a great series, I know it’s super cheesy but you can’t deny this anime is badass, so many epic moments to count, and to this day I get hyped with some of the duels.
MY BROTHA! As a dude who collects Blue-Eyes variants, I am stoked to know you are a Red-Eyes fan. The Red-Eyes has always been an underdawg, just like Joey. 😅The Red-Eyes is always exciting to see. It's always interesting to see how it's used to get out of a tough situation. They set it up as an opposite to the Blue-Eyes, as Joey is to Kaiba given their rivalry. But the Red-Eyes is weaker. It's such a joy to see Joey and the Red-Eyes persevere, and when the Red-Eyes made into Yugi's hands I was stoked. The Red-Eyes is the card of the UnderDawg, and I'm here for it!!
I finished watching the OG subbed and it was a blast. Greetings from Puerto Rico.
So, I remember when I was younger, I had a shonin jump where yugi and his friends get trapped in a game of basically D&D. That confused me until I was told he plays a lot more games in the manga, including playing with yo-yo's at one point? Stuff is wild ahaha
That was the ending to the original manga, Yu-Gi-Oh. The card game and popular anime is based on the Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist manga.
Not just playing more games but also Yami Yugi straight up killed people through the games because the Shadow Realm was more of a censoring thing. Then he decided to chill a bit once the duelest kingdom stuff started.
Great retrospective, one of the best presenters for retro pop culture media I've seen, you've earned my subscription and I look forward to your continued retrospectives.
HELL YEAH! I still dont fully understand my interest with Yu-Gi but im 32 now. I stopped watching and collecting a long time ago but damnit if I dont still hold it close to my heart! Thanks for making the vid, keep em comin!
Damnit. You done did it again. I love it though, because I stopped watching both series around the time we(I assume we’re about the same age) hit mid-late teens. But I still have a love of the franchises. Pokémon, I still buy every game. But it’s so nice to get these summarizations of the later stories. Definitely makes me wanna restart both franchises.
My childhood could be summed up in just a handful of words: Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Go-Oh, and Pokemon.
I remember reading the original YGO in Shonen Jump and was confused as to why it wasn't about the card game. I still loved it though.
I love Yu-Gi-Oh so much. It came into my life when I needed it most. It helped me cope with the loss of my mother. Been collecting the cards since 2002 and still open them today on my channel.
The first manga I owned and read were the first 2 volumes of the manga when I was 7. To me I was like oh this is the origin story of the puzzle and all these extra characters are from my dungeon dice monsters game.
I hope Jordan covers the Dark Side of Dimension movie at the end of this series because it’s the epilogue and it’s canon to the original story.
I am so happy you're covering Yu-Gi-Oh! Like me, I always preferred it over pokemon as a kid. Had all the YGO games for GBA and collected the cards and was only in the DS era that I really started playing pokemon and fell out with YGO. Duel links and master duel definitely rekindled interest for a bit but it's way too complicated for me now 😂
28:19 “…in America!”
Need more of this! Yu-Gi-Oh is a franchise I’ve been waiting for your channel to talk about
We just not gonna talk about how in the virtual reality world there was an NPC modeled to look EXACTLY like Mokuba, known as Princess Mokuba? Alright that's fine... probably is better to not talk about it rather than wonder what it might mean that in a world designed by Kaiba, he made his little brother a Princess.. yeaa.. the more I think about It the more I think it was a good call not to mention it..
So glad you decided to do this! The god card arc was mad busted. Can’t wait for the next video
If you cover season 0 I’ll be down to drop 10x this amount.
Thanks so much for the support, you don't have to drop 10x the amount and I did cover it in this video after I spoke about the manga, just not as in much detail as season 1 as covering the manga and Season 0 back to back together took a big chunk of the front half of the video lol
@@JordanFringe94 if you cover season 0/the manga in its own video I’ll drop 10x this amount lol. That or at least cover the manga of the rest of the series their stories are pretty different compared to the anime
This year, I rewatched a few shows from my childhood and this is the 2nd time you uploaded a video right after I finished watching it
More of this please. This show is a ginormous part of my childhood and you recap it so well
You sir not only made a fantastic video. But you honestly made me feel so happy while watching this. I remember watching Yugioh so much as a kid. I fell off it sadly as other shows got my interest. I still watched and tried to play the game but I didn't learn fast^^;
I am trying but the game is SOOOOOOOOOOOO different now. It has evolved so much.
I look forward to the rest of this series bud. ❤ thank you.
This is going to be another great retrospective
Agreed
16:26 I have watched this pilot episode so many times and NEVER saw the smiley face until you said it. I always thought it was just a random symbol 😅
Thanks Jordan! I’ve been waiting so long for someone to properly dive into this amazing anime!🎉
Don't forget Duke Devlin's sweet Theme Music
Blue-Eyes White Dragon is the Charizard of Yu-Gi-Oh and the most iconic card in the franchise.
You can't refute this
While Dark Magician is the Pikachu
@@rickyrosay33977 so is dark magician girl eevee or vaporeon?
@@YukiFubuki. Red eyes black dragon is the squirtle
And yet Harpies are the most popular and longest running archetype from the original series.
Mai had the best deck and the first ever archetype.
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I'm glad that you're showing up in more of your videos. You put so much time in, and it's nice to know you're a real guy and not a cartoon.
Thank you, I genuinely appreciate that!
YuGiOh is actually something I’d be totally down to watch as a live action series
If it was done well and they lean into the serious yet play along with the ridiculous nature of it. I think it'd be pretty epic.
Theres a fan made show called "Yugioh: In real life" or something that was pretty good for it's time, on TH-cam.
Not the best match. Even if written well, the series would be super dull or too awkward. A Yugioh inspired show/movie that take similar concept, but does it's own thing would've been better.
They did it for one piece why not Yu-Gi-Oh?
What would be difficult to adapt
Expectation: The monsters
Reality: The haircuts
Listen bro I've seen you pump out videoes every few days for months now but unfortunately I keep waiting for videos like these that I actually care about. That said though you kill it every time, keep it up!
25:51 yami bakura was mad persistent in the original series lol he kept coming back even wheh tristan tossed the millieum ring into the deepest part of dueliest kingdom , it still returns !!
I am so happy that you are doing this series! I just finished your Pokemon series too, so this is perfect timing!
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Hahaaaaaaa .. I see what you did there LMAO roll credits