I'm more invested in him finding out that Weevil and Rex are basically washed up pro duelists. They were top 1 and 2 on the nationals but Kaiba really woke Yugi up and he chose violence. In an alternate reality the Yugioh anime is about Weevil's and Rex's rivalry through the Japan circuit, then they team up to fight for the DMWC against other teams featuring Bandit Keith from Team America, Zigfried from Team Europe, and the Ishtar siblings from Team Africa. In this reality Yugi probably got bored with the cardgame after a few months and he moved on to Weiss Schwartz or something
"I don't think I've ever liked a character more than Seto Kiaba." Now you understand. The man is an absolute menace in the best way and he's the entire reason I got into this darn game.
Half of his personality is liking Blue Eyes and the other half is being a rich jerk and it somehow works especially when they gave him a Blue Eyes shaped jet, just the most Kaiba thing to ever happen.
This is actually great. You get Live Rarran’s scuffed understanding of the heavily abridged retelling, then Editing Rarran’s little gags and asides that come after he learns more. Great job on this one.
If I remember right, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh Kazuki Takahashi was mostly a tabletop DnD type gamer, which is kinda reflected in the main badguy Bakura have multiple encounters with the gang in tabletop game format. The cardgame was what caught on so he made Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist but his DnD style of thinking is why Duelist Kingdom feels a lot like some guy going "I cast fireball at the lake so that the steam will make a smokescreen so your birds of prey cannot attack us as we flee" type fantasy.
Yeah, that's why the anime has the video game filler arc, also Season 0 (and the early chapters of the manga) don't even really feature the Duel Monsters card game, most of the "games" are Yami challenged people to various death games. And then the whole beginning of the anime happens and the series takes a shift towards focusing on Duel Monsters and the plot with the Millennium Items, with the Duke Devlin/Dungeon Dice Monsters arc sorta being a kinda "return to form" in the sense of going back to two people challenging each other to a game, not just Duel Monsters.
That explains the whole DnD table top of Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura that started at the end of book 6 and went the entire way through book 7 of the "Season 0" manga.
i mean, the game has to play by the rule, while the anime can spew bullshit. so your analogy should be "it's like giving Glock without a bullet to a cavemen, and told them to craft the bullet themselves."
@@freyachobi I say Its not just how there butchered Yami Bakura's intro but they also removed some of his most interesting moments like when he openly as Yami Bakura helped Yugi against Otogi /Duke. But arguably worse is how Bakura ended up never appearing in any of the filler stories which harmed him being part of the core friend group as he is supposed to be a lot.
weirdly enough I actually think the idea of the shadow realm is actually more scary than just dying. Sure, perhaps 'gore' wise, the characters not technically 'dying' I guess is 'kid friendly,' but the idea of a nightmare dimension that is basically hell, is a far more horrifying fate.
Yes and no. The Shadow Realm itself is very much a thing in the original and is used often in the duels, primarily by the various BBEGs However, there are definitely cases where they used it in dub but not in original, such as in a fight with that Magician guy in Season 2. In original there were sawblades that would cut off the feel of the loser, but in dub they would send the loser to the Shadow Realm.
Pegasus plays both the toon archetype and relinquished cause it represents his whimsical almost childish side with the toons and his dark almost malicious side with relinquished
Yugioh is really good about synergizing character's personalities and traits with their decks. Such as when a character plays a dinosaur deck, it signifies that they.......like dinosaurs.
Let me see if i remember the season 0 yami shenanigans Spoilers by the way - he brainwashed a guy so everything he sees is money - burned a guy alive - gave kaiba ptsd with duel monsters - trapped mokuba in an egg - i think he killed a guy using his own toys - peeled a womans makeup and showed society her true face - in the anime he made a guy saw hi virtual pet ate him - put someone in the hospital after tricking that guy into get bitten by a scorpion And there are a couple more i dont remember
@@mantraki The only ones I remember is the money brainwash and the one where they play air hockey but it's a bomb in a piece of ice which is slowly melting/cracking. Guessing that's either "killed a guy using his own toys" or "burned a guy alive".
Ah yes, the time, when the manga originally was supposed to be a kind of horror manga; basically a more-child friendly version of SAW. (before SAW was a thing) And then the duel against Kaiba happened and readers went feral after the card game.
@@LoveOlsson98i dontvthink its either one, toys probably refered to five way elemental dragons, but burned was a rando criminal, but also "rockstar" that got terrible palpitations rendering him deaf....
I wanna read to Rarran the absolute power Kaiba's autism has on the entire series. Like, the man is clearly functioning on a level different then your average man due to his card game hobbies changing the way the future works to be around it. The man created 3 different forms of alien life who dedicated their lives to card games. The future was ruined because Kaiba pushed forth a duel-centered form of economics.
Can't wait for you to continue this, mostly because the later stories get INSANE, if you think it's crazy now, can't wait for you to see the sheer insanity that is the next generation of yugioh.
40:04 or something like that I think something you missed about the anime is that the spirit in the puzzle was fully ready to just murder Kaiba and win the duel, and little Yugi took back control to throw the match. That’s why Yugi was so distraught, because he didn’t feel like he could ever duel again because he couldn’t let out the homicidal spirit, and if he can never duel again then he can never free his Grandpa
And when they became friends again, Yami Yugi’s violent tendencies were just brushed over in less than an episode, which I feel like attempted murder deserves a little more talking through
I remember the night Yu Gi Oh dropped on Fox Kids. Instantly it was like every kid in my school that were previously playing with Pokemon cards all unanimously knew next time they arrived at school they better have Starter Deck Yugi or Starter Deck Kaiba. It was glorious!
We really, really need to see you play more. This was genuinely one of my favourite videos you've ever put out, adding in the clips and explaining the story alongside the gameplay was so incredibly well done.
It's amazing how you got everyone's voice right without ever hearing them before lol This was super nostalgic, I used to watch this every morning before school and I still remember all the characters and story decades later.
Having grown up with the anime, it's pretty interesting seeing Rarran experience it for the first time in conjunction with the game. You should definitely watch season 2!
The inspiration for Kaiba's character apparently was a guy that didn't want to teach the creator a card game until he* had collected 10.000 cards, an "elite snob player" type
And then, Takahashi flipped it around on the snob, by having Chazz Princeton (the next series’ snob) need to collect 40 cards to get into North Academy in GX (i.e., a place where they teach you card games).
Rarran watching yugioh is so tight. The first season is unmatched. The next few seasons are super high stakes. It's unbelievable how good the anime is. Additionally, the GX anime is also pretty insane. Season 1 and 2 are warmups and from 3 on out it gets way too insane for comfort.
@@TechnicallyPresent Yeah so much totally this. I feel like GX was a bit ok and at points underwhelming although the video games got better around that time like on the PS2. I was born in 98 myself and in growing up with the show and game, 5D's was the correct call by Konami since kids who grew up from the start of Yugioh were now teens by that point and it was nice to have something with edge. Not to mention expanding the game with synchros oh man that shit is hype.
@@RealKingChief 5Ds was fucking peak, people were dying all over the place and at the climax my man rides his motorbike into fucking space to summon a dragon the size of a mountain. Absolute cinema.
It would be fascinating to have Rarran react to the Infamous “Yugioh Season 0” for a stark contrast of what it was before they decided to stick with the “Duel Monsters” card game. Ps the multiple “games” involved in that iteration were sent to fans and readers of the show/manga as little imitations and one could build out of plastic and cardboard.
It was basically written on the advice of one of the classic pro mangaka who said his way of coming up with ideas and dealing with writer's block is to just write and write and poor ideas into the page and test things out and eventually.... One idea really just emerges like a eureka moment. Definitely 100% how it worked in this particular instance, but then there was all the weird cringey material that it started out as and it was like.... maybe you could still use this somehow?
Yu gi oh really was an incredible anime and manga. It was absolutely insane that they got this insane show where people steal each other’s souls and stuff, marketed to children in America. I can’t believe this absolutely insane show was on tv when I was a kid but I’m SO happy it was. One of the greatest anime of all time.
I was looking for an appropriate place for this comment for you. It was glorious to watch you ensure you received as genuine an experience as possible for playing old-school Yugioh, including the shared pain of, "please don't be Mirror Force..." To be fair, we never had to deal with opponents having 3 copies, so there's that. Nevertheless, it was great you enjoyed experiencing this opportunity, Rarran =)
I can't imagine anyone who watched all the way through season one and didn't want to see more when they were a kid. I was one of those kids who got obsessed with Yugioh.
Seto Kaiba is the GOAT because he made it out the mud as an orphan, became the CEO of Kaiba Corp, R&D'd technology that is 30 years ahead of modern tech all for a card game, goes close second against the biggest top decking cheater since ancient Egypt, he has immaculate drip, and he flies around in a private jet shaped like a blue eyes white dragon. Also love how he uses every opportunity to talk shit to Joey.
And does all of this before he’s 18. The dude beat capitalism at its own game, on legendary difficulty. If he was a doctor, I’m convinced there’d be no disease in the Yu-Gi-Oh world. If he worked for the UN in this world, world-hunger and world-peace would be 100% sorted. But because he’s a hardcore card-gamer, the card game part of the world is so far advanced, as well as his ridiculous jet, whilst everything else is mostly the same.
I watched the anime as a kid when it was first airing and I recently learned something that blew my mind. Pegasus is only 24. I still can't wrap my head around that.
Oh, Rarran. Rarran, the manga started off as a horror manga. You need to do the full deep dive. It gets even more insane when you realize that if they had faithfully adapted the manga Seto Kaiba would have gone full ass Jigsaw on them. From Wikipedia: When Kaiba tortures [Gramps]... and threatens his life, Yugi and his friends are forced to partake in Kaiba's deadly games in order to save him. The games are a laser gunfght, a coaster which can electrocute those who make any noise, a timed game in which Yugi's friends' hands will get chopped up if he doesn't figure out a riddle, a chainsaw deathmatch and a room with falling cubes.
Fun fact #1: In the original manga, the reason Kaiba captures Grandpa and Grandpa was hospitalized after the duel actually are much less ridiculous and much more sinister. Kaiba started out as a card thief that was beat by Yami Yugi, who then showed Kaiba an illusion of all the monsters he stole attacking him. He had to live through his own death at the hand of realistic illusions like 40 times. Traumatized, he build a torture machine that replicates exactly this, bringing duel monsters to life as a means of torture using KaibaCorp funds, planning to sell the tech to militaries, governments and other shady companies, including Industrial Illusions (Pegasus). He basically then made Yugi play death games while his grandpa served as a public demonstration of the torture device to investors, and he was only released after Yugi and his friends made it through several lethal games. This is also why Kaibas defeat at the hands of Yugi was so well known, since it basically happened at an exhibition.
i rewatched a few episodes recently and Joey says that Yuig is lucky because his grandpa has a card shop so he gets access to the best cards, yugi agrees and the show never acknoledges this again
@@hugomendoza5665 yeah but the show goes on and on about believing in yourself and the heart of the cards however before getting to duel island the show also goes "yeah yugi is cheating pretty much so expect him winning a lot"
@novakrabby that's not as bad as the end of the show where they explicitly state the heart of the cards is an actual power and is physically positioning cards to the top of his deck when he needs them which is just literal cheating 😂
@@novakrabby this is absolutely the first time i've seen someone say yugi cheats by ... having access to good cards. in a card game esp. considering the two main antagonists of the first season are ceos with effectively infinite money, one of which is defined by having three out of the _four_ copies of one of the rarest, strongest monsters at the time and the other being the _literal creator of the game._ plus, considering all the named duelists the gang faces at duelist kingdom are either professional duelists who top at tournaments or are directly employed by pegasus ... i feel like it's a given that they're not exactly stuck tossing around pack filler, either
@@hi-i-am-atan Yeah though the weirdest part of the show is oh just 4 blue-eyes in the world. Why doesn't Pegasus print more, he can do whatever he wants he owns the IP. Same with exodia being super duper rare when you need all 5 pieces for them to not be worthless.
2:41 I dunno how much of the anime or manga you're up to date on, but Kaiba got adopted by the former CEO of Kaiba Corp, and when he was a child, Seto did a hostile takeover of his stepdad's company, who then jumped out the window to teach him how cruel the consequences of deals in the adult world can be. In Kaiba's intro in the school, we can also see him reading Nietzsche in German to quickly establish that he's also smart aside from being stinking rich.
Regarding the duel against Kaiba where Yugi is forced to throw, I highly recommend "Kaiba gets Shadow Realm’d " by Solid JJ. It sums up the situation...rather well.
Nice video, keep em coming. The reason why some plot points seem weird is that the dub is a censored 4kids version of the japanese anime, which already was a censored version of the manga. Also if you plan on playing this game, better switch to the new version. It has added new storys, reworked old duels and added more content.
This might be my favourite video you have ever put out, the concept, script and editing were all fantastic. Hope we can see more seasons, I would watch this all the way up until Zexal at least!
This is what I've been waiting FOR! Great video! NOTE: You might've already noticed, if you decide to do more there's a lot of stuff that Legacy of the Duelist skips over. But, there's also a lot of filler in all the different anime, especially after the original series. So, watching the anime first is probably the better option, to have all the context. But, playing the game first is a nice quick way to hit all the bullet points in a handful of duels rather than watching dozens of episodes. Especially, during the parts that have a lot of "duelist of the week" one-offs that understandably get skipped over in the game.
Really fun video ! I got a ton of nostalgia from those anime references. The original show and GX were my youth before/after school when i was like 6 to 13. It was so good but I'm scared to take it out of its fragile memory shell, so it's nice to experience it through someone else. I like this video format !
Really fantastic video, must have been a lot of effort. Would love a continuation of this! This and your saviors of uldum video are a sick start to 2025
Rarran getting in YGO starting from Master Duel to Edison with Cimo to LotD is like watching someone learn swimming by drowning in the ocean to splashing in the kiddie pool.
What i would give to get an Episode 2 of this. Absolutely loved this video with the anime context in the background for you. I loved the Anime and this is just nostalic + awesome Rarran Video.
This was so good!! As someone who liked yugioh as a kid, but never got too deep, this was an awesome way to experience the old hype. Please please keep going with the game and anime!
It's worth mentioning the 3mil prize for the Duelist kingdom tournament is a translation error. It was 3 million yen, so about 30k in the year this debuted (19k today). If it had been 3mil USD Joey would have still had mad money after his sister's surgery but he was still quite poor
recently I watched the Japanese sub of the first episode for the first time and something that drove me crazy for a long time was the fact that they say in english about how "no one's been able to summon him before!" And, it was always like: "really? No one? Not a single person got really lucky one time and drew all 5 pieces in like 5 turns?" But, in the Sub, it more so sounds like the pieces are so rare that no one's been able to make a deck with all 5, which makes a lot more sense.
@@jacobisbell9388 yeah good point. although technically those were fakes, but like yeah were they never able to summon exodia either? Or had they like just made those fakes recently?
Really fun video! I haven't watched your stuff before but I grew up watching Yu-Gi-Oh so I decided to check the video out. You did a great job going between you playing the game and your experience watching the anime.
Seriously enjoyed this video, as a yugioh player i enjoyed this video alot and give major props. Seriously make another episode of this and keep going. Growing up I was that kid that watched the anime every Saturday morning and was absolutely ensnared. Thank you for this. +1 subscription and like here.
I played this game, and it's sequel so much back in the day. The duels against the ai don't force you to use the banlist so you can make some absolutely monstrous decks to use against them.
Great video! So cool to see him compare the game to the OG anime and ive always thought Legacy Of The Duelist is a much better introduction to early yugioh and how to play it rather than master duel.
Kaiba is on another level, he built a space elevator so he could essentially go back into the past to duel Yugi's alter ego. He sent cards into space so that if there was any aliens out there, they'd learn the game so he could duel them. And did many, many other crazy things and essentially caused every single mainline Yu-Gi-Oh series to happen in one way or another.
Life comes at you pretty fast, one moment youre playing a card game with your boys, then within a couple hours your CEO classmate kidnaps your grandpa
Then another CEO also kidnaps your grandpa, but like supernaturally.
Then you gotta obliterate them. With like, a god who comes outta the cards.
Sounds like tuesday to me.
in season 0 and manga is more crazy kaiba kidnaps yugi grandpa to forced yugi and his friends to join his SAW type game show
Rarran, pleaaasseee do a part 2 to this! Season 2 of the anime is peak yugioh lol
@@SoulNinja15 he has the stream vods up already
"I needed it" SpongeBob voice
peak and yugioh have never been used in the same sentence
I'm more invested in him finding out that Weevil and Rex are basically washed up pro duelists. They were top 1 and 2 on the nationals but Kaiba really woke Yugi up and he chose violence.
In an alternate reality the Yugioh anime is about Weevil's and Rex's rivalry through the Japan circuit, then they team up to fight for the DMWC against other teams featuring Bandit Keith from Team America, Zigfried from Team Europe, and the Ishtar siblings from Team Africa. In this reality Yugi probably got bored with the cardgame after a few months and he moved on to Weiss Schwartz or something
"I don't think I've ever liked a character more than Seto Kiaba."
Now you understand. The man is an absolute menace in the best way and he's the entire reason I got into this darn game.
Half of his personality is liking Blue Eyes and the other half is being a rich jerk and it somehow works especially when they gave him a Blue Eyes shaped jet, just the most Kaiba thing to ever happen.
Don’t forget literally building a portal to the Egyptian Afterlife just to duel the Pharoah again.
Its amazing how kaiba has 3 different depictions that change his personality slightly but ALL of them are great
@@Ubersupersloth in the same movie he beat dark magic with the power of will and technology
Out of all the abridged jokes I think I like the “I’m sure the cold hand of science can beat his magical powers” the best. It’s so peak Kaiba
This is actually great. You get Live Rarran’s scuffed understanding of the heavily abridged retelling, then Editing Rarran’s little gags and asides that come after he learns more. Great job on this one.
If I remember right, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh Kazuki Takahashi was mostly a tabletop DnD type gamer, which is kinda reflected in the main badguy Bakura have multiple encounters with the gang in tabletop game format. The cardgame was what caught on so he made Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist but his DnD style of thinking is why Duelist Kingdom feels a lot like some guy going "I cast fireball at the lake so that the steam will make a smokescreen so your birds of prey cannot attack us as we flee" type fantasy.
That arc make a lot of sense now
What is DND I have to search this up if it’s what I think it is
Yeah, that's why the anime has the video game filler arc, also Season 0 (and the early chapters of the manga) don't even really feature the Duel Monsters card game, most of the "games" are Yami challenged people to various death games. And then the whole beginning of the anime happens and the series takes a shift towards focusing on Duel Monsters and the plot with the Millennium Items, with the Duke Devlin/Dungeon Dice Monsters arc sorta being a kinda "return to form" in the sense of going back to two people challenging each other to a game, not just Duel Monsters.
That explains the whole DnD table top of Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura that started at the end of book 6 and went the entire way through book 7 of the "Season 0" manga.
Dungeons and dragons @@OpeningEyes
It is absolutely INSANE that they gave Black Dragon’s Chick to a Duelist Kingdom era Rex Raptor deck. It’s like giving a Glock to a caveman.
Yeah, when I saw the chick I was like "wtf, imagine having access to that level of power back then"
Probably to simulate the rules of the anime back then, where you could just summon any normal monster without tribute lmao
i mean, the game has to play by the rule, while the anime can spew bullshit. so your analogy should be "it's like giving Glock without a bullet to a cavemen, and told them to craft the bullet themselves."
They were playing with 1999 OCG rules
Just wait till the Orichalcos arc, when Valon, because his anime cards don't exist IRL, plays with frickin Deskbots.
"Fuckin Bakura is here for some reason"
And just like that, Rarran understands like half of the entire series 😂
Pharoah's Memories, more like "WTF are you in my memories Bakura?!"
Low key, I wish he was in Arc-V just to mess up with the people watching. Would be the funniest shit ever.
After having read the Manga I can say that the anime dropped the ball hard with anything relating to bakura
@@rynobehnke8289 they definitely didn't do him justice in the first half of the anime, but his overall arc is quite solid
@@freyachobi
I say Its not just how there butchered Yami Bakura's intro but they also removed some of his most interesting moments like when he openly as Yami Bakura helped Yugi against Otogi /Duke.
But arguably worse is how Bakura ended up never appearing in any of the filler stories which harmed him being part of the core friend group as he is supposed to be a lot.
Fun fact - the shadow realm is a construct of the dub to censor over the fact that all the duels involving the millennium items are death games
weirdly enough I actually think the idea of the shadow realm is actually more scary than just dying. Sure, perhaps 'gore' wise, the characters not technically 'dying' I guess is 'kid friendly,' but the idea of a nightmare dimension that is basically hell, is a far more horrifying fate.
@@hugomendoza5665And it fit nicely into the sequel series where they added a mysterious dark dimension anyway.
@@hugomendoza5665 they made dueling hell to avoid saying death, neat
@@esupton783they have Egyptian Hell but SHADOWREALM is just a good catch all for the rando torture they faced.
Yes and no. The Shadow Realm itself is very much a thing in the original and is used often in the duels, primarily by the various BBEGs
However, there are definitely cases where they used it in dub but not in original, such as in a fight with that Magician guy in Season 2. In original there were sawblades that would cut off the feel of the loser, but in dub they would send the loser to the Shadow Realm.
>Duel Masters
Rarran that is an entirely different card game
Was looking for this xD
This is Yugi Muto we're talking about, not Shobu Kirifuda!
someone who knows duel masters awwww the nostalgiaaaaaa
@@hydrohomie254 WHO'S THE KID WITH THE SPIKY HAIR? SHOBU!
Pegasus plays both the toon archetype and relinquished cause it represents his whimsical almost childish side with the toons and his dark almost malicious side with relinquished
Yugioh is really good about synergizing character's personalities and traits with their decks. Such as when a character plays a dinosaur deck, it signifies that they.......like dinosaurs.
@@zanpakutoman4225Hey sometimes people just like dinosaurs
@@zanpakutoman4225 Or that they have dino DNA!
@@zanpakutoman4225 Or the other thing dino's are known for. -Infancide- Survival of the fittest and evolution of course.
*Sora has entered the chat.*
The cowards didn't adapt the first chapters of the manga where Yugi straight up kills a guy with bombs.
Let me see if i remember the season 0 yami shenanigans
Spoilers by the way
- he brainwashed a guy so everything he sees is money
- burned a guy alive
- gave kaiba ptsd with duel monsters
- trapped mokuba in an egg
- i think he killed a guy using his own toys
- peeled a womans makeup and showed society her true face
- in the anime he made a guy saw hi virtual pet ate him
- put someone in the hospital after tricking that guy into get bitten by a scorpion
And there are a couple more i dont remember
@@mantraki gave a guy a brain blast that ended his life (the guy was a creepshotting pedo)
@@mantraki The only ones I remember is the money brainwash and the one where they play air hockey but it's a bomb in a piece of ice which is slowly melting/cracking. Guessing that's either "killed a guy using his own toys" or "burned a guy alive".
Ah yes, the time, when the manga originally was supposed to be a kind of horror manga; basically a more-child friendly version of SAW. (before SAW was a thing)
And then the duel against Kaiba happened and readers went feral after the card game.
@@LoveOlsson98i dontvthink its either one, toys probably refered to five way elemental dragons, but burned was a rando criminal, but also "rockstar" that got terrible palpitations rendering him deaf....
I love how he knew Weevils voice without hearing it prior x)
I wanna read to Rarran the absolute power Kaiba's autism has on the entire series. Like, the man is clearly functioning on a level different then your average man due to his card game hobbies changing the way the future works to be around it.
The man created 3 different forms of alien life who dedicated their lives to card games. The future was ruined because Kaiba pushed forth a duel-centered form of economics.
It's Parkour Society all over again
@@GamesCourier in real life? 🤔
Not to mention that he invented time travel and translocation to and from the afterlife just to play a card game against the Pharaoh.
@@IchHassePasswoerter relatable.
Can't wait for you to continue this, mostly because the later stories get INSANE, if you think it's crazy now, can't wait for you to see the sheer insanity that is the next generation of yugioh.
40:04 or something like that
I think something you missed about the anime is that the spirit in the puzzle was fully ready to just murder Kaiba and win the duel, and little Yugi took back control to throw the match. That’s why Yugi was so distraught, because he didn’t feel like he could ever duel again because he couldn’t let out the homicidal spirit, and if he can never duel again then he can never free his Grandpa
And when they became friends again, Yami Yugi’s violent tendencies were just brushed over in less than an episode, which I feel like attempted murder deserves a little more talking through
I remember the night Yu Gi Oh dropped on Fox Kids. Instantly it was like every kid in my school that were previously playing with Pokemon cards all unanimously knew next time they arrived at school they better have Starter Deck Yugi or Starter Deck Kaiba. It was glorious!
You now have enough base knowledge to understand YuGioh Abridged. Give it a shot, it's absolutely hilarious.
My voice gives me super strength
I tried rewatching it and man the early episodes are rough to go back to.
all the best abridged jokes are just jokes from the original anime lmao.
Screw the rules, I have money. - Seto Kaiba, he just said it once.
We really, really need to see you play more. This was genuinely one of my favourite videos you've ever put out, adding in the clips and explaining the story alongside the gameplay was so incredibly well done.
It's amazing how you got everyone's voice right without ever hearing them before lol
This was super nostalgic, I used to watch this every morning before school and I still remember all the characters and story decades later.
Having grown up with the anime, it's pretty interesting seeing Rarran experience it for the first time in conjunction with the game. You should definitely watch season 2!
The inspiration for Kaiba's character apparently was a guy that didn't want to teach the creator a card game until he* had collected 10.000 cards, an "elite snob player" type
And then, Takahashi flipped it around on the snob, by having Chazz Princeton (the next series’ snob) need to collect 40 cards to get into North Academy in GX (i.e., a place where they teach you card games).
Rarran watching yugioh is so tight.
The first season is unmatched. The next few seasons are super high stakes. It's unbelievable how good the anime is.
Additionally, the GX anime is also pretty insane. Season 1 and 2 are warmups and from 3 on out it gets way too insane for comfort.
5Ds is pretty sick too tbh
@@TechnicallyPresentCARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES
@@TechnicallyPresent Yeah so much totally this. I feel like GX was a bit ok and at points underwhelming although the video games got better around that time like on the PS2. I was born in 98 myself and in growing up with the show and game, 5D's was the correct call by Konami since kids who grew up from the start of Yugioh were now teens by that point and it was nice to have something with edge. Not to mention expanding the game with synchros oh man that shit is hype.
@@RealKingChief Yep and 5D's was meant to be the last YuGiOh manga by Takahashi, 5D's was very influential in Japan fans.
@@RealKingChief 5Ds was fucking peak, people were dying all over the place and at the climax my man rides his motorbike into fucking space to summon a dragon the size of a mountain. Absolute cinema.
0:36 I refuse to believe Rarran actually knows that Duel Masters is a thing, so this makes a coincidental double joke
It would be fascinating to have Rarran react to the Infamous “Yugioh Season 0” for a stark contrast of what it was before they decided to stick with the “Duel Monsters” card game.
Ps the multiple “games” involved in that iteration were sent to fans and readers of the show/manga as little imitations and one could build out of plastic and cardboard.
It was basically written on the advice of one of the classic pro mangaka who said his way of coming up with ideas and dealing with writer's block is to just write and write and poor ideas into the page and test things out and eventually.... One idea really just emerges like a eureka moment. Definitely 100% how it worked in this particular instance, but then there was all the weird cringey material that it started out as and it was like.... maybe you could still use this somehow?
Yu gi oh really was an incredible anime and manga. It was absolutely insane that they got this insane show where people steal each other’s souls and stuff, marketed to children in America. I can’t believe this absolutely insane show was on tv when I was a kid but I’m SO happy it was. One of the greatest anime of all time.
There is actually a really cool song for joey and yugi dueling. Its called "No matter what".
We need this as a series now. GX and 5D's were peak yugi for me.
I was looking for an appropriate place for this comment for you. It was glorious to watch you ensure you received as genuine an experience as possible for playing old-school Yugioh, including the shared pain of, "please don't be Mirror Force..." To be fair, we never had to deal with opponents having 3 copies, so there's that. Nevertheless, it was great you enjoyed experiencing this opportunity, Rarran =)
We didn't have to deal with 3 copies, but somehow they always had it.
yugioh doesn't get to last 20+ years if Duelist Kingdom doesn't hit it out of the park
I can't imagine anyone who watched all the way through season one and didn't want to see more when they were a kid. I was one of those kids who got obsessed with Yugioh.
Season 1 is a D&D game with mild YuGiOh rules, which is neat on its own. Also the duel against the Paradox brothers was peak.
Seto Kaiba is the GOAT because he made it out the mud as an orphan, became the CEO of Kaiba Corp, R&D'd technology that is 30 years ahead of modern tech all for a card game, goes close second against the biggest top decking cheater since ancient Egypt, he has immaculate drip, and he flies around in a private jet shaped like a blue eyes white dragon. Also love how he uses every opportunity to talk shit to Joey.
And does all of this before he’s 18. The dude beat capitalism at its own game, on legendary difficulty.
If he was a doctor, I’m convinced there’d be no disease in the Yu-Gi-Oh world. If he worked for the UN in this world, world-hunger and world-peace would be 100% sorted. But because he’s a hardcore card-gamer, the card game part of the world is so far advanced, as well as his ridiculous jet, whilst everything else is mostly the same.
One of the most hype animes of all time. Can't believe over two decades have passed since then.
I watched the anime as a kid when it was first airing and I recently learned something that blew my mind. Pegasus is only 24. I still can't wrap my head around that.
Oh, Rarran. Rarran, the manga started off as a horror manga. You need to do the full deep dive. It gets even more insane when you realize that if they had faithfully adapted the manga Seto Kaiba would have gone full ass Jigsaw on them. From Wikipedia:
When Kaiba tortures [Gramps]... and threatens his life, Yugi and his friends are forced to partake in Kaiba's deadly games in order to save him. The games are a laser gunfght, a coaster which can electrocute those who make any noise, a timed game in which Yugi's friends' hands will get chopped up if he doesn't figure out a riddle, a chainsaw deathmatch and a room with falling cubes.
And somehow this results in a time loop involving aliens and dark matter soy sauce.
Fun fact #1: In the original manga, the reason Kaiba captures Grandpa and Grandpa was hospitalized after the duel actually are much less ridiculous and much more sinister. Kaiba started out as a card thief that was beat by Yami Yugi, who then showed Kaiba an illusion of all the monsters he stole attacking him. He had to live through his own death at the hand of realistic illusions like 40 times. Traumatized, he build a torture machine that replicates exactly this, bringing duel monsters to life as a means of torture using KaibaCorp funds, planning to sell the tech to militaries, governments and other shady companies, including Industrial Illusions (Pegasus). He basically then made Yugi play death games while his grandpa served as a public demonstration of the torture device to investors, and he was only released after Yugi and his friends made it through several lethal games. This is also why Kaibas defeat at the hands of Yugi was so well known, since it basically happened at an exhibition.
i rewatched a few episodes recently and Joey says that Yuig is lucky because his grandpa has a card shop so he gets access to the best cards, yugi agrees and the show never acknoledges this again
I mean, sure it does. Yugi literally wins every single duel in the show. 'Cause he obviously has the best cards!
@@hugomendoza5665 yeah but the show goes on and on about believing in yourself and the heart of the cards however before getting to duel island the show also goes "yeah yugi is cheating pretty much so expect him winning a lot"
@novakrabby that's not as bad as the end of the show where they explicitly state the heart of the cards is an actual power and is physically positioning cards to the top of his deck when he needs them which is just literal cheating 😂
@@novakrabby this is absolutely the first time i've seen someone say yugi cheats by ... having access to good cards. in a card game
esp. considering the two main antagonists of the first season are ceos with effectively infinite money, one of which is defined by having three out of the _four_ copies of one of the rarest, strongest monsters at the time and the other being the _literal creator of the game._ plus, considering all the named duelists the gang faces at duelist kingdom are either professional duelists who top at tournaments or are directly employed by pegasus ... i feel like it's a given that they're not exactly stuck tossing around pack filler, either
@@hi-i-am-atan Yeah though the weirdest part of the show is oh just 4 blue-eyes in the world. Why doesn't Pegasus print more, he can do whatever he wants he owns the IP. Same with exodia being super duper rare when you need all 5 pieces for them to not be worthless.
2:41 I dunno how much of the anime or manga you're up to date on, but Kaiba got adopted by the former CEO of Kaiba Corp, and when he was a child, Seto did a hostile takeover of his stepdad's company, who then jumped out the window to teach him how cruel the consequences of deals in the adult world can be. In Kaiba's intro in the school, we can also see him reading Nietzsche in German to quickly establish that he's also smart aside from being stinking rich.
"YuGiOh is the most insane anime." Nobody tell him about season zero.
I wish they could find a way to capture some of the absolutely insane rule breaking that happens in this story arc.
Maybe the true heart of the cards was the Rarran's we met along the way!
Yugi "Sorry Joey you have a 4th rate deck you could never beat me"
Seto "Im going to use that"
I watched the 2 streams, and now I'm watching the abridged version of his playthrough. Rarran can't stop producing quality content
I hope this continues at least until 5Ds. It only gets crazier from here
All seasons of the first anime are really good in my opinion! Even the filler arc against dartz
3:01 Obession with Blue-Eyes White Dragon is an understatement
Id love to see an entire series of this specially if you splice in the anime, between shots like you did here good job Rarran!
Please do more of this. it was so fun to watch
Rarran would visit any island for 3 million dollars and pack of magic cards
card shop simulator streams confirmed this
Regarding the duel against Kaiba where Yugi is forced to throw, I highly recommend "Kaiba gets Shadow Realm’d " by Solid JJ. It sums up the situation...rather well.
What's funny is DM is probably the most tame era of yugioh in terms of story
And it gets even darker, Rarran.
Just keep watching
I see trying to prep for your next video on Cimo's channel. A pro gamer move.
Nice video, keep em coming.
The reason why some plot points seem weird is that the dub is a censored 4kids version of the japanese anime, which already was a censored version of the manga.
Also if you plan on playing this game, better switch to the new version. It has added new storys, reworked old duels and added more content.
2:00 That's the ultimate P2W cheat code.
Absolutely entertaining and fun video. Please please do season 2, you get a lot more of your main man Kaiba I promise
What a great video. I hope you are hooked - would love to see this continuing for the next seasons. ❤
This might be my favorite video from you, Rarran. Really entertaining, and the use of the anime was super cool
This might be my favourite video you have ever put out, the concept, script and editing were all fantastic. Hope we can see more seasons, I would watch this all the way up until Zexal at least!
This is what I've been waiting FOR! Great video!
NOTE: You might've already noticed, if you decide to do more there's a lot of stuff that Legacy of the Duelist skips over. But, there's also a lot of filler in all the different anime, especially after the original series.
So, watching the anime first is probably the better option, to have all the context. But, playing the game first is a nice quick way to hit all the bullet points in a handful of duels rather than watching dozens of episodes. Especially, during the parts that have a lot of "duelist of the week" one-offs that understandably get skipped over in the game.
9:24. This is how I'm introduced to your channel. I might just subscribe.
Great video, hope this becomes a series
Best. Rarran. Video. Ever.
Fire video. As somebody who never watched the original yugioh as a kid, it had me quite invested. More of this please.
Really fun video ! I got a ton of nostalgia from those anime references. The original show and GX were my youth before/after school when i was like 6 to 13. It was so good but I'm scared to take it out of its fragile memory shell, so it's nice to experience it through someone else. I like this video format !
Really fantastic video, must have been a lot of effort. Would love a continuation of this!
This and your saviors of uldum video are a sick start to 2025
I've been keeping up a bit with your yugioh journey, and this is legitimately the most fun I've ever seen you have with this game
Cool video, glad you can appreciate the Yu-gi-oh! series!
Rarran getting in YGO starting from Master Duel to Edison with Cimo to LotD is like watching someone learn swimming by drowning in the ocean to splashing in the kiddie pool.
"Saved from Yugi" xd 54:11
You have to watch the battle city arch. It is peak yugioh anime. The story really takes off there. I can't wait to see more of this journey.
What i would give to get an Episode 2 of this. Absolutely loved this video with the anime context in the background for you. I loved the Anime and this is just nostalic + awesome Rarran Video.
Dude, your videos are so well produced. I don't care which game or topic you tackle, it's always a blast to watch these!
Thanks for the awesome video. The parts from the stream cracked me up. Wish i was there to see it live.
This was so good!! As someone who liked yugioh as a kid, but never got too deep, this was an awesome way to experience the old hype.
Please please keep going with the game and anime!
Bruuuh. Duelist Kingdom would be such a wild Mr. Beast video but would be so on brand. LOL
I so hope there'll be more of this serie, it was a blast
It's worth mentioning the 3mil prize for the Duelist kingdom tournament is a translation error. It was 3 million yen, so about 30k in the year this debuted (19k today). If it had been 3mil USD Joey would have still had mad money after his sister's surgery but he was still quite poor
im shocked at how good rarran imitated weevils voice, 10:26 is so spot on even the laugh lmao
recently I watched the Japanese sub of the first episode for the first time and something that drove me crazy for a long time was the fact that they say in english about how "no one's been able to summon him before!" And, it was always like: "really? No one? Not a single person got really lucky one time and drew all 5 pieces in like 5 turns?" But, in the Sub, it more so sounds like the pieces are so rare that no one's been able to make a deck with all 5, which makes a lot more sense.
And then there's the rare hunter with 3 copies of each piece.
@@jacobisbell9388 yeah good point. although technically those were fakes, but like yeah were they never able to summon exodia either? Or had they like just made those fakes recently?
Really fun video! I haven't watched your stuff before but I grew up watching Yu-Gi-Oh so I decided to check the video out. You did a great job going between you playing the game and your experience watching the anime.
Rarran has slowly become one my favorite yugitubers
this is the best video on your channel 😂😂😂 may and 'tea' keeps cracking me up every time
Seriously enjoyed this video, as a yugioh player i enjoyed this video alot and give major props. Seriously make another episode of this and keep going. Growing up I was that kid that watched the anime every Saturday morning and was absolutely ensnared. Thank you for this. +1 subscription and like here.
Imagine your opponent activates time wizard when you have an empty board just bc they wanna show off
About time you release this video. Been waiting forever for this thing
Can't wait for Rarran to finish the entire original yu gi oh to see that this is just the start for Kaiba and he'll continue to grow as the GOAT.
I played this game, and it's sequel so much back in the day. The duels against the ai don't force you to use the banlist so you can make some absolutely monstrous decks to use against them.
Great video! So cool to see him compare the game to the OG anime and ive always thought Legacy Of The Duelist is a much better introduction to early yugioh and how to play it rather than master duel.
This was a lot of fun to watch. Hope we get a part 2!
I remember loving the Kaiba tournament in the anime back in the day
love this video, lots of nostalgia
By the way, Pegasus gets his eye ripped out of his skull in the manga, in the anime he still lives, in the manga, not so much
My man should watch "Yugioh but its modern". The Joey vs Weevil duel is amazing and definitely resonates with what rarran experienced in modern yugioh
as an ancient 33 year old mans tyvm for giving me a nugget of nostalgia. *crumbles to dust*
Great video. I wish we had the other parte. This was awesome! Much love from Brazil!
Rarran this video was worth the wait. I hope this video does well so you continue this content. Keep it up!!!
He will love the future series’s..if he truly plays them
I guess “series” is the plural of itself huh. I’m in here tweaking smh
@@theshinobigamer5737 Don't worry fam I got you
These edits are incredible. Idk if this was David, Mr. Streamer himself, or an editor I don't know about, but this video is amazing.
Yooo Rarran using time wizard to win vs rex the same way Joey did and then watching the anime where he wins the same way is actually hype
Kaiba is on another level, he built a space elevator so he could essentially go back into the past to duel Yugi's alter ego.
He sent cards into space so that if there was any aliens out there, they'd learn the game so he could duel them.
And did many, many other crazy things and essentially caused every single mainline Yu-Gi-Oh series to happen in one way or another.