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We should all agree that the Shadow Realm is actually a terrifying concept because if you lose/cheat you get sent to whats essentially HELL even if you're a good person.
Shadow Realm is one bit of censorship that was cool, now that is ruined for us, i mean sure i could've believed that it was hell if Mai didn't come back from it.
If u think about it,the shadowrealm is worse than just dieing.ur psychologically tortured 4ever,or until someone saves u.but by then,the damage is done
@@SpikeTheWolf I think they just said monsters go to the shadow realm to give it more credence. The monsters probably function more like pokemon in the original. One use per battle.
It is 4kids was a blight in anime, One Piece until they lost the localization rights, thankfully before the Rocky Horror stuff started, and Zatch Bell was just butchered.
@@TheRhuen though I'd happily take the butchered 4kidz versions of some anime over the ones where they stick to the original script... but barely have any of the voice actors who do multiple different characters vary their performances so they all sound the same. Thrn there's the woke dubs, and the less said about those SWJ pieces of crap, the better
the reason why is that 4kids was editing the anime for all international dubs, not just the english dubs. it's why they remove all the text, even english text. they'd remove things that seemed odd too, like any references to religion, b/c they were selling their edited ready to dub footage to rly religious straight laced countries. some of the japanese companies ended up suing them for it when they found out they were doing it, which is why 4kids is mostly dead now. they only rly dub yugioh still these days
The irony here is that 4Kids actually made the finger gun canon. *spoiler* Bandit Keith pulls a knife on Pegasus after losing the tournament, thus performing a penalty game on Keith, making his hand and finger into a revolver and forcing himself to play Russian roulette.
"In the original, Mikey ended up in the crossfire of an exploding tank and perished almost instantly." Well, that's what Alister gets for not putting Mikey in Defense Mode nor even having a Mirror Force ready.
Kaiba: What happened to this duelist? Detective: He was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. It's clear that he's- Yugi: He's been sent to the Shadow Realm. We must defeat his assailant in a card game to save his soul. Detective: I'm sorry, but he's dead. It looks like he wasn't even playing a game, he was just walking through a dark alleyway and- Kaiba: Yes, which is why we'll bring him into the feds by defeating him in a duel. Detective: He might be armed with a *4Kids hands the detective his script* ... a finger-gun ... he'll point at you. Yugi: But with the power of friendship, we will prevail. Detective: I better call the feds to deliver a couple extra body bags and some Hennessy *4Kids whispers into the detective's ear* ... some juice for my coffee.
From Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: "Don't move a muscle or we'll shoot you with our invisible guns!" Also from Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: "I told you we should've used the VISIBLE guns! But noooo, you wanted us to use the IN-visible guns because they're magical!"
don't understand how this show was accepted for kids when 4kids literally had to censor so much inappropriate things that were not meant to be seen for children
Because they knew will be popular because it was popular everywhere else they just knew they would have to get rid of things so that parents didn't try to cancel them
I think a lot of it had to do with culture clash: what's considered "suitable for children" in Japan is very different from what's considered "suitable for children" in the West. That, and 4Kids was notorious for being a bit censor-happy, like they were our fussy mother or something.
The finger guns are always hilarious whenever I see them XD Also, whoever came up with the shadow realm is a genius. It's just become the easy scapegoat for every single adversity they face.
The Shadow Realm did exist in the original, believe it or not! It just wasn't used as a replacement for death. It was where the duelists were transported to when playing a Shadow Game such as back in Duelist Kingdom, when Yugi dueled Pegasus.
Yeah, except the original called them penalty games, as punishment for losing the shadow game, of course some of them actually died, just pegasus used his powers to force yugi to play in the duelist kingdom tournament, and marik in the finals of battle city used his penalty game as torture since he was psychotic
It wasn't originally about cards. The first manga is about Yugi solving the millennium puzzle piece, and Yami Yugi would challenge the bad guys to a game of chance called the shadow games example: In the first chapter, he challenged a high school bully to a game where they would put a stack of Japanese currency on there hands and the rules were that they would take the knife and stab themselves and whatever they had on the knife they could keep and the bad guy would usually end up not following the rules and Yami Yugi would use his powers, and it was a new game every time. The series we know was titled Yu Gi Oh: Duel Monsters, and if you read the original series well considering Yu Gi Oh!'s status in the West we'll never get the original anime series, my guess is they stuck with the card game format because of marketing and again we'll never get the original Yu Gi Oh! anime here without heavy editing. In fact when trying to read the first chapter of the original Yu Gi Oh! on Shounen Jump it was so different that I was so confused. Like I said it did have an anime adaption and they did tone down the violence in it but we'll never see it in this country unless we change a standard for cartoon violence.
This is just Duel Monsters, later series have just as many if not worse moments such as The Society of Light trying to kill everyone with a satellite laser in GX, all of the dark signers original deaths in 5ds which include starving to death, attempted suicide and hanging, all of the barrians backstories (especially Vector’s) and I could keep going.
Let's keep this train going In the manga, the giant magical hourglass Mai got trapped in wasn't filled with magical sand. It was filled with live scorpions. Seriously.
The ironic thing is that some of these scenes are censored even in the Japanese version when compared to the original manga. For example, Mai's punishment in the manga had nothing to do with her memories; that hourglass was actually filled with flesh-eating scarabs.
My favorite was when anzu and yugi went on a date! But if course they changed it to finding out yamis past. Dont get me wrong i love yami but it would've proved the shippers correct.
we didnt really have to have it spelled out for us, i mean you could tell that Tea/Anzu had a thing for Yami, anyone who didnt see that evidently are clueless.
But it was never a “date”. Even in the original manga, it was just kind of hanging out to make Yami feel better and not to mention him being very uninterested in it. Tèa straight up says in the manga that Yami buying cards was “the happiest he’s been all day”. Tèa does have an obvious crush on him, but it’s a one sided thing. Yami is more into the idea of Yugi and Tèa getting together anyway lol
*"These Scenes Were All Sent To The Shadow Realm."* Ah, I love what you did there, and there's a reason for it as well... did you know the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was actually a gore fest before they made it into a kid's cartoon?! Well it's true, and that was before they turned Yu-Gi-Oh into a card game as well! 😌 it was hugely censored!
Hell the Yugioh Duel monster's manga was still gruesome and Bandit Keith had it easy compared to the manga where peagus turn Keith's fingers into a gun and made him shot himself. Hell Even Peagus die in duel monster's manga.
The most awesome moment from season 0 for me was where the death row convict took Teá and Yugi as a hostage, blindfolding Teá and making Yugi serve booze and a cigarette to him at gunpoint. The convict threatened to execute her, and thus Atem came out. Thus Yugi played a lethal game where they had to remain perfectly still but could only use one digit of their one hand to kill the other. The convict was pouring his drink at the start. Words cannot do justice for the imagery of this next moment. Obviously the gunman chose his index finger to pull the trigger, Yugi selected his thumb to flick the lighter. Before the gun was fired, Yugi lights his cigarette as the original demand was. Foolishly the convict allowed him to do this, staying his trigger finger for a few moments more. It gave Yugi the chance to place the still lit lighter on the convicts hand. The convict was by now still pouring the highly flammable alcohol and was being soaked. He couldn't fire the gun lest the recoil topple the lighter and light the deathtrap. Shocked his lit cigarette fell out of his mouth and Atem snatched Tea from the convicts panicking state moments before said convict is incinerated.
In the first episodes, the pharaoh burned the guy that kidnaped Tea alive, made the bully of the school burn his hands on a grill during the festival, and I think let somebody die from hypothermia inside a giant meat freezer so.... That was not for kids AT ALL.
Yeah, like during the fantasy RPG game where Yugi and the others are trapped in the game by Yami Bakura. At one point, regular Bakura takes over Bakura's hand and starts typing in a new character and other things. At which point, Bakura takes the possessed hand and impales it on the sharp roof of the castle prop, resulting in a lot of gore. There's also the haunted roller coaster earlier in the manga where Yugi and the others are trapped on a roller coaster in electric chairs. If they make any sound, the chairs will electrocute them. The guy in charge of the 'ride' is Kaiba's butler and is also strapped in a chair. He uses all sorts of things to get them to make sounds, from tickling to loud jump scares. Tristan though had to bring his little nephew along and he wasn't strapped in. He was a little perv and liked Tea for perverted reasons. Anyway, he went and crawled into the butler's lap and literally pooped in the butler's lap. They even show the turds in the guy's lap. The butler screams and is electrocuted. In fact that whole arc of the manga is pretty dark and grisly come to think of it.
4Kids: "better remove those guns for the safety of preteen American children" Preteen American Kids: "I bought my first assault rifle at the local arcade using tickets I won playing skee ball"
American cartoon censorship was always so random, Reboot wasn't allowed to break windows or depict GOOD female characters as having breasts (not until changed channels), Spider man the animated series wasn't allowed to throw punches (except two times) or use real bullets, but Batman the animated series airing on the same network at the time could do both..and also depict realistic bodies (until moved to kids WB and art style also changed), and a thousand or more examples I could go on forever with.
Forget the scenes that were removed. There are also some scenes that were made totally hilarious in the dub, like this one: Sub: Crystal beast amber mammoth Dub: Crystal beast *Arnold* mammoth
In the manga Mai's punishment was that there were flesh eating scarabs/bugs above her that would slowly fall into her half of the glass and slowly eat her alive
@@chaosyeshua1137 yeah I remember being so confused when I first watched it "I summon dizzy tiger" "Dizzy tiger? Why is he dizzy?" "He's dizzy because of hot sauce" That never made sense in the dub
i hate Yu-Gi-Oh! now, finding out that "The Shadow Realm" was essentially Limbo or Hell really killed that lore aspect that kept me into it, this is one time i was in blissful ignorance...
@@SpikeTheWolf the Shadow Realm was created to avoid direct references to death. But the loser of (or someone who cheated at) a Shadow Game would suffer a Penalty Game where they'd generally suffer an ironic punishment (if Atem initiated it) or twisted the screws deeper if it was Bakura or Marik.
*"Whoever Loses The Duel Would Get Their Legs Violently Chopped Off By A Buzzsaw."* I wish they didn't give this adaptation to 4Kids because I'd see that! 😕
*"It Definitely Makes The English Dub Memorable One Way Or Another."* You can say that again... just a bunch of guys pointing their fingers at you, nothing threatening here lol! 😂😂😂
One of the darkest in yugioh to me was in the manga, where we see mariks past on how he became a psycho as a kid, and the anime didnt show it, but in the manga marik cut off the skin on his father back which had the marking of the tomb keepers oath, and threw the skin on Odion
@@silenthero2795 What manga of Pokemon were you reading, because I've read several Pokemon manga and I've never seen any battles like that. Also Pokemon's a video game series, not a manga. The manga is just an adaptation and non-canon.
How Mariks father dies - *Japanese version* stabbed to death with the Millennium rod *English version* thrown against wall and banished to Shadow Realm *Manga* back tattoo skinned and thrown unto Odion (as some kind of recycled acceptance ceremony)
If you think about it, Yami Yugi in the original manga is basically Jigsaw, he challenges people he considers unworthy of life to horrifying shadow games which results in insanity or death. The creator wanted to take a more horror themed route until the unexpected success of the trading card chapter with Kaiba. 4kids literally tried to sugarcoat Saw and present it to kids XD
funny thing is some of these were actually changed twice from the manga to the Japanese version then to to English dub. like in the manga with Mai's punishment its not sand in the hourglass with her its scarabs that fall down and eat her alive.
Duel Monsters is the original Yu-Gi-Oh animated series? What!? Duel Monsters wasn’t the original Yu-Gi-Oh series, Yu-Gi-Oh 1998 was. It was adapted by Toei and it was never dubbed into English. In it Yami goes around challenging people to games in which if they lose they get killed in brutal ways. Essentially when Yugi’s friends or someone he cares about gets hurt, Yami will go around and kill the people that caused the pain. Dueling was not the main premise here, but rather it got introduced as one of “Yami’s Games” later in the show.
11:57 Cops: LET'S GO KIVA! ON YOUR FEET! MR. PEGASUS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FEW WORDS WITH YOU! His mind: Oh crap he has his finger armed and ready to do a objection. I'm gonna *_yeet myself with the package_*
Don't know why they need to get rid of the guns. Because Bugs Bunny cartoons had guns in it. Elmer Fudd had a shotgun, Yosemite Sam had pistols, and there were a couple of gangsters. Even Tom and Jerry also had some guns in it. Did 4kids forget about these kids cartoons.
Say what you want about the shadow realm. It makes more sense to me to say "your soul was trapped in another dimesion and we freed you" than "you died and we played a children's card game to bring you back to life."
That's not how it worked, though. Nobody who died was ever brought back to life. Those who were rescued, like Yugi's grandpa, were never killed in the first place but did actually have something mystical happen to them, or they were just captured and imprisoned in some conventional way. The dub just used the "Shadow Realm" as a catch-all explanation for all those kinds of events.
remember in the manga instead of losing her memories mai was forced to feel pain everytime her monsters are destroyed. just like the duel with joey. but with a bit of a plot twist she was forced to hallucinate mariks decapitation and instead of being trapped in a pyramid of sand, shes trapped in the pyramid of bugs, that is unless yugi beat marik, the bugs will eat her alive
“To dub” means “to change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language” - Cambridge Dictionary. It’s erroneous to say “Japanese dub” because the original language was in Japanese. It was so grating to hear you say “Japanese dub” over and over again. And Americans sure are overprotective of their kids. If Japanese kids can handle it, why can’t Americans?
Took the dub comment right out of my mouth. Plus 90% of the kids watching would have been able to handle the subject material, but 4kids entertainment thought kids where too stupid to understand subjects like death. They where the absolute worst company to see acquire an anime, as you knew that it WAS going to be butchered. You just didn't know how much...
@@MegaBat91 4Kids thought kids were too stupid to understand that other countries existed and had their own food, lol. Hence the infamous "jelly donut" from Pokemon XD
@@hexamael9458 That was another problem with 4Kids. They seemed to erroneously think that all cartoons were meant for children to be the primary demographic. While this was mostly true of Western animation at the time (although even then they often had more complex writing and mature themes than 4Kids ever allowed to be shown), they failed to realize that a good portion of anime even back then was designed for teenage or even adult audiences. I wonder what their reactions would've been if you could've taken them forward in time to show them an episode of "Family Guy" or "South Park."
Yeah the Mai being trapped in the hourglass was toned down for the dub. But even the sub anime was toned way down from the manga since she was having her flesh eaten by bugs
Kids needed to be exposed to that type of stuff. You know what's ironic? That fact that kids over in Japan could handle the though better than us American Kids😞 and that says alot
Actually 8:40 I'm pretty sure the English cards for Destiny board came out before the Dub aired. So it might of been whoever was in charge of editing the TCG cards.
What 4Kids could’ve done for the whole YUGIOH series from the original all the way to the current one is perhaps make two versions: one for the kids only and the other as the original Japanese Dub is but for Adult Swim at least. I would’ve loved seeing the whole thing from start to finish without any edits involved.
I remember watching the entire series after getting outta high school bcuz...i had more time hahaha. But with the quarantine in 2020 ive learned all the horrible changes
Yeah, it's a real eye opener. It's so dark asf that after 2020 is over I don't want to hear that "aNiMe Is FoR kIdS" anymore. Anime is definitely NOT 4Kids. At least most of them.
When I was a kid, the loser of the double duel would die. Dying sends you to the shadow realm. Shadow realm meant you're dead. This situation didn't really hide itself very well lol
The offscreen brutal deaths, maybe, but gun play and showing people almost dying brutally but ultimately being saved were fair play at the time with stuff like the DC superhero cartoons. It would've been better off airing on a cable channel like Cartoon Network in the first place, though.
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@@JulianR2JG lol
We should all agree that the Shadow Realm is actually a terrifying concept because if you lose/cheat you get sent to whats essentially HELL even if you're a good person.
Shadow Realm is one bit of censorship that was cool, now that is ruined for us, i mean sure i could've believed that it was hell if Mai didn't come back from it.
I agree, the Shadow Realm is a way scarier concept than simply dying. There are some fates worse than death.
I’d go with the realm of darkness
Sooo its not real?
@@SpikeTheWolf its literally explained in the video. It only exists in the English dub
Japanese: violence & partial nudity
English: *Shadow realm*
And death
I like the shadow realm better to be honest
I’ll take Partial Nudity thx.
Harpie Lady and Dark Magician Girl and all
Sanji in OP 4Kids > Lolipop :'
If u think about it,the shadowrealm is worse than just dieing.ur psychologically tortured 4ever,or until someone saves u.but by then,the damage is done
"LOOK OUT! THEY HAVE INVISIBLE GUNS!!'
" And we're not afraid to use 'em to!"
"Maybe if we used the invisible tank..."
*bang bang, ptow ptow*
"ouch, you shot me"
"hey, stop making fun of our invisible guns"
Those things are dangerous. Bakura killed Zombie boy with one.
The fingers of doom😂😂
Me: *Only ever watched the English dub as a kid*
WM: "There is no Shadow Realm!"
Me: *Surprised Pikachu face*
So what happens to the monster? They still die and go to hell?
Bruh So are we not going to talk about how 4Kids inadvertently made Yugioh Duel Monsters darker by adding in the Shadow Realm.
@@SpikeTheWolf I think they just said monsters go to the shadow realm to give it more credence. The monsters probably function more like pokemon in the original. One use per battle.
@@mako8091 nah they made it lighter i think lol. Without that, they were just stabbing people, and having people fall or die over a card game
Dude! I'm actually kind of freaking out at this revelation
They really do need to make a remastered english dub of Yu-Gi-Oh since it's audience has grown up
I did hear there was an uncensored version, but I have only seen a few episodes of it
since IT IS audience has grown up?
They should do a reboot of the first season, like with Duelist Kingdom with Battle City rules.
@@gokuandmario4ever I'd rather they just move on to something new
Yes
The fact you can make an entire top ten list of censorships of one anime, speaks volumes of what they did to this one. 😅
Funimation was a dark demon finally laid to rest
Lmao
At least we got Dan Green...
And that was just one. What about the other 5 spin offs?
@@mako8091 Kite's death in Zexal is one they COULDN'T really ignore or censor.
4Kids: Censors guns, violence, death/near death experiences, religious imagery and blood.
The Incredibles:
Because Disney isn't as much of a wuss as them.
Fun fact: In the Manga, Pegasus used the millennium eye to turn Keith's hand into a gun and kills him. Gives new meaning to the finger guns.
The amount of censorship in this anime is staggering.
It is 4kids was a blight in anime, One Piece until they lost the localization rights, thankfully before the Rocky Horror stuff started, and Zatch Bell was just butchered.
@@TheRhuen though I'd happily take the butchered 4kidz versions of some anime over the ones where they stick to the original script... but barely have any of the voice actors who do multiple different characters vary their performances so they all sound the same.
Thrn there's the woke dubs, and the less said about those SWJ pieces of crap, the better
TheRhuen what
the reason why is that 4kids was editing the anime for all international dubs, not just the english dubs. it's why they remove all the text, even english text. they'd remove things that seemed odd too, like any references to religion, b/c they were selling their edited ready to dub footage to rly religious straight laced countries. some of the japanese companies ended up suing them for it when they found out they were doing it, which is why 4kids is mostly dead now. they only rly dub yugioh still these days
Brooklyn rage was actually rage
I guess on finger guns they were just pointing at him till he died. 😂
Maybe they played too many Ace Attorney games XD
The irony here is that 4Kids actually made the finger gun canon.
*spoiler* Bandit Keith pulls a knife on Pegasus after losing the tournament, thus performing a penalty game on Keith, making his hand and finger into a revolver and forcing himself to play Russian roulette.
shadow realm pointing
"In the original, Mikey ended up in the crossfire of an exploding tank and perished almost instantly."
Well, that's what Alister gets for not putting Mikey in Defense Mode nor even having a Mirror Force ready.
Valons was worst
Rafael's was bad too. He literally was forced to dig up his young siblings skulls and hold them.
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@@Logan-lz5gu oh damn
Wow you changed your profile pic
Kaiba: What happened to this duelist?
Detective: He was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. It's clear that he's-
Yugi: He's been sent to the Shadow Realm. We must defeat his assailant in a card game to save his soul.
Detective: I'm sorry, but he's dead. It looks like he wasn't even playing a game, he was just walking through a dark alleyway and-
Kaiba: Yes, which is why we'll bring him into the feds by defeating him in a duel.
Detective: He might be armed with a *4Kids hands the detective his script* ... a finger-gun ... he'll point at you.
Yugi: But with the power of friendship, we will prevail.
Detective: I better call the feds to deliver a couple extra body bags and some Hennessy *4Kids whispers into the detective's ear* ... some juice for my coffee.
The real crime is having juice with your coffee.
Purple Realm
LittleKuribon? Is that you?
Noah: I *want* your body!
Yami: *Get in line.*
HA, GAY!
Ha, *GAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
From Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: "Don't move a muscle or we'll shoot you with our invisible guns!"
Also from Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: "I told you we should've used the VISIBLE guns! But noooo, you wanted us to use the IN-visible guns because they're magical!"
"Way to kick a guy while he's down Fred. Maybe if we had an invisible tank--"
"Oh shut up! Just shut up!"
😖😆😖😂
When I see the finger guns in Yugioh I just think of Finger Bang from South Park😂😂😂
😂😂😂
don't understand how this show was accepted for kids when 4kids literally had to censor so much inappropriate things that were not meant to be seen for children
Because they knew will be popular because it was popular everywhere else they just knew they would have to get rid of things so that parents didn't try to cancel them
3 Words - Children's Card Game.
I think a lot of it had to do with culture clash: what's considered "suitable for children" in Japan is very different from what's considered "suitable for children" in the West. That, and 4Kids was notorious for being a bit censor-happy, like they were our fussy mother or something.
Difference in culture
western country = violence is good sex is bad
Japan = violence is bad sex is good
Show has card game, kids like card game, make show for kids, kids buy cards, company get money YAYYYY
"Children's card game". Uh-huh.
Dude they're cardboard pieces with cartoons printed on them...
AK47 LCOB ah yes, cause a cartoon is automatically meant for Children
@@connormccarthy6741 Dude it's okay, I'm not going to take them away from you lol
Some people are judgmental and stupid these days.
The finger guns are always hilarious whenever I see them XD
Also, whoever came up with the shadow realm is a genius. It's just become the easy scapegoat for every single adversity they face.
The Shadow Realm did exist in the original, believe it or not! It just wasn't used as a replacement for death. It was where the duelists were transported to when playing a Shadow Game such as back in Duelist Kingdom, when Yugi dueled Pegasus.
Yeah, except the original called them penalty games, as punishment for losing the shadow game, of course some of them actually died, just pegasus used his powers to force yugi to play in the duelist kingdom tournament, and marik in the finals of battle city used his penalty game as torture since he was psychotic
Now everyone should start shaking on their feet when someone finger points.
LMAO 😂😂😂😂 ☠️☠️☠️☠️
That’s Some grade A voice acting at 2:50 LOL
Yeah but in a good way
Is hilariously bad
Dynasty warriors 3 vibes
Did you know, that tenacity, “Season 0” was a toned down version of the Manga, which had Yami killing basically everyone via games.
For an anime about cards, Yugioh has some questionable moments
Don’t forget the friendship. *Never forget.*
👆🔫
Watch where you point that finger now, you might shoot somebody.
It wasn't originally about cards. The first manga is about Yugi solving the millennium puzzle piece, and Yami Yugi would challenge the bad guys to a game of chance called the shadow games example: In the first chapter, he challenged a high school bully to a game where they would put a stack of Japanese currency on there hands and the rules were that they would take the knife and stab themselves and whatever they had on the knife they could keep and the bad guy would usually end up not following the rules and Yami Yugi would use his powers, and it was a new game every time. The series we know was titled Yu Gi Oh: Duel Monsters, and if you read the original series well considering Yu Gi Oh!'s status in the West we'll never get the original anime series, my guess is they stuck with the card game format because of marketing and again we'll never get the original Yu Gi Oh! anime here without heavy editing. In fact when trying to read the first chapter of the original Yu Gi Oh! on Shounen Jump it was so different that I was so confused. Like I said it did have an anime adaption and they did tone down the violence in it but we'll never see it in this country unless we change a standard for cartoon violence.
This is just Duel Monsters, later series have just as many if not worse moments such as The Society of Light trying to kill everyone with a satellite laser in GX, all of the dark signers original deaths in 5ds which include starving to death, attempted suicide and hanging, all of the barrians backstories (especially Vector’s) and I could keep going.
JAPAN: America, stop ruining our anime!
AMERICA: Japan, stop killing people over a kids' game!
Wasnt even supposed to be a Kids game IN the first Place. Like they literally Gas to invent a whole new story line to Make it kid friendly 🤣
"Mom, where's my dog?"
"We had to send him to the shadow realm, honey"
OH NO THEY "CAPTURED" MIKEY
CVIT LOL
In the manga, Marik actually skinned his father alive
Let's keep this train going
In the manga, the giant magical hourglass Mai got trapped in wasn't filled with magical sand.
It was filled with live scorpions. Seriously.
In the manga pegasus dies
@@JanitoRiceMeister Holy shit for real?
@@jonathanmartin-lof2941 damn
I think skinning alive is more gruesome death than an instant death itself
The ironic thing is that some of these scenes are censored even in the Japanese version when compared to the original manga. For example, Mai's punishment in the manga had nothing to do with her memories; that hourglass was actually filled with flesh-eating scarabs.
Wow even Japan scares themselves
or how Dark Marik Flayed the skin off his father's body and threw it onto the unconscious Rishid, Odion's original Name.
My favorite was when anzu and yugi went on a date! But if course they changed it to finding out yamis past. Dont get me wrong i love yami but it would've proved the shippers correct.
we didnt really have to have it spelled out for us, i mean you could tell that Tea/Anzu had a thing for Yami, anyone who didnt see that evidently are clueless.
She hot
But it was never a “date”. Even in the original manga, it was just kind of hanging out to make Yami feel better and not to mention him being very uninterested in it. Tèa straight up says in the manga that Yami buying cards was “the happiest he’s been all day”. Tèa does have an obvious crush on him, but it’s a one sided thing. Yami is more into the idea of Yugi and Tèa getting together anyway lol
@@KingOfGaymes is her name anzu in jap??
SpikeTheWolf Yup, her name in Japan is Anzu Mazaki. I’m just used to saying Tèa myself
*"These Scenes Were All Sent To The Shadow Realm."*
Ah, I love what you did there, and there's a reason for it as well... did you know the Yu-Gi-Oh manga was actually a gore fest before they made it into a kid's cartoon?! Well it's true, and that was before they turned Yu-Gi-Oh into a card game as well! 😌 it was hugely censored!
Hell the Yugioh Duel monster's manga was still gruesome and Bandit Keith had it easy compared to the manga where peagus turn Keith's fingers into a gun and made him shot himself. Hell Even Peagus die in duel monster's manga.
The most awesome moment from season 0 for me was where the death row convict took Teá and Yugi as a hostage, blindfolding Teá and making Yugi serve booze and a cigarette to him at gunpoint. The convict threatened to execute her, and thus Atem came out. Thus Yugi played a lethal game where they had to remain perfectly still but could only use one digit of their one hand to kill the other. The convict was pouring his drink at the start. Words cannot do justice for the imagery of this next moment.
Obviously the gunman chose his index finger to pull the trigger, Yugi selected his thumb to flick the lighter. Before the gun was fired, Yugi lights his cigarette as the original demand was. Foolishly the convict allowed him to do this, staying his trigger finger for a few moments more. It gave Yugi the chance to place the still lit lighter on the convicts hand. The convict was by now still pouring the highly flammable alcohol and was being soaked.
He couldn't fire the gun lest the recoil topple the lighter and light the deathtrap. Shocked his lit cigarette fell out of his mouth and Atem snatched Tea from the convicts panicking state moments before said convict is incinerated.
In the first episodes, the pharaoh burned the guy that kidnaped Tea alive, made the bully of the school burn his hands on a grill during the festival, and I think let somebody die from hypothermia inside a giant meat freezer so.... That was not for kids AT ALL.
Yeah, like during the fantasy RPG game where Yugi and the others are trapped in the game by Yami Bakura. At one point, regular Bakura takes over Bakura's hand and starts typing in a new character and other things. At which point, Bakura takes the possessed hand and impales it on the sharp roof of the castle prop, resulting in a lot of gore.
There's also the haunted roller coaster earlier in the manga where Yugi and the others are trapped on a roller coaster in electric chairs. If they make any sound, the chairs will electrocute them. The guy in charge of the 'ride' is Kaiba's butler and is also strapped in a chair. He uses all sorts of things to get them to make sounds, from tickling to loud jump scares. Tristan though had to bring his little nephew along and he wasn't strapped in. He was a little perv and liked Tea for perverted reasons. Anyway, he went and crawled into the butler's lap and literally pooped in the butler's lap. They even show the turds in the guy's lap. The butler screams and is electrocuted. In fact that whole arc of the manga is pretty dark and grisly come to think of it.
*something controversial happened*
Dub: *shadow realm*
I swear I absolutely love when you guys make a Yu-Gi-Oh video. Way to go Ashley.
*The Finger Guns should be the next Redraw trend on Twitter.*
I’m not in Twitter
Japan: *object kills person*
USA: Let's just send them to the Shadow Realm
4Kids: "better remove those guns for the safety of preteen American children"
Preteen American Kids: "I bought my first assault rifle at the local arcade using tickets I won playing skee ball"
American cartoon censorship was always so random, Reboot wasn't allowed to break windows or depict GOOD female characters as having breasts (not until changed channels), Spider man the animated series wasn't allowed to throw punches (except two times) or use real bullets, but Batman the animated series airing on the same network at the time could do both..and also depict realistic bodies (until moved to kids WB and art style also changed), and a thousand or more examples I could go on forever with.
lol doz finger guns no matter how many times i see it its still hilarious
Forget the scenes that were removed. There are also some scenes that were made totally hilarious in the dub, like this one:
Sub: Crystal beast amber mammoth
Dub: Crystal beast *Arnold* mammoth
'Ey Jesse! You want some pancakes!?? XD
We don't talk about that monstrosity dub
@@sikisikiamimis I LIKE the Gx dub. To me Jaden's voice was almost perfect, if only the Dub actors actually used ENERGY in their performances.
Arnold Mammoth was the best of all the dubs.
Well, this list is about Duel Monsters and not GX. Maybe they'll make a separate list for it...
Please do a GX video.
Also mai’s punishment was also like that in the manga but with bugs and other insects instead of sand.
In the manga Mai's punishment was that there were flesh eating scarabs/bugs above her that would slowly fall into her half of the glass and slowly eat her alive
I remember GX changing sake to hot sauce.
@@chaosyeshua1137 yeah I remember being so confused when I first watched it
"I summon dizzy tiger"
"Dizzy tiger? Why is he dizzy?"
"He's dizzy because of hot sauce"
That never made sense in the dub
@@erusean8492 ikr, if anything shouldn't the tiger be burning his mouth and be sweating?
i hate Yu-Gi-Oh! now, finding out that "The Shadow Realm" was essentially Limbo or Hell really killed that lore aspect that kept me into it, this is one time i was in blissful ignorance...
Sooo its not real??
@@SpikeTheWolf the Shadow Realm was created to avoid direct references to death. But the loser of (or someone who cheated at) a Shadow Game would suffer a Penalty Game where they'd generally suffer an ironic punishment (if Atem initiated it) or twisted the screws deeper if it was Bakura or Marik.
*"Whoever Loses The Duel Would Get Their Legs Violently Chopped Off By A Buzzsaw."*
I wish they didn't give this adaptation to 4Kids because I'd see that! 😕
I mean you can see it on crunchyroll, they got subbed yugioh on there 👍
@@KingOfGaymes OR you could just watch it through ILLEGALLY STREAMING SITES.
A lot of this I was aware of, however that surprise knife in the Millennium Rod was news to me.
[US of A] not OK : guns in cartoons/games "for kids"
[also US of A] OK : kids having real gun
Guess since fictional cartoon never dies so it is okay except it is fictional human story 🤔
*"It Definitely Makes The English Dub Memorable One Way Or Another."*
You can say that again... just a bunch of guys pointing their fingers at you, nothing threatening here lol! 😂😂😂
One of the darkest in yugioh to me was in the manga, where we see mariks past on how he became a psycho as a kid, and the anime didnt show it, but in the manga marik cut off the skin on his father back which had the marking of the tomb keepers oath, and threw the skin on Odion
That because manga are more explicit than the anime and it is one of the reasons why I prefer manga over the anime.
The same with Pokemon. The battles there are like massacres with limbs and body parts flying. It is nowhere near what the anime has shown.
@@silenthero2795 What manga of Pokemon were you reading, because I've read several Pokemon manga and I've never seen any battles like that. Also Pokemon's a video game series, not a manga. The manga is just an adaptation and non-canon.
When I first watched the First Season, I thought the energy discs were suspicious. I slowly realized that those were originally Buzz saws.
Kind of weird how those discs were aimed to hit your legs to send your mind to the shadow realm
Or even why they had to be shaped like buzzsaws
PatZalatoris Just don’t question it.. it definitely makes sense
Yeah that one was such a stretch.
@@KingOfGaymes yeah I'll try that!.....huh, now jaden switching from elemental heroes to neo spacians makes sense now
Wow, I'm actually impressed with Watchmojo on this one. They actually did their research and picked very good moments of Yu-gi-oh's censorship.
I know everyone is going to shit on the dub but I loved it. Regardless of how much it changed from the original.
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Truth be told, the voice actors were fine (and excellent in Dan Green's case). It's just the censorship that jumps between reasonable to ridiculous.
the manga, Mai is being eaten alive by the scarab after her duel with Yami Marik
Yami Marik also straight up tortures and skins his father back in the manga.
@@bronzin1445 and trying to cover Odion back with it
How Mariks father dies -
*Japanese version* stabbed to death with the Millennium rod
*English version* thrown against wall and banished to Shadow Realm
*Manga* back tattoo skinned and thrown unto Odion (as some kind of recycled acceptance ceremony)
I wonder how the light novel puts it. If there is one.
*Abridged Version* gleefully stabbed to death while singing a morbid song about his own death.
They should have the uncensored versions of Yu-Gi-Oh on Blu-Ray.
Well once again canada didnt give af cause I seen all these episodes growing up in english 😂🤣
If you think about it, Yami Yugi in the original manga is basically Jigsaw, he challenges people he considers unworthy of life to horrifying shadow games which results in insanity or death. The creator wanted to take a more horror themed route until the unexpected success of the trading card chapter with Kaiba. 4kids literally tried to sugarcoat Saw and present it to kids XD
I think Number one is gonna be The Shadow Realm
WatchMojo Number One The Finger Gun
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
I'm more surprised that one of them wasn't that they changed it so that the cards didn't look like the real ones
Cop: *point*
Top 10 scariest moments in kids shows
funny thing is some of these were actually changed twice from the manga to the Japanese version then to to English dub. like in the manga with Mai's punishment its not sand in the hourglass with her its scarabs that fall down and eat her alive.
The manga is even more dark then japnese version of the anime
Darker comparison:
Manga>anime original>anime dub
The shadow realm used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid...Pegasus, Marik and evil Bakura also!
Duel Monsters is the original Yu-Gi-Oh animated series? What!? Duel Monsters wasn’t the original Yu-Gi-Oh series, Yu-Gi-Oh 1998 was. It was adapted by Toei and it was never dubbed into English. In it Yami goes around challenging people to games in which if they lose they get killed in brutal ways. Essentially when Yugi’s friends or someone he cares about gets hurt, Yami will go around and kill the people that caused the pain. Dueling was not the main premise here, but rather it got introduced as one of “Yami’s Games” later in the show.
Guys my dad got killed by a finger gun send help
11:57
Cops: LET'S GO KIVA! ON YOUR FEET! MR. PEGASUS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FEW WORDS WITH YOU!
His mind: Oh crap he has his finger armed and ready to do a objection. I'm gonna *_yeet myself with the package_*
8:29 digimon evolve, but here, Yugi Evolve.. 😅
Off to the Shadow Realm you go.
Watch Mojo, great video! Enjoy your Sunday!💯🙏👐
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Don't forget he killed him by skinning his back of the tattoo, I'm serious google it.
Then slapped it on Rishids back like “Here ya go bud you’re a tomb keeper now”
That only happen in the manga. I wish for a yugioh reboot that follow the manga
Whenever I watch the American Yugioh I feel like I’m going to the shadow realm
You guys really should just do a Top 10 Anime Moments Censored by 4Kids.
Can you really restrict that to ten? lol
Don't know why they need to get rid of the guns. Because Bugs Bunny cartoons had guns in it. Elmer Fudd had a shotgun, Yosemite Sam had pistols, and there were a couple of gangsters. Even Tom and Jerry also had some guns in it. Did 4kids forget about these kids cartoons.
Say what you want about the shadow realm. It makes more sense to me to say "your soul was trapped in another dimesion and we freed you" than "you died and we played a children's card game to bring you back to life."
That's not how it worked, though. Nobody who died was ever brought back to life. Those who were rescued, like Yugi's grandpa, were never killed in the first place but did actually have something mystical happen to them, or they were just captured and imprisoned in some conventional way. The dub just used the "Shadow Realm" as a catch-all explanation for all those kinds of events.
Hol Up! There's no shadow realm?
Then where have i been sending all my vanquished foes all these years
I prefer my yu-gi-oh less dark please but dont censure the cards please
remember in the manga instead of losing her memories mai was forced to feel pain everytime her monsters are destroyed. just like the duel with joey. but with a bit of a plot twist she was forced to hallucinate mariks decapitation and instead of being trapped in a pyramid of sand, shes trapped in the pyramid of bugs, that is unless yugi beat marik, the bugs will eat her alive
“To dub” means “to change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language” - Cambridge Dictionary. It’s erroneous to say “Japanese dub” because the original language was in Japanese. It was so grating to hear you say “Japanese dub” over and over again. And Americans sure are overprotective of their kids. If Japanese kids can handle it, why can’t Americans?
Took the dub comment right out of my mouth. Plus 90% of the kids watching would have been able to handle the subject material, but 4kids entertainment thought kids where too stupid to understand subjects like death. They where the absolute worst company to see acquire an anime, as you knew that it WAS going to be butchered. You just didn't know how much...
@@MegaBat91 4Kids thought kids were too stupid to understand that other countries existed and had their own food, lol. Hence the infamous "jelly donut" from Pokemon XD
To be fair, the target audience for Yu-Gi-Oh in Japan was teenagers. 4Kids decided to market it towards younger kids.
@@afrokitty2222 that is so true, they just thought kids where dumb in general. 4kids was so awful...
@@hexamael9458 That was another problem with 4Kids. They seemed to erroneously think that all cartoons were meant for children to be the primary demographic. While this was mostly true of Western animation at the time (although even then they often had more complex writing and mature themes than 4Kids ever allowed to be shown), they failed to realize that a good portion of anime even back then was designed for teenage or even adult audiences. I wonder what their reactions would've been if you could've taken them forward in time to show them an episode of "Family Guy" or "South Park."
Never knew most of this! I know you guys could make another list like this!!! That would Be 🔥🔥🔥
3:56 Why show the same Dark Magician Girl clip twice if they're both the censored versions?
Anime logic
Death? Big no no. Eternal damnation and suffering in the Shadow Realm? That's fine.
The one thing I liked better in the English dub compared to the Japanese dub was Yami Bakura's voice.
English sounds like evil and devious, the Japanese voice is good but not for Bakura?? I just hear a creepy woman and it doesn’t fit him
@@KingOfGaymes fun fact, Japanese voice is Ash Ketchum.
@@KingOfGaymes Agreed.
Yeah the Mai being trapped in the hourglass was toned down for the dub. But even the sub anime was toned way down from the manga since she was having her flesh eaten by bugs
Kids needed to be exposed to that type of stuff. You know what's ironic? That fact that kids over in Japan could handle the though better than us American Kids😞 and that says alot
No. It's all because of the PC culture in America that's still going on TODAY. Bruh I was watching gory shit when I was a kid.
Actually 8:40 I'm pretty sure the English cards for Destiny board came out before the Dub aired. So it might of been whoever was in charge of editing the TCG cards.
Number 9 was censored in both versions regardless, from what I heard
I was, compared to the original manga, but totally different levels of censorship
What 4Kids could’ve done for the whole YUGIOH series from the original all the way to the current one is perhaps make two versions: one for the kids only and the other as the original Japanese Dub is but for Adult Swim at least. I would’ve loved seeing the whole thing from start to finish without any edits involved.
After watching Yu-Gi-Oh abridged series, I couldn't take the 4kids dub seriously anymore 🤣
Seriously though, isnt getting sent to the shadow realm way worse than having your legs sawwed off?
I remember watching the entire series after getting outta high school bcuz...i had more time hahaha. But with the quarantine in 2020 ive learned all the horrible changes
Yeah, it's a real eye opener. It's so dark asf that after 2020 is over I don't want to hear that "aNiMe Is FoR kIdS" anymore. Anime is definitely NOT 4Kids. At least most of them.
0:02 the face your mom sees when she catches you on the websites
I was always wondering how could a spinning desk send you to the shadow realm? now it all make sense
When I was a kid, the loser of the double duel would die. Dying sends you to the shadow realm. Shadow realm meant you're dead. This situation didn't really hide itself very well lol
I wonder if Yu-gi-oh season 0 was aired in the U.S. and try to censor it. Goodluck with that.
Sadly this never happened. Would have been interesting to see what they would have done though
Marik, what do you have there?
A KNIFE!
For kids: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I Love this YugiOh Trading Card!!! I've ever Collected the Cards in the Past & Play with My Male Friends!!! 😀😁😀
Velin Caroline Huang Haven’t I seen you in the comment sections of Shirako’s Resident Evil videos?
11:59
agent guy's: "point's finger"
me: your screwed and your fingies i can take you on
11:43
agent guy's: "point gun's"
me: f*ck it i'm out of here
I waited for years now just frickin make a top ten hentai list right now, especially since they animated some good stuff last year.
YES
Literally just started watching yugioh.... how did you know I wanted yugioh content huh?
Well to be fair,
Most of these censorships are understandable especially if you know that this was supposed to aire on a kids channel.
The offscreen brutal deaths, maybe, but gun play and showing people almost dying brutally but ultimately being saved were fair play at the time with stuff like the DC superhero cartoons. It would've been better off airing on a cable channel like Cartoon Network in the first place, though.
the mugger in the anime is technically censored in the Japanese version (he dies in the manga)
Ugh, 4kids... the cringe creeps in everytime I hear about it.
The one about "Final" the north american print of those cards do spell out final, I had a few of them
and these still nothing compared to season 0 & the manga, especially when Atem was a jigsaw killer
I LIKE TO PLAY A GAME....
“Dont move a muscle or we’ll shoot you with our invisible guns”
20 years later, "the worst censorship on yugioh". It never ends isn't it 😹
I had a feeling something Mai-related was gonna show up on the list, but i was expecting her outfit to be among them