Should add that Underdog is specifically showing the aftermath of Lucky Punch. Really has the energy of a bullying victim fighting back and the bully crying to the teacher.
I thought it was the aftermath of Setuppercut, where Mega Hamster also pwns Behemoth. And apparently the art of Lucky Punch is a parody of Cross Counter, where Des Kangaroo is ALSO beating up on Behemoth.
I don't get the relation between Lucky Punch's artwork and it's effect. The artwork shows Rescue Rabbit reflecting an attack. The effect is possibly letting you draw 3 cards if you get lucky with some coin tosses when your opponent attacks. There is nothing about stopping or redirecting an attack.
I don't want to be "that guy" but Behemoth has been abused by small beast monsters in many, many cards over the years. Underdog is just Behemoth begging Alpha for help, cause he's the master of beasts. Nimble Mega Hamster and Rescue Rabbit are two of the many abusers and Behemoth is snitching on them. At least that's how I interpret the card, cause Behemoth is huge but man... in some cards they've continued punching him when he's down.
@@chanceneck8072 for some reason, people that gives correct info on the internet are seens as "That annoying guy" or stuff like that, in the end, Internet stupid trends
@@GrEEnF1Re1 you nailed it! "For some reason". I really don't get that reason. Fuck that trend. More power to people who have the balls and inore that and just give out correct information on the internet. 👍
Team Taiyou are notable in that they were the first people in-universe to summon Zushin The Sleeping Giant. Even in-universe, Zushin was acknowledged as a card that everybody and their grandma had, but *nobody* used because it was nearly impossible to summon. Since Team Taiyou couldn't get any good cards, their deck was as basic a stall deck could be. Just setting weak Normal monsters in defense and using cheap cards to protect the very first monster they set, which would be used to summon Zushin. The only other effect monster in the deck was one that buffed the defense of monsters on the field.
Zushin in the TCG is still one of the hardest monsters to summon but it's even harder in the anime because it works on Final Countdown rules so you can't have three copies in hand to speed up the timer.
In the underdog card, I think Behemoth is pointing out to Apha that Rescue Rabbit was the no one to hurt them. Alpha is confused that a little rabbit beat him up. the rabbit and hamster wary because Alpha is an actual threat to them.
I thought you were going to talk about all of the early cards that were basically reskins and palette swaps (Witch of the Black Forest / Goddess with the Third Eye, Mammoth Graveyard / Great Mammoth of Goldfine, Basic Insect / Invader from Another Dimension, etc.)
Old Fusions, yes, very odd beasts. A lot of the earliest card arts and backgrounds stand out for their bizarre and magical, almost tacky by today's standards aesthetic. Lots of guys with just spikes on them and 1700 what have you on a vanilla level 5. In addition to PaniK statlines, would love to see a modern revisit/parody theme that strives for this artstyle because I feel it is missed.
I think the most interesting card art has to be the version of Number 39: Utopia that depicts it sealed form. For those of you who don’t know, in the anime, when a Number is Xyz Summoned, they usually appear on the field in a sealed form before unfolding to reveal the actual monster. When a Number is used as Xyz Material for a Rank-Up, the Number returns to its sealed form before entering the Overlay Network again. This makes the card art for Utopia rather cheeky as in modern play, Utopia is only summoned to Rank-Up into its stronger forms, so the monster never stays on the field for long and would actually spend more time in its sealed form.
I have always believed that at one point merchandise based around number monsters toys that could transform into their sealed form and vice versa was planned at some point, but then got cut for whichever reason
@@madjester9844 I don’t think that was physically possible. Take Utopia for example. In its sealed form, its torso is a white sphere with a blue orb nestled in a crater, and when it transforms such that the crater closes tightly around the sphere to form the gemed chest plate. And where are Utopia’s legs? During the duel with Dr Faker, we see Utopia Ray with transformation sequence that uses different camera angles, and its legs just pop out of nowhere.
I really love that series of videos. Makes me happy realize that exists duelists that are interested in the background of cards and story of TCG itself, beyond the metagame discussion and etc. My suggestion is a video about the Archetype of Plant Princess, each one representing the seasons of the year.
You mentioned pokemon, but I think gigobyte was in fact inspired by digimon, more specifically agumon. He looks very similar to it, its evolutions have a more digimon-esque aspect (not to mention having four evolution stages is the norm in digimon), and having his heart tainted by evil is a big part of agumon's character arc (and several other similar digimon like guilmon too) . Even charmers look more like digimon tamers than pokemon trainers to me
I think it'd be interesting to talk about that weird line of "Yu-Gi-Oh tips" cards that Konami tried to print in boosters back in the day. I think they were in Dark Beginning 1?
To correct you, it's Giga Gagagigo in Draining Shield's artwork, not Gagagigo. As for Underdog, it's a reference to the artwork of Behemoth the King of All Animals getting beat up, with Lucky Punch for Recuse Rabbit and Setuppercut for Super-Nimble Mega Hamster.
12:42 Nothing special except the fact they where the first ones to summon Zushin the sleeping giant, according with the anime. For that they need use level 1 normal monsters for the Zushin summoning condition. The trap card reflect the fact that the team main focus before summoning Zushin it's to put they normal monster in defense position and use a bunch of card to power up they defenses and prevent they destruction (though battle and effects) so they can put enough Zushin counter on one of then and summon the monster. Yusei have a hard time with these guys because they deck use a stalling deck, was a cool episode, they gave Yusei a hard time.
A lot of the mega-expensive vanilla monsters are expensive because they were only ever available in tournament packs. Beautiful Headhuntress has a single printing as a rare from Tournament Pack 2 from 2002. Likewise, Metal Dragon has only ever been printed in LOB, and a lot of those first editions are INCREDIBLY valuable. Ready Fusion has also made a lot of very specific vanilla fusions valuable because they fit a perfect niche of level+attribute+type to fit into a deck, like Kaminari Attack (a $6 common from MRD) being the only instant fusion target for Thunder Dragons or Kwagar Hercules (a *$400* super rare from Tournament Pack 1 from 2002, though it dropped to $150 when it got a reprint) for Bee Troopers as the only insect fusion monster for extending your plays. Also, most card errata happen because Konami did a terrible job of writing effect text before 2011 (when PSCT established text norms). Manga Ryu-Ran got a bunch of reprints and every time, all of the Toon monsters had their texts streamlined (well...kinda...). Toons are like Necrovalley in that they kept getting clarification errata, though Necrovalley's errata have often included some minor functionality changes (like whether or not a summoning procedure like Grapha or summoning effect like Trickclown actually work while Necrovalley is live).
I don't think Manga Ryu-Ran's name is a mistranslation on the part of the manga. The Viz translation of the manga was generally much closer than the 4kids dub, and it had some early chapters with different names to what the anime went with. Also, the English manga release of that chapter came out well _after_ the release of the card, as far as I can tell - the collected release of that chapter came out in 2005, a full three years after its release as a physical card. The more likely reason is just that the translators of the card game wanted to make the naming of Toons less repetitive, and didn't anticipate that them all having "Toon" in the name would be important later on.
If i remember correctly there is a normal toon monster called toon caiman which isn't consider a toon monster but has no reminder text for that so you just have to know that it isn't a toon monster.
Yeah, Toon Alligator, despite it being used in Pegasus' deck. It's a part of the "Toon" archetype, and is a monster, but it's not a "Toon Monster" since Toon is also a monster subtype like Union or Tuner. There's also Dark Rabbit, which has neither Toon in its name nor is a Toon monster, but Pegasus still used it.
I love when you talk about the price of old cards, you should check out the price of champions pack metamorphosis, and retro pack Dragon master knight..
I always assumed it was called Manga Ryu-Ran because Ryu-Ran translates to Dragon Egg. They used Japanese for the card name in english, so they kept that up with the toon version as a little gag.
Gigobyte looks to be a reference potentially to Augomon from Digimon, at t-rex with similar proportions. Also Gigobyte, Giga Byte. Giga Byte being a type of amount of Digital storage. Also the "evolutions" makes more sense for Digimon since Pokemon caps of at three stages evolution. It kinda follows with the general trend of digimon evolving into coolr more robotic versions of themselves at least it's some what parallel of Augmon evolution tree. (edit) The Triangle power reminds me of the time that in anime the heros where the egypt inspired place, just a connection drew. Dunno how significant the connection is though.
Fun Fact: The Gagagigo cards are Tristan's ace monsters in Duel Links. I believe he's the only DM character to have a voice line when summoning an Xyz monster. Gagagigo the Risen is his true ace monster in the game
Tea's in the game, both DM world and DSOD world, and she dueled like twice. Neither in the DSOD movie. Tristan was a major supporting character, a fan favorite. Same with Duke Devlin. Fans wanted em in
The reason why Team Tayio got to the WRGP is because they have Zushin which in the anime, rather than placing a counter on a vanilla level 1, a level 1 just needs to be on the field for 10 turns, and Scrum Force was used because Red Dragon Archfiend
Volcanic Rat has a significantly different art style and theme compared to the rest of the archetype. It's just a mouse with volcanic chunks sticking out of it. It's really jarring comparing him to the other low level Volcanic monsters who are all hollow, armor figures wreathed in fire.
i think probably people know, but gotta mention that Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech, has an orb inside of it which is probably Number 36: Chronomaly Chateau Huyuk
Gagagigo and Giga Gagagigo were both commons that worked well with Legendary Ocean (including structure deck Fury From the Deep) when that was first a thing. Still works well in most of the video games, since Legendary Ocean decks are easy to assemble in any that include it.
12:45 So my memory of 5Ds might be a bit foggy at this point, but if I recall correctly Team Tayou won through a kind of "Stall-Burn" Strategy that had them focusing on building an "indestructible" board by playing Hand-Holding Genie, which gains DEF equal to the DEF of all other monsters on your field, and only allows your opponent to target it for attacks, while burning their opponent with Speed Counters (a mechanic of 5Ds where you basically got "Speed Counters" during each of your turns during your Duel which you could trade in for useful effects like a Draw, or in their case inflicting 400 Damage to their opponent for each "Speed Spell" in their hand, without removing the Speed Counters if I remember correctly). Scrumforce was used since the Boss-Monster of Jack Atlas, a friend of Protagonist Yusei Fudo had an effect that would destroy all Defense Position Monsters after it battled, which would have nuked the entire field of Team Tayou. In the End Team Tayou's Board got destroyed, however they also had another up to this point unknown Strategy, Zushin the Sleeping Giant, which worked well with their low-Level Normal Monster Strategy. But of course in the End Yusei destroyed Zushin too, because that's what Protagonists do.
I always found it interesting that in early Yugioh there were a lot of 'pallete swap' monsters that may or maynot be related. Beautiful Headhuntress, and Warrior of Tradition, Vishwar Randi and Succubus knight, Thunder kid and Electric Lizard, Empress Judge and Gyakutenno Megami, Witch of the Black Forest and Goddes with the Third eye, - There are a ton.
I retired after the GX era, so I just watch these type of videos for fun now. Scrum Force is a new card to me! Makes me wish they’d release a card (field spell probably) that would allow defense position monsters to attack using their DEF stat as long as their DEF is higher than their ATK.
I don't know who at Konami Behemoth pissed off, but that poor guy has been getting punked out for years. A video could be made on just the cards showing Behemoth being humiliated. Beautiful Headhuntress and Warrior of Tradition are just one example of several "palette swap" monsters that they used to have in the very early days of the game. They weren't retrains or anything, they just took the exact same monster design, gave it different colors, different stats, a different name and called it a day.
Don't know if this works, but how about videos about duel lore like the Duel Terminal story lines or just lore about certain cards like Dai Grepher and all his things or like you touched upon the story of Gigabyte to Gagagigo the Risen; figure you could get a decent number of interesting videos about that.
I see i'm not alone. That's how i started collecting the actual cards when i was a kid. I always wanted see a show that just focused on the cards lore. i think the closest thing i had to this was Chaotic
Gagagigo is probably my all-time favorite Yu-Gi-Oh monster and it's all thanks to the first tag Force game. 1850 4 star beat-stick with one and two tribute "evolutions"? Absolutely perfect stuff for when you're just grinding for a couple of hours on some weak duelists. Between it's cool design and the edgy multi-card story, what's not to love?
I believe Team Taiyo used a lot of the ruling for Speed Duels to their advantage while working their way up during the tournament. A lot of burn damage with Speed World 2 as well as having a decent defense strategy. Honestly, the only reason they lost against Yusei's team was due to them getting rid of Dragon Capture Jar which would have prevent most of the 5Ds team's powerful cards due to their aces being dragons.
I feel like the card drastic drop off could be good. In trap heavy decks it can rip the card your opponent draws right out especially if you know what it is
Looking at early cards reminded me of how obscure and evil old YuGiOh artwork looked back in the day, no wonder a lot of parents considered the thing to be witchcraft/diabolical stuff XD
for interesting artworks, there is also magi magi magician gal which was made by kazuki takahashi himself, and was released in the OCG, but was never allowed in the TCG because of magician girls cleavage. takashi-san didn't want to censor the drawing so the xyz monster because an OCG exclusive out of it being in localization limbo :S
manga ryu ran could go with early yugioh's tendency to have english names in japanese and japanese names in english. for example, "toon dragon egger" is japanenglish, and the card is actually read that way, where as ours is "manga ryu ran". idk what ran means but manga is comic and ryuu is dragon. lots of old vanillas did this, like kaminarikozou(thunder kid), tatsunootoshigo(sea horse), or hitotsu-me giant(cyclopse). all of these pairings directly translate into each other. just an interesting old naming oddity that found its way onto an archetype
A few things people are missing here: firstly, Ryu Ran was shown in the manga first (as with many older cards), they just chose to depict it in an egg for the card artwork even though what it looked like underneath was always known. Secondly, it may not have "toon" in it's name like most toon monsters, but a manga is a Japanese comic strip, which is were that comes from
Errata isnt a new effect (or more commonly nerfed new card with same name), errata is a grammatical text/error fix (rooted in error/erratum). Most card text changes are indeed errats. Some (like e.g. tribute to the damned nerfed from non-target to target with first problem solving text/near keywording, instead of "full text keywording" of Zexal on) in turn were outright just new nerfed card stealing the same name.
Honestly with both Magic and Yugioh the art is the reason I mostly just play casually and don't try to buy the really expensive cards. Sometimes a weaker card has better art so I prefer that card. It's because of reasons like this that I want a copy of Beautiful Headhuntress and Warrior of Tradition. Good luck buying them though at that price. Not worth it. I gotta say I've really been enjoying these recent type of videos.
Metal Dragon doesn't have nothing special but man, I remember having a copy of that card back in the day and it was one of my favorite fusion monsters in YuGiOh Forbidden Memories.
Seriously though, even with all the L's Behemoth has taken there's still one monster that jobs harder in card art and that's the OG Fiend Daddy, Dark Ruler Ha Des (someone at Konami clearly has an axe to grind)
Headhuntress comes from Tournament Pack 2 which is from 2002 it's also a Rare not a common, soooo that its only 300 graded after 20 years is not too much if you ask me
Who's gonna tell the spider that half of team 5Ds is rich kids? Hell one of those rich kids actually dueled in the tournament. inb4 someone says Akiza isn't rich because she ran away from home, even though she definitely returned home at some point before the WRGP
"""Rich""" Yet they still play garbage tier cards because lore or Yusei Syndrome. I hate that excuse characters being poor or rich where you still never see good cards in the anime other once in a blue moon moments. 5Ds is also notorious for having some of the worst and extremely circumstancal cards ever printed
can you talk about Kanan the Swordmistress as it a just a random vanilla which an SR in master duel but Warrior of Zera who is just better in stats is only a common
I swear that Gigobyte's whole story can make up for a whole anime by himself, starting as him being a benign creature into his dark, crazed final forms, to that being a good guy. Also it is funny that Gigobyte's evolutions is not out of ordinary for Digimon fans. There is Rookie, Champion, Ultimate and Mega forms.
I always loved Gagagigo's appearance in other cards. Older yu-gi-oh vanilla monsters just hit different.
Gagagigo has to be one of my favorite monsters, the design is really cool but the huge amount of lore elevates him even further.
Should add that Underdog is specifically showing the aftermath of Lucky Punch. Really has the energy of a bullying victim fighting back and the bully crying to the teacher.
I thought it was the aftermath of Setuppercut, where Mega Hamster also pwns Behemoth. And apparently the art of Lucky Punch is a parody of Cross Counter, where Des Kangaroo is ALSO beating up on Behemoth.
Yeah I didnt realize that until I was reviewing the final cut lol. By that point it was too late
I don't get the relation between Lucky Punch's artwork and it's effect. The artwork shows Rescue Rabbit reflecting an attack. The effect is possibly letting you draw 3 cards if you get lucky with some coin tosses when your opponent attacks. There is nothing about stopping or redirecting an attack.
@@hirumaredx wait did you mean to respond with your main account? lol
I don't want to be "that guy" but Behemoth has been abused by small beast monsters in many, many cards over the years. Underdog is just Behemoth begging Alpha for help, cause he's the master of beasts. Nimble Mega Hamster and Rescue Rabbit are two of the many abusers and Behemoth is snitching on them. At least that's how I interpret the card, cause Behemoth is huge but man... in some cards they've continued punching him when he's down.
Behemoth is the punching bag of the ygo animal kingdom. Dude doesn't catch a break
"That guy"? Why? I'm glad you gave that info, what's so bad about that?
@@chanceneck8072 for some reason, people that gives correct info on the internet are seens as "That annoying guy" or stuff like that, in the end, Internet stupid trends
@@GrEEnF1Re1 you nailed it! "For some reason".
I really don't get that reason. Fuck that trend. More power to people who have the balls and inore that and just give out correct information on the internet. 👍
I love Duck Dummy's artwork of a duck protecting its ducklings from Behemoth by... holding up a cardboard cutout of Rescue Rabbit.
Underdog's is a reference to what happens after the artwork of "lucky punch" it's kinda weird that that didn't get mentioned.
Thought it was after Super Rush Headlong for some reason, but I guess Behemoth just gets his ass beat a lot
I was thinking there's at least 4 cards that have some combination of those monsters.
@@devilman4723 Behemoth is a scrub, he's getting scared off by Manticore in Threatening Roar. Just constantly taking Ls.
What are you doing here weird cosplay man?
@@RexOedipus. I've been following YGO since it came out and know more about it then I'd like to admit.
Team Taiyou are notable in that they were the first people in-universe to summon Zushin The Sleeping Giant. Even in-universe, Zushin was acknowledged as a card that everybody and their grandma had, but *nobody* used because it was nearly impossible to summon. Since Team Taiyou couldn't get any good cards, their deck was as basic a stall deck could be. Just setting weak Normal monsters in defense and using cheap cards to protect the very first monster they set, which would be used to summon Zushin. The only other effect monster in the deck was one that buffed the defense of monsters on the field.
Yea I’m surprised his writers knew it was on that team but failed to write about the strategy at all, cuz that’s a very memorable and cool duel.
They also abused the broken burn damage effect of speed counters (dealing 800 damage per spell in hand)
Oh yeah the Zushin guys!
@@victor_e_dafeet8218 He has only ever watched the original anime and a handful of early 5D's episodes.
Zushin in the TCG is still one of the hardest monsters to summon but it's even harder in the anime because it works on Final Countdown rules so you can't have three copies in hand to speed up the timer.
In the underdog card, I think Behemoth is pointing out to Apha that Rescue Rabbit was the no one to hurt them. Alpha is confused that a little rabbit beat him up. the rabbit and hamster wary because Alpha is an actual threat to them.
3:49 theres one more Gagigobyte card that wasnt mentioned. "Awakening of the possessed - Gagigobyte"
I thought you were going to talk about all of the early cards that were basically reskins and palette swaps (Witch of the Black Forest / Goddess with the Third Eye, Mammoth Graveyard / Great Mammoth of Goldfine, Basic Insect / Invader from Another Dimension, etc.)
Old Fusions, yes, very odd beasts.
A lot of the earliest card arts and backgrounds stand out for their bizarre and magical, almost tacky by today's standards aesthetic. Lots of guys with just spikes on them and 1700 what have you on a vanilla level 5. In addition to PaniK statlines, would love to see a modern revisit/parody theme that strives for this artstyle because I feel it is missed.
I think the most interesting card art has to be the version of Number 39: Utopia that depicts it sealed form.
For those of you who don’t know, in the anime, when a Number is Xyz Summoned, they usually appear on the field in a sealed form before unfolding to reveal the actual monster. When a Number is used as Xyz Material for a Rank-Up, the Number returns to its sealed form before entering the Overlay Network again. This makes the card art for Utopia rather cheeky as in modern play, Utopia is only summoned to Rank-Up into its stronger forms, so the monster never stays on the field for long and would actually spend more time in its sealed form.
I have always believed that at one point merchandise based around number monsters toys that could transform into their sealed form and vice versa was planned at some point, but then got cut for whichever reason
@@madjester9844 I don’t think that was physically possible. Take Utopia for example. In its sealed form, its torso is a white sphere with a blue orb nestled in a crater, and when it transforms such that the crater closes tightly around the sphere to form the gemed chest plate. And where are Utopia’s legs? During the duel with Dr Faker, we see Utopia Ray with transformation sequence that uses different camera angles, and its legs just pop out of nowhere.
I really love that series of videos. Makes me happy realize that exists duelists that are interested in the background of cards and story of TCG itself, beyond the metagame discussion and etc. My suggestion is a video about the Archetype of Plant Princess, each one representing the seasons of the year.
What about a video on the interesting and unpopular Type and Attribute combinations that some cards have?
You mentioned pokemon, but I think gigobyte was in fact inspired by digimon, more specifically agumon. He looks very similar to it, its evolutions have a more digimon-esque aspect (not to mention having four evolution stages is the norm in digimon), and having his heart tainted by evil is a big part of agumon's character arc (and several other similar digimon like guilmon too) . Even charmers look more like digimon tamers than pokemon trainers to me
but thats not whats in the script
Holy fuck i thought I was the only one who thought the two looked uncanny
I think it'd be interesting to talk about that weird line of "Yu-Gi-Oh tips" cards that Konami tried to print in boosters back in the day. I think they were in Dark Beginning 1?
To correct you, it's Giga Gagagigo in Draining Shield's artwork, not Gagagigo.
As for Underdog, it's a reference to the artwork of Behemoth the King of All Animals getting beat up, with Lucky Punch for Recuse Rabbit and Setuppercut for Super-Nimble Mega Hamster.
And it’s general freed not marauding captain
Too many errors and missing facts
Day 11 of requesting a video of Top 10 Cards from Duelists of The Roses that are better than their real life counterpart! 🙏
Wish they'd make a new Duelist of the roses. Legit bought a hd adapter for my ps2 to play DOTR on my tv. Thay game is top tier.
I love this game. Konami should bring back that playstyle
This would be fun! Although I’d love to know what a competitive deck looks like in DOTR
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To name a few, mystical elf, P.U.G moth, pumpking
Metal Dragon is one of my first card that i got and has been my favorite ever since. Trying to build a deck around it but always a failure lmao
12:42 Nothing special except the fact they where the first ones to summon Zushin the sleeping giant, according with the anime. For that they need use level 1 normal monsters for the Zushin summoning condition. The trap card reflect the fact that the team main focus before summoning Zushin it's to put they normal monster in defense position and use a bunch of card to power up they defenses and prevent they destruction (though battle and effects) so they can put enough Zushin counter on one of then and summon the monster.
Yusei have a hard time with these guys because they deck use a stalling deck, was a cool episode, they gave Yusei a hard time.
A lot of the mega-expensive vanilla monsters are expensive because they were only ever available in tournament packs. Beautiful Headhuntress has a single printing as a rare from Tournament Pack 2 from 2002. Likewise, Metal Dragon has only ever been printed in LOB, and a lot of those first editions are INCREDIBLY valuable. Ready Fusion has also made a lot of very specific vanilla fusions valuable because they fit a perfect niche of level+attribute+type to fit into a deck, like Kaminari Attack (a $6 common from MRD) being the only instant fusion target for Thunder Dragons or Kwagar Hercules (a *$400* super rare from Tournament Pack 1 from 2002, though it dropped to $150 when it got a reprint) for Bee Troopers as the only insect fusion monster for extending your plays.
Also, most card errata happen because Konami did a terrible job of writing effect text before 2011 (when PSCT established text norms). Manga Ryu-Ran got a bunch of reprints and every time, all of the Toon monsters had their texts streamlined (well...kinda...). Toons are like Necrovalley in that they kept getting clarification errata, though Necrovalley's errata have often included some minor functionality changes (like whether or not a summoning procedure like Grapha or summoning effect like Trickclown actually work while Necrovalley is live).
Love the idea of going through the art part of Yu-Gi-Oh, a part 2 would be super cool!
Beaver Warrior was named "Louis" in the OCG
I don't think Manga Ryu-Ran's name is a mistranslation on the part of the manga. The Viz translation of the manga was generally much closer than the 4kids dub, and it had some early chapters with different names to what the anime went with. Also, the English manga release of that chapter came out well _after_ the release of the card, as far as I can tell - the collected release of that chapter came out in 2005, a full three years after its release as a physical card.
The more likely reason is just that the translators of the card game wanted to make the naming of Toons less repetitive, and didn't anticipate that them all having "Toon" in the name would be important later on.
If i remember correctly there is a normal toon monster called toon caiman which isn't consider a toon monster but has no reminder text for that so you just have to know that it isn't a toon monster.
Yep. It's Toon Alligator.
Yeah, Toon Alligator, despite it being used in Pegasus' deck. It's a part of the "Toon" archetype, and is a monster, but it's not a "Toon Monster" since Toon is also a monster subtype like Union or Tuner. There's also Dark Rabbit, which has neither Toon in its name nor is a Toon monster, but Pegasus still used it.
@@BeaglzRok1 in the manga it’s a toon monster
I love when you talk about the price of old cards, you should check out the price of champions pack metamorphosis, and retro pack Dragon master knight..
I always assumed it was called Manga Ryu-Ran because Ryu-Ran translates to Dragon Egg. They used Japanese for the card name in english, so they kept that up with the toon version as a little gag.
Old-school Yugioh art was awesome because it was all monsters that you would fight in like a game of Dungeons and Dragons
Gigobyte looks to be a reference potentially to Augomon from Digimon, at t-rex with similar proportions. Also Gigobyte, Giga Byte. Giga Byte being a type of amount of Digital storage. Also the "evolutions" makes more sense for Digimon since Pokemon caps of at three stages evolution. It kinda follows with the general trend of digimon evolving into coolr more robotic versions of themselves at least it's some what parallel of Augmon evolution tree.
(edit) The Triangle power reminds me of the time that in anime the heros where the egypt inspired place, just a connection drew. Dunno how significant the connection is though.
Yeah that's also what I think, and having his heart tainted by evil might reference the skullgreymon dark evolution too
It’s pretty significant since the Archfiend Marmot literally looks like Patamon in the Aussa artwork. 4:25
Fun Fact: The Gagagigo cards are Tristan's ace monsters in Duel Links. I believe he's the only DM character to have a voice line when summoning an Xyz monster. Gagagigo the Risen is his true ace monster in the game
I don’t understand why Tristan’s even in the game. I’m pretty sure the only time he ever duelled in the show was the non canon virtual world filler
Tea's in the game, both DM world and DSOD world, and she dueled like twice. Neither in the DSOD movie. Tristan was a major supporting character, a fan favorite. Same with Duke Devlin. Fans wanted em in
I can see the argument for Tea and Duke, but Tristan? Really?
@@failure4452 because he was there with Yugi at the very beginning. He's part of the friend circle. He's a vital part of DM
@@kingkryptonite0 sorry, I just can’t bring myself to care about Tristan
The reason why Team Tayio got to the WRGP is because they have Zushin which in the anime, rather than placing a counter on a vanilla level 1, a level 1 just needs to be on the field for 10 turns, and Scrum Force was used because Red Dragon Archfiend
Also Yusei ass pulls the duel. The way he beats Zushin, you can not actually do that cause damage step priorities and rulings
@@soukenmarufwt5224 Hahaha MC plot armor is unstoppable
I think that Yusei defeated Zushin by Monster Baton’s lingering effect.
Volcanic Rat has a significantly different art style and theme compared to the rest of the archetype. It's just a mouse with volcanic chunks sticking out of it. It's really jarring comparing him to the other low level Volcanic monsters who are all hollow, armor figures wreathed in fire.
How about a vid like this talking about some of the strangest erratas ever. I love this series.
Draining shield and compulsory evacuation device aren’t Gagagigo but Giga Gagagigo
Also the guy with the Draining Shield is General Freed and not Marauding Captain
Giga Gagagigo isn't much an evolution rather experiment on by the mad scientist Kozaki
i think probably people know, but gotta mention that Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech, has an orb inside of it which is probably Number 36: Chronomaly Chateau Huyuk
I LOVE the duel between team Taiyo and team 5ds. My favorite part of the series. It was ALMOST as cool as battle city from DM
Mr. TheDuelLogs, can we please get a Gagagigo video? I love the charmers and that card's story, and I'd love it to be covered in a video!
I think a video on “cards based on certain characters” would be pretty neat (ie: Mahad himself, Kaibaman, Stardust Trail, etc)
Gagagigo and Giga Gagagigo were both commons that worked well with Legendary Ocean (including structure deck Fury From the Deep) when that was first a thing. Still works well in most of the video games, since Legendary Ocean decks are easy to assemble in any that include it.
There's a very obvious reason why "DragoN EGGER" was kept as "Manga Ryu-Ran."
Toon ryu-ran
I remember mentioning Beautiful Headhuntress, cool to see my suggestion made it into a video.
Sangan has a cool littel story with his whole "bus" incident
TDL trying to say the Gagagigo names are perfect. Also isn't there another evolution after The Risen? I vaguely remember there being at least one more
Ur thumbnail actually shows my favorite artwork from yugioh as a whole!
wish you talked about bagooska, where the first artwork had the tapir drinking alcohol and the censored version has him holding a pillow sleepily
12:45 So my memory of 5Ds might be a bit foggy at this point, but if I recall correctly Team Tayou won through a kind of "Stall-Burn" Strategy that had them focusing on building an "indestructible" board by playing Hand-Holding Genie, which gains DEF equal to the DEF of all other monsters on your field, and only allows your opponent to target it for attacks, while burning their opponent with Speed Counters (a mechanic of 5Ds where you basically got "Speed Counters" during each of your turns during your Duel which you could trade in for useful effects like a Draw, or in their case inflicting 400 Damage to their opponent for each "Speed Spell" in their hand, without removing the Speed Counters if I remember correctly).
Scrumforce was used since the Boss-Monster of Jack Atlas, a friend of Protagonist Yusei Fudo had an effect that would destroy all Defense Position Monsters after it battled, which would have nuked the entire field of Team Tayou.
In the End Team Tayou's Board got destroyed, however they also had another up to this point unknown Strategy, Zushin the Sleeping Giant, which worked well with their low-Level Normal Monster Strategy. But of course in the End Yusei destroyed Zushin too, because that's what Protagonists do.
And the way Yusei destroys it, is actually an illegal move.
Anime is notorious for ignoring rules to have character of the day win.
I always found it interesting that in early Yugioh there were a lot of 'pallete swap' monsters that may or maynot be related.
Beautiful Headhuntress, and Warrior of Tradition, Vishwar Randi and Succubus knight, Thunder kid and Electric Lizard, Empress Judge and Gyakutenno Megami, Witch of the Black Forest and Goddes with the Third eye, - There are a ton.
I retired after the GX era, so I just watch these type of videos for fun now. Scrum Force is a new card to me! Makes me wish they’d release a card (field spell probably) that would allow defense position monsters to attack using their DEF stat as long as their DEF is higher than their ATK.
Theres actually a whole archetype like that. Think it's super heavy samurais.
I don't know who at Konami Behemoth pissed off, but that poor guy has been getting punked out for years. A video could be made on just the cards showing Behemoth being humiliated. Beautiful Headhuntress and Warrior of Tradition are just one example of several "palette swap" monsters that they used to have in the very early days of the game. They weren't retrains or anything, they just took the exact same monster design, gave it different colors, different stats, a different name and called it a day.
Don't know if this works, but how about videos about duel lore like the Duel Terminal story lines or just lore about certain cards like Dai Grepher and all his things or like you touched upon the story of Gigabyte to Gagagigo the Risen; figure you could get a decent number of interesting videos about that.
Ever since I was a kid, Yu-Gi-Oh’s card artwork has always fascinated me. Heck, I spent more time admiring the art than I did playing the TCG.
I see i'm not alone. That's how i started collecting the actual cards when i was a kid. I always wanted see a show that just focused on the cards lore.
i think the closest thing i had to this was Chaotic
I collect YGO cards. Can't play the game if my life depended on it. They're just so pretty and shiny
one thing to mention is that right before fully evolving into Gagagigo, Jigabyte also evolved into Awakening of the possessed - Gagigobyte
Gagagigo is probably my all-time favorite Yu-Gi-Oh monster and it's all thanks to the first tag Force game. 1850 4 star beat-stick with one and two tribute "evolutions"? Absolutely perfect stuff for when you're just grinding for a couple of hours on some weak duelists. Between it's cool design and the edgy multi-card story, what's not to love?
I really liked this video Hopefully we can see another top 10 of this :)
Shocked and impressed that Hiruma pronounced "Manga" right, and then he got to Ryu. Dammit, man.
The only other time I've heard it pronounced like that is way back on one of the old Street Fighter 2 games.
Based DuelLogs for giving us Aussa as the first Charmer when mentioning the archetype
I believe Team Taiyo used a lot of the ruling for Speed Duels to their advantage while working their way up during the tournament. A lot of burn damage with Speed World 2 as well as having a decent defense strategy. Honestly, the only reason they lost against Yusei's team was due to them getting rid of Dragon Capture Jar which would have prevent most of the 5Ds team's powerful cards due to their aces being dragons.
Metal Dragon actually saw play (granted, retroactively) in Yugi Kaiba format. There are a few videos about it on TH-cam
I feel like the card drastic drop off could be good. In trap heavy decks it can rip the card your opponent draws right out especially if you know what it is
man, Gagagigo really gets his ass handed to him by General Freed, just keeps falling for his traps
There needs to be a video of interestingly expensive cards. This was super different.
Looking at early cards reminded me of how obscure and evil old YuGiOh artwork looked back in the day, no wonder a lot of parents considered the thing to be witchcraft/diabolical stuff XD
Do Top 10 cards that has "Treat this card as XXX"
1:50 toon dragon WHAT?! 😂 that caught me off guard
3:19 no one ever remembers the dracoslayer lore series 😔
for interesting artworks, there is also magi magi magician gal which was made by kazuki takahashi himself, and was released in the OCG, but was never allowed in the TCG because of magician girls cleavage. takashi-san didn't want to censor the drawing so the xyz monster because an OCG exclusive out of it being in localization limbo :S
Gigobyte was indeed one of the most interesting ones.
manga ryu ran could go with early yugioh's tendency to have english names in japanese and japanese names in english. for example, "toon dragon egger" is japanenglish, and the card is actually read that way, where as ours is "manga ryu ran". idk what ran means but manga is comic and ryuu is dragon.
lots of old vanillas did this, like kaminarikozou(thunder kid), tatsunootoshigo(sea horse), or hitotsu-me giant(cyclopse). all of these pairings directly translate into each other. just an interesting old naming oddity that found its way onto an archetype
Manga ryuran always confused me since the original was never printed out of the egg
I always thought it was an original toon especially since its the only toon without "toon" in its name.
A few things people are missing here: firstly, Ryu Ran was shown in the manga first (as with many older cards), they just chose to depict it in an egg for the card artwork even though what it looked like underneath was always known. Secondly, it may not have "toon" in it's name like most toon monsters, but a manga is a Japanese comic strip, which is were that comes from
since it was mentioned in this video, i'd like to see a vid in this series about weirdly expensive cards
this needs to be a series!
I think he just added Crum Force to talk about 5d's and in turn connecting it with his favorite song
Fun fact about the dragonmaid deck: The creator of the Dragonmaid anime designed the artwork for the cards
6:50 Oh, so Gagagigo lost his soul, and was turned into a card. A tale of his encounter with ancient Egypt's owner of the Millenium Eye, perhaps?
Talking about artworks, I have to say that after a lot of years, I finally got the pun of "The Last Resort" just a couple of weeks ago
Errata isnt a new effect (or more commonly nerfed new card with same name), errata is a grammatical text/error fix (rooted in error/erratum).
Most card text changes are indeed errats. Some (like e.g. tribute to the damned nerfed from non-target to target with first problem solving text/near keywording, instead of "full text keywording" of Zexal on) in turn were outright just new nerfed card stealing the same name.
Incredible videoN thoroughly enjoyed it!
Honestly with both Magic and Yugioh the art is the reason I mostly just play casually and don't try to buy the really expensive cards. Sometimes a weaker card has better art so I prefer that card.
It's because of reasons like this that I want a copy of Beautiful Headhuntress and Warrior of Tradition. Good luck buying them though at that price. Not worth it.
I gotta say I've really been enjoying these recent type of videos.
fun fact. Manga ryu ran also giggles in the capsule monsters coliseum game, he does it in his attack animation
This was cool! A video on censored vs uncensored art and the reasoning could be interesting!
Manga Ryu-Ran brings back the days when I'd hide it behind mirror wall in Duelist Of The Roses
Another thing about Manga Ryu-Ran, the holes where it's legs come out are star shaped while regular Ryu-Ran doesn't have a star shape
I remember using Beautiful headhuntress + black pendant or horn of the unicorn
Metal Dragon doesn't have nothing special but man, I remember having a copy of that card back in the day and it was one of my favorite fusion monsters in YuGiOh Forbidden Memories.
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Seriously though, even with all the L's Behemoth has taken there's still one monster that jobs harder in card art and that's the OG Fiend Daddy, Dark Ruler Ha Des (someone at Konami clearly has an axe to grind)
Top 10 of the archtype with a sub archtype like how infernoid have void, sylvan have sprout or galaxy eyes have galaxyes tachyon.
Headhuntress comes from Tournament Pack 2 which is from 2002 it's also a Rare not a common, soooo that its only 300 graded after 20 years is not too much if you ask me
Any list containing Black Ptera, I am surprised the card has not yet been used in a broken combo other than Ultimate Offering and Cannon Soldier
the 2 cards with Gagagigo attacking a guy were of Freed The Matchless General, not Marauding Captain
Metal Dragon has ALWAYS been one of my favorites card arts. Wish they used that art for something better
Who's gonna tell the spider that half of team 5Ds is rich kids? Hell one of those rich kids actually dueled in the tournament. inb4 someone says Akiza isn't rich because she ran away from home, even though she definitely returned home at some point before the WRGP
"""Rich"""
Yet they still play garbage tier cards because lore or Yusei Syndrome.
I hate that excuse characters being poor or rich where you still never see good cards in the anime other once in a blue moon moments.
5Ds is also notorious for having some of the worst and extremely circumstancal cards ever printed
can you talk about Kanan the Swordmistress as it a just a random vanilla which an SR in master duel but Warrior of Zera who is just better in stats is only a common
Okay, time to go dig into my yugioh box for that Metal Dragon I've held onto for over a decade..
Can you tell me were that animation at the end of the video is from? I know I've seen it somewhere and know at but just can't put my hands on it^^'
I was half expecting you going to mention Metal Dragon similar to Dragrider from Kamen Rider Ryuki.
I would love to see the gagagigo and maruading captain buddy cop show
I swear that Gigobyte's whole story can make up for a whole anime by himself, starting as him being a benign creature into his dark, crazed final forms, to that being a good guy. Also it is funny that Gigobyte's evolutions is not out of ordinary for Digimon fans. There is Rookie, Champion, Ultimate and Mega forms.
i have always wanted a yugioh series that followed the monster lore rather then the card game, gigobytes just perfect for it
Gigobyte lore is really beautifulj could be a cool anime
I want a whole video over captain and gigo and a video all about gigo
More of these yugioh card lore vidoes. Pls and thank you