You might have missed this. CONTENT WARNING: homicide, mental health In Italy, last year, a young man assassinated his roommates. One of the witnesses stated the killer was seen walking around close to his apartment with a knife, singiing a song to himself. That song was the Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx Italian opening. When this killing was reported in TV, they even played the theme song and explained what Yu-Gi-Oh! was, in an half-assed attempt to connect the killer's mental disorders to playing a "violent card game" in a way not to dissimilar to the way the Colombine school shooting was linked to the game Doom. Except here nobody took it seriously and it just became a meme.
"Stop! You violated the ruling! That card requires a 1 AND 2, yet you only activated 1 without 2 during chain 4 when your opponent's quick effect got negated by that card in your grave that you sent from the deck to pay the cost for that special summon! Now pay your fine or it's off to jail!"
@@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn Indeed it was! Honestly, while it was beloved at the time, it’s aged like milk. It was overly edgy and it just clashed with the notion of solving issues via a children’s card game. They literally had duel disks with guns on them and dueled with cards to enforce rules. At least the previous two series were campy and knew it
you actually forgot to mention one very important detail about the toyko dome incident: that exclusive premium card pack was proclaimed to be *the only way to get the final piece of exodia*. the five-card "literally win the game instantly" combo. (all the other pieces were also promo cards.)
@@darkwyngraym the arms were first released as promotional cards attached to the two strategy guidebooks for the second YGO game boy game. i had heard that the legs had also been promo cards but maybe that was just the initial plan that was later abandoned after the tokyo dome shitshow. and of course the cards would also see later reprintings -- but the point is, back in 1998, the promo versions were the ONLY versions. if you didn't buy both guidebooks, and if you didn't attend the tokyo dome tournament, you would never assemble exodia, according to konami
@@emeraldchiptune can you link me to some info about that? because those promos arent even in my valuable book 1 guide and those guides even include the Duel Monsters 1 tournament prize cards, which were made of stainless steel. every promo i can think of is in it. besides the duel capsule promo cards that were made to look like they were from the manga from 1998.
@@emeraldchiptune nevermind. My apologies. I did some research and it seems you are correct about the arms. I always thought the arms were in one of the first 4 volume packs but I looked through the valuable book1 and they were not in those packs. Strangely enough they aren't listed with the other DM2 promos but it does look like they came from those guidebooks. Its bizarre that they show up in pictures in VB1 but are not listed. Theres even an all card poster that comes with VB1 and the arms are not on it.
My favorite yugioh scandal is the guy in a class back in college who saw me playing with some cards, asked which deck I was playing. He said Blue-Eyes was his favorite deck. I found his youtube channel, it was cringe. Come to find out he threatened to do a shmool shmooting and was arrested. Typical Blue-Eyes player
Gotta say, the Shadow Realm is infinity more terrifying than just straight up dying. Don’t know how 4Kids managed it but they somehow made the series darker with their attempts at censorship
Makes sense, an eternal torment in purgatory sounds a lot worse than a fairly painless death. That one duel in the anime where they show the card graveyard in the shadow reason was horrifying
it only works if the audience are not aware of the concept of death themselves. Banished into the Shadow Realm is just "ditched by the writers of the show" while death is straight up mortality check. Funny thing is the early manga that inspired the 'season 0' anime is way more brutal in terms of punishments and a good sprinkle of gore
@@jamesaditya5254 Yeah season 0 was almost hilariously dark compared to everything after. As for the censorship making things darker, that is due to the ones attempting to enforce said censorship often having their perceptions borked by their attempts to be moral guardians...what's hilarious is when the VAs realize this and while they play along, they often throw some stuff under the radar that indicates they know how ridiculous what is being censored is, see Sailor Uranus and Neptune and how the VAs voiced them being "cousins"...some of their conversations the VAs were clearly taking the piss at the censors.
4kids was just runaway puritan censorship haha, with zero logic Cigs into lollipops, women showing even wrist or ankle gets covered.. As a 3rd/4th grader in the late 90s we loved starship troopers, aliens, terminator, playing mortal Kombat.. We didn't remotely want to see the baby versions of these shows haha, and back then you couldnt just easily get it online When we got the vampire hunter D bootleg VHS with blood and boobs it was the best thing ever
The image of the guys carrying the giant deck is incredible - that long acrylic box on their shoulders, in sunglasses and suits like they're in the Yu-Gi-Oh Secret Service. It's rad to see that someone who was a judge still had a great sense of humor about the game and the ruleset, and went to this much trouble for a fun in-joke.
Another fact is that said promo was Exodia, who hasn’t had a print at all before this. The other pieces were slowly released in each pack. This is the biggest reason for such a crowd since this card was a literal meta card
@@zackawesomeness2506 There was a few decent ones plus pot of greed hadn't been banned yet but there wasn't a lot of deck searching cards. They've never been meta and only a gimmick deck where you have a chance for a braindead ftk sometikes and lose the rest of the time.
@@zackawesomeness2506 pot of greed and graceful charity at the time were unlimited, and at the time, both sangan and witch of the black forest could be triggered by being sent to the grave from anywhere, so you could discard them off graceful charity, and then add an exodia piece on top of that. We never got that version of those 2 cards in the TCG and it’s not hard to see why.
@@kiddeath96 you could search all exodia pieces by discarding Sangan or witch of the Black Forest. When they introduced exodia those cards triggered when discarded from anywhere, so exodia was meta (in theory, but the truth is konami speculated at the time that 90% of its consumer base was grade schoolers, and that’s why most ygo singles at the time were cheap relatively speaking, with some being considered outrageously priced at around 2000 yen.)
Had an ex trick me into taking her kid to a tournament. “Oh it’ll be good for you both to get to know each other better”. The smell of unwashed decks bleached my eyebrows.
A weird story we have in my city happened around the "Yu-yo" card. The guy was losing the match, and he randomly used the combination with unity, to grab his balls just before the handshake. Because the combination made it obligatory, he used it as a way to try to disqualify opponents, by making them refuse. He was banned from any tournament in the city after that shit. If I remember correctly, he is not even permitted in the main mall where the game is played.
Little disappointed we didn't get the real largest scandal in Yu-gi-oh, where Upper Deck (who used to be in charge of the game) made legal counterfeit cards that resulted in a massive court case and their removal from any form of administration over the game
hi, i was one of these with my Lastturn/jaugen/self-destruct button- got so much out of hand that some dickhead at a locals threatened to punch me if i dare to use self destruct on him one more time.
I'm surprised you didn't cover the guys that literally cheated. My favorite is the one that did it with the camera pointed right at his cards while he did it.
My favorite minor YGO scuff is Self-Destruct Button being banned because everyone was unanimously tired of years of smarmy comedians thinking it was funny to bring Self-Destruct decks to tournaments and fuck up the bracket.
@@indumatipngtuber2790 "me playing self destruct button in the final round of the tournament essentially ruining the entire event" we do a little trolling its called we do a little trolling
You should do more like this. Carly Carmine’s Japanese VA was caught in a sex cult and had to be removed from Yugioh 5Ds. This also resulted in the dropping of the entire Arcadia Movement from the plot too
this is actually a common misconception. Carly's original VA was removed from the show in 2011 which was near the end of the series and way after the arcadia movement was dropped
@@Jaice00 Yeah the reason they cut the arcadia movement seems to be more around the fact that they changed the role of crow from side character to a deutaragonist,which in turn rearranged all the originals plans. Like it was planned that that the dark signers arc,being the last arc of the series(This last part is uncorfirmed,just to clarify)
I'm so glad you discussed the Yu-Jo Friendship and Unity combo. That shit is legendary. I have copies of both cards, and I love explaining it to newbies. Such a hilarious strategy. As a matter of fact, I used to run a weekly tournament at the hobby store I'm employed at, before the pandemic. And since I'm the judge, I've allowed that ruling to slide, if the situation is funny enough. Once saw a kid force the handshake with an open packet of ketchup in his palm. It's become an in-joke amongst the regulars.
@@FatherTime89jokes aside if it was real sometimes sleeves are regulated in some formal tournaments because legit the anime had a few cheating duelist use that trick in the anime and manga.
thats definitely not what I call fun or interesting...its not unusual in any way. The guy with the biggest deck was told he couldn't play because he couldn't shuffle his deck...is that surprising too? ooooooo he wasn't allowed to play because...insert dumb but also acceptable reason
They had a reason to remove the spiders from the Australian Peppa pig show. The shows episodes moral was spiders are harmless and can’t hurt you, this does not apply in Australia, in Australia you either kill it or recognise the pattern/ nest and hire a professional. Source, am Australian.
I swear my mum has some spider PTSD from living in Oz. She'd be triggered by me putting them outside. Since in her mind she got used to assuming everything was dangerous. As New Zealand only has couple of poisonous spiders, and none of them like to live anywhere near people. And aren't even very deadly either.
”Riot police where called in to duel the players” Who would've thought the Tokyo Dome Riot foreshadowed the Sector Security in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. Konami played that really long game there.
While there is no evidence, rumors in the industry say that the riot was what inspired 5ds. Absolutely no clue if that's real, but i like to think it's true.
Remember back in school when a bully stole mine. When the teacher confronted him the bully actually tried to use the excuse of "well we're not supposed to have them in school anyways so whys it matter". Yea that excuse didnt fly with the teacher cause stealing is still stealing. The bully couldnt seem to grasp that though and continued to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole lol.
@@ManyKudos There are a lot scandals. Roy St. Clair, Cheater Cheng, Simon He, Urh Kovacic, Hitsuji just to name a few. I think there was even a live stream where a dude cheated on stream and almost got a way with it if not for chat. There is also a funny history with like all the YCS winners ending up getting banned for cheating the next year during that 2016-2018 period. For the anime, one of the VA's for 5ds was in a sex cult. That one was out of left field.
@@couchsolo6824 It's weird how so many of the big names were cheaters or scumbags. Also, heard a few big names at some point also posted some video content. Leave you be at deciphering that.
@@ManyKudos There’s also been a a bunch of judges who DQ’d players for having missing cards or even decks after performing a deck check. Like, they literally took the deck away from the owner and then after checking, found certain aspects missing that weren’t missing before the check. And you would get a ban if you said a judge stole it (even when they did). To be fair, sometimes they just let the deck out of their sight and a passerby took it and they just didn’t do anything about it. Speaking of doing nothing, that’s what Konami did for years in regards to this problem. My brother quit because this happened to him and Konami had actually once banned the reigning world champ at the time after this happened to him as well. I had quit earlier because I was frustrated over the practice of rarity bumping. Here in the west, Konami would make certain cards rarer after seeing how well they did in Japan so as to sell more packs. It isn’t as bad these days I hear but they have been doing this since Upper Deck left. It hurts to see the exact same decks be so much more expensive in the west just because of this practice. They have literally turned popular commons (1-2 copies of each common a box) into secret rares (which for a time were 1 copy EVERY 8 BOXES!!!). It was ridiculous and I KNOW just that alone made lots of players quit.
The Shadow Realm was considered "better" than death because there was a possibility of that person being brought back. The Japanese version already had dark dimensions where people's souls were trapped and hardcore duels were played, 4Kids just decided to expand on that idea. Also, having an infinitely huge deck is a legit strategy in what's called a stall deck. The two main ways of winning a duel (aside from card effects) is either bring your opponent's Life Points to zero or have your opponent run out of cards to draw. Obviously if you have more cards in your deck than your opponent and can create a situation where neither player can attack, victory is pretty much a given.
Funny enough, the original dub of Dragon Ball Z did the same thing with 'Hell', editing it to be 'HFIL', the 'home for infinite losers'. 'Dying' became 'being sent to another dimension'. What fun that era was.
I'm a judge for yugioh and a bit of clarification about the update to hygine rule. Judges always had the power to kick people out for improper hygine, it just was clarified in that rule update.
I wish to God they had just, whenever a character died, dubbed in "went to a farm upstate." Have scenes like, "Let's Duel! Prepare to be sent to a farm upstate." "We defeated so-and-so and sent him to a farm upstate . . . but I have a feeling his spirit shall haunt us again."
I have no idea which version is true, but I had heard that the Tokyo Dome Riot was because the premium pack was the only way to get the head of exodia at the time, thus the huge turnout and demand
oh, another one, the shadow realm was created before 4kids was ever involved. 4kids did use it to censor things, like the leg saw duel, but they didn't invent it, it was the original punishment in the manga for individuals who cheated against the main character in non-card games
@@DerpingAngelGAME Like with "Heart of the cards" 4Kids didn't invent the "world of darkness", however they overused both way beyond the amount the original used them, with Shadow Realm as a way of censorship, with the heart of the cards god knows why.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the upper deck scandal during the gx era where upper deck producing fake copies of yugioh cards and putting them in booster packs they sold,this caused a lawsuit between konami and the aforementioned company
So basically a product called duel king II was released in retail stores in north america,it contained legitimate packs but the promos that the product had were strange because the eye on anubis symbol yugioh cards had were silver instead of gold even tho they were first edition and the fact the promos were cards from main sets when usually promos were not from main sets,so konami did an investigation and quickly found a company called “Vintage sports cards”,so konami did a law suit against vintage sports cards,but the sued company showed evidence that upperdeck were making the counterfiets,upper deck denied the allegations but a legal battle against upper deck and konami started,konami in the end won the law suit and the counterfiet product was removed from shelfs in europe and north america and upperdeck lost the rights to publish yugioh cards in the tcg,and that leads to today where konami is the sole publisher of yugioh cards in the tcg
The biggest scandal is, that Konami keeps powercreeping for years, always changes meta cards that are rare or super rare in the OCG to Secret rares in the TCG and never does crap to cheaters and simply doesn't care. 90% of top players in every single tournement are plain cheaters and Konami doesn't give a shit. Same applies for Magic. Both cardgames suck in Paper. Online they are fine, but in Paper unplayable thanks to all the cheaters and the organizers doing nothing against them.
Am I the only one that thinks the Shadow Realm that 4kids created is actually darker then strate up death because unlike death, it's just endless suffering. When I found out about the change as a kid I was really confused
These videos are great. The way you seamlessly roll a joke into your sentence and continue without a hold-for-applause type cut really gives these videos such a satisfying flow. Keep up the stellar work, yo.
Anime: Spraying perfume on your cards is a useful way to plot and deceive! Tournament: Spraying perfume on your opponent is a useful way to not upheave!
"Yu-Jo Friendship" is so funny to me. I remember when my brother and I first found out about it we thought it was the funniest thing, like who's going to run this card? And who would ever accept the hand shake? "Unity" just makes the whole thing even funnier.
I don't play yugioh, so idk how possible this is, but mtg has ways to control players for their whole turn, so if you controlled a player who was up on life and made them play it, then maybe you'd accept it? But beyond that, yeah unity is the only way this would work
The funniest thing about the card is the OCG ruling, which explains you don't need to actually shake the other person's hand- only consent to the idea of shaking it. I find it so damn funny, I just can't EDIT: Because this was mentioned in the video, the ruling changed to become standard for YGO due to the hygiene rulings in 2019, but I remember this was the case before then too due to an occurence in a tournament. Just funny little details lmao
@@liamfritz8290 there are cards like Trickstar Light Stage/Arena that forces set card activation or sends them to the graveyard. So in the end it's still kinda up to the opponent whether or not they want to accept it.
After the 'giving bullies something else to steal' line it triggered a forgotten memory When I was in like grade 2 YuGiOh was the new hotness but I didn't have any cards and my family didn't have the money to buy me any. Well my one friend decided to give me one of his cards and I cherished it. It was the fusion monster Giltia the Dragon Knight. Being as young as I was I wasn't the best at reading so I thought it was called Gaia and must have been a different version of Gaia the Fierce Knight the card Yugi would use when I watched the show. Well one day the schoolyard bullies saw me looking at the card since I always loved the artworks of cards and snatched it from my hands and ran off with it. Some of them stopped me from giving chase by threatening to beat me up and they came back a minute later with the card torn up and threw the pieces infront of me. I remember shouting at them from destroying my Gaia card and they all laughed while the one who tore up my card shuffled through his cards and revealed the card Gaia the Fierce Knight while shouting back 'You idiot this is Gaia!' and then all walked off with me picking up the pieces of what was once my only card. I didn't feel so bad that I lost the card itself but the fact it was a gift that I now had to tell my friend got ruined. I ended up getting the Kaiba starter deck for Christmas that year but the very same day my cousin came over for Xmas family brunch and he stole my blue eyes. He got Yugis deck but wanted my blue eyes and I thought dark magician was cooler anyway so we made a trade for them. After he left I realized both blue eyes and the dark magician were gone. I also remember him trying to say Dark Hole was a continuous spell and even in my child stupidity knowing that wasn't right and even brought out the rulebook to show that there's a symbol to show when it's continuous. Sadly a mix of being younger and 'well I saw it on the show' lost me the argument. Even if it wasn't on the show you could easily lie about it because kids probably haven't seen every episode let alone remember every part of it.
Surprised the upper deck scandal wasn't mentioned. Upper deck, the publishers of the card game at the time, made fake yugioh cards. Konami then cut all ties with them and started making the cards them self.
To be fair, the writing was on the wall before that. They only had the deal with Upper Deck as a way to minimize risk as they didn’t know how the west would take to the game. I mean, why pay someone to do something when you can do yourself but cheaper? Same thing happened to 4kids but not with this anime, ironically enough
I can’t tell you how much I love that TH-cam put in a feature where you can see where people have skipped the video to finally I can play videos without ads in my premium membership actually mean something
I think it's remiss to bring up the Shadow Realm without mentioning that, while the execution was often very shaky, the concept was so good (in part because they decided that the torture sequence that Yami Marik puts Mai through is Shadow Realm-related, retroactively making all of the 'soft' deaths horrifying - which, in fairness, you did allude to) that it was formally back-adapted into the Japanese canon in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, where it forms an important part of the series' background lore during the first season and has center stage in the (undubbed) last season.
My cousin and I used to play YuGiOh card games at my grandparents house who were very Christian and they didn't care if we were playing some cultist Japanese card game derived from magic the gathering while watching YuGiOh episodes
I remember as a kid being introduced to the card game VIA a concerned parent, years later my younger brother's YuGiOh stuff was found by the same parent and she just said "Huh, YuGiOh? Sounds Japanese." I was shocked.
One thing about the Tokyo Dome Riot is this, in 1999 Konami started releasing Exodia one piece at a time and Premium Pack was the first release of the Exodia head. Doing that is what drove as many people to the Dome for tournament, for a single card that they may not have even pulled.
9:11 imo the most outrageous name changed cards were Des Koala and Des Kangaroo. Their initial names were "Death" (ok its understandable to water it down) but they changed them to "Des" and all this time I thought they were some Spanish archetype based around exotic animals
I wish they smelled like roast beef, Jesus. There should be a contest between CCG players and Smash Bros. players. I honestly don't know who smells worse. Also,this is a big reason the Smash isn't accepted in the FGC.
In defense of peppa pig pulling that episode, you can't have a "spiders won't hurt you" episode released in a country who's claim to fame is having their spiders occupy all ten spots on a "top ten spiders that will fucking kill you" list. It's like releasing a "swamps are a great place to swim" episode released in Florida, or a "moose love to be pet" episode released in Canada.
Oh we had that kid at school who added as many cards as he could to his deck then made himself shuffle until recess was over then would say he won because he had more cards left. Thanks Issac
"Initially designed to give school bullies something new to steal" Facts. How I finally quit collecting is when half my foils got stolen out my backpack I just suddenly had to force myself to not care about the cards anymore or the loss would have drove me crazy
My brother quit after getting DQ’d in a tournament after his extra deck full of expensive foils suddenly went “missing” after it was handed to judges for a deck check. While it’s easy enough to just update an extra deck full of expensive staples, it’s hard to build one from scratch (hence the new player problem the game has). Konami has had problems dealing with these judges that cause decks to go “missing” (they literally say the deck or expensive card is missing and DQ a player and if the player complains, they get a ban, it’s ridiculous). I heard there are less of such judges these days but still a yikes
I've always been confused by that story about the German guy with the big deck because I distinctly remember the rulebook that came with the premade decks saying that a deck has to be 40 cards. Maybe official tournament rules were different than the rules in the decks you could get at Target? Because this like 2002, before that big deck thing happened. Also I get major stress sweat, so I'm sure if I was at a tournament like that I'd just be drenched, but on the other hand I do actually take showers so I expect even with my stress sweat I'd smell better than hundreds of guys who have probably been wearing the same shirt for a week and wiping their Cheetoh hands on it. Also let's face it, people who are above a certain BMI tend to be super smelly, and these kinds of nerds tends to be overweight. I am an overweight nerd so I know.
Pretty sure that's all the rules specified was a minimum deck limit but no maximum, pretty sure the rules now are 40-60 cards with certain limits on extra decks or whatever idk I lost track after 5ds. The dudes that had the 2222 card deck or whatever were like "hey tournament judges, this rule isn't clear cut and could be intentionally misconstrued for someone to play a prank mid tournament" Tournament judges were like "nah guys that'd be dumb no one would do that" Then they did it to prove their point and they had to change the rules
The red side bar makes checking off a watched bar very aesthetically satisfying. I don't know if that was the original intention or not, but it's aces 👌
the reason exodia was so desired is because sangan and witch of the black forest used to search regardless of how they were sent to the graveyard. with 3 graceful charity 3 pot of greed that promo exodia was a competitive edge unlike anything i've ever seen
How about the part when Yami bakura literally sends Bonz and his buddies to Hell. How they removed the Dilapidated doll from Dark necrofear and changed the Name of The Ouija board to Destiny board and spelling Final instead of Death. Bakura’s duel where always heavily Censored
A scandal i’m surprised no one has mention actually involved Upper Deck, which was responsible for distributing out Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards until the Synchro era I believe. Basically Upper Deck was distributingfake Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards with REAL cards. Once Konami got ahold of this information they not only sued Upper Deck but then also distributing the cards themselves to prevent something else like that happening.
Btw there are way more scandals, one of my favs is the Maxx "c" debacle, it was a completely broken card that changed the way the game was played in it's hay day because it allows you to draw a card each time your opponent special summons a monster, this card became so prevalent that it spawned the Max "c" challenge which is when someone would attempt to deck out their opponent out by forcing them to draw their entire deck, which is very possible because players devised a few infinite summon loops to do so. This one is a mini scandal but it was bloody hilarious. (part of the reason it was banned also had to do with all the degenerate Exodia FTK players, many cards have ended up on the banlist because of them actually)
damn, your pronunciation of deck has me cracking up all the time... golden (i don't have a dirty mind, just a spicy imagination which makes the entire last part pure freaking gold)
I got the notification for this video at work just now and completely flipped out of my chair and now my coworkers are side eyeing me, can't wait to give this a watch when I get home.
@@ManyKudos No worries, they can't fire me unless they can beat me in a duel. Anyways, outstanding video as always kudos, was super happy to see you cover this topic
Being an Australian, I've gotten used to the Kiwi accent. So when the cutting decks and longest deck part came up, I was genuinely confused... Until I sat there thinking "Cutting Deck, Longest Deck, Deck size limit... Deck, Deck, Dick... Ohhhhh"
That stink thing always hits home with me, when I played basketball in high school we had a guy on our team who wouldn't shower or wear deodorant on game days, even if we had a phys ed class that day... it got to the point that his parents were the only ones willing to drive him to away games. He also had to put on his left sock and left shoe before the right any time he put on his shoes, and kept one fingernail a bit longer to scratch the other team with. Seemed pretty normal otherwise, but he had some issues when it came to basketball.
Aw I was hoping you'd mention a bit more about the anime. There's stuff about 4kids getting sued and eventually bought by Konami because they left out episodes or something, and there's even a bit about a whole story arc of Yu-gi-oh 5d's about a psychic cult getting scrapped before production because they found out one of the japanese voice actors was actually in a cult
My favorite Yugioh event is when one of the greatest players in the world, Joshua Schmitt, hit a literal child playing vanilla pile with the full power of danger dark world ftk without holding back while Konami streamed it to the world. That kid learned what fear was that day. He didn't get a turn in the entire match.
I admit, as a female with hygiene struggles I kind of get it...but for fuck's sake, have enough decency to at least be decent smelling for social events. It's quite scary that Yugioh needs hygiene rulings. For the rest: I knew the deck scandal and 4-kids censoring, but the Tokyo Dome Riot and the rest were new to me. I loved the video; Yugioh is a wild game
@breadandcircuses8127 Not new, moreso rare. I know a few other women who I sometimes play casual games with. But mostly I've only seen guys in the Yugioh world
The smelly player rule is great. And the excuses were weird. They'd say something like "What if you can't afford to shower?" Mate you have thousands of dollars worth of cards. If you can afford a booster box. you can buy a stick of soap and go to the public showers or something.
I remember when the first Yugioh movie hit theaters, I read a story about someone pulling off a heist of a theater's entire stock of promo cards by pretending to be officials and claiming the cards they received were misprints. This is like 20 year old knowledge, but I believe they stole 3000 of these highly valuable promo cards.
This is such a great video! I would love to see a part 2 of YuGiOh scandals revolving around tournament scandals like Patrick Hoban, the banning of Triff Gaming, and all the remote duel shenanigans/cheating that occurred during the pandemic.
Stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh quite some time ago, the game seems to be evolved into "if you do not finish the game in your first turn and allow the opponent to have his first turn, you have not purchased enough pack to build the most OP meta deck possible and oneshot everyone, start paying scrub". Even MTG allows the players to have games to last longer than the average bedroom adventure. They managed to compress the corporate greed into an artform. Then again self care management might have something to do with it.
You are not wrong, yugioh is basically who can play more with less and make a board that doesn't allow the opponent play. Yeah, people Often brick and battle making the other not able to play. The fact that there isn't a curve of resources is great, and also awful.
I love how 99.9999% of Yu-gi-oh! cards are worth pennies but those maybe 3 per set that are worth over $50 keep the collectors coming back. Lol *cries into her pokemon and magic collections*
The fact I giggled at "massive throbbing deck" shows how terrible my sense of humour is, bahahah! Also, the subtle slipping of the "deck" pronunciation closer to the other word is beautiful!
God damn it I was watching alt-tabbed until the part you started saying dick repeatedly and immediately reminded me of that deck commercial from few years ago
What’s the shadow realm? 4Kids: A realm of eternal pain and suffering. So it’s hell. Why not just say “I’m gonna send you to hell” then? 4kids: Cause that is way to violent and religious! But saying people are gonna to a place of eternal pain and suffering isn’t? Especially since hell is literally a place of eternal pain and suffering.
I'm surprised you didn't cover the battle between Konami/4Kids and LittleKuriboh over the Abridged series. It ended with LK making 4Kids the literal villain of YGOTAS s3. It was fantastic to see such a milestone of YGO culture actually win against Konami.
I remember when we had Yu-Gi-Oh here I was in kindergarden and we just had one rule whichever card has more stars at the top wins. Also every time I had a birthday or something I always got more cards that was the only thing I always wanted. Amazing times still have most of my cards.
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@@l0lDrGoose that’s a LONG video bro.
It's actually "Yu-Gi-Oh!" so fix the title.
Make sure to fix it it. It looks fucking stupid and makes you look silly.
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CONTENT WARNING: homicide, mental health
In Italy, last year, a young man assassinated his roommates. One of the witnesses stated the killer was seen walking around close to his apartment with a knife, singiing a song to himself. That song was the Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx Italian opening. When this killing was reported in TV, they even played the theme song and explained what Yu-Gi-Oh! was, in an half-assed attempt to connect the killer's mental disorders to playing a "violent card game" in a way not to dissimilar to the way the Colombine school shooting was linked to the game Doom. Except here nobody took it seriously and it just became a meme.
@@yuwu585 good for Part 2!
”Riot police where called in to duel the players”
Pure gold
Funnily enough, that's pretty much the plot of the third yugioh anime, Yugioh 5ds
@@ogeid772 lol
@@ogeid772 what was the one with the motorcycle?
"Stop! You violated the ruling! That card requires a 1 AND 2, yet you only activated 1 without 2 during chain 4 when your opponent's quick effect got negated by that card in your grave that you sent from the deck to pay the cost for that special summon! Now pay your fine or it's off to jail!"
@@SocietyKilledTheUnicorn Indeed it was! Honestly, while it was beloved at the time, it’s aged like milk. It was overly edgy and it just clashed with the notion of solving issues via a children’s card game. They literally had duel disks with guns on them and dueled with cards to enforce rules. At least the previous two series were campy and knew it
One thing I love more than puns: bilingual puns. That "Mischen: Impossible" is glorious.
You sure it’s not…..inglorious?
Is that, maybe:impossible?
Macaronic pun, is the term for that. The More You Know 🌈🌠
@@erwinbrothertubersfilmgall8228 It's Shuffle: Impossible, it's near the end of the video.
He could have named this yu gi “oh so many” scandals, not a great play on words but it would have worked I think.
you actually forgot to mention one very important detail about the toyko dome incident: that exclusive premium card pack was proclaimed to be *the only way to get the final piece of exodia*. the five-card "literally win the game instantly" combo. (all the other pieces were also promo cards.)
uh the other pieces are in the volume packs.
@@darkwyngraym the arms were first released as promotional cards attached to the two strategy guidebooks for the second YGO game boy game. i had heard that the legs had also been promo cards but maybe that was just the initial plan that was later abandoned after the tokyo dome shitshow. and of course the cards would also see later reprintings -- but the point is, back in 1998, the promo versions were the ONLY versions. if you didn't buy both guidebooks, and if you didn't attend the tokyo dome tournament, you would never assemble exodia, according to konami
@@emeraldchiptune can you link me to some info about that? because those promos arent even in my valuable book 1 guide and those guides even include the Duel Monsters 1 tournament prize cards, which were made of stainless steel. every promo i can think of is in it. besides the duel capsule promo cards that were made to look like they were from the manga from 1998.
@@emeraldchiptune nevermind. My apologies. I did some research and it seems you are correct about the arms. I always thought the arms were in one of the first 4 volume packs but I looked through the valuable book1 and they were not in those packs. Strangely enough they aren't listed with the other DM2 promos but it does look like they came from those guidebooks. Its bizarre that they show up in pictures in VB1 but are not listed. Theres even an all card poster that comes with VB1 and the arms are not on it.
@@emeraldchiptune damn that's wild. I played since the 1st starter deck releases but never heard this.
My favorite yugioh scandal is the guy in a class back in college who saw me playing with some cards, asked which deck I was playing. He said Blue-Eyes was his favorite deck. I found his youtube channel, it was cringe.
Come to find out he threatened to do a shmool shmooting and was arrested. Typical Blue-Eyes player
Guess he bricked
After spending a few hours on master duel...sounds about right
Chauteau chet was the TH-cam channel
@@ZaBooma doesnt ring a bell, but its been ages since Ive looked. Do you have a link? I tried looking it up and that didnt work
@@chamber8234 was the dude a redhead?
Imagine dying because you got trampled to death in a Yu-Gi-Oh riot
The way i wanna go fam
You accidentally be banished to Shadow Realm or Barian World
@@superspies32 😅🤣🤣😰😰😰
It was a Rush Duel.
and never got a single card! I would come back to haunt every single person there.
The 2,222 card deck was probably a strong deck as long as they had 3 upstart goblins for consistency.
I bet it was a hard deck to play with.
imagine activating that grass looks greener
@@ninetailedfox579121 that joke only work if you read it out with a Kiwi accent
@@kingexplosionmurder4631 holy fuck
Master duel actually allow 3 upstart now. No kidding.
Gotta say, the Shadow Realm is infinity more terrifying than just straight up dying. Don’t know how 4Kids managed it but they somehow made the series darker with their attempts at censorship
Makes sense, an eternal torment in purgatory sounds a lot worse than a fairly painless death.
That one duel in the anime where they show the card graveyard in the shadow reason was horrifying
it only works if the audience are not aware of the concept of death themselves. Banished into the Shadow Realm is just "ditched by the writers of the show" while death is straight up mortality check. Funny thing is the early manga that inspired the 'season 0' anime is way more brutal in terms of punishments and a good sprinkle of gore
@@jamesaditya5254 Yeah season 0 was almost hilariously dark compared to everything after. As for the censorship making things darker, that is due to the ones attempting to enforce said censorship often having their perceptions borked by their attempts to be moral guardians...what's hilarious is when the VAs realize this and while they play along, they often throw some stuff under the radar that indicates they know how ridiculous what is being censored is, see Sailor Uranus and Neptune and how the VAs voiced them being "cousins"...some of their conversations the VAs were clearly taking the piss at the censors.
@@SalinaMoonfall They tried to censor lesbians by making them cousins. Well, they weren't fooling anymore and just added a layer of incest.
4kids was just runaway puritan censorship haha, with zero logic
Cigs into lollipops, women showing even wrist or ankle gets covered..
As a 3rd/4th grader in the late 90s we loved starship troopers, aliens, terminator, playing mortal Kombat..
We didn't remotely want to see the baby versions of these shows haha, and back then you couldnt just easily get it online
When we got the vampire hunter D bootleg VHS with blood and boobs it was the best thing ever
The image of the guys carrying the giant deck is incredible - that long acrylic box on their shoulders, in sunglasses and suits like they're in the Yu-Gi-Oh Secret Service. It's rad to see that someone who was a judge still had a great sense of humor about the game and the ruleset, and went to this much trouble for a fun in-joke.
Never expected to see anyone looking good in fedoras in the 21st century, but they pull it off somehow
Because they go for the full outfit, and there's two of them, so they stand out ever so slightly less.
Another fact is that said promo was Exodia, who hasn’t had a print at all before this. The other pieces were slowly released in each pack. This is the biggest reason for such a crowd since this card was a literal meta card
Couldn’t have been that meta could it? I don’t think early Yugioh had good draw power
@@zackawesomeness2506 There was a few decent ones plus pot of greed hadn't been banned yet but there wasn't a lot of deck searching cards.
They've never been meta and only a gimmick deck where you have a chance for a braindead ftk sometikes and lose the rest of the time.
@@zackawesomeness2506 pot of greed and graceful charity at the time were unlimited, and at the time, both sangan and witch of the black forest could be triggered by being sent to the grave from anywhere, so you could discard them off graceful charity, and then add an exodia piece on top of that. We never got that version of those 2 cards in the TCG and it’s not hard to see why.
When did exodia decks top during that time? I doubt it was ever meta. It's inconsistent.
@@kiddeath96 you could search all exodia pieces by discarding Sangan or witch of the Black Forest. When they introduced exodia those cards triggered when discarded from anywhere, so exodia was meta (in theory, but the truth is konami speculated at the time that 90% of its consumer base was grade schoolers, and that’s why most ygo singles at the time were cheap relatively speaking, with some being considered outrageously priced at around 2000 yen.)
Had an ex trick me into taking her kid to a tournament. “Oh it’ll be good for you both to get to know each other better”. The smell of unwashed decks bleached my eyebrows.
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A weird story we have in my city happened around the "Yu-yo" card. The guy was losing the match, and he randomly used the combination with unity, to grab his balls just before the handshake. Because the combination made it obligatory, he used it as a way to try to disqualify opponents, by making them refuse. He was banned from any tournament in the city after that shit. If I remember correctly, he is not even permitted in the main mall where the game is played.
bruh thats crazy dude lol
Little disappointed we didn't get the real largest scandal in Yu-gi-oh, where Upper Deck (who used to be in charge of the game) made legal counterfeit cards that resulted in a massive court case and their removal from any form of administration over the game
If you got more on this I’d like to read up on this sounds interesting.
hi, i was one of these with my Lastturn/jaugen/self-destruct button-
got so much out of hand that some dickhead at a locals threatened to punch me if i dare to use self destruct on him one more time.
That entire fiasco was buckwild. I kind of wish there was an in-depth video about it, because the fandom wiki doesn't do it justice
What do you expect? This is first page Wikipedia knowledge from a New Zealander who wishes he was American.
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I'm surprised you didn't cover the guys that literally cheated. My favorite is the one that did it with the camera pointed right at his cards while he did it.
Yooooo' that was the one from the LCS right? He's actually a regular and a Judge at my locals jaja
@@aksshaggy2100 Really? That's hilarious.
I did look into a couple! I might include them in a second video
@@aksshaggy2100 only in YuGiOh we'd see an infamous cheater as a judge. lol
We’d be here for another hour, lmao
My favorite minor YGO scuff is Self-Destruct Button being banned because everyone was unanimously tired of years of smarmy comedians thinking it was funny to bring Self-Destruct decks to tournaments and fuck up the bracket.
That is pretty funny though ngl
In other words, it got banned cuz people did a little trolling.
@@indumatipngtuber2790 "me playing self destruct button in the final round of the tournament essentially ruining the entire event" we do a little trolling its called we do a little trolling
People will find a way to being as based as possible
Self-Destruct Button was perfectly balanced.
You should do more like this. Carly Carmine’s Japanese VA was caught in a sex cult and had to be removed from Yugioh 5Ds. This also resulted in the dropping of the entire Arcadia Movement from the plot too
What's the story behind this sex cult?
this is actually a common misconception. Carly's original VA was removed from the show in 2011 which was near the end of the series and way after the arcadia movement was dropped
@@Jaice00 Yeah the reason they cut the arcadia movement seems to be more around the fact that they changed the role of crow from side character to a deutaragonist,which in turn rearranged all the originals plans.
Like it was planned that that the dark signers arc,being the last arc of the series(This last part is uncorfirmed,just to clarify)
WHAT
When reality manages to be even crazyer than the plot... A YU GI OH PLOT
I'm so glad you discussed the Yu-Jo Friendship and Unity combo. That shit is legendary. I have copies of both cards, and I love explaining it to newbies. Such a hilarious strategy. As a matter of fact, I used to run a weekly tournament at the hobby store I'm employed at, before the pandemic. And since I'm the judge, I've allowed that ruling to slide, if the situation is funny enough. Once saw a kid force the handshake with an open packet of ketchup in his palm. It's become an in-joke amongst the regulars.
Fun fact: a few days ago a player got denied his feature match at a remote duel YCS because his opponent had among us sleeves and wouldn't change them
That seems suspicious
The judges intruded on his match and proceeded to call for an emergency meeting.
Why were the Among Us sleeves considered a problem?
@@FatherTime89jokes aside if it was real sometimes sleeves are regulated in some formal tournaments because legit the anime had a few cheating duelist use that trick in the anime and manga.
thats definitely not what I call fun or interesting...its not unusual in any way. The guy with the biggest deck was told he couldn't play because he couldn't shuffle his deck...is that surprising too? ooooooo he wasn't allowed to play because...insert dumb but also acceptable reason
They had a reason to remove the spiders from the Australian Peppa pig show.
The shows episodes moral was spiders are harmless and can’t hurt you, this does not apply in Australia, in Australia you either kill it or recognise the pattern/ nest and hire a professional.
Source, am Australian.
That’s cool. It’s not really a yu-gi-oh scandal, but it’s still cool.
I swear my mum has some spider PTSD from living in Oz. She'd be triggered by me putting them outside. Since in her mind she got used to assuming everything was dangerous. As New Zealand only has couple of poisonous spiders, and none of them like to live anywhere near people. And aren't even very deadly either.
@@animatepokemonadventures7889 it was in the video
How come every piece of wildlife in Australia wants you dead?
”Riot police where called in to duel the players”
Who would've thought the Tokyo Dome Riot foreshadowed the Sector Security in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. Konami played that really long game there.
While there is no evidence, rumors in the industry say that the riot was what inspired 5ds. Absolutely no clue if that's real, but i like to think it's true.
"Give bullies something new to steal." I was so upset from that happening to me as a kid that my reaction to it got the game banned from the school
Remember back in school when a bully stole mine. When the teacher confronted him the bully actually tried to use the excuse of "well we're not supposed to have them in school anyways so whys it matter". Yea that excuse didnt fly with the teacher cause stealing is still stealing. The bully couldnt seem to grasp that though and continued to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole lol.
Should've sent them to the shadow realm
As a 20+ year player, I don't think 16 minutes is enough to cover all the scandals surrounding yugioh.
I barely scratched the surface, any suggestions you'd like to see?
@@ManyKudos There are a lot scandals. Roy St. Clair, Cheater Cheng, Simon He, Urh Kovacic, Hitsuji just to name a few. I think there was even a live stream where a dude cheated on stream and almost got a way with it if not for chat. There is also a funny history with like all the YCS winners ending up getting banned for cheating the next year during that 2016-2018 period.
For the anime, one of the VA's for 5ds was in a sex cult. That one was out of left field.
@@couchsolo6824 It's weird how so many of the big names were cheaters or scumbags.
Also, heard a few big names at some point also posted some video content. Leave you be at deciphering that.
The Dark Armed Dragon bj
@@ManyKudos There’s also been a a bunch of judges who DQ’d players for having missing cards or even decks after performing a deck check. Like, they literally took the deck away from the owner and then after checking, found certain aspects missing that weren’t missing before the check. And you would get a ban if you said a judge stole it (even when they did). To be fair, sometimes they just let the deck out of their sight and a passerby took it and they just didn’t do anything about it. Speaking of doing nothing, that’s what Konami did for years in regards to this problem. My brother quit because this happened to him and Konami had actually once banned the reigning world champ at the time after this happened to him as well.
I had quit earlier because I was frustrated over the practice of rarity bumping. Here in the west, Konami would make certain cards rarer after seeing how well they did in Japan so as to sell more packs. It isn’t as bad these days I hear but they have been doing this since Upper Deck left. It hurts to see the exact same decks be so much more expensive in the west just because of this practice. They have literally turned popular commons (1-2 copies of each common a box) into secret rares (which for a time were 1 copy EVERY 8 BOXES!!!). It was ridiculous and I KNOW just that alone made lots of players quit.
The Shadow Realm was considered "better" than death because there was a possibility of that person being brought back. The Japanese version already had dark dimensions where people's souls were trapped and hardcore duels were played, 4Kids just decided to expand on that idea.
Also, having an infinitely huge deck is a legit strategy in what's called a stall deck. The two main ways of winning a duel (aside from card effects) is either bring your opponent's Life Points to zero or have your opponent run out of cards to draw. Obviously if you have more cards in your deck than your opponent and can create a situation where neither player can attack, victory is pretty much a given.
Funny enough, the original dub of Dragon Ball Z did the same thing with 'Hell', editing it to be 'HFIL', the 'home for infinite losers'.
'Dying' became 'being sent to another dimension'.
What fun that era was.
You may laugh, but The Dark Magician but Cooler card I got from my Yu Gi Oh ride on lawn mower is one of my favorite cards.
The Darker Magician
I'm a judge for yugioh and a bit of clarification about the update to hygine rule. Judges always had the power to kick people out for improper hygine, it just was clarified in that rule update.
Sure
I wish to God they had just, whenever a character died, dubbed in "went to a farm upstate." Have scenes like, "Let's Duel! Prepare to be sent to a farm upstate." "We defeated so-and-so and sent him to a farm upstate . . . but I have a feeling his spirit shall haunt us again."
You know the old adage:
Never ask a woman her age,
a man, his salary,
a Yugioh player, what happened at YCS Denver 2017
I have no idea which version is true, but I had heard that the Tokyo Dome Riot was because the premium pack was the only way to get the head of exodia at the time, thus the huge turnout and demand
Yep, it was its first printing at the time
oh, another one, the shadow realm was created before 4kids was ever involved. 4kids did use it to censor things, like the leg saw duel, but they didn't invent it, it was the original punishment in the manga for individuals who cheated against the main character in non-card games
@@DerpingAngelGAME Like with "Heart of the cards" 4Kids didn't invent the "world of darkness", however they overused both way beyond the amount the original used them, with Shadow Realm as a way of censorship, with the heart of the cards god knows why.
tokyo dome attenders after being told they weren’t selling anymore premium card packs: so, no head?
Thank you for banishing my boredom to the shadow realm
👏👏👏
For 15 minutes
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the upper deck scandal during the gx era where upper deck producing fake copies of yugioh cards and putting them in booster packs they sold,this caused a lawsuit between konami and the aforementioned company
Wait. werent they the official distributor? How would they be FAKE cards?
For what reason though? Is this some sort of Robin Hood-trickery for them to make rare cards more common? That's the only reason I can imagine.
So basically a product called duel king II was released in retail stores in north america,it contained legitimate packs but the promos that the product had were strange because the eye on anubis symbol yugioh cards had were silver instead of gold even tho they were first edition and the fact the promos were cards from main sets when usually promos were not from main sets,so konami did an investigation and quickly found a company called “Vintage sports cards”,so konami did a law suit against vintage sports cards,but the sued company showed evidence that upperdeck were making the counterfiets,upper deck denied the allegations but a legal battle against upper deck and konami started,konami in the end won the law suit and the counterfiet product was removed from shelfs in europe and north america and upperdeck lost the rights to publish yugioh cards in the tcg,and that leads to today where konami is the sole publisher of yugioh cards in the tcg
Nearly choked on my coffee when you came out of nowhere with that, "Blue Balls White Dragon" line, fam. 🤣
Scrolled down for this
The biggest scandal is, that Konami keeps powercreeping for years, always changes meta cards that are rare or super rare in the OCG to Secret rares in the TCG and never does crap to cheaters and simply doesn't care. 90% of top players in every single tournement are plain cheaters and Konami doesn't give a shit.
Same applies for Magic. Both cardgames suck in Paper. Online they are fine, but in Paper unplayable thanks to all the cheaters and the organizers doing nothing against them.
Am I the only one that thinks the Shadow Realm that 4kids created is actually darker then strate up death because unlike death, it's just endless suffering. When I found out about the change as a kid I was really confused
I didn't know Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth-Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker had this much to it
These videos are great. The way you seamlessly roll a joke into your sentence and continue without a hold-for-applause type cut really gives these videos such a satisfying flow.
Keep up the stellar work, yo.
I should do one video with a long ass Big Bang Theory pause and laugh track between every joke
@@ManyKudos With your joke density it would be a very long video.
Anime: Spraying perfume on your cards is a useful way to plot and deceive!
Tournament: Spraying perfume on your opponent is a useful way to not upheave!
The Longest deck guys with their black suits, and fedoras are one of the biggest Chads to walk this Earth.
"Yu-Jo Friendship" is so funny to me. I remember when my brother and I first found out about it we thought it was the funniest thing, like who's going to run this card? And who would ever accept the hand shake? "Unity" just makes the whole thing even funnier.
I don't play yugioh, so idk how possible this is, but mtg has ways to control players for their whole turn, so if you controlled a player who was up on life and made them play it, then maybe you'd accept it? But beyond that, yeah unity is the only way this would work
The funniest thing about the card is the OCG ruling, which explains you don't need to actually shake the other person's hand- only consent to the idea of shaking it. I find it so damn funny, I just can't
EDIT: Because this was mentioned in the video, the ruling changed to become standard for YGO due to the hygiene rulings in 2019, but I remember this was the case before then too due to an occurence in a tournament. Just funny little details lmao
@@liamfritz8290 there are cards like Trickstar Light Stage/Arena that forces set card activation or sends them to the graveyard. So in the end it's still kinda up to the opponent whether or not they want to accept it.
This series is only getting better, could you please do one on Warhammer 40k?
yes please.
That would be hours long
It's on the list!
@@arran4285 40k hours long?
@@t_ed2521 No it will take years
After the 'giving bullies something else to steal' line it triggered a forgotten memory
When I was in like grade 2 YuGiOh was the new hotness but I didn't have any cards and my family didn't have the money to buy me any.
Well my one friend decided to give me one of his cards and I cherished it. It was the fusion monster Giltia the Dragon Knight. Being as young as I was I wasn't the best at reading so I thought it was called Gaia and must have been a different version of Gaia the Fierce Knight the card Yugi would use when I watched the show.
Well one day the schoolyard bullies saw me looking at the card since I always loved the artworks of cards and snatched it from my hands and ran off with it. Some of them stopped me from giving chase by threatening to beat me up and they came back a minute later with the card torn up and threw the pieces infront of me. I remember shouting at them from destroying my Gaia card and they all laughed while the one who tore up my card shuffled through his cards and revealed the card Gaia the Fierce Knight while shouting back 'You idiot this is Gaia!' and then all walked off with me picking up the pieces of what was once my only card. I didn't feel so bad that I lost the card itself but the fact it was a gift that I now had to tell my friend got ruined.
I ended up getting the Kaiba starter deck for Christmas that year but the very same day my cousin came over for Xmas family brunch and he stole my blue eyes. He got Yugis deck but wanted my blue eyes and I thought dark magician was cooler anyway so we made a trade for them. After he left I realized both blue eyes and the dark magician were gone. I also remember him trying to say Dark Hole was a continuous spell and even in my child stupidity knowing that wasn't right and even brought out the rulebook to show that there's a symbol to show when it's continuous. Sadly a mix of being younger and 'well I saw it on the show' lost me the argument. Even if it wasn't on the show you could easily lie about it because kids probably haven't seen every episode let alone remember every part of it.
Surprised the upper deck scandal wasn't mentioned.
Upper deck, the publishers of the card game at the time, made fake yugioh cards. Konami then cut all ties with them and started making the cards them self.
To be fair, the writing was on the wall before that. They only had the deal with Upper Deck as a way to minimize risk as they didn’t know how the west would take to the game. I mean, why pay someone to do something when you can do yourself but cheaper? Same thing happened to 4kids but not with this anime, ironically enough
I can’t tell you how much I love that TH-cam put in a feature where you can see where people have skipped the video to finally I can play videos without ads in my premium membership actually mean something
I think it's remiss to bring up the Shadow Realm without mentioning that, while the execution was often very shaky, the concept was so good (in part because they decided that the torture sequence that Yami Marik puts Mai through is Shadow Realm-related, retroactively making all of the 'soft' deaths horrifying - which, in fairness, you did allude to) that it was formally back-adapted into the Japanese canon in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, where it forms an important part of the series' background lore during the first season and has center stage in the (undubbed) last season.
The editing on this video is pure GOLD. XD Very amusing alongside really interesting commentary with a lot of great humor slipped in. Love it!
What a legend, thank you!
As a yugioh player i can tell you put so much effort and research in this video. Great job!
Big Deck Guy is my hero. One day I hope to have a deck as big as his.
My cousin and I used to play YuGiOh card games at my grandparents house who were very Christian and they didn't care if we were playing some cultist Japanese card game derived from magic the gathering while watching YuGiOh episodes
I remember as a kid being introduced to the card game VIA a concerned parent, years later my younger brother's YuGiOh stuff was found by the same parent and she just said "Huh, YuGiOh? Sounds Japanese." I was shocked.
That reminds me of my grandpa telling me he saw Pokémon in Japan during the Korean War. I was very disappointed that he didn't bring any back.
@@MidwestArtMan the korean war was from Jun 25, 1950 - Jul 27, 1953 huh?
@@MidwestArtMan this is litteraly not possible at all 💀
The worst i had was my grandmother calling dragon city a demonic game
Did you know the voice of Meowth Maddie Braunstein voiced Yugi's grandad Solomon Moto in all of Yugi-Oh
Boy do I love the fact that you put EVERY Yugioh buzz word in the first 60 seconds.
gotta show I mean business
One thing about the Tokyo Dome Riot is this, in 1999 Konami started releasing Exodia one piece at a time and Premium Pack was the first release of the Exodia head. Doing that is what drove as many people to the Dome for tournament, for a single card that they may not have even pulled.
lmao "time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-Discuss Yu Gi Oh's scandals and drama"
top notch comedy as always
>i walk into the comment section
>"Dark Magician Girl is based as fuck"
>refuse to elaborate
>leaves the comment section
Woah, nice deck bro. A little too long, so we'll have to cut it down a bit. But i'll give it a solid 8/10.
Is your deck sleeved?
At least all those 4Kids changes made great fodder for The Abridged Series, Invisible Guns and The Shadow Realm being just the icing on the cake.
Oh, this one is also gonna be great! Your style when telling those stories is amazing, I'm glad to have found you
9:11 imo the most outrageous name changed cards were Des Koala and Des Kangaroo. Their initial names were "Death" (ok its understandable to water it down) but they changed them to "Des" and all this time I thought they were some Spanish archetype based around exotic animals
I wish they smelled like roast beef, Jesus. There should be a contest between CCG players and Smash Bros. players. I honestly don't know who smells worse. Also,this is a big reason the Smash isn't accepted in the FGC.
In defense of peppa pig pulling that episode, you can't have a "spiders won't hurt you" episode released in a country who's claim to fame is having their spiders occupy all ten spots on a "top ten spiders that will fucking kill you" list.
It's like releasing a "swamps are a great place to swim" episode released in Florida, or a "moose love to be pet" episode released in Canada.
Wow 15 plus minutes of scandals. Clealry these people needed to gain the heart of the cards
Oh we had that kid at school who added as many cards as he could to his deck then made himself shuffle until recess was over then would say he won because he had more cards left. Thanks Issac
"Initially designed to give school bullies something new to steal"
Facts. How I finally quit collecting is when half my foils got stolen out my backpack I just suddenly had to force myself to not care about the cards anymore or the loss would have drove me crazy
My brother quit after getting DQ’d in a tournament after his extra deck full of expensive foils suddenly went “missing” after it was handed to judges for a deck check. While it’s easy enough to just update an extra deck full of expensive staples, it’s hard to build one from scratch (hence the new player problem the game has). Konami has had problems dealing with these judges that cause decks to go “missing” (they literally say the deck or expensive card is missing and DQ a player and if the player complains, they get a ban, it’s ridiculous). I heard there are less of such judges these days but still a yikes
Mischen: Impossible is the best thing I've heard in my entire life
I've always been confused by that story about the German guy with the big deck because I distinctly remember the rulebook that came with the premade decks saying that a deck has to be 40 cards. Maybe official tournament rules were different than the rules in the decks you could get at Target? Because this like 2002, before that big deck thing happened.
Also I get major stress sweat, so I'm sure if I was at a tournament like that I'd just be drenched, but on the other hand I do actually take showers so I expect even with my stress sweat I'd smell better than hundreds of guys who have probably been wearing the same shirt for a week and wiping their Cheetoh hands on it.
Also let's face it, people who are above a certain BMI tend to be super smelly, and these kinds of nerds tends to be overweight.
I am an overweight nerd so I know.
40 was the minimum deck size, and still is, most people go with it for the sake of consistency
Pretty sure that's all the rules specified was a minimum deck limit but no maximum, pretty sure the rules now are 40-60 cards with certain limits on extra decks or whatever idk I lost track after 5ds.
The dudes that had the 2222 card deck or whatever were like "hey tournament judges, this rule isn't clear cut and could be intentionally misconstrued for someone to play a prank mid tournament"
Tournament judges were like "nah guys that'd be dumb no one would do that"
Then they did it to prove their point and they had to change the rules
The red side bar makes checking off a watched bar very aesthetically satisfying. I don't know if that was the original intention or not, but it's aces 👌
just sitting here, shuffling my deck unassisted to a new manykudos video
the reason exodia was so desired is because sangan and witch of the black forest used to search regardless of how they were sent to the graveyard. with 3 graceful charity 3 pot of greed that promo exodia was a competitive edge unlike anything i've ever seen
The amount of editing in these videos is crazy, crazy well done.
How about the part when Yami bakura literally sends Bonz and his buddies to Hell. How they removed the Dilapidated doll from Dark necrofear and changed the Name of The Ouija board to Destiny board and spelling Final instead of Death. Bakura’s duel where always heavily Censored
A scandal i’m surprised no one has mention actually involved Upper Deck, which was responsible for distributing out Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards until the Synchro era I believe. Basically Upper Deck was distributingfake Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards with REAL cards. Once Konami got ahold of this information they not only sued Upper Deck but then also distributing the cards themselves to prevent something else like that happening.
Little fun fact: In the german version of the tcg, dark magician is called dark magician aswell, but in the german anime it is black magician.
Btw there are way more scandals, one of my favs is the Maxx "c" debacle, it was a completely broken card that changed the way the game was played in it's hay day because it allows you to draw a card each time your opponent special summons a monster, this card became so prevalent that it spawned the Max "c" challenge which is when someone would attempt to deck out their opponent out by forcing them to draw their entire deck, which is very possible because players devised a few infinite summon loops to do so.
This one is a mini scandal but it was bloody hilarious.
(part of the reason it was banned also had to do with all the degenerate Exodia FTK players, many cards have ended up on the banlist because of them actually)
But sadly they still not ban the cancerous Ash Blossom
@@superspies32 what are you talking about, Ash Blossom is fine
Imagine resolving That Grass Looks Greener on the 2222-card deck
Time for another video of funny accent man talking about decks
damn, your pronunciation of deck has me cracking up all the time... golden (i don't have a dirty mind, just a spicy imagination which makes the entire last part pure freaking gold)
I got the notification for this video at work just now and completely flipped out of my chair and now my coworkers are side eyeing me, can't wait to give this a watch when I get home.
Please don't get fired because of me.... but also.... maybe???
@@ManyKudos No worries, they can't fire me unless they can beat me in a duel. Anyways, outstanding video as always kudos, was super happy to see you cover this topic
Being an Australian, I've gotten used to the Kiwi accent. So when the cutting decks and longest deck part came up, I was genuinely confused... Until I sat there thinking "Cutting Deck, Longest Deck, Deck size limit... Deck, Deck, Dick... Ohhhhh"
That stink thing always hits home with me, when I played basketball in high school we had a guy on our team who wouldn't shower or wear deodorant on game days, even if we had a phys ed class that day... it got to the point that his parents were the only ones willing to drive him to away games. He also had to put on his left sock and left shoe before the right any time he put on his shoes, and kept one fingernail a bit longer to scratch the other team with. Seemed pretty normal otherwise, but he had some issues when it came to basketball.
Aw I was hoping you'd mention a bit more about the anime. There's stuff about 4kids getting sued and eventually bought by Konami because they left out episodes or something, and there's even a bit about a whole story arc of Yu-gi-oh 5d's about a psychic cult getting scrapped before production because they found out one of the japanese voice actors was actually in a cult
13:14 OMG IT'S DECK NOT DINGDONG DANG MY HEARING
The last part has the big deck energy going on. Sadly Konami had to circumcised it
My favorite Yugioh event is when one of the greatest players in the world, Joshua Schmitt, hit a literal child playing vanilla pile with the full power of danger dark world ftk without holding back while Konami streamed it to the world. That kid learned what fear was that day. He didn't get a turn in the entire match.
I admit, as a female with hygiene struggles I kind of get it...but for fuck's sake, have enough decency to at least be decent smelling for social events. It's quite scary that Yugioh needs hygiene rulings.
For the rest: I knew the deck scandal and 4-kids censoring, but the Tokyo Dome Riot and the rest were new to me. I loved the video; Yugioh is a wild game
@breadandcircuses8127 Not new, moreso rare. I know a few other women who I sometimes play casual games with. But mostly I've only seen guys in the Yugioh world
It's even funnier that in one of yu-gi-oh canons one can evade arrest by winning a duel against the pursuing cop
The smelly player rule is great. And the excuses were weird. They'd say something like "What if you can't afford to shower?" Mate you have thousands of dollars worth of cards. If you can afford a booster box. you can buy a stick of soap and go to the public showers or something.
I remember when the first Yugioh movie hit theaters, I read a story about someone pulling off a heist of a theater's entire stock of promo cards by pretending to be officials and claiming the cards they received were misprints. This is like 20 year old knowledge, but I believe they stole 3000 of these highly valuable promo cards.
Read it in Shonen Jump I believe
@@Arc115YT It’s so wild of a story that it should be a full-on movie.
This is such a great video! I would love to see a part 2 of YuGiOh scandals revolving around tournament scandals like Patrick Hoban, the banning of Triff Gaming, and all the remote duel shenanigans/cheating that occurred during the pandemic.
"Blue balls white dragon"
Ok that got me.
Stopped playing Yu-Gi-Oh quite some time ago, the game seems to be evolved into "if you do not finish the game in your first turn and allow the opponent to have his first turn, you have not purchased enough pack to build the most OP meta deck possible and oneshot everyone, start paying scrub". Even MTG allows the players to have games to last longer than the average bedroom adventure. They managed to compress the corporate greed into an artform. Then again self care management might have something to do with it.
Yeah all those 5 second games are why tournaments always go to time (45 minutes for 3 games)...
You are not wrong, yugioh is basically who can play more with less and make a board that doesn't allow the opponent play. Yeah, people Often brick and battle making the other not able to play.
The fact that there isn't a curve of resources is great, and also awful.
"second only to sunlight and talking to girls over 18" slayed me. You, sir, got a subscriber.
I love how 99.9999% of Yu-gi-oh! cards are worth pennies but those maybe 3 per set that are worth over $50 keep the collectors coming back. Lol
*cries into her pokemon and magic collections*
The fact I giggled at "massive throbbing deck" shows how terrible my sense of humour is, bahahah! Also, the subtle slipping of the "deck" pronunciation closer to the other word is beautiful!
God damn it I was watching alt-tabbed until the part you started saying dick repeatedly and immediately reminded me of that deck commercial from few years ago
"Only to suffer from a case of Blue Balls White Dragon"
You good sir are a fucking comedy writing genius.
Oh you like Nirvana? Name 5 shotguns.
What’s the shadow realm?
4Kids: A realm of eternal pain and suffering.
So it’s hell. Why not just say “I’m gonna send you to hell” then?
4kids: Cause that is way to violent and religious!
But saying people are gonna to a place of eternal pain and suffering isn’t? Especially since hell is literally a place of eternal pain and suffering.
I'm surprised you didn't cover the battle between Konami/4Kids and LittleKuriboh over the Abridged series. It ended with LK making 4Kids the literal villain of YGOTAS s3. It was fantastic to see such a milestone of YGO culture actually win against Konami.
"Blue Balls White Dragon"
I swear, this man's writing is impeccable
Manykudos is turning more into a dad by the month.
Let's hope that isn't an omen
@@ManyKudos That you'd get a GF?
(Joking around love your stuff dude)
I remember when we had Yu-Gi-Oh here I was in kindergarden and we just had one rule whichever card has more stars at the top wins. Also every time I had a birthday or something I always got more cards that was the only thing I always wanted. Amazing times still have most of my cards.