Holy shit, I just started watching the japanese original version

>>155023354
How are they different, oh wise one who has seen the tapes?

>>155023476
I was just hoping to get some discussion of the OG Yugioh. I know everyone and their mother knows about all the cuts and changes to this chink cartoon.

But I was still pretty impressed that it wasn't exageration and they actually did kind of ruined it.

Altough I don't miss a lot of the autistic japanese random name saying and constant friendship talk

It's funny, because the nip version butchered the manga's story.

>>155023673
Really?

How's this even something worth talking about when you can find both version in the internet.


It's not like it's something rare you can't find anymore.

>>155023673
This.

Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh will always be the better of the two Yu-Gi-Oh anime because it was adapted from the earlier parts of the YGO manga, before the whole series became a shameless plug for Duel Monsters.

YGO was better when it was just about high-stakes games with magical powers. There are, what, two Mind Crushes in the entire course of the Duel Monsters anime? Punishing the loser's soul is supposed to be Dark Yugi's power, but it's barely present in YGODM because the whole series picks up after Dark Yugi has already had his character development and sworn off punishing people. That's just bad writing.

As a result, the games only have supernatural stakes when they're enforced by the opponent (always the "final boss" of the given season, e.g. Marik and Bakura), and the filler duels which compromise 90% of the series are just boring games with physical consequences.

I know Yu-Gi-Oh is supposed to be campy, but I can't take it seriously when a bad guy challenges Yugi to a card game so he can cut off his legs with a buzzsaw after he beats him. It just begs the question of why even bother with the card game in the first place.

Ironically, even though it wasn't their intention, 4Kids injected some of the original YGO magic back into DM by coming up with Shadow Games and the Shadow Realm, because now every match had supernatural consequences again. And Yami once again seemed like an extremely powerful and godlike magician for overcoming these high stakes games whereas in the original he was just an idiot who let himself get roped into boring duels with ridiculous consequences.

>>155023673
The manga itself was shit after it turned into a commercial for the TCG

First 7 volumes of the manga were the only good ones

>>155028310
>4Kids injected some of the original YGO magic back into DM by coming up with Shadow Games and the Shadow Realm
Except not really
In the Japanese version it whoever lost died so that's why 4kids came up with the fucking "Shadow Realm"

Also one thing that bothers me
I hate it when "Yami no Game" is translated as "Shadow Game". It's supposed to be "Game of Darkness"

Yami = Darkness not Shadow

Toei's YGO was 100x better just because of little Yugi's sexy voice.

>>155028310
Yu-gi-oh's last arc was good desu. If only because they spared us from the card game as much as they could.

>>155030141
Yeah, but that's what happened in a lot of the original games before the card shit started, too. When Kaiba lost his first duel with Yugi near the start of the series he didn't die, Yugi used illusion magic to make him think he was "trapped and tortured in the duel monsters' world", an illusion that eventually wore off.

>>155030222
trips confirmed