My YuGiOh Obsession and School 

you never quit yugioh , you just take a long break

He posted this on Pokémon’s 25th anniversary what a bold move

As a Yugioh fan it warms my heart to see other people that are either still into Yugioh or retired

In high school i did a history lesson on Yugioh. The class loved it. To add i had the soundtrack tape for the show and played the opening and brought my wallscroll with me and my cards which no one stole.

My parents were called into school like this because I played uno in a free period and my dad was like wtf you called me out of my job for this. And that happened when I was in a privet school . After that I always went to a public Army school because my father is in the Indian army. I got to eat a huge cone of chocolate icecream that day.

When I was a kid, I had a friend with a super religious family that I would play Yugioh with. His religion never seemed to get in the way of us playing the game so it was never an issue. One day I go over to his house to play, with my deck and everything. When I ask him if he's ready to duel he tells me he's not allowed to play Yugioh anymore. I ask him why, and he tells me it's cause mom said it worships satan and all that jazz. My kid brain was like: "Well, if you're not allowed to play anymore... Can I have your cards?" Dude had awesome cards, like dark paladin, Buster Blader and stuff like that. "I can't give them to you." "Why not?" "My mom burned them all." Little kid me was destroyed hearing this. *"WHY DID SHE BURN THEM"*

In my school it was like this: Pokemon: tiny nerds Yugioh: teenage nerds Magic the Gathering: maximum nerds

"Yugioh is demonic and detrimental to young minds" Me with my penguin deck: ._.

RIP to the YuGiOh creator that passed away yesterday

"The Heart of The Cards guide you to break the rules" - Kaiba or something

I never understood why it was such a big deal to play during free time at school. Now as a teacher, I host a Yu-Gi-Oh! Club at the school I teach at. Not only do the kids practice their math and reading, but they have a chance to just hang out and talk about something they’re mutually interested in.

I played Yu-Gi-Oh a lot as a teen. And during the pandemic I updated my cyber dragon deck and went to my first locals. Went 2-2. Was a lot of fun. Hope to play again sometime

School be like: It's time to d-d-d-d da da dooooooooo your homeowork.

Yugioh: *Is A Card Game* School: *Is this Bad?*

6:28 its funny how all of those 1st 4 things are Red Eyes Dark Dragoon, and the last effect is Destroyer Pheonix Enforcer(its power crept version) those are essentially the modern broken staple monsters everyone summons.

I’m not a nerd. *I’m a high intelligent card playing someone.*

Yugioh is one of the best anime/cartoon ever

It appears that _"The Heart of the cards"_ was not just cheap talk about believing in yourself and your allies or whatever, but very much a real thing that dictated one's performance. During the Duelist Kingdom duel between Mokuba and Yugi, he tells Mokuba that there's no way he can win with a deck that's not his own and his heart is not with those cards. Yugi and Kaiba standing on top of all duelists is in part due to their link with their monsters from their past lives, their deeper connection to the heart of the cards than anyone else's.

everyone gangsta until the ritual monsters have arrows

Card games and Tazos were only ever banned at school after one kid complains that they lost their best card in a "play for keeps" game.

Jon: *stops playing the game because of peer pressure* Me and other Yugioh nerds: *you have betrayed the brotherhood the council will decide your fate*

as a fellow yugioh fan, i can confirm the cards are so situational that creating a deck takes at least 3 hours

My school teachers in middle school and high school actually thought the cards looked cool and some would watch and pick up some of the rules. I miss those days of casual play with friends

Yu-Gi-Oh has always been important to me, but it is even more important to me because Yu-Gi-Oh is how me and my Partner got together. It will always have a special place in my heart and be a part of my life.

I remember back in primary school, everyone was afraid of dueling because we thought we had to give away our best card if we lose xD

I love this, I just got back into Yugioh with my friend and got a new deck! So nice to spend adult money on a childhood pleasure that I couldn't have before

Now that I'm in my 30's, one of the memories that occasionally pops up to haunt me is how much I bullied the YuGiOh players. Because I played Magic The Gathering. A real card game for intellectuals. Unlike YuGiOh, that baby game for babies. Yeah, I was a gatekeeping asshole and I really regret how much of a tool I was back then.

I have an amazing story with Yu-gi-oh. because my friend Emerson and I started a yu-gi-oh craze in school, I bought Saga with Eyes of Blue and he had a Yugi Starter Deck. We played in the break and all my class used to watch us, and then everyone in my class bought yu-gi-oh cards as well and started playing with us, and the thing was so popular than even our school cafeteria (which was owned by one of classmates family) started buying the cards, so soon the whole school was "playing" as well. (I said "playing" like that because only my class and some guys in fifth grade truly knew how to play, and most of the people played it in invented ways) I treasure those memories very much, and all of us in the graduation exchanged our cards to have something to remember about each other :)

I remember in my elementary school Pokémon was a big thing. I never got into it, but there would be kids who would bring in whole binders full of cards everyday. They eventually got banned because it got so intense.

My entire childhood revolves around this show- I’m glad to see someone else was obsessed w it too 😃

Me and my girlfriend actually bonded in highschool over yu-gi-oh, annnnnd the fact that I play elemental heroes...

Young Yong Tales: "It's demonic" Me with a burning abyss deck in middle school: "hahaha FuNnY"

New subscriber here and I love your story! I grew up on Yu-Gi-Oh as well! The Dark Magician is my all time favorite monster in the game and I still combat against my older brother with his Blue Eyes White Dragon deck sometimes. Currently, I play Lorcana, but I always treasure the memories that I had with Yu-Gi-Oh.

I remember having a lot of cards, a lot of enthusiasm and no one to play with. 😢😢😢

Dude, yugioh gave me that special feeling of appreciating life. Yugioh brings people together if it's simple like goat format. New yugioh is like prison ..... it's a jungle

1:57 his Soul looks like Mokey Mokey, that Monster from Gx😂🤣

They didn't sell Yugioh cards yet when I was in elementary school, I had to draw them myself and I made them look like the ones from the show.

“They had us in the first half not going to lie”

For as long as I can remember, I played Yugioh, and my parents supported me to the point of bribing me with new cards if I showed good behavior at school at the end of each week. Yugioh and Pokemon were everything to me as a kid, until a little over ten years ago, where I discovered my current obsession... MTG. For the first few years I still collected Yugioh and MTG cards (I had fazed out of Pokemon cards because I had never learned how to play and my brother despised the concept of Pokemon), but eventually, I had decided to move away from Yugioh entirely and focus completely on MTG, and it's only very recently that I'm pulling out my old Yugioh cards and building decks with them.

I legit had the exact same experience, my friends and I would all play everyday on the bus for our hour long bus ride honing our skills and improving our decks, it felt like we were living in the yugioh world.

Thanks for this! I'm like over 40 and still love this stupid game! I learned how to synchro and xyz summon! I built like 7 decks while we've been in lockdown, and have dueled my kids till we are sick of each other! But it's fun! I think people need to lighten up and just learn to have fun!

I still remember when I was in primary school, my mum would most of the time be late from work, so I got put into an after school care program and almost every kid I spoke to had decks that had all the ace monsters like dark magician, blue eyes, red eyes, etc. but around this time yugioh gx had been around for about a year now and no one had a E-hero neos for some reason. I remember everyone got given booster packs as a end of school year Christmas gift, everyone was pulling out the armoured dragons, the ojama's and ultimate tyranno. but when I opened mine and the first card I saw was neos. I'm not going to lie, but I remember shedding a few tears and screaming at the top of my lungs. I got Neos and immediately put him in my deck of random elemental heros and cyber dragons. One of the best moments of my primary school life ever. From that point on, whenever someone wanted to duel with me, I've always had Neos.

My school doesn't allow card games too, bc that is "gambling"

I will never forget the hours I spent watching every single season of yugioh three times each and not regretting it

My experience with Yu-Gi-Oh and school was a weird one, and one where I wish I could go back in time and slap my younger self. My elementary school had no restrictions when it came to card games, other than you couldn’t play during class (obviously). However, there was this one teacher that would tell us to stop, and funnily enough, called them, “Pokeeman cards (yes, I spelt Pokémon the way they said it). We didn’t stop, of course, and always found new spots to play. The thing that I want to slap my past self for is that the guys I played with were not the most best of people. They had really good cards, and they technically got me into it, and they knew they could take advantage of my stupidity when they saw I had a really strong synchro and a number card. So, they played what we called “Bet Duels,” where, you guessed it, each player bet two cards, and the winner got both. I ended up losing those two because of that. However, I ended up finding the deck of the guy that I lost my synchro to, and I stole it back during a free period where I knew he wouldn’t be in class to see me. The next day, though, he caught me red-handed and told me to give it back. And I, wanting to be honest, STUPIDLY gave it back to him since I had brought it with me. Later, these guys ended up getting a card that they could summon on the first turn and wipe me out instantly, so the game just stopped being fun and I essentially severed ties with them when it came to Yu-Gi-Oh

back in time i was god once in school, i had 8 blue-eyes, i won duels even before they started. good times.

I never tried to play YuGiOh at school *that* frequently, but I must say that I once held a one-week-long authorized class about YuGiOh and I managed to teach a lot of people how to play by making them temporarily use one of my 20 decks (I managed to reduce them recently because they were trash). It was really fun and people loved those "lessons" to the point where they ditched other courses and came to our classroom to play. It was really beautiful and I really miss those days.

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙍𝙞𝙥𝙨 Me: "Don't worry babe I believe in the heart of the cards" Her: *Sighs in relief* Me: *Proceeds to lay wood like Yugi would've wanted me to*

You talking about this reminds of the time when kids in my school were actually betting on Beyblade matches during recess like between all the we actually had a Beyblade king but are school starting banning them cause kids were stealing them which sucked at least it lasted almost 2 years but it was fun

Modern and original yugioh are such different beasts. I do miss the days of “loose themes and my favorite monsters” designs, but the modern complexity is a different flavor of rewarding. For the people who started when the game was new, it grew nicely with us. I feel bad for anyone trying to start today tho.

man, 7:25 onwards really hits home for me. just tcgs/collectibles in general. everyone should just be themselves and do what they love. we'll love be happier that way.

Bruh I just saw jotaro in a yu-gi-oh art style! Perfect timing!

My little brother is now in his Pokemon phase and I was (and still am) a huge Pokemon fan. It feels so good to see all my old cards (he has all of them because I don't need them anymore), I even explained the Pokemon card game to him, we built some decks and fought against each other. And I also have to tell him, wether the "facts" from his friends about some cards are true or just complete nonsense. It feels nice to see someone, who has fun with the stuff I grew up and to kinda teach them all about it :D

Love this video. It was recommended to me and I'm not disappointed with the wonderful algorithm. I fully agree and understand you. I still watch the original 4Kids anime even although it is a wee bit cheesy. That's just part of the charm I think (especially the scary finger guns 😋) and despite being almost 26 now, I still play when I can and I'm on Duel Links every day even sometimes stream it. When I met Dan and Eric here in the UK, twice, those were some of the best days and memories I'll cherish forever 😁

I had forgotten how much this game made me have crazy friends for dragon decks, while I just liked my skull knight combo that I even put on my deck just to make this fusion over and over again

i dont know what's with me, but its just so aesthetic, and hit me the chill feeling every time i see a pile of card deck, a small pile, around 40 cards, and it just have that aesthetic brown edge, with a browner inside and a dark circle at the middle, the way Yong drew the animation, everything around the yugioh deck is white, but the small pile of yugioh deck is the only one with color! (ayo im not trying tro be racist guys but it is what i think it is, no hate here) but thx for making that beautiful artwork of just a simple, yugioh deck, the aesthetics just hit me every time i see it

"or reading books about talking cats fighting" The book shown: Fighters Me:... *Did you just call Warriors (Warrior Cats)....* *Fighters?*

Ngl, my mom had a "no taking your cards to school" rule, I went to public school, they didn't really care after 3rd grade (4th year whatever you want to call it). Taking them to school one day, is the only reason I have one of my best friends today (7 years later).

I started Yu Gi Oh in 1st grade bc we had a high school helper that taught me all about it. Thanks dude, 23 years later and I still love it

I always collected the cards but never knew how to play ;-;

imagine ✨ yugioh strategy 101 ✨ being a thing

Man i remember playing Yu-Gi-Oh in the quad in middle school, but the one thing i wish would have become more popular was Dungeon Dice Monsters!! That was the one part of Yu-Gi-Oh i loved!!

Yu-Gi-Oh was very popilar in my second grade. One kid even stole my card. Don't worry I got it back.( the card was Rapidator-Ultimate Falcon)

I loved Yugioh but, my classmates always thought it was weird that I was into it since I was a girl TT

In 2003 I broke a kids nose when he stole my dark magician. No charges got brought against me cause it was a 4v1, I never got my Dark magician back

I'd honestly love to see this guys insect deck in action or at least a list with some of his popular moves!

we bet our SOULLLLLLLS TO THE SHADOW REALM ... or cheetos

playing yugioh was my depression and studying escape during lunch in high school

Looking at this as an insect player myself, I feel this on a spiritual level.

I have absolutely loved this. Great story telling skills.

When you actually find someone who actually plays yugioh as a teenager or an adult, is one of the best feelings. They are so rare to find. Most of the time they are ashamed they like it, or stopped playing because no one else liked it. I really like people who don’t care. I tell people that I always carry a deck or two on me. I never leave my house without one. I’m always ready to duel. lol

It weird to see a beautifully drawn character next to monsters 2:34

Dang, wished more schools had after school gathering clubs where you can play trading card games. I don't know any where I live 😔

kids in college played it. I would sit near them because I too went to a private high school but, my classmates weren't into Yu Gi Oh or anime. Basically anything fun so I was deprived until I went to another school and college and I'm like mi gente (my people) yet I haven't played since 4th grade.

Ok. I got a girlfriend by yeeting exodia on my friend and impressing her so got to disagree with this quitting reason

"Something more popular, more cool" me: Magic? "Pokémon" me: oh, still cool

The teacher took my cards away and they also threw them in the trash one time, I just took them back. The time they just took them and I took them back, the teacher got mad, but I asked her if she was trying to tell me that stealing is okay and then she just let me have them and didn't take them after that

Using a insect deck at this meta is one of the most bizzare Flex I ever saw

Talking cats fighting is the best description of the warriors series there is.

What nostalgia. I might have to make a video on it

7:20 Really got me sat back in my chair being like "same"

So you love yu gi oh, u r into badminton, u love anime, AND u r into k-pop n Running Man... Where were u when I was growing up? None of my friends were into any of these things 😭😅😂

2000s yugioh: set pass 2020s yugioh: omni negate board with hand traps

bro im 19 and i still love yugioh and i,ve been collecting since i was 7

OMG WERE HAVE YOU BEND YOUNG YONG

This should be called my YuGiOh Obsession VS school

Even to this day me, a 15 year old has played it for over 3 years is still fun to this day so yes it it worth try yugioh it's very fun

Random person: Yu-Gi-Oh sucks Me reaches into my pocket for my dark magician (jk I mean my gun): it's time to D-D-DUEL

So basically, y'all were chilling out with the crew in the school yard, then found some trouble and then were working too hard?

I got introduced to yu gi oh back when I was 5 years old and still play the card game to those day. Exodia the forbidden one fans out there.

GO! MY BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON! In the study hall Librarian: STUDY NOW Young Yong Tales: Im studying my cards :)

I love yu-gi-oh it’s sad that like over 70% of people don’t play it.

One of the best ways to deal with bs monsters is a lava golem

Likewise, all of my friendships revolved around yugioh And I can't deny how much it influenced me growing up Cheers for the nerdy bois

Bro Yu-Gi-Oh was the reason I got my best friends and how I got good at math and I certainly got a 104.5% in math class as a senior so Yu-Gi-Oh good for everything

Young yong: makes vid about yugioh Me:playing yugioh Oh

i was not ready for that warriors "talking cats fighting" refrence LOL

bro the adults hate yugioh

I'm personally offended that when you said "Started playing Pokémon" and showed a Kyogre instead of I dunno... A Scyther? A LATIAS? A LATIOS? ME?

7:54 Where I grew up we had fake cards cuz it was a pretty middle country, and it hurts me to see that many cards cuz I would have killed for a fake blue eyes let alone a legit one.