Yu-Gi-Oh's Many Scandals 

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”Riot police where called in to duel the players” Pure gold

One thing I love more than puns: bilingual puns. That "Mischen: Impossible" is glorious.

Imagine dying because you got trampled to death in a Yu-Gi-Oh riot

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.)

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

The 2,222 card deck was probably a strong deck as long as they had 3 upstart goblins for consistency.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

”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.

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.

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

"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

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.

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

As a 20+ year player, I don't think 16 minutes is enough to cover all the scandals surrounding yugioh.

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.

Thank you for banishing my boredom to the shadow realm

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

Nearly choked on my coffee when you came out of nowhere with that, "Blue Balls White Dragon" line, fam. 🤣

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'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.

You know the old adage: Never ask a woman her age, a man, his salary, a Yugioh player, what happened at YCS Denver 2017

The Longest deck guys with their black suits, and fedoras are one of the biggest Chads to walk this Earth.

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

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.

"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.

This series is only getting better, could you please do one on Warhammer 40k?

Boy do I love the fact that you put EVERY Yugioh buzz word in the first 60 seconds.

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.

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!

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

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.

Did you know the voice of Meowth Maddie Braunstein voiced Yugi's grandad Solomon Moto in all of Yugi-Oh

Oh, this one is also gonna be great! Your style when telling those stories is amazing, I'm glad to have found you

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

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

As a yugioh player i can tell you put so much effort and research in this video. Great job!

I can’t tell you how much I love that RU-vid 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

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.

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.

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.

The amount of editing in these videos is crazy, crazy well done.

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.

just sitting here, shuffling my deck unassisted to a new manykudos video

Wow 15 plus minutes of scandals. Clealry these people needed to gain the heart of the cards

Imagine resolving That Grass Looks Greener on the 2222-card deck

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 👌

"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

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

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.

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

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.

Time for another video of funny accent man talking about decks

It's even funnier that in one of yu-gi-oh canons one can evade arrest by winning a duel against the pursuing cop

I didn't know Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth-Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker had this much to it

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)

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!

"Only to suffer a case of blue balls white dragon" Okay, I'm integrating this into my vocabulary right now!

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!

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.

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.

Mischen: Impossible is the best thing I've heard in my entire life

I found your videos and have been binging (what I can manage). Your straight faced delivery of all the casual puns is currently making my week. I don't care if anyone else reads this, thank you.

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

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.

i found your channel yesterday and ive been binging ur videos and youre quickly becoming one of my fav youtubers, really great content man keep it up!

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.

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.

The last part has the big deck energy going on. Sadly Konami had to circumcised it

"second only to sunlight and talking to girls over 18" slayed me. You, sir, got a subscriber.

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

Manykudos is turning more into a dad by the month.

Oh you like Nirvana? Name 5 shotguns.

Oh hell yes! I've been waiting for this one!! Kudos to you, Many Kudos, and thank you for the incredible vid

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.

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.

A very unique Yu-Gi-Oh video for once. and a story I have yet to hear about before. keep up the great work!

The editing in this is so good lmao, nice job! I didn't know about some of these.

>i walk into the comment section >"Dark Magician Girl is based as fuck" >refuse to elaborate >leaves the comment section

Thanks for making this video bro I've bin soo pumped for a yugioh 1 and perfect timing with master dull out I love ya champ.

its nice to hear a fellow kiwi on youtube especially talking about things i like and being quite funny i love it keep it up

"Blue Balls White Dragon" I swear, this man's writing is impeccable

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

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 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.

Nothing's funnier than when a kiwi talks about decks

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

Is it weird that ManyKudos is more handsome in every video or??

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

“Blue-Balls White Dragon” is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Thank you funny man in my phone.