Yugioh's Art Style Has Changed 

Hey all, hijacking the initially pinned comment (sorry funny Jerry Beans Man guy) to provide you all some "patch notes" on stuff written/ said in the video. Just want to make sure all of you come out of this video informed as opposed to misinformed. *[1 - Regarding Kazuki Takahashi]* A key component of this topic that could have been talked about more is Kazuki Takahashi's original intent with his artwork and Konami's shift away from him as the two became less involved with one another (and the former unfortunately passed away). There are two interviews cited in the description of the video: in both, Mr. Takahashi talks about how, though some of his works were definitely intended as simplistic designs of things he enjoyed and or thought others might enjoy, others exemplified parts of the human condition like fear or friendship (Source #7). This is apparent in older cards. Furthermore, in order to print those older cards, Konami likely traced much of Takahashi's art and added additional touch-ups to them before applying them to the final product. As Takahashi became less involved in production of the game's art, Konami likely took it in their own hands to follow more modernized trends in the industry, which led to the more normalized (anime) art styles we find frequent today. - *[2 - Regarding Yugioh's Status as a Shonen]* Yugioh was originally intended as a Shonen anime. These types of shows were typically marketed towards teenage boys (around ages 12-18). This bit of information can be used to support the point made at 6:06. - *[3 - Mislabelling of Manga Panel]* Referring to the panel of the delinquent being burned by Yugi (rip the dude) at 4:37 as "Season 0" is incorrect, primarily because "Season 0" may not be considered an official term. Thus, the scene was actually taken from Volume 1, Chapter 4 of the original 1998 Yu-gi-oh! Manga. - *[4 - Alternatives to Anime's Rise]* Though I talk about anime becoming mainstream recently, an argument can definitely be made that those 90’s anime’s are what made anime popular in the west. And, in this case, it’s better to say anime simply became more socially acceptable recently (while being popular/ “mainstream” for some time). Please note that I could not have made these additions without many of the viewers commenting below. Extra sources are listed in the video’s description if you want to study this topic further - my video only talks about the matter in a surface-level manner. If any of you catch any other errors with the video and or wish to add details to the pin, please comment below!

One thing to consider is how the art was made. Many original Yugioh cards were traced directly from Kazuki Takahashi's original manga art which was originally drawn with pen and paper. They likely were then taken into a more primitive version of Photoshop and painted up while keeping the original style intact. Fast forward to today and digital art is a lot more advanced, and most of these cards feel like they mimic modern anime digital art trends in the way they are painted. Because of that, most cards level of detail feel like their art was meant to be viewed fullscreen on a monitor rather than jammed into a tiny card window. The shift in subject matter away from dragons and demons to waifus I view as having a lot to do with the game shifting away from Takahashi's hands to Konami wanting to find the most marketable themes they could.

Things have been different ever since Jerry Beans Man

It was bound to change eventually, we are not living in the 90s anymore. We get better tools, better devices that help us to get better arts. The shift didn't only happen to Yugioh, it happened to all other media as well. But I agree that we have a lot more variety of cards now because Konami is just doing business, everyone can get their share of favorite type of monster.

you should check out the art book from kazuki his art has drastically improved and just a different level from the manga

we are talking as if we didn't have dark magician girl and harpie lady in the original. modern yugioh has grotesque monsters like Alba Zoa or Dis Pater

Kanan the swordmistress, thunder nyan nyan, Gemini elf, Fairy Injection Lily, Dark Magician Girl, Harpies and Charmers. All examples of early cards which are "wifey" or "anime". the only difference now is the card is "cleaner" and i prefer the change.

The old school Yugioh art was basically MTG but made in japan, now is like they're trying to compete with Vanguard and Duel Master in terms of art style. Nothing against it, in fact I love this art direction.

Honestly, a lot of the newer cards just feel too "perfect"

Honestly the early 5Ds disproportional and oddly grotesque designs (things like Montage Dragon and Nitro Warrior) will always represent my favorite era of Yugioh art style wise

Yeah I definitely agree that there needs to be a good balance. To me what make yugioh so unique as a game is that the theming can be anything no matter how serious or silly. The big I. imposing dragons and mighty warriors of combat are just as important as the sentient fire hydrant and the rpg penguin party. Also I love them seer variety of sources yugioh pulls from. The divine comedy, Star wars x Woz, not to mention the deep religious concepts albaz and visas take after, a lot of this stuff is super cool and I frequently only learned about something because it was the inspiration for a yugioh card. Heck they don't even reserve this treatment for big archetypes, even a random pack filler card like "the cuckoo commanded to crook" references a Japanese poem about 3 famous generals (look it up if haven't btw it's a pretty interesting story). For me this showcase of culture is a huge aspect that has kept my love for the game over the years.

My only problem with the modern art style is that the cards just look too messy to me. At some point I just pretty much stopped looking what is going on in the cards and most of them are just a blur to me these days. To put it simply, some of the art is just too complex, too much going on for a small image.

They printed Mementos pretty recently! New archetype centered around obscure monsters. Although I can't really consider Dark Blade obscure, a lot of obscure monsters got retrains.

I think one of the reasons was due to the fact theres no new anime to base cards on, the lore of the game only relies on the cards now, and for that it needs recognizable characters. World legacy, branded, visas lore are full of these because its character conflicts that make most of the lore. Duel terminal had its fair share of those like the ice barriers and nekroz, altho overall its cast was more diverse. World legacy and branded gave us much better lore and stories than duel terminal ever could very probably the shift has a part in it.

I wish the modern yugioh cards where more creepy looking. Bring back decaying corpses, horrifying demonic creatures, bloody heads, haunted killer dolls, savage looking beast,

Wail the "waifu/husbond" ification of cards has increased I dont think it has come to the cost of the former form of card design if anything the "animification" has only increased the different types of card design were we can have things like bystials, rescue ace, and tearlement all exist and not any of them feel out of place so it feels like yugiohs art sytle has had things added to it more then changed but great video either way.

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There are a few outliers like Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts, who looks a lot more like a magic character, and has a much more artistic style, but it seems like a lot of mainstream monsters that appear in the anime, outside of Dragon archtypes, are becoming more homogenised.

The oldschool art is the most iconic though

Anime was definitely becoming/was more mainstream before social media became a “thing.” Toonami and Adult Swim had a hand in that. As well as, more anime being localized in general.

It also has a lot to do with the cards as a medium. In the early days, most of the monsters just needed to look cool/cute, the story was being told through the anime. However, as time goes on we get less generic creatures and more interconnected stories. Duel terminal and world legacy lore is vast and complex, and sky strikers even have their own manga. We even have old generic monsters get lore, like skull servant. The focus nowadays is more on telling a story through the cards, so the cards have become characters, many being anime style humanoids, instead of just some creature to fill out Yugi’s deck.

Still pretty tame compared to Duel Masters: OG Darkness Civilization card art were flayed, haunting abominations who wore skull-shaped masks over their faces just to endure the poisonous lands they lived in. Modern Darkness Civ card art tend to either be ones built around a cocky King of Fiends who fights with an army of reanimated silverware or ones tied to a Marionette Girl and her chaotic hijinks.

Since the manga fan service, anime tropes have been woven into the series. Tea in the manga and Mai had moments pretty frequently, and a lot of sexual themes did get censored in the States. You see it in a lot of the OCG art vs the TCG. Waifus have always existed, but now they are just being pumped out, hoping for another Dark Magician Girl level of the iconic card to come out and turn into other merchandise. I think we will see it more has the OCG builds more on the lore part of the cards, and we need returning characters. I hope we stick with the balance you pointed out.

I really like how you sourced every clip you used and even referenced the music too.

I am just tired of CGI dragons :c

I like both the old and new artwork of yugioh cards. The original Yugioh manga and anime will always be my favorite. Great video dude.

Nothing beats Elemental heroes, thats my style.

There's even an archetype that's basically vtubers. Crazy

Cards nowadays look like anime cards that have way too much going on in them lol. Missed the simpler grotesque designs of the old days.

I love the zexal art style

i think it's largely to do with archetypes too bro In the old days cards could just be any random crap like island turtle or slot machine, nowadays they're characters that belong to an archetype. so if an archetype is human-based, all of its human members would increase the amount of humans in yugioh. and the default art style for humans is anime even the oldest archetypes like amazoness and gravekeeper had more of an anime spin, rather than a western/realism spin

I honestly think that the anime became popular because of the internet and social media. That's an obvious statement, but my point lies in how it came to be. When internet was still at its infancy, the only people browsing it every day 24/7 were the people who hadn't had friends to hang out IRL, because those were the ones put aside by the rest of society because they were not the "cool kids", they were "weirdos that like japanese cartoons and video games". But when the internet and social media actually became huge, it was already shaped and occupied by those guys that previously were excluded from society. Now that their territory became cool and trendy, so did they. And so did the media they enjoyed. That's my theory, at least.

I go back 'n' forth on this issue. I do enjoy *anime* looking cards but there is something to be said for the Monster aethestics of older cards. It was a mix of horror and style. Yugioh was a horror manga, first and foremost and that carried over to the card designs. Something like Dogmatika White Zoa is the exception, nowadays. I wish Konami would lay off the robots 'n' dragons, though.

I always liked Japanese Creature/Robot Design they used to be so good at it. Then Anime and Games in early 2000's stoped focusing on in it as much and not showing it off as somthing to be proud off of cause it still exists. my Favorite Monster Type in yugioh is Reptiles all their artwork is conistant with certain themes still. So they all are are Snakes,Other Reptilan Features on creatures or are Aliens from other planets.

I’m so happy so one is actually doing a video on this as I find the element of art of yugioh to be so interesting yet untalked about

Here we go it's that time of the year again where people start the debates and discussion on how yu-gi-oh "lost its way" and how Konami keeps pandering to the waifu bait crowd, as if these kinds of cards rarely existed prior. Everyone always brings up the old "remember when yugioh was had "actual monsters" but seem always seem to ignore that we had cartoon versions or regular monsters, a magical gir, and bird women in bdsm gear. like we can cherry pick a bunch of random examples of all these waifu bait cards/decks like "sky striker" "exocister" and what not, while also ignoring all of the other Ten thousand cards and archetypes, like "snake-eyes" ,"Horus" "Bystial", "Volcanics" "Illusionist" "Dark World" and many many more. And on the topic of the whole "animfication" thing exactly what is that even supposed to mean. like you used Infernoble knight as an example of this but the entire archtype is based off of the paladins of Charlemagne, a group of European knights, or are we counting Noble Knights as anime as well despite being based on Arthurian mythos. how do we even measure how "anime" a card is. are talking about your typical seasonal anime look? if we got a new archetype based off of something like Devilman would that be considered too anime as well.

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Nice calm video! Great audio! :)

Because tbh people are weird and the even weirder ones like their anime waifus…

To be fair to Yama, he is the evolution of Abominable Unchained Soul (the original body of the sealed sorcerer) with his full power unleashed that's why he is also called a Soul King (as a Bleach fan I really appreciate this) Then again, I like some edgy arts (like Bystial Aluber or Black Goat) and the Zeus vs Ty-phon scene from the promotional stuff was amazing, but I really miss the old artwork style that's why I immediately gave up Snakes for Yubel trying to escape the trifecta of waifu/megazord/edgelord yugioh has become. And such art I believe even has gameplay implications. It's not a coincidence those 3 types of decks dominate the meta while cool designs are irrelevant (ashened), I now believe the "If IP had the artwork of Dark Jeroid it would have been banned since TOSS" (paraphrased from Farfa, but while it started as a joke it's actually true)

I liked the old art until I realized that most of them were just randoms monsters. I wish they would make more cards with souls styles and less waifus or at least combine them.

Quite a pleasant video. Thank you.

awesome video man. I'm so happy to see you getting the views you deserve.

The cards are looking more animie if that makes any sense at all

And dont forget the dinosaur archetype which is look like were drawn by a kindergarten which is totally fine

The original monsters where so much better then f dragonmaid

As a spellcaster user, I liked how simply gagaga girl design was

Honestly, contrary to what ppl says, ygo always had a big amount of cutesy cards, it wasn't just edgy and spooky monsters. Dut the artstyle itself DID changed indeed, that I can agree

We need more Myutant...

Good video loved it

To be honest art in Yu-Gi-Oh! just got more diverse. You still got your cool dragons and stuff (Branded, Ice Prison etc.), you have space robots (Mathmech, Drytron etc.), you have anime waifus (Sky Striker, Exorsisters etc.), you have some antropomorphic animals, actually a lot of them, you have undead magicians, living magicians, space magicians, you have war machines and war veterans, even desserts and sushi ships. Yu-Gi-Oh! art was always ludicrous but now it is way more diverse and interesting overall imho. I am saying that from the standpoint of a fan from 2002 or something like that.

I’ve been playing since I was a kid , I don’t mind the amount of anime decks and all , as long as we get new decks I’m fine I love the artwork

Yeah, YGO’s art style has changed, and I am here for it. 👍

2023 was BEST year or archetype, Lab, SP, Centurión, Mikakoh(miss out on them) Diabellstarr (reason of not building Mikakoh) so hopefully 2024 gives me something I wanna build.

graduated HS in 2011 so I'm a little older but personally feel like once 2012/2013 hit anime became mainstream or I guess the 2010s in general.. everyone and their mom got put on when SAO/AOT started to pop off I feel and ofc all your other points add onto it. I feel like once the mid 2010s hit all nerd culture became fully mainstream. with super hero movies, anime, and gaming. But I get what cha mean bout getting ridiculed in the early 00's I'd get into all sorts of fights due to me purely enjoying the medium. I am just glad nowadays people atleast know about it enough for it to be another normal thing. it is still weird to me seeing merch in most stores cause back then if you wanted any kind of merch it was near impossible to ever see.

My favorite archtype aesthetic is Predaplant

Good, have you seen ashen and snake-ash? I love these cards.

I just now noticed Tea drew a smiley face on their hands. It just hit me after all this time

Happy New year 🎉

I wish the Yugioh cards would return to the 1996 Kazuki Takashi trademark.

The art-style is the reason why I don't watch Zexal, Sevens and why I only watched the last 10 chapters of Arc-V

I… honestly never really thought about this topic a lot. I’m the type of guy who will look at the cards, look at what they do, and if I like, I try, if I like after that, I stick to it. Whether the art style is anime or not, whether it’s generic or not, I really just want to enjoy this card game playing the decks I love without people telling me what is weird and what isn’t For your information, Traptrix is indeed one of my decks. No I don’t jerk off to them, I just think that plants and insect luring their prey into their traps by giving them a false sense of security is a really cool concept

Yugioh now is anything we can have pretty things like sky striker raye to horrendous creatures like dis pater

From terrifying monsters who will haunt your nightmares to loly/wafus in cosplay.Very sadly to see what Konami allowed itself...

gaming very gaming indeed

I literally built Infernoble because of the card art. Like the link 1 Charles reminds me of a knight going through a Naruto style power up. It is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. Not to memtion Angelica and gearfried. If it weren’t for that deck I would have quit. The art style is definitely having a big impact into the game in my experience at least

Yugioh's Art Style Has Changed For the Best*

This is a major reason why I don't care for modern yugioh. The artwork on these new archetypes doesn't draw me in (pun intended). It's oversaturated with cyber/digital/mech crap, little girl "waifu" cards for pedos, and the monsters that you can't even tell wtf they are. Also, yeah, let's make them extra shiny so we really don't know what we're looking at. Lol I miss the old artwork. The demonic fiends. The crafty spellcasters. The gritty, heroic warriors. The menacing dragons. The rotting zombies. Sure, yugioh had Machines and other guys with mechanical parts or cyber tech armor, but it was done in a tasteful fashion. And our "waifus" back then were big chested creatures like Harpie Lady and the Japanese version of Water Omotics. Lol I've always leaned more towards that old fantasy style of wizards, dragons, knights, barbarians, and demons. That's why I was such a huge fan in the beginning. But hey, if the kids like it, so be it. I had my time with the game.

I really hate that the artwork of yugioh has become more and more waifu-ised

my brother missing monstrous meta important cards in Bystials Or even Chained, yeah they have the one link-2, but the those are definitely monstrous Unfortunately Konami's not likely to go back in artstyles, especially with the death of Takahashi.

remember that time when Anime meant animation and therefore in the eyes of the Japanese Mickey mouse, Naruto and A time to Screw were all anime? yeah me neither since now there's tons of people that seem unable to understand that there's different artstyles from different artists and Takahashi the writer of YGO had not been involved directly with the production of YGO cards for years before his death besides those taken from the manga which itself had already been divorced from the animes beyond main character design since GX , instead the card game involves tons of different artists making tons of different designs and ALL of them could be considered anime if they were animated

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Errrrm EVERY HAND TRAP? what about, ahem, Nibiru 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Just kidding I promise I'm not a dick, I 100% agree with you I dislike that effectively every good hand trap is a dead Loli, I feel like I'd be a lot less annoyed at cards like ash blossom if they looked like zombies and not bait

Tbh when they gojng to start making fullart cards??

That's just how it is. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Keep in mind, Yugioh is actually for a teenage demographic in Japan. Remember the Yugioh manga and anime is a Shonen. Shonen is a demographic term for both manga and anime that are mainly targeted towards early to late teen boys between 12 and 18 years. And Weekly Shonen Jump is confirmed by the current chief editor Hiroyuki Nakano, to be targeted towards teen boys. Which he has said numerous times in his interviews and that the magazine has always been that way since day 1 of it’s publication. Which would be 1968. And Yugioh came from this magazine and is part of it. The artstyle of Yugioh was scary and violent in the OCG due to that reason. It was targeting a teen demographic. And the OCG still does too this day. The Yugioh OCG (Official Card Game) is confirmed on the back of every pack, deck or set to be for ages 12 and up. “対象年齢12才以上” (Translation: “Target age 12 years and older”) You will find this exact Japanese text on the back of every pack or deck you buy that are OCG. This implies, it’s for early to late teen players. Because “12 and up” ratings are considered standard teen ratings in Japan and other countries. Not to mention the Konami official OCG tournaments are age restricted as there are only 3 classes: Challenge: Which is for junior high school students Regular: For high school students Expert: For anyone from junior high to adult age. Understand that junior high students are between 12 and 15. So that means they are keeping Yugioh OCG tournaments strictly for players the OCG is rated towards. Locals are not under such restriction but Konami official ones are. But hey, it’s Japan. They are known to be very strict with their rules. And keep in mind, the Yugioh OCG was rated “12+” since 1999 and still is too this day. Understand this was rated 12+ by Konami themselves. So that speaks a lot. And before you bring up Yugioh Sevens, Go Rush and the Rush Duels game, I am aware of those. But those are different. Those are made to be for kids because Konami intended to make a more child friendly Yugioh card game as the OCG was too complex for kids to play and comprehend and has been since day 1. So the Rush Duels game was made to compensate. Rush Duels is a different game and the anime spin-offs that feature it, are not considered part of the mainstream Yugioh anime as the mainstream anime and manga focus on the OCG (which is the primary version of the game). And the anime of Sevens and Go Rush are Kodomo-Muke which means it’s for children.

banger video

We've añways had both things

Never though about it. Kinda miss the really Wierd stuff. Although the bird normal summon deck is pretty funny.

Honestly good video but way too late. I feel the waifu anime artstyle change started with GX. So like 20 years ago 😅 Heros, lightsworn, cyberangels, D.D etc Also it isnt much that the artstyle changed. It more like it got standardized. The first monsters were drawn by kazuki Takahashi. And many card artworks were simply screenshots from the manga colored. Modern cards are made by hired artists and freelancers together. So they had to find a standard so everything looks coherent and not made by hundreds of different people. This happened around GX and earlier. So yes Yugioh artstyle has changed. But that was more than 20 years ago and this video title seems like very misleading bait.

Say what yall want but times change and the imagery also does in everything. The clothes, the shows, the art everything changes. And now we have insanely beautiful cards like the Icejades. People shitting in the new art is just blinded by nostalgia. We should be pleased that we have both old cards and newer ones with more harmonized artsyle. I personally love the new art (I also love the old one).

Honestly, the modern waifu cards don't feel like "anime" to me, as I understand it. They feel like Genshin Impact. There's a pretty big difference, and it's probably mostly due to the tons of smooth gradients and soft shadows that in my mind are the antithesis of the edgy (more literally than figuratively, like, lots of edges and corners), "cool", punk-like aesthetic. Genshin itself leans closer to a manhwa artstyle for me, which again can be similar to specific western comics. Yu-Gi-Oh has always _been_ anime, it's just back then it was more Akira/NGE/Berzerk-ish and now it's a lot more Pokemon/SpyxFamily/HunterxHunter-ish. Personally I prefer the former by a pretty wide margin. I mean, Ancient Egyptian "dark" mythos crossed with cyberpunk plus the MC dresses like a dominatrix? That's gold, that's one of the coolest mix-ups of ideas ever. Egyptology is known for encooling basically everything and making it awesome I think. The elements of mystery, oldness, hyucked-up stuff, and alienness are perfectly in balance. By far the coolest sibling out of the 3 common mythologies to rip off (Greek and Norse)

We need both Summoned Skull AND DMG for the agme to be Yugioh We are seeing the animfication of media in general, look at league of legends or valorant hell even battlefield and cod have anime in it I love anime, look at my pfp but I also love Giant dinos smashing or sharks xyzing(mecha is anime i guess...) We need both! Maybe a bit more Archfiends these days and less mikanko would do us good.

0:51 you say beautify the art, but have you seen the Albaz lore? Mainly Zoa's evolution Or Visas lore in which he's over comed by all the negative emotions n power becoming a grotesque monster And not to mention the Elder n outer enitities

....... Have you *seen* Dis Pater? Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that a singular example disproves a trend. If given any time, I could come up with way more. The thing is... I have actually seen way more of a willingness in the last few years to lean into the dark and horrific, the eldritch and Lovecraftian. To be honest, I think what you are witnessing instead is that there are way *more* cards being made in the same amount of time than there used to be, and so way more examples you can pull up recently. But the Dracoslayer, World Legacy, and Abyss lore arcs have had both intense body and cosmic horrors. Whereas when I think back to the Duel Terminal lore.... most of it is pretty Cutesy. Even Gem Knights are kinda cute in their way. If you want a solid reason for a revent change though... The mainline sets have not had anything featured in any anime. Vrains was the last time there was an anime that the main cardgame was based on. In that case, I could see an argument that in order to retain a human element in the game, there may have been an attempt to make sure that *in the game* there are animeish/human characters to hold onto in any new lore (which is largely what is actually happening when people dismiss such characters as waifus or husbandos, it's just human characters we are meant to be attached to), since there are no longer such characters in the anime to lean on. But whether this account is true would need statistical evidence showing that there actually has been a steady increase in the last 3-4 years. An alternate theory might just be that Konami has responded to the popularity of Sky Striker in particular. But again, you'd need evidence that this has actually eclipsed other kinds of art/characters in recent years. I am far more partial to the theory that it is just because the art direction has gotten a lot more intentional and coherent. It used to be really hit or miss and scattershot. Some of the art was great. Some was mediocre. And some was almost comically bad. But rarely was there a coherent effort made to capture a particular genre or mood with any series of cards. Cards would be undead or demonic perhaps (like Dark Ruler Ha Des), but rarely actually scary. Cards would be cute (like Watapon), but not as actively and intensely as, say, Melffys. More recently, however, it has felt like doing something cutesy (like Vernusylphs) or doing something horrific (such as Amorphages) was an intentional choice to go in a coherent aesthetic direction. And if you want a specific time, I would say I started noticing this ever increasing intentionality of the art some time during Zexal. And I just attribute this to them getting more and more practiced artists over time, as well as perhaps more specific aesthetic forethought.

I just don’t get the complaints about it. Anytime I hear discussion of yugioh becoming more anime (it hasn’t but regardless), it just boils down to people complaining that the Japanese card game has Japanese artwork on the cards plus a few complaints about “modern anime” whatever that’s supposed to be. These people wish everything got the 4Kids treatment with how western-centric they view the world.

Do not forget, we would never get the amazing story archtypes, like World Legacy or Albaz before. And we never would with the obscure old YGO design. Also, wdym "there are also some unique design". Like, anime artstyle = not unique? What kind of logic is it? Have you seen... a single Yugioh card? No, like, they may be inspired by something, but... they are totally unique, to this day.

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When i grew up Anime was a guy thing, it was rare girls in your age even like anime^^ you were a men of culture. now goth trend is over populated there are no unique ppl or cool personality its all just follow the followers and trends, everything mixed together and misunderstood

Bytchafied

it was explained once by a man on you tube that boys of the 80's-90's like the horror and grotesque but as they got older and as the new generation come they found a new Love. waifu aka woman. as anime got big in japan so did good looking woman in anime so all the boys had latest one waifu, so now pick a deck, wont you stay by her side ?

What I find funny is that in Duel MONSTERS when we summon a MONSTER card, it ends up summoning an anime girl. I propose we change the name to "waifu card" instead of "Monster card". It doesn't matter if it's a cute girl, a huge dragon, or a buff warrior. It is the waifu now.

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attention,attention please. i really need help, i like cute/daily life/funny anime so can anyone please tell me the names of this two anime specially the second one,thanks. 3:08 and 5:51

"[...]filled with stuff like this?" WOMEN!?!?!?!?!

Honestly, I think that they have a pretty good balance right now. I do really like all the anime-esque archetypes, but have a good amount of choices for other options too. One deck that I've found somewhat recently is Tistina. It's weird in terms of how it plays, but it's artwork is great. I really like the idea of a domain of crystal beings with ability to set things face down and then remove them from the field. My 4 favorite cards artwork-wise are Demigod of the Tistina, Crystal God Tistina, and Tistina, Divinity that Defies Darkness, and at the top Tainted of the Tistina. Actually, I've decided that I want to make the deck max rarity. Partially because it's funny, but also because it'd look cool, and would also be relatively inexpensive due to the deck not being all that great. It's not as bad as people say that it is either. It's not perfect or anything, but having an eclipse and semi-board wipe is really strong. It definitely isn't an OTK deck though, I see where people are coming from on that, but it plays better as a control strategy that has some going 2nd options.

The original Duelist Kingdom card artwork was/is the best. The anime on the other hand needed to be polished for modern viewers.

Sevens did not help

Why you said ridiculed like that😂 😭😭😭

Why do I keep seeing video look those? The game changed to include all sort of stuff. Whereither you like ancient horror, heroes, animals, mechas or cute waifus, there s something for everyone, that s about it.* Hell, the game literally has a rpg theme(runnick) and an isekai theme(aventurer token). Or do I have to say things like sacred fire king garunix, unchained abomination or rescue-ace turbulence is my favorite waifu so people won't pull the waifu card anymore? Why does no one complain about yugioh constantly flooding the cardpool with dragons that may or may not even have the dragon types to the point they literally created another type(wyrm) and pretend those aren't dragons even though they re.