Thread 281556108

It was based and redpilled.
Kino even.
I often find myself telling others to believe in the heart of the cards IRL

>>281556108 (OP)
it has a successful card game,anon. How much more popular do you want it to be?

>>281556141
More popular than Pokemon

>>281556108 (OP)
I has several anime adaptations and spin offs plus an entire card game

>>281556233
I hate them
I only like Dungeon Dice Monsters

It made billions of dollars

>>281556410
But why doesn't /a/ ever talk about it
We have constant DBZ threads and pokegirls threads on /h/ but no one ever talks about Yu-Gi-Oh despite it honestly mogging all of them, even Naruto.
Why is it so underrated out of all of the other franchises?

>>281556108 (OP)
propably one of the most popular franchises, even popular among normies. don't reply with a frog or chudjak or I will gut you

>>281556456
"Not discussed" doesn't mean it's underrated. 4chan discussions are mostly about polarizing topics. OG Yu-Gi-Oh must not really be polarizing, and no more new content for the original series is coming out either.

Did Yugi's crazy hair help or hurt the popularity of this series?

>>281556108 (OP)
It had an anime running for over a quarter of a century non-stop, the card game is played almost all over the world and everyone knows it as THE card game anime even if other ones were better in a single season basis.

>>281556494
help, it's super iconic. I still wonder to this day how it actually works

>>281556472
It wasn't popular enough. I wish I had kept my deck and had played more games.
It's the most gigachad anime out there

>>281556494
Thanks to Yugi most TCG shows got a crazy haircut for their main characters, specially if they're aimed at kids.

>>281556499
there are other?

>>281556535
Yeah, but most of the designs I've seen don't seem to pull it off as well as Yugi does.

>>281556108 (OP)
It was popular.

>>281556546
Yeah, from the top of my head there are Duel Masters, Battle Spirits, Cardfight Vanguard, Wixoss and Buddyfight.

>>281556576
Not as popular as Sonic despite having the same aesthetic drive.
Face it, it was underrated kino and /a/ is ashamed they got rid of their decks before they could have a battle that would force them to believe in the heart of the cards

>>281556591
never heard of any of them, and as another anon pointed out, they all look like copies of Yugioh
except Wixoss is it yuri?
which one would you recommend is the best?

>>281556677
It depends really, just like YGO they have plenty of spin-offs and some of them aren't subbed so I hope you know moonrunes.

>>281556719
>aren't subbed so I hope you know moonrunes.
I don't

>Card game doing better than ever despite muh text and power creep.
>Anime got multiple sequels
>Got reboot in form of rush and also makes money

What?

>>281556843
/a/ never talks about it
We NEVER have comfy Yu-Gi-Oh threads

>>281556827
所がないです。

>>281556832
Kill yourself.

>>281556108 (OP)
kill yourself

>>281556971
>>281556974
Cope

>>281556108 (OP)
This is the equivalent of a youtube comment of a song with 45 million views, and the person saying, "I wish this band was more popular."

>based
>redpilled
>kino
>mogging
>gigachad
>cope
You are not a thinking, sapient human being.

>>281556108 (OP)
DM is as popular as any card game manga can get. If you mean the whole franchise, it'd be more popular if the main card game appeared easy and cheaper for newcomers to pick up and play

>>281556410
Who owns the franchise now anyways? Did Takahashi have a family or something?

>>281556878
What's even there to talk about? The story isn't anything to write home about afaik aside from Kaiba's autism. And the card game doesn't belong on /a/. There also isn't any powerscaling autism like with DBZ. Just who can do the most asspulls per duel.

>>281557343
Pokémon doesn't belong here either and they have a thread daily

>>281556565
That just speaks volumes about his design

>>281557384
manly masculine man!

>>281557343
Yugi's a chad.
There are barely any chad anime characters

>>281556385
I like that too

>>281557343
>afaik aside from Kaiba's autism
I think it's notable that Kaiba is one of the best rival/antagonists out there, Vegeta doesn't even come close imo

>>281556878
I end up writing any thought I have on yugioh manga or anime on vg because it's just easier

>>281556158
Nothing will ever be more popular than Pokemon.
Ever.

>>281556108 (OP)
I like the early parts, pre card game take over.

>>281557757
REEEEEEE

>>281556456
make a storytime. it would mog any other thread in /a/

>>281557904
I think we had a storytime or two a few years back.

>>281556597
it could've been a more popular franchise (though i insist it's hard for anything to be more popular than Yugioh, let alone reach the likes of pokemon or mario or whatever), but they probably made some shitty marketing choices along the way
the card game got kinda convoluted and hard to get into, the anime and manga ended, taking with it all the iconic characters and monsters, and the sequels never had the same pull, probably because Kaz got less involved over time.

>>281557904
>>281557915
W-what's a storytime?

>>281557955
5D's ended up becoming the 3rd most discussed anime this year on jap social media despite its age, and the event was only a free streamed re-airing. The way media and fandoms have fractured into smaller and separated sections compared to 10 years ago will stop the chances of new things becoming as big, but for a sequel series that's a much stronger pull than what other shounen have managed besides the really popular ones

>>281558192
Grim
They're even dredging up the 5D sloppa out of desperation

>>281558589
To me the response was a small sign of hope. DM manga was the best overall story, but the 5D's anime for part 1 had the most competent pacing, soundtrack, and duels as a Yugioh or general card game anime. The simplicity of having decent pacing no matter whatever the actual subject is tends to be underestimated by many who don't bother to stop and think about it. It showed that sometimes corps and production committees can't brute force their trendy new show to be popular and talked about even when up against an old anime that had crudeness and several flaws, but also some genuine staff passion in it underneath the card shilling. An anime that wasn't even considered among the best or particularly polished during its era

>>281556108 (OP)
no fights, which makes the plot retarded
the main villain literally wants to kill yugi, but doing it via playing stupid card game
nobody can take it seriously

>>281556472
I wouldn't say its that popular among normies
They know what it is, they don't play the card game though

>>281556878
There were plenty last year. An anon was posting the manga pages about daily. I think they went through the enitre DM era including R and the movie manga tie in.

>>281556233
aki is more iconic and does more for the plot than poochie and his overly pushed furry deck ever did

>>281556878
that's because gen z /a/ has absolutely no taste

>>281557970
When someone posts the manga, like how pokemon special anon is story timing kinnikuman

>>281556108 (OP)
Yugioh's popular because of the card game in
any international context. It's not a spastic action series like dragon ball, naruto, or bleach or any other number of shonen jump series. it doesn't have heavy romance or thrills or epic robot fights or tons of fan service or anything like that. It has way too much thinking and focus on mild dramatics with very simple action sequences. And Kaz's story writing is not capable of pulling in the giant international audiences. Kaz's focus on games, restrained interactions, and symbolism is not the key to international popularity.
>>281558192
>>281559364
Even when stuff like 5d's gets a rise in attention in japan, it doesn't mean anything on an international stage. Yugioh is simply too mild for western audiences to really care or think of it as anything other than a mid tier toy/card commercial.

>>281561128
Not sure why this has to be explained to anyone though. Yugioh really doesn't feel like all those other long running anime except the fact that it's poorly paced a lot of time.

What do you mean more popular? The card game is practically one of the biggest names in TCG, and it isn't going away any time soon. And there's already plenty of franchising being done with the series.

If you want to blame anyone for it not being bigger blame Konami for half assing any opportunities they get. Take this for example, they have more than enough material behind plenty of deck archetypes to pump out an entire season of anime with plenty of fans who would be behind watching and buying merch of it, and instead they put out some animated shorts instead thinking this is what the fans want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIwuA90vT7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY359iE59Bg

>>281561252
death-t is so fucking cool

why is he saying this in front of the two of us

>>281556108 (OP)
what? it was super popular

>>281556108 (OP)
>I often find myself telling others to believe in the heart of the cards IRL
I do it for mahjong

>>281557915
>>281557904
YGO storytime was kino and showed how much people love this manga (even with some flaws). YGO is really good

>>281557343
>The story isn't anything to write home about afaik aside from Kaiba's autism
The story is solid (especially for a TCG anime), it's about ancient Egypt wizards summoning spirits to do battle while dealing with the consequences of slaughtering like 100 thieves to make cursed gold instruments for morally gray reasons. It's not very conducive for shitposting and discussions, though, unless someone is dumping it. Also a lot of the cool stuff lies in the art and how much of a Chad Kaz was.

>>281556108 (OP)
OP Yugioh DM was incredibly successful both in Japan and the West what the fuck are you talking about

>>281556108 (OP)
Kill yourself, zoomer. It was more popular than any of your favourite anime. And it is still getting new seasons, that speaks for everything.

>>281561128
It doesn't help YGO is doomed to have a watered down dub with practices from the 2000s.

>>281562218
there really should be a second dub that wasn't butchered by 4kids

>>281560962
Happy loving Aki wife raising a family together but the witch comes out when she finds out her child is being bullied at school

>>281557970
chapter dumps. if you missed any there's a good chance there's a pastebin link that shows all links. Gantz recently had a kino dump

>>281560969
he needs a get well soon basket