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As for the nitpicking that you're obviously doing for the Orpheus and Eurydice metaphor. I was focused on the hero journeying to the underworld to try to save the woman. Is the journey and struggle and the fact that he does actually deal with Cerberus not enough? By the end of episode 20, the story doesn't end with Yusaku just leaving with Aoi. Going back and forth through vrains, Battles and "deaths" happen more than once. How you want to interpret death and him leaving with her is more vague than that. As a side note this also ties to Japanese myth where Izanagi travels to Yomi to bring back Iznami. The influences are obviously there

Also, you can nitpick the hell out of Yugioh's metaphors about Egyptian mythology. Isis and Hathor are put into the same character as Anzu as some sort of mother/girlfriend combination. Horus as Yugi wasn't the main one responsible for laying Osiris to rest, he mainly avenged him by defeating Set. In legend Osiris didn't even fight Apophis as some physical human being like Atem did with Bakura. Apophis/Apep is just the serpent of darkness and death. A lot of bakura was made by blending ideas of egyptian mythology into a human figure (mixed with anime characters). And most importantly, Akhenaten was a real pharaoh of Egypt, possibly responsible for being the origin of monotheism in western religion. He didn't try to usurp the throne for his bloodline. Akhenaten and Set were the real pharaohs. Atem as a literary device was meant to insert primordial creation mythology into an epic about defeating the darkness. You can only view Akhenaten as an evil figure by seeing him as perpetuating monotheistic heresy. Metaphors and analogies by definition are imperfect. And Yugioh is based on blending mythologies and stories from so many different places. By demanding analogies and metaphor fit perfectly into your vision of what the true legends are you're negating the point of symbolism.