i love season zero so much. like wasn’t there a chapter where shadow the hedgehog plays the ancient egyptian game of “pull coins one by one out of this shoe and also there’s a scorpion in the shoe” with a dude
YEAH!!! and the one where someone tries to murder joey with a yoyo so yugi electrocutes them!!
hobby: replacing “shadow realm” with “death” in ygo duelist kingdom
i.e. “if joey loses this duel, marik will send him to the shadow realm” = “if joey loses this card game, he’s going to fucking die”
the literal spirit of an ancient egyptian pharaoh: oh no! if my best friend loses this card game, he’s going to fucking die
megalomaniac multibillionaire: i’m so excited to finally see someone play the Big Ass Chicken card
in the original japanese, there was no such thing as the shadow realm; that was invented by 4kids to avoid mentioning death
so the original stakes for the duel were, in fact, “joey is going to fucking die”
this is the best news i’ve heard all day. holy shit. what’s kazuki takahashi’s email address, i want to send him my thanks for making the best fucking manga of all time. like the stakes LITERALLY could not be higher and seto’s over there pulling a Grandpa Piss in the Oblivion Episode of Monster Factory. absolute legend
Pegasus is interesting, because he’s 24 years old.
According to teenagers (and thus the show) he’s some weird old dude with way too much interest in games.
To people his own age he’d be a douchey rich playboy who’s turned enjoying his youth into piles of money and doesn’t bother socializing with his peers.
To older businesspeople like Gozoboro and the Big Five he’d be an arrogant kid who flounces in to upset the establishment and thinks he can play with the big boys.
god i just LOVE that campy disconnect between a serious premise with a silly tone….or a silly premise with a serious tone….like goddamn ishizu is like “you’re the reincarnation of an evil egyptian sorcerer who used Actual Magic” and kaiba is like “fuck just give me the card with the big blue guy in it so i can go play card games on a blimp”
bakura: pharaoh, i have returned from the dead and taken control of this innocent schoolboy’s body just to kill you and bring ruin the world
kaiba: i sure hope yugi plays the Big Red Snake card
Reblog the 500,000 dollar written check from Seto Kaiba and money will come your way.
“Keep the change.”
Things I love about this:
1) at the time the show was released, that was actually about a $200 000 car, but Kaiba wasn’t old enough to have a Japanese driver’s license and it’s doubtful he met residency requirements for a Californian one. Was the extra $300 000 literally a “don’t call the cops” bribe, did he fuck up the exchange rate, or was he just like “uhhhh what do cars cost”?
2) If you watch the issues he has pulling out: HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. (Of interesting note: we see Jyonouchi, who’s older than Kaiba but still not old enough for a driver’s license, driving with no problem earlier in the series. Things that make you go hmm.)
3) He can’t write his own name in English. That clearly says “Seto Kaifa.”
4) I know the meta answer is “kids in Japan had to have a shot at reading it,” but in-universe: he writes cursive like a fucking third-grader who’s still learning the Palmer method. Seto Kaiba: head of a major corporation, world Duel Monsters champion, reads Nietzsche in the original German, STILL A TEENAGER.
THIS SCENE IS LITERALLY “ALL THE SHIT KAIBA CAN’T DO” AND I LOVE IT FOR THAT.
very real yugioh theory: ryou let bakura do whatever the fuck he wanted just because he wanted to speedrun through high school and only being conscious half the time sort of counted
if you put on the cursed ancient egyptian artifact you can clip through the ground and end up in egypt six months before graduation
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