SSJ2 watches Duelist Kingdom

[Captain Cadaver]

Hell, most of Joey's duels until halfway through Battle City hinge heavily on luck based strategies, for that matter.

 

[SSJ2]

Yeah that was always frustrating to me. It would be nice to see him win one through skill.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Too bad the time where he used skill the most (vs. Marik) was one he lost 2

 

[SSJ2]

I forget most of the Battle City duels. Interesting watching this in Japanese to look for differences in dialogue. I still don't like Yugi's voice at all, but his English dub voice is disgusting as well.

 

[Pyro]

Yugi or Atem's English voice? I mean, they're both by the same guy, Dan Green, but Atem's voice is fucking legendary and I won't have you shit on it in this house. According to GX, Yugi grows up to have the same voice as Atem anyway.

I'll have nostalgia and love for the 4kids dub of Yu-Gi-Oh, despite how bastardized it is, but I do really enjoy watching the original Japanese version (with subs, obviously) because of how different just about all the dialogue is. The 4kids dub changed entire backstories (like Marik's) and frequently omitted key dialogue for card effects and such. Turkey shit.

 

[SSJ2]

Yugi or Atem's English voice? I mean, they're both by the same guy, Dan Green, but Atem's voice is fucking legendary and I won't have you shit on it in this house. According to GX, Yugi grows up to have the same voice as Atem anyway.

I'll have nostalgia and love for the 4kids dub of Yu-Gi-Oh, despite how bastardized it is, but I do really enjoy watching the original Japanese version (with subs, obviously) because of how different just about all the dialogue is. The 4kids dub changed entire backstories (like Marik's) and frequently omitted key dialogue for card effects and such. Turkey shit.

Regular Yugi. He sounds like a little bitch. Atem and Kaiba were the only reasons I was watching the English dub in the first place.

 

[Papasmurf]

Yugi/Atem's Japanese voice remains shit up until episode 65 or so so be prepared for that. It's well done after that point tho.

 

[SSJ2]

Finished episode 8. Lmfao at Kaiba deflecting a bullet with his briefcase. Must be made of katchin.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Must be made of katchin.

Obviously he spent all that money on something so durable to protect his cards. Let's not forget him putting things in place so they could survive the Obelisk incident

 

[SSJ2]

Why the fuck is Yugi about to duel a zombified Kaiba?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Honestly, the whole duelling Kaiba's personified evil essence (and it turning into some fat clown) made about as much sense in-series as it did in the Abridged, the only difference being the latter at least pointed out how retarded it was

 

[SSJ2]

Why wouldn’t Kaiba take his deck when he escaped? He had time to grab his bulletproof briefcase lol

 

[Captain Cadaver]

And then he somehow has it when he duels Yugi later on in Duellist Kingdom
My guess is that this was an error of the anime omitting a detail from the manga, but I could be wrong on that.

 

[SSJ2]

This is a terrible episode lol

 

[Pyro]

The manga duel was more bullshit in that the impersonator had Yugi beat. Yugi admitted he couldn't defeat BEWD and was open for attack when the dragon literally evaporated because Kaiba came out of his coma. Everyone at the duel just sort of went with it instead of resetting. Lol. That's also how they got Kaiba's deck in the manga because the guy was in a coma. Obviously the anime had to finagle around the whole coma thing and make up an alternate version of events, which I think makes Kaiba look more badass by hacking the system but whatever.

Yugi took Kaiba's deck back after that fight and returned it when Kaiba got to the island. It looks like Kaiba was going to use a temporary deck since on the way there, he had his briefcase full of cards and his Duel Disk V1.

 

[SSJ2]

I just can't believe it is taking more than 1 episode to get through this irrelevant plot. I'm tempted to skip episode 10 after how awful 9 was. What a waste of time. Kaiba hacking Pegasus' system was cool, but they spent way too much time on it.

 

[Pyro]

I feel bad for you when you get to the Bakura episode.

 

[SSJ2]

Finished episode 10. Kaiba destroying the Blue Eyes White Dragon with the “heart of the cards” was absolutely retarded.

 

[SSJ2]

Finished episode 11. How Jonouchi still has such terrible dueling skills is beyond me.

 

[Pyro]

I never got that either. He trained with Grandpa Moto for a couple weeks prior to Duelist Kingdom after basically knowing zilch about the game, and I know there are a lot of things in-universe to understand about playing, but still. I haven't played any of the new shit since like 2013 but if I had a few weeks dedicated to learning, I'd be damn good by the end of it. Joey doesn't get really good until the BC Finals in my opinion, and that was supposed to be his journey to becoming a true duelist so he could duel Yugi again.