The dub is funny and by the third season they lean on the absurdity of the premise with a lot of meta commentary jokes.
Funnily enough that means in the dubbed continuity, Jaden is straight-up dead until the Bonds Beyond Time movie brings him back, and you're just expected to know "Oh there was a fourth season where Jaden came back from the dead." GX is actually pretty good, to be honest. GX would also get a dub by 4Kids, but they would stop dubbing it at the end of the third season, leaving the fourth and final season undubbed to this day.
In 2004 they began releasing Yugioh GX, a series set ten years after Duel Monsters and following Judai/Jaden Yuki, a hot-headed, cute, eager and charming kid who eventually goes on to commit a small act of genocide. Gallop's tenure with Yugioh would last long beyond the adventures of Yugi and his friends. Three movies have since been made for Duel Monsters- one set during the show called Pyramid of Light, one crossover called Bonds Beyond Time that has Yugi team up with the other two protagonists as part of the 10th anniversary of the anime, and Dark Side of Dimensions, a 2016 epilogue movie that saw Kaiba and his eternal quest for the saltiest runback in history as he tries to go to the Egyptian afterlife to challenge the Pharoah to a rematch. Yu-Gi-Oh became a merchandising powerhouse, with all sorts of additional merchandise- tie in games, shirts, board games, and even anti-weed PSA. This was helped by an English dub done by 4Kids Entertainment, who made some dubious changes to the source material in their efforts to localise it, but nowadays the dub is seen as a bit ironically iconic due to the wonders of meme culture. This series, also known as Duel Monsters, ran from 2000 to 2004, and is nowadays seen as one of the most iconic pieces of children's media for the Late 90s-Early Noughts generation alongside Power Rangers, Digimon and Pokemon. After it and villain Seto Kaiba were brought back several times, the card game became a reality in 1999, coming to the West in 2002.Īfter a 1998 anime adaptation by Toei, Studio Gallop, alongside Nihon Ad Systems, would make an anime covering much of the manga following the introduction of Kaiba and the Duel Monsters game (alongside several filler arcs done to either shill new cards or buy Takahashi time to wrap up the current arc in the manga). Later on, it's discovered that the spirit is the remnant of an Egyptian Pharoah who lived thousands of years in the past called Atem.Īfter about seven volumes, Takahashi created a one-off card game called Duel Monsters, which saw immediate popularity with the fans. The spirit takes over whenever Yugi is in danger, challenging criminals and thugs with deadly games of chance wherein he punishes them with ironic punishments.
In the story, protagonist Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the localisations) discovers an ancient artifact that contains a dark spirit within who takes residence in Yugi's soul. With that being said:įor those out of the loop, Yu-Gi-Oh is a manga series written by Kazuki Takahashi that ran from Septemto March 8, 2004, totalling 343 chapters. This post is admittedly more of a compilation than a proper post as many of the sources and claims in this post are going to link back to posts made by /u/misterbadguy159 and others that have long since done the work breaking down the myths covered here today.
I know Yu-Gi-Oh has been a frequent source of drama for this subreddit lately, and this post is absolutely inspired by the recent works of /u/misterbadguy159 covering the card game side of the drama.