Duel Masters Was Weird (Surprisingly Not a YU-Gi-Oh Clone) | Billiam

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Duel Masters was Wizard of the Coast's attempt to create a version of Magic the Gathering accessible to a Japanese audience, but it failed in the United States.
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[@peterbell3263]

Make it come to Australia and i will

[@ericksoler1221]

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[@misterturkturkle]

*LOSE THE FACE CAM MUSTARD LORD*

[@billiam]

Mister Turk Turkle I actually made my own mustard recently! It was a spicy coarse mustard, which had a little bit of honey in it, but would that qualify it as honey mustard? Also I’m going to include more face cam next time, just for you, kiddo :)

[@corncrab]

They removed Cowboy Bebop 😢

[@Keihzaru]

The Duel Masters anime was fun. It was like, an abridged series before those were a thing.

[@barrybend7189]

@Shaman X because that show was meant to be satirical.

[@kriegerh]

They literally have an in canon dialogue saying a chimp wrote the character dialoge

[@barrybend7189]

@@kriegerh except for knight that guy is Kirby right back atchya Metaknight levels of oneliners.

[@daisakukuze9627]

ghost stories` card game sibling

[@A-man1998]

I would love to see an abridged version of this.

[@findout2655]

"most competitive decks were made to end the game in THREE turns..." that's yugioh as well

[@Gloriankithsanus]

Sometimes I feel like Yu-Gi-Oh games still take the same time as in the early days, but the turn counter became a lot smaller :'D Turns just take a lot longer lol, cuz everyone needs to shuffle the deck 7 times after searching 7 things from the deck, special summoning 6 monsters from the extra deck and so on.

[@IngwiePhoenix]

Very much YuGiOh in a nutshell, yup. xD

[@gogetta0100]

Literally 😂

[@7swordquanta459]

Bruh, most YGO games can already end in just 2 turns now. At the most, whoever gets second wins.

[@Terraphice]

7 swordquanta you’re dumb if you think going second is anywhere near as good as going first.

[@peterecker3599]

This used to be super big in Hungary, but we didn't know the rules, so we played it like rock-paper-scissors based on the color of the cards. And I never knew that there was a series

[@Cr4z3d]

that could actually be a fun way of playing, for some of the other games too

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

Omg yes! And do I remember correct,y that there were a lot of badly translated counterfeit cards? or was that just yugioh xd

[@KSA-iwnl-]

exactly! I played it around 2009-2010 when I was 2nd or 3rd grader in elementary school no one knew the rules, everyone just traded their cards with other schoolkids based on the points or how the design looked I remember there were a lot of fake cards, but a lot of legit aswell once a full pack got stolen from my jacket's pocket when I was in class but luckily they were my fake cards and not the "valuable" ones

[@szabolcsunger4774]

Yes! I watched it a lot. It even had Hungarian dub btw. Can't find anywhere sadly :(

[@regisegek4675]

yeah lol I ve had like 150 cars, idk where they are : ((( i bought them in the paper store

[@Infovorousness]

I’ve been exposed to Yugioh for long enough that 3 turns to OTK an opponent sounds slower than continent drift

[@bocodamondo]

its funny how i never understood how the card is played because of the absurd parody dub.

[@PsychoMantisss]

It's one of those "It's so bad it's good" things. I rewatched it as an adult and was laughing so hard I started crying because it was so terrible.

[@bocodamondo]

haha yeah, i recently rewatched some clips, and its definetly has the same humor like abridged parodies like yugioh and TFS

[@y2k890]

That's because the show had episodes specifically made for America.

[@gregsanders61]

The sub was equally as absurd from the research I did. It's not worth watching the first series.

[@ridwana4037]

Imagine watching the dub of english dubbed on your own language. And they don't even bother to translate the jokes. And the voice actor don't know how to deliver those jokes. God, kill me...

[@JohneAwesome]

Back in middle school at least in my circle of friends Duel Masters was that nice medium between Yugioh and Magic, while Yugioh had a almost paragraphs of text on a single card Duel Masters was pretty simple and was easy to get my friends into. Until the Ultimate Dragon archetype came along it was actually super balanced because we were all dumb kids and the game was still so new there wasn't a established meta for a pretty long time, partly in due to just so few people playing it. The anime in the beginning took itself seriously but just gave up half way in the season and basically became a comedy as the dubbing company started writing their own material which deviated from the original Japanese script. Not a ton of people may remember Duel Masters but as a shoddily produced Japanese IP coming state side a ton of my friends loved it but eventually we all just went back to Yugioh...

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

That and the ps2 game was straight fire

[@noiseisgold3n42]

Wow, small world. Did not expect to see you here. Love your playthroughs, Johne.

[@alakazamlover4908]

Johne?!??!?!! well this is a surpraise huh...neat

[@dondraper3804]

Liking the Nocturne LP so far :)

[@MrTakashihongo]

Fancy seeing one of my fav youtuber here.

[@bubbastevegarcia2459]

That Yu-Gi-Oh vs duel masters challenge was the most badass elementary school thing I've ever heard! 😂 😂

[@IngwiePhoenix]

Did that too...untill I drew Change of Heart and the whole thing just faltered into obscurity. XD

[@xxMpEGxx]

But how does it work: freaking "emerald grass" has 3000 points xD

[@Cr4z3d]

I've actually had a crazy idea on how you'd play a hybrid of MTG and Yu-Gi-Oh, lol. It's centered on Yu-Gi-Oh! and the rest of the game works as usual, except you need to use mana to summon monsters, say, 7 swamps to summon Dark Magician. You could also possibly combine core cards from both games, but that could get broken real fast, lmao.

[@randyramirez4408]

@@xxMpEGxx I remember trying that in 2005, and even now, where I built a deck designed specifically to counter those duel masters high number life points. If running an anime scenario featuring the characters for both shows I would envision the yugioh character using the crush card virus, which is basically an instant win card once drawn, since anything above 1500 in the the opponents deck is sent to to the graveyard.

[@MsM-kh9xg]

I remember the show being hilarious due to just how meta it became, like there was no 4th wall, they obliterated it. References which ep number it was and stuff like that, they definitely gave up on the actual premise and tbh I kind of loved it

[@triccele]

I remember in one episode one of the characters said something like "trust on the heart of the cards" and the other reply "that's the wrong show!". That show was funny, I actually loved it

[@prototipolq-84i46]

Eh no, fue el doblaje

[@Little3Pigs]

Fun fact, yugioh was also based on magic the gathering, when Kazuki Takahashi introduced it in the manga

[@DDRhappiness17]

If i recall Duel monsters (yugioh) Was originally called Magic and Wizards when it was first introduced in the manga

[@princesspikachu3915]

Yu-Gi-Oh as a manga was originally about playing games in general and not just cards. There's one chapter of the manga where they are playing with "Digivice-like" keychain pets and are basically playing Digimon. Anzo (Tea) literally has a peach for a Digimon because her name translates as apricot which is similar to a peach. And Yugi's looks like a chibi version of himself with his hair...

[@ironmaster6496]

@@princesspikachu3915 Yu2 is freaking adorable. Also yeah The Yu-Gi-Oh manga and first anime had WAY MORE variation, better execution and had a lot of dark themes, it was more than just a Card game commercial, thats why i prefer those two (still like Duel monsters tough)

[@wariowuzo9433]

ironmaster64 not really card game commercial if it has a compelling g story. The original series lasted for 5 seasons. If it was just a glorified card commercial then it would went the way of Duel Masters. Hell, even the spin offs last several seasons before concluding. Reducing the series to a “card game commercial” is unfair as it’s clearly proven to be compelling and a interesting enough to warrant incorporating an overarching story and plot progression.

[@DienNDash]

I remember as a kid I never heard of duel masters. I got into an argument because another kid wanted to play duel masters and I said "you mean duel monsters" cause that's what they call Yu-Gi-Oh in the anime. After an escalated yelling fit he showed me his cards and I realized we were talking about two different things.

[@davemarx7856]

Nostalgia?

[@shigglezz684]

Yea u idiot lol jk

[@carloscardona6587]

DienNDash I AM NOT a SQUIRREL!

[@Goregreet]

My asscrack stinks

[@crumbbbbbb]

So in other words you were wrong?

[@MegaPieru3000]

Duel Masters has the best artwork when it comes to card games. I'm happy that it lives in Japan and is the second most popular card game there. Despite dying in the west.

[@antonio5777]

It’s odd. I live here in Japan and completely forgot it existed in my childhood. I went to an electronics store and saw a big shelf with cardboard cutouts advertising the cards. Unlocked a deep memory

[@jakebrill5990]

I had the starter kit as a kid. I never ended up laying with anyone but seeing this video reminded me how much I liked the art.

[@imadeddineeljamal3191]

Didn't know you needed a starting kit to lay with someone

[@Flip-a-dip-dip]

I’m glad you didn’t lay with anyone as a kid LOL

[@brentOhlookAsnake]

The art is wonderful. I hope one day you will lay with someone

[@TheBrandonFraser]

I had the starter deck also! I would just look through the deck and wonder what it played like.

[@LexikMusic]

that’s unfortunate, you probably still have your duel masters, but do you still have your common V-card? almost everyone lost theirs but you just said you never found someone to lay with :/

[@TrueDarkAce]

One of the original artists for Magic the Gathering was my Art teacher in college. He's a cool guy.

[@blackcat1642]

holy shit, thats awesome

[@user-mh9dx7nz2r]

Sure buddy.

[@user-mh9dx7nz2r]

@@littlecr0w Oh please, people always lie on the internet about stuff like that. I would love it to be true, it'd be extremely awesome.

[@teferi456]

@@user-mh9dx7nz2r It's not unlikely. WoTC was seven people working in a basement when the first set was being made. The artists were mostly contacts the art director knew and they weren't paid much.

[@AeridesEntertainment]

One of the few times a snide "Sure that happened" comment would be fitting, but given Magic's origins, I actually won't immediately discount it.

[@182supermario]

You forgot the most distinct thing that made Duel Masters different from Yugioh (at least in the English Dub), it was a parody dub, it was an Abridged Series before Abridged Series were a thing, not the best one, but can still be funny from time to time

[@TheKpa11]

"Boy the animators sure are getting a lot of mileage out of this scene"

[@KidSnivy69]

Is that why Richard Horzits saying, "I'M NOT A SQUIRREL!" has forever been stuck in my head?

[@PhantomDusclops92]

"Can I get an haircut, dad?" "No, it's an anime tradition to have the main character and his father sharing the same haircut." "You know what? Anime tradition SUCKS!"

[@almightyk11]

Honestly disappointed he didn't mention that. Probably has a bias with this video. Also didn't mention any of the other games for it, or the real time mode of the PS2 game

[@TheKpa11]

EVERYONE DO THE PHANTOM FISH FLOP!

[@Sugin14]

I remember her like 5 years ago I found one of these packs at a random little discount store for $0.50 and it had a f****** bulshock dragon in it.

[@nicholasgawler-collins5754]

_[turns around]_ Did somebody say DRAGON?

[@LeeroyPorkins]

King Dragon: *Sending Regards Intensifies*

[@yashsakpal6879]

Nice bro👍 I never got bolshack from packs 😭

[@ThiccTropius]

I got a starter set and got a bolshack dragon from the included pack… I was STUPIDLY lucky when I pulled that because it could have been a crappy rare

[@WingedEspeon]

Honestly as someone who has played MtG it seems like duel mastersr has a better base rules system. Letting cards be both mana and other card types prevents mana screw which really sucks. Also I had freinds that did a MtG s Yu-Gi-Oh duel... My feshman year of college.

[@alurichthemad4001]

I did the same thing in school and the game fell apart so fast

[@chukyuniqul]

Yeah, there's almost no downside to that system for the casual player. For a tournament level tho...i can see there being way too many potential problems (i kknow it's legacy, but think of a gruul/golgari deck with borborigmos. You'd be feeding your cards all fucking day, it would be too strong)

[@mrxzentric333]

DuelMasters is actually better than Magic in many aspects. The mana system is obviously one of them, and the shield system, which made the game simpler, yet fairer than Magic. Too bad the TCG rules of the game in the States and worldwide messed with the meta a lot, as there was no deck restrictions and no forbidden /limited cards in competitive play, unlike the OCG rules in Japan.

[@StargazerYo]

I played MtG a couple times and could never get into it. I played Dragon Ball Super's card game though and was all about it. They also used the mana system where any card can serve as mana. I was normally a Yugioh guy but DBS was lit

[@anmolt3840051]

@@mrxzentric333 You could also get "shield triggers" from broken shields that you can play instantly for no cost

[@Striker775]

4:04 How did you summon a Nature Creature when you only had Light Mana? How did your opponent summon Immortal Varon, Borg when he had only Nature Mana? You're not a rich anime boi you can't do that.

[@billiam]

The base set rules didn’t acknowledge mana types

[@billiam]

We were playing with the practice rules basically

[@MyAlessandro1995]

are you sure? i remember was one of the basic rule of the game,use at least 1 kind of mana the same of the creature you want to summon

[@yamimichael297]

@@MyAlessandro1995 If hes going by just the Playmat in the starter set, matching civilizations aren't mentioned. It would have been in that rulebook though.

[@Striker775]

Oh right, they simplified the game so Casuals can start playing

[@farzaanhoque8737]

Anyone remember Battle B Da Man? Would love to see him do that series next

[@demiremi]

Farzaan Hoque battle b daman waa a great series.

[@lol-nc3tz]

yea

[@RoberttheotherWeasley]

Were those the little gundam looking dudes that shot marbles out of their chests?

[@edwinzuniga1987]

Yes hahahah

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

@@RoberttheotherWeasley Yup

[@dnaseb9214]

The anime was incredibly well received in my country. Most kids dropped yugioh for this game. The problem is the season 2 came out only 2 years later, so we got disconnected.

[@iyadnaseer8356]

Same

[@rafael16759]

where?

[@dnaseb9214]

@@rafael16759 not in the west

[@suggarion1362]

Back when I was a kid (about 2006/2007) we would organize badass neighbourhood vs neighbourhood Duel Masters competitions and every damn block kid, regardless of age, would come play. And if you chose yu gi oh over duel masters you were pretty much considered a heavy douchie nerd. It was a massive craze for a couple of years. Kids would make up strategies to fool and steal cards from one another and Ive seen some punches being thrown over lost duels. Idk how it was in the US but in my east-european town it was fuking massive.

[@MajoraZ]

I loved Duel master's card art. Yes, the game was basically just MTG, to the point where you could probably make a deck with cards from botth games and play with it functionally, but it had a really, really cool visual aesthetic. Wish it never died here in the US and it went on as long as it did in japan with it's sets.

[@thomashare6733]

Until the game evolved and became the parent company in Japan way of testing things that might not work in Magic.

[@magicmanscott40k]

@@thomashare6733 the art fucking great. Made a water deck of the fast food cards cuz I feel for the art. One card I have is super weak but the art makes it look op and I love it

[@shirshanyaroy287]

The artstyle was just amazing. Yugioh's art was laughably bad compared to DM

[@princesspikachu3915]

Shirshanya Roy I don't know about that. I have a couple of the McDonald's promo cards and they are even uglier than the ugliest Yu-Gi-Oh cards I can think of. One of them looks like a walking pile of shit and it resembles the Smooze from My Little Pony 1986...

[@nintendonut100]

As a kid I was a huge fan of this game purely because of how great the art was

[@DarkHeroCC]

I was a huge fan of Duel Masters, even had 3 GBA games. The monsters were cool and you could actually pull off some cool plays.

[@DarkHeroCC]

@Shaman Xeed I'm from Europe, don't know if those were any different but they were a lot of fun

[@NX_TEK.2]

@Shaman Xeed I played the gba titles and loved them. I actually didn't even know about the card game until years later. tho, if there was a 3rd one, i only remember two of them.

[@Ziko577]

I can confirm this as I own two of them currently. The third Japanese game is the worst in the lot as most of the cards in the sets represented in the games are underpowered, have shitty effects, and the game's art looked weird but that's my gripe as I played the 2nd game before it and it was fine.

[@magicmanscott40k]

I remember the games were good. U didn't have to a shitty trial or win a lot to unlock one pack of cards like yugioh games. I love yugioh but omg if u want to make a certain deck, u got to fucking beat the whole game to get ure deck. God damn I hate deck building in yugioh. Game play amazing though

[@kyokoro_p]

The GBA games were honestly a much better and easy to understand introduction to the actual TCG.

[@fahxtailteevee1059]

Bring back “Dungeon Dice Monsters” where you actually have to use STRATEGY instead of meta loops and 10-minute long turns just to OTK!!!!

[@ubermenschmexa]

Ah, that was amazing

[@wickederebus]

Here's a question. Why is it the "bring back caveman Yugioh" sentiment is so common in comments, but there is no push to host or create some sort of url or online event for it?

[@King0fAkkCalamities]

@@wickederebus They tried with Newgioh and Trinity formats, but we're never big or taken seriously. Personally i believe people don't dislike modern Yugioh, they dislike unbreakable boards, Handtraps and floodgates, things which are an integral part of modern meta decks. Not like the old days were glorious, big level 4 beaters + staples was simplistic af, at least in modern Yugioh we havev a shitload of different styles to use and play.

[@wickederebus]

@@King0fAkkCalamities I wonder if a format where all negated and protections are banned would work. Nothing is unbeatable, nothing negates, nothing can survive.

[@Cr4z3d]

@@King0fAkkCalamities you're kind of limited to only a few configurations that actually work without getting steamrolled in the modern meta tho

[@craigjones9992]

I remember getting these in a Happy Meal before I was even in freakin kindergarten. I was obsessed with the artwork, which is badass. So my uncle bought me and my brother the starter set and man did we get some mileage out of those cards. For the next couple of years before the TCG dried up, all we'd ask for for our birthdays was new Duel Masters. Still have every single one of those cards, they're just old and faded to hell because I was five and didn't use card sleeves.

[@musicwalls]

In my freshman year of high school, there was this cute girl I liked who wasn't really a hardcore trading card game fan. I, on the other hand, was really into Yu-Gi-Oh at the time. One day, the two of us got to talking about Yu-Gi-Oh for some reason I can't remember and she told me how she didn't like the game because it was too complicated with lots of rules. She told me about Duel Masters and how she liked it because it was simpler. So, I had the choice between agreeing with her and asking her to teach me and possibly getting on her good side, or being an ass and telling her that Duel Masters was a Yu-gi-oh clone that was stupid. Naturally, my stupid younger self went with the latter option.

[@citizenkiwi5548]

@Von Blitz you obviously never had pussy

[@Freshley369]

citizen kiwi i had and have tho and would still agree with his statement. Fuck man how weak of a character are you if you dont have the balls to stand up for your hobbies because you want to get laid. Also not the best lady as well if a conversation about a card game is the reason she does not want to date you.

[@yuijgpower]

@@Freshley369 standing up for his hobby..? There was nothing to stand up for. She said she preferred a different game, and this dude, being young and stupid, got all "um actually" on her and it was a turn off.

[@Freshley369]

Ryan Scholten dude... op did everything good. I was replying to another dude who would lie about his interests just to get laid.. please read the comments first

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

Damn freshman year?

[@davemarx7856]

"Mini Titan, Gett" 😦 That's... 😡 That's just an ordinary sized Gett.

[@darkencroix6412]

Hey. Think of it this way. You can either get mad, or you can be a mini titan you with a mini titan member.

[@theoneupwarrior94]

Who's the kid with the spiky Hair? Shobu!(pretty sure that was his name) Flaming hand up in the air. Shobu! Creatures battle in the zone! Winner takes the trophy home! Duel Masters! Duh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh-nuh nuh nuh!

[@unseenabyss2824]

I liked the giant monster cards. Especially the dark cards. I don't know I just feel like dual Masters has some of the best art I've ever seen for a card game.

[@_crowbones]

Wait, so this series wasn't just a fever dream?? What the hell, I thought I hallucinated this

[@setoGabes]

this is the candle cove of trading card games wtf

[@TheLostAge]

Same, I barely remember watching a TV comercial of this show but never really saw the show even once. I totally forgot about it until now.

[@dreamcastdazia4753]

Same here lmao

[@etiennedelrieux6938]

This is so goddam true, I tried looking for it some time ago and couldn't find crap because I didn't remember the name and I started wondering if I didn't imagine it out of thin air

[@chipo_banz431]

Y’all aren’t the only one it was this and Zatchbell for me😂😂

[@Kittenfox_55]

I got these cards from McDonald toys

[@cherrynonoa2389]

I wish i got more and i miss the anime kids meals bk and mcd's used to have a lot

[@floor_tank_shanks4194]

The good ol days

[@123x234]

@Manwanér Lantnar will you sell em?

[@Firestar4041]

Same. R.I.P. classic BK and Mcdonalds

[@Darkwolf523]

Same lol

[@GirtheAlienGoldfish]

The anime was my favorite thing about Duel Masters. It was pretty funny.

[@JenovaProjectTheBand]

I love you Billiam. You discuss all my favorite childhood nostalgia with such perfect commentary I can relate to, thank you and keep doing what you are doing :D

[@icyjules]

I freakin loved Duel Masters when I was a kid, but then I'm European, maybe it was more popular over here than in the states? Literally every book or game store sold the packs and I spend so much money on it (like hundreds of dollars). Sometimes when I go digging through my old stuff I find my old cards and just nostalgically browse through them. I gotta say the art style of the illustrations are amazing, much better than Yu-Gi-Oh if you ask me. Some of it is even better than the somewhat bland fantasy MtG art. Man I wish they would make a digital version of Duel Masters a la Hearthstone, but that will never happen. Now I'm sad.

[@VideoGamesRus100]

I feel ya my dude, I was cleaning out my storage and found a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, pokemon cards and even some shitty Digemon cards, it made me feel nostalgic as fuck, but then super sad. Hey better to have experienced it all and to have memories than to never know about it in the first place, aye?

[@DJdLucD]

If you're interested, there is a small community that plays still Duel Masters on OCTGN, they've even translated a lot of the Japanese cards into English. Not quite an official online game but still cool!

[@wehavebiscuits]

I agree. Of all TCG's, I like the art of duel masters the best

[@nunomartins2209]

Same europe was popular here rocked

[@olgutalapatrat1956]

Im waiting for an online duel masters game since i was 8 now im 21 and still not happening..

[@myleswatts8062]

Dual Masters seems like a distant dream that I can barely remember it existing as a kid but I know I owned some of those cards at some point

[@BrentStryker]

I’m so happy I stumbled upon your channel I’ve never experienced so much nostalgia. Thank u for covering all the cool stuff I saw as a kid that I had since forgot about

[@rwright7267]

I absolutely loved Duel Masters. It was my favorite card game as a child. I wish it gained the popularity it deserved. I would have enjoyed being able to play it for years to come.

[@DraphEnjoyer]

Even the cards themselves feel like they're abridged. My favorite was always "Ur Pale, Seeker of Sunlight"

[@sewershaman3280]

“What will it do if it finds the sunlight?” -Bloody Squito

[@TheBadDesperado]

@@sewershaman3280 that's why there's a 6-mana evolution card Ur Tan

[@craigjones9992]

Oh my God. How have I never noticed that?

[@sofaking9404]

"Today´s special is the lightning platter with a side dish of fried you" Holy Awe promo text.

[@GrumpyOptimist]

I was so excited to see Billiam cover this, only to have increasing sadness that he didn't touch on how much the actual show parodied everything. It's like the English dub knew it was a failed project and so they did just about whatever they wanted. They had some really funny moments.

[@YowLife]

ME: *thinking* Duel Masters sounds a lot like Duel Monsters... 3:11 (Accidentally calls the game Duel Monsters.)

[@maxonmendel5757]

As a 20 year old, I gotta say thanks for all these videos. I watched your chaotic video the other day and it's been on my mind a lot. I feel like I missed a lot of this stuff cause I was a bit young and cause of my familysituation, but this sorta gives me the chance to revisit some of this stuff, I was like 5 or 6 when toonami was on, so. Idk, I liked yu gi oh but I was just too young. Same thing with like spiderman ultimate. I watch videos about it on KZbin and the closest I remember to experiencing it firsthand is browsing around my school library during the scholastic book fair. I just wish I could properly go back and see what all that was about. It's all so fuzzy to me, after having moved around so much when I was a kid.

[@Khainite]

I had a lot of Duel Masters card as a kid, and honestly I always liked it more than Yugioh. I certainly had my Yugioh phase a couple of times as a kid and only one period where I was into Duel Masters but looking back I think I liked Duel Masters more. The anime was dumb and campy but I was young enough to enjoy it. I think I was about 11 at the time that it was in its most popular period in the US. I never found Yugioh as fun. Maybe it was because I was (and still am) a dumbass and Duel Masters was easier to pick up and play. I also liked the art and the descriptions on the cards, and being an edgy kid I was a huge fan of the Darkness civilization. Some of them (like Writhing Bone Ghoul) actually surprised me with how creepy they looked in the art, but I guess that's what drew me to them. My friend was a fan of the Light civilization, so whenever we got booster packs we'd trade cards if we got one from the other's civilization that we didn't have. We had a secondary civilization too (me water and him fire) and nature was just sort of the one we both didn't care that much about. I still remember the last day of my 5th grade before Christmas break. My friend gave me Ballom, Master of Death. It was a super rare Darkness card which blew my mind. I really cherish that memory. Thanks for that Garrett. I think I forgot about Duel Masters like everyone else, and even as a kid I could tell it wasn't catching on in the US and that it was going to die off and be forgotten about. I'm looking through the card database right now and nostalgia is hitting me hard. I had so many of these cards. At the time they were my most prized possessions and my whole world. I wonder what happened to them. My mom probably threw them away...but I guess I still have the memories. Duel Masters might not have caught the attention Wizards wanted it to in the US but at least it left an imprint on some of our childhoods. I consider that to be worth it.

[@LeafyPeach]

Man that is just sad

[@Khainite]

@@LeafyPeach Is that meant to be insulting or is that genuine?

[@LeafyPeach]

@@Khainite felt nostalgic when I heard you. I'm fact, I still have a lot of them.

[@LeafyPeach]

@@Khainite genuine for sure

[@gedewahyu.p]

I'VE NEVER SEEN BALLOM IN REAL LIFE, LUCKY YOU!

[@TheKpa11]

It was an abridged series before abridged series' became popular.......not the best kind, but you do get quite a chuckle hearing the self deprecating lines.

[@OneEyeShadow]

It's no YGOTAS.

[@TheKpa11]

@@OneEyeShadow yeah that's why I said "not the best"

[@zerokura]

I think i remember their was a line where they like say their not going to last another season or something that 4th wall breaking.i enjoyed the games love how you fight people to get cards like you did in the pokemon TCG for the gameboy. Kaijudo was a nice story and treating the monsters as real monsters was neat like digimon.

[@BlazingSerenade]

Ghost stories did it first

[@untunedguitar45]

BlazingSerenade Deluel Masters was from 2004, Ghost Stories was from 2005

[@Dextro0451]

We played this so much at high school 2003-2004ish. I’d played Yu-gi-oh and magic quite a bit but Duel Masters fell nicely in between the two. It was tactical and rewarding, yet without bs rules that you have to stare at for five minutes to figure out what they do...

[@CragusMaximus]

Same here! Totally agree!

[@Harab_Serapel]

1: You look like a reject from a matrix convention! 2: There's a matrix convention?

[@anzaqureshi1338]

You know what's weird? DuelMasters was ENORMOUS in South East Asia. Especially in Pakistan, and way more present than Yu-Gi-Oh. Along with Beyblade, this was kind of the 'It' thing back in the day and it's surprising to hear someone say it was a failed franchise, I played it for YEARS as it was the only card game I actually enjoyed. It's still a thing here at cons. Great video, like always Billiam! It's always nice to see an upload from you ♡

[@cherrynonoa2389]

So nicee

[@123x234]

All the south asian cards were fake

[@anzaqureshi1338]

@@123x234 Okay? That doesn't change the fact that people played it a lot lol.

[@anzaqureshi1338]

@@saintfrac5360 ayyyyyye how you doin' brother?

[@WaterKirby1994]

Zexal Era killed Yugioh as an anime, while the TCG popularity ended in The States almost a decade ago. Arc V Anime was fairly good although had so much trouble getting broadcast in English speaking countries & we're probably never getting Vrains in The States, although Konami made the game unplayable for anyone who doesn't use the cards from that series. We literally aren't allowed to use ExtraDeck Monsters anymore so yeah Yugioh will never return to popularity in the States. In the grandscheme of things every card game is a failure these days Stateside, the cards just sell because people like to collect them. Because few people still play cardgames playing online became a thing. The 2010s have been a terrible time to be a fan of cardgames in the US & Konami is a really scummy company that screws over several series they own. Let's just say SouthEast Asia gets everything good while I'm living in crap & contemplating my existence in an extremely messed up time.

[@gudakoalter]

I actually like playing Duel Masters as a kid. it's quite challenging and resource management is a great addition to card games

[@jakejutras5420]

Resource management is a great addition to card games? Magic has always had resource management.

[@botatobias2539]

It caught on like glue here in Romania. For years. When I was finally done, I randomly picked 40 cards from my pile of hundreds and threw the rest to the trash. I got some classics from my final random selection, like Bloody Squito and Tornado Flame, but also rarities like Aqua Master.

[@johnhsmckay]

I really liked duel masters. I prefered playing DM over Yu Gi Oh. I can't really say about the anime, I watched YGO a lot but i only remember watching DM a bit.

[@zbh9268]

I've been waiting for this episode for a long time. I still have all my Duel Masters cards to this day and have started re-watching the anime. It is one of the most meta and hilarious English dubs I've ever seen. I was even able to pick up on some of the jokes as a kid. It's really funny to hear Tai's actor play Shobu, but it's even funnier that the Not-Marucho character is voiced by Zatch/Jimmy Neutron.

[@PsychoMantisss]

It's a hilarious dub, definitely agree.

[@kurtdelarosa6151]

That would be Joshua Seth and Debi Debyberry, respectively.

[@kyokoro_p]

I liked Duel Masters' character design. ... At least Sayuri and Mimi.

[@razkable]

I glad duel masters exists..its when I realized not all anime are good..

[@allenwalker1123]

Well, if you ask me, I'll say it's an evolved version of the Pokemon TCG in most parts. I played through a lot of card games through my childhood, even some that wasn't very famous outside of Japan. The whole design of DM is not that bad to be honest. It doesn't need Energy cards like PKmon TCG, cuz every card can become a mana (Energy), which makes the whole bad draw thing does not exist, like PTCG. In DM, you need the cards to be the shield to protect you, which makes you waste some cards, but in the other hand, may bring an advantage to you when one was broken by your opponent, and that sounds more fair. While in PTCG, someone who got the upper hand and kills one of the opponent's PKmon, will then get an extra advantage from the Prize cards. Too bad they didn't bring out a good TV show after the first season. And as to YGO, YGO "was" a great game in the past, until Konami messed it up by making the cards overly powerful, and in nowadays, if you win the scissors, paper, rock, you may finish a unbeatable setup during your first turn and it's game. And I like the whole Ancient Egyptian theme of the card illustrations from the first few seasons than the ones that Konami is bringing out. Other card games, not gonna comment on them since most of them only had Japanese versions or did not last long. Magic The Gathering is the only TCG that I regret I haven't play with it back in the days.

[@RoberttheotherWeasley]

I played in the Canadian beta test tournament of this game... and it was literally just a room where they brought myself and a whole bunch of other kids into and gave us decks and said "okay, now play"... we were like... maybe 13 and had no idea why we were there and wtf this game was. Honestly, for what it was worth, I really enjoyed the game once we figured out how to play. At the end of the tournament we got to keep the decks and were given another deck to "share with a friend!", three boosters, and a magazine with a promo card in it. Great video, thanks for bringing back the memories! I didn't even know Kaijudo was a remake of it!

[@whywyatt376]

Has he done Bakugan yet?

[@SynchroUEHLNFX]

Zorky Corky yes

[@Dave102693]

He already did

[@doraeguyakaneddie6586]

Ian Silveira What are you talking about? He already did it

[@michaeltrevino9280]

No he hasn't?

[@anzaqureshi1338]

I hope he does! These shows were so big in my childhood and it's amazing to see anyone talk about them

[@cedricgiyo9666]

The funny thing is, me and my brother had Yu-Gi-Oh cards and we played them with Duel Masters rules. Best of Both Worlds

[@randomrobin7773]

Only thing I remember from Duel Masters was that one FBI looking guy with the shades.

[@coolsnowmanjoe9380]

The baby-looking character? That was Boy George.

[@cacjad]

Hey Billem! Love your obscure nostalgia series of vids! Wanted to throw in my suggestion and see what you’d have to say about a little anime gem on Jetix called Shinzo! Keep up the good work!

[@BugsyFoga]

Now here's a franchise a highly doubt literally anybody remembers or talk about , so I'm glad you're talking about it.😄👌

[@abadtime3319]

I goddamn loved Duel Masters when I was a kid👍🏻

[@thomashare6733]

Most popular OCG trading card game in Japan, that is still being supported for 15 years in running with the last set release being October 20th this year, along with crossing over with many franchise....pretty big.

[@krim7]

I bought starter decks and packs for it. They wound up in the trash like 3 years alter, lol.

[@Biittle]

I visited japan half a year ago and saw a lot of them. My friends who're into magic bought a ton of them there

[@Supre3m3Kai]

Nah, I was bummed when it stopped circulating in the states. Its still going overseas and the cards look dope.

[@TitansBaneYT]

I remember being obsessed with Duel Masters as a kid. I found it easier to play and learn then other card games. Miss this show man, I wish I still had my card collection. I used to collect and buy them all the time.

[@NicKTsanicK7]

What forsaken memory have you awakened from the bottom of my brain

[@13luecatalyst33]

I remember some cartoon in 2009 or 2010 that had this pretty cool concept. You had this deck box that you also used to play the card game cause it opened up. You had a monster as your main and a bunch of cards you lay on top of your opponent’s monster until the 3 yellow bars at the top left were turned red. I cant remember what it was called, but most of the cards were a really good plastic and see through with those cool lenses that animate the image if you turn it a certain way. I wish i could remember it

[@cubeofmeat4982]

“Duel Masters to Yu-Gi-Oh is like Digimon to Pokémon...” ......... you’re dead to me.

[@sionfranklin1139]

Spirit Resonance right !!! Wasn’t digimon first anyways ??!! I know it was a lot better story wise !! Facts!!

[@CantusTropus]

If you listened to him more carefully, you'll notice he said that DM has an unjust reputation as a YGO clone, much as Digimon has an undeserved reputation as a Pokémon clone.

[@dontuse10]

@@sionfranklin1139 No it wasn't first and its story was better than OG pokemon but not by much coming from someone who loves both

[@-majeed7391]

In the middlest most kids liked digimon more than pokemon

[@princesspikachu3915]

I personally know more people who watch Digimon animemore than Pokemon anime but I know more Pokemon gamers than Digimon gamers. Anyone else who likes Digimon Links? Digimon Story? Digimon World DS? Anyone??? Just me... 😢

[@simonusc849]

I found out about this game, because the cards were additionally listed in a Yugioh Card catalogue from 2006.. they looked pretty awesome tbh

[@Nagatem]

“I’ve been stealing cable all this time... wow I am evil”

[@gedewahyu.p]

BEST

[@inkoinfinity2]

"The cableman is true evil"

[@3miL_2012]

Rip to those who don't get it lol

[@FakeSugarVillain]

Still remember my favorite spanish pirate duel masters card "Berraco bélico"

[@Banfrid]

I don't know, I was a teenager and I was IN LOVE with the anime (but in Italy is dubbed better). It's so funny and breaks the fourth wall all the time! :D we all played the game a lot!

[@Roboshi2007]

To be fair to Yugioh/Duel monsters; Yugioh started as a collection of different games the main character would play. Everything from the card game to yo-yos to DnD to air hockey. The only theme was that evil people would get punished via the medium of different games. So duel monsters in the anime was never meant to just be THE Yugioh. Yugi was Yugioh. You can even see evidence of this in the early yugioh spinoffs like dungeon dice monsters and capsule monsters. Not to mention Season Zero which covered stuff from the manga that came before the card game.

[@froliciouspanda]

That door opening sound from AIM gave me gave me flashbacks to middle school

[@TheKpa11]

OH NO! FORMULAIC TELEVISION HAS FAILED ME!

[@robertbartley2409]

It shall ever be able remembered as a scene in the bonds beyond time abridged movie

[@mrlol9283]

3:11 he said “Duel Monsters” lol

[@Artster900]

You joke about Immortal Baron Vorg, but him along with Brawler Zyler were some of the first cards to pop back into my mind back when I started getting back into the game.

[@derjahgalgion]

Duel Masters still massive in japan and tourneys are super hype

[@Ducktaro]

Everything is massive in Japan... Which is something good and bad

[@claudiobizama5603]

It's really bigger than Pokemon TGC?

[@chr1s415]

@@claudiobizama5603 I doubt it but I think he means that it's still popular

[@Bastardatore]

@@chr1s415 Actually right now Duel Master is the most played in Japan, while Pokemon is 3rd place, behind MtG, ironically. Yu-Gi-Oh is in 5th place and Vanguard/Buddyfight are in 4th place (Japanese people tend to stick the Bushiroad games together for unknown reasons)

[@saturnista5510]

weplayed this at school, was white kids verses phillipino kids, it brought our 2 groups together, we still hang to this day! 13 years later!

[@KARADTZ]

i spend 10 years playing duel masters outside with my friends, i loved that period of my life

[@surinderdosanjh4369]

Did somebody else laugh when he said right behind YU-Gi-Oh

[@RedRhythm_1]

yup 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@duelmastershideout278]

Well it has beaten Yugioh

[@SpawnTrapped]

I remember getting a couple starter boxes like this one as a kid. Unfortunately I could never get anyone to play with me and I just never really got into. Just shows how TCGs can't catch on without lots of people being into it.

[@dogscott7881]

Lol I feel you. I was a loner kid so I had no one to play card games with even if I was interested. The worst part is having no one to trade trade-evolution Pokemon with 😩 don't got a gengar to this day.

[@SpawnTrapped]

@@dogscott7881 haha I recently went back the Pokemon TCG and restarted by collection. The evolutions are annoying when you're not working from a big collection! At least now we can play online though

[@BehindTheCard]

Ah the memories -- i remember watching the anime but man older animation doesn't hold up now

[@genericname2747]

Kaijudo was one of my favourite shows as a kid. I did not realize it was based on a card game.

[@GrimmDestiny8]

I remember playing a game of Duel Masters on the PS2 and it was actually pretty fun

[@Anima6six6]

Pretty sure this is the most popular Duel Masters video on KZbin

[@konaplays1920]

I still have some of these cards sitting in a box with my Yugioh cards, Bakugan cards, Digimon cards, Pokemon cards... jesus

[@123x234]

I'll take em

[@saberblue]

It means you've had a really good childhood

[@michaellundy8150]

I don't remember getting that starter set but I sure do remember owning all the cards on screen

[@kylemurray3887]

What a throwback I actually still have DM cards to this day

[@InugamiTheHound]

I remember the anime was pretty decent same with Zach bell and BOBOBOBO-BO and Rave masters as anime that was good but never finished. I never finished card capture sakura either.

[@jordanholland616]

Zach bell , bobobobo-bo and bakugan are good shows

[@inkoinfinity2]

Card captor sakura is on Netflix right now, I'm planning on watching

[@marcomoscoso7402]

I felt like 13 years old again when you mentioned you didn't understood anything that was happening in the duels

[@chavezyunni]

Been binge watching your videos man, very good, you got a loyal subscriber here! Keep up the great work✊

[@Bitch_ass_Wizard]

The person who wrote the manual was obviously a poet (beat box music starts playing in the background)

[@georgeyankovic]

Will you review original B-Daman series and toys?

[@itaka12able]

:3

[@georgeyankovic]

@@itaka12able I see what you did there!

[@asmylia9880]

George Yankovic wait...this name somehow sounds familiar to me...give me please a bit more insight...

[@georgeyankovic]

@@asmylia9880 my name? Maybe because of Weird Al Yankovic? Maybe because of my art on deviantart / instagram? Idk... My real name is spelled differently but it basically sounds the same, I just like the way it sounds in English.

[@asmylia9880]

George Yankovic no I meant about B-Daman...that actually sounds very familiar to me but I don't really remember anymore..

[@taythree5549]

a card game based on a show based on a card game, where have I heard this before, oh right change card gams to video games and this is the TCG equivalent of Pokemon XD. You know, save the instant popularity

[@homesliceheroes6306]

Or ratchet and clank

[@taythree5549]

That game series always looked interesting but I never got around to playing it, I should do that at some point

[@mckmitte]

I seriously can’t wrap my head around the concept of every card being a creature spell and land

[@officialtk53]

I loved the VHS. I may do an opening when I can find it back.

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

I remember this show felt like essentially a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh with light-hearted humor. Back then I found it pretty funny and was semi-interested in the actual story.

[@PikaLink91]

Second most played card game in Japan? Then where do Vanguard and Buddyfight fall on the list?

[@Cinomod6066]

Vanguard and buddy fight weren't a thing yet I think.

[@JoelBurger]

Bushi products are popular, but not nearly as popular. To give some context: in February of this year in Japan, Yugioh grossed 5.32 billion yen, Pokemon 1.22 billion, Duel Masters 910 million, and the top three Bushi products (Weiss, Vanguard, Buddyfight) a combined total of 740 million.

[@jonasknighkrazzzy101]

the duel masters anime was one of the most hilarious shows i saw as a kid and i haven't been able to find a single place to stream it. truly thought everyone had forgotten about it.

[@wingsofflame5084]

I was incredibly obsessed with this show+game back in junior high (i would even wake up early enough to catch it airing at 6am on kids wb). And I don’t know how much credibility this lends me, but I was a young boy living in Canada at the time and I P R A Y E D for this game to catch on.

[@--Paws--]

If ProZD was sponsored by Duel Masters, I wonder if it would sell well like they did with a phone app similar to this.

[@JokerL1000]

I'm a big fan of genere clones. Duel masters was pretty good. As was Monster Rancher.

[@doyleharken3477]

Monster Rancher had a better anime than Pokemon and Digimon ever had (excluding Tamers).

[@JokerL1000]

@@doyleharken3477 Monster Rancher rocked. I dont knoelw why it never hit the zietgiest big

[@princesspikachu3915]

JokerL1000 Monster Rancher is best genre clone anime. The games suck but I love the story. It's even darker than Digimon. Plus Raiger's (Tiger's) backstory is fucking sad!!! Also shiny day Lycanrock from Pokemon looks like a Tiger of the Wind/Raiger rip-off.

[@ironmaster6496]

Ah Monster rancher, THE Digimon clone of my Childhood

[@anmolt3840051]

My favourite part about Duel Masters was the really intricate lore of the civilisational war (Fire + Darkness vs Water + Light, with Nature being mostly neutral) that is constantly teased in the card texts.

[@alejandromolina7270]

The VA who played Knight (the dark and mysterious guy with the sunglasses) played Jack from Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.