Kaijus and Dragons - The Unknown Side of Yugioh

[@dearickangelonej.legaspi6686]

The two archtypes that are usually not even played in their own archtypes and is typically used as a tech in any decks

[@julienkupet1989]

Prisma say hi to gate gardian

[@captainofthecontrarians4204]

Gamera is not in the Godzilla franchise but another IP created to rival AGAINST Toho. Eventhough he isn't as popular this turtle boy still captured the hearts of many kaiju fans. Legion is also the antagonist of Gamera.

[@danielramsey6141]

WRONG! Gamera was not Created by Toho. Gamera is the Property of Kadokawa Corporation! And was Created by Daiei Studios! The Franchise has only had Tangential Connections to Godzilla due to Fans wanting to see the Two Come together. Sadly that Never happened. But there is one film that Daiei and Toho did their best to collaborate on. That film failed. It’s called Daigoro Vs Goliath!

[@Deathmare235]

Shouldn’t he be integrated into the Godzilla franchise though

[@JellyFilledEmpanada]

Are DC characters part of marvel? Then no Gamera is not part of Godzilla.

[@leviosdraekion6993]

@@danielramsey6141 try rereading the comment. Nowhere did this person say that Gamera was made by Toho. What they did say was that Gamera was made to RIVAL Toho.

[@leviosdraekion6993]

@@JellyFilledEmpanada what I said to danielramsey goes for you as well.

[@melvinshine9841]

Gadarla's color scheme is almost certainly Mothra inspired, but Gadarla's scarier appearance is probably based off Battra, a sort of "evil twin" to Mothra who appeared in the 1992 film, Godzilla vs. Mothra. Gamera and Godzilla are from two different studios and have never interacted, though a movie with them both kinda almost happened, once. Gamaciel having wings is a reference to Gamera's ability to fly. Also, since Legion is a Gamera enemy, it's also never met Godzilla. King Ghidorah is Godzilla's most famous opponent, but not his most powerful, historically. The Mechagodzilla using bones of the original Godzilla is the origin of the third iteration of the character within the franchise. Additionally, Mechagodzilla would be Godzilla's most powerful reoccurring opponent, as no Godzilla has ever beaten a Mechagodzilla without outside help in any of their film appearances.

[@curiouscarlo7276]

Was about to say he looks a lot like Battra.

[@rominevideos]

I came here looking for the battra comment lol

[@nkyfong]

Don't forget Radian which looks like a fusion of 2 Ultraman villains, those being Dark Lugiel and Ultraman Belial.

[@patriotnguyen2721]

​@@nkyfongduellog already said that

[@ShyRanger]

From a meta standpoint, I think it's funny that kaijus showed up and beat Super Quantal, when usually the sentai team shows up to beat a kaiju.

[@enlongjones2394]

Note: Egyptian pharaohs would traditionally take a name linking them to a god, to declare their authority end ensure their afterlife. Usually this was in reference to the sky god Horus, but some pharaohs took different titles. So, in Yugioh Duel Monsters, Dark Yugi’s true name being “Atem” is most likely his pharaoh name, linking him to the god of the same name.

[@Myusernamerulez]

Atem is just Ra in human form.

[@Petsinwinter2]

I don't think I could ever forget the Hieratic archetype as long as "Seals pass" remains a meme

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

3:37 Actually it seems to draw inspiration from Battera, who was an actual evil counterpart to Mothra while Megagirus is a Dragon Fly.

[@skeletingking]

Unironically I think the only reason Legion is being mentioned here is because of me. I had to keep editing the Yu-Gi-Oh wikia because some dunce kept insisting that Jizikiru is meant to be Gigan, when its very clearly the Synthetic GAMERA monster Legion. As far as I know it finally stuck after a while, but this was years ago, when the Kaijus were revealed.

[@austinvanderveer213]

As someone only vaguely aware of Yu-Gi-Oh, I was looking for info on the Kaiju monsters literally yesterday lol. Great timing

[@timjustmereally2570]

5:43 "Valuable ally to Godzila" Nope, sorry but they never met, cuz' they are from two different franchises and never had a crossover (yet).

[@BadData45]

gamera isnt owned by toho, there was a proposed gamera vs godzilla movie in 2002 by kadokawa production but toho declined. gamera and godzilla never met

[@iistonton]

My best friend and I have been into Godzilla since we were in middle school (almost 20 years ago) and I've always loved kaijus in yugioh. This video was an awesome Christmas gift Logs thank you.

[@LowTier4Life]

I hope Kaiju get a card like Malefic Terriftory that lets us have more than one on our field.

[@camron147]

That's the only thing stopping it from being an op archetype imo

[@alexanderrobins7497]

You can with a two card combo. TheDuelLogs played once Skill Drain on an opponent, but that backfired when the opponent played Remove Brainwashing and summoned a bunch of Kaiju with his entire board. It was unexpected and hilarious.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

10:48 Seeing that there are multiple archetypes that revolve around Egyptian mythology now (Like The Egyptian Gods, Hieratic’s and Horus), I wanna try and make a custom card that melds them together: _Horus - Hieratic Dragon of the Black Flame_ (LIGHT) Level 8 Dragon/Xyz/Effect 3+ Level 8 monsters _This card’s original attribute is always also FIRE. While you control a face-up “King's Sarcophagus”, You can also Xyz summon this card by using 2 or more “Horus” or “Hieratic” cards you control as materials (Transfer their materials to this card). During the beginning of each turn, declare 1 card type (Monster/Spell/Trap): For the rest of the turn, cards of the declared type that would be banished are instead attached to this card. If a card is activated (Quick Effect), you can detach 1 material from this card: Negate the activation, and if you do, banish it. If this card with 3 or more materials leaves the field by an opponent’s card or effect: Add to your hand or shuffle into your deck 1 card you possess that mentions “Horus” or “Hieratic” in it’s name or effects._ ATK/3000 DEF/1800

[@absoul112]

It’s worth noting that Juzukiru can target something else to destroy after it negates.

[@epicfail9693]

Great video as always however there were a few inaccurate points made. First Gamera and Legion are owned by the daiei film company, while Godzilla and company are owned by Toho. Gardarla is definitely a cross between Mothra and Battra clearly. Also Radain gets his name from Rodan from the Godzilla franchise. When talking about Mecha-Dogoran you showed a picture of 1974 Mecha Godzilla and said he was built over the bones of the original Godzilla which isn’t the case. The 1974 & 1975 Mecha G’s were created by an alien race from another planet, the 1993 Mecha G was built on earth using the technology from the remains of mecha king ghidorah who was built using future technologies in the 1991 movie…. Its the 2002 & 2003 Mecha Godzilla movies where the bones of the original Godzilla from 1954’s bones were used to create Kiryu (the name given to Mecha Godzilla in those movies) I might have missed a detail or two lol incase it’s not apparent life long Godzilla fan going on 35yrs 😊

[@u.a.perfectace7786]

I can see you stating all if this in a Did You Know trivia style video. I didn't know any of this stuff, really cool. Probably because I am just a casual fan of Kaijus/Godzilla Lol

[@derpboi2derp4u6]

Hieratic is my favorite archetype, just because of their aesthetics and nostalgia. So happy to see them get some love!!!

[@jlb9577]

Hieratics will always have a special place in my heart. When i first was introduced to the game by a friend in college about 12 years ago, i built hieratics. I had various synchro and xyz variants, and had a blast with my friends. They'll always be representative of the fun and social aspects of yugioh to me.

[@mr.person1219]

Hieratic Rulers was my first meta deck. Gives some amazing memories and it had an out for everything considered during that time period.

[@jobpittsburgh7083]

I just lost to a kaiju dragunity deck on MD so seeing this rn is crazy

[@davidpoole4374]

Ah good ol kaijus. One of most favorite archetypes.

[@VoltitanDev]

5:44 Gamera and Godzilla never met Gamera is from Toho's competitor Daiei and after Godzilla discontinued temporarily Gamera took the throne

[@kampy19]

Man, I could really feel the lack of Godzilla research here haha

[@pulceilcane]

It's also crazy how age of overlord didn't actually include hieratic support given the similar name as galactic overlord where they originally came from

[@JMark4]

We need more archetype videos like this! I’m a returnee and have been out of the game for 15 years!

[@KuKuKlock123]

Kaiju and Danger seems like they could be a related archetype but they’re not

[@cyangear6998]

So the script writer was somehow aware that Godzilla and Ultraman were two seperate franchises, but not Godzilla and Gamera? Also, where the hell did they get the information of Gamera ever interacting with Godzilla?

[@zenone9698]

You should do video on Fortune Lady and Faries card.

[@dDeckon]

I had a friend who really loved Dragons; So naturally, he loved Hieratic when it first came out. That said, because their effect summons a Normal dragon at 0atk: He HATED me whenever I played Chronomaly against him because of No33's burn effect

[@jakobwagner8032]

Thank you so much for doing this vids always look forward to them

[@JuanMiguel-qm7ue]

Happy holidays Mr. DuelLogs, your videos have been a great part of my 2023.

[@ShyRanger]

Someone kinda already said this, but no, Gamara is not part of the Godzilla franchise, although the point I want to bring up is that he's made by a rival company that is very competitive to Toho. So Godzilla and Gamara have never met, may never meet, and these Yugioh cards are the closest fans have gotten to seeing the two together.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@vivigeass6010]

Legion is from gamera, but just me being kaiju simp

[@arrozzblanco]

Just played against a pure Kaiju deck yesterday. Sadly I didn't get to see what it could've done because it was in the extreme duel event so he times out 😢

[@stevenceja4706]

Yeah I keep timing out too 😅

[@arrozzblanco]

@@stevenceja4706 I've been just setting up a half ass board and hoping and praying lol

[@stevenceja4706]

@arrozzblanco Ive just been spamming regular duels until I hit platinum lol

[@melvinshine9841]

That event is so damn hard. You basically just have to hope someone forfeits or play a stun strategy, because even a super basic Main Phase combo takes nearly half the damn timer.

[@arrozzblanco]

@@melvinshine9841 I've been playing plunder so I can play on my opponents turn lol

[@blepomorph419]

Kaijus AND Hieratics? This must be a Christmas present for me personally!

[@Black_Revue]

They should make a Sub Archetype of the EDF Trying to Subdue the Kaiju Monsters

[@akiradkcn]

We already have a link between Nibiru and Evil Hero One with Kaiju and Masked Hero would be cool

[@firepuppies4086]

​@@akiradkcnmaybe Neos instead? He's more directly similar, though a mix between Ultraman and Guyver.

[@zachmileshydra]

A noted combo is Jizu and Kaijuu capture mission. KCM can make Jizu negate KCM and then Jizu can follow up to destroy something else. Mainly for removing something without responding to it. It ensures you can destroy every turn (as long as you have counter)

[@kennydarmawan13]

7:40 A man of culture.

[@jshtng78]

Most important question regarding Gameciel is, how good is he with children?

[@doomzilla3568]

Ah Kaijus, the archetype that gives a ton of headaches for many players but very fun to play. Love to play them to relive the Godzilla/Gamera/Ultraman role-playing while annoying the opponent. =P

[@jvdach4652]

Gameciel for when you want to tribute and easily beat over it. Thunderking for when you need a beefy target for your Minkankos to crash into.

[@rainbowdragon168]

Please do the Libromancer archetype for this series next

[@TheMarkusx23]

The Godzilla section is off but the rest of the video is really good

[@dracometeors3010]

The first part makes Godzilla Fans bleed...

[@GreatBocaj]

Other than "Santa Claws" are there other themed christmas and holliday yugioh cards? A North Pole, or Yule archetype could be fun. Krampus and Belsnickel could have some crazy effects😁😁 So many monsters they could do like Pierre Noelle, Los Reyes Mogos, Yule Goat, Yule Lads, Ded Moroz the Yule Giant, which could have a Cold Wave like effect, and of course a Saint Nicholas monster and wife monster Filene the Yule Maiden. What do you think?

[@enlongjones2394]

Ghost Beef is “The ghost of Christmas Dinner” The entire Starry Knight archetype is Christmas themed; their Japanese name is “Holy Night”, referencing the Christmas song/hymn “Silent Night, Holy Night”, and they also have cards like “Holy Night Nativity”

[@GreatBocaj]

@@enlongjones2394 I had no Idea about them. That's pretty cool. Ghost Beef is an odd one though.

[@metalmariomega]

Heiratics as a group may have been forgotten, but no one will ever forget Spheres Pass.

[@starwhale3070]

One day i will make a deck that has kaijus, super quantams and masked heroes. A deck thag encompasses 3/4ths of the toho sphere

[@zachcanning4021]

Love to see !danger or the new gate guardian cards :)

[@Belphe]

great side of yugioh. Can you do Koa'ki Meiru archetype

[@ll01dm]

2012 I was a die hard hieratic fan. I would play lv 6 combo level 8 control. I would splash e dragons boi I miss playing that deck. (on second though many rose-tinted glasses it was pain when you drew laborite + watttail)

[@Buddy26420]

Did he just forget about Tefnuit

[@razzelnuts]

Tell me you've never seen a Godzilla movie without actually telling me you've never seen a Godzilla movie.

[@herodestiny6247]

Merry Christmas Mr.Logs

[@olyviermonteau4300]

merry christmas mann

[@mitchellslaughter2963]

Mothra actually HAS an evil counterpart. its called Battra, and Gadarla draws inspiration from both Mothra AND Battra

[@ceoofjeanneism6777]

You put the wrong mecha Godzilla for the "was built around the bones of the original Godzilla" that'd be the Millenium series mecha Godzilla also known as "Kiryu" which as one of the most popular mecha Godzillas and mecha dogoran's arm blades seem to indicate it's probably more closely inspired on that one.

[@filippobombelli8321]

Great video! Are you going to make a video about the top 10 best decks of 2023??

[@Junktheguild]

Gamera being a part of the Godzilla franchise, let alone ally (I believe you're thinking of Anguirus?)... That's a big oof moment.

[@Solitude2500]

Correction: Godzilla and Gamera are 2 separate franchises with Godzilla being owned by Toho and Gamera being owned by Kadokawa.

[@nebulosam45]

'Gadarla' reminds me more of Battra, the other moth-like monster.

[@ytmndman]

I see that other commenters have already covered the critical research failures of this video...

[@ytmndman]

Although I'll also point out that "Kaiju" means 'strange beast' and it's actually an abbreviation of daikaiju, which means 'great/large strange beast'. They're not two separate things, one is just shorthand for the other. Godzilla is as much of a daikaiju as Gamera is.

[@hipernox2]

Forgot about hieratic of Su and Tefnuit.

[@B0lzenlol]

atum is still almost mandatory in D-link decks; not sure if id call that forgotten

[@mechtologon]

Love yugioh, but there's a few inaccuracies on kaiju side like legion being a Godzilla villain when it's gamera's

[@MickelFrisch]

I liked to play haretics casually back in like 2013

[@Bavarian_Barbarian]

Tell me you've never seen kaiju movies, without telling me

[@hansgomez1317]

Was there ever an arquetipe around celtic guardian?? I feel like many og monsters he would have something lime that

[@ob5784]

You should do one of these about ancient hebrew text, hermetic philosophy, gnosticism and other stuff thats kinda lumped together

[@Bezaliel13]

Really don't see why we cannot get more Kaiju ngl. 9:39 Wrong one. 5:38 6:05 WHAT?

[@yousifsalim5003]

happy Christmas logs

[@Freedom001]

Noble knights. Thank you.

[@zimattack9994]

??? Godzilla has never had a cross over with gamera. They have never fought there not allies and there not even owned by same studios There were rumors in 2022 of a crossover but toho shot it down And be for you say but Tokyo SOS that is not gamera that Kamobas not gamera

[@Kiriemy]

Merry Christmas

[@Lin_Nascimento]

Man I'm so pissed that they changed the name abhyss to ogdoadic

[@NintendoCards]

Merry Christmas 🎄The Duel Logs Happy Holidays:)

[@yamirez1314]

Cameciel doesn’t have kyotoky tower in the background

[@showtvbest]

Ma boy forgot hieratic seal of the heavenly spheres

[@Legendiro]

Could you guys do a Video about six Samurai please? It's such a legendary Archetype from a casual POV. I would really like to see it! :)

[@olyviermonteau4300]

kaijus are overdue for at least 1-3 cards of support

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

I want more Kaiju Cards. Give me a Kong, a Destroyah, Jet Jaguar, Angirus, Gigan, Megalon, G-Force, Monster Island, Super X 3, Space Godzilla. GIVE US MORE DAMMNIT

[@karisasani7006]

3:23 I think you meant Batra

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

0:00 Idea for a new level 12 Kaiju monster: _Echidna, The Mother of all Kaiju_ Level 12 Dragon/effect _While face-up on the field or in the GY, this card is also DARK, EARTH, WATER, FIRE, and WIND-Attribute. You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) to your opponent's field in Attack Position, by Tributing 1 monster they control. If your opponent controls a "Kaiju" monster, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand) in Attack Position. You can only control 1 "Kaiju" monster. Once per turn: You can remove any number of Kaiju Counters from anywhere on the field; Normal or Special summon 1 monster from your hand or deck who’s level equals the number of removed counters._ ATK/3500 DEF/3500 For this one, I’m taking a different route than the usual Kaiju cards and am invoking the name of the mythological echidna, husband of the dread Typhon and mother of the vast majority of Greek mythology’s monsters (hence why it summons or “births” monsters from your hand or deck).

[@GeneralNickles]

i gotta hard disagree with the notion that heiratics are a forgotten archetype. they were literally an integral part of a tier 1 strategy. they single handedly kept dragon rulers being the best deck after pure rulers got slaughtered on the ban list. heiratic rulers were viable meta threat right up the day the adult rulers got banned.

[@SMAXZO]

I thought Gadarla is based on Battra. Heck the effect is based on Battra's usage of poison iirc.

[@Dragonado2831]

Close but not quite. Battra used mostly beam attacks in his only movie appearance. Mothra has poisonous scales that she can shed from her wings. Said scales can be poisonous or act like a mirror depending on the movie

[@Ridsssss]

Whoever wrote the script didnt do their homework on gamera and just made up a collab that never happened

[@seijiren5115]

Correction: Legion is Gamera's kaiju not godzilla

[@Blizzardfire]

The Battra disrespect in this video...

[@AmericanTybo]

Does anyone remember that card that lists smmon instead of summon

[@leviosdraekion6993]

3:23 guessing you have never heard of Battra. Megaguirus is as much a dark counterpart to Mothra as Kong is a light counterpart to Godzilla. Not at all. 5:44 they aren't in the same universe let alone owned by the same company. They have never collabed. So how can Godzilla and Gamera be allies? 6:06 Godzilla antagonist? No. Gamera antagonist. Did you even do your research? 7:06 often? It only ever appeared in 3 movies out of 37. And one of those films can be ignored since it was a dream sequence. 7:35 again, what makes you think Gamera and Legion are part of the Godzilla franchise? They aren't. So you stepped away from the Godzilla franchise at Gameciel and Jizukiru. 9:45 that is literally the origins of only two iterations of MechaGodzilla: the millennium era iteration and the one from singular point. Every other iteration is just a machine built in the likeness of Godzilla without building over the originals skeleton.

[@sineupp]

6:25 spiders aren't insects tho. literally unplayable

[@nicoofthenight8403]

Isn't Dogoran based on Rodan?

[@St4rDustSpirit]

I bow and submit to Hieratic Dragon King of Atum

[@leojamesquiambao1047]

Merry Christmas @TheDuelLogs! For this video series, good suggestions for future topics would be the Mathmechs and how they relate to their respective symbols, or the mythological/literary references of the Fire Fist and Ancient Warrior Archetypes. Also, my regular request for Worst Classic cards 7: ancient sanctuary and Worst Warrior types i. Yugioh

[@UpsetWhopperJr]

it bothers me how much hes wrong about half of these, do better mr logs

[@JehovahsThiccness666]

What's wrong?

[@leviosdraekion6993]

@@JehovahsThiccness666 for starters saying that Gamera and Godzilla are allies when not only are they not in the same franchise, they also have never collabed nor are they owned by the same company.

[@UpsetWhopperJr]

@@JehovahsThiccness666 gamera is a seperate franchise and some of the kaijus that this video mentions are not apart of godzilla at all (for example Legion)

[@JehovahsThiccness666]

Oh okay. Thanks

[@MrXanderPR]

Kumo and Hugh Mongus

[@owenkiff8902]

Just got to say that set is the god of evil not chaos

[@samu0l095]

For a moment I think that this was a "kaiju is a failed mechanic" video and I came here to said duel logs WTF is him smoking XD

[@mohammadsyahbanu4937]

I always thought dogoran is inspired by rodan

[@nightwish7074]

Didn't Hieratics literally see competitive play as a standalone deck after their second wave of support?

[@negate-07]

How old are they Anyway i never knew before how fun it is to summon a level 8 dragon with 0 atk/def then making its atk/def 0

[@CD-Gaming]

Apart from Godzilla and Gamera being different franchises altogether, I have it on good authority that Gadarla is male, so is actually Battra, not Mothra and spiders are not "considered" arachnids, they are, given that they have eight legs, which is why they're not insects as they only have six! Scorpions are arachnids as well, as they also have eight legs! Also, all us true Big G fans know that Desrtoyah is Godzilla's strongest as he went toe-to-toe with Burning Godzilla, as you said, and not only held his own, but was also able to deal considerable damage... to a mentally suped up Big G! Ghidorah and his many forms is jus the most common foe the King has faced! And you could have gone more into the Egyptian Pantheon, though, at least I do know someone who would love this Archetype, though she is more into classic Yu-Gi-Oh!, more the Duel Monsters Era! And I think due to the Structure Deck on Master Duel, we do tend to run Hieratic Seal in Dragonmaids for the high Lv Material for Dragonmaid Sheou, an omni-negate who simply requires a Dragonmaid and any Lv 5 or higher Dragon! Plus you can use it Dragon Shrine to fill your Graveyard with him and a Dragonmaid you can jus simply bring back and get the Effect off! *Xyz Summoning, not XYZ Summoning, there is no such thing as "XYZ Summoning"! One idea, what about the INSANE versatility of T.G.? They now basically have a one-card Baronne de Fleur, you know!