Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 Was A Show...

But, I mean, was it THAT Good? ...………………...……...……………………………………………………………………………………………………...……………………………………………………………...………………...………………......……...…………...…….
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[@samueljansen6372]

I really liked the original manga series. The whole idea of Yugi having a dark personality that would come out and play demented games with his victims. Also he had this attitude of "if you die, it's your own fault". I thought it was awesome

[@ines1084]

Same

[@whynot6266]

Same

[@Ultima64]

Pretty based tbh

[@lifeafter2020istrash]

@@Ultima64 shut up nigga

[@pur3chao56]

Ass hole Yugi is best Yugi

[@yogurtmandaz4857]

I remember reading the first volume of the manga when I was 11 I was not ready for Yugi mutilating people and burning someone to death

[@shakieltaylor9995]

Also you know,the whole peagus and bandit Keith thing

[@Goku22411]

In the manga, Yugi sure loves setting people on fire

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Goku2241, season 0 Atem was the best version of his character.

[@zhaoyun255]

And he actually killed a few people as well (The dude who robbed his house, I believe.)

[@KingNexusMOCs]

I read the manga. Who the fuck did Yugi mutilate?

[@terrysyvertson9205]

yugi's mom didn't die, in the original Japanese version she appeared in the scene when yugi is leaving to go meet up with tèa and had a speaking role

[@GabyGeorge1996]

Terry Syvertson she was also the woman in the scene when his grandfather got out of the hospital

[@it.dont.matter.and.i.dontcare]

@Miguel the ultimate gamer Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yugioh, once said Yugi's dad was always away on business

[@crowthewicked8344]

@Miguel HernandezLeiva21 Apparently, its common in japan for middle class families

[@willfanofmanyii3751]

@@crowthewicked8344 Unless a father is confirmed dead in an anime, odds are he's away on business. This is true for MHA, Midoriya's dad is a businessman in america.

[@JorgeXY]

@@willfanofmanyii3751 IN AMERICA!

[@Goku22411]

I recently found out Kaiba was 16 years old, I thought he was in his 20s

[@someoneimsure]

You mean he's not 14? What is my life?

[@CorruptNeo]

Lol

[@savfox8491]

i always thought he was 18. guess i wasn't that far off, huh?

[@Goku22411]

Sav Fox in the Japanese version, Kaiba is 16. However, in the English version, Kaiba’s age was turned to 18.

[@chrishansen1842]

Screw his age he has money.

[@Schnee7929]

I like how they use the "Shadow Realm" to cover up death, but sounds worse than death itself when they explain it

[@user-zl1vf4me1p]

The series went from: "The king of games" to "The king of duels" really fast

[@Other136]

Your totally right

[@katzuma7641]

When you realize Joey is not from Brooklyn

[@Altern8One]

Or from Białystok.

[@thorhit]

Katzuma Nyeh

[@dracodeanglicus3857]

*_Nyeeeeeeeeeeeeh_*

[@notdemomantf2294]

Brooklyn RAAAAAAAGE

[@neomatrixlinkdragon9594]

@@Altern8One what?

[@MarshallXeno]

I like Season 0 mainly because of one line "The Door of Darkness has been opened." Once that is said, you know something horrible is gonna happen. Such as: being set on fire, turning into a clock thing, being set on fire, falling to your death, being set on fire, having past deceased patients come back and kill you.

[@nathanschmidt4272]

Having your face shatter into pieces.

[@tophbeifong3052]

Don’t forget being set on fire

[@albertomeda9944]

you forgot being set on fire

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@albertomeda9944 being set on fire too

[@jaydenbuchanan8083]

​@@softwarelivre2389 hey i don't know if it's been mentioned but some guy got set on fire, pretty wicked stuff

[@isabellegrimes8775]

I was born in 2001, and I've literally never seen Yu-Gi-Oh! in any capacity. And yet here I am, watching this video...

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Isabelle Grimes, I’ve read all of the original manga/watched the original anime series, and he’s right that people like myself that don’t give a shit about the card game, but likes the story of the original series before Duel Monsters was a great series, and it was way more consistent in not only a narrative setting, but it was more consistent in terms of battling than the other series.

[@cliffturbo2146]

I have seen Yu-Gi-Oh GX and I was born in 2001.

[@camrong5680]

you have to get into it

[@isabellegrimes8775]

@@camrong5680 What's so good about it...?

[@camrong5680]

@@isabellegrimes8775 its really fun lol if u got an ig i can explain it a lot easier

[@michaelmoser7497]

A lot of people consider this the best version of the show. I personally like both, but can’t watch the original Japanese version because Netflix took up the 4kids dub

[@BlueSparxLPs]

Hulu is usually pretty good about having both the dub and sub for most anime available, so you could try looking there.

[@AwesomeSoxz]

Crunchyroll has the sub

[@BlueSparxLPs]

@@AwesomeSoxz Mostly true. They're only up to episode 187 on DM, so it's not a complete source yet. I think they're also missing a ZeXal sub completely.

[@jamesfitzgerald8267]

Honestly, when it comes to old shows like this, pirating is the only reliable option.

[@Dave102693]

Same thing happened with Sonic X

[@mobiusygosh1tp0sts37]

Yami was actually morally ambiguous in the Japanese DM too, even though not to the same extent.

[@maryafantalia8614]

@provis345 p I wouldn't say "sadistic". Yami 0 is too much kinder than in the manga. He already spared certain of his opponents.

[@-king-1230]

Only real fans like green haired Kaiba

[@EstherXiao94]

Japanese fans love green haired Kaiba a lot lel...

[@Bigballa-po3fm]

Shut up mokuba!

[@Cindy67917]

Screw the rules, I have green hair!

[@user-fu5mw2zh7v]

*jUsT sToP* about this "only real fans" stuff-

[@christhechilled]

Green Haired was pretty laugble. I couldn't take him seriously by appearance.

[@Veryfreshveryflourish24]

Me actually getting back into this card game. And somehow getting this recommended me to me as well. Yeah i am subbing.

[@Veryfreshveryflourish24]

@@rodolfocrespo4840 I actually had a Gishki deck as i came back which was ritual archetype around late synchro and early Xyz era. Now i have built quite fun deck around Danger!? And Time thieves.

[@TailcoatGames]

Yugi: starts to duel also yugi: grows 6 feet. His friends: he’s like a whole different person when he duels

[@alextrifan5662]

Idk how to say but Yugi don't change he's appearance when is transforming to Yami. Is just a effect for us, the viewers. Seto was the only one who noticed this because he saw it more confident, like "he's a whole different person" .

[@kylee2002]

I remember in the manga the other characters had a feeling that there was another Yugi. They didn't exactly figure out why or how though until later. But I could be wrong.

[@TailcoatGames]

Kylee pretty much there is a egyptian Pharos in his puzzle

[@justjabari6430]

@@alextrifan5662 no it’s not because in manga they straight up point out how his appearance and personality change.

[@justjabari6430]

@@alextrifan5662 even in the final episodes of yugioh duel monster one character called atem "taller yugi" or something similar to that.

[@Anestheticcritera]

I love the fact that even season 0 is a censored version of the manga

[@samgreenblatt7074]

God, I just remembered how much I miss the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga. It used to be in libraries and bookstores everywhere, and now I can't find a single volume. Can't find any good scans of the whole thing, either.

[@helenfotopoulou5125]

Google fanfox and you'll find a website called mangafox. It has some really good scans.

[@samgreenblatt7074]

@@helenfotopoulou5125 They all got removed 'cause of copyright, sorry.

[@helenfotopoulou5125]

@@samgreenblatt7074 Did you look through mobile? Because I can access them on my laptop just fine. I only get the "licenced" notification on mobile. You can also ho through mobile and switch to the pc version.

[@samgreenblatt7074]

@@helenfotopoulou5125 On fanfox right now, on my computer. All scans relating to the original Yu-Gi-Oh series are kaput. Out of curiosity, can I have a link to whatever you're looking at?

[@helenfotopoulou5125]

@@samgreenblatt7074fanfox.net/manga/yu_gi_oh/v01/c001/1.html Works just fine for me.

[@kayzeaza]

Season 0 makes Yugi feel more like the King of Games cause he plays so many different ones and that was pretty cool to see

[@allmightypixel9770]

Say what you will but that intro song slaps.

[@mattwo7]

Most of the Japanese Yugioh themes do. Heck, one of the GX themes was made by a personal favorite Japanese band of mine, Psychic Lover who also did Dekaranger (the show that had footage used for Power Rangers SPD) and Boukenger and Shinkenger (we don't talk about the Power Rangers counterparts to those) as well as Transformers Micron Legend (which was adapted into Transformers Armada) and the Japanese themes for Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Bakugan: New Vestoria, Vanguard Fight from Cardfight Vanguard (yes, they seriously did both Yugioh and Vanguard), Eternal Flame from Vanguard Link Joker and Boiling Power from Digimon Xros Wars Young Hunters.

[@joshmgym7588]

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[@candycane1744]

I low key Thought everyone looked better in season 0. Especially Anzu, she didn't have that weird pointy box hair like in duel monsters

[@whynot6266]

Expect Kaiba's green hair, fuck that hair colour. And Mokuba's hair shading sucks imo.

[@ines1084]

@@whynot6266 true

[@maryafantalia8614]

What are you talking about this pointy box ? Anzu's hair has no difference in the two series !

[@LiMe251]

​@@maryafantalia8614 look at a couple side profiles of tea, there's a weird hair spike sometimes

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@LiMe251 No, there's nothing. Except the color, nothing.

[@FamousActor1989]

I loved YuGiOh Season 0. I enjoyed it a lot. I felt like it was canon but not canon. It explained some parts in Season 1 from Duel Monsters when they make references it. Also, I love how the Pharaoh was more of a demon, rather than a nice spirit. I enjoyed how dark it was. This incarnation was short lived though. Excellent video bro.

[@EstherXiao94]

More of a demon... You got that point lol. Japanese fans always call Yami season 0 as the lord demon (maou-sama)... 😂

[@JD-xz1mx]

Canon but not canon? Read the Manga. Most of Season 0 literally is canon.

[@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457]

Because, "Season Zero" is cannon in the manga, it directly leads to "duelist kingdom" in the manga.

[@maryafantalia8614]

No a demon. In the manga, yes. In the Season 0, his punitions are illusions and sometimes he can be merciful and do nothing to his opponents, and even saving them.

[@amirgarcia547]

Hold up, you’re telling me there was a 90s Yu-Gi-Oh anime I never knew about ‘till now?!?! Color me interested.

[@helenfotopoulou5125]

... You only find out now!? Season 0 is pretty notorious!

[@whynot6266]

@@JazzStation95 Tbh, I love the vibes he gives with that appearance

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@whynot6266 Me too !

[@Ruldolphmaker]

Notes on Toei: So your tangent around the 8 minute mark is inaccurate. Dragon Ball Super suffered a schedule collapse. This was not entirely Toei's fault. It was Fuji TV's. Fuji Tv called for a new Dragon Ball Show to ride the popularity of the movie, which had released *TWO MONTHS* before the anime got started. Meaning the show got only two months of pre-production time (Standard is 8-12 months usually no less than 6). Of course because Super was also making mad bank, the committee in charge of Dragon Ball's tv series (Shueeisha, Bandai, Fji Tv, Toei etc) Kept the series going. The schedule for super was notoriously tight and ate directors and animators. Anybody who followed the animation scene at the time and watched Super as a case study on how not to make an anime knew Toei animation and their staff, particularly Naoki Tate (Who was the director of episode 5 by the way) did all they could to mitigate the damage the schedule was doing. Tate took a lot of un-credited storyboarding, and key animation around the show on top of having to direct his own episodes while also working on corrections for the Blu rays. One Piece is another series made by Toei *run by committee.* One Piece is ANIMATED by Toei (the jank can be excused by the schedule for the most part) and they have certain licensees, however The culprits of the No filler arcs rule is more than likely Bandai. A Twitter Q&A with Naotoshi Shida informed us recently that when new characters appear they HAVE to be on-model to coincide with their merchandise. It appears one Piece merch is where it's at. Of course One Piece is a non-stop micro-budget anime and generally always has been. Watch the older episodes with a keen eye on the animation in particular, and it generally not great until the G8 arc onward with the switch to HD and change-up in visual direction. TL;DR One Piece's pacing problems are thanks to the committee running it. It's animation problems are par the course for long-running series of any sort (Detective Conan, Naruto, Gintama, etc all run into these problems)

[@mattwo7]

You mean long-running _serialized_ series right? Pokemon doesn't have the same pacing issues because it's more episodic. Other long running anime franchises like Yugioh and Digimon also avoid this with sequel series and spinoff series, except Dragon Ball anyway but that's a different sort of anime franchise with sequels (not to mention that DB and DBZ are anime adaptations, which Pokemon, Yugioh GX onward and Digimon are not).

[@ahsokatanogaming7401]

@@mattwo7 I mean some of the digimon anime’s had manga but the manga was usually a lot darker and was usually for the matured audience of the original show.

[@mattwo7]

@@ahsokatanogaming7401 I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about or how that's relevant. Pokemon and Yugioh also have manga that are darker BTW. I mean Pokemon Adventures has Koga's arbok getting _decapitated._ That said, it had a regenerative superpower because of its pattern (Agita's arbok changed patterns which could give it a single stat boost or an anti-poison invulnerability effect depending on which pattern it was) While that lessened the impact a bit, a haunter stole Sabrina's soul, Lance's dragoniar hyper beamed Vermilion city, decimating it, Agitha used her ghosts to brainwash Bruno, Giovanni has his cloyster shatter a pair of frozen magmar (which they do _not_ recover from), a safari zone victreebell nearly dissolves Red to use as nutrients for an evolution ceremony for bellsprouts and it's revealed the victreebells captured other victims, Mask of Ice kidnapped and manipulated children and Lavender Town is full of zombie pokemon.

[@Pooky1991]

I remember when i learned about season 0 it had me curious as hell. That shit had my horror fan senses tingling and had me wondering what could've been

[@ChocoDoeEyes]

Not a single YGO abridged reference, not sure if I’m impressed or disappointed lol

[@user-fu5mw2zh7v]

*Screw the rules, I have money*

[@danielzakgaim2764]

@@user-fu5mw2zh7v Nyeh!

[@majora748]

@@danielzakgaim2764 I have the rage of the brooklyn variety!

[@gork4035]

I would have lived to see a yugioh tv show adapt the manga as a 1:1 how Takahashi intended the series to be. Not just dueling but punishment games and a more dark atmosphere. Yes I know season 0 is volumes 1-7 but what if the entirety of DM was in this style.

[@maryafantalia8614]

What if the integrality was in this style ? It's obvious ! The series would be 1000x better ! Not a simple banal commercial cartoon ! A mature and high level anime which would have some unlimited types of concepts and great stakes ! Even, the stakes have more importances if it's not just the card game but a dangerous game which can stop any moment, not a simple game which is finished to 0 !

[@RANima71498]

I always had this notion that the in universe reason why Yami stopped being a psychopath had to do with the duel with Seto Kaiba to get enough stars to get into Pegasus’s castle, where Yami’s persistence to win no matter what, even if it cost someone their life, freaked Yugi out so much and caused him to distrust Yami. This in turn made Yami realize he valued Yugi’s friendship more than he thought and forced him to rethink his actions and their relationship and make the conscious personal choice to no longer do anymore penalty games and start the search for his own identity and who he used to be/currently wants to be as an individual.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

"Hey is that a honda?" "No, his name is Tristan."

[@ines1084]

"Who is Miho?" Me: *sigh*

[@driplord5871]

Season 0 in a nutshell: Yu-Gi-Oh: Saw edition

[@razkable]

before it became about selling cards...an actual story and manga with cool ideas...

[@driplord5871]

@@razkable I like the other Yu-Gi-Oh too tbh

[@Noobclock666]

Yugi technically never kills anyone.

[@driplord5871]

@@Noobclock666 He sure doesn't spare them either

[@maryafantalia8614]

SAW edition ? Season 0 lacks too much violence compared to the manga !

[@JadaKaiser]

Yugioh being about murder continues on into the real show with the sub at the very least. Then you get crazy stuff like Non-binary demon imaginary friend taking over multiple dimensions to fuse them because ????

[@mattwo7]

Why did you suddenly go into a tangent about Yubel?

[@mattwo7]

Also Yubel wasn't imaginary. Yubel was Jaden's BFF in a past life, that's the entire reason he was able to go Supreme King

[@mattwo7]

@ULGROTHA Yes this is true though Yubel wasn't a normal card spirit. I still don't really understand why they were resurrected as a card spirit tbh but I guess being reverse isekai-reborn into a Yugioh universe, it _would_ be the best way to protect Jaden because that universe apparently revolves around a single modern Earth card game adaptation of an ancient Egyptian game. I mean even that one SoL _alien_ was playing it. If Zexal is canon to Duel Monsters, it would _especially_ raise a lot of questions.

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

@@mattwo7 I'm sure the in-universe reason is something along the line of "Pegasus ran out of Egyptian hieroglyphs to turn into trading cards and decided to turn to other cultures for inspiration, which included wherever the hell the Supreme King and Yubel are from originally." Speaking of Zexal, it lines up with GX lore surprisingly well, and I can almost guarantee that they wrote a lot of Zexal plot with GX lore in mind - what with the whole "The Universe was born of a single card" stuff Darkness mentioned in Season 4 and how Numeron Dragon/Numeron Code and through it the universe was born (IIRC) out of the clashing of primordial light and darkness (Light of Destruction and Gentle Darkness, if we want to use the GX names for what's basically the same thing). Really, the only shows out of DM, GX, 5Ds, Zexal, and Arc V (the original timeline, before Vrains decided to only briefly reference 5Ds and ignore Arc V) that don't mesh surprisingly well together are 5Ds and Zexal - though they are still meant to be on the same timeline as each other as Arc V confirms.

[@mattwo7]

@@jaernihiltheus7817 "Pegasus ran out of Egyptian hieroglyphs to turn into trading cards and decided to turn to other cultures for inspiration, which included wherever the hell the Supreme King and Yubel are from originally." Doesn't really work because Pegasus didn't get into alternate reality BS until _after_ Yubel showed up when he created Rainbow Dragon. As for the paragraph about Zexal, I was mostly referring to the Duel Lodge, what was Blade Armor Ninja doing there and where's the 5D's monsters? "the original timeline, before Vrains decided to only briefly reference 5Ds and ignore Arc V" Did it _really_ though? "though they are still meant to be on the same timeline as each other as Arc V confirms" I'm not convinced Arc-V was ever in the same universe. All of the returning characters use new cards (including Jack Atlas, who no longer has the normal Red-Eyes, though the actual card game version's effect implies it's still the same monster but it's never explained so this is still a massive plothole), several secondary characters are missing (which is especially problematic where the Synchro "Dimension" is concerned as Jack _clearly_ has the power of the Crimson Dragon but aside from Crow _none_ of the other signers are there and there's no clear indicator that either of them are even signers and Crow doesn't even have a version of his own Dragon) and _none_ of the previous protags return. Honestly Arc-V is a whole damn can of worms when it comes to how poorly it actually fits. We can hypothesize until the end of time but that doesn't change the fact that none of this was ever explained so it doesn't matter what any of us guess happened.

[@yugiohthecrictfan]

There was a ‘movie’ that went with season 0 about the Red Eyes Black Dragon card as the designs were better and Kaiba had a design that was on point to his season 1 appearance

[@maximilianosanchez1106]

Wasn't the 7 volumes part of the 38 volumes long series Yu-Gi-Oh! and Viz did what it did to Dragon Ball and Z an spilt it in 3 series (the OG (7), Duelist (24) and Millenium World (7)?

[@Goku22411]

Maximiliano Sanchez yes, Viz split it into 3 different series: Yugioh (the original seven volumes), Yugioh Duelist( Duelist Kingdom and Battle city), and Yugioh Millennium World (the final arc). However, there is Viz 3 in 1 volumes that collects the entire original Yugioh series from beginning to end.

[@SakuraAvalon]

mattwo7 There actually is no DBZ manga. It's just Dragon Ball. The DB manga went into the Saiyan Saga and continued. It was the anime that tacked on the 'Z' and treated it like a follow up series(like what GT and Super are)

[@mattwo7]

@@SakuraAvalon You're thinking of Naruto.

[@SakuraAvalon]

Mattwo7 Nope. I'm thinking of Dragon Ball.

[@mattwo7]

@@SakuraAvalon www viz com/shonenjump/chapters/dragon-ball-z

[@moralorel978]

Finally a video on season 0, I remember I used to have the shonen jump magazines that where published in the 90's (they super thick better than the newer ones tbh) and I remembered being so confused as a kid as to why the manga sampler was so much different than the anime. Fast forward a few years, I saw season zero recommended to me and it all made sense.

[@mattwo7]

6:14 The Toei anime also had a movie...

[@someoneimsure]

"Am I the only one who made the connection that if pokemon existed in the Narnia universe then the White Witch would have lost?" I laughed so hard because this is true and, no, I did not make that connection.

[@JD-xz1mx]

Narnia exists in a multi-verse. So.....

[@YangWen-Lindo]

I love that early Yu-Gi-Oh was practically just Kaiji for kids but with egyptian dark magic.

[@RayOfTruth]

Megumi Ogata as both Yugi Moto and Yami Yugi is perfect.

[@maryafantalia8614]

YEAHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@whynot6266]

Yup :)

[@DaddyVeo1911]

Ok, I didn't realize Kaiba had a bowl cut and now I'm upset.

[@johnnygyro2295]

I might just start getting the manga volumes. It seems like I would get the best of both shows there. That being said: 1. I actually prefer the idea of Yugi having to play multiple games with Duel Monsters being built up as the most difficult he had to master. Hell, I'm surprised other Yu-Gi-Oh games weren't ever made, like the board game Bakura had everyone play. 2. In hindsight, if they really wanted to add another character, they should've done Serenity Wheeler. As Joey's sister, she already has ties to the main cast.

[@juuchanIRL]

(late reply but i'm rewatching the video right now and saw your comment) 1. they tried to see dungeon dice monsters, hence why they even bothered showing it off in the anime. it didn't sell so they scrapped the idea of even trying to sell other games. not o mention a lot of them were blatant bootlegs of existing properties - street fighter, vending machines, tamagochi etc. which they couldn't peddle as their own. bakura's tabletop game was probably too difficult to make cheap sets for, since the gimmick is that they are puzzle pieces that you can combine to create dioramas out of. it means that the physical game has to be thought out so that the sets Lego together. printing playing cards is way easier. 2.joey's sister hadn't been invented yet, they had no way of knowing she would be a character. also, she wouldn't have worked even if the manga was further along than the anime and she was introduced in duelist kingdom, because she's younger than the cast and doesn't go to the same school. not to mention that her and joey were estranged and haven't seen each other in a long time, it wouldn't make sense for her to be a regular cast member.

[@theelementalstation947]

“Pokemon shouldnt fight” line for me it always ment that they were fighting to the death instead of just training. Then again I have a pretty dark mind

[@Klonoahedgehog]

I'm pretty sure that's exactly the intention they were going for but it didn't come across right

[@__VQ__]

Yeah, it always seemed obvious to me that they were talking about actual fighting to the death, as opposed to just regular Pokémon battles, which are just for fun/sport.

[@genyakozlov1316]

@@__VQ__ How was that hard to understand? Man, people are so dumb. Most "problems" found in media are either insignificant nitpicks, or things critics are too stupid to understand.

[@mattwo7]

@@genyakozlov1316 I think the issue is that it... Didn't _LOOK_ like a fight to the death? I mean especially in contrast to normal pokemon battles where they're throwing special moves at each other like they have killing intent.

[@omechron]

I think the issue was less that it was to the death and more that it was being done with malicious intent. Pokemon battles are normally a sport with flashy moves and even though some of them involve bites and claw slashes, there's still enough artifice to make it closer to boxing than brawling. But in the movie, all their special abilities were turned off and they were just clawing at each other and leaving wounds about as visible as they could get away with (admittedly still not that visible). I actually really liked it because it drew a clear distinction between fighting and "battling".

[@viscountrainbows6452]

Weird I was just watching a few episodes last night and was just going in for more. Makes one wonder what could have been of the show if Duel Monsters hadn't totally overshadowed all the other possibilities for shadow games. I remember picking up the Shonen Jump manga at 11(2002-3ish) thinking I'd see dumb card game antics and instead it was panty shots and immolation. Kinda clued me into the whole 4Kids/general anime censorship thing in general because I wanted to see the blood in motion! As I always sucked at the actual game and just liked to collect the cards and see what absurd non-rules the anime would pull out, content like S0 has ultimately aged better in my eyes as a quirky standalone teen fantasy series, where all the card game franchise related stuff has become a monster of its own, pun fully intended.

[@ultimatealchemist9401]

Pegasus was only the main villain of the Duelist Kingdom arc. The main villain of Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole was Yami Bakura.

[@Doodletones]

"What do I know I'm a highschooler who's played the game most of his life" Dude, you're speaking to little Scribble on such a level right now. XD Still play it today too. ;

[@zuzupip6235]

I read the manga a while back and holy heck it is so different from the anime it’s more serious and dark. Yugi gets like bullied a lot more to.

[@Smith-fg1qb]

Joey was such a badass in the manga compared to the anime adaptations

[@maryafantalia8614]

Oh please, you're going to say he is not badass in anime either?

[@Smith-fg1qb]

@@maryafantalia8614he is, but he’s still a huge pushover by comparison. Manga joey was actually able to kick bandit Keith’s ass in a straight up fight for example

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@Smith-fg1qb Don't care, Joey still kicks butts even in anime.

[@Smith-fg1qb]

@@maryafantalia8614good for you, I guess

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@Smith-fg1qb Not for me, it's showed!

[@arina_lovely]

I think liking Yugioh season zero is an acquired taste. I agree that it's a very take it or leave it anime due to the episode format and honestly some episodes are just in their own world. I didn't like Miho's character watching the show when I was 13, and I still don't really even now. Honda's personality was okay for the most part, but it also somehow doesn't help develop his friendship with the others as much as I wish. Even so, I still really liked the show's darker feel as a teen, and i don't mind watching it to kill time in nostalgia now. Oh, and I just really like Yami's voice actor.

[@maryafantalia8614]

Agreed for the Yami's voice.

[@StrawberryShorty]

@@maryafantalia8614 She also voices some Dangan Ronpa characters.

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@StrawberryShorty Yes I know.

[@12DAMDO]

i liked season 0, it was really dark for no reason

[@EstherXiao94]

Yep, like game version of Jojo lol.

[@maryafantalia8614]

Why for no reason ? You think Yu-Gi-Oh! is a silly cartoon maybe ?

[@6TomCruz6]

It was stated I another Yu-Gi-Oh Fan Base video why Yu-Gi-Oh choose the card game route was because the fan requested the manga company that Yu-Gi-Oh was being published by wanted more card game so the author did card games

[@PatLund]

I actually really like the Toei Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@tiredparalyze5017]

Same

[@bobalinx8762]

Me, three!

[@whynot6266]

Me four!

[@maryafantalia8614]

Me five !

[@-ZH]

I’m born in 2003, liked anime, but only watched yugioh in my teens

[@Vincebae00]

I'm 20 years old, and back when I was in the Yugioh fandom at like 12-13 it was seen as "cool" and "edgy" if you watched Season 0. We also went hog wild when LittleKuriboh made a couple episodes of Season 0 Abridged. We all also hated Miho because we were in "love" with Ryo Bakura.

[@44Mosa]

Say what you want about season 0 it slaps way harder than alot of anime I've seen

[@maryafantalia8614]

Yes ! I don't understand why this series wasn't successful although it has qualities Duel Monsters hasn't ! There are various games, a great atmosphere ! I want to see a remake without cards !

[@Kelis98]

I think you can rewatch stuff from when you were a kid and still enjoy it just as much and it can be genuinely good. Also yugioh is enjoyed by multiple ages. But I agree the 4Kids made overall worse (but still enjoyable) versions of the shows (at least in terms of censorship), as I do like the English voice actors. I think yugioh was good even later on in the series.

[@odothedoll2738]

Honestly I kinda love the 4kids dub once you know what’s being censored and figure out what’s actually going on. it just becomes supreme camp. Like camp squared.

[@alwaysangry2232]

I admit the shadow realm censorship was....cool?, death is overated, magic buzz blades that send you to hell sounds metal as heck, portals to eternal danmation everywhere is scarier than the peace of death

[@shakieltaylor9995]

Hey man, if you ever plan to do yugioh again, you got to do one of 5d's and GX

[@Gin0neE]

He should

[@aufowithwificoverage3328]

Juh.....i kinda want a new anime with this same premise but not with the Yugioh characters I’d be weird 😵

[@mental_decay_]

Saw is an option for punishment games

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

Takahashi should reboot the idea with new characters and different baseline, but execute it similarly with the death games. It isn’t unusual for a writer years later to return to an idea and retry it knowing what their successes and failures were, so if he took it up again, it’d be interesting.

[@justjabari6430]

No I want a remake of this, i. Don’t want new characters, it just wouldn’t be as cool without atem in my opinion

[@ines1084]

@@justjabari6430 Atem is awsome here, true

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@justjabari6430 Yeah ! Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't Yu-Gi-Oh! without Atem ! And the other characters !

[@m0ncherii]

Oh man I love Yugioh Season 0

[@theintelligentweeb9680]

Season 0 is really good more people should watch it a lot of death it's good.

[@satyamSaha]

Nah they should read the manga since it’s a completed story with 340 chapters unlike Season 0 which only has 27 episodes

[@genyakozlov1316]

@@satyamSaha Manga good, anime better.

[@satyamSaha]

Genya Kozlov nah the manga is way better than both season 0 and Duel Monsters in every single way possible. Season 0 was a butchered adaptation which adds and changes a lot of thing while dragging it out (it’s also incomplete as it only adapted like 50 out of the 340 manga chapters). Duel Monsters (while a good standalone anime) is a terrible adaptation of the manga overall, they skipped the first 60 chapters causing major plot holes in the beginning and the entirety of Duelist Kingdom, Bakura was made from one of the main characters to a recurring side character (it’s because the director hated him) which completely ruined the anime’s final arc imo, the anime extended/added more duels even though it was completely unnecessary to do so, they overused Pot of Greed way too much in the anime even though it was only used once in the manga and I could go on about my problems with the anime there’s a lot of it.

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@satyamSaha Butchered ?! At least the Season 0 has more variety and interesting ideas (Duel Monsters too, but focusing only on the card game was a mistake) ! And... only 60 chapters ? Do you know the series was cancelled ? No finished, CANCELLED ! And who cares about the Pot of Greed ? It's useless to notice that ! And Duel Monsters skipped those 60 chapters because it's focus on DUEL MONSTERS ! It's in the title !

[@satyamSaha]

@@maryafantalia8614 my point still stands. Duel Monsters is a terrible adaptation of a good manga.

[@fatty1040]

"Objectively good pharaoh" Love the subjectivity 😂

[@theeffingralyks5722]

yo shout out to that time dark yugi killed a guy by lighting his vodka on fire as he held tea hostage and threatened to rape her at gun point man i wish we got an updated translation for the manga, i would buy that in a heartbeat, the thing that dude does not have anymore

[@duskyer2391]

Despite watching all seasons, I only really liked GX and 5ds which I think still hold up today (japanese version since dub cuts end content). First season was full of ass pulls and recent seasons seem to always just have cards that perform the perfect move for them. It also seems the newest season, Yugioh Sevens is going to try and reboot the series with a more Duel Links style. Animation style is similar to Battle Spirits so I honestly don't see it ending well.

[@underdogchris1753]

@Dietriche Zexal was not that bad in all honesty. Arc v started out great but derailed terribly and Vrains... Is kind of a mixed bag due to the production issues.

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

Duskyer Sevens has potential. Honestly without some(few character designs and story ideas)direction from Takahashi in some form or another, Konami is basically trying to keep the brand alive and is falling over when really it’s due to their crappy business practices.

[@underdogchris1753]

@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 What Crappy business practices

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

UnderDog Chris Konami has a reputation for not being the best in business practices. Video games is their more infamous scenario with some of their franchises not getting any good or even any treatment. As for Yu-Gi-Oh! Their treatment of it as of Arc V wasn’t very pleasant. It would have been 1 series with 100+ episodes, but they wanted to push the DSOD movie which messed up some of Arc V’s production as now Studio Gallop(the Dm onward animation studio) had to deal with 2 productions which resulted in a lot of problems with it’s production as DSOD had to held to a high standard while Arc V was also suppose to do so. This led to the ending falling sort of flat, so when Vrains was announced they had even more problems early on that even changed how it was suppose to end. Basically Konami holding the rights for Yu-Gi-Oh! Is not the best thing. Should Konami be shut down, heavens no. They suck in entertainment, but they have other industries where they profit off of in Japan and Yu-Gi-Oh! Is their other industry that works. For the sake of the brand though, another company should take it up.

[@underdogchris1753]

@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 For some reason I heard people say that the Whole Dark side of dimensions thing was only a rumor. Which sounds absurd considering what happened to Vrains and Arc V as a result. At least Vrains had a better ending but its unfortunate What ended up happening as a result of pandering to the original DM.

[@SwagokuLion]

Villains of Season 0: 1. Ushio Trudge 2. Shadi 3. Jonouchi's friend that had blue hair 4. Seto Kaiba 5. Dark Bakura Those are the main villains, longest lasting is Kaiba.

[@MysticRyokan]

I thought like you as a kid, the fight didnt seem different from regular pokemon battling which is a premise of the series. But in the movie's defense the intention was meant to show who was superior, the clones or the originals. So the context was taken out of a friendly battle between trainers to a brawl to the death that was fought over prejudice, which was made slow/agonizing as they couldn't use any "moves" as again to show who was superior at their core. As for pokemon tears there's a beginning part cut out about Dr. Fuji also trying to clone his daughter Amber, and Mewtwo telepathically syncs with her. She doesn't survive but informs Mewtwo first who cries as he doesnt want her to go, all the while he doesn't understand this overwhelming emotion as it's his first time crying. To which she explains a story she was told that "the tears of pokemon are filled with life" and he should be happy to live. Which at least tries to allude to how Ash is revived by the tears if pokemon

[@flowerbloom5782]

The reason i think i like the season 0 is causs i appreciate how we got more information about the characters while DM is just most of the time pure dueling. Alot of characters suffered from that cause yugi, joey, tristan, and tea took a backseat while the pharoah took all the glory. (The amount of times yugi, joey, and tea become damsels in distress was really tiring ). I appreciate that in the season 0 we got to understand more about the characters. For me, yugi was more interesting cause he was just a kid that was interested in games but wanted to make friends. You could understand his struggles and his lack of confidence. Yugi became a backseat duelist and character in DM since it was purely dueling only. I think that really underrepresented yugi's character compared to season 0.

[@Vernydog92]

Oh yeah, in the original manga AND the original show Yami/Atem was legit an unsub from Criminal Minds. Like you would expect the BAU to come knocking at Yugi's door any day.

[@bingboy6711]

Bro I used to mess around with one of my friends when we were playing MTG and I would always exile his indestructible cards and I would say in weevil's voice "say goodbye to exodia " and I would start dying on the floor

[@red0421]

Season 0 was essentially a Yu-Gi-Oh! and SAW crossover.

[@maryafantalia8614]

SAW ?! Wow wow wow, cheer up. The Season 0 has nothing horrific, it even lacks too much violence. Certain elements of Japanese version of Duel Monsters are more violent than the entire Season 0.

[@red0421]

@@maryafantalia8614 I was talking about the manga version of Season 0, the animated version was pretty censored by comparison. In the manga, a man burned, one was eaten by a crocodile, the group (Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Tea) were literally locked in a dungeon of sorts with a mass murdering serial killer by Kaiba and a couple other things that I can't quite remember right now. But yeah, Season 0 was kinda like SAW, what with the "Lose the game = Lose your life or a limb" theme.

[@maryafantalia8614]

@@red0421 Yeah but the Season 0 is an anime, we talk about the anime. The anime and the manga are two different things, and the anime is so much more friendly than the manga.

[@nileriver922]

I love the fact season 0 was a tone down version of the manga, anime duel monsters was was a tone down version of season 0 and 4kids was the next and gx was a even more tone down of 4kids maybe.

[@cakecanal1350]

The cool part is that magics like mind crush and mind on air that yami yugi uses on season 0 actually are cards on yugiho!

[@FirionLeFleur]

To put it in a way for my generation, Kaiba's pops said gg and yeeted himself of a building.

[@ines1084]

Pft-

[@catscanhavelittleasalami]

While I do know that Yugi and Yami are two different people, I've always seen season 0 Yugi as a kid who suffers from DID. The physical abuse which would be the trigger, the memory loss, the two Yugis never interacting with one another... it's not completely devoid of sense. Although it does fall apart once Shadi enters the picture, I find the idea of this anxious boy who gains a darker and more confident personality aided by an ancient evil artifact much more interesting than Yami/Atem being his own person.

[@legend_2543]

I heard that originally yami yugi wasn’t meant to be a pharaoh or anything like that but an embodiment of the puzzle or like a dark person that came about within yugi because of the dark magic of the puzzle until I’m guessing towards the end of season 0 or the transitioned to duel monsters that they changed yami to being a pharaoh and like an actual being that was alive a long time ago

[@agu-man6065]

I'm mainly a Yugioh fan. An watch all the series. It's good to see people talking about Yugioh. Plus there's more to Yugioh series. Since I respect the original series an appricate Kazuki Takahashi influence. An duality between the players an duelist.

[@lunerblade13]

5:10 also interesting detail i realized a few months ago but the games Yami Yugi committed onto his opponents can be seen as an incarnation of the trial of osiris. long story short this trial was a test osiris would commit to any soul after its death. what they would do is take that souls heart and set it on a special scale. and on the other side of that scale would be a feather being the representation of truth. and then after laying down both objects if the souls heart was lighter then the feather then that soul would be deemed worthy to rest peacefully. however if ones heart was heavier then the feather then the soul would be punished by first having their heart dropped onto the floor then have a special alligator (it has a relevant name but i forget just know its important) devour said heart causing the soul to simply vanish with this being a fate worse then eternal torture to simply lose your existence. and another interesting detail is that the spirit atem being an egyptian pharaoh is suppose to be considered a living personification of this same god just like the god card osiris.

[@xoLoveTruelySucksxo]

I was an edgy teen in the 2010s, ok? this season was great since I last saw it.

[@colingznetworkplus4618]

Toei animated Sonic CD’s opening cutscene

[@mattwo7]

2:08 They technically aren't defunct considering Konami bought the part that was dubbing Yugioh and they rebranded as 4K Media which was later rebranded to Konami Cross Media NY and dubbed Zexal onward as well as DSoD. They now have the rights to Bomberman, Contra and Frogger. I can't wait for them to make a Frogger cartoon (I am only half joking), making their own cartoons was the only thing 4kids was good at, just look at their TMNT and Chaotic cartoons.

[@soratiredartist]

god, hearing season 0 takes me back to middle school.. and the basically d&d episode.. and the movie.. also 4kids..... is still kind of dubbing the newer series (under a new name but it’s definitely still them) which makes me cry a little bc... not very good (idk about vrains but arc-v,,,)

[@satyamSaha]

It is still them, 4Kmedia who currently own and dub every Yugioh series now was original known as 4kids productions.

[@satyamSaha]

Dietriche I agree with that, it’s by far the least censored dub we have ever received and the VA’s actually fits the characters. It feels like they don’t want to censor their shows anymore but do it anyway because they’re putting it on TV.

[@VestedUTuber]

Anyone else realize that Season 0 was basically a "Mahao Shonen" or "Magical Boy" anime? As in a Magical Girl anime but with a male protagonist? Let's look at this in detail: Magical Girl Anime: Young protagonist acquires great magical powers, complete with a transformation, from a plot device, and uses those powers to solve problems and/or fight crime and/or villains. Generally features coming of age narrative themes. Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0: Young protagonist (Yugi) acquires great magical powers (the shadow game), complete with a transformation (Yami), from a plot device (the Millennium Puzzle), and uses those powers to solve problems and/or fight crime and/or villains. The series features a coming of age narrative theme. (also, I swear if anyone brings up Madoka Magica as a comparison I will find a book that details deconstructive literature and hit them over the head with it)

[@lpfan4491]

What does Madoka have to do with anything?

[@VestedUTuber]

@@lpfan4491 Simply pointing out that that particular series is a deconstruction of the Mahao Shojo genre and should not be considered the genre codifier. I've seen too many people try to argue that it's THE defining series of the genre when it literally exists to point out how the genre's typical storyline can go horribly wrong. It's in case someone decided to bring it up.

[@KamiAnimeS1]

Yeah I love the original man

[@Americanbadashh]

I was born in 89 and loved Yu-Gi-Oh, I had older friends who loved it too

[@dangerheart2578]

I like Yugioh WAY more than Duel Monsters. Not just for its maturity, but because Yuugi played multiple games. Thus actually making him "King of Games" and not "King of Duel Monsters".

[@serenitymoon825]

Remember when you could watch whole episodes of Season 0 on KZbin? Those were the good days

[@chaliceohearts4658]

I don’t think that this is an alternative to the YuGiOh we know today, but I still regard it as an important piece of YuGiOh history.

[@razkable]

i like the manga for season 0 and subbed anime from season 0-5ds and the manga for duel monsters too..the issue is the western version is made for kids...pass...its so corny...the dub sucks too

[@NBDYSPCL]

I really like that in the manga the whole reason the holographic arenas exist is because of Seto and Yugis shadow game.

[@theintelligentweeb9680]

I'm a high school student who has and still plays yugioh since I was 8. And when i first saw season 0 i really enjoyed it since they played other games than duel monsters. But personally i think they ruined miho as a character.

[@ines1084]

Its stupid they totally deleted her from DM. They could've do much more with her character

[@FarelForever]

I do admit that it's funny in retrospective that the more child-friendly version of a quick death, is to be trapped for all eternity in a dimension where you'll know nothing but suffering

[@FarelForever]

@ULGROTHA emm, to be fair, bringing up Christianity here feels a bit off, considering how 4Kids tried to be neutral on religion too, removing references of this sort as well. This censorship was meant to neutralize anything that could offend anyone, any parent, any group. It was meant to be a product. They did the Shadow Realm thing, and it's funny in hindsight, but I don't see how they could have done it differently without removing the episode outright

[@JD-xz1mx]

@ULGROTHA "for a country ruled by Christian conservatism" Hello time traveler. Its the year 2020 now, where Christianity hasn't been a primary influencer in American culture for decades. By the time Yu Gi Oh was being translated, the Christian lobby was certainly an influencer but.... ruled? That's just comical. Bill Clinton was the president. All of the most popular television shows were far from based in Christianity, and not a single comic book in the industry was even attempting to cater to the religious crowd.

[@BlackReshiram]

I remember the manga. It was... an experience.

[@razkable]

the japanese unedited subbed anime is a trip too...its not for like 7 year olds..its pretty mature to be honest..even at 9 its a bit extreme....pokemon is for like 8 year olds even unedited or in sub...its for kids...yugioh is for young teens

[@MemesYknow]

Thank you for making this a vid,you explained this to me and I'm glad you did.

[@lisaadams693]

While I guess the title king of games makes much more sense here. Honestly I like this concept much more than the same formula we got all episodes

[@Darek_B52]

To be fair to the pokemon movie it was dumbed down here in the states. In Japan the problem was that the pokemon were fighting their exact equals. Meaning that the fight wouldn't end until both died.

[@booboo8675]

bruh season 0 was the only one i could find on youtube

[@thefanofeverything5039]

14:38 is my favorite part of the video

[@anitanielsen1061]

Honestly, the opening and ending (op 1 and ALL the endings) of Season 0 are SO ROMANTIC YOU CAN GET INTO PUZZLESHIPPING ON THAT ALONE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! EVEN THE ENDING LYRICS SING THEIR DYNAMIC THAT MELODICALLY!

[@OtakuAudioRedux]

The first Pokemon movie made a distinction between sports battling and the serious, life-threatening conflict caused by Mewtwo. It was NOT intended to criticize Pokemon battling as a whole, despite how some have misinterpreted it.

[@ipacklunches]

I don't care what anyone says, as a 24 year old I still tear up during the Ash turning to stone scene.

[@Gin0neE]

You guys ever noticed that Yugioh pulled more friendship crap out of their asses more than Fairy Tail does (love both Animes still)

[@RobTheZapRat]

The first Pokemon movie has flaws, but the way I understood it, Nurse Joy was saying they shouldn't have to fight for their lives. It's like how MMA fighting is cool, but beating up someone for no reason isn't. Also, there's a throw away line in there somewhere about how Pokemon tears have life in them, so that's why they brought Ash back by crying. Just throwing that out there.

[@lorenzotrevizo8237]

I actually really liked the implementation of the shadow realm. It made moments like that actually more extreme

[@Emruldz64]

There was no shadow realm

[@AnkfordPlays]

I think you underestimate just how influential 4Kids was on anime fan culture, they didn't just do the English dub of the show pretty much every western dub is usually based on the 4Kids version. That goes for most of the big shows 4Kids translated, like Naruto, Shaman King, Pokemon and so on. It's just cheaper to use the translators from English you already have than to hire an entirely new Japanese speaking member of staff to translate a show to your particular language.

[@dragonicgod2700]

I would love to see yami pull a season 0 death worm thing on kiaba

[@RB01.10]

The film quality takes me back….