Geek Addicts - Episode 23: The Yu-Gi-Oh! Retrospective Part 1!

[00:00:00] The following is a GNC Podcast production.

[00:00:30] Welcome to Geek Addicts, a pop culture podcast.

[00:00:37] Hello and welcome to Geek Addicts, the pop culture podcast where we talk about books,

[00:00:46] games, manga, media, whatever.

[00:00:49] Doesn't matter.

[00:00:51] With me is the king of games, Bill Barber.

[00:00:54] I am Matt.

[00:00:55] How are you doing, Bill?

[00:00:57] I think the king of games is a trademark name, so I might not want to take that one.

[00:01:03] I'm doing great other than being extremely tired.

[00:01:06] I think the phrase you give itself is the real trademark.

[00:01:10] King of Games is just a translation. You can't trademark a translation.

[00:01:13] True. I think there's like a gamer out there though that goes by the name King of Games.

[00:01:18] I don't know.

[00:01:20] You never know.

[00:01:21] Yeah, well, it's just a joke anyway.

[00:01:23] True.

[00:01:24] Pretty accurate, I'd say.

[00:01:27] Yeah.

[00:01:29] I mean you have enough.

[00:01:32] Yes, I do.

[00:01:33] I feel like when you hit a certain threshold, you can claim that title.

[00:01:37] When you hit that, when you, when you reach the point of collecting where you're collecting stupid shit because like you've already kind of got everything you want.

[00:01:45] Yeah, that's kind of the point where you've kind of hit the end of the road.

[00:01:50] For Rails.

[00:01:52] Yeah, this week was long.

[00:01:56] Very long.

[00:01:58] I'm with you. It's been a weird one because I started the week with like no work on my shelf at all.

[00:02:03] And I was just kind of going off of this one job that like generally tends to take a while.

[00:02:09] And like about halfway through that job, I got a shit ton of work all at once and all of it was overdue.

[00:02:15] So I had to put that job on hold and start doing all that other stuff.

[00:02:19] That's usually how it goes.

[00:02:21] Yeah.

[00:02:22] And so I have like, so I work in the blast room, which basically just, you know, I blast everything to get that like nice matte finish on it.

[00:02:31] No pun intended.

[00:02:34] But so it is like manual blast and then there's barrel blast and all of the wired barrels that we use for the barrel blast have all like worn down.

[00:02:46] And we haven't gotten any back yet.

[00:02:48] I'm down to one barrel so I can only run one job at a time, which is going to be a problem.

[00:02:54] Yeah, that's kind of not good.

[00:02:57] Yeah.

[00:02:59] Yeah, I've been I was just doing normal routine jobs.

[00:03:03] We haven't had anything super hot this week.

[00:03:06] I actually spent half the week making spare parts that we didn't even need to just kind of made them to get them out of the room.

[00:03:13] Yeah, that's fair.

[00:03:14] Middle East that way whenever they come up, you got them ready to go.

[00:03:18] Yeah, apparently they needed them like a year ago and like they just never got made them and they they fixed the machine that actually like repaired them normally.

[00:03:29] So we just kind of had these like unfinished parts just sitting in the room for over a year.

[00:03:34] And I got tired of looking at them so I finished them.

[00:03:38] That's fair enough.

[00:03:40] That's generally how most things get like done in our shop because like there for the longest time they were just shit everywhere.

[00:03:48] And the only way it would ever get like taken care of is if somebody would be just get tired of looking at it and like do something about it.

[00:03:55] Hmm.

[00:03:56] So I had like last Saturday because when we work Saturdays, it's generally just for coverage and to have people in the building it's not actually because they need us in.

[00:04:08] It's basically they're giving us free money to just come in and fuck off all day for all intensive purposes.

[00:04:15] So like last Saturday I literally went it will not last Saturday the Saturday before Easter, I went in and I literally just like cleaned out the back room of the shop because it had been cleaned I guess in like a decade.

[00:04:30] Jeez.

[00:04:32] There was a table that had just so much fit on top of it.

[00:04:36] I was like fuck this and I just grabbed the trash can and load behold most of the shit on the table was trash.

[00:04:42] It was just like about right.

[00:04:44] Like this has been here for 10 years longer than I've been here by a wide margin.

[00:04:50] Yeah.

[00:04:51] I'm like I was still at Richards when this was probably placed here.

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:56] That's right.

[00:04:57] So I cleaned that up and I made the back room actually usable as a background again.

[00:05:01] That's nice.

[00:05:03] See, the company I work for is hilarious because they literally have a designated portion of the factory.

[00:05:10] They call it the soup kitchen.

[00:05:11] I don't know why but that's what they call it.

[00:05:13] That's a hot.

[00:05:14] And it is literally the designated dumping ground for just shit that people don't know what to do with.

[00:05:19] So they just dump it out there and it's kind of like free game.

[00:05:23] Basically, if you're looking for something you can go search the soup kitchen.

[00:05:27] You might find something that you need.

[00:05:29] That sounds mildly offensive.

[00:05:32] It's the place where you dump all your trash is called the soup kitchen.

[00:05:36] You know, I've never thought about it that way.

[00:05:39] There's a lot of us to burn.

[00:05:40] There's the first thought I had.

[00:05:41] I'm like, yeah, that seems a little rude to people who are in need.

[00:05:45] Yeah.

[00:05:46] You know, I never thought of it that way.

[00:05:49] Hmm.

[00:05:50] The worst part is though, there is legit a hanging sign that says soup kitchen.

[00:05:56] I'm just like, I see that all the time.

[00:06:00] I'm like, they legit like accept this as their dumping ground for like stuff.

[00:06:06] Jesus Christ.

[00:06:08] There was an entire pallet just filled with like those little like shop trash cans that you see everywhere.

[00:06:14] Yeah.

[00:06:15] And it disappeared one day and no one knows what happened to it.

[00:06:18] So.

[00:06:20] Oh, shit.

[00:06:21] Maybe got some extra ones throwing my way because you know every now that you're like last year, not last year last week, we like really need to go to the dump.

[00:06:30] And Sunday came around where like, fuck, I forgot it was Easter.

[00:06:34] The fucking dump was closed and they didn't open again until Wednesday.

[00:06:38] Yeah, obviously we're kind of out of luck for our car right now.

[00:06:42] So like, I got to wait until the weekend when my grandmother goes and we generally just kind of all together but it's like, ah, man, that just sucks.

[00:06:52] What a nice time that extra trash can.

[00:06:54] Yeah, I hear you.

[00:06:56] So I was, I've been watching through Kai recently.

[00:07:01] And yesterday I was watching through the Android arc and something dawned on me for the first time.

[00:07:07] How do you ever find it odd that every Android except 17 and 18 had the ability to sense energy?

[00:07:16] Yeah, I mean they were technically different.

[00:07:21] But yeah, well, yeah, they started out organic.

[00:07:26] Yeah.

[00:07:27] But it occurred to me that it is possible that there is a specific reason for that and that could be because their purpose really is just to be like a stepping stone for sell to reach his perfect form.

[00:07:41] So maybe Jiro purposefully didn't give them the ability to sense energy so they wouldn't know what he was coming.

[00:07:49] That you bring up a good point.

[00:07:51] Because they had no idea that sell even existed until he showed up to absorb 17.

[00:07:56] And if they were able to sense energy, they would have known like when Piccolo bottom.

[00:08:01] Yeah.

[00:08:03] I still can't believe like Goku never met 17 until like super.

[00:08:08] Yeah, it's pretty wild when you think about that.

[00:08:11] I mean, it's kind of like how when you actually like look at it and you realize ha Goku and Chow two have actually never spoken to each other.

[00:08:19] Yeah, there's some really odd things in Dragon Ball that you don't really think about mostly because the extended like non cannon stuff kind of like.

[00:08:28] Your brain into thinking certain things happen but they didn't.

[00:08:32] Yeah.

[00:08:34] Oh yeah I got my tickets to spy family code white.

[00:08:38] Nice.

[00:08:40] Nice.

[00:08:41] You know, I'm sorry going.

[00:08:42] 20th, I think.

[00:08:44] Nice.

[00:08:45] Unless you're we're probably going to go that Sunday.

[00:08:49] I mean, I.

[00:08:52] I mean, I hope it doesn't come back to light us but we're not we're not buying in advance.

[00:08:56] We're just gonna buy them when we go.

[00:08:57] But I mean, we're not so like we're going opening night or anything and I feel like.

[00:09:02] If when we went to see superhero is any indication I don't think it's going to be packed.

[00:09:08] I mean, they're sure there'll be people there but I don't think it'll be like sold out or anything.

[00:09:12] Yeah, when we saw superhero and one piece film read the theaters were like basically empty both times so.

[00:09:19] And the funny thing is for resurrection F and Broly that theater was like absolutely packed like I think the people I went with I actually had to sit like a few seeds away from because there weren't enough seats to go like guys people standing in the halls and everything like.

[00:09:33] I think there was like nothing.

[00:09:36] People.

[00:09:37] I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that these films are getting like worldwide like full on releases now, not just like one day events like I think that all gods and resurrection F in particular were like special events.

[00:09:51] So you only really have the one shot to go.

[00:09:54] Nowadays it's like there's like I looked at the show.

[00:09:56] So, I was talking to our mutual friend, Dave over from gaming collecting about this because he was like, I wonder if it's a limited showing and I looked it up and there's like there was like 30 different showings like within our me and Alex is an area and I was like, No, I think this is a full on like theater release.

[00:10:15] Yeah, because we had a ton of days.

[00:10:17] Ironically the only time that worked for me and Alex was like 930 on the Saturday like the 20th so yeah, hey, we'll go get dinner and then we'll go see spy family.

[00:10:26] Oh yeah, I'm super excited for it.

[00:10:29] I'm actually I was reading spy family last night I was reading the cruciate bark.

[00:10:33] And I was going through the chapter, one of the chapter that should say where yours fight and all the other different assassins.

[00:10:41] And I swear to God like throughout this chapter every time I turned the page there was another like really bizarre out there on your face.

[00:10:50] Yes, like literally every time I turn the page there was another one and they were all different.

[00:10:55] And they're just like, and they're just really likes to draw those.

[00:11:00] Yeah, the cruciate bark in the manga is really good.

[00:11:04] I actually read that before the anime adaption because the manga was out before it at that time.

[00:11:10] And it made the animated version like so much more like impactful just because I already knew like what was going on and just seeing it actually come to life like that was so cool.

[00:11:19] Yeah, I don't know what I when I first started watching season two and I think part of it was because I was watching it week to week and that kind of made it feel weird because I never thought it's by family as being one that had like arcs, so to speak.

[00:11:34] So when we started having like, oh, this is like a five, six episode arc. I was like, that's kind of weird. Like I wasn't really sure if I liked it or not.

[00:11:43] Ultimately, I ended up coming around but I definitely feel like it flows better in the manga.

[00:11:48] Yeah, the cruise ship arc is interesting because it's like the first legitimately like real arc that the series has ever had.

[00:11:58] I will say like the fall like the later chapters post it in the manga so far.

[00:12:04] It gets very interesting, I will say like that.

[00:12:07] I won't spoil anything because I know you haven't read yet.

[00:12:11] Yeah.

[00:12:12] Yeah, I'm definitely going to jump into the post season two stuff.

[00:12:17] I'll say volume 11 the one with the Damien's lackeys on the cover.

[00:12:24] There's a storyline in that that is quite shocking and I will say I won't spoil it but it is very interesting and fascinating to read.

[00:12:31] Oh, so you started reading it?

[00:12:33] I already finished it.

[00:12:34] Okay.

[00:12:35] So I know we talked recently and you said you hadn't gotten into it yet.

[00:12:38] So I literally read that Sakamoto days the new volume of that and then I started reading Pokemon adventures and then I the weekend ended and I kind of like this week happened and I really couldn't get any farther but I did get those two in before I started

[00:12:56] because I had them sitting I kind of just wanted to like finish them before I moved on to something else.

[00:13:01] I get that.

[00:13:03] Makes sense.

[00:13:05] Yeah, now I have to know you have to wait like five months for volume 12, which kind of sucks but it is what it is to be on.

[00:13:12] I was playing around with the idea of just sticking to the physical releases but I don't know if I'm going to be able to wait.

[00:13:17] I'll probably send a pretty good show to jump at once I finish volume 11.

[00:13:23] Yeah, I'm tempted to read ahead but at the same time I kind of like waiting.

[00:13:28] I don't know.

[00:13:29] Yeah, well I also like having like weekly like chapters to read and stuff like I usually let because I have my monthly ones with Super which is currently on Hades and Boruto, which is not I found out recently I'm very happy about that.

[00:13:48] But so what I usually do is I'll let the one piece chapters build up and I'll have like three or four to read in a row when the monthly chapters come out.

[00:13:58] Gotcha.

[00:13:59] So, I'll probably just keep doing that with the other shows that I their series that I catch up with like spy family and such but it's just nice to have that little the little backlog is just like you know when you run out of things to look at and your phone

[00:14:14] and just go over to Sean and jump and read these chapters.

[00:14:17] True.

[00:14:18] That is true.

[00:14:21] Speaking of manga and anime and we've stuff in general, our topic for today's episode is going to be talking about you.

[00:14:31] Yeah.

[00:14:33] Just just all happen.

[00:14:36] And when we say you you we mean like all things you you not just the anime manga card game games.

[00:14:44] We're going to cover basically everything whatever we feel like pretty much.

[00:14:49] You know what I always find fascinating about you you was that asking somebody what the first thing from the you you universe that they discovered.

[00:14:59] You know, I'm not 100% sure.

[00:15:03] I feel like it was the first episode of the show.

[00:15:07] But I can't honestly tell you that I remember specifically the way I do with say Dragon Ball or Pokemon.

[00:15:14] Yeah, Pokemon I could say for sure I don't know what episode but Pokemon I can say for sure I saw the anime first and then I got into the games for Dragon Ball I can tell you the exact episode but with you.

[00:15:26] It's vague but I'm fairly certain it was the first episode.

[00:15:30] See for me it was actually the card game because when that came out so the card game was definitely like late 90s early 2000s.

[00:15:40] And I remember because it basically took over the playing card like kind of world for like a good couple of years because like, it actually kind of upsurbed magic the gathering is like the main card game in the US for a while.

[00:15:55] I actually didn't even know about magic the gathering until like years after getting into you.

[00:15:59] You know, I had never even heard of it magic like I'm not a I'm not a tabletop card game guy I kind of my history with card games started and ended with you.

[00:16:08] Um, I knew about magic though because everybody like wouldn't shut up about it back in the day.

[00:16:17] But I mean also Pokemon but I still to this day don't didn't know anybody that actually played the game.

[00:16:24] Yeah, I certainly I think I tried to learn how to play Pokemon card game like once or twice when I was a kid.

[00:16:30] I just could not wrap my head around because I feel like you know like how we used to get like started to access stuff like that Pokemon and Yukio it would always come with a little like instruction booklet and it would kind of explain the rules of the game or whatever.

[00:16:44] I feel like back in the day.

[00:16:47] These booklets were not very user friendly.

[00:16:51] No they weren't at all.

[00:16:53] And I've seen like the more current ones per se you go and it's much more easy to understand that the ones we got in the original started next.

[00:17:02] You know how I discovered how to play.

[00:17:06] I, you get a new you poke the Pokemon game card game.

[00:17:10] Was it the Game Boy Color game.

[00:17:13] Yep.

[00:17:14] Yeah, as me too actually in.

[00:17:16] I think what we were working your Richards together was when I was actually playing it on my phone.

[00:17:22] And I was specifically playing the Game Boy Color game so that I could learn how to play the game, so that I could then teach Xander how to play because he wanted to play the game.

[00:17:31] Yeah, like it was.

[00:17:33] To me like I, I never was a Pokemon card collector because I just thought that was like a waste of money at the time.

[00:17:39] Ironic.

[00:17:41] Yeah, but um,

[00:17:43] What's funny is I never played the game like with cards but I was always like the mediator and like kind of like judge for people at school who tried play because I knew how to play the game.

[00:17:53] The Game Boy game.

[00:17:55] And that was a fun thing for a while like I literally be like the instructor and coach.

[00:18:00] I basically be like the game master all the time.

[00:18:03] Yeah, which was kind of fun.

[00:18:05] Um, but yeah the first my first experience with Yu-Gi-Oh was legitimately the card game because it was everywhere for the longest time.

[00:18:14] And I remember like in school like everybody was playing it.

[00:18:18] And this is back when like your pressure and shit actually mattered and like if you weren't playing Yu-Gi-Oh you were kind of a weirdo.

[00:18:24] Yep.

[00:18:25] So I like had to be, I had to play somehow but of course cards were expensive at the time.

[00:18:31] Still are.

[00:18:33] They still are but like when you're a kid with no income and you have to ask your parents for like menial things it's like not the easiest thing in the world.

[00:18:42] And basically like at that point my parents kind of didn't get it.

[00:18:45] So I was out of luck until do you remember when McDonald's was doing like the Yu-Gi-Oh like Happy Meals?

[00:18:54] Yes, I do remember that.

[00:18:56] I remember there was some specific cards too that they were always featured.

[00:19:00] It was the, was it called, was it Seriou?

[00:19:03] Something like that.

[00:19:04] It had the same attack as Dark Magician.

[00:19:05] It was like a pink dragon thing.

[00:19:07] Yep.

[00:19:08] So there was McDonald's for their Happy Meal.

[00:19:11] Remember back when McDonald's actually had fun Happy Meals that like were actually cool?

[00:19:15] Oh yeah.

[00:19:16] They were doing a Yu-Gi-Oh promotion where you would get a card that wasn't in any of the starter decks.

[00:19:23] And I believe the only other way you could get said cards was through booster packs which was a random chance.

[00:19:28] Yeah, booster packs the back of the day were brutal.

[00:19:32] Yeah, I hope you like seven energies and one maybe decent Pokemon.

[00:19:36] Yeah.

[00:19:37] But um so I that was how I got my first Pokemon.

[00:19:41] I'm not Pokemon.

[00:19:42] Yu-Gi-Oh card.

[00:19:43] Hmm.

[00:19:44] And I still have it to this day.

[00:19:47] Oh, it was a...

[00:19:49] Yoranzo.

[00:19:50] Yoranzo.

[00:19:51] Yeah, I remember him because Duke Devlin had him.

[00:19:54] Yep.

[00:19:55] Most famous from that episode but like I had this card for years.

[00:19:58] It's also holographic which is kind of neat.

[00:20:00] Yeah.

[00:20:01] That's awesome.

[00:20:02] I remember my first card was Hard Armor.

[00:20:05] It was a very shitty zombie card.

[00:20:08] It was literally just an empty...

[00:20:10] An empty suit of armor with...

[00:20:12] I think it had like 1200 defense and that was it.

[00:20:16] That's all I had going for it.

[00:20:17] To be fair, this ain't much better.

[00:20:20] This is a...

[00:20:21] I put on the field and then reviewed it card right away.

[00:20:25] I remember my start of like Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:20:28] I had like four cards to my name and one of them was Hard Armor

[00:20:32] and one of them was a Blue Eyes and then there was like two other shittings.

[00:20:35] It was probably like Terror the Terrible and something like that.

[00:20:38] Like you know those ones that everybody had.

[00:20:41] It's funny for me like Blue Eyes was like the ultimate goal

[00:20:44] because like only like some people had them.

[00:20:47] So I guess going on with the story like I got this one Yu-Gi-Oh card

[00:20:53] and of course then I thought this meant I could play

[00:20:57] which my dumb child self quickly learned

[00:21:01] no you need an actual deck of cards.

[00:21:03] You can't play with one card.

[00:21:05] So I eventually...

[00:21:07] Well once my parents kind of realized how much of a...

[00:21:10] This wasn't just a fad and this was going to be a big thing for a while.

[00:21:14] They relented and got me one of the starter decks

[00:21:17] which I believe was actually the Pegasus starter deck.

[00:21:22] Oh wow.

[00:21:23] Which at the time I thought was awesome

[00:21:27] because that fucking episode looked so fucking cool.

[00:21:30] And then you learn really fast.

[00:21:32] Yeah, the cards can't do that in the actual game.

[00:21:34] Right.

[00:21:35] Like you can't just dodge attacks because you feel like it.

[00:21:40] Like yeah so I learned really quickly that those Pegasus deck

[00:21:46] really wasn't that great in hindsight.

[00:21:49] The relinquish is honestly pretty good.

[00:21:51] Relinquish was good but the majority of the deck was tune monsters

[00:21:55] that you couldn't even use without their counterparts anyways.

[00:21:59] Which the deck only came with like a couple of those.

[00:22:04] Plus nobody back in the day really actually knew what Relinquish did

[00:22:08] because it had that teeny tiny writing on it

[00:22:10] and no kid would bother reading.

[00:22:12] What kids could read?

[00:22:15] To be fair though most kids didn't even know how to play.

[00:22:18] They followed the show and the show did not know how the fucking game worked either.

[00:22:23] Nope, even when it did it didn't.

[00:22:25] Yeah.

[00:22:26] You know what's funny?

[00:22:28] They had the four starter decks back in the day.

[00:22:31] It was the Yu-Gi deck, the Kaiba deck, the Joey deck and the Pegasus deck.

[00:22:36] I don't know if this was just me or like you saw this too.

[00:22:40] I never never saw the Kaiba or Yu-Gi decks.

[00:22:44] Um I did but only at specific like I remember specifically actually the CVS

[00:22:50] I live near right now used to solve them.

[00:22:53] I remember that specifically because we used to go there for you know

[00:22:57] used to be able to get anything in CVS back on a day.

[00:22:59] But they had the Yu-Gi Kaiba and Joey decks I believe when I was a kid.

[00:23:05] I remember buying one of them there.

[00:23:08] For me like I could only ever find the Pegasus and the Joey deck.

[00:23:13] You'd never find the Yu-Gi or Kaiba decks.

[00:23:18] Which is really funny because once they got around to like the second edition

[00:23:21] like Battle City decks, starter decks

[00:23:23] then I could only find the Yu-Gi and Kaiba deck

[00:23:26] and I couldn't find the other two.

[00:23:27] Yep.

[00:23:28] Which is bizarre.

[00:23:30] Yeah it was um they swapped out Pegasus for Merrick right?

[00:23:34] Yes I never saw the Merrick deck.

[00:23:37] I saw the Joey deck occasionally but like the Merrick deck

[00:23:40] I swear that like didn't exist.

[00:23:42] It wasn't anything special.

[00:23:45] I didn't have Egyptian card cards like you'd want it to.

[00:23:48] No.

[00:23:49] I don't remember what card it was that it had.

[00:23:51] I know it had like Revival Jam and like

[00:23:55] what the hell was the monster on the front?

[00:23:58] I don't know it wasn't anything important.

[00:24:00] Yeah I always remember that though too because like

[00:24:03] because the Yu-Gi and Kaiba decks were like so scarce

[00:24:06] nobody had a blue eyes like it was so hard to find blue eyes

[00:24:10] by dragons so like if you had one you were like considered like the king shit.

[00:24:14] Well I don't even remember how I got mine but I was really lucky to get one

[00:24:18] like before I even had a deck I had a blue eyes which is really cool.

[00:24:22] See I lucked out and got my blue eyes in a booster pack like years down the line

[00:24:27] but this was like after like people stopped caring so it was kind of like

[00:24:31] yo blue eyes no one cares anymore.

[00:24:34] Darn.

[00:24:35] It's about right?

[00:24:37] I did have a red eye. I had a red eyes though.

[00:24:41] Red eyes is so I mean I honestly I like red eyes more than blue eyes anyway.

[00:24:44] Red eyes is still my favorite line of cards.

[00:24:46] I still have this nice like old trimmed one that I've had forever.

[00:24:51] Nice there you go the classic print.

[00:24:54] Classic print I hate though that they reprinted like a lot of the cards like

[00:24:59] all like the main like iconic ones like it's hard to find the original designs nowadays.

[00:25:05] Like I have this black red eyes black metal dragon but good luck finding the original print of this.

[00:25:11] Yeah one of the most useless monsters ever.

[00:25:14] Well you don't like metal morphosize?

[00:25:17] Honestly you're better off just attaching metal morph or whatever the hell it is to a regular red eyes and just leaving it as is.

[00:25:27] Oh yeah and this like shows how fucking common blue eyes are now.

[00:25:31] Here's a pack of blue eyes in that awful third print that I hate.

[00:25:37] There's like 12 blue eyes in here because they're so fucking common now.

[00:25:41] Yeah.

[00:25:43] Oh boy.

[00:25:46] So where did you start watching the show with Duelist Kingdom or?

[00:25:51] Yes my start point was like the worst fucking place to start.

[00:25:56] It was literally the episode with like the mind trip dream after they already got into the castle.

[00:26:03] Oh yeah I know exactly it was right before the final started right?

[00:26:07] Yeah it was right after actually no I think it was right yeah right before the Yu-Gi versus

[00:26:12] Mai.

[00:26:13] So it was right after Kaiba and Pegasus but like right before Yu-Gi versus Mai so it was like I was just watching it.

[00:26:19] I'm like what the fuck is this show because it was like just Pegasus trolling them.

[00:26:24] I know exactly the one you're talking about because I think I still have that VHS tape of those episodes.

[00:26:31] Because this is back when you had to catch it on Toonami and it was so late at night that you'd have to like that shit like before you went to bed basically.

[00:26:41] And then the reverse of it I only ever caught it on Kids WB.

[00:26:46] So like that channel was harder for us to find for some reason.

[00:26:51] Oh yeah?

[00:26:52] Yeah we had Direct TV and for some reason like that channel was harder to find that like well because Kids WB wasn't its own channel it was like a block.

[00:27:03] And like we always missed the block for whatever reason at least Toonami was always on Cartoon Network at a certain time.

[00:27:10] Yeah there was definitely something to be said for having basic cable.

[00:27:13] Yeah and I kind of lucked out because it would usually play after Alex's Sailor Moon episode so I could like catch it before I went to sleep.

[00:27:23] It was better than having to get up at 5am to watch a new Yasha but that's for another story time.

[00:27:30] Yeah and Toonami never played the damn episodes in order.

[00:27:34] Yeah that was always such a bummer whenever they do that.

[00:27:38] Yeah but Toonami was weird back in the day.

[00:27:41] Honestly the way I experienced most of the Yu-Gi-Oh episodes back in the day was I had the we had a local blockbuster back when those were still a thing and I would just rent out a VHS tape every couple of weeks.

[00:27:56] You know what I think did you ever see capsule monsters?

[00:28:04] Was that the um...

[00:28:08] It was like a little side like side story like mini series kind of thing for Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:28:15] I think if they still have the whole show in Yu-Gi-Oh I think they slotted it into like season 5 or something.

[00:28:24] But it's not like actually a part of the main show it's like a side show.

[00:28:29] I don't remember that one.

[00:28:31] Because I remember renting a DVD of it from Blockbuster.

[00:28:36] It was like one of the few times I actually got to pick a movie from Blockbuster and it was like four or five of those episodes.

[00:28:41] And uh it was weird because it was kind of a little bit like um like the virtual world stuff.

[00:28:50] The first virtual world or the second virtual world?

[00:28:54] Yes.

[00:28:56] Right.

[00:28:58] But uh it was weird because they had like these little um these little like apparatus on their arms.

[00:29:05] They weren't dualed this they were like little like launchers or whatever and you get these little capsules.

[00:29:09] And these would represent the monsters and you put the thing in the little machine and it would shoot them out.

[00:29:14] And um it was it was really bizarre because it revolved around they went to like South America or something.

[00:29:22] And they found like one of those old pyramids and they were like oh friggin this like transports us to this like alternate world or whatever.

[00:29:30] All the same monsters are here just like in all the other alternate worlds that we have and this is how we use them here.

[00:29:37] It was really weird.

[00:29:39] See the VHS tape I always remember like taking out back in the day was um this Blockbuster had most of them.

[00:29:47] I think it was missing like one or two.

[00:29:49] The two I would always pick out for whatever reason was Face Off which was the infamous that was the infamous episode where like Yugi versus Kaiba on the roof and Kaiba cheats.

[00:30:01] I had that one too.

[00:30:03] I mean that one's iconic just because it was the first appearance of Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

[00:30:07] Yep.

[00:30:09] Have one of those around here somewhere.

[00:30:11] Where each of the heads had its own attack points?

[00:30:13] Yeah yeah that totally is how it worked.

[00:30:16] That's why nobody knew how to play the game.

[00:30:19] What you mean you can't destroy the Ark Castle of Illusion's flotation ring and drop it on top of the monsters below?

[00:30:27] I had that VHS tape too.

[00:30:30] Here he is.

[00:30:33] There we go.

[00:30:36] So I remember I would always rent that episode and then the other one I would always rent was the one that had the first virtual world Ark, the computer game thing.

[00:30:47] Yeah the one that was like Zelda?

[00:30:49] Yeah or like Kaiba was being a dork like he always is.

[00:30:53] Of course.

[00:30:54] And was making his own computer game basically and they all get trapped in the computer game because one of the many times where like the Kaiba Corp executives go rogue.

[00:31:04] Yeah right.

[00:31:05] That happens a lot in the series and it never ends well for them so I don't know why they keep trying but...

[00:31:13] I don't know what made less sense to me in that little like mini arc was how Kaiba was just like I know you all betrayed me to Pegasus but I'll let it go this time.

[00:31:22] Yeah.

[00:31:23] For them to immediately betray him again.

[00:31:25] Betray him again.

[00:31:27] I always remember that arc because that arc was really cool because they really...

[00:31:31] Well because this was still at the end tail end of like the rules didn't matter and you could just play whatever fucking card you wanted.

[00:31:38] So there was just a bunch of cool cards plus I've always loved the dragon cards and there were so many fucking dragons in that arc.

[00:31:46] But I always remember because the big reveal at the end was the...

[00:31:50] Dragon Master Knight.

[00:31:53] Yes.

[00:31:54] One of those cards that is such an outrageously pain in the ass card to play.

[00:32:01] Yeah.

[00:32:02] Almost not even worth it.

[00:32:03] For people who don't know, to summon a Dragon Master Knight you need three blue eyes, two polymerization cards.

[00:32:16] You need...

[00:32:18] Black Luster Soldier.

[00:32:19] Black Luster Soldier. So you also need his Ritual card.

[00:32:24] Plus you need a shitload of things to tribute.

[00:32:28] And to do this you...

[00:32:30] This is so hard to set up like you need to literally...

[00:32:33] You have better luck playing Exodia to be perfectly honest.

[00:32:36] Honestly, yeah.

[00:32:38] Especially if you load your deck full of sand-gan and witch of the black forest.

[00:32:43] Oh yeah.

[00:32:44] But the benefit of this card is if you do set it up just right and you have like...

[00:32:49] Because this card's gimmick is every dragon on the field adds like...

[00:32:53] How much?

[00:32:56] Adds 500 attack points to this...

[00:32:58] To its attack.

[00:33:00] If you have like 12 dragons on the field, the thing becomes fucking invincible.

[00:33:04] But it's not worth the hassle.

[00:33:07] Yeah.

[00:33:09] Oh man.

[00:33:10] Yugioh was such a...

[00:33:12] I mean, I say was it's still around.

[00:33:14] It's one of those weird things where like Pokemon and Yugioh were always like...

[00:33:19] Kind of rivals in the same like stream and everyone always just say,

[00:33:22] Oh, Yugioh just copied Pokemon.

[00:33:24] But Yugioh came out like the same year.

[00:33:27] Yeah, it did. And they're not even remotely similar.

[00:33:30] No, not even close.

[00:33:33] But it's just weird because I feel like even though Yugioh is still around,

[00:33:37] They're still selling cards.

[00:33:38] They're still making anime.

[00:33:41] I feel like at its core it didn't have the same staying power as Pokemon.

[00:33:46] It didn't have the same like vibe, honestly.

[00:33:49] Oh no. I mean, it definitely was...

[00:33:52] Well, I mean, first of all, I had like actual story arcs where Pokemon was very episodic.

[00:33:57] It also...

[00:33:59] It's kind of similar to the whole Pokemon Digimon thing.

[00:34:02] To me, honestly, the reason why Pokemon has had the staying power that it's had is because of the games.

[00:34:09] Yeah. That makes sense.

[00:34:11] Not that Yugioh has had any shortage of games either.

[00:34:14] It hasn't, but the Yugioh games are so hit or miss it's not even funny.

[00:34:19] Yeah, that's true.

[00:34:21] You know what I wish? I wish we'd get a Yugioh game based off of Season Zero.

[00:34:26] Or it's like not even about the card games.

[00:34:28] Season Zero was like the weirdest fucking thing to me as a kid because...

[00:34:33] Obviously, for those who don't know, Season Zero was the...

[00:34:37] The previous attempt at a Yugioh anime that was released before the main one.

[00:34:43] Toy Animation did the animation.

[00:34:45] I didn't even know it was Toy.

[00:34:47] Yeah, it was Toy Animation, which is very interesting comparing it to the studio that did the rest of the series.

[00:34:54] It looks so much less harsh.

[00:34:57] Yeah, it's a much softer art style, if that makes sense.

[00:35:01] Except for when the Pharaoh came out.

[00:35:03] But he just... He's just pointy in general.

[00:35:06] Yeah, but he also... I mean everything would also get super dark whenever he'd show up because he was kind of fucked.

[00:35:12] Yeah.

[00:35:14] I remember the Season Zero learning about it from magazines because they would show promotional art from it.

[00:35:21] And I was always like, what the fuck is this show?

[00:35:23] I don't remember any of these characters. Why are the cards black?

[00:35:27] There's a movie for it too.

[00:35:29] Yeah, none of it was dubbed.

[00:35:31] So if you want to watch it, you have to deal with subs.

[00:35:35] Unless you want to watch Season Zero, Bridged.

[00:35:38] Yeah.

[00:35:40] I mean, hey, it's actually probably better than the actual show itself.

[00:35:46] Speaking of Season Zero though, Season Zero kind of matters because if you watch Yu-Gi-Oh! from Episode 1, it doesn't make any sense because they cut out so much fucking manga.

[00:35:59] Yeah, because if you look at the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, like dual monsters that we're all familiar with from our childhoods, that first episode pretty much takes place in what would be like Volume 7 or 8 of the manga.

[00:36:17] Yeah.

[00:36:18] So it's like... It skips over a lot of stuff and that's what... A lot of that is what Season Zero covers.

[00:36:24] Yeah. It's like you miss so much character and it's like, you just kind of have to assume these people know each other.

[00:36:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:36:32] Can we also take a minute to talk about the wonderful Four Kids dub?

[00:36:36] Oh, it's fucking fantastic. Dan Green, he's the man.

[00:36:40] So the actors themselves are great. The dub itself though is hilarious. I don't remember how much Four Kids just like... fucked it up.

[00:36:49] Oh yeah. It's super funny though. It's one of those things where it's like I always kind of come back to it every now and then.

[00:36:55] Like at this point it's been years but like... Like, you know, everyone out there, I'll go over to my cousin's house or something.

[00:37:03] And my little brother will be there. I thought he'd be watching Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'll just sit down and watch it with him because it's one of those things where it doesn't even matter if it's like a shitty arc or something stupid is happening or if it's a cool part.

[00:37:15] Like it's just incredibly entertaining.

[00:37:19] Yeah, like I can't get over Joey's Brooklyn accent that they gave him for no reason from Wayne Grayson.

[00:37:28] Dan Green is Yu-Gi's iconic, especially his pharaoh voice.

[00:37:34] Why am I forgetting Kyba's voice? Eric Stewart. Eric Stewart just fucking hams it up the entire time.

[00:37:41] Yeah. He just sounds like Brock in his first appearance at Pokemon.

[00:37:46] Yeah. Tristan's voice changes throughout the series.

[00:37:53] He had such a doofy voice the first like 10 episodes.

[00:37:59] It sounded like Bullwinkle.

[00:38:01] Yeah, and then they changed it to his much more... they changed it to the much better voice that he had the rest of the series in his spotlight episode.

[00:38:10] I'm not going to make him like kind of like a cool guy, but he didn't know how to play card games.

[00:38:14] So he was like the joke. He was like the yautra of their group.

[00:38:18] Kinda. That's why he got put in a robot monkey for like an entire season.

[00:38:22] Which honestly is just wonderful.

[00:38:25] That whole fucking... we'll get to it eventually, but that the virtual world arc is still one of the biggest like what the fuck is this kind of things?

[00:38:35] Just to brief aside, it was one of those arcs where like the concept of what was cool.

[00:38:41] Like the concept of having a deckmaster and have different effects and stuff. That was cool.

[00:38:46] I wish that there was an actual rule for that. Like a different play style.

[00:38:51] The arc itself was cool. It was the fact that they stuck it in the middle of an arc that was active.

[00:38:56] But the whole... yeah, that's exactly the thing is the whole time I'm thinking like this is kind of cool.

[00:39:02] Like is it Merrick like a psychopath that's on the ship with a bunch of people in a coma?

[00:39:06] It happens right after Merrick fucking puts Mai in a coma and he's gone fucking insane.

[00:39:12] And then they just fucking cut to this shit and he just chills on the fucking plane the entire time.

[00:39:18] And like I'm pretty sure like right before they went to that little virtual world section,

[00:39:23] I'm pretty sure he had just tried to stab a bunch of people in their sleep.

[00:39:27] Yeah.

[00:39:29] So it's just like okay, I guess he's fine over there.

[00:39:33] Well he's like well they can't fight back so I don't want to do it right now.

[00:39:36] How wait till they wake up and then I'll try to kill them?

[00:39:39] Yeah, it's just bizarre.

[00:39:41] It was such a... the placement of the arc is honestly the biggest what the fuck.

[00:39:45] Because as a kid you like... if you missed say the episode that introduced it

[00:39:51] and you're just all of a sudden like watching this you're like what the fuck happened to Merrick and all that shit.

[00:39:56] And it's like now we're in this fucking weird place.

[00:40:00] For real.

[00:40:02] Yeah, I got... honestly the thing I remember most from that arc was Exodia Necrose.

[00:40:08] Oh yeah, that was one of those cards that I always wanted.

[00:40:12] But I never had the pieces of Exodia which you need to summon him.

[00:40:15] So I have a full set now just because like as a kid this was like crack cocaine.

[00:40:22] Because like everybody wanted the full Exodia set.

[00:40:25] And if you had... I remember like if you just had like his fucking leg you were considered like the cool kid.

[00:40:30] To this day I only have three pieces.

[00:40:33] So the benefit of nowadays is you can buy them all on like fucking eBay for like five bucks.

[00:40:38] Yeah but... I don't know it's always kind of been one of...

[00:40:42] It's always been kind of like one of my childhood dreams to pull them from packs and now that they've re-released the old packs

[00:40:47] and I'm kind of like... I kind of want to put money into it but I should like get the four too.

[00:40:53] You're like it's not the same damn it but me who had like no none of them and didn't have any nostalgia was like

[00:40:58] hey all the Exodia pieces for five dollars thank you.

[00:41:02] And then it also came with like Exodia Necrose.

[00:41:06] Summoning card you need for it and then this weird like legendary Exodia Incarnate card that I'd never heard of but hey it's here.

[00:41:14] I think I saw that in dual links.

[00:41:18] I guess it's like the better version of Exodia Necrose.

[00:41:22] I don't know.

[00:41:24] Yeah because with Exodia Necrose you have to have all the pieces in the graveyard.

[00:41:28] Yeah it's weird.

[00:41:31] Exodia is such a weird concept to me.

[00:41:34] They introduce it in the show with like Yu-Gi just has it in his deck and then like he immediately loses it because

[00:41:43] he gets he lets the obvious slime ball look at his cards on a cruise ship

[00:41:48] hanging over the edge and it's like oh he threw him in the ocean what did you expect?

[00:41:53] Yeah.

[00:41:55] And then Joey being the genius he is jumps in a fucking ocean to go get them.

[00:42:01] He know what's funny with like the four kids like localization how they call him Joey like how would the manga his name is Jo-Nichi?

[00:42:09] Yeah but even when I'm reading the manga I still read his lines to the Brooklyn accent.

[00:42:15] It's just become part of it like he's there's a reason why everyone still refers to him as Joey because it's just like we're so used to it at this point.

[00:42:23] Yeah nobody calls Tristan Honda.

[00:42:26] No because it's like we just kind of got stuck with them.

[00:42:29] Yeah it's just embedded in our brains at this point.

[00:42:34] Yeah.

[00:42:36] Duelist Kingdom though that whole that honestly it's my favorite season just because of how absurd it was but like at the same time it made no fucking sense.

[00:42:46] Like they just pulled shit out of nowhere like kind of as evil doppelganger happened at one point.

[00:42:53] Yep.

[00:42:55] What was your favorite like what the fuck victory in Duelist Kingdom because there was a pretty much every duel had one of them.

[00:43:04] There's a few like Joey looking into like five wins was pretty entertaining.

[00:43:11] Yeah it was almost always Thousand Dragon too.

[00:43:15] Yeah well actually my favorite is like he uses Thousand Dragon like for like the first like four and then like he tries it on a Rex Raptor and he just stops on it.

[00:43:25] He's like you left a baby unattended.

[00:43:28] Yeah.

[00:43:31] God.

[00:43:33] I remember how you always put the time wizard in this Bell Trap Zone.

[00:43:36] Yeah because that's also like the first like three appearances he just doesn't follow the rules of time wizard at all.

[00:43:42] Nope.

[00:43:44] And then like suddenly when it matters he's like he's like oh right time wizard has an effect that you're actually supposed to use and then they just use it for the rest of the series it's like oh I guess I can't just cheat anymore.

[00:43:55] One of my favorites was in it was actually the like the final match in the in the tournament when Joey is pretty much like destroying Yu-Gi throughout the whole match and then he's like oh but I do my time wizard thing that always works and then he does it and he's

[00:44:11] like haha now you're now your dark magician is older decrepit and he's like yeah he's a wizard that makes him more powerful.

[00:44:19] Yeah that's how that works.

[00:44:21] Final Fantasy IV tells me different.

[00:44:25] For people who have played Final Fantasy IV you'll understand that one.

[00:44:30] Not quite there yet.

[00:44:31] That's like I do more.

[00:44:33] Trust me you'll get it when you get there but um yeah that that that fight bothered me because it was like Joey legitimately like actually was having a good duel.

[00:44:43] Yeah he was it was like the first time he was actually like doing well throughout the whole thing.

[00:44:48] I mean his duel against uh Banda Keith was pretty good as well.

[00:44:55] I mean he won that one legitimately too and Banda Keith was the one that cheated the whole time.

[00:45:00] That's true.

[00:45:01] And still lost.

[00:45:02] He beat a lot of cheaters.

[00:45:04] Yeah he my cheated um.

[00:45:06] He got kidnapped by the zombie kid and Banda Keith and.

[00:45:09] They cheated.

[00:45:11] Didn't the twins kind of cheat as well?

[00:45:14] Uh I feel like maybe.

[00:45:21] I don't remember if they actually cheated in the game itself.

[00:45:24] I think like there's stupid little like which door should you go through Riddell was like the real cheat.

[00:45:29] Oh yeah that that's completely got forgotten halfway through the duel.

[00:45:34] Yeah the introduction of the black skull dragon too.

[00:45:37] I fucking love that card.

[00:45:39] That that is one of my favorite episodes even though like that that duel.

[00:45:44] Can't happen in real life like there's just that doesn't work.

[00:45:48] Yeah how does that wall card actually work because I never never understood how that card really works.

[00:45:53] I think I have a labyrinth wall but I've never fucking used it because it's literally.

[00:45:58] I was gonna say not even the labyrinth wall like because that's the monster there was like a spell card that they used with it to make it like change.

[00:46:04] Yeah that that card exists I had it as a kid I don't have it anymore but um.

[00:46:08] But the grid the whole concept of the grid field isn't a thing so how the what what does it actually do.

[00:46:16] Yeah that's my question because nobody knows nobody knows what it does.

[00:46:21] Also Yu-Gi Yu-Gi somehow always like managed to make magical hats work even though like in reality like it's like such a small chance you'd always be perfect with it.

[00:46:31] Yeah well he has main character powers so.

[00:46:36] Yeah I've always remembered to like the double duel episodes were always cool even though in reality double duels kind of sucked.

[00:46:42] Yeah they're paying the ass how do you figure out who goes when and it's just especially once the I mean technically the real rules always had this but in battle city when it was just like oh yeah you can just attack people directly.

[00:46:58] Yeah.

[00:47:00] Yep.

[00:47:03] Where was it.

[00:47:05] Oh yeah thinking of episodes from a season one duelist kingdom.

[00:47:10] The the the the Korra episode is still one of the most hilarious ones.

[00:47:15] Oh what he trapped them in their in their favorite cards.

[00:47:17] I love that one.

[00:47:19] This is right after Joey got fucking annihilated by Kyva to.

[00:47:22] Yep.

[00:47:23] With his dog outfit.

[00:47:26] Yeah because Kyva's just fucking like.

[00:47:29] Trying to rescue his brother so he's just kind of fucking about the island at this point.

[00:47:35] But he decides to kick Joey while he's down because that's just Kyva's thing.

[00:47:41] Yeah.

[00:47:43] Yeah but that happens and then they go to like the they meet the Korra who just appears everywhere.

[00:47:49] He's got a millennium item as well it's kind of evil and it follows him.

[00:47:55] Yeah we don't learn much about it until a movie like decades later but um.

[00:48:03] I mean you learn about it in season five.

[00:48:06] Well we don't learn how he got it until like the movie years later.

[00:48:11] Yeah I think that's true.

[00:48:14] Except for like I think he's like kind of like waves it away like oh yeah my dad found it and gave it to me or he like.

[00:48:19] Yeah some guy was selling it in a shop in Egypt because apparently everybody in fucking Japan goes to Egypt in you gear world.

[00:48:26] Because that's just what you do I guess if you're in Japan.

[00:48:30] Yes.

[00:48:32] So yeah that that was that episode is hilarious mostly just because you get all the characters like in cosplay basically.

[00:48:39] So actually I think that's the episode that maybe like the flame swordsman you know it's a bullshit card sucks.

[00:48:44] Why is it a fusion monster like in every like in the anime.

[00:48:48] And not only is it a fusion monster but it's a fusion where one of the fusion material monsters is also a fusion so you have to do two fusions to play the flame swordsman which isn't even a good card.

[00:49:01] Yeah Joey used back before Joey got his red eyes that was like his go to like hard for a while.

[00:49:11] What was Tristan Tristan was the fucking like the cyber commander cyber commander because Tristan's decks sucked.

[00:49:17] Yep.

[00:49:19] And the only thing he had going for him was the the swamp battle guard or whatever and even that if you look at that objectively that's a bad card to.

[00:49:27] Yeah it only it only really helped during that one episode because they were just doing a gimmick.

[00:49:32] And it only worked in Duelist Kingdom because you didn't have to sacrifice monsters because it was like a six star monster for some reason.

[00:49:38] Yeah, it was like one of the weakest cards in the game.

[00:49:43] But actually one of the most useful cards I would argue through being able to pull a spell card out of the graveyard is always useful.

[00:49:50] Yes.

[00:49:52] And then and then of course my core was a fucking magic card because that made sense.

[00:49:58] Yeah.

[00:50:00] That was the first defeat of the ring but we found out many times that ring just keeps coming back.

[00:50:05] Yep, they ain't going nowhere.

[00:50:09] I'm trying to think of another good one in Duelist Kingdom.

[00:50:15] Yeah Duelist Kingdom was interesting to me.

[00:50:18] Yeah, I mean there's I mean there's obviously the first one we saw with the Weevil with you know the great moth and the summon skull.

[00:50:27] Yeah, I think there's the first appearance of the summons skull.

[00:50:30] Yes, I think so.

[00:50:32] Oh yeah we also have to talk about Yugi's grandfather getting body snatched from a TV early on in this series.

[00:50:39] You know what's really funny about that is they only kind of like barely touch on it but in the manga he's like literally in a TV.

[00:50:46] Like Yugi's carrying around this little port like bulky portable TV and his grandpa is just inside it talking to him.

[00:50:54] The manga sounds like it was so much more entertaining.

[00:50:57] It really like honestly like maybe once we like get to a point where like maybe like a good cut off point like after the fire at leaf green emerald stuff.

[00:51:06] Like maybe like in between doing Pokemon we should we should do some you go because that's that's another thing that people don't talk nearly enough about is the Uea manga.

[00:51:15] I'd have to get some of it because I don't have any of it at the moment but yeah maybe at some point.

[00:51:22] Yugi and Maga is just incredibly entertaining.

[00:51:24] I still need to get I think six more of the three in ones but I think I think I'm going to start getting them even if I only had to get them one at a time.

[00:51:33] I still can't get over when me and Alex watched Dark Side of Dimensions like a few like a couple years ago.

[00:51:39] I still can't get over her comment where she was just like Yugi's grandfather has a punchable face.

[00:51:44] Apparently because he gets punched a lot.

[00:51:47] If Alex just wanted to punch him in the face for some reason.

[00:51:51] I was like, I'm like, all right Alex is letting the savage out again.

[00:51:54] Oh yeah.

[00:51:56] Oh God that's okay because he dies in Bonds Beyond Time.

[00:52:01] That's sad.

[00:52:02] He's revived afterwards but oh because the whole thing we're all did you ever see that one?

[00:52:07] No.

[00:52:08] It was pretty funny.

[00:52:11] They took the main three protagonists from the first three shows Yugi, Jaden and you say I think.

[00:52:17] Oh that one.

[00:52:18] I have to see that.

[00:52:19] I've only heard about it.

[00:52:21] And they fight the guy who is the time travel guy who's played by Sean Schemel.

[00:52:29] Yeah unfortunately like in terms of Yugi movies the only ones I have experience with are the infamous Yugi movie and Dark Side Dimensions.

[00:52:41] I'm pretty sure there's only actually no technically there's four at least.

[00:52:46] Yeah.

[00:52:48] Because there's the season zero movie as well.

[00:52:51] True.

[00:52:52] But we never got that one over here.

[00:52:56] So yeah we also never mentioned to Joey.

[00:53:00] Joey is firmly established with the Red Eyes Black Dragon for most of basically the franchise but he doesn't even get it until halfway through season one.

[00:53:12] And then he loses at the beginning of season two.

[00:53:15] Yeah.

[00:53:17] And he doesn't like really get it back.

[00:53:20] Well it's never confirmed when exactly he got it back.

[00:53:23] The biggest implication is he got it back at the end of season two.

[00:53:28] Season three actually because season two ends with them going into the virtual world.

[00:53:34] Yeah that's I forgot they cut the arc in half.

[00:53:38] Season.

[00:53:40] Anyways.

[00:53:43] He gets it at the end of season three because him and Yugi have a duel basically to he wants to win it back Farad Square so they have a duel.

[00:53:51] And he has it in Waking the Dragons we'll get to that we'll get to that eventually.

[00:53:57] He kicks ass in that one that arc.

[00:54:00] I know he does but I hate that arc because it's so fucking stupid.

[00:54:04] It is but it has its moments.

[00:54:07] He has Red Eyes again in that so it's implied that he won the duel even though it's never shown on screen.

[00:54:13] Because every duel that supposedly Yugi lost is never shown on screen except for that one time.

[00:54:20] Well yeah the one time kind of a cheated.

[00:54:26] Yeah that was like the one duel we saw him lose.

[00:54:29] Well I mean there was also the what's it called.

[00:54:34] He's during the Waking the Dragons he lost his duel in that too.

[00:54:38] Yeah we'll get to it.

[00:54:42] You can tell I don't like that arc very much.

[00:54:46] Yeah so I guess going at the end of well we should talk about the end of the duelist season one is weird because after the Yugi vs Pegasus fight is really epic but I forgot how fucking long it was.

[00:54:59] I mean it was for Yugi it was pretty long I think it was only like five or six episodes total.

[00:55:08] I was used to duels being like two episodes of Max so like when it was like yeah five episodes are like holy shit.

[00:55:14] What you start getting into like the later battle battle city stuff the duels are getting very long.

[00:55:20] True.

[00:55:21] Like I think universe Kaiba in battle city is like five episodes long.

[00:55:26] See nowadays it's not a problem because we can just go on to Hulu and watch the series willy nilly.

[00:55:32] Back in the day though you'd be like you'd have to like wait for the damn episodes every week and it'd be like they'd show you like the first two parts and then they'd suddenly shift to like some other episode you're like God damn it.

[00:55:44] Yeah so you had to rely on the VHS tapes and sometimes the VHS tapes didn't even have all of it.

[00:55:52] You had to buy two VHS tapes.

[00:55:54] Yeah I think I only had the second one for the Yugi Pegasus duel.

[00:56:01] Yeah.

[00:56:02] And in that one I believe the second VHS tape picks up right when they enter the shadow realm.

[00:56:11] Yeah.

[00:56:12] Quote unquote.

[00:56:14] Um, there was a lot of bizarro episodes after Yugi defeated Pegasus too.

[00:56:21] It's like there's the episode with a shadi where he gets like takes the trip through Yugi's mind.

[00:56:30] Yeah that one was weird.

[00:56:32] Then there's also the episode with like Yugi's grandfather's friend's daughter that shows up.

[00:56:42] Oh yeah Rebecca.

[00:56:45] She's annoying but and she comes back a lot as we learn.

[00:56:49] Yeah in your favorite arc.

[00:56:52] I know.

[00:56:53] And then the arc after it.

[00:56:55] Yep.

[00:56:57] And then there's the obviously the virtual world arc which I love the virtual world of the computer game arc I should say.

[00:57:05] I love that arc because it's so fucking dumb.

[00:57:09] My shows up with it as a boss at one point and then she's like oh yeah I'm just here.

[00:57:14] Yeah I'm play testing the game for Kibacorp.

[00:57:17] I feel like that should have been told to us at some point.

[00:57:21] Like why are they play testing this game when obviously like the admins of Kibacorp are using it for various purposes.

[00:57:28] See I love the part in that where they have to win the nematory, I think it's called card that the chicken walking chicken desert creatures.

[00:57:36] The Chocobos.

[00:57:37] Basically I forgot what they're called.

[00:57:39] It's like nematory weenit weenin of Tori some stupid name.

[00:57:43] I think you had it right.

[00:57:45] But they win the card and then like they're going across the desert and Joey's are like go drumsticks and buys like guys Joey named his chicken.

[00:57:57] Yeah.

[00:57:58] Oh jeez.

[00:58:01] That was a weird arc also that was the introduction of the five headed dragon as well, which honestly I like that one a lot more than master dragon night.

[00:58:13] Yeah well that one because that one you can just summon like any five random dragons to make it.

[00:58:19] Yeah it's just a five any five dragons you just use together to make it which I personally it's a lot more usable was a lot more realistic.

[00:58:31] And plus I just like dragon decks so it's always yeah.

[00:58:36] Yeah so that arc ended and then we got the wonderful dungeon dice monsters arc.

[00:58:44] Yeah, the stealth pilot for a show that never came off the ground.

[00:58:51] Yeah, which I mean I kind of taken her left the show but it would be kind of cool even just like if they just done like a video game for it, which I think you said I think you told me one point that they did but it wasn't very good.

[00:59:05] Yeah, like Game Boy Advance game which I mean it's fine.

[00:59:10] It's just a bunch of dice monsters isn't a good game.

[00:59:14] Yeah well I mean is the if you think you use a convoluted convoluted rules then you should check out digitized monsters because yeah yeah there's no way that was going to work.

[00:59:26] Ironically that the anime that was like the most accurate part of the anime at that point.

[00:59:34] Which is really bizarre.

[00:59:37] Yeah and then they went straight into duelist king and a dual battle city, where the first episode was literally like, alright, we're actually establishing rules now.

[00:59:49] Yep.

[00:59:50] So everything rules and we have a real plot.

[00:59:54] Yeah, I remember because then like, I remember as a kid I was kind of bummed because I was like, now the battles aren't as fun.

[01:00:02] But then I'm like, then you think about you're like oh no there's actual strategy involved.

[01:00:09] Yeah with the whole concept of sacrificing monsters came in and everyone's like wait a minute we've been playing it wrong the whole time.

[01:00:17] What you mean the tune monsters can't just jump out of the way.

[01:00:21] Nope.

[01:00:22] It's like that's why Kyve was able to beat Pegasus in the movies because he actually had to use the rules.

[01:00:27] Yeah.

[01:00:29] Yeah well also Pegasus was drinking at the time.

[01:00:33] That's true.

[01:00:35] That's my fan theory.

[01:00:37] And he was drinking wine I'm pretty sure by the pool when Kyve showed up so.

[01:00:41] Yeah he drinks a lot of wine in the show.

[01:00:44] He's a wealthy American.

[01:00:48] Is he American?

[01:00:50] He lives in America.

[01:00:52] True.

[01:00:54] I don't know if he's supposed to actually be American but that's where he lives so.

[01:00:57] I could never tell with the Yu-Gi-Oh anime.

[01:01:01] I mean I figure he's either American or he's English with a name like Maximilian.

[01:01:10] So the first couple episodes of Battle City are pretty like what the hell.

[01:01:14] It's kind of just setting it up like we meet, wow what's her name.

[01:01:19] Is she Zun?

[01:01:21] Oh yeah she's Zun.

[01:01:23] She gives Kyve this guy.

[01:01:29] Yeah obelisk.

[01:01:31] This is the fun version that you can actually use in game.

[01:01:34] Yeah.

[01:01:36] She gives him obelisk and he's basically just like hey I need you to do this thing and he's like fuck that I want rare cards.

[01:01:44] Yeah he's just like I'm not giving you this back.

[01:01:46] I'm like screw you.

[01:01:48] Basically she just kind of tricked him into doing a tournament essentially.

[01:01:54] Yeah and then we get of course like all of the, there's a few like set up episodes like though.

[01:02:01] I liked the first couple episodes because it was kind of like the last time you were going to see like the old style dueling arenas.

[01:02:11] Because you got Yugi versus Zest band to Keith because they stole the puzzle.

[01:02:18] Yeah because it was just a random gigantic friggin dual monster stadium in the middle of a warehouse.

[01:02:26] Of course.

[01:02:28] Who is building these?

[01:02:31] I love the fact though that like the whole plot thing was like Yugi puts the puzzle on this massive chain because he's all like worried that people are after it now.

[01:02:40] Like a legit like the kind of change that you would see in a warehouse like the big ass fucking chains.

[01:02:45] Yeah.

[01:02:46] Like pull an engine out of a car or something like.

[01:02:49] And then he falls for the dumbest fucking thing everywhere.

[01:02:52] It's like some random street fortune tellers like sir let me see your rare item I got I want to get it tested for fortunes.

[01:03:01] Yeah your priceless ancient Egyptian antique.

[01:03:03] Yeah and Yugi is all like oh what's the harm that could happen here.

[01:03:08] Yeah he runs away with it and it's like Docker you didn't see that one coming.

[01:03:12] For real.

[01:03:14] That was stupid.

[01:03:16] And then he faces off against Bandit Keith who we hadn't seen since he got flushed down Kyla I mean Pegasus is island toilet I guess.

[01:03:24] Yeah something like that.

[01:03:27] And it's apparently confirmed that he got picked up by Merrick who just happened to be offshore at the time.

[01:03:33] That's about right.

[01:03:35] That sounds very anime.

[01:03:37] Yeah and this is pre this is pre insane Merrick where he was he was evil but he wasn't like psychotic evil yet.

[01:03:46] Yeah that doles really annoying because he cheats the entire time and Yugi like he also smashes the puzzle.

[01:03:52] Oh yeah that's right.

[01:03:54] He has to try and rebuild it while the building is burning down around him.

[01:03:58] Yeah and then they have to like rip it off the wall because Yugi fucking they're like why did you have to use such a strong chain.

[01:04:05] And he continues to use the chain afterwards but then I'm pretty sure when the arc is over he goes back to regular rope.

[01:04:12] Or I have to I have to remember because I swear the chain was in dark side of dimensions.

[01:04:18] Maybe I don't know.

[01:04:22] Yeah the battle cities interesting to me though because like there's also the arc where they get the introduced the dual discs which was just to sell toys.

[01:04:31] I had one.

[01:04:32] I had one too.

[01:04:33] We all did.

[01:04:34] Did you actually do with one.

[01:04:36] I tried but I always have more than 40 cards in my deck so I'd end up just kind of like having my deck to the side.

[01:04:45] You never play with them outside because it doesn't matter what the show says if you try to play it outside your cards are going to blow away.

[01:04:52] We did this it was great.

[01:04:54] The cards would fly off the disk and you have to chase after him.

[01:04:57] I was standing on opposite sides of a field like I play this what.

[01:05:03] Deadass we did this at recess and it we looked like fucking idiots.

[01:05:07] It was great.

[01:05:08] I mean that was half the fun of playing you guys because you because every kid who played the game was going out of their way to emulate the show so they always.

[01:05:18] Oh yeah.

[01:05:19] Super dramatic about it.

[01:05:20] Oh yeah like flinging hands around like screaming at the top of your lungs.

[01:05:25] Like I was going to say the dual discs were the point where like the popularity was starting to wane a little bit.

[01:05:33] So like you did it wasn't like a universal thing by this point.

[01:05:36] So like if you had the dual disc you were like one of the crazy fans and everyone else was just looking at you like he's one of those.

[01:05:43] It was cool though because you throw it on and it would do the whole like thing where it was snapped together and go over to the side and shit like it had a little life point counter on it like it's cool.

[01:05:54] Your cards were in card protectors.

[01:05:56] You were out of luck.

[01:05:58] No.

[01:05:59] And they the things destroyed your cards over time as well.

[01:06:02] Oh yeah.

[01:06:03] Yeah, my you get a did you get any cards stuck in the field bonus slot.

[01:06:08] I didn't I didn't generally use field cards and now I had I got I used to hide cards in there and I got like two stuck in my dual disc somehow.

[01:06:17] Geez.

[01:06:19] Yeah, I actually I played you give like the card game so much as a kid and even a little bit into adulthood because they still had all my old cards so whenever it encounters everybody who had cards.

[01:06:32] They really are fucking let's play whatever like my buddy Steve we used to we used to play.

[01:06:39] That was a very the speaking of the dual disc that was actually a really easy like a common cheat that people would do that not everyone was aware of the you would hide a like a specific card in the field power bonus slot.

[01:06:55] And because you were so far away when you were playing.

[01:06:58] You would play a field bonus card just to just for the sake of having to open the door.

[01:07:04] And then you'd slip up you'd slip out the card you needed that was in there and you put the card in.

[01:07:09] Yeah, I wasn't smart enough to try and do that kind of slight event.

[01:07:12] I wasn't smart enough or smooth enough to pull that off.

[01:07:16] Well the the benefit was you were so far away from each other that it was hard to tell what you were doing because you just kind of could make it look like you were fumbling getting the thing in there because it was a pain in the ass.

[01:07:27] Yeah I also had no concept of how to build decks either as a kid so I didn't need my text sucked.

[01:07:33] I didn't either because I had this bastard in my deck all the time.

[01:07:37] Yeah, well I did the same thing with my my first card.

[01:07:40] But like yeah I played I played the card game so much throughout my life that even even now where I haven't played the game in years.

[01:07:48] Like my wife will make fun of me because whenever we play any card game, it's just like ingrained in me to pick up the cards like I'm playing like they do with you know with like the two fingers on the top like it's just one of those things is so ingrained that I do it no matter what card game I'm playing.

[01:08:02] Yeah.

[01:08:04] Speaking of the show the episode where they get the duel this I always remember that one because like they obviously Kyva set up the system of who's ranked like and where people stand.

[01:08:16] And of course you use a five star duelist so of course he got a duel this can then Joey of course because Kyva hates his guts made him a one star duelist.

[01:08:24] But because they saw his rarest card was the red ice black dragon they cheated and gave him his disk anyways just to steal it from him.

[01:08:32] Yeah.

[01:08:34] Which is which is like one of those just like really shitty like, like vindictive things to do because he did come second place in the last tournament.

[01:08:45] Second only to the king of games so yeah.

[01:08:50] It is kind of just like a shitty like I'm just doing this to be an asshole thing.

[01:08:54] I mean Kyva doesn't even like respect Joey until like the end of season three and even then it's only just a begrudging kind of respect.

[01:09:03] Yeah.

[01:09:07] Did you have a did you like Joey's play style.

[01:09:11] I liked it in season two on because I liked his whole like gambling trick style.

[01:09:17] Yeah.

[01:09:19] His original his original deck was just a joke because it made no play it was just it had no structure at all.

[01:09:25] No not at all.

[01:09:27] It was basically time wizard red eyes.

[01:09:31] Flame swordsman.

[01:09:33] I see I liked his play style especially like now that I'm older I like his play style a lot because I feel like he would grow up and then lose all his money in a casino.

[01:09:44] Yeah, probably.

[01:09:45] I feel like I feel like his play style is just like just like supposed to be like representative of the fact that he has a gambling problem.

[01:09:54] You know, the other thing about season two that it introduced was the whole concept of like the winner gets the rarest card in the other players deck.

[01:10:03] Yeah, that was a cool concept.

[01:10:05] That was a cool concept but it ruined playing the game in real life because no one wanted to play anymore after that.

[01:10:10] Yeah.

[01:10:12] We're not doing that.

[01:10:14] Well yeah because it was like because you get the one asshole be like no you have to do it and it's like but no one else wants to so it's like.

[01:10:20] I'm not playing screw you.

[01:10:22] That's basically what happened like it would just kind of become like no one wants to play anymore because no one wants to lose their cards.

[01:10:31] It looks like my cards are going in my binder now.

[01:10:34] Pretty much.

[01:10:36] Or you'd get the same people who just said we're not doing that shit.

[01:10:41] Yeah that was an interesting concept though because it was basically like that's how like Joey's deck got built in season two because like he lost his red eyes early on obviously in that same episode by the guy with the fake exodias.

[01:10:56] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:10:59] I hated that guy that whole little like mini arc with like them trying to win back the red eyes on that was stupid as fuck.

[01:11:06] I just always remember that because his second appearance was all like I was like, you can see a loose to the card he beat me with it's like no he's not because he's fucking you get he's going to find his way out of it.

[01:11:16] Yeah.

[01:11:18] Yeah, that was like, that was another case where Joey had a really good dual going on to and then the guy just pulls out some bullshit tactic at the end to beat him.

[01:11:31] But what was cool about this arc was Yu-Gi was on his own quest because they kind of did a cool thing where they didn't all travel together this time they were all off doing their own shit.

[01:11:40] Yeah, and like Yu-Gi was obviously doing like important stuff involving like puzzles and stuff.

[01:11:47] And then Joey's off just trying to get his locator cards because that was the macguffins of this season.

[01:11:57] But Joey had all the cool battles honestly Yu-Gi's battles were just kind of like they were cool too but not nearly as entertaining.

[01:12:04] I mean, I like the arcana battle because I like the kind well first of all like the alternate dark magician looks cool like I like the red suit dark magician with like the the darker look to him.

[01:12:16] Yeah.

[01:12:17] And that was also the introduction of the dark magician girl.

[01:12:19] True. I did like that was a good fight but that was also pre Yu-Gi getting Slyper and once Yu-Gi got Slyper he got so fucking wanksty about everything for some reason.

[01:12:32] Yeah.

[01:12:33] He's like, I don't want to use this card it's evil or such shit.

[01:12:37] I'm like Yu-Gi shut up.

[01:12:38] I mean to be fair in the context of the show even just painting the cards was enough to kill the guy.

[01:12:46] True. That is true.

[01:12:49] But I love the implication of like the whole like power of the Egyptian God cards is that the ancient Egyptian religion is the true religion and everything else is bullshit.

[01:13:03] Yeah, yes.

[01:13:06] Yeah, the arcana fight was fun also the fucking God of realm, boss saws.

[01:13:12] Yeah, that shit.

[01:13:13] Which were just both saws in the manga.

[01:13:16] Yeah, it was awesome.

[01:13:19] I think one of my favorite duels in this arc was when was when Joey was like mind controlled and oh the Yu-Gi Joey had to fight.

[01:13:30] That was a fun fight but even though it was so weird because like you just anytime Joey isn't Joey it just feels weird.

[01:13:37] If you ever want to get completely obliterated play the Yu-Gi-Oh drinking game with that duel.

[01:13:43] Yeah.

[01:13:44] It's anyone who doesn't know the Yu-Gi-Oh drinking game is when you watch Yu-Gi-Oh and you take a drink every time someone says friend or friendship.

[01:13:52] Yeah, the power of friendship.

[01:13:55] Oh, speaking of power of friendship we forgot to talk about the fucking hand to thing.

[01:14:00] Oh yeah, the fucking smiley face.

[01:14:02] I completely forgot about that.

[01:14:04] That comes up so many times throughout the series.

[01:14:06] Especially in season one where it's like that's right our friendship packed.

[01:14:14] It's like the four kids like suicide pact essentially.

[01:14:22] Speaking of Joey though like his honestly you gain so much respect for Joey in like Battle City because like he his deck got stacked by the end of by the end of that season because like he got Ginzo from

[01:14:36] Esparoba another cheater that he beat.

[01:14:39] Ginzo is a sick card.

[01:14:41] Ginzo becomes his main card pretty much after that until he gets read eyes back.

[01:14:46] Ginzo's fun.

[01:14:49] He got the insect queen from Weevil.

[01:14:55] Which I mean he still used it but it was practically useless in his deck because it kind of revolved around having an insect.

[01:15:05] Yeah.

[01:15:07] Oh, and then he also got the legendary fisherman from Mako.

[01:15:11] It was kind of cool that he was getting these iconic cards from the previous season.

[01:15:16] Even though he was like stealing them from like these were notable characters.

[01:15:21] I just thought it was funny that like half the time he was just dueling all the people that you beat in the first season.

[01:15:27] Yeah, well they were just giving Joey a second chance to like be like yeah I'm cool now.

[01:15:31] Yeah, I did my duel monsters training.

[01:15:35] Yeah there was that.

[01:15:38] There was um those were his three main fights because like after that he got all his locator cards I believe right?

[01:15:46] Yes, I think he only had those three duels.

[01:15:51] Yeah, like they could bet multiple locator cards at duels and it was weird.

[01:15:57] Yeah, I did it.

[01:15:59] My favorite was how Bacora got his where he literally just stole somebody's dual disc and then he challenged the zombie kid.

[01:16:06] Yeah, beat them up.

[01:16:08] Basically.

[01:16:09] Pretty sure in the manga he just straight up kills them.

[01:16:12] Well Bacora was in a fucking coma at the time too which makes it even more bizarre.

[01:16:17] Yeah I think it was a self induced coma though.

[01:16:20] Yeah yeah it was.

[01:16:22] Because he had like formed a pact with Merrick.

[01:16:26] That later he gets betrayed with.

[01:16:29] Yeah, predictably.

[01:16:31] He also put his spirit in the millennium puzzle so he could explore it without Yu-Gi knowing.

[01:16:37] Which would come back around to the final arc.

[01:16:40] Yeah, Yami Bacora is a fucking probably one of the most complex characters in this fucking series.

[01:16:48] In my personal opinion he's the best known.

[01:16:51] Well because he's the only arc villain that goes on the entire series.

[01:16:56] Yeah, he's like kind of like a minor annoyance throughout most of the series and then it's like surprise I'm the final boss.

[01:17:03] Yeah.

[01:17:06] Yeah so I was thinking Yu-Gi's fights were less interesting like Yu-Gi had, I mean he had Arcana.

[01:17:12] The bones fight was fun until it got really predictable.

[01:17:16] Because the gold gimmick with that fight is also one of the reasons why I have a revival jam in my deck.

[01:17:22] That was like where the revival jam strategy came from even though Yu-Gi completely just breaks it in half on him.

[01:17:30] And it also does not work the same way in the real game?

[01:17:34] No, you can't just infinitely draw cards like that.

[01:17:38] No it doesn't and even if you did you would just end up losing like the Mime Guy did.

[01:17:45] I love how the Mime Guy's hilarious because it's literally just Merrick like mind controlling him the entire fight.

[01:17:52] And when he loses he's so mad he's like god damn it I lost one of the cards.

[01:17:57] Yeah, what are the ultimate cards?

[01:18:01] And Yu-Gi's so like butthurt about it he's like I don't even want this but I guess I have to take it.

[01:18:06] Yeah, it's better than I have it than he has it so screw it.

[01:18:11] He never uses Slyther either, he uses Slyther like twice.

[01:18:14] Yeah I think he uses it, I think he only uses it in the championship like the final tournament.

[01:18:22] Yeah there's two specific fights he uses it because he does not so the next fight Yu-Gi has is with it's the double duel on the roof against the two rare hunters or whatever their names were.

[01:18:35] Yeah, I don't, Loomis and Umbra?

[01:18:39] Yeah those guys, the guys with the masks.

[01:18:42] Yeah I hated those guys, I liked their monster like the masked beast guy but literally everything else about that duel I thought was stupid.

[01:18:52] I mean the only reason I fucking love that duel is because it has like my favorite line of monsters in it.

[01:19:00] Oh the Magnet Warriors?

[01:19:03] Yeah, I love these guys.

[01:19:07] It's like one of the, I think it's like the only time in that season that Valkyrian appears?

[01:19:15] Not 100% sure, maybe. I don't know because he uses the Valkyrian strategy at least once I think he might use it again but I get confused because he also uses like the Queens Knight, Kings Knight, Jacks Knight strategy too.

[01:19:33] Yeah Yu-Gi's deck was interesting in this season because it was very different from his, he clearly had his own deck by this point and it wasn't just his grandpa's deck.

[01:19:42] Yeah he still had some of the leftover cards but he mostly had his own stuff going on like Buster Blader, I fucking love Buster Blader.

[01:19:51] Buster Blader was a cool one. Like he still had obviously like the main recurring ones like Summon Skull, Gaia, the Fierce Knight, Dark Magician obviously.

[01:20:01] Although I think he switched out Gaia for a variant. Like what are the other Gaia cards? A Swift Gaia?

[01:20:08] Yeah something like that.

[01:20:10] Is there one thing you could just play him if you had like not that many cards in your hand?

[01:20:15] Yeah Curse of Dragon would appear every now and then.

[01:20:20] But like Mainstay's like Kamori Dragon and stuff they were all gone by then.

[01:20:26] I liked Kamori Dragon though. He was cool.

[01:20:28] Yeah he was cool. Just Yu-Gi stopped using him after a while.

[01:20:31] Yeah well just a point where it's like well if he doesn't have at least like 1600 attack points then it is what's the point?

[01:20:39] Unless he has like a cool ability.

[01:20:42] Speaking of decks like that we also got to see more of Kaiba's deck in that duel.

[01:20:47] And Kaiba's deck was hilarious in the original season because like it infamously only had like one card that was like weak and they were all overpowered monsters on them.

[01:20:58] Yeah I think Saga the Dark Clown was the only one he had which actually come to think of it I had a misprint of Saga the Dark Clown when I was a kid.

[01:21:05] I had one where his attack and defense was swapped.

[01:21:08] Oh that's interesting.

[01:21:10] Yeah it was weird.

[01:21:12] Yeah his deck is much better off in this one though because he actually has a balanced one because he has to follow his own rules.

[01:21:22] I remember too because I thought that was going to be a duel where we'd see Slyther but no Yu-Gi doesn't use Slyther instead they just wait for Kaiba to use Obelisk.

[01:21:33] Yeah which actually come to think of it I think he did use Valkyrian in...

[01:21:39] I think he used that as a strategy to place Slyther one of the times.

[01:21:43] I think he played Valkyrian and then he separated it back into the three.

[01:21:48] I think so. I know he uses Valkyrian in the opening like episode of Waking the Dragons which yay.

[01:21:58] Yeah and then after the double trouble duel is what they called it.

[01:22:07] No no that was the first double duel it was just called double duel for Battle City.

[01:22:12] I don't know.

[01:22:15] All I remember is after they won that one they got their locator cards and then that's when the Joey Mind Control thing happened.

[01:22:24] And I laugh because the episode leading up to that where they're in the helicopter is just a fucking clip show.

[01:22:31] Yeah even in the Yu-Gi-Oh there's fucking clip shows.

[01:22:35] There's more than one too.

[01:22:37] I know.

[01:22:39] What do you think of the blimp championship thing?

[01:22:43] The whole championship itself or just the fact that they were on a blimp?

[01:22:49] A little of both I guess.

[01:22:53] The blimp makes a lot of sense with just how ridiculous the show is.

[01:22:58] Because at that point it's just like I completely accept the fact that they're on a blimp. It doesn't matter.

[01:23:03] It was pretty cool. I loved when they were waiting for them all to show up for the thing.

[01:23:09] You have the obvious people that won and got in.

[01:23:13] It was like oh yeah we know all these people.

[01:23:15] And then at this point they think Merrick is Odeon.

[01:23:22] And then the chorus shows up and they're like,

[01:23:26] but Korra you were in the fucking hospital. How are you here?

[01:23:30] Yeah not only how are you here but how did you enter the tournament and get all six cards for that like six hours?

[01:23:36] Yeah and then Merrick shows up but he's been like going around as this character named Mako or Mako or something.

[01:23:45] Something like that.

[01:23:47] Or some stupid name that was obvious.

[01:23:50] The whole time he accidentally lets it go that he's a duelist because he lifts his arm and has the duel disc on.

[01:23:55] And they're like we didn't know you were a duelist and he's like shit.

[01:23:59] Yeah I love that whole bit too because the whole time Joey's kind of like side eyeing him.

[01:24:04] Like I don't know I get a weird vibe off him but it always seems nice so whatever. I'll just ignore it.

[01:24:09] As he's brainwashing him the entire time.

[01:24:12] Yeah.

[01:24:15] And then he shows up for the tournament and they're like oh you're in this too I see.

[01:24:20] Cool.

[01:24:22] Yeah.

[01:24:25] What was the other? Oh yeah and then all the friends bumrushed the blimp to get on past the guard and he just goes like fuck it I don't care.

[01:24:35] Oh and then Shiju shows up after they're all on and she's like yeah I'm here.

[01:24:40] Yeah I think it's kind of cool how that like little like sibling trio with a Merrick Odeon and Shiju.

[01:24:47] Like they all have like their own strategies like how a Shiju pretty much exclusively used spell guards Odeon used trap guards and Merrick was all about the monsters.

[01:24:58] Yeah.

[01:25:01] They were fun. Oh yeah we forgot to talk about Mai's stalker like romantic interest that happened right before this.

[01:25:10] Oh that was weird.

[01:25:12] That was such a weird filler episode.

[01:25:15] He's just like I'm just gonna kidnap you to make you marry me because that's how that works.

[01:25:19] That was like just to tease the Joey Mai ship that they immediately like killed off after this arc was over.

[01:25:26] Yeah it's like they're leading up to it and then Joey's like but I put card games.

[01:25:30] Yeah pretty much.

[01:25:33] Yeah the duels up on the blimper really awesome like Yu-Gi and Bakora is like the best one still I think.

[01:25:41] Which one?

[01:25:43] Yu-Gi and Bakora.

[01:25:45] Oh yeah for sure.

[01:25:46] Just because you get to see Slyper wrap around the fucking glimmer.

[01:25:49] Yeah it just I don't think you can really appreciate the size of Slyper until that duel.

[01:25:56] Cause like you can tell he's big in his first appearance but like it's not until he's actually wrapping around with multiple times.

[01:26:03] Like oh shit he's like really big.

[01:26:05] Yeah that was fun.

[01:26:07] That was also like Bakora used to one of my favorite like trap cards the Destiny board.

[01:26:18] I've never actually seen Destiny board work but I still like it.

[01:26:22] I think I did it once.

[01:26:25] Well cause you needed all the tokens and like you never had all the tokens.

[01:26:29] Well the problem with that one was it the closer you get to completing it the less spell and trap space you have.

[01:26:37] Yeah.

[01:26:38] And you have to play them in order.

[01:26:42] Yes yeah that's that's the key and then also is why it's one of those things that's just so hard to fucking pull off.

[01:26:48] Yeah for sure.

[01:26:51] Yeah that fight was pretty awesome.

[01:26:56] I'm trying to think like was the fight after that.

[01:27:00] Joey versus Odie Odeon Merrick.

[01:27:05] I think so.

[01:27:09] I think so yeah.

[01:27:10] Yeah because that's where like all of you all of Joey's like monsters get eaten by the mystical beats circuit.

[01:27:17] Yeah yeah because that's when the one following that was what Mai gets put into a coma and then one right after that is when Ishizu and Kaiba fight.

[01:27:27] Yes yeah.

[01:27:29] So that fight annoyed the Odie Odeon and Joey fight annoyed the shit out of me because like all of Joey's monsters get stolen basically and like the circuit becomes this abomination and Joey's basically going to lose at this point he's like screwed.

[01:27:46] And what happens is so dumb is Odie Odeon's basically like guaranteed to win but then Merrick's like no use the fake wing dragon of raw you have to do it to prove your me.

[01:28:01] Yeah which this like first of all nobody's questioning that like everyone fully believes that that's yeah and second of all he had the fake rod.

[01:28:12] Yeah and second of all it's been made pretty clear that if you piss off the Egyptian gods they're gonna fucking lash back.

[01:28:19] Yeah also in reality if they really wanted this plan to work Merrick could have just given him the real one.

[01:28:27] Yeah and like the way they explain it is like oh Odie Odeon can't have the real one because only people with ties to ancient Egypt can control the Egyptian gods.

[01:28:41] But you find out later in season five that he is directly descended for one of the pharaohs like disciples.

[01:28:48] Yeah.

[01:28:50] He does have that tie he could have used it.

[01:28:52] I know it was just a dumb.

[01:28:55] It was just one of those dumb ways of like basically making it so Joey was going to win.

[01:29:01] Yeah.

[01:29:03] But as we also get to see the fake.

[01:29:05] It was also they needed the catalyst to bring a Yami Merrick in.

[01:29:11] Yeah which as a kid I thought that there was a spirit inside the Millennium rod and then like later on I'm like oh no he's actually just crazy.

[01:29:21] Yeah he's got he's got serious trauma because his family is fucked.

[01:29:26] Yeah and he killed his dad.

[01:29:29] Yeah that flashback was fucking terrifying as a child.

[01:29:33] For real.

[01:29:35] But she says I don't even think that they like legitimately showed it.

[01:29:40] No but it was so obvious.

[01:29:43] But like yeah it was pretty obvious that he stabbed him like I mean the Millennium rod is basically just a knife.

[01:29:51] Yeah I mean I always thought it was an axe.

[01:29:55] Yeah well I mean the way that at least in like the Japanese footage like the four kids didn't fuck with.

[01:30:03] There's actually like it's like a sheath like the rod part of it you pull it out and it's.

[01:30:08] That's true.

[01:30:10] There's also the rod and forbidden memories that was like a staff.

[01:30:16] Hmm I guess you could like throw an attachment on it or something.

[01:30:21] Yeah well before they were finalized like they had like these weird wild designs and the rod was like this really wacky one in game.

[01:30:29] Yeah.

[01:30:31] Yeah that fight was bizarre and then it was basically just an excuse for Joey to win.

[01:30:36] Hmm.

[01:30:38] Um yeah then the Merrick my fight was absurd.

[01:30:43] Yeah it was kind of um kind of not so interesting.

[01:30:49] You know you only really like benefit to that duel in my opinion is at least as a viewer was it introduced the Amazonas line.

[01:30:58] True.

[01:31:00] And uh honestly like that line is actually pretty damn good if you use it rather the Amazonas sword woman is broken as fuck.

[01:31:09] That was also the the moment that confirmed the whole how raw worked because like you got to because my steals raw from him at one point and then like she tries to play it and it's like nope you can't use it.

[01:31:28] Yep you got to know the magic words.

[01:31:33] You got to know how to summon the dragon the super dragon balls.

[01:31:37] Yeah basically.

[01:31:39] He's in carrots you know.

[01:31:41] Yeah.

[01:31:43] Yeah and then my gets put in a hourglass and just gets to watch fucking trauma the rest of the sear season.

[01:31:49] I think I'm not sure how it is in the manga because I don't I don't have that far into it, but in the anime it was weird because it was like she was trapped in an hourglass and she was just like hovering over a beach watching all of her friends have a good time.

[01:32:06] Yeah and the more the sand fell through the more memory she lost.

[01:32:10] Hmm.

[01:32:11] It was really fucked up.

[01:32:16] And then the a seizure kiba fight to me is very interesting just because like a she's who's going to win that.

[01:32:27] And then kiba fucking just gets like, because she like insults him and kiva being kiva is like, no I'm going to do this my way and then fucking just blue eyes white dragons everything and it's like oh yeah

[01:32:39] I think I think her strategy was something like she had set something up where like, um, it was like a virus that was going to kill all of us.

[01:32:45] Or whatever.

[01:32:46] I think what if I remember right, I think it was something like he took control of one of her or he used like soul exchange or something to sacrifice her monsters to play obelisk.

[01:32:58] Yes.

[01:32:59] And one of them like had like an ability or something that would make obelisk like self destruct me is actor something and then kiva would lose. And then kiva had like a weird vision.

[01:33:10] And he was like, he was like, all right I'm going to sacrifice my Egyptian God to play my blue eyes.

[01:33:16] Yeah because he's still in fucking denial about the whole being related to the Egyptian sorcerer guy or whatever.

[01:33:23] Yeah.

[01:33:25] But um,

[01:33:28] Yeah, and then that was the whole thing. And then that's where the virtual world happens and

[01:33:34] it happens.

[01:33:36] Yeah, I know what you say.

[01:33:39] It introduced the whole deck master system which would have been kind of cool if that was like an actual like alternate rule to play the game with because that actually seemed to kind of cool.

[01:33:51] And the character design for Noah is literally just the season zero design for Kyva.

[01:33:57] Yes.

[01:33:59] Um, yeah we got a lot of backstory about the Kyva family.

[01:34:04] My own the only my only problem with this season is it would be cool if they stuck it somewhere else but it's in the middle of a fucking arc right at a crucial point where a lot of shit was happening to

[01:34:16] Yeah, like if it had happened between arcs like that would have been reasonable and I would have liked that more.

[01:34:23] But as a kid watching it like oh I only get like two episodes of viewgeo every Saturday. And that's it. Like yeah.

[01:34:31] There's a little frustrating when you're like all invested in this big tournament is happening it's like, all right we're going to put that on hold and Tay is going to do a lapenguin.

[01:34:41] And Tristan's going to be a monkey for an entire season while some other guys stole his body.

[01:34:47] Yeah, it was bizarre.

[01:34:52] But there was some things I like about it though.

[01:34:56] If it was placed anywhere else I think people wouldn't hate it nearly as much as they do.

[01:35:01] One of the cool things like they, I forget exactly how they portray it in the show but when they're telling Kyva's backstory about how we won like got the company from Gozaburo.

[01:35:15] Yeah.

[01:35:17] It was like this whole thing where he like got enough of the shares or whatever and like basically just like you know stole the company from under him.

[01:35:31] And in the show it kind of makes it seem like his dad is just like oh well screw with that he just leaves and like puts his mind at the virtual world or whatever but in the manga he like like Kyva's like oh yeah I got your company you're nothing now blah blah blah.

[01:35:52] And then Gozaburo I forget exactly what he says but it's something like oh like you're never going to be happy and you're going to be just like me blah blah blah and then he legit jumps out of the window and falls to his death.

[01:36:05] The manga was very extreme.

[01:36:07] It was super extreme.

[01:36:09] It was so like extra.

[01:36:11] Like, it was a very like the manga is much more edge lord.

[01:36:18] Yeah.

[01:36:19] To the anime and that's saying something they worry a lot of like leather and chains in the anime.

[01:36:25] Well Kyva's jacket alone.

[01:36:27] Yeah the coat tails.

[01:36:29] Just just Kyva and everything about Kyva's edgy.

[01:36:33] Yeah his blue eyes by Dragon Jet.

[01:36:36] His theme park.

[01:36:39] His sets creating a school designed to play children's card games you know.

[01:36:45] Yeah he's not crazy.

[01:36:47] He went back in time.

[01:36:52] That is still the most what the most Kyva thing and the most what the fuck thing ever for rail.

[01:37:00] Oh geez.

[01:37:02] But yeah the ending of Battle City like after they get out of the computer they the island's about to explode and they get into jet.

[01:37:09] The blimp turns into a jet that's what happens.

[01:37:12] And then they land at the dual tower where they have to have their big final fights.

[01:37:17] Yeah.

[01:37:18] And they have like the like to determine like the order they have with this weird four way dual where it's like oh the first two to lose this four way dual are going to do each other and the two that win are going to do each other.

[01:37:32] That was cool but at the same time I was like this they could have just they could have just made this so much more easy by just doing a shuffle or something.

[01:37:41] Yeah but whatever.

[01:37:44] Draw lots so many times.

[01:37:46] The fights were pretty good though you get Kyva was it really entertaining.

[01:37:51] Yeah, because you get beat Kyva again but it was like a legit fight this time.

[01:37:56] That was probably the best dual in the arc in my opinion.

[01:37:59] That was the best Yu-Gi Kyva dual I think in general.

[01:38:03] It was the last one to I'm pretty sure.

[01:38:05] Well, unless you count the one in the movie.

[01:38:09] Yeah, nobody counts that one and that wasn't conclusive anyway.

[01:38:13] Yeah.

[01:38:15] But yeah the that was cool and I liked how like the first like episode or two was all about like who's going to bring up the Egyptian God first.

[01:38:23] And then they just keep pulling out all these cards like well I played this card which makes your guy lose this much attack well I play this one that makes me draw three more cards just like is this much stronger now and they keep doing all this till eventually they have the same attack and they cancel each other out and both the

[01:38:38] cards are gone. And then they're like all right well we're reduced to our regular style and it just becomes dark magician first blue eyes again.

[01:38:45] It was a cool fight though, like I really like that one.

[01:38:48] Well introduced Dark Paladin which is really cool.

[01:38:51] Yeah.

[01:38:53] That was a great fight. Unfortunately the Joey Merrick fight.

[01:38:57] Once again.

[01:39:01] Joey comes so fucking close.

[01:39:03] He almost wins and he just loses his strength.

[01:39:06] Yeah, that annoyed the fuck out of me because it's like every fucking time.

[01:39:11] He could just stay conscious for a few more seconds.

[01:39:14] I would have won.

[01:39:15] I get the fact that they had to have Merrick win because they need the big climax but that annoyed me.

[01:39:22] I would have been fucking hilarious if he made it further in the tournament than Kyva did.

[01:39:27] I know.

[01:39:29] I know.

[01:39:30] Oh man.

[01:39:32] That was another great Joey fight though.

[01:39:34] That pissed me off so much.

[01:39:38] Then before we get to the Yu-Gi and Merrick fight there actually is a cool thing where Joey's all like because you think Joey's lost his soul here but then he wakes up like five minutes later and he's fine.

[01:39:49] No, he's just in a coma.

[01:39:51] Yeah.

[01:39:52] Because he gets out of it really quick.

[01:39:54] Because then he wants to, he basically goes up to Kyva and he's like we need to duel for his third basically.

[01:40:03] Yeah.

[01:40:04] And Kyva's like go away and he's like no let's duel.

[01:40:07] Kyva relents and it's actually a pretty good fight.

[01:40:11] Yeah, Joey does pretty well.

[01:40:14] I don't think he comes quite as close to beating Kyva as he does Merrick but I think Kyva's deck is just tailor made to whoop Joey's ass.

[01:40:23] But I mean even Kyva after kind of like, his respect for Joey goes up a little bit.

[01:40:29] In the sense though where now he at least considers him a worthy duelist.

[01:40:33] But he still calls him a loser at any given chance.

[01:40:36] Well yeah, he doesn't like him but I mean he always did admit that he deserves to be there.

[01:40:41] That was a good ending to that whole rivalry I guess because they never really fight again after that.

[01:40:49] That's my memory now.

[01:40:51] No significant fights anyways.

[01:40:54] But yeah the Yugi Merrick fight is interesting.

[01:41:00] There's a lot of weird shadow realm bullshit going on.

[01:41:05] Yeah well they had the whole thing where like,

[01:41:08] He separates Yugi.

[01:41:10] They're separated and like the more life points you lose the closer like the more that person starts to deteriorate.

[01:41:19] Yeah and it's like by the end of it it's literally like Merrick's just a fucking eye in the corner over there.

[01:41:26] Yeah I love the way that happens because the whole time it's just like the quote unquote good Merrick.

[01:41:33] It's like oh he's too strong I can't do anything and then Odeon shows up and he's like,

[01:41:39] Merrick this is your body you can do what you want he's like oh he's right and he just fought places.

[01:41:49] Also fucking like Yami Merrick looks is fucking like deformed as fuck at this point now like he's got all these veins and shit coming out of his face.

[01:41:58] It's some of the most like nightmare inducing shit like he freaked me out when I was a kid.

[01:42:03] He also like does this bullshit where like he because of the way Wing Dragon of Ra works is you can technically summon it without tributing.

[01:42:13] But it'll have no attack points because it absorbs the attack points of the things you the three monsters used to summon it.

[01:42:21] Yeah.

[01:42:23] But he does this bullshit where he's all like I'm going to summon it now and then I'm going to change the Phoenix mode and then give it all of my life points except for one.

[01:42:33] Yeah.

[01:42:34] It's like sure.

[01:42:36] That's the eyeball.

[01:42:37] Yeah, it was like such a dumb thing.

[01:42:40] Yeah.

[01:42:42] I did like the that he also clones obelisk at one point.

[01:42:47] Yeah he's like a slime clone or something.

[01:42:51] Which I feel like was just intimidation tactics because it really didn't do anything.

[01:42:56] Yeah, I feel like the further the show went on like the more they tried to like up the tension or whatever was they'd always make it seem like it was an unwinnable fight because like the person that the good guys fighting would always have

[01:43:14] like oh now I have like 20,000 life points but like that doesn't matter.

[01:43:21] Yeah.

[01:43:22] That was super quick.

[01:43:24] Yeah it was always some stupid shit.

[01:43:27] Yugi does inevitably win and he gets all the God cards and like every millennium item.

[01:43:33] Yeah basically.

[01:43:36] And then they all go back home.

[01:43:39] Yeah and then waking the dragons happens.

[01:43:42] I mean two filler arcs.

[01:43:44] You know what pissed me off the most about waking the dragons.

[01:43:47] What's that?

[01:43:48] The fucking God cards get taken in the first fucking episode I was like are you fucking kidding me.

[01:43:53] Well, I mean you got to take the bullshit main character powers away at least a little bit.

[01:43:58] But we knew we know Yugi was never going to use them because he fucking hates them.

[01:44:03] True.

[01:44:05] Oh yeah we forgot the movie technically came between these two.

[01:44:09] Yeah.

[01:44:11] I think that you want to just not talk about it.

[01:44:14] It certainly did.

[01:44:16] Are you like Alex who just Alex like legit fell asleep in like 10 minutes in because it was that.

[01:44:21] Yeah I liked it when I was a kid.

[01:44:23] Well yeah as a kid it was great and then you watch it now and you're like this is terrible.

[01:44:27] And it had some good ideas and honestly like the whole concept of like I don't understand how it happened but how there was like all the weird like mummies and stuff inside the millennium puzzle and everybody ends up inside of it for some reason.

[01:44:41] Those weird like some cool stuff.

[01:44:44] Those weird like Egyptian cards that you could get by going to the movie.

[01:44:47] Yeah they suck.

[01:44:49] I ended up with two of them because I went with my mom and I got one in Shikawa and she just gave me hers because she didn't care.

[01:45:00] So I ended up with two of them and then you would get you got the pyramid of light from buying the VHS of all things.

[01:45:12] And it was useless.

[01:45:14] Yeah because it did not do what it says it does.

[01:45:18] No.

[01:45:19] Oh there's also Blue Eyes Shining Dragon that was like the one card that everyone liked from this movie.

[01:45:23] Which also is not worth the trouble.

[01:45:26] Not at all.

[01:45:29] Yeah that movie happens like massive destruction to Kyba Corp like usual.

[01:45:37] Also the whole like you get to see Kyba get his revenge on Pegasus.

[01:45:42] That's like I guess like the one thing that happens in this movie.

[01:45:45] Yeah that's true because they kind of try to do that with the Waking the Dragons but then it turns out it's not Pegasus.

[01:45:53] Yeah that's the one time where I think the games did it better because the Resheph of destruction is like the much better game follow up to do it in Battle City.

[01:46:03] Yeah I played about five minutes of that game.

[01:46:06] Oh the game is garbage but the story is interesting.

[01:46:12] I mean maybe one day I'll give it another try.

[01:46:16] I think I might have given my copy of my little brother.

[01:46:19] I'll have to ask him about that.

[01:46:21] For those who don't know Resheph of Destruction was essentially it is the sequel to the Sacred Cards.

[01:46:26] Now the Sacred Cards was a essentially a retelling of Battle City but you play as a self insert character.

[01:46:36] And you essentially take over for Yugi throughout the entire game.

[01:46:41] You kind of take over for everybody because every major duel that happened throughout that whole arc it's you instead of the character that's supposed to be.

[01:46:48] Yeah basically it's just like a fanfic where you're the main character of Yugi-Oh.

[01:46:55] That game's biggest criticism was it was pathetically easy.

[01:46:59] Which it is.

[01:47:02] It depends because there were aspects that made it somewhat difficult in the beginning.

[01:47:08] Once you figure it out though it's so easy.

[01:47:12] I mean basically the way to get through that game is to grind.

[01:47:16] You just got to fight everybody because you have a deck limit.

[01:47:21] Like each card in your deck has a certain amount of points that it's worth.

[01:47:26] And that added up is like your deck value in events that passes your deck limit.

[01:47:32] You can't use the deck.

[01:47:34] You have to reorganize it.

[01:47:37] So in the beginning of the game that makes it a little bit more difficult because you're limited to what you can have in your deck.

[01:47:44] But the further you go in the more you increase your deck limit the less that matters.

[01:47:50] Yeah.

[01:47:52] Plus you get type in the number on the bottom of your actual real life cards and just get them in the game.

[01:47:57] Yes.

[01:47:58] Which was amazing.

[01:48:01] Unfortunately though because that game the battles themselves are very easy and predictable once you figure out the strategies.

[01:48:11] Rechef of destruction on the other hand decided to take everything and like pump it up to 10 because that game is brutally hard.

[01:48:21] In every way imaginable.

[01:48:23] To the point where it doesn't even follow the rules it just makes up bullshit as it goes along.

[01:48:28] Yeah.

[01:48:30] But it has an interesting story which is like an alternate universe like that follows battle city where like Pegasus went rogue basically.

[01:48:41] Instead we got waking the dragons which was like weird.

[01:48:46] I liked the dragons.

[01:48:48] The dragons were cool but they are like weren't real cards.

[01:48:52] They became real cards eventually.

[01:48:54] True.

[01:48:55] And they like the way it worked was it was like the card worked like a polarization and they like pretty much worked specifically with like those three specific monsters.

[01:49:09] Like it worked specifically with like red eyes dark magician blue eyes.

[01:49:14] Yeah.

[01:49:15] And like you can get all these different like alternate versions of these cards.

[01:49:20] Actually I think I think Joey's worked with multiple monsters but for the most part it was like very specific.

[01:49:27] Yeah.

[01:49:28] All I remember about this arc was like it had a few very key moments that made it stick out mostly you guys grandfather gets fucking beat up again.

[01:49:39] By Rex and weevil of all people to.

[01:49:44] Yeah.

[01:49:45] Mocha but gets kidnapped as usual.

[01:49:48] My gets brainwashed again.

[01:49:53] Oh and then you get you get like fucking kidnapped kind of.

[01:49:57] He gets soul sucked.

[01:49:58] Yeah.

[01:49:59] And then is it Tristan or Joey that punches me in the face.

[01:50:04] Joey.

[01:50:05] Joe.

[01:50:06] Okay.

[01:50:07] I was like a really well animated scene too.

[01:50:09] Like wailed him in the face.

[01:50:12] Yeah that whole that whole arc was so weird.

[01:50:15] Yeah.

[01:50:17] It's sad that Joey's best arc is the one that's fucking pointless filler.

[01:50:22] True.

[01:50:23] Because that arc ends and then they immediately go back to like actual plot well they go to this like other filler thing for like another half season.

[01:50:31] He has a filler tournament.

[01:50:33] And then they finally get to like the the the actual like pharaoh attempt stuff that we've been building up to this entire time.

[01:50:42] Yes.

[01:50:43] Which is arguably the best arc in the series in my opinion.

[01:50:48] It is.

[01:50:49] Other than the fact that tag gets really fucking weird in this arc.

[01:50:53] Does she.

[01:50:54] Yeah because she's like in love with both of them and it's really weird.

[01:50:58] Well she's kind of always like that.

[01:51:01] Yeah but now that she actually knows their two people.

[01:51:03] It's like.

[01:51:04] But at this point you guys gone through a growth spurt and he's like pretty much just the vero.

[01:51:09] He's he's not the GX levels though where he's just fucking ripped for no reason.

[01:51:16] Yeah it lets you know he gets there.

[01:51:18] Joey, you guys appearance at the end of GX right when he sends a Jaden back in time.

[01:51:25] Where he's you just see him from like the it's like the nose down and he's just fucking ripped.

[01:51:31] Yeah.

[01:51:32] It's like what the fuck.

[01:51:34] Yeah screw it.

[01:51:36] Why not.

[01:51:37] So we're getting close to nine so honestly you might have to be a two parter.

[01:51:42] Yeah that's fine we can always pick it up because I could definitely go on about about that last arc because it's a last arc.

[01:51:51] There's a lot that's going on and I might even rewatch it just for just for the next one.

[01:51:56] Also talking about GX which is a surprisingly better show than I remembered.

[01:52:02] I'd have to actually go through it.

[01:52:05] I only watched like episodes here and there and I never knew what was going on because it was like super over the place.

[01:52:13] I've rewatched it in full like a couple years ago just out of curiosity.

[01:52:18] It's surprisingly a well done show.

[01:52:23] I never watched anything beyond that like I couldn't get into five D's or ZX or whatever they're called now.

[01:52:30] Yeah.

[01:52:31] I did watch Dark Side of Dimensions which we could also talk about in the next part.

[01:52:37] But yeah I unfortunately tonight I have a bit of a time limit so we got to cut this one short.

[01:52:43] Yeah this case is going to be a long because we haven't really touched on any of the video games or

[01:52:49] or even like the impact that a bridge has had on like the community itself like.

[01:52:55] Yeah.

[01:52:56] There's a lot there's a lot we can go into.

[01:52:59] No definitely.

[01:53:00] Honestly do you want to just do part two next week?

[01:53:03] Yeah that's fine.

[01:53:04] Cool.

[01:53:05] All right so unfortunately I'm going to have to cut it short this time guys but once again thanks for joining us on Geek Addix.

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