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We still use that in lexicon today
Honestly it made the stakes higher by putting people's souls at stake and not just their lives
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Back to the shadow realm Jimbo
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That's what it do Yugi
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Sending people to the shadow realm became such a legendary concept.
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I liked the addition. For both meme and non-meme related issues.
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One of the cases where censorship drastically improved the product.
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and i can TELL you, always faster and easier to just kill em. Just is!
What was it supposed to be?
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Squall28 posted...
What was it supposed to be?
People just died. Wasn't the shadow realm already a thing, but it just wasn't used as much as the dub did it?
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Darkninja42 posted...
People just died. Wasn't the shadow realm already a thing, but it just wasn't used as much as the dub did it?
Hell was also real. When the shadow realm got more freaky than usual, in the original, people were literally being sent to hell, and hell is freaky I guess
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Killing your enemies:
  • Boring
  • Predictable
  • Easy way out


Sending their soul to suffer for eternity in the SHADOW REALM!! :
  • Intense
  • Mysterious
  • Kid friendly!
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MisterPengy posted...
Killing your enemies:
Boring
Predictable
Easy way out

Sending their soul to suffer for eternity in the SHADOW REALM!!:
Intense
Mysterious
Kid friendly!
Somehow that makes sense. Ha!
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DB did it better with HFIL

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The Shadow Realm made sense in some cases (purple cloud), and in others, it was just flat out ridiculous (Arcana and Lumus/Umbra duels).
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.wait what, people just originally died? So Yami just casually killed people hed beat in duels?
Hmm...
BearlyWilling posted...
.wait what, people just originally died? So Yami just casually killed people hed beat in duels?
In the early early days, he would do some fucked up punishments. That era is before the well known anime begins, but there's a separate anime called "season 0" which deals with some of that.

But in the main series, Yugi doesn't send people to the shadow realm. When he does the "mind crush" thing against Kaiba, he basically just dispels the evil from him.
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BearlyWilling posted...
.wait what, people just originally died? So Yami just casually killed people hed beat in duels?
The original series (prior to Duel Monsters) wasn't so much about the card games as ironic punishments for evil people. He killed people all the damn time.
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VeggetaX posted...
DB did it better with HFIL

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ee6e3e24.jpg
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VeggetaX posted...
DB did it better with HFIL

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ee6e3e24.jpg
Also this
https://youtu.be/BffZ0vjMH2I?si=cJGnmSrUhJhZxDSs
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Garioshi posted...
The original series (prior to Duel Monsters) wasn't so much about the card games as ironic punishments for evil people. He killed people all the damn time.
Murder, crippling infirmaries and injuries, leaving people destitute or outcasts. OG Yami was a fucking brutal dude.
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BearlyWilling posted...
.wait what, people just originally died? So Yami just casually killed people hed beat in duels?
It was more so the villains. Like in the dub how it's mentioned that Marik sent his father to the shadow realm, in the original he just killed him by stabbing him with the blade that's hidden in the Millennium Rod. And of course stupid shit like the saw blade in the Arkana duel was just the threat of death
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Had no idea it wasn't supposed to be the Shadow Realm.

More creative than HFIL, anyway!
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Man I really need to rewatch Yugioh. Loved that show as a kid. What seasons are good?
It's probably nostalgia mostly but I liked all the seasons of the original show, although they probably don't hold up too well due to how goofy and corny the dub is. I actually have never seen the original Japanese version. I'd like to one of these days
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Darkninja42 posted...
And of course stupid shit like the saw blade in the Arkana duel was just the threat of death
That was really the only time it was proper stupid IMO.
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pegusus123456 posted...
That was really the only time it was proper stupid IMO.
Yeah that and the tag team duel in Battle City life was mentioned before. And the Kaiba Clown was kinda dumb lol
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Darkninja42 posted...
Yeah that and the tag team duel in Battle City life was mentioned before. And the Kaiba Clown was kinda dumb lol
Oh, I didn't remember the tag team, yeah that one's dumb too.

Arcana's spinning buzz saws of Shadow Realm is definitely dumber though lol
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Shadow Realm ended up improving that imposter in Duelist Kingdom by making him shadow realm magic and tying it into Kaiba's mind crush in episode 1, rather than just having it be some asshole who wore a disguise. >_>

I mean it's a low episode either way but the dub edit for the story makes an otherwise boring duel slightly more interesting.
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
When he does the "mind crush" thing against Kaiba, he basically just dispels the evil from him.

Seems more like brain damage.
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Y'know what, I'll just flat out say it

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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Shadow Realm ended up improving that imposter in Duelist Kingdom by making him shadow realm magic and tying it into Kaiba's mind crush in episode 1, rather than just having it be some asshole who wore a disguise. >_>
Oh, you mean the one who didn't stand a ghost of a chance.

WingsOfGood posted...
Seems more like brain damage.
There was a lot of evil
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Ok so how did Joey v Marik work?

from my memory their bodies were disintegrating into the Shadow Realm and Joey lost because he couldnt maintain his strength to play the last card and win?

so how did that actually play out? Joey passed out from really good card draw?
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they cooked with this scene too

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Delirious_Beard posted...
they cooked with this scene too
That could almost just be an Abridged scene lol
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They ate with the original Pokemon theme song, and the PokeRap.
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Xerun posted...
Ok so how did Joey v Marik work?
The whole concept of a "Shadow Game" is real, and pretty much 1 for 1 the same explanation that the dub gave. The Millennium Items have the power to create Shadow Games with various conditions, and the conditions of that duel were that the duelists' soul essentially took real damage when they lost life points.

Joey had just taken too much damage and couldn't stay conscious long enough to declare the winning attack. He wasn't "sent to the Shadow Realm," but as he lost the Shadow Game, he was drained of all his strength and was basically dead at that point.
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LonelyStoner posted...
They ate with the original Pokemon theme song, and the PokeRap.
Definitely. I actually didn't realize the iconic pokemon theme song was made by 4kids until recently. I always associated them with the infamous One Piece opening. I also loved all of the PokeRaps (I had memorized the original 150 as a kid), the Pikachu's Jukebox songs and the openings for the Orange Islands and Johto
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pegusus123456 posted...
Oh, I didn't remember the tag team, yeah that one's dumb too.

Arcana's spinning buzz saws of Shadow Realm is definitely dumber though lol

It's really a toss up, because remember, in the tag team duel, the only way they could escape going into the Shadow Realm was with a parachute lol.
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NoxObscuras posted...
. I actually didn't realize the iconic pokemon theme song was made by 4kids until recently.
The original singer actually did a Japanese cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIetiD0G6vQ

StarFighters76 posted...
It's really a toss up, because remember, in the tag team duel, the only way they could escape going into the Shadow Realm was with a parachute lol.
That makes sense though honestly, they opened a portal to the Shadow Realm underneath them and they were gonna fall into it.

Whereas Shadow Realm buzzsaws is just some hilarious shit
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NoxObscuras posted...
Definitely. I actually didn't realize the iconic pokemon theme song was made by 4kids until recently. I always associated them with the infamous One Piece opening. I also loved all of the PokeRaps (I had memorized the original 150 as a kid), the Pikachu's Jukebox songs and the openings for the Orange Islands and Johto
Different experiences, I suppose. I watched the Indigo League religiously as a kid. To this day I associate 4Kids with the Pokemon anime and then Yugioh!.

They rarely miss, but the OG Pokmon music is bar none their best work, imo.
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ThePieReborn posted...
Murder, crippling infirmaries and injuries, leaving people destitute or outcasts. OG Yami was a fucking brutal dude.

To be fair though, some of his enemies were psychopathic too.

I'm not too familiar with the various continuities in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe, but I do recall reading (from one of those monthly Shonen Jump subscriptions) a manga arc about something called Death-T, where Kaiba and Mokuba, in order to take revenge against Yugi...does things such as hiring professional hitmen and literal serial killers to torment them in some fucked up amusement park games.

I don't think that was ever adapted into the Duel Monsters anime.
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SSj4Wingzero posted...
a manga arc about something called Death-T, where Kaiba and Mokuba, in order to take revenge against Yugi...does things such as hiring professional hitmen and literal serial killers to torment them in some fucked up amusement park games.
Yeah, the whole thing with Kaiba happens a lot differently in the manga, that's for sure. Mokuba's an evil little gremlin at that point lol
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TendoDRM posted...
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SSj4Wingzero posted...
I don't think that was ever adapted into the Duel Monsters anime.

Depends on how loose a definition you have for "adapted". The first episode of the anime used all the essential parts of the first Kaiba chapter and the later Death T arc to set up the story, and cut everything else to fit it within 20 minutes lol.

It's kinda funny because in the manga death t is a strategically organized revenge plot to make Yugi feel "the experience of death" which was the penalty game Yami inflicted on Kaiba after he stole gramps Blue Eyes. Basically trying to Uno-reverse card the Pharoah. It also better explains why gramps had a cardiac event, since he was suffering a holographic recreation of being killed by monsters, rather than just being overwhelmed by good graphics. >_>
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Mr_Karate_II posted...
Ate what?


Means it was very good. Like you devoured it
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