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jennariaYU-GI-OH
Genre: Kids and Family
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: a collectible card game, with killer consequences. See, apparently the ancient Egyptians invented it - look, they had papyrus, it's totally plausible for them to have playing cards - and linked in something called the Shadow Games, such that the mere act of playing a card was the equivalent of summoning a creature or casting a spell.
This does not get explained in the first episode. The first episode is an attempt to madly compress an entire arc from the manga into a single episode, so as to set up the bit that the people in charge apparently really wanted to get to. The result, as you might expect, is that you have a lot happening with no explanation and no real reason, and the resultant cheapening of all the characters involved.
All right, so perhaps I'm a little bitter. I enjoyed the arc in question when I read it in the manga. It's right at the turning point when the series shifted away from games-playing in general to Duel Monsters in particular, and it sets up a key point of Seto Kaiba's character, so it couldn't be left out - but I can't help wishing that if they were going to include it, they could have done it justice instead of rushing it.
Overall opinion: I'm not sure. I like the characters, overall, but Duel Monsters bores me. I don't suppose someone could retroactively go in and give them swords or something? :rueful:
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I'd blame Ziggy's excitement on being overtired, except he's been like this pretty much all day. I watched B and Kay feed him, so I know it's not like he has a diet of jumping beans. Maybe he has a perpetual motion machine hidden in his Corgi body.
Genre: Kids and Family
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: a collectible card game, with killer consequences. See, apparently the ancient Egyptians invented it - look, they had papyrus, it's totally plausible for them to have playing cards - and linked in something called the Shadow Games, such that the mere act of playing a card was the equivalent of summoning a creature or casting a spell.
This does not get explained in the first episode. The first episode is an attempt to madly compress an entire arc from the manga into a single episode, so as to set up the bit that the people in charge apparently really wanted to get to. The result, as you might expect, is that you have a lot happening with no explanation and no real reason, and the resultant cheapening of all the characters involved.
All right, so perhaps I'm a little bitter. I enjoyed the arc in question when I read it in the manga. It's right at the turning point when the series shifted away from games-playing in general to Duel Monsters in particular, and it sets up a key point of Seto Kaiba's character, so it couldn't be left out - but I can't help wishing that if they were going to include it, they could have done it justice instead of rushing it.
Overall opinion: I'm not sure. I like the characters, overall, but Duel Monsters bores me. I don't suppose someone could retroactively go in and give them swords or something? :rueful:
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I'd blame Ziggy's excitement on being overtired, except he's been like this pretty much all day. I watched B and Kay feed him, so I know it's not like he has a diet of jumping beans. Maybe he has a perpetual motion machine hidden in his Corgi body.