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What A Cartoon! - Yu-Gi-Oh! "The Heart of the Cards" (Patreon)

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2019-11-11 03:59:59
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2019-11-11 16:09:15
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2026-06
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Chosen by a premium Patreon supporter, we delve in the heart of the cards this week to form the Exodia of podcast! Yes, we're covering the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series, and the debut episode. We talk about the edgier manga origins, the tough adaptation into animation, how 4Kids brought the card-selling toon to the USA, and how it all ended up owned by Konami! Plus, we go into the ridiculous first episode, so trust in the heart of the cards and listen now for your faith to be rewarded!

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Barro

My childhood in a two week span. I love you what a cartoon

Frank Grimes

For as much as I've watched the anime, I still have no idea how to play the game, nor have I ever have. I did buy a duel disk though, haha.

SomeBloke

Yu-Gi-Oh! was incredibly well-timed when it came out in the US - my entire generation of potential trading card game players, primed from Pokémon, was hijacked mid-transition to Magic: The Gathering. It split the entire middle school nerd scene in two, and at some point I traded all of my Magic cards for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, then a few years later did the opposite, then sold all my Magic cards to a comic book store. I'd like to say it's because I got a life, but I didn't. I got into DnD.

Alex Irish

Great episode as they always are. Here are my all-too-many observations and addendum notes -To be clear, the prologue about how Yugi put together the Millenium Puzzle WAS dubbed and included with these first few episodes, but was inexplicably not included in the YouTube copy, though it is included on Netflix and everywhere else. I can recite it to you word for word at this point. Hopefully the community episode this month gives an opportunity to play the audio. -I did use to be big into Yu-Gi-Oh (the show and the cards), but Pokemon has ultimately won the franchise war. In part, card games are expensive in a different way than video games are that I don't like. They also require you to have actual people to play with, unlike a good solo vidja game. I tapped out of the anime when the first series ended in 2006, and have little knowledge about the intricacies of the later shows and the increasingly baroque card game. -You'd be surprised I was not so cottening to Yu-Gi-Oh when it first came to the US. As a lifer Pokemaniac, the media had been talking about Yu-Gi-Oh like it was going to be Pokemon''s replacement, like "wait till you see this new show!" And just really piling it on, so I grew predisposed to hate it without seeing a single frame of it. I started watching in the second season, releasing my inhibitions and picking up a Yugi starter deck that I'm sure lots of people my age were familiar with.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I watched Yu-Gi-Oh occasionally as a kid since it was part of the Kids WB block with a bunch of other stuff I liked more, but I never really got into it. Revisiting it for this kinda explains why... I didn't hate this episode, but even as a kid I think I thought it was much more boring than stuff like Pokemon since they were just playing the cards IN THE SHOW. It's like if in Pokemon they just took out Gameboys to battle or something. And also in general, as you guys discuss in this, it's a lot more convoluted in its dub than Pokemon and other shows brought over from Japan, so I think I just mentally checked out whenever this came on.

Frank Grimes

Kaiba's so badass, and the way he's always ragging on Joey's skills is always funny. I have read in the Manga he's not as harsh to him

ShyRanger

You asked for some insight from Yugioh playing veteran, and I will give some random facts. First, as far as the current card game goes, it has a big problem of Power Creep. Old cards like Blue Eyes mean nothing and there have been handfuls of new sets and summoning methods. You can compare it to Mega Evolution in Pokemon. Last thing I will say, the other incarnations of the Yugioh anime vary in tone and quality. Some are more light hearted and closer to a typical Shonen while a couple are even more mature than the original series. One I feel is super overlooked and is really good... but I will talk about that more when my next request comes...

Blandon

In the anime, they use several of the pre-Duel Monsters ideas, but changed to be the card game The TTRPG you mention was a battle between the pharaoh and the evil Bakura using the souls of yugi and his friends to power the characters (if the character dies, that person's soul is trapped in the shadow realm.) Near the end of the first anime arc, they had the same battle, but as a Duel Monsters game.

Blandon

Some rules clarifications: -Kaiba's clown combo is legal. While you can only play one monster per turn, you can also play magic and trap cards on top of that. -Monsters can attack on the turn they play, but it's not automatic (each turn is broken into several phases, each with their own rules). -In this part of the show (though not true in the actual card game or the later anime), a monster can't directly attack the opponent. With only 2000 life points, a single direct attack is basically an instant win.

mavrick

anytime you guys end a sentence with "for reasons I do not fully understand" I laugh my butt off, not because I understand myself, but just because of the absurdity haha

Patrick Risolo

It's not that Exodia does so much damage that you win but the effect of Exodia itself because the effect states that once you have all five pieces in your hand you automatically win the duel. Because of this Exodia was often revered in the early years of the anime (in both the original series and it's sequel GX) as the few times it was present in the story meant great stakes in those duels.

John Simon

"Yugi, here! Take this!" "Aaah! Grandpa!" "I built this deck. I put my soul in these cards. And I taught you everything I know Yugi. Take them! Take my cards and teach him respect! Teach Kaiba respect for the heart of the cards, Yugi." This whole episode is full of people saying the same thing twice. It's the exact opposite of word economy, like they had a story outline that spanned three pages and had to stretch it across a full episode length. Oh well, I'm not the audience. :)

Bradley Winton

You absolutely hit the nail on the head on how perfect the timing of this show was. After loving Pokemon and Digimon, i'm now heading into year 6 or 7 and then this new thing i can obsess over appears that is a bit more mature shows up. I'm also now of the age were i'm (foolishly) being trusted with an allowance, so you better believe i was buying booster packs were i could. I still keep up to date with the card game where i can, it's current ruleset is completely different to how it was when the first show came out, basically every new iteration of the Anime brought in its own new type of card you can play as a big hook, so we instead of just having "Monster Cards, Spell Cards and Trap cards" we now have all of those plus: Fusion cards, Synchro Cards, XYZ cards, Pendulum Cards, and Link Cards. Also the joke of "you can't just summon a whole bunch of monsters at once" that the abridged series pointed out is now basically how most competitive decks play. As for the show itself, I recently watched it all again and i found myself enjoying just how stupidly serious it was about a childrens card game, the later season's start going into ancient Egyptian mythology where Kaiba is actually the reincarnation of the pharaoh's right hand man, and that the Duel Monsters card game is actually based on an old egyptian magic duels. What gets you through this shlock as an adult is the great localisation, it's definitely not a "pure" localisation, but it feels like the team that wrote it knew how ridiculous this was, and really lean into it enough that you didn't notice when you were a kid that the show is very self aware of how crazy it is. This is even better in the dubbed version of the sequel show, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, the localisation team gives almost no shits at all, characters will break the 4th wall constantly by saying things like "Let's solve this like we always do, by playing card games!"

Thom Hore

My kids recently discovered my YGO card collection and have spent the last week inventing their own games with them, so this episode is particularly timely. I was obsessed with YGO from 2003-2005ish. I spent so much money on those damn cards. My favourite thing to do with them was to build two equally-matched decks and play them against each other by myself. There was a GBA game called Yu-Gi-Oh: The Sacred Cards that was up there with the Fire Emblem GBA games in devouring all my free time after school. I watched the show too, but the liberties it took with the rules bothered me too much to really enjoy it at the time. About 5 years ago I came across a special edition collectors tin of booster packs on clearance so I decided to buy it for old time's sake. The game was practically unrecognisable from the one I loved as a teen. The biggest change I noticed was how convoluted and situational a lot of the Spell/Trap/Effect Monsters had become. You need a magnifying glass to read the text and a Masters Degree in Law to interpret it. The cards still look cool as hell, though, so it wasn't a complete waste.

Lucas London

Former Yugioh player here, circa 2003ish. The other rule they changed to speed up the game in the show (other than having 2000 life instead of 8000) is sacrificing. To summon a big monster like Blue Eyes you would need to sacrifice 2 monsters from the field. Just being able to play any monster willynilly would make a whole lot of monsters useless. Also I believe monsters can attack on the turn they are summoned as long as it's in the first main phase. EXCEPT on the very first turn.

nina matsumoto

I've never seen the real version of this episode, but thanks to seeing the Abridged one a dozen times, I could follow it perfectly in my head. I'd like to know how many people here expected Yugi to say "super special awesome card." Also maybe it's because my brain is rotten from Abridged but I think LittleKuriboh's voice acting for Kaiba is better (and I love Eric Stuart!!). "I kidnapped your grampa, Yugi, and then I dueled him into submission." I love the YGO manga before it got taken over by the card game. It really is Kaiji Lite and the art is REALLY good.

Fredison

You mentioned LittleKuriboh and now I wonder, does anyone know if he likes the Simpsons? It could be neat if you had him on as a guest sometime.

Kevin Peterson

This episode gave me severe flashbacks to working at, right in the heart of Yugi-mania, I remember the shortage and didn’t have the cards for months I wonder if Henry remembers battle books, which were comics that you battled liked cards. (They were designed by now notorious comicsgater, Billy Tucci) My friend and I were talked into buying a few, but us being comic dorks and not card dorks couldn’t figure out how the game was supposed to work.

Steven Jacobs

Spot on in comparing Kaiba to Vegeta.