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psuedopurrloin:

damn

I hope this makes it apparent why I’m so pissed at the anime for cutting this out

It’s so real

It escalates so quickly after Yuugi was the first to freak out, and suddenly after being blank for so long Jounouchi’s letting it all out

This is the most honest he’s probably been with himself in years

and Honda… his little ‘You’re not a bully anymore’ with that little wink

then that smile he has right after

it’s so bitter, and yet it’s got this pride to it

they’re not those guys anymore, sure for a while there they were pretty shitty (in their view point) but now

they’ve got something that made want to be better people… and dear god if Jounouchi isn’t beautiful in that last panel then I don’t know what else is

For some reason, I decided to look into the manga/anime differences in DM while I was at work, and it’s bad enough that episode 1 was such a clusterfuck of chapters all across the first four volumes (or at least up to the Death-T arc; forget where that comes in), but their omitting a lot of the core characterizations really blows for the anime. Hell, the friendship circle comes across as “YOU HAVE AN OLD MAN TO SAVE GET TO IT” while in the manga, not only did they have the time to actually do it, but you’ve seen how strong their bond is by that point that it doesn’t come across as forced.

It’d be nice if one day, DM gets the FMA:Brotherhood treatment and it’s remade to be more faithful to the manga, because having a lot (or maybe 20%) of the things that defined the early parts of it be sprinkled around Duelist Kingdom isn’t a good way to make up the seven-volume dismissal. But of course, it probably won’t happen because card sales.

(via thatonepikachu)