"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

theabcsofjustice:

This makes so much more sense than what the dub chose to do. I think the dub’s idea of Yugi still not entirely trusting Yami wasn’t a bad one, but it just didn’t make any sense in regards to the animation. If Yugi didn’t trust him enough to duel, then why on earth would he have let Yami take control of his body for the duel? Even with the way the dub usually does the voices when they duel, it just doesn’t work at all imo.

Here though, it makes sense that Yami is under an enormous amount of pressure because he now has three souls to rescue instead of just one and so of course he’s already thinking forward to fighting Pegasus. The fact that Pegasus is sitting right there certainly isn’t helping matters any, which I suspect is exactly the reason why Pegasus chose to watch the duel from there instead of in private via monitor. So Yami isn’t even focusing on the duel at hand and Mai is right to call him on it. She knows he’s going to lose horribly if he keeps this up and she doesn’t want to see it happen that way because she knows he’s better than this.