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

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The sanest line in yugioh.

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thewittyphantom:

Shadi looks so awkward here XD

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phoenixsoul13:

Joey Wheeler in Season Two

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akaiftw:

T’was at that moment Akai began to compare Shun to Joey whenever he challenges Kaiba to a duel.

I dunno, that’s just how Shun in that ep made me feel lol XD

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scrawlers:

I made a post awhile ago about how the second series anime added in the scene where Jounouchi wandered the beach, lost in his own angst, after he lost his Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and thus wasn’t there for Shizuka’s operation.  That post is still 100% accurate.  They did create it, they made it up entirely …

And now I know what scene they twisted to get that interpretation.

In the fantastic wonderful lovely amazing duel between Yuugi and Jounouchi at the pier, when Malik is using the Millennium Rod to control Jounouchi, Jounouchi’s memories end up breaking through Malik’s control thanks to Yuugi’s words.  At one point, he has flashbacks to Shizuka’s operation—and I say “flashbacks,” but really they’re just flashbacks for him; they’re entirely new scenes for us.  Short though they are, they’re crucial for understanding Jounouchi’s character.  And oh, do they make me ache for my darling boy.

As you can see above, Jounouchi remembers how Shizuka told him that she was too scared to remove her bandages, something that anyone who remembers Battle City knows is a critical part of Shizuka’s own character arc.  Jounouchi asks her why … but then he puts the blame on himself.

Now, I want to make one thing very plain: I am completely serious when I say the anime made up the bullshit about him abandoning her because he lost the Red-Eyes Black Dragon.  That’s not what he’s talking about here.  His only other flashbacks pertaining to this are right here:

That’s it.  Otherwise?  We get nothing, but it’s safe to say he was there with her from step one (even though he tells Anzu just before his duel with Haga that Shizuka is at a hospital near where his mother lives).

So when Jounouchi says that it’s his fault, that he’s weak, that he can’t give her courage … he’s not talking about that ridiculous anime-only instance in which his pride was more important than his sister.  No, instead he’s talking about himself, as a person.

Jounouchi has serious self-esteem problems, though they’re usually hidden behind a big grin and bravado over the one thing he feels he is good at, which is street fighting (and even that doesn’t really make him feel good about himself, which is why he makes an effort to give it up and focus on Duel Monsters instead).  Jounouchi hated himself outright prior to meeting Yuugi, but even after becoming friends with Yuugi he struggles with the fact that he doesn’t think he’s a very good person, he doesn’t think he’s worth very much, he doesn’t think he has a lot going for him.  When he tells Anzu about how Shizuka is afraid to take her bandages off and how he wants to be able to inspire her to do it, we get this:

“The face of a guy who won his future.” Because Jounouchi doesn’t really think he has much going for him, otherwise, if he can’t do this for himself.  He’s good at street fighting, but what sort of future will that make for him, hm? Certainly not one he can be proud of. Certainly not one that would inspire his little sister to open her eyes and face the world.  It doesn’t help that, despite his accomplishments in Duelist Kingdom—and in the manga, most of his victories were his own!—he still felt as though he was lingering in Yuugi’s shadow, as if he wasn’t good enough to stand beside his best friend.  When he gives his speech to Yuugi about how pride is worth nothing compared to those that matter to you, he says that even though he’s a newbie, somehow he was granted a miracle and made it that far . . . completely discounting his own skill. Self-deprecation is really nothing new for Jounouchi, even though he doesn’t do it all the time.  It’s just rare that he’s so blatant about it, so open, so passionate with it that the doctor actually has to remove him from the room, from the looks of things.

The thing is, Jounouchi has mega self-esteem problems, and so when Shizuka says that she’s too scared to take her bandages off—when she says this—Jounouchi doesn’t think any less of her, he thinks less of himself.  He feels like he failed her, despite everything he managed to do up until that point, because he can’t inspire her to be brave enough to face the world.  So he enters Battle City, and while part of his goal is to duel Yuugi and show that he can stand on his own as a duelist (a True Duelist™, at that), the bigger, larger, more important goal for him is to inspire his little sister, to show her that he had courage enough to enter—that he had worth enough to make it far, and even win—so that she can have courage herself to stand up and face the day, her eyes wide open.

I love him.  I really love him.  And technically I’m still back in Duelist Kingdom, but I was flipping ahead because of reasons and came across this and felt my heart break, so I had to make a post about it, because damn, do I love this darling boy.

majishanzuvarukiria:

YGO GRAPHICS DUEL vs trblastoff

TURN 1 ➣ One Protagonist

↳ Jumpin’ Joey Wheeler

If you wanna get to the King of Games, you’ll have to go through me, the… uhh… da Godfaddah a’ Games, capice?!

alicethedragonvalkyrie:

Isn’t it considered extremely rude to have your feet up like that in Japan or even have them pointed towards another person?

bossanovabyss:

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the fact that, although the second series anime wanted to turn him into the sort of guy who talked tough but got easily kicked around by Kaiba and Bandit Keith, manga!Jounouchi goes an entire fight with the blade of a knife in his mouth, spends most of the fight with his own hands in his pockets, and at the end of it ends up breaking the other guy’s jaw and commenting on it in a blasé attitude like a complete and utter badass.

The second series anime producers might not have loved Jounouchi, but Takahashi Kazuki sure as hell did.

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