"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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“Oh my! It’s a jigsaw puzzle! You must not bring your playthings to school. If you take out things like this you’ll get completely distracted! You really should be learning instead! Oh my, how interesting! When you assemble the pieces words appear. What could it say? "From the first time I saw you you have always been on my mind.” My, my, are these words to a confession?“
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The parallel between Atem and Yugi meeting for the first time + Bakura and Ryou meeting for the first time, along with the contrasting outcomes of said meetings, is something to behold.
YUGI: This is… the other me… This is our first time meeting…
ATEM: Yes! You threw yourself into the game to fight with your friends! That courage brought us together!
Little Yugi’s blush! He’s so happy! Atem is so proud of him! This marks the start of mutual trust between the two.
Meanwhile,
BAKURA: Y-You’re…! Bakura Ryou!!
RYOU: I don’t want to lose any more friends!! Even if that means my heart shatters!
Ryou acts on that same courage (throws himself into the game to fight along with the others), and it brings the Bakuras together, albeit more turbulently and more angrily. This marks the day Bakura learns not to underestimate his host because if given the reason to do so, Ryou can and will destroy them no matter the cost. Is that why Bakura pushed Ryou down deeper into his heart? To the point that when Ryou re-emerges, he has no recollection of anything?
As an addendum, Atem alludes to the fact that spirits within the Millennium Items die along with its holders.
“If my other heart dies, so does mine.”
All of that to say two things:
- I wish Yugi and Ryou were better friends, considering that they’re both Item bearers! What a wasted opportunity!
- And I wish we saw more of the Bakuras talking and their relationship in general! A potential for a push-pull dynamic where even the readers wouldn’t know where the line is drawn between them because they’re both crafty!
And these two things further lead to thoughts of disappointment due to the lack of an actual role given to Ryou (and his absence in general) during the Memory World arc, which we’ll get to once I get to it during my JP reread.
tldr: these four are very fascinating and very cute 🤭 I wouldve loved a spin-off of them literally doing whatever
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“Jounouchi, what the hell are you doing?!”
“I should be the one asking that! You promised me that if I joined your gang you wouldn’t lay a hand on my friends!”
“I knew it! Jounouchi did it for us!”
“Give me back my friend! No, that’s not all… For laying a hand on my friend, I’ll take you down!”
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Happy Birthday my favorite boy 🥰💜💘🎁🎊🎈
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“But that was crazy before. I can’t believe Jounouchi would become friends with those people!”
“They were his old friends. Back in middle school Jounouchi was really wild. He started fights almost every day. Back then, he was hanging out with Hirotani. When he entered high school he supposedly severed ties with those idiots. Why did he return to them now?”
[”Honda… that’s right. Jounouchi and I became friends through this puzzle…”]
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been on my list for literal years to redraw this page, but I was too coward to do it. now I’m crazy, but I am free
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Lil Yugi doodle from the silly Lil event in Duel Links that i did a lil while ago :]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 1998 ● EP1 / The Violent Battle - A Game of Darkness ➥ 激烈バトル 闇のゲーム
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PUZZLE BOYS!!!
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Post some of my old YuGiOh fan arts. I really love Yu-Jo.
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“Wait, Yuugi. You’re going to the Game Center again, aren’t you?”
“No…!”
“You don’t have the money to spend on games, Yuugi. Just think about your grandpa!”
“It isn’t the Game Center! See ya later!”
“He’s really suspicious… geez…”
“That was a close call! But KIS is getting a new game today that I must play!”
