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

It’s surprisingly cool to see an official outlet like Crunchyroll acknowledge YGO ‘98 tbh  (Maybe a video highlighting the differences between those manga chapters and that anime in the future? I know fans have compiled the differences going back a while…)

Neat video series they have going here; I have to go back and watch their DM-centric episode (though this one kinda was too despite the title lol), but it’s good that they’re showing a wide audience that there’s more to YGO than the damage 4Kids did to the show.

That said, my one nitpick here…

…is iT’S ARC-“FIVE” not “V” 🤦‍♂️ 

And it should be “ZEAHL” not “Zexal” based on the Japanese pronounciation tho to be fair 4Kids ruined that too lol 

Otherwise, it’s a fun video! (If a tiiiny bit of cringe, lol.) 

I would’ve noted that the reason the cards were edited the way they were was/is to skirt by FCC regulations around advertising on TV animation; something about making sure the cards were sufficiently different from their IRL counterparts.  It’s actually suspected that 4Kids may have been behind getting the ZeXal animation team to switch the realistic card backs they were using back to an anime-unique one, this time the one with the swirl, though I doubt there’s been confirmation (they were known to have influence on the Japanese side of Pokemon, so who knows).  Though it makes for funny situations when reading or changing card text becomes a thing, lol.

I also still laugh at how they handled the end of 5D’s because they edited the footage to make the Ark Cradle ascend back into the sky as Aporia’s defeated, then cut off the episode RIGHT BEFORE SHIT GETS REAL with the sky cracking and the Ark crashing through 😂 

For the casual fan reading, if you’re curious about the changes made to the YGO DM run, yu-jyo.net offers comprehensive episode summaries showing off the changes made to both the dialogue and the footage, which is well worth the time to read.  I had a similar one for 5D’s (and wanted to eventually do GX), and you can check it out on the Wayback Machine here (I’m in the middle of trying to get a new website host to set it up on, lol).  I occasionally do some on my Tumblr too, including a bit of ARC-V! 

(Also not sure Exodia works that way… 😶)