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

ayma-nidiot:

Ouch.

danieco:

Good news for everyone who, like me, sometimes misses the horror vibe of the early manga!

IT’S FULLY BACK OH GOD OH SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

This is another thing that makes way more sense in the manga (there’s just a ventriloquist with a dummy pretending to speak for Kaiba) but honestly anime Ghost Kaiba shouting “Shut up! I am dead!” is so iconic that I still prefer it anyway

Randomly flipped on Crunchyroll’s subs for DM 217 (always one of my favorites) while I do some GX 59 editing, and um

…wh-where are the line breaks? 😐

danieco:

I think this is such a heartbreaking scene, because (in my reading) Mokuba’s being a bit of an unreliable narrator here. Not entirely, but… mostly? This is what he needs to believe, but it hasn’t been true for a really, really long time. He has to believe it, though, and has to believe this is the “real” Seto in some way, because otherwise, he is actually totally, completely alone (and has been for years). 

The reason Mokuba is the final piece to Seto “putting his heart back together” after the shadow penalty coma is because he’s the one holding onto this dream, he’s the one who still believes in this piece of Seto, is actually the only person alive who’s known Seto long enough to remember this and believe Seto can find himself again. 

(Also reading this as Mokuba being a bit of an unreliable narrator lessens the, you know, retcon whiplash you get from Kaiba being changed from a one-off villain to a sympathetic recurring antagonist and eventual anti-hero.)

ayma-nidiot:

I couldn’t agree more, Dartz.

danieco:

danieco:

The fact that Grandpa is just straight chillin’ in the videotape

so Yugi’s like “oh well I guess this is fine then”

Emotionally resilient kings tbh

wataponwrites:

here are some yugioh dm manga panels that i am very thankful for 🥰 -