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

bakuraisabitch:

Malik Ishtar, everyone,

who was tortured mentally and physically to save the memories of a 3000 years old Pharaoh who sacrificed himself to save his kingdom. 

Malik Ishtar, who had said memories carved with a knife on his back at the age of 10, serving as a literal human memorial tablet to preserve and deliver the message - in case he will meet the Pharaoh’s soul in his lifetime. Even if he was never meant to meet the Pharaoh the carvings were still going to happen (like they did to the past generations of the Ishtars - including Malik’s father) for the possibilty that the Pharaoh might return during their lifetime. The Ishtar clan exists ever since the death of the Pharaoh, for 3000 years…

Malik Ishtar, who has the symbol of the Winged Sun carved on his upper back…

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…a symbol associated with divinity, royalty and power in Ancient Egypt. The symbol was clearly carved to convey the importance and divine-status of the message that follows underneath, giving little or no regard at all to the holder of the message - the one bearing the scars.

The Tomb-keepers of the Nameless Pharaoh were born for their mission and their mission only. After delivering the memory to their Pharaoh they were no use to the world anymore and were meant to die.

Malik Ishtar, everyone, said fuck that. 

He decided to end these standards with which he was born in, that fated him and the generation before him, as slaves for the memory of a king long gone.

He claimed the symbol of the Winged Sun, etched for life on his skin, as his own. He decided that he - and the generation of Tomb-keepers of the Nameless Pharaoh before him - are and have always been the ones meant to be divine, royalty and powerful.

If you don’t love him for that i don’t know what else to tell you.

sethotkaiba:

I truly wish I could hate Pegasus as he rightly deserves but stanning him is not even a choice

atemyuu:

In the english dub Yugi would always say that Yami lived in the puzzle but in the manga and japanese Yugi would instead say he lives in my heart or

and I think that’s beautiful.

yugiohmangavsanime:

So, in the manga during Battle City, Anzu/Téa is only ever shown wearing one outfit, and it’s this one:

This is despite the fact that Battle City stretches over the course of two days, but it makes sense since the overnight of the tournament was spent on the Kaiba Corp blimp and I doubt any of the characters planned to need a change of clothes.

It should be noted that while the outfit shown above is shown as a white shirt and pink skirt, these colors appear to be a change made by the Bunkoban release, which release the entire manga in full color.  During the original run of the manga, a handful of color pages showed Anzu’s outfit as instead a yellow shirt and red skirt.  Here’s an example of the original outfit color from Duel 170 as it was originally shown in Weekly Shonen Jump compared to its Bunkoban recoloring.

Anyway, the anime started off the Battle City tournament with Anzu wearing her outfit from the manga with its original coloring, albeit with one very noticeable difference.

For some unknown reason, the “SPIRIT” message on her shirt was removed.  And no, this wasn’t an edit made by 4Kids.  I grabbed the above screenshot from the original Japanese version of the anime.

This change is odd because the shirt was left completely unchanged in the intro during this season

(Which, ironically, did get removed in 4Kids’ version of the intro.  So much for 4Kids being completely free of blame for removing SPIRIT)

But this isn’t my main point.  My main point is that, for seemingly no reason, Anzu changes outfits in the middle of the day during the first day of Battle City.  Starting in the episode where Jonouchi starts his duel against Insector Haga, Anzu switches over to this outfit:

And this is probably Anzu’s best known outfit, as she wears it for the entire remainder of Season 2 and all of Season 3, which includes the Virtual World and the final rounds of Battle City.

It’s just so weird because there was no change of day in-universe.  Anzu apparently just spent the morning wearing one outfit and then in the afternoon decided to change clothes to wear for the remainder of the day.

I don’t have a problem with the anime putting the characters in different clothes from what they wore in the manga.  Jonouchi wears completely different clothes in the anime version of Battle City after the manga just had him in his school uniform.  But it’s bizarre that they would give themselves a continuity headscratcher like this one.

(For that matter, Honda also suddenly changed clothes in the same episode that Anzu did.  His is a reversal of what happened to Anzu though.  In his case, he switched into his manga clothes after he had previously been wearing different clothes earlier that day)

obsessedwithyugioh:

Man, remember that time Kaiba got flat out decked by the Wicked Dreadroot (aka inverse Obelisk)? He took it quite well, all things considering.

yugiohmangavsanime:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Now that I’ve finished listing each chapter of the manga and detailing which anime episodes use material from each chapter, I thought I’d make this bonus guide of all the anime episodes that didn’t use any material from the manga.  I’ll also make a note of episodes that are predominantly filler but used a sliver of manga content.

Toei Anime

• Episode 4
• Episode 8
• Episode 12
• Episode 15
• Episode 16
• Episode 17
• Episode 19
• Episode 20

Duel Monsters Anime

Duelist Kingdom

• Episode 33
• Episode 34

Domino City Battles

• Episode 41
• The start of this episode wraps up adapting Chapter 133, but the rest of the episode is filler
• Episode 42
• Episode 43
• Episode 44
• Episode 45

Battle City (Part 1)

• Episode 74
• This is a clip show episode
• Episode 80
• Episode 85

Virtual World

• Episode 98
• Episode 99
• Episode 100
• This episode contains flashbacks that adapt flashbacks from Chapter 40 of the manga
• Episode 101
• Episode 102
• Episode 103
• This episode contains flashbacks that adapt flashbacks from Chapter 40 of the manga
• Episode 104
• This episode contains flashbacks that adapt flashbacks from Chapter 40 of the manga
  
• Episode 105
• Episode 106
• Episode 107
• Episode 108
• This episode contains flashbacks that adapt flashbacks from Chapter 40 of the manga
  
• Episode 109
• This episode contains flashbacks that adapt flashbacks from Chapter 40 of the manga
  
• Episode 110
• Episode 111
• Episode 112
• Episode 113
• Episode 114
• Episode 115
• Episode 116
• Episode 117
• Episode 118
• Episode 119
• Episode 120
• Episode 121

Battle City (Part 2)

• Episode 135
• The beginning of this episode adapts material from Chapter 263, but the rest of the episode is filler
• Episode 136
• Episode 137
• Most of the episode is filler, but the end of the episode adapts material from Chapters 263 and 264
• Episode 144
• This is a clip show episode

Orichalcos

• Episode 145
• Part of this episode could be considered to be loosely adapting Chapter 282, albeit in the form of a fake-out
• Episode 146
• Episode 147
• Episode 148
• Episode 149
• Episode 150
• Episode 151
• Episode 152
• Episode 153
• Episode 154
• Episode 155
• Episode 156
• Episode 157
• Episode 158
• Episode 159
• Episode 160
• Episode 161
• Episode 162
• Episode 163
• Episode 164
• Episode 165
• Episode 166
• Episode 167
• Episode 168
• Episode 169
• Episode 170
• Episode 171
• Episode 172
• Episode 173
• Episode 174
• Episode 175
• Episode 176
• Episode 177
• Episode 178
• Episode 179
• Episode 180
• Episode 181
• Episode 182
• Episode 183
• Episode 184

KC Grand Prix

• Episode 185
• Episode 186
• Episode 187
• Episode 188
• Episode 189
• Episode 190
• Episode 191
• Episode 192
• Episode 193
• Episode 194
• Episode 195
• Episode 196
• Episode 197
• Episode 198

King’s Memories

• Episode 213
• This episode contains very brief elements from Chapters 323 and 324, but is otherwise almost entirely anime-only material
• In general, Episodes 212-219 were heavy in anime-only material, but all but 213 had enough manga material to not point out specifically

Ceremonial Battle

• Episode 222
• The episodes surrounding this one make changes where this episode can’t be outright skipped, but almost nothing in this episode appears to correspond to a chapter from the manga

yugiohmangavsanime:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

This is part 5, covering the Memory Arc and Ceremonial Battle.  This was a pain to go through.  Several plot points were rearranged or heavily altered.  There would be some episodes that were mostly filler but would have the slightest amount of a manga chapter in them.  I did my best with this final part, but out of every entry in this guide, this was my least favorite one to do.

Note that episodes 144 to 198 were entirely filler in the anime and do not adapt any of the manga.  These 53 episodes of filler include the Orichalcos Arc and the KC Grand Prix Arc.

King’s Memories Arc

• Chapter 279: The Millennium Treasure
• Episode 199
• Chapter 280: A Sleepless Night
• Episodes 199-200
• Chapter 281: The Truth of the Artifact!
• Episode 200
  
• Chapter 282: Voyage into Memories
• Episode 201
  
• Chapter 283: The Six Chosen Priests
• Episode 201
  
• Chapter 284: The Evil Shadow
• Episodes 201-202
  
• Chapter 285: Bakura, King of Thieves
• Episode 202
• Chapter 286: Diabound vs. Galestgoras
• Episode 202
  
• Chapter 287: The Father’s Shadow
• Episode 202
  
• Chapter 288: In the Name of the Gods
• Episode 202
  
• Chapter 289: The Supreme Blow!
• Episodes 202-203
  
• Chapter 290: Search for the Pharaoh’s Name!
• Episode 203
  
• Chapter 291: The Ancient Duel!!
• No elements from this chapter appear to be adapted in the anime
• Chapter 292: A Wizards’ Battle
• Episodes 203-204
  
• Chapter 293: Dark Genesis
• Episode 204
  
• Chapter 294: The Invisible Door
• Episode 204
  
• Chapter 295: Tears in the Nile
• Episode 205
  
• Chapter 296: Ka Hunt
• Episode 205
  
• Chapter 297: Bakura Lives!
• Episode 205
  
• Chapter 298: Out of the Darkness
• Episode 205
• Chapter 299: Assault on the Palace!
• Episodes 205-206
  
• Chapter 300: Sliver vs. Diabound
• Episode 206
• Chapter 301: Divine Light, Divine Shadow
• Episode 206
  
• Chapter 302: Surprise Attack! Power Attack!
• Episodes 206-207
  
• Chapter 303: To Pierce the Darkness!
• Episode 207
  
• Chapter 304: The Summoning of Ra!
• Episode 207
  
• Chapter 305: Ruler of Shadows!!
• Episode 207
  
• Chapter 306: Time Rewound!!
• Episode 207
  
• Chapter 307: Shadows Fall!!
• Episode 207
  
• Chapter 308: The Birth of the Millennium Items!!
• Episode 206
  
• Chapter 309: Ripples in the Shadows
• Episodes 207-208
• Chapter 310: The White Dragon Awakes!
• Episodes 207-208
  
• Chapter 311: The Vessel of the White Dragon
• Episode 208
  
• Chapter 312: The Pharaoh Returns!
• Episodes 208-209
  
• Chapter 313: The Village of Ghosts!!
• Episode 209
  
• Chapter 314: The Spirit Beast!!
• Episode 209
  
• Chapter 315: Shadow Camouflage!!
• Episode 209
  
• Chapter 316: Aura Shield!!
• Episode 209
  
• Chapter 317: Return of the Priests!
• Episode 210 
  
• Chapter 318: Together Against the Darkness!
• Episode 210
  
• Chapter 319: The Pawns of Memory!
• Episode 211
  
• Chapter 320: The Ultimate Shadow RPG!
• Episode 211
  
• Chapter 321: The Dark God Awakes!
• Episode 211
  
• Chapter 322: The Mysterious NPC!
• Episodes 211-212
  
• Chapter 323: Into the Tomb!
• Episodes 212-213
  
• Chapter 324: Battle in the Shrine!
• Parts of Episodes 212, 213, 214, and 215
• Chapter 325: The Silent Duelist!!
• Episode 215
• Chapter 326: Gather, Ghosts!
• Episodes 215, 216, and 217
• Chapter 327: I Won’t Give Up!!
• Episodes 217-218
• Chapter 328: The End of the World!!
• Episode 214
• Chapter 329: Until Our Ba Runs Out!
• Episode 214
• Chapter 330: Guardian God!
• Episodes 214 and 216
• Chapter 331: The Light of the Soul!
• Episodes 216, 218, and 219
• Chapter 332: The Stone Slabs of the Modern World!
• Episode 219
• Chapter 333: In the Name of the Pharaoh
• Episode 219
  
• Chapter 334: The Survivors
• Episodes 214 and 219
• Chapter 335: White Dragon, Black Magician
• Episode 214
• Chapter 336: He Who Inherits the Light
• Episodes 214, 220

Ceremonial Battle

• Chapter 337: Over the Nile!!
• Episode 220
• Chapter 338: The Rite of the Duel!!
• Episodes 220-221
• Chapter 339: Yugi vs. Atem!!
• Episode 221
• Chapter 340: The Ties That Bind
• Episode 221
• Chapter 341: The Master of Servants
• Episodes 223-224
• Chapter 342: The Last Gamble!!
• Episode 224
• Chapter 343: The Journey of the King
• Episode 224