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sliferthewhydidigeta:

Looks like shonenjump translated and released the yugioh GX one shot last Monday! http://t.co/pxy5s2GJXS

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psuedopurrloin:

I love this scene

I don’t have enough words to say how much, it’s basically what solidified my love for the series as more than a ‘joke’ when I decided to go back and reread it

because make no mistake, if you watched this scene as a kid or from abridged or whatever you probably made fun of it

it’s ok, I did too

It’s sappy and corny and so sweet I think it clogged my arteries, but I don’t even care, look at Honda (the king of ‘I need to repress feelings for the sake of being cool’) and Jounouchi being so into it and touched

And seeing Yuugi’s face going from ‘the fuck’ -> ‘oh my god anzu marry me’ -> ‘why was I even crying again? I have these amazing friends, why should I ever cry?’

I’m not even grazing the surface of why I love this collection of panels so much, but it doesn’t even matter

What I hope is made apparent is that this isn’t just drawing a smiley face on your hands then calling it ‘friendship’ 

It’s acknowledging the frailty of their time together, how they will have to move forward without each other at some point

but that’s ok

that doesn’t mean they can’t cherish the time they do have, and it’s so freaking perfect when realize how the ending fits this theme in

even though i’m not the happiest in the world with the ending, they sure as hell did that part right

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psuedopurrloin:

damn

I hope this makes it apparent why I’m so pissed at the anime for cutting this out

It’s so real

It escalates so quickly after Yuugi was the first to freak out, and suddenly after being blank for so long Jounouchi’s letting it all out

This is the most honest he’s probably been with himself in years

and Honda… his little ‘You’re not a bully anymore’ with that little wink

then that smile he has right after

it’s so bitter, and yet it’s got this pride to it

they’re not those guys anymore, sure for a while there they were pretty shitty (in their view point) but now

they’ve got something that made want to be better people… and dear god if Jounouchi isn’t beautiful in that last panel then I don’t know what else is

For some reason, I decided to look into the manga/anime differences in DM while I was at work, and it’s bad enough that episode 1 was such a clusterfuck of chapters all across the first four volumes (or at least up to the Death-T arc; forget where that comes in), but their omitting a lot of the core characterizations really blows for the anime. Hell, the friendship circle comes across as “YOU HAVE AN OLD MAN TO SAVE GET TO IT” while in the manga, not only did they have the time to actually do it, but you’ve seen how strong their bond is by that point that it doesn’t come across as forced.

It’d be nice if one day, DM gets the FMA:Brotherhood treatment and it’s remade to be more faithful to the manga, because having a lot (or maybe 20%) of the things that defined the early parts of it be sprinkled around Duelist Kingdom isn’t a good way to make up the seven-volume dismissal. But of course, it probably won’t happen because card sales.

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diae:

sure the balance of the whole world is in question but you really have to admire the way both yami bakura and yami yuugi are sticklers for following the proper rules of tabletop rpgs

tbh in any other circumstance yami bakura/zorc would probably be a great gm and a blast to play with

florence-midknight:

…that is so effing creepy.

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yeffyaboyuice:

This boy is killing me

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cyberangelduelist:

This is why I love Asuka Tenjoin. Not because she’s gorgeous, or even because she’s a formidable opponent (albeit both are true and both contribute to a point), but because she recognizes and establishes herself as equal in an environment where women are considered to be second rate to men.

First of all, if you haven’t read the manga, this chapter is called Miss Academia, in which male duelists are to cast their votes on who they think deserves the title of Miss Academia, which is essentially a beauty pageant of sorts that has absolutely nothing to do with dueling talent whatsoever.

Right away Asuka isn’t fond of it. She doesn’t even show up with the other 4 nominees because she could care less about who wins and who loses, even if she ends up becoming the winner. It’s not even because she doesn’t think she can win, it’s simply because she feels that the event in itself is extraordinarily demeaning to the female student population, boiling down their worth as a duelist to their worth as a woman.

This competition is a popularity contest, and Asuka does not need the approval of her male peers in order to see herself as a worthy duelist. 

“I am…a duelist!”

*This chapter also really makes me love her dynamic with Judai even more, to. Because he helps her realize that she can be both a woman and a duelist. Which is great because that way the series doesn’t disregard her femininity while trying to establish that worth.

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lucidiux:

borrowing DVDs, expulsion, whether you live, whether you die, you know, that kind of thing