Hellos! Long time no see!
This will be some of those random posts with thoughts and observations about the mangá and the fandom community, the manga and anime community and the medias itselfs and so their industries related to YGO! or Random rants.
As can be hinted by the title, that's the subject of this post, over the years, including while I was making analysis of the mangá, I have been noticing some misconceptions of the mangá that may some of it's readers stating that the early 7 volumes are the most dark and edgy ones of the series, I have to disagree to an extent, if there is something I have been implying, is that the manga in comparison to anime, including the japanese adaptation, the mangá overall is actually a lot darker, it's not just because "the early 7 volumes", if we look over, Duelist Kingdom like how Kaiba used his "aluminum briefcase" and cards as weapons and make demands in a rather violent manner, it was actually changed in the anime, yes the japanese one (they censored some scenes from the manga and changed)
(Note: reference to Yu-Jyo.net and violent version in the manga)
By taking a look at the mentioned scene example between the anime and manga of how Pegasus and Kaiba "negotiate", the anime (Season 01, Episode 21, towards the end of episode), Kaiba actually does better choices except one thing, I'll get there, Kaiba infiltrates the place stealthy to go immediately rescues Mokuba, Pegasus actually goes to Kaiba in person with Mokuba already sealed in the card in the anime version to force Kaiba to play agaisnt Dark Yugi or Yugi...while the mangá there is some distinctions, one more glaring than the other, the mangá is something like this:
The anime version, including japanese, there was no guns, a guy's head close to be chopped by a duralumin case while still holding a gun, once again Kaiba using his case to hit someone in the face...it's still not over the differences...
Pegasus never did go in person even more with Kaiba holding a gun and survived "2 penalty games" from shadow games, what Pegasus did to kill Bandit Keith wouldn't work on Kaiba, Pegasus is well informed on these matters, even more with Kaiba holding a gun, the other difference is Mokuba wasn't sealed in card yet, it would be later (Pegasus VS Kaiba).
One version or another, Kaiba is still Kaiba being a prideful individual, and goes to his enemy terms anyways due to pride.
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