Saturday, January 8, 2022

Is the Early 7 manga volumes to be the most dark and edgy volumes?

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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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

hmmm is it today September 14 or 30 to be Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga 25th anniversary?

 


You may be wondering about the title. it's because on VIZ Media twitter says is today September 14th 2021 that the manga series makes 25 years, however according what I researched, suggests otherwise, because it's original run in weekly shonen jump was in September 30th 1996 Issue no.42-1996, then technically would be in September 30th 2021 that makes 25 years...
however, from further research, the release date of the magazine was 14th September which is today, while cover date is 30th September... but I don't understand the difference between any...it seems to according to this website:

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/weekly-jump/


The differences are that the issue date is supposedly from what I understand, the issue date/cover date is 30th September but the "sale date"or release date is in 14th September?


It's very confusing for me, it seems to be related to the 2 holidays in September 1996 (3rd Monday of September was on 16th September 1996 while there was another in 23rd September,  and both were on Mondays) however, when in Japan when a holiday falls on Monday, Weekly Shonen Jump releases on Saturday, 14th September 1996 was on Saturday...

So what does it mean a cover date?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date

I get it better, it seems, that cover dates are meant to make "magazines still feel recent", it's actually a common practice worldwide, despite it was released a few weeks before...we can conclude that today is the 25th Anniversary of the manga series.

Today was a more trivia+research about the manga series, I got to learn new things, like holidays in japan, this "cover date" practice in magazines is not the actual release date of the magazine, interesting.

So...

Happy Birthday Yu-Gi-Oh! Mánga!


My manga collection on other hand is around 10 years old xDD

 


Monday, July 26, 2021

Monthly Posts and Atem's Birthday

 This is how is going to be, more or less, this will be monthly posts now, what I wanted to do in this blog for me is already done, instead will be monthly posts of small mentions and curious observations or even suggestions, sometimes sharing wallpaper I edited like today...


Regarding Atem's Birthday which is Today!!

Not many don't know or is aware Pharaoh Atem's/Yami Yugi's Birthday is Today, in 26th July!

It's in the Gospel of Truth book of Yu-Gi-Oh!, in the character's profile, I believe it was in Ancient Egypt calendar which based on the farming and harvest seasons, I believe, which fallen into 26th July...for source: click here


👑🎲Happy Birthday, Atem!🎲👑



Friday, June 4, 2021

Thoughts and Observations of Mangá and DSOD Movie - Yu-Gi-Oh!

That's right...however is by giving a link to a "page" of this blog that for some reason isn't appearing in the website?
This "Hidden Page" has all the links to my analysis of the 38 volumes, Transcend Game One Shot (DSOD prologue) and Dark Side of Dimensions.


Don't worry, there is no ads, except the ones with "widgets" that you can just ignore, there isn't "skips seconds link" either, it's so this post doesn't get too big with the links of analysis, to make it easier.

One Last Thing...the date of this post is 4TH June...so...

🎇🎲Happy Birthday to Yugi Mutou🎲🎇



Friday, May 14, 2021

Thoughts & Observations: Dark Side of Dimensions Movie

Hellos!!

This is the last post of analysis/Thoughts and Observations, I'm not gonna lie, it feels quite weird that is ending, I have been writing it for 8 years with hiatus mid-way through, what I have been writing for so long out of my own enjoyment because I love analyzing and to be about my favourite story of all time, one may think why I did this? At first was to show traits about characters that were overlooked or ignored or underestimated even among the fandom like Yugi's intelligence, the duels that I always thought that was crucial to character's growth, relationships and interesting story details that ended up into make it more thorough, also because I wanted to analyse a story as a stimulating way for me to keep my mind sharp too besides I learned a lot about some historical facts and games as much for my own personal growth, it was a non-profit project with it's own personal and learning benefits.


(warning: the plot summary will be huge)


Plot Summary:

The movie opens with Kaiba looking at a holographic image of the Millennium Puzzle in his "space tower" (satelite-like tower) into an excavation being proceeded in the Shrine of the Former Village of Kul Elna close to or around the Valley of the Kings, to search for the millennium puzzle to be overseen by Mokuba.
Yugi is about to leave his house for school to meet with Anzu, Jounouchi and Honda from a different route goes to school by bicycle and Ryou had arrived already...when they have their lunch together in the rooftop, they discuss about their futures and dreams...
They go back to their classroom and seem to not recognize a classmate of theirs but yet suddenly remembering as being his name "Aigami"...when school was over, they discuss about Atem...then they heard someone needing help about to be bullied by a gang who are considered dangerous, Jounouchi comes to be willing to help the person in question being "Aigami".
In an abandoned building, "Aigami" goes to the meeting place with the Kudaragi's gang, "Aigami" summons a cube that allows him to summon the Prana and making the whole gang disappear to a "lesser dimension"...
As the movie moves along with Kaiba being unsatisfied with the simulation of "Dark Yugi" to feeling the need of the millennium puzzle and getting call that pieces of millennium puzzle was found, as the pieces are being 3D-scanned, learn about "Aigami" true identity as his name being Diva and his cube with dimensional powers, Dimension Cube, Kaiba and Diva have a duel to not being proceeded as Mokuba leaves the shrine with the millennium pieces, but two of them is stolen, which Kaiba later finds out, one of the Prana being Mani finds the Millennium Ring.
Diva observes Yugi and Ryou as he discusses with Mani and later his sister Sera about his revenge on the responsible for someone's death  and eliminate Kaiba and Yugi to stop pharaoh Atem to be revived so they can move to their next dimension.
Diva approaches Yugi and hangs out with him and friends to decide having a small tournament at Yugi's house of Magic&Wizards on Sunday.
The day comes, but his friends haven't arrived yet as he is visited by Sera about himself, Shadi and Atem, during that time, "Aigami" and Ryou with Jounouchi discuss about their own egyptian artifacts, Ryou is hesitant to go further but Diva sends Jounouchi to another dimension, their past is discussed between Ryou and Diva regarding "Shadi's death", Ryou's father and Yami Bakura, Diva starts becoming reluctant to revenge on Ryou.
Mani appears in Diva's and Ryou's dimension to learn Mani is being controlled by the Millennium Ring, who tries to kill Ryou, Diva tries to stop Mani as Mani himself stops himself but gets affected and "disappears" to another dimension and so does Ryou.
Yugi, Honda and Anzu look for Jounouchi and Ryou, Diva appears before them and summons the Prana around them, Jounouchi surviving one of dimensions inside the Dimension Cube to be saved by Atem in going back to the "original dimension" with his friends...Diva disappears to being captured by Kaiba and his Dimension Cube taken.
Diva and Yugi are forced by Kaiba to participate in his selective tournament, Yugi VS Diva first and learning about Diva's harsh childhood, Yugi wins, then Kaiba VS Yugi discussing the truth about the Millennium Puzzle and Atem, Diva in his own dimension finds the millennium ring that was left in the dimension where Mani disappeared, Diva and Dimension Cube gets controlled by the millennium ring.
Kaiba VS Yugi close to end by one turn, gets interrupted by Yami Diva (Zork-Diva), with Dimension Cube being corrupted, people start to disappear including the Prana, Kaiba and Yugi are the only ones still standing tag duel against Zork-Diva, Kaiba loses and starts to disappear and makes Yugi wear the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi tries to stand as he was almost about to lose consciousness, Atem from "netherworld" or "spiritual dimension" to take over through the Millennium Puzzle to save Yugi and everyone involved. including the Prana, Yugi and Atem go separate, say their farewells as the millennium puzzle disappears first and Atem goes back to "Netherworld" or "spiritual dimension".
The Graduation Ceremony comes to an end, the gang and prana go with their life towards their future, Kaiba going to Atem's dimension through the help of "copy" of Diva's Dimension Cube, challenges Atem again to a duel.


Key Points:


That's how kinda gonna look like, but this is a "Vertical Screens Ensemble" (that's the name...instead of Panels, it's Screens with "Vertical" and "Horizontal"), there is Horizontal Screens Ensemble which will be in next key point, I have to say, it was very hard to make these screens ensembles.
This scene is after the opening of the movie, we see them excavating in a shrine where lied the "Tablet of Pharaoh's Memories" and technically was the Tablet of the Millennium Items, where they were forged and happened the Rite of the Duel between Atem and Yugi, this excavation was ordered by Kaiba (of course), even one of his agents is overseeing with a photo of Yugi when he had the millennium puzzle.
What got my most attention from this was the "Door" to the "next world" was still intact, from where Atem left to afterlife, probably won't open again, since "most" of the millennium items are "gone", to be opened again, you need all the millennium items.



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Friday, April 30, 2021

Thoughts&Observations | Mangá One Shot: Transcend Game

Hellos!!

Just recently, I published the last part of Monster World, Transcend Game will be the last post with panels ensembles, it's the prologue to Dark Side of Dimensions.
Honestly speaking of the movie, I don't know if Dark Side of Dimensions will be divided in two parts or not, because it's always in movement, it's trickier, it will be rare using animated gifs since they're kinda heavy on posts to be readable, it will be mostly screenshots, a bulk focusing on the same scene, the duels will be "cut", parts of the duels is when is relevant to character development and to the story to be observed and my own personal thoughts (including scenes I find funny as also finer and amusing details where the characters are at).
It will take longer with Dark Side of Dimensions, possibly by mid-May.
Wish me luck!


Transcend Game || Prologue of Dark Side of Dimensions Movie


Plot Summary:

The one-shot two chapters starts with two paged coloured scene of Kaiba pursuing something...with his Blue-Eyes White Dragon...Pharaoh Atem...
Another colored page is Kaiba talking with his investors and members of the company discussing about a new product by the company...Kaiba passes by the displays of his accomplishments in technology for gaming, specifically Magic&Wizards - his prototype duel disk, the duel disk, and egg-shaped VR headset, he stops there looking as seeing the huge potential yet to be unlocked, then he is escorted with his employees researchers seeing the progress of the research of the egg-shaped VR headset, Kaiba passes by a inner building room bridge over a million of test subjects from all over the world playing Magic&Wizards in VR.
Inside the VR game of Magic&Wizards, the rules are slightly different, it relies on "higher consciousness" level (to me looks like more willpower measurement :p), they formed guilds based on themed decks and archetypes decks, they were challenging one and another...one guild was trying to "take over"...but someone which has a "superior consciousness" defeated them all since the game was getting out of control, Kaiba mentions those "rumoured superior consciousness" that has a level beyond a normal human being call themselves "Plana"/Prana, after an "avatar" player with "superior consciousness defeated the other test subjects, removes the VR set, indicated a little girl in traditional clothes from far away.
Kaiba continues researching on his own at his house in his own laboratory, from behind him as he turns around sensing a presence, the same little girl he saw removed the VR headset was in front of him, they have a discussion about Kaiba making incredible advancements in technology that helps people experience "higher consciousness" and this discussion leads to "netherworld" (the other common name as abode of the dead) and the little girl leaves, but Kaiba immediately go after an unknown consciousness that has been detected...he attempts to do it, the little girl tries to stop him but in vain...Kaiba stubbornly follows through and sees a glimpse of Pharaoh Atem but is then blocked by a "woman figure" in white light to Mokuba sensing danger of his big brother having higher risks of dying, then he turns off the lever to save his big brother, Kaiba comes back with heavy breaths but feels assured that he did saw Pharaoh Atem there.
It ends with the same little girl whose name is Sera reading a book, then a mysterious boy comes closer and comments Kaiba will be difficult to illuminate.



Key Points:

  

This is the beginning of One Shot, in chapter 1, the art style of Takahashi-sensei is gorgeous as always, seeing colored like this, he is an artist, he tried digital colouring, the shading here is quite interesting, it's almost leather, bit rubber with metal yet with a more dark and lighting tone...
Why Kaiba is saying "infinite darkness over there" while the  "there" is light...the universe?....he knows isn't the case but is just him forcing things to the way he wants...like always 😒.
The beginning of this chapter, it's funny that starts with the "ending" of chapter 2 of Transcend Game...but not without some curious inner monologue from his on the Panels Ensemble on the Right:

"The name of the pharaoh showing up in my eyes...Atem!!"

At first in this scene may look like he didn't knew about about his name...but he actually did know or else he wouldn't trouble himself for this anyway, in fact as we knowing later at the end of the post, the world knows now the "nameless pharaoh"'s name that was scratched but not in his tomb and chronology of dynasties documents...regarding his tomb, his name was it's depths of the bridge, no one could cross over to see the name to confirm, I guess today now the pharaoh Atem went to afterlife is accessible to scholars of pharaonic history or Egyptology.
The title of this chapter is very funny though:

"That man still even now, gazes at a single point-!!" 

It's a very accurate description tunnel-vision of Kaiba Seto, he is very narrow, closed minded person to a fault, that sometimes he makes unnecessary decisions, that can be more harmful than helpful...it's important to stay focus on your goal, but is also important to broaden your horizons (Kaiba is a snail when comes to that and personal growth) as much to know when to have fun and relax (he seems to be more of a workaholic...honestly).





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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Thoughts and Observations of Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga Series Masterpost Updated Ver.3

Update 27/04/2021: We almost finished now, only missing Transcend Game and Dark Side of Dimensions Movie (it will be below Memory World once the "masterpost" is "completed" :p).


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Since there is many posts of my analysis over the course of 5 years and 5 months, I think is around hundreds... I'm starting the process of organization, re-arrangement, reformulation of most posts...

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As I re-upload images to the currently image host I'm using in the missing Battle City Arc posts, DDM, then will be Duelist Kingdom and lastly the early which more episodic arcs, as I do this, I will keep post links, including updated ones, but only in this post, you will be able to tell when is new updates...The orders of the links of the posts will start from Memory World Arc and upwards, the new ones will always be above the previous posted links.
You might wonder why I'm troubling myself with this, it's because before I go into analysis of Transcend Game One Shot and Dark Side of Dimensions movie, I want my analysis of the manga to be polished first since my manga analysis posts will be constantly mentioned, specially the movie (so yeah, the Transcend Game and the movie Dark Side of Dimension is literally the expansion of the manga).


Thoughts and Observations of Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga Series Links

The Early 7 Volumes:


The Episodic Arcs Part 1
Shadi's Arc
Episodic Arcs Part 2:


(The next update is starting about the early volumes posts, the new extra post for this will be starting consisted of the episodic arcs only before Shadi's character debut arc)


Duelist Kingdom Arc:


↑The Updates are starting↑
(It's worth a re-read for the first post of Duelist Kingdom Arc)
(The next updates will be coming as I complete the "editor cut" and restructure them of Duelist Kingdom Posts then the Early Volumes
Battle City Arc:



Memory World Arc: