Toriko, Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Special Anime Shorts Announced

I hope this new Yu-Gi-Oh short uses the original cast from the Toei series. But, somehow I doubt it. I guess I'm the only one that wants to see Megumi Ogata reclaim her role as Yugi.
 
I wouldn't really call Toriko a food series. It's more like a "muscular guys that look like they came from an 80's anime beating up dangerous animals and robots, and then eating them (but not the robots)" series.
 
I'm really excited for this tenth anniversary special for Yu-Gi-Oh!. I know that how the whole involvement of the three different series was just a rumor and apparently proven fake, but I would still love for it to be true somehow. I don't know how they could get all three generations together, but I'm sure that it would be so cool.

I'm sure that it will involve Yugi from the Duel Monster timeline. I know that there was a Yu-Gi-Oh! series before Duel Monster, but I was under the impression that it wasn't well received in Japan or at least wasn't as successful as the Duel Monster series was.



While I would like to see Atem again, considering he is my favorite character from the DM series, it would be pretty interesting to see how Yugi could handle a duel with Kaiba on his own. That would be really cool.
 
Her Yami Yugi voice was fine, if not too reminiscent of Yokou Kurama, but I couldn't stand her Yugi voice. Both Yugi and Jounouchi, IMO, had far better voices in Duel Mosnters. Honda and Anzu, on the other hand, took a bit of a downgrade (but then again, their roles were already downgraded, so I suppose that's appropriate.)
 
There's been an update about the 10th anniversary special.

http://www.yugioh10th.com/

It appears that the rumors were somewhat correct and that it's a crossover between the three Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

There were some magazine scans that popped up yesterday (not sure if I'm allowed to link to them, but here's the translation of them from the Janime forums) to corroborate:



So looks like it's a team-up. And Takahashi may be writing it himself. Apparently this is the special that will be at the Super Anime Tour, can't confirm that though.

Anyway, awesome.
 
Wow. So the rumors were true. That's just plain awesome. I loved the idea of a team up with the three main characters of the three Yu-Gi-Oh! series. It feels like a nice way to celebrate the anime's tenth anniversary. Since Takahashi might be writing it himself, it will hopefully make the movie/special all the cooler to see. I wonder how Yugi, Jaden and Yusei will be able to meet. Time traveling is a possible theory since that has happened a couple of times in the series. I'm looking foreword to hearing more about the story for the special.
 
CAN I GET A HELL YA!?

(I'm very interested in how Yusei reacts to someone even more stoic than him.

Even more interesting. Jack meeting Ryo meeting Kaiba. The heavens trerable)
 
By the same token, considering how much longer Vegeta took his rivalry seriously in comparison to the rivalry between Kaiba and Yugi being...significantly shorter (and them being teenagers and thus, more emotional by default), I really never got the complaint behind Kaiba remaining a wee bit testy about the whole ordeal. Vegeta's understandable, after training by Goku for so long and knowing him for so long it's not really hard to believe that he'd finally come to the conclusion that Goku is stronger and his rivalry (or at least, the way he perceived it) was ultimately frivolous.

If we count anime canon (since your complaints take place within anime canon)...Kaiba simply had two legitimate battles with Yugi, one of which Yugi won largely because of Exodia with Kaiba having a stronger mastery of the game. They fought together twice (once against the Big Five and the next time against Light and Dark Mask) and their match in Alcatraz was arguably their only true, legitimate duel up to that point. The duel on Pegasus's castle is noteworthy only because Kaiba wasn't really himself...and was dueling differently in order to save Mokuba. Kaiba dueling at his fullest would've never tried any odd tactics to guilt Yugi into losing nor would he have paniced at the infection of his Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

So, two legitimate battles in anime canon. The first legitimate duel had Yugi winning simply because he could stall long enough to get to Exodia. The second duel, the enhancement of GoRAB aside (which didn't amount to much in the end, since they both were out of the game when the duel was far from over), was really their first true legitimate match. It doesn't strike me as unusual at all that Kaiba would continue to feel angry at Yugi's superior skill or to consider Yugi his true rival...since, by most shonen standarRAB, the battle at Alcatraz would have been where the rivalry started.

Kaiba during Duelist Kingdom in the context of the Duel Monster anime canon confuses me greatly (coincidentally, this same confusion rests with Vegeta's urge to rival Goku at the end of the Saiyan Saga. He...finRAB Goku to be the warrior he wants to defeat despite Goku needing his frienRAB like Krillin and son Gohan to win the fight?). Yami Yugi's Mind Crush may've attempted a purging of his wickedness...but it certainly didn't logically amount to Yugi being this superior duelist, especially when Yugi's strategy amounted to nothing more than the aforementioned stalling. If anything, I would figure the suave, ruthless business strategist like Seto Kaiba to think of his opponent as being Sugoroku! It was Sugoroku's deck, and even Yugi notes that "Kaiba knows every aspect of this game,"...in a tone that suggests Yugi very well is out of luck and definitely out played. His entire strategy in that opening duel is to protect himself from Kaiba utterly destroying him. He won out of Sugoroku's masterful deck building, not his own skill. Kaiba's true adversary at that point is, only logically, Sugoroku (Yugi being the Near to Sugoroku's L, as a comparison).

I mean, even the battle on Pegasus's castle never truly concluded anything. Yugi may've been able to (by the standarRAB of the show, anyway) masterfully take down Kaiba's strategy...but Kaiba didn't have his normal reaction. He opted for a sure thing rather than actually playing out the match. These two matches don't truly show much of anything. Kaiba's reverence of Yugi is mostly unwarranted. It's only Yugi taking down his opponents in the tournament AFTER their initial match that begins to support the view of Yugi Kaiba made after Yugi's poorly played match that cost him a defeat anyway.

But Alcatraz...they each had a God Card, they each earned their way there. It was the first match they were honestly completely even in. Had Kaiba legitimately lost a few matches to Yugi legitimately like he did in the manga (since, if memory serves me correctly, Exodia occurred during their SECOND duel), I could see this being where the rivalry would logically end. But nothing points to Yugi even reasonably being a worthy opponent to Kaiba until this match. Yugi's entire reason for his first victory was based entirely on Sugoroku being a Chessmaster with a last resort B plan and the only reason Yugi lost the second match (and why Kaiba was off while playing) was because of outside circumstance. It's only now that most shonen would have a rivalry really begin, and it's only now that Kaiba truly lost legitimately...making Yugi only now an opponent that's a legitimate challenge. It's only clear cut by Alcatraz.

I dislike the notion that one should look at an anime based on the persective of the manga. It just doesn't make sense. A lot of times two works (no matter what link they share) carry entirely different contexts. Manga Kaiba is not anime Kaiba, and vice versa. Compare manga Kaiba to Toei anime Kaiba to Duel Monster Kaiba. They have the thematic core that makes them Kaiba, but are otherwise significantly different characters. You can't judge them the same way, because they have different experiences, actions, and operate under different contexts. Why can't we judge, analyze, and discuss an anime series under its actual context without using the manga? Why should we discuss Kaiba's tensity and disgruntled nature toward Yugi like its unheard of despite most of Yugi's early significant victories over Kaiba not being canon to the Duel Monster storyline and most of the logical repercussions and ramifications of Kaiba's battles thus being null and void?

Of course, comparing Kaiba's rivalries to Vegeta's of all people is a bit hysterical, although admittedly founded since both DM Kaiba and Vegeta have ridiculously founded rivalries that both end up accurate anyway to begin with. As Paschal would (ad naseum) say, "alas..."

Anyway, I didn't mean to go off on THAT long of a tangent, but my biggest pet peeve about anime fandom is the tendency to consider anime equivalent to their manga source regardless of how different the two works could be. You'd figure we'd enjoy the variety and new explorations of familiar ideas. Sorry to hear that's not the case and we have to judge a story element in accordance with a context it wasn't written in.

I'm looking forward to the YGO special, since it'll be fun seeing how Yugi, Judai, and Yusei interact (and other characters, too. Maybe that Kaiba v.s. Ryo match can happen to my amusement?). It's a nice celebration of the franchise's history and it sounRAB like nothing but a self erabracing, fanserving indulgence...which is what these specials should be. But I'll admit, I might be disappointed if the three protagonists don't end up either dueling each other or tag dueling.

And Yugi and Judai have to ride a motorcycle. They have to.
 
Well, though I've never seen a minute of GX or... whatever the new one is... though I have read some of the GX manga, the idea is interesting. Wonder if it'll be a team-up or a three-way duel or what have you. And how it will make any sense whatsoever.

Doesn't GX take place, like, decades after the original? AFTER Atem's, err, passed on?
 
GX takes place 10 years after the original. At that point, Yugi sounRAB exactly like Atem so...yeah.

5D's is god-knows-when but I think it's like 20 since one of the characters from the first episode of the original series is in it.
 
The protagonists of all three series are in it together and Takahashi may be writing it. Put it online and subbed like last year (with a better player) and I will love you forever, Jump.
 
Isn't 5d's like 70 years after YGO duel monsters?

I loved Duel Monsters, I never really liked GX, and I think 5d's is okay but I always liked the idea of Yugi, Jayden, and Yusei coming together but I wonder how they are going to come together in the first place considering they points in time they occur in. I can't wait to see it! I wonder if it would ever get dubbed...
 
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