![]() ![]() The latter’s success led to Konami launching real-life counterparts of the anime cards - and thus the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game was born. The first was a short-lived 27 episode Japan-only series, which mirrors the manga’s dark themes and multi-game focus, whereas the second was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known simply as Yu-Gi-Oh! outside Japan), a 224-episode spectacle primarily involving Yugi and friends using illustrated cards comprising numerous fictional monsters, spells and traps to compete in card games. The manga’s popularity saw the swift production of two anime series. Upon said puzzle’s completion, Yugi unlocks a dark spirit of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who uses Yugi’s body as a host whilst competing in several wicked and nefarious games. On the whole, I enjoyed it not for everyone, but if you're into this sort of thing, give it a go.In 1996 Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump published Yu-Gi-Oh!, a manga series created by Kazuki Takahashi, introducing protagonist Yugi Mutou and his mysterious millennium puzzle to the world. Some of the battle sequences were thrilling, and the interactions between the main protagonist and his friends were pretty hilarious. But still, the animation was very good, as was the music. ![]() In fact, the writing goes out of the way to include something to with boobs or whatever, but I guess that's what the exploitation genre is all about. ![]() And I couldn't help feeling that the plots could be better that many things about the demons weren't explored as much as I wanted them to be. Some of the dialogue, is, well, pretty embarrassing, but on the whole it's okay. The main point of criticism I have is in the writing. And so what? It's a boy's show, meant for boys at the kind of age where hot girls and breasts are all that matter, and in that area, it works. The series starts off seeming perverted, but as it progresses it starts getting soppy, cutesy and romantic. I couldn't recommend it to anyone other than young men, who will most certainly at least enjoy the constant nudity. ![]()
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