Yugioh: Any one?
 

Does any one remember this series? I still watch the series though :lol:

I'm sure a lot of you watched the first series and stopped at GX right? That happened to a lot of the fandom :lol:

Only series I couldn't give into was this Zexal series, first couple of episodes, blah. Arc V seems pretty good so far :D

I must be one of the few who didn't mind the GX series :lol:

yeah
 

like most stopped after the first series

I'm still onto Yugioh. Watched from earlier season (which was pointed out as Season 0) to Arc-V now. It's one of those anime where it didn't get good treatment from dubbers, like.... many of them.

Season 0 was pretty gritty, Duel Monsters was long, but intense duels, GX had good characters and 5D's began in the slums marking that as my favorite Yugioh series, even with the fact that it ended decently. Arc-V just began, but it is pretty endearing. Zexal was completely kiddified with episodic duels and very few character treatment. Definitely my least favorite of the Yugioh series.

I used to watch it, but just like Pokémon I kinda fell out of it.

Only the first series. Was never interested in GX since it was pretty clearly a continuation, but threw out all the old characters. No thank you. I like my continuations to be, well, good. I did love that first series a lot, plan on re-watching it soon. [The dub, though. I know it's a bad dub, but it just doesn't feel right to hear anybody other than Dan Green voicing Yugi!]

Love the card game, though. I'll play anybody over Dueling Network if they want to.

So far if Arc-V can play it's cards right, it could easily be the best series of Yugioh up to date

Which series after GX have been dubbed? I'm considering watching anything that isn't GX.

5Ds and Zexal

neither of them have been completed. 4K (not 4kids) says they do indeed want to complete Zexal though...but they are still half a season behind

Watched some of first season. That's it.

I think I got up to maybe past The River City Battle Contest and a bit into the Atem vs. Bakura bout..and dropped off. The monsters are cool but I still miss the original chars.

Btw I ran into someone that did a decent Maximillion Pegasus cosplay at our last anime convention.

quick summary of Yugioh Arc-V (satiracle)

i still play yugioh but stopped watching after 5D's still collect the cards

The show came out in that transitional period between kid and teenager so while it appealed somewhat to me, I was also growing out of cartoons and saw it as a Pokemon rip-off with cooler monsters except that they weren't cool enough for a now 13 year old. But I've always wanted to check it out, how does the anime really hold up for someone without any nostalgia for it?

Stopped the show after the first series, stopped the game after Zexal.

I watched the dub of the original, GX and 5D's. I stopped having an interest in the series after that. Same thing happened with Pokemon. I think the first season dub of the original was the best.

Depends on whether you go for the dub or sub. I prefer the dub myself, but that's almost certainly nostalgia talking since it got edited a lot in the process. 4Kids tried to rectify that with some uncut DVD releases, but it didn't last long. I think the problem with that is that they couldn't include the Japanese version on the DVD due to legal reasons? Or at least, that the two issues were related.

I feel like the Japanese version of the first series, Duel Monsters, is pretty great, especially if you're fond of the genre it belongs to. The manga is too, but let's be real, the best story arc was the one revolving around Noah and he was entirely filler. It doesn't make the card game too overly complicated and it's pretty easy enough to follow if you don't play it. [But if you wanted to learn, by all means, do! I can teach you, too!]

The shows after that... I really don't know. I've heard GX gets kinda dark, I don't know anything about 5D's, and what little I've seen of Zexal seems over the top and stupid as hell. I do know that GX focuses a little more on trying to depict the card game accurately, which is a bonus for people that play it since it was often a frustration that the first anime ****ed up so many of the rules for the sake of plot, but if you don't care about the card game, this difference means little. I assume the shows after GX also depict the card game well, too.

so anyone still watching Arc-v, it has been amazing. they just recently entered Synchro world (which seems to be an AU 5ds world) and they just had a Riding Duel for the first time in 2 generations, it was amazing.



Both Jack and Crow from 5Ds will be appearing in Arc-v


Arc-v is just really, really good. it could be in the running for best Yugioh series if it can keep up it's consistency

I stopped watching the show around GX, and the game about the same time. Used to do some local tournaments, though, and usually was in the top three or four. Did the same with Pokémon and Magic.

I remember this show actually rivaled Pokemon in popularity a bit when it first started, but it died down over time. If I recall it was airing the same time the Johto and Hoenn seasons were airing, so it came a little after the fad craze of Pokemon had died down.