#sadly it's not the only as zushin also exists (and appeared on 5ds too...)

[millennium-puzzle]

i don't wanna watch a new ep rn so i'm dump some drafts i made

ok so, first duel where the Seal wasn't in the starting hand, finally

uh, i like Rafael called the Kuriboh Siblings "(YY's) charming little servants" and was pretty respectful of YY's monsters, like you would expect him to treat Yugi's cards like shit to make him Extra Evil but instead the writers bothered to give him 1 consistent character trait at least, good

still, i don't like the whole "tributing monsters is evil" plot at all because, again, tributing monsters is literally just a game mechanic, YY tributed countless monsters in this anime but suddently he is evil for it???

on the other side i like how Rafael's obsessions with empty graveyards ties to his ace/favorite monster requiring no monsters in the GY to be special summoned, it's a reference to Rafael being unable to let his monsters/family "die" for good, but also his own proper game plan, it tells us something about the character while also making sense in context (unlike Seto vs Yugi in Duelist Kingdom, because clearly making a vanilla fusion with 4500 ATK is more imporant than saving your brother as soon as possible)

i would like it more if it wasn't treated as reason to punish YY for letting his own monsters in stay in the GY like... everyone beside Madolche players (don't blame the duelist, blame the duel monsters???)

last thing but the show made really obvious Dartz killed Rafael's family, like even if i didn't really knew it, you put a scene where Darts kills some guys by causing a storm and making their boat sink AND then reveal Rafael's family died in the same way? holy shit what a neat coincidence!

with that said we should talk more about Rafael having 2 hatchets at the start of the duel, like. he could just fucking killed Yugi holy shit???