#source: ygo abridged

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Akatosh: Any final remarks before your quest concludes? 

Martin, about to break the Amulet: Just the one. Tell my fangirls, I love them. 

[incorrectmarketofmonstersquotes]

Nita: Piss on all you guys! This was supposed to be my hostile takeover! I spent, like, five hours arranging it! Five. Whole. Hours.  Fabricio: Oh, man, it looks like Nita's got a severe case of butthurt. Somebody call the wambulance!  Nita: Nobody call the wambulance!  Kovit: Hello, wambulance? My friend's butt is hurting!  Nita: Kovit, hang up that phone!  Kovit: But Nita, your butt! 

[thedevilsruby]

Scout: Spy, you don't blame me for everything that happened, do you?

Spy: Yes

[kohakuhime]

Quietly reminding people -

"Waking the Dragons" has its faults and flaws, but it did have an impact on the subsequent series. A good portion of the spinoff series following YGO DM had a season that:

had a cult that came up against the main charas; said cult usually was founded around a culture that was dead/dying/mythological in nature

had one of the regularly appearing cast members "betray" the main group

introduced a character that directly interacted with Duel Spirits that weren't the main character

We wouldn't have gotten those if not for Season 4 at least opening the door to that idea to be explored.

I will also add that the dub had to significantly water down the source material for localization, and in the sub there's a lot more nuance that's missed in the dub. The dynamic between characters, the dilemmas they faced, everything. I won't pretend that the sub fixes everything, but a good portion of the criticism I hear is based on material in the dub, and from what I've seen the abridged pulls from that dub (wouldn't know for sure, since I can't make myself watch the abridged for this season ^^;;;;). I challenge people to watch the sub - hell, even the dynamic between Dartz and Raphael alone is much different than what's presented in the dub!

I know. Sub vs dub doesn't completely save the plot. They could have handled Mai so much better, they could have done things differently on explaining certain elements (ie Atlantis)...but for an original arc, not based on manga or pre-existing material? I'd say they did a good job with it.

[fictionkinfessions]

i just find it ridiculously funny how me and dartz in here became a couple. one of the cohosts, a fictive introject of katsuki bakugo, began crackshipping our source characters one day. that is. pegasus x dartz. leviathanshipping as kai (aformentioned cohost) calls it, though i prefer the term presidentshipping.

and then we introjected a fictive of ygo the abridged series dartz. and we've just sort of... slowly warmed up to each other. even though there was the initial awkward of a host shipping it and that initially made us adverse to acknowledging it. - pegasus (yu-gi-oh! duel monsters, specifically the english dub. fictive.)

x

[incorrectgundamwingquotes]

Sally: I’m looking for Mike.

Duo: Who the hell is Mike?

Heero: Duo, that’s Howard’s first name.

Duo: He has a first name?!

[nu13-dark-war-blog]

Ragna: Wait a minute, did you just throw out 100 attacks in 5 seconds?

Nu: Yeah, so?

Ragna: That's against the rules, isn't it?

Nu: Screw the rules, I love you!

[shebeafancyflapjack]

Honda: Mock me all you want but-

Honda: *points at Yugi* has a split personality!

Honda: *points at Jonouchi* is a closet furry!

Honda: *points at Kaiba* has a dragon fetish!

Honda: *points at Anzu* fell in love with a dead pharaoh who set a guy on fire!

Honda: *points at Atemu* LIVING IN A PUZZLE!

[drei-satzzeichen]

Peter: I spy with my little eye something beginning with 'L'

Bob: Is it 'loveable fellow'?

Peter: It's 'loser'.

Bob: That's not right, Peter. You can't even see Skinny from this angle.

[pendulum-sonata]

Leo: So tell me, why are you here in Academia, little one?

Young Yuri: I have a rage and guilt inside me that can only be quenched by destruction and children's cardgames!

Leo:...Oh, you’ll fit right in!

[seasaltmemories]

Zarc: Alright, now that I have your ears as well as your spines, allow me to indulge myself for a moment and tell you all what every content creator has always wanted to say to their audience.

Zarc: *clears throat* FUCK! ALL Y'ALL!

[incorrectmarketofmonstersquotes]

Narrator: Any final remarks before your series concludes?  Kovit: Just the one. Tell my fangirls, I love them. 

[thedevilsruby]

Soldier: Mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America! I want you guys out of my country by tomorrow morning!

Spy: But this is New Mexico-

Soldier: Every country in the world belongs to America!

[brawltogethernow]

How come you got into One Piece but not Dragonball?

Ha, I guess I see the logic behind this question! Well, I enjoy that One Piece is a Journey to the West-inspired story with a powerful idiot for a protagonist, but those aren't the elements I'd consider the draws for me. In the short-term I like power of friendship stories a lot, and in the long-term I ended up vibing with a lot of OP's more slowburn themes (feeding everyone, dunking on the rich, disowning your parents, thumbing it to totalitarian governments, defining freedom, etc. etc.). One Piece is also... Despite the state it's ended up in (very heinous tiddies), it was noticeably non-horny for a pretty big chunk of it, and it has still not capitulated on never doing romance subplots. This is a draw for me.

I didn't catch either of these dubbed on TV at an impressionable age - that would be how I sampled Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon simultaneously and went on to only care about one of them - so I actively sampled them both after hearing about them when I was getting into anime as a teenager who'd just figured out how to stream things. ...I specifically remember staring deeply into a technically correct but extremely useless summary of One Piece before deciding to give it a shot. ("After eating a fruit said to be from the devil, Luffy the pirate CANNOT SWIM.") And I was like, 'Well this is Fine(tm), and I am learning new vocabulary' (after picking up Japanese question words from ygo Season 0, One Piece filled in my pronouns and basic family terms), and then I hit Arlong Park and was like, 'I AM CRYING WITH MY ENTIRE BODY THIS IS NOT FINE,' and like, after you've passed Arlong Park OP owns your ass. I almost dropped it when Foxy happened because the pacing had been starting to suffer from the threat of running out of source material and that arc was just, the last straw, but I switched to the next part of the manga instead and thank god because the manga is even better. What an absolute treat to get to read Water 7 and Thriller Bark as a second beginning of the OP experience. I have still not experienced Foxy in either medium and if I have my way I never will.

With Dragon Ball I just, started the manga from the beginning? It just didn't grab me. I don't even know how much of it I read. It doesn't feel like a lot, but I have no idea. Enough to get tired of it! None of the humor was landing for me because it was largely in various veins I find mildly unpleasant, the kind of big empty-feeling setting isn't really my vibe, and there just wasn't anything else going on. The DBZ abridged series was fun but also failed to capture my interest, ditto the occasional liveblog or video game watched over someone's shoulder.

I see people compliment Dragon Ball as an entry in the comics medium sometimes, and I might sit down with it again at some point for that angle now that I care more about the science of putting comics together. (Have also been meaning to resample Bleach for this reason.) I also understand that it has a pretty established spot to uh, skip to the trolls, as it were, so I might do that if I really just can't pay attention to the first era.

But yeah for now Goku is nothing to me. He's just a guy. I don't know him.

[mondettacaptionsgames]

Hey that guy looks just like me! And he lives in a dull town, just like me! And he's an asshole, just like me!

Tohru Adachi, when he meets his Shadow

[incorrectgundamwingquotes]

Heero: [self-destructs]

Trowa: Heero, you can’t be dead.

Trowa: If you were dead, Cartoon Network would have censored it.