Five stupid card game moments in “Yu-Gi-Oh”.
I usually talk about Yu-Gi-Oh when it is October because the manga was messed up as hell.
People get mosaic vision, people constantly burn to death, brainwashed people keep chasing you despite the fact you use their face as a punching bag, Russian roulette in food style YOU NAME IT!
Know what else is scary? The downright dumb things that happens during the duels. Not talking about plot or lack of logic in the world, but about strange things that happens in the duels that makes little sense.
Mai has a trick she developed when she was a card dealer in a casino. The idea is that she has used perfume on the cards in a deck so she can recognize the cards by sent.
... There are several problems with this idea.
Look, it’s not IMPOSSIBLE. But a deck has 40 cards. So she has to memorize 40 different scents. And she needs an extremely good sense of smell to detect the specific scents. And this trick is even more ridicules when she used in in the casino since a deck of playing cards has 52 cards.
Also, wouldn’t the different scents get mixed up whenever she shuffled her deck? And not to mention that she is damaging the cards by making them wet with perfume.
So, when Jonoshi fights Bones, he has to deal with Call of the Haunted.
The card turns all of Bonz’s dead monsters into zombies, and if they die, then they return to life right away with 10 percent extra attack.
... That’s all fine and good, but how come Bonz doesn’t lose any life points? His zombies get’s revived, cool. But damage is still dealt, right?
Jonoshi is under Malik’s control as he duels Yugi. And Malik even placed some cards inside Jonoshi’s deck to make it more likely that he would win. Kaiba is shocked since these spells are banned im the tournament since they deal damage to players to easy.
... So why not install a block function in the duel disks?
It can’t be that hard to modify the duel disks so that they won’t activate some specific cards. Just saying.
Dark Magician defeats Marshmallon.
When Yugi fights the Pharaoh, he uses the card Marshmallon, a weak card that can’t be destroyed in battle. But the Pharaoh attacks it with Dark Magician, and Marshmallon dies since magic attacks is one way to actually destroy it.
Marshmallon’s effect says: “This monster can only be damaged by spells and special abilities.” NOT that magic type monster attacks can kill it.
Okay, YES, you could argue that Dark Magician’s attack is a “spell”, but that is one heck of a stretch.
When Yugi duels Mai in Pegasus’ castle, Mai uses the card “Shadow of Eyes” that forces all of Yugi’s cards to be in attack position.
But Yugi finds a loophole.
He summons Mystical Elf in defense position, much to Mai’s confusion.
And Yugi justifies this by saying that Mystical Elf is immune because she is a WOMAN.
The Yugioh manga did NOT age well :P
I’m Waezi2, and happy Halloween!
