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So Sonic x Yugioh crossover has been on my mind alot so I thought it'd be fun making my own designs and take on how Yugioh characters would look like as mobians
These are season 0 designs, I will make DM versions in the future.
Yugi/Yami: Hedgehogs, because the spikey hair lmao, also hedgehogs are hella cute. Why they are different species of hedgehog and why Yami doesnt really look like a desert hedgehog is cuz... well... You'll see when I make Atem's design properly, now hes just copying Yugi's image.
Anzu: Blue crane, I wanted her to be an animal that is associated with dancing and most bird species do dance! Blue cranes also look very graceful and their dance requires quite the footwork!
Miho: Lilac rabbit, her nickname is ribbon and I immediately thought of rabbit. Who could have thought there was a lilac one in real life, tehee!
Katsuya: Carolina dog, I didn't realize how much Seto and Ryuji humiliated Katsyua in the anime with dog-themed insults I JUST THOUGHT HE WAS DOG-CODED, now I feel kinda bad...
Hiroto: Wolverine, I know he could have been a monkey instead based on that filler arc in the anime, but I'm basing most of these characterizations from the manga. Hiroto was certainly the hardest to assign a certain animal too, I tried with something that associates with his name more but ehhh. Wolverine works with his color palette, also they kinda cool, lanky but strong
The Kaiba bros: Puma, I definetly wanted to make Seto some kind of feline and I choose Puma because of their eyes, mostly their glare. It fits them so much hehehe. Mokuba was more an afterthought but puma works for him too
Ryuo/Yami Bakura: Japanese raccoon dog (tanuki), at first I wanted to make them normal raccoons but I also wanted to settle for something more regional in Japan, which is why I choose tanuki. While Ryuo isn't a theif, his counterpart certainty is
Shadi: African golden wolf, I wanted him to be whatever animal Anubis is and apparently it is not a jackal (common misconception lmao). Anubis is actually an african golden wolf that where historically misidentified as Egyptian jackal. Tho the ears aren't similar to Anubis at all, I still wanted to keep Anubis likeness in Shadi
Dark magician/Mahado: Pharao hound, well I think this one is pretty obvious, with Mahado being Atem's ever loyal servant and protector
Dark magician girl/Mana: Abyssinian cat, I wanted Mana to be some Egyptian cat and Abyssinian cats are just absolutely gorgeous. A very active, social and curious breed with lively enegy <3
Here with the completely unexpected request for Dark Magician Girl, of course :P thanks in advance!
Ah, "Black Magician Girl". A veritable icon of the overall series, on par with other old-time heavy hitters like "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Exodia".
There's a lot of ground to cover here. This card has quite a bit going on with it, and special significance to my project as well.
But let's start with the illustration.
First off: while the colors on "Black Magician Girl" herself haven't changed too much throughout the years, the card illustration initially had a slightly different background.
Crop from the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 19" tankobon cover. Images sourced from Yugipedia; English cover supplied for its greater resolution. Links following: Japanese cover; US English cover. Volume 19 was released on 4 July, 2000 in Japan.
Notice the blue background coloring. Furthermore, the interior of the summoning circle is also filled in with black, and may be intended to reflect the background seen in the overall image (with the white outline star).
A quick note: my project takes its card illustration art from the 2016 color bunkoban release, in which almost all of the manga art was (re)colored to match Konami's cards (or, in rare cases where Konami didn't release a card, the '00 "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters" animation's card art colors).
Lots more under the cut.
While we're here: you can clearly see in this image that "Black Magician Girl" has 5 level stars. This is 1 less star than "Black Magician" is always shown to have in the manga. The number of stars reflects the "student/teacher" relationship the two are said to have in the lore behind the Magic & Wizards card game.
However, on-panel, "Black Magician Girl" always has 6 level stars, the same as her Konami counterpart. And, in the Konami game, "Black Magician" has 7 level stars, so this "inexperienced student/learned teacher" aspect is retained. But in the manga, "Black Magician" keeps its 6 level stars throughout the series' run, so both Magicians have the same number of level stars here.
Back to the art. Let's focus on a different aspect now. Here's how "Black Magician Girl" is represented in her hologram form on this cover:
Crop from the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 19" tankobon cover. Image sourced from Yugipedia.
You'll notice that her bardot off-shoulder top's gem has a pentagram on it. This is present in the newer artwork, but is typically censored and removed outside of Japan. What's curious about this is that it's depicted as a pentagram in this, her first color appearance in the manga, but it's later depicted as a hexagram in this color art from 4 December 2000:
Scan from "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Art" page 107, by @pharaoh-doll. The image is free to use and cropped here for presentation.
Of course, in the manga, this gem is consistently depicted as a hexagram throughout, much like the one the "Magician of Black Chaos" has on their forehead. It's very curious to me that, outside of the manga's interior, the gem started as a pentagram, became a hexagram briefly (to match the interior), then became a pentagram again for every other appearance...in Japan, at least.
Everywhere else, the gem was 1 of 2 things censored in Konami International's version of this art, alongside "Black Magician Girl"'s chest.
And now for the card's special ability.
In the Japanese version of this card, when shown on-panel (Yugipedia link to original card face), this card doesn't have its special ability written on it. Nonetheless, it does indeed have one, as Dark Yugi states here during Chapter 105, "Revived Soul!!", during the duel against the alleged "Magician" master user Pandora:
And it's shown to happen during the course of the duel as well, meaning I was more than inclined to write it on the card.
From there it's pretty straightforward. There's not really too much of a difference between my wording of this and Konami's. The "500 attack gain" un-nerf is pretty self-explanatory. And Konami's reason for putting "Magician of Black Chaos" into their effect is because it's a separate card in their game, as opposed to the in-universe Magic & Wizards game where a destroyed "Magician of Black Chaos" would just be represented with a regular "Black Magician" card. (This is also from before "Super Magical Swordsman: Black Paladin", or "Dark Paladin", existed, which is why it's the only in-manga special form of "Black Magician" not accounted for on Konami's card.)
Originally, I had a whole section devoted to this card's role in my development of this card/deck replica project. It proved to be too much for one post, though, so I've instead opted to partition it out into its own Bonus Post. It'll be popping up shortly!
Anyway, thanks for reading! Important cards like this always have a lot behind them.
As always! If there's a Yugi card from the manga you'd like to see, let me know about it via a response or ask and I'll show it to everyone here!
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