I hope Otes gaining power in the Sengoku Era went something like this:
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I hope Otes gaining power in the Sengoku Era went something like this:
Go Rush and Sevens are funny because Otes was a character who kinda made sense in Sevens episode one and has progressively made less sense every time he's acknowledged.
The otification of Yugaman
Unpopular opinion from what I've seen but I actually really love Otes as the face of rush duels in Duel Links.
Otes honestly just has the exact silly dramatic flair needed for an announcer role like this (more so than Kaiba honestly as much as I do like him too). He's like a super campy version of Blader DJ from the Beyblade Metal Fight series and heck he was always a goofy villain in Sevens so it honestly just fits him:
He's a goofy guy who loves rush duels and I honestly just smile at his little scenario appearances.
I know I said I'm taking a break from Yugioh, and I am as far as Tumblr is concerned, but I do wanna quickly put it out there that upon reflecting on it, my opinion on Otes's punishment at the end of Go Rush has completely changed. Besides the weirdness of Kuaidul not helping his people, I actually like it.
I think having the "goofy ha ha villain who duels in a giant robot version of himself for the final battle" from Sevens get flung back to a very real and brutal period of civil war in Japanese history to make him fight for his life canonically traumatizing him:
Was... really cruel so I find having his ultimate fate be something sillier: him getting taken away to (and seemingly stuck on) some planet supposedly far away from that war and getting the cartoony punishment of eating Kuaidul's strange cooking to be way WAY more fitting.
Also they are kinda family (Otes's earthdamar created Kuaidul) so it's really not as bad as I previously stated.
So like... Yuga was gonna become Otes but now Yuamu is going to? Am I getting this right?
I'm not crying, there must be some flares in my eyes
Cinematic parallels 👌