U DO NOT KNOW ABOUT YUGIOH!!
YUGIOH WAS 100% ORIGINALLYā¦ A HORROR MANGA, I AM HONESTLY NOT KIDDING YOU, it was intended to be a violent horror manga
GO ON, GO TRY AND READ IT ON MANGAFOX. ITāS FUCKED UP.
Before the concept of Duel Monsters was even introduced to the series, Yugioh was about Yami Yuugi basically being a murderous fuck who enjoyed punishing people withĀ āshadow gamesā that ended with losers being, uh, electrocuted to death, burnt alive, and a whole host of other horrific deaths. Other screwed up subplots include Kaiba being totally obsessed with murdering Yuugi/Yami and building an entire theme park to try to do so, Mokuba (Kaibaās sweet lil brother) attempting to kill half the cast by forcing them to compete in a Russian Roulette with poisoned food, Anzu/Tea being drugged by a classmate with chloroform and almost assaulted, Jounouchi/Joey being kidnapped by a gang heās been hanging out with and tortured with tasers before Yami electrocutes the gang and kills them all, quite happily, to save Jounouchi, multiple people getting set on fire, a man getting his head bitten off by Shadiās pet crocodile Amet monster, the list goes on and on.Ā Iām not entirely sure if itās included in the anime or not, but Bakura gouges out Pegasusā eyeball.
I honestly ended up stopping reading the manga because it was getting to be too violent and morbid for even my tastes
So yeah, in the original Duel Monsters Yugioh anime, people die. Death is a real threat. Even though itās significantly toned down from the original first few arcs of the manga, which are just bizarre.Ā Almost every instance of characters being sent to theĀ āshadow realmā in the 4Kids dub is censoredĀ āIām going to murder youā plot points. Oh boy does 4 Kids tone down the violence.
Hereās a delightful episode from the anime some may remember; Yami Yuugi fights some weird stage magician guy and during the duel theyāre both strapped into buzzsaws which slowly approach their feet as they lose life points. No biggy - the loser just gets sent to the shadow realm!
Except in the original, the threat is that the loser of the game is going to get their legs sawn off and bleed to death.
So, yknow, now you know that not only did they censor Kaibaās gun, but just a whole bunch of brutal violence and murder as well!
A lesser known fact about Yugioh is that thereās a missing season - Season 0, aired in 1998, which follows the plot line of the original initial manga volumes before Yugioh became an anime and manga about playing card games. Itās still significantly toned down from the manga but is a little closer to theme and vibe.
So yeah, welcome to Yugioh, which is definitely intended for little children!
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