Everyone, thank you very much for the responses! We’ll go over our plans for what to do next, and what you should keep an eye out for!
Firstly, thank you for all your patience for the new mod team! You can find us and our experience listed HERE as well as our names on our Tumblr page (desktop mode). We hope you continue to give us your support as we settle into our new roles.
Second, for all the Misawas and number lovers out there, we'll go over the IC numbers after the end of this announcement.
And third and most important of all, we’re announcing our first project as a SPRING SEASON MINI-BANG. We’ll be releasing more details over the coming week, and hopefully have sign-ups ready by the end of the month. This will be a much smaller event, with 1k minimums, so that everyone can get used to working together and getting warmed up before the main event!
Once again, thank you for your interest, and we’ll see you soon!
And now, from Mod Pan, this:
First off, "Do you want to participate in a General/All Series Bang?"
That's 62,7% yes, 37,3% maybe, and no "No"s! Love to see how people interested in talking about it want to participate, should circumstances allow.
Next is "If yes, what role?"
At 40,3% writers take the lead, but 32,8% artists and 26,9% as a combo of both means people of all artistic tendencies are well-distributed!
So we've got the peeps, so when do we start? That's the next question!
The two leaders were a (North) Summer Start at 67,2%, followed by a (North) Spring Start at 25%. The other results were one vote each, for 'either', 'both', 'anytime', 'not sure', and a shout-out to whoever asked if these seasons were North or Southern Hemisphere- They're all North, for the record, due to that being where the majority of the mods are located. It was a good heads-up, though, and I'll try to mention specific months next time alongside seasonal names.
Last two multiple-choice questions!
For writers, what minimum word count are you comfortable with?
The clear winner here was 10k words, at 48,3%, with 15k next at 13,3%. A full 26% were just artists clicking the "I'm an Artist" button, and the other options (5k, 25k, and 'anything from 10-20k depending on concept") got a single vote each, except 20k words, which came in around 8% instead. I like this excitement!
And for the artists: What fic length are you most comfortable working with?
Everyone continues having 10k as their sweet spot number, as the 36,7% votes show, and this has definitely been taken into account. Next is 15k at 25%, and every subsequent 5k increment loses another 5% votes. And to the two who don't really know and are just gonna go with the flow, and are willing to read all the way up to 50k as long as the concept interests you, we'll do our best at matchmaking so it won't feel like a sacrifice, no matter how excited the writers get!
And that's it for math time! The non-multiple choice answers won't be discussed here, since even without names attached those were private responses, but do be sure the mod team has read all of them and will be keeping all of them in mind going forward.
The interest check for the 2024 Yu-Gi-Oh! Big Bang (with new mods who have the blessing from the old team) is live! This form will be open for two weeks (from February 20th to March 6th at 11:59 EST). Please consider filling it out so we can gauge how to continue moving forward!
🎉🎉Happy Holidays everyone! We hope you're all having a good start to 2024! 🎉🎉
Unfortunately, we have a sad announcement to make. As much as we've loved running the YGO Big Bang these last 6 years, we've decided that we won't be running the event going forward.
We hope everyone else has had as much fun as we have over these last few years!
We'll be changing all social media to ygobigbang-archive so that if anyone wants to start up their own YGO Big Bang then the usernames will be available. Feel free to reach out to myself (Admin Tachi) or Admin Francie if you'd like any advice and Francie is more than happy to stay on as an assistant mod!
Thank you again to everyone who's taken part at any time during the last six years! We could never have had an event without our amazing participants
🎉🎉Happy Holidays everyone! We hope you're all having a good start to 2024! 🎉🎉
Unfortunately, we have a sad announcement to make. As much as we've loved running the YGO Big Bang these last 6 years, we've decided that we won't be running the event going forward.
We hope everyone else has had as much fun as we have over these last few years!
We'll be changing all social media to ygobigbang-archive so that if anyone wants to start up their own YGO Big Bang then the usernames will be available. Feel free to reach out to myself (Admin Tachi) or Admin Francie if you'd like any advice and Francie is more than happy to stay on as an assistant mod!
Thank you again to everyone who's taken part at any time during the last six years! We could never have had an event without our amazing participants
Artist: @capriciousbuzzsawshark
Full version coming soon
Writer: @starlistic
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen and up
Characters: Judai, Johan, Yubel
Ship(s): N/A
Content Warnings: Temporary Character Death, amnesia
Summary: After the loss of his memories, most of his power, and his once-beloved partner, Judai re-enrolls at Duel Academia to restart his experience as a meister. He and his new weapon partner, Johan, are a perfect match—but the entity that tore his first partnership apart is still on the hunt.
Writer: @mixelation
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen and up
Characters: Kaiba, Atem, Mokuba, Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda, Ryou, Anzu, Ishizu
Ship(s): Kaiba/Atem
Content Warnings: N/A
Summary: Remember those really old fics where convoluted circumstances meant everyone got stuck in the Kaiba mansion? Like that, but with a healthy side of prideshipping. Crack treated seriously.
Writer: @tarashima
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen and up
Characters: Fujiki Yuusaku, Ai (VRAINS), Dr Kougami
Ship(s): Kusanagi Shouichi/Kougami Ryouken
Content Warnings: mentioned of child abuse and kidnapping, emotional manipulation, non-explicit mentions of suicide
Summary: Kusanagi wants to find the truth for the sake of his brother and Yuusaku. Ryouken wants to fulfil his father’s mission. But from the day they met as children and until they met once more as adults, a middle ground try to emerge, ignoring their current stances on opposite sides. The fruits of attraction couldn’t have had any worse timing with their maturing, as the present catches up with the parallel road Kusanagi and Ryouken have built for themselves. Now, they have to either defend as well rebuild the damages, or accept its destruction for the sake of saving the world.
This is a canon-divergent fic of season 1 of VRAINS, where events don’t necessarily play out in the same order, or have been tweaked slightly to fit a new narrative.
Writer: @toxictraitor
Status: Complete
Rating: Explicit
Characters: Shun Kurosaki, Yuuri, Sora Shiunin
Ship(s): Shun Kurosaki x Yuuri, Shun Kurosaki x Sora
Content Warnings: cannibalism, blood and gore, horror, dead dove: do not eat. death, major character death, murder
Summary: The sequel to "This is How I Disappear", Shun's life has taken a turn for the worst. Now he works alongside Yuuri to commit their heinous crimes to feed their addictions and most carnal desires. However, when Shun meets their newest victim, Sora Shiun'in, Shun finds himself at a crossroads. He could continue his dark path or let Sora go free but face Yuuri's unbridled wrath.
Artists: @americankestrelprojects
Full version here
Artists: @americankestrelprojects
Writer: @over-roaming-waves / WavesOver
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Characters: Anzu Mazaki, Minako Aino, OCs, Artemis
Ship(s): Anzu Mazaki/Minako Aino
Content Warnings: Kidnapping, cults, references to abusive situations
Summary: Being in New York for so long, Anzu was suspicious about the place that she found while apartment searching. This did not change when she met the blond she met, but it was a good deal. A post-cannon story of a group of girls trying to make it in New York.
Graphics: RheaLightning
Artists: @kira-hayashi and RheaLightning
Writer: Michio_Mokota
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen -> Explicit
Characters: Zexal II, Rei Shingetsu, Kotori Mizuki, Cathy, Durbe
Ship(s): Rei Shingetsu/Zexal II
Content Warnings: Religious Content, [For later chapters] Attempted Rape, Rape, Suicide, Character Death
Summary: Due to his past, Rei has happily dedicated his life to priesthood, to the point he cannot see any other path his life could have taken. When an amnesiac woman shows up at the steps of his Church, Rei has no reservations in setting her on the same path as his, even if only until she gets settled on her feet.
But the more time passes, though Second seems to be a nice woman...could there be more to her than it seems? The way his dreams become increasingly haunted pricks at him...
'Beloved Mother...
I have something to tell you this time...'
Artists: @americankestrelprojects
Full version here
Writer: beni-o2
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Characters: Ryou Bakura
Ship(s): N/A
Content Warnings: Language, Bullying, Unhealthy coping mechanisms, some suicide ideation
Summary: Ryou is determined to prove that there is something beyond this life. He may not like where it leads him. (Pre-series)
Writer: @eldritch-shitposting
Status: Complete
Rating: Explicit
Characters: Yugi Mutou, Mana (Dark Magician Girl), Mahad (Dark Magician)
Ship(s): Yugi/Mana, Yugi/Mahad, Yugi/Mana/Mahad
Content Warnings: magical sex, charm magic, succubus-esque Mana, dubious consent because succubus-esque powers, transmasc Yugi, magical cock, vaginal penetration
Summary: In a world where Duel Monsters is like ouija boards, Yugi attempts a summoning ritual and is shocked when it works. Mana, the magical being he summoned, is more than happy to show her summoner a few new tricks.
Writer: RheaLightning @ ao3
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Characters: Yuma Tsukumo, III | Mihael Arclight, Eliphas, Enna, Astral
Ship(s): Yuma Tsukumo/III | Mihael Arclight
Content Warnings: Mentions of depression, Eisoptrophobia, Fighting off something that resembles an animal
Summary: What no one remembers...will eventually be something that never existed, right?
If that is so, then a quarter of Yuma’s entire life, from eight years old to thirteen, never existed. He was far from the only one in Heartland affected by this strange phenomenon, but he was the most deeply affected, not even remembering when his parents went missing. Most importantly...he seems to be the only one unable to move past it.
He feels incomplete. A sham of the Yuma he was ‘supposed’ to be, and the way his soul cries out with familiarity, yet never gives him any answers, does not help. It’s like he’s going to shatter at any moment, to the point he cannot even stare at his own reflection for fear of what he’ll find there.
Perhaps, that is why he agreed to become Mihael’s adventuring partner; so he could follow in his father’s footsteps. He didn’t know what those were, or what he was hoping to find, but he did it anyway. Occasionally forcing Mihael into cold expeditions where they found nothing, instead of the ancient civilizations his boyfriend so craved.
But just because Yuma doesn’t remember, doesn’t mean no one does. And when he follows his father’s footsteps a little too closely— down a cliff that formed right beneath his feet — it then becomes a question of what is most important to Yuma. Escaping the strangle locale of nothing but blue that he and Mihael find themselves in, or...finally becoming whole again?
Artist: @americankestrelprojects
Full version here
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Artist: @americankestrelprojects
Writer: FullmetalDude1
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Characters: Jesse Anderson, Haou the Supreme King, Yubel, Jaden Yuki (trans girl named Yuuna), Yubel, Blair Flannigan, Harrington Rosewood, Light And Darkness Dragon, Adrian Gecko, plus a few other minor characters (cameos from Duel Monsters and 5Ds) Ship(s): Jaden Yuki/Jesse Anderson, Yubel/Haou
Content Warnings: Minor character death (Jesse kills Adrian), references to sexual intercourse, characters shapeshifting so technically identity fraud, attempts to steal romantic partners, kidnappings, mild violence
Summary: Jesse son of Valon and Prince of Dyfed lived a relatively ordinary life of a Prince in Wales. But one day when he comes across Haou the King of Annwn injured and alone in his domain, his entire life is launched into an entirely new path.
A tale of honour, restraint, battle, compassion, duty and love follows the young Prince as he grows into his title and becomes a worthy ruler of his people. But this path is not without challenges, be they of his court or outside it.
No matter what stands in his way though, the young Prince will take care of his people and protect the ones he loves.
(A First Branch of the Mabinogi AU)
Writer: PaulaAna
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Characters: Judai, Asuka, Johan, Jim, O'brien, Manjoume, Shou, Pharaoh (some)
Ship(s): Soulshipping/Spiritshipping (vaguely)
Content Warnings: minor violence, and physical fighting
Summary: Sometimes you can accept your flaws and work through them like a normal human being. And sometimes you need to be kidnapped and thrown into a palace created from your own insecurities by an unknown force. And your friends have to rescue you from something that, by all means, you should be able to get out of by yourself.
But no, instead, it's time for a small journey of discovery and reuniting with lost friends. And maybe a little discovering feelings on the way, but that's not so important.
Judai is kidnapped and thrown into the magical world in the TV to face some of his demons. Asuka has to step up as the leader and try to get him out of there, on an unusually short timeline.
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