Congratulations to each and every one of our participants for all of their amazing works and dedication to their craft! It's been an amazing journey with so much to show, so if you haven't yet, please enjoy this year's collections of fanfiction and fanart celebrating Yu-Gi-Oh!
S0/Duel Monsters
The Beginning Of Our Home by @winkle-pickers
↳ART by @raaorqtpbpdy [x]
↳ART by @sealedeyesblog [x]
Bloom of Blue by @iamallyetnotatall [x]
↳ART by @freakura [x]
My Superhuman by @over-roaming-waves [x]
↳ART by @card-shark3000 [x]
↳ART by @pumpkin-zenko-art [x]
Sands of Time by @mystical-flute [x]
↳ART by @pan-of-light [x]
↳ART by Schatten-Light [x]
turn to me at midnight by oxeyed
↳ART by @exit75 [x]
↳ART by @glaucidiumpasserinum [x]
GX
Chazzerella by @aberooski [x]
↳ART by @chivaleone [x]
↳ART by @thru-blue [x]
Dream Mirror of Chaos by @princesskayjay [x]
↳ART by @marblesmind [x]
↳ART by @stellartrishula [x]
A Ruby Heart by @kaiseryuki [x]
↳ART by @leafgale [x | Bsky]
↳ART (& beta) by @meda-princess [x]
Tales from the Slifer Red Girl's Dorm by @pcturtl [x]
↳ART by @4lpabet [x]
↳ART by @tiredgremlintime [x]
Ultra Duel: The Case Files of Tenjoin Asuka by @silvormoon [x}
When I See You Again by @seventhdoctor [x]
↳ART by @galaxygirl-katie27 [x]
↳ART by @puzzl-d [x]
5D's
It's a Whole New World We Live In by LuckyLadybug
↳ART by @neoasari [x]
↳ART by @viridian-snow [x]
Zexal
Forged in the Flames of the Hearth by IVMysteryNumbers -
↳ART by Sky [x]
Moonage Daydream by @scattered-irises [x]
↳ART by @sabellabella [x]
↳ART by @scumblies [x]
One of My Turns by @trickbuster [x]
↳ART by @laststrix [x]
↳ART by @warchord [x]
Seeking Salvation with Damnation by Zex
↳ART by @kira-hayashi [x]
VRAINS
take a deep breath. then another. and another. you'll be fine. by @talaofthevalley [x]
↳ART by @dreamydelite [x]
↳ART by @kyghostly [x]
Go Rush!
dear, samsara by aura [x]
↳ART by @darkyummy [x]
↳ART by @art-ember [x]
[Crossovers]
Cynet Backdoor by @kuriboo [x]
↳ART by @aliothbuzzsawshark [x]
↳ART by @nancelilspace [x]
2025 YGO Big Bang Ao3 Collection Here
Special thanks to our betas RheaLightning, Taruchinator, and @xsilverberryx!
Its time to make a shitpost art till 3am again yay!
Okay i was actually planning to do this decades ago, but it delayed to eternity. (As new eps of GO rush has aired, I had to change my original idea.)
But I finally finished it!
First I need to thank Zwijo's VA for this beautiful requiem.
Preview first, full version under cut. (Because long)
I'm sorry for all shitpost art I have made and seen to who looks to my posts. I don't think I will be stopping doing cursed things anytime soon.
I'm so late but it's okay, I made up with it by writing like 2000 words...
Yansa Masaku
Sei's older and only surviving brother. His name is written as 㷔瑳 (or, "a brilliant fire like that of a polished gem".
Their family name is Masaku (劘胙).
Backstory and drabble located below the cut - it's VERY long.
Sei's Backstory
WARNING: contains mentions of neglect, abuse, disfigurement, and mentions of needles/syringes as well as plastic surgery
Sei was born the third child of a wealthy family that had already raised two very successful sons before him. An heir and a spare, as it was known. By the time Sei came into existence, his mother had already grown tired of raising children, and so bestowed upon him a name that had little love to it – "a piece of meat", otherwise known as 腊 (seki).
Born female, "Seki" was given the expectations of a wealthy young lady to always follow his family's orders and put their needs above his at all times. By the time Sei was 11, he already had an arranged husband from a similarly wealthy company lined up for him to marry once he became of age.
Sei's mother was a stern and taciturn woman, jaded from the politics of the wealthy world. His father was equally strict and known to never smile. His two older brothers were outstanding model citizens who excelled both academically and martially.
Naturally, similar expectations came to be thrust upon Sei.
Back straight, chin up. Walk in a straight line. A young lady must never be caught unpresentable. She must always be sweet, pretty, and docile. Her worth was only in her looks.
When Sei was 13, he was involved in a car accident that left his face and body horribly disfigured. While extensive medical care and surgeries were things his family could pay for in spades, Sei came to realize during recovery that neither his mother nor father once visited him. The youngest brother came by sometimes, and his older brother once or twice.
Until you are beautiful again, I don't want to look at you.
Faced with this revelation, Sei hid himself in shame and lived by himself in a family villa overseas while he recovered. He became a hermit that wouldn't even leave his room.
In that time, Sei came to be drawn to TV programs of entertainment duelists pleasing and eliciting cheers from the crowd. He was enamored with the way they dressed and their energetic charisma, and intoxicated with the thought of a crowd that would cheer and be excited just to see him. The feeling eventually manifested in a desire to become one.
However, it was a long four years of physical therapy and surgery after surgery before he could finally "rejoin" society.
Instead of joy and relief at his return, however, his mother only looked at him with sharp eyes and simply said, "I knew we should have gotten you plastic surgery sooner."
By the time Sei turned 19, his face had already been marked up to no end by sharpies, scalpels, and syringes. His mother's smiles only became warmer after each one, and he chased that feeling.
When he turned 20, his mother and eldest brother both perished in a plane crash. As the youngest brother ran around to pick up the pieces, Sei realized that the love he had been chasing after in his mother's eyes would never be fulfilled, and he subjected himself to intense surgery for nothing.
Some part of him must have already known this, however. It was a futile dream from the beginning. Instead of sorrow or grief, he only felt a crushing apathy and disappointment.
When they lowered the bodies of his mother and eldest brother in the ground, he only stared at their gravestones blankly. The youngest brother said something to him, but Sei doesn't remember responding.
In the aftermath, Sei became estranged from the rest of his family. His father, devoured by grief for his eldest son, stepped down and retired from his work, while the youngest brother took over. Neither of them checked on or cared for Sei.
But having lived a shadow of a life before this, it was nothing new to him.
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June (drabble)
It was June — it was always June when something horrible happened in Sei's life.
It was June when he moved into his cozy two bedroom apartment away from the rest of the family, in the middle of a city eons away. No one in Maiami would recognize Sei's family or his face — but no one would have known it was him anyway, after all of the surgery. That person in the folded family photo he had thrown away during packing no longer existed.
The landlord swore up and down that this was the best apartment in the city, that he was in the center of everything, and oh sir, Mister Masaku, sir, I hope it's alright for you, rubbing his hands together like the skin would peel off his fingers any moment. Sei didn't listen to him, only put down his single duffel bag of clothes and declared he'd take it.
After all, there was nothing that money couldn't buy. Even a new life and a new identity, away from that prison of a house.
It was June a year later when his only surviving brother showed up on his doorstep, when Sei had only just begun his rounds in the entertainment duelist circuit.
Yansa looked no worse for wear as he stood patiently in the doorway, looking down on Sei with his piercing red eyes. There were no bags underneath his eyes, nor crinkles in his brow, or even the faint scar of acne on his face. It was only his long blond hair, black embroidered kimono, and the scent of sandalwood, the kind Sei only smelled at the temple's lit incense during the New Year.
"Have you had enough fun?" asked Yansa, always clipped and succint, like he had somewhere else to be. Nothing had changed since they were children.
Not even the way Sei's breath caught in his throat as he stumbled for words. A crowd of disbelievers and even the sternest authority could not crack him — but for his family, cold sweat built up like the pouring rain at the back of his neck. It was always humid in June; it was the rainy season, after all.
"What do you want me to say?" replied Sei, quiet. His knuckles turned white as his grip on the door tightened, but he still would not dare to close it. "I don't want to go back."
Yansa brushed aside a few stray strands of his hair and looked disapprovingly in Sei's direction, sending shivers down his spine. "I want you to tell me the truth. What I want to hear is irrelevant."
"If I say the wrong thing, will you drag me back?" the words, to anyone else, may have felt like a sarcastic remark, but in Sei's trembling voice it contained nothing but trepidation and fear.
Finally, Yansa sighed, the weight of his gaze lifting. Sei followed the change in demeanor with a look of surprise to see his older brother running a hand nervously through his hair. Things he had never seen even after growing up together for over 14 years.
"I'm sorry," Yansa said after a long moment, his eyes distant. "I didn't mean to startle you. I didn't realize..."
"Wh-What are you apologizing for?" a tidal wave crashed into Sei's thoughts, breaking him from his stupor. At any moment, he feared his dead mother would round the corner and tell Yansa off for apologizing to him. "Why?"
Yansa reached out, the edge of his silken kimono sleeve brushing against Sei's bare arm. Then, he stopped, bit his lip, and sighed again.
"Kiki," he said, frustratingly slow. Sei could hear the way his heart almost leapt out of his chest. Yansa looked no worse for wear, as usual not even a hair out of place — only, something kept flickering behind the red of his eyes. "Can I call you that?"
"It doesn't matter to me," said Sei, quiet. He looked at the wooden floor beneath him and his fluffy cat slippers. "You can call me Seki, too, if you want."
"Kiki," said Yansa again, firmer this time. "Mother is dead."
"She died a year ago, I know."
"Yes," Yansa sighed. He combed his fingers through his hair again. "I am the head of the family now, following Chie's passing and our father stepping down."
"Chie... also died with mother in the crash."
"That means," Yansa raised his voice and Sei stepped back reflexively. At the movement, he realized his mistake, and dropped his tone to something softer again, leaving Sei bewildered. "You are free, Kiki. The arranged marriage has been called off for years now and I have no intention of marrying you off in the future."
The silence is defeaning in Sei's ears, even as Yansa stays as still as a tree in his doorway. Neither of them move.
"... I'm sorry," Yansa was the one to break the silence. He leaned forward just the slightest bit, to not startle him. "All the years gone by, I wish I could've said this sooner."
"Wh-Why?" Sei asked again. It was like he could not quite process what was going on. Something in him still had not clicked.
"I never hated you, Kiki," said Yansa, softly. He pushed his hair behind him and smoothed the front of his kimono, patting down the gold-coated thread stitched near his collar. An image of a turtle and magnolia flowers, for prosperity. "Mother only made it seem that way."
Sometimes, it was in June that something good happened in his life, even admist the pouring rain outside.
Sei is at the forefront of entertainment dueling - he brings you not only laughter, joy, and smiles, but a spectacular show you'll never want to miss!
Come one, come all! Let Sei's bombastic and cheerful charisma guide you through sights and sounds to behold! With his ace, Dramaturge of Despia, and the field spell of wonder, Despia, Theater of the Branded, you'll be sure to be glued to the stage!
Everyone, let's say it together now!
Fuuuuusion Summoooonn!!
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I have 20 million OCs but I'm gonna give my newest one some love for this week... just not sure I'll be doing it every day. I'll try!
From the look of this tag, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Go Rush is a train wreck and everyone hates it.
However, it has been an absolute blast for me and I love watching every episode that comes out! This past one has made me so excited for the series and the story implications as a whole! I love stupid anime cards and I love how they mixed Phaser and Zwijo’s theme together to create a really powerful and impactful scene!
Hopefully this is a spot of positivity in this mostly negative tag full of people complaining. Go Rush is actually a very good show and I love it!
bunny is a soldier of a war torn planet, and greatly admires his commander, void. in the midst of a fight, bunny is saved by void who sacrifices himself in the process. bunny sets off to earth on his journey to find a way to end the war peacefully only to discover void there who had come up with his own plot to end the war, as violently as possible and so they find themselves in complete opposition despite how much it tears bunny apart. they end up back at their home planet and have one last decisive fight where bunny delivers the last blow as he tells void he's always loved him
Behind Every Evil Gay Man (is another evil gay man)
You have one guy, evil and gay, doing incredibly bad things to people. There's a bodyguard from his rivals that he's got an eye on for a while and having fun doing psychological warfare on because he seems very naive and innocent.
Situations happen and now the bodyguard is captured by the evil guy and oh! turns out that this bodyguard isn't half as innocent and naive as he makes out to be and actually may be more messed up than the evil guy!
All the this torture (literal) and sexual tension comes to its breaking point when the evil guy is at his most pathetic and weak and the bodyguard watches the evil man look so sad and pathetic that he decides that to risk it all (his chance of escape, his job, his life) and makes it very clear what he wants from him (it's sex which turns into this deep bond that binds them together for life and makes them incapable of living without each other for even a moment).
Choose the more compelling relationship
bunny's black hole
Behind Every Evil Gay Man (is another evil gay man)
idk who in the reblogs loves lying but the first one is not even remotely incest. they’re not related in any way, shape, or form. i guess people will say anything if they hate something enough
I bet y’all if Goha Yuuna was not a woman she would not have almost ten posts in the tag dedicated to people hating on her nonstop like Chupataro did not get the same amount of vitriol for “simping” Meeeg-chan. Holy shit.
She is literally an elementary schooler. A child. At most she is 12.
Yes, because she is literally meant to imitate the -ko girls from SEVENS.
Also, if you notice Yuuou’s eyes, who you provided as the SEVENS example, he has two black lines around his pupils. The shading on Ganiko’s eyes (crab -ko girl) do not have them.
The difference in shading (among other things) really is because of the art director change. You can look this up.
So a while back I saw someone say that Go Rush might be a simulation
Now, I actually have A LOT of evidence for this that I'll cover in a different post.
However for now...
A few days ago I was drawing Yuo and I stared at his eyes for 2 hours trying to draw them perfectly in my fanart. And because of that, I moticed something strange today when watching the newest Go Rush episode...
Look at the eyes of the humans in go rush (Manabu, Yuamu, Manya and Yuhi)
I really think that Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens itself wasn’t planned to be immediately put into production. I think with studio gallop having so many problems in the last 5 years (gallop has now been silent for 3 years) and then suddenly transferring the rights to Bridge, who has only done 2 series before it and handling arc animations while main production companies handle that main animation is a strange move. So far they’ve only adapted existing properties like the shaman king reboot and another series I’m not familiar with that already had a manga.
A lot of people speculate that it was supposed to pan out differently, which is why Sevens felt so rushed. It’s clear that they’re trying to emulate ZeXal with part 1 and ii series being separated.
Go rush is clearly more planned and flushed out at only 8 episodes. Whether that’s because now the company has a handle on better ways to being as well as it being a time skip series with cameos from the previous sevens series.
I really do recommend watching both series. At 92 episodes Sevens actually went by really fast if you watch it in one sitting (and with the dub in production binge watching it will be easier).
A lot of this is speculation that has been proven false already, or can be explained otherwise.
Gallop has been having trouble since ARC-V. It wasn't just VRAINS. It's more accurate to say they've been having problems for the past decade, not just the past seven years. A prominent animator under the username maiko_2222 even spoke out about how bad things were at the company towards the end of ARC-V's production.
With VRAINS, the problems at Gallop just became a lot more apparent and harder to ignore, especially as the series director left around 20 episodes into the series.
"Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS itself wasn't planned to be immediately put into production"? Did you forget the six month gap between the sudden end of VRAINS and the airing of SEVENS? Gallop having problems since ARC-V meant TV Tokyo and Shueisha (the actual rights holders of the YGO anime) had more than enough time to find a new studio for YGO post-ARC-V. I'm guessing Gallop's contract with them dictated that they work on VRAINS regardless of the situation of their company, but as it became apparent that Gallop was falling apart, TV Tokyo & Shueisha spent VRAINS' production and air time looking for someone to take on the 7th series.
Also, production on SEVENS was actually ahead of schedule and going just fine. One of the staff even tweeted that, when episode 3 of SEVENS aired, they were already working on episode 10. They were around 7 episodes ahead in terms of production.
But why was SEVENS so rushed you asked? Did something else happen that wasn't related to planning or working on things in 2020? Something that disrupted the entire world and forced SEVENS to take not just one but two hiatuses, therefore taking around 8-10 episodes away from the total?
The pandemic hit Japan a lot harder than it hit the US, mainly due to a combination of factors like slow response, outdated information, and the country’s infrastructure not setup for remote work. A lot of companies in Japan lost around 3-4 months of working time as they tried to adjust. Bridge wasn't the only company affected. Other anime airing in Spring 2020 also notably had problems, like Balance:UNLIMITED, as an example.
I have no doubt that they had other plans for SEVENS and that's why the ending of SEVENS felt so rushed. But they also lost around 3 months of time and probably had a pre-planned schedule with TV Tokyo & Shueisha for the delivery of the next series in April of 2022 that they could not deviate from. Having to re-draft an entire series mid-production because of lost time due to the pandemic is a job I don't envy, and for what it's worth, SEVENS was still enjoyable regardless.
The first two arcs of SEVENS, notably, feel a bit tighter than the rest of the series. This is because of how they probably wrote out the first two arcs before the pandemic hit, and then had to scramble after as they adjusted workflow.
(This is only tangentially related, but Bridge isn't really a no-name studio with no experience. The studio is made up of former Project Sunrise members, some of whom worked on shows like Cowboy Bebop and Code Geass.)
I do agree that Go Rush definitely feels a bit more cohesive, and I attribute that in part to the fact that they have a better grasp on workflow post-pandemic, not because Bridge has "more experience working on Yu-Gi-Oh” now. SEVENS could have been even better and amazing if it weren't handicapped by world events, especially since we already saw the makings of it in the first two arcs.
We knew they had the potential. It was just unfortunate a global pandemic happened.
