The opening and ending are infectious and get the viewer pumped for more.Ĭharacters- I love Yugi so much. Of course, the music of the show is great. The other cast members also sound great, namely Jounouchi. She makes sweet Yugi so cute I want to adopt him, while her work as Yami provides a startling contrast. I know her from other anime, but did not even recognise her voice until Yami appeared. Megumi Ogata fits Yugi better than anyone who has voiced him. But, while most animation improves over the course of the anime, Yami never looks better than he does in the first episode. It has a bit of an expressionistic feel to it. I also dislike the use of untextured CG in some of the backgrounds (in fact, it makes me want to slap myself), but it does get better.

Still, there are some loose ends that are left dangling annoyingly in the wind.Īnimation- The animation at the beginning hurts my eyes ( I think it's the colour palette). The twisted justice of this series is something not seen often enough in anime. I love the intertwining of humour and dark themes.

However, the series does smooth out as it goes on. Some plot twists are unnecessary and undramatic. The one cohesive factor is Yugi's transformation and his dark games. It's a little 'monster of the week' without the typical novelties. Story- This version begins a little vicariously. If you watched Yugioh in English, you watched the Gallop version. Most reviews have been placed on the wrong page. Note: This review is for Toei's anime, not for Gallop's (aka, the videos posted above). This is a fun little experience for a long time fan but as for SOL school there are plenty of anime that do the genre much better than this at least in my opinion. In fact I'd venture to say that if it wasn't for Yugioh I probably wouldn't have wound up being a big a fan of anime as I am. Yugioh was originally planned to be like this for the series duration just a game a day type of show but the popularity of the 'Magic and wizards ' card game one day showcased became so popular it wound up becoming the focus and Im very happy it went in that direction I loved the animes up until zexal collected a ton of the cards and bought and played a ton of the games for around 12 years. This is more of a slice of life school type of thing and to be honest looking at this is simlear to looking at the original pokemon concept art just in series form.

As someone who's been a lifelong fan of the card game it was interesting to see its origin like as a kid I had never known there was a series before the 2000 one that I grew up with.

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