The title and art of Harpie's Hunting Ground imply that Harpies either eat Ojamas or hunt them for sport. Either way is a net positive for the Yugioh universe.
Please, who do you think keeps putting Ojama’s on a stage in all the monster card art? Dancer? Perfumer? Harpist? Conductor? Cyber BONDAGE Armor! The Harpies are putting on a show and the Ojama’s are their unwilling performers!
Sorry about the inconsistency of OCG artwork in TCG cards near the end, I had to use digital proxies that feature OCG art because the scans and photos of the most recent TCG releases look like they've been ran under a sheet of sandpaper. I assume most people *prefer* the OCG art but I just like to be accurate.
I like to imagine that Bird Face is literally just a Bird monster that is a obsessed Harpie Stan and the Harpies just tend to ignore him whenever he's around
Anyone else kinda hoping Konami leans into the waifu jokes about their archetypes and makes a Harpie support card named something like "Harpie's Helper" (OCG name being Harpie's Slave for obvious reasons) and it's some regular dude who simps for the birb girls and looks kinda like Joey (in a dog suit).
Actually looking closer at Birdface, the body format and long fucking hair and the cyber-style torso kind of imply it's some kind of weird Harpie derivative, like on that mutated or something.
but card marking is illigal in tournaments so if anyone tried that they would be disqualified. or be forced to trade out that one deck for the same type that does not have perfumes.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 When you look into a kaleidoscope, one image becomes many. When you activate the Kaleidoscope card (or Elegant Egotist, if you prefer), 1 Harpie Lady becomes multiplied into 3 (Harpie Lady Sisters was not a physical card in the original manga, but 3 Harpie Ladies attacking as 1). So the name makes a great deal of sense.
@@elemomnialpha Would Harpies not get 1st-dibs, given they came out like a full decade before Lyrilusc? And I say this as somebody who means no disrespect to the Lyrilsusc cards. That deck is fun as heck--pecking your opponent to death with multiple direct attacks is both enjoyable and flavourful (well, as flavourful as YGO is like to get these days...)
“If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once for turn.” A line you can only get from reading the modern rendition of Elegant Egotist.
Old Ojama Country While this card is on the field, special summon as many "Harpie" monsters as possible from your deck. If you control more than three "Harpie" monsters, you can tribute any number of them to special summon as many monsters reasonably resembling a robotic dragon as possible from your extra deck, ignoring their summoning conditions equal to the number of "Harpie" monsters tributed. If this card is in your graveyard, you can banish it, and if you do, return up to 10 banished "Ojama" cards to your deck.
Considering that most of Harpie Monsters have DEF higher than their ATK, the Ojama Country ATK & DEF swap just powers up the creatures which are threatening to hunt down the Ojamas.
Once per turn: You can only use each of the following effects of "Elegant Egotist" once per turn, and only once that turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: If you control "Harpie Lady": Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 "Harpie Lady" or "Harpie Lady Sisters" from your hand or Deck, but only once per turn. This effect can only be used once per turn, and only once that turn. You can only activate 1 "Elegant Egotist" per turn. If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn.
Reminders for Harpie players out there: - Always use OCG art - Be careful around spike tits - Douse your cards in perfume - Don't attack during Royal Invitation
Finally I can talk about that one Harpie Girl card that I had under my bed as a kid because I had a crush on how she looked 7:29 thank you Rata for talking about my childhood waifu. I can rest peacefully knowing she wasn't a fever dream.
I was like 6 years old, and I thought she was cute and *really* liked how she looked but she was a girl and I was a boy so I wasn't gonna let anybody know I liked a *girl* I think this is what doomed me into becoming a weeb
In tag force 3 and onward they added some animations when harpie hunting ground was activated; the Ojamas actually fight back, and then it loops with Harpie coming back, trying to attack them, then ojamas countering
I wish they released a new tag force , for the more modern consoles and actually have similar or if not better Animations than Duel Links, with English/Japanese Voice Actors and use music from the anime
@@genesisxdee334 Well it’d face the same problems Pokémon has with trying to include EVERYTHING Yugioh has it worse with the gigantic ocean of cards and then programming the cards that work in special ways along with it is insane
Ah, you must have watched the international release of DSOD. In the original cut, it's revealed that Mai was just a long-term experiment run by Harvard University to see just how bad you could make a sexy card before people stopped buying them.
Harpies are one of the weirdest cases of censorship in YGO since by editing the artwork to show less skin they've put the band of Feathery Dominatrixes in skin-tight latex, which is kinda less SFW than just showing a lot of skin. My majored in finance brain shudders to think how much the TCG Harpies would spend on talcum powder. On the topic of being jealous of the Dragon, I'm on the fence since I am into some kinky shit but not pet play. I would let the sexy birds collar and do some S&M on me though.
Harpie's Hunting Ground is one of my favorite artworks in the game. I don't care about Harpies, but the image of them hunting and slaughtering Ojamas is very satisfying.
You're the only "yugituber" I legitimately get excited to see an upload from, the amount of work that goes in is clear and the humour hits me right in the life points.
I remember when I was a kid, I had no idea about the censoring between the OCG and TCG, so when I somehow ended up with both arts of Harpie Girl, I was very confused and uncomfortable, lol. I put the uncensored one behind the censored one in my binder like it had to be hidden away. Good times.
I’ve always like harpie’s pet dragon. I think it works a lot better than other out of place dragons, partly because it isn’t a show horned and poorly designed boss monster, and because it looks pretty unique and the idea that the harpie’s just keep her around as a pet is a cool bit of lore.
@@averagecommentappreciator8215 It is in fact one of the earliest. So along with DM, BEWD, REBD, Toons, Gravekeepers, and any other Yugi cardpool it would be remembered for its own legacy.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Technically it is THE earliest as Harpies fit into the definition of "archetype" (multiple monsters with similar names, support specific to those monsters and their names). As Harpies were shown in both the anime and manga before the Gravekeeper archetype was introduced - it's just that some of their anime/manga support hadn't been printed by the time Gravekeepers were introduced, making Gravekeepers the first *printed* archetype.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 But that definition of Archetype quotation is fan terminology, and the type of themed deck Konami would consider kinda just centers around similarly named monsters working with each other. I've dug deep down this rabbit hole before in defense of Digibugs, cause it misses the label of archetype as you'd define it despite the overwhelming obviousness of it being developed as one.
@@KlavierMenn They also in-universe multiply by summoning eachother through parallel dimensions often shown as mirrors and reflections (Elegent Egotist, Hysteric Party, etc), which if I saw an evil BDSM monster-lady-bird-women start refracting reality to become multiples of itself then I'd be a bit hysteric as well.
I'm not *saying* Kazuki Takahashi was into BDSM, but... Byser Shock, Viser Des, Magician of Black Chaos, Cyber Shield, and various other... happenings in the original manga lead me to believe he has more than a passing familiarity with it.
1:21 Mai's hanging out on the beach with Joey, according to a piece of art Takahashi himself posted to instagram last year. What a fucking cradle robber.
@@Ztrata he set his account to private a while ago but you can find the pic here www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/i7quen/new_joey_and_mai_illustration_by_kazuki_takahashi/
@@mikeoxlong1395 So he wants to be tied like Gulliver? It's pretty rare to like being subdued as it is frankly, let alone TinyDom which seems a whole new can of worms.
Here's the most interesting piece of Harpie trivia you won't care about: They misprinted Harpie Girl during her original release by using the OCG artwork instead of the "censored" TCG artwork.
Similarly the original printings of the vanilla Harpie Lady were uncensored. And when they did finally get around to censoring her, they did so differently from the anime.
@@17-MASY after you finish a story duel in the campaign, Yugi vs Weevil as an example, you unlock the option to flip the script so you play as the other duelist. so you'd use Weevil's deck and try to beat Yugi.
Two things I learned about Ojamas in this video: 1.) Their weakness lays in their toes. 2.) They’ve been dodging taxes w/ their artworks & will likely continue that trend in the future.
Fun fact: did you know that "Harpie's Feather Storm" was translated in French as... "Le Dragon de Compagnie de Dame Harpie", which literally means "Harpie Lady's Pet Dragon"? Even though Harpie's Pet Dragon came out ages ago and had been translated as "Dragon de Harpie"? anyway no one mentions Duel Links please
They're really not that bad in Duel Links. Most other meta decks easily overpower them and they instantly die the second you do anything during their Normal Summon, which every deck in the game has the potential to do going first. The main things Harpies have going for them over most of the rest of the meta in DL is recovery (one of the best, IMO second only to Resonators), and they have a tiny bit more disruption than most decks (about on par with Gaia). They do have a very strong & consistent turn 1 board state when uninterrupted, but so do Gaia, Resonators, Onomats, Water Xyz, and several others.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 I can often play around Harpies using Photons. If I can stream their first summon it's pretty much over unless they chain Swallow's Nest. On a good day I've got enough gas to power through Cyber Slash, but they'll usually be smart enough to wait to remove Starliege Lord on summon.
Fearsome Fire Blast is one of those cards that's absolutely broken, and we're kind of collectively holding our breaths while we all figure out _where_ it's broken (because it certainly isn't its native archetype). I will note, however, that it sends Nervall, which is probably the most relevant thing for it to send ever, because that lets you start whatever dumb tribrigade combos you want.
7:45 Harpie Girl was among my first waifus and probably one of the key things that led me down the path of weeb, WHY DID I NEVER SEE THE MASTERPIECE THAT IS HER UNCENSORED ARTWORK UNTIL NOW ;-; Oh how happy the seven year old me would've been to see her like this 9:23 well you didn't say it this time so... _god I wish that were me_
This is the obligatory comment saying that for the span of a couple of weeks the Duel links meta was completely dominated by Harpies and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. They were only removed from tier 1 because easier access to Digital Bug Rhinosebus pushed Gagagas basically into tier 0. Duel Links is one hell of a drug.
Harpies are the main reason for why Fire Kings stopped seeing play. Cyber Slash Harpie is the only reason for why they even see any play at all and it's enough to overpower other decks. Is the RDA-deck even good? Red Nova Dragon is a strong beatstick, but the deck doesn't have a lot going for it.
Love how you can easily see the change from older to newer support cards just by looking at the length of the effect. Seeing Harpie Queen having not even 3 lines of texts, then next seeing Channeler with 6 lines of text always makes me laugh.
I always saw the name "Triangle Ecstasy Spark" and, maybe it's my degenerate mind corrupted when I saw the uncensored art of Dian Keto the Cure Master, but...anyone else beginning to wonder what they're implying when they call it an "Ecstasy Spark"? Is the joke that they're well...uhhh...you know...doing something from a different genre of Japanese animation?
I find it really funny that Harpie's Hunting Ground doesn't even depict any defining features of said hunting ground, and instead just shows a Harpie about to swoop down on the Ojamas.
I'm glad we got the anime deck made IRL but it still lacks Glorious Growth, which was the real bullet in the chamber, for the deck. Spectre was one of the few really good characters from VRAINS, though.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 Maybe they'll print the rest of the anime cards soon. And while yes, Specter was great character, Vrains had a bunch of interesting characters imo.
The end artwork is so adorable :3 all of them, my favorite was the girl riding the dragon. I'm biased to harpies due to the retro style, though they barely got consistency until nowadays despite their potential. Ojama Lime's journey is always a treat. Where is Jeroid?
I enjoy how Triangle Ecstasy Spark and Ojama Delta Hurricane have similar artwork, together with the fact that it's seen the Harpies hunt Ojamas, make it seem lore friendly. Oh, and we all know Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon is a clear Joey reference.
Also I just want to say, once all the jokes are done and the cards are analyzed, I love the end sequence where you give an overall summary of the deck while showing off the fanart. You always find the BEST, most evocative fanart that really gets me engaged and wanting to play the deck even if I normally don't care about it. Like I have a friend who stans Harpies, and I don't care about them, but that art was so nice and lovely that it just gets me ready to play some bird women. Even tho I won't. But I hope you know I appreciate the work that goes into finding just the right fanart to put under your voice.
Is it just me, or is Triangle Ecstasy Spark the opposite of Ojama Delta Hurricane? I mean, both attacks require three (originally) normal monsters coming together, they are almost perfectly opposites in the artwork, and we know from Hunting Grounds that Ojama and Harpy ladies fought. Is... is there yugioh lore that says Ojama and Harpies are long time enemies? Or am I finally going crazy.
not only that, Ojamagic also have similar effect like Hysteric Sign by adding 3 different Ojama's when it's send from the hand or field to the graveyard.
I honestly wish all the archetype archives were like this, with everything being lumped together in one big chronology, it gives a much better idea of gow the archetype evolved over time
On top of the iconic Harpie look, gotta give a shoutout to the *mwah* Harpie Lady monster SFX. Harpys were barely on anyone's radar, so the anime wasn't making her sound like a Harpy - they were inventing the most iconic sound of a Harpy with her!
Back in the days of dueling network, I used to hybrid a Vampire Vamp engine into harpies as well as a Phalanx Pike. That no doubt sounds like madness, but it somehow won me many a game against meta decks of the era. Phalanx Pike is and has always been a meme instant death card for Harpies where you play it in the lategame and score a one hit kill, which was nice for a single copy of it, and if you drew it early, you'd just summoner monk it. Vampire Sorcerer and Vampire Vamp however opened some very interesting options. You had easy access to Dark Simorgh, could mill out spent Vamps with standard Harpie XYZ rotations, just consuming Dragon and Vamp instead of Channeler and Dragon. But, because Harpie could completely strip backrow and make attacking an absolute pain, and getting sorcerer killed was not very hard, you could at any time pull off a Vamp play once you had the enemy hand low and go for lethal. Later I added Red Eyes Flare Metal Dragon to the extra deck at one copy to set up a defensive scenario that would enable Vamp, since between the LP loss from REFMD and Vamp's ability to swing for giant numbers, you'd easily be able to take people to zero if they pushed into it. It won most of the time in rated duels and I actually got pretty high on the ladder with it. People just do not expect out of nowhere vamp instant kills.
I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention the extremely consistent 2 card FTK (with like 6 searchers for those 2 cards) that harpie channler/dancer let you do.
@@chrisf.9595 Harpie from in 2010s look it up. It used most valley cards as well. It's why ancient fairy dragon was banned. It used divine wind of most valley, black garden, fusion gate as fields and such
And now Dawn of Majesty is going to make Rata cover the support for "Alien" and "Triamid" ,"Majestic", "Stardust", "Synchron", might need honorable mentions as well. Edit: realized Dimer was in the Archive video after all.
Harpie Dancer was released mainly to counter Bottomless Trap Hole which was meta back then since with Hunting Ground her attack still be 1400 making it bypass Bottomless Trap Hole and destroyed it. it also helpful to destroy more meta trap back in her day of her release such as Dimensional Prison, Sakuretsu Armor, and some Mirror Force card.
Harpie is an archetype that really shows off the way the game used to be designed. Partially as a factor of how the original manga was written and how back in the 90s card games were still a very novel concept. Monster cards were usually bland with little to no effects and stats that almost made sense in the context of their level. While spell and trap cards were increasingly powerful with no restrictions of costs. It’s most certainly a way to do things but it something that could never have lasted. It’s still fun to look back on either way.
Of all the graded Pokémon, Magic, and Yugioh cards I own, and I own way too many, my PSA 10 Harpie’s Pet Dragon will always be my favorite and I have absolutely no idea why. For like 5+ years now I’ve kept all of my graded singles in a safe except for Pet Dragon, a Shining Raichu I’ve never bothered grading but have in a screw-down case, and my PSA 3 Library of Alexandria that are all displayed on my desk. I have specific memories and reasons for the other two cards being there but I’ve never known why I liked Harpie’s Pet Dragon so damn much.
The second the notification popped up I made a noise that scared my roommate Ok 2 minutes in and "if we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn" killed me
Of note: the reason why Mai has no screen time in Dark Side of Dimensions is because it's a continuation of the Manga story instead of the anime. And in the manga Mai disappears after Battle City, never to be seen or heard from again.
so WOW iv only just come back to this hobby and MAN am i glad i found ur vid funny (especially at the end XD) and with a FANTASTIC analysis! i love the way u assess the cards! THEN UR RATING SYSTEM!! cheers man never occurred to me a deck could be viewed this way (now knowing that, i see my personal preference i a decks performance is; recovery, consistency, protection, versatility n power, so now ima aim to make a deck like that!!) cheers again, great vid!
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When the world needed him the most... He was shitposting on Twitter actually
Truly he is our savior
Studying for lawyers
@@r3zaful for real?
@@r3zaful He's became the new ace attorney
@@gusbart5856 yes he studied laws and in his Final semester.
The title and art of Harpie's Hunting Ground imply that Harpies either eat Ojamas or hunt them for sport. Either way is a net positive for the Yugioh universe.
Please, who do you think keeps putting Ojama’s on a stage in all the monster card art?
Dancer?
Perfumer?
Harpist?
Conductor?
Cyber BONDAGE Armor!
The Harpies are putting on a show and the Ojama’s are their unwilling performers!
And that's what really happened to Ojama Lime
That's the harpies hurting for a husband.
@@ShadowLibrarian You’ve Drawn A Community Chest Card!
Effect: go directly to hell
Ojama Vore by Harpies confirmed
Sorry about the inconsistency of OCG artwork in TCG cards near the end, I had to use digital proxies that feature OCG art because the scans and photos of the most recent TCG releases look like they've been ran under a sheet of sandpaper. I assume most people *prefer* the OCG art but I just like to be accurate.
Konami of America needs to stop letting that one employee dip the cards in urine juice. Very unprofessional.
No booba sadge
Don't blame you. TGS Anime had his video using the OCG artwork get demonetized.
and there he is back to bring us happiness and lewdness
No worries. Thoughts on Sevens?
I like to imagine that Bird Face is literally just a Bird monster that is a obsessed Harpie Stan and the Harpies just tend to ignore him whenever he's around
Anyone else kinda hoping Konami leans into the waifu jokes about their archetypes and makes a Harpie support card named something like "Harpie's Helper" (OCG name being Harpie's Slave for obvious reasons) and it's some regular dude who simps for the birb girls and looks kinda like Joey (in a dog suit).
@@Phantom_of_Black all you had to say is joey in a dog suit simp support card
Actually looking closer at Birdface, the body format and long fucking hair and the cyber-style torso kind of imply it's some kind of weird Harpie derivative, like on that mutated or something.
Actually Swift Birdman Joe kinda fits this description nicely…
@@Marv1089 just one letter off from being Swift Birdman *Joey*
PRO TIP: You can up the consistency of this deck by spraying the cards with different perfumes
but card marking is illigal in tournaments so if anyone tried that they would be disqualified. or be forced to trade out that one deck for the same type that does not have perfumes.
@@TheManofthecross Haha thanks friend, I knew that already. It’s a reference to the anime.
@@shinydino ah ok then thats fair.
The inspiration for Duel Links' Aroma Strategy skill.
@@TheManofthecross has it ever crossed your mind that jokes do in fact exist?
Every time Rata returns (and ignores his comment section), my dead heart beats just once. I don’t care what he posts, I just love Rata’s content.
He once replied to me once when I mistook him saying winged-beast when he actually said wind beast for Sapphire Pegasis.
Same
Yeah same, I don't even regularly play Yugioh, just Legacy of the Duelist casual stuff, but I just love his content! ❄️
I aint played since metal raiders tbhg
Facts
...i just noticed that the artwork on "Elegant Egotist" is literally faces as parts of the kaleidoscope...wow
It was called kaleidoscope in the manga and ocg
If it is a kaleidoscope, then what does that have to do with Harpies?
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 banish djin summon a nekroz
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 When you look into a kaleidoscope, one image becomes many. When you activate the Kaleidoscope card (or Elegant Egotist, if you prefer), 1 Harpie Lady becomes multiplied into 3 (Harpie Lady Sisters was not a physical card in the original manga, but 3 Harpie Ladies attacking as 1).
So the name makes a great deal of sense.
At least you noticed on your own, I had to have my friend explain it to me
Ah yes, the _"I'm not into Birds BUT..."_ Deck
Nah that's Lyralusc
Jokes on you, I’m into birds.
@@elemomnialpha Would Harpies not get 1st-dibs, given they came out like a full decade before Lyrilusc?
And I say this as somebody who means no disrespect to the Lyrilsusc cards. That deck is fun as heck--pecking your opponent to death with multiple direct attacks is both enjoyable and flavourful (well, as flavourful as YGO is like to get these days...)
Ah yes, the first of the Monster Girl decks. Hope there’s more in the future.
@@jeandehuit5385 and then suddenly dropping a colossal robot on top of said bird after it was done pecking you.
Ah yes, another episode of Ojama Limes bizarre adventure with a yugioh archetype review at the beginning
More like Ojojo Bizarre Adventure amIrite
Shapesnatch couldn’t make it to this video because he caught Harpies… the one Rod he shouldn’t have used…
Always use protection when using your rods, kiddos.
@@mateusrp1994 yea it can be messy
I demand the next piece of support include "General Harpies"
@@papershadow GODDAMMIT BARB!!!🤣🤣🤣
Nah, they only caught the one whose shape was snatched.
“If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once for turn.” A line you can only get from reading the modern rendition of Elegant Egotist.
Old Ojama Country
While this card is on the field, special summon as many "Harpie" monsters as possible from your deck. If you control more than three "Harpie" monsters, you can tribute any number of them to special summon as many monsters reasonably resembling a robotic dragon as possible from your extra deck, ignoring their summoning conditions equal to the number of "Harpie" monsters tributed.
If this card is in your graveyard, you can banish it, and if you do, return up to 10 banished "Ojama" cards to your deck.
Considering that most of Harpie Monsters have DEF higher than their ATK, the Ojama Country ATK & DEF swap just powers up the creatures which are threatening to hunt down the Ojamas.
This is balanced in terms of Harpie backrow
No country for Old Ojamas
Ojamharpie
And if you do, they die instantly
Once per turn: You can only use each of the following effects of "Elegant Egotist" once per turn, and only once that turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: If you control "Harpie Lady": Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 "Harpie Lady" or "Harpie Lady Sisters" from your hand or Deck, but only once per turn. This effect can only be used once per turn, and only once that turn. You can only activate 1 "Elegant Egotist" per turn. If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn.
So... what's this card's effect again?
So the card has a hard-as-a-diamond once per turn clause.
It lets you Draw two cards.
Wait... Wrong Card.
Your life is on the line, But only once per turn
Reminders for Harpie players out there:
- Always use OCG art
- Be careful around spike tits
- Douse your cards in perfume
- Don't attack during Royal Invitation
But I have Ulti Channelers...
The TCG art is hotter tbh
@@ashikjaman1940 Factually wrong
@@ashikjaman1940 thats some cope
Rata, if you're reading this, just know that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your content and dry humor.
Legends say the Sahara Desert experiences more rainfall than Rata's sense of humor
@@AsterDXZ the legends are very true. Then again, isn't that what we all want anyways?
Remember when the Harpies' Hunting Ground was animated in the Tag Force games and it just shows the Harpie Lady mauling one of the Ojamas? It's great.
YES
Link to the animation?
@@chrisf.9595 ua-cam.com/video/oXekelH5Vx4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=SetoKaio
No, but now I need to look this up.
Finally I can talk about that one Harpie Girl card that I had under my bed as a kid because I had a crush on how she looked
7:29 thank you Rata for talking about my childhood waifu. I can rest peacefully knowing she wasn't a fever dream.
I was like 6 years old, and I thought she was cute and *really* liked how she looked but she was a girl and I was a boy so I wasn't gonna let anybody know I liked a *girl*
I think this is what doomed me into becoming a weeb
I feel that
It's ok to be straight
@@sweet5304 don't let Twitter see you say that
@@elemomnialpha Fellas, is it gay to be straight? Is it straight to be gay? Who knows!
THE LORD IS BACK!
AND HE BROUGHT ICONIC WAIFUS!
HE HAS RISEN
HE HAS IT!!!
In tag force 3 and onward they added some animations when harpie hunting ground was activated; the Ojamas actually fight back, and then it loops with Harpie coming back, trying to attack them, then ojamas countering
is it true?
@@ianr.navahuber2195
Yes
God I need to replay tag force 3 now
I wish they released a new tag force , for the more modern consoles and actually have similar or if not better Animations than Duel Links, with English/Japanese Voice Actors and use music from the anime
@@genesisxdee334
Well it’d face the same problems Pokémon has with trying to include EVERYTHING
Yugioh has it worse with the gigantic ocean of cards and then programming the cards that work in special ways along with it is insane
Ah, you must have watched the international release of DSOD. In the original cut, it's revealed that Mai was just a long-term experiment run by Harvard University to see just how bad you could make a sexy card before people stopped buying them.
“Goodness I’m quite jealous of that Dragon, **laughs like Team Rocket James** ”
-Someone in the comments probably.
That would be me.
God I wish that were me.
Rata, certainly.
The dragon is too large for me to envy its position.
Harpies are one of the weirdest cases of censorship in YGO since by editing the artwork to show less skin they've put the band of Feathery Dominatrixes in skin-tight latex, which is kinda less SFW than just showing a lot of skin. My majored in finance brain shudders to think how much the TCG Harpies would spend on talcum powder.
On the topic of being jealous of the Dragon, I'm on the fence since I am into some kinky shit but not pet play. I would let the sexy birds collar and do some S&M on me though.
Harpie's Hunting Ground is one of my favorite artworks in the game. I don't care about Harpies, but the image of them hunting and slaughtering Ojamas is very satisfying.
Okay...
@@rdc6360 the world is better off without them. Have you seen an Ojama? Unfortunately, I have.
@@wingedbluj1674 could say the same about humans
@@rdc6360 Oh.... You believe in Ojama rights, don't you...
You're the only "yugituber" I legitimately get excited to see an upload from, the amount of work that goes in is clear and the humour hits me right in the life points.
He's the exception that proves the rule that all Yugitubers are terrible.
I always thought it was funny when Alexis dressed up as a Harpy Lady for Spirit's Day.
Only build-up "Chazz" had to his season 2 fixation with her was his crushing on said outfit.
1:20 Don't worry, Mai's just offscreen having a drink with Launch
This is canon now.
I remember when I was a kid, I had no idea about the censoring between the OCG and TCG, so when I somehow ended up with both arts of Harpie Girl, I was very confused and uncomfortable, lol. I put the uncensored one behind the censored one in my binder like it had to be hidden away. Good times.
Rare card, must protecc!
Harpie's pet phantasmal dragon, a great part of a balanced four material Divine Arsenal AA Zeus
I’ve always like harpie’s pet dragon. I think it works a lot better than other out of place dragons, partly because it isn’t a show horned and poorly designed boss monster, and because it looks pretty unique and the idea that the harpie’s just keep her around as a pet is a cool bit of lore.
Wow, one of the most iconic archetypes ever.
I wonder why
I can’t like your comment… it’s already perfect
@@averagecommentappreciator8215 It is in fact one of the earliest.
So along with DM, BEWD, REBD, Toons, Gravekeepers, and any other Yugi cardpool it would be remembered for its own legacy.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Technically it is THE earliest as Harpies fit into the definition of "archetype" (multiple monsters with similar names, support specific to those monsters and their names). As Harpies were shown in both the anime and manga before the Gravekeeper archetype was introduced - it's just that some of their anime/manga support hadn't been printed by the time Gravekeepers were introduced, making Gravekeepers the first *printed* archetype.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 But that definition of Archetype quotation is fan terminology, and the type of themed deck Konami would consider kinda just centers around similarly named monsters working with each other. I've dug deep down this rabbit hole before in defense of Digibugs, cause it misses the label of archetype as you'd define it despite the overwhelming obviousness of it being developed as one.
There’s a card named Hysteric Party that’s in a archetype about bird women… huh.
There's _Hysteric Sign_ . Sure, the myth portray the harpies as screeching women, but that's a bit on the nose, no?
@@KlavierMenn They also in-universe multiply by summoning eachother through parallel dimensions often shown as mirrors and reflections (Elegent Egotist, Hysteric Party, etc), which if I saw an evil BDSM monster-lady-bird-women start refracting reality to become multiples of itself then I'd be a bit hysteric as well.
Rata is the ERB of Yugitubers. Inconsistent and infrequent uploads, but when he does, I drop everything and watch a master at work
Technoblade
@@masonbooh5941 no
Saw it was Harpies, liked immediately (grave-keepers when?), love you Rata.
Ah, yes, the Dommy Mommy archetype.
Huh; how'd you know Joey's pet name for his love interest?
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I'm not *saying* Kazuki Takahashi was into BDSM, but...
Byser Shock, Viser Des, Magician of Black Chaos, Cyber Shield, and various other... happenings in the original manga lead me to believe he has more than a passing familiarity with it.
@@jeandehuit5385 Plus: Yugi's second outfit.
@@jeandehuit5385
Magician of Black chaos looked more like a Tetsuya Nomura trope to me, what with the belts
Amazoness are the champs!
1:21 Mai's hanging out on the beach with Joey, according to a piece of art Takahashi himself posted to instagram last year.
What a fucking cradle robber.
Lol and here I was worried she was drunk in a gutter somewhere with Launch. I’ll need to track that down
They have a what, 5 year age difference?
@@Ztrata he set his account to private a while ago but you can find the pic here www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/i7quen/new_joey_and_mai_illustration_by_kazuki_takahashi/
@@LordGame2222 thanks!
I thought mai was 17 at the time of the anime.l?
i Love HarPIE, it tastes so good
It stands for Huckleberry, Apple, Rhubarb PIE.
@@runningoncylinders3829 OOOH makes alot of sense,hows the taste?
@@thedootlord Someday I'll try to make it then. It does sound nice.
Thought you said hairpie.
Friend: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Bird watching."
Friend: "Those are harpies."
Me: *_"DID I STUTTER?!"_*
Bird is also Birtish slang for "young woman", so I'd say you aren't wrong.
Just keep away anyone playing Time Wizard.
@@BloodfelX is that why girls are referred to as "chicks"?!
@@BloodfelX in italian Bird Is a common slang for Dick.
Enjoy
Cant wait for an actual card called "Harpie's Brother".
I wish I were that dragon.
Stepbrother
@@Zzz-j2f That's the TCG versions name, we both know why.
Dommes are only fun when their stature exceeds yours.
No luck for Dragon.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Maybe he's into humiliation and being subdued by someone smaller than him is his thing.
@@mikeoxlong1395 So he wants to be tied like Gulliver? It's pretty rare to like being subdued as it is frankly, let alone TinyDom which seems a whole new can of worms.
Here's the most interesting piece of Harpie trivia you won't care about: They misprinted Harpie Girl during her original release by using the OCG artwork instead of the "censored" TCG artwork.
I used to own a copy of the misprint. I lost it while moving and was pissed.
Similarly the original printings of the vanilla Harpie Lady were uncensored. And when they did finally get around to censoring her, they did so differently from the anime.
It’s nice to see more Archtype Archive. Harpies are an interesting set of cards and I had fun playing them in Legacy of the Duelist reverse duels.
What are reverse duels
@@17-MASY after you finish a story duel in the campaign, Yugi vs Weevil as an example, you unlock the option to flip the script so you play as the other duelist. so you'd use Weevil's deck and try to beat Yugi.
The harpies, A.K.A the most censured archetype in TCG
idk, flluffals were pretty censored too
No no no no, that title goes to the Dark Magician Girl
@@zandrazoo2112 Ya see these scissors?
Make em glowy!
1000 degree redioactive neon blades are much better.
Two things I learned about Ojamas in this video:
1.) Their weakness lays in their toes.
2.) They’ve been dodging taxes w/ their artworks & will likely continue that trend in the future.
Oh no, my little tosies!
Fun fact: did you know that "Harpie's Feather Storm" was translated in French as... "Le Dragon de Compagnie de Dame Harpie", which literally means "Harpie Lady's Pet Dragon"? Even though Harpie's Pet Dragon came out ages ago and had been translated as "Dragon de Harpie"?
anyway no one mentions Duel Links please
Me: Mentions Duel Links.
You: Gosh darn it!
They're really not that bad in Duel Links. Most other meta decks easily overpower them and they instantly die the second you do anything during their Normal Summon, which every deck in the game has the potential to do going first.
The main things Harpies have going for them over most of the rest of the meta in DL is recovery (one of the best, IMO second only to Resonators), and they have a tiny bit more disruption than most decks (about on par with Gaia).
They do have a very strong & consistent turn 1 board state when uninterrupted, but so do Gaia, Resonators, Onomats, Water Xyz, and several others.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 I can often play around Harpies using Photons. If I can stream their first summon it's pretty much over unless they chain Swallow's Nest. On a good day I've got enough gas to power through Cyber Slash, but they'll usually be smart enough to wait to remove Starliege Lord on summon.
Ahh everyone's favorite BDSM monster girl archetype. It'll make sense when looked at closely and smelt. See? Even RATA made the joke.
I absolutely love the "Once per turn" Elegant Egotist parody.
Fearsome Fire Blast is one of those cards that's absolutely broken, and we're kind of collectively holding our breaths while we all figure out _where_ it's broken (because it certainly isn't its native archetype). I will note, however, that it sends Nervall, which is probably the most relevant thing for it to send ever, because that lets you start whatever dumb tribrigade combos you want.
7:45 Harpie Girl was among my first waifus and probably one of the key things that led me down the path of weeb, WHY DID I NEVER SEE THE MASTERPIECE THAT IS HER UNCENSORED ARTWORK UNTIL NOW ;-; Oh how happy the seven year old me would've been to see her like this
9:23 well you didn't say it this time so... _god I wish that were me_
Yeah her uncensored artwork somehow went under the radar for some reason when she was first released.
This is the obligatory comment saying that for the span of a couple of weeks the Duel links meta was completely dominated by Harpies and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. They were only removed from tier 1 because easier access to Digital Bug Rhinosebus pushed Gagagas basically into tier 0.
Duel Links is one hell of a drug.
Hot Red isn't even in the fucking game you fake fan
@@__-be1gk I guess the five that I own are only a figment of my imagination.
This all feels randomly generated.
Harpies are the main reason for why Fire Kings stopped seeing play. Cyber Slash Harpie is the only reason for why they even see any play at all and it's enough to overpower other decks. Is the RDA-deck even good? Red Nova Dragon is a strong beatstick, but the deck doesn't have a lot going for it.
@@Zzz-j2f Hot Red Dragon Archfiend isn't in Duel Links. That's true and what "__" is talking about.
Love how you can easily see the change from older to newer support cards just by looking at the length of the effect.
Seeing Harpie Queen having not even 3 lines of texts, then next seeing Channeler with 6 lines of text always makes me laugh.
I always saw the name "Triangle Ecstasy Spark" and, maybe it's my degenerate mind corrupted when I saw the uncensored art of Dian Keto the Cure Master, but...anyone else beginning to wonder what they're implying when they call it an "Ecstasy Spark"? Is the joke that they're well...uhhh...you know...doing something from a different genre of Japanese animation?
I mean, yeah, probably. This *is* an archetype that has had a bondage theme on the side from day 1.
And in Ojama delta hurricane. The Ojama’s are blocking this attack apparently. So the Harpies were shooting their........ _electricity_ at the Ojamas
They're BDSM birds; I'm pretty sure it's exactly what you think it is lol
God, I wish I had a pet dragon.
What? The bird women? Sure whatever, I want a dragon.
Hello Seto.
Wait you can actually summon cyber slash with lady sisters and harpie girl. this is the future of harpie ladies how is this not tier 0
If you change it to 4
but six from sisters and 2 from girl still makes 8 right?
At last Harpie Girl has a second use!
Harpies are great archetype but they all share one distinct weakness - they've all been censored by 4Kids.
Say that to my uncensored copies of the level 2.
_Deeeeeeeep_ cut.
I find it really funny that Harpie's Hunting Ground doesn't even depict any defining features of said hunting ground, and instead just shows a Harpie about to swoop down on the Ojamas.
As someone who only started watching Rata about a month ago, I'm so glad he's back again!
I only noticed today that elegant egotist has faces in the artwork. Always thought that was just some weird looking flower
Honestly, it would be interesting if Rata makes a video about Sunavalons at some point. The amout of memes and Specter content will be great 😂
Yes please!!
I'm glad we got the anime deck made IRL but it still lacks Glorious Growth, which was the real bullet in the chamber, for the deck. Spectre was one of the few really good characters from VRAINS, though.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 Maybe they'll print the rest of the anime cards soon. And while yes, Specter was great character, Vrains had a bunch of interesting characters imo.
4:17 I don't know what made me laugh here more, P.U. Great Moth appearing on the screen suddenly or that gentle continuous fart in the background xD
4:49 "Honey I can explain-"
"AM I IN AN NTR MANGA?!"
0:29 I recognize that OMORI somethings sfx anywhere. Good game :)
"Robot dragon!"
**The entire fucking screen fills with monsters**
There's a lot of robot dragons in this series.
Is this what it feels like when Dad actually returns from getting smokes?
Rata is like the dad who shows up around the holidays (or randomly) but is away on business a lot.
The end artwork is so adorable :3 all of them, my favorite was the girl riding the dragon.
I'm biased to harpies due to the retro style, though they barely got consistency until nowadays despite their potential.
Ojama Lime's journey is always a treat. Where is Jeroid?
Dead 😭
@@bigarcana5553 what?!
Impounded by the underworld police
This is what I needed today, just got told I'm doin jury duty and this is a beautiful mood booster
Rata and summoning salt are the only you tubers where I legit get hype whenever I see a new upload. Keep up the great work man!
I enjoy how Triangle Ecstasy Spark and Ojama Delta Hurricane have similar artwork, together with the fact that it's seen the Harpies hunt Ojamas, make it seem lore friendly. Oh, and we all know Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon is a clear Joey reference.
I’ve been waiting for this video for like 28 years now (since I was born). Yes, I love this archetype so much that I loved it before Yugioh existed
Give harpie girl pompoms and a cute skirt, plus an effect and you have a perfect retrain of her "harpie cheerleader" perfect
That sounds super adorable
Also I just want to say, once all the jokes are done and the cards are analyzed, I love the end sequence where you give an overall summary of the deck while showing off the fanart. You always find the BEST, most evocative fanart that really gets me engaged and wanting to play the deck even if I normally don't care about it. Like I have a friend who stans Harpies, and I don't care about them, but that art was so nice and lovely that it just gets me ready to play some bird women. Even tho I won't. But I hope you know I appreciate the work that goes into finding just the right fanart to put under your voice.
Is it just me, or is Triangle Ecstasy Spark the opposite of Ojama Delta Hurricane? I mean, both attacks require three (originally) normal monsters coming together, they are almost perfectly opposites in the artwork, and we know from Hunting Grounds that Ojama and Harpy ladies fought.
Is... is there yugioh lore that says Ojama and Harpies are long time enemies? Or am I finally going crazy.
not only that, Ojamagic also have similar effect like Hysteric Sign by adding 3 different Ojama's when it's send from the hand or field to the graveyard.
Me shouting from the top of the bleachers: "DO GLADIATOR BEASTS!"
Im waiting for it too
I get the feeling that would make you Glad :)
Not until he finish with EVERY SINGLE HERO CARD.
I honestly wish all the archetype archives were like this, with everything being lumped together in one big chronology, it gives a much better idea of gow the archetype evolved over time
Here is "God I wish that were me" number 326...love your stuff rata, can't wait for the next one man. Much love.
On top of the iconic Harpie look, gotta give a shoutout to the *mwah* Harpie Lady monster SFX.
Harpys were barely on anyone's radar, so the anime wasn't making her sound like a Harpy - they were inventing the most iconic sound of a Harpy with her!
Back in the days of dueling network, I used to hybrid a Vampire Vamp engine into harpies as well as a Phalanx Pike. That no doubt sounds like madness, but it somehow won me many a game against meta decks of the era. Phalanx Pike is and has always been a meme instant death card for Harpies where you play it in the lategame and score a one hit kill, which was nice for a single copy of it, and if you drew it early, you'd just summoner monk it. Vampire Sorcerer and Vampire Vamp however opened some very interesting options. You had easy access to Dark Simorgh, could mill out spent Vamps with standard Harpie XYZ rotations, just consuming Dragon and Vamp instead of Channeler and Dragon. But, because Harpie could completely strip backrow and make attacking an absolute pain, and getting sorcerer killed was not very hard, you could at any time pull off a Vamp play once you had the enemy hand low and go for lethal. Later I added Red Eyes Flare Metal Dragon to the extra deck at one copy to set up a defensive scenario that would enable Vamp, since between the LP loss from REFMD and Vamp's ability to swing for giant numbers, you'd easily be able to take people to zero if they pushed into it.
It won most of the time in rated duels and I actually got pretty high on the ladder with it. People just do not expect out of nowhere vamp instant kills.
Can’t believe you actually hinted at it on your Twitter with the RT of yugioh card art
Thank you Rata you're the man who got me into Yu-Gi-Oh with your top tens of game I'm still playing to this very day
I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention the extremely consistent 2 card FTK (with like 6 searchers for those 2 cards) that harpie channler/dancer let you do.
Wait what? Elaborate please
@@chrisf.9595 Harpie from in 2010s look it up. It used most valley cards as well. It's why ancient fairy dragon was banned. It used divine wind of most valley, black garden, fusion gate as fields and such
And now Dawn of Majesty is going to make Rata cover the support for
"Alien" and "Triamid"
,"Majestic", "Stardust", "Synchron", might need honorable mentions as well.
Edit: realized Dimer was in the Archive video after all.
Rata: "Power gets a 3..."
Me: "Chain Feather Storm to negate and smack all your plays for the rest of the turn."
Response Red Reboot fine?
Harpie Dancer was released mainly to counter Bottomless Trap Hole which was meta back then since with Hunting Ground her attack still be 1400 making it bypass Bottomless Trap Hole and destroyed it. it also helpful to destroy more meta trap back in her day of her release such as Dimensional Prison, Sakuretsu Armor, and some Mirror Force card.
how do they even dress up those claw hands look ridiculously impractical for everything except ripping and tearing ojamas
I love how birdface is called birdface despite the rest of it being very bird like.
Ah, yes, Birdface. My Deck Leader in Duelists of the Roses. Fusion Summon my Crimson Sunbirds and power them all up like crazy.
4:34 I see rata is a man of culture
I enjoy wind decks a bunch, so it was surprising to see this. I miss the Ojamas....
It took me way to long to realize that Harpie Perfumer's name is a reference to Mai Valentine spraying her cards with perfume.
Harpie is an archetype that really shows off the way the game used to be designed. Partially as a factor of how the original manga was written and how back in the 90s card games were still a very novel concept. Monster cards were usually bland with little to no effects and stats that almost made sense in the context of their level. While spell and trap cards were increasingly powerful with no restrictions of costs. It’s most certainly a way to do things but it something that could never have lasted. It’s still fun to look back on either way.
Of all the graded Pokémon, Magic, and Yugioh cards I own, and I own way too many, my PSA 10 Harpie’s Pet Dragon will always be my favorite and I have absolutely no idea why. For like 5+ years now I’ve kept all of my graded singles in a safe except for Pet Dragon, a Shining Raichu I’ve never bothered grading but have in a screw-down case, and my PSA 3 Library of Alexandria that are all displayed on my desk. I have specific memories and reasons for the other two cards being there but I’ve never known why I liked Harpie’s Pet Dragon so damn much.
The fact that rata seems to be uploading somewhat consistently every 1-2 Months makes me so so happy
The second the notification popped up I made a noise that scared my roommate
Ok 2 minutes in and "if we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn" killed me
Ah Harpies, one of the few Yu-gi-oh archtypes that was fun to play, and call my ex-girlfriend when she was feeling really bitchy
I'd be bitchy too if my boyfriend was a Yu-Gi-Oh player lol
@@AStrangeTrap You'd be an ex, too.
I'm re-wathcing and I must say, these reviews are the gift that keeps on giving
Harpie’s. The OG waifu cards.
Of note: the reason why Mai has no screen time in Dark Side of Dimensions is because it's a continuation of the Manga story instead of the anime. And in the manga Mai disappears after Battle City, never to be seen or heard from again.
Whaaaat? God dammit she was a great character
On this the third day of my covid induced self isolation boredom the gods deigned fit to gift me with a RANK10YGO upload.
I'm on day 4 myself. Stay strong fren 💜
@@wendigowo2752 you too fren ☺️
so WOW iv only just come back to this hobby and MAN am i glad i found ur vid
funny (especially at the end XD) and with a FANTASTIC analysis! i love the way u assess the cards!
THEN UR RATING SYSTEM!! cheers man never occurred to me a deck could be viewed this way (now knowing that, i see my personal preference i a decks performance is; recovery, consistency, protection, versatility n power, so now ima aim to make a deck like that!!)
cheers again, great vid!
BASED RATA
I’m so hyped for the new support next year. One day my Harpies will be viable.
Harpies: Winged Beasts
Harpies pet dragon: Dragon
Dragunities: are these, ancestors?
It's that time of the year again? Damn I wasn't ready
Thank you for still making this videos. I dont sleep well lately and this really helps :)