So I was unironicly kinda tired and saw "Top Ten Yuri Archetypes" on my home page and was like "oh cool, something about Archetypes in yuri? Guess ill just close my my eyes for a bit and listen". So i thought the first section was about "Miss kobayashi's dragon maid" until 1:01 yugioh lingo jumpscare.
HAPPY NEW YURI!! One point in Witchcrafters' favor is that in Vice-Madame, you can see Genni holding Haine's nervously shaking hand which is a subtle but super cute way of giving her support with her new duties. Honorable mentions should go to Rikka. Pretty and cute girls having moe slice of life moments in a garden of snow, and the art of Glamour is just tinged with tender romantic vibes. One could also make cases for Solfachord (Charmer-like setup), Vaalmonica (shoulder angel and devil arguing over a girl, and theyre both girls), the Slacker/Alchemic/Akashic Magician trio (two Rivals and the third barging in to get along with both of them), the Mikanko trio (Childhood friend Rivals from different competing families), and a few more I'm probably forgetting. But this is a good list, and I'd say the top 4 all deserve to be in top 4 even if there's room to argue with placements! My personal favourite is Shirakashi doing a Romeo and Juliet with Squire and Dakki because their aesthetic truly speaks to my Touhou-loving ass, but Labrynth has such strong lesbian symbolism, Live Twins are so Iconic and feel the most intimate with each other, and Sky Striker is the most magical girl style deck there is (transforming mecha-styled magical girl reaches out to save her gloomy rival that's fighting for a side that doesn't care about her well being and shows her love through combat? literally NanoFate for YGO!!) so they could all easily win in my book!!
Rikka is a good one, that definitely could have gone there too yeah. And tbh I read the sky striker manga as I was doing research for this video, and the more I digest that work the more I wanna move sky striker closer to the top lmao! The final pages of the climax and the epilogue are just so good
11:52 I love this art because it looks like I:P is ranting to the twins about this cute girl she likes but thinks doesn't even know she exists, and Rappa is there with trouble sunny taking notes on how to make the girl with purple hair and cat-eared hoodie fall for her
I didn't know I needed a video about yuri yu-gi-oh archetypes in my life until now! I've quite yu-gi-oh a long time ago, but as a card game playing himedanshi who practically live on the yurimemes subreddit, I can't escape the game completely. As for the "live twins" being called twins without being related. It could be a reference to "Twin Angel" an old magical girl anime about two girls (later three) who fight an evil organization. Yes, it always comes back to magical girl anime. Magical girls are the backbone of the modern yuri genre. It's arguably the easiest way to have a cast of girls who aren't swooning over some guy (with some exceptions).
I think Live Twin/Evil Twin having "twin" in their archetype names refers to them having alter-egos, and to "evil twin" wireless networks (use to steal passwords).
Before finishing the video, in terms of canonicity: 1) labrynth 2) sky striker 3) diabellstar/diabellze 4) live twins 5) exosisters Let's see if I forgot any important ones
@@thempireiainwith cards like mikanko rivalry in the mix there is a pretty strong argument for yuri. Stronger than dragon aids at least. I didn't think of them myself until I encountered another comment about deck build packs and yuri
I know that Charmer and Witchcrafter is kind of stretch as there is a male charmer and Witchcrafter are just bunch of magician in endymion citadel under the guidance of Riola but I agree about Sky striker, Exo sister and Labrynth which I have them as a deck, tho most of the mention I have them except Charmers
Yes, indeed. They tell legends of the yuri, from the highest mountains of the harpy village to the lowest pit of the underworld where forbidden Darklord is chilling in a triangle position with her crew. Truly questions to ponder within the Amazoness hot spring. If by then maybe only in ritual realm with Mikanko and Voicless voice or far away in the realm of Melodious. Or it was just the guy from Arc-V that ran PRedaplant...I don´t know.
Great video, Shirakashi mentioned! Got myself the paper deck of that for Xmas it's got all the Yuri cards in. Will it win probably not but the art is awesome.
Well, the Live*Twin cards were inspired by Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and in that show they aren't yuri, but maybe Konami changed that aspect. About the Charmers, I believe Eria and Wynn have descendents in the form of the Gishki and Gusto archetypes so they had at least some biological children but maybe Dharc lend them a hand in this, considering he is the only male Charmer...
@@thempireiain It was a smart move too! Imagine the art in the support cards if Ki-sikil was like her counterpart Panty! The censoring team would have to work overtime, lol
I wasn't aware that there was so much (potential) yuri in Yu-Gi. I mean, e.g. on the artwork of the card "Linkage", I didn't realize it was Rose in the artwork. She looked like a boy, so I assumed it was some other character. I don't see the Sky Striker cards that often, I haven't really thought about that. (Similarly with other archetypes. I guess, apart from Shiranui-Mayakashi, I think, I didn't play any of these Yuri archetypes. I recently started to play Maliss/Malice. Next, You are probably going to tell me that Maliss is also Yuri, because 3 main deck and 3 extradeck monsters all being girls, yes?)
Local bisexual icons Ki-sikil and Lil-la taking the top spot as the #1 Yuri Archetype, AS THEY SHOULD "Oh, but Daniel, how do know that the Live Twins are bi -- " Think about it: Ki-sikil is pink, and Lil-la is blue, and what do you get when pink and blue come together? **Purple** **KINDA LIKE THE SEQUENCE OF THE COLORS ON THE BISEXUAL PRIDE FLAG** (pink on top, blue on bottom, purple in the middle where they meet)
@Liliana_the_ghost_cat Hey, I don't have to imply anything, you just have to remember that Ki-sikil is the one who canonically won Lil-la her shark plush from a skill crane machine, pretty toppy behavior if you ask me 🤭
>"The Live-Twins are lesbians who friends with lesbians!" >*Ki-Sikil Deal artwork implying she's going to sell out I:P and S:P to the S-Force* lain I don't think these girls are casually homosexual they're in it competitively.
That's Batthew!! He's my little mascot/mod bot No plushie yet, but maybe someday makeship will accept my proposal to collab and make some plushies loll
"Happy New Yuri" hitting right at the start lets you know that Iain was breaking out the BIG guns for the writing.
I learned it from the best
Why are you here
I do love how every Deck Build Pack has a yuri archetype.
Its legally required!
Not all
I'm pretty sure being inspired by Miss Kobayashi's Maid Dragon is enough to qualify the Dragonmaids as honorary lesbians.
Fair fair
So I was unironicly kinda tired and saw "Top Ten Yuri Archetypes" on my home page and was like "oh cool, something about Archetypes in yuri? Guess ill just close my my eyes for a bit and listen". So i thought the first section was about "Miss kobayashi's dragon maid" until 1:01 yugioh lingo jumpscare.
Lmaoooo that's incredible, hope the jump scare wasn't too jarring :p
HAPPY NEW YURI!! One point in Witchcrafters' favor is that in Vice-Madame, you can see Genni holding Haine's nervously shaking hand which is a subtle but super cute way of giving her support with her new duties.
Honorable mentions should go to Rikka. Pretty and cute girls having moe slice of life moments in a garden of snow, and the art of Glamour is just tinged with tender romantic vibes. One could also make cases for Solfachord (Charmer-like setup), Vaalmonica (shoulder angel and devil arguing over a girl, and theyre both girls), the Slacker/Alchemic/Akashic Magician trio (two Rivals and the third barging in to get along with both of them), the Mikanko trio (Childhood friend Rivals from different competing families), and a few more I'm probably forgetting.
But this is a good list, and I'd say the top 4 all deserve to be in top 4 even if there's room to argue with placements! My personal favourite is Shirakashi doing a Romeo and Juliet with Squire and Dakki because their aesthetic truly speaks to my Touhou-loving ass, but Labrynth has such strong lesbian symbolism, Live Twins are so Iconic and feel the most intimate with each other, and Sky Striker is the most magical girl style deck there is (transforming mecha-styled magical girl reaches out to save her gloomy rival that's fighting for a side that doesn't care about her well being and shows her love through combat? literally NanoFate for YGO!!) so they could all easily win in my book!!
Rikka is a good one, that definitely could have gone there too yeah. And tbh I read the sky striker manga as I was doing research for this video, and the more I digest that work the more I wanna move sky striker closer to the top lmao! The final pages of the climax and the epilogue are just so good
finally, real yugioh content
🥳🥳🥳
The girls had their turn. Now its time for the real manly gay stuff.
Libromancer Geekboy and Firestarter anyone?
Eldlich, of course
I'm convinced that the Ghost Meets Girl will end up with Yoko/Dakki becoming Squire's new Spectralsword
Oh that would be a cool twist
11:52 I love this art because it looks like I:P is ranting to the twins about this cute girl she likes but thinks doesn't even know she exists, and Rappa is there with trouble sunny taking notes on how to make the girl with purple hair and cat-eared hoodie fall for her
It's soooo good
@@thempireiain amazing, also she becomes S:P when they start dating
I didn't know I needed a video about yuri yu-gi-oh archetypes in my life until now! I've quite yu-gi-oh a long time ago, but as a card game playing himedanshi who practically live on the yurimemes subreddit, I can't escape the game completely.
As for the "live twins" being called twins without being related. It could be a reference to "Twin Angel" an old magical girl anime about two girls (later three) who fight an evil organization. Yes, it always comes back to magical girl anime. Magical girls are the backbone of the modern yuri genre. It's arguably the easiest way to have a cast of girls who aren't swooning over some guy (with some exceptions).
That's very true, magical girls do so much work for yuri
S:P and I:P, they are definitely shaboingking
Oh certainly, if only thet hadn't exiled themselves from any archetype (although I wouldn't be surprised if one was established in the near future)
I think Live Twin/Evil Twin having "twin" in their archetype names refers to them having alter-egos, and to "evil twin" wireless networks (use to steal passwords).
Ohhh that's interesting, I hadn't heard anyone post that before, I like that a lot yeah
Dragon maids has SOOOO much Yuri implications you're kidding me.
Honestly I could swap dragonmaid and charmers in the list and be perfectly happy
If the player is female sure i guess. Its more of a harem thing though
Skye and I are listening to this together and are proud of our contributions o7
Let's goooo
@ “HAPPY NEW YURI” I’m dead
I only just realized you were making a sly reference to the insane shawarma man on TikTok in there
YESSSS SOMEONE GETS IT
@@thempireiain We must brotect za culture! 💜
Before finishing the video, in terms of canonicity:
1) labrynth
2) sky striker
3) diabellstar/diabellze
4) live twins
5) exosisters
Let's see if I forgot any important ones
It's good you mentioned linkage but you forgot to shout out engage zero.
Nothing more gay than a combination attack whilst holding hands
Oops forgot IP/SP
(And ghost meets girl)
I think mikanko qualify more than some of the archtypes you mentioned like dragon maids
Funnily enough nobody mentioned mikanko at all when I asked people on bluesky, didn't even think of them
@@thempireiainwith cards like mikanko rivalry in the mix there is a pretty strong argument for yuri. Stronger than dragon aids at least.
I didn't think of them myself until I encountered another comment about deck build packs and yuri
Doesn't Live Twin have concept art where Kisil-kil kisses Lil-la after winning her a plushie?
That's very possible, the kinda just plop out concept art seemingly carelessly and a lot of it just gets memory holed
falling to sleep listening to this. need more yuri rep in games
You're 1000% correct!!
I know that Charmer and Witchcrafter is kind of stretch as there is a male charmer and Witchcrafter are just bunch of magician in endymion citadel under the guidance of Riola but I agree about Sky striker, Exo sister and Labrynth which I have them as a deck, tho most of the mention I have them except Charmers
I choose to believe dharcs just their ace friend who sits in the corner during make out sessions
The lack of Predaplant in this list is ArcV erasure and I will not stand for it
He's my least favorite Yuri unfortunately...
Yes, indeed. They tell legends of the yuri, from the highest mountains of the harpy village to the lowest pit of the underworld where forbidden Darklord is chilling in a triangle position with her crew. Truly questions to ponder within the Amazoness hot spring. If by then maybe only in ritual realm with Mikanko and Voicless voice or far away in the realm of Melodious. Or it was just the guy from Arc-V that ran PRedaplant...I don´t know.
Great video, Shirakashi mentioned! Got myself the paper deck of that for Xmas it's got all the Yuri cards in. Will it win probably not but the art is awesome.
I think they are quite fun too, so it's got that going for it as well
I'll be watching this with my GF today, thanks for doing this :3
Let's gooooo
I love this, it makes me want to own them all
Hell yeah!!
Today I learned a lot of lore.
🫡 then I've done my job
Well, the Live*Twin cards were inspired by Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and in that show they aren't yuri, but maybe Konami changed that aspect.
About the Charmers, I believe Eria and Wynn have descendents in the form of the Gishki and Gusto archetypes so they had at least some biological children but maybe Dharc lend them a hand in this, considering he is the only male Charmer...
Panty and stocking but Yuri is such an upgrade, Konami are geniuses
@@thempireiain It was a smart move too! Imagine the art in the support cards if Ki-sikil was like her counterpart Panty! The censoring team would have to work overtime, lol
There is always vengeance 😌
Such a good quote
I wasn't aware that there was so much (potential) yuri in Yu-Gi. I mean, e.g. on the artwork of the card "Linkage", I didn't realize it was Rose in the artwork. She looked like a boy, so I assumed it was some other character. I don't see the Sky Striker cards that often, I haven't really thought about that. (Similarly with other archetypes. I guess, apart from Shiranui-Mayakashi, I think, I didn't play any of these Yuri archetypes. I recently started to play Maliss/Malice. Next, You are probably going to tell me that Maliss is also Yuri, because 3 main deck and 3 extradeck monsters all being girls, yes?)
I think Maliss is Yuri because of the intimacy of computer viruses (I dunno I did my best)
Local bisexual icons Ki-sikil and Lil-la taking the top spot as the #1 Yuri Archetype, AS THEY SHOULD
"Oh, but Daniel, how do know that the Live Twins are bi -- "
Think about it: Ki-sikil is pink, and Lil-la is blue, and what do you get when pink and blue come together? **Purple**
**KINDA LIKE THE SEQUENCE OF THE COLORS ON THE BISEXUAL PRIDE FLAG** (pink on top, blue on bottom, purple in the middle where they meet)
Lmaooo
@@thempireiain Listen, as a card-carrying disaster bi myself, I gotta find the representation wherever I can get it
Fair fair lol
@@SuperNerdDaniel does that imply Ki-Sikil's the top then?
@Liliana_the_ghost_cat Hey, I don't have to imply anything, you just have to remember that Ki-sikil is the one who canonically won Lil-la her shark plush from a skill crane machine, pretty toppy behavior if you ask me 🤭
>"The Live-Twins are lesbians who friends with lesbians!"
>*Ki-Sikil Deal artwork implying she's going to sell out I:P and S:P to the S-Force*
lain I don't think these girls are casually homosexual they're in it competitively.
Lmaooo that explains their relationship with trouble sunny too
cant wait for top 5 yoai archetypes (im pretty sure theirs less)
I can probably come up with 11 yaoi guys with enough *imagination*
I know there's yuri in yugioh but i didn't know there's enough to at least stretch it to 11 lol
I did my best to stretch it lmao
12:49 who is this bat and can I buy 500 plushies of it?
That's Batthew!! He's my little mascot/mod bot
No plushie yet, but maybe someday makeship will accept my proposal to collab and make some plushies loll
@thempireiain Awww and he has a cute name too! I love when people name their bats using this naming scheme! (Shout out to Batrick).
I don't know about charmer, i always thought they're harem archetype since dharc is the only guy there
Dharc is their pet boy
Don't forget azalea and camellia for tragic toxic yuri
Very true very tru
Okay those two ARE canonically sisters
Up to you on how that factors
@@tcoren1 well i suppose technically all of them are sisters. They're all from Raye's dna right?
@@ZEDEX252 are they? I remembered roze being a separate egg but I might be wrong
does this confirm the female cards list
Objection! Charmers are Dharc's harem...maybe
Heavy disagree, if anything dharc is their pet boy
Their token straight boy they tease
nice vid, i know is about archetypes but not even mentioning the Primordial Yu-Gi-Oh lesbians (Gemini Elf) just feels wrong xD
Surely we will get a Gemini elf archetype any day now 🙏
i miss traptrix but thats just my opinion
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
are there gay archetypes in yu-gi-oh too?
For sure, maybe I'll get to those next yaoi christmas
gay
Gay
i liked your video.
now do a yaoi version ua-cam.com/video/5yor70Px6j4/v-deo.htmlsi=jHVXbMCSw4YokJ-j
I intend to :3