THE YU-GI-OH TIMELINE EXPLAINED (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- ALMOST 6 YEARS LATER... The Yu-Gi-Oh Timeline has always been convoluted, but I propose we have a full-fledged multiverse on our hands when it comes to the many Yu-Gi-Oh anime, manga, and movies... I hope you all enjoy my Yu-Gi-Oh Multiverse theory AKA Timeline Part 2!! :)
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THE YU-GI-OH MULTIVERSE THEORY (Timeline Part 2)
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Great work on this Dylan!
But you missed one important manga: Transcend Game, the special two-chapter prequel manga that bridges the DM manga with DSOD. This manga shows Kaiba developing Duel Links, so the events in Duel Links can be considered canon to the manga timeline.
if it was then how wodo paradox eixst he not in manga timeline but is in duel links
@@ssjgotenks2009 because Trascend the Game states that there minds that are above others or trascends other and when those minds are linked to others they are able to reach the minds of other dimensions (which gave us a multiverse of dimensión) and enter new worlds (Kaiba's endgame to see the Atem whose soul is resting in a different dimensión).
Duel Link was created to link minds and create (or recreate) a world with them and the memories of the players (that's why dead characters can return)
Also Duel Links evolving into Link VRAINS is a really good theory that could back up his claim of VRAINS being in the manga timeline, i mean come on both have Link in their names and are virtual realities made for dueling
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Im sure we'll get some answer about the multiverse when the Vrains World comes out at the end of september. Also It was confirmed that Kaiba created Duel Links (I got this information from Kaiba DSOD's character description and the manga preview of DSOD). And I think it's too soon to include Go Rush in the timeline/multiverse since we don't know much about the show
As someone who's only seen DM, GX, and 5ds. these videos are my main exposure to the later sequel series, and by god this gets complex, huh. Props for making it all comprehensible. Who would have thought card game shows would require this much puzzling out to fit together
5Ds is 2021 in ep 74 their is a billboard that says it.
Well, all of this series require a little boy with 3-colored crazy hairstyle to fit all the pieces of millenium puzzle together
Duel links is connected to many worlds and a lot of characters investigate this. Trey even brought up the fact that no one ever heard of Kaibacorp in his world. This also kind of shows that duel links is connected to other worlds even if Kaibacorp doesn’t develop it
I would like to share some informations I gathered throughout the years about some *official* dates and placement in the timeline. Because believe it or not, I do believe we actually have canon placements for most of them. In a very interesting fashion, every dates matches up quite nicely with one another.
First of all, Duel monsters starts in the beginning of the second Japanese school year of yugi. The year has been referred as being 1996 in Numerous newspapers in multiple chapters. Since the characters start wearing their summer uniform in chapter 41, we can deduce everything prior to that including death T must have taken place from April (beginning of Japanese school year) to June 1996. However, the year 1997 is printed on the yo-yos of the thugs in chapter 48, indicating there has been a large time gap between the two and we are now likely in winter 1997. Right after that comes Bakura's shadow RPG arc in chapter 51.
It is safe to assume Duelist kingdom takes place in the span of three days at some points during their spring vacation, meaning end of March to beginning of April, since not only do they not go to school, but also because the short arc that follows (the dungeon dice monsters arc), is the start of a new school Year seeing Ryuji Otogi as a new student.
In yugioh duelist chapter 87, when Yugi and Jonouchi are in the hospital following their encounter with Ryuji, we see a glimpse of a newspaper indicating an upcoming event to take place between August 23rd and August 25th, so during their summer holiday. Battle city then takes place a few days afterwards only, and lasts around 2 days. This then checks out, since the gang literally goes back to school on September 1st, one day later. They then wait for the end of their school week, so Friday 5th at night, to go to the museum and relive the Pharaoh's memories in the millenium world arc. We then know the ceremonial duel takes place a month after (as indicated at the end of chapter 337), in October.
Quite geniusly, everything matches up with the information of Dsod taking place six months later, in March 1998, where yugi and everyone are seen graduating high school.
Then, I do have a grip with GX's placement on your timeline, as I don't think the ten year gap has ever been officialized in any way in the original version. However, we actually do get a hindsight on Judai's school file during GX episode 156 (when the principal looks at the sheets of the missing students), and we are given the year in which Judai integrated Duel academy: 2004. Meaning GX takes place from 2004 to 2007. We also learn from episode 52 that school years at duel academia start in October.
Otherwise, that's a super interesting video! I never would have thought of Zexal taking place in a future where zone wins, or the arc v manga being canon to the Anime. As someone passionate by these kind of stuff, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done, and would love to see more of it (like a duel links timeline, it really does sound interesting)
Don’t forget when Yusei and Jaden time travel to Yugi’s time and defeat Paradox together. This all happens in the Bonds Beyond Times movie,between the year 1996 and 1998
@@amarsabedini that's the anime... I was mostly talking about the Manga, since there is no way to really tell when the Anime takes place
YES THANK YOU everyone seems to miss that tidbit for the GX timeline placement for the dates of enrollment and graduation
@@bigfish5544 oh ok I understand
That would actually make sense as in 5ds when team ragnarok is dueling team 5ds u can see a banner showing the year is 2022
Great work of the new timeline/multiverse theory. You could also add Season 0 and the 1999 movie to the mix of it being a separate timeline as it has notable differences with the manga with the biggest difference being the inclusion of Miho Nosaka into the main cast.
I think the R Manga was forgotten, too.
Zexal could be apart of the original timeline where Yusei finds something to replace the D energy which ends up being Anti Matter aka Xyz. We don't see synchros and thus don't see Stardust as a legendary monster because it reminds people of the terror synchros and the energy produced. At least that's my theory
Your comment is actually said in spellcommander91's yugioh timeline video, but in different way
Synchros never caused terror though because they prevented that future
The multiverse concept is perfect for any form of art. It really ties all the loose ends and can be a good tool for endless profit.
[Spoilers for Code Geass]
Code Geass was over 15 years ago, but because of the alternate timeline changing some of the events, now there could be more new sessions and movies for fans to enjoy.
Nice video all the way man.
13:54 According to the Yugioh Wiki, Bonds Beyond Time seems to come before the Crash Town arc. It also states that Bruno being present in Yusei's thoughts is evidence that it takes place after episode 82 of 5D's (since episodes 81 and 82 are almost immediate follow-ups from episode 80, where Yusei meets him for the first time).
Duel Links is like a central hub for Yu-Gi-Oh past, present and future
Kaiba you genius madlad
Presen and future ;
Docto strange would read this comment one day
Rest in peace, Takahashi. You created something amazing.
16:26 your wrong, Ushio(officer trough) does apper in the 5ds manga. he is first seen in ride 09 page 2 next to aki, and sherry. he just doesn't duel
Yeah when i got to that point i was like wait a minute he does appear! I doubled checked and he does! Appeared next to the contestants plus he gets off screen dueled by a few players. So I think we can put this as he says the same time as the anime but ofc in the manga timeline. That's my thoughts on that though
Y'all need to rewatch ep 74 of 5Ds its 2021.
I woke up to a flood of folk telling me this vid had dropped. Absolutely phenomenal work, man! Now I wanna go back and change parts of mine 😆
I still feel like your timeline is mostly correct and less complex than this one.
Adding onto Dylan's theory: ArcV's Anime being its own universe is backed up by Duel Links, as it mainly pulls from the anime and builds upon it. Since Seto Kaiba canonically designed and built Duel Links in-universe, Duel Links itself can be considered canon. The Legacy Characters that appear in ArcV don't recognize Yuya when he duels them in Duel Links, basically confirming that ArcV's anime as a whole is an AU.
Reiji/Declan also mentioned in his Unlock Event that Duel Links is a world that connects to other worlds/dimensions, with his "and a world we know nothing about..." quote likely referring to the DM/DSOD worlds since he linked GX to Fusion, 5D's to Synchro, and Zexal to XYZ. Or it was placed there as foreshadowing to VRAINS world getting added next. If you feel like going for stretches, it could also imply that OUR world is also connected to Duel Links, supported by the fact that we can log in and play there like the characters can.
I know Dylan didn't touch on Duel Links much in the video, I just wanted to include some Duel Links Lore™ anyway since I figured it was relevant to the theory as a whole (I also just wanted to share some of my knowledge since I'm a long-term Duel Links player that still actively plays the game).
My personal theory as to why the Legacy Characters are the way they are in ArcV is: When Z-ARC split the worlds into the different dimensions, they took similar paths to their respective Main Timeline counterparts (DM for Standard, GX for Fusion, 5D's for Synchro and Zexal for XYZ), hence why they look the way they do. Their histories would also be similar except for 1 Key Factor: the respective protagonists and antagonists of those worlds NEVER EXISTED. Because of this, a butterfly effect happened where the friends and rivals of those protags ended up becoming different characters entirely, as well as the dimensions going somewhere unrecognizable to the Main Timeline.
Atem and Astral are directly linked to Yugi and Yuma respectively, so anything related to them also never existed by extension. That means Standard never had to deal with the Millennium Items and their Shadow Games. Fusion never had to deal with the Sacred Beasts, Yubel, or the Duel Spirit Dimension, so Duel Academy was just a normal duel school until Leo showed up. Zero Reverse never happens, so Synchro's equivalent to Satellite ended up being underneath what is effectively Neo Domino City instead. Xyz never had to deal with Numbers, so Heartland is just a normal city that focuses on XYZ Summoning. There's no direct confirmation to any of these last two paragraphs, it's just a theory based on existing knowledge.
Before duel links was released we had DSOD prequal chapters. Duel links was made by kaiba in there and this is why dsod is a world. It's world 0.
Actually, ArcV is the last chapter of OG YGO. Following the same timeline as its predecessors. ArcV happens about the end of Zexal, and Zexal happens at same time 5Ds does. That's why we don't have any mention to Yusei and Synchros in Roku's house. The Duel Links characters are mostly from another 'another' universe, that's shown during the last Paradox event, when Yugi says to Atem that they'd never seen Yusei or Jaden before, but their memories from other universes 'sync.' with the Duel Links universe, probably the manga one.
Edit: The legacy characters in ArcV are the same as their OG counterparts, but they're from post universe split/reboot by Rei and Zarc.
@@brenukkyyuukary3215 only hope tp see rirei ( ray ) and zOne there so declan goes to Kc on th past
Actually GX only takes place across three years cause Asuka says during her graduation speech in season 4 that they arrived at the school three years ago. Sho also says in the first episode of season 4 that it’s only a month after they returned from the Yubel arc. Season 3 & 4 are in the same year.
Kaiba actually created the duel links world, confirmed in Yu-Gi-Oh Transcend Game which was a manga that took place after the original manga and before DSOD, written by TK. It never got an official english translation so it's lesser known, but it's cool how you predicted the link between DSOD and Vrains.
Man this was a long awaited video and it definitely delivered. The amount of work and time put innto it is evident and the hard work definitely paid off. Great Job Dylan and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Regarding GX's placement on the timeline, during the final episode of season 3 of GX we actually see on Chancellor Shepard's papers that Judai began studying at Duel Academy in 2004, meaning GX actually begins in 2004 and ends in 2007. Regardless, this is a great video; keep up the good work!
27:32 Yes, there is one. Duel Links is an actual virtual world Kaiba created, as shown in Transcend Game.
You can really feel the passion Dylan poured into this video
Great job Dylan
Glad to see to you work on this massive timeline after so long, it was a fun watch. few complaints:
You didnt mention the DSoD Animanga promo that takes place before the events of DSoD.
Pyramid of Light (according to the dub so honestly this could be argued) takes place 3 years after the events of yugioh. Characters constantly reference that kaiba has been losing to yugi for three years. While this is an innocuous detail, you could argue this story takes place on a branching path where lil yugi lost the ceremonial duel, and thus they were never separated. At the very least its more interesting that way.
I feel like if Zexal and 5Ds are on a timeline split, it would be after GX. In the anime, turbo dueling is completely absent, and in the manga the rules of it have completely changed to remove speed spells. So there are too many inconsistencies than just a lack of synchros for yliaster to be the cause there.
I honestly always missed the mention of 3 years. This is actually kinda scary because this idea for a timeline split is also what people theorize for the capsule monster arc, so it is possible these two things legit take place in the same timeline-split in the dub continuity.
It’s been a long time coming but it was definitely worth it!thank you dylan!
Just to slim down some of the early timeline: GX officially starts in the year 2004. In one scene there is a computer with Zane and Jaden's files pulled up, and they confirm 2004 is Zane's graduation year as well as Jaden's first year, being Season 1. Placing GX 7or 8 years after Duel Monsters, depending hiw long the show went for. The file also confirms that Duel Academy is only the Japanese standard 3 years instead of the typical 4 years, meaning seasons 3 and 4 take place in the same year, 2007.
There is also no official date for the Zero Reverse Incident, for all we know it could have happened the same year as GXs ending, only that it had to be after, since Domino City is seen in GX and unscathed. Only note on the main events of 5Ds, is apparently there are some billboards that have the year 2021 on them, but I haven't found them, and that wouldn't quite track with Yusei's age, meaning its at least 17 years after 2007 at least. Unless Yusei was more than a year old by the time of Zero Reverse.
Bonds beyond time takes place POST Yusei meeting Sherry and PRE Crash Town arc, and this is a hill I’ll die on lol, in the movie Yusei thinks about everyone he knows and you can see Kiyu with his hair shorter meaning that’s how Yusei sees him which is different than his Crash Town look where he has the long hair, BUT Sherry is included in this scene
also wasn't Bruno present in that same scene?
Maybe he just remembers Kallen that way? Whenever I think about my brothers, I imagine their most iconic general look, not their current selves
It's my headcannon that duelists from DM and GX have counterparts in the ZeXal-verse, but they were just ordinary ppl rather than having supernatural powers. They mostly had the same ace monsters, hence the statues.
Then how come old man with the statues had magic powers?
@@genyakozlov1316 I dunno maybe it's all smoke 'n' mirrors.
@@AxelWedstar411 Wasn't Yuma's contiousness temporarily in a monster? I doubt that is smoke and mirrors, unless it was a dub-bit somehow
What a great video Dylan!
The idea of the arc v manga being on the anime timeline is insane.
Glad the videos finally out, though sad the era of you getting roasted for the delays on talking yugioh podcasts may be over
19:07 " I have a real issue putting up the ZeXal mangas on..."
I see what you did there 😆
I totally love the 5Ds manga ending, yusei is so cool in both, his choice to be with his friends over exploring the potential of the mutiverse is one of those great “not a god, just a man” moments that i really like.
Kinda prefer the anime ending, cause of my bias of “man can surpass god, but still maintain humble men” kinda like how I like Gurren Lagann ending
Manga suck in the first place
I love the fact that someone is trying to theorize the timeline of the anime when the official writers don’t even bother with the timeline placement anymore.
Have any of those writers even take creative writing in college?
I like how after ArcV, they simply said "Ok, we are done trying to push in connections, we are just going to reuse the DsoD-background to save costs and make it selfcontained".(Because there is nothing concrete about it that confirms it being part of the same multiverse even.) And of course, Sevens is very out of bounds because they simply cut any ties to the Gallop anime entirely.
and then there is our universe and timeline, full of omni-negates, floodgates and 20min turns.
So what I’m hearing is, we’re never getting Bonds Beyond Dimensions, sad day. Still a great video though, but man did my head hurt after 😂
You should probably check the "TRANSCEND GAME" manga, it was basically a prequel to DSoD. Ironically it also showcases Kaiba working on VR system that is basically a prototype of Duel Links(the game)/Link Vrains, and coincidentally it was also called Duel Links.
Not coincidentally. Kaiba tubs duel links this has been cannon since day 1. Hence KC cup
Yes, Dyl was late on the timeline video part 2, but was it worth that wait. Another great video. R.I.P. Kazuki Takahashi.
Multiverse would be common practice for this franchise. There was another video I'd seen that was spellcommander a year ago atalking about how Seto had created Synchro and how each summoning method was reltaed to a specific type of energy. Both interesting. I think as fans we want to be able to link all our heroes together however we can.
As it happens I just watched his video, and he tackles it from a tech/science perspective rather than lore directly. Which is an interesting take on it
I'm only ten minutes in and damn the amount of work that went into this, Dyl!
Edit: Holy Blue-Eyes! Amazing work, man. Mad respect for coming up with this and all the research you must have done! Super interesting and to be honest, it all makes a lot of sense. We might never have a 100% confirmed answer but this was really cool and my new headcanon haha.
Love your videos aa always, Dyl!
You're impressed that he got so much wrong? Even the basic stuff he said in regards to the original series is wrong and all he had to do is watch the anime and read the manga. He got so much wrong in the 1st 5 1/2 minutes.
OMG I never thought we would get a sequel to this! I'm so happy right now :D
There's another timeline/multiverse video I watched from another channel (I think it was from SpellCommander) that said the mangas, dark side of dimensions, and vrains anime all take place on one single unbroken timeline. The reason they gave is because since Kaiba was not present for Atem vs Yugi he never acknowledges Yugi as King of Games. This causes himself throw himself into trying to beat Yugi at all costs instead of advancing dueling technology like Ener-D and whatever creates Zarc.
This is the first timeline video that includes YuGiOh Duel Links as a source, and that makes it way more valuable. Altough is a game, si you might not consider it canon, it is developed by Konami, so it's an OFFICIAL product, and practically the only videogame that has it's own storyline. Some of the most interesting dialogues, mayority of these actually pretty recent, are the following, for those who wonder why I say it's important:
a) The Paradox-Pegasus interaction shown in the video.
b) Yugi's dialogue in Paradox's event confirm that there are different versions of reality, and in DL characters have memories of ALL realities. This is why characters have dialogues with cards they never used, used in anime and used in manga.
c) Akaba Reiji confirming that, altough similar, ARC-V dimensions are fundamentally totally diferent from GX, 5Ds and Zexal, and the "Duel Monsters" dimension is a brand new one he had never seen, making it different from ARC-V's "Standard dimension".
Shiunin Sora alsp confirms this by saying that GX's Edo Phoenix is not the same as ARC-V's Edo Phoenix.
d) Trey investigates DL because he considers imposible that so many strong duelists exist and no one ever heard of them. His investigation leads to the conclusion that they are from different times and/or dimensions. Also, he states that "Kaiba Corp" doesn't exist and has never existed, because there is no info about such a company, and to have that level of advanced technology, there should be at least a trace of it in history, but he found nothing (confirming that Kaiba Corp does not exist in Zexal timeline).
d) Axel Brodie's event confirms that characters in-game come from different moments in time.
e) Blue angel's event confirms that DL appeared as an expansion to Vrains but, similar to Zexal, no one never has ever heard pf "Kaiba Corp", which also confirms that Vrains must occur in a timeline where it never existed.
Awesome work again Dyl. Loved the new Timeline/Multiverse Theory vid.
I think Sevens and Go Rush parallel universes tho GR seems to take place in the early late 70s to early 80's due to the technology we see used (Also London wears bellbottom pants which where popular in the 70's)
Ps. pls post or link a pic of your timeline (Preferably with a water mark)
This is pretty interesting compared to spellcomander91's. His timeline theory is more unified, and pieces the Anime together pretty well, but then just sticks all of the manga, vrains, and rush on the "ritual dimension" timeline. This one makes a lot more sense when examining the content of the actual anime and manga when looking at official statements on when they take place, but this one comes at the cost of being waay more fragmented. I suppose each has their pros and cons, and all we can really hope for is that some kind of official timeline will come into existence, which is extremely unlikely to happen.
You would change your mind if you saw the ARCV scrapped ideas then you would count them as cannon to the anime.
Along with Zexal Duel Carnival that hints the connection between 5DS and Zexal are one and the same just years ahead, except maybe Dr.Faker who created Heartland who learns the history of Synchros and how Yusei prevented the future disaster from happening,so instead of using Synchros he created XYZ based on his research on Yusei's and his dad's so that he won't repeat history,but did research on Fusion and Ritual as he heard about the Legendary Duelist and included them in his town but XYZ became more popular.
The big thing I find interesting is the Neos statue. This is a card 100% exclusive to Judai/Jaden, except he never really seemed to go off to be that famous during GX. He was known about for the events of season 1 and was pretty recognised around the school but the wider world never really learned about anything he did during the later seasons and his ending implies he simply went off to travel the world rather than becoming famous in the pro leagues or anything. This would be backed up by the fact Yusei doesn’t know who he was in BBT but recognises Yugi immediately
Yuma however recognises Neos from the statue which to me implies there was some kind of a split in timeline much earlier that lead to a different GX we never saw
Jaden could have done a run in the pro leagues
He is graduate
And he should have take on the best that came during those 10 years
However you are indeed right
Zexal and 5ds seems to have been from a split timeline
In 5ds jaden isn't famous
In zexal he is
Potentially due to a different events happening
I think Dillion's previous theory about whether d-energy is discovered or not makes more sense for the split. Especially since I doubt Stardust wouldn't still be a legendary monster given how famous Yusei was.
As for the point that you brought up, I assume it's due to the Zero Reverse incident. Jaden could have been killed during it for the 5Ds timeline, so he never got as famous as Yugi.
I think that Judai became famous around Yusei's era (before the movie) cause if Ushio is 55 years old and still an active duelist, Judai who's significantly younger should still be active as well.
He's prob made a name for himself on other countries, not on the city Yusei was in.
@@christianmago7568 Judai would be in his mid-30s by that point so yeah he’s probably still very active but also if you’ve not made a name for yourself in 20 years after graduation in Domino City, the home of dueling, I kind of doubt he’d be especially well known at all
@@rueblie2627 idk bro, we can speculate all day all night on what Judai was doing in that 20 years
No one except the guys in Studio Gallop can answer that
He could have experienced another duel slump or something
Or he was on outer space
Or in other duel spirit dimensions again
Idk. The possibilities are endless.
Really great video. Definitely would be interested in a video that fits Duel Links into all this. Especially since Kaiba invents Duel Links in Transcend Game + each series in the game seems to take place after their respective shows. For example, Yuto doesn't seem to realize he's a separate person from Yuya (as they fused in Arc-V's ending). Also, Trey explicitly brings up KaibaCorp but he and Quattro don't recognize the name. And with VRAINS world coming at the end of the month, it'll be interesting to see how they handle that show (since Playmaker went to investigate something at the end).
Knowing what we know NOW about GO Rush, oh man the Rush section of the timeline is A LOT more messier than we thought
Hey Dylan,
nice to see the "second" part after waiting for years, and i liked it so much. I am not writing many comments, because of my bad english (i am from germany), but i will share my thoughts to your therory and give some hints to invalid points (not for critcism, but for polishment), never the less it was great so see this video (btw your videos are the only ones i watch in the english scene of Yu-Gi-Oh!-UA-cam-Videos):
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is confirmed to take place in 2004-2007 (and it was just three years, season 3 + 4 = year three)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's takes place around 2021 (a sign in Episode 74, i guess, showed us the year 2021, Season 1 + 2 was about a few weeks to months, between Season 2 and 3 are 6 months, and during seasin 3 and 4 was a gpae of over a year, which was stated in episode 56 where the TDGP was tol to be held of next year, and the TDGP was about a few weeks, so without the future clips in the last episodes, 5D's is about 2020-2022)
- Here is the first problem: Zero Reverse was 18 years before 5D's, so 2002, so before even GX occured. Here is the/my solution for. Like you, with the multiverse (a concept from several comic books), i use a concept, the so called "Flash-Point" (for those, who don't know, "Flash-Point" is a comic book series, where The Flash created a new time line, where he saved his mother from being killed and so created a complete new timeline). I think, Zone's actions created a "Zone-Point", so Zone came from the original time line (the timeline, where Yusei created Shooting Blazar Dragon with his version of Delta Accel Synchro, which was shown through Antinomy and hinted with his "you will find your own way of delta accel"), which was set to be the new "orginal" timeline, where Yusei defeated Zone (your theory of a timeline where Zone defeated Yusei can't lead to Zexal, because even without Momentum Synchros still existed all over the world and the tecnology in Zexal has not enough time to be devolped; maybe you're referencing to the TLoZ-Timeline, where the Hero of Time loses to Ganon, but i dont think this is here the case.) So, because of Zero Reverse, GX has to be on differernt time line OR has happened under under circumstances (which MUST to be the right thing because 3Ds!)
- The next Flash-Point I create is "Zarc-Point", because during the duel Zarc vs. Ray, a Pseudo-Split leads to the foru dimensions and Zarc & Ray split into 4 seperate Versions BUT Leo Akaba was also sent to a dimension (the standard Dimension) and he was the only one with the knowledge of the occurings during his timeline (he was even confused by watching some kids dueling with the original KC Duel Disk but without Real Solid Vision). So "Zarc-POint" sets a new timeline after DM but before GX and compared to the technology in Zexal, Arc-V is more on level to DM/GX besides Dueling in form of Action Duel. Now the "Pseudo-Split": My theory resides on the Eisenstein-Theory of 12 dimenions in GX. Wee saw during all Anime-Series several dimensions and i theroize, that during Zarc-Point togehter with the dimensional crackings in gx (even stated by Satorius nad Kagemaru), in 5Ds (Zone-Point) and Zexal (Fusion of Human-World and Barian-World), some Dimensions were disintegrated and were newly created during Zarc-Point as Fusion/Synchro/Xyz-Dimension, while the Standard of "Pendulum"-Dimension is the Dimension, where ALL Animes during the timelines took place. There is even enough space to that theory, because we saw this dimension (1. Anime-Standard, 2. Monster-World #1 [with Timaeus etc. AND with Honest], 3. Dimension Yubel #1 [this with the Duel Zombies], 4. Dimension Yubel 2 [this where Tania reappears], 5. Dimension Yubel 3 [the Haou-Dimension], 6. Dimension Yubel 4 [the Tower of Yubel], 7. Monster-World #2 [the Ancient Fairy Dragon World], 11. Astral World, 9. Barian World, 10. Fusion, 11. Synchro, 12. Xyz; and no the Shadow Realm is just FICTION).
- VRains, Sevens, GO Rush may be set after Arc-V, but there a no confirmation spots to be set on a constant timeline, but there a several hints: VRAins has all summon-methods besides Pendulum, so it wil took place after Zexal, but in a no-Zarc-Point-TImeline. Sevens has the same Duel Monsters as all series before, because Polymerization exists (stated by Gakuto during the first fusion-summon), riding duels exists (stated thourgh the first goha sibling, i think yuo was his name), xyz summon exists (not because of the pseudo-utopia but of this one statement of Luke during the duel "Two Level 4 monsters, Romin, here it comes" which was always stated during Zexal, when a characte has 2+ Monsters with the same Level which leads to a Xyz-SUmmon.
- GO Rush, like you said, has to be in an other dimension, and there a more hints to that: Both of the Ohdo kids were not familiar with Sevens Road, so they could not be direct relatives to Yuga. Goha was the inventor of RUsh Duels, not Yuga. And (this is more a critiscm of GO Rush compared to Sevens, which makes it in my opinion a bad series): There a far behind the power level than every Sevens Character (even in Episode 20 Yudias only uses Normal Monsters, i mean WHAT?! Even Pegasus in Episode 2 of DM used Effect Monsters) and there is no proof of a non-Rush-DUel Era.
So, this is it. A lot of information, i know, but this is something i had to wrote, because i was waiting literally for years for this video after seeing your first one.
So, thanks to everyone who has read the whole days and like Dylan i hope all of you had an amazing day!
Bye
My Egyptian God Cards, Dylan, this is incredible. The sheer amount of work that this must've taken. I've had a theory for a long time that VRAINS was created by Kaiba. Furthermore, I think that SOL used to be Kaiba Corp, but they were bought out after his (and perhaps Mokuba's) death. Do I have evidence for this? Not really, but it seems distinctly possible.
Bro, I just wanna movie with all the Yu-Gi-Oh main characters in it I mean while they’re at it they can just add all the characters like all the side characters and the villains. It will probably have to be a miniseries instead of a movie like 12 episodes against a really powerful villain and they all get together. It could be like for their 50th anniversary or some thing.
Thank you Dylan, you are the only one capable of making sense of the YGO timeline. It's a really good work you gave us.
The Yu-Gi-Oh timeline makes the Zelda timeline look like a cakewalk.
You could probably tie Sevens into a branch of the main timeline, actually! Remember that in BBT that there is a timeline where Paradox kills Pegasus? Opening the video with Paradox being presented the idea that "nevertheless, Duel Monsters will always exist" would actually make sense if that ties into the Sevens timeline. You could definitely pinpoint the immense control that Goha Corporation has over Duel Monsters to the point of even overseeing trades that might be related to an idea of Yliaster taking control of the game. That might also explain why out of all the cards that appear in the anime, there are direct references to monsters from DM, GX (though GX is very hard to find, Daedalus is a GX card), Zexal, and even a reference to Arc-V with Odd-Eyes Twin Tail Cat but no 5D's reference. Closest I can find is a couple relatively obscure Tuner monsters appearing in cameos on some card arts.
GX should be 3 years, it follows Japanese high school structure and so two seasons (obvious choice being 3 and 4) would by design have to take place during the same year.
If you go by the logic of Arc-V manga being in the anime timeline then it would kind of need to be in the "Yliaster wins, Zexal timeline" as I see it, a Timelord being the link to 5D's would mean it would be the split where Timelords were more "historically relevant" than something like the Earthbound Immortals or Signer Dragons.
I also don't know where the source for the statement that it was 10 years after DM comes from so I'd try and dig into that. If the manga directly says 2004 that would honestly make more sense since returning characters in GX certainly don't seem to be 10 years older.
Appearently the 10 year statement was a dub-bit that just established itself in the public contiousness and the japanese season 1 does indeed take place in 2004.
Great video! Been waiting for this one for a while now haha. My only nitpick is placing the Yugioh Arc V Manga after Zexal on the most upper right line. You said the villain uses a dark Utopia monster right? That would mean Zexal would needed to have happened. Sure the villain can travel through time but it’s less complicated to travel on one branched timeline rather than traveling through different branches of the timeline.
Spell commander 91 has definitely got a different time line theory well worth a look if you haven't seen it. I do like his idea that Yusei created xyz summoning to replace synchro monsters with would explain why there are no synchro in zexal. With the first 4 series being on one timeline until Zarc splits the timeline befor arcV begins.
Love the work you put into this and so glad you mentioned the recent duel links information drop I believe it helps work some of this out, keep up the good work.
It's an interesting theory but if we count Duel Links canon as anime canon, Trey event tells us that he and his brother never heard of Kaiba Corp or the other legendary duelist, he even suggest that could be because Duel Links accessed another dimension/universe, so that kinda implies Zexal is a different universe to the first 3 shows.
Again that is if you count Duel Link as canon.
IT BEEN 20 years, IT FINALLY HERE
This was enjoyable to watch.
Arc V manga being in the anime timeline does make sense. The anime Arc V can also make sense on the anime line, since Arc V takes place in a distant future. The original dimension or the united world, before it was split was the original setting of the Arc V world build. Leo En Cards and the after effect is what brought the 4 dimension, and even Yushou thought if it was Zarc who place his avatar (Yuya) as his “son” because he was the best duelist in Standard Dimension so that Yuya could learn and quickly lead on to his revival. This brought other possibility that it could be Zarc wills to choose the rest of the legacy character to battle against them as he had no challenge, except Ray. Though Zarc doesn’t sees Ray as a challenge, he only fears the En Cards, a natural enemy of his.
An interesting thing on Arc V anime is how literally no one had a backstory and they couldn’t remember anything from their past as stated by Yushou and Syuzo (Yuzu dad). This could be the same for young Jack Atlas (as he was shown in the anime).
The whole Arc V is an after effect of what happened in the united world, and the cast of character has no real backstory except the 4 Yuboys and the bracelet girl. It all happened after Zarc being corrupted, darkness taking over. I believe Darkness from GX is the entity that returned on Arc V as he did mentioned he would return and probably took the identity of the Supreme King or target the next Supreme King.
I mostly agree with your video except for one of your methods for splits. You always go "Lack of evidence= new timeline" which I think should be "same timeline unless contradictory evidence is present".
my theory is the time travel movie started the yugioh multiverse and arc v split it more than they thought . and i wouldnt be shocked if yuga helped make the go rush branch universe
The fact that VRAINS World all but confirmed the show being in continuity in some form with the original manga a couple weeks after this is wild.
The final shot of Vrains was in Duel Links
In the Ghost Gal event they literally see all the other worlds in the event end scenes
There is actually cause to believe that Zexal takes place in the main timeline when Yusei has won, reason being that Synchro Monsters and XYZ Monsters actually take from IRL stuff relating to Energy Consumption, and the final duel between Yusei and Antinomy is a link to said theory
Synchro Monsters are made from Momentum, which acts similarly to Nuclear Energy, because both are unstable energy sources, they can cause a huge amount of damage if used incorrectly
XYZ Monsters are made from Black Hole Energy, or antimatter, which is stated in the guide book of the Structure Deck of the 1st XYZ Era Style Deck, meaning that if contained correctly, the energy source can be stabilized without causing damage like how nuclear energy does
It would fit because at the end of 5D's, Yusei takes over his fathers project to make New Domino City a better place, and what would happen if he found out about the myths and legends of stuff such as the Numeron Code and such, and made XYZ Monsters as a way to cycle out the Synchros, hence you don't see Synchro Legendary Monster Statues because they...just don't exist anymore, Synchro Monsters are by all design dangerous when it comes to the power they leak, causing the Meklord Apocalypse Genocide, so Yusei, in his knowledge, went back to where he fought Antinomy and used that energy left over to create XYZ Monsters as a way to create a stable energy source
Synchros need a Tuner and a Non Tuner, most of the time of differing levels, which can cause an instability of power
XYZ Monsters Ranks are like the antimatter and the XYZ Units they hold act as a bonding agent to keep it in check, hence why they use the same levels when they want to XYZ Summon
It makes more sense than the fact Z-ONE let people live after he legit just went and destroyed everything Duel Monsters, including people, the Arc Cradle was supposed to destroy the world to reshape it, so why would that lead to the events of Zexal?
no yusei wood never give u snyhros tha the hole point he mad eto zone they wont quit snthro summonni dude zone only an tto kill off snthro never ever human
Interesting. The only question I have for ya is, if Sevens and GR is separate from the other animes, how can monsters from DM still exist there?
"multiverse and Pararel worlds" the one stop solution to any author/company continuity errors
I hope Konami makes a movie And also explain the timeline of all versions Yu gi oh that must be really fun
I'm surprised the entire theory fits into a single image.
I'd like to see a video about Duel Links and how it fits into this entire mess. With Duel Links being a thing, the multiverse theory becomes even more complicated. I like my complicated theories though.
I watched SpellCommander's timeline theory before watching this video, but I don't know which theory I prefer, so I'm going with both. Both of you are right. On the other hand, confirming the existence of a multiverse sounds cooler and more appealing than placing events on a weirdly constructed timeline. I just thought watching both back-to-back would be a nice experience and it was.
Also, in accordance with the multiverse theory, both videos can co-exist and be true at the same time. Both you and SpellCommander did a great job with your videos. I felt like your video was more inclusive overall, but that can be explained by how long it took to release this and the multiverse aspect of the video. It was worth the wait in my opinion.
When you don't rush people, you get good things. When people take forever and the joke lasts for the entire years as though it may never happen, you get exceptional things.
I mean, listen. Anyone that's critical of this video can at least admit it's out. The goal posts moved a billion times, but it happened. I can't imagine the amount of work it took to make this.
Dylan: “The Yugioh timeline is convoluted”
Scott Cawthon: “Lol, try solving the FNAF series plot then”
It’s finally here! Great job man and happy birthday 🎉
duel links latest storylines kinda confirms this multiverse aspect
5ds’s anime roughly dates it around 2019-2021 as there’s a sign during the wrgp arc where a sign shows the year
In the Legendary Statues, there's 2 monster that I don't think are from DM or GX.
One looks like Galaxy Destroyer, the Feather Duster Xyz, and another looks like a ninja x gundam.
Galaxy Destroyer? maybe that's the Super Vehicroid Stealth Union
I was always asuming that after 5Ds we officialy entered the multiverse. Because form Zexal on we had no connections to the past shows what so ever. Exept for some easter eggs
Their is a easter egg in episode in 74 it takes place 2021 if you look at the billboard. Of 5Ds
The Theory we've all been waiting for.
Insert the pokemon meme: It's been 3000 years...
ah man dilan noooooo you made the same timeline error for gx again. it takes place from 2004 onward you actually get to see the date of graduation and enrollment for Judai, Ryo, Amon, and misawa when the headmaster reviews their paperwork of missing students in season 4
i know right that what iw as thik liek dude gx cant be 04 and in yugioh aniem tea siad they ben doing this saf world shit for 4 years so yugioh cant b 2 years only like he said and 5ds aniem yusei vs burno said year 2021 ont he a broad sign so it cna be 2035 like he said
5D is 2021 in a opening their was a ad that showed that year. I think its suppose to be a Easter egg or something
I love your video.
The only thing is, there is a Monster in zexal in episode 95 which appears in both Yu Gi Oh and 5D's which is Lord Poison, it appears in episode 95 with Berserk Dragon, Worm Drake and Dark Jeroid.
Like the statues they are recognized as (duel) Monsters by the main cast which can be interpreted as implying a continuity.
I love these videos, so much content and so much lore and I’m only half way through
FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO SINCE THE DAY YOU SAID YOU WERE WORKING ON IT
I just thought of something... What if the Duel Runner shown in the history museum doesn't relate to Jack, but to Yusei? After all, that Duel Runner design is only attributed to Jack because he stole it from Yusei, so what if Sevens is on a timeline where the theft never happened?
Still wouldn't explain Synchros failing to exist.
@@christopherb501 even fusions didn't exist before the whole thing with the LUKEMAN
Also the original prototype that Yusei built was destroyed according to Jack which makes sense
Im glad it took you so long, cuz MA GOD i believe 98% of everything you said on this timeline theory. Amazing work Dylan!
Even though i've completely disconnected from the anime, manga and tcg/ocg community, but i'm glad i've stayed on your community to this day.
Hopefully i'll be able to catch one of your twitch streams again and check how's it going!
It’s kind of always been there, but seeing the multiverse laid out like this is really cool. And with that story from duel links directly stating a multiverse, it’s hard to deny it. Man I love yugioh.
I have one teeny-tiny little theory, and it's regarding the Bonds Beyond Time movie, 5D's and Zexal. I think that Zexal is only canonical to one of the 5D's adjacent timelines, hear me out. So the events of Bonds Beyond Time happens, Paradox appears, snatches Yusei's Stardust Dragon, and then goes back in time to Judai's time to cause more havoc. Yusei, with the power of the Crimson Dragon, goes back in time to Judai's era, Paradox escapes to Yugi's time, Yusei then goes with Judai to Yugi's time, the boss duel happens, Paradox is defeated, and the day is saved, and after our three main protagonists bid farewell to each other, Yusei takes Judai back to his time, and Yusei goes back to his era... Right?
Well, here's the thing, we all know time is very tricky, and my theory is that Yusei did make the initial trip back in time, but he didn't come back to his original time. I think that he, when he tried to go back to his time, he actually split his already split time again, and he actually came back to an adjacent time where another Yusei also went back to stop Paradox, which would also split that timeline, so on and so forth, and he would be able to stop Z-ONE in that way.
But the original timeline's characters were wondering where Yusei was, and, being pressed for time, they would have to go ahead and deal with Z-ONE and co. on their own, without Yusei's help, and I'm guessing even with Jack with his power of Red Nova Dragon, couldn't defeat Z-ONE and the Signers ultimately failed their mission, and the Ark Cradle did, in fact, crash on top of New Domino City, where Iliaster with decades of time on their hands, would rebuild it into Heartland City. And that's why we never see any semblance of Stardust Dragon or hints of Yusei Fudou or Synchro monsters in Zexal, because Yusei never came back to his time, he never defeated Z-ONE, and Iliaster purposefully withheld that from history.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't actually work with what is canon. Permanent timeline-splits have to be natural because, as we see, manual changes to pre-existing timelines does not actually split, the older timeline simply gets erased and you have to travel out of it if you don't want to get deleted alongside it. If we go by your theory(Which is actually a very solid one, I admit), then the characters from the original neo domino all died(Z-one and gang probably noticed what's going on and fled the scene) and we see in the movie that Yusei returns to the restored city while everyone was still waiting, so no major events could have taken place in that timeline either.
But Yugi and Jaden are okay to have in the history books? That doesnt make much sense
This theory is a lot different from SpellCommander's video. I don't know which one makes more sense, but at least both of you agree that VRAINS is the sequel to the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga and Dark Side of Dimensions, even if your arguments for why this is the case are quite different.
Interesting to get two different takes on the timeline, though.
Kazuki Takahashi: "Ok just one game battle manga then I'm done."
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Love the video, great work!
One thing though about Goha duels not being Master duels: I think there is a high chance they are identical since we know they had 5 zones, and that you could only normal summon once and draw one card per turn. Also, when Yuo did the first fusion of the show, Gakuto said it was "like Polymerization" referring to the Goha\Master duel Fusion spell with its original Japanese name (Yu-go).
So we don't have a reason to think they were very different, but we do have a few to think they were either very similar or the same.
Slight correction, GX is only 3 years, Season 3 and 4 each cover only half of Judai's last year at Duel Academy.
I think vrains was part of the anime timeline because I think xyz monsters were only exclusive to the vrains world until zexal came i build the overlay unit
I think the events of DSOD partially sets up for Zexal with Kaiba making the prototype Duel Gazer and Duel Disk
Here we go for another million views!
you forgot one thing... Arc 5's original timeline before the dimensional split....
End of the event confirmed Manga Yami and Yugi are shown.
And I freaking love the lore for it
What about if yusei invented XYZ as a way of permanently fixing the synchro issue practically especially considering the black hole yusei created
First off great video glad it's finally here. As for what I think about the theory I like it and see where your coming from but I feel spellcommanders makes more sense.
I'm actually thinking that Ai has created Duel Links. It has been hinted several times that someone other than Kaiba was controling the world of Duel Links. And your Main Mangaverse Timeline would work perfectly well with this theory !
That doesn't really make sense tho, it was already stated that Manga-Kaiba is the one who created it.
@@lpfan4491 True! But it was also stated twice that he couldn't have done it alone and that someone else was behind duel links. So I'm wondering if Kaiba has stumbled across Ai's technology or something alike. Of course, i could be completely wrong. But I can't see who else other than Ai could be behind the scenes if it's not Kaiba.
@@sphinxx5322 I probably missed those mentions because I stopped playing the game. But it seems very much like a stretch from the characters(And the writers if it is really what is going on). The guy figured out how to create technology that can at least partially protect him from magic that is already able to erode the walls between dimensions.
Duel Links isn't much of a stretch, especially if we assume that he may have gotten help from his future version who actually already has that cube and used it as help to enter the afterlife.
@@lpfan4491 I totally agree with you and I always loved the idea of Kaiba creating duel links. However, as Dylan's video points it, the ygo universe has become a multiverse. It has been hinted in duel links several times and it has even been "stated" more straight forwardly in the last Paradox event. It's interesting to realise that Vrains, duel links and DSoD have been created at the same time in 2016 and have a lot in common. It's also very interesting to see that the "multiverse" is being fully stated in duel links just when Vrains is about to come out in a few weeks.
In the last event, Yuugi asked Yami if "Kaiba could have really created that advanced technology on his own" and Atem replied : "I feel like we are following someone else's orders". Yami has also stated that he and Yuugi are not the same Yami and Yuugi that Judai and Yuusei met. (Judai and Yuusei met the Yami from the anime while Yami of duel links is the same as Yami from the manga). It seems like Yami Yuugi is aware of this.
Last, the end of vrains says that vrains has opened doors to new dimensions. The idea of "different dimensions" connects vrains to DSoD and to Duel Links as Dylan's timeline shows it.
Therefore, I feel like it could be possible that Ai used Kaiba's technology (or Kaiba used Ai's technology) to created duel links. Both have the same motivation: Kaiba wants to duel Pharaoh Atem while Ai wants to save all the Yuusaku's who have "died" in the timeline only he has seen.
“Free the soul” Sol technology… hum.
At this point we now know Go Rush takes place before Sevens and the Gou twins are Yuga's ancestors.
*Ohdo twins
4:05 I mean... The second you open the game, Anime Kaiba says exactly what Duel Links is and Pegasus literally says where it is.
those 5Ds wishes were brain shattering...
I love how you can see "The Complete Yu-Gi-Oh! Multiverse theory by Dylan from Yugioh Everything" in the corner
Let's go baby! Timeline theory #2 hype
How is gx 10 years after DM if Pharaoh appears literaly in the first episode?
No, that is adult Yugi Moto. It appears that Yugi knows Judai because of the events of Bonds Beyond Time
@@cholodelrosari0543 then how is yugi later in the gx series when they duel with judai still looking young?
@@kyriakoschrist He was sent back in time or maybe it was a dream judai had
@@wargreymon25 was it confirmed though?
@@kyriakoschrist no we may never know the anwser