Do keep in mind that the only reason Kaiba set up Death-T in the first place is because he lost at a children's card game. I don't think he ever apologized either.
@@TheGuraGuraMan And yet he forever called all of that stuff "Occult bullshit." He's like fucking Hercule from DBZ I swear. "IT'S ALL AN ILLUSION/TRICK!"
For a franchise known for promoting a card game, the manga that started it all is dark enough at times to perhaps fit into the horror/dark fantasy genre.
The manga is such a masterpiece. Takahashi was a pretty messed up dude. But man, I can't emphasize enough that if anyone likes Yugioh, they have to read the original manga. I don't think I can ever go back to the DM anime after I read the manga
And I thought Takeshi Sudoh got screwed over hard by his publishers. I can't even imagine how Takahashi feels about Yu-gi-oh now and how its become something that is literally unrecognizable from the original vision.
@@Blackstarz000 Horrible Things Happen to People Who Play Games and Thankfully Many of Them Are People Who Deserve It But Unfortunately Not All of Them: The Manga
It's a shame bringing back Pandora's/Arcana's suicidal thoughts by Marik is not used in the anime. 4kids could change it to Marik saying something like "if you lose this duel, Arcana, I will send you to the shadow realm" haha
I don't know about the English version but in the Dutch version Marik actually says that he shattered Pandora's mind forever. He does the same thing with the Exodia rare hunter and he has already done it at sometime in the past with Strings.
Are you forgetting the fact that prior to the first game against Yugi, Mokuba has a bunch of his friends threaten Yugi with a bunch of GUNS AND KNIVES?!
@@___------ The popular version? What does that mean? Is there more than one version of Yu-Gi-Oh? Is there an unpopular version? Does Konami make the unpopular Yu-Gi-Oh? There’s only one version that happens to have a dub and sub and a raw...I guess that you could count the changes America makes as different versions, but still...the game is also popular in Japan...and even more so...so, even in that case, the ‘popular’ version is not for kids
@@primusvsunicron1 Not sure how that adds to the conversation. Especially considering Seto's only contribution to his father's corp was building a virtual reality for soldiers to train (which was never Seto intention for it) and a fighter jet which had a Blue-Eyes White Dragon painted on it. In the cartoon they he built a jet shaped like the dragon.
honestly, I think Marik's father's death in the Dub and maybe sub anime is considered "mercy" compared to how he died in the manga,geez that was Brutal. O_O
Crystal sanchez nah not really I mean sure it was bad and all mark didn't know the duck is going on and you can't sort of blame him yet I have no mercy on him because that asshole as a "Father" deserved it. If I would be mark or his darker self I would be proud of my work because I'm free of all agony you know. Even if Yami Yugi did it (Atem) I would thank him because now I don't have to be totured by this man anymore. At least that's the way I see it.
It's strange how the manga begins with all these horrific scenes and then gradually tones down to have an innocent Mokuba and an acceptable Seto Kaiba. It's almost as if Kazuki changed his mind about how he wanted to write his story.
@@emanuelmendezcastillo5595 Do you have a site or quote to support that? Because the very start of Yu-Gi-Oh Dulist recounts the events of the previous series as canon.
@@Mailed-Knight well in dulist kaiba and yu gi duel happens with the holagrams and nit on a tabel Atem dosent do punishment games as dark as the og manga They only recall the time joey and yu gi became friends abd not the burger world guy burning event or death t
@@emanuelmendezcastillo5595 Pretty sure they reference Death T when encounter Mokubar and scolds Yugi for Kaiba not coming back. As for Yami not being as dark I figured it was because Yugi was influencing him. Kinda like how Yugi was very slowly becoming less of a pussy.
Also I like the page where marik head got cut off after his monsters head was cut off by mai monster I wish we got saw something like that in the anime
Yugioh Everything will you make a part 2 to this? I have a feeling there is way more darker moments in the manga . This is actually quite interesting to see how big of a difference the anime and manga is
14:09. So that's what Abridged Ishizu meant when she said it "made perfect sense in the Japanese version". She was right! Yugi was too riled up by the ridiculousness of the 4Kids version to listen, though.
Ok, if someone tells me yugioh is just for kids, I will tell him to watch this video! (+ the other top 10 darkest moments in the yugioh anime) And by the way, each time Yami Yugi says : "I wanna play a game with you!", I get Saw vibes!
ryanbelcher25rb actually your not quit wring it wasn't shown in Germany greeting by the way. It wasn't friendly enough and it's very dark so it wasn't never shown and I hate it. I love season 0 omg yami yugi is savage.... HOT ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
yamimarik in all versions stops his attempt to kill odion for a childrens card came, which is really silly in all versions. "I could stab you but there are childrens card games to be had"
John Reeves exactly! It’s NEVER been stated in the anime OR manga as for kids! Even IRL it’s marketed for anyone NOT only children PLUS structure decks these days are meant to become meta quickly and no kid is gonna master the game and go win a YCS halfway across the freaking world
I really love those first 7 volumes of the manga and season 0, this was the original intended vision of Yu-Gi-Oh before trading cards took over, it was meant as a love letter to all things gaming, I really wonder what could have been of this franchise if the card game hadn't become the series' identity
@@Archon3960 Then it would just be a cult classic that probably would have never left Japan because the fact is, the first several volumes of Yugioh wasn't popular. This is also why the Toei anime bombed and is all but forgotten in Japan.
I recently read the manga a few months ago and god is dark. I never really got to finish the manga so I started from the beginning. Best decision I made. Is freaking amazing and yami in the beginning was a savage.
I would've put the massacre of the original bakuras village on here, men, women and children were all slaughtered to create the millennium items. Id say thats a higher count than the chopmans.
That may be a solid point, but counter point.... we're talking about ancient egypt here, they'd sac villages as a sign of force regularly. In modern times (outside of wartime) murder is a big deal, so 10 modern murders far outweighs 1000 "sacrifices" in ancient times. The fact the village was known for being the home of murderers and thieves even makes it a police action/ a culling of taint on the empire, which while frowned upon, was a necessary service in such a large empire in a time where dissenters and trouble makers could mar and destroy an empire that was centuries in the making in mere years. All that said, it still shoulda earned a spot on the list if only for the gruesome way in which they were sacrificed... but that whole arc was hardcore in ways even season 0 did not dare to go.
I'm actually so surprised at how the dub handled this. I expected more of the soft dub which is too scared to even show death but they actually tried justifying it by arguing that the village had "evil people" in it.
12:14 Um... Joji is Honda's nephew. Not Jonouchi's cousin. 12:48 Yeah... because a whole village getting killed to create the Sennen items isn't worse than that. 13:07 Yeah... because a whole village getting killed to create the Sennen items isn't worse than that.
We are wired to empathize more on a personal, relatable level. It's the fact that it occurs to individuals rather than a large group of people in addition to experiencing more of the details. When you hear about hundreds of people being killed in an explosion it's certainly horrifying, but it isn't as uncomfortable a feeling as hearing about what a serial murderer or rapist does to their individual victims because we can imagine ourselves in such a situation. It's psychological, as much as I agree in terms of how the slaughtering of many is far worse then just a few.
Hearing about a village miles away being wiped out is sad, but being the only survivor who KNEW all of those other villagers is WORSE. Being outside looking in, yeah it's bad. But having actually known all of those people, and then watch them being murdered and the murderers getting away with it would indeed be downright horrible.
In the technical sense, yes, but I think the transition to the "Duelist" part of the manga still felt a bit jarring. Not as jarring as going from season 0 to Duel Monsters, since those were handled completely separately, but still jarring. I don't know, the way Duel Monsters was (re)introduced just felt different from how all the other games were introduced earlier in the manga. To me, the game explanations earlier in the manga felt like when someone tells you about something they're enthusiastic about, whereas the introduction of Duel Monsters at that part of the manga felt like product placement. Maybe because that's actually what the difference was. But I should end this comment before I end up ranting about my frustrations over how Yugioh was hijacked, I've already gone on a long enough tangent away from what your comment was about... :'D
"Chopper Man" seems like an amalgam of Jason Vorhees and Texas' Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface. His crimes allude to Jason, but his design and weapon of choice seem more linked to Leatherface. Amazing video, btw!
Not even a mention of Inogashira Gorou, the student Yami Yugi burned/killed in the original manga just because he had destroyed his classes' booth at the school festival?
Mokuba's personality always seemed so extreme to me. Seto was practically insane yes but Mokuba was just...sadistic. Kaiba didn't go ape shit until he lost to Yugi and had a penalty game. Loved Kaiba brothers redemption arcs though. And sick and twisted character Kaiba WAS.
I read the manga and watched YGO after the Duel Monsters anime but still. And yeah people need to understand that all that before DM is canon in Yu-Gi-Oh! universe even if thay keep only to anime or to manga universe. Yu-Gi-Oh! stories are very serious, but people need to watch the original to understand that. When I said original, I mean japanese.
For me, dub changes to much, cut to much, even changes to much dialogs so it changes weight to the story. That's why I think and recommend sub for better understandig of our beloved YGO universe.
Manga isn't canon to the anime since the anime sequels veer off in a different direction then the manga sequels. The anime universe is completely separate from the manga one. This is why technically DM anime "Filler" isn't filler, because plot points from the Doma arc are further expanded upon in the subsequent anime.
Anime Mokuba: that kid that regularly gets abducted by the villain of the week Manga Mokuba: keeps a room full of the trophies of people he's brutally murdered
I thought your video was great. Those 10 top dark moments are mostly on my list too. The only one I'd like add is a scene in the Bunko Edition of YGO vol.21 where the author Kazuki Takahashi adds a scene in the Memory arc that he ran out of time to publish in the original run. Where Priest Seto's father, Priest Aknahaden (I know I spelled it wrong) burtally murders a guard that tells him that Pharaoh Atem was alive after suffering a fall in a Diaha with Thief Bakura. Sad thing was the guard was so happy tell the news too, he got rewarded by his superior killing him in a fit of rage. Also none of us should be shocked at the darkness of the YGO manga. Especially Kazuki said an inspiration for it was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Probably Part 3 more specifically as they are traveling to Egypt, playing either Soul-snatching or life/death games with Stands that are similar to Ka Spirits in YGO. BTW sorry but the Bunko Reprints aren't available in the US. I had to order mine from Japan.
No wonder I couldn’t remember Chopman, the murderer’s mansion was cut out. But still, I can say some gruesome stuff. I can say that looking through the original stuff gives me more respect for the anime/manga.
About #9, I remember the manga saying that the escaped criminal murdered a prison guard as he escaped, and that he was on death row. I have all the original Yugioh and Yugioh Duelist volumes, but only as an adult have I realized how dark the manga was.
I remember some of these scenes like the Marik’s father scene. I also remember other pretty gruesome scenes like them showing how the image on Marik’s back was created and his back full of blood during the scene, there was a couple of pretty extreme scenes with the millennium eye and some others which I can’t remember lol. I missed out much of season 0 though since I bought the manga because of the anime so I bought the volumes involving anime scenes. Funny thing is I read the yugioh manga as a kid and I was perfectly fine, if that happened today there would be a lot of uproar about these stuffs lol.
Joji is actually Honda's nephew. Honda mentions that Joji is his sister's son early in the Death-T arc. I realize the first part has already been mentioned by someone else, but I figured I would give some actual context to the fact since I'm making a correction.
The (early) manga/season 0 Yami Yugi was so badass. I mean, Yami was badass in the (later) anime as well, but nothing compared to the (early) manga/season 0. It's definitely not a kids show. It's shame that it's not that well-known. I really liked S0. (But I also love the following shows. Especially 5D's.)
I love yugioh duel monsters because of nostalgia but I was a weird kid and watched season 0 first when I was younger, so I can't watch the Japanese yugioh duel monsters because I'm so used to the voice for yugi in season 0 that I don't know when yugi is speaking
#9... His cigarette fell out of his mouth. I read the opening to the manga so many times. And what was even darker was Yugi either didn't care or didn't know what just happened because he complained that he didn't get to eat his burger. Come on. He had to smell the burning flesh. God the manga was so dark, but I loved it. Also Season 0 had some polishing since during the Dragon Cards/Block chapters/episode, in the episode Imori lived... He did not in the manga.
I would also like to see your 11-20 list for this subject because I noticed the major lack of Bakura and the Big 5 (except [I always think of them as there cards/personalities] Jinzo, the scare tactics guy). I read up to the point of maybe T-5... they had just shown pegasus and such so I was thinking Duelist Kingdom was next so I had stopped. I do not remember any Battle city moments like Pandora or Marik coming up though. I say this jokingly, but it still is a little true, one of the dark moments to me is them showing Yugi playing the sock game and his mom walking in on it... obviously not that dark at all; however, it does disturb me on multiple levels that he was that bored and lonely... and by showing the mom it makes the question of who is yugi's father part of the foreground because she does not look like him really at all but nothing (as far as I know) is ever mentioned about the father... those kind of questions always bother me at the deepest level of my being. I may have been influenced by my mom more and I do treat my father distantly due to lack of similar interests, but the idea that parents are not relevent does not make sense to meat all for anime and media in general (OK not in movies where the story needs to be direct as possible). How is it justifyable in a 80+ chapter series or a 13+ episode season to not devote one picture/moment/flash back/panel to showing the parents an in the place of longer stuff like 20+ episodes and the like a "what did they do" answer. I must know otherwise I cannot really get to know a character. Hence forth I normally like MC's less than villians because villians get more backstory.
@@trexdrew Exactly right, she seemed like a normal parent, so why did she show up less than Grandpa, I do not ask for more than once in a while; but no she let her kid travel everywhere without comment.
4:50 In that shadow game it really felt unfair. Like he was going to lose points no matter what he said. If he said he was greedy he would lose points because of sinfulness and if he said he wasn't greedy he would lose points for lying. Moreso all of Shady's questions were closed questions with only 2 answers. I really hate that when it feels Shady is just tormenting him for the fun of it. If he is already decided to be an evil person who should be killed why not just get on with it?
as far out as things like Chopman are, it would add so much depth to the yugioh world. It's more than just card games and friendship. I'd like a highly skilled duelist who promised the winner of their matches rare cards, but kills them if they lose.
so the original yu-gi-oh manga was very dark then came the anime season 0 and toned it down a bit but it was still very dark than duel monster came out than it toned it down even more but it was still very dark than yugioh duel monsters the anime came out and it toned it down even more but it still had dark elements than the 4kids yugioh came out than barney became a darker show than yugioh well damn
starting with the premise that I didn't read the first seven volumes and the duelist! manga (not yet, but i watched the anime in japanese and, weirdly enough I've read the millennium world manga already) I always saw the start of duelist kingdom as a soft reboot,in fact from that point on the manga progressively loses most of its darkest aspects...this happens even to some character such as mokuba, seto, shadi and yami yugi himself; in the millennium world manga we reached a point where the dark aspects are less than ever (there are still some tho, like the father of seto ripping off his millennium eye) and yami yugi has basically become a pure hearted hero. I tend to endure pretty well these dark stuff and I think the most important reason why the first yugioh was such a success that the spin-offs never menaged to reach (until now, at least) is that yugioh duelist and millennium world were a balanced combo of mystery, creepy stuff, magic items, monster design, characters design and personality and friendship. the spin-offs lost many of these and, unavoidably, yugioh lost personality and fans(still the spin offs aren't bad shows at all). Last (sorry for the long trip), I wish Takahashi took more time to introduce more characters each having a millennium item to treat yugi and co., and to give the items different powers and to explain better the rules of the yami no games...thank you for the video yugioh everything! you and everybody else, what do you think?
When I was told the Manga was way darker than the Anime, I truly underestimated how insane everyone is in the original story. I mean Atem has no chill!
Gozabor Kaiba killing himself cuz he lost his company to Saito. Now I think about, I can understand why Saiton threaten to kill himself at Duliest Kingdom if he didn't win against Yugi. And that's still extreme and pointless way to go cuz YuGiOh was planning to save everybody when he beaten Pegasus so...Saito got some pridful from his father after all...
There actually isn't that much different between any of the 'Yami' characters since they're all sadistic in the manga, at least before Atem calmed down. The main differences are Atem wasn't evil, he's just insane because he was conscious the entire time he was sealed in the Puzzle for 3,000 years which wrecked his sanity. Yami Bakura isn't so much insane but purely evil since he's basically Zorc. And Yami Marik is both insane and evil since he isn't really a person but all of Marik's negative emotions.
the season 0 moment that i always come back to is the doctor who put his golf game before his patients and was creeping serenity's nurse. him & yugi played indoors golf for proof of the doctor's misconduct as usual yugi wins and the good doctor's penalty game was that he got dragged off to hell by the souls of patients he blew off life saving surgery for in favor of his golf dates.
The manga is greatness! Love the anime as well but it just isn't Takahashi's true vision of the story due to the censorship. Also Yami Yugi is a complete savage in the manga.
Damn, Dylan! I knew a few ones of these, but definitely not the N°1.., Gosh that's horrible. Still, an awesome list and awesome video! Gotta love the original manga xD
11:19 - I'll never forget reading the chapter where Jonouchi fights Chopman at the age of only 6. I was more intrigued by Chopman's bizarre speech (in the Shonen Jump translation) than anything else.
I have now 5 books of the 3 in 1 manga from yu-gi-oh and my fav moment was that poor yugi was hanging on his millennium puzzle and it almost chocked him to death I was really shocking and disturbing to see you could see yugi just hanging there like a dangaronpa death panel
You forgot one manga fact that Seto Kaiba worked with mafia to blackmail and threat people into giving him Blue Eyes White Dragon cards. Some of his victim even commit suicide due to fear of mafia.
I read the manga when I was 10..... Never really understood those messed up moments but oh god now I'm 16 I'm glad I didn't understood anything back then
If only we had that kisara arc expanded as planned, then we would of had dark manga moments that looks as if it was lifted straight out of berserk, nevermind the fact that both atem and kaiba both look and behave like both guts and griffith
This video is GREAT! But it finally made me ask a question that When I first saw Yugioh years ago it was Season 0 in the manga but in the US so I notice something where changed and or left out, but that isn't my point and or question. I have to ask, What is the deal with the Pharaoh spirit? At the very start the guy had a dark streak that made you not wanna look at him the wrong way, only thing that saved ya tend to be not putting someone in danger and messing with his friends. Now if you are going off the way he acts in the start of the manga. I can then totally see why people come after the guy later on. But what is the deal, was he that hardcore in life and stuff just got changed later when it became more about the card game?! Just feels like a lot of the time when you look at season zero that there was this totally different idea for Yugioh that all got changed, BUT when you get back near the end of it it feels like they left a lot of elements from season zero that would totally make you understand why people in the past might have and still do, hate the Pharaoh.
I think only remember getting my hands on volume 3 of season 0 and I was, like, 8 because apparently my uncle didn’t really know what he was doing but I remember volume 3 had some messed up shit and Mokuba and Shadi were there. I think the top moment was...volume 19? I’ll have to return home to find that out, haha but Strings in the manga was also uh Well, he’s probably an honorable mention XD
It is crazy to think I read this as a kid. But this was easily one of my favorite series I ever read. The anime just never had the same impact, I really feel this initial yugioh manga was incredible
How these characters don't have extreme PTSD after these events is mind blowing. Man they definitely tone down the violence and highly promoted friendship and yugi never wanted to kill anyone, but in this how many characters have a kill count?
Honestly I wondered if Marik's fathers death would be on this list somehow, and seeing it at number 1 makes still too much sense as you know its dark when even the original anime had to dub the death to simply stabbed to death.
"Is that Joey Wheeler?" "Nah, it's his cousin, Joji Wheeler"
HAHAHAHA best comment ever
Is that Joey Wheeler"Nah its Jessie Wheeler"
*Jessie
Nah its speedwagon
Filthy "Joji" Frank
Do keep in mind that the only reason Kaiba set up Death-T in the first place is because he lost at a children's card game. I don't think he ever apologized either.
And he never will as shown in Duelist Kingdom when Jonouchi attacked him because of it.
PikaTheProsperous He was more pissed that Atem traumatized him with the penalty game
But he invented Solid Vision because of it so it wasn't all bad?
I think he had PTDS because of Atem
@@TheGuraGuraMan And yet he forever called all of that stuff "Occult bullshit." He's like fucking Hercule from DBZ I swear. "IT'S ALL AN ILLUSION/TRICK!"
For a franchise known for promoting a card game, the manga that started it all is dark enough at times to perhaps fit into the horror/dark fantasy genre.
Yandere Alchemist almost like that was the point.
@@bahaman19901 acctualy yugioh was originally going to be a horror manga.
And then Saw heading the cinemas.
It might’ve been a dark fantasy
That's what my husband said 😂
The manga is such a masterpiece. Takahashi was a pretty messed up dude. But man, I can't emphasize enough that if anyone likes Yugioh, they have to read the original manga. I don't think I can ever go back to the DM anime after I read the manga
I totally agree, the DM manga is incredible
And I thought Takeshi Sudoh got screwed over hard by his publishers. I can't even imagine how Takahashi feels about Yu-gi-oh now and how its become something that is literally unrecognizable from the original vision.
I was 8 when I read the manga. Good stuff.
I bet he and Togashi get along well
@@YugiohEverything i never read the manga but geez how i wish there is one in the Philippines
"You know, for kids!!"
Frankie Jr you mean 4kids.
Nostalgia Critic rrrrrrrrheumatism
+adam kahiri ba-dum-tsss!
That's why the that anime they tone down
Juan44444 Gomez4444 The anime isn’t that toned down. Remember it’s primarily for teenage boys in Japan.
It was pretty scary when Dark Bakura killed Pegasus J. Crawford by ripping his Millenium Eye out.
I know, right?
mrmampmamp did you have to say Pegasus’ full name? Xd
This is why Yu-Gi-Oh! is NOT MADE FOR CHILDREN!!!
xD xD
@@YugiohEverything you have to be 6 to play it
TheJaredPunch eh, I still find it suitable for kids
>published in weekly shonen jump
It is. Japan has different standards.
Yu-Gi-Oh! aka. Horrible Things Happening to Horrible People: The Manga
Huojunta and Tea
Or krama the manga
What about Mai and Tea
No more like Horrible Things Happen to People Play Games:The Manga
@@Blackstarz000 Horrible Things Happen to People Who Play Games and Thankfully Many of Them Are People Who Deserve It But Unfortunately Not All of Them: The Manga
It's a shame bringing back Pandora's/Arcana's suicidal thoughts by Marik is not used in the anime. 4kids could change it to Marik saying something like "if you lose this duel, Arcana, I will send you to the shadow realm" haha
They would do that to. Funnily enough the shadow realm is worse than death.
I don't know about the English version but in the Dutch version Marik actually says that he shattered Pandora's mind forever. He does the same thing with the Exodia rare hunter and he has already done it at sometime in the past with Strings.
marinus18 yeah English 4 kids censored a lot to turn it tv y7 aka g
Pff, those kids didn’t get killed. Everyone knows that people are either kidnapped or they disappear. Just ask Edo’s dad.
Oh wait...
They "took away" Asters dad noooooooo!
Wait....
Well, I guess you could say he WAS taken considering where he ended up
Are you forgetting the fact that prior to the first game against Yugi, Mokuba has a bunch of his friends threaten Yugi with a bunch of GUNS AND KNIVES?!
Oh, and how the Punishment Game for Panik was a hallucination of him hanging himself?!
Which resulted in his neck snapping for real.
Them: “Yu-Gi-Oh! is for kids”
Me” *shows this video*
Them: *Jaws drop in disbelief* “What the...”
Ryan Zephyr 😂😂😂😂 so true
Such true much wow
The popular version of Yu-Gi-Oh IS for kids. No one knows this version even exists. So yes, it is for kids
@@___------ The popular version? What does that mean? Is there more than one version of Yu-Gi-Oh? Is there an unpopular version? Does Konami make the unpopular Yu-Gi-Oh? There’s only one version that happens to have a dub and sub and a raw...I guess that you could count the changes America makes as different versions, but still...the game is also popular in Japan...and even more so...so, even in that case, the ‘popular’ version is not for kids
@@ryanzephyr3417 The popular version as in "not the manga that people don't even know exist"
Mokuba is f###### insane in the original manga. What the hell is wrong with Kaiba' family?
I know, right?! Anime Mokuba and Manga Mokuba are two completely different characters!
@@Moda-pf8wt So is Yami and Seto. Yami Yugi is a sadist who laughs when he sees criminals and bullies die or in pain.
@@Mailed-Knight True.
Well KaibaCorp was originally an Arms Manufacturer
@@primusvsunicron1 Not sure how that adds to the conversation. Especially considering Seto's only contribution to his father's corp was building a virtual reality for soldiers to train (which was never Seto intention for it) and a fighter jet which had a Blue-Eyes White Dragon painted on it. In the cartoon they he built a jet shaped like the dragon.
honestly, I think Marik's father's death in the Dub and maybe sub anime is considered "mercy" compared to how he died in the manga,geez that was Brutal. O_O
Yeah for real... What an excruciating way to die
Honestly he deserved it he was a prick. Though maybe not what you're referring to.
Crystal sanchez still he deserved it.
Techno entertain: dude wither he deserved it or not,he was Marik's father no matter how you slice it. and honestly i actually felt terrible for Marik
Crystal sanchez nah not really I mean sure it was bad and all mark didn't know the duck is going on and you can't sort of blame him yet I have no mercy on him because that asshole as a "Father" deserved it. If I would be mark or his darker self I would be proud of my work because I'm free of all agony you know. Even if Yami Yugi did it (Atem) I would thank him because now I don't have to be totured by this man anymore. At least that's the way I see it.
It's strange how the manga begins with all these horrific scenes and then gradually tones down to have an innocent Mokuba and an acceptable Seto Kaiba. It's almost as if Kazuki changed his mind about how he wanted to write his story.
He did. The newer style sold more toys and brought more kids into the franchise which made more money.
Actauly the og manga and dulist take place in diffrint universes sorta like a reboot or as lenny would say a de boot
@@emanuelmendezcastillo5595 Do you have a site or quote to support that? Because the very start of Yu-Gi-Oh Dulist recounts the events of the previous series as canon.
@@Mailed-Knight well in dulist kaiba and yu gi duel happens with the holagrams and nit on a tabel
Atem dosent do punishment games as dark as the og manga
They only recall the time joey and yu gi became friends abd not the burger world guy burning event or death t
@@emanuelmendezcastillo5595 Pretty sure they reference Death T when encounter Mokubar and scolds Yugi for Kaiba not coming back. As for Yami not being as dark I figured it was because Yugi was influencing him. Kinda like how Yugi was very slowly becoming less of a pussy.
Mai versus Marik is definitely one of my favorite dark duels in the manga just seeing mai electrocuted to death is terrifying
Yeah Mai went through awful torture in that duel
Also I like the page where marik head got cut off after his monsters head was cut off by mai monster I wish we got saw something like that in the anime
I did not know the Yu-Gi-Oh manga got that dark. Jesus Christ who approved of having a serial killer that killed children?
LOL right?? No wonder the anime skipped over that entire section
Yugioh Everything will you make a part 2 to this? I have a feeling there is way more darker moments in the manga . This is actually quite interesting to see how big of a difference the anime and manga is
Honestly, you have to read the manga yourself. Summaries don't do it justice. It's the true and intended way to experience Yugioh
Watch Gideon and Devil man...
CJ 334 Well due to broadcast standards they couldn’t show the anime as graphic as the manga.
14:09. So that's what Abridged Ishizu meant when she said it "made perfect sense in the Japanese version". She was right! Yugi was too riled up by the ridiculousness of the 4Kids version to listen, though.
the death T arc reminded me a lot of the SAW movies though to a less gory effect
And less pretentious... And the illiteracy is intentional.
Ok, if someone tells me yugioh is just for kids, I will tell him to watch this video! (+ the other top 10 darkest moments in the yugioh anime)
And by the way, each time Yami Yugi says : "I wanna play a game with you!", I get Saw vibes!
You absolutely should! Definitely not a manga for young kids xD
Sa. Game no Jikan.
@@SuperNeos2 My 2 favorite "games" are with the teacher and the psychic.
Yugioh Everything is there a Yugioh GX 3 GX manga longer than the show
If you realize, yugioh came out before Saw franchise. So maybe hollywood is inspired by him
Oooo the forbidden season.
Sry I've listen to the abridged series too much
xD It is a forbidden season
It's impossible to watch the abridged series too much.
4Kids would never air it. That could have been a Funimation thing.
ryanbelcher25rb actually your not quit wring it wasn't shown in Germany greeting by the way. It wasn't friendly enough and it's very dark so it wasn't never shown and I hate it. I love season 0 omg yami yugi is savage.... HOT ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
ryanbelcher25rb same here
4kids disliked this video
xD
4kids "how dare you mention what we censored that the sub had already toned down."
TheBlacKnight Zero ] Just replying because as of 9/4/2018 the joke is still going strong with 4 dislikes
How? They're dead at this point.
Oh sorry; "In the Shadow Realm" Ooooooooh, spooky.
TheDarkKnight Zero 4kids reported the video
and all of this could've been avoided if they just settled down and played a children's card game.
yamimarik in all versions stops his attempt to kill odion for a childrens card came, which is really silly in all versions. "I could stab you but there are childrens card games to be had"
Ren L Sora It’s not a children’s card game. They seriously need to drop that horrible joke.
@@Shadowrulzalways Yeah!
John Reeves exactly! It’s NEVER been stated in the anime OR manga as for kids! Even IRL it’s marketed for anyone NOT only children PLUS structure decks these days are meant to become meta quickly and no kid is gonna master the game and go win a YCS halfway across the freaking world
@@hightidekraken large majority of people who actualy play the card game in the shows are younger than 18, so by default it is a childrens card game
"And I choose my thumb, it's the *daddy* finger."
The serial killer reminded me a little more of Leatherface xD
I think appearance wise he is more like leatherface but origin wise he is like Jason since the whole killing kids in a lake is Jason thing
same!
@@Iceaiden As a horror fan, i can totally see it.
I really love those first 7 volumes of the manga and season 0, this was the original intended vision of Yu-Gi-Oh before trading cards took over, it was meant as a love letter to all things gaming, I really wonder what could have been of this franchise if the card game hadn't become the series' identity
Easy answer: the franchise would be dead.
@@genyakozlov1316 Is it better to burn out than to fade away? ;/
@@Archon3960 Then it would just be a cult classic that probably would have never left Japan because the fact is, the first several volumes of Yugioh wasn't popular. This is also why the Toei anime bombed and is all but forgotten in Japan.
I recently read the manga a few months ago and god is dark. I never really got to finish the manga so I started from the beginning. Best decision I made. Is freaking amazing and yami in the beginning was a savage.
Beware the yoyo gang!
Wow I never knew that mokuba was that crazy
Yeah before DK he was insane!
9:20: What disturbs me more than the bugs is the sight one might have when he looks up to Mai's glas cage from below.^^
I would've put the massacre of the original bakuras village on here, men, women and children were all slaughtered to create the millennium items.
Id say thats a higher count than the chopmans.
That may be a solid point, but counter point.... we're talking about ancient egypt here, they'd sac villages as a sign of force regularly. In modern times (outside of wartime) murder is a big deal, so 10 modern murders far outweighs 1000 "sacrifices" in ancient times. The fact the village was known for being the home of murderers and thieves even makes it a police action/ a culling of taint on the empire, which while frowned upon, was a necessary service in such a large empire in a time where dissenters and trouble makers could mar and destroy an empire that was centuries in the making in mere years.
All that said, it still shoulda earned a spot on the list if only for the gruesome way in which they were sacrificed... but that whole arc was hardcore in ways even season 0 did not dare to go.
I'm actually so surprised at how the dub handled this. I expected more of the soft dub which is too scared to even show death but they actually tried justifying it by arguing that the village had "evil people" in it.
12:14 Um... Joji is Honda's nephew. Not Jonouchi's cousin.
12:48 Yeah... because a whole village getting killed to create the Sennen items isn't worse than that.
13:07 Yeah... because a whole village getting killed to create the Sennen items isn't worse than that.
We are wired to empathize more on a personal, relatable level. It's the fact that it occurs to individuals rather than a large group of people in addition to experiencing more of the details. When you hear about hundreds of people being killed in an explosion it's certainly horrifying, but it isn't as uncomfortable a feeling as hearing about what a serial murderer or rapist does to their individual victims because we can imagine ourselves in such a situation. It's psychological, as much as I agree in terms of how the slaughtering of many is far worse then just a few.
Hearing about a village miles away being wiped out is sad, but being the only survivor who KNEW all of those other villagers is WORSE. Being outside looking in, yeah it's bad. But having actually known all of those people, and then watch them being murdered and the murderers getting away with it would indeed be downright horrible.
rob19ny you mean the millennium items?
So wait season 0 and the main Yugioh thing are all one cohesive story in the manga? Ok guess i learned something new today
In the technical sense, yes, but I think the transition to the "Duelist" part of the manga still felt a bit jarring. Not as jarring as going from season 0 to Duel Monsters, since those were handled completely separately, but still jarring. I don't know, the way Duel Monsters was (re)introduced just felt different from how all the other games were introduced earlier in the manga. To me, the game explanations earlier in the manga felt like when someone tells you about something they're enthusiastic about, whereas the introduction of Duel Monsters at that part of the manga felt like product placement. Maybe because that's actually what the difference was. But I should end this comment before I end up ranting about my frustrations over how Yugioh was hijacked, I've already gone on a long enough tangent away from what your comment was about... :'D
"Chopper Man" seems like an amalgam of Jason Vorhees and Texas' Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface. His crimes allude to Jason, but his design and weapon of choice seem more linked to Leatherface.
Amazing video, btw!
Suprised to not see any Bakura moments from the manga. Guy meant buissness.
What's even more crazy is my real name is Derrick Vail lmfao
Pegasus Death should be here
Not even a mention of Inogashira Gorou, the student Yami Yugi burned/killed in the original manga just because he had destroyed his classes' booth at the school festival?
Mokuba's personality always seemed so extreme to me. Seto was practically insane yes but Mokuba was just...sadistic. Kaiba didn't go ape shit until he lost to Yugi and had a penalty game. Loved Kaiba brothers redemption arcs though. And sick and twisted character Kaiba WAS.
*Now I want to read the manga from the beginning.*
a lot of people forget yugioh was originally supposed to be a horror manga lol
I read the manga and watched YGO after the Duel Monsters anime but still. And yeah people need to understand that all that before DM is canon in Yu-Gi-Oh! universe even if thay keep only to anime or to manga universe. Yu-Gi-Oh! stories are very serious, but people need to watch the original to understand that. When I said original, I mean japanese.
Definitely, it had extremely dark origins
For me, dub changes to much, cut to much, even changes to much dialogs so it changes weight to the story. That's why I think and recommend sub for better understandig of our beloved YGO universe.
Manga isn't canon to the anime since the anime sequels veer off in a different direction then the manga sequels. The anime universe is completely separate from the manga one. This is why technically DM anime "Filler" isn't filler, because plot points from the Doma arc are further expanded upon in the subsequent anime.
Sure. Agreed. But you still can take anime/manga canon in couple ways. After all Arc V manga is definity sequel to previous animessss :)
Wow never knew the mangas were like that for Yugioh... Also really dark.
Anime Mokuba: that kid that regularly gets abducted by the villain of the week
Manga Mokuba: keeps a room full of the trophies of people he's brutally murdered
I thought your video was great. Those 10 top dark moments are mostly on my list too. The only one I'd like add is a scene in the Bunko Edition of YGO vol.21 where the author Kazuki Takahashi adds a scene in the Memory arc that he ran out of time to publish in the original run. Where Priest Seto's father, Priest Aknahaden (I know I spelled it wrong) burtally murders a guard that tells him that Pharaoh Atem was alive after suffering a fall in a Diaha with Thief Bakura. Sad thing was the guard was so happy tell the news too, he got rewarded by his superior killing him in a fit of rage.
Also none of us should be shocked at the darkness of the YGO manga. Especially Kazuki said an inspiration for it was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Probably Part 3 more specifically as they are traveling to Egypt, playing either Soul-snatching or life/death games with Stands that are similar to Ka Spirits in YGO.
BTW sorry but the Bunko Reprints aren't available in the US. I had to order mine from Japan.
Number 6 was so messed up that prevert classmate will do that Anzu to me he got what deserves. And that Mr.Ishtar was a bad father.
Read Yu-gi-oh R there're even more dark moments there.
Wow. The yugioh manga has a lot of dark things.
No wonder I couldn’t remember Chopman, the murderer’s mansion was cut out. But still, I can say some gruesome stuff. I can say that looking through the original stuff gives me more respect for the anime/manga.
I would've added Pegasus' death and the slaughter of Kul Elena to create the Millennium Items on the list. At least as honorable mentions.
I mean the latter happens in the anime
4:47 that is exactly what would happen to someone in egyptian mythology if they were judged to be a bad person by anubis
About #9, I remember the manga saying that the escaped criminal murdered a prison guard as he escaped, and that he was on death row.
I have all the original Yugioh and Yugioh Duelist volumes, but only as an adult have I realized how dark the manga was.
Making my way through the Season 0 Manga when I was around 8 y/o is a highlight of my childhood
You forgot what Bakura did to Pegasus.
Also what Pegasus did to Bandit Keith.
Or what Marik was going to do to Odion.
Silent Protagonist what was he gonna do? O.O
He ripped the Millennium Eye out of Pegasus's eye socket.
I remember some of these scenes like the Marik’s father scene. I also remember other pretty gruesome scenes like them showing how the image on Marik’s back was created and his back full of blood during the scene, there was a couple of pretty extreme scenes with the millennium eye and some others which I can’t remember lol. I missed out much of season 0 though since I bought the manga because of the anime so I bought the volumes involving anime scenes. Funny thing is I read the yugioh manga as a kid and I was perfectly fine, if that happened today there would be a lot of uproar about these stuffs lol.
Joji is actually Honda's nephew. Honda mentions that Joji is his sister's son early in the Death-T arc. I realize the first part has already been mentioned by someone else, but I figured I would give some actual context to the fact since I'm making a correction.
the manga is so much better
the pacing is better,the rules are better explained,less plotholes, asspulls and more information.
We've come a long way from invisible guns, dark energy disks and being sent to the ''Shadow Realm''...
Those are some crazy moments I was surprised to hear about some of these moments. Awesome video you really got blow my mind with this list.
Season 0 was interesting to watch. No 10 starting off strong. Haha mokuba is really crazy. Totally hate bugs too. So many dark themes.
The (early) manga/season 0 Yami Yugi was so badass. I mean, Yami was badass in the (later) anime as well, but nothing compared to the (early) manga/season 0. It's definitely not a kids show. It's shame that it's not that well-known. I really liked S0. (But I also love the following shows. Especially 5D's.)
I love yugioh duel monsters because of nostalgia but I was a weird kid and watched season 0 first when I was younger, so I can't watch the Japanese yugioh duel monsters because I'm so used to the voice for yugi in season 0 that I don't know when yugi is speaking
No it’s a kid’s manga.
Japan just has different standards
#9... His cigarette fell out of his mouth. I read the opening to the manga so many times. And what was even darker was Yugi either didn't care or didn't know what just happened because he complained that he didn't get to eat his burger. Come on. He had to smell the burning flesh. God the manga was so dark, but I loved it.
Also Season 0 had some polishing since during the Dragon Cards/Block chapters/episode, in the episode Imori lived... He did not in the manga.
I would also like to see your 11-20 list for this subject because I noticed the major lack of Bakura and the Big 5 (except [I always think of them as there cards/personalities] Jinzo, the scare tactics guy). I read up to the point of maybe T-5... they had just shown pegasus and such so I was thinking Duelist Kingdom was next so I had stopped. I do not remember any Battle city moments like Pandora or Marik coming up though.
I say this jokingly, but it still is a little true, one of the dark moments to me is them showing Yugi playing the sock game and his mom walking in on it... obviously not that dark at all; however, it does disturb me on multiple levels that he was that bored and lonely... and by showing the mom it makes the question of who is yugi's father part of the foreground because she does not look like him really at all but nothing (as far as I know) is ever mentioned about the father... those kind of questions always bother me at the deepest level of my being. I may have been influenced by my mom more and I do treat my father distantly due to lack of similar interests, but the idea that parents are not relevent does not make sense to meat all for anime and media in general (OK not in movies where the story needs to be direct as possible). How is it justifyable in a 80+ chapter series or a 13+ episode season to not devote one picture/moment/flash back/panel to showing the parents an in the place of longer stuff like 20+ episodes and the like a "what did they do" answer. I must know otherwise I cannot really get to know a character. Hence forth I normally like MC's less than villians because villians get more backstory.
Kody Tiffany its also a little sad because he’d rather play a game than spend time with his mom
exactly. thanks for the comment.
@@kodytiffany5686 the only time she showed up in the dub was cut out so we never saw her in the dub except for probably in the sub
@@trexdrew Exactly right, she seemed like a normal parent, so why did she show up less than Grandpa, I do not ask for more than once in a while; but no she let her kid travel everywhere without comment.
4:50
In that shadow game it really felt unfair. Like he was going to lose points no matter what he said. If he said he was greedy he would lose points because of sinfulness and if he said he wasn't greedy he would lose points for lying. Moreso all of Shady's questions were closed questions with only 2 answers. I really hate that when it feels Shady is just tormenting him for the fun of it. If he is already decided to be an evil person who should be killed why not just get on with it?
as far out as things like Chopman are, it would add so much depth to the yugioh world. It's more than just card games and friendship. I'd like a highly skilled duelist who promised the winner of their matches rare cards, but kills them if they lose.
so the original yu-gi-oh manga was very dark then came the anime season 0 and toned it down a bit but it was still very dark than duel monster came out than it toned it down even more but it was still very dark than yugioh duel monsters the anime came out and it toned it down even more but it still had dark elements than the 4kids yugioh came out than barney became a darker show than yugioh
well damn
I recently read all of the manga referenced in this video and wow it’s dark!
I read the manga three years ago, and, my god, is it dark! It was clearly meant for an older audience.
starting with the premise that I didn't read the first seven volumes and the duelist! manga (not yet, but i watched the anime in japanese and, weirdly enough I've read the millennium world manga already) I always saw the start of duelist kingdom as a soft reboot,in fact from that point on the manga progressively loses most of its darkest aspects...this happens even to some character such as mokuba, seto, shadi and yami yugi himself; in the millennium world manga we reached a point where the dark aspects are less than ever (there are still some tho, like the father of seto ripping off his millennium eye) and yami yugi has basically become a pure hearted hero. I tend to endure pretty well these dark stuff and I think the most important reason why the first yugioh was such a success that the spin-offs never menaged to reach (until now, at least) is that yugioh duelist and millennium world were a balanced combo of mystery, creepy stuff, magic items, monster design, characters design and personality and friendship. the spin-offs lost many of these and, unavoidably, yugioh lost personality and fans(still the spin offs aren't bad shows at all). Last (sorry for the long trip), I wish Takahashi took more time to introduce more characters each having a millennium item to treat yugi and co., and to give the items different powers and to explain better the rules of the yami no games...thank you for the video yugioh everything! you and everybody else, what do you think?
Now I hope the Yugioh anime gets a serial killer as a major character
Anime? That will never happen.
rob19ny I know but it would be so cool if it did, *sigh* guess we can never have nice things
Thai Japanese TV law that's why we why we don't need another Tokyo Ghoul situation why didn't mean to put on a stupid filter
I mean, we already have Marik and Bakura.
Even the sub version of the animes was toned down from the manga. The dub really didn't have to do a thing.
That means the anime more did censorship anime for the kids appeal to more for the kids
When I was told the Manga was way darker than the Anime, I truly underestimated how insane everyone is in the original story. I mean Atem has no chill!
I need to get some copies of that manga.
I highly recommend!!
Gozabor Kaiba killing himself cuz he lost his company to Saito. Now I think about, I can understand why Saiton threaten to kill himself at Duliest Kingdom if he didn't win against Yugi.
And that's still extreme and pointless way to go cuz YuGiOh was planning to save everybody when he beaten Pegasus so...Saito got some pridful from his father after all...
Takashi is like the japanesse steven king. This wldve been a great horror anime movie. I dont know if im the only one that thinks that.
I thought yami marik was just an anomaly in how messed up he was, but man. The manga is crazy
There actually isn't that much different between any of the 'Yami' characters since they're all sadistic in the manga, at least before Atem calmed down. The main differences are Atem wasn't evil, he's just insane because he was conscious the entire time he was sealed in the Puzzle for 3,000 years which wrecked his sanity. Yami Bakura isn't so much insane but purely evil since he's basically Zorc. And Yami Marik is both insane and evil since he isn't really a person but all of Marik's negative emotions.
All these years watching the anime I had no idea the manga was this dark
While we are on the topic of dark content of Yugioh, what are the top ten/five Plenty Games you would most definitely not want to go through?
the season 0 moment that i always come back to is the doctor who put his golf game before his patients and was creeping serenity's nurse.
him & yugi played indoors golf for proof of the doctor's misconduct as usual yugi wins and the good doctor's penalty game was that he got dragged off to hell by the souls of patients he blew off life saving surgery for in favor of his golf dates.
The manga is greatness! Love the anime as well but it just isn't Takahashi's true vision of the story due to the censorship. Also Yami Yugi is a complete savage in the manga.
I´d have put pegasus death or the sceene when he got his millenium eye on number 10.
how about a video about Yugioh R or Yugioh transcend game?
Love the manga when I done with anime as a teenager now mid 20's adult =D
Jiro just burned to death and Yugi’s complaining that he never got to eat his burger.
Damn, Dylan! I knew a few ones of these, but definitely not the N°1.., Gosh that's horrible. Still, an awesome list and awesome video! Gotta love the original manga xD
Thanks Lup! Yeah a lot of messed up stuff
I think that Kaibas stepdad should get a spot. He broke him in so many ways. When Seto took over Kaiba Corp.
Well, now we know why Joey hates Kaiba so much. Jesus.
Also Yami is actually damn evil. This is so messed up
How dare you say that shit, he's not like that! Don't fucking say that about him!
11:19 - I'll never forget reading the chapter where Jonouchi fights Chopman at the age of only 6. I was more intrigued by Chopman's bizarre speech (in the Shonen Jump translation) than anything else.
And now you know, just how dark this series was
Goodness. The freaking manga is like the source material for Disney movies.
I have now 5 books of the 3 in 1 manga from yu-gi-oh and my fav moment was that poor yugi was hanging on his millennium puzzle and it almost chocked him to death I was really shocking and disturbing to see you could see yugi just hanging there like a dangaronpa death panel
You forgot one manga fact that Seto Kaiba worked with mafia to blackmail and threat people into giving him Blue Eyes White Dragon cards. Some of his victim even commit suicide due to fear of mafia.
I read the manga when I was 10..... Never really understood those messed up moments but oh god now I'm 16 I'm glad I didn't understood anything back then
If only we had that kisara arc expanded as planned, then we would of had dark manga moments that looks as if it was lifted straight out of berserk, nevermind the fact that both atem and kaiba both look and behave like both guts and griffith
I love your videos +yugioheverything keep em coming
I wish the anime was more like the Magna, * Sigh *
Yeah the anime changed a pretty decent amount
This video is GREAT! But it finally made me ask a question that When I first saw Yugioh years ago it was Season 0 in the manga but in the US so I notice something where changed and or left out, but that isn't my point and or question. I have to ask, What is the deal with the Pharaoh spirit? At the very start the guy had a dark streak that made you not wanna look at him the wrong way, only thing that saved ya tend to be not putting someone in danger and messing with his friends. Now if you are going off the way he acts in the start of the manga. I can then totally see why people come after the guy later on. But what is the deal, was he that hardcore in life and stuff just got changed later when it became more about the card game?!
Just feels like a lot of the time when you look at season zero that there was this totally different idea for Yugioh that all got changed, BUT when you get back near the end of it it feels like they left a lot of elements from season zero that would totally make you understand why people in the past might have and still do, hate the Pharaoh.
I think only remember getting my hands on volume 3 of season 0 and I was, like, 8 because apparently my uncle didn’t really know what he was doing but I remember volume 3 had some messed up shit and Mokuba and Shadi were there.
I think the top moment was...volume 19? I’ll have to return home to find that out, haha but Strings in the manga was also uh
Well, he’s probably an honorable mention XD
And here I thought the darkest stuff was already shown in Season 0 anime.
It is crazy to think I read this as a kid. But this was easily one of my favorite series I ever read. The anime just never had the same impact, I really feel this initial yugioh manga was incredible
How these characters don't have extreme PTSD after these events is mind blowing. Man they definitely tone down the violence and highly promoted friendship and yugi never wanted to kill anyone, but in this how many characters have a kill count?
That does NOT sound like the Mokuba I know in the anime.
Oh man, the episode with Jiro was one of the best in Season 0 in my opinion
Honestly I wondered if Marik's fathers death would be on this list somehow, and seeing it at number 1 makes still too much sense as you know its dark when even the original anime had to dub the death to simply stabbed to death.