@@CircuitReborn well 6 if you count life stream dragon he was supposed to appear wayyy early in the series (plus Leo becoming a signer) when the plot originally involved crow replacing Rex Godwin as the final villan but black wings said nope and they made crow into a hero so that they can market black wings
What went wrong is that they made the classic reboot mistake of making it unappealing to the original fanbase. The show and simpler gameplay mechanics are so blatantly aimed at a much younger audience than the series' that came before and so alienate a lot of the fanbase from the other 6 shows, yes they wanna bring in new fans but to do so by cutting off your old fans is the worst way to do it and inevitably leads to the series not doing as well at first.
Yeah. Especially then adding his other point: Nobody starts at chapter 7. So making a show that is blatantly anti-origin fanbase but then basically calling it "Yugioh, but watch 6 shows before this please" practically guarantees you'll also not have any new fans either.
It kinda makes more sense with yugioh, the current format is way too complicated for an anime fan to enter so a new format is much better, also it does get more seriouse later on like zexal
yu gi oh fans: "this serie is bullshit!, this is not yu gi oh i hate it!, why it is so simple it makes no sense!" yu gi oh seven: "we do not have mystic mine" yu gi oh fans: "ok... now i'm interested"
Australia did put out the first 20 episodes of sevens in dub and I checked it out and Yuga doesn't hate the game. He hates the overload of rules the game has gained which to me acts as a meta commentary on how complicated the game itself has become over the years.
if you dont like that a sport because it has so much rules or some rules that make it complicated for you, it almost the same as saying you dont like the sport, its the same statement in a way, but i agree that its a well done meta commentary about how complex the current yugioh has become.
@bastianokamiro5421 it's like if wilt chamberlain played in the game today. He'd be so confused and sick of the rules now a days. Similar to what they're saying old players feel. Even though in both cases it's apart of evolution
@@bastianokamiro5421 Weak analogy, sports don't have a meta, ever evolving convuluted card texts or straight up adding entire new aspects to the sport, it's more like not being happy with pvp updates that are obscenly broken
@@bastianokamiro5421 not the same thing, the equivalent would be if you played soccer/football since you were a kid but they kept adding new things, like if balls that had wings, change trajectory on its own, had dynamic weight, or if the players could use telekinesis, fly, had super strength, or if the field could change to a sand pit or a large pool of water... but no, the rules of sports are straightforward and unchanging. perfectly valid to not like the sport if they added all those things.
that original yu gi oh art style was awesome i loved the slender sharp jojo's bizarre adventure type designs i remember how badass marik looked when he was pissed and how dark the story got sometimes
Dude yes, the original did all of that SO well. Marik was an evil bastard but bakura was even worse. It’s crazy the main villain of the series was under your nose the WHOLE TIME. It wasn’t till the finial season you figured this out. that right there, is what made duel monsters so great. Oh, and the art style and bad ass opening them ofc!!
The big failure for me was not having it be connected with the card game like all the other series. Watching the anime then wanting to build character decks was fun. Also early episodes felt more for a young audience
@@inconemay1441 There have always been exclusives, but when I was a kid watching GX and 5Ds, I could go to the store and find starter decks and duelist packs with the same strategies i'd seen on TV. The mainstream card game is currently completely disconnected from the current anime, which might be why they're putting out more nostalgia packs than usual these days
Yeah so while Japan has rush duels and got to experience just that, konami in America decided to release speed duels here instead and give us shitty duel links instead of literally the perfect yugioh reboot everyone has been asking for
I think most people believe the real reasons for the art style change is due to the changing of animation studios and having simpler designs is usually good for more exaggerated animation. Look at how the Pokemon anime changed art styles when they started Sun and Moon. And the reason for the changing of animations studios is most likely due to the whatever behind-the-scenes production problems Studio Gallop was having during the end of Arc-V and all throughout Vrains. I mean if you can compare Zexal to Vrains you definitely notice a big dip in the animation quality. Not to mention Vrains had multiple recaps episodes during the first 50 episodes of the show, and the show ended much sooner than any other Yugioh show. Causing things that were set up during the show to come to an abrupt halt and be abandoned.
Things have been going downhill since Zexal. Zexal had an absolute shit protagonist. V had an awesome story and plot going but after the synchro dimension arc it went to shit. Vrains had an ok protagonist but too many recaps, too few interesting characters besides revolver, and while an interesting new duel concept, got old and boring quickly.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Gonna have to disagree with you on Yuma being a shit protagonist. Plenty of people in the western community over the years have grown to like Yuma over time. And think he's a good protagonist even if he starts off annoying. Hell, people saying he gets better as the show goes on just shows the character development he goes through in being a better duelist. Zexal is even one of the most popular Yugioh shows in the east. So I wouldn't say Zexal was the starting point of when things went downhill.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Yeah but as we can see as the show goes on he's able to duel properly without Astral's help. And yeah he's an annoying idiot at the start, but like I said as the show goes on he matures. Because that's character development.
@@FireFury190 Exactly hell if you look at ZeXaLs animation despite certain issues like Cathy in the Vector duel, ZeXaLs animation is beautiful as hell especially with how they animate certain Number Monsters hell besides GX I always see myself Rewatching ZeXaL and looking back at some moments it had. Like in GX we witness the story of teenagers going through high-school issues and growing up to move on their own, mostly in Judai which lead to the manic trip of depression that was Season 3 all the way to Season 4 when Judai's character came to a perfect conclusion. With ZeXaL you got a kid who goes through a similar arc Naruto Uzumaki goes through he starts as an annoying brat who overtime grows into a better individual.
I think most people's problem with the art style isn't even that it doesn't look like YGO. It's that it's so simple and devoid of personality that it looks like literally every other kids' anime. Couple that with the young protagonists, and everyone I've spoke to immediately thought "So they're just abandoning the cool and different things the series was always doing and just trying to cash in on the kiddie market". And while everything you've brought up in this video might say otherwise, I've noticed the one thing you haven't mentioned at all is the story. A lot of people watch only for the story, and Sevens just doesn't seem to have much to offer in that department at first glance.
Not gonna lie, I would KILL for a crossover with all of the original 6 protagonists. Sure, 6 main characters would be a bit convoluted to handle, but just seeing the interactions between all of them would be so worth it.
I actually like a lot of the ideas that Sevens was trying to present gameplay-wise. Smaller decks, faster duels. Tighter strategies to deal with your opponent's boss monster. Just seems like a lot cleaner gameplay.
considering how convoluted an average yu gi oh match is nowadays, it was honestly a refreshing take. My biggest issue that hinders my enjoyment is the fact that the new cards aren't part of the TCG/OCG, instead they introduced a whole new line of cards. So yeah after like 3 episodes there was nothing to keep me interested.
Smaller decks ? - plays pot of desires at 3 - Faster duels ? - getting one-shotted during my first turn - Tighter strategies ? - proceeds to tear apart enemy player's cards so they can't play them ba da bum tsss-
In that case why don't they just make a whole new franchise instead of using Yu-Gi-Oh name if they going to use a different gameplay? Would've gotten better results by using a brand new card games like Vanguard, Buddy Fight, Duel Masters etc.
@@eviloverlordgamingminion8793 that comment is JUST normal yu-gi-oh. Sevens use what's called Rush Duel, and the rule is actually different. there is a video somewhere that does explain how to play it, or you can check the wiki about it. there's also a switch game that is based on Sevens and use Rush Duel
Whilst the rush duels look fun, im not sold on the shows concept - were essentially following the villain around as hes being oblivious to destroying something many people except apparently for him enjoyed...
"The history of the Yugioh anime will change forever" Translation: We're going to combine 2d and 3d animation in a way that is so completely and totally jarring that classic fans of the older animes will never watch it ever again! I seriously cannot watch modern Yugioh without getting a headache, 3D monsters on a 2D plane just does not work... Somehow Konami got it in their head that the best way to celebrate everything that made the YuGiOh anime great was to change everything to such a massive extent that none of the original concepts remained...Yeah...genius...
Studio Gallop, the studio that animated the Yugioh franchise since the original we all remember, had major financial and behind the scene issues during the production of VRAINS (the Yugioh series before Sevens). I don’t think Duel masters had any impact on the change of art styles, more so Studio Gallop just couldn’t continue production of animation with high quality that VRAINS and all the Yugioh series are known for, so they had to outsource to somebody else. Resulting in Sevens looking more like a beyblade series than a Yugioh series. That plus the basic entire new game that is Rush Duels, it’s essentially a different game, that ultimately alienated a lot of the hardcore fans. I myself haven’t watched sevens, I want to watch but need to catch up to VRAINS first but yeah it’s a tall ask with the art style change
I really didn't understand why they needed rush duels when they had speed duels in vrains. It started out with Speed Duels using the Duel Links format with a smaller board and added skills until one of the character challenges someone to a stationary Master Duel using the standard format. Rush Duels are a completely different game.
As far as animation goes The first 2 series are NOT at all high quality. Arc V wasn't good with it either ._. Vrains and 5Ds are the only time it's ever been of remotely high quality. The art was always nice but the actual animation was never good beyond those 2 titles. But yeah I also don't see Dual Master's having enough of an effect on the style...and well there's other anime that it looks closer to tbh like Yokai Watch :s
I could (almost) get past the artwork, how they have changed other animes, made them less visually edgy. But the card play, absolute reworking of the game, and virtually ignoring what came before, I can't green light such an idea myself.
I can see what they were getting at... The card game is in drastic need of just an entire wipe so they can start from the beginning without the mess they made over the years of broken effects. The problem was they went at it completely the wrong way. You don't need "faster duels" because most games I've played last ten minutes or less and that's because the current mess enables you to lose the game without ever playing with surprising ease. They should have just rolled back to the beginning and started rereleasing the entire game from the beginning with the updated card visual format while changing card effects entirely where needed to unbreak them and make it so we can actually play without a pages-long ban list and perhaps work the card limits into the game directly so you don't have to consult a website all the time. Not abandoning everything that came before, just going through step by step to fix it all and if Konami needs motivation, they can get in on all that "resell the same cards for the 100th time" action but better because it would make people stop quitting the game entirely.
Im the complete opposite lol. Imo the new reboot rule seems really fun compare to speed duel but i can't take it when they change the iconic art style of the anime.
@@KertaDrake "we need faster duels!" how!?, what the fuck does it mean!?, should you just start with mystic mine on the field?, yu gi oh already has the problem that a game gets decided by a fucking negate in the second turn so how the heck do you want it to get faster!?
@@KertaDrake The main reason it's a mess is because they started to introduce new gimmicks every new generation, they really should have stopped a XYZ summoning at the most, Pendulum, Speed etc will be hard to keep track of all the rules and make things sooo convoluted.
For me it wasn't the change of the art style or the new game mechanics that made me skip Sevens. It was the fact that I loved Vrains. I loved the serious tone (with an occasional humor to soften things up) that Vrains was riding on. That certain gritty futurism that was way over the top but still felt somewhat believable. The way it handled serious topics even though being a card-game anime had won me over. And to have it ended so abruptly with so many loose ends and unfinished plot points, to be replaced by an anniversary series that had NOTHING to do with the occasion and just felt like a dumbed down YGO that I just couldn't take seriously... I mean, I could've moved on from Vrains with satisfaction, had it ended properly. Had the story been properly tied up and the game been pushed to it's max I would've been sad to see it end, but I would've cherished the graceful end of an era. The way Vrains ended felt rushed and hollow. It did give some incredible duels and moments, but that was just a fraction of what could've been. Maybe I'm just the wrong demographic for it's target audience, maybe I should've stuck around a bit longer so it could've enthralled me. In any case, it just wasn't my cup of tea and I'm not planning on giving it a second chance. If I'm missing something spectacular as a result, then that's on me.
I mean, I had similar feeling regarding Vrains because of how Arc-V ended. I really loved Arc-V, and the way it ended was just so obviously rushed to make way for Vrains. Not only that, but when I started watching Vrains, it felt like they weren't ready to release it yet. Too many recap episodes, a story that felt like 5D's tone with Zexal's plot, and several times where characters insisted that all duels are 1 vs. 1 even while there were armies being fielded just made the show feel unfinished and unappealing to me. I have a friend who insists that Vrains did get good, and I'm sure it does, but I gave up on it before it got to that point.
I dont know why but drawing more than 1 card in your turn without effects and spells feels so illegal but im not gonna complain about it I kinda like the new card designs too (not to be mistaken with monsters)
@@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA Yeah, top decking may be hype in anime, but in card games when that specific card doesn't give you a comback, might aswell surrender
I don’t like the change in rules or legend cards The change in rules is unjustified because A)Why isn’t whoever creates Duel monsters stopping this kid? Last time I checked, Kaiba left Mokuba in charge so… And B) Why does everyone just go along with it? You can’t say that people find duel monsters too slow because that basically “Say you don’t play your own game without saying you don’t play your own game” at the writers I don’t like legends because of 2 reasons. A)The status is given to cards that ultimately don’t deserve it with pretty much all the examples you give not being meta for years. I mean, Summoned skull hasn’t been meta since duel monsters era dueling where it was just whoever had the biggest stick and B)It completely shuts down a ton of decks
I remember seeing Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens on Disney XD one day when flipping through the channels, and I was like "What did they do to this franchise!?", which is why I can understand why so many fans were turned off by it, especially the art style. It's gotten to the point where I consider it to be in an alternate universe and see it as a spin-off rather than a mainline entry.
It took me a long time to watch seven, because of all the stigma aorund it and not featuring the cardgame everyone knows and loves (or hates) It started out as a joke, but actually the more I watched it the more it grew on me. Like as almost completely seperat from other serieses I embraced the goofy nature of it eventually, I love the character writing in the series. There are characters you would see in other yugioh serieses and they would appear for one episode and never again, but in Sevens each on of these characters comes back and contributes to the plot or has their character expanded upon I also love the references the show gives to others. I like especially the Girl that uses a baseball themed Yuma deck
I watched the first 5 episodes on weekly and I got bored of it fast. Yet I can rewatch 5ds more then 3 times. It had a more adult vibe since the main characters where old enough to start maturing into adulthood though out the series.
It didn't feel like it connected to the game plus the characters didn't have any real dimension to them Even Arc-V got that right I understand needing to change things up but sevens & Go-Rush flew too far in the opposite direction making it feel like something only kids would enjoy When the game has plenty of older players
Konami:*announces new 20th anniversary series with a hype trailer* Us:Our Precious Gem Konami:*further inspection* you have been duped! Us:we’ve been duped by who?!? Konami:By Me *proceeds to fuck us again*
If they wanted to draw in more audiences and players for Yugioh, they should have just animated YGO OCG Structures. The main problem with the lack of new players is because of the stigma around meta play, that it’s boring. If they had animated OCG structures, it would have dramatized something more akin to actual yugioh. And it would also be great advertisement.
THAT'S your theory on why there aren't many Yu-Gi-Oh players nowadays? Not the game not being accessible with it's high skill ceiling and walls of text and the many, many MANY interactions it has?
@@SparkShadow212 the skill ceiling isn’t high at all. Only competitive is high and even then everything has a high skill ceiling when you get competitive, unless you’re suggesting, for example, that a toddler can become a professional football player?
@@yanyanzhang5813 If you're thinking that shit like "set 2 pass" is the skill floor then I have to ask you what you think casual Yu-Gi-Oh is, cuz that ain't it. Current Yu-Gi-Oh, no matter what level you're playing in, does medium to high levels of complicated combos. You show a beginner any deck and you think they'll manage to set a decent combo? Fuck no! It's easy for chronically duelling people like us, but for normies who wants to join? Most of them will quit before they even start to learn. Evidence; the fact that the community right now is either slightly growing or stagnating right now.
@@SparkShadow212 the combos in yugioh in a casual setting aren’t hard AT ALL. I taught my friend to play yugioh and he was able to make full tearlaments boards in around 2 days of playing. Why? You memorize the cards (easily done), you play a lot, and, I can’t stress this enough, you read OCG structures. Yugioh is a memorization game. You memorize the effects of the cards, and you play. Deck building and such come after. A beginner can easily just buy a pre-built deck like a starter/structure deck, and simply start playing. Perhaps it becomes harder for a person to learn the game by themselves, but that’s basically what I did and I can play perfectly fine. I started yugioh by seeing kids in the back of my school bus play. I learned the FUNDAMENTAL rules by watching the anime. My first decks were pre-built (structure decks). I started playing myself a lot before I found others who played and I started playing with them. I learned deck building by buying three of the same structure decks and I started to build decks that way. My first “non structure deck” build was entirely just a mismash of cards I pulled from boxes which also taught me about archetypes. I then took this knowledge to build an orcust deck after watching a video by Cimoooo on competitive decks. I completely bombed my first locals because I didn’t understand the competitive format and used a dark magician deck instead of orcust but that’s fine. All of this is built on a foundation of memorization. The more cards you know, the better you are at the game. And the “difficulty” of memorizing Yugioh cards is greatly exaggerated. My 7 year old brother was introduced to yugioh (by me) a month ago. He lives in China so I bought him three of the OCG only Utopia structure decks. He memorized all the card effects in 1 week and built his first deck with the three structure decks about 3 days after the first week. And now we sometimes play online. And I will reiterate, this is a 7 year old. It took me a year until I played my first locals. My brother likely won’t be playing any locals anytime soon because he’s 7, but he has managed to do what took me around 6 months to do in less than 2 weeks. My point is this. There are MANY resources to help play Yugioh. Whether it be the anime, UA-camrs, OCG manga, master duel, duel links, self play, online play, playing with friends, etc. yugioh isn’t hard or complicated if you know how to use those resources. My first 3x structure deck? The XYZ structure deck. I built a 3SD deck, went to dinner with it to show my friends, found a card shop next to the dinner, went in, it was maybe 30 minutes after the end of YGO night that day, and one of the older players there looked over my deck and sat down and helped me make a deck list. Don’t exaggerate what yugioh is. It’s because of myths that make Yugioh inaccessible. Things like Team APS, Card Market Yugioh, and the OCG manga are able to easily illustrate combos and competitive yugioh while still making said effect chains easy to understand.
From what I heard, the animation changed, because it was quite challenging to keep doing the series in line with Kazuki's art style. And the guy who had guided them, and made it possible for them to emulate Kazuki's style, left after Vrains.
That and franchise creator Kazuki Takahashi passed away not that long ago, so they probably don't want to copy his style anymore out of respect... even though he was still alive when Sevens was being made.
@@Masterge77 The change was announced and done I think, at least a year before Kazuki's passing. So, unless they foreshadowed his death, that just doesn't make much sense.
For me personally, I love the new card design for rush duels. My only complaint is with certain legendary cards. While cards like Pot of Greed makes sense to be a legendary since its allows the player to draw 2 cards, especially with no hand limit in rush duel. However, having Normal monsters like Blue-Eyes or any high attack monster from the DM era doesn’t make sense to me. Those high attack beat stick can easily be dealt with cards like dark hole or mirror force , if those cards ever come to rush duels. Which possibly will in the near future. I hope that the legendary tread would be on only certain overpower cards and not iconic Monster from previous Yugioh anime. Rush duel looks simple for now. It’s only inevitable that they were introduced others summoning mechanics like synchro,xyz, and link. Along with monsters with very powerful effects like in the TCG.
I really don't think we're going to get stuff like Synchro, XYZ, and Link. Even with Fusions they took steps to make it less powerful than in the regular card game. You can only fusion from the field and all monsters used two specific cards with usually at least one being used exclusively for fusions. The main thing is you're looking at this like the regular TCG where it will keep going on and getting more power creep but it is not. Like speed duels before it will have a certain shelf life. They have a plan for how to meta will progress. For example, right now in the meta, pretty much any Legecy card is much better than most of the cards in the game. If we were to remove it would pretty much be regular Yugioh. They won't add any cards that disrupt this balance and they haven't.
@@bigwave1713 I disagree, I'm playing a lot of rush duels since the beginning, and the cards are progressively getting better and better, every year, they already pierce the 1500 atk level 4 cap early established (a thing they should never did, to maintain a certain consistency), also cards are having more and more text, and cards with two good effects started to appear. The power creep is real
To be fair, legendary cards are their to represent cards that govern a high status. Blue-eyes is a normal beatstick....it is also, the most well-known card in the entire franchise, hence the legendary status. The legendary status are for cards that govern that title not for overpowered cards.
@@firestarsantos7467 but it's also a gameplay mechanic, as you can only play 1 copy of each per deck. in a way, it's like decorated limited list. it might have "cool backstory", but it's still a limited list. and putting normal monster on such gameplay-affecting list is pretty laughable further the format go on.
The main issue from the jump was taking a series that had started out targeting a pre-teen to young teen audience with aspects which appealed to older viewers as well. One that had captured an audience who is now even older now with the majority of former fans and current players being adults, and instead made a show so childish in its construction that no kid above the age of 8 could ever get into it.
I feel like what also turned off alot was because it went from their iconic teens to children. Judai was epic as we saw him grow up into an adult but other than that the others was teenagers (and an adult) and they were cooler and more relatable
I really hate it when iconic franchises suddenly changing art styles. I like the concept of restarting the Yugioh meta game (because let's be honest, it has reached insanity at this point), but I think changing the visuals altogether creates such a huge barrier for older fans.
This video completely forgot to point out Sevens is done by a completely different studio because the studio that made normal Yugioh anime was too much of a clusterfuck
Duel Masters not only didn't work outside of Japan, the English edition of the game has less than 1000 cards. I'm currently trying to get as complete a collection as I can. I've already got Bolshack Dragon, Shobu's ace, so it's going pretty well as far as rare cards are concerned. But if it wasn't for 3 cards in my collection, as well as a single post online, I wouldn't even know that the last Set made its way to my country, that's how poorly Duel Masters sold outside Japan.
Damn, I still have my old Shobu Starter Deck with Bolshack Dragon. Duel Masters was actually a really good Card Game. Especially with how your "Lifepoints" were basically a rubberbanding mechanic
@@EskChan19 I checked, because that sounded like a wildly rare card to just give in a Starter Deck. And sure enough, I think you mean Metalwing Skyterror's "a" version instead.
Tournament isn't that important. I mean Vrains had no tournament at all. As for rivalries: The main one is between Yuga and Luke despite them being best friends. And for real antagonists: Goha Yuga would like a word with you.
@@mikai4738 Yes, Vrains didn't have a major tournament story arc. But the Vrains did have a very good story plots, antagonists, and rivalries. Unlike Sevens in the beginning didn't any good story plots, antagonists, and rivalries. Sevens now does have a good story plot and antagonists. I do like Yuuga and Luke's kinda of rivalry.
@@mikai4738 All the Yu-Gi-Oh series had story plots, antagonists, and rivalries that drive main protagonists to be great Duelists. The Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens in the beginning didn't lack these things. Yuuga does spend time promotion and improving his Rush Duel Format.
I am at episode 20 and it's OK. But story wise till now I don't know maybe it will get better. I hope so. I didn't like arc v that much. I don't want to feel same about this one.
It sucks that duel masters didnt work outside of Japan. I still have two decks that I made when they still sold the cards here in the US. the anime had one season and they put it on Toonami, I found it funny they broke the forth wall constantly. I even bought the only dvds that were sold here 😂
How can they even call this a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime if they aren't playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and instead they're just trying to piggy-back off of it in order to promote some new shitty card game? If this was called Rush Duel Sevens no one would know it exists.
They just tried to make Yu-Gi-Oh more accessable to anyone again, that's all, especially to young children who can't catch up with the current rules. "I want to bring back the joy of this card game back to the children." is an actual in this show.
I just hope the next series brings back the artstyle. I know it's because they changed studios and the Yugioh style and character designs were getting too complex to keep up with. At least draw the eyes the same 😭
I truley believe one of the reasons why older fans losts all interest in yugioh was due to all the slight dramatic new additions or changes in the rule of dueling game. This being tied to new yugioh series. Also, yugioh, sevens seemed like a far less creative story compared to its predecessors.
I am at episode 20 almost and yeah till now it is not that interesting I mean rush duels are good. Does it get better? I would love if they some fantasy like in other yu gi oh series.
@@naimairfan5738 I watched Sevens from start to finish and am watching Go Rush as well. Sevens has little fantastical aspects being a more grounded series similar to Cardfight Vanguard Season 1. That said, the closest we get in Sevens is the Future Goha President arc as shenanigans with one of the president candidates happens. Go Rush is a more sci fi kids show and has very few new legend cards shown, relying on its own lore for new cards to be shown. To me these series are a breath of fresh air after the disappointment that Vrains was and its characters that, aside from Soulburner, were as interesting dry paint. Sevens has gone past the Yugi, Jounouchi, Kaiba dynamic for a 4 man band including the best female character in the series performance wise, a team chemistry not seen since 5D's, and a supporting cast that breath life (albeit wacky) into what is essentially a dystopian world. Go Rush is getting there, it started strong, then faltered a bit, but now is getting its full stride in. As you can probably tell, I love these series.
From what I've seen so far, I'm digging this new studio but I still really hope that Gallop isn't completely done with Yugioh. I hope it's possibly for both studios to coexist somehow
I think the Concepts of Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens are handled well. Rush Duels as a game are fun to play, and the anime is light-hearted and fun, and Yuga is pretty likeable for me. My only gripe with Sevens is that we don't have it in the West Yet. Saikyo Battle Royale is coming to english though so I am excited for that! We got a good future ahead of us!
Great Video, but try telling that to someone like Dylan at Yugioh Everything, who is simply just a shill to Konami cos he has contacts there and clearly gets paid by them and free products to suck up to them and promote their product.
@@fei-tzefu8527 you mean the guys who have had quite a few complaints about stuff the show has done. You obviously haven't even watched them to know that they are quite critical about stuff in each series.
@@fei-tzefu8527 they obviously aren’t paid by them to do anything , my guy had to buy the game and he even had some complaints and flat out reviews of the show
It's pretty cool to learn that Duel Masters is still pretty popular in Japan. I was super into it when it arrived in the US 300 years ago, but at the time all of my friends were getting out of YuGiOh and weren't interested in picking up another card game, so with nobody to play with I eventually dropped it. I'm surprised there haven't been any video games made for it considering how popular it appears to be, minus the training apps that came out recently. With a Cardfight Vanguard game finally making it to the US, i'd love to see other new games make their way over. A Weiss Schwarz video game would be amazing, though they would probably have to pay quite a bit in licensing fees to add all those anime characters in.
I love Rush Duels as it tackles the problems on old school yugioh and why I'll never return to that era: Slow Progressive Play and Resource Management. Here, players can go ham and have a fair chance of comeback with drawing up to 5. Nice reboot without actually intervening the TCG/OCG. As for the anime: while the plot feels one-dimensional and filled with comedic absurdity, there's this hidden layer of overarching mystery that progress and contributes to it. What I loved especially during the Roa Arc was its usage of the side characters. Unlike GX where the "Duelist of the Week" just never gets seen again, Sevens gives them a role to play much later on to help the protagonist(s).
To be honest, I find myself rather enjoying the comic absurdity. I mean, it's not like previous series weren't absolutely full of crazy shit (to begin with, this is a franchise where apparently every conflict in the multiverse gets resolved from playing a card game). I guess you could blame Sevens for cranking that absurdity up to 11, though it also seems to retain a hint of self-awareness (especially in the way Luke's ambitions get played up to be little more than chuunibyou screwiness). I particularly like how the show apparently has zero grasp on how computers actually work and just sorta rolls with it (Kaizou's consciousness "falling" into a bike seat, the Rush Duel system being run by a giant robot on the moon that was haphazardly put together with crashed satellites, and now we've got a child's manga character gaining sentient life through a fax machine). But if there was one thing I can't say I'm very fond of, it's the way that a lot of things end up being some big nothing burger despite their build-up (off the top of my head, one episode ends with the ramen shop guy smirking only to reveal next week that he was laughing at something on his smartphone, and groups like Top of Hexagon and Goha 66 turn out to be complete jokes). And yes, you are very right about the side characters. Hell, in previous series, forget "Duelist of the Week" characters, we'd be lucky just to see anyone who isn't the main character, and the major rival if we're lucky, amount to anything worth shit.
@@YamatoFukkatsu I'm fine with comedic absurdity just as long it fits with its show. The problem is that it can be viewed as "bad" by the standard audience.
Wait until Konami eventually introduces a Yata Lock-type strategy by accident, then the "slow progression" will slowly turn into post 2010 yugioh and people will start complaining how absurdly broken rush duels have become. Let's face it, no one liked the slow older formats when yugioh first came out. It tried to be like MTG, but it didn't have the resource/mana management aspect of it , which meant that the game speed will eventually accelerate like a d-wheeler at some point, else the audience gets fucking bored. And no, I am not referring to playground yugioh, I am referring to the actual tournaments. Competitive people will complain if shit gets too slow, and these are the people who actually buy the product in bulk. How else would Konami be able to sell more cards if they maintain the game speed and power level? Yugioh doesn't have set rotation unlike mtg. Rush duels will eventually catch up to the tcg and ocg.
While it is certainly not at the level of popularity of Advanced Format, claiming "Speed Duel is on life support" is just incredibly incorrect. Konami has been ramping up their support for the format, and it is still gaining new players regularly. Making a comment like this is either misguided, or misinformed.
I watched this show, the dubbed version. I tried so hard to give it a chance, I had to quit and come back a few times just to get through the first season. By the 5th episode of the second season, I was crying, I literally cried over what this show was. The other six series prier to it could be enjoyed by both kids and adults. I rewatched them recently, a few complaints with the dub now that I know better, but overall, they were still great. This series however is something you would use to introduce children to the franchise, kids between 5 and 8 years old. This series is not geared towards the older fans. It relies to much on comedy and the duels have no stakes. Before lives were on the line, the fate of the world, the future, and multiple realms were at stake. Now, we have duels over a mom not making her sons favorite meal; and championships with construction paper crowns for the victor.
@@BillPlunderbonesTew8 GX and 5D's were in moderation. Zexal, a bit more heavy handed, but it still had enough serious moments to balance out. Seven's is a whole other monster, it's just non-stop and it's more cringe than funny.
Studios don't understand that kids don't want to watch kids. They want to be Batman, not Robin. So having a younger cast does nothing for growing the audience.
You’re completely wrong on this one, the real reason that this failed is because they didn’t play yugioh, they played some game that isn’t even playable in NA, it had hardly anything to do with the art style
Besides the art style change, I think the big problem for a lot of people was the premise and the idea of having a much younger protagonist. For me, it was that on top of being consistently let down by the previous series. 5Ds was great, and Dark Signers is one of my favorite arcs, but after that, it just went way downhill. Zexal was shit. People love to say Barian was great, but it takes more than half the series to get there (if it takes that long for a series, especially one with 140+ episodes to "get good", you have a huge problem) and it's honestly like a 6, maybe a 7 at best. Definitely not worth sitting through everything else. Arc-V started amazing, but then things start going downhill with Synchro being largely a waste of time and a much worse retread of the Satellite arc from 5Ds. Then we get to XYZ and everything starts turning bad, then to outright dogshit with Fusion. VRains was just an overall meh with hints of greatness that it never quite achieved. So yeah. After 4 series and nearly a decade of disappointment on top of a new look and premise I was not fond of, I checked out.
I always thought the problem for 5DS was that they knew it was meant to end after the dark signers and had a change in writers after that arc. Still loved it especially the ending. Arc V definitely had it's issues especially production and management issues that even the director dislike how bad behind they were. Which pretty much led to all that.
in Yu-gi-oh sevens and Go Rush. some summoning methods is removed. Pendulum Summon, Synchro Summon, Fusion Summon, XYZ Summon and Link Summon. is removed. and no longer exist in new Yu gi oh series. the new summon method is the Maximum Summon. only existed. also Normal Summon, Advance summon, Special Summon and Tribute summon still exist. those basic summoning method. that been common. Yu Gi Oh animators and other staffs (Producer and Director) is not adding back those other summoning methods, Pendulum,Fusion,XYZ, Synchro, and Link summon. Kinda sad.
Huh? every yugioh anime part starts with new characters, what kind of argument is that... Sevens/Rush Duel is probably more targeted towards the younger folks, hence the style, but I enjoyed still quite a lot even tho I'm 33 lol... I like the new format, and I hope it becomes mainstream and they make it the new main format or at least secondary format!
Quick note on the "Seven" point. It's the alchemical symbol for "rebirth". It makes sense to name it seven to imply that it is a reboot. But y'know, not many knows about this in the first place.
The number 8 has also been visualized as an ouroboros twisting around itself in 2 circles, with the ouroboros long standing for death and rebirth. The number 9 has also been used as a counter for the afterlife, the nine heavens, and that is a spiritual rebirth of sorts. Don't get me started on the number 10 and how it represents the beginning of a new digit, how in binary it can be used to represent "2" in decimal, the continuation or the true sequel as opposed to a decimal 2, how it represents a perfect score in many concepts and as such victory (in a game about victory), etc etc. You can keep digging for meaning where there is none, 7 is just the number for this season and it sounded cool to the Japanese marketing people to call it with an English word, it's something they do pretty often.
Sevens means alot to the show. As you said its rebirth. 7 is also the amount of attributes the game has, which is the amount of attributes yuga needs for his deck. 7has alot of meanings for the show
Yeah, I hoped they made a crossover with all the previous main characters. Arc-V disappointed a lot when they tried bringing old characters. I really hoped that this 7th arc would be it. But then they did this. I tried watching the anime. The rules seemed interesting, but the plot just didn't grab me. And my disappointment about not receiving a continuation with the previous characters, added to my resolve to not continue watching this show. It is what it is.
After the failure of how Arc-V treated legacy characters, I am glad they don’t bring back old characters in Sevens. And tbh, I don't even know if Bridge would be allowed to do that since DM-Vrains belongs to Gallop.
I am at episode 20 and I don't like it that much. I hope it gets better. I didn't like arc v that much and has to push to finish it. I am feeling same about this one. Hope it gets better.
I got this figured out. Yu-Gi-Oh’s trying to copy Pokémon’s anime strategy of making their art style cuter for the new generation of fans. But the difference is that Pokémon has a protagonist for old fans to continue rooting for. It's almost always a soft reboot in every single series and it can be argued to be its weakness too, though. But it's somewhat working so far with the power of suspension of disbelief. Pokémon also has a strategy of bringing old characters back for some episodes, just for the nostalgia of it, fan service, and fanfic materials.
Pokemon also kind of suck after XY and being turn into more comedy show... Nearly both of company are siting on a gold content that will make them risk. Yugioh can just make anime card lore like "duel terminal" amd pokemon have it adventure manga. Both of them can help them keep they old fan while geting the new one since the story are and can be good. Why i said this? Just look fucking Arcade form Rito, not only it got them money but bost Lol play rate end champion play rate in game. When 2 Japan company just tey to get more child in to they game when most of they fan now are gorw old form it.
@@anghainguyen9951 I am disappointed too with how Pokémon is more of a comedy show now instead of adventure. Kinda why I dicided to write my own fanfic. I hope they fix this two animes by putting more effort in storytelling and have a distinct art stylse. They already had recognizeable art style before, but now they look too generic.
"No one starts a series with the seventh entry" But some do start with the third tho Well, I guess people can change the duel disk modes between Master and Rush, as the disks enter the Rush mode by voice command. Overall, SEVENS as an anime is OK, not the masterpiece people who are already 10+ years into YGO want, but a fun anime to watch nonetheless. Rush Duels are a step in the right direction, creating an easier to understand game where non-Maximum monsters are either vanilla or have 1 card effect, and effects that recycle hand, deck and graveyard constantly. This makes for a game that you have the sensation that you can actually make something (not that I despise the current state of TCG, but it is very easy to get frustrated) with nice back and forth.
Constantly recycling the hand, deck, and graveyard sounds a lot like the meta since MR3, hell, even during the 5ds era. Let me guess, did Eldlich fuck you over? I can understand that.
@@tiozuradasexatas6754 oh, my bad. I have just encountered a lot of Eldlich hate lately from competitive players and general hate from yugiboomers who can't distinguish playground yugioh with the competitive scene.
I used to play alot up to about 2007 and came back into because of Master Duel. (f2p on console for YGO is brilliant ) I went to check on the new Anime and i hope it helps Konami bring out different ways to play like a new format or something. Right now the game is very overwhelming and too extra deck dependent.
Ayyy fellow F2P player! I have built an Eldlich and a Chain Burn deck. Does not need an extra deck, fucks over the meta most of the times. F2P is a whole nother level!
How did they get this so wrong? The set up is perfect if it was backwards. Yuga is a kid who loves yugioh but there are villians that hate yugioh and want to change the rules. He loves yugioh so much that he's willing to play this "modern" version but to use the old units and old mechanics to his advantage to beat the players and show them how fun yugioh can be
Personally. I loved everything from 1, GX, 5Ds and Zexal. But everything after that started to decline the series for me. I really loved the shadow realm and how they had something similar with the barian arc in Zexal. However for me Arc V was just okay. Nothing too special and didnt have a great ending for the series. After they revealed Zarc things started to get boring for the show. What I did admire is how they were able to bring back reoccuring characters from the previous shows which is amazing. Felt awesome seeing Kite return. Arc 5 had alot of potential but got heavily ruined towards the ending. Vrains was just boring and trash to watch. Not an ounce of emotion in the show and now they managed to somehow make it even worse with Sevens taking away from what the first 4 yugiohs did well. Now they are like toddlers wth. I need to see more invasions. Lol thats the LIT stuff. Wish they would bring that back! Instead of making Yugioh only about a kids card game add the shadow realm stuff back lol.
I agree. I did like arc V alot because of Yuya and all of the previous forms of summoning and dueling being used, but they couldve put lots more care towards the ending.
I really liked the shadow realm from duel monsters era. because there were high steaks at risk. but with these new reboots of the series that “serious” feeling has just been lost sadly.
I felt this, I don’t think it did terrible in u.s tho. When I was a kid (2002) duel monsters was VERY popular.. everyone had a Yu-Gi-Oh deck and if you didn’t you were made fun of lol.
I actually like Sevens. Is it the same? No but I don’t think it’s supposed to be. I like that the kids actually feel like kids. I think the art style is easier for the animators. Especially since studio gallop had so many problems. This style will allow bridge to be more consultant since it’s, for the most part been a company that fills in where animation companies can’t. I think it’ll be popular with kids in the west.
its basically just Cardfight Vanguard but with Yugioh, and that's a good thing tbh. We needed the variety for a while, even if not everyone is going to love it.
@@four-en-tee it's a looooooot worse than old Vanguard was. It feels really V era/Buddyfight esque, and while I guess that's not a _bad_ thing, it's not Yu-Gi-Oh and it's not really what kids are into. Both Vanguard and Buddyfight were massive flops in the West and SEVENS has to compete with modern Beyblade and Pokémon. I don't anticipate it doing well
@@damienthonk1506 personally, I think it's time that they stop making the yugioh series into an anime and manga. Not only has the card game become too convoluted to the point it's un-regonizeable and confusing, but now that Kazuki Takahashi is deceased, it just seems wrong and insulting to continue his work without him. I do appreciate them for trying something different and while the animation does look good, at a certain point you need to let a series die out before it becomes so overused that it turns sour.
@@cosmok-1367 Takahashi never had an issue with YGO continuing on without him. He hasn't laid hands on it since the original manga was over. I don't think he would care about it continuing after he died.
for me I refer the old way of dueling when you can summon up to 5 or 7 (if link is included) and I hope that konami will bring back the old way of dueling in their future animes. No offense but rush duel for other people who watches yugioh anime but didn't quiet understand the rules of playing that game because if you think about it rush duel is like the easy version of the original yugioh dueling (just my opinion)
It was because Kazuki Takahashi's art style was too difficult to recreate with new animators that was there desistion of the new studio that does the yugioh anime
Yugioh fans do start the series at any entries. Like, it’s not uncommon to find people who started with arc v or 5Ds. I personally started with GX. Jojo has an ongoing storyline that NEEDS you to be informed by past parts. Yugioh isn’t like that. 7s overall imo failed cuz it hates the main game. You don’t make an anniversary series that just straight up says,”We dislike the main game so we’re going to change it and you’re going to like it.”
Ironically, Duel Monsters was extremely popular in Poland as it ran on Cartoon Network back in a day. I can remember playing with my friends at school on every break - until one of them decided to print the untranslated Japanese cards with absurd damage numbers. We were like 8 back then. Brings bac memories for sure!
It ran through them for nearly the entire world outside of Japan since nobody else thought it was going to do well, and the rest of the world showed it really only works here in Japan.
For me it was a multitude of factors. Studio Gallop’s problems was one. The other was that Konami lost their core demographic. Konami made Sevens so that they can hopefully regain it.
The core demo for Yu-Gi-Oh back in the Duel Monsters days was pre-teen to teenagers. The show oooze cool and felt edgy with its well edgy artstyle and gnarly monsters. Konami trying to go to a really young demographic is odd.
The art style I forgive since we have Gundam age, transformers animated, etc that all turned out good with the same issues. My main issue is just rush duel as an anime game; it makes the series too episodic with very little reason to come back becuase 90% of stakes are finished in the same episode they’re introduced especially in the beginning where there’s really no plot to follow.
In a very similar coincidence, the Pokemon Sun and Moon (or SM for short) anime also went thru similar polar responses when they want thru a drastic visual change after XY and XYZ, most likely due to the growing popularity of Youkai Watch at the time. It also has its issues, but it is quite enjoyable.
Hmm Yokai Watch might be why both Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon tried to go to the child demographic as opposed to preteen one they had before. In both cases it did not work as they expected but for Yu-Gi-Oh it was worse because Pokémon is more episodic whole Yu-Gi-Oh tended to be more serial with long serious story arcs. I actually checked Yokai Watch and it was terribly childish. Like I played the game for a bit and watch the first couple of episodes and my reaction was this is too kiddy.
I feel like it's a mix if Yu Gi Oh, Duel Masters, and Pokemon because that would explain why their kids in the Yu GI Go 7 because Ash was a kid he wasn't exactly a teen, and some characters if you look closely are just hidden characters from Pokemon and Duel Masters.... Still do love this anime even if other ppl hate it.
Sevens' artstyle is the least of the show's problems. I can list a few off the top of my head that have nothing to do with the artstyle: -Seven's protag is a baby kid -the show's intended audience is toddlers when most of the Yugioh fanbase outside Japan are adults -animation is leagues worse than what has come before -hardly any perspective shots that were iconic with the previous Yugioh entries -Rush Duel completely disregards the game we all knew. Every time YGO introduces a new mechanic, the old cards/mechanics still work. Rush Duel only works with Rush Duel cards, which essentially makes it an entirely different entity. -voice acting is garbage. I haven't seen Sevens in years yet I distinctly remember awkward pauses between lines of dialogue.
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 Same. I used to hate Zexal too because my shiny synchro collection suddenly seemed to be worth less as every new poster-card became an XYZ monster. But thats also what 5DS did to Fusion. You should give Zexal another chance; it has the best animation of all the yugioh series--back when Konami were making the most money out of YGO and actually paid their animation staff.
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
I actually played the Demo for the switch, it was really fun since there's hubs in 3rd person with open areas. It's like the same as the games previously but you actually interact with characters. But I'm gonna be honest sevens was suppose meant to be for newer fans not veterans, since base meta game is complicated as hell. It is weird for them to be the 20th anniversary special, maybe their trying to restart on the whole Children Card Game
I was genuinely disappointed when they rushed the ending to Vrains then gave us Sevens. It wasn't do much the artstyle that took me away, but the Rush Duels. I've watched all 6 series and the 5Ds Turbo Dueling and the Vrains speed duel formats were fun, the Arc-V Action Cards were okay (they got on my nerves towards the end) but Rush Duels, just didn't want to learn a new rule set that I knew I was never going to play IRL
actually you very well can start jojo with steel ball run. Its a hard reboot of jojo, in fact when it first came out it wasnt even called "jojo's bizzare adventures"
I like the Rush Duels, the rules are simple and fun, and the turns don't take a lot of time until you wait for your opponent to special summon and combo so hard like a gazillion times. What I don't like about the game? The Legend mechanic is great but it hurts that some of the Legend cards will never be used because they are week compared to others, like Sakuretsu Armor. Why would you use Sakuretsu Armor that destroys one attacking monster, when you have Mirror Force that destroys all attacking monsters? Or cards like Mystic Elf or Vorse Rider. Its annoying that you cannot make a Legend card centric deck, like a Blue-Eyes deck and not a Dragears Deck or a Dark Magician deck and not a Sevens Road deck. I wish they would give us more support so that we could add that legend card faster in our hand or cards that allows us to recycle that Legend card. Its annoying that we can't use fusions like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon anymore because of the Legend rule that prevents us to run multiple copies of Legend cards. Cyborg fusions are way to OP and they work in almost any deck and it's so easy to get the fusion materials on the field. Their affects are extremely strong to. There are some annoying cards that need to be limited or nerfed, the card that I hate the most is Dark Liberation, you shuffle 4 cards from your grave to deck and you can destroy all attacking monsters. It's so annoying to face spellcasters centric decks because when they have 4 spellcasters in their grave you are always afraid to attack and I swear to God they have that card all the time. Another OP card is Dragears, that card can attack a second time after it destroyed a monster. Not so OP like Dark Liberation, but it is not a fair card.
I like the anime, the characters are lovely, the female characters are good duelists and they have a decent win rate, every side character will reappear in the future and it has a importance to the plot. I'm ok with the comedy in this anime, the jokes are good. But I liked the more dark themes of the previous anime, Duel Monsters and 5DS where the best. I don't like the change in art style, the previous one was so unique and iconic. I didn't liked the villains until we got Yuo. They where not bad people and they became friends with Yuga. They where great characters, but not great villains. I don't like the fact that most duels end way to fast, it took a couple of episode until we got a good duel (the duel with Roa).
@@yesman1743 dude do you play rush duels in real life or something? You complained alot about legend cards the idea of rush duels is to step away from the tcg meta and let it be it's own thing. Which it's done quite well as a matter of fact.
....There's new Duel Masters anime?! That's much more interesting than freakin' Sevens! Jokes aside, I do recall there being some push back about when Pokemon changed the style so drastically for Sun and Moon and that's really not a bad series at all. I rather liked the more consistent cast instead of a stream of one off characters.
I still liked Sevens enough, but compared to the other six it just doesn't stand a chance. It tried a lot of new stuff that I think pulled off surprisingly well, but it really struggled with the basics of the franchise. Because of that it feels even more disconnected that it really is.
You misspoke in your video. You said other than Arc-V no other Yugioh anime had a number in the title but 5Ds did as well. What I think you meant was that none had the number of its series in the name other than Arc-V and Sevens.
Art style that deviates completely from the late Kazuki's own style when all other spinoffs/sequels tried to emulate it. Aiming at an even younger audience than ZeXal Infantile storyline Centred around a card game that isn't Yu-Gi-Oh. Gee, I wonder.
We should really make Legend cards a category on the TCG/OCG banlist, it would open up a lot of different deck building options and provide more balancing tools. It would basically be a more restrictive version of the limited list and a compromise between the current TCG and Duel Links banlist system.
This can be the hypothetical 2nd format. A category of card where you can only have one of, unless the list says otherwise. Like you can have one Dark Magician and no other legends. But you can have 3 Blue-Eyes. Hell, maybe allow 5 Cyber Dragons in the same deck.
I'd love to just have the accursed list worked into the cards so I can just look at the cards and not consult a website constantly for deckbuilding. Just put a symbol on them for how many you can run at a time! I'd also love to not have all the coolest cards get stuck with effects that slaps them almost directly onto the ban lists as well, but that would require them to actually learn the rules to their own game...
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*"No other Yugioh anime (expect for ARC-V) has a number in the title"*
Yugioh 5Ds: ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
he meant like number which franchise was it for example yugioh 5ds is third generation while arc v(5) is fifth one.
@@indroj that what he meant but not what he said
@@supermanhun Looks like you've never misspoken before, congrats!!
5Ds=5 Dragons
@@CircuitReborn well 6 if you count life stream dragon he was supposed to appear wayyy early in the series (plus Leo becoming a signer) when the plot originally involved crow replacing Rex Godwin as the final villan but black wings said nope and they made crow into a hero so that they can market black wings
What went wrong is that they made the classic reboot mistake of making it unappealing to the original fanbase. The show and simpler gameplay mechanics are so blatantly aimed at a much younger audience than the series' that came before and so alienate a lot of the fanbase from the other 6 shows, yes they wanna bring in new fans but to do so by cutting off your old fans is the worst way to do it and inevitably leads to the series not doing as well at first.
Yeah. Especially then adding his other point: Nobody starts at chapter 7. So making a show that is blatantly anti-origin fanbase but then basically calling it "Yugioh, but watch 6 shows before this please" practically guarantees you'll also not have any new fans either.
It kinda makes more sense with yugioh, the current format is way too complicated for an anime fan to enter so a new format is much better, also it does get more seriouse later on like zexal
yu gi oh fans: "this serie is bullshit!, this is not yu gi oh i hate it!, why it is so simple it makes no sense!"
yu gi oh seven: "we do not have mystic mine"
yu gi oh fans: "ok... now i'm interested"
So alot of us who left at 5D's were actually excited about RUSH.
A kind of, return to form. A simpler game that we lost.
@@sebastianwinters9864 5Ds was when the game literally became combo oriented
Australia did put out the first 20 episodes of sevens in dub and I checked it out and Yuga doesn't hate the game. He hates the overload of rules the game has gained which to me acts as a meta commentary on how complicated the game itself has become over the years.
if you dont like that a sport because it has so much rules or some rules that make it complicated for you, it almost the same as saying you dont like the sport, its the same statement in a way, but i agree that its a well done meta commentary about how complex the current yugioh has become.
@bastianokamiro5421 it's like if wilt chamberlain played in the game today. He'd be so confused and sick of the rules now a days. Similar to what they're saying old players feel. Even though in both cases it's apart of evolution
@@bastianokamiro5421 Weak analogy, sports don't have a meta, ever evolving convuluted card texts or straight up adding entire new aspects to the sport, it's more like not being happy with pvp updates that are obscenly broken
@@bastianokamiro5421 not the same thing, the equivalent would be if you played soccer/football since you were a kid but they kept adding new things, like if balls that had wings, change trajectory on its own, had dynamic weight, or if the players could use telekinesis, fly, had super strength, or if the field could change to a sand pit or a large pool of water... but no, the rules of sports are straightforward and unchanging. perfectly valid to not like the sport if they added all those things.
@@jajinx2Auto aim computer shoes are the new meta in soccer/football
that original yu gi oh art style was awesome i loved the slender sharp jojo's bizarre adventure type designs i remember how badass marik looked when he was pissed and how dark the story got sometimes
Dude yes, the original did all of that SO well. Marik was an evil bastard but bakura was even worse. It’s crazy the main villain of the series was under your nose the WHOLE TIME. It wasn’t till the finial season you figured this out. that right there, is what made duel monsters so great. Oh, and the art style and bad ass opening them ofc!!
Amen brotha
The big failure for me was not having it be connected with the card game like all the other series. Watching the anime then wanting to build character decks was fun. Also early episodes felt more for a young audience
Weren't there ocg/tcg exclusive and anime exclusive cards in the previous series as well?
@@inconemay1441 There have always been exclusives, but when I was a kid watching GX and 5Ds, I could go to the store and find starter decks and duelist packs with the same strategies i'd seen on TV. The mainstream card game is currently completely disconnected from the current anime, which might be why they're putting out more nostalgia packs than usual these days
Yeah so while Japan has rush duels and got to experience just that, konami in America decided to release speed duels here instead and give us shitty duel links instead of literally the perfect yugioh reboot everyone has been asking for
@@ChrisPBacon-zf5gm Rush Duels are in America but it's through the switch game
@@HowlingDoom that's rather half assed.. its just a game to the anime, not a proper Rush Duel game
I think most people believe the real reasons for the art style change is due to the changing of animation studios and having simpler designs is usually good for more exaggerated animation. Look at how the Pokemon anime changed art styles when they started Sun and Moon. And the reason for the changing of animations studios is most likely due to the whatever behind-the-scenes production problems Studio Gallop was having during the end of Arc-V and all throughout Vrains. I mean if you can compare Zexal to Vrains you definitely notice a big dip in the animation quality. Not to mention Vrains had multiple recaps episodes during the first 50 episodes of the show, and the show ended much sooner than any other Yugioh show. Causing things that were set up during the show to come to an abrupt halt and be abandoned.
Things have been going downhill since Zexal. Zexal had an absolute shit protagonist. V had an awesome story and plot going but after the synchro dimension arc it went to shit. Vrains had an ok protagonist but too many recaps, too few interesting characters besides revolver, and while an interesting new duel concept, got old and boring quickly.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Gonna have to disagree with you on Yuma being a shit protagonist. Plenty of people in the western community over the years have grown to like Yuma over time. And think he's a good protagonist even if he starts off annoying. Hell, people saying he gets better as the show goes on just shows the character development he goes through in being a better duelist. Zexal is even one of the most popular Yugioh shows in the east. So I wouldn't say Zexal was the starting point of when things went downhill.
@@FireFury190 Nah hes an annoying idiot that couldn’t even play the game right for half the show without Astral.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Yeah but as we can see as the show goes on he's able to duel properly without Astral's help. And yeah he's an annoying idiot at the start, but like I said as the show goes on he matures. Because that's character development.
@@FireFury190 Exactly hell if you look at ZeXaLs animation despite certain issues like Cathy in the Vector duel, ZeXaLs animation is beautiful as hell especially with how they animate certain Number Monsters hell besides GX I always see myself Rewatching ZeXaL and looking back at some moments it had.
Like in GX we witness the story of teenagers going through high-school issues and growing up to move on their own, mostly in Judai which lead to the manic trip of depression that was Season 3 all the way to Season 4 when Judai's character came to a perfect conclusion.
With ZeXaL you got a kid who goes through a similar arc Naruto Uzumaki goes through he starts as an annoying brat who overtime grows into a better individual.
I think most people's problem with the art style isn't even that it doesn't look like YGO. It's that it's so simple and devoid of personality that it looks like literally every other kids' anime. Couple that with the young protagonists, and everyone I've spoke to immediately thought "So they're just abandoning the cool and different things the series was always doing and just trying to cash in on the kiddie market". And while everything you've brought up in this video might say otherwise, I've noticed the one thing you haven't mentioned at all is the story. A lot of people watch only for the story, and Sevens just doesn't seem to have much to offer in that department at first glance.
This shit straight up looks like a beyblade spin off
for real the artstyle looks so flat and amateurish it's such an obvious downgrade from the previous seasons
Not gonna lie, I would KILL for a crossover with all of the original 6 protagonists. Sure, 6 main characters would be a bit convoluted to handle, but just seeing the interactions between all of them would be so worth it.
Too me that would basically have to be a three-part crossover event with all the main pros against an enemy from the past?
I actually like a lot of the ideas that Sevens was trying to present gameplay-wise. Smaller decks, faster duels. Tighter strategies to deal with your opponent's boss monster. Just seems like a lot cleaner gameplay.
considering how convoluted an average yu gi oh match is nowadays, it was honestly a refreshing take.
My biggest issue that hinders my enjoyment is the fact that the new cards aren't part of the TCG/OCG, instead they introduced a whole new line of cards. So yeah after like 3 episodes there was nothing to keep me interested.
Smaller decks ? - plays pot of desires at 3 -
Faster duels ? - getting one-shotted during my first turn -
Tighter strategies ? - proceeds to tear apart enemy player's cards so they can't play them ba da bum tsss-
In that case why don't they just make a whole new franchise instead of using Yu-Gi-Oh name if they going to use a different gameplay? Would've gotten better results by using a brand new card games like Vanguard, Buddy Fight, Duel Masters etc.
@@TheSamuill so a normal yugioh game? What did they change
@@eviloverlordgamingminion8793 that comment is JUST normal yu-gi-oh. Sevens use what's called Rush Duel, and the rule is actually different. there is a video somewhere that does explain how to play it, or you can check the wiki about it. there's also a switch game that is based on Sevens and use Rush Duel
Whilst the rush duels look fun, im not sold on the shows concept - were essentially following the villain around as hes being oblivious to destroying something many people except apparently for him enjoyed...
He's that one kid who watched the first Yugi-Kaiba duel then skipped all the way to Arc-V and said "This game sucks now!"
Yeah it's kind of hard to root for the main character when the entire story is him going "Well I don't like it so noone else should either"
I mean bro just made a new format and everyone in universe agreed its much better, like literally the wholeworld
"The history of the Yugioh anime will change forever"
Translation: We're going to combine 2d and 3d animation in a way that is so completely and totally jarring that classic fans of the older animes will never watch it ever again!
I seriously cannot watch modern Yugioh without getting a headache, 3D monsters on a 2D plane just does not work...
Somehow Konami got it in their head that the best way to celebrate everything that made the YuGiOh anime great was to change everything to such a massive extent that none of the original concepts remained...Yeah...genius...
Studio Gallop, the studio that animated the Yugioh franchise since the original we all remember, had major financial and behind the scene issues during the production of VRAINS (the Yugioh series before Sevens). I don’t think Duel masters had any impact on the change of art styles, more so Studio Gallop just couldn’t continue production of animation with high quality that VRAINS and all the Yugioh series are known for, so they had to outsource to somebody else. Resulting in Sevens looking more like a beyblade series than a Yugioh series. That plus the basic entire new game that is Rush Duels, it’s essentially a different game, that ultimately alienated a lot of the hardcore fans. I myself haven’t watched sevens, I want to watch but need to catch up to VRAINS first but yeah it’s a tall ask with the art style change
Your point of Yugioh Sevens looking like a beyblade series is even funnier when you consider that the Sevens Dub is airing on Disney XD.
I really didn't understand why they needed rush duels when they had speed duels in vrains. It started out with Speed Duels using the Duel Links format with a smaller board and added skills until one of the character challenges someone to a stationary Master Duel using the standard format. Rush Duels are a completely different game.
As far as animation goes The first 2 series are NOT at all high quality. Arc V wasn't good with it either ._. Vrains and 5Ds are the only time it's ever been of remotely high quality. The art was always nice but the actual animation was never good beyond those 2 titles. But yeah I also don't see Dual Master's having enough of an effect on the style...and well there's other anime that it looks closer to tbh like Yokai Watch :s
I could (almost) get past the artwork, how they have changed other animes, made them less visually edgy. But the card play, absolute reworking of the game, and virtually ignoring what came before, I can't green light such an idea myself.
I can see what they were getting at... The card game is in drastic need of just an entire wipe so they can start from the beginning without the mess they made over the years of broken effects. The problem was they went at it completely the wrong way. You don't need "faster duels" because most games I've played last ten minutes or less and that's because the current mess enables you to lose the game without ever playing with surprising ease. They should have just rolled back to the beginning and started rereleasing the entire game from the beginning with the updated card visual format while changing card effects entirely where needed to unbreak them and make it so we can actually play without a pages-long ban list and perhaps work the card limits into the game directly so you don't have to consult a website all the time. Not abandoning everything that came before, just going through step by step to fix it all and if Konami needs motivation, they can get in on all that "resell the same cards for the 100th time" action but better because it would make people stop quitting the game entirely.
Im the complete opposite lol.
Imo the new reboot rule seems really fun compare to speed duel but i can't take it when they change the iconic art style of the anime.
@@KertaDrake "we need faster duels!" how!?, what the fuck does it mean!?, should you just start with mystic mine on the field?, yu gi oh already has the problem that a game gets decided by a fucking negate in the second turn so how the heck do you want it to get faster!?
@@fabioviti7384 he wants FTK's I guess.
@@KertaDrake The main reason it's a mess is because they started to introduce new gimmicks every new generation, they really should have stopped a XYZ summoning at the most, Pendulum, Speed etc will be hard to keep track of all the rules and make things sooo convoluted.
For me it wasn't the change of the art style or the new game mechanics that made me skip Sevens. It was the fact that I loved Vrains. I loved the serious tone (with an occasional humor to soften things up) that Vrains was riding on. That certain gritty futurism that was way over the top but still felt somewhat believable. The way it handled serious topics even though being a card-game anime had won me over. And to have it ended so abruptly with so many loose ends and unfinished plot points, to be replaced by an anniversary series that had NOTHING to do with the occasion and just felt like a dumbed down YGO that I just couldn't take seriously...
I mean, I could've moved on from Vrains with satisfaction, had it ended properly. Had the story been properly tied up and the game been pushed to it's max I would've been sad to see it end, but I would've cherished the graceful end of an era. The way Vrains ended felt rushed and hollow. It did give some incredible duels and moments, but that was just a fraction of what could've been.
Maybe I'm just the wrong demographic for it's target audience, maybe I should've stuck around a bit longer so it could've enthralled me. In any case, it just wasn't my cup of tea and I'm not planning on giving it a second chance. If I'm missing something spectacular as a result, then that's on me.
Man I really should try vrain. it look similar to 5ds
I mean, I had similar feeling regarding Vrains because of how Arc-V ended. I really loved Arc-V, and the way it ended was just so obviously rushed to make way for Vrains. Not only that, but when I started watching Vrains, it felt like they weren't ready to release it yet. Too many recap episodes, a story that felt like 5D's tone with Zexal's plot, and several times where characters insisted that all duels are 1 vs. 1 even while there were armies being fielded just made the show feel unfinished and unappealing to me. I have a friend who insists that Vrains did get good, and I'm sure it does, but I gave up on it before it got to that point.
@@theflashgordon193top 3 yugioh with 5ds and zexal
@@themesongfan452AI and revolver are easy S tier characters that make it worth watching
I dont know why but drawing more than 1 card in your turn without effects and spells feels so illegal but im not gonna complain about it
I kinda like the new card designs too (not to be mistaken with monsters)
I like it cuz then there is always a big change of comback and not like you need to draw one right card, you have more change to draw the right one
@@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA Yeah, top decking may be hype in anime, but in card games when that specific card doesn't give you a comback, might aswell surrender
I don’t like the change in rules or legend cards
The change in rules is unjustified because A)Why isn’t whoever creates Duel monsters stopping this kid? Last time I checked, Kaiba left Mokuba in charge so… And B) Why does everyone just go along with it? You can’t say that people find duel monsters too slow because that basically “Say you don’t play your own game without saying you don’t play your own game” at the writers
I don’t like legends because of 2 reasons. A)The status is given to cards that ultimately don’t deserve it with pretty much all the examples you give not being meta for years. I mean, Summoned skull hasn’t been meta since duel monsters era dueling where it was just whoever had the biggest stick and B)It completely shuts down a ton of decks
I remember seeing Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens on Disney XD one day when flipping through the channels, and I was like "What did they do to this franchise!?", which is why I can understand why so many fans were turned off by it, especially the art style. It's gotten to the point where I consider it to be in an alternate universe and see it as a spin-off rather than a mainline entry.
I got bad news for you dude….. except direct seasons all yugioh shows are spinoffs lol
It took me a long time to watch seven, because of all the stigma aorund it and not featuring the cardgame everyone knows and loves (or hates)
It started out as a joke, but actually the more I watched it the more it grew on me. Like as almost completely seperat from other serieses
I embraced the goofy nature of it eventually, I love the character writing in the series.
There are characters you would see in other yugioh serieses and they would appear for one episode and never again, but in Sevens each on of these characters comes back and contributes to the plot or has their character expanded upon
I also love the references the show gives to others.
I like especially the Girl that uses a baseball themed Yuma deck
I watched the first 5 episodes on weekly and I got bored of it fast. Yet I can rewatch 5ds more then 3 times. It had a more adult vibe since the main characters where old enough to start maturing into adulthood though out the series.
That’s what I’m saying, they making this more childs play than ever.. bunch of kids like Pokémon for example
It didn't feel like it connected to the game plus the characters didn't have any real dimension to them
Even Arc-V got that right
I understand needing to change things up but sevens & Go-Rush flew too far in the opposite direction making it feel like something only kids would enjoy
When the game has plenty of older players
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They made characters of the same age as the target demographic, thats the issue. Just can't take kids seriously man.
Konami:*announces new 20th anniversary series with a hype trailer*
Us:Our Precious Gem
Konami:*further inspection* you have been duped!
Us:we’ve been duped by who?!?
Konami:By Me *proceeds to fuck us again*
If they wanted to draw in more audiences and players for Yugioh, they should have just animated YGO OCG Structures. The main problem with the lack of new players is because of the stigma around meta play, that it’s boring. If they had animated OCG structures, it would have dramatized something more akin to actual yugioh. And it would also be great advertisement.
THAT'S your theory on why there aren't many Yu-Gi-Oh players nowadays? Not the game not being accessible with it's high skill ceiling and walls of text and the many, many MANY interactions it has?
@@SparkShadow212 the skill ceiling isn’t high at all. Only competitive is high and even then everything has a high skill ceiling when you get competitive, unless you’re suggesting, for example, that a toddler can become a professional football player?
@@yanyanzhang5813 If you're thinking that shit like "set 2 pass" is the skill floor then I have to ask you what you think casual Yu-Gi-Oh is, cuz that ain't it. Current Yu-Gi-Oh, no matter what level you're playing in, does medium to high levels of complicated combos. You show a beginner any deck and you think they'll manage to set a decent combo? Fuck no! It's easy for chronically duelling people like us, but for normies who wants to join? Most of them will quit before they even start to learn. Evidence; the fact that the community right now is either slightly growing or stagnating right now.
@@SparkShadow212 the combos in yugioh in a casual setting aren’t hard AT ALL. I taught my friend to play yugioh and he was able to make full tearlaments boards in around 2 days of playing. Why? You memorize the cards (easily done), you play a lot, and, I can’t stress this enough, you read OCG structures.
Yugioh is a memorization game. You memorize the effects of the cards, and you play. Deck building and such come after. A beginner can easily just buy a pre-built deck like a starter/structure deck, and simply start playing.
Perhaps it becomes harder for a person to learn the game by themselves, but that’s basically what I did and I can play perfectly fine. I started yugioh by seeing kids in the back of my school bus play. I learned the FUNDAMENTAL rules by watching the anime. My first decks were pre-built (structure decks). I started playing myself a lot before I found others who played and I started playing with them. I learned deck building by buying three of the same structure decks and I started to build decks that way. My first “non structure deck” build was entirely just a mismash of cards I pulled from boxes which also taught me about archetypes. I then took this knowledge to build an orcust deck after watching a video by Cimoooo on competitive decks. I completely bombed my first locals because I didn’t understand the competitive format and used a dark magician deck instead of orcust but that’s fine.
All of this is built on a foundation of memorization. The more cards you know, the better you are at the game. And the “difficulty” of memorizing Yugioh cards is greatly exaggerated. My 7 year old brother was introduced to yugioh (by me) a month ago. He lives in China so I bought him three of the OCG only Utopia structure decks. He memorized all the card effects in 1 week and built his first deck with the three structure decks about 3 days after the first week. And now we sometimes play online. And I will reiterate, this is a 7 year old. It took me a year until I played my first locals. My brother likely won’t be playing any locals anytime soon because he’s 7, but he has managed to do what took me around 6 months to do in less than 2 weeks.
My point is this. There are MANY resources to help play Yugioh. Whether it be the anime, UA-camrs, OCG manga, master duel, duel links, self play, online play, playing with friends, etc. yugioh isn’t hard or complicated if you know how to use those resources. My first 3x structure deck? The XYZ structure deck. I built a 3SD deck, went to dinner with it to show my friends, found a card shop next to the dinner, went in, it was maybe 30 minutes after the end of YGO night that day, and one of the older players there looked over my deck and sat down and helped me make a deck list.
Don’t exaggerate what yugioh is. It’s because of myths that make Yugioh inaccessible. Things like Team APS, Card Market Yugioh, and the OCG manga are able to easily illustrate combos and competitive yugioh while still making said effect chains easy to understand.
From what I heard, the animation changed, because it was quite challenging to keep doing the series in line with Kazuki's art style.
And the guy who had guided them, and made it possible for them to emulate Kazuki's style, left after Vrains.
That and franchise creator Kazuki Takahashi passed away not that long ago, so they probably don't want to copy his style anymore out of respect... even though he was still alive when Sevens was being made.
@@Masterge77 The change was announced and done I think, at least a year before Kazuki's passing.
So, unless they foreshadowed his death, that just doesn't make much sense.
For me personally, I love the new card design for rush duels. My only complaint is with certain legendary cards. While cards like Pot of Greed makes sense to be a legendary since its allows the player to draw 2 cards, especially with no hand limit in rush duel. However, having Normal monsters like Blue-Eyes or any high attack monster from the DM era doesn’t make sense to me. Those high attack beat stick can easily be dealt with cards like dark hole or mirror force , if those cards ever come to rush duels. Which possibly will in the near future. I hope that the legendary tread would be on only certain overpower cards and not iconic Monster from previous Yugioh anime. Rush duel looks simple for now. It’s only inevitable that they were introduced others summoning mechanics like synchro,xyz, and link. Along with monsters with very powerful effects like in the TCG.
I really don't think we're going to get stuff like Synchro, XYZ, and Link. Even with Fusions they took steps to make it less powerful than in the regular card game. You can only fusion from the field and all monsters used two specific cards with usually at least one being used exclusively for fusions.
The main thing is you're looking at this like the regular TCG where it will keep going on and getting more power creep but it is not. Like speed duels before it will have a certain shelf life. They have a plan for how to meta will progress. For example, right now in the meta, pretty much any Legecy card is much better than most of the cards in the game. If we were to remove it would pretty much be regular Yugioh. They won't add any cards that disrupt this balance and they haven't.
They're Legend cards not only because they're strong, but because they're from the old legend era
@@bigwave1713 I disagree, I'm playing a lot of rush duels since the beginning, and the cards are progressively getting better and better, every year, they already pierce the 1500 atk level 4 cap early established (a thing they should never did, to maintain a certain consistency), also cards are having more and more text, and cards with two good effects started to appear. The power creep is real
To be fair, legendary cards are their to represent cards that govern a high status. Blue-eyes is a normal beatstick....it is also, the most well-known card in the entire franchise, hence the legendary status. The legendary status are for cards that govern that title not for overpowered cards.
@@firestarsantos7467 but it's also a gameplay mechanic, as you can only play 1 copy of each per deck. in a way, it's like decorated limited list. it might have "cool backstory", but it's still a limited list. and putting normal monster on such gameplay-affecting list is pretty laughable further the format go on.
The art style changed because they changed animation studios, so for the first time since duel monsters Studio Gallup is not animating the series.
The main issue from the jump was taking a series that had started out targeting a pre-teen to young teen audience with aspects which appealed to older viewers as well. One that had captured an audience who is now even older now with the majority of former fans and current players being adults, and instead made a show so childish in its construction that no kid above the age of 8 could ever get into it.
I feel like what also turned off alot was because it went from their iconic teens to children. Judai was epic as we saw him grow up into an adult but other than that the others was teenagers (and an adult) and they were cooler and more relatable
This wasn't the case since Zexal?
@@inconemay1441 fair enough.
Teenager and relatable 🤣
People were 9 when they watch DM. Get your entitlement fixed
This is why I’m not interested in zexal beyond tbh
@@eavyeavy2864Lets get YOUR etitlement together too since youre comparing kids from 20 years ago with kids nowdays lmao
We needed a new show with Seto Kaiba
I really hate it when iconic franchises suddenly changing art styles. I like the concept of restarting the Yugioh meta game (because let's be honest, it has reached insanity at this point), but I think changing the visuals altogether creates such a huge barrier for older fans.
This video completely forgot to point out Sevens is done by a completely different studio because the studio that made normal Yugioh anime was too much of a clusterfuck
Duel Masters not only didn't work outside of Japan, the English edition of the game has less than 1000 cards. I'm currently trying to get as complete a collection as I can. I've already got Bolshack Dragon, Shobu's ace, so it's going pretty well as far as rare cards are concerned. But if it wasn't for 3 cards in my collection, as well as a single post online, I wouldn't even know that the last Set made its way to my country, that's how poorly Duel Masters sold outside Japan.
Damn, I still have my old Shobu Starter Deck with Bolshack Dragon. Duel Masters was actually a really good Card Game. Especially with how your "Lifepoints" were basically a rubberbanding mechanic
@@EskChan19 I checked, because that sounded like a wildly rare card to just give in a Starter Deck. And sure enough, I think you mean Metalwing Skyterror's "a" version instead.
Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens lacking real antagonists, rivalries, and a good tournament story arc.
Tournament isn't that important. I mean Vrains had no tournament at all. As for rivalries: The main one is between Yuga and Luke despite them being best friends. And for real antagonists: Goha Yuga would like a word with you.
@@mikai4738 Yes, Vrains didn't have a major tournament story arc. But the Vrains did have a very good story plots, antagonists, and rivalries. Unlike Sevens in the beginning didn't any good story plots, antagonists, and rivalries. Sevens now does have a good story plot and antagonists. I do like Yuuga and Luke's kinda of rivalry.
@@mikai4738 All the Yu-Gi-Oh series had story plots, antagonists, and rivalries that drive main protagonists to be great Duelists. The Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens in the beginning didn't lack these things. Yuuga does spend time promotion and improving his Rush Duel Format.
I am at episode 20 and it's OK. But story wise till now I don't know maybe it will get better. I hope so. I didn't like arc v that much. I don't want to feel same about this one.
@@naimairfan5738 But this series does have a good messages about dealing with and accepting changes.
It sucks that duel masters didnt work outside of Japan. I still have two decks that I made when they still sold the cards here in the US. the anime had one season and they put it on Toonami, I found it funny they broke the forth wall constantly. I even bought the only dvds that were sold here 😂
Duel masters is still relevant outside of Japan and the waifu and blue eyes decks pretty much revived the game.
Yeah because it was a strictly inferior MTG
I liked it too but if I'm honest I like Kaijudo better.
Tell me about it at least digimon its going stronger And stronger now in tcg
How can they even call this a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime if they aren't playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and instead they're just trying to piggy-back off of it in order to promote some new shitty card game? If this was called Rush Duel Sevens no one would know it exists.
Fact
They just tried to make Yu-Gi-Oh more accessable to anyone again, that's all, especially to young children who can't catch up with the current rules.
"I want to bring back the joy of this card game back to the children." is an actual in this show.
@@zad_rasera cap
I just hope the next series brings back the artstyle. I know it's because they changed studios and the Yugioh style and character designs were getting too complex to keep up with. At least draw the eyes the same 😭
I truley believe one of the reasons why older fans losts all interest in yugioh was due to all the slight dramatic new additions or changes in the rule of dueling game. This being tied to new yugioh series.
Also, yugioh, sevens seemed like a far less creative story compared to its predecessors.
I am at episode 20 almost and yeah till now it is not that interesting I mean rush duels are good. Does it get better? I would love if they some fantasy like in other yu gi oh series.
@@naimairfan5738 I watched Sevens from start to finish and am watching Go Rush as well. Sevens has little fantastical aspects being a more grounded series similar to Cardfight Vanguard Season 1. That said, the closest we get in Sevens is the Future Goha President arc as shenanigans with one of the president candidates happens.
Go Rush is a more sci fi kids show and has very few new legend cards shown, relying on its own lore for new cards to be shown.
To me these series are a breath of fresh air after the disappointment that Vrains was and its characters that, aside from Soulburner, were as interesting dry paint.
Sevens has gone past the Yugi, Jounouchi, Kaiba dynamic for a 4 man band including the best female character in the series performance wise, a team chemistry not seen since 5D's, and a supporting cast that breath life (albeit wacky) into what is essentially a dystopian world.
Go Rush is getting there, it started strong, then faltered a bit, but now is getting its full stride in.
As you can probably tell, I love these series.
@@kinryuten
What's go rush?
@@stargazer378 The sequel to Sevens.
"None of them except for Arc 5 have numbers in the title"
5Ds: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?!?
Perhaps I should've been more clear in the video but I don't count 5D's because it's not the 5th series.
From what I've seen so far, I'm digging this new studio but I still really hope that Gallop isn't completely done with Yugioh. I hope it's possibly for both studios to coexist somehow
Gallop was in collapse when they lost their deal, that's why the end of Vrains was so weird from a meta perspective
I think the Concepts of Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens are handled well. Rush Duels as a game are fun to play, and the anime is light-hearted and fun, and Yuga is pretty likeable for me. My only gripe with Sevens is that we don't have it in the West Yet. Saikyo Battle Royale is coming to english though so I am excited for that! We got a good future ahead of us!
Great Video, but try telling that to someone like Dylan at Yugioh Everything, who is simply just a shill to Konami cos he has contacts there and clearly gets paid by them and free products to suck up to them and promote their product.
'clearly' lol
@@fei-tzefu8527 bro what the hell are you talking about?
@@fei-tzefu8527 you mean the guys who have had quite a few complaints about stuff the show has done. You obviously haven't even watched them to know that they are quite critical about stuff in each series.
@@fei-tzefu8527 they obviously aren’t paid by them to do anything , my guy had to buy the game and he even had some complaints and flat out reviews of the show
It's pretty cool to learn that Duel Masters is still pretty popular in Japan. I was super into it when it arrived in the US 300 years ago, but at the time all of my friends were getting out of YuGiOh and weren't interested in picking up another card game, so with nobody to play with I eventually dropped it. I'm surprised there haven't been any video games made for it considering how popular it appears to be, minus the training apps that came out recently. With a Cardfight Vanguard game finally making it to the US, i'd love to see other new games make their way over. A Weiss Schwarz video game would be amazing, though they would probably have to pay quite a bit in licensing fees to add all those anime characters in.
I love Rush Duels as it tackles the problems on old school yugioh and why I'll never return to that era: Slow Progressive Play and Resource Management. Here, players can go ham and have a fair chance of comeback with drawing up to 5. Nice reboot without actually intervening the TCG/OCG.
As for the anime: while the plot feels one-dimensional and filled with comedic absurdity, there's this hidden layer of overarching mystery that progress and contributes to it. What I loved especially during the Roa Arc was its usage of the side characters. Unlike GX where the "Duelist of the Week" just never gets seen again, Sevens gives them a role to play much later on to help the protagonist(s).
To be honest, I find myself rather enjoying the comic absurdity. I mean, it's not like previous series weren't absolutely full of crazy shit (to begin with, this is a franchise where apparently every conflict in the multiverse gets resolved from playing a card game). I guess you could blame Sevens for cranking that absurdity up to 11, though it also seems to retain a hint of self-awareness (especially in the way Luke's ambitions get played up to be little more than chuunibyou screwiness). I particularly like how the show apparently has zero grasp on how computers actually work and just sorta rolls with it (Kaizou's consciousness "falling" into a bike seat, the Rush Duel system being run by a giant robot on the moon that was haphazardly put together with crashed satellites, and now we've got a child's manga character gaining sentient life through a fax machine). But if there was one thing I can't say I'm very fond of, it's the way that a lot of things end up being some big nothing burger despite their build-up (off the top of my head, one episode ends with the ramen shop guy smirking only to reveal next week that he was laughing at something on his smartphone, and groups like Top of Hexagon and Goha 66 turn out to be complete jokes).
And yes, you are very right about the side characters. Hell, in previous series, forget "Duelist of the Week" characters, we'd be lucky just to see anyone who isn't the main character, and the major rival if we're lucky, amount to anything worth shit.
@@YamatoFukkatsu I'm fine with comedic absurdity just as long it fits with its show. The problem is that it can be viewed as "bad" by the standard audience.
Wait until Konami eventually introduces a Yata Lock-type strategy by accident, then the "slow progression" will slowly turn into post 2010 yugioh and people will start complaining how absurdly broken rush duels have become.
Let's face it, no one liked the slow older formats when yugioh first came out. It tried to be like MTG, but it didn't have the resource/mana management aspect of it , which meant that the game speed will eventually accelerate like a d-wheeler at some point, else the audience gets fucking bored. And no, I am not referring to playground yugioh, I am referring to the actual tournaments. Competitive people will complain if shit gets too slow, and these are the people who actually buy the product in bulk. How else would Konami be able to sell more cards if they maintain the game speed and power level? Yugioh doesn't have set rotation unlike mtg.
Rush duels will eventually catch up to the tcg and ocg.
Actually, I feel Studio Gallop’s financial issues is what made Yu-Gi-Oh switch to Bridge Studios. Hence the change in art style.
While it is certainly not at the level of popularity of Advanced Format, claiming "Speed Duel is on life support" is just incredibly incorrect. Konami has been ramping up their support for the format, and it is still gaining new players regularly. Making a comment like this is either misguided, or misinformed.
Yugioh 5ds?? Ring bell amyone
I watched this show, the dubbed version. I tried so hard to give it a chance, I had to quit and come back a few times just to get through the first season. By the 5th episode of the second season, I was crying, I literally cried over what this show was. The other six series prier to it could be enjoyed by both kids and adults. I rewatched them recently, a few complaints with the dub now that I know better, but overall, they were still great. This series however is something you would use to introduce children to the franchise, kids between 5 and 8 years old. This series is not geared towards the older fans. It relies to much on comedy and the duels have no stakes. Before lives were on the line, the fate of the world, the future, and multiple realms were at stake. Now, we have duels over a mom not making her sons favorite meal; and championships with construction paper crowns for the victor.
forgetting Gx most of S1 and 2, 5Ds S3 first half and majority of Zexal had comedic weird stuff quite a bit
@@BillPlunderbonesTew8 GX and 5D's were in moderation. Zexal, a bit more heavy handed, but it still had enough serious moments to balance out. Seven's is a whole other monster, it's just non-stop and it's more cringe than funny.
I just want Yugioh to go back to its dark roots
That's what Vrains was, but just became too boring until they had better characteristic
I’m still waiting
@@That1Smug you’re the guy who mixes up dark and serious.
@@mexicanf160 what?
@@That1Smug exactly
Studios don't understand that kids don't want to watch kids. They want to be Batman, not Robin. So having a younger cast does nothing for growing the audience.
Man I wish duel master was still in the USA I enjoy the game I have a old gba game of duel master
You’re completely wrong on this one, the real reason that this failed is because they didn’t play yugioh, they played some game that isn’t even playable in NA, it had hardly anything to do with the art style
Besides the art style change, I think the big problem for a lot of people was the premise and the idea of having a much younger protagonist. For me, it was that on top of being consistently let down by the previous series.
5Ds was great, and Dark Signers is one of my favorite arcs, but after that, it just went way downhill.
Zexal was shit. People love to say Barian was great, but it takes more than half the series to get there (if it takes that long for a series, especially one with 140+ episodes to "get good", you have a huge problem) and it's honestly like a 6, maybe a 7 at best. Definitely not worth sitting through everything else.
Arc-V started amazing, but then things start going downhill with Synchro being largely a waste of time and a much worse retread of the Satellite arc from 5Ds. Then we get to XYZ and everything starts turning bad, then to outright dogshit with Fusion.
VRains was just an overall meh with hints of greatness that it never quite achieved.
So yeah. After 4 series and nearly a decade of disappointment on top of a new look and premise I was not fond of, I checked out.
Well said. It's a shame that 5ds couldn't keep up the excitement though. It had so much potential and I loved it
I always thought the problem for 5DS was that they knew it was meant to end after the dark signers and had a change in writers after that arc. Still loved it especially the ending.
Arc V definitely had it's issues especially production and management issues that even the director dislike how bad behind they were. Which pretty much led to all that.
The unexpected jojos reference
Ok I’m pretty sure that Yuga didn’t delete regular standard duels. He just added option of Rush Duels.
Duel Masters confused the hell out of me, but I loved it as a kid.
in Yu-gi-oh sevens and Go Rush. some summoning methods is removed.
Pendulum Summon, Synchro Summon, Fusion Summon, XYZ Summon and Link Summon.
is removed. and no longer exist in new Yu gi oh series.
the new summon method is the Maximum Summon.
only existed. also Normal Summon, Advance summon, Special Summon and Tribute summon still exist. those basic summoning method. that been common. Yu Gi Oh animators and other staffs (Producer and Director)
is not adding back those other summoning methods, Pendulum,Fusion,XYZ, Synchro, and Link summon.
Kinda sad.
Huh? every yugioh anime part starts with new characters, what kind of argument is that... Sevens/Rush Duel is probably more targeted towards the younger folks, hence the style, but I enjoyed still quite a lot even tho I'm 33 lol... I like the new format, and I hope it becomes mainstream and they make it the new main format or at least secondary format!
Quick note on the "Seven" point. It's the alchemical symbol for "rebirth". It makes sense to name it seven to imply that it is a reboot. But y'know, not many knows about this in the first place.
The number 8 has also been visualized as an ouroboros twisting around itself in 2 circles, with the ouroboros long standing for death and rebirth. The number 9 has also been used as a counter for the afterlife, the nine heavens, and that is a spiritual rebirth of sorts. Don't get me started on the number 10 and how it represents the beginning of a new digit, how in binary it can be used to represent "2" in decimal, the continuation or the true sequel as opposed to a decimal 2, how it represents a perfect score in many concepts and as such victory (in a game about victory), etc etc. You can keep digging for meaning where there is none, 7 is just the number for this season and it sounded cool to the Japanese marketing people to call it with an English word, it's something they do pretty often.
Sevens means alot to the show. As you said its rebirth. 7 is also the amount of attributes the game has, which is the amount of attributes yuga needs for his deck. 7has alot of meanings for the show
Yeah, I hoped they made a crossover with all the previous main characters. Arc-V disappointed a lot when they tried bringing old characters. I really hoped that this 7th arc would be it. But then they did this. I tried watching the anime. The rules seemed interesting, but the plot just didn't grab me. And my disappointment about not receiving a continuation with the previous characters, added to my resolve to not continue watching this show. It is what it is.
After the failure of how Arc-V treated legacy characters, I am glad they don’t bring back old characters in Sevens. And tbh, I don't even know if Bridge would be allowed to do that since DM-Vrains belongs to Gallop.
I am at episode 20 and I don't like it that much. I hope it gets better. I didn't like arc v that much and has to push to finish it. I am feeling same about this one. Hope it gets better.
I got this figured out. Yu-Gi-Oh’s trying to copy Pokémon’s anime strategy of making their art style cuter for the new generation of fans.
But the difference is that Pokémon has a protagonist for old fans to continue rooting for. It's almost always a soft reboot in every single series and it can be argued to be its weakness too, though. But it's somewhat working so far with the power of suspension of disbelief.
Pokémon also has a strategy of bringing old characters back for some episodes, just for the nostalgia of it, fan service, and fanfic materials.
Pokemon also kind of suck after XY and being turn into more comedy show...
Nearly both of company are siting on a gold content that will make them risk. Yugioh can just make anime card lore like "duel terminal" amd pokemon have it adventure manga. Both of them can help them keep they old fan while geting the new one since the story are and can be good. Why i said this? Just look fucking Arcade form Rito, not only it got them money but bost Lol play rate end champion play rate in game. When 2 Japan company just tey to get more child in to they game when most of they fan now are gorw old form it.
@@anghainguyen9951 I am disappointed too with how Pokémon is more of a comedy show now instead of adventure. Kinda why I dicided to write my own fanfic.
I hope they fix this two animes by putting more effort in storytelling and have a distinct art stylse. They already had recognizeable art style before, but now they look too generic.
The reason the art style changed is because the animation studio changed from Studio Gallop for the first time in 20 years.
The art style did turn off a lot of people, can't blame them like, look at it, looks generic as hell
"No one starts a series with the seventh entry"
But some do start with the third tho
Well, I guess people can change the duel disk modes between Master and Rush, as the disks enter the Rush mode by voice command.
Overall, SEVENS as an anime is OK, not the masterpiece people who are already 10+ years into YGO want, but a fun anime to watch nonetheless. Rush Duels are a step in the right direction, creating an easier to understand game where non-Maximum monsters are either vanilla or have 1 card effect, and effects that recycle hand, deck and graveyard constantly. This makes for a game that you have the sensation that you can actually make something (not that I despise the current state of TCG, but it is very easy to get frustrated) with nice back and forth.
Constantly recycling the hand, deck, and graveyard sounds a lot like the meta since MR3, hell, even during the 5ds era.
Let me guess, did Eldlich fuck you over? I can understand that.
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 wait, what? I _like_ how Eldlich (and other Trap-focused decks) plays. I'm not a salty yugiboomer for that matter.
@@tiozuradasexatas6754 oh, my bad. I have just encountered a lot of Eldlich hate lately from competitive players and general hate from yugiboomers who can't distinguish playground yugioh with the competitive scene.
I used to play alot up to about 2007 and came back into because of Master Duel. (f2p on console for YGO is brilliant ) I went to check on the new Anime and i hope it helps Konami bring out different ways to play like a new format or something. Right now the game is very overwhelming and too extra deck dependent.
Ayyy fellow F2P player! I have built an Eldlich and a Chain Burn deck. Does not need an extra deck, fucks over the meta most of the times. F2P is a whole nother level!
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 i use domain monarch and love it.
Except for Arc-v
5Ds: hold my synchro
They didn't even release the game in TCG English, and I was excited to get the Starter decks... well I can't
How did they get this so wrong? The set up is perfect if it was backwards. Yuga is a kid who loves yugioh but there are villians that hate yugioh and want to change the rules. He loves yugioh so much that he's willing to play this "modern" version but to use the old units and old mechanics to his advantage to beat the players and show them how fun yugioh can be
I swear to god this might be the most millenial nostalgia motivated thing i ever heard
Personally. I loved everything from 1, GX, 5Ds and Zexal. But everything after that started to decline the series for me. I really loved the shadow realm and how they had something similar with the barian arc in Zexal. However for me Arc V was just okay. Nothing too special and didnt have a great ending for the series. After they revealed Zarc things started to get boring for the show. What I did admire is how they were able to bring back reoccuring characters from the previous shows which is amazing. Felt awesome seeing Kite return. Arc 5 had alot of potential but got heavily ruined towards the ending. Vrains was just boring and trash to watch. Not an ounce of emotion in the show and now they managed to somehow make it even worse with Sevens taking away from what the first 4 yugiohs did well. Now they are like toddlers wth. I need to see more invasions. Lol thats the LIT stuff. Wish they would bring that back! Instead of making Yugioh only about a kids card game add the shadow realm stuff back lol.
I agree. I did like arc V alot because of Yuya and all of the previous forms of summoning and dueling being used, but they couldve put lots more care towards the ending.
I really liked the shadow realm from duel monsters era. because there were high steaks at risk. but with these new reboots of the series that “serious” feeling has just been lost sadly.
"because nobody starts a series with the seventh entry."
*Sweats in Starwars Episode 4*
I loved Duel Masters and am very sad it failed outside of Japan
I felt this, I don’t think it did terrible in u.s tho. When I was a kid (2002) duel monsters was VERY popular.. everyone had a Yu-Gi-Oh deck and if you didn’t you were made fun of lol.
I actually like Sevens. Is it the same? No but I don’t think it’s supposed to be.
I like that the kids actually feel like kids.
I think the art style is easier for the animators. Especially since studio gallop had so many problems. This style will allow bridge to be more consultant since it’s, for the most part been a company that fills in where animation companies can’t.
I think it’ll be popular with kids in the west.
its basically just Cardfight Vanguard but with Yugioh, and that's a good thing tbh. We needed the variety for a while, even if not everyone is going to love it.
@@four-en-tee it's a looooooot worse than old Vanguard was. It feels really V era/Buddyfight esque, and while I guess that's not a _bad_ thing, it's not Yu-Gi-Oh and it's not really what kids are into. Both Vanguard and Buddyfight were massive flops in the West and SEVENS has to compete with modern Beyblade and Pokémon. I don't anticipate it doing well
@@damienthonk1506 personally, I think it's time that they stop making the yugioh series into an anime and manga. Not only has the card game become too convoluted to the point it's un-regonizeable and confusing, but now that Kazuki Takahashi is deceased, it just seems wrong and insulting to continue his work without him. I do appreciate them for trying something different and while the animation does look good, at a certain point you need to let a series die out before it becomes so overused that it turns sour.
@@cosmok-1367 Takahashi never had an issue with YGO continuing on without him. He hasn't laid hands on it since the original manga was over. I don't think he would care about it continuing after he died.
I was hoping for another movie with all the previous protagonist 😢
"I was out of hype until I stumbled upon a certain card from the series"
Card: MILF
Enigma: ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
for me I refer the old way of dueling when you can summon up to 5 or 7 (if link is included) and I hope that konami will bring back the old way of dueling in their future animes. No offense but rush duel for other people who watches yugioh anime but didn't quiet understand the rules of playing that game because if you think about it rush duel is like the easy version of the original yugioh dueling (just my opinion)
It was because Kazuki Takahashi's art style was too difficult to recreate with new animators that was there desistion of the new studio that does the yugioh anime
Yugioh fans do start the series at any entries. Like, it’s not uncommon to find people who started with arc v or 5Ds. I personally started with GX. Jojo has an ongoing storyline that NEEDS you to be informed by past parts. Yugioh isn’t like that. 7s overall imo failed cuz it hates the main game. You don’t make an anniversary series that just straight up says,”We dislike the main game so we’re going to change it and you’re going to like it.”
Anybody noticed the sonic r music
Ironically, Duel Monsters was extremely popular in Poland as it ran on Cartoon Network back in a day. I can remember playing with my friends at school on every break - until one of them decided to print the untranslated Japanese cards with absurd damage numbers. We were like 8 back then. Brings bac memories for sure!
It ran through them for nearly the entire world outside of Japan since nobody else thought it was going to do well, and the rest of the world showed it really only works here in Japan.
For me it was a multitude of factors. Studio Gallop’s problems was one. The other was that Konami lost their core demographic. Konami made Sevens so that they can hopefully regain it.
The core demo for Yu-Gi-Oh back in the Duel Monsters days was pre-teen to teenagers. The show oooze cool and felt edgy with its well edgy artstyle and gnarly monsters. Konami trying to go to a really young demographic is odd.
@@Epsilonsama very odd as those who were in their pre teen to teen are now adults
@@Epsilonsama So "Child's Card Game" were 'murica only or justa meme?
The thing is Konami is sitting on a gold mine making rush duels exclusive to Japan.
Looking forward to playing Rush Duel in Duel Links.
The art style I forgive since we have Gundam age, transformers animated, etc that all turned out good with the same issues.
My main issue is just rush duel as an anime game; it makes the series too episodic with very little reason to come back becuase 90% of stakes are finished in the same episode they’re introduced especially in the beginning where there’s really no plot to follow.
In a very similar coincidence, the Pokemon Sun and Moon (or SM for short) anime also went thru similar polar responses when they want thru a drastic visual change after XY and XYZ, most likely due to the growing popularity of Youkai Watch at the time. It also has its issues, but it is quite enjoyable.
Yeah after xyz ended, pokemon fell off hard but sun and moon later made up for its mistakes and got way better than it was
Hmm Yokai Watch might be why both Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon tried to go to the child demographic as opposed to preteen one they had before. In both cases it did not work as they expected but for Yu-Gi-Oh it was worse because Pokémon is more episodic whole Yu-Gi-Oh tended to be more serial with long serious story arcs. I actually checked Yokai Watch and it was terribly childish. Like I played the game for a bit and watch the first couple of episodes and my reaction was this is too kiddy.
who the fuck would play blue eyes and dark magician in specialized deck as a one of
I feel like it's a mix if Yu Gi Oh, Duel Masters, and Pokemon because that would explain why their kids in the Yu GI Go 7 because Ash was a kid he wasn't exactly a teen, and some characters if you look closely are just hidden characters from Pokemon and Duel Masters.... Still do love this anime even if other ppl hate it.
Sevens' artstyle is the least of the show's problems. I can list a few off the top of my head that have nothing to do with the artstyle:
-Seven's protag is a baby kid
-the show's intended audience is toddlers when most of the Yugioh fanbase outside Japan are adults
-animation is leagues worse than what has come before
-hardly any perspective shots that were iconic with the previous Yugioh entries
-Rush Duel completely disregards the game we all knew. Every time YGO introduces a new mechanic, the old cards/mechanics still work. Rush Duel only works with Rush Duel cards, which essentially makes it an entirely different entity.
-voice acting is garbage. I haven't seen Sevens in years yet I distinctly remember awkward pauses between lines of dialogue.
Facts!!!
Problem number 5 is why I hated ZEXAL and XYZ summoning. It fucking ignored Synchros!
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 Same. I used to hate Zexal too because my shiny synchro collection suddenly seemed to be worth less as every new poster-card became an XYZ monster. But thats also what 5DS did to Fusion. You should give Zexal another chance; it has the best animation of all the yugioh series--back when Konami were making the most money out of YGO and actually paid their animation staff.
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
I actually played the Demo for the switch, it was really fun since there's hubs in 3rd person with open areas. It's like the same as the games previously but you actually interact with characters. But I'm gonna be honest sevens was suppose meant to be for newer fans not veterans, since base meta game is complicated as hell. It is weird for them to be the 20th anniversary special, maybe their trying to restart on the whole Children Card Game
I was genuinely disappointed when they rushed the ending to Vrains then gave us Sevens. It wasn't do much the artstyle that took me away, but the Rush Duels. I've watched all 6 series and the 5Ds Turbo Dueling and the Vrains speed duel formats were fun, the Arc-V Action Cards were okay (they got on my nerves towards the end) but Rush Duels, just didn't want to learn a new rule set that I knew I was never going to play IRL
Sevens in a nutshell is Yuga lost to the new mechanic or randomly against the guy that should have been the protagonist or the turn rival
You know what’s funny. Grown up adults complaining that their children’s card game is for kids😂😂
Shut up the manga is 13+ 😭
I'm still on the fence about what I think about this series. But this series does have good messages about dealing with and accepting changes.
"Who starts a series with the seventh entry??"
(Screams in Like A Dragon)
actually you very well can start jojo with steel ball run. Its a hard reboot of jojo, in fact when it first came out it wasnt even called "jojo's bizzare adventures"
I like the Rush Duels, the rules are simple and fun, and the turns don't take a lot of time until you wait for your opponent to special summon and combo so hard like a gazillion times. What I don't like about the game?
The Legend mechanic is great but it hurts that some of the Legend cards will never be used because they are week compared to others, like Sakuretsu Armor. Why would you use Sakuretsu Armor that destroys one attacking monster, when you have Mirror Force that destroys all attacking monsters? Or cards like Mystic Elf or Vorse Rider.
Its annoying that you cannot make a Legend card centric deck, like a Blue-Eyes deck and not a Dragears Deck or a Dark Magician deck and not a Sevens Road deck. I wish they would give us more support so that we could add that legend card faster in our hand or cards that allows us to recycle that Legend card.
Its annoying that we can't use fusions like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon anymore because of the Legend rule that prevents us to run multiple copies of Legend cards.
Cyborg fusions are way to OP and they work in almost any deck and it's so easy to get the fusion materials on the field. Their affects are extremely strong to.
There are some annoying cards that need to be limited or nerfed, the card that I hate the most is Dark Liberation, you shuffle 4 cards from your grave to deck and you can destroy all attacking monsters. It's so annoying to face spellcasters centric decks because when they have 4 spellcasters in their grave you are always afraid to attack and I swear to God they have that card all the time. Another OP card is Dragears, that card can attack a second time after it destroyed a monster. Not so OP like Dark Liberation, but it is not a fair card.
I like the anime, the characters are lovely, the female characters are good duelists and they have a decent win rate, every side character will reappear in the future and it has a importance to the plot. I'm ok with the comedy in this anime, the jokes are good. But I liked the more dark themes of the previous anime, Duel Monsters and 5DS where the best.
I don't like the change in art style, the previous one was so unique and iconic.
I didn't liked the villains until we got Yuo. They where not bad people and they became friends with Yuga. They where great characters, but not great villains.
I don't like the fact that most duels end way to fast, it took a couple of episode until we got a good duel (the duel with Roa).
@@yesman1743 dude do you play rush duels in real life or something? You complained alot about legend cards the idea of rush duels is to step away from the tcg meta and let it be it's own thing. Which it's done quite well as a matter of fact.
....There's new Duel Masters anime?! That's much more interesting than freakin' Sevens! Jokes aside, I do recall there being some push back about when Pokemon changed the style so drastically for Sun and Moon and that's really not a bad series at all. I rather liked the more consistent cast instead of a stream of one off characters.
I still liked Sevens enough, but compared to the other six it just doesn't stand a chance.
It tried a lot of new stuff that I think pulled off surprisingly well, but it really struggled with the basics of the franchise.
Because of that it feels even more disconnected that it really is.
Could you make a video about Yu-gi-oh OCG structure manga and I wonder if could be adopted into an anime
I'll look into it :)
You misspoke in your video. You said other than Arc-V no other Yugioh anime had a number in the title but 5Ds did as well. What I think you meant was that none had the number of its series in the name other than Arc-V and Sevens.
Yes that is what I meant.
Art style that deviates completely from the late Kazuki's own style when all other spinoffs/sequels tried to emulate it.
Aiming at an even younger audience than ZeXal
Infantile storyline
Centred around a card game that isn't Yu-Gi-Oh.
Gee, I wonder.
It's hard to make a new Yu-Gi-Oh anime based on a new card system and have it somehow fit in the story.
We should really make Legend cards a category on the TCG/OCG banlist, it would open up a lot of different deck building options and provide more balancing tools.
It would basically be a more restrictive version of the limited list and a compromise between the current TCG and Duel Links banlist system.
This can be the hypothetical 2nd format. A category of card where you can only have one of, unless the list says otherwise. Like you can have one Dark Magician and no other legends. But you can have 3 Blue-Eyes. Hell, maybe allow 5 Cyber Dragons in the same deck.
I'd love to just have the accursed list worked into the cards so I can just look at the cards and not consult a website constantly for deckbuilding. Just put a symbol on them for how many you can run at a time! I'd also love to not have all the coolest cards get stuck with effects that slaps them almost directly onto the ban lists as well, but that would require them to actually learn the rules to their own game...