#Seto Kaiba/Diva

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 3: Poll 1

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Obsessshipping (Cyndia/Kisara)

Propaganda: It's a ship so rare it doesn't even have a name in the "official" fan made ship list XD I saw a single fanart of it one day where the artist basically said "What if these two ladies totally dumped their obsessive boyfriends and just went for each other?" And I was like, "...Yeah I'm a hundred percent on board with this concept" XD I love subversive tropes and surprising ships

Pairing 2: Cubeshipping (Seto Kaiba/Diva)

Propaganda: doesn't have Propaganda

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[dorodoroart]

the chaotic dsod trio

From @chaosmax for @bpdkaiba ❤️

[seekerbr]

Today I finally managed to watch DSOD dubbed in portuguese, and I really enjoyed it, the dub is pretty good, but I couldn't help but notice that a certain someone's voice was quite different on it than on the other dubs i've seen before

If anyone wants to know why, is because Mokuba was voiced by actual preteens/teenagers back in the original show, unlike the JP/EN dubs where women voiced him, and they brought one of his VAs back, but obviously his voice changed quite a bit over the years...

[nethersonq]

more stupid shit doodles + twitter requests

first two were attempts at shading differently in magma

last one was something i was thinking about earlier. parallels i love you

bonus

i should make a version with bad apple probably. the cube can play music

[aigamidiva]

// crack post

@blue-eyed-kaiba @kneel-to-seto-kaiba

“He eventually became so powerful the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power. Which eventually, of course, he did.”

[rosalind-hawkins]

Interpret "partner" with whatever your personal nuance is: platonic, romantic, or otherwise. Share your thoughts in the comments/tags!

[torments-my-obelisk]

DSOD is such a funny movie. Kaiba comes on screen in his giant fucking space station molded into his company logo and I just laughed. He’s so dramatic. He misses his rival and is so obsessed with getting some closure for once in his goddamn life that he spent well over a billion dollars to excavate a cursed puzzle and build a space elevator to the afterlife but the minute anyone says anything about ‘hey maybe that’s a little unhealthy’ he’s snapping and snarling and telling them to fuck off. Except the cube guy. He’s has a duel disk and is also full of unprocessed grief so he can stay. Yugi Moto looks them dead in the eye and says “first of all, I’m only here because you both blackmailed me. Secondly, fuck you both for that, by the way. Thirdly, I’m gonna kick your ass”. Card games ensue, meanwhile Yugi tries his absolute best to show Kaiba the pharaoh is gone and maybe he needs to spend some time reflecting on his emotions and yes the invitation is still open to talk about Him BUT THEN THE NARRATIVE PROVED KAIBA RIGHT?!! AND THE PHARAOH COMES BACK AND YUGI HAS TO LOOK KAIBA IN THE EYE AND TELL HIM THAT HES SORRY FOR DOUBTING HIM?? WHAT. What Kaiba takes from all this is that a) his horrid coping mechanisms work after all, b) if he just fucks around enough and spends all his money he really can be king of the world and c) the best option is definitely to finish that space elevator and fucking. Go to the afterlife I guess. To duel his “hated rival” or whatever. Fuck off

[chaosmax]

More on: “I’m so surprised more people don’t evaluate and compare & contrast Kaiba and Diva in relation to each other more often”

I'm looking at these pics side by side and either KT just straight up has a type of fav character design that he can’t shake himself out of OR this was on purpose to draw parallels between the two making them seem like shadow figures of each other/rivals/foils--

Both have a sleeveless coat, high collar, dramatic coat tail, pendant (or at least, I still solidly believe that KT just forgot to give Kaiba’s his, or perhaps you could argue that it missing has a symbolic reason or maybe to contrast with Sera and Diva who both have a small triangle pendant, turtleneck

Kaiba: silver/gray metal arm bracers, nothing special with hair sans when he’s dueling the duel gazer/headset is on his left, kneepads, belt, and his coat has the little spikes at the waist creating the flair of the spikes at his waist

Diva: gold bracelets, decorated hair with the longer strand on his right, wrapped fabric at the waist, spikes/flair at the end of his sleeves Also, nice framing with them literally in an inverted stance toward each other. And while on the Seto’s side it’s just himself and Mokuba against the rest of the world on Diva’s side he has all the kids that have joined the Plana at his back.

Like, I’m not an artist or visual director but all of these things are almost so 1:1 I highly doubt that we WEREN’T supposed to draw these connections. This seems to be visual cues galore.

And then for the meta/story side because I am first and foremost a story and writing evaluator:

When you really stop to think about it Diva and Kaiba are remarkably good character foils of each other with a lot of the same yet different methods, actions, flaws, weaknesses, and goals/motivations.

Motivations/Goals (those outside the main conflict of the film): Diva wants to create a new perfect dimension, a Utopia collective consciousness that the Plana would create and guide others to (this is more explicitly stated in the sub). And the Shadi and revenge thing, but more on that later.

Kaiba, (again most explicitly stated in the sub with Kaiba’s pre-tournament speech about how the new Duel Disk is meant to bridge the gap between people of all race/country/creed/etc. and the Transcend Game Manga) is trying to achieve a similar thing with his games and the duel disk. He states how the body is like a prison and these barriers between people lead to bloody useless wars. His connection via games is meant to escape that. He has a bunch of kids as the beta testers for their minds are the most imaginative. Kaiba is reaching for his own collective consciousness here but in a very different way.

Methods: Diva has complete confidence in the power of the Plana. He’s been told by Shadi about this great power and has seen it in action before he even receives the Quantum Cube himself. Diva and the rest of the Plana has seen that utopia the power of the Plana can provide (and Sera even showed Yugi a glimpse of it) but there is still that level of uncertainty in the creation of this new dimension. Sera states after Diva has gotten corrupted by the ring that the Cube has the power to create a new shining world of light, but if one drop of darkness gets in there the whole thing can be corrupted.

Kaiba has complete confidence with his tech. It is a simple equation of A + B = C. It may take it a while to get there, but there is a steady and succinct step-by-step process in his mind on how to get to point A to point B. And if he runs into a roadblock one way he explores another solution--as seen by when the Dimension Ascension had its safety limits in the World of Duel Links his focus became entirely on the puzzle, and then from the puzzle to the Duel Dimension System (it’s not a time machine i s2g if I see that one more time I will sCream. Atem recognizes him. He wouldn’t if it’s a time machine. It’s the darkside of dimensions, not the darkside of time travel). Kaiba’s methods are calculated and testable. There’s a scientific process to his approach.

Actions: They have very similar goal when it comes to the wider global scope, and yet intact that goal in different ways, despite both believing they are right in their own solutions even though this point never came up between them (but did between Diva and Yugi). Diva has seen paradise and that’s all he’s interested in until Yugi challenges him about building that paradise with everyone instead of gifting it to a few.

Aside from that conflict point though, Diva and Kaiba are pretty similarly ham-fisted when it comes to their actions once the plot of DSoD kicks off. Kaiba stomps around Domino City as he sees fit, he faces his challenges head on. And he is pretty clearly 100000% done with magical things running his tournaments and creates a counter for both of Diva’s Plana powers without much of a snag.

The Duel: Then of course they duel each other. And in this direct challenge they are pretty evenly matched. Kaiba, who the audience knows is a powerful duelist at this point dishes out powerful attack after powerful attack and even has new, stronger monsters to fight with. Yet Diva finds a way to avoid or redirect those attacks, even being bold enough to have an attitude that feels like he’s toying with Kaiba. While few others can go toe to toe with Kaiba in a duel the match was heavily going in Diva’s favor until Seto managed to summon Obelisk by picking up with the trace memories/wavelengths in the tomb.

Death and grieving: Both of them are trying to deal with the fallout of the death of someone that played a big role in their lives, but how each of their plotlines resolve for this are opposite at the end. Despite Diva’s actions to try and get rid of Bakura being against everything Shadi taught him and the rest of the Plana kids and even Sera and Manny trying to talk him down from it he doesn’t listen. Diva gets so caught up in the pain he’s feeling instead of what he knows. He’s eager to be able to blame someone for Shadi’s death he’s ignoring that Ryou Bakura is likely not the same as the ring spirit. But when confronting Ryou and realizes the truth he can’t ignore it anymore and he lets Ryou go and the glow of the cube fades. (Remember, it was the appearance of the corrupted Manny that caused the banishment of Ryou, not Diva himself, I see this getting mixed up quite a bit) And then he is able to start to fully move past his fixation on revenge.

But Kaiba hasn’t been able to make that progress himself. Even after Yugi reassembles the puzzle himself and shows it’s empty Seto keeps hounding Yugi, spitting cruel words and still refusing to believe that Atem isn’t still within Yugi. Then, even after Atem temporarily returns that isn’t enough for him to complete his grieving process, he finds a way to travel across dimensions for one last duel.

Flaws: Seto and Diva share some weaknesses in their ambition, ego, and arrogance yet at the same time it’s a situation of the pot calling the kettle black. Due to their own respective power they both think they’re invincible. Diva shittalks Kaiba’s egotistical actions of taking over Domino City and creating his own version of a collective consciousness within Duel Links. But Diva is doing a similar thing himself by how he’s dictating who should have the right to exist and even erasing people just for standing in his way like Jounouchi. Yet at the same time Diva thinks the power of the Plana is unstoppable and plain incompressible to anyone who is not apart of it--something that he gets a rude awakening for when Kaiba deflects his attempt to distillate him in the tomb and then later when Diva gets captured.

And then Kaiba gets knocked down a peg when his duel with Diva is a close one and then again when he has to team up with Yugi in order to defeat Diva’s corrupted form.

The character paths Diva and Seto are on through dsod are very similar. The characters are alike, but different. They have plenty in common to draw comparison to yet also differences that foil each other many steps of the way. And I just find this neat ™ and am surprised there isn’t more talk about these two in relation to each other when there’s so much crossover and they’re honesty the main two opposing forces of the film. Like there is so much going on here  TwT

[jose92gt]

Grande Yugi garchandose a Aigami y Kaiba en DSOD, mayor parte de esos duelos estaba en esa leve desventaja pero sabia que momentos llevar su estrategia en el momento que el queria y esto puede ser que sus oponentes se logren confiar algo , aqui se ve totalmente a un Yugi superior sin depender de Atem

[super-lovely-collection]

Yugioh - Dark Side of Dimensions Original Pamphlet Book パンフレット 遊戯王!

I found another of these awesome booklets HERE at GoodsRepublic site! I thought I had it already, but realized this was a different one compared to my other one I purchased and posted about here~~~

This one has lovey screenshots and character bios, as well as interviews and product ads and much more! I just posted a few to show, is a great addition to my collection. ^^

Bonus Photos below!

*All Photos/Edits by me, please do not repost or use without permission*

[uniasus]

Kaiba is facing down a magical threat, but he's like, 'i've seen this before and know what to do!'

So he pulls out a duel disk. Because we all know Duel Monsters the card game is how magical battles are fought.

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 2: Poll 2

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Cubeshipping (Seto Kaiba/Diva)

Propaganda: doesn't have Propaganda

Pairing 2: Tieshipping (Hiroto Honda |Tristan Taylor/Miho Nosaka)

Propaganda: Honestly the best version of this ship comes from the infamous "season 0" of Yu-Gi-Oh that Toei made in '98 XD I love the contrast of cheerful, bubbly Miho with the dedicated, uptight Honda, and I especially love that Miho is more or less the only one that can break down Honda to be more adventurous and loosen up.

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Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[dominoblues]

Seto Kaiba's personality is so too complex that every personality test fails miserably in deciphering him.

[likeadog]

ok so like. yugioh fans what the fuck is the prana and what is the millennium cube even made of. bc it had no slot in the millennium slab nor did bakura ever mention it existing. the plana and cube are diff things but theyre connected and kaiba is using the cube after the plana is destroyed but the prana is like??? important?? i guess??? and it only exists after the pharaoh left for the after life but his return nukes it how does that work what does he have to do with this. send help

[bpdkaiba]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aigami | Diva/Bakura Ryou/Kaiba Seto Characters: Aigami | Diva, Kaiba Seto, Bakura Ryou, Isono | Roland Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Silly, It's qpr too bitch hahahaha Summary:

It's a strange day at Kaiba Corp. And Kaiba is determined to get to the bottom of it!

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Happy birthday to the best and only CEO around!! Seto Kaiba!!

[aigamidiva]

@blue-eyed-kaiba

“You’re a mad dictator… but that’s none of my business..”

bombastic side eye.