#YGO manga

[ygoscreencaps]

[vranias]

"normally i try to come up with something original, but"

i think about this at least twice a week...yami yugi creativity stifled on account of hungry chinese jar......

[dribevoli]

Marik is really killing it with the whole "friendship" thing

[unreal]

[danthepest]

Can we appreciate how much of a fucking gremlin Seto Kaiba was in his first appearance?

[roseofspades]

yugioh anime: let’s play a funky card game. sometimes there’s a little bit of danger like falling from buildings but don’t worry nobody will get hurt, just sent to the shadow realm, the power of friendship will save us

yugioh manga: let’s take turns stabbing money into our hands, wouldn’t it be funny if you doused yourself in alcohol and i had a lighter? do you wanna play with explosives? we are taking a trip to hell today >:)

[colressmpreg]

twinkle twinkle little queer

[rocketonin]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

yami with cat

[underratedygocharactersfight]

ROUND 3 SIDE A MATCH 1

TOMOYA HANASAKI ONE OF YUGI MUTO’S FIRST FRIENDS IN THE MANGA VS ISHIZU ISHTAR HOLDER OF MILLENNIUM NECKLACE

[cosmic-aria]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Omnibus Vol.5 out-of-context highlights!!

How it started:

How it’s going:

[cardsbizarreadventure]

☆꧁✬◦°˚°◦. ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ .◦°˚°◦✬꧂☆ I tried this time around lol , I'll get there one day . ❤️ Used references from the manga , because I can't really shift styles and I really wish I could 😢.

[ygoscreencaps]

Me with my siblings after absolutely killing them at Mario kart

[nekucreates]

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER!!! I love this page! And now I'm past where I stopped reading the Yugioh manga last time, so everything will be new to me (well, manga-wise, I've seen all the anime).

[benzehime]

[unreal]

[danthepest]

I absolutely love the conversation between Kaiba and Atem in their final duel in Battle City.

This is the closest Kaiba has come to opening up to anyone. And Atem is disappointed in him. He has been fighting people whose sole motivation was greed, anger and hatred. After Death-T and Duelist Kingdom, Atem expected Kaiba to be better. To move on, to fight for something more than that.

Yet here he was. After everything they've been through, still motivated by anger and hatred. And Atem is well aware of the cycle by this point and he's trying to get Kaiba to understand that it's a self destructive path. There is neither peace or satisfaction waiting at the end.

And as Kaiba says, Yugi/Atem is part of his past. The past that was still controlled by his upbringing before Atem shattered his mind. For Kaiba to move on, he needs to defeat Yugi. To prove that he's better so that he can conquer the last remnant of a past he wants to forget.

A part of him wants to let go of the hate and anger that fueled most of his life, but he contradicts himself later when he says those same things give him power. Not realizing just how trapped his is by them.

Atem respects and admires Kaiba's talent, skills and determination and wants to break the cycle. He wants Kaiba to let go of the pain that drives him so that his life isn't so empty. So that he can be happy. He wants him to learn that having friends and people who care about him is not a weakness.

He may have even been getting through to Kaiba until he dropped the "power of friendship" line. Kaiba knows how much of a corny line that is and Atem saying that's what he lost to was insulting to him.

Atem realizes he's lost Kaiba with that line. He questions what their relationship even is at this point. Why can't they bury the hatchet?

Its a great example of how both have done horrible things to others and had horrible things done to them, but deal with it differently.

Kaiba would rather rage and destroy everything that hurts him. Never letting go of the wrongs done to him. Yugi and Atem? They are able to move on because they forgive. Yugi forgave Jonouchi and Honda for how they treated him. Yugi & Atem forgave the Kaiba brothers for the attempted murders and hospitalizing his grandfather, while Jonouchi still holds a grudge over it. Yugi was even willing to forgive and accept Dark Bakura when he came to help during his battle with Ryuji Otogi. He even forgave Ryuji and his dad for nearly getting him killed and separated from Atem forever.

Forgiveness is a part of healing and moving on. For Yugi, it comes naturally. Atem learned it through him. But Kaiba?

For Kaiba, forgiveness is admitting defeat. To him it's like saying that what was done to him doesn't deserve punishment. That it was acceptable. Perhaps even deserved. And worst of all, that it can be ignored.

And he lashes out at Atem, ending the conversation.

It takes his encounter with Ishizu later and Mokuba's outburst to truly make him understand the dangerous path he's going down. Ishizu's willingness to die on the island if Malik can't be saved reminded him of his own back in Duelist Kingdom and it shakes him. Its what convinces him to give this whole "trust" and "friendship" garbage a chance. (In the anime he just kinda...changes his mind about leaving. They cut out the bit with him realizing he and Ishizu weren't that different entirely and I will always be salty about that).

He still plays it off as him wanting to prove its all bunk, but by the end when the island is destroyed, he's beginning to learn the lesson Atem has been trying to teach him. And unlike the anime, he's gone for the rest of the manga. There's no Dartz or Kaiba Gran Prix. They go straight to the Millenium World arc and Kaiba is absent in it except for one of the final pages, being too late and missing the duel between Yugi and Atem.

Say what you want about Yu-Gi-Oh, but the manga has some stellar character writing.